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It’s no secret that I’m a OpenSolaris fan, but it’s not without reason. Today I came across another reason why it’s the best in the server world. I needed to setup an anonymous ftp server on one of my virtual machines and discovered it only takes two easy steps:

1) enable the ftp service

svcadm enable ftp

Or via the GUI: system -> administration -> services -> ftp server

2) configure the anonymous ftp

ftpconfig [ftp directory]

That’s it you’re up and running. 

One last note: the ftpconfig script creates a user called “ftp”. To disable anonymous ftp’ing in the future run

users-admin

and delete the “ftp” user

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now playing: Lily Allen – The Fear

I’m moving from slackware to OpenSolaris for a project I’m currently working on and did the following to get JRuby working on OpenSolaris:

1. unpack the JRuby distribution file from jruby.org into the /usr directory. I chose to put the files in /usr/jruby so that future versions can also be unpacked here without the need to change the version number. AKA /usr/jruby instead of /usr/jruby-1.4.0
2. edit .profile in your home directory. I chose to use the method: nano ~/.profile
3. at the end of the line that starts “export PATH” add :/usr/jruby/bin (note: the “:” is important)
4. save the file
5. log out of your account and log back in.
6. test the config by running jruby -v (should print out the version number)

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now playing: Lady Sovereign – The Battle