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]>
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