Today I am going to document the process of install BIND in Solaris 11. I am using a Solaris 11.1 zone for this task, though nothing in this is specific to zones, and it should work on previous versions of Solaris 11. I have done this quite a few times…
Solaris SMF: Define File Dependency
One of the biggest benefits of migrating to the Service Management Framework is that we can introduce dependencies to a services, these dependencies can be other services which is very valuable, however they can also be file based. This can be used in a number of ways, say for example…
Solaris SMF: Define Service Execution User
Frequently we want a service to execute as a non-root user, this is pretty trivial in the context of the Service Management Facility in Solaris. This article will go over exactly what goes into that. The one complexity around that is the environment, if you have environment variables that the…
Solaris SMF: Delegate Service Control
In many of the environments that I deliver to a client we have a concept of an “environment account” this account is the credential set that the environment runs as. Over time and the maturation of the Service Management Facility (SMF) we have been able to simplify this offering and…
Solaris 11: Defining A Service Using Svcbundle and the SMF
Lately I have been going through an exercise of migrating all of my current services into Solaris 11 (more specifically a zone). I have already been using similar technology on the Linux side, I use OpenVZ with a mix of Linux distributions. However I would like to take advantage of…