Solaris stability and upgrades (was RE: [SunRescue] help a guy run 2.6 on his 670MP)

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 06:05:37PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > Takes a lot of patching, but its *stable*.
>   Eeeek, Bill.  I'd *never* run solaris on a 4c.  Snoozie-snoozie
> slow.  No offense, of course..
>     -Dave McGuire

Keep in mind, 2.5.1 is less bloated than other releases, and the trick
is TURNING OFF SHIT YOU DONT USE.... 

For example, here's my home development box, as an example of one of my
"typical" Solaris installs:

$ uname -a
SunOS master 5.8 Generic_108528-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
$ ps -fe
     UID   PID  PPID  C    STIME TTY      TIME CMD
    root     0     0  0 22:01:10 ?        0:00 sched
    root     1     0  0 22:01:10 ?        0:00 /etc/init -
    root     2     0  0 22:01:10 ?        0:00 pageout
    root     3     0  0 22:01:10 ?        0:42 fsflush
    root   151     1  0 22:01:29 ?        0:00 /usr/lib/saf/sac -t 300
    root   148     1  0 22:01:29 ?        0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd
    root   154     1  0 22:01:29 ?        0:00 /usr/lib/utmpd
    root    46     1  0 22:01:20 ?        0:00 /usr/lib/sysevent/syseventd
    root    48     1  0 22:01:20 ?        0:00 /usr/lib/sysevent/syseventconfd
    root    97     1  0 22:01:26 ?        0:00 /usr/sbin/rpcbind
    root   118     1  0 22:01:27 ?        0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd -s
    root   127     1  0 22:01:28 ?        0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd
    root  8945   118  0 18:41:54 ?        0:00 in.telnetd
    root   155   151  0 22:01:30 ?        0:00 /usr/lib/saf/ttymon
    root   152     1  0 22:01:29 console  0:00 /usr/lib/saf/ttymon -g -h -p master console login:  -T sun -d /dev/console -l c
    root   131     1  0 22:01:28 ?        0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
  mrbill  8947  8945  0 18:41:54 pts/1    0:00 -sh
    root  8952  8947  0 18:42:08 pts/1    0:00 ps -fe

Havent installed OpenSSH yet, but thats tonight...

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX