Today I am going to document the process of install BIND in Solaris 11. I am using a Solaris 11.1 zone for this task, though nothing in this is specific to zones, and it should work on previous versions of Solaris 11. I have done this quite a few times…
Solaris SMF: Define File Dependency
One of the biggest benefits of migrating to the Service Management Framework is that we can introduce dependencies to a services, these dependencies can be other services which is very valuable, however they can also be file based. This can be used in a number of ways, say for example…
Solaris SMF: Define Service Execution User
Frequently we want a service to execute as a non-root user, this is pretty trivial in the context of the Service Management Facility in Solaris. This article will go over exactly what goes into that. The one complexity around that is the environment, if you have environment variables that the…
Solaris SMF: Delegate Service Control
In many of the environments that I deliver to a client we have a concept of an “environment account” this account is the credential set that the environment runs as. Over time and the maturation of the Service Management Facility (SMF) we have been able to simplify this offering and…
Solaris 11: Using Crashplan for Cloud Backups
I personally use Crashplan for my cloud based backups (I have for over a year). I use them because they are one of a few (to be honest the only one) who actually have Solaris installers. The one downside of this is that they do not start the CrashPlanEngine by…