Sun Solaris Customisation 2.5 Copy solcus2.5.tar to /tmp. # cd /tmp # tar -xvf ./solcus2.5.tar # cd solcus # ./custom -i At the prompt request installation of modules, for instance: Enter number of module to install/remove : I 2 3 This will install the following, if needed: prism - prism terminal definitions profile - various environment variables including PATH Note: If you need any further information and guidance using custom, please contact us before using. These utilities will take precedence over any that were already installed on the system. Recommendations ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ profile - Defines terminal settings, environment variables in /etc/profile. prism - Loads Prism terminal definitions typically for RealLink users. genutils - Useful to some customers, contact NPS for further details. sysbackup - Useful to some customers, tools to backup/restore file systems. target - Useful on non-Reality systems, tools to install keys. tune - Does nothing on Solaris 11. Minor config changes on Solaris 10. History of changes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ solcus2.5: The following module has been added: reality - Modify Reality build configuration for additional libaries. solcus2.4: The following modules have been removed as they are no longer required: backup - Old backup/restore utilities replaced by sysbackup dump - Customization of operating system crash dumps gcc - Gnu compiler gdb - Gnu debugger, doesn't work with Reality 15 and above perf_mon - Performance monitor sstats - System statistics tools tidy - Tidy up stats files and various other logs ttydefs - Customizing terminal characteristics ups - Monitor old turnkey uninterruptable power supply solcus2.3: Remove upper limit check on Solaris version so that it can be installed on Solaris 11. solcus020200: Created SCCS depository. Added README incorporating original installation instructions and the hist file listing changes for each release. Removed hist file. solcus020001: Only supported on Solaris 8, 9 or 10, custom script exits if other release. The following modules have been removed as they are no longer required: bootdelay - delay boot when storage disk array used proctool - process monitoring tool spray - send stream of tcp packets to test comms top - process monitoring tool superceded by prstat gzip - supplied with Solaris 8 onwards. The mdisutils module has been renamed to genutils and the following have been removed as they are no longer required: gzip - compression utility, now supplied with Solaris wermit - modem comms program rz - file receive program sz - file send program Additionally BACKUP/RESTORE utilities have been removed as they have been superceded by sysbackup. 'sysbackup' now caters for zones, zfs and pseudo file systems. The 'target' module has been updated removing installation programs for releases of Reality prior to V10. Changes, 1.0J and earlier: 11 Nov 05 Add support for Solaris 5.10. 18 Jul 05 Comment out /var/adm/messages in tidy.conf 20 Sep 04 Install-Key, Install_SN and show_key taken from Reality 10. 12 Aug 04 Tune param msgmnb changed from 2*$rlogin To 96*rlogin 06 Apr 04 Updated take_snapshot and vtoc_snapshot 20 Jun 03 Fix sysbackup install bug. sysbk_patch_check was not being copied to /. 09 Jun 03 Sysbackup version 3.5.0 updated to check patches and use cpio -c as default format 04 Apr 03 Modified checkups module to fix problem with Ferrups UPS 27 Jan 03 Sysbackup added. BACKUP moved to BACKUP.old