Here's a basic recipe for building postfix from source on OpenSolaris -- includes mysql, pcre, and ldap extentions... Postfix wiki
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published by eric_boutilier on 2008-12-12 18:02:15 in the "General" category
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published by eric_boutilier on 2008-12-06 21:38:52 in the "Blogging" category
published by eric_boutilier on 2008-11-30 20:30:51 in the "General" category
published by eric_boutilier on 2008-11-17 20:10:49 in the "General" category
published by eric_boutilier on 2008-11-15 20:05:02 in the "General" category
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Bluetooth headphones: I've had the southwing sa505's for a while ... I like them fine, other's don't ... ..
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published by eric_boutilier on 2008-11-15 20:05:02 in the "General" category
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I've had the southwing sa505's for a while ... I like them fine, other's don't ...
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published by eric_boutilier on 2008-11-14 22:02:36 in the "General" category
published by eric_boutilier on 2008-11-14 22:02:36 in the "General" category
published by eric_boutilier on 2008-11-12 21:01:38 in the "General" category
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Here's one for the what's-hot-in-my-sysadmin-toolbox dept ... The solview jumpstart profile builder
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... speaking of which, since you won't find a link to the author's blog on that page.
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published by eric_boutilier on 2008-11-12 18:02:40 in the "General" category
published by eric_boutilier on 2008-09-29 08:33:16 in the "OpenSolaris" category
published by eric_boutilier on 2008-07-03 16:13:29 in the "OpenSolaris" category
Hacking around with luupgrade on a Nevada SXCE (OpenSolaris) server when /opt is a ZFS filesystem but the root file system is UFS. In this example the file system (mounted at /opt) is called optpool:YMMV...
comments, corrections, improvements welcome...
Disable services that use /opt and any others that make sense.
Backup /opt (e.g. with rsync)
Unmount (zfs unmount) the optpool filesystem
Run luupgrade
Change the mountpoint property (zfs set) of optpool to a temporary mountpoint. And make sure it mounted there, or zfs mount it manually.
Go to that mountpoint and rename directories that need to be moved out of the way, e.g. perhaps SUNWmlib.
Mount the new BE (lumount)
Note that luupgrade, being a bit confused, probably created a new /opt and installed some stuff there. Copy that stuff over to where you temporarily mounted optpool. E.g:
cd /.alt.new_be/opt && /bin/tar -cpf - SUNWmlib | (cd /tmpmountpoint && /bin/tar -xpvf -) # YMMV
Repeat as necessary, some possibilities (i.e. these showed up in /opt in a b64a->b88 luupgrade for example): SUNWtvnc SUNWvgl SUNWjavadb TurboVNC VirtualGL
Now do luactivate and reboot (init 6)
Move (mv) the bogus /opt directory out of the way.
Change the mountpoint property (zfs set) of optpool back to /opt, and make sure it mounted.
init 6 again
Review the state of SMF services, svcs -x, etc. of course.
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published by eric_boutilier on 2008-06-06 16:41:52 in the "Blogging" category
If you subscribe to this blog, you might want to unsubscribe.
I'm not sure what to do about this space. I've quit paying much attention to it and I don't miss it. I don't read blogs much any more either. I've replaced that part of my informaion consumption with listening to netcasts (aka podcasts) on-the-go -- i.e. on my mp3 player/phone (I recently bought a Nokia 5300 in case you're curious).
Also, I guess, there are aspects of blogging that leave me feeling cynical about it. Sometimes really cynical. It sure seems look-at-me'ish and quest-for-hits'ish and monologue'ish. Doesn't it? In other words, not very social.
(By the way, at times, I've been just as guilty of that here as anybody. In fact, one could argue that I'm doing it with this post. Though like anything, it's a matter of degrees really.)
So I thought about this space, and narrowed it down to 3 choices: delete it, leave it as-is (an archive of old posts), or mirror my other (i.e. non-blogging) posts here, such as Twitter. I'm not sure which one I'll eventually settle on, but I'm going to try the latter first and see if that feels right. My theory is that because blogs.sun.com is high on google's radar, people who might like to participate in the public conversations that I participate in will have a better chance of finding them.
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published by eric_boutilier on 2008-06-06 16:38:56 in the "OpenSolaris" category
Fri Jun 06 2008@stevel re: vimperator ... Nice! Can't believe I hadn't heard of it -- otoh, it only started a year ago. Anyway, thanks for the pointer.
Tue Jun 03 2008
@erwann The part of my life that I increasingly, but reluctantly, spend in a browser may have just taken the biggest leap forward ever.
Tue Jun 03 2008
@erwann http://goosh.org/ Holy shit! Does that actually work as advertised? (I just typed help)
Tue Jun 03 2008
Letting the Chicago OpenSolaris mailing-list know about this: http://tinyurl.com/6kugry
Mon Jun 02 2008
@stevel yeah yeah, someday I'll switch. I s'pose I should put-up & write a send/recv wrapper that mimics the CLI and actions of rsync -a ..
Mon Jun 02 2008
Here, zfs beats rsync: http://tinyurl.com/64tkqf, and for servers I admin someday I'll switch, but rsync's KISS advantage still wins for now
Mon Jun 02 2008
Click on the May 31st performance.
Mon Jun 02 2008
Video of my wife's barbershop quartet @ Kennedy Center: http://tinyurl.com/5dy89x. Fast-forward to 33:15 though (past the girls choir)
Mon Jun 02 2008
http://tinyurl.com/5tcbwb - Chicago user group guy reporting strange 'su - postgres' problem on (presumably) Solaris 10.
Sat May 31 2008
They won 1st at the international women's barbeshop (aka sweet adelines international) contest this year.
Sat May 31 2008
Live webcast of my wife's a capella quartet at the Kennedy Center in DC: ...
Thu May 29 2008
Working with lucreate et al. to prep an opensolaris.org backend box for an upgrade.
Thu May 22 2008
@davest Beer is the base, plus lemon or lime, and usually on the rocks.. then it varies. Here's Wikipedia's take: http://tinyurl.com/66a2lb
Thu May 22 2008
@davest If you're staying the W, across the street & left a block or so is pub where I discovered micheladas -- "hand-crafted". I'm hooked.
Thu May 22 2008
Alternatively, as I mentioned earlier, one's following number should reflect reality, not a silly wink-and-a-nod favor exchange.
Thu May 22 2008
... It is REALLY refreshing how Pirillo and others blow up that silliness by just auto-following everyone. ...
Thu May 22 2008
Instead, what we have a lot of is this annoying, mostly self-aggrandizing "my followers:following ratio is bigger than yours" ...
Thu May 22 2008
... that is, if the number of people you TRULY like to follow (eg via devices/IM) is say 40, shouldn't your follow number be near that? ..
Thu May 22 2008
... Personally, I like that. Here's why: Given the follow/following "measure" tends to evoke the bad kind of self-centeredness in people...
Thu May 22 2008
Twitter noobie here wondering about follow etiquette: Q: Why do some tech celebs, like Chris Pirillo, just auto-follow everyone? ...
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published by eric_boutilier on 2008-02-05 06:56:00 in the "OpenSolaris" category
An accurate + comprehensive + carefully researched + NPOV history of OpenSolaris on the desktop by an independent publication is totally nonexistent (not even close) as far as I know.
Now read this:
Solaris On the Desktop
What a pleasure! Nicely done Distrowatch.
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