Category Archives: Solaris

What I Really Hate About Windows

Posted on 2010-07-13 by Stefan Rubner

I don’t run Windows regularly. I use Mac OS X. I use Ubuntu. I use Solaris. But when I need to run Windows it will never, ever fail to remind me why I don’t run Windows. It’s as simple as … Continue reading →

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Building A 64-bit Resin On Solaris 10 Using SunStudio 12u1

Posted on 2010-07-01 by Stefan Rubner

This has been bothering me for quite some time. Resin is one of the best application servers I’ve come across. But to get the best performance out of it, you need to recompile it for your platform. While this is … Continue reading →

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Porting For The Sun: The Zlib Problem (ld.so.1: exe: fatal: relocation error: R_AMD64_32:)

Posted on 2010-06-27 by Stefan Rubner

With the recent update of the Sun Studio 12 compiler set I started seeing errors like this when compiling for example MySQL from source: ld.so.1: exe: fatal: relocation error: R_AMD64_32: Turns out that it was Zlib 1.2.5 causing the problem.

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Bash: Dynamic Variables

Posted on 2010-06-24 by Stefan Rubner

Every once in a while I need to use dynamic variables in shell scripts for doing things like echo ${{$foo}_bar} but unfortunately it won’t work like shown in the example above. What will work however is this:

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Resolved: “ld: fatal: file values-Xa.o: open failed: No such file or directory” when compiling on (Open)Solaris

Posted on 2009-09-18 by Stefan Rubner

Ah well. Compiling software on Solaris could be really easy if it weren’t for the small problems all the time. Today I was faced with ld: fatal: file values-Xa.o: open failed: No such file or directory when trying to compile … Continue reading →

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No IonCube Loader for PHP 5.3.0 – for now ;)

Posted on 2009-07-09 by Stefan Rubner

This is what I received today after offering a Solaris build environment to the guys from IonCube so they could build a version of their loader for my preferred web server OS:

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Enable SNMP on OpenSolaris

Posted on 2009-04-25 by Stefan Rubner

If you like to monitor your machines using SNMP and find yourself on a machine running OpenSolaris, chances are that there is /usr/sfw/bin/snmpd already installed. But there’s no service or init script to actually run it automatically. In that case, … Continue reading →

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MySQL 5.4: Not for me, yet ;)

Posted on 2009-04-24 by Stefan Rubner

Since Sun bought MySQL, the pace of the releases has increased a lot. Ok, we’ll see whether this will continue, but still. So now it’s MySQL 5.4. Not only quite a big jump in the minor numbers but also some … Continue reading →

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Unhold Sendmail Queue

Posted on 2009-04-18 by Stefan Rubner

It’s really so simple that I always forget it: To make sendmail resend all mails currently in the queue, issue sendmail -q Really here for reference only.

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Network Monitor ZenOSS 2.4beta3 available

Posted on 2009-04-17 by Stefan Rubner

Pace is going up over at ZenOSS. When I looked late at night yesterday, ZenOSS 2.3.296 (a.k.a. 2.4beta3) wasn’t available. It now is, including again some changes to my network monitoring package of choice.

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How to compile Oracle support (Oci8) for PHP on Solaris

Posted on 2008-05-20 by Stefan Rubner

Ok, we all know that this should be a trivial task. And it really is. Just a few steps to complete: Go to Oracle’s download page Search for the real download link Choose your favorite platform there Click on desired … Continue reading →

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Mac and Solaris: Fix the “xterm-color” issue

Posted on 2008-04-18 by Stefan Rubner

Every time I connected to a Solaris machine from my Mac using ssh I ran into the dreaded “WARNING: terminal is not fully functional” problem. The reason is that the Mac sets its terminal type to “xterm-color” which isn’t known … Continue reading →

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What Java is right for you?

Posted on 2008-04-17 by Stefan Rubner

Intersting find today: If you’re running Solaris 10, you’re way better off using JDK 1.5.0_xx. Using JDK 1.6.0_x will result in unusual heavy loads and application crashes on Solaris 10. However, if you’re running Linux, it’s exactly the other way … Continue reading →

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Tuning the Sun: Fiddling with the TCP/IP stack

Posted on 2008-02-24 by Stefan Rubner

Well, it’s over one and a half years that I first posted some hints about tuning the performance of a Sun web server. Now it seems that I found what looks like the optimum settings for the machines I’m currently watching over: … Continue reading →

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Running Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) using Parallels on the Mac

Posted on 2007-05-01 by Stefan Rubner

As some Mac users may have already noticed, installing Feisty Fawn on the Mac using Paralles isn’t easy. But there’s a way to do it: To give credit where credit is due, you can find an excellent tutorial here. Quick … Continue reading →

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Need for Speed: PHP Drift

Posted on 2007-04-15 by Stefan Rubner

It’s no secret that PHP, while being one of the most favored programming languages on the Web, isn’t exactly a sprinter in terms of served requests per second. Thus most of the sites I know use some sort of PHP … Continue reading →

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Running CoolTuner on localized Solaris

Posted on 2007-04-15 by Stefan Rubner

To optimize your Solaris 10 (Sparc) systems, Sun provides a nice tool called CoolTuner. However, installation of this tool will only work on default installations of Solaris 10 (Sparc) using the English language. To fix this, run the installer like … Continue reading →

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GCC’s internal defines displayed

Posted on 2007-04-07 by Stefan Rubner

While converting some tools to the Solaris platform, I stumbled across this little trick: In case you want to know what internal variables gcc defines on the current platform, just do touch empty.c gcc -c -E -dM empty.c This will … Continue reading →

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Screen 4.0.2 for Solaris 10/Sparc

Posted on 2007-04-06 by Stefan Rubner

While looking for the screen utility I realized that it’s neither part of the GNU utilities provided by Sun nor can it be found on SunFreeware.com. Since I’m seldom right but never hesitant, I decided to build my own. Turns … Continue reading →

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