Archive for December, 2005

Explain the Service Management Facility and the phases of the boot process.

The Service Management Facility (SMF) in Solaris 10 is a huge improvement over the old means of starting and stopping services or applications. Read the rest of this entry »

Perform system boot and shutdown procedures, including identifying the system’s boot device, creating and removing custom device aliases, viewing and changing NVRAM parameters, and interrupting an unresponsive system.

Bringing up the topics of shutting down or rebooting a Solaris box can stir controversy. To shut down a Solairs system, you can use either shutdown or init, either will perform a clean shutdown. The shutdown command eventually calls init to do the actual shutting down, but shutdown warns users before the shutdown occurs. Read the rest of this entry »

Use the Xorg configuration files or kdmconfig utility to configure the keyboard, display, and mouse devices for an x64 and x86 based system.

The /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (see its man page for the nitty gritty details) contains the configuration for keyboard, mouse, and display, in addition to several other devices. Read the rest of this entry »

Execute basic boot PROM commands for a SPARC system.

A previous objective described the boot PROM and its use. The boot PROM has a ton of commands Read the rest of this entry »