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Just a quick update to say that Habari introduced some good changes to tags in r3829 of the SVN code. Unfortunately, these changes break the HB-Cumulus plugin, just the SVN release. I hope to release a new rev of this plugin later this week that takes these changes into account.

Looks like the DoJ are happy for the buyout to go ahead. Now we just need to see if Larry Ellison gives a monkies about what the European Commission has to say on the matter.

This one made us laugh today: someone made a silly mistake and removed execute permissions from chmod(1M). Oooops.

Thankfully, it was on Solaris so it’s easy enough to rectify thanks to “pkgchk -f”.

Habari 0.6.1 has just been released. It’s only a minor update, but does include some relatively significant fixes, including the “re-introduction” of Postgres support (it wasn’t really removed before, just not updated. It is now).

Oooooo, this one slipped out onto the public download servers a little early. It’s still April, but Solaris 10 5/09 is now available for download.

Quick Tip: If you’ve got a badly behaving application that is leaving defunct/zombie processes in your process table, you can kill/remove them using the preap(1M) command. More details.

Following a comment received the other day, I’ve added examples on sharing via NFS and CIFS/SMB to the ZFS Cheatsheet.

I can say I am now a Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) for Solaris 10. I did the Solaris 8 certification years ago, and have just popped down and whizzed through the upgrade test. I didn’t need to study for this one, but will for the Networking and Security certifications which are next on my list.

Got more news on Firefox 3 for OpenSolaris. Contributed builds are indeed available, but they don’t count towards the “Download Day” record.

Well, I’m on my way to contributing to Habari and have just submitted my first defect ticket (#332 - Monolith’s “Manage %s” doesn’t show draft pages or entries) and even supplied a patch containing a possible fix.