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As promised on Friday, I’ve taken the plunge and tested applying the latest patch cluster to a fresh Solaris 10u5 installation running 10 zones using the new zones parallel patching feature.
To speed things up and to try and prevent any problems I performed the following steps:
Jumpstarted the OS (SUNWCuser cluster)
Applied patches 125555-04 and 119254-66 (gives [...]
HOWTO: Use xclipboard With Gnome
I work with a couple of guys who are quite stuck in their ways and are quite reliant on old tools, one of which is xclipboard(1).
Unfortunately, Gnome comes with it’s own clipboard manager, so when you try to run xclipboard, you get the following:
$ xclipboard
Error: another clipboard is already running
$
Of course, ps(1M) will show no [...]
Solaris Zones Parallel Patching
If you’re running a fair few non-global zones on Solaris 10, you’ll know full well how painfully slow the patching process is. Well, I’m please to say “not any more”.
The Zones Parallel Patching feature was officially released on Tuesday and is contained in the latest Solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 119254-66 (SPARC) and 119255-66 [...]
The Key to Live Upgrade Success
I think one of the best features of Solaris is the Live Upgrade mechanism. This really useful feature can be used for upgrading and patching with very little impact on the server. This means you can patch or upgrade your production system, whilst it’s still in production, and only schedule a short outage [...]
I was a little early this morning with my post about upgrading as technically OpenSolaris 2009.06 hadn’t been released. Well it has now. Check out the official release announcement for a different “What’s New and links to the various downloads.
Oh yes, and SPARC support is now officially included too.
Updating to OpenSolaris 2009.06
The pkg repositories have now been updated to included the 2009.06 pkgs (What’s New preso - PDF). There is no need to perform a clean install, you can just use the Update Manager GUI to update your OpenSolaris 2008.11 release to 2009.06.
There is one teeny weeny issue that you may encounter - [...]
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”.
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.
Whilst I’m primarily a Solaris/OpenSolaris man, I do like to keep myself in touch with the Linux world - partly out of necessity and partly out of curiosity. I run Ubuntu (sticking with my African roots and because it’s the best distro I’ve used) on my very very very old laptop (need) and also within [...]
Following a recent update to snv_108, I could no longer get any graphics output on my Ultra 20 M2 and subsequent updates weren’t helping either. For some reason the graphics card (onboard nVidia Quadro FX 560) was not being seen correctly by the OS and the only indication of a problem was the following [...]
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