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We purchased two Oracle ZFS 7320 servers recently. To my
surprise, these systems are designed to be closed and not meant for
general shell-level interaction. For example, / is mounted
read-only -- but because it's a ZFS filesystem, that flag is easily
overridden.<br>
<br>
I wanted to install some basic command-line utilities for use
here. Turns out, Oracle doesn't include some basic /usr/bin
commands like "vi" and "rsync". <br>
<br>
The solution, I thought, was to simply create multiple ZFS volumes
to allow for:<br>
<br>
/opt/csw<br>
/etc/opt/csw<br>
/var/opt/csw<br>
<br>
turns out, it's not that easy as pkg installation needs to write and
interact with /var/sadm (and other locations), which is making this
impractical to accomplish.<br>
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There is a C compiler on the system in /etc/sfw/bin/gcc, but in my
case where I need "rsync" the stock /usr/bin/grep command isn't
sufficient to complete a ./configure: "checking for grep that
handles long lines and -e"<br>
<br>
So I'm working against a design that is intended to be closed. I
just need to be able to get some basic stuff on there. Since I
need "rsync", I thought I could take one compiled from Solaris 10 --
but the shared libs are missing, so that won't work.<br>
<br>
Anyone know how I can effect a static compile of rsync for Oracle
Solaris 11 :-)<br>
<br>
I'm also curious if anyone else has run into this issue with these
systems. We use rsync pretty frequently for some internal stuff,
so I really need to find a way to get it there.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<br>
Forrest<br>
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