Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package buildsystem

2010-12-08 Thread Mads Worsøe Duun
2010/12/8 Dustin Marquess > While personally all of my OpenIndianan/Solaris servers use pkgsrc (it > rocks!), I personally think effort would be best spent fixing the existing > packages in pkgsrc upstream. I know the DragonflyBSD devs do this, that > way > they automatically benefit from change

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Root role and root user

2010-12-08 Thread Mads Worsøe Duun
I really don't like the idea of running as root if I don't need it, not even on my home setup. I really don't see the problem in ssh into my regular user, and from there su into root. Running root as user is dirty, and for lazy persons. Cheers, Mads Worsøe Duun

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Package buildsystem

2010-12-08 Thread Dustin Marquess
While personally all of my OpenIndianan/Solaris servers use pkgsrc (it rocks!), I personally think effort would be best spent fixing the existing packages in pkgsrc upstream. I know the DragonflyBSD devs do this, that way they automatically benefit from changes upstream. -Dustin On Wed, Dec 8, 2

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Package buildsystem

2010-12-08 Thread Mads Worsøe Duun
In the wiki section http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/OpenIndiana+Addon+Consolidations?focusedCommentId=4883385#comment-4883385it says a BSD-ports buildsystem will be added later to Openindiana. I very much like this idea, but has anyone thought about witch system to use? Will it be a system designed

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Grub 0.97 Code

2010-12-08 Thread Darko Hojnik
hmm there is a simple problem with wget wget -r http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-opengrok/usr/src/grub I get only the index.html :/ Any ideas? best regards Darko Hojnik Am 08.12.2010, 06:06 Uhr, schrieb Albert Lee : On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Darko Hojnik wrote: Hi I am se

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Root role and root user

2010-12-08 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
# usermod -K type=normal root - Original Message - > I'm sure to get scolded for running as root quite often but it is my > preferred method quite often. It's no doubt not a good idea but I > still bull headedly, prefer it quite often. > > I like to be able to ssh to root whenever I pleas

[OpenIndiana-discuss] libfmevent problem with installing oi_147

2010-12-08 Thread Kostas Oikonomou
Hi, I'm trying to install the live CD on a Dell 6510 laptop. The installation fails fairly early on, with a message to the effect that libfmevent.so cannot be found: ld.so.1: svc.startd: fatal: libfmevent.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory Has anyone else seen this, and is there

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Root role and root user

2010-12-08 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm sure to get scolded for running as root quite often but it is my preferred method quite often. It's no doubt not a good idea but I still bull headedly, prefer it quite often. I like to be able to ssh to root whenever I please. It makes lots of things easier... and since this is a home setup a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] iops...

2010-12-08 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> > I am totally aware of these differences, but it seems some people > > think RAIDz is nonsense unless you don't need speed at all. My > > testing shows (so far) that the speed is quite good, far better than > > single drives. Also, as Eric said, those speeds are for random i/o. > > I doubt there