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Solaris is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems (currently owned by Oracle) as a rebranding of SunOS 4.1.x in 1991.

According to Wikipedia. Solaris was originally developed as a collaboration of Sun Microsystems with major UNIX variants to develop a common platform unifying BSD, System V, and Xenix that has become known as System V Release 4. The first release of Solaris was SunOS 4.1.x which was retroactively renamed Solaris 1. The variant we commonly know as Solaris is actually Solaris 2, which started as SunOS 5 and until version 7 was known as Solaris 2.x (since version 2.7 the prefix 2 has been dropped).

Solaris is a highly scalable Operating System well suited for symmetric multiprocessing systems, which currently includes native virtualization tools called zones.

A Solaris variant called OpenSolaris was released by Sun in 2005, which eventually gave birth to the OpenIndana Project

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Solaris default install (user tools)

Many questions on this forum as well as other places really boils down to somebody coming from Linux environment and then not being able to use the equivalent command on Solaris. Often this is because of different options supported, etc. This…
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Will there ever be a Solaris 12?

I'm not trying to be inflammatory with this question! I can't any statements though from Oracle regarding the future of Solaris, and wondered if there were any press releases or official notification of future versions. As I understand it, work has…
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Is Oracle Solaris UNIX?

Is Oracle Solaris officially declared UNIX? I want to know all the official UNIX presently available in the market (whether free or paid). Please correct me if I am wrong: To the best of my knowledge, an operating system must satisfy all the terms…
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Solaris Home/End keys not working like Debian / Ubuntu

I'm using putty for connecting to a solaris system. I'm just a user (no root access). All what I know about the system is Oracle Corporation SunOS 5.11 11.1 January 2014 My problem is comming from the keyboard settings. The keys…
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Computing CPU I/O wait time on Solaris

I am looking for a command to get a CPU I/O wait time metric from a Solaris VM. I found vmstat -s is giving the below output. 2627 user cpu 62008 system cpu 285180 idle cpu **0 wait cpu** I looked at the man page of vmstat, but I could not…
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How to verify from "uname -a" output, the installed Solaris OS is openSolaris or not

How to verify from uname -a output, if the installed Solaris OS is openSolaris or not. I need to know the type of OS installed like, Solaris or opensolaris or Solaris Express etc cat /etc/release Solaris 10 3/05 s10_74L2a SPARC Copyright 2005 Sun…
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Moving to Solaris (from Linux)

I got curious about why not so many people have Solaris in their desktops and laptops. I wonder whether it's a good idea at all, or something just for the absolute geek. Could I maybe give it a try either in an open server online or through a…
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How to change default log location of SMF registered processes

I am trying to change default log location ( var/svc/logs/) of each and every SMF registered processes and append to particular file (/opt/smf.log).
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Solaris development host

This posting aims to document how go about getting a development host on Solaris. A "development host" is one where you have all the appropriate tools to build and compile C or C++ applications. Putting development tools such as a compiler onto a…
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Solaris 11 randomly crashed

I have a Solaris 11 machine that randomly crashed this morning. After physically restarting the machine, I noticed that all of the drives were marked with a Sense Key: Soft_Error both in dmesg and in /var/adm/messages. Since all the drives on the…
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Why are the UIDs in Solaris so very high? Is it alright to use lower numbers?

I'm going to try out Solaris 11, and was wondering why the default UIDs for new users are so ridiculously high - e.g. starting at 65534 and then dropping downwards (65533, 65532, ...)? Is there a good reason for this? I know of course that such high…
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Is there a way to combine formatted output and full command arguments in one ps command?

In solaris, /usr/ucb/ps auxww gives full commandline arguments (without truncating long commands+arguments). And ps has -o option that provides formatted output. Is there a single command (or one-liner) that has both capabilities? Note: the issue…
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How to persist verbose boot flag in Solaris 10?

Sun Solaris 10 3/05 accepts a boot parameter boot -verbose that boots the system with verbose messages enabled. How do I persist this setting so that I do not have to type it at boot time ? Example screenshot:
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Solaris os, number of currently open files by the system (without super user privilege)

I can get the total numbers of currently active and allocated file descriptors in Solaris os using the command: echo ::kmastat | sudo mdb -k| grep file_cache But the mdb requires super user privilege. Is there any command that can do the same task…
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Solaris 11, How to map device to mount point?

Solaris 11, iostat -xncz 5 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device .... 6.0 18.2 226.7 205.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.7 0 3 vdc206 6.8 39.6 252.6 …
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