[tech] manbo, ldap, stuff

[James Andrewartha]

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, James Andrewartha wrote:

> As a precursor to this, I want to upgrade manbo to the latest Solaris
> Express, move /opt to a separate volume, and attatch the A1000. The last
> will require getting a HVD terminator from somewhere. I'm thinking Sunday
> will be a good day to get the upgrade and /opt move done, the E250 can
> easily be set up as a netinstall server so the upgrade should proceed
> fairly quickly.

This went fairly well, although I had some trouble netbooting manbo, the 
solution involved setting up madako as a bootparamd server and using a 
sysidcfg file. The A1000 remains uninstalled for lack of a terminator, and 
a decision on where to locate it in the machine room. Issues resulting 
from the upgrade are limited to Sun changing how nfs shares work. Bonuses 
include HAL support (so GNOME will build better), and ZFS hot-spare 
support - there's a 18gb and 36gb spare currently available for /space.

> For LDAP, http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-March/101579.html
> looks useful, and we can sit around and work out what other issues there
> might be while manbo's upgrading.

Today I installed the Sun directory server but it's currently empty. I've 
started a wiki page to document some thoughts on the migration - 
http://wiki.ucc.asn.au/LDAP

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