SolarisCheatSheet

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Some useful commands, especially for those who are more familiar with Linux.

Contents 1 Terminal Environment 2 Shutdown / Reboot 3 Starting and Stopping Services 4 Packages 5 Performance Monitoring

Terminal Environment

Some users may prefer to change their default shell from sh to something with additional features such as bash or ksh. This can be set in /etc/passwd on a per user basis.

The TERM environment variable may also need to be set, depending on the SSH application that is being used, such as:

$ TERM=xterm
$ export TERM

Shutdown / Reboot

• shutdown: init 0
• reboot: init 6

Starting and Stopping Services

• List services: svcs
• List broken / services with problem(s): svcs -x

• Start a service: svcadm enable service-name
• Stop a service: svcadm disable service-name (use -t for 'temporary', i.e. non-persistent on reboots)

• After changing configuration files: svcadm refresh service-name

Packages

• List all installed packages: pkginfo

• Check if package 'foo' is installed: pkginfo | grep foo

• Remove/uninstall a package 'foo': pkgrm foo
• Add/install a package './foo.pkg': pkgadd -d .

Performance Monitoring

• 'top' equivalent: prstat. Use prstat -Z to include some summary statistics (such as memory usage).
• To get full arguments from ps: /usr/ucb/ps -auxww