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….
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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…
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