A recent post Solaris Packages for Puppet 3.0.0-rc7, Facter 1.6.0 and Hiera 1.0.0 on a puppet mailing list caught my eye. While gems has a nifty little package management system of it’s own, it is possible be that your machines do not have direct access to the interent so having a local IPS repo is handy. I’ll demonstrate how to add these packages to you own repository. This assumes you have already setup your own local repo. ...
Okay , not entirely sure why yet but I though I’d like to get VNC server configured on my Solaris machines, perhaps it’s with the arrival of the AppleTV 2 in the house freeing up the trusty mac mini workhorse to go back to desktop duties after the last 3+ year as a Plex app media player, anyway on to the task at hand.
How to upgrade your Opensolaris dev build 134 to Solaris 11 Express build 151a
So this months MSOSUG meeting had it’s second run at the new venue a pretty good turn out which seems to be consistent. Given the way Oracle has handled the whole OpenSolaris deal I’m a little surprised to be honest.
pkg.depotd: repository configuration error: publisher.prefix is required
Ok a transmission revisit. Everything has been going along mostly ok with my previous transmission setup. It does however have the annoying habit of just no longer accepting request at random intervals, which franky is a pain especial since flexget has worked out so well. It’s still running on OpenSolaris as I have not moved to Nexenta. So I rebuilt the packages and updated to version 2.10. I have put together some IPS packages for transmission 2.10 and libevent 1.4.13. If there is any interest I can open up my IPS server or drop them somewhere more accessible. They Should run on Open Indiana also.
Moving right along in the continued migration to transmission, its in and running in deamon mode on the command line, flexget is in and tested. Just need to add flexget to cron and make sure transmission-deamon starts at system bootup. Ok SMF script needed, being an inherently lazy unix guy , I’ll just google that and and yes number one with the bullet I find this over on 4amlunch.net thanks to wonko. A quick mod on the TRANSMISSION_HOME to suit my local setup and and transmission-daemon is running from SMF. flexget cronjob added all should be good to go. I’ll wait an hour let the cron job run it’s course and see what we get.
I’m going to be offloading my torrents to my soon to be new headless file server so changes are needed. I’ve been using vuze since long before it was vuze, and have a nice comfortable setup. I guess my requirements have changed a little, I don’t need fancy features now offered, I won’t have the same luxurious memory setup as I currently have, I’m not found of it’s remote interface and, as they say a change it as good as a holiday. Time to broaden my horizons . So what I need from a BT client runs on OpenSolarisoperates headlessable to read and process rss feedsand operate without constant fiddling So I didn’t look to hard, or broaden too much transmission is available for install as an IPS for OpenSolaris, I have also been able to compile a more recent version if required, it will operate headless, has what appears to be usable web interface if required. It does however weriously lacks and ability to read and parse rss feeds to bring the automation I need. Enter flexget, multipurpose automation tool, I’m not apposed to running to different pieces of software to do the job after all it was a plug in doing the work in vuze, and I am a unix guy. ...
Ok I’m a total Python newbie. I need to install flexget to use with my new transmission setup, it’s a python based app and comes as an .egg file. Seems the best way to install these is with something call easy_install. pkg search -l easy_install Shows easy_install is part of the python setup tools package. So just go ahead and install that. pfexec pkg install pkg:/library/python-2/setuptools-26 Then use easy_install to install the flexget along with all it’s dependencies. ...
I recently aquired an X2200 with no optical drive, and having had a few questions from people about USB media for OpenSolaris , where my standard answer was to download the USB image, I decided it was time I should eat my own dog food as they say and take this USB stuff out for a test drive. What you will need: A USB key. I used an el cheap 1GB stick I had lying about.An OpenSolaris USB image I used build 127 from genunix. Of course you can role your own from the iso. Some way of getting the USB image on to the USB stick. For me this would be my existing OpenSolaris desktop machine.A x86 machine capable of booting from a USB device. I my case this was a SUN a dual CPU quad core X2200Assuming you have the USB stick and downloaded the image I won’t bore you with the details on why you can’t just copy the image to the stick. Just know you can’t. ...