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Solaris and the dreaded "couldn't set locale correctly" message

[ link: solaris_locale | tags: solaris | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:12:08 -0400 ]

On a freshly jumpstarted Solaris 10 box, I was getting the following errors as shown below when logging in:

couldn't set locale correctly
couldn't set locale correctly

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Enable tftp on slowaris 10

[ link: solaris10tftp | tags: solaris | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:12:08 -0400 ]

How the hell do you enable the tftp server (smf service) on a solaris 10 box?!?!

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A VNC server is already running as :10, but it isn't

[ link: vnc_server_running | tags: solaris vnc | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:12:08 -0400 ]

I ran into a problem today where I was trying to start up a vncserver session on :10 and it just would not start. Read on for more info and the solution.

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Problems compiling cyrus-sasl on solaris boxen

[ link: sasl_solaris | tags: solaris | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:12:08 -0400 ]

I was trying to compile cyrus-sasl on solaris 8 using gcc 3.4.6 and having a bitch of a time getting it to configure right. It was not finding the openssl that I had installed locally into a custom directory. Also, I was getting lots of "digestmd5.c:XXX: error:" statements during the failed make.

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