Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

2012-10-02 Thread Thorsten Heit
Hi, I still don't know what IPS really is Image Packaging System It's a software packaging scheme that was designed during the OpenSolaris days as a replacement for the old SysV packaging system. The big change is that it's based on a client/server model, where (at least in the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dismissing zpool upgrade notice

2012-10-02 Thread Thorsten Heit
Hi Jan, My two questions: A) How can I tell zpool that I don't want to upgrade? Will it just remain at version 28 until an administrator runs zpool upgrade? As long as you don't explicitly run zpool upgrade, the pool version stays the same. B) Is there a way to have zpool status -x only

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

2012-10-02 Thread låzaro
thanks for all the answers Thread name: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river Mail number: 6 Date: Tue, Oct 02, 2012 In reply to: Thorsten Heit thorsten.h...@vkb.de Hi, I still don't know what IPS really is Image Packaging System It's a software packaging

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mountpoint tiering with priorities

2012-10-02 Thread Nathan Kunkee
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 14:11:38 +0400 From: jimkli...@cos.ru To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mountpoint tiering with priorities On a dual-boot box I can mount another OS's partition with FUSE and moderate performance. I can also boot that other OS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] killing graphical login

2012-10-02 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-10-02 9:15, Roel_D пишет: Hmz.. You can't disable gdm when you want to use vnc as far as i know I won't vouch for that if you're so certain, because our machines use our own brew of TightVNC with a lightweight twm window manager. That certainly works even in the absence of not only gdm,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)

2012-10-02 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Daniel Kjar dk...@elmira.edu wrote: h mine is not even seeing the disks installed on the system It should see your disks. On my 2 SB2000's it sees them, too. Just as on all other tested boxes ... Does it help if you try devfsadm -v and then look

[OpenIndiana-discuss] [TOOLS] memconf

2012-10-02 Thread Roel_D
I needed some info about my memory modules and almost forgot this beautiful script called memconf. http://www.4schmidts.com/memconf.html I don't know if mr Schmidts is on this mailinglist, but this script is a must have. (for me as a dummy)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [TOOLS] memconf

2012-10-02 Thread Magnus
Also check out the ruby gem ohai. It's more typically used to collect intel for Chef but it works great as a standalone tool. Provides verbose output about your system configuration in JSON format for easy machine parsing. On Oct 2, 2012, at 9:10 AM, Roel_D wrote: I needed some info about my

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [TOOLS] memconf

2012-10-02 Thread Roel_D
Can you provide a howto for this ohai? Although I hate to install special software on my global zone -Original Message- From: Magnus [mailto:mag...@yonderway.com] Sent: dinsdag 2 oktober 2012 15:12 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [TOOLS]

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI stopped booting after 151a6 update.

2012-10-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Jerry Kemp wrote: Was the build 151a6 boot hanging issue ever resolved? I remember this discussion from a few weeks ago. Probably not. For your systems, was it wrongly identified as being an 'i386' (i.e. 32-bit CPU)? That is one of the failure modes we heard of. Bob

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)

2012-10-02 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:38 AM, DavidHalko davidha...@gmail.com wrote: U da man! I will be looking into testing it tomorrow on some machines. Thank you for your efforts! Honestly, I see no value of IPS under OI SPARC since I do not expect any software will ever be commercial software made

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] killing graphical login

2012-10-02 Thread Gary Gendel
That would be great. On 10/ 2/12 12:01 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: You may also want to look into FreeNX, I believe I requested it, and I thought they closed the ticket saying they were adding it to one of the community repos, not 100% sure though. On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Jim

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [TOOLS] memconf

2012-10-02 Thread magnus
### install ohai magnus@dogface:~$ sudo gem install ohai Successfully installed ohai-6.14.0 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for ohai-6.14.0... Installing RDoc documentation for ohai-6.14.0... magnus@dogface:~$ ### Ruby gems aren't installed in the default $PATH. magnus@dogface:~$

[OpenIndiana-discuss] postgres as service on OI

2012-10-02 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I am a bit of a newbie so bear with me. If I want postgres to start up automatically - where do I put the XML definition file to have it start as a service? Thanks. Boris. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] postgres as service on OI

2012-10-02 Thread Lou Picciano
I think we're using /lib/svc/manifest as the new standard. Custom service definitions often placed in /lib/svc/manifest/site , by convention. You'll need a corresponding method file to make it all hang together. Lou Picciano - Original Message - From: Boris Epstein

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] postgres as service on OI

2012-10-02 Thread Boris Epstein
Lou, Thanks. There's also stuff under /var/svc/manifest/ It is a bit confusing - how does one determine what goes where? Boris. On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Lou Picciano loupicci...@comcast.netwrote: I think we're using /lib/svc/manifest as the new standard. Custom service definitions

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] postgres as service on OI

2012-10-02 Thread Roel_D
Which version of Postgres do you want to install? AFAIK Solaris and OpenIndiana have standard packages for Postgres and those include a SMF. -Original Message- From: Lou Picciano [mailto:loupicci...@comcast.net] Sent: dinsdag 2 oktober 2012 23:15 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] postgres as service on OI

2012-10-02 Thread Lou Picciano
I think a general convention would be: put into 'site' what you are building custom. Various formal installs will place manifests in the other paths according to the 'Great Wisdom' (to which a very few are party!) Others (many of whom will have 'The Knowledge') will weigh in... (!) Lou

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] postgres as service on OI

2012-10-02 Thread Lou Picciano
Boris, Digging a bit further (I must admit, I've never installed our postgresql_84), this package installs its service manifest into /lib/svc/manifest/application/database/postgresql_84.xml The method this manifest calls is in: $ /lib/svc/method/postgres_84 You can start up either the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] postgres as service on OI

2012-10-02 Thread Boris Epstein
Lou, Brilliant! Thank you very much. Just ran this: sudo svcadm enable postgresql_84:default_64bit and now my Postgres appears to be running. I will now check it out. Boris. On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Lou Picciano loupicci...@comcast.netwrote: Boris, Digging a bit further (I must

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Switching from oi-experimental back to openindiana

2012-10-02 Thread Christopher Chan
Is that possible? :-D ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] postgres as service on OI

2012-10-02 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, On 02.10.2012 23:11, Boris Epstein wrote: Hello listmates, I am a bit of a newbie so bear with me. If I want postgres to start up automatically - where do I put the XML definition file to have it start as a service? are you building postgres yourself? Do you know that 9.0 and 9.1 are