anton@opensolaris:~/mess/test$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 …
localhost – - [26/Sep/2009 00:23:47] “GET / HTTP/1.0″ 200 -
localhost – - [26/Sep/2009 00:24:24] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 -

So now when we go to localhost:8000 , we get the directory!:

anton@opensolaris:~/mess$ lynx -dump localhost:8000
Directory listing for /
__________________________________________________________________

* [1]lalala
__________________________________________________________________

References

1. http://localhost:8000/lalala

…or…

anton@opensolaris:~$ lynx -source localhost:8000
<title>Directory listing for /</title>
<h2>Directory listing for /</h2>
<hr>
<ul>
<li><a href=”lalala”>lalala</a>
</ul>
<hr>

…for those of you that want to see the source it produced! A very quick short term solution if you don’t want to go about setting up apache or change your apache settings!

anton@opensolaris:/$ man -k grub
/usr/share/man/windex: No such file or directory

To get round this, we simply go ahead and create the index with catman:

anton@opensolaris:/$ pfexec time catman -w

real        2.9
user        1.8
sys         0.1

Its pretty quick, and you get left with a little index in /usr/share/man/windex. Its just an ascii version of all the names of your manpages, plus a one line summary of what each one does:

1        1 (3openssl)    - OpenSSL configuration functions
1        1 (3openssl)    - OpenSSL configuration functions
1394        ieee1394 (7d)    - Solaris IEEE-1394 Architecture
2        2 (3openssl)    - \& OpenSSL configuration cleanup functions
2        2 (3openssl)    - \& OpenSSL configuration cleanup functions
2        2 (3openssl)    - \& OpenSSL configuration cleanup functions
2.1        EasyTAG (1)    - Tag editor for MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files
2_F32_Sat    mlib_SignalConvertShift_U8_S8_Sat (3mlib)   – data type convert
with shifting
5.0        MySQL (1)    - MySQL RDBMS version 5.0 for Solaris
6to4        tun (7m)    - tunneling STREAMS module
6to4relay    6to4relay (1m)    - administer configuration for 6to4 relay router
communication
6to4tun     tun (7m)    - tunneling STREAMS module
7-Zip        7-Zip (1)    - A file archiver with highest compression ratio

So now when you do your man -k , you’ll get something useful!:

anton@opensolaris:/$ man -k grub
bootadm     bootadm (1m)    - manage bootability of GRUB-enabled operating system
grub        grub (5)    - GRand Unified Bootloader software on Solaris
installgrub    installgrub (1m)    – install GRUB in a disk partition or a floppy

Crucially you only want to do catman -w , otherwise you’ll be reformatting all your manpages!

From the man page of catman:

-w                  Only create the windex database that  is
used  by whatis(1) and the man(1) -f and
-k options.  No manual  reformatting  is
done.

This includes the following changes:

6368478 Solaris needs to support the Rock processor
6440653 stores to sun4v error queue head registers are missing a membar #Sync
6639717 FLUSH instruction used more than necessary in sun4v

you want netbeans?

pkg install netbeans

Theres also a graphical installer too! Theres a screencast you might want to watch which explains a little about how to use it, and what its about!

You should also note that its made it onto distrowatch.com, to rank 69!!!!Hopefully enough people will blog about the release to push that figure up!!!Surely it should make it to the top ten, for all the features it has?

The interesting bit comes with file permissions and Windows file attributes which aren’t quite the same, in fact, not at all. The attributes get mapped onto the unix file permissions in an interesting way, and you’ll need to keep that in mind when ls -l ing around a shared directory.

Meanwhile, there was a directory named “—-FILES—-” on the share. Trying to use

cd "----FILES----"

doesn’t quite work! Despite quoting the directory name, cd still tries to take some of those dashes as a switch. I’m not sure if theres a way around this using the relative path, but there is a different workaround: simply use the absolute path, instead of a relative one to get you there, eg:

cd /mydir/----FILES..../

To make a directory with leading dashes, you’ll need to specify the full pathname, or use something like this to make the process less painful:

mkdir `pwd`/--mydir--

real 120m42.953s
user 0m16.448s
sys 46m55.092s

anton@solaris-devx ~ $ ls -l deleteThis
-rw------- 1 anton staff 9663676416000 Mar 9 02:22 deleteThis

And the machine didn’t die! But what about the compression ratio?

anton@solaris-devx ~ $ zfs get compressratio tank/home
NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
tank/home compressratio 1.22x

Looks like the ratio is an average for all the files on that file system. So lets try to artificially inflate this value. We can run a little script like this:

#/bin/sh
#A little script to make ten million files each 1 megabyte in size
i="0"
while [ $i -lt 10000000 ]
do
mkfile 10M la$i
i=$[$i+1]
done

The result (after about an hour of making files) wasn’t good:

bash: fork: Not enough space

This looks more like an issue bash had rather than ZFS. So did we push up that compression ratio?:

anton@solaris-devx mess $ zfs get compressratio tank/home
NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
tank/home compressratio 1.22x -

Seemingly not. To compensate, we’ll do something more crazy for PART2

But more interestingly, it also runs VirtualBox, a type 2 hypervisor which works pretty much like vmware server. This really is a great step to bringing virtualisation to the desktop for Solaris users

All you need to do is download the package, extract and and install it. From there on in, you can use the GUI to create a GuestOS and be running those apps you need! Crucially, it supports the following as Guest OS:

• Windows XP
• Linux (Ubuntu 7.10 works a treat)
• Solaris!
• …and many other OS, a list can he found here

A little tip to install XP in less than 10 mins:

Make a copy of the disc image as a .ISO file. Then copy that disc image to

/tmp

Be prepared for a hit on the RAM, as thats where /tmp is mounted! Then, before you start the Guest OS for the first time, configure it to mount the disc image from /tmp

Using your main memory as the install medium only leaves the processor and disc writes as your bottlenecks, making installs go really quick!!!

Of course, once your Guest OS is installed, be sure to delete the disc image you copied into /tmp

Happy hypervising! (its probably not a real word, but its great for telling people who aren’t into computing….”yeah, I’ve been hypervising for a few days now now….”.

your friend “…..hmmm, is that bad for your health?”

• blastwave.org where you can get mysql and many other packages using an apt style package installation mechanism
• sunsource.net where the packages have been optimised for solaris (and now that Sun are in the process of aquiring mysql we can hope that multitheaded developement will increase in line with Suns processor designs)

For this installation we’ll be using the packages from sunsource.net

So heres what you need to do:

Download the CSKruntime, CSKmysql and the CoolStack Documentation packages from sunsource.net and extract the archives using bzip2.

You should have something like:

# ls
CSKmysql_1.2_x86.pkg        CSKruntime_1.2_x86.pkg

Mysql depends on CSKruntime so install the runtime first:

# pkgadd -d /directory_where_your_file_is/CSKruntime_1.2_sparc.pkg

Once its installed make sure you install mysql having used pkgtrans – otherwise the install won’t work 100% (this has been the case for me, your millage may vary)

# pkgtrans CSKamp_1.2_x86.pkg /var/tmp

# pkgadd -d /var/tmp

Now initialise the database tables:

# /opt/coolstack/mysql/bin/mysql_install_db --datadir=/tank/mysql_data

Note that this is not the usual mysql data directory. In my case, this directory happens to be on a ZFS filesystem in a RAID 1 configuration.

To quote the README that comes with the install in /opt/coolstack/mysql/README

” mysql_install_db creates two directories “mysql” and “test” in data directory.
mysql directory has the MySQL privilege tables. test has the “test” database
These two directories are needed for mysql to start. If you are using a
different data directory later, you need to copy these two directories over. ”

Next create the mysql user and mysql group for the mysql service to use:

# groupadd mysql
# useradd -g mysql mysql
# chown -R mysql:mysql /tank/mysql_data

If you didn’t use the standard mysql data dir you will need to edit the SVC manifest file so that it knows where your data dir is:

/opt/coolstack/lib/svc/method/svc-cskmysql

<snip>

MYSQL_DIR=/opt/coolstack/mysql
DB_DIR=/tank/mysql_data/data/
PIDFILE=${DB_DIR}/`/usr/bin/uname -n`.pid

<snip>

Once this is done you should be able to start the mysql service with a simple:

svcadm enable  csk-mysql

After this you’ll need to log in as root and change the root password to something suitable

#/opt/coolstack/mysql/bin/mysql –user=root mysql

You will also want to add regular users to mysql also