For a startup script, I needed to start JBoss and start another component as soon as the complete JBoss server was started. When you execute the “run.sh” script that comes with JBoss, it immediately exits and starts JBoss in the background (which is quite nice I think). Unfortunately, when I started the other component using this method, the additional program was unhappy, since JBoss was not ready yet. So I had to come up with a trick to delay the start of the additional program.
So with the help of the internet and my co-worker, we came up with the following script:
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Coming from Linux distributions where BASH is usually already set up and configured, I had to find my way around in a UNIX environment first. So here I present the files necessary for a proper installation of BASH under Solaris 10 (yes, I know Solaris 11 Express is out :)).
So after installing the BASH package (see my other post on setting up Solaris), you might find your new shell to be kinda boring. Also, it simply shows up as bash-3.00#, which by itself does not tell you a lot. So lets improve it a bit.
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When I tried to run a scan with NMAP over my VPN connection, I received the following error:
PS C:\> nmap -sP 192.168.10.0/24
Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-11-18 09:35 W. Europe Standard Time
nexthost: Failed to determine dst MAC address for target 192.168.10.0
QUITTING!
Alright… A quick search with Google revealed the following topic: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q1/81.
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Although I already have some experience with Linux (Debian, Red Hat), the first steps with my brand new Solaris 10 installation turned out to be a little bit harder than expected. This was due to the minimalistic shell (SH) and problems while installing the SSH server. So here are my notes for those trying to get into Solaris. The first part includes the steps necessary to install the BASH shell. In the second part, installation of the SSH daemon is shown.
Setup: Solaris 10 Update 9, No remote services enabled, POSIX C locale, Core System Installation
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