"First of all, things are working ..." How so very wrong!
"Second ... see docs.sun.com and in there you have manual for solaris and creating smf services. search for solaris management facilithy." It's like I'm hearing "Here's the bible, solve your own problems!" Is this what passes for "community" here? For one thing, that should be "service management facility", but the answers to what I'm experiencing are not easily found in there. "Third to configure ipv6 is as simples as configuring in solaris 9. create /etc/hostname6.interface add the hostname entry in /etc/inet/ipnodes" Wrong! I already had this base covered. The system only plumbs to link level on ipv6. It doesn't plumb through the tunnel. My Solaris 9 boxes plumbed through the tunnel. I have to type "ifconfig hme0 inet6 plumb up" to get the tunnel plumbed on Solaris 11 out of the box. "start named upon reboot plain an simples as: svcadm enable dns/server done it's started across reboots" Wrong! This doesn't start it up. I can start it up at the command line, and it stays up until I kill it or reboot it. But I obviously don't have the recipe for making the smf start it up. "svcs" reports only name-service-cache online. I can still start up named from the command line. "Fourth ... this is unix why do you need gui tools???? do you use then as well in debian??? " I'd strongly prefer to avoid the gui. It's not in my culture to use the gui. But when I do try to use the gui out of the box, it should work. It hasn't been working for me; some critical administration tools simply won't start up for me on Gnome, and using CDE those tools aren't even on the menu. There are a lot of oddities here such as things that should be on the menu but aren't. There's no IDE that I can locate for doing development. Honestly, I loaded all 6 disks. "Fifth ... ZFS is activated by default on Solaris Developer Preview or in Nexenta. If you want ZFS at boot search on www.opensolaris.org, there is a manual to do that (x64 only maybe it has been updated since I last seen)" You know, that's what I was expecting. My question is whether "format" is reporting the filesystem correctly to me when it says that my partitions are "ufs". Is it possible that the software isn't zfs-aware, and reports ufs in lieu of zfs? Or is it possible that the expected zfs filesystem wasn't used and I'm actually using ufs? It matters, because next I'd like to add a second drive and create a mirror. "Do you know the term RTM (I'm omitting the F before the M :P) linux guys usually know it as well. docs.sun.com search for Solaris 10. For now they are quite alike." Is there anyone out there who accepts the notion that OpenSolaris is a community? Is this the kind of response that passes for community here? If the manual was answering my questions here I'd never have posted "getting things working woes" in the first place. I'm an experienced and effective solaris systems admin with ongoing relationships with legacy systems running software as old as SunOS (BSD) and as new as Solaris 9. Perhaps a little deeper background will help here: I did not assign a fixed IPv4 address while installing Solaris 11. I used DHCP to automatically assign an IPv4 address. It seems that the installation software, under those circumstances, doesn't prompt for a system name. So the system name gets set to "unknown" when installation is performed. Next, I started up Gnome and tried to use the gui tools to assign the system name. Bzzzzzzt. The gui tools for doing this don't work. I could use the services manager gui to start up sshd and ftpd, or to disable unwanted services like rlogind and telnetd. But there's no named there. In solaris 9, named starts up automatically by default if you install named.conf and the zone configuration files. You can also read the file in init.d to see or change the command line that starts up named. Now, for many of you out there, I'd guess your experience may have been different. Perhaps you assigned a system name and fixed IP address during installation. Perhaps that means that some gui tools work for you though they don't work for me. Perhaps my gui tools are still unaware of my hostname, thus cannot connect to the necessary services. Putting the hostname everywhere it belongs in a solaris 9 system (such as /etc/hostname.hme0) might not tell the gui all that it needs to know. But a DHCP environment is still a valid use of a solaris 11 system. Shouldn't the tools work? Isn't there a community forum somewhere for reporting when problems occur. This was, quite frankly, a very routine installation from the point of view of a user. I shouldn't have found myself in trouble, here. Things should be working just as the manuals tell me. I should be able to consult the manuals and follow the instructions contained therein. Instead, the manuals are useless to me. And I get "read the fucking manual" from the community. Does anyone understand what I'm getting at here? Is this the kind of team building that the OpenSolaris community engages in? This message posted from opensolaris.org
