setting time zone and date on Linux server.

Changing time zone to Indian
cd /etc
then
[root@localhost etc]# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta localtime
[root@localhost /root]# date 092011082001
Thu Sep 20 11:08:00 CDT 2001
[root@localhost /root]# hwclock –utc –systohc
[root@localhost /root]#
Ref: http://www.hypexr.org/linux_date_time_help.php

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Installing OpenSSH Packages for SPARC and Intel/Solaris 8

Openssh is meant to supply security to your systems. If you don’t understand how to properly use it, you may have problems. Such problems are your responsibility. See our disclaimer. Please read the instructions below fully and carefully before you do any installation.
Installation of the openssh software on a Solaris machine is lengthy, but straightforward. To get ssh and sshd running you need to install a number of packages. …

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Solaris RAID-5 How-to

Abstract
This document walks you through building a RAID-5 volume using four disks (three is the minimum, and performance can degrade when more than eight are used) on Solaris 8, using the command-line interface to Solstice Disk Suite. Our demonstration system contains five hot-swappable 9GB SCSI disks, one of which is the system disk.
Contents
Introduction
Step One: Partitioning the Disks
Step Two: Creating the Metadevice Database
Step Three: Configure the RAID-5 Metadevice
Step Four: Configure a …

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Adding Disks under Solaris

Once the disk has been physically installed, the system should recognize a new device on the SCSI bus. After powering up the system, hold down the Stop key (on some Suns, this is labeled L1), and hit the A key to enter the boot monitor.
At the boot monitor, probe-scsi can be used to list the SCSI devices the system recognizes:

Type ‘go’ to resume
Type help for more information
ok probe-scsi
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