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We use Solaris 10. Which isn't quite the same thing, of course. The Solaris kernel is excellent. The Solaris 10 userland, not so (except for the newer core stu
by bensummers 16y ago
We use Solaris 10. Which isn't quite the same thing, of course.
The Solaris kernel is excellent. The Solaris 10 userland, not so (except for the newer core stuff like SMF), and OpenSolaris is supposedly a Solaris kernel with a saner userland. But I'm yet to be convinced it is stable enough to run in production, and the new packaging system looks mildly troublesome.
And it's still difficult to get it to install without X.
- nailer 16y agoIsn't SMF just parallelism and horrible XML config files?
- koenigdavidmj 16y agoHard to figure out whether your service state modification (say, a service restart) worked too. It always returns 0, never has output, and you have to dig for a log file to figure out what happened.
- bensummers 16y agoAfter using svcadm, use svcs (or functions in libscf) to find out what's going on.
- bensummers 16y agoAnd dependencies, configurable restarting based on failures in other services, delegation of administrative privileges to other users, configuration of managed services through arbitrary properties, integration into OS fault reporting, reliable management of server processes using Solaris Contracts. You're right, the XML config is a bit nasty.