I periodically use the stock Solaris FTP server on some of my servers, especially when I need to move tons of data around. Enabling the ftp service in Solaris is a snap:
$ svcadm enable network/ftp
The default ftp configuration leaves a lot to be desired, especially when you consider that nothing is logged. To configure the [...]
I periodically need to look for a given string in one or more compressed log files. Taking the time (and resources) to decompress each file on the file system takes time, especially when I don’t plan to leave the file uncompressed. When these situations arise, I turn to my good friends gzcat and zgrep.
The zgrep [...]
I just saw that the opensolaris net-snmp software was updated to version 5.4.1:
Author: Vijay HN
Repository: /hg/onnv/onnv-gate
Latest revision: 739325d040fb9f332a2ae9e196de38e06f1ec81b
Total changesets: 1
Log message:
LSARC 2008/355 System Management Agent (SMA1.0) migration to Net-SNMP 5.4.1
6848323 ON package changes required for SMA to net-snmp migration
This is a welcome addition, and will provide admins with a number of new capabilities (e.g., [...]
While reviewing the cron logs on one of my Solaris hosts, I noticed a number of entries similar to the following:
CMD: /opt/software/bin/arrecord -backup
> arr 20359 c Thu Sep 3 23:45:00 2009
! bad user (arr) Thu Sep 3 23:45:00 2009
< arr 20359 c Thu Sep 3 23:45:00 2009 rc=1
These errors are [...]
The PCI and PCI express interconnect technologies have become the defacto standard for connecting peripherals to most motherboards. 64-bit 66 MHZ PCI interconnects run with speeds up to 528MB/s, and share the available bandwidth between devices on the PCI bus. PCI express x32 runs with speeds up to 8 GB/s, and provides dedicated “lanes” to [...]
I attempted to upgrade my ISC DHCP installation to dhcp-4.1.1b1 this past weekend, and ran into the following configure error:
$ ./configure –prefix=/bits/software/dhcp-4.1.1b1
checking for a BSD-compatible install… /bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane… yes
checking for gawk… gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… no
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
checking whether the [...]
