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Solaris 10 and later now supplies MySQL as part of the OS, provided you’ve installed the SUNWmysql[rtu] pkgs, but it’s started via a legacy RC script still. This document details how to create an SMF manifest to start MySQL instead.
Update: This process is only needed if you are running Solaris 10, or you wish [...]

I’ll admit now, none of this work is mine: all credit needs to go to Borgan Chu and Shawn Ferry. All this post is doing is making it easier to find all the relevant information as it’s scattered around a bit.
Many people implement firewalls for security reasons, and many people encounter the one nightmare with [...]

These details come following a request by Sujith Emmanuel following a post I made about getting E17 working on Solaris 10 Sunray servers.
None of these details are Sunray specific. Thankfully e17 is relocatable and is intelligent enough to workout if it’s been moved. I detail installing the files in my home directory as [...]

Details on patching the Solaris wanboot/netinstall miniroot image for jumpstart are a bit scarce as, generally speaking, there should be no reason to patch the wanboot miniroot. However due to various issues with Solaris 10 releases, patching of the miniroot has become necessary.
This post details how to patch the wanboot/netinstall miniroot image.

Once upon a time I let it be known that I’d done a fair bit of “playing” with Linux and as a result I attended a RedHat training course. As a result of this, I’ve been given the task of being one of the primary x86/x64 engineers in the UK solution centre. With this [...]

In an attempt to tidy up my backend Wordpress databases, I thought I’d change the Wordpress table prefix and the move all my Wordpress tables into a single database.
Before actually moving the tables, I took the plunge of just renaming them by changing the table prefix to uniquely identify which Wordpress installation they belong to.
I [...]

Believe it or not, this isn’t actually clearly documented anywhere. Due to my issues with the way NFSv4 works on Linux, I’ve had to disable NFSv4 on SLES10 and RHEL4 in order for my Linux mounts to play nicely with Solaris 10’s automountd.
Doing this on SLES was very easy, just change ‘NFS4_SUPPORT=”yes”‘ to [...]

This is just a quick one that may come in handy to someone, or me again in the future.
Adding a tape drive to a zone is quite a quick simple process.

Many people have heard of and have used RAM disk images under Linux, but did you know you can do the same thing with Solaris 10? Well, it’s a little known fact, but you can, which is great for the potential of using Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris on embedded devices or even on security [...]

I’ve been using the Lightning Calendar extension, along with the WCAP extension (’cos we use SJSCS) to access my calendar at work for some time now.
I’ve configured the extension/Thunderbird to remember my calendar login details, added my calendars and all in all it works a treat. However, there is one thing that really started to [...]