Solaris screen saver

To enable the screen saver on Solaris, use xscreensaver-demo.  Do a man on xscreensaver for more info. To start xscreensaver automatically, put xscreensaver-command exit and xscreensaver & in Xsession. Do a find and edit all the Xsession files since there are more than one on Solaris.

How to get cpu info on Solaris

Use prtdiag to get hardware information on Solaris.

Solaris Services

svcs -xv # tells you what the problems are

svcs -d [s] #tells you what services [s] depends on

svcs -D [s] #tells you what services depend on [s]

svcs -a # shows all the services

svcs -l # shows all the information about the services

To get Solaris version number

To get the version number of the operating system on a Solaris system:

less /etc/release

To get architecture info:

isainfo -v

To Split MP3 files using Silence

To split an mp3 into 5 minute segments:

mp3splt -t 5.0 file.mp3

To tag all the created segments with info:

n=0;
for i in *.mp3;
do let n=$n+1;
mp3info -a “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle” -l “The Adv. of Sherlock Holmes I” -t “Sherlock Holmes Part I ($n)” -g 12 $i;
echo $i;
done