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Linux Journal’s Gadget Guy, Shawn Powers, talks to Ken Gilmer of bug labs. Ken gives a peek at the BUG, an open electronics platform running Poky Linux.

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Script to get predefined kernel tunables from Solaris.

Was created for Solaris 8, some updates for Solaris 9 and Solaris 10.

Some values only make sense in hex, so run with “-x” as well as default of decimal values.

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This brief list celebrates the upcoming release of Sun’s ZFS 128-bit filesystem.

It highlights key features of ZFS and links to resources describing its use and administration.

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Script to convert colon delimited file to an HTML table. Takes the output of the ‘get_sysinfo’ script and outputs to HTML.

The ‘get_sysinfo’ script is available at: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/scripts/submittedScripts/get_sysinfo.txt

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Shell script to get system info (# cpu, size of memory, software installed, number/size of disks, and more).

Usage: get_sysinfo

Data is output to a colon delimited file for future processing

This could be run from each system’s root cron.

Output should be gathered (either use NFS to write to a common place, or rcp/scp/ftp the files in). If you have DMZ servers, setup the DMZ_HOSTS variable and get those file to your common location by whatever site secure method(s) you have.

Can use sysinfo_convert_html script to take the output of this command and turn it into a html web page.

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/scripts/submittedScripts/sysinfo_convert_html.txt

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How to set-up Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 Containers on a Solaris 10 Host system.

This topic describes how to set-up Solaris Containers, it does not discuss Zones concepts, etc.

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If you’re new to Solaris 10, figuring out what you need to do to get the OS to do anything can be a confusing task. In this article, Jonathan Sinclair shows you how to perform common administrative tasks in Solaris 10.

This article assumes a reasonable familiarity with UNIX and some basic system administration abilities, such as understanding users and printers and how to manipulate file permissions.

This article will use an x86 system for examples, but the commands used will work on a Sparc system as well.

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Full installation instructions for the MacBook 13″ White 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo.

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After a long wait, and by popular demand, we have an updated SPARC Solaris 10 package for scponly, the secure file transfer/server utility.

See our previous BigAdmin article:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/solaris_10_package_

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This community-submitted tech tip shows how to find large directories and files that are taking up space in a file system. Put on your snoop hat and try out these commands