Archive - Tech Updates by David Whiteside

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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