Questions tagged [opensolaris]
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Solaris 11 or OI zones: redirecting network traffic to NGZ? Using Virtualization?
Does anyone know how to redirect IP packets from a GZ interface to a NGZ?
I think this may be due to virtual (multiple) MAC addresses per NIC interacting with VMWare and VirtualBox and there is a ...
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Solaris Distro support for i386 and X64
I'm looking at publicly available Solaris distros and trying to determine what support each architecture. Can anyone comment if these support i386 (32-bit) and/or X64 (64-bit)?
Oracle Site:
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saslauthd works when run 'standalone' but not when run by OmniOS svcadm
If I run saslauthd via svcadm it does not work, but if I run it from the command-line, it does.
u@h:w$ svcadm enable saslauthd
u@h:w$ ps -ef|grep sasl ...
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What dictates smf service maintenance mode?
I have smartos machines running a custom application as an smf service (a circonus monitoring agent). On some of these machines the agent errors when starting and gets stuck in a restart loop ...
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How To Read Variable Value Using mdb?
Let's say I set a parameter with the following command, how could I read it back later on?
mdb -kwe "spa_load_verify_metadata/W 0"
I am trying to read the man page, but I'm only in this OS ...
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Does Opensolaris offer distributed ZFS filesystems
I haven't had any luck getting a confirmed yes or no to this question.
I'd like to run ZFS as a distributed file system (like Gluster or CEPH). OpenZFS and ZFS on Linux does not (yet) have file ...
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List processes that have been running more than 2 hours
How can I list processes, with a defined name, that have been running for more than 2 hours. This is what I have tried.
ps -efo pid,comm,etime | grep 'process name' | awk '{print $3}'
This is for ...
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Tribblix: cannot start xfce
I installed the illumos (opensolaris) distro Tribblix and can't start Xfce. I tried both with a display manager, slim (I know it's old, but it's the only one they offer), and from the console. The ...
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OpenIndiana Hipster boot problems
I installed OpenIndiana Hipster on a separate GPT partition alongside other Unixes following this guide from the openindiana wiki. After I finished, I tried to boot into the fresh installation but it ...
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What is OS apix module?
I'm using Solaris 10 Update 10 OS on my HPE BL460c Gen8 server. It is recommended by HPE to disable OS apix module,
For ProLiant Gen8 servers, HPE Recommends disabling the OS apix
module. To ...
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Must auths for privilege and such still be explicitly listed, or are they now included in solaris.*?
In OpenSolaris and the Solaris-version around that time, the solaris.grant auth wasn't included in solaris.* and had to be explicitly added. For example, from the definition of the Primary ...
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Why can't I import an ZFS pool without partitioning the data disk with fdisk?
I have a strange situation here, in which I am unable to import an ZFS pool that I brought from another OS UNLESS I fdisk the disk of the pool. I am puzzled as to why this is happening and hoping to ...
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OracleSolaris 11.2 - setting MANPATH variable
What is the right way to extend MANPATH in Solaris? Currently it is empty for a user session, so I get to do it manually in $HOME/.bash_profile:
MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/sfw/man:/opt/...
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Can all OSS for Linux be built to run on an Illumos based OS like OpenIndiana?
I like trying different OSs, but I have yet to try a Illumos-based OS. Can I run all or most Linux Software, just by building from source?
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OracleSolaris 11.2 - delete a directory which is mount point
I removed a user from the syste, with userdel -r user however it still keeps its homedirectory /export/home/user, although the contents has been removed.
The directory is mounted, but I don't know ...