Unix

Cloning zones in Solaris 10 6/06

I googled for "Cloning Solaris Zones" and found lots of documentation on the zoneadm clone feature. I started to follow the howtos and hit a brick wall... my zoneadm doesn't know how to clone. Deeper digging shows that the documentation on Sun's site was for Solaris Express- Sun's bleeding edge version of OpenSolaris- Can I say "How useless!"

Changing an IP address in Solaris 10

I'm just starting to deal with Solaris 10 machines and I ran into a really annoying issue. When trying to change the IP address by modifying the appropriate files (or so I thought) the ip address kept getting reset on reboot.

Mysql Replication Error

This helped when I changed the hostname on my mysql slave server:

Here is a sample error message:

060614 11:17:42 Error reading packet from server: Could not find first log file name in binary log index file (server_errno=1236) 060614 11:17:42 Got fatal error 1236: ‘Could not find first log file name in binary log index file' from master when reading data from binary log