Sunday, January 30, 2005
Solaris 10 in the works
Figured out what I was doing wrong. Well not exactly. Solaris 10 has thie SMF - Service Management Facility. It replaces all the startup stuff that Solaris has had since The Beginning. First off with the telnet problem I think I was not all the way up in multiuser mode. In a fit of frustration I rebooted the box, and dang if it didn't come all the way up and start up a graphical login screen. And whaddya know, telnet works.
But then DNS client wasn't working. Which is kinda funny, because recently me and Lee and been joking with some employee prospects that they needed to know how to set up a Sun system as a DNS client. nsswitch.conf and resolv.conf and boom, right? Not in Solaris 10. You still have to do that alright (my nsswitch.conf file was setup properly, but strangely the resolv.conf was not - interesting since I specified DNS as my only naming service at install time and hand put in the DNS servers...)
After a futile 2 hours or so if svcadm this and svcs that, in a fit of frustration I rebooted, and boom - DNS client works.
So if Solaris is getting more and more like Windows, that's somehow a good thing?
-jason
