Solaris 11.4 and user_reserve_hint_pct
A long time ago, I wrote about the /etc/system parameter user_reserve_hint_pct . It limits the size of the ZFS ARC cache by proxy by essentially limiting the...
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Homebridge and Tasmota at my cellar
And Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. As I integrated them into HomeKit via Homebridge, I had the problem with the Delock sockets with their custom firmware that I...
vHBA and AIO
In Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU30 there was an important change with LDOMS you should be aware of as you probably have to do an administrative step to get best...
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 as...
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 perhaps...
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...
Setting up LDAP for Solaris 11
Some time ago I was asked to provide a walkthrough for the configuration of LDAP in Solaris 11. It's a walkthrough on how to set up LDAP name services for...