Hiya Blake,
This makes sense to me, thanks for clarifying. Here's the start we've
got for Apache and DNS, from the Newbie FAQ I cobbled together from
blogs last week.These could use additional content that you feel would
be useful for the audience you described and real examples from the
low-end servers you mentioned.
What about Apache?
Apache2: Solaris ships with a lot of goodies, including Apache2! Just
edit the configuration (rename from sample) in /etc/apache2/, use svcadm
to enable the service, and then drop your pages in the
/var/apache2/htdocs directory! Apache2 provides a great test for Zones.
I also have some trivial but useful examples for Apache web server
virtualization with zones on page 33 of the curriculum guide here:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/edu/curriculum_development/OSOLINTROOS.pdf
Why can't I get DNS configured? I forgot to enable DNS during the
installation and now that it's running I'm screwed?
Don't worry, you need to edit "/etc/nsswitch.conf". There are two easy
ways to do this: 1) edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and add "dns" to the "hosts"
line, or 2) Even easier is to just use the template by copying
"/etc/nsswitch.dns" to "/etc/nsswitch.conf". Once you've got
nsswitch.conf set properly just go ahead and edit /etc/resolv.conf like
you would on any other system and DNS should work. The nsswitch.conf
file on Solaris tells each name service where to look for information.
By default all the name services look in "files" (the normal files in
/etc), but you could also specify that Solaris should check nis, or
nis+, or dns, or ldap in this file.
I haven't found Samba info (yet), this might truly be a complete hole
that we could fill. Let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Michelle
Blake wrote:
> Standard configs.
>
> Maybe 'generic' is a better term. I'm not a career Solaris guy, and I
> know a lot of other new Solaris users like myself that are trying to
> do what in the Win/Linux world are common, simple tasks. Examples
> that spring to mind are Samba fileservices, local DNS, simple
> website/Apache setup. These are things that more users will want to
> do now that we have Open Solaris in the mix. Granted, Solaris is in
> some ways overkill for this stuff, but I/we would certainly like to
> see Solaris take it's rightful place in the low/mid tier market as
> well as the high end.
>
> Writing up example walkthroughs with actual configurations (conf
> files, service manifests, flat file configs) listed in the documents
> would help the Win/Linux crossover crowd a lot I think. I don't know
> about you, but I always skip to the 'examples' section of a man page
> if it's available :)
>
> Am I making sense?
>
> Blake
>
> On 5/2/07, *Rainer Heilke* <rheilke at dragonhearth.com
> <mailto:rheilke at dragonhearth.com>> wrote:
>
> Greetings.
>
> This makes sense to me as well. I agree with Michelle, with the caveat
> that we not let worrying _too_ deeply on the specific
> topics/catagories
> get in the way of starting to produce tangible material. No matter how
> long one thinks on it, a category or three will get missed. If we need
> to do a little two-step to decide where a topic fits after the
> document
> is done, at least people have something they can work with.
> (That's not
> to say we just run willy-nilly; I think structure is needed, let's
> just
> not get bogged down in it.)
>
> I am also curious about what you mean by "standard configs".
>
> Rainer
>
> michelle olson wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yep, hardware/driver install is definitely cheatsheet-worthy. We
> could
> > get it posted here and link to it from the laptop or other
> appropriate
> > communities (I think device drivers community is being combined into
> > another group or something). Anyways, they have some info, but it
> > isn't HowTo, from what I recall and that is what folks need from the
> > looks of the osol help alias. I also think your previous list is
> good
> > to start at high level, and we can add specific cheatsheets under
> > those bigger topic umbrellas. You also mentioned 'standard' configs,
> > care to elaborate there? So we have a better idea of where we're
> headed?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Michelle
> >
> >
> > Blake wrote:
> >
> >> >From now on I guess I'll use 'MS AD' to specify better.
> >>
> >> My current drama with semi-supported PCI expansion cards for x86
> >> Solaris makes me think that a cheatsheet for hardware/driver
> installs
> >> would be handy. (The device in question is a Syba SATA card with
> >> Silicon Image 3114 chipset).
> >>
> >> Maybe we should start by compiling a list of cheatsheet-worthy
> topics?
> >>
> >> Blake
> >>
> >> On 5/1/07, *Rainer Heilke* < rheilke at dragonhearth.com
> <mailto:rheilke at dragonhearth.com>
> >> <mailto:rheilke at dragonhearth.com
> <mailto:rheilke at dragonhearth.com>>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Just a quick note; AD Integration is integration (of
> OpenSolaris,
> >> probably using Sun LDAP or OpenLDAP) with Microsoft's Active
> >> Directory. This is supposedly fairly easy, at least with
> Sun LDAP,
> >> but can get tricky/complex with OpenLDAP or when Jumpstart
> support
> >> is needed within AD's DHCP. It is most certainly a topic that
> >> could benefit from a good hands-on guide or cheat sheet. :-)
> >>
> >> Rainer
> >>
> >>
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