Established 1986

Utility and Application Software

Utility Software

1. Compile from source - download from the sites listed in the Resources appendix [I also provide a "Utility CD" containing redistributable freeware as part of my standard toolkit]:
   • less -
     First, run the provided "configure" script which will generate a Makefile and a customized "defines.h" header file:

     # ./configure
     

     Edit defines.h and set "#define SECURE 1" before running "make":

     # make
     

     The binary is created in the source directory; copy it to /opt/bin or /usr/local/bin using cp or mv.

   • bash -
     You can install this using the binary package from sunfreeware.com; if you insist on making it from source:

     # ./configure
     # make
     

     I encountered a segfault problem doing this, and traced it to the "new mail" notification code. That code is removed from the ".nomail" version on the Utility CD.

   • pine -
     The only reason I build pine is to get pico. [Why?!? Because this was originally supposed to be a three-month assignment, and I was turning the boxes over to an NT admin who had zero Unix experience. Turns out he could handle vi just fine, but I didn't know that going in.] The build process uses a proprietary script (called "build") rather than the usual GNU .configure and make. It also needs to be told we're using the GNU gcc compiler on Solaris -- the author's mnemonic for that is "gso":

     # ./build gso
     # cp bin/* /opt/bin
     

   • perl -
     

     # sh Configure --prefix=/opt -DCC=gcc -d ; make ; make install
     

     The installer will offer to install this as /usr/bin/perl; say "Y". Apache complains just a little if you don't have a working perl for administrative purposes; it's good to have even if we don't want it for CGI.

   • top -
     

     # ./Configure
     # make
     

   • ssh -
     

     # ./configure --prefix=/opt
     # make
     # make install
     

     For logging purposes, I edit /etc/sshd_config and set the FACILITY to LOCAL1.

     Disallow logins as root, too. (But first make sure you have a non-root account you can use to log in and run su !)

     Edit /etc/syslog.conf to map LOCAL1 and LOCAL2 messages to /var/log/authwarn -- note that all whitespace in syslog.conf must be tabs, not spaces. You must also create the empty log file, e.g. touch /var/log/authwarn because syslog.conf will not create a file that does not exist.

     # pkill -HUP syslogd to restart the syslog daemon.

     (Solaris 2.6 doesn't have pkill -- use ps -ef | grep syslogd to get the process ID (PID) and then kill -HUP $PID.

   • add /var/log/authlog and authwarn to the /usr/lib/newsyslog script as files to be "rotated." (See link for the updated version.)

     You may want to rotate the logs a bit more often than the default, which is once a week. As root:

         # export VISUAL=pico  # or vi, if you insist
         # crontab -e
     
     

     Pico will open a file that looks like this:

         #ident  "@(#)root       1.19    98/07/06 SMI"   /* SVr4.0 1.1.3.1 */
         #
         # The root crontab should be used to perform accounting data collection.
         #
         # The rtc command is run to adjust the real time clock if and when
         # daylight savings time changes.
         #
         10 3 * * 0,4 /etc/cron.d/logchecker
         10 3 * * 0   /usr/lib/newsyslog
         #15 3 * * 0 /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind
         1 2 * * * [ -x /usr/sbin/rtc ] && /usr/sbin/rtc -c > /dev/null 2>&1
         30 3 * * * [ -x /usr/lib/gss/gsscred_clean ] && /usr/lib/gss/gsscred_clean
     
     

     To run newsyslog every day, change this line:

         10 3 * * 0   /usr/lib/newsyslog
     

     to this:

         10 3 * * *   /usr/lib/newsyslog
     

   • tcp-wrappers -
     To make rpcbind, you first need to build tcp-wrappers. (Usually this package is used to protect inetd services, and we aren't running any of those; but we need a library file created during the build of this package, called libwrap.a).

     Get the source for tcp-wrappers and rpcbind from www.porcupine.org. Edit the Makefile to set FACILITY to LOG_LOCAL2 and CC=gcc, then 'make sunos5'.

     Copy libwrap.a to /opt -- we reference it below using the environment variable "WRAP_DIR".

   • rpcbind -
     Edit Makefile to set FACILITY to LOG_LOCAL2. Also add the line CC=gcc near the top of the Makefile.

         # WRAP_DIR=/opt ; export WRAP_DIR
         # make
         # cp /usr/sbin/rpcbind /usr/sbin/rpcbind.SUN
         # cp rpcbind /usr/sbin
     

     To replace a running rpcbind, stop it with -TERM and use the -w ("warmstart") option on the replacement:

         # kill -TERM {pid of rpcbind}
         # /usr/sbin/rpcbind -w
     
         # kill -HUP {pid of new rpcbind} # to toggle verbose logging.
     

2. Install specific applications on the servers that require them:
   • Java -
     Get the current JDK from java.sun.com - (we started with 1.2.2-05a, the current one is now -06)

         # cd opt
         # sh Solaris_JDK_1.2.2_06_sparc.bin
     
     

     Remove old /usr/bin/java* and symlink all java? to new JDK:

         # rm /usr/bin/java?
         # cd /opt/Solaris_JDK_1.2.2_06/bin
         # for i in java? ; do
         > ln -s /opt/Solaris_JDK_1.2.2_06/bin/$i /usr/bin/$i
         > done
     
     

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