Solaris 10 is an entirely different animal than any of the preceeding versions. So much comes pre-installed now making it a heck of a lot easier for an Admin go bounce from Linux to Solaris without having to consider what platform he/she is truly on. One of the difficulties I recently encountered was changing the
Openvpn, for those that are unfamiliar with it, is an excellent point-to-point VPN software package. I tried it out in an environment where both ends were Fedora Core Linux systems and the installation went extremely well. In fact, it was almost simple. The tough part was getting the configuration fine-tuned enough such that it
To change the hostname on a Solaris system, you should edit all of these files: /etc/hosts /etc/nodename /etc/hostname.* /etc/net/ticlts/hosts       (this file is unused in Solaris 10 and above) /etc/net/ticots/hosts    (this file is unused in Solaris 10 and above) /etc/net/ticotsord/hosts (this file is unused in Solaris 10 and above) You should then reboot