Recently, I’ve been experimenting with supervisor, which is a Python-based process restarter for Unix/Linux. Lincoln Loop recently offered instructions on running supervisor under upstart, which is applicable to some of the current Linux distributions. On OpenSolaris and related systems, the service management facility, smf(5), can be used to ensure your supervisors stay online. Below is [...]
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Gary and I were recently prototyping an application that uses Java RMI, and so I ended up searching around to see if anyone has done a service conversion for rmiregistry(1). (rmiregistry(1) is the daemon that lets RMI clients find the available remote objects being served by various virtual machines on a given system.) Turns out [...]
In honour of the “Mugs for Manifests” contest, I thought I would spin out another custom service description I wrote some months ago. My setup for working from home—key during the last six months of Solaris 10—is to tunnel into Sun’s network via one implementation or another of a virtual private network (VPN). In all [...]
For various reasons—some reasonable, some suspect—Solaris doesn’t ship with a compiled set of windex databases for its manual pages. The unfortunate result is that helpful commands like apropos(1) or man -k are unhelpful: $ apropos sort /usr/man/windex: No such file or directory < p> smf(5) provides one way to address this shortcoming, via a transient [...]
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