Apart from the cantankerous nature of Solaris, these machines are slow. This produces its own misery. Tasks that would be done in two minutes on a modern linux machine may take an hour. Just logging in warns you of the suffering to come when you wait 10 seconds after typing your password waiting for a prompt to appear.
bash stty cols 80 setenv TERM xterm set -o viDoing this at least allows you to run "vi" without it telling you it has no clue what kind of terminal you have. Bash is much better than whatever shell it fires up by default. I expect "vi" keystroke bash command history, so the last command allows those deeply ingrained habits to work. This is important to me anyway.
The "df" command gives some almost useless output by default. If you run "df -k", not only do you get numbers in Kbytes, but a much more sensible set of columns, including the thing I most want to take a quick look at, the capacity in percent.
df -k Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 1689390 1199855 438854 74% / /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd swap 521440 32 521408 1% /var/run /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 9664132 6446044 3121447 68% /u1 swap 521864 456 521408 1% /tmp /dev/dsk/c3t3d0s3 130638211 6919331 122412498 6% /d0 /d0/pilot2 130638211 6919331 122412498 6% /home/pilot2
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