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mplayer2 (and other goodies) on OpenIndiana (possibly Solaris 11)

Want mplayer2 (the newer fork of mplayer) that uses ffmpeg goodness to play all the latest avi’s with funky codecs and mp4 hidef goodness. Some Openindiana contributors are building a lot of friendly packages in the oi-sfe repo. [plain] sudo pkg set-authority -O http://staticdev.uk.openindiana.org:10002 oi-sfe sudo pkg refresh –full sudo pkg install SFEmplayer2 SFEgccruntime [/plain] […]

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ipadm Script for Openindiana / Solaris 11 Ex

I love ipadm. It rocks. Much needed for Solaris and derivatives. I seem to keep forgetting the dam new ipadm commands tho. So I wrote this script to help me set up new Solaris machines and thought I would share. [bash] #!/usr/bin/bash INTERFACE=$1 ADDRESS=$2 GATEWAY=$3 V6AUTO=1 errorCheck() { if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "ERROR: […]

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IPMP + Zones CFG in OpenIndiana / OpenSolaris

IPMP in Solaris allows you to have redundancy with your network on mission critical servers. It is really excellent as it allows you to mix speed of NICs (e.g. a Ten Gigabit Ethernet with Gigabit Ethernet). Below will demonstrate the ‘passive’ IPMP configuration. Active mode allows you to check the ability to ping a defined […]

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Solaris and ‘Growing’ / ‘Expanding’ your Zpool – With little down time …

<zfs nerd post> At home (on this server) I have a Zpool consisting of 3 disks in a RAIDZ1 group. I needed more disc space, so 1 by 1 I changed my 3 x 500G drives to 1tb drives. This would of been pretty much no down time (except for an export and import of […]

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