Monthly Archives: March 2010

Whence and Whenceman

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Ben Lavery

On the UNIX command line, the `which` command is great, it tells you where a command is in the system.  However, if your system has two versions of the `ls` command, it will only tell you which `ls` command you … Continue reading →

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Gruml

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Ben Lavery

I get mildly annoyed when using applications that are hosted on the web.  For example, I’ll use web mail if I have to, but I’d much rather use Apple Mail or Thunderbird… Anyway, I’ve been using Google Reader for the … Continue reading →

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Bash and SED script to play…Tetris…?

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Ben Lavery

If you navigate your browser to here, you will find a most amazing thing: Tetris crafted out of a SED script with a bash wrapper.  The page is in Russian, but Google or another translation site will tell you that … Continue reading →

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Making a script run on startup on OpenSolaris

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Ben Lavery

While working on my dissertation, I found that virtual NICs and etherstubs don’t automatically reappear on a restart.  So, I have a nice little script to make them come back: #!/bin/bash /sbin/dladm up-aggr /sbin/dladm up-vlan /sbin/dladm up-vnic /sbin/dladm init-linkprop -w … Continue reading →

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SUNWyp – A.K.A. NIS

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Ben Lavery

So, over the last week I have been trying to get NIS to work with OpenSolaris in VirtualBox machines. I managed to get the master server to work fine by doing the following:

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