Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade

2023-06-07 Thread david allan finch
, this time it took 33hr for each disk (ie 100hr to do all three over 5 days). I have tried to update the OS before and always it fails at some point, so in the end just stayed with what worked. On 2/12/15 10:36, david allan finch wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what to do

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox Client Extensions Broken

2022-10-06 Thread david allan finch
On 10/6/22 10:36, Marcel Telka wrote: Maybe rebuild-index would work better than rebiuld-index. :-) I did spot that before I ran it, but as my first language is not Modern English but old-fashioned-westcounty-giberish I didn't think it should complain.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox Client Extensions Broken

2022-10-06 Thread david allan finch
On 10/6/22 09:20, Predrag Zečević wrote: I would try: :; pfexec pkg refresh --full :; pfexec pkg rebiuld-index thanks. I just tried that, refresh gives the same error. I did this three times (refresh gives the error) and then tried the update and it gives the same error message. This is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox Client Extensions Broken

2022-10-06 Thread david allan finch
not using shared folders at all. Host is OI (updated yesterday) and shared folders (to Win Guest) works: ; pkg list virtualbox NAME (PUBLISHER)  VERSION     IFO system/virtualbox 6.1.38-2022.0.0.0     i-- Running the update I see: david@hal9k:~$ sudo pkg update

[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox Client Extensions Broken

2022-10-05 Thread david allan finch
Hi, Not quite sure what has broken it but, I installed the latest version of VirtualBox 6.1.38 and updated the client extension into my OpenIndiana VM client (it was the last build 2021Oct from the ISO). Around the same time I did a pkg update to the latest changes. Since then the Shared

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb

2021-08-02 Thread david allan finch
creating the bootable USB drive. Is anyone else attually doing this from Windows? On 07/07/21 12:08 PM, david allan finch wrote: On 07/07/21 10:02 AM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: there are several manuals, boot(1M), gptzzfsboot(5), loader(5). thanks in your case, the problem

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] warning - don't update OI

2021-07-24 Thread David Allan Finch
Is this the same as I could not get the USB install drive to boot? Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: "Andreas Wacknitz" To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" , "OpenIndiana Developer mailing list" Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] warning - don't update OI Date: Sat, Jul 24, 2021

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb

2021-07-07 Thread david allan finch
On 07/07/21 10:02 AM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: there are several manuals, boot(1M), gptzzfsboot(5), loader(5). thanks in your case, the problem starts from the fact that we do not get information about partitions, on screenshot, all disks are listed without partitioning

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb

2021-07-07 Thread david allan finch
Hi, I have not installed openindiana on real hardware for sometime, done it lots of times via a iso on virtualbox. I copied the latest usb image with Win32DiskImager on to a usb thumbdrive. When it boot I get: list of c: ... and disk-x illumos/x86 boot Can't find disk-1:/boot/loader I

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh to oi_151a9

2021-06-16 Thread david allan finch
Hi, I have an old server running oi_151a9 which I can't just update to a newer OpenIndiana yet (I have a plan to replace it with a newie machine once I have a free one which will use the latest build). I am having an issue with putty/fillzilla no longer working from windows and the command

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] test images of actual Hipster for download

2021-04-06 Thread david allan finch
On 04/06/21 02:32 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: A new release is due in about a month. Wicked. Thanks ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] test images of actual Hipster for download

2021-04-06 Thread david allan finch
On 04/05/21 10:36 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Everybody should be aware that they are no official releases. I will keep them there for some days. Will there be a new release soon? I am thinking of building a new server. Regards ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Shell to use?

2021-01-20 Thread david allan finch
On 01/20/21 12:50 PM, Michael Schuster wrote: what you're describing is memory overcommit, which Solaris never did (at least not while I was at Sun). Good. BTW HP or IBM Unix was the first one I saw do this and they even had special signals, to tell you. Sorry you app had to die as we lied

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Shell to use?

2021-01-20 Thread david allan finch
On 01/19/21 06:50 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I have always noticed that Solaris (and OpenIndiana) is slower to fork processes than Linux or FreeBSD.  It seems slower to enlarge the process address space as well (perhaps because it does not lie). This is because Linux lies to an app about new

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Shell to use?

2021-01-20 Thread david allan finch
On 01/19/21 06:40 PM, Araragi Hokuto wrote: 2) What interface are you using, video console, terminal emulator under X, or something else (through ssh, etc)? I have found that some terminal emulators are quicker than others. I normally switch to xterm when I find I have an issue with terminal

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DNLA Server

2020-02-05 Thread david allan finch
On 02/03/20 05:30 PM, Michal Nowak via openindiana-discuss wrote: media/minidlna was packaged recently. Let us know how it works for you. Thanks. I descovered that my server is still on oi_151a9 even though I thought I had updated it. So that started a process of me trying to update and

[OpenIndiana-discuss] DNLA Server

2020-02-03 Thread david allan finch
Hi, Is there a package for a DNLA server? What is the best one to build if there isn't one already done? Thanks ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Install

2019-08-19 Thread david allan finch
On 08/19/19 05:50 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: ... Thanks for all that. I have a 160Gb disk so that should be good. If I can find a second one in my stack of old disk I will look at trying to set up the mirror. Currently I am missing an ATX 8pin extra 12v connector for the motherboard, so my

[OpenIndiana-discuss] New Install

2019-08-19 Thread david allan finch
Hi All, I am just about to build a new system: What is the realistic small disk you can use to install on? What is the recommened size assumimg all no OS stuff will be on another pool? (ie to take into account updates etc) Can you install a new system with a mirror as the boot drive? (I

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Asus B250 Mining Expert Motherboard

2019-08-02 Thread david allan finch
Has anyone tried this motherboard with openindiana or have any ideas of issues etc? *Asus B250 Mining Expert Motherboard* https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B075D7R8DL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8=1 Thanks ___ openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updating Java

2018-10-01 Thread David Koski
Thank you!  That is what I needed to know. Java was flagged during vulnerability testing so I will just remove it and dependent packages. David On 09/28/2018 01:11 AM, Alexander Pyhalov via openindiana-discuss wrote: Hi. First of all, you run on something especially outdated. Seriously

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updating Java

2018-09-28 Thread David Koski
On closer examination I think I should be able to remove any DHCP packages as the server has only static IP addresses but I'm not sure what "resource-pools/poold" refers to or how to uninstall it. David Koski On 09/27/2018 04:30 PM, da...@kosmosisland.com wrote: Version information

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Updating Java

2018-09-27 Thread david
/dhcpmgr@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.5:20120630T193556Z I did not expect anything network related to depend on java. What are my options? Thanks! David Koski ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Duplicate devices in zpool, degraded

2018-01-05 Thread David Koski
I applied this remedy without change in outcome. Thanks! David da...@kosmosisland.com On 11/01/2017 11:05 AM, Grüninger, Andreas (LGL Extern) wrote: Maybe the system did not detect that the fault is already cleared. If you look in /var/adm/messages you will find the entries from fmadm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Duplicate devices in zpool, degraded

2018-01-05 Thread David Koski
# zpool replace syspool c2t0d0s0 c2t0d0s0 invalid vdev specification use '-f' to override the following errors: /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s0 is part of active ZFS pool syspool. Please see zpool(1M). David da...@kosmosisland.com On 11/01/2017 11:39 AM, John D Groenveld wrote: The boot drive had

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Duplicate devices in zpool, degraded

2017-11-01 Thread David Koski
Thank you, Andreas.  I tried: zpool clear syspool zpool status -x ..but nothing changed.  I also scrubbed it without effect. Regards, David On 11/01/2017 02:59 AM, Grüninger, Andreas (LGL Extern) wrote: Use zpool clear syspool zpool status -x Andreas -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Duplicate devices in zpool, degraded

2017-11-01 Thread David Koski
this and is it of concern? Regards, David Koski ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS on Openindiana vs ZFS on oracle linux

2017-04-21 Thread David Johnson
1/17 11:01, Andrew Gabriel wrote: On 21/04/2017 18:24, David Johnson wrote: Does anyone have any editorial comments on how well ZFS is handled on Openindiana vs. Oracle Linux? It looks like these may be my only two choices if I want to have an OS that has native ZFS support, and allow me to g

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS on Openindiana vs ZFS on oracle linux

2017-04-21 Thread David Johnson
Does anyone have any editorial comments on how well ZFS is handled on Openindiana vs. Oracle Linux? It looks like these may be my only two choices if I want to have an OS that has native ZFS support, and allow me to get updated security patches. Dave

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] command will not run from cron but will from CLI

2016-05-09 Thread david
:55:00 2016 >> < root 17987 c Mon May 9 11:55:00 2016 rc=127 >> > > It's not the script, it's your crontab entry. > > The command it's trying to run (see the CMD in the log) is > > * /root/test > > and, indeed, where there should be 5 time specifiers i

[OpenIndiana-discuss] command will not run from cron but will from CLI

2016-05-09 Thread david
from the command line. What am I missing? Regards, David Koski ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mailservers and clients that work on OI

2015-12-23 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 3:00 PM, the outsider wrote: > I still think that Steve Jobs was sleeping when Oracle wanted to buy SUN. > Apple could have ruled the world on desktop and server level. > (although it wouldn't be good for the world) > I don't think Jobs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The mailing list is dead

2015-12-17 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Nikola M wrote: > I recently figured that Gmail through it's web interface forbids sending > any type of archive within the mail messages (.zip, .7z, .rar etc) and that > level of user-bashing combined with mandatory indexing of message

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The mailing list is dead

2015-12-17 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Nikola M wrote: > Using worst possible and least private solution is hardly the answer. > I suppose hosting mail server at some small or middle size company, where > there is payed full-time email server administrator is the better solution, >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The mailing list is dead

2015-12-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Nikola M wrote: > I think that having your own mail server/domain these days it dirty cheap > and everyone should have one :D It's cheap in terms of money but costs a LOT of time. In a previous job I managed a mail server and I probably

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD as a dedicated swap device

2015-12-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: > My long standing rule is swap = 8 x core. Hmm. I could see that working for small systems, but I have some machines where that would require dedicating a terabyte of disk

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI roadmap (for production)

2015-12-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Rich Teer wrote: > This conversation reminds me of this old chestnut: > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What's the most annoying thing on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The mailing list is dead

2015-12-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: > > Strange, this is exactly why IMAP was created. I run my own mail server > using spamdyke for SMTP and dovecot for IMAP. I have a dozen of mobile and > desktop devices that read and send mail and don't have an issue. My

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD as a dedicated swap device

2015-12-11 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Jacob Ritorto wrote: > If the swap partition ends up being on ZFS, it'll garner the additional > benefit of being able to be periodically scrubbed to check for degradation > of the SSD (these only accommodate a finite number of write

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the recommended way to back up root pool?

2015-11-09 Thread David Brodbeck
monopoly cable carriers are starting to enforce them. On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 2:38 PM, John D Groenveld <jdg...@elvis.arl.psu.edu> wrote: > In message < > cahhaouaf9yub2gugudy09eqtche6j5gqypsn57+gsspetvn...@mail.gmail.com> > , David Brodbeck writes: > >set up and ma

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken zpool

2015-11-09 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Philip Robar <philip.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the thing that both Jerry's > administrator friend and David are missing is that ZFS data redundancy > isn't just a "sexy" form of reliability. It is also

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the recommended way to back up root pool?

2015-11-09 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:59 AM, John D Groenveld wrote: > The OP might appreciate more details. > Eh, I didn't want to seem like I was shilling, especially shilling a service that was in direct competition with an OSS system you already mentioned. Anyway, based on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the recommended way to back up root pool?

2015-11-09 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, David Brodbeck wrote: > >> >> Anyway, based on earlier comments I'm pretty sure the OP isn't interested >> in, or in a position to, pay for a subscription s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the recommended way to back up root pool?

2015-11-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote: > (Scope) creeping out further, can any of the *BSD's or Lunux distro's do a > full system restore to blank disk? I've usually done it by booting from a LiveCD, and doing the restore from there. I think this is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the recommended way to back up root pool?

2015-11-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > Assume that this is for a network server with advanced network > configuration settings, ssh config, zones, etc. > > If was the same as a standard OS install without subsequent configuration, > then backing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken zpool

2015-11-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote: > From a high level view, his comment to them is to NOT run a mirror. His > suggestion to them is to just run a straight drive, then every evening or > downtime, bring the other disk(s) online and sync them with the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Who is trying to break in ?

2015-07-01 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:15 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: You can also boost security with no passwords allowed, keys only for ssh auth ;) True. I do this with machines where I'm the only one who'll be logging in. With machines that have lots of other users it becomes too much of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Who is trying to break in ?

2015-06-30 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: Got no qualms about ssh (or openvpn) on port 443 - indeed, if one sets up something non-standard, gotta be ready for the consequences. And to all ids'es and sniffers, cryptotraffic looks much the same (different dynamic flow

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No longer using OI Desktop

2015-06-08 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org wrote: The real problem is that OI has no community---just people who contribute almost nothing (of course there are brilliant exceptions...) and who are always critical about this

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] All of a sudden I'm feeling stupid.... Where does the COW and the newly written data go for snapshots?

2015-05-14 Thread David Brodbeck
Yeah, sorry, I admin a lot of Linux servers so I'm used to thinking of it generically as 'noatime'. :) On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 4:02 AM, James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com wrote: On 05/14/15 05:15, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: noatime, isn't that a UFS specific mount option?? There's a ZFS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] All of a sudden I'm feeling stupid.... Where does the COW and the newly written data go for snapshots?

2015-05-13 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 4:33 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) udo.grabow...@kit.edu wrote: On 13/05/2015 09:20, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: This is what it looks like on the FreeNAS box NAME AVAIL USED USEDSNAP USEDDS USEDREFRESERV USEDCHILD Tank/cifs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade

2015-02-13 Thread david allan finch
drive, just in case. If you have some particularly important stuff I would copy it somewhere. +1 I have done this on a proper server Sun server in the past and I will try this. Does any one have any idea what the largest drives the N54L can take? Regards david

[OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade

2015-02-12 Thread david allan finch
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what to do for an upgrade? I have a HP Proliant Microserver N54L with 4x 2Tb drives which I have been happy with for more than a year but I have started to run out of disk space in my zfs pool. I have been pruning the snapshots and rubbish

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi or hipster for ultra5?

2015-02-03 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.com wrote: For regular distros there are a couple of major resource constraints: ZFS has a certain footprint. (Although it's somewhat overstated - I've run zfs based systems that have 512M of memory quite happily. Not as file

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi or hipster for ultra5?

2015-02-02 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Jacob Ritorto jacob.rito...@gmail.com wrote: Going to recompile the bins on bsd. Absolutely LOVING the keyboard. Gosh, I missed that thing. Otherwise, yeah, don't need a pc here. I admit that I'm a little nervy about the bsd learning curve, but, hey -

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SATA Expansion cards

2015-02-01 Thread David Scharbach
I used the RES2SV240 card in OI for a while with no issues. It is a standard LSI based LSISAS2x expander chip. Use it now in FreeNAS and the 9211-8i card functions fine with SATA drives. I currently have 20 SATA drives connected to it with no issues while running IT firmware and ZFS. I have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

2015-01-30 Thread David Brodbeck
Oh, I went into the discussion knowing there would never be a forum. It doesn't fit with the character and target audience of this project, which is firmly rooted in old UNIX traditions. If it were still possible to use UUCP bang paths, this list would do it. ;) I just found the generation-based

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

2015-01-30 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Nikola M minik...@gmail.com wrote: People in the business and personal world are using Mail clients very intensively. Not every Mail server admin or service provider is happy with keeping all copies of all messages on servers forever, so Mail clients are in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

2015-01-28 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:53 PM, James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com wrote: Indeed. That's mostly as a side-effect of all those developers setting up little Facebook-like forum fiefdoms. I hate having to visit 100 of these just to keep up, so I don't. If it comes to me via email (for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

2015-01-28 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Nikola M minik...@gmail.com wrote: I think it breaks down mostly between people that know how to use mail client, valuing their privacy and people who just click on someone's proprietary services, depending on someone else for use of even basic services on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

2015-01-27 Thread David Brodbeck
The forum vs. email split seems to break down along the lines of polling vs. push. People who have used email for a long time and know how to manage large amounts of it prefer the push model; people who are less familiar with it, and think in terms of online communities, tend to prefer forums. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Graphical Desktop environment on server

2015-01-02 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote: PS yes, vi is a PITA to learn, (I had to learn vi decades ago having previously used early incarnations of the much friendlier Rand Editor), but as a general purpose editor, once you _have_ learned it, you can work

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue

2014-11-04 Thread david allan finch
On 04/11/2014 03:36, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: While it would be nice if Solaris software was all 64-bit, in actual practice I notice no difference in day to day use between systems with 32-bit applications and 64-bit. Only certain memory-hungry applications will significantly benefit. We

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue

2014-10-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote: On 10/ 2/14 07:00 AM, Brandon Hume wrote: On many (most? all?) Linuxes, /bin/sh *is* /bin/bash. Many, but not all - the Debian family and some others use a lighter weight, POSIX compatible shell instead,

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Root access to home directories

2014-06-03 Thread david boutcher
this? David ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Root access to home directories

2014-06-03 Thread david boutcher
. 19:37:07 CEST, James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com пишет: On 06/03/14 13:26, david boutcher wrote: The other day my hard disk became completely full due to a home directory with some massive files. This caused the server to fail to boot properly and only allowed me into maintenance mode

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread David Scharbach
drives. I may be paranoid but I would be careful using z1 with large drives as rebuilds take long time. A second fail will kill you... -- David Scharbach Mine Senior Electrical Engineer PCS Cory Division On Jan 3, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Saso Kiselkov skiselkov

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-03 Thread David Scharbach
How does a 5 drive bay work over sas? Does it have an internal expander for the 5th drive?? -- David Scharbach Mine Senior Electrical Engineer PCS Cory Division On Jan 3, 2014, at 11:53 AM, Saso Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/3/14, 5:52 PM

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-02 Thread David Scharbach
Supermicro may bit a bit overkill for the home server :) Although I have considered it for myself at home… We used them where I used to work and they are pretty nice for the money. For myself, I opted to go with the Norco 4220, a Tyan MB with an integral LSI-2008 based HBA, LSI based intel

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

2014-01-02 Thread David Scharbach
. And hot-swap is the bomb, so make sure you get that because having to shut down to replace a drive is not cool (I have not shut off my server in a long time, even with the drive failures). Cheers, On Jan 2, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Roman Naumenko ro...@naumenko.ca wrote: David Scharbach said

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Offtopic question to old SPARC users

2013-12-23 Thread David Brodbeck
connections, and supply external power that way. Those are some memories. Not often you get to attack a computer with a Dremel. ;) -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington GPG key fingerprint: 0DB7 4B50 8910 DBC5 B510 79C4 3970 2BC3 2078 D875

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 41, Issue 21

2013-12-12 Thread David Thistlethwaite
Hi folks anyone know if oi supports Usb 3? openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org wrote: Send OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list submissions to openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit

[OpenIndiana-discuss] intel tl82543gc driver for openindiana 151a8

2013-12-08 Thread David Thistlethwaite
Hey folks any idea where I can get a driver for the NIC card? I really don't won't my server to use cat5e thanks in advance for advice David ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman

[OpenIndiana-discuss] using 151a8 in production

2013-11-24 Thread David Thistlethwaite
Hello folks I am a newbie to openindiana. I am considering using the 151a8 version as a production server, the server will perform the following 1) Server files via samba and NFS 2) Run around 10 virtual machines using virtualbox, these machines will be web servers and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About zpools and usage plan

2013-08-03 Thread David Scharbach
I use Raid-Z2 for my main array. 6 disks would give you effectively 4 disks usable with the ability to tolerate ANY 2 disk failures. Mirroring would allow for 3 disk failures ONLY if the failures were in different sets, if I understand mirroring correctly. There is a risk that the right 2

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About zpools and usage plan

2013-08-03 Thread David Scharbach
I forgot to mention I use snapshots on both arrays. My bad. -- David Scharbach Mine Senior Electrical Engineer PCS Cory Division On 2013-08-03, at 2:45 PM, Martin Frost m...@cs.stanford.edu wrote: David, your advice to back up data regularly is good

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] php 5.5.0 with Studio 12.3

2013-07-11 Thread David Brodbeck
__**_ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@**openindiana.orgOpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/**mailman/listinfo/openindiana-**discusshttp://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- David

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS and openindiana

2013-07-10 Thread David Brodbeck
of the password and keeps it in sync. On a Samba installation this is normally done with the smbpasswd tool, instead. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading OpenSolaris 134 to OpenIndiana

2013-06-08 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
than Samba plus again is what I'm used to now.) - -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (MingW32

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

2013-04-08 Thread David Brodbeck
also meant scrapping ZFS in situations where I couldn't use an automount map. I simply got tired of rebooting hung clients and servers, and having to explain to my users why the system was down yet again. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

2013-04-08 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:02 PM, David Brodbeck bro...@uw.edu wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: Hands up all those who've bricked a Linux system or had a Solaris 10 system that wouldn't play with live upgrade. I've had a couple instances where

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

2013-04-05 Thread David Brodbeck
kernel versions often bring unexpected regressions. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

2013-01-20 Thread David Scharbach
are very interested in any problems with the CIFS service (which has crashed here). Thanks, -Albert On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 5:28 PM, David Scharbach david.scharb...@mac.com wrote: English is good. $ fmdump -m SUNW-MSG-ID: SUNOS-8000-KL, TYPE: Defect, VER: 1, SEVERITY: Major EVENT

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

2013-01-19 Thread David Scharbach
$ fmdump TIME UUID SUNW-MSG-ID EVENT Jan 17 20:08:28.9193 809adc23-290c-c3bb-bcde-c3d4c5c1ebe6 SUNOS-8000-KL Diagnosed $ uptime 16:12pm up 1 day 20:04, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.14, 0.21 Given today is the 19th and such, I think that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

2013-01-19 Thread David Scharbach
= 0x1 __tod = 0x50f8ae9c 0x36cc2af0 And as I am a n00b to OI, I still don't really know what is going on… Thanks you again, Dave On 2013-01-19, at 4:15 PM, David Scharbach david.scharb...@mac.com wrote: $ fmdump TIME UUID SUNW-MSG-ID

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

2013-01-17 Thread David Scharbach
...@ianshome.com wrote: David Scharbach wrote: I have an OI installation that seems to crash about every 20 days. Locks up completely and needs a hard reset. Not very much fun. Question I have is where would I start to look to see why? I first thought it may be due to scrubbing load

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

2013-01-17 Thread David Scharbach
, 2013 at 6:50 PM, David Scharbach david.scharb...@mac.comwrote: I have an OI installation that seems to crash about every 20 days. Locks up completely and needs a hard reset. Not very much fun. Question I have is where would I start to look to see why? I first thought it may be due

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

2013-01-17 Thread David Scharbach
lol, you make it seem so easy :) I just disabled the on board NIC. We will see. Next I will try the storage controller. Then a hammer. Cheers, On 2013-01-16, at 9:01 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) openindi...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: David Scharbach [mailto:david.scharb...@mac.com

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

2013-01-15 Thread David Scharbach
I have an OI installation that seems to crash about every 20 days. Locks up completely and needs a hard reset. Not very much fun. Question I have is where would I start to look to see why? I first thought it may be due to scrubbing load on the LSI controller but that is not the case. It

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

2013-01-15 Thread David Scharbach
I will make a memtest ISO ASAP. /var/adm/messages shows nothing. /var/crash does not exist on my system. Will see what memtest says. Cheers, Dave On 2013-01-15, at 9:10 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: David Scharbach wrote: I have an OI installation that seems to crash about

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Future of OI

2012-12-26 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:16 AM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm probably trolling here, and this is definitely off-topic, but gee -- we have a communist president, who's filled his White House staff with communists... They've been subtly teaching socialism

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability Scrubs

2012-10-24 Thread David Brodbeck
, there's no way of knowing which is correct. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-21 Thread David Halko
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Cedric Blancher cedric.blanc...@googlemail.com wrote: On 16 October 2012 01:22, Jason Matthews ja...@broken.net wrote: -Original Message- From: Cedric Blancher [mailto:cedric.blanc...@googlemail.com] IMO you blame the wrong people. You can have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Namespace management and symlinks in /usr

2012-10-18 Thread David Halko
--- On Wed, 10/17/12, James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com wrote: From: James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Namespace management and symlinks in /usr To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Wednesday,

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

2012-10-04 Thread David Halko
Hi Rob, I did not see a posting from you on the list, could it be that you are not a subscriber? I will forward your question on to the list. Hello List, Can anyone provide a suggestion for how vnc server and gdm can be enabled on a SPARC headless server? David Halko http://svr4.blogspot.com

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

2012-10-04 Thread David Halko
: [snip] Thanks, David Halko http://svr4.blogspot.com/ http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ Hi David! many thanks for your nice comments and +1 :) I'm glad to get such feedback. However, it is still only a LiveDVD and only pre-Alpha stuff. No installer yet (and Caiman gui-install

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

2012-10-03 Thread David Halko
, but we do functional. Thanks - David Halko http://svr4.blogspot.com/ http://netmgt.blogspot.com/ On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:38 AM, DavidHalko davidha...@gmail.com wrote: U da man! I will be looking into testing

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

2012-10-03 Thread David Halko
by config file changes, log file rotations, etc.) I am uncertain whether the newer IPS offers this level of post-install and lifecycle integrity checking, since I never needed to audit a Solaris 11 / Illumos production platform. Hope that helps, David Halko http://svr4.blogspot.com/ Just my 0.02

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-10 Thread David Halko
*This is really phenominal work, Martin!* There are some applications, being served for free, from UNIXPackages.COM (i.e. firefox, thunderbird, sunbird) - perhaps you could de-bundle them from the distro, and make an icon on the default desktop to download/install the packages (to safe space)?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

2012-09-10 Thread David Halko
Sorry for the late repsonse, Jerry. Message: 4 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:42:13 -0500 From: Jerry Kemp sun.mail.lis...@oryx.cc To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana? Message-ID:

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