I’ve had an ongoing long running battle at a place of employment trying to get the folks that look after the user accounts to understand the difference between non login accounts, lock accounts, and accounts with expired passwords specifically the impact that has on Solaris Cron. Well notch one up to the good guys I think I had a win today, and it reminded me of this post from Glenn Brunette

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.

Intent is to publish updates of the next trip on here to keep every one up to date on what is happening so I need to test some software.Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.3

A quick sidestep as I needed to get some files up to share with my sister in-law so I thought I’d enable dropbox on this new desktop. Documented here as there seems to be some disparate inaccurate bits of info

Been working on fixing my 4K sector disk write performance issue, will post something on that later. So I have create a new zpool and after zfs send | zfs receive on the various zfs volumes and filesystem I was left to figure out how to move my iscsi guid’s as follows

Solaris 10 Update 9 recently announced and I believe this is the first release under the new stewardship. For the first time last month I received an email from my ISP saying I was getting close to my peak download limit, so I am making concerted effort to download in my off-peak time.

Inspired by the recent events of some ex NP MP’s siding with the ALP, I too have been inspired to move from my Opensolaris (RIP) desktop to Ubuntu.

Last weekend saw the running of Race 2 of the Ergfit indoor Regatta. Yours truly tiped in with a PB time of 1:33.7 in the 500m event, .9 second quicker than race one. Aiming for a 1:32 so some work still to be done.

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. ...