Updating Opensolaris to latest development build

To be able to update from a post Opensolaris 2008.11 release to the latest development build use the following steps:

# pkg set-authority -O http://dev.opensolaris.org/dev development
# pkg refresh
# pkg image-update -v

I have finally found the correct website for the most up to date instructions:
http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/en/index.shtml

Posted on February 4, 2010 at 3:39 pm by iguy · Permalink · Leave a comment
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ACLs and CIFS under OpenSolaris

One of the issues with running a file server in the home is the fact that you have multiple computers and accounts (the wife, the kids etc) accessing the same directory trees. The default user/group works pretty well as you have effectively a single group for family access. Different groups are used [...]

Posted on February 10, 2009 at 4:22 am by iguy · Permalink · One Comment
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OpenSolaris 2008.11 & ESX (Security Part 2)

If you are using OpenSolaris and NFS for your datastores and using ESX you need to share out your zfs filesystems with anon=0 since ESX wants to write to the NFS datastore as root.
zfs set sharenfs=anon=0 usbpool/virtuals
I wouldn’t mind having stuff like this if I could figure out how to properly get [...]

Posted on February 5, 2009 at 5:01 am by iguy · Permalink · One Comment
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OpenSolaris 2008.11 & NFS (security?)

A quick note here after the past 4 hours of fighting with NFS on OpenSolaris 2008.11. If you are attempting to do an mount and get a Permission Denied from either Linux or ESX the solution is rather easy.
Make sure that the IP address that you are connecting with has a reverse DNS [...]

Posted on February 4, 2009 at 3:54 am by iguy · Permalink · One Comment
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