Static routes are a very common necessity once your networks become even a little complex. Whether you need to route specific traffic over a VPN or setup specific test addresses for IPMP failover, static routes are indispensable. For many years the “correct” way of configuring static routes in Solaris has been to create an…

If you’ve ever tried to use CFEngine for package management, you know that it is basically useless. CFEngine only supports installing packages and not removing them (yet). It has some crazy limit defined at compilation time which limits the number of packages you can install. (see Google://cfengine “Too many arguments in embedded script”) It…