Install Postfix on Solaris 11

# Prepare compile environment root@xxx:~/# cat /etc/release Oracle Solaris 11.1 X86 root@xxx:~/# pkg install developer/gcc-45 root@xxx:~/# pkg install library/gnutls

# Disable sendmail root@xxx:~/# svcadm disable svc:/network/smtp:sendmail

# get postfix from postfix sites http://www.postfix.org/download.html

# Install postfix root@xxx:~/# tar xf postfix-2.x.x.tar.gz root@xxx:~/postfix-2.10.1# cd postfix-2.x.x root@xxx:~/postfix-2.10.1# gmake clean root@xxx:~/postfix-2.10.1# gmake makefiles […]

GRUB password Nowadays I’d say it’s hard to believe that anything is really secure. Nevertheless one can keep going adding more and more barriers. The idea is not to be selected as an easier path to attack. But again, if someone is determined who can tell…

Despite this gave introduction, my goal is to repeat […]

dos2unix Single Command Wrapper Script perl -pi -e ‘s/\\r//’ [file] #!/bin/sh # Copy to /usr/local/bin/dos2unix

if [ “$1” = “” ]; then echo Usage: `basename $0` [filename] exit fi

# Convert to Unix format. perl -pi -e ‘s/\\r//’ $1 unix2dos Single Command Wrapper Script perl -pi -e ‘s/\\r//; s/\\n/\\r\\n/’ [file] #!/bin/sh # Copy to /usr/local/bin/unix2dos

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When you sometimes copy a file from Windows to UNIX/Solaris or even Linux systems, you can find these anooying ^M characters everywhere. This is because, the file from Windows is in DOS (ASCII) format and needs to be converted to ISO format.

There are many ways to do this. Let’s start with the easy one […]

solaris Release

Get the release of your OS by cat /etc/release: OpenSolaris 2009.06 Example: OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111b X86 Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 07 May 2009 Solaris 10 Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 s10s_u9wos_14a SPARC Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Assembled […]