illumos grep(1) now able to traverse directories

This week I updated illumos grep(1), having added support for recursive searching:
$ man -M /usr/share/man grep
...

     -r
           Read all files under each directory, recursively. Fol-
           low  symbolic links on the command line, but skip sym-
           links that are encountered recursively. If file  is  a
           device, FIFO, or socket, skip it.

     -R
           Read all files under each directory, recursively, fol-
           lowing all symbolic links.

...

Enjoy!

Suddenly... Lake coast in 200 km from Saint-Petersburg

illumian, a new illumos based distro

This iso has become a rarity: as you know, NCP4 never saw the light:





Nevertheless illumos has now the second distribution - illumian, where the packaging system is the main difference from the OpenIndiana and the first iso has a very simple text-mode installer developed by Nexenta for the NCP distribution.
I hope illumian will continue to grow and improve, and for people who like Solaris but feel it could use a more practical "apt-get", illumian is exceptional.
If you're interesred in joining, feel free to talk in #illumian, or subscribe and make a post to the illumian-dev mailing list.

Bring back lx brand?

It is hard to say why the BrandZ code was removed from the OpenSolaris. However this can be corrected. With small fixes I've now got CentOS running in a zone on Illumos:

The Illumos Project SunOS 5.11 illumos-gate June 2011
root@indy:~# zoneadm -z centos boot; zlogin -C centos
[Connected to zone 'centos' console]
Welcome to CentOS
Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
Configuring kernel parameters: [ OK ]
Setting hostname centos: [ OK ]
Checking root filesystem: [ OK ]
Activating swap partitions: [ OK ]
...
CentOS release 3.7 (Final)
Kernel 2.4.21 on an i686

centos login: root
Password:
Welcome to your shiny new Linux zone.

- The root password is 'root'. Please change it immediately.

- To enable networking goodness, see /etc/sysconfig/network.example.

- This message is in /etc/motd. Feel free to change it.

For anything more complicated, see:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/

You have mail.
-bash-2.05b# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 3
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 30
model name : Intel(r) Core(tm) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 1596.146
cache size : 0 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 11
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cx16 xtpr
...


Sample client for istatd

IPhone owners can use a great app for servers monitoring - istat. On the server you must install the istatd daemon. More information can be read here: http://blogs.sun.com/karim/entry/monitoring_opensolaris_from_an_itouch.
Here an example of a console client for istatd, you can use this data for plotting, etc:
$ gcc -o istatd_client istatd_client.c -lsocket -lnsl
$ ./istatd_client
Usage: istatd_client <server_ip> <server_port> <server_code>
Example output from OpenSolaris server:

/istatd_client XX.XXX.XX.X 5109 12345
Connected to XX.XXX.XX.X on port 5109

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><isr ready="1"></isr>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><isr pl="2" ath="0" ss="6" c="7788968" n="7788967"></isr>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><isr ds="8" ts="8" fs="8" rid="1"><CPU><c id="-1" u="1" s="3" n="0"></c></CPU><NET if="1"><n id="-1" d="12545352948" u="276928235931" t="1279010768"></n></NET><MEM w="1568" a="326" i="0" f="190" t="2086" su="51" st="1043" pi="79363" po="17312"></MEM><LOAD one="0.230469" fv="0.238281" ff="0.234375"></LOAD><UPT u="7788967"></UPT><DISKS><d n="/" uuid="rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1" f="43352" p="21.1999"></d><d n="/hosting" uuid="hosting" f="134024" p="4.63293"></d></DISKS></isr>
...

Looking through istatd code, you can easily recognize what's mean all these variables (for example "u" in <CPU> denotes cpu_user usage).

Osstat 0.3

Osstat applet now reaches version 0.3 - minor fixes, new graphs and some features.



Feel free to optimize code or change parts to use better ways.
Download here.

Using ddu scripts

Have you ever looked in the "/usr/ddu" directory? Console-lovers can use some of these scripts and get the almost same output as from the "ddu" graphic utility. For example, I changed the probe.sh script a bit and now I can get ddu-like info from console:

(root@elvis)# ./ddu.sh
AUDIO
   Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller : audio810
CPU
   1 X Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.26GHz, 1-core : ---
CD_DVD
   Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller : pci-ide
   Optiarc DVD RW AD-5200A : 0
MEMORY
    1G (512M + 512M) ;  2G maximum : ---
NETWORK
   Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ : rtls
STORAGE
   Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller : pci-ide
USB
   Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 : uhci
   Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 : uhci
   Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 : uhci
   Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller : ehci
VIDEO
   Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device : i915
OTHERS
   PC standard floppy disk controller : fdc
   16550A-compatible COM port : asy
   ECP printer port : ecpp
   PS/2 Port for PS/2-style Mice : mouse8042
   System keyboard : kb8042
(root@elvis)#