Mandalika's scratchpad

Target audience: Oracle SuperCluster customers
The primary objective of this blog post is to provide some related information on this obscure tool to inquisitive users/customers as they might have noticed the osc-interdom service and the namesake package and wondered what is it for at some point...

The examples shown in this blog post were created and executed on a Solaris system. Some of these tips and examples are applicable to all *nix systems.
Digest of a File
One of the typical uses of computed digest is to check if a file has been compromised or tampered. The digest utility can be used to calculate the digest of files....

Keywords: Solaris package IPS+Repository pkg
1Work on Directory Structure
Start with organizing the package contents (files) into the same directory structure that you want on the installed system.

Solaris doesn't lock open files automatically (not just Solaris - most of *nix operating systems behave this way).
In general, when a process is about to update a file, the process is responsible for checking existing locks on target file, acquiring a lock and releasing it after updating the file. However given that not all processes cooperate and adhere to this...