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Tuesday September 05, 2006

Migrating your CVS server to Solaris 10

I have recently upgraded my server to Solaris 10.  I went to re-install my CVS pserver and ran into a quick snag.  Solaris 10 no longer manages services by editing the inetd.conf  file.

I tried and Google the problem, but got a lot of irrelevant hits, I eventually found that I had to use inetconv to convert the inetd.conf file to the new SMF format. 

An edited excerpt from the inetd Solaris 10 man page is below:

In Solaris 10, services are no longer managed by editing the inetd configuration file, inetd.conf.  Instead, you use inetconv to convert the configuration file content into SMF format services, then manage these services using inetadm and svcadm. Once a service has been converted by inetconv, any changes to the legacy data in the inetd config file will not become effective. However, inetd does alert the administrator when it notices change in the configuration file.

More information can be found in BigAdmin's tech tip "Enabling TCP Wrappers in the Solaris 10 Operating System".

I did update the CVS twiki manual, but wanted to make sure others didn't have any problems, so I reposted the excerpt here.

Hope this helps - Mark

Posted by basler Sep 05 2006, 10:28:50 AM PDT Permalink