Disable ftpaccess in Solaris 10
Posted on April 8th, 2011
You want to get rid of annoying ftp security. Ok. Just tell ftpd not to use /etc/ftp/ftpaccess
# inetadm -m ftp exec="/usr/sbin/in.ftpd -A"
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How to determine disk Solaris booted from
Posted on December 18th, 2010
The script parses prconf -pv output to get bootpath variable and converts it to cXtXdX format
#!/bin/sh BOOTPATH=`prtconf -pv | grep bootpath | tr -d "'" | awk '{print $2}'` if [ -n "`echo $BOOTPATH | grep "/disk"`" ] ; then # The bootpath contains "disk," but the /devices block device contains # either "sd" or "ssd" BOOTPATH=`echo $BOOTPATH | sed 's/disk@//'` BOOT_DISK=`ls -l /dev/dsk | sed -e 's/ssd@//' -e 's/sd@//' \ | grep "$BOOTPATH" 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $9}' | sed 's/s[0-7]//'` else BOOT_DISK=`ls -l /dev/dsk | grep "$BOOTPATH" 2>/dev/null | \ awk '{print $9}' | sed 's/s[0-7]//'` fi if [ -n "$BOOT_DISK" ] ; then echo "Your boot disk is ${BOOT_DISK}." else echo "Unable to determine logical boot disk." fi
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Solaris 10 zone boot problems after global zone patch
Posted on December 15th, 2010
After patching global zone I’ve discovered boot problems in local zones with errors related to local filesystem mounts.
ash-3.00# svcs -x svc:/system/filesystem/local:default (local file system mounts) State: maintenance since Wed Dec 15 10:08:51 2010 Reason: Start method exited with $SMF_EXIT_ERR_FATAL. See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS See: /var/svc/log/system-filesystem-local:default.log Impact: 31 dependent services are not running. (Use -v for list.)
Log file tells that there is some zfs mount issue.
[ Dec 15 10:08:50 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local") ]
Abort - core dumped
WARNING: /usr/sbin/zfs mount -a failed: exit status 134
[ Dec 15 10:08:51 Method "start" exited with status 95 ]Eventually it was revealed that the zone upgrade was not done, so it can’t boot normally. After detach/attach with upgrade options zone was booted as usual.
bash-3.00# zoneadm -z rtest halt bash-3.00# zoneadm -z rtest detach bash-3.00# zoneadm -z rtest attach -u Getting the list of files to remove Removing 1189 files Remove 24 of 24 packages Installing 14351 files Add 142 of 142 packages Installation of these packages generated warnings: VRTSodm VRTSvxfs Updating editable files The file </var/sadm/system/logs/update_log> within the zone contains a log of the zone update.
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So, you have a tar file with absolute paths…now what?
Posted on November 11th, 2010
Don’t do it again. 
After you have already created one, the easiest way to “un-absolute it” is to use GNU tar. This is the default behavior when creating or extracting files with GNU tar.
You can find GNU tar.
You are welcome.
Another tip came in from Gregory L. White who suggested using pax:
# tar tvf export_home.tar tar: blocksize = 3 drwxr-x--- 201/1 0 Sep 5 10:16 2003 /export/home/gwhite/x/ # pax -r -s ',^/,,' -f export_home.tar # ls export export_home.tar
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Connecting SL500 Library robot to emulex HBA port
Posted on October 25th, 2010
I was managed to setup netbackup server using Sun Enterprise 5120 and SL500 library. The problem was that the robot connection became broken after server reboot and I have to power cycle the library to get the robot appear again. After doing some investigation it was revealed that the robot connection is unstable due to automatic configuration of FC link with Emulex adapter port.
The port instance the robot connected to is 2. We configure the port to force loop topology and 2Gb/s port speed by specifying parameters in emulex driver configuration file /kernel/drv/emlxs.conf
emlxs2-topology=4; emlxs2-link-speed=2
After reboot we got library connected and not loosing link.
Solaris version:
SunOS backup-machine 5.10 Generic_139555-08 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5120
and FC port
HBA Port WWN: 10000000c978d630
OS Device Name: /dev/cfg/c4
Manufacturer: Emulex
Model: LPe11002-S
Firmware Version: 2.80a4 (Z3F2.80A4)
FCode/BIOS Version: Boot:5.03a0 Fcode:3.01a1
Serial Number: 0999BG0-08350000K2
Driver Name: emlxs
Driver Version: 2.31t (2009.04.05.14.10)
Type: L-port
State: online
Supported Speeds: 1Gb 2Gb 4Gb
Current Speed: 2Gb
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Zabbix agent package for Solaris 10
Posted on September 10th, 2010
Hi there!
We are going to create zabbix agent package and use it for installing large number of zabbix clients.
First, download the source package, unpack it and install to some location.
Let’s suppose the location would be /soft/build/zabbix-agent
gunzip -cd zabbix-1.8.3.tar.gz | tar xf - cd zabbix-1.8.3 ./configure --enable-agent --disable-server --prefix=/soft/build/zabbix-agent make && make install
Now, copy Zabbix Solaris 10 package source files somewhere, for example to /soft/build/pkgsrc and execute make from there.
bash-2.05# make echo "i pkginfo" > prototype echo "i preinstall" >> prototype echo "i postinstall" >> prototype echo "i preremove" >> prototype echo "i postremove" >> prototype echo "i request" >> prototype echo PKG=ZABagent > pkginfo echo NAME=Zabbix agents >> pkginfo echo ARCH=sparc >> pkginfo echo VERSION=1.8.2 >> pkginfo echo CATEGORY=system >> pkginfo echo BASEDIR=/usr/local >> pkginfo echo PSTAMP=\"`date '+%m/%d/%Y'`\" >> pkginfo echo ZABBIX_SERVERS= >> pkginfo echo SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=false >> pkginfo echo SUNW_PKG_THISZONE=true >> pkginfo pkgproto /soft/build/zabbix-agent=/usr/local >> prototype pkgmk -o -b /usr/local -r / ## Building pkgmap from package prototype file. ## Processing pkginfo file. WARNING: missing directory entry for WARNING: parameter set to "none" ## Attempting to volumize 14 entries in pkgmap. part 1 -- 3784 blocks, 19 entries ## Packaging one part. /var/spool/pkg/ZABagent/pkgmap /var/spool/pkg/ZABagent/pkginfo /var/spool/pkg/ZABagent/root/usr/local/bin/zabbix_get /var/spool/pkg/ZABagent/root/usr/local/bin/zabbix_sender /var/spool/pkg/ZABagent/root/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_agent /var/spool/pkg/ZABagent/root/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_agentd /var/spool/pkg/ZABagent/root/usr/local/share/man/man1/zabbix_get.1 /var/spool/pkg/ZABagent/root/usr/local/share/man/man1/zabbix_sender.1 /var/spool/pkg/ZABagent/root/usr/local/share/man/man8/zabbix_agentd.8 /var/spool/pkg/ZABagent/install/postinstall /var/spool/pkg/ZABagent/install/postremove /var/spool/pkg/ZABagent/install/preinstall /var/spool/pkg/ZABagent/install/preremove /var/spool/pkg/ZABagent/install/request ## Validating control scripts. ## Packaging complete. pkgtrans /var/spool/pkg Zabbix-agent-sol10-sparc.pkg ZABagent Transferring package instance bash-2.05#
The package will be sitting in /var/spool/pkg. It made zone aware by defining 2 variables in pkginfo file:
SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=false SUNW_PKG_THISZONE=true
And will be installed only in zone you are running pkgadd from.
Install it. Example log output follows:
bash-3.00# pkgadd -d /var/tmp/Zabbix-agent-sol10-sparc.pkg
The following packages are available:
1 ZABagent Zabbix agents
(sparc) 1.8.2
Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]:
Processing package instance from
## Installing package in global zone
Zabbix agents(sparc) 1.8.2
Enter a zabbix server ip address [no more]:
This is not an IP address.
Enter a zabbix server ip address [no more]: 10.50.2.199
Enter a zabbix server ip address [no more]:
## Processing package information.
## Processing system information.
1 package pathname is already properly installed.
## Verifying disk space requirements.
## Checking for conflicts with packages already installed.
The following files are already installed on the system and are being
used by another package:
/usr/local
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/share
/usr/local/share/man
/usr/local/share/man/man1
Do you want to install these conflicting files [y,n,?,q] y
## Checking for setuid/setgid programs.
This package contains scripts which will be executed with super-user
permission during the process of installing this package.
Do you want to continue with the installation of [y,n,?] y
Installing Zabbix agents as
## Executing preinstall script.
## Installing part 1 of 1.
/usr/local/bin/zabbix_get
/usr/local/bin/zabbix_sender
/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_agent
/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_agentd
/usr/local/share/man/man1/zabbix_get.1
/usr/local/share/man/man1/zabbix_sender.1
/usr/local/share/man/man8/zabbix_agentd.8
[ verifying class ]
## Executing postinstall script.
Installation of was successful.
bash-3.00#Package will create smf service and start it automatically. Check this out.
bash-3.00# svcs -a | grep zab online 12:54:10 svc:/application/zabbix-agent:default bash-3.00#
Next, we are going to automate installation process to avoid asking questions completely. We will use pkgask(1) command for that. First, we create response file which we can use later for automated install.
bash-3.00# pkgask -r /tmp/zab.ask -d /var/tmp/Zabbix-agent-sol10-sparc.pkg
The following packages are available:
1 ZABagent Zabbix agents
(sparc) 1.8.2
Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]:
Processing package instance from
## Installing package in global zone
Zabbix agents(sparc) 1.8.2
Enter a zabbix server ip address [no more]: 10.50.2.199
Enter a zabbix server ip address [no more]:
Response file was created.
Processing of request script was successful.Next, create admin file. Copy sample from default to say /tmp and edit it.
cp /var/sadm/install/admin/default /tmp/zab.admin vi !$
Make it not to ask anything. For example like this:
ail= instance=unique partial=ask runlevel=ask idepend=ask rdepend=ask space=ask setuid=nocheck conflict=nocheck action=nocheck networktimeout=60 networkretries=3 authentication=quit keystore=/var/sadm/security proxy= basedir=default
And, finally, install the package using admin file and response file we just created.
bash-3.00# pkgadd -d /var/tmp/Zabbix-agent-sol10-sparc.pkg -r /tmp/zab.ask -a /tmp/zab.admin all Processing package instance from ## Installing package in global zone Zabbix agents(sparc) 1.8.2 ## Processing package information. ## Processing system information. 7 package pathnames are already properly installed. ## Verifying disk space requirements. Installing Zabbix agents as ## Executing preinstall script. ## Installing part 1 of 1. /usr/local/bin/zabbix_get /usr/local/bin/zabbix_sender /usr/local/sbin/zabbix_agent /usr/local/sbin/zabbix_agentd /usr/local/share/man/man1/zabbix_get.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/zabbix_sender.1 /usr/local/share/man/man8/zabbix_agentd.8 [ verifying class ] ## Executing postinstall script. Installation of was successful.
As you can see no questions was asked at all. So you can use the procedure to do mass installs of the package. You could also download Zabbix Solaris 10 binary package
made using using this instructions.
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