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On#Sun Articles I've written

After writing the previous entry pointing to an On#Sun article I wrote on /etc/system, it occurred to me that I should add some links to these in the public bookmarks on my blog. I just finished doing it. I hope that someone finds it useful or enlightening; entertaining would be nice too.

On#Sun is the magazine published by Sun Australia for Sun customers roughly every two months.

I've just submitted brief article on Solaris on x86 for the next issue and I'm currently working on a longer article that I'll keep the title under wraps for for a bit.

Posted at 08:02PM Jun 18, 2004 by Alan Hargreaves in General  |  Comments[1]

/etc/system viruses (virii?)

Richard Elling wrote about /etc/system viruses. I also wrote something about System tuning and /etc/system in the Australian customer magazine On#Sun that adds a little to this.

The bottom line is that nothing in /etc/system should be considered as boiler-plate. Just because a setting works well on one system does not mean that it will work well on another, let alone if the other system is running a different release of Solaris.

Posted at 11:34AM Jun 18, 2004 by Alan Hargreaves in General  |