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Oracle Solaris 11: First Look

By : Philip P. Brown
Book Image

Oracle Solaris 11: First Look

By: Philip P. Brown

Overview of this book

Oracle Solaris provides innovative, built-in features that deliver breakthrough high availability, advanced security, efficiency, and industry-leading scalability and performance to help businesses grow. "Oracle Solaris 11: First Look" covers the new features and functionality of Oracle Solaris 11 and how these new features and improvements will make it easier to deploy services to the enterprise while improving performance and reducing total cost of ownership.This book starts with coverage of Image Packaging System and the new installation methods. It then moves swiftly to network configuration. The book also includes some security features and improvements.  
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Oracle Solaris 11: First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
IPS Package Reference
New ACL Permissions and Abbreviations
Index

Miscellaneous differences in system-level configuration


Certain things that used to be in files have been moved into the SMF repository of properties and services.

Some have specialized tools to assist in administration. However, some rely only on the basic SMF property tools, such as svcprop and svccfg.

Name service related

The following is a table of "name service" related, legacy file-based information and the corresponding SMF location:

Filename

SMF location

/etc/nsswitch.conf

svc:/system/name-service/switch:default

/etc/nscd.conf

svc:/system/name-service/cache:default

/etc/resolv.conf

svc:/network/dns/client:default

/etc/defaultdomain

svc:/network/nis/domain:default

/var/ldap/*

svc:/network/ldap/client:default

Each of the old-style file's information in the left column can be imported manually into SMF via the nscfg command. It is also possible to do one-shot exports of the information. The sample usage of each action is as follows:

nscfg import -f svc:...