Linux / Unix Tips and Tricks

This blog contains Linux / Unix Tips and Tricks, collected during my work as a Unix System Administrator.
They are here for my own reference, but they might help you as well !

Category: Solaris

Using rsync to synchronize a filesystem

Here's the command that I use to synchronize a filesystem from one server to another: rsync -avx --numeric-ids --progress --delete 10.0.0.1:/mnt/sda1/ /mnt/sda1/ The -a option sets “archive mode”, which essentially turns on a number of rsync options that preserve...

Solaris 10: Enable Samba for Windows File Sharing

Today I got a question about users that want to access some FIX logfiles on a Solaris 10 server. Of course you can give them (restricted) ssh access so they could access the files using WinSCP , but I thought it would be easier to enable SAMBA for them so they could access the logfiles...

Solaris: Determinate to which package a file belongs

I had an issue with software which was complaining about the version of /usr/lib/libCstd.so.1 So I wanted to know to which package this particular file belongs, in order to see if there are any updates available for this package. Here's how to do it:   (More)
 
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