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Questions tagged [illumos]

Illumos is a community fork of OpenSolaris.

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What are pros to use OmniOS than SmartOS or OpenIndiana?

I could not find good comparison between OmniOS and SmartOS (or OpenIndiana). So what are pros to use OmniOS than SmartOS? (As some people are nitpickers I had to make the question like this. But I would like to know pros/cons...)
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What dictates smf service maintenance mode?

I have smartos machines running a custom application as an smf service (a circonus monitoring agent). On some of these machines the agent errors when starting and gets stuck in a restart loop eventually leading to the machine panicking. For every…
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ZFS silent corruption

I am trying to find answers to some questions on how ZFS works: does it detect silent corruption via checksums as soon as data is changed (and differs from checksum), automatic in a way (then if there's RAIDZ 1, it would repair by fetching from…
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Can all OSS for Linux be built to run on an Illumos based OS like OpenIndiana?

I like trying different OSs, but I have yet to try a Illumos-based OS. Can I run all or most Linux Software, just by building from source?
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How to source correct startup scripts on interactive, non-login shell

I'm trying to set up a sane/usable environment in a barebones OpenSolaris-derivative (OmniOS, a distribution of Illumos/OpenIndiana). I have all the plumbing code I need in .profile, .inputrc, and .bashrc files ready to promote to system-wide use,…
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Illumos/Solaris equivalent of FreeBSD devd (daemon to run userland programs when kernel events happen)?

I have been searching the illumos man pages for an equivalent of FreeBSD's devd (way to run programs based upon kernel events), but I could not find any. Is there an Illumos/Solaris equivalent of FreeBSD's devd daemon, providing a way to have…
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How to force OmniOS (illumos) "format" properly recognize disk geometry?

I have a FreeBSD-initialised 8-disk vdev, all 10TB WD RED, now on a server with OmniOS r151026, connected via LSI 3008 HBA. At POST, the card shows all disks with right geometry (I can post picture if necessary). But format reports a wrong (~ 2TB)…
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Tribblix: cannot start xfce

I installed the illumos (opensolaris) distro Tribblix and can't start Xfce. I tried both with a display manager, slim (I know it's old, but it's the only one they offer), and from the console. The default Xorg WM, twm, however, works perfectly as…
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Omnios having problems using Zone with ZFS NFS dataset

I am experimenting with Omnios trying to attempt creating a shared zfs dataset using zfs inbuilt nfs inside a zone but every time I attempt to do so I get the following message zfs create -o casesensitivity=mixed -o nbmand=on -o…
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Inheriting group write permission, but not execute for files, on OmniOS (Illumos) using ZFS ACL

We operate with umask 027 most of the time. For certain directories, where multiple users are involved, I found a cool way to emulate umask 002 using ACL inheritance. Here's the command I'm using. Essentially this is chmod 775 with…
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Build my own firewall, in Java or other high-level language?

I posted a question on ServerFault about a specialized Firewall setup, but as an avid software developer I am also considering rolling my own. I am only interested in using a high-level language, preferably Java or Node.JS. Is there some system for…
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OpenIndiana: getting "excluded by installed incorporation" errors trying to install packages on a fresh install of hipster-20211031

I am trying out OpenIndiana for the first time. I used the live image OI-hipster-gui-20211031.iso (which seems to be the latest version) to install into a qemu-kvm virtual machine. The very first thing I wanted to do was set up a development…
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Help: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error) when trying to mount FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE NFS export on OpenIndiana Hipster GUI client

I have a FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE machine, hostname DellOptiPlex390. I would like to export the folders /usr/home/jdrch/KeePass & /usr/home/jdrch/Sync and mount them via NFS on an OpenIndiana Hipster GUI machine with IP address 192.168.0.71. My…
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OpenIndiana Hipster GUI (Illumos): How do I ensure my installed pkgsrc packages are always the latest?

I run OpenIndianaHipster GUI and would like to ensure that my pkgsrc packages are always the absolute latest available in the repos. What is required to do this (it's not particularly clear to me from the setup instructions)? Is simply running #…
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How To Read Variable Value Using mdb?

Let's say I set a parameter with the following command, how could I read it back later on? mdb -kwe "spa_load_verify_metadata/W 0" I am trying to read the man page, but I'm only in this OS temporarily and don't understand what it's talking about.…
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