Notices by Alan Coopersmith (alanc@fosstodon.org), page 5

A new "nscfg adldap" subcommand was added in #OracleSolaris 11.4.63 to simplify the process of setting up a Solaris system to use an Active Directory server as the source of user information via LDAP.

The included OpenLDAP software was also upgraded from the 2.4 train to the 2.6 train in this release, which may require extra work if you're using it as an LDAP server. See Note 48 in the SRU 63 README and https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/openldap/Solaris/openldap-transition.txt for more information.

#OracleSolaris 11.4.63 offers a new optional "strict" mode for Live Memory Reconfiguration (Memory LZR) in Kernel Zones which treats the Memory LZR operation as successful only if the final memory configuration matches the requested one. This can be set in the capped-memory:memlzr property.

The prstat command in #OracleSolaris 11.4.63 now takes "sys" and "usr" as arguments for the -s option to sort by just those components of the CPU usage, instead of the combined sys+usr CPU usage previous versions could sort by.

#OracleSolaris 11.4.63 has added support for setting the DNS "search" parameter via dhcp4, matching the existing support in dhcp6. The snoop command was also updated to decode dhcp4 option 119 to aid in troubleshooting.

GCC 13 was added to the compiler packages available in #OracleSolaris 11.4.63, alongside GCC versions 7, 10, 11, & 12, and LLVM/clang 13.

GCC 10 is slated for removal soon, in an upcoming SRU. Users of the gccgo compiler need to note that the removal of GCC 10 will also include the removal of the libgo.so.16 library used by Go programs compiled with GCC 10, and that they thus will need to recompile any such programs with a newer version of gccgo before upgrading to the SRU that removes it.

Today we've released #OracleSolaris 11.4.63, our quarterly feature update. The announcement is at https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/announcing-oracle-solaris-114-sru63

Continuing the #Suntember look at the posters in our office hallways:

@ball yep, swallowed ‘em whole and then let them disappear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Networks

More from the office walls for #Suntember:

One last set of CPU pics from the office for #Suntember:

Some more #Suntember pics:

We do have other #Suntember flavored art on the office walls besides just the extreme closeups of the CPUs:

Walked around the office today (the Oracle Solaris & hardware building on the former #SunMicrosystems Santa Clara, California campus) and took some pictures for #Suntember. First up, some of our wall art:

I apologize to everyone I told that Sun made the /bin -> /usr/bin migration in Solaris 2.0 in 1992. While /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin in that release (and every following Solaris release), I just found that SunOS 4.0 documents the change actually happened in that release in 1988.

From the SunOS 4.0 filesystem(7) man page:

/bin —> /usr/bin
All programs previously located in /bin are now in /usr/bin.

https://gist.github.com/alanc/c2c1dc37f73015e85f45a18374623e60#file-gistfile1-txt-L158-L168

Oh right, when debugging a crash in X you need to set DISPLAY to a dummy X server, not the one you’re displaying the debugger on. At least I proved the crash is reproducible!

@jplebreton my phone is still logged into the XorgFoundation twitter account, though we stopped using it and migrated to Mastodon months ago (@XOrgFoundation). Woke up to so many notifications on it this morning as people pointed out the logo similarity.

@ariadne given how much garbage ends up in the CVE database, I would never commit to that. Maybe if there was better noise filtering or easier rejection of pointless entries.

@cynicalsecurity @djm it is rather amazing: https://www.qualys.com/2023/07/19/cve-2023-38408/rce-openssh-forwarded-ssh-agent.txt

It's one of those weeks where debugging a single core dump on #OracleSolaris leads to making fixes in both #gdm & #libc:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/merge_requests/213

@phl you’re welcome, but all I did was click the “merge” button and turn the release crank.

All the new eyes came from @q3k:

https://social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/110446350216259023