To mount a DVD or CD iso image:
lofiadm -a /full/path/imagename.iso /dev/lofi/1
mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt
How to install packages:
cd /mnt/Solaris_Software_Companion/Solaris_i386/Packages
pkgadd -d `pwd` SFWxaw3d
Where the hell is sudoers?
emacs /opt/sfw/etc/sudoers
No setuid? WTF?
chmod +s /opt/sfw/bin/sudo
To restart a service (like autofs, ssh):
svcadm restart /system/filesystem/autofs:default
Prepare plist file to load:
sudo chown root /Library/LaunchDaemons/whatever.plist
sudo chgrp wheel /Library/LaunchDaemons/whatever.plist
sudo chmod 644 /Library/LaunchDaemons/wharever.plist
load it up:
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/whatever.plist
use this driver to get port to appear
http://osx-pl2303.sourceforge.net/
Use screen to connect:
screen /dev/tty.PL2303-0000101D 9600
cf http://www.nerdlogger.com/2007/12/usb-to-serial-console-for-mac-osx.html
It is possible to install Open Solaris on a Dell server with an MD1120 disk array, and use ZFS on the individual disks in a JBOD config.
Trick number one: you can’t actually just tell the PERC6 controller to put all the drives in a big JBOD config. You actually have to go in the BIOS and create 48 individual RAID 0 configs each with one drive. The UI for doing this sucks donkey balls, each drive takes about 10 keystrokes.
This config guide is awesome to get started.
In doing this I ran into funky bugs in the solaris termcap. This blog post has good info on the solution: just replace the Solaris xterm-color termcap with one that isn’t broken.
We successfully set up a zfs with a pool of 8 raidz2 virtual devices, each with 6 disks. So a total of 4.6 TB of usable storage with decent I/O and redunancy. It’s hanging off of a Dell R900 16-core Xeon with 128GB of RAM. Benchmarking it now with some mysql databases.
More:
zfs get all <POOLNAME>
shows all the compression and blocksizes and other props of the file system.
slapconfig -startldapserver
slapconfig -stopldapserver
To dump the contents of one LDAP server:
slapcat > data.ldif
To load it back in (stop slapd first)
slapadd < data.ldif
