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8 Jan 2010
#22504
Solaris Auditing (BSM): Dispelling Some of the Myths
The Chief One Being Its Difficulty

Difficulty is an argument that won't wash with Ben Rockwood when it comes to skeptics on the issue of Solaris Auditing (BSM). It is truly a simple process, he argues. The difficulty is that most of the tutorials available on the subject fail to deal adequately with exactly how to make use of auditing data. In a recent post, Rockwood discusses how to make intelligent use of the audit trails that result.
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5 Jan 2010
#22521
"Creating a Solaris 10 x86 OS Bootable DVD or CD"
Requirements and Procedures for Making Your Own Bootable CD/DVD

Having a bootable DVD for system recovery and bare-metal rebuilds is essential to many system administrators. Ross Moffatt has shared his approach for a full install onto a 16G virtual disk using a zfs root file system. Moffatt's work begins with a system that runs the Solaris 10 OS for x86 platforms within a Sun VirtualBox.
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