Interesting Sun and UNIX related links
- Stokely Consulting has excellent
pages with
sysadmin
resources
and
UNIX
serial port resources
- Sun Product Documentation (docs.sun.com)
- Fortify for Netscape is a program that provides world-wide, unconditional, full strength 128-bit cryptography to users of Netscape Navigator (v3) and Communicator (v4)
- If you are a systems administrator you should consider joining
SAGE and attending some of the
conferences sponsored by SAGE,
especially LISA
- Solaris vs NT from
The Standish Group
- PilotManager allows you to manage and sync a PalmPilot under Solaris
- Sun software support
and education
- SAMBA allows a UNIX
system to act as an SMB file and print server
- Sharity-Light - Mount your Windows network shares on Unix!
- ksh93 from
AT&T for free Platforms: Sun OS 4.1.x, Solaris 2.x/SPARC, IRIX, Linux,
BSDI, HP/UX. You'll need to fetch the astkit_base package.
- pdksh is a reasonable
alternative to ksh if for some reason you cannot use ksh or need a
consistent shell across platforms
- A collection of precompiled helper applications for Netscape running under Solaris
- Test drive
the latest compilers from SunSoft
- memconf displays
the memory configuration (what size SIMMS are in what slots) of a Sun
workstation
- Search through the archives of
the Sun Managers mailing list for answers to questions about Sun systems
administration.
- "Fuzzy"search
through the Sun Managers mailing list archives. This database only has Sun
Managers from Jan 1995.
- UNIX
System Administrator's Resources
- Solaris Web Pointers
- Davin's
collection of UNIX programming links
- PERL is a scripting
language suitable for many systems administration related tasks. Highly
recommended.
- Kohala company home page
has updates and errata for his excellent UNIX and networking books and some
interesting papers
- Licence manager sysadmin guides for
�lan and
FLEXlm
- Network Time Protocol
- scsiinfo is a really
useful tool for dealing with SCSI problems.
- sysinfo can tell you various
things about a system (RAM, CPU, devices, etc.)
- Solbourne Stragglers Web Page has some useful information for those who use and administer old Solbourne
machines
- UNIX systems
administration tools has a catalogue of tools for system and network
monitoring, security, etc. with good descriptions.
- Information
on 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps ethernet configuration.
- Sun Microsystems
- SunSolve
- snoop
for Sun OS 4.1.x
- The SE
Performance Toolkit is a tool for performance tuning under Solaris 2.x.
Version 3.0 of the
SE Performance Toolkit is also available and has support for Solaris 2.5-2.6 only.
- lsof and
lslk allow one to
list the open files and locks on various flavours of UNIX including Solaris.
- OpenBSD is a 4.4 BSD based free
operating system with source code which will run on many sparc systems
(as well as i386, alpha, etc.). Although this page focuses mostly on
Solaris, I find that I sometimes need source code for the
operating system, something that is problematic with Solaris.
- NetBSD is another 4.4 BSD based
free operating system with source code that will run on many sparc
systems as well as others
- Solaris sysadmin
tools
- Sun storage array
resources
- Flashback has a searchable archive
of product announcements.
- SunWorld Online has quite
a few good articles on systems administration topics
- sunWHERE has
many good links to Sun related resources
- SunExpress catalogues
- Precompiled binaries for Solaris
- BayLISA is a monthly gathering of
systems administrators in San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
- OU IRG Software Archive has some network debugging tools
- Ian Darwin's Sun Resources Bookmarks
- LBL has some essential networking tools
- Enabling High Performance Data Transfers on Hosts
gives some hints on optimizing TCP/IP performance. q.v.
Experimental
TCP SACK Implementations
- Introduction
to UNIX Systems Administration by Frank G.
Fiamingo et al. is a free book on UNIX systems administration with coverage
of Solaris 2.x, Sun OS 4.1.x,, IRIX, Digital UNIX, and Ultrix. Some of the
material is specific to the environment at Ohio State Univerisity, but most of
it is generally applicable.
- Central Queensland
University Sysadmin course
- Online UNIX
documentation at Rice University.
- O'Reilly publishes many excellent books
on UNIX.
Tools for Managing/Delivering/Reading Email
- sendmail
- procmail is a
very flexible tool for filtering and managing email (as well as doing
local delivery). This is a superb tool for filtering spam.
- The US/Canada-only version
of mutt is a nice mail
user agent for UNIX systems which includes
PGP/MIME support