Often with LDAP setups a user will log into a box where his home directory doesn’t exist. Linux provides us with a pam_mkhomedir.so module that automagically creates missing home directories for you. No such module exists for opensolaris. This bug report offers an alternative using autofs. #!/bin/bash # if the filesystem is available under /export/home, […]
Ever since I put together my low budget NAS, I have been wanting to upgrade it. Initially it was a proof of concept, now it needs to be low power and functional. The old NAS was a 32-bit system (32-bit makes ZFS crawl). I wanted a low power and cheap 64 bit system and so […]
The grub menu in Nexenta is modified thought editing the menu.lst file. However the menu.lst file in question resides in the syspool file system (the root file system is syspool/rootfs-nmu-000. This is accomplished by: mount -F zfs syspool /media/temp vi /media/temp/boot/grub/menu.lst umount /media/temp/mount -F zfs syspool /media/temp vi /media/temp/boot/grub/menu.lst umount /media/temp/
For some time now I have been flirting with the idea of getting myself a Network Attached Storage (NAS). I get excited about the idea of having all my important files and stuff on a single device that supports raid 1. I can then reinstall Ubuntu on my laptop as many times as I want […]