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Rotating logs on Solaris with logadm
November 2nd, 2009Logadm is the tool appeared in Solaris 9, and in 10 it`s the default one. I had a task to rotate Squid logs, and decided to take the generic instuments to do this - logadm & friends.
So, at first, we need to be sure, that logadm is being run on d… more »
Solaris divece mappings
October 13th, 2009Ever wondered on what`s the heck is:
/ssm@0,0/pci@18,600000/SUNW,qlc@1/fp@0,0/ssd@w5006048c49ae7f78,52
?
Well, wonder no more, since this wonderful article will definately shed some light on device mappings on Solaris.
Cheers! more »
Solaris patchadd & patchrm return codes
October 8th, 2009I needed to patch some severs, due to the overall "patch em`all" mood at my current company, but without the list of Solaris patchadd and patchrm commands it`s pretty hard.
So, for those of you needed the return codes - here they are:
patchadd re… more »
AcademicEarth lectures
October 5th, 2009An awesome site to spend your free hour. Huge amount of great lectures on everything, from IT to philosophy and medicine, superb professors and nice design of portal.
My favourite site of a month, highly recommended! more »
What stupid and not so stupid errors BASH programmers tend to make
October 3rd, 2009On my work I have an ongoing task to rewrite a few bash scripts. Since I always was an admirer of nice & elegant bash scripting and already have some experience in it, I started to dig deeper. What I foung, is this wonderful article by someone, to wh… more »
USB soundcard & studio monitors in OpenSolaris
September 27th, 2009So, this is my new audio setup:
- Lexicon Alpha
- m-audio Studiophile BX8a deluxe
In general, all I needed to make this work, is to update to build 123 of OpenSolaris 2009.06.
Then, songbird & xmms (in which i need to tune output plug… more »
Update to specific OpenSolaris version
September 26th, 2009To update to specific version, use next scheme:
beadm create new_be_118 ; beadm mount new_be_118 /mnt ; \
pkg -R /mnt set-authority -P http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev dev ; \
export PKG_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=900 ; \
pkg -R /mnt install SUNWipkg ; \
pkg… more »
Password generator in OpenSolaris/Solaris
July 29th, 2009Some time ago, when I was administering Debian (which is actually my favorite linux distro) I spent a lot of time adding users to SVN, CVS and other systems that required password generation. In Debian there were pre-instaleld pwgen programm, which gener… more »
Terminus font in OpenSolaris
July 24th, 2009Since OSOL doesn`t comes with my favorite Terminus font, I decided to get them myself.
1. Grab them from page mentioned;
tar -zxvf terminus-font-4.28.tar.gz
cd terminus-font-4.28/
./configure && make && make install && mak… more »
Managing ZFS snapshots in OpenSolaris 2009.06
June 24th, 2009Since Time Slider is very handy tool, utilizing zfs snapshots, some tuning is necessary, to adjust it to your needs.
I found this very nice article here. I really advice you to check this out - it will enable you to change the frequency of snapshots o… more »
rTorrent in OpenSolaris 2009.06
June 21st, 2009I love rogue-like interfaced programs. And I like torrents.
No this torrent program in OS2009.06?
Let`s use rtorrent then. Packages could be downloaded from this guy`s blog.
Then, you`ll need few additional packages from SunFreeWare.
First, let… more »
OpenSolaris 2009.06 is out!
June 2nd, 2009Yes! It`s out, currently I`m updating my preview 2009.06 to complete issue. Impressions are quite sweet - with every release, OS is getting more and more desktop oriented, but keeping all Solaris internals.
Changelog is here.
Download ISO here more »
How to contribute a package to OpenSolaris
May 27th, 2009Today, I found this awesome link to the post, that describes the process on how to build/contribute package to OpenSolaris repository.
Recommended to read by everyone, interested in OpenSolaris development, very nice post! more »
Show open (listening) ports on OpenSolaris
May 13th, 2009Very useful tool, I used while administrating gnu\linux servers, was like this:
$ netstat -tulpn
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tc… more »
Total Commander for OpenSolaris?
May 6th, 2009Well - there is no Total Commander for unix systems, but there are few alternatives:
- native Midnight Commander (old and trusty workhorse, done with ncurses).
Very handy on servers without XServer, or if you like rouge-like interface (like me). Chec… more »
Sed small reminder (in Russian)
April 24th, 2009Today I was forced to export LDIF output to CSV file.
Too sad, I haven`t used my regex/sed skills for a while, so a lot was forgotten.
Nevertheless - I managed to make from this
Maxim Kavalera
mkavalera@google.com
to
mkavalera@google.com, M… more »
Dillema...
April 16th, 2009I`m facing an dillema...
As a Unix enthusiast, I`d be glad to evade from using WinXP at home, for a variuos reasons. Thus, I need 2 PC`s
- stationary for act as home PC/NAS/server, powerful enough to host guest OS, to use as foto editing platform;
-… more »
MP3, FLAC, Ogg and friends (Songbird) in OpenSolaris
March 12th, 2009UPD: Since OpenSolaris 2008.11 uses old`n`rusty songbird 0.7, I remade this article to use Songbird 1.0 release.
Inability of playing back mp3, flac and online radio was always a blocker for me...but today, I finally found time (30 mins) to resolve th… more »
Adobe flash player 10 for Solaris\OpenSolaris
February 25th, 2009Nice! Adobe has finally released fresh flesh flash :>
Get it from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/.
Then
$ bunzip2 flash_player_10_solaris_x86.tar.bz2 && tar -xvvf flash_player_10_solaris_x86.tar
$ cd flash_player_10_solaris_r22_87_x86… more »
Update OpenSolaris to latest development build
February 4th, 2009If you running OS2008.11, and have tried to make
# pkg image-update -v
then you`ll be surprised. Nothing happens.
This is due to recent changes in repositories of OS project. Now there is an release (2008.5, 2008.11 etc.), development (refreshing on… more »
Solaris spawning a lot of services...or it doesn`t?
January 26th, 2009Hi,
I bet you have always wondered, why for God`s sake Solaris is spawning that quantity of services?
# svcs -a | grep online | wc -l
111
Short answer - it doesn`t. These services is spawning at the system`s boot, then they are killed. To get rig… more »
OpenSolaris tuning - latest Gimp & UFRaw
January 13th, 2009Since I use OpenSolaris as my full time working OS, I decided to move my foto editing from WinXP to OSOL2008.11.
Problems arose immediately - outdated Gimp (2.4, when 2.6.4 was released recently) and no UFRaw in IPS.
Solution - yep, compiling from sou… more »
SubNet zero / Subnet all-ones
January 7th, 2009CIDR and subnetting was always giving me a little bit of headache. Being not a person with a considerable math skills, I found hard to determine what subnet particular IP is belonging to.
Nevertheless, I managed to solve this problem - 4 hours of goo… more »
SysAdmins Time Management
January 6th, 2009I found this post by Ben Rockwood here . This is about most precious thing we all have, and this is not money or beer. It`s about time. So I urge you to read and think a little `bout this.
I started to write things I need to do, or to remember about f… more »
Not exactly this blog suited post, but...
December 30th, 2008Dear fellow friends! At all costs try to evade everything with credit scheme (I mean - take goods today, pay later + %)...
Not a long time ago I took some stuff for my precious D80 (new lenses, flash) and Nokia for my girlfriend. After this, noone has b… more »
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