Archive | wesunsolve

30 May 2012 ~ Comments Off

WeSunSolve: One year later

More than one year ago, the WeSunSolve website has been launched publicly to address the lack of information available for the Solaris operating system.
Facing it’s success, a lot of improvements, features and stuff were added.. and visitors keeps …

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27 April 2012 ~ Comments Off

WeSunSolve: Site News April

New Features

Added wiki to hold the documentation;
Added the monitoring of multiple IPS Repositories;
User list now allows the user to load multiple patches at once;
Added patch timeline
Added CVE list affecting Solaris packages
Added patch link t…

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06 February 2012 ~ Comments Off

How to upgrade a Solaris server to a particular patching level

Situation

Today at work, I needed to prepare the patching of a two-nodes cluster. Not only I should patch this cluster, but I should also mimic the same patching level as the currently used prod server. Well Well. Instead of making a diff of the …

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06 December 2011 ~ Comments Off

sfpC.pl – The Solaris Fingerprint Companion revived!

A few ago, I’ve found the sfpC.pl script from Glenn Brunette which was used to check the fingerprint of any Solaris file against the SunSolve Fingerprint Database.

I’ve managed to port this script to be used against WeSunSolve fingerprint databas…

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24 October 2011 ~ Comments Off

WeSunSolve.net: 6 Months later

6 Months ago, I created the “sunsolve.espix.org” website running at home on my personal VDSL link; 6 Months later, the website is still evolving.

Where we started

Everything started when SunSolve.sun.com has died. I remember my frustration a…

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31 May 2011 ~ Comments Off

sunsolve.espix.org : A new tool for Solaris sysadmins…

When the merge of Oracle and SUN became reality, we lost one of the greatest documentation portal for Solaris: Sun Solve.

While I’m a Solaris sysadmin myself, I needed a tool to manage my daily patching, to ease search with bugs, patches and depe…

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