You're absolutely right, Solaris will do it better! I had read about some problems using precompiled software from Blastwave so I ended up compiling my own. I used Sun Studio 11 (free download) to compile Perl and MySQL. Those two were very straightforward. After that I had to create the database in MySQL along with the user, and also use the old_password function for the user I created otherwise the SlimServer user couldn't be authenticated.
If you are using the packages from Blastwave it may very well work. All you really need is Perl 5.8.8 and MySQL 5.x. If you are willing to try it, the MySQL 4.x that comes with Solaris 10 may actually work, but I discovered the old_password only after I had committed to MySQL 5.x. That may save you a step. As far as which SlimServer to download, grab the source tarball. The three main resources I used were: For MySQL: http://meljr.com/~meljr/mysql_Sol10.html For SlimServer on Solaris: http://blogs.sun.com/warren/entry/update_running_slimserver_on_solaris And using SlimServer without the bundled MySQL (if you use the tarball this applies to you): http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?ExistingMySQLInstance MySQL old_password: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html Make sure that the symlink /usr/bin/perl points to the version of Perl you want to use. That one had me for a day or two until I pointed it to the version I compiled. Hope that helps. chris.mason;200508 Wrote: > Seems to be quite a lot of collected experience on how to get Slim > working on Solaris 10x86...which is great, because of my question: > > Could someone outline the steps required to get SlimServer working on > Solaris 10U3 x86, right from which package to download from > slimdevices.com? > > I'm a complete Perl noob - I have a brand new U20 here just begging for > Slim to be installed. I'd like to mess with Zones/ZFS and such, but > first I'd like to get Slim working. > > I've installed all sorts of crap from Blastwave, but I really don't > know what I need, or what I'm doing! > > I have Slim running on my PC (winXP), and I'm certain Solaris could do > better! > > Thanks in advance, > Chris. -- 4mula1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4mula1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3439 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34014 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
