Sun and Solaris

Sun and Solaris

Solaris Install

Solaris SAN Storage

General Solaris Stuff

Prom commands

setenv auto-boot? false

Solaris explorer

The first time run this:-

# /opt/SUNWexplo/bin/explorer -g

from then on, run this:-

# /opt/SUNWexplo/bin/explorer

Preventing root logins

edit /etc/default/logins:-

# If CONSOLE is set, root can only login on that device.
# Comment this line out to allow remote login by root.  
# 
CONSOLE=/dev/console

Use uname -a to get the following info:-

$ uname -a
SunOS asp-olog01 5.8 Generic_117350-62 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440

SunOS <server name> 5.10 Generic_118833-24 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire

The SunOS 5.10 is Solaris 10. The Generic_118833-24 is the Cluster Patch / kernal level of the OS.

The /etc/release will tell you what installed media was used but not the current patch level.

Solaris 8 shows up as SunOS 5.8 Solaris 9 shows up as SunOS 5.9 Solaris 10 shows up as SunOS 5.10

eg.

$ cat /etc/release     
                     Solaris 8 HW 7/03 s28s_hw3wos_05a SPARC
             Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                             Assembled 11 June 2003