solaris

Solaris – VI Terminal too wide

You may receive the following error when using VI within Solaris:

Terminal too wide

You can solve this increasing the number of columns with the command

stty columns 120

Solaris – Add swap to ZFS disk

I installed Solaris 10 05/09 on a machine and I used whatever the default swap space setting when I built the box. Now I need to increase the swap space and I can’t add a swap file, like was possible under UFS.

If your swap device is in use, then you might not be able to delete it. Check to see if the swap area is in use. For example:

$ swap -l
swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 182,2 8 4194296 4194296

In the above output, blocks == free, so the swap device is not actually being used.

If the swap area is not is use, remove the swap area. For example:

$ swap -d /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap

Confirm that the swap area is removed.

$ swap -l

No swap devices configured

Resize the swap volume. For example:

$ zfs set volsize=1G rpool/swap

Activate the swap area.

$ swap -a /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap

$ swap -l
swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 182,2 8 2097144 2097144

Sun Ultra10 – Crash/Recovery

Yesterday after 1 year and 2 month uptime, my poor Sun Ultra 10 (Solaris OS10) running into home server room, was crashed..

I’m so sick, here the paste of console recovery procedure:

Type  'go' to resume
ok ?
1000000
Stack Underflow
ok sync

panic[cpu0]/thread=2a100057ca0: sync initiated

sched: software trap 0x7f
pid=0, pc=0xf0050c7c, sp=0x2a100056e81, tstate=0x8800001401, context=0x0
g1-g7: 104da44, 0, 183f000, 0, 1082400, 5, 2a100057ca0

00000000fffa9d10 unix:sync_handler+138 (fffe5718, 1000000, 1, 1083400, 1, 181500                                             0)
  %l0-3: 00000000018621b0 0000000001862000 000000000000017f 0000000001845800
  %l4-7: 0000000000000000 000000000183f000 0000000000000009 0000000001810400
00000000fffa9de0 unix:vx_handler+80 (fffe5718, 181dfe8, f0000000, fffe0000, 181e                                             0f0, f003bda1)
  %l0-3: 000000000181e0f0 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000001
  %l4-7: 0000000001810c00 00000000f0000000 0000000001000000 0000000001018998
00000000fffa9e90 unix:callback_handler+20 (fffe5718, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0)
  %l0-3: 0000000000000016 00000000fffa9741 00000000f004a64c 00000000fffe0000
  %l4-7: 0000000000000016 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000000180c000

syncing file systems... 3 done
dumping to /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7, offset 107413504, content: kernel
100% done: 15712 pages dumped, compression ratio 2.54, dump succeeded
rebooting...
Resetting ...

Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.25, 512 MB (50 ns) memory installed, Serial #15184795.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:e7:b3:9b, Host ID: 80e7b39b.

Rebooting with command: boot
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0:a  File and args:
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_137111-06 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Hostname: ultra10
Loading smf(5) service descriptions: 1/1
WARNING: svccfg import /var/svc/manifest/application/database/mysql.xml failed
svccfg import warnings. See /var/svc/log/system-manifest-import:default.log .
/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s1 is clean

ultra10 console login: root
Password:
Sep 29 23:02:52 ultra10 login: ROOT LOGIN /dev/console
Last login: Tue Sep 29 22:21:42 from 192.168.2.15

Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.10      Generic January 2005
root@ultra10 ~ #

Cool Tools for OpenSPARC

Optimized Applications for Solaris OS and OpenSparc computing.

Simple and very useful example is “Cool Stack” a web deployment packge include most commonly used free and open source applications, recompiled to deliver a 30 to 200 percent performance improvement over standard binaries compiled with GCC.

Cool Tools.

Solaris – Zones, In the Beginning

Uso Solaris da quasi un anno ma non mi sono mai cimentato nell’uso delle famose Zones riassumendo i poche parole giusto per capire di cosa si parla dico: “operating system level virtualization”

bash-3.00# zonecfg -z Z01
Z01: No such zone configured
Use ‘create’ to begin configuring a new zone.
zonecfg:Z01> create -b
zonecfg:Z01> set zonepath=/zones/Z01
zonecfg:Z01> exit
bash-3.00# zoneadm -z Z01 install
Preparing to install zone <Z01>.
Creating list of files to copy from the global zone.
Copying <115072> files to the zone.
Initializing zone product registry.
Determining zone package initialization order.
Preparing to initialize <792> packages on the zone.
Initialized <792> packages on zone.
Zone <Z01> is initialized.
The file </zones/Z01/root/var/sadm/system/logs/install_log> contains a log of the zone installation.
bash-3.00#
bash-3.00# zonecfg -z Z01
zonecfg:Z01> add net
zonecfg:Z01> set address=10.0.0.1
zonecfg:Z01> set physical=hme0
zonecfg:Z01> end
zonecfg:Z01> verify
zonecfg:Z01> commit
zonecfg:Z01> exit

bash-3.00# zoneadm -z Z01 boot

bash-3.00# zlogin -C Z01

Sorry, I don’t know anything about your “xterm-color” terminal.

Oggi durante una serie di comandi con un senso ben preciso Solaris mi ha parlato in questo modo:

Sorry, I don’t know anything about your “xterm-color” terminal.

La perplessità generale mi ha fatto lanciare questo comando:

bash-3.00#  export TERM=vt100

Ma molto probabilmente sarebbe stato meglio un terminale “ansi”

Solaris – Inetd SVC

Breve memo sull’attivazione del servizio tftpd su solaris.

#svcs tftp/udp6
svcs: Pattern ‘tftp/udp6′ doesn’t match any instances
STATE STIME FMRI
#grep tftp /etc/inetd.conf
#tftp dgram udp6 wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd in.tftpd -s /tftpboot

Decommentare “#tftp dgram udp6 …” nel file /etc/inetd.conf

# grep tftp /etc/inetd.conf
# TFTPD – tftp server (primarily used for booting)
tftp dgram udp6 wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd in.tftpd -s /tftpboot

# inetconv
inetconv: Notice: Service manifest for 100235/1 already generated as /var/svc/manifest/network/rpc/100235_1-rpc_ticotsord.xml, skipped
inetconv: Notice: Service manifest for 100083/1 already generated as /var/svc/manifest/network/rpc/100083_1-rpc_tcp.xml, skipped
inetconv: Notice: Service manifest for 100068/2-5 already generated as /var/svc/manifest/network/rpc/100068_2-5-rpc_udp.xml, skipped
tftp -> /var/svc/manifest/network/tftp-udp6.xml Importing tftp-udp6.xml …Done

server # svcs tftp/udp6
STATE STIME FMRI
online 12:56:05 svc:/network/tftp/udp6:default

Solaris – Patch It

Un piccolo memo sul sistema di gestione delle patch in Solaris, patch ID 121118 (SPARC version) o 121119 (x86 version)

Questi sono i comandi principali:

Analyze: -/usr/sadm/bin/smpatch analyze
Download: -/usr/sadm/bin/smpatch download
Add Patch: -/usr/sadm/bin/smpatch add

Bisogna registrare il sistema con questo comando:

# /usr/sbin/sconadm register -a -r /tmp/registrationprofile.properties
Il file /tmp/registrationprofile.properties deve essere una cosa simile a questo:

userName=newuser
password=newpassword
hostName=
subscriptionKey=
portalEnabled=false
proxyHostName=
proxyPort=
proxyUserName=
proxyPassword=

Solaris

Da qualche mese a questa parte ho avuto la pazza idea di usare solaris, credo che non ci sia migliore cosa che provarlo in produzione, quindi ho spolverato una Ultra 10 presa tempo fa e mai seriamente utilizzata, tolto la SunPCI e installato Solaris 10.

Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.25, 512 MB (50 ns) memory installed, Serial #15184795.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:e7:b3:9b, Host ID: 80e7b39b.

Rebooting with command: boot

Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0:a
File and args: SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_127127-11 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.

Hostname: ultra10
/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s1 is clean

ultra10 console login:

Visto che poi e’ partito tutto, tolto la tastiera e messo in armadio fa una certa scena, in ogni caso, web e mail server non se la cava male per, l’eta’ che ha.