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Using a SmartCard, PIV, or CAC (Common Access Card) with Ansible
As part of the Ansible 2.12 release, pkcs11/smartcards are now supported by Ansible.
Jul 1, 2022 • 
David Whiteside
Setting the infiniband (IB) node description on Solaris
By default the node description for the IB interfaces on Solaris is set to the name of the card.
Jul 1, 2022 • 
David Whiteside
SPARC ok prompt command reference
Maybe you don’t care about the forth programming language, but if you work on Sparc systems long enough you are going to have to work from the ok…
Jul 1, 2022 • 
David Whiteside
Solaris shutdown, reboot, init, and halt command differences
In summary, init and shutdown commands cleanly shutdown the system by running the shutdown rc scripts.
Jul 1, 2022 • 
David Whiteside
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