Re: [zones-discuss] zone install

2008-06-27 Thread Fredrich Maney
This is something that I would really like to see implemented. In particular, it would be nice to have something like a Global Zone with SUNWCXall and then be able to build Local Zones with SUNWCrnet for minimized whole root zones for webservers and the like and Local Zones with SUNWCuser for other

Re: [zones-discuss] exclusive-ip zone and non-observability

2008-12-16 Thread Fredrich Maney
Instead of snooping the traffic, why not do it through DTrace? That should meet your security requirements nicely. fpsm On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Christine Tran wrote: > Hi, > > I am putting 2 applications that talk to each other on two non-global > zones of type exclusive-ip. I do this

Re: [zones-discuss] Package minimization question

2008-12-17 Thread Fredrich Maney
I used the following package list in a jumpstart profile when building a cluster in the lab recently. There is still quite a bit of cruft that could be trimmed out of this list - I forced to add quite a few packages to resolve dependencies for the "required for our standard build" junk (mostly the

Re: [zones-discuss] Solaris 8 Zones Cleanup

2009-01-21 Thread Fredrich Maney
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Edward Pilatowicz wrote: > well, certainly you could remove packages, but why bother. > disk space is cheap. > ed For the same reasons that you don't install unneeded packages in the first place: security, stability and space. fpsm ___

Re: [zones-discuss] Solaris 8 Zones Cleanup

2009-01-21 Thread Fredrich Maney
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Edward Pilatowicz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 03:31:05PM -0500, Fredrich Maney wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Edward Pilatowicz >> wrote: >> > well, certainly you could remove packages, but why bother. >> > disk

Re: [zones-discuss] Solaris 8 Zones Cleanup

2009-01-21 Thread Fredrich Maney
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Jerry Jelinek wrote: > Thats really not the focus of the s8 branded zone. Understood. However the OP asked if it made sense to do so. In my view it is nearly always worth the negligible amount of time and effort required to minimize and harden a system. > If you'

Re: [zones-discuss] Creating ZFS filesystems prior to zoneadm install

2009-01-26 Thread Fredrich Maney
Why not simply create a writable /opt/local and using a symlink to it from /usr/local ? On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Jeff Victor wrote: > Hi Jason, > > I frequently recommend creating a writable /usr/local under the > read-only /usr to solve this problem. > > One simple method to do this is:

Re: [zones-discuss] Moving zones between different sparc architecture

2009-02-16 Thread Fredrich Maney
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Mike Gerdts wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Moore, Joe wrote: [...] >> As an alternative to installing the full OEM cluster, you can install just >> the sun4v architecture packages on the sun4u machine (and sun4u on the sun4v >> machine) as describ

Re: [zones-discuss] Reconfig of existing Zone

2009-03-25 Thread Fredrich Maney
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:42 PM, bob netherton wrote: > Michael Barto wrote: >> >> After you create a zone, can you later set up CPU caps, numbers of CPU's, >> memory and any of the other parameters. Is there  list of what cannot be >> change after its creation? > > At this point, not a lot.    I