One of the great things about DHCP is that an a well configured environment there can be lots of interesting local configuration information available. Until...
One of the great things about DHCP is that an a well configured environment there can be lots of interesting local configuration information available. Until Solaris 10 there was no easy way to add your own hooks into this that would run automatically at signficant DHCP events like the bind, extend, drop, release.dhcpagent(1m) now provides such a hook. It is really simple to use, you just create your own /etc/dhcp/eventhook program (which can be a shell script or any other...
One of the great things about DHCP is that an a well configured environment there can be lots of interesting local configuration information available. Until Solaris 10 there was no easy way to add...
The Solaris Cryptographic Framework has been my main project for the past 4 years at Sun. Solaris 10 will be the first release where we have public interfaces...
The Solaris Cryptographic Framework has been my main project for the past 4 years at Sun. Solaris 10 will be the first release where we have public interfaces to cryptography APIs in userland and in the kernel. To find out more about the Solaris Cryptographic Framework have a look at the docs.sun.com guide. It has support for automatic failover between hardware and software and includes implementations of common cryptographic algorithms, some of them optimized for SPARCv9 and...
The Solaris Cryptographic Framework has been my main project for the past 4 years at Sun. Solaris 10 will be the first release where we have public interfaces to cryptography APIs in userland and...
I recently saw a libcurses interface to svcadm that was written bycoding directly to the libscf(3lib) interfaces. That gave me the ideafor a GNOME GUI version....
I recently saw a libcurses interface to svcadm that was written bycoding directly to the libscf(3lib) interfaces. That gave me the ideafor a GNOME GUI version. I didn't feel upto writting lots of GNOME GUIand libscf(3lib) code just to get a GUI interface that would allow meto see the state of all services and transition them - basically svcsand svcadm in a GUI. Enter once more to the party zenity(1) You can get zsvcadm here. After download run mv zsvcadm.txt zsvcadm ; chmod...
I recently saw a libcurses interface to svcadm that was written bycoding directly to the libscf(3lib) interfaces. That gave me the ideafor a GNOME GUI version. I didn't feel upto writting lots...
If you don't already know what SMF is jump over to Stephen Hahn's blog to find out more.I run Solaris 10 on my laptop and quite often I want to start it up an...
If you don't already know what SMF is jump over to Stephen Hahn's blog to find out more.I run Solaris 10 on my laptop and quite often I want to start it up an not be connected to any network. Waiting on the time out for the svc:/network/physical service can be an anoying slow down to boot when you don't have a network cable connected and you have no wireless access point you are going to connect to. So I disabled the startup of the svc:/network/physical service. This means...
If you don't already know what SMF is jump over to Stephen Hahn's blog to find out more.I run Solaris 10 on my laptop and quite often I want to start it up an not be connected to any network....
The ssh(1), and ssh-add(1) commands allow using an external program to do the prompting of passwords, or passphrases for encrypted private keys. The main use of...
The ssh(1), and ssh-add(1) commands allow using an external program to do the prompting of passwords, or passphrases for encrypted private keys. The main use of this is to provide a graphical prompt when running under the X window system. The zenity(1) command is part of the latest JDS3 release on Solaris, it provides a simple way of creating common dialog boxes frominside shell scripts.The following very simple script can be uses as the SSH_ASKPASS program. Place this script...
The ssh(1), and ssh-add(1) commands allow using an external program to do the prompting of passwords, or passphrases for encrypted private keys. The main use of this is to provide a graphical...
Well, I've been very very busy lately, so totally missed writing about the release of Solaris Express 10/04 - fortunately Alan and Dan have both done a very...
Well, I've been very very busy lately, so totally missed writing about the release of Solaris Express 10/04 - fortunately Alan and Dan have both done a very good job of covering it. So good in fact, I'm having a hard time trying to find changes in these builds that they didn't mention that I think are still worth mentioning. I did find a few however: New look and feel for graphical login screen (but I already told you about that) Over 350 man page updates System...
Well, I've been very very busy lately, so totally missed writing about the release of Solaris Express 10/04 - fortunately Alan and Dan have both done a very good job of covering it. So good in...
I sometimes wonder how many people will really see the effects of work I do in Solaris. Some fixes I know only a handful of people will ever notice since...
I sometimes wonder how many people will really see the effects of work I do in Solaris. Some fixes I know only a handful of people will ever notice since they're in such corner cases. In this month's Solaris Express/Solaris 10 Beta 7 build though, I know a change I made will be seen by every Solaris desktop user as soon as they finish installing, and it may be the most visible change I've ever made to Solaris. (That's almost a bit scary...) Alan DuBoff already wrote about the...
I sometimes wonder how many people will really see the effects of work I do in Solaris. Some fixes I know only a handful of people will ever notice since they're in such corner cases. In this month's...
An occasionally recurring question we get is how to tell how long an X session has been idle without having the xauth cookie to open a connection to the...
An occasionally recurring question we get is how to tell how long an X session has been idle without having the xauth cookie to open a connection to the display. While thinking about this recently, I thought of a way to do it, if you have root access and can poke around in the X server process space. Warning: The technique that follows is for educational & entertainment purposes only. It is not a supported interface, is subject to change or break at any time, and may not...
An occasionally recurring question we get is how to tell how long an X session has been idle without having the xauth cookie to open a connection to the display. While thinking about this recently,...
Didn't mean to take so long before writing more, but life and work interferes... First, answers to the comments on my last post: Drawbacks of using Xorg: -...
Didn't mean to take so long before writing more, but life and work interferes... First, answers to the comments on my last post: Drawbacks of using Xorg: - Xinerama support in the Xorg server isn't nearly as good (just think about GLX and Xinerama - right now only the Xsun server in Solaris gets this right) Actually, it's the OpenGL implementation in Solaris that gets this right. It's separate from the Xsun server (and actually delivered by a different group). The X server...
Didn't mean to take so long before writing more, but life and work interferes... First, answers to the comments on my last post: Drawbacks of using Xorg: - Xinerama support in the Xorg server isn't...
