AutoFS theoretical concepts

AutoFs

Introduction

The AutoFS facility provide a method to mount remote directory automatically whithout needing to use mount or umount command, when a user or application access an NFS (shared) file system, the mount is established, when the file system is no longer needed or has not been accessed for  certain time period, the file system is automatically unmounted.

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Solaris Logs (Events)

Solaris System Logs

system logs are files contain events that are recorded by the operating system, system logs contain information about errors, warnning, device changes, events, hardware errors and more.

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Solaris Zone part four ( Zone Configuration )

Solaris Zone part four ( Zone Configuration )

In this tutorial we will learn how to configure some Solaris zone configuration

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Solaris Zone Part 3 ( whole Solaris zone )

 Creating whole solaris zone

Big zone no files are shared between this type of zone and global zone, need more space because more files and packages will be installed.

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Solaris Zone Part 2 ( Sparse Solaris zone )

This tutorial describe how to create sparse Solaris zone.

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Solaris Zone Part 1

Solaris Zone ( Concepts and theory )

In this tutorial will learn some key concepts about Solaris zones. 

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Solaris Packet sniffer

Solaris Packet sniffer

Accroding to Network Dictionary sniffing tool is a program  that monitors data traveling over a network, and it can be used both for stealing network information or for monitoring and maintenance network.

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Solaris ZFS

what is ZFS ? 

ZFS is a UNIX file system like NTFS and FAT in windows, It's used widely in Solaris and its transactional file system which ensures that any sequence of operations is either entirely committed or entirely ignored. This mechanism ensures that the ZFS file system can never be corrupted through loss of power or a system crash.

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Oracle VirtualBOX

Oracle VirtualBOX

Oracle VM VirtualBox is an virtualization software package, you can install and will enable you to install another operating system on your computer. It will share the ram and CPU power of your other OS, form example if you are running windows and install virtualbox you can then install oracle solaris and other operating system, Download VirtualBOX from here VirtualBOX

To install Oracle Solaris on VirtualBOX 

1. Download Oracle Solaris 10/11 form here Solaris 10
2. Run VirtualBox from your computer 
3. Click on new, and choose a name for your virtual machine, and also choose the OS type you will install on it.

  

4. Choose the memory amount, and click on next and next again

 

5. Choose the size of disk you want to be availble for the virtual machine

 6.Click create

 7. insert Oracle Solaris Media .

 8. select the OS you want and click start bottom from the Menu, follow the information to install Solaris OS.

 

9. if you want to add more hard disks to your virtual OS, select the Virtual OS and click settingd

10. select Storage

 

11. click add hard disk

12. Click Next, then choose "Fixed size", Click Next 

 

13. choose your new Hard disk size, click Next, click create.

 

 14. your hard disk is ready now.

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Configure caching-only Server

 

Caching server gets its information from another server ( Master DNS server ) in response to a host query and then cache this information locally, it saves cached data until the time period "time-to-live" in named.conf file expire. When a caching only DNS server starts for the first time, it has't cached informaton , the caching only DNS server collects information as it send and recive quires. 

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UNIX VI editor

The vi editor is a command-line editor that has three basic modes of operation:

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Configure Slave DNS server on solaris 10

Configure Slave DNS server Solaris

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Configure DNS server on oracle solaris 10

Master DNS Server Configuration 

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Apache shared hosting

Introduction : -

Shared Hosting or Virtual Hosting refers to a hosting service where more than one web site reside on the same server , each web site has its own space.

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Configure Apache on Solaris

Step by Step tutorial to Configure httpd.conf apache file .

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Starting Apache on Solaris 10

Step By Step tutorial to start Apache on Solaris 10

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