Re: If anyone's awake.
On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 23:40, Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) wrote: does anyone know where I can grab a version of solaris 2.6 The sunsite no longer offers pre-solaris 8 downloads. Anyideas? Got myself a sparc station 20. Does anyone have suggestions/experiences with other os's? Cheers, fiq An SS20 is a sun4m machine which is supported under Solaris 8 and even the Solaris 9 beta programme so at the risk of being obvious why not install Solaris 8? Otherwise Debian/Linux, OpenBSD, or NetBSD would be the obvious choices. Regards Clive -- Clive Hills | Unemployed Solaris/Linux System | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crayford| Administration, Shell / Perl | t: 01322 550166 Kent UK | Reality/uniVerse/Pick DBA | t: 07977 013387 /* Looking for work in London City,Docklands, or West End */
Re: nms advocacy opportunity for me ;)
Newton, Philip wrote: I took the opportunity and suggested the look into replacing their formmail script not with Matt's 1.92 but with the nms offering. Let's see whether anything will happen Update: I got this short reply from the Form Mail Abuse Team: Thank you for the information. We are checking out the possibility of using NMS. So we'll see what happens. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Re: If anyone's awake.
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:31:08AM +0100, Clive Hills wrote: Otherwise Debian/Linux, OpenBSD, or NetBSD would be the obvious choices. If you want the kitchen sink, ftp.suse.com has Sparc iso images ... -- Chris Benson
SparcOS's - WAS: If anyone's awake.
Someone, now deleted, said: An SS20 is a sun4m machine which is supported under Solaris 8 and even the Solaris 9 beta programme so at the risk of being obvious why not install Solaris 8? How would it fair though? It's got a superSparc, 1Gb HD and 64Mb Ram. Hardly an ultra, and the standard Solaris 8 Distro. is supposed to consume about 2Gb. I could trim it down though. Is this really my best option though? Do I have enough memory to support it; since I'm only getting binaries and probably won't be able to rebuild my kernel. I've also had trouble with the cdimage that I burned of the solaris 8 install cd. It gives me a File too short. Boot file may not exist type warning. Is this at all familiar to you? Cheers, fiq
Re: SparcOS's - WAS: If anyone's awake.
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 11:08, Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) wrote: How would it fair though? It's got a superSparc, 1Gb HD and 64Mb Ram. Hardly an ultra, and the standard Solaris 8 Distro. is supposed to consume about 2Gb. I could trim it down though. Is this really my best option though? Do I have enough memory to support it; since I'm only getting binaries and probably won't be able to rebuild my kernel. I have two machines in the sun4m class here at home. One's a 40MHz SS10 and it quite happily runs Solaris 8 without X and acts as a mail server - it has 128Mb of RAM. I would observe that it took quite a while to install Solaris 8 and I did wonder if it wouldn't be better off running Linux (but I didn't have an up to date Linux distro). The other one is a SS5 with a 170MHz Turbosparc CPU that runs Solaris 8 almost fast enough to make me think about using as a workstation to do web browsing - it's not quite quick enough for that and could do with more than 64Mb of RAM. I'd guess that you'd be better off with Linux. I've also had trouble with the cdimage that I burned of the solaris 8 install cd. It gives me a File too short. Boot file may not exist type warning. Is this at all familiar to you? That sounds like that CDROM is a coaster to me. I've found downloading the images from Sun and writing them with cdrecord on Linux works well for me. Regards Clive -- Clive Hills | Unemployed Solaris/Linux System | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crayford| Administration, Shell / Perl | t: 01322 550166 Kent UK | Reality/uniVerse/Pick DBA | t: 07977 013387 /* Looking for work in London City,Docklands, or West End */
Re: SparcOS's - WAS: If anyone's awake.
I've found downloading the images from Sun and writing them with cdrecord on Linux works well for me. This is what I did. I can mount it under linux, however when I do a boot cdrom in openprom (?) it goes and flashes the drive light, but after a short delay it spews out the errors about the boot file not existing. Is this at all familiar? fiq
Re: SparcOS's - WAS: If anyone's awake.
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 12:45, Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) wrote: I've found downloading the images from Sun and writing them with cdrecord on Linux works well for me. This is what I did. I can mount it under linux, however when I do a boot cdrom in openprom (?) it goes and flashes the drive light, but after a short delay it spews out the errors about the boot file not existing. Is this at all familiar? Is this a genuine Sun cdrom drive ? Older suns (including the SS20) can only boot from cdroms that have the block size set to 512 bytes.(Most cdroms can't be configured that way - the ones Sun use and a few others can). Regards Clive -- Clive Hills | Unemployed Solaris/Linux System | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crayford| Administration, Shell / Perl | t: 01322 550166 Kent UK | Reality/uniVerse/Pick DBA | t: 07977 013387 /* Looking for work in London City,Docklands, or West End */
Re: SparcOS's - WAS: If anyone's awake.
On 6 May 2002, Clive Hills wrote: On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 11:08, Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) wrote: How would it fair though? It's got a superSparc, 1Gb HD and 64Mb Ram. Hardly an ultra, and the standard Solaris 8 Distro. is supposed to consume about 2Gb. I could trim it down though. Is this really my best option though? Do I have enough memory to support it; since I'm only getting binaries and probably won't be able to rebuild my kernel. One's a 40MHz SS10 and it quite happily runs Solaris 8 without X and acts as a mail server - it has 128Mb of RAM. I've got an SS20 with 196MB here that sems happy enough running X (though it's not exactly eing stressed) You can easily pick up cheap SCA disks these days, mine's got an 18GB unit, uscrew the old one from the caddy, put in te new one (or if you want the 1.8GB one that was in there prior, it's your) The surplus of 9 and 18GB SCA seems to be down to all the old raid systems that people are now upgrading to 36 or 78GB drives, for the ovious reasons. I would observe that it took quite a while to install Solaris 8 and I did wonder if it wouldn't be better off running Linux (but I didn't have an up to date Linux distro). It does take an age to install off CD, that's single speed cd roms for you. I too was rather worried about how fast it would run 8, when it wsa taking so long to install, until I realised that. If you happen to have an external scsi cd drive lying around, it might be worth hooking it up and booting from that, but I'm not spending money to upgrade mine, I doubt it'll be used again. You can pick up more memory for a handful of tenners though, if you do want more - google will undoubtedly be able to help if no one on-list has a prefered source. the hatter
Querying Apache's configuration
I'm wondering if anyone has done this before: some way or API for a non-Apache process to find out about a server's configuration. For example, all the virtual hosts being served, the ServerAdmin for a particular served site, etc. Right now I have a script which parses httpd.conf but this will break down once I start using perl in my httpd.conf. Two possible solutions might be putting some code in httpd.conf that CStorable::stores the info that Apache/mod_perl expose which can then be read like a registry, or perhaps expose that via a web service (heavyweight). Ideally what I'd like is a library that goes through the motions or can somehow attach to Apache, perhaps through SHM? Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ What is performance art? Sure, sure. -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/
Re: Querying Apache's configuration
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering if anyone has done this before: some way or API for a non-Apache process to find out about a server's configuration. For example, all the virtual hosts being served, the ServerAdmin for a particular served site, etc. Never done this, but is the -S option to httpd of any use to you? aef
Re: Querying Apache's configuration
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:40:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering if anyone has done this before: some way or API for a non-Apache process to find out about a server's configuration. For example, all the virtual hosts being served, the ServerAdmin for a particular served site, etc. Never done this, but is the -S option to httpd of any use to you? All it does unfortunately is print out a list of virtualhosts but none of the other information within each VirtualHost directive. If nothing better comes along I'll see if there are hooks into this somehow. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ If you exploded into a thousand tiny haddock, then rivulets of pure pleasure will swim down my spine! -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/
