Monthly Archives: January 2007

testing the bacula backup software – part 1

hey ya, fellow sysadmins. i started playing around with the open-source network backup software bacula on a sun fire v240 and a sun storedge lto 2v tape drive, which is actually a hp ultrium 448 drive rebranded by sun. i haven’t seen the application in action yet, because i’m currently lost in configuration. what really [...]
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how to change network information of sun solaris systems

people new to networking under solaris seem to wonder how to change the ip-address or hostname of a machine regularly. so here you go, this is the list of files to change when updating your network information. for ip changes edit the following files: /etc/hosts /etc/defaultrouter /etc/netmasks /etc/inet/ipnodes (if it contains the accordant entry for your hostname) to change the hostname [...]
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