OpenSolaris and time-slider

These warning messages have been really annoying me with my OpenSolaris installation so I thought I’d see if I could do something about it. The data zpool is a mirrored 1Tb pool and even though I’ve got 50+Gb of storage free, time-slider insists on clearing my snapshots……

To the Pub for dinner

Pheebs and I finally managed to go for dinner at the Sun Inn in Bentworth to celebrate my pending birthday. The food and beer were very good and we both thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere in the pub. I’d like to visit again but one thing to be aware of…

Camping with the Lads

Yep, it’s been that time of year again with the annual camping trip to a field, beer and BBQ’ing. This year marks a change in events and a change in venue. Yes, it’s still in the New Forest, Yes there’s still beer but we’ve migrated…

Configuring webmin on OpenSolaris

Using these instructions here I’ve now configured webmin on “monkey” by adding my username to /etc/webmin/miniserv.users and /etc/webmin/webmin.acl to allow me to access https://monkey:10000. hippy@monkey:~$ pfexec more /etc/webmin/miniserv.users root:x:0 hippy:x:101 hippy@monkey:~$ pfexec…

monkey lives

I’ve been meaning to upgrade my home server from build 112 of Solaris Nevada for a while but kept running into an issue from 113 onwards where by the system would suffer an unexpected trap and by the time I thought about raising a bug someone else had already…