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One of the reasons that I left my old job to work with Rittman Mead Consulting was to get back to technology. Don’t get this wrong, I really did enjoy managing people and having responsibility for a BI practice, but that was at the expense of involvement in a lot of the delivery of systems; […]

Change Solaris server date and time

Now a day’s almost every systems administrator runs Network Time protocol (NTP) server on their networks and use ntp protocol on Solaris machines to sync the system time. For some reason if you are not running NTP and you would like to change or set Solaris machine date and time it’s fairly simple to do. I have changed date on my Solaris 8 and Solaris 10 servers just by running date command.Here is how you can set/change Solaris system date and time which doesn’t requires reboot:

For changing Solaris machine date and time connect to server using telnet or ssh and login as root:

The Solaris date command syntax format is “mmddhhmmyy” ,

where mm is month , dd is day of the month,hh is the hour and mm is minutes and yy is the current year.

Open Source means that the source code is open. There are many inferences that can be made from this, and many stereotypes that can be applied, but in the end, all it means is that you can read the source code as well as use the binaries.
I am not a developer. I fully […]

Yes I am leaving today for Delhi. I was not supposed to go as there are so many other things happening. But some how due to some reasons, I need to go. Well the program is not so difficult but the clientle is for sure. I need to focus on couple of other things so […]

I never thought that I too would write about any trouble about blogging and blog sites. I never had much trouble except once when I had to configure my blog over my web site. It is on http://aristadba.com/blog. Some how I was not able to do it for some time but than I made it […]

I went to see Rambo last night. It’s very gorey with loads of blood, death and dismemberment. Not really my bag.
Cheers
Tim…

I was recently asked a question by someone who had attended my Shmoocon talk entitled “Why are Databases So Hard to Secure?”. PDF slides are available (1.34 Mb). I was going to put this into a more formal structure, but the conversational nature works really well. I would love to see comments […]