News, Tips & Tricks and Ideas about Oracle Solaris.
New postgres packages are ready for Solaris 11.4 SPARC You don't need to download source and compile yourself for Solaris. We provide compiled postgres as Solaris 11.4 SPARC IPS pkgs. Current versions are 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, 14.24 Free download and no registration https://www.jomasoft.ch/downloads/#js-opensource
Oracle does provide patches under Extended Support for Solaris 10 and Solaris 11.3 till January 2027. The dates are documented in https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware-301321.pdf You can continue to run this Solaris versions, but who does that without new patches and the security risks? Migrate to Solaris 11.4, which will receive patches and new features till January…
Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features Kernel Crypto Framework SMF Policy NFS Sockets FOSS: Perl 5.42, PHP 8.5, bash5.3 EOF: mySQL 8.0, IKEv1
You don't need to download source and compile yourself for Solaris. We provide compiled postgres as Solaris 11.4 SPARC IPS pkgs. Current versions are 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, 14.23 Free download and no registration https://www.jomasoft.ch/downloads/#js-opensource
In the past Oracle provided Solaris SRUs (Support Repository Updates) each month. This does change now. The types of SRUs are reduced from 3 types to 2 types. Instead of 12 SRUs per year we will see 8 SRUs per year. a) Feature SRU (NEW) This will be available early in the months March, June, September, December Around 6 weeks after the CPUs. This SRU includes new features, tools, packages, version…
It is free for personal use and development. Download here: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/#java17-solaris The installation guide can be found here https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/install/installation-jdk-oracle-solaris.html
CBE (Common Build Environment) For developers Oracle provides a free version for software development and testing. No patches are available for this version, but around every year a new version is published. This version is named CBE "Common Build Environment" and can be downloaded here https://www.oracle.com/solaris/solaris11/downloads/solaris-downloads.html SRU (Support Repository Updates) For…
The iostat command is used for IO performance reporting and has a lot of options. Since Solaris 11.4 it includes the -L option to display the latency distribution. You can see how many request are sent to the disks and how the distribution is Tuesday, March 31, 2026 at 1:23:55 PM CEST extended device statistics r/s w/s Mr/s Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 6.8 48.4 0.4 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.0 1.9…
CBE is the Common Build Environment The first release 11.4.42 was made available by Oracle 03/2022. Last year 05/2025 the version 11.4.81 was published. And now 03/2026 11.4.90 is already available. This release can be used by Developers to develop, test and demonstrate their software for free. It includes current compilers and tools. Download from…
Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features devnm -s beadm preserve policy ls -sh output change bootadm GRUB unrestricted property ikev2cert PIN from SMF nscfg check new smf svc:/system/check/name-services:default ipadm _forward_src_routed IPv6 property removed FOSS: BIND 9.20 EOF: GCC 12
You don't need to download source and compile yourself for Solaris. We provide compiled postgres as Solaris 11.4 SPARC IPS pkgs. Current versions are 18.2, 17.8, 16.12, 15.16, 14.21 Free download and no registration https://www.jomasoft.ch/downloads/#js-opensource
Oracle Solaris is not much in the press anymore, but used for critical systems around the world. Solaris 11.4 was launched in 2018. Oracle provides updates/patches every month. Every quarter (Feb,May,Aug,Nov) the update includes new features. Oracle will provide this monthly updates till at least November 2037. Documented in:…
Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features useradd -N / -U cableinfo fmthard -c / -e ldm add-/list-/remove-devalias FOSS: GCC 15 EOF: PHP 8.1, Python 3.9
Since three years JomaSoft produces Solaris 11.4 IPS packages of opensource software. After postgres openjdk was added. After 17.0.13 in December 2024, we provide now a package with version 17.0.16. Based on the work done by Peter Tribble. Thanks Peter! https://github.com/ptribble/jdk-sunos-builder Download Page https://www.jomasoft.ch/downloads/#js-openjdk Direct p5p Download Link…
Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features format -r / -n / -q Threshold alerts for /tmp usage Improved nscd resilience FOSS: OpenSSH 10, sudo 1.9.17p1 EOF: Ruby 3.1, PHP 8.1
In the past the Oracle ASR Manager did update itself automatically. This is not the case anymore with newer releases. But the manual update on Solaris is very easy. Only two commands required pkgrm asrmanager pkgadd -d ./asrmanager-25.1.0-20250306063253.pkg Learn more about Oracle ASR on https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37710_01/index.htm
Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features GRUB 2.12 Zone Migration requires NTP ipadm set-ifprop -p send-unreachables dladm show-transceiver s10 brand compressed install archives ldm set-logctl =func =v (verbosity) OVM Manager SPARC Agent does not work anymore FOSS: PHP 8.4 EOF: OpenSSL 1.0.2, Ruby 3.1, GCC 7, stackdb SMF More details on the Solaris Blog
If you are using Kernel Zones -bash-5.2$ zoneadm list -v ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP 0 global running / solaris shared 1 v0182 running - solaris-kz excl It is now easier on the global zone to analyze the I/O of only the disks used by kernel zones using the wildcard (v0182*) and the new -b (backend) flag -bash-5.2$ iostat -xnzb -Td v0182* 5 3 Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 7:58:29 AM EDT extended…
Tuesday, May 13th 2025 Onsite event in Prague, Czech Republic About - Oracle Systems/Server/SPARC/ZFS/Solaris - AI, Cloud - Hybrid Storage - Secure Desktop As usual Oracle Product Managers, Engineering and JomaSoft are there. Registration at: https://eventreg.oracle.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKwebID=0x912115abcd
Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features ldm list-domain -s iostat -b and wildcards faster utilities, because they use Python 3.11 now BugFix: User with UP can't login anymore and no sudo and cronjobs FOSS: Python 3.13, MySQL 8.4, Ruby 3.3 EOF: Python 3.9
The system-repository SMF delivers IPS packages to zones. This SMF produces an access_log file which is not rotated by default. If you run many zones this logfile grows to multiple 100 MB. On a customer system with more than 20 zones this file was over 3 GB in size. This is a sample on one of our test systems # ls -lh /var/log/pkg/sysrepo/access_log -rw-r--r-- 1 pkg5srv bin 148M Jan 8 10:52…
Since two years JomaSoft produces Solaris 11.4 IPS packages of opensource software. After postgres now openjdk was added. Based on the work done by Peter Tribble. Thanks Peter! https://github.com/ptribble/jdk-sunos-builder Download Page https://www.jomasoft.ch/downloads/#js-openjdk Direct p5p Download Link https://bit.ly/js-openjdk17-sparc The package is provided without support or warranty. Use…
Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features zfs mount/unmount -r pgrep/pkill -Z cups SMF disabled by default FOSS: gcc14 EOF: snort, Node.js 18
Extended Support for the OV Manager SPARC Agent ended by June 2024. No patches are provided by Oracle anymore. It is expected OVM SPARC Agent will not work anymore in 2025, after old insecure components will be removed from Solaris. Details in MOS DOC: OVM : SPARC Solaris Support in OVM Environment After The End of OVM Extended Support. (Doc ID 3041724.1) With JomaSoft VDCF we offer a complete and…
Auditing is enabled by default on Solaris 11.4 and records security-related system events, like logins, reboots, etc. The audit files are stored in /var/share/audit. Overtime this files use quiet some disk space # cd /var/share/audit/ # du -sh 18.3G . For later analysis a backup of this files is recommended. Maybe you have a central archive or security tools for this. On the Solaris server there…