Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] For a basic dev environment

2011-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
"Kevin J. Woolley" writes: > On 16 March 2011 16:27, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> When I was running opensolaris 101, up to 133 before switching to oi, >> there used to be a basic set of pkgs one needed installed to have a basic >> developmental environment.  I mean just enough to do basic compile >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] For a basic dev environment

2011-03-16 Thread Kevin J. Woolley
On 16 March 2011 16:27, Harry Putnam wrote: > When I was running opensolaris 101, up to 133 before switching to oi, > there used to be a basic set of pkgs one needed installed to have a basic > developmental environment.  I mean just enough to do basic compile > from source of gnus pkgs and the l

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Explain the Goal of oi

2011-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Christopher Chan writes: > On Thursday, March 17, 2011 06:54 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Apostolos Syropoulos writes: >> >>> Yes I am very very serious! A serious person would had first read the >>> wikepedia article >> >> You might want to ease up a bit, on that very very part you do >> know

[OpenIndiana-discuss] For a basic dev environment

2011-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
When I was running opensolaris 101, up to 133 before switching to oi, there used to be a basic set of pkgs one needed installed to have a basic developmental environment. I mean just enough to do basic compile from source of gnus pkgs and the like. Is that still true with oi? If so can anyone sa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Explain the Goal of oi

2011-03-16 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, March 17, 2011 06:54 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Apostolos Syropoulos writes: Yes I am very very serious! A serious person would had first read the wikepedia article You might want to ease up a bit, on that very very part you do know there are health risks right? What ri

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtual Desktop

2011-03-16 Thread David
Hi, Does OpenIndiana offer something analogous to the Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure solution? I'm not familiar with Oracle VDI, so perhaps this is a nonsensical question. (I'm assuming it's something like a Terminal Server on steroids.) Thank you ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proxy for auto-updates?

2011-03-16 Thread Kevin J. Woolley
On 16 March 2011 15:43, David wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: >> In oi_147 you could fix this by doing a 'su -', giving the password >> you used during the installation, and resetting the password when >> prompted (because root's password was expired).  I'm not

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Explain the Goal of oi

2011-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Apostolos Syropoulos writes: > Yes I am very very serious! A serious person would had first read the > wikepedia article You might want to ease up a bit, on that very very part you do know there are health risks right? ___ OpenIndiana-discus

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to index all files on a oi system

2011-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Matt Connolly writes: > Perhaps you might be interested in installing the "locate" command from gnu > findutils: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/ > > It's installed by default on Mac OSX systems, and is really handy. There's > probably some very good security reasons that it's not insta

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proxy for auto-updates?

2011-03-16 Thread David
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: > On 16 March 2011 15:26, David wrote: > >> 1) I can't even launch these applications of a fresh install, since >> the GUI is prompting me for a root password, but no root password is >> created during the install process.  This appears to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proxy for auto-updates?

2011-03-16 Thread Kevin J. Woolley
On 16 March 2011 15:26, David wrote: > 1) I can't even launch these applications of a fresh install, since > the GUI is prompting me for a root password, but no root password is > created during the install process.  This appears to be true for many > admin applets.  (Plus, I would have assumed i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Explain the Goal of oi

2011-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
"Kevin J. Woolley" writes: >> This list always so friendly and encouraging... >> :D > > Really? I think it does pretty darn well. I won't try to convince you, > though. As OP, I agree. I also agree that I should have kept my yap shut when the sniper came in. All input was quite useful. Tha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proxy for auto-updates?

2011-03-16 Thread David
>> > Totally new to Solaris  Thought I'd try Open Indiana live DVD inside >> a VM. >> > >> > Question:  How do I configure the package manger/updater to use an http >> proxy? >> >> The package manager may be something of a moving target -- I don't >> have a http proxy to test on, but the instru

[OpenIndiana-discuss] bug reports

2011-03-16 Thread Reginald Beardsley
I've just switched to using OI for my internet access, so I'll be testing it a bit ;-) Three items: The "Report a bug"option in the OpenIndiana pulldown in Firefox doesn't take you to a report form.  In fact I couldn't find one anywhere. The default installed system is starting 2 volume manage

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problems with limiting access to Xvnc on OpenIndiana

2011-03-16 Thread Hillel Lubman
Hi. I'm trying to set up Xvnc server on OpenIndiana oi_148 machine to access it remotely, and I want to limit access to ssh, to enforce secured connections. I managed to enable the service, and set properties for it as follows: inetadm -m svc:/application/x11/xvnc-inetd:default exec="/usr/X11/bi

[OpenIndiana-discuss] SMFGUI

2011-03-16 Thread Andrey Sokolov
Is it possible to place SMFGUI into OI repository? http://sourceforge.net/projects/smfgui/files/smfgui_0.9.5.1_src.tar.bz2/download There is binary executable compiled for OpenSolaris 2009.06 in the archive. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Explain the Goal of oi

2011-03-16 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
> >> I've been seeing little snippets of subjects and the like that seem > to > >> indicate that oi is merging with Illumini (no sure what that is called > >> by full name). > >  > > The least I would expect from people to do is a basic google search > > before posting. > > Is this guy serious