I wanted some backup in case the power went down at home, not that it happens every day or even month but it happens. there was always a problem after such an event, not all the discs were found on my opensolaris (usb disk with a very low spin up time) or it was stuck on the boot archive. So I bought me two of these UPS’es, each for about €80 and they have a usb cable to monitor them! I hooked one to my soekris downstairs wich runs openbsd and one to my backup/media server running opensolaris. here is what I did to configure them from the source on http://www.apcupsd.org/
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I have two 1TB Maxtor basic drives connected to my opensolaris box. On there I run a ZFS mirror. All working well, maybe not on mega speeds but fairly enough for home use (it does stream movies to my AppleTV with XBMC over smb) The downside I discovered later, is that they auto sleep after 15minutes of being idle and I will tell you this, ZFS doesn’t like this feature… I fixed this with a crontab writing a tmp file in a directory on the disk but that gave me some unwanted problems in some cases. This morning I was fed up with it and I wanted a good solution and it seems, there is one… but the application doesn’t have a lot of functions when you use it on MacOSX it appeared… so you really need to do this on a windows computer (scary huh) so here is the application. Have fun!
I’ve been playing with Round Robin Databases and rrdgraph. So I needed some data.. and te target was the connections per minute to my ntpd server. check it out here: https://sunrise.yakuza.be/ntp/. I must say it’s easyer then I tought.
What do you think of the result?
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Although at home I only work with Macintosh and OpenSolaris computers and the risk for virusses and malware are rather slim, my files could be infected with pc virusses and I could send pc virusses to friends without me knowing. It is also very stupid to think that Macintosh computer are just safe and don’t need a virus scanner. So this is where this article came from, I installed ClamXav on my MacBooks and then started to look at my NAS. It’s running OpenSolaris so.. there must be a great way to secure that! (and there is!!)
We need a few ingredients to get this running, here are my steps:
- First of al the SUNW packages for vscan (you should be able to install them if you haven’t got them)
# pkginfo |grep -i vscan
system SUNWvscankr Virus Scan Service Kernel (Root)
system SUNWvscanr Virus Scan Service (Root)
system SUNWvscanu Virus Scan Service (Usr)
- Install an antivirus daemon, I chose for clamav available from blastwave (i’m not gonna explain how to install this, but in the end you should have a running daemon)
- We need to download c-icap from sourceforge and extract it and then compile it
# export LDFLAGS=”-L/opt/csw/lib -R/opt/csw/lib -lclamav”
# export CC=gcc
# export CXX=g++# ./configure –prefix=/opt/icap –with-clamav=/opt/csw –with-perl=/bin/perl –with-zlib=/usr/lib –enable-large-files
# make
# make install
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I found this article from Simon Wheatley and found it very nice to do. But it didn’t seem to work on OpenSolaris… but don’t worry, it just needs a small fix, don’t use port 0 for _device-info._tcp, but just give it a port you are already advertising.
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I found some info on how to share your OpenSolaris Screen with vnc, and those manuals just didn’t do it for Mac Os X unless you use a vnc viewer. But I wanted to use the build in screen sharing build in to Mac Os X which support vnc but it didn’t seem to work.. The resolution was Mac Os X wants authentication and thus the fix was easy, here you go: Read the rest of Share your OpenSolaris 2008.11 screen to Mac Os X »
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