B: Setting the default route on Solaris is easy. If you are trying to just set the route temporarily you can use the route command:

Route add default < ipaddress >

Example:

Route add default 192.168.1.1

Note: Route command manipulates the kernel routing tables. Routing is the process of forwarding a packet from one computer to another. It is based on the IP address in the IP packet header and netmask.

F: If you want the route to be persisted when you reboot the system, you will need to set the route in the /etc/defaultrouter file.

/etc/defaultrouter

Example:

Echo 192.168.1.1 > /etc/defaultrouter

Here we should use SIGTERM to terminate the process.

Note:

When no signal is included in the kill command-line syntax, the default signal that is used is –15 (SIGKILL). Using the –9 signal (SIGTERM) with the kill command ensures that the process terminates promptly. However, the –9 signal should not be used to kill certain processes, such as a database process, or an LDAP server process. The result is that data might be lost.

Tip - When using the kill command to stop a process, first try using the command by itself, without including a signal option. Wait a few minutes to see if the process terminates before using the kill command with the -9 signal.

Starting with the Oracle Solaris 11 Express release, Fast Reboot is supported on the SPARC platform, as well as the x86 platform. On both platforms, this feature is controlled by the SMF and implemented through a boot configuration service, svc:/system/boot-config. The boot-config service provides a means for setting or changing the default boot configuration parameters.

The fastreboot_default property of the boot-config service enables an automatic fast reboot of the system when either the reboot or the init 6 command is used. When the config/fastreboot_default property is set to true the system automatically performs a fast reboot, without the need to use the reboot -f command. By default, this property ' s value is set to false on the SPARC platform and to true on the x86 platform.

Unlike DOS, which uses the file extension to determine if a file is executable or not, UNIX relies on file permissions.

The value assigned by umask is subtracted from the default.

User ' s file creation mask. umask sets an environment variable which automatically sets file permissions on newly created files. i.e. it will set the shell process ' s file creation mask to mode.

umask 000 would grant full permissions.

Note: 777 full permissions

B: Binary Signatures for Third-Party Software

The elfsign command provides a means to sign providers to be used with the Oracle Solaris Cryptographic Framework. Typically, this command is run by the developer of a provider.

The elfsign command has subcommands to request a certificate from Sun and to sign binaries. Another subcommand verifies the signature. Unsigned binaries cannot be used by the Oracle Solaris Cryptographic Framework. To sign one or more providers requires the certificate from Sun and the private key that was used to request the certificate.

C: Export law in the United States requires that the use of open cryptographic interfaces be restricted. The Oracle Solaris Cryptographic Framework satisfies the current law by requiring that kernel cryptographic providers and PKCS #11 cryptographic providers be signed.

A: + Indicates the file/directory was added in the later dataset

C: R Indicates the file/directory was renamed in the later dataset

E: - Indicates the file/directory was removed in the later dataset

G: M Indicates the file/directory was modified in the later dataset

Note: Identifying ZFS Snapshot Differences (zfs diff)

You can determine ZFS snapshot differences by using the zfs diff command.

The following table summarizes the file or directory changes that are identified by the zfs diff command.

File or Directory Change Identifier

* File or directory is modified or file or directory link changed

M

* File or directory is present in the older snapshot but not in the newer snapshot

—

* File or directory is present in the newer snapshot but not in the older snapshot

+

* File or directory is renamed

R

shadowd is a daemon that provides background worker threads to migrate data for a shadow migration. A shadow migration gradually moves data from a source file system into a new “shadow” file system. Users can access and change their data within the shadow file system while migration is occurring.

The shadowd service is managed by the service management facility, smf(5). Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, or requesting restart, can be performed using svcadm(1M). The service ' s status can be queried using the svcs(1) command.

The svccfg(1M) command can be used to manage the following parameter related to shadowd:

config_params/shadow_threads

Note: Oracle Solaris 11: In this release, you can migrate data from an old file system to a new file system while simultaneously allowing access and modification of the new file system during the migration process.

Setting the shadow property on a new ZFS file system triggers the migration of the older data. The shadow property can be set to migrate data from the local system or a remote system with either of the following values:

file:///path

nfs://host:path

The pkg info command provides detailed information about a particular IPS package.

Note: The pkginfo command does the same for any SVR4 packages you may have installed on the same system.

pkg info example:

$ pkg info p7zip

Name: compress/p7zip

Summary: The p7zip compression and archiving utility

Description: P7zip is a unix port of the 7-Zip utility. It has support for numerous compression algorithms, including LZMA and LZMA2, as well as for various archive and compression file formats, including 7z, xz, bzip2, gzip, tar, zip (read-write) and cab, cpio, deb, lzh, rar, and rpm (read-only).

Category: System/Core

State: Installed

Publisher: solaris

Version: 9.20.1

Build Release: 5.11

Branch: 0.175.0.0.0.2.537

Packaging Date: Wed Oct 19 09:13:22 2011

Size: 6.73 MB

FMRI: pkg://solaris/compress/p7zip@9.20.1, 5.11-0.175.0.0.0.2.537:20111019T091322Z