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The acctadm command is used to configure extenede process accouting. Without any arguments, it outputs the current state of accounting on the system: bash 3.00# acctadm ...
Solaris Pages: Solaris 9 x86 Process List Solaris Zones ZFS Extended Process Accounting JakeWilliams 05 Oct 2008
To create a storage pool zpool create Verify that the pool was created: zpool list To create a mirror of the storage pool on another disk: zpool create pool name ...
To log into a zone use the zlogin command. JakeWilliams 30 Oct 2008
EnyeLKM is a loadable kernel module virus that inserts jumps in both the system call and sys enter functions to massage output. I did some research on the specifics ...
This process list was taken from a default install of Solaris 9 on an x86 VM and represents a pretty standard default process list. The root user is logged in at the ...
Solaris Process: /usr/lib/ssh/sshd: The Secure Shell (SSH) server daemon. Notice the path (runs from /usr/lib/ssh). This path is normal for Solaris. Configuration ...
Solaris Process: /usr/lib/sendmail: Handles accepting and delivery of mail using SMTP. Notice the path (running out of /usr/lib). This looks abnormal to Linux users ...
Solaris Process: /usr/sbin/vold: Creates and manages file systems for cdrom and floppy drives, normally in /vol. Configuration file: /etc/vold.conf JakeWilliams ...
Solaris Process: /usr/lib/dmi/snmpXdmid: The snmpXdmid process is the Sun Solstice Enterprise SNMP DMI mapper subagent. It maps SNMP requests to DMI requests. Configuration ...
Solaris Process: /usr/lib/dmi/dmispd: The dmispd process is Sun Solstice Enterprise DMI (Desktop Management Interface) Service Provider. Configuration file: /etc ...
Solaris Process: mibiisa: Sun's SNMP agent. The r option places the MIB in read only mode. The p option specifies the UDP port to listen on. Configuration file: ...
Solaris Process: /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: The snmpdx process is the Sun Solstice Enterprise Master Agent. Listens on udp/161 and other ports as needed to receive trap ...
Solaris Process: dtlogin: GUI login process for the Common Desktop Environment (CDE). JakeWilliams 06 Oct 2008
Solaris Processes: smcboot: Part of the Solaris Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) system, specifically the Solaris Management Console. Used more in Solaris 10 ...
Solaris Process: utmpd: Monitors the /var/adm/utmpx file as well as /proc to detect process termination. It updates the file as needed (when processes exit). JakeWilliams ...
Solaris Process: powerd: Powerd controls system activity using the suspend/resume feature of Solaris. Started by pmconfig (which then usually exits) in /etc/init.d ...
Solaris Process: nscd: Name Services Cache Daemon. It provides caching for passwd, group, hosts, ipnodes, exec attr, proc attr, and user attr. Default configuration ...
Solaris Process: statd: The statd process is part of the NFS system in Solaris. On the server side it advises clients with file locks when the server they hold the ...
Solaris Process: /usr/sbin/cron: Runs scheduled jobs for the system. Note that this is simply "cron" as opposed to "crond" in Linux. Another difference from Linux ...
Solaris Process: syslogd: The system logger. Configured via /etc/syslog.conf. Writes the pid to /etc/syslog.pid on startup. JakeWilliams 06 Oct 2008
Solaris Process: automountd: An RPC server that handles requests to mount and unmount file systems as part of autofs. It is automatically invoked in runlevel 2. ...
Solaris Process: /usr/lib/nfs/lockd: The lockd process is a component of the NSF file locking manager. It is started via /etc/init.d/nfs.client but configured via ...
Solaris Process: inetd: The inetd process handles listening for standard network services and spawning the appropriate daemon upon connection. It reads /etc/inet/inetd ...
Solaris Process: rpcbind: The rpcbind proces converts RPC program numbers into the universal addresses used on that machine. It must be running for the host to be ...
Solaris Process: in.routed: This is the Solaris routing daemon and handles the routing tables for the Solaris OS. It is configured by files /etc/defaultrouter, /etc ...
Solaris Process: picld: PICL (Platform Information and Control Library) daemon. This daemon aids in hardware abstraction by allowing the kernel to publish platform ...
Solaris Process: syseventd: Syseventd is a daemon that allows passing of kernel level messages to userspace where all interested subscribers will be delivered the ...
Solaris Process: ttymon: This can be thought of as similar to the mingetty processes configured in /etc/inittab in Linux in that it handles the connection parameters ...
Solaris Process: /usr/lib/saf/sac: The SAC process is the Service Access Controller. It handles all requests from the system to start and stop port monitors on the ...
Solaris Process: fsflush: This is a required system process. It flushes dirty file system pages to disk, pages dirty memory back to disk, and writes file system metadata ...
Solaris Process: pageout: The pageout process is required on a functional Solairs system and is used to control the paging of virtual memory to disk and back to memory ...
Solaris Process: init: This shows up in Solaris 9 x86 as '/etc/init '. Don't know for sure what the hyphen is for in this case. /etc/init is just a symlink to /sbin ...
Solaris Process: sched: Used to be known as the swapper process. It is exactly what it sounds like, the scheduler process. Linux implements this as a kernel thread ...
ProgrammingBerkeleyDB ProgrammingKernelModules ProgrammingRPM FileSystemAnalysis BuildingKernel RootKits Solaris Linux Web Utilities ...
I've been working with some Rootkit code in Linux recently. This will be the top level topic for communicating about Linux/Unix rootkits. Each variety will get its ...
One of the key things to look at when investigating a filesystem for forensic activity in Linux are the MAC (modify, access, and change) times on the system. Modify ...
My stupid simple steps to compiling: make gconfig (or menuconfig if you don't have GNOME) make make modules make modules install make install cd /boot Fix grub so ...
These reside in /var/lib/rpm on my Fedora 9 machine: Packages: There is one entry for each rpm on the machine. The first entry is a dud, both the key and data report ...
Programming Kernel Modules: Module basics: Every module needs to have an init function an exit function. They are registered using mdule init() and module exit() respectively ...
This topic is in place to cover what I know about rpm programming. I had to build some RPM packages in the past, but that involved building a SPEC file. I want to ...
You can walk all records in a database using a cursor. On the first c get, specify the cursor position flag DB FIRST. On each subsequent get (until you reach the end ...
Linux Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the Linux web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in . and ...
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