On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 08:33:25PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > * Install Gnome2 and the multitudes of GNU tools to replace the > incredibly poor Sun tools which nauseate me (or perhaps just > busybox, it seems to do the job fine)
Solaris 9 bundles a lot of GNU tools. I nearly keeled over when I found out it shipped with bash. If you want to avoid compiling other tools (like vim), they can be downloaded from sunfreeware.com. (If videl has enough disk, a partial mirror of that would be nice.) > Before we left Mililani around 4:30pm we were able to SSH into > the server from my house, but when we all got home it seems > that SSH no longer can connect to the server. I susepct that > something bad happened to the server after we left. We wont > know what happened until tomorrow. Any chance a small linux box could be set up next to it to act as a console server? It might not solve the problem at hand but would certainly not outlive its usefulness. -Vince
