Solaris hints

This page is the top level of my Solaris site. [There is also a mirror site available]

At this level, you can find architecture-neutral Solaris hints and scripts.
Also available:

Solaris Drivers and Developer resources (Separate page)
Informational documents
Inline stuff
SCCS related goodies
Portable scripts
Fun with packaging
Fun stuff (and other "outside links")
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Outside links

I maintain a page with critical information and tools written by other people. Everything else on bolthole.com is written by me, Philip Brown.

links page (Sun and third-party sites)

Informational documents

Solaris and OpenLDAP setup
How to set up Oracle8i under Solaris.
How to build a firewall under Solaris (OR linux or *BSD or...)
How to administer SunScreen, Sun's firewall, from the command line.
An explaination on swap on RAID1 vs multiple swap partitions
How to fix the Imake that ships with Solaris
How to add PHP to solaris 8 apache (The one that ships WITH solaris 8)
How to set up Corel word perfect under Wabi
A really quick PPP guide
How to set up a PPP-PAP Dial-IN server
Miscellaneous security notes
A short set of note on printing under Solaris
Quickie guide to setting up Solaris email in an Exchange environment

Informational in-line quickies...

To turn a solaris 9 "cd 1 of 1" into two mountable filesystems, do the following:

 mkdir /mnt/s0 /mnt/s1
 lofiadm -a cd1.iso
 mount -o ro -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt/s0
 df -k /mnt/s0
 dd if=cd1.iso of=/tmp/cd1.s1.img bs=1k iseek=(number of blocks from df)
 lofiadm -a /tmp/cd1.s1.img
 mount /dev/lofi/2 /mnt/s1

You can now run /mnt/s0/Solaris_9/Tools/setup_install_server

To turn off CD (auto-run,volstart, auto-irritation) globally, you can either do chmod 0444 /usr/dt/bin/sdtvolcheck, or create a /etc/dt/config/sessionetc file that does nothing. (since /usr/dt/config/sessionetc seems to do nothing except start sdtvolcheck)
If you want an "#ifdef solaris", the portable way is
```
 #if defined (__SVR4) && defined (__sun)
 
```
This should work on gcc, sun cc, and lots o other compilers, on both sparc and intel.

 perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::libnet'

SCCS related scripts and tips

NEdit SCCS macros, to make the development cycle easier.
sccslntree script
"frz" and "unfrz". Scripts to take checkpoints, or "freezepoints", of SCCS-controlled files. They save and restore revision numbers of the file(s). Unfortunately, only in the current directory, for right now.

Portable scripts that run on sparc AND intel

configppp.sh automates PPP dialout to an ISP
configdns.sh automates setting up a caching DNS server
sendmail.txt is a sample sendmail m4 config for your domain or subdomain
syscheck.ksh is a tunable systems health check script you can put in cron, to email you if you are running out of resources
metatree.sh gives you an indented text representation of SDS metadevices

quotecheck.y isnt a script, but it IS a portable way to find mismatched quotes in a shellscript. Read the file for directions on how to compile this lex program.

Fun with packaging

pkg-get: An automated tool to grab packages from www.sunfreeware.com. Modeled after Debian linux's "apt-get".
pkgreloc.ksh: A script to relocate packages, IFF they support being moved. The ones from sunfreeware mostly do.
pkgdepend.ksh: Define (or completely remove) dependancies on other packages.
gnutopkg: A script to AUTOMATICALLY package any GNU autoconf/automake based software:
How to solaris-pkg your own software
How to package someone else's
How to package binaries really quickly

Speaking of packaging, if you ever need to extract something from an RPM package (Like from a source RPM, an "RPMS"), you can use the following:

rpm2cpio file.rpm |cpio -ivd

This will extract the files into the current directory

Solaris Driver Developer resources

First, a quick code hint I dont know where else to put. If you want to have a section of code specifically for solaris, you can use

# if defined (__SVR4) && defined (__sun)
  /* solaris specific code here */
#endif

The rest of this section is now in its own section of my site, the driver section

PS:If you're looking to hire a sysadmin in the greater Los Angeles area, you can look at my resume :-)

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