Whence and Whenceman
On the UNIX command line, the `which` command is great, it tells you where a command is in the system. However, if your system has two versions of the `ls` command, it will only tell you which `ls` command you Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Gruml
I get mildly annoyed when using applications that are hosted on the web. For example, I’ll use web mail if I have to, but I’d much rather use Apple Mail or Thunderbird… Anyway, I’ve been using Google Reader for the Continue reading
Bash and SED script to play…Tetris…?
If you navigate your browser to here, you will find a most amazing thing: Tetris crafted out of a SED script with a bash wrapper. The page is in Russian, but Google or another translation site will tell you that Continue reading
Making a script run on startup on OpenSolaris
While working on my dissertation, I found that virtual NICs and etherstubs don’t automatically reappear on a restart. So, I have a nice little script to make them come back: #!/bin/bash /sbin/dladm up-aggr /sbin/dladm up-vlan /sbin/dladm up-vnic /sbin/dladm init-linkprop -w Continue reading
SUNWyp – A.K.A. NIS
So, over the last week I have been trying to get NIS to work with OpenSolaris in VirtualBox machines. I managed to get the master server to work fine by doing the following: