Category Archives: WeSunSolve

More than one year ago, the WeSunSolve website has been launched publicly to address the lack of information available for the Solaris operating system. Facing it’s success, a lot of improvements, features and stuff were added.. and visitors keeps like … Continue reading →

New Features Added wiki to hold the documentation; Added the monitoring of multiple IPS Repositories; User list now allows the user to load multiple patches at once; Added patch timeline Added CVE list affecting Solaris packages Added patch link to … Continue reading →

Situation Today at work, I needed to prepare the patching of a two-nodes cluster. Not only I should patch this cluster, but I should also mimic the same patching level as the currently used prod server. Well Well. Instead of … Continue reading →

A few ago, I’ve found the sfpC.pl script from Glenn Brunette which was used to check the fingerprint of any Solaris file against the SunSolve Fingerprint Database. I’ve managed to port this script to be used against WeSunSolve fingerprint database, … Continue reading →

6 Months ago, I created the “sunsolve.espix.org” website running at home on my personal VDSL link; 6 Months later, the website is still evolving. Where we started Everything started when SunSolve.sun.com has died. I remember my frustration at that time.. … Continue reading →

When the merge of Oracle and SUN became reality, we lost one of the greatest documentation portal for Solaris: Sun Solve. While I’m a Solaris sysadmin myself, I needed a tool to manage my daily patching, to ease search with … Continue reading →