Static dual stack networking on OmniOS Solaris Zones

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On my OmniOS zones, I don’t use DHCP. Mostly because I don’t have that many of those; DHCP would be overkill and another service to manage. For those configured using IPv4 only, the zadm utility can configure the network stack from a JSON file. But I had that zone where I needed both IPv4 and IPv6 configured and couldn’t have it working via zadm. So I configured it from within the zone.

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Keep your OmniOS server time synced

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While reading logs, I saw that my OmniOS server was not really time synced with the rest of the Wild Wild World. After a quick check, I realised I forgot to set up NTP on this server. Let’s solve this now!

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Spell checking in Vim

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Believe it or not, I do all my editing stuff with Vim. This includes writing emails and editing this blog content. One thing I was missing, compared to using Thunderbird or LibreOffice, is the spell checking feature. Until I took 10 minutes to read the Vim documentation .

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GoToSocial WASM-based SQLite driver and BSD

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I started using GoToSocial (the fast, fun and small ActivityPub server) in 2022 on OpenBSD. Because it was nearly the only OpenBSD-native ActivityPub options at that time, because it was light and because it could use the SQLite database engine . I stopped using it when it was marked BROKEN because of incompatibilities between modernc.org/sqlite and OpenBSD kernel. This is when I switched to Mastodon and stop using it. Until recently, when I discovered there was a pkgsrc option available.

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Grafana in an OmniOS pkgsrc branded zone

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I run a lot of bhyve VMs on my OmniOS server because that’s the way I’m used to go with exposing services. For fun knowledge purposes, I decided that I would replace my Grafana virtual machine with an Illumos zone. Thanks to pkgsrc, this is really easy and straightforward.

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