SMF - Stupid SmartOS Tricks

NUT in the Global Zone

Network UPS Tools is a project for connecting with many different power devices, and can access UPS data and coordinate with the device to ensure orderly shutdown of a host such as a SmartOS compute node. NUT flies a bit in the face of the design philosophy of SmartOS. Not

Networking

2022 Home Router Refresh

With the new hardware up and running, it's time to redeploy new zones. We're going to start with the router zone, and as it's almost 2022, I'm going to call this article my 2022 Home Router Refresh. This article will overview rebuilding my zone based SmartOS router, and draw from

SmartOS

Minecraft on SmartOS

Minecraft. It's one of those games that can appeal to many different people in many different ways. I got into playing under the assumption that modded Minecraft was the norm, and that calculating the optimum designs for automated power production and gargantuan resource-gathering apparatuses was the entire point of the

SmartOS

Ghost 0.x on SmartOS

This article has been superceeded by a newer version. Running and maintaining a blog on SmartOS is simple and easy. Today we're going to go over setting up Ghost on SmartOS, configuring an Nginx front-end, as well as configuring SMF to boot it up on zone startup. Why Ghost?To