In the last couple of posts, we used DTrace to notify our media servers and perfected our script a bit.
But the script is still not ready to be used on our home servers yet: It requires manual start and stop, not quite the service oriented automatism we’re used …
Before we continue with our Home Server Scripting Series, let’s throw in a simple but useful DTrace hack.
One of the most typical uses for a home server is to serve music or videos to home entertainment equipment. In my case, I’m using the Firefly Media Server (no …
When I blogged about my OpenSolaris Home Server a while ago (no link, sun.com no longer exists), little did I know that this would become my most popular entry in my old blog!
In fact, R.G.(no link, page no longer exists) was so kind to call my …
OpenSolaris OS comes with the Image Packaging System (IPS) (no link, opensolaris.org no longer exists) for managing installation and additional software. By default, it is configured to pull packages from the /release (no link, opensolaris.org no longer exists) repository, but of course there are many other interesting repositories …
Last week, we looked at how essential scripting is for administering home servers (one of the 7 tips for home server bliss) and we wrote us a little script for enabling automatic snapshots.
Another thing that you’ll almost certainly want to do on your OpenSolaris home server is enabling …
One of my OpenSolaris Home Server Tips is to script everything. That triggered quite some interest. So let’s start a short series around OpenSolaris home server scripting.
Today, we’ll talk a little bit about the “why?” of home server scripting, then run into a small surprise while we …
A lot of people have read last year’s article “A Small and Energy-Efficient OpenSolaris Home Server” (Thanks a lot to Andre Lue from the EON project for linking to it!) and there was quite some discussion on different RAID options as a result of my RAID-Greed article.
So …
After moving my blog to its new home and getting my hands dirty with Drupal, it’s time to continue my series of blog articles about setting up a home server. Remember? We talked about home server requirements (no link, sun.com no longer exists), then I presented to you …
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