On a system with 2 non-global zones running, we’ll use a program called “hog” to demonstrate a cpu intensive program within the zones.

# zoneadm list -vc
ID NAME STATUS PATH
0 global running /
1 zone2 running /export/zone2
2 zone1 running /export/zone1 # pwd
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Types of DNS servers

1. Root Servers:

Root servers are positioned at the top or root of the DNS hierarchy, and maintain data about each of the top-level zones. The root servers are maintained by the NIC and have been moved to a common domain for consistent naming purposes. The root servers are named as A.root-servers.net., B.root-servers.net., and so on.

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To find out which systems on the local network are NIS servers, run the following command: Read Full

In this post I am talking about  some of the observations on  how Solaris determines  the controller numbers Read Full

The following is the proper syntax to exclude traversal of nfs mounts for the find command

# find / -name somefile -print -o -fstype nfs -prune

Or, use the following command to exclude traversal of nfs, autofs and cachefs filesystems:

# find / -name somefile -print -o -fstype nfs -prune -o -fstype autofs -prune -o -fstype cachefs -prune

Occasionally, for various reasons, a disk, or disks, may get marked by Volume Manager as “failing”. This can be seen by doing ‘vxdisk list’ and ‘vxprint -th’: Read Full