Misc commands

What server I am on

bash-3.00# uname
SunOS
bash-3.00# uname -a
SunOS frank 5.10 Generic_118844-26 i86pc i386

To view ypcat


[root@polland:/var/yp] ypcat -k passwd

to push changes to polland
/usr/ccs/bin/make

Find packages matching criteria
pkginfo | grep moz

Install package remotely
pkgadd -r packagename

Installing Firefox 1.5 on Solaris 10

Today is my second day at my new job (more on this later). For right now my default work station is Solaris 10 and today I needed to install Firefox 1.5. Here's how I did it

wget http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/firefox-1.5.0.1.en-US.solaris2.10-i386-pkg.tar.bz2
bunzip2 firefox-1.5.0.1.en-US.solaris2.10-i386-pkg.tar.bz2
tar xf firefox-1.5.0.1.en-US.solaris2.10-i386-pkg.tar
cd firefox-1.5.0.1.en-US.solaris2.10-i386
pkgadd -d MOZffox.pkg

hope this works for you too!