;; ANSWER SECTION:
incoming.mx. 86400 IN MX 10 mx.incoming.mx.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mx.incoming.mx. 86400 IN A 109.169.26.23

message_size_limit = 20480000

The above is roughly 20MB and is more than enough on a typical server.

/var/qmail/control/smtproutes

The contents is straight forward… to relay mail destined for domain.com through smtp.yourdomain.com add the following;

domain.com:smtp.yourdomain.com

If you want to relay ALL mail through smtp.yourdomain.com add;

:smtp.yourdomain.com


# omreport storage pdisk controller=0
Invalid controller value. Read, controller=0
No controllers found.


After some digging through the Dell mailling lists it became apparent that i’m missing the Dell Firmware Tools on my installation. Installing the firmware tools solved the problem.


# yum -y install dell_ft_install

# srvadmin-services.sh restart


Once done, all was fine.

mkdir -p /var/opt/xen/iso_import

Copy your ISO image to this directly, but be careful as the control domain filesystem has limited space and if this fills up, unpredictable behaviour will follow.

Next up you need to create the repository by running

xe sr-create name-label=ISOs type=iso device-config:location=/var/opt/xen/iso_import device-config:legacy_mode=true content-type=iso

You need to mount the new repository so it’s available on XenCenter

xe-mount-iso-sr /var/opt/xen/iso_import

You can now proceed to create your VM using the ISO repository you just added.

For disk layout, you can do whatever your comfortable with or follow the software that will be running on your servers guides for setting up the disk slices etc.

Start by installing only the core product, If I remember correctly it’s around 1.2GB in size. Once this has been done, and you have logged into your machine install the following packages from DVD/CD-ROM;

mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s2 /mnt/cdrom
pkgadd -d /mnt/cdrom/Solaris_10/Product/*ssh*

This will install;

SUNWsshcu SUNWsshdr SUNWsshdu SUNWsshr and SUNWsshu

pkgadd -d /mnt/cdrom/Solaris_10/Product/SUNWbash

Generate host keys;

/lib/svc/method/sshd -c
svcadm enable ssh
svcadm restart ssh

Or another way of generating host keys;

cd /etc/ssh
ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ssh_host_rsa_key
ssh-keygen -t dsa -f ssh_host_dsa_key
svcadm enable ssh
svcadm restart ssh


Install openssl, wget either from DVD/CD-ROM or you can grab it from the sunfreeware.com FTP site.

vi get_files.sh

#!/bin/sh

ftp -i -n -v ftp.sunfreeware.com << EOF
user "anonymous" "your@email.com"
cd pub/freeware/sparc/10
bin
mget gzip-1.4-sol10-sparc-local
mget wget-1.12-sol10-sparc-local.gz
mget libintl-3.4.0-sol10-sparc-local.gz
mget openssl-0.9.8l-sol10-sparc-local.gz
mget libiconv-1.13.1-sol10-sparc-local.gz
mget libgcc-3.4.6-sol10-sparc-local.gz
bye
EOF

:wq

chmod +x get_files.sh

./get_files

Once downloaded, install gzip first as you’ll need it to extract the rest of the archived packages you just downloaded;

pkgadd -d . gzip-1.4-sol10-sparc-local all
gunzip *.gz
pkgadd -d . <packagename> all

You now have a basic skeleton machine with SSH, bash and wget.

Enable automatic startup of X on boot
Change the default run level in /etc/inittab to 5
id:5:initdefault:

Solaris 10

Disable automatic startup of X on boot
# /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -d

Enable automatic startup of X on boot
# /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -e

boot cdrom - w

Your solaris installation will start in text mode.

To launch two backends of the same type, you can assign a name to each launch like this;

launch=gmysql:connection1,gmysql:connection2

gmysql-connection1-host=10.10.10.1
gmysql-connection1-user=pdns
gmysql-connection1-dbname=pdns

gmysql-connection2-host=10.10.10.2
gmysql-connection2-user=pdns
gmysql-connection2-dbname=pdns

1. Once grub menu comes up, select the single user entry and press ‘e’
2. Select the kernel … line and press ‘e’ once again
3. Append ‘init=/bin/bash’ at the end of line and press b to boot

You will be dropped into a shell, next you need to mount the filesystem in read/write mode in order to change the password.

5. mount -n -o remount,rw /
6. passwd
7. reboot

That’s all there is to it!