As a follow up to a previous post, here is how to unmount an ISO image in Solaris. In Linux mounting and unmounting ISO images is a one step process, not two like in Solaris.
Unmount the image:
umount /mount/point
Delete the block device:
lofiadm -d /dev/lofi/1

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The following command will show the amount of installed RAM in a Sun Solaris machine.
/usr/sbin/prtconf | grep Memory

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I don’t want to start a flame war, but I have never been fond of Solaris. It feels clumsy to me after using Linux for so long. However, my role at work has recently shifted and I have been forced into using Solaris. So, I am going to start posting little Solaris [...]

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I am all about efficiency. In conversations I try to cut right to the chase. At work I try to sort through all the cruft people tell me and find what is really important. Years ago I came up with a little law that has yet to be proven wrong. The [...]

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There are times that you need to maintain a long-term SSH connection. This may be because you need to keep a tunnel open, or you just want to stay logged into a machine. However, depending on the settings and network conditions of all the intervening computers it may be difficult to keep this [...]

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I work at a place that blocks most outgoing ports, including Google Chat (port 5222). While I don’t use chat much at work it is nice for me and my wife to communicate short messages quickly. Of course I’ve never let a little thing like a firewall stop me, so I figured a way [...]

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This site now allows OpenID logins. I think OpenID is a great idea. All your information and credentials are maintained in one location, which you can give a secure password. On any site that support OpenID you can then log in. The cool thing is that your password is kept safe. [...]

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I just recently upgraded the computers here to Ubuntu Dapper from Breezy. On one of the computers I was trying to install webmin using apt-get, but with no luck. I finally found out that webmin was removed from the Ubuntu repository at the authors request. The instructions for setting up webmin under [...]

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On a typical project there are many different computers that I must use. For years I have been using scp to copy files from one computer to another and wishing for a way to just mount the SSH filesystem. Well, my wish finally came true!
The good news is that thanks to sshfs I [...]

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This past week I created a Python script to test a certain CORBA component. The component uses callbacks to pass data back to the caller. So, in theory, all one has to do is register a callback with the CORBA object, call the Start() method, and let the data start coming.
Now, once I [...]

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