Alex writes:
> I have a few remote Solaris 10 boxes which periodically get rebooted by their
> users. It's an issue that they're doing this in the first place, but until I
> have successfully explained that it's a bad idea to do this, these boxes oft
> en boot up asking for the root password to clear the boot-archive.
They're probably not running "reboot", they're probably getting physically
power-cycled, right? If not, the boot team would like to know, and I've
cc'ed Jan.
> I am wondering, even though it isn't clever to do so, if there is a way to au
> to-clear the boot-archive? This would be a very specialized application to ju
> st a few remote hosts.
The absolute best thing to do on S10 would be to wait for the upcoming
Kernel Jumbo Patch. It brings S10 in-line with Nevada's fixes for
updating the boot archive, which is all much better now. I don't know the
schedule for that KJP, but you should be able to ask your service person
for S10.
If you can't wait, you can set the method for boot-archive to ":true".
# svccfg -s system/boot-archive setprop start/exec = ":true"
# svcadm refresh system/boot-archive
But, note that your customization will be preserved on patch/upgrade,
so you'll want to re-set it after you've applied the KJP.
liane
