| Solaris | Redhat | Doing what |
| /etc/motd : | | login message |
| reboot -- -r: | | reconfigure reboot |
| fsck -y: | | check disk |
| psrinfo -v: | more /proc/cpuinfo, lspci, lsdev | number of active CPU |
| /etc/system : | | system parameters |
| /etc/vfstab : | | mount partition |
| /etc/defaultrouter : | | specify default router |
| /etc/nsswitch.conf and resolv.conf : | | DNS config |
| /etc/default/login : | | comment out CONSOLE=/dev/console to allow remote login as root |
| /etc/auto_home, /etc/auto_master : | | auto-mounter |
| /usr/dt/bin/dtterm -bg grey -fg blue -name brc6s00e & : | | dtterm |
| tr -d '\015' or dos2unix : | | converting end-of-line character between DOS & Unix |
| setenv boot-device=/pci@4,4000/scsi@4/disk@2,0:a : | | set the default boot device |
| printenv : | | print environment variables from the ok prompt |
| nvalias disk6 /pci@4,4000/scsi@4/disk@2,0 : | | set an alias to use with reboot -- disk6:a |
| /etc/inetd.conf : | | network daemon(s) |
| stty erase '^H': | | backspace erase |
| netstat : | | network connections status |
| ps -LlPfp : | | listing including light weight process/thread |
| savecore : | | system image |
| crash : | | anylyze system image/core dump |