Learning Solaris 10 Check out the Zones F.A.Q. !

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Includes the list of obsolete /etc/system IPC parameters & the new default values for parameters that are now under control of the resource management framework. Usable with zones !

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Excerpt : “In other words, from a Solaris Administration point of view there is no change introduced with milestones. The only time you need to use them is with SMF maintenance work (milestone=none) and the only useful one after that is “all”.”

So don’t bother using multi-user & multi-user-server milestones…

Slides of a presentation made by Mike Shapiro at the OpenSolaris User Group in July 05. Proves the point of having a structured fault management architecture. Can be used in teaching FMA.

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Maybe the first Huge feature to come up on Solaris Express, the preview of the next official version of Solaris, is the new-boot architecture, the complete new way of booting Sun Machines, be it Sparc, x86 or x64.

A short description of the project can be found here.

A more technical and detailed blog entry goes into the (gory) details…

T : OpenSolaris

A good new article written for developers and covering several aspects of the new security features of S10. Includes discussions about the Crypto Framework, PAM, GSS-API, SASL,…

All concepts are defined with clear diagrams, which make the document useful for more than just developers.

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