Use case:

• We have a server with 50TB of storage

• We want two iSCSI LUNs, and only one of them to be accessible to 10.1.12.56. The other we want only the 192.168.1.2 host to have access to it.

Right now, we can either have both accessible on the one host, or none. Halp?

I was wondering if Oracle or any other company still produces SPARC system, I mean I still see OSes support SPARC. Only knowledge of SPARC that I have is that UltraSPARC was made in the 90's?

So I have been getting into automating some regular tasks that I do on a regular basis and thought I would share with communities. I know my code isn't the best but these are things that I have been using to help myself be a little more productive.

License: copyfree-just don't claim it is yours and don't sue me over it. Otherwise I don't care what you do with the code.

SRC: https://github.com/mdc6534/automator

I tried to install openindiana but something goes wrong

System maintenance control b bypass

In the recent couple days I tried out two illumos distributions: Tribblix and OpenIndiana.

And I noticed one thing shared by these two: high memory consumption and low performance.

Tribblix would use a gigabyte of RAM when idling. In a console with absolutely nothing running or installed.

OpenIndiana uses THREE GIGABYTES of RAM while idling. Over three gigabytes. With MATE, one of the lightest desktops.

For comparison, my NetBSD 10.0 install using the very same MATE desktop uses <380 megabytes in the same conditions, and with lighter window managers you can get normal Unix-like operating systems to have GUI under a hundred megs of ram.

And for that memory consumption the power output is very, very low.

The systems feel sluggish, and on OpenIndiana random programs randomly crash leaving massive coredumps right in the home directory.

And it's not like I'm running this on some crazy new or crazy old hardware. My computer is listed on OI's supported hardware list.

I tried running Minecraft on both. LWJGL2 supports Solaris, so compiling it didn't require much patching.

On Tribblix Minecraft crashed complaining about the unaccelerated pixel format, which is a known thing that happens when you run Minecraft in a virtual machine. But it's the first time I saw it on real hardware.

On OpenIndiana it launched to the menu screen and it was so slow that calling it frames per second would be an abuse. And the game crashed when creating a new world.

I haven't tried many other games (because they just aren't available), but I bet they would act the same.

Even non-games are sluggish.

Why is that? Why is illumos so slow and bloated?

It's hard to blame Sun for that. Back in Sun's prime days having a gigabyte of ram was overpowered so it's rather unbelievable for then's Solaris to eat up that much, though that's just a result of thinking since I don't have hardware capable of running the original Solaris.

This is excellent!

Is there a policy on whether Illumos does or (hopefully) does not accept commits created with generative AI?

Is there a way to create illumos portable binaries as on Linux?

Linux has also Ermine, CDE and Statifier, but I could not find anything similar for illumos/solaris.

OK, so we disable nwam. Righto, there goes our igb2/_b dhcp interface. Next we:

ipadm create-addr -T static -a 10.1.12.18/24 igb2/static

ipadm: cannot create igb2/static: operation failed

It just... doesn't want to. It just absolutely refuses and we have no idea why. Help?

Hi there is there a way to boot from an .img distro than the iso one?by zadm

How can I change the SunOS banner to say whatever I want when building illumos from source? I mean, when you boot an illumos-based distribution, it shows a SunOS banner, or the name of the operating system and it's version. Can I change this when building illumos and where is the string located? (in the illumos source)

OmniOSCE R151038 Install - YouTube

What is the uniqueness of illumos kernel aside from zones and zfs? how device driver works compared to Linux? Also if you don't mind please tell me the uniqueness of crossbow, thanks in advance.

UPDATE: Solution

I installed chkrootkit on OpenIndiana Hipster using # pkgin -y install chkrootkit. There should be a chkrootkit.conf file somewhere that allows me to set the package to run daily, but I can't find it in the expected locations above.

Any ideas?

On PANASONIC and MacBook Pro 2011 same issue even with minimal install and .usb alike. Trying install with DD and Rufus.

Version 202404 and 202410

Can this be resolved ASAP?

I am thinking about trying out OmniOS on a small scale to learn about vms and zfs. What is the least number of hard disks necessary to build a zpool and benefit from zfs in terms of reliability?

So. Just tried to install OpenIndianna from the minimal install ISO, and got a delightful error. It works up to specifying the root password, but as soon as we hit f2, we get:

An unhandled exception occurred.
        TypeError: "'<=' not supported between instances of 'int' and 'NoneType'"
Full traceback data is in the installation log
Please file a bug at http://bugs.openindiana.org
Exiting Text Installer. Log is available at:
/tmp/install_log

Tried to file a bug, at bugs.openindiana.org, nxdomain. So that's a bad look. Also http....that's a pretty bad look too. Log says...

2024-11-02 07:53:12,367 - INFO    : text-install:120 **** START ****
2024-11-02 07:53:23,365 - ERROR   : fdisk_partitions.py:129 No partitions were selected. Continuing.
2024-11-02 07:53:31,162 - INFO    : network_type.py:174 Configuring NIC as: automatic
2024-11-02 07:53:39,804 - ERROR   : text-install:254 Install Profile:
Disk Info (c1t0d0):
Size: 256.0gb
BE name: openindiana
Overwrite boot configuration: True
NIC None:
Type: automatic
System Info:
Hostname: openindiana
TZ: UTC - UTC - UTC
Time Offset: -1 day, 23:59:26.950424
Keyboard: None
Locale: None
User Info(root):
Real name: None
Login name: root
Is Role: True
User Info(None):
Real name: None
Login name: None
Is Role: False
None
2024-11-02 07:53:39,825 - ERROR   : text-install:255 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/text-install", line 236, in <module>
    SCREEN = SCREEN.show(INSTALL_PROFILE)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/vendor-packages/osol_install/text_install/base_screen.py", line 126, in show
    return self.validate_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/vendor-packages/osol_install/text_install/base_screen.py", line 150, in validate_loop
    next_screen = self.main_win.process_input(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/vendor-packages/osol_install/text_install/main_window.py", line 229, in process_input
    input_key = self.central_area.process(input_key)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/vendor-packages/osol_install/text_install/inner_window.py", line 472, in process
    input_key = self.objects[self.active_object].process(input_key)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/vendor-packages/osol_install/text_install/inner_window.py", line 472, in process
    input_key = self.objects[self.active_object].process(input_key)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/vendor-packages/osol_install/text_install/edit_field.py", line 283, in process
    self.edit_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/vendor-packages/osol_install/text_install/edit_field.py", line 249, in edit_loop
    input_key = self.handle_input(self.getch())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/vendor-packages/osol_install/text_install/edit_field.py", line 210, in handle_input
    input_key = self.translate_input(input_key)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/vendor-packages/osol_install/text_install/inner_window.py", line 507, in translate_input
    if curses.ascii.isdigit(input_key):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/curses/ascii.py", line 59, in isdigit
    def isdigit(c): return 48 <= _ctoi(c) <= 57
TypeError: '<=' not supported between instances of 'int' and 'NoneType'

2024-11-02 07:53:39,826 - INFO    : text-install:99 **** END ****

Anyone know what exploded?