[OmniOS-discuss] LX for OmniOS update

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 14 Aug 2016, Dan McDonald wrote:

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>> On Aug 14, 2016, at 2:24 PM, wonko at 4amlunch.net wrote:
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>> Also, regarding not being able to use Linux networking tools to configure things.... Is there a way we can pre-pend a "magic" $PATH entry that can't be removed that has all the tools (iptables, ifconfig, etc) that just print out messages about those things don't work here and use $foo instead?
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> That's an interesting question.  I wonder how the people who already use LX on SmartOS cope with this?

The problem is that there are many networking oriented programs which 
do use the interfaces which are not supported.  Blocking access to 
command-line utilities does not prevent software from attempting to 
use the facilities at an API level.

Bob
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