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John DiMarco | 10 Feb 06:30
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IMPORTANT: Read this before posting to Sun-Managers

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Stephen Nelson-Smith | 9 Feb 21:19
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SUMMARY: SMF Manifest for HTTP Server started by a forking job runner

Hi there,

Thanks to both Brett Lymn and Brian Dunbar for their input.

It turned out that I had a bug in my helper script, and once I ironed
this out, everything worked fine.

The moral of the story is that in this case SMF did the right thing by default.

Not sure how much use this will be as reference, but here's the
original problem.

Thanks again, everyone.

S.

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I'm trying to write an SMF manifest to track the lifecycle of a Ruby
HTTP server (thin).  For various reasons, this has a few
complications:

1) It needs to be started by a meta starter called 'bundle exec'
2) It needs to be started with a set of paths and environments which
set up a particular version of Ruby

I'm pretty confident I can handle (2), but I'm really struggling with (1).

Bundle exec seems to start the server and then exits quickly, which
causes SMF to try to restart it, which causes the service to go into
maintenance.
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Darwin | 9 Feb 17:57
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Port not listening

Hi Gurus,

Oracle DBA has installed some application in server ndevel01, he is trying
to access via the following link, but he is unable access. Do we need to
put any entry in /etc/services  ? it is solaris 8.

http:/ndevel01:8050/cinv1

rgds
darwin
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Malcolm Leech (ZA | 9 Feb 14:56
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T2000 scsi device probe order

   Hi,

I recently upgraded the firmware of a Sunfire T2000 server to latest version.
After this I attempted to do a Solaris upgrade, however during the upgrade
fail with a message stating that the disks could not be mounted. This server
has an HBA in it and is connected to a san. When I boot the server into single
user mode from the Solaris DVD, I noticed that the logical name of the OS disk
was different to when I booted from the disk itself (from the DVD it was
c1t0d0sX and from the boot disk it was c1t0d0sX). The only way I can explain
this, is to presume that the system was originally built without the HBA and
the HBA added afterwards. I am not keen at all to do a complete rebuild of the
OS because of the connectivity to the san and the multi-pathing setup etc nor
am I keen to remove the HBA and then do the upgrade build. Is there any way
within the OBP to determine the order that the scsi devices are probed and
hence the logical device names?

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Malcolm Leech
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Dimension Data
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Langdon Nicholas | 9 Feb 12:11
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Solaris Containers

Hello,

Can someone point me in the right direction for some good Solaris Containers
how to guides?

I have some old Solaris8 servers I want to retire & creating multiple
containers seem like a good solution.

Cheers

Nick

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Warren Liang | 8 Feb 23:18
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SUMMARy: Free download from SunFreeware.com

Hi:
Here is response from sunfreeware.com:

A few hundred (including gcc and related programs) Solaris 10 packages and the Companion CD are currently
free.  All other levels are moving over to unixpackages.com.

Our funding and costs have changed so we are now offering a very inexpensive subscription service for
Solaris 2.5-9 and 11.

Steve Christensen

Thanks.
Warren
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Warren Liang | 8 Feb 22:07
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Free download from SunFreeware.com

Hello:
Is downloading from sunfreeware.com still free ? Try to get Solaris 9 gcc 3.4.6, it redirects me to
UNIXPackages.com. Then it asks for sign up with different levels of subscription levels.
Thanks.
Warren
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Martin, Jeff | 4 Feb 01:49

SUMMARY: virtualization effort on Solaris 10

Got great responses from several people, more than I can list.. thank
you!

The wisdom I took away was:

Patching and downtime was mentioned in almost every reply - rightly so -
Spend time planning for it.

Have as much RAM as you can afford.

Plan for having the server up for a long time since getting downtime
will be a nightmare with lots of zones.

It is certainly possible and several are hosting 30+ zones on M-series.

If zones are OracleDB, RAM will be eaten up very quickly and you'll get
a smaller consolidation ratio.

ZFS will eat up RAM but doing zones without it is not as easy as with
ZFS. -I personally love ZFS.

Sometimes adding LUNS can be tricky and may require downtime for global
zone.

Use projects for resource control.

Seems like a good mix of sparse and full root zones out there.

Clustering it will just add to the maintenance and add a lot more
management.
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Darwin | 3 Feb 13:39
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root cron tab entires missing solaris 8

hi gurus,
some one deleted the root cron entries, now asked for a restoration from
bkup team.i have to find who deleted the entries.
what are all the log entries i need to check?

OS solaris 8

need assistance

rgs
darwin
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Martin, Jeff | 3 Feb 00:12

Q: virtualization effort on Solaris 10

Greetings,

Just curious if anyone out there has been successful consolidating with
zones with greater than 30 systems on a M4000 or M5000.

Oracle tells us it's no problem and they see it all the time but I have
not ran across anyone doing it in production.

I realize what they say and what it is are two different things but I
just wanted to see what and if others have had success/failures with it.

Any response is appreciated, thanks.

Jeff

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Jacob Ritorto | 2 Feb 23:57
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summary: S-Bus keyboard interface

Sadly, from the answers I got, there is no such beast, although there were
graphics interfaces that had a similar looking plug to be used for the
'buttons and dials' option, which is likely the card I was hearkening to.

Remedy: solder pins back together or buy another mainboard.

Thanks to all who replied.

--jake

>> --- On *Mon, 1/30/12, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto <at> gmail.com>* wrote:
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>>
>> From: Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto <at> gmail.com>
>> Subject: sbus keyboard interface
>> To: sunmanagers <at> sunmanagers.org
>> Date: Monday, January 30, 2012, 2:10 PM
>>
>> ...
>> Anyone here been around long enough to remember if there's such a thing as
>> an add-on sbus keyboard card?  Have one handy you'd part with?
>>
>> thx
>> jake
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