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Solaris Devices

This is a very brief introduction into navigating the device paths in Solaris. I'm using a Solaris 10 installed on Sun v490 for all the commands shown below.

Device files in Solaris

Even though all the block and character special device files are traditionally found under /dev directory, if you look closer at your Solaris 10 setup you will notice that they're not the device files themselves, but instead are just symbolic links to device files under /devices directory.

Solaris uses /devices directory for representing all the physical hierarchy of installed devices and buses found on your hardware system.

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URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration

I've recently upgraded Apache and PHP on my VPS, and one of the unpleasant surprises was that some scripts which tried including pages from remote sites (I know, not the most secure approach, but there were reasons for that) got broken.

allow_url_fopen

Traditionally, all the websites Google finds suggest that you double-check that your php.ini config has the allow_url_fopen enabled:

allow_url_fopen = On

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