Tuesday, September 22, 2009

~/.ssh/config

The fields you most often need in ~/.ssh/config are...


Host HOSTNAME
User USERNAME
HostName IP_ADDRESS (or hostname.fqdn)


Not to mention the proxy stuff below.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Extracting files from Solaris packages

How to extract files from a DaTaStReAm package without installing the package on the system:

You use pkgtrans to convert a datastream format package to file system format.


$ pkgtrans gzip-1.3.12-sol26-sparc-local .