Bloqueo de cuentas de usuario en Solaris/OpenSolaris y Linux

En el siguiente artículo expongo una corta descripción acerca del bloqueo de cuentas de usuario tanto en Solaris/OpenSolaris como en Linux. El artículo completo se puede descargar de:

http://glud.udistrital.edu.co/jpromerobx/articulos/BloqueoCuentasUsuarios.pdf

Maxima 5.16.3 on OpenSolaris 2008.05/x86

The current stable release of Maxima is 5.16.3, which one works very good in my Linux box (Debian Lenny with GCL and CLisp), the whole test suite (a set of programs to test the Maxima infraestructure) was passed. Across the mailing list, some developers reported the successfully build of this release en several Linux flavors under many Lisp implementations (like GCL and CLisp); in the same way the reports about another UNIX platforms, but the OpenSolaris OS was not included.

As a new user of this operating system, i started the build of Maxima, with the CLisp 2.39 (i hope to try with others implementations, is a promise !) and the results are:

• The installation of CLisp was perform across Blastwave Software Stack (http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php)[1], like other packages as GnuPlot.
• The OpenSolaris's make implementation don't work with the Makefile generated with the configure script (make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 659: Unexpected end of line seen); instead i used the GNU Make (gmake package).
• The only test failed was rtest14.mac (errors 231, 232 and 242 - test_bessel).
  
• At the moment to run make install, the share and contrib packages were not installed successfully, to solve the problem of loading packages, copy files at the MAXIMA_INSTALL_DIRECTORY (usually /usr/local/share/maxima/$maxima_version) in the share folder:
  

cp -r $MAXIMA_COMPILE_DIR/share/* $MAXIMA_INSTALL_DIR/share

And now enjoy Maxima on OpenSolaris !.

Update:

With SBCL 1.0.7 the test suite works fine. No problems and errors.

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[1] Good repository of Free/OpenSource Software for Solaris 10

Welcome OpenSolaris

Few months ago, i was using OpenSolaris in a virtual way (across VirtualBox in my Linux box) but the performace is very poor (i' ve got 512 MB in RAM, but i think to upgrade my system !). After some experiments wit Solaris 10 (the installer is more ligth than OpenSolaris) i' ve decided to install OpenSolaris 2008.05 (Indiana) directly in the hard disk. The summary of process:

The autodetection of video card and monitor failed, but with the xorgconfig command (i remember my times with Debian Potato !), i fixed it.

The sound and network card works fine.

The installer is very easy, although is some slow. (The installation process take about 2 hours.)

In the boot process, this bug make presence:

kcf: [ID 415456 kern.warning] WARNING: No randomness provider enabled for
/dev/random. Use cryptoadm(1M) to enable a provider.

I found some information about this bug in:

http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=38

Using the svcadm command, i get to enable the gdm service. In the same way, at the moment of power off the system, the call of shutdown command show other bug related with the RPC service, but in this URL, found the solution:

http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do;jsessionid=ba830143933ebf052d8caaab3d?bug_id=6531164

TODO List:

• Testing the Maxima stable release. (5.16)
• Using DTrace to test and trace some programs.
  
• Verify the compatibility with the ext2/3 file systems.
  
• Testing the Java performance.
  

My GRUB:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.6.18
OpenSolaris 2008.05
FreeBSD 7.0 (must be repair ..:()

Well, that's all folks !