Posted in Solaris, UNIX, Video on mai 27th, 2008 17 Comments »
DSS 6.0.3 is out ! Check this out at http://dss.macosforge.org/
I’m not sure what this new version brings, few things seems to have changed. I hope for the best..
They claim to be 64 bits compatible on OsX, with some speed up changes. Don’t know what this will bring on Solaris or Linux.
Whatever, this version will not [...]
Posted in Solaris, UNIX on avr 16th, 2008 3 Comments »
As I was trying to install a ISC DHCP server with failover I just find out… nothing !
Of course many people are talking about how to set up a DHCP server… like :
apt-get dhcpd
server dhcpd start
And that’s it.
I do need more, first because I work on Solaris (10) and because, heh, I’m not doing basic [...]
Posted in Solaris, UNIX on mar 20th, 2008 No Comments »
I was just trying to compile le latest Icecast from SVN on Solaris 10 Sparc, and reached a lot of troubles with automake.
Aclocal was complaining not having the libtool macro.
On this host we have a special folder with every tools, /opt/tools :
apr-util-1.2.8 coreutils-5.94 [...]
Posted in Solaris, UNIX on nov 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Coolstack is a bundeled package of Opensource applications optimized for Sun’s T1 hardware. More infos on CoolToolswebsite.The last version (1.1) was born “old”, with only outdated packages.The new one, 1.2, comes with almost all latest versions :
Apache version upgraded to 2.2.6. Added mod_fcgid-2.2, mod_jk-1.2.25, mod_proxy, SMF support.
PHP version upgraded to 5.2.4. Configure and compiler options changed. [...]
Posted in Solaris, UNIX on oct 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Every time you call the Sun support, they ask for the serial number of the host you’re calling for. As usual, you go to your wiki page and all you get is the Account number. DAMN !!
Of course you can have the serial number from the ALOM/ILOM. But what if you are already logged and [...]
Posted in Solaris, UNIX on oct 10th, 2007 No Comments »
First, get a look at this site, offering a large compilation of mibs : http://www.oidview.com/mibs/detail.html
Find your equipment dealer, click on its name then chose to download the ASN.1 zip file. It will contail every mib file you choosed.
Thanks !!
Then, if you are running Solaris, copy the mibs file to /etc/sma/snmp/mibs
Then, when doing your snmpwalk, use [...]
Posted in Non classé, Solaris, UNIX on août 27th, 2007 No Comments »
We received our “do it yourself” Sun Blade last friday. We were so exited, we decided to rackmount it immediatly. And here are the pictures !
We have no pictures of the rackmount itself, but it is far more intuitive than the one of the Netra 4200. The only strange thing is you have to put [...]
Posted in Solaris, UNIX on août 24th, 2007 2 Comments »
For the aim of a new project I had to compile Jack, the audio software patch, on Solaris 10 x86. Jack is very usefull and goes between your sound card and your applications. Each Jack compliant piece, which may be Alsa for the soundcard or ecaSound for audio software, will have a virtual input and/or [...]
Posted in Solaris, UNIX on août 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Scrolling through the web lead me to this stuffs.
First is a “Framework” for helping Solaris Zones deployment : BrandZ.
BrandZ will help you manage the creation of zones. It will allow you to have a simple Solaris zone, the same but with different software installed, up to a full Linux zone in a minute (or so [...]
Posted in Solaris on août 13th, 2007 No Comments »
We had our first Sun Netra x4200 M2, which is the new release of x4200. Netra means it is nore robust than SunFire, and is designed to comply to the US Army specs.
I had to put some PCI cards in it. One of the main feature of the M2 version is to support 3 full [...]