[rescue] Solaris Zone customization

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

Joshua Boyd wrote:

> 
> does this ring a bell: svc:/system/hal:default
> svcs says it isn't running because dbus is disabled.
>

I think dbus is related to GNOMEish things.

> Anyway, disabling services is what I've been doing.
> 
> The problem is that launching a new zone turns services on inside that
> zone that bring the machine to its knees, and it is difficult to get
> into the zone then and disable the services in question because of all
> the fork's failing due to lack of memory (and yes, I am doing something
> about the lack of memory).

You can add some swap, then set resource limits; that might tie up the
disks but won't starve you for RAM.  Have you run "dispadmin -d FSS" ?

Also, you want to read up on using svccfg and smf.

However, it was an excellent question, because I learned something new
while researching this!

You can create a site profile which will be automatically used on first
boot.  Since you can "see" the zone's filesystem before it is ever
booted, you need only create the file /var/svc/profile/site.xml with the
settings you want.

When you boot the zone for the first time, it will only run what you
tell it to.

See this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.solaris/browse_thread/thread/d8b8d913b967cc84/bc89a5a83b3d0cca?pli=1

Looks like it has enough detail for you to do what you want.

--Patrick