The Solaris Flash installation feature enables you to use a single reference installation of the Solaris OS on a system, which is called the master system. Then, you can replicate that installation on a number of systems, which are called clone systems. You can replicate clone systems with a Solaris Flash initial installation that…

This post isn’t going to solve anyone’s problems but maybe someone will solve mine.I recently compiled and packaged a new release of php4 (4.4.7) for use with Sun’s Apache2 (Solaris 10 11/06 patched).Unfortunately for some very strange reason, Apache segfaults whenever it tries to server a page. It segfaults even if the page has…

I recently installed Solaris 10 06/06 x86 on my desktop machine, a Compaq Evo with an onboard Intel 10/100 network card. At first the Solaris installation seemed to hang while trying to find a network configuration from a non-existant RPC boot server. In retrospect, I think the problem was that Solaris didn’t find 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…

I’m in the process of setting up a machine to host several SAMP (Solaris-Apache-MySQL-PHP) containers. I decided that it would be very efficient to create a generic zone and clone it over and over again. From reading up on the subject it seemed more than possible, after all, what is a zone besides a…