I had built an early version of libxosd for my Solaris SPARC systems a year or two ago, since it provides a very tidy way to have a ubiquitous onscreen clock with a wide variety of window managers. libxosd went, when I was distracted, through a substantial rewrite, culminating in a 2.2.x series release. And [...]
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August was hectic. smf(5) required care and feeding, as did our newborn Nathaniel. I took a strange kind of quasi-paternity leave, by remaining home Tuesdays and Thursdays. (Don’t do this—you’re left with very few long concentration blocks on the workdays.) I also took Ben to Muskoka to celebrate a family history centennial, and we all [...]
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Our trip to Chicago was wonderful and on Tuesday we rushed to the airport trying not to blame each other in front of the kids for why we were late. It turned out that we were able to meet the 45 minute baggage deadline for our flight, although we both promised to do things differently [...]
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Every so often we have a summer so bad all we can do is try to ride it out until things start to change. This has been one of those summers. In addition to the death of my father, three days before the birth of our son, we have also had what we thought were [...]
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Muskoka is a vacation region two or three hours’ drive north of Toronto in Canada. I was lucky enough to be able to spend a week or two each summer there, growing up in the late Seventies, at my maternal grandfather’s cottage on Lake Rosseau. My parents now share in a small place near Baysville. [...]
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Stephen and Benjamin left on Thursday for Stephen’s family’s cottage in Northern Ontario. They drove to Oakland, flew Jet Blue to JFK and then Buffalo, spent the night in a hotel, and then drove across the border and towards the Artic Circle. Stephen sent a brief email using the Jet Blue hot zone at JFK. [...]
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There’s a sizeable troupe of kernel engineers at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention this week, so once again the office is a little quieter. (Bryan‘s around, so the office isn’t silent.) Most of the blog entries are “the author has left the building” style, but I’m hoping that those of us who remain chained to [...]
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A side point: svcs(1) is pretty fast. Our example from last week was $ svcs *milestone* STATE STIME FMRI online Jul_23 svc:/milestone/devices:default online Jul_23 svc:/milestone/single-user:default online Jul_23 svc:/milestone/name-services:default online Jul_23 svc:/milestone/multi-user:default online Jul_23 svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default Other approaches to service management in Unix-like systems ask each service for their status. On a large system, with a complete [...]
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I thought I would show a different example of smf(5) today. Here’s the state of the network/telnet service on my desktop: svcs -p network/telnet:default STATE STIME FMRI online Jul_23 svc:/network/telnet:default It’s easy to enable and disable service instances using svcadm(1M): svcadm disable network/telnet svcs -p network/telnet:default STATE STIME FMRI disabled 13:08:15 svc:/network/telnet:default telnet localhost Trying [...]
With only a few days of exposure on the varied system configurations around here, there have been a few bugs raised against smf(5), the new service management facility. (I suppose it’s similar to a pack of hounds flushing pheasants during a hunt (although, ultimately, whom the hounds chase and whom a gun is pointed at [...]
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