OpenSolaris /dev repository

Upgrading right now. Can't wait to get my little dirty hands on the crossbow bits. If all goes well I'm back in a few minutes.

osol 2008.11 ips network timeout

I'm running OpenSolaris 2008.11 in VirtualBox at work. My workstation only has access to the internet and the ips authorities through a proxy. So setting the following environment variables initially worked:

export HTTP_PROXY="http://username:password@proxy:port"

But trying to install larger packages (ruby) resulted in network timeouts and didn't really work. Today i stumbled upon two undocumented variables which finally solved my issues.

PKG_CLIENT_TIMEOUT number of seconds to wait before socket gets timed out

PKG_TIMEOUT_MAX number of attempts

Ready to do some puppet source code hacking (ok building solaris packages more up to date then the ones in blastwave).

Slappy New Year

Hello World,

After an exhausting cutover week at my workplace i've got 2 days off and with it some time to blog. Since 2 years I'm a systems engineer at a financial institution working with big sun iron and large oracle deployments. Since i graduatet with bachelor degree in software engineering i learned a hell of lot of things in the last two years. Some examples:

• Enteprise infrastructure is expensive
• Solaris has bugs, lots of it
• Oracle has bugs, lots of it
• SOA isn't quite what i learned in school about it
• Java VMs core dump too

More of this and giant robots later.