Special software requirements

TODO: Show how to install:

• Apache2
• git
• sudo
• mysql
• PHP 5.2
• wget

unzip and sendmail should be part of the base Solaris install. Other applications should be available on the companion CDs or:

http://www.sunfreeware.com/

In particular, git can be compiled easily by exporting the following environment:: export CFLAGS="-I/usr/sfw/include -I/opt/sfw/include" export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/sfw/lib:/opt/sfw/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

Then the compile instructions bundled with git should just be followed plainly.

XXX: I had trouble installing the binaries, as git expects ginstall to be available in the path. I ended up adding the source directory in the path, which works fine for most uses.

Common issues

Drush issue

Solaris suffers from the dreaded execution issues of drush:

http://drupal.org/node/637574 http://drupal.org/node/586466

Those can be worked around by hardcoding the --php executable on the commandline path. Adding the proper shebang header and using a proper PATH that includes the PHP executable also helps.

Cron issues

I had numerous problems setting up a proper cron job, as Solaris' crond seems pretty anal about what it accepts. The only way I could get it to work was to create a wrapper shell script that would be called using the simplest cron tab.

Crontab entry::

• • • • • /var/aegir/dispatch.sh

Content of dispatch.sh:: #!/usr/bin/bash

HOME=/var/aegir LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib/sparcv9:/opt/mysql/mysql/lib:/usr/sfw/lib:/usr/sfw/lib/gcc:/opt/sfw/lib PATH=/usr/bin:/opt/mysql/mysql/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/csw/bin

export HOME export LD_LIBRARY_PATH export PATH

php '/var/aegir/drush/drush.php' --php=/usr/local/bin/php '@hostmaster' hosting-dispatch