Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xerox B215 printer with CUPS

2020-08-30 Thread Jonathan Adams
late to the game here, but if your PPD file from Xerox doesn't work very well, it's sometimes worth downloading the one from OpenPrinting.org, but only if the one direct from Xerox doesn't work well for you. I've had decent success with the PPDs in the past, although I generally ended up using the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] support for Remmina or FreeRDP?

2020-08-03 Thread Jonathan Adams
That is the "remmina next" version? ... If so that is very impressive. Remmina is very good at both VNC and RDP, but doesn't connect to all servers. If you have a server behind a rdp-gateway, with all but the very latest protocols turned off, then remmina doesn't work, but hopefully that isn't yo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana vs FreeBSD

2020-07-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
In my production systems, I used a combination of lots of OSs. I used OI for it's zones and networking. I used Linux for virtual box, web services and open VPN. I used freeNAS for file serving. These roles and usages changed over time, as I also used to use OI as my web gateways, and for my stati

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Has anyone mounted a FreeBSD NFS export on OI Hipster? Any ideas on how to do that?

2020-07-07 Thread Jonathan Adams
I always used to force NFSv3 on my shares, but I understand if you don't want to do that. If you need NFSv4, make sure the domain is set to the same on both. In freeNAS I had problems with automounting the shares, but I was able to mount them easily using the "mount" command, as NFS generally just

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How do I customize user and root Bash history settings?

2020-06-27 Thread Jonathan Adams
In the past, I've always just set up .bash_profile to call .bashrc Jon On Sat, 27 Jun 2020, 07:17 Judah Richardson, wrote: > Figured it out. Writeup here > < > https://github.com/jdrch/Hardware/wiki/Useful-Links#how-to-set-up-and-customize-bash > > > . > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 11:40 PM Judah

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What's the easiest, straight-shot way to upgrade to a new boot SSD?

2020-06-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
hift on the new pool. Jon On Mon, 22 Jun 2020, 16:40 Judah Richardson, wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 3:26 AM Jonathan Adams > wrote: > > > Unfortunately I'm currently redundant > > Ugh, I'm sorry to hear that. I've been made redundant myself 3 times :( >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What's the easiest, straight-shot way to upgrade to a new boot SSD?

2020-06-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
Unfortunately I'm currently redundant and don't have access to what was my illumos hardware ... I'd suggest you use the nappit suggestion, and do the backup from within the old system before swapping the disks over ... As for the ashift, it's been a few years since I did a fresh install, and I've

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What's the easiest, straight-shot way to upgrade to a new boot SSD?

2020-06-21 Thread Jonathan Adams
128 GB, ashift=12, GPT). > > Do I create a zpool on cdisk2 1st or format it? > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 7:40 PM Jonathan Adams > wrote: > > > $ sudo -s > > # zfs send -r rpool@snap01 | zfs recv -F rpool2@snap01 > > > > ? > > > > On Sun, 21 Ju

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What's the easiest, straight-shot way to upgrade to a new boot SSD?

2020-06-20 Thread Jonathan Adams
ol. You can achieve this with zfs snap -r very easily. > > > > Hope this helps > > Greetings > > Till > > > > On 21.06.20 01:03, Judah Richardson wrote: > > > I can't seem to find any command that recursively sends all the > datasets > > on >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What's the easiest, straight-shot way to upgrade to a new boot SSD?

2020-06-20 Thread Jonathan Adams
This is all very confusing and frustrating. Disk upgrades must have been a > considered user operation, no? Why not make it intuitive and simple? :( > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:58 PM Jonathan Adams > wrote: > > > I've never done that, but it must be worth a go, unless you want

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What's the easiest, straight-shot way to upgrade to a new boot SSD?

2020-06-20 Thread Jonathan Adams
I've never done that, but it must be worth a go, unless you want to just install a new system in the new disk and copy over the files you want to change afterwards ... On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, 23:46 Judah Richardson, wrote: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 2:29 AM Guenther Alka wrote: > > > Another option

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What's the easiest, straight-shot way to upgrade to a new boot SSD?

2020-06-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 2:04 PM Jonathan Adams > wrote: > > > Weirdly, I'd add an external disk/boot device in illumos, add it as a > > failover/clone, > > This sounds promising. How do I do that? > > > > then after it boots off that, take out the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What's the easiest, straight-shot way to upgrade to a new boot SSD?

2020-06-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
Weirdly, I'd add an external disk/boot device in illumos, add it as a failover/clone, then after it boots off that, take out the old SSD, put the new one in and reverse the procedure to make the new SSD the boot device ... Or just install directly on the new device, and then copy over the differen

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Thunderbird abnormally slow

2020-06-05 Thread Jonathan Adams
I don't know if either of those have an illumos related problems, but I've had both of those on Linux in the past. The opening of links was, on my system, related to the registered application used for browsing, and I believe I got that working by changing that setting in gnome, but I honestly can

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Thunderbird Gmail on OI?

2020-04-21 Thread Jonathan Adams
A couple of years ago, I had an issue on a friend's machine with an older version of outlook and Gmail ... There is an option in Gmail for allowing access by insecure/obsolete email clients ... I'm wondering if that is what is being triggered? Jon On Tue, 21 Apr 2020, 14:04 Bob Friesenhahn, wr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OT Help with Repair of HPxw8600

2020-04-20 Thread Jonathan Adams
y from old PCs; take > your faulty module and get them to match it or use Ebay or similar. > > Hope this helps > > Bill > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 9:37 AM Jonathan Adams > wrote: > > > > Um, vacuuming a computer can really hurt, especially old computers. >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OT Help with Repair of HPxw8600

2020-04-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
Um, vacuuming a computer can really hurt, especially old computers. You can get static build up on the nozzle of the hoover, which can fry chips ... I know from experience :-\ 4 months ago I probably had spare memory chips, but it all went in the skip when the office closed. Jon On Sun, 19 Apr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Setting static IP after OpenIndiana boot

2020-03-27 Thread Jonathan Adams
zones set physical:default instead of physical:nwam by default. if you're in a virtualbox you'll need to follow the instructions at the link, as provided by Till: http://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/systems-administration/#configuring-networking svcadm disable physical:nwam svcadm enable physica

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS Automount from FreeNAS Server

2019-12-12 Thread Jonathan Adams
liably with /dev and > >>> /Hipster > >>> (newest 2015) > >>> Yours seems to work as well, atleast with solaris. > >>> > >>> Just for fun I had a little look around google to see if there are some > >>> fun > >>> Fre

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS Automount from FreeNAS Server

2019-12-10 Thread Jonathan Adams
can't use autofs. It doesn't appear to be any different if I'm using LDAP or not (I turned off LDAP for testing) ... does anyone have any idea where to start looking? Jon On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 at 11:14, Jonathan Adams wrote: > Hi, thanks for keeping on trying ... > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenLDAP Packages

2019-11-23 Thread Jonathan Adams
Whilst most people are bothered about the database backends, my main use of OpenLDAP in recent times has made use of the syncprov overlay the chain backend and back_ldap backend for syncrepl and chaining. that and the ability to store standard crypt password hashes for Solaris 10 access to LDAP :)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bluetooth mouse?

2019-11-12 Thread Jonathan Adams
there is the work by this guy, but as I said it was a long time ago, and I don't believe it covers mice: https://sites.google.com/site/anandbheemaraju/ On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 at 12:13, Jonathan Adams wrote: > the bug report goes back to code that was in "OpenSolaris" in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bluetooth mouse?

2019-11-12 Thread Jonathan Adams
the bug report goes back to code that was in "OpenSolaris" in 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/2011083721/http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+bluetooth/ this was never integrated. I thought I might have a copy of the downloads from then, but I don't appear to, and I doubt that they'

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SunRay on OI/Hipster

2019-11-08 Thread Jonathan Adams
2019 at 10:02, Jonathan Adams wrote: > Hi everyone, > > we used to run our SunRays on Solaris 10, back in the day, and then moved > to Centos in order to get access to updated desktop apps (firefox, chrome, > wine, xrdp mostly). > > We obviously now have issues in that the gtk

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rdesktop, freerdp, or NX server

2019-08-25 Thread Jonathan Adams
a fair number of years ago (2011), I managed to get the FreeNX server running, but I believe that the desktop/mobile client has moved on a lot since then so I don't know how far you could go with that. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6o_jmGQm0dWSGV6UGE2RExnUU0/view?usp=sharing https://drive.goog

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SunRay on OI/Hipster

2019-08-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
upport, so I think using the OI-Userland sources from > before the switch to mate is your best bet. > > -alan- > > On 8/19/19 3:34 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: > > GDM from here? : > > > > https://github.com/GNOME/gdm > > > > might be worth the pet proje

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SunRay on OI/Hipster

2019-08-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
thanks :) On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 at 11:47, Carsten Grzemba wrote: > > > On 19.08.19 12:34, *Jonathan Adams * wrote: > > GDM from here? : > > https://github.com/GNOME/gdm > > The simpliest way is use GDM from oi-userland before it was marked > obsolete. > > s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SunRay on OI/Hipster

2019-08-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
GDM from here? : https://github.com/GNOME/gdm might be worth the pet project to check if it will work. thanks Jon On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 at 10:48, Carsten Grzemba wrote: > > > On 19.08.19 11:29, *Jonathan Adams * wrote: > > so a standard install + Mate desktop could possib

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SunRay on OI/Hipster

2019-08-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
ox 60 is a little bit slow on filling textareas or > forms. > It is like it refresh the whole page an every keystroke. > > On 19.08.19 11:03, Jonathan Adams wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > we used to run our SunRays on Solaris 10, back in the day, and then

[OpenIndiana-discuss] SunRay on OI/Hipster

2019-08-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
Hi everyone, we used to run our SunRays on Solaris 10, back in the day, and then moved to Centos in order to get access to updated desktop apps (firefox, chrome, wine, xrdp mostly). We obviously now have issues in that the gtk+ on Centos is ancient and causes the latest Firefox to crash for some

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] time:dgram and/or in.timed

2019-07-02 Thread Jonathan Adams
same server, although I'm sure there are better places ) linked /usr/lib/libinetsvc.so.1 to /usr/lib/libinetsvc.so, same with libuutil. compiled, and copied to /usr/lib/inetd, imported time.xml and then enabled. Jon On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 14:43, Jonathan Adams wrote: > Hi Everyone, &g

[OpenIndiana-discuss] time:dgram and/or in.timed

2019-07-02 Thread Jonathan Adams
Hi Everyone, for reasons known only to ourselves, we keep an eye on our internal servers to make sure the date and time are correct (routed to a nagios server) and have been using the time:dgram protocol to quickly get and check the date and time on the remote internal systems. we've recently ins

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Building Filezilla

2019-06-17 Thread Jonathan Adams
-lnettle ? or : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47318505/how-do-i-fix-an-undefined-reference-to-nettle-sha256-digest On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 08:53, russell wrote: > Hi, > > After installing a pair of 500GB SSDs and performing a clean install of > OI Hipster I have started on rebuilding Fil

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] web proxy server w/SSL/TLS termination (on OI)

2018-12-28 Thread Jonathan Adams
Hi, we use Squid on OI, and it works well, but I don't think you'll be able to do what you want with your older sparc kit. when the browser connects to SSL, it opens up a tunnel through the proxy, over HTTP, and the browser still does all the work of TLS/SSL ... unless you're going to accelerate

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenLDAP and BerkeleyDB

2018-12-17 Thread Jonathan Adams
While not ideal/correct to not ship the older Berkeley dB as a possibility ... Since these modules are dynamically loaded, can't you just not use bdb, and use mdb in your config? Jon On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 20:55 Dieter Klünter Hi, > I'm trying to get OpenLDAP running, but a BDB library mismatch pre

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox

2018-11-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
Hi Till, a couple of observations on RDP clients. if you need to connect to a "terminal services gateway" (or whatever they've named it in the current release), you need to look at using the latest bleeding edge freerdp. If, additionally, the server you're connecting to has had all the security

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NTP not starting in Zones

2018-09-13 Thread Jonathan Adams
gt; On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Jonathan Adams wrote: > > > strange, I prefer to run all my daemons in a zone as it keeps them > separate > > from the core operating system, and reduces the access to resources. > > > > it's easy for a global zone to access the resources of the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NTP not starting in Zones

2018-09-13 Thread Jonathan Adams
strange, I prefer to run all my daemons in a zone as it keeps them separate from the core operating system, and reduces the access to resources. it's easy for a global zone to access the resources of the child, it's hard for the child to access the global zone. On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 18:22, Bob F

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NTP not starting in Zones

2018-09-13 Thread Jonathan Adams
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19044-01/sol.containers/817-1592/z.admin.ov-18/index.html seems to imply that the privilege is just "sys_time" On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 09:53, Jonathan Adams wrote: > I got ntp working inside a zone, by granting a privilege in the master (in > zonecf

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NTP not starting in Zones

2018-09-13 Thread Jonathan Adams
I got ntp working inside a zone, by granting a privilege in the master (in zonecfg) and modifying the svc script in the client to not reject it ... but it was many years ago. the reason I did it, in that case was that the parent zone didn't have access to the internet, but the child zone did. I'm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mounting an existing system on a boot image

2018-09-10 Thread Jonathan Adams
https://askubuntu.com/questions/56792/how-to-copy-only-file-attributes-metadata-without-actual-content-of-the-file -- #!/bin/bash # Filename: cp-metadata myecho=echo src_path="$1" dst_path="$2" find "$src_path" | while read src_file; do dst_file="$dst_path${src_file#$src_path}" $myech

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hipster.openindiana.org uses an invalid security certificate.

2018-06-03 Thread Jonathan Adams
Hi guys, is there any benefit to be had in looking at "letsencrypt"? I have their script modified to work on a slightly older oi, and that would keep it updated via Cron. Jon On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 07:48 Predrag Zecevic, wrote: > Hi, > > when visiting > https://hipster.openindiana.org/jenkins/job

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] .mobi/.epub reader solution for OpenIndiana?

2017-11-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
oops, sorry wrong plugin ... https://www.epubread.com/ On 22 November 2017 at 17:24, Jonathan Adams wrote: > https://epub.press/ ? > > epub in the browser > > On 22 November 2017 at 17:00, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: > >> On 11/22/17 07:49 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] .mobi/.epub reader solution for OpenIndiana?

2017-11-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
https://epub.press/ ? epub in the browser On 22 November 2017 at 17:00, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: > On 11/22/17 07:49 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) < >> udo.grabow...@kit.edu> >> wrote: >> >> On 22/11/2017 17:41, Jerry Kemp wrote: >>> >>> E

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NoMachine or X2Go on Openindiana?

2017-11-16 Thread Jonathan Adams
> have found so far. > > Thanks again, > Lonnie > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Jonathan Adams > wrote: > > > It was a fair number of years ago, and I only did it as a project to see > if > > it would work, but I got "NoMachine" working on Solaris

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NoMachine or X2Go on Openindiana?

2017-11-16 Thread Jonathan Adams
It was a fair number of years ago, and I only did it as a project to see if it would work, but I got "NoMachine" working on Solaris 10 and on an early OpenIndiana, using the freeNX code, that I can't seem to find online any more. I even managed to compile the NX client for it using another project

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hipster conversion

2017-09-26 Thread Jonathan Adams
Like you, I have a few 151a boxes lying around. Originally I had a box that was upgrade every few weeks, and it managed to be upgraded to the latest hipster, so it is possible. However the number of incremental changes that have happened since 151a, and the incrementals might have been pruned ove

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenVPN inside a Zone

2017-09-18 Thread Jonathan Adams
my OpenVPN in a zone config (I have the external interface set as NAT over an etherstub as well): root@ekrecsrv02:~# dladm show-link LINKCLASS MTUSTATEBRIDGE OVER bnx0phys 1500 up -- -- bnx1phys 1500 up -- -- vboxnet

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sendmail single user host sending to internet thru Smarthost: examples

2017-08-23 Thread Jonathan Adams
if you don't have a resolvable domain, you might well have issues with receiving the emails at the other end ... if you're using a smart-host you might not have this trouble, but if you're not able to reverse lookup your IP address your email will be rejected by the remote host. segments from my

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hotmail

2017-05-30 Thread Jonathan Adams
Its only a guess, but I'd reckon Firefox on Windows will allow built in windows certificates​, and Microsoft will recognise it's own even if invalid on the web ... On 30 May 2017 19:33, "Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss" < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > >This seems to b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-26 Thread Jonathan Adams
> > > Jonathan Adams writes: > > > Much better than the Linux "file 'which file'" (with back ticks) ... > > > > > sudo file `which file` > /usr/bin/file: ELF 32-bit LSB executable 80386 Version 1, dynamically > linked, not stripped, no

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-25 Thread Jonathan Adams
Much better than the Linux "file 'which file'" (with back ticks) ... On 25 May 2017 22:21, "jason matthews" wrote: > > > On 5/25/17 2:17 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> "isainfo -kv" will tell you which kernel is running. >> > > winner winner chicken dinner. > > isainfo is the most elegant way

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mirroring rpool oi html pages

2017-04-06 Thread Jonathan Adams
I have to say that this page is the one I use mostly on the OI wiki, and I use it pretty much verbatim, but I use it for Solaris 10 x86, and some early OI systems only ... it's more concisely written than most similar articles on the subject on the web. I don't know if the section that you are tal

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Comparison of mbuffer/tamp to ssh (A novice attempt)

2017-03-31 Thread Jonathan Adams
Do you have any info on just how much of the time difference is just down to the SSH header overhead? Do you know how long this takes in comparison to starting an rsyncd server and sending/receiving via rsync with compression on? Jon On 31 March 2017 at 13:29, Harry Putnam wrote: > [Test condu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-20 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 20 January 2017 at 02:14, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: > http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/systems/storage/sds/nexentastor/ > > ... > > " 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the > first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all > irrevocably.' Those

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cisco IPSec VPN

2016-11-14 Thread Jonathan Adams
Unfortunately I had to resort to "StrongSwan", which meant Linux or BSD ... It''s a good product though and was very easy to configure. Jon On 14 November 2016 at 13:32, the outsider wrote: > Not a single problem. > > I am using it 24/7 in the same setup. > Just put your OI server in the networ

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] local zones and local users

2016-11-07 Thread Jonathan Adams
Hi Maurilio, welcome to the group. first off you'll probably find that /home is an "auto-mounted" directory on your system, there are a couple of ways around this: 1) edit /etc/auto_master and comment out the line with "/home" in it. 2) create the directory manually in /export/home/ and then chang

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun Ray server, OS and VDI patches were released by Oracle last week.

2016-11-07 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 7 November 2016 at 09:07, Jerry Kemp wrote: > Yep, the filibeto.org mailing list. > > The last post that I have was from 24 September 2015. > > I need to qualify my comment. AFAIK, there was no official end that was > posted that I was aware of. > > At some point, shortly after Oracle announc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fresh hipster install important tool no workee

2016-10-25 Thread Jonathan Adams
Hi pkg needs a lot of memory, depending on the size of the repository that it is updating from ... Are you sure you gave your virtual machine enough memory? Jon On 25 Oct 2016 18:44, "Harry Putnam" wrote: > Just installed hipster in vbox vm on a Solaris (openindiana) host. > > I used this iso:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 16.04

2016-09-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
I always preferred to follow the instructions on: https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/2.1+Post-installation which you just perform after a standard install. Jon On 22 Sep 2016 06:43, "Мартин Бохниг via openindiana-discuss" < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > Alp said it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: FlashPlayer 23 NPAPI for Linux comeback

2016-09-08 Thread Jonathan Adams
As it happens, I was using OI on my laptop up until the point that I could no longer run it (Intel Graphics, too many applications running Flash), until my dual boot Linux trashed both itself and the ZFS file system on the OI partition ... And I had commented on the system that it made a good solid

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: FlashPlayer 23 NPAPI for Linux comeback

2016-09-08 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 8 Sep 2016 06:33, "Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss" < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > > we do not need flash plugins. This is a server OS > AS Why doesn't email have a +1? I've not laughed out loud at an email, like that, in ages! ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] boot failure

2016-08-30 Thread Jonathan Adams
might not be related, but it could be something to do with legacy CPU support (depending on how old your CPU is ... I've been looking around for the specific /etc/system variable to set on the older Pentium III boxes I had at one time, but I think I've lost my notes, but they looked something like

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for 10 TB HDD SATA / SAS

2016-05-17 Thread Jonathan Adams
We have a few 8s running on our systems happily, although they're "archive" drives, so they're not exactly speedy. Jon On 17 May 2016 17:29, "Gary Gendel" wrote: > Handojo, > > I can't comment on 10TB drives but I've been running ST5000NM0024-1HT, 5TB > drives for awhile without issue. > > Gary

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Plumbing tun0 in a non-global zone

2016-03-10 Thread Jonathan Adams
ignore me, being stupid, forgot to add the default route, and the interface wasn't plumbing because it didn't connect at the other end. really should "-p" that route ... On 10 March 2016 at 15:45, Jonathan Adams wrote: > I know I've done this before, I just can'

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Plumbing tun0 in a non-global zone

2016-03-10 Thread Jonathan Adams
I know I've done this before, I just can't find it anywhere. I have a zone with OpenVPN in it, that needs to plumb tun0. I've added the "match" for the tun device to the global zone, I've installed tuntap in the zone and the global zone ... I have a suspicion that I need to set something in "lim

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] masquerade

2016-03-10 Thread Jonathan Adams
Hi Peter, sorry for hijacking this thread. I forgot about the "set-ifprop" thing ... I was just wondering if you know of a way of doing the same thing for OpenVPN tun connections, so that it remembers the state, at the moment I have to rely on an init.d script that runs "ifconfig tun0 router" Jon

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM in Zones && networking

2016-02-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
quot; Jon On 22 February 2016 at 11:14, Calin Somoza wrote: > Hi > > i have just tried the same in the global Zone but still have no luck using > a vnic in the kvm Guest. > > Calin > > > Am 21.02.2016 um 15:41 schrieb Jonathan Adams: > >> Quick question, if I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM in Zones && networking

2016-02-21 Thread Jonathan Adams
Quick question, if I may, in the zone do you have vnic1 plumbed? If you do then there will be issues with the same MAC address used in the zone _and_ the KVM instance which wants to believe it is it's own machine. You will always be better off passing in a second virtual nic just for the KVM it yo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Disk re-labelling and zfs

2016-01-26 Thread Jonathan Adams
I was hoping that someone else would reply to this, someone with more knowledge of how it worked ... The issue that I'm aware of is that the Grub system doesn't understand about new devices and cannot find the root pool to import if the device it is attached to has changed. We had a system, a lit

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] OpenSolaris

2016-01-09 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 9 Jan 2016 18:40, "Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss" < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: ... > Now, why 4 people have expressed their gratitute I don't know! But maybe they are > too shy to step forward :P :P :P If you need me to say thanks then I'll say it, but since my

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] very slow zpool

2015-12-31 Thread Jonathan Adams
Hi Martin, Sorry for to posting (reading to late at night on my tablet) Just out of interest what percentage of the pool is being used at the moment? What is the ashift on the pool? Do you know what make the drives are? Jon On 1 Jan 2016 01:18, "Martin Frost" wrote: > Oh, here's iostat output

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

2015-12-18 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 18 December 2015 at 15:59, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > > > On Dec 18, 2015, at 04:30, Jonathan Adams wrote: > > > > On 18 December 2015 at 01:40, Richard L. Hamilton > wrote: > > > >> > >>> On Dec 17, 2015, at 15:22, David Brodbeck wrote

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

2015-12-18 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 18 December 2015 at 01:40, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > > > On Dec 17, 2015, at 15:22, David Brodbeck wrote: > > > My sendmail is recompiled to support authentication, etc; and forwards to > an ISP's submission port with authentication (bypassing the cable ISP's > block on port 25 outgoing

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

2015-12-17 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 17 December 2015 at 09:43, Nikola M wrote: > On 12/16/15 12:56 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: > >> >> We use a combination of sendmail, procmail, MailScanner, and dovecot at my >> work, and it works a charm on multiple devices (significantly better IMAP >> with doveco

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

2015-12-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 15 Dec 2015 23:20, "Aurélien Larcher" wrote: > > Hullo, > > 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. I have > > be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM Failed to allocate memory: Resource temporarily unavailable

2015-12-10 Thread Jonathan Adams
ked 16G memory . > > thanks again . > > > -- > Fucai Liang > > > > > On Dec 10, 2015, at 17:24, Jonathan Adams wrote: > > > how much swap do you have? > > > > KVM automatically allocates the same amount of swap as memory whe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM Failed to allocate memory: Resource temporarily unavailable

2015-12-10 Thread Jonathan Adams
how much swap do you have? KVM automatically allocates the same amount of swap as memory when you start an instance, if you don't have the free swap it won't work. Jon On 10 December 2015 at 04:04, Fucai Liang (BLCT) wrote: > > > Hello, guys: > > I has a server running oi_151.1.8, the server h

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] using touch ... whats wrong here

2015-12-03 Thread Jonathan Adams
is there a particular reason that you can't use just "-newer" ? On 3 December 2015 at 09:34, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > Hi Harry! > > > > find scripts/perl/ -cnewer NewerThan -and ! -cnewer ButNotNewerThan > > Stupid question: Which find are you using? The -cnewer construct > is Gnu find only

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Apache sobre Hipster?

2015-11-25 Thread Jonathan Adams
Can't you just follow the standard Apache documentation? https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/cgi.html the default apache2 cgi-bin directory is /var/apache2/2.2/cgi-bin On 25 November 2015 at 16:42, luisa sd wrote: > Hello Community! > > I want to know if someone have a tutorial or somethin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster upgrade problem

2015-11-16 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 16 November 2015 at 08:55, Stefan Müller-Wilken < stefan.mueller-wil...@acando.de> wrote: > What I'm feeling quite uneasy with is the fact that we now have two > distributions: hipster that gets more recent software packages & security > fixes and dev that is said to be the more (or only?) stab

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [HEADS UP] Updating from /dev to /hipster-2015 is now can be possible

2015-11-11 Thread Jonathan Adams
I know this is a not quite related question but do we have a working dhcp server in gate on oi? Our a8 dhcp server(s) would stop working if we upgraded to hipster. Jon On 11 Nov 2015 16:57, "Stefan Müller-Wilken" < stefan.mueller-wil...@acando.de> wrote: > Dear all, > > just as a side node: follo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for USB3?

2015-11-05 Thread Jonathan Adams
When we do that, we stick the disk directly onto the SAS/SATA bus, then offline the drive and ship it ... I still have visions of the computer failing when someone plugged in a USB keyboard and took Solaris 10 over the limit for devices, destroying the pool (we were able to get some of the drives b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for USB3?

2015-11-03 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 3 Nov 2015 19:53, "Rich Teer" wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Nov 2015, Guenther Alka wrote: > > > Your options are mainly with Solarish systems > > > > - Oracle Solaris with USB 3 support > > but the following options are far better, faster or more robust to connect > > disks > > [...] > > All good ideas

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Manually adding IPv6 address

2015-10-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
May be a silly question but do you have the interface plumbed before you tried doing ipadm? If so you may want to unplumb it before you start. (You always need the -a for address) Jon On 15 Oct 2015 20:11, "russell" wrote: > Hi, > > When I use the command > > # ipadm create-addr -T static :

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Small(ish) spare hard disk

2015-10-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
Thanks, I did just that last night :) On 15 October 2015 at 17:39, Nikola M wrote: > On 10/14/15 11:01 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: > >> I have my old hard drive (80Gb) which has dual boot OI/Ubuntu on it ... >> >> The Ubuntu has died, the OI is not in the greatest shape

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Enabling IPv6

2015-10-14 Thread Jonathan Adams
ipadm create-addr -T static -a / /v6 ? On 14 October 2015 at 21:38, russell wrote: > Hi, > > I created a /etc/hostname6. and obtained a Link Local and > Global Unicast address but I now want to create a static IPv6 address. I > looked at the documentation online which was using the ipadm comman

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving zone

2015-10-14 Thread Jonathan Adams
I remember moving a zone in a terrible hacky way in the past ... run a "zoneadm -z detach", move the zfs the old fashioned way (zfs send/receive) zonecfg -z and change the location, then zfs attach it back in again. not sure how to (un)do what you've done though ... Jon On 14 October 2015 at

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Small(ish) spare hard disk

2015-10-14 Thread Jonathan Adams
I have my old hard drive (80Gb) which has dual boot OI/Ubuntu on it ... The Ubuntu has died, the OI is not in the greatest shape, but has a lot of my useful code and apps already installed in it. I replaced the drive (I could mount the old one to get the files off, but I couldn't boot it well) wi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana-discuss Digest, Vol 63, Issue 2

2015-10-09 Thread Jonathan Adams
or do what I did, and just put an init.d script early on to run the 915resolution for you ... On 9 October 2015 at 10:31, Nikola M wrote: > > On 10/ 6/15 09:41 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: > >> Ramesh Chari писал 06.10.2015 21:02: >> >>> OI is evolving into an awesomeOS...just enjoying it ! for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Kernel panic on hung zpool accessed via lofi

2015-09-16 Thread Jonathan Adams
We have had a lot of success with LSI SAS controllers, the 8i PCI express retails for under 70 quid. We do not use expanders but buy more controllers as needed. (Our bigger servers sometimes use the 16i controllers but they are more expensive) Jon On 16 Sep 2015 19:50, "Watson, Dan" wrote: > I k

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris10 Guest on illumos KVM

2015-08-28 Thread Jonathan Adams
I had trouble in the past with KVMs, but most of that was due to memory restrictions ... do you have loads of swap space (you need more than the amount of memory you are allocating to the KVM) and I had loads of trouble granting more than half of the physical memory in the box ... what exact error

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help needed in qemu-kvm

2015-08-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
my "standard" KVM startup command: MAC=$(dladm show-vnic -po macaddress kvm0) /usr/bin/qemu-kvm \ -enable-kvm \ -vnc 0.0.0.0:1 \ -smp 4 \ -m 4096 \ -no-hpet \ -localtime \ -boot order=c,menu=off \ -drive file=/dev/zvol/rdsk/rpool/kvm/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] lpsched removal

2015-08-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
As I just commented in the other thread, the only time I've used lpsched was when I was transferring a lot (>100) of printers from another lpsched system ... If someone could make a "convert" script from a printers.conf file to a CUPS config I wouldn't even have used lpsched. I still have that sys

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] USB 2 performance

2015-07-30 Thread Jonathan Adams
I know it's a little off-topic, but have you thought of creating a zpool on the USB stick and seeing how that goes? ZFS on Linux works well for removable media, assuming you can "sudo zpool import" Jon PS. I generally end up dd'ing with a block size of 4M to get maximum throughput. On 30 July 2

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sendmail logging

2015-07-24 Thread Jonathan Adams
no it's global as well as non-global, but I've only tested in 151a8, I don't have a hipster available to check at the moment, and it might well have been fixed in that. On 24 July 2015 at 03:00, Gary Mills wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 04:40:01PM -0400, John D Groenveld wrote: > > In message

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sendmail logging

2015-07-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
BIND DNS server, etc), no OS provided package is going to come > compiled with the specific customizations and compile time options that I > want/need for my environment. > > Jerry > > > > On 07/22/15 07:25 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: > >> cr*p ... I edited syslog to log _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sendmail logging

2015-07-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
I used logger early in my tests, it works as expected. Strangely if I run sendmail manually it love as mail.info On 22 Jul 2015 22:59, "Gary Mills" wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 04:40:01PM -0400, John D Groenveld wrote: > > In message < > alpine.soc.2.11.1507221333470.25...@dogbert.cc.ndsu.nod

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sendmail logging

2015-07-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
ch is shoited out to every display everywhere) and then watched the file when I sent the test message again ... anyway, I've got a working system, and I can grep syslog for email addresses, so that's a win! Thanks everyone. Jon On 22 July 2015 at 14:53, Jonathan Adams wrote: >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sendmail logging

2015-07-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
8 X86 (powered by illumos) Copyright 2011 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 20 July 2013 On 22 July 2015 at 14:46, Gary Mills wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 01:25:55PM +0100,

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