How can I get a stateless ipv6 address? The interface only has link-local.

jayjwa: how did you enable ipv6 on the interface? something like "ipadm create-addr -T addrconf -p stateful=no foo0/v6" ?

I didn't mention the stateful part at first. ipadm create-addr -T addrconf rge0/v6

Afterwards it said something about "already in use". Anyway, the system hung on a package update and now won't come up again.

Might be a bad disk, as the hardware's not been used in awhile. I switched the disks out and all was well for about 5 hours but now I guess not.

"New" disk. That command seems to have worked now.

Does OmniOS have an inet-utils? I'm looking for finger, etc.

Checking here: pkg.omnios.org/r151030/core/en/catalog.shtml

jayjwa: basename link usr/ucb/finger pkg:/compatibility/ucb⊙0

now the stuff in that package is probably pretty archaic and may not have modern flags. It's actually for compatability with SunOS 4

(obviously, my system is r50, not r30)

if you're looking for anything else in particular, the command "pkg search finger" is how I found that

actually, two packages report having finger... the other may be better: pkg:/service/network/network-servers⊙0

Thanks. Still getting used to those package links.

No wonder the disk died: it was from 2009.

Are users supposed to home in /home or /export/home? During setup, it used /home but eerielinux.wordpress.com/2018/09/28/exploring-omnios-in-a-vm-1-2 suggests /export/home but that's blank.

Historically, /home was where home directories were expected to be found, but the automount(8) managed /home and mounted user directories there on demand

For that to work, the actual home directories had to be created somewhere else, such as /export/home

If the automounter isn't in use (the autofs service is disabled) then it doesn't matter where they are

andyf does bloody have then newer bhyve firmware that does swtpm emulation too ?

So I should move the contents of /home up to /export/home manually?

What does `svcs autofs` say? I presume it has to be disabled in order for anything to have been placed in /home in the first place.

Yes, disabled. Solaris 9 seemed to use /export/home out of the box. Sorry for the beginner questions, but this fmri/smf stuff is all new to me.

If it's disabled, you're fine (but if it does get enabled later, then life could get "interesting")

After, I'd like to NFS the homes once get rpcbind allowing connections from outside.

Using the automounter made a lot of sense with home directories shared between machines using nfs, it's not really useful for standalone systems

I read briefly about bhyve. Does Omni OS have SIMH and/or Qemu? I'd like to take some of the load off my Linux system wrt virtual machines.

There's both qemu and kvm in OmniOS. But generally, use bhyve if you can.

I don't think simh is packaged, but it's easy enough to build from source