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Today I decided to reinstall my OpenSolaris server and actually do something with it this time. I’ll be moving my proxy, webserver and nagios server to it soon, but first I need to get the basics running. In the not-so-near future I’ll probably integrate it with my LDAP server to allow a single authentication for my users. I do NOT intend to install X or anything fancy, so if you need that you should look elsewhere.

The OpenSolaris distribution I chose was  Nexenta: it is basically an OpenSolaris Kernel with GNU application userland, meaning familiar tools for anyone that’s used to linux. Plus, it has apt-get. I think that is enough to explain my choice.

By the end of this post, we should have a working Nexenta server with networking, a configured ZFS pool and a functional zone. Now, on to the installation!

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Várias vezes já quis utilizar meu celular para conectar na internet pelo Linux e não consegui encontrar nenhum guia rápido e prático de como fazer isso. Não queria ter que usar o Windows (que tem os programas para efetuar a conexão) e então pesquisei um pouco sobre como fazer isso, e consegui utilizando o wvdial.

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Existem algumas situações que exigem que você use o ssh atravessando um servidor proxy; como o cliente do openssh não suporta esse tipo de operação nativamente, você tem 2 opções: utilizar outro cliente (como o putty) ou então instalar um programa chamado proxy-connect, que permite usar o ssh (juntamente com scp e sftp) através de um proxy.

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Hello everyone,

I’ve been away for some reasons (including moving this website to a new hosting company), but now I believe that everything is back to normal again, and I’m starting a project that I believe that will benefit a lot of Linux users, and contributors would be greatly appreciated. It is creating a simple, modular, netfilter based personal firewall for Gnu/Linux workstations. If that interested you, read on!

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