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Aduva goes Sun

According to an article on The Register Sun has bought a patch management company called Aduva.
the article addresses the number one pain point of IT admins, which is patch management.
just browse on any online forums or take a peek into the various mailing-lists and you'll see a trend about the problems with patching Solaris boxes.
while Solaris is considered a great and rock solid OS (i can agree with some years of experience running Solaris 7, 8 and now 10 on SPARC and x86) , the patch management has always been reasonably difficult.
this could well be Sun's answer to implement a new patch implementation.

posted by Marco @ 10:30 0 comments

Enabling services in single-user mode

If you want or need a service started while in single-user mode (boot -s) on a Solaris 10 box, svcadm(1M) is your friend.
svcadm(1M) enables you to temporarily enable a service (svcadm enable -t) , getting you around the smf(5) repository not yet being writable.
if your service requires other services, just tell svcadm(1M) to recursively enable all these services by passing the -r option.
so to sum it all up, use svcadm -rt your_service to temporarily enable your service and all the required services while being in single-user mode.

posted by Marco @ 23:03 0 comments

Announcements at OpenSolaris.org

w00t :)
Hot off the press, Open Solaris Build 34 is available (as of 8 feb 2006).
as always, here's the link to the OpenSolaris downloads page.
i'm waiting for SXCR build 33 to be released which should include the new SATA framework.
by then, hopefully i can install SXCR on my trusty AMD Athlon XP 3000+ using its grub to multi-boot Solaris Express and, ahum, windows xp for my games.

posted by Marco @ 22:16 1 comments