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{ Daily Archives } Tuesday, June 2009

Using a non-standard port for Capistrano SSH gateways

I have a love-hate affair with Capistrano. It is a great tool if you are a Ruby person and need to do something NOW on a bunch of machines. But the docs are in a constant state of suck from my point of view. The Capify.org website helps for remembering the ‘simple’ details on what […]

Automating Zone creation in OpenSolaris 2009.06

With the announcement of OpenSolaris 2009.06 I thought it would be appropriate to blog a little about a tool I had been writing to help myself play with Zones a bit easier. My overall goals were the following: Have each zone configured with its own virtual NIC (Crossbow) Allow easy creation of zones without having […]

The role of loghost entry in /etc/inet/hosts for OpenSolaris

After looking at /etc/inet/hosts I noticed a loghost entry. Being a Solaris newbie I was curious to see why this entry was there. A quick Google brought up this nice discussion: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=47166 Summary, don’t delete it.