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Setting up SMF for Apache and Zope on Solaris 10 by Chris Miles — last modified 2005-10-02 18:24

This is a quick walk-through of how I configured Solaris 10 SMF to take care of starting/stopping my Apache and a Zope instance. It is my first attempt at playing with SMF, so this method won't be perfect yet, but I'll update this article over time as I become more familiar with it.

Files by Chris Miles — last modified 2005-09-20 19:55

 

LD path customisation on Solaris by Chris Miles — last modified 2005-09-21 13:06

If you're a Linux admin on Solaris and are looking for the Solaris equivalent of ldconfig and /etc/ld.so.conf read on.

Building Trac on Solaris by Chris Miles — last modified 2005-12-03 01:17

Trac is a great piece of software. However, it relies on a number of dependencies to work its magic and these can be painful to build on Solaris. This article describes what I had to do to build Trac with all its dependencies on Solaris 10.

Solaris 10 build error "libstdc++.la is not a valid libtool archive" by Chris Miles — last modified 2006-11-01 13:36

How to fix a build problem on Solaris 10 when using gcc "libstdc++.la is not a valid libtool archive".

Building Python with readline on Solaris 10 by Chris Miles — last modified 2007-04-19 23:00

This is the best method I've come up with to build Python (2.4.4) - with readline support - on a freshly installed Solaris 10 box.

Building SQLite with readline on Solaris 10 by Chris Miles — last modified 2007-04-20 12:47

These are the steps I use to build sqlite (3) on Solaris 10 with readline support.