I just thought I'd make a note of the common things I do and funny enough, I think this blog might be the closest thing I have from a sticky note / persistent backup ... so here goes:

 PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/gnu/bin:$PATH
# enable power management
pfexec echo "S3-support    enable" >> /etc/power.conf
pfexec pmconfig
pfexec svcadm restart hal

# disable access time update on rpool to minimize disk writes
pfexec zfs set atime=off rpool

# get pkgutil to install community software
pfexec pkgadd -d http://blastwave.network.com/csw/pkgutil_`uname  -p`.pkg

# download and install the flash plug-in for firefox
wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash_player_10_solaris_x86.tar.bz2 -O libfp.tar.bz2 --no-check-certificate
bunzip2 libfp.tar.bz2
tar xf libfp.tar
pfexec mv flash_player*/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
rm libfp.tar
rmdir flash_player*

# get perfbar
wget http://blogs.sun.com/partnertech/resource/tools/perfbar.i386 -O perfbar --no-check-certificate
chmod 755 perfbar
nohup ./perfbar &

# configure coreadm
coreadm -g /var/cores/%t-%f -e global

Comments:

I also do a pfexec set atime=off rpool
to minimize the disk writes

Posted by Bill Hathaway on October 29, 2009 at 11:00 AM MDT #

woops, should be
pfexec zfs set atime=off rpool

Posted by Bill Hathaway on October 29, 2009 at 11:01 AM MDT #

Thanks Bill, I update the post to reflect your comment!

Posted by arnaud on November 06, 2009 at 01:36 PM MST #

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