[OmniOS-discuss] file system organisation for pkg packages

2013-09-25 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Folks, I have started to create packages for omnios and I am a bit at a loss as to packaging 'standards' ... With omnios getting more popular, I think it would be a good move to have some standards as to where things should go on the system ... good old /opt/X /etc/opt/X /var/opt/X come to

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] samba with AD on omnios

2013-09-17 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Chavdar, Yesterday Chavdar Ivanov wrote: Any particular reason not to use the default smb/server under OmniOS? My Solaris/OmniOS/OpenIndiana hosts all have joined our domain without many problems: I am aware of the differences in semantics as far as samba and Solaris smb/server is

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] samba with AD on omnios

2013-09-17 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Thomas, Today Thomas Werschlein wrote: Hi Tobi On 16.09.2013, at 22:56, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: I am trying to use samba/winbind to hook up our omnios box to an AD server. After some fiddleling, I managed to compile samba + openldap linked to the system krb5 libraries

[OmniOS-discuss] how to create a stable zone

2013-09-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Just experimented for the first time with zones on my omnios box ... workes fine ... great stuff ... except that I now realize that zoneadm -z xxx install by default it seems to install bloody, how do I get a zone installed with stable ? cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG,

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] how to create a stable zone

2013-09-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Eric Sproul wrote: On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: Just experimented for the first time with zones on my omnios box ... workes fine ... great stuff ... except that I now realize that zoneadm -z xxx install by default it seems to install

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] performance penalty of a slow mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Michael, Today Michael Mounteney wrote: Hello, as my current OmniOS server doesn't have removable disks, I've added an external USB2 HDD as a mirror, so that in the event of fire or holiday, the external disk can be taken away as a backup. How does OmniOS deal with a very slow mirror ?

[OmniOS-discuss] could you please merge the setgroups fix

2013-06-22 Thread Tobias Oetiker
We are in the process of deploying omnios for a large customer with a complex group setup ... only to find that support for more than 16 groups per user was broken ... this got fixed upstream in the mean time ... could you please merge the fix ?

[OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

2013-06-10 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Folks, We are trying to implement a fileserver using OmniOS. The customer has been on Linux until now, but ZFS seems VERY tempting. The first problem we ran into is that OmniOS seems to limit the number of groups per user to 16 by default. Setting ngroups_max to 128 in /etc/system seemd to take

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

2013-06-10 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Ira Cooper wrote: Actually, just set ngroups_max to 1024 in /etc/system, there is an outside chance of a user having 128 groups in some AD environments. 1024 seems less likely. so you suggest that setting ngroups_max to 128 is bad ? while setting it to 1024 would be good ? in our setup

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

2013-06-10 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Ira Cooper wrote: If it works, use it. I'm merely stating from experience in situations with even more groups, the max is 1024, and people may wish to be aware of it / use it. I personally use it just so I don't have to worry about increasing it. But that's me. in testing it worked,

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