The DBA Hacker's guide to Solaris: Problems remembering how to use vi, or how to use the 'find' command ? Here's a handy guide and reminder sheet for people (especially Database Admins) who can't remember the syntax of some Solaris commands. It assumes very little knowledge of Unix and even explains some easily-overlooked aspects of Unix file permissions etc.     Also in PDF format (19 kB)

Robin's Solaris reminders: syntax for those harder-to-remember Solaris commands.    Also in PDF format (26 kB)

Some Veritas Volume Manager Tips: installation and reminders of command-line syntax. No mention of the vmsa Java GUI !     Also in PDF format (13 kB)

Some Sybase Tips: installation and reminders of syntax.     PDF format only (10 kB)

The Oracle Tips doc: installation and reminders of syntax.     PDF format only (11 kB)

The Solstice Backup HowTo: installation and configuration of Sun's backup product.     only in PDF format (20 kB)

The JumpStart HowTo: Setting up JumpStart server and client on Solaris 8.     only in PDF format (8 kB)

The Solaris PPP HowTo: Setting up PPP between two Solaris 8 machines.     only in PDF format (11 kB)

The Solaris NIS HowTo: Setting up a NIS master server.     only in PDF format (5 kB)

The Big Brother HowTo: installation and configuration of this powerful system monitoring tool.     PDF format only (22 kB)

The Sun hostid doc: Modifying a machine's hostid and/or MAC address in the PROM.     only in PDF format (8 kB)

The Tripwire HowTo: installation and configuration of this file integrity security tool.     also in PDF format (10 kB)

The iPlanet Proxy server HowTo: installation and configuration of Netscape's proxy server product.     PDF format only (16 kB)

The sudo HowTo: syntax of the /etc/sudoers file.     PDF format only (5 kB)

John's Solaris Server Setup manual: how to set up a fairly secure general-purpose Solaris server.     also in PDF format (15 kB)

The Passwordless SSH HowTo: how to set up SSH so that it doesn't prompt you for a password each time you connect to a host. Useful for automating shell scripts etc.     also in PDF format (8 kB)

The HTML Tips: reminders of basic tags and CSS syntax etc.     PDF format only (5 kB)

The Tomcat/Apache doc: installation and configuration of this Java JSP-and-servlet engine for Apache.     also in PDF format (14 kB)

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