Author Archives: Thomas Gouverneur

Solaris: Too many files open

Recently, I had to diagnose an issue where the only symptom was a failure with ‘mailx’ command from time to time, which caused the following output to be mailed instead of the expected report from a cron job: Your “cron” job … Continue reading

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Migration to wordpress

I needed to refurbish a little bit this blog and it finally happened. I’ve migrated the software behind the blog to WordPress and imported the posts and categories. Although, some post have some discrepancies and aren’t displaying properly, this will be fixed … Continue reading

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Fuite de données a la SNCB: Géolocalison les entrées


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SNCB Data Leak: Geo-localization of the entries


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SUNWjet: Add a slice 7 to a zpool’s disk

According to Oracle’s documentation, if you want to use SUNWjet to jumpstart a server with a ZFS Root pool and a slice 7 to put metadb on, you must first parition your drives and then launch the jumpstart. This is … Continue reading

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Solaris 11 ISC DHCP: Cannot specify multiple interfaces

While trying to configure the ISC DHCP server on Solaris 11 to serve my local VLANs, I wanted to restrict its usage to only three interfaces, I then issued the following setprop command: # svccfg -s svc:/network/dhcp/server:ipv4 config/listen_ifnames astring: “vlan100 … Continue reading

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Solaris 11 Automated Installer

If you wish to install solaris on multiple machines, consider the installation of an Automated Installer! I just created a documentation that explain everything from start to finish 😉 Comments are welcome! Solaris 11 Automated Installer UPDATE: Link adapted to … Continue reading

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WeSunSolve: One year later

More than one year ago, the WeSunSolve website has been launched publicly to address the lack of information available for the Solaris operating system. Facing it’s success, a lot of improvements, features and stuff were added.. and visitors keeps like … Continue reading

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Sending PGP HTML Encrypted e-mail with PHP

While adding the PGP HTML Report feature to WeSunSolve, I first successfully crypted the content of the HTML report to be sent to the user with PGP key. I would have thought that this was gonna be the hardest part, … Continue reading

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WeSunSolve: Site News April

New Features Added wiki to hold the documentation; Added the monitoring of multiple IPS Repositories; User list now allows the user to load multiple patches at once; Added patch timeline Added CVE list affecting Solaris packages Added patch link to … Continue reading

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