Re: [smartos-discuss] Backup SmartOS?

2016-01-13 Thread kevr
I have an identical SmartOS box and use znapzend running in the source gz and replicate the whole zones pool to the target and incrementals following. I've not tried it, but in the event of something catastrophic I plan to change the mac addresses on the /usbkey/config and hopefully bring up th

Re: [smartos-discuss] Backup SmartOS?

2016-01-13 Thread kevr
I have an identical SmartOS box and use znapzend running in the source gz and replicate the whole zones pool to the target and incrementals following. I've not tried it, but in the event of something catastrophic I plan to change the mac addresses on the /usbkey/config and hopefully bring up th

Re: [smartos-discuss] Backup SmartOS?

2016-01-15 Thread kevr
ts.smartos.org Did you install znapzend without enabling pkgin in the global zone? If so could you send me your notes not the procedure? Or if anyone else has successfully achieved this…I’m trying to get it running without pkgin. From: kevr Reply-To: "smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org&

[smartos-discuss] Upgrade to New pkgsrc Release

2016-01-20 Thread kevr
Hi Firstly I'd like to thank Jonathan Perkin for his hard work doing pkgsrc. But could someone please enlighten me by giving me a pointer on how I upgrade a VM on SmartOS to a new pkgsrc release. Is the reason that I can't seem to find any documentation on how to do this because I shouldn't be

Re: [smartos-discuss] Upgrade to New pkgsrc Release

2016-01-20 Thread kevr
ataset and it works great. Regards Jorge On 2016-01-20 21:03, kevr wrote: Hi Firstly I'd like to thank Jonathan Perkin for his hard work doing pkgsrc. But could someone please enlighten me by giving me a pointer on how I upgrade a VM on SmartOS to a new pkgsrc release. Is t

Re: [smartos-discuss] Upgrade to New pkgsrc Release

2016-01-20 Thread kevr
e new base image and you will have the new pkgsrc version. Regards Jorge On 2016-01-20 22:48, kevr wrote: Thank you for your prompt reply Jorge. I assume that you are meaning what you wrote in your blog post from March 22nd, 2015. I just don't see how doing this helps me. M

[smartos-discuss] Missing File from Kerberos pkgsrc Package

2016-03-08 Thread Kevr
Hi All Where do I report missing files from pkgsrc packages? I installed samba which presumably installed mit-krb5 as a dependency. Running ktutil complains about a missing libss.so.1. It's no big deal as I can still use the native smartos ktutil from /usr/bin but thought it might be nice to re

[smartos-discuss] NFS File Sharing

2016-08-05 Thread Kevr
Hi Everyone Is it still the case that we don't do NFS file sharing from within a zone? Kevin Ratcliffe Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch) --- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.l

[smartos-discuss] Java SmartOS Image

2016-10-12 Thread Kevr
Hi Is the Java image https://docs.joyent.com/public-cloud/instances/infrastructure/images/smartos/java still being maintained? Has it been renamed? Kevin Ratcliffe Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch) --- smartos-discuss Archives: https://ww

Re: [smartos-discuss] Java SmartOS Image

2016-10-12 Thread Kevr
From: jper...@joyent.com To: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org * On 2016-10-12 at 09:31 BST, Kevr wrote: > Is the Java image > https://docs.joyent.com/public-cloud/instances/infrastructure/images/smartos/java > still being maintained? Has it been renamed? We've found that a n

[smartos-discuss] pkgsrc compilation question

2017-01-20 Thread Kevr
Hi Is this the correct place to ask a pkgsrc question or is there a more appropriate list? Kev --- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00

Re: [smartos-discuss] pkgsrc compilation question

2017-01-20 Thread Kevr
t.com To: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org * On 2017-01-20 at 12:50 GMT, Kevr wrote: > Is this the correct place to ask a pkgsrc question or is there a > more appropriate list? If it is at all specific to SmartOS then here is correct as we have a bunch of specific changes and infrastructure

Re: [smartos-discuss] pkgsrc compilation question

2017-01-20 Thread Kevr
16:04 From: jper...@joyent.com To: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org * On 2017-01-20 at 13:13 GMT, Kevr wrote: > Well it;s kind of related to SmartOS/Solaris. I use a piece of > software called Shibboleth-sp, It compiles fine on Linux but I've > never been able to compile for SmartOS

[smartos-discuss] Signing packages with pkgbuild image

2017-02-24 Thread Kevr
Hi Can somebody please give me some pointers regarding gpg signing packages built using the pkgbuild image. I found this http://www.cyber-tec.org/2015/04/03/use-gnupg-to-sign-pkgsrc-packages/ but the document doesn't reference pkgbuild image. Thank you for any assistance Kevin Ratcliffe Se

Re: [smartos-discuss] Signing packages with pkgbuild image

2017-02-25 Thread Kevr
nMail](https://protonmail.ch) Original Message Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] Signing packages with pkgbuild image Local Time: 24 February 2017 5:31 PM UTC Time: 24 February 2017 17:31 From: jper...@joyent.com To: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org * On 2017-02-24 at 16:12 GMT, Kevr

[smartos-discuss] How do I remove vlan_id tag from a VM

2017-03-17 Thread Kevr
Hi Oops, I accidentally added a vlan_id tag to the wrong vnic and can't seen to remove it. I'm reading in the vmadm man page that it would be something in the form of: { "update_nics": [ { "mac": "42:0b:02:d0:5d:5b", "remove_tags": ["vlan_id"] } ] } The update reports as being succesful but the

[smartos-discuss] One Public IP Address and DHCP in a Zone

2017-03-28 Thread Kevr
Hi I am trying to get a public IP via DHCP on a vnic but failing miserably. My ISP(VirginMedia) supply me with a single IP address. When I remove the cable from my external interface on my SmartOS host and plug it into my PC I get a public address. Have I missed something? Should the following

Re: [smartos-discuss] One Public IP Address and DHCP in a Zone

2017-03-29 Thread Kevr
29 March 2017 19:00 From: emptysa...@gmail.com To: SmartOs Discuss Check out https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Managing+NICs#ManagingNICs-DHCPSupport. On 29/03/2017 8:58 AM, "Kevr" wrote: Hi I am trying to get a public IP via DHCP on a vnic but failing miserably. My ISP(Virg

Re: [smartos-discuss] One Public IP Address and DHCP in a Zone

2017-03-30 Thread Kevr
will filter out the DHCP packets. This guy seems to have it working that way - http://www.daveeddy.com/2015/05/31/smartos-as-a-home-router/. Nicholas On 30 March 2017 at 08:59, Kevr wrote: Thank you for your reply Nicholas. I had in fact read that article but read that as for running a DHCP s

Re: [smartos-discuss] One Public IP Address and DHCP in a Zone

2017-03-30 Thread Kevr
, "netmask": "255.255.255.0", "allow_restricted_traffic": true, "allow_ip_spoofing": true, "allow_mac_spoofing": true, "allow_dhcp_spoofing": true, "allow_unfiltered_promisc": true }] } On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 6:17 PM, Ni

[smartos-discuss] Can a delegated dataset be removed from a zone

2017-11-01 Thread Kevr
Hi Can anybody please give an example of how to remove a delegated dataset from a zone? Thanks in advance for any help. Kevin Ratcliffe Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch) --- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/1

Re: [smartos-discuss] Can a delegated dataset be removed from a zone

2017-11-01 Thread Kevr
t; Would you just like to remove the delegate entry? > Or would you like to remove the dataset as well? > > For me I would just generate a new zone the way I would like it. > > G > > On 1 Nov, 2017, at 13:38, Kevr wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Can anybody please give

Re: [smartos-discuss] Can a delegated dataset be removed from a zone

2017-11-01 Thread Kevr
> G > > On 1 Nov, 2017, at 13:49, Kevr wrote: > >> I messed up! I was doing a vmadm send but soon realized that it fails with >> delegated datesets. So I sent the dataset to a file as a backup, destroyed >> the delegated dataset with zfs destroy from the gz and it

[smartos-discuss] SmartOS on a single disk setup

2017-11-01 Thread Kevr
Hi I have just moved my ansible zone to a single disk, low power mini pc and installed a tftp server for pxe booting. Of course this is not fault tolerant but a backup to a usb drive once a week is suffice for my needs. As an added bit of fault tolerance I want to set copies=2 as a zfs attribut

Re: [smartos-discuss] SmartOS on a single disk setup

2017-11-01 Thread Kevr
been very little data written to the pool yet, so you can set that > on the pool root and it will be inherited by descendent datasets as they are > created. > > -- > Brian Bennett > Systems Engineer, Cloud Operations > Joyent, Inc. | www.joyent.com > >> On Nov 1, 201

Re: [smartos-discuss] virtualbox network question

2017-11-02 Thread Kevr
Have you tried a bridged interface in VirtualBox? Kevin Ratcliffe Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch) > Original Message > Subject: [smartos-discuss] virtualbox network question > Local Time: 2 November 2017 4:19 PM > UTC Time: 2 November 2017 16:19 > From: lon...@out

Re: [smartos-discuss] virtualbox network question

2017-11-02 Thread Kevr
and set the interface to promiscuous mode in Virtualbox. Kevin Ratcliffe Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch) > Original Message > Subject: [smartos-discuss] virtualbox network question > Local Time: 2 November 2017 4:19 PM > UTC Time: 2 November 2017 16:19 > From: lon

Re: [smartos-discuss] virtualbox network question

2017-11-02 Thread Kevr
tos-discuss] virtualbox network question > Local Time: 2 November 2017 10:27 PM > UTC Time: 2 November 2017 22:27 > From: lon...@outstep.com > To: smartos-discuss > > Hi Kevr, > > So far, I could not get it to work on a Windows 7 host with VBox in bridged > and NAT with promi

Re: [smartos-discuss] create an unprivileged user

2017-11-05 Thread Kevr
I'm presuming that you mean to create a user in the GZ. I would create a dataset zones/home then create a SMF job to (re)create the user after boot. Kevin Ratcliffe Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch) > Original Message > Subject: [smartos-discuss] create an unprivil

[smartos-discuss] Is it Normal?

2018-04-13 Thread kevr
Hi I used ldapclient to provision a bunch of user accounts on a fileserver and it all seems to work correctly. But when I issue a getent passwd or getent group, getent prints the local accounts and then repeatedly prints my ldap user accounts and getent never completes. Is that normal? kev@fs:

Re: [smartos-discuss] Is it Normal?

2018-04-13 Thread kevr
Hi Brian Thanks for the reply. [admin@fs ~]$ /usr/bin/ldapsearch -b dc=fukr,dc=org,dc=uk -h java.fukr.org.uk -V 3 -D uid=admin,ou=system -w mypassword '(objectClass=posixAccount)' uid version: 1 dn: uid=neil,ou=users,dc=fukr,dc=org,dc=uk uid: neil dn: uid=kev,ou=users,dc=fukr,dc=org,dc=uk u

Re: [smartos-discuss] Is it Normal?

2018-04-13 Thread kevr
Hi Jason Thanks for the reply. Not as far as I can see. I'll have a look after I've taken the dog out for a walk. Are you saying that VLV should be configured? getent works fine on a linux client, /usr/bin/ldapsearch seems to work as expected and ldapclient works a treat(ahem, apart from changin

Re: [smartos-discuss] Is it Normal?

2018-04-16 Thread kevr
I recreated my directory in OpenLDAP and getent now works as expected. Serves me right for trying ApacheDS I suppose. Thanks for the responses Kevin Ratcliffe Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch) ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On 14 April 2018 3:53 AM, Jason King wrote: > Is there

[smartos-discuss] Reprovisioning Best Practices

2018-04-17 Thread kevr
Hi Is there any good documentation regarding reprovisioning best practices? man vmadm doesn't help much. I reprovisioned a zone with delegated datasets mounted at /var/openldap and /opt/local/etc/openldap and the zone ended up in a failed state. Recovery was simple enough but some do's and don

Re: [smartos-discuss] Reprovisioning Best Practices

2018-04-17 Thread kevr
Thanks for the input Jussi. The reprovision just hung around for five minutes then failed. Looking at the log sent me cross-eyed on this notebook. The longer term plan was to document a process for the reprovision for future automation with Ansible. Because of the scant documentation on reprovi

Re: [smartos-discuss] Reprovisioning Best Practices

2018-04-18 Thread kevr
Thanks Jussi I'll give it a go your way. ​Kevin Ratcliffe Sent from ProtonMail​ ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On 18 April 2018 2:23 PM, Jussi Sallinen wrote: > ​​ > > On 17/04/2018 23.52, k...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > Thanks for the input Jussi. > > > > The reprovision just hung ar

[smartos-discuss] Probably a really lame networking question . . . .

2018-05-13 Thread kevr
Hi In my GZ I created an isolated etherstub: stub0 I have four VMs on stub0, one host acting as an IP router with addresses 192.168.11.1/24, 192.168.12.1/24 and 192.168.13.1/24 and three hosts using 192.168.11.2, 192.168.12.2 and 192.168.13.2 The three hosts all have gateways set to the corres

Re: [smartos-discuss] RE: Probably a really lame networking question . . . .

2018-05-13 Thread kevr
Thank you John, that got things moving. I did actually read about that setting in the man page but somehow never tried it. Kevin Ratcliffe Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch) ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On 13 May 2018 11:08 PM, John E. Barfield wrote: > echo ‘{ “update_nics”: {