Install Sybase Perl module in Solaris 10
Installing Perl modules in Sun Solaris is not as straight forward but is not very difficult as well. Perl module installations in Sun Solaris needs GNU Make rather than the default make tool installed. And, requires using perlgcc to build the Makefile.PL than the default perl binary.
How to find list of files installed by a package
“pkginfo” command can be useful in Solaris to give a detailed listing of a package including the details of number of installed files, pathnames, directories and executables as follows:
How to find files,directories,path,executables for packages
Sometimes you run into situations to try and understand where the files for your package that you just installed on your Sun Solaris Server. While this is no big deal for geeks lets help “not so geeks” with a way to find the files and path of installed package.
Install & Run Sun VTS in Solaris 10 for hardware & Stress test
In my previous write up here, I wrote a brief description of the Sun VTS (Validation and Test Suite) which can help one to run tests on any Sun Supported hardware and hardware components and report the health status and identify faulty devices. Now, lets get installing and run Sun VTS in Solaris 10.
Sun Solaris Patch Management return codes
When you install Patches on Solaris, you will find quite often see error codes or Exit/Return codes when the patch installation fails.
These are the return codes that indicate the cause of the failure to install the specified patch and are very helpful as point to start with in troubleshooting.
How to Install OpenSSH in Sun Solaris 10 (X86)
OpenSSH is a free opensource version of the SSH connectivity tools. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks unlike Telnet,rlogin or ftp where the data is not encrypted and transmitted in plain text. Additionally, OpenSSH provides secure tunneling capabilities and several authentication methods, and supports all SSH protocol versions.
Solaris 10 is by default installed with SSH server and the clients. However, if you have chosen to ignore SSH at the time of installation or have started the install with a minimal install then you may need to install OpenSSH manually.
How to Install OpenSSH in Sun Solaris 10 (SPARC)
OpenSSH is a free opensource version of the SSH connectivity tools. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks unlike Telnet,rlogin or ftp where the data is not encrypted and transmitted in plain text. Additionally, OpenSSH provides secure tunneling capabilities and several authentication methods, and supports all SSH protocol versions.
How to install MySQL database server in Sun Solaris
Installation of MySQL Database server on Solaris is not that difficult but is a bit dragging and not as straightforward as is in any other Linux flavors. The following procedure will help install MySQL and configure successfuly in Sun Solaris. Read more
How to install GNU tar in Sun Solaris
There are scenarios where you cannot untar a certain package with the builtin tar utility. A best example would be when you use it to untar the MySQL Packages downloaded from
Follow the procedures listed below to sucessfully install GNU Tar installed in Sun Solaris.
Sun Security Alerts- Sun Alert 274110 Security Vulnerability in the Apache 1.3 "mod_perl" Module Component "Status.pm" May Lead to Unauthorized Access to Data
- Sun Alert 274990 Security Vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer 3.0 (SSLv3) Protocols Affects Multiple Server Products in the Sun Java Enterprise System Suite
- Sun Alert 275530 Integer Overflow Security Vulnerability in AES and RC4 Decryption in the Solaris Kerberos Crypto Library May Lead to Execution of Arbitrary Code or a Denial of Service (DoS)
- Sun Alert 271169 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) Web Interface in OpenSolaris May Lead to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and HTTP Response Splitting Attacks
- Sun Alert 273551 Two Security Vulnerabilities in GNU tar (see gtar(1)) May Lead to Files Being Overwritten, Execution of Arbitrary Code, or a Denial of Service (DoS)