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25 October 2010 ~ Comments Off

NexentaStor (OpenSolaris) – changing a user’s uid and getting CIFS to work

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I have a NexentaStor-based NAS device on my home network. It has 10 x 500GB SATA Drives in a raidz2 configuration giving me approx 4TB of usable storage. I don't have many users at home (basically, just me!) so I don't bother with any central authentication mechanism – I simply make sure that use I [...]

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26 February 2010 ~ Comments Off

A pkgin provider for puppet

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On my Solaris machines at $WORK I use iMil’s pkgin to install additional software. But until today, I add to do it by hand, on every machine… Not really what I like to do after a little more than a year using puppet. So I wrote a provider to manage packages with pkgin. It was [...]

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