[rt-users] RE: Rt on Sun hardware with Solaris OS

[Richard Ellis]

RT does indeed run very happily on Soliaris SPARC boxes. We initially tested
it on an Ultra 10 loaded with all the ram it could carry, but have shifted it
to a pair of fully specc'd Enterprise 420R's now that it is in production.
Our install guide is a fairly useful place to start and there is only
one serious gotcha, look out for the socket error fix on the wiki. My
fix has been superceded by the newer version including it in the
RT_Siteconfig.pm now.

We use MySQL, Apache/ModPerl and have run it successfully using its
internal database and webserver.

Have CPAN setup before you start and make fixdeps in the new versions
will take care of almost all of the headaches.

Feel free to call me if you need any help.

Rik


Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:15:03 -0400
> From: "Shawn Guillemette" <sguillemette at metrocastcablevision.com>
> Subject: [rt-users] Rt on Sun hardware with Solaris OS
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> Has anyone tried to install RT on a Sun machine running Solaris 9 or 8?
> If so there much additional work that need to happen before the
> application functioned correctly? Was it Time effective?  I have in the
> past taken an application from the freebsd Ports collection and hacked
> it to work under Solaris. However, I was not pleased with the amount of
> work and time that it took to convert it. Basically I'm looking to find
> out the amount of work and time it would take to implement Rt on a SUN
> machine running Solaris 8 or 9.  
>  
> 
> Thanks 
> Shawn 
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> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:52:22 -0400
> From: Brian_Gupta at timeinc.com
> Subject: RE: [rt-users] Rt on Sun hardware with Solaris OS
> To: sguillemette at metrocastcablevision.com,
> 	rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
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> Sun wrote an install guide:
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> http://wiki.bestpractical.com/index.cgi?SolarisInstallGuide
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> Unfortunately this came out after we did our install, so I can't speak
> for it's quality, but I looked it over and it looks a good basic install
> guide. (It doesn't really cover customization)
> 
>  
> 
> We have been running RT 3.0.8 on Solaris 8 for about a year now. I
> recommend the effort, as it is a very useful tool. It took about a day
> or two to get it up, not much hacking involved. The hardest part was
> installing all the prerequisite perlmodules. I ended up using the CPAN
> module, and it became much easier.
> 
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> Once you have it up and running, further configuration and customization
> took about a week. (This included time to read the docs and familiarize
> myself with the application).
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> 
> Please let me know if you have any questions. You will find
> http://wiki.bestpractical.com is a decent resource, once you decide to
> go forward.
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>  
> 
> -Brian
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> [mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Shawn
> Guillemette
> 	Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 2:15 PM
> 	To: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
> 	Subject: [rt-users] Rt on Sun hardware with Solaris OS
> 
> 	Has anyone tried to install RT on a Sun machine running Solaris
> 9 or 8? If so there much additional work that need to happen before the
> application functioned correctly? Was it Time effective?  I have in the
> past taken an application from the freebsd Ports collection and hacked
> it to work under Solaris. However, I was not pleased with the amount of
> work and time that it took to convert it. Basically I'm looking to find
> out the amount of work and time it would take to implement Rt on a SUN
> machine running Solaris 8 or 9.  
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> 	Thanks 
> 
> 	Shawn 
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