You might find yourself needing to run a Solaris 11 host with non-global zones running as a VMWare guest for a number of reasons. Generally, I would run a Solaris zone host on bare metal for production, but it can work under VMWare as well in more limited deployment. Still, this might be more common…
Read More →So I guess I never had an interest in live wallpaper on iPhone until I had a grandson scooting around in his walker! However, when I tried to set the Live Photo as live wallpaper in iOS 11 on an iPhone 8P, it wouldn’t work when activated. When I pressed on the photo, the screen…
Read More →I recently had need to upgrade a small C program from a much older version of Microsoft Visual Studio to Visual Studio 2015. After updating the pcscfg.cfg file and makefile to point to the latest directories, I immediately ran into problems with numerous errors with the Pro*C pre-compiler when it was processing Microsoft include files….
Read More →In an environment running the ISC DHCP server and BIND DNS server, DHCP leases should update the DNS server dynamically with the name and IP address of the client assigned the lease. This was not working for my Solaris 11.3 clients in my lab. I tracked this down to the Solaris DHCP client not sending…
Read More →Overview This post will walk through setting up an OpenLDAP server to provide LDAP name services for Solaris clients. Having previously gone through this process with a different LDAP server, I was interested in what seems to be better support for using OpenLDAP for this purpose in Solaris 11.4. There doesn’t seem to be a…
Read More →One of the problems you can encounter when attaching a Solaris zone (not a kernel zone) on a new host, is that the global zone may not have packages installed that are needed by the non-global zone. For example: Take a look in the output file that it references for the attach. You are looking…
Read More →I was experiencing a problem with the VMware Inventory Service not starting after restarting our vCenter 6.0 VCA. I needed to reset the LDAP credentials used internally, and followed the VMWare base article 2147280. However, the password that was being generated by the vdcadmin tool had special characters that were not being correctly stored by the…
Read More →If you are trying to make the switch from snoop to tshark in Solaris 11.3, you might have come across a problem where the filters don’t seem to work. In Solaris 11.3.10.7.0, any filter I added, including simple ones, would cause all packets to not be captured: Eliminating the filter allowed packets to be captured….
Read More →There is a great article about configuring multiple package internal package repositories here. However, if you are looking to configure these behind an Apache proxy, you may have trouble. I certainly did. The issue boiled down to Apache not wanting to allow encoded slashes by default. This resulted in Apache discarding the requests from pkg…
Read More →In the years that I have used a Mac, I’ve run into remarkably few problems. One notable exception was when I went to answer a Face Time call from my son on my 2013 iMac. FaceTime said there was no camera connected. Well, there’s a camera built-in, so yeah, I knew it was physically connected :)….
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