sysblogd

Ready, Fire, Aim: “I wonder how hard (or useful) it would be pipe FMA events into an RSS (or Atom) feed.”

Basically it’d be a sysblog. See an exception in Syslog, or with Sun’s self-healing stuff? Stick it in an RSS feed.

(Via Sun Blogs.)

Embedded.com – CES: Thumb drives launch apps, media players

Embedded.com – CES: Thumb drives launch apps, media players: “In the war of the thumb drives, Lexar Media Inc. is teaming with Israeli software developer Ceedo Technologies Ltd. to deliver a version of its USB flash drives that can store and launch applications and media players. It is due to reach the market in April.”

Not much use to me, since I can auto-launch most Mac Apps from my Shuffle, but for Windows users this could be great.

(Via Digg.)

OM – Audio

OM – Audio: “A generative music player. The player self-generates ambient music which changes each time you listen it. This means that every time you listen to oM music, you’ll get a unique listening experience. Generative music behaves like organic lifeforms.

OM player is useful for meditation, Reki or Yoga practicioners, or anybody interested in self-generated ambient music.”

Also gives ambient music without having to connect to DronZone on SomaFM. It uses about 15% processor on my G5, and 35% on my PowerBook (G4).

(Via Apple.)

#26804: How to fsck a Veritas Filesystem (VxFS)

#26804: How to fsck a Veritas Filesystem (VxFS): “There are times that the log will check cleanly, but the filesystem is still dirty. To check the filesystem directly, the following options need to be added to fsck:

/usr/sbin/fsck -F vxfs -o nolog,full [path to the raw device]

.The ‘nolog’ option tells fsck to bypass the log and go directly to the filesystem. The ‘full’ options tells fsck to check the entire filesystem. Using these options will take much longer, but you will be able to fsck the filesystem directly.”

(Via SunSolve.)

#74649: Error message: One or more patch packages included in XXXXXX-XX are not installed on this system

#74649: Error message: One or more patch packages included in XXXXXX-XX are not installed on this system: “”

Note to self: When a patch doesn’t apply, check the packages that it’s supposed to patch. (cd /tmp/PATCHNUM/; ls -la) If you don’t have any packages installed that can be updated you’re fine.

(Via SunSolve.)

docs.sun.com: Solaris 9 9/04 Package List

docs.sun.com: Solaris 9 9/04 Package List

List of packages with sane names from Solaris 9.

You’ll also want to look at

/var/sadm/system/admin/.clustertoc

to see what packages belong to what clusters (should you want to install a whole cluster…)

Too much WoW…

Actual IM exchange today:

gary 10:06 I officially love Solaris Zones.

Seth 10:06 How many experience points do you get for discovering a Solaris zone?

gary 10:07 900

gary 10:07 It’s a lvl 45-55 Zone.

gary 10:08 But that’s okay, I may only be a lvl 40 SysAdmin, but all my talent points are in the Solaris tree.

gary 10:10 I wonder if that would make my G5 a blue item….

BigAdmin Feature Article: Solaris Zones Partitioning Technology

BigAdmin Feature Article: Solaris Zones Partitioning Technology: “

global# newfs /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0
global# mount /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 /mystuff
global# zonecfg -z my-zone
zonecfg:my-zone> add  fs
zonecfg:my-zone:fs> set dir=/usr/mystuff
zonecfg:my-zone:fs> set special=/mystuff
zonecfg:my-zone:fs> set type=lofs
zonecfg:my-zone:fs> end"

(Via BigAdmin.)

Zone examples

Zone examples: “The following are a few examples for the configuration of
Solaris 10 Zones. Currently with a focus on Resource Controls.
Note: This document is not written by Sun.
Brendan Gregg, 07-Nov-2005, version 2.25.”

(Via Google.)

Solaris Zones

If you can’t tell, I’m tinkering with Zones in Solaris 10 today. I’m not completely sold on them yet, but may like them a bit better than running Apache chrooted. Not sure yet, we’ll have to see. It would be very nice for running Oracle APPS in a multi-tier environment on a single host though…