Useful scripts are in: /export/home/zones/solaris/nexenta/install/root/bin /export/home/timeless/bin /export/home/build/bin syntax: md5sum [file [file ...]] plocate path/fragment pman path/fragment [manpage] examples: md5sum /dev/null d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e /dev/null plocate bin/dbx /opt/SUNWspro/bin/dbx=../prod/bin/dbx s none SPROdbx /opt/SUNWspro/prod/bin/dbx f none 0755 root sys 3884112 7371 1105143878 SPROdbx pman bin/dbx User Commands DBX(1) notes: pman uses plocate to calculate a man path by selecting the first matched path, stripping off bin, and adding man. it then asks man for the manpage if provided or the last path fragment if not. super_proxy.sh should live in ~/bin cd ~/bin ln -s super_proxy.sh git ln -s super_proxy.sh apt-get ln -s super_proxy.sh wget it's a fairly silly script, but it enables me to operate from within a zone that only has network access to the global zone.