Knight Talks Tech

Category: *nix

  • SnipIT No 1: Checking Permissions in Solaris

    SnipIT is a series of short blogs containing useful information in an easily digestible format. First up; How to check permissions of files and folders in Solaris. This may seem obvious to some but to new-comers it should prove useful. File Permissions ls -al The a option lists all the files in the directory, including…

  • Basic User Administration in Solaris

    Here are some pointers on performing basic user administration in Solaris, e.g. adding and removing/deleting a user. The commands useradd, usermod and userdel are available from /usr/sbin when logged in as a user with root privileges. To Add a User useradd -u 1001 -d /export/home/timb -m -s /bin/bash -c “Tim Bow” -g 100 timb -u…

  • Finding what processes are running

    Brief blog on finding out what processes are running, info taken from man. To find out what processes are running, use the prstat utility from the command line. There are a number of options which you can make use of depending on what you what to see. The useage of prstat is as follows: prstat…