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libevent, tor, and privoxy binaries for OpenSolaris Nevada 30 October, 2006, 07:27 pm

As promised, here's some ready to go compiled binaries for libevent, tor, and privoxy. These were compiled using CSW GCC3 on a OpenSolaris x86 Nevada build 48 box. They are not in pkg-add format for that reason. Each package is set to install in /usr. You can install them simply by extracting and then running gmake install from within the extracted folder with superuser rights.

http://solaris.andarazoroflove.org/packages/libevent-1.1b.sol11-x86.bin.tar.bz2

http://solaris.andarazoroflove.org/packages/tor-0.1.1.24.sol11-x86.bin.tar.bz2

http://solaris.andarazoroflove.org/packages/privoxy-3.0.5-BETA.sol11-x86.bin.tar.bz2

Happy anonymizing. I was quite pleasantly surprised to find that tor seems to run faster under Solaris than on a similarly equally equipped Red Hat Core 5 box. I've decided to forgo the explanation of how to set tor and privoxy up as each have excellent man pages....and if you're setting these items up you most likely know how man pages work :)
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Wow, 'tis been some time! 23 October, 2006, 07:01 pm

I just got around to rebuilding a Solaris machine at home, I've been using Fedora Core 5 since my Ultra 30 had to go on eBay to pay some bills :(

My Fedora and new OpenSolaris x86 boxen are identical, they are refugee Dell Optiplex GX1's from work upgraded with 550MHz Pentium III's and 256mb of ram each. Other than that, the Fedora box also has a 100mb Zip Drive (and i have exactly ONE disk), a 56K Diamond HSF modem (drivers by Linuxant), and a USB Logitech QuickCam STX (powered by camE and spcaXXX).

Anyway, I'm rambling...but suffice to say I've begun to use Solaris again albeit on x86 :( I'd like to get my old SPARCStation 20 back up and operational--I need a processor module and an EEPROM if anyone wants to donate or trade for other miscellaneous parts :)

I've been busy compiling interesting things on my new OpenSolaris system "fOrk" (of course) and as such watch for packages of tor, libevent, and privoxy coming soon along with some init scripts for launching them all straightaway.
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Lock Invalid Login Accounts Out 24 February, 2006, 08:40 am

If you have a few users on your Solaris machine you might want to give this a whirl. The original tip came from a blog at sun.com here: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/gbrunett/20040923

You can set a variable in /etc/security/policy.conf to lock an account out which fails to put in the correct password. The Solaris default is 3 tries before lock out.

To enable this, pico /etc/security/policy.conf and change the last variable from:

#LOCK_AFTER_RETRIES=NO
to:
LOCK_AFTER_RETRIES=YES
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Add line numbers to a printed file from the command line 12 January, 2006, 11:22 am

Have you ever run a script from the shell, especially a .pl script and had it spit out an error like:

"Bad Command on line XXX: expected EOF"

?

Here's a dirty way to simplify finding any line number from any file from the commandline using awk:

shake@fOrk %>awk '{print NR": "$0 }' < somefile.txt

This will add line numbers and spit the file out like so:

shake@fOrk ~%>awk '{print NR": "$0 }' < sig.html
1:
2:
3:
4:
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