Piped sandboxes
I got one question via Twitter: “What if there were a convenient way to run typical Unix commands in a sandbox? E.g. grep, awk, sed, etc. Could they work a...
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Monitoring the sky - dump1090 to InfluxDB
You may know that i’m very interested in aviation, despite the fact that i had a quite severe case of “being totally afraid of flying” in the past. Or perhap...
Nested netgroups for fun and profit
Imagine you have several hundred systems to manage. The systems are for separate projects and each project has different teams of admins and only assigned ad...
Setting up LDAP for Solaris 11
Some time ago i was asked to provide a walktrough for the configuration of LDAP in Solaris 11. It’s a walkthrough how to set up LDAP name services for Solari...
Telegrafing data to MQTT
On Friday i wrote an article describing how i configured Telegraf to gather monitoring data from my Technische Alternative CMI. In this article i wrote that...
Out of ID
Recently a customer observed on one of their systems, that the number n of databases started quite nicely on a system. However when they tried to start data...
Virtualbox via IPS .p5p
Darren Moffat just pointed to this in his Twitter feed about an package for Solaris that would make installation of this great tool really comfortable. Virtu...