Technical Exhaustion

I’ve previously discussed how to recover from a disk failure in gmirror. It’s probably a good idea to describe how to set up a new mirror from scratch. Rather handily this can be done on a live system, remotely via ssh in the space of a few minutes. One reboot is required but other than [...]

I came across a known bug in the FreeBSD installer for the first time today. During the text network install (using the netboot iso) I had problems resolving the hostname of my chosen FTP mirror. The installer hung for an age trying to connect. Assuming I had a made a typo in the network config, [...]

Some quick Solaris 10 Zone management commands. To list your running zones : # zoneadm list And with a bit more detail : #zoneadm list -v Change the IP address of a Zone #zonecfg -z zonecfg:zonename> select net address=oldip zonecfg:zonename:net> set address=newip zonecfg:zonename:net> end zonecfg:zonename> commit Change the name of a Zone #zonecfg -z zonename [...]