Archive for January, 2010
Making Solaris SMF ignore core dumps in child processes
I can never ever remember how to do this and googling for it always takes ages, so I thought I’d jot it down here.
When Solaris SMF starts a process, it tracks that process and all its children. If any of those children coredump, SMF treats it as a failure and puts the state into maintenance mode. Not terribly useful if you’re launching buggy software like FFMpeg.
The solution? Simple! Slap this in your SMF Manifest under the exec stop method:
Add comment January 19th, 2010
VLC on Solaris 10
Some helpful chap has compiled up VLC for Solaris 10. Useful!
Add comment January 8th, 2010