I’ve been working with Unix for a fairly long time now- about 13 years. I’ll admit that I started with Linux and thought it was light years ahead of SunOS 4.x running on those old SPARC machines- I mean who had heard of SPARC processors? I remember my boss trying to explain to me…

I am a huge fan of Sun Microsystems.I love Solaris 10.I love ZFS.I love RBAC.I love zones.I really love T2/T2+ processors.I especially love the T5140 and X4450 servers. One thing I cannot figure out though, is why Sun lets obviously delirious cocaine addicts package their software. Maybe I’m exaggerating but I think that many…

A friend asked me how he could see the network utilization in Solaris. It seems like a fairly simple request but for some reason this is not a simple command line away. In Linux I would instinctively go straight to iptraf. I don’t know if iptraf is the tool of choice these days but…

Recently, I was asked to give some advice on an integration project involving some Solaris web servers . One of the sides requested to install the top command.Now I know and love top for Linux but using top on Solaris is a waste in my opinion. Solaris comes with the prstat command built in-…

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