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Solaris m4 broken on latest 11.3 SRU
Today I’ve had to troubleshoot an issue with sendmail where the make in the config directory would create an error message like this: # make test ! -f sendmail.cf || /usr/bin/mv sendmail.cf sendmail.cf.prev /usr/bin/m4 ../m4/cf.m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf /usr/bin/m4:sendmail.mc:../domain/solaris-generic.m4:../feature/redirect.m4:20 can’t … Continue reading
Solaris 11: The signature value did not match the expected value.
Since quite sime time now I’ve been unable to upgrade my test system to Solaris 11.1. The system was running 11.0 SRU 10.4 and for some reason, when I wanted to run ‘pkg update’, I faced this message: pkg install: … Continue reading
VirtualBox IPS Package for Solaris 11
Some time ago I had to write a script to convert currently downloadable VirtualBox Package into IPS Packages for Solaris 11. As I found the thing really useful, I decided to setup a repository to provide everyone easy access over … Continue reading
IPS Repository
I’ve recently been able to build two IPS repositories for Solaris 11, so I’m now sharing access to these here. The first repository concern some package that I’m using on a daily basis, so I’m just sharing them: http://mdma.igh.cnrs.fr/espix/en/catalog.shtml To … Continue reading
Solaris Hotplug: Manage your devices!
Solaris Hotplug can be used in various ways, let’s see what we can get out of it! Enable the daemon First of all, we should enable the daemon before anything else: # svcadm enable hotplug Listing devices You can list … Continue reading
Solaris: Tracing your application
Every Solaris system administrator already know the truss utility, which allow you to trace the system calls as your application is running. I recently discovered another tool which I found to be really helpful when you want to know what … Continue reading
Analyze System Hangs using SCAT
There are already a lot of Howto’s out there explaining how to use the SCAT tool to analyze some Solaris Crash-dumps; Although, I will try here to describe how to analyze a HANG of a system instead of a pure … Continue reading
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
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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