Have you ever wondered how many unique IP addresses is hitting your web server ? Recently I was wondering about that, so I decided to check out my webserver’s access.log to see what was happening. A quick scan of the access log revealed some interesting information: [root@machine-unix ~]# cat <path/to/access.log>…
SmartMachine Tools Package
Starting from 2012Q1 pkgsrc and later, you can download a toolset, a package called smtools from the Joyent pkgsrc repository which can benefit SmartMachine users in many ways. You can find more information here. The one currently I have in my own SmartMachine is the 20130103 package # pkgin se smtools smtools-20130103…
illumos (and SmartOS) / ZFS Days
Brought to you by the same people who organized dtrace.conf in April, 2012, this two-day event will be your opportunity to catch up on the illumos family (including, of course, SmartOS) and ZFS, and hear what’s new and what’s coming in this exciting and powerful family of technologies. Dates illumos Day: Monday, October 1st, 2012…
Beginning with SmartOS
If you happened to have a copy of the latest release of VMware Fusion, you can start with SmartOS in your Mac Mountain Lion right now. The following post is intended to be a very simple introductionary tutorial for SmartOS. It is really to fun to play with and it will…
Locales on SmartDataCenter
In one of my earlier posts, I briefly touched installing a locale on a solaris zone. It was and still is an easy procedure. On the GZ of SDC, most of the locales are installed already. If you have a SmartMachine provisioned in your environment, you can probably see what…
Configuring Centos 6 VM NFS client on SmartOS with SDC
If you are using one of the Centos 6 datasets in SmartDataCenter, it is a breeze to setup an NFS client. Centos6 and the VM provided use “service” utility to start the necessary services at boot time and some of those services are “off” by default in a stock kernel…
How to Install your WordPress Blog on your Joyent SmartMachine ( SmartOS )
If you are going to install a blog such as WordPress in a bare Joyent SmartMachine, some preparation must be done because it is a bare SmartOS. Nothing extra is installed on it, so you would have to prepare your mysql, apache and configure them. The following unofficial procedure outlines…
How to Use Alfred App to Scp Files to Your Joyent SmartMachine
My own blog runs on a Joyent SmartMachine, and I generally find myself uploading bunch of files to my SM. Sure you can use bunch of clients like Cyberduck, Transmit, etc. I’d like to just use plain old scp command on the terminal. I recently had an idea that since…
SmartOS….It’s here
I work for Joyent, we all share the passion for Solaris. Today, Joyent released their own Operating System, called SmartOS. I now carry that love over to SmartOS. The goodies that come with SmartOS among the other ones are the following ( in no particular order ): Native KVM ZFS…