jaap: tumfatig.net/tags/omnios

And the Stephen's Machine Room yt channel

And many moore, i'll post them later

I have omnios in a vm. If I ssh to it, then shut it off (I use the command "poweroff"), the ssh session stay hanged. Looks like the shutdown process doesn't give time to sshd to close the connections. This happens with omnios only. Any ideas?

szilard: thanks! I'll have a look. The OmniOS docs aren't bad, but not a good start if this is the first time touching anything Solaris/illumos-based

ik5pvx: shutdown -i5 -g0 -y

Use that instead

interesting

so halt/poweroff/reboot (which are all the same file, just hardlink) do the thing. shutdown is actually a script that changes the runlevel.

need to check what's different in openindiana then

jaap: LEt me collect you my info sources...

jaap: I am watching / reading this blogs & sites: pastebin.com/raw/J9LJJFJY

maybe you could add my blog to the list, but it isn't really well written:https://extrowerk.com

ok in openindiana the commands are the same as in omnios. So maybe some subtle differences on what gets gracefully killed before shutting down is what makes one close ssh properly and the other not

anyway, I'm going to make myself an alias, as I have poweroff in muscle memory :-)

well... it didn't close ssh properly even with the shutdown command

I think my favorite command in GZ is : ls -tal `svcs -LZ` | head -10

szilard: that's awesome, thanks a bunch, your own blog is cool too

szilard: this will help a lot!

jaap: have fun and do not forget to have fun!

szilard : top!

jaap: of course there are many other blogs one can learn. Sadly most articles and guides are written for docker. To solve this I rely on guides meant for OpenBSD. If a program / workload can be run on OpenBSD the chances are good to be able to compile / setup / get it working on Illumos.

And it feels like OpenBSD getting popularity lately, or maybe it is just my bias as I follow mainly OBSD blogs.

jaap: for a lot of the basics you may well find other illumos/smartos/open indiana (and even solaris) blogs / guides can help get you started and explain some of the principles.

you will find some divergence between things (particularly between more recent solaris and the illumos family of distributions) but sometimes you can get some idea of how things should work then check the details in the omnios documentation.

and if you've come from a more Linux based background one good difference is you'll usually find the man pages in omnios are generally very informative

sadly most of the old solaris (10) blogs have disappeared in the meantime.

And solaris 11 have really bad renome since oracle bought it.