Michael wrote: > It's been years since I worked with Solaris, and recently I find myself > managing a couple Solaris boxes. > > A couple questions: > > 1. How to tell if it's running Solaris versus OpenSolaris? Here's what I see > when I look at uname and /etc/release: > > r...@sunbackup # cat /etc/release > Solaris 10 11/06 s10x_u3wos_10 X86 > Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. > Use is subject to license terms. > Assembled 14 November 2006 > r...@sunbackup # uname -a > SunOS sunbackup 5.10 Generic_125101-05 i86pc i386 i86pc
That's Solaris 10, not OpenSolaris. > 2. I'm a bash guy! How do I install bash? I'm assuming there must be some > package management tools in Solaris. Can someone give me the quick-and-dirty > to downloading and installing GNU bash? For Solaris 10, check out the Companion CD, sunfreeware.com, and blastwave.org. There's a lot of ready-to-install free software out there. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ install-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
