Category Archives: Unix

Well in an earlier post I mentioned on my todo list was to setup all my Linux servers to forward emails from all servers onto one ‘collection’ server so I just had to read the emails in one place instead … Continue reading →

Getting sidetracked again. Found an interesting article on linux.com on how to build a local IMAP mail server, or in english how to use fetchmail to pull mail from multiple pop3 servers down to a local imap server so you … Continue reading →

Now I’m really impressed with WINE. Thats the windows emulator for Linux, not the stuff in bottles. It’s been a long time since I tried it (many, many years), tonight I tried the latest version for FC10. Basically on my … Continue reading →

Well, my prevoius post discussd difficulties until this point. But this is the end of the line. Rolling back to FC6. Whats happened since the last post ? Still playing with attempt 5. Just glad I made a symbolic link … Continue reading →

An interesting problem with opensolaris 2008.05 under qemu I have been fighting against today; it’s still beating me. In my qemu image I had fortunately cloned the rootfs (must write a post on how to do that one day) which … Continue reading →

Finally decided to upgrade my development server from FC6 to FC9. Ran mkCDrec and created 36 CDROM iso images (the server doen’t have a DVD drive to recover from, so CD images) onto a seperate external drive on my file … Continue reading →

Finally got opensolaris to install inside virtualbox. Seems the problems I was having were because I didn’t allocate enough memory to the VM. Solaris 0606 runs in 348Mb, opensolaris 200805 won’t install in less than 512Mb. It doesn’t unfortunately tell … Continue reading →

Well lots of poking around on the web today, and the possibility of being able to do a bare-metal install from a backup set for opensolaris with a ZFS root filesystem doesn’t appear to exist yet. A lot of forums … Continue reading →

Well, I’ve got the opensolaris test server at the point I want it now. My next question is what do I do with it. Lets see, my website runs on linux, my development server is linux, and my home desktop … Continue reading →

Well it’s done, opensolaris 2008.05 re-installed. This time I took a snapshot and cloned the rootfs. It wasn’t quite as easy as I though. Well actually it was, it just lost everything I had installed into /opt. Eventually figured it … Continue reading →