Re: [osol-discuss] Container / Shared disk question

2006-05-08 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 09/05/2006, at 3:49 AM, Larry Becke wrote: Given the following: 2 Solaris 10/11 boxes, running Sun Cluster software with identical package, hardware and patch loads. Container defined on shared SAN disk, mounted to a shared filesystem. Container information defined in both Global zones. Qu

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: smbfs support

2006-05-08 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 00:59, Robert Thurlow wrote: > Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > > Being that SUN has a comprehensive agreement with Microsoft, and CIFS > > IIRC is an openstandard, > > CIFS? An open standard? No way. Microsoft has never managed to > publish anything complete enough for independen

Re: [osol-discuss] Request for new forum: embedded-discuss

2006-05-08 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Sunday 07 May 2006 08:14 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > Good question, no body knows; wasn't it almost a year ago, we heard a big > wig at SUN exclaim that IBM should work with SUN to port Solaris to POWER? > then was much chest beating about porting OpenSolaris to PowerPC. No, once again it seem

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Interesting blog entry on Solaris 10

2006-05-08 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Sunday 07 May 2006 08:05 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > Well, I think people who are Solaris programmers (at SUN) need to realise, > that the criticism of Solaris is not a criticism of them - they're part of > the larger organisational engine, one cog in the machine, and very little > that an unde

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: smbfs support

2006-05-08 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Sunday 07 May 2006 08:01 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > Being that SUN has a comprehensive agreement with Microsoft, and CIFS IIRC > is an openstandard, there is nothing stopping SUN from implementing a > kosher CDDL compatible version of SMB/CIFS. First of all, I don't know how comprehensive of

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Interesting blog entry on Solaris 10

2006-05-08 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Saturday 06 May 2006 01:25 am, Ian Collins wrote: > Your comments where out of place on the x86 list and they're out of > place here. This list is for the discussion of OpenSolaris. I don't get it myself. "Doctor, my head hurts when I bang it against the x86 list, what should I do?" -- Ala

[osol-discuss] Container / Shared disk question

2006-05-08 Thread Larry Becke
Given the following: 2 Solaris 10/11 boxes, running Sun Cluster software with identical package, hardware and patch loads. Container defined on shared SAN disk, mounted to a shared filesystem. Container information defined in both Global zones. Question: Would it be possible to boot the shared co

[osol-discuss] Firefox 1.5.0.3 builds for Solaris10, Solaris 8/9 is now available on mozilla.org

2006-05-08 Thread Dave Lin
Please do NOT reply to this address. If you have any problems, feel free to send email to the alias "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Firefox 1.5.0.3 builds for Solaris10, Solaris 8/9 is now available on mozilla.org Download Page and Location == external: http://www.mozilla.com/fire

Re: [osol-discuss] did anything change in inetconv or tftpd with b38 ?

2006-05-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On 5/8/06, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [ warning : long and boring ] >> >> >> # /usr/sbin/inetconv >> inetconv: Notice: Service manifest for 100235/1 already generated as >> /var/svc/manifest/network/rpc/100235_1-rpc_ticotsord.xml, skipped >> inetconv: Error /etc/inet/inetd.conf

Re: [osol-discuss] did anything change in inetconv or tftpd with b38 ?

2006-05-08 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 5/8/06, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ warning : long and boring ] I have looked over the changelogs and don't see anything new related to either tftp or inetconv. When I attempt to start up tftpd with a fresh install of b38 I get a error message : [1] as per manpage for tftpd I

Re: [osol-discuss] Security: Only allow execution of cryptographically signed binaries?

2006-05-08 Thread Darren J Moffat
Martin Schaffstall wrote: I just had an idea: Would it be useful/feasible to sign all executabley in Solaris with a cryptographic key and only allow execution of signed binaries then? Would this help to improve system security? Way ahead of you by years! http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/darren

[osol-discuss] did anything change in inetconv or tftpd with b38 ?

2006-05-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
[ warning : long and boring ] I have looked over the changelogs and don't see anything new related to either tftp or inetconv. When I attempt to start up tftpd with a fresh install of b38 I get a error message : [1] as per manpage for tftpd I edit the /etc/inet/inetd.conf and ensure that the lin

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Percentage of Solaris now open source ?

2006-05-08 Thread Darren J Moffat
Ben Rockwood wrote: The problem with supplying one number (a percentage in this case) is thats all they want and all they need. No explanation will be read, by and large. We'd just be setting ourselves up to look bad. When that percentage hits 100% I'll feel diffrent, but even "Solaris is 98

Re: [osol-discuss] Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Thurlow
Andrew Watkins wrote: My manager asked me if I could a mirror copy of our /var/mail on another system, just in case the system went down. He suggested that Windows has DFS (Distributed File System) and I said I would look into it. Microsoft's DFS is a method for creating another copy of your

Re: [osol-discuss] Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-08 Thread Darren J Moffat
Andrew Watkins wrote: My manager asked me if I could a mirror copy of our /var/mail on another system, just in case the system went down. He suggested that Windows has DFS (Distributed File System) and I said I would look into it. Over the weekend I thought of CacheFS which comes will solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: smbfs support

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Thurlow
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Being that SUN has a comprehensive agreement with Microsoft, and CIFS IIRC is an openstandard, CIFS? An open standard? No way. Microsoft has never managed to publish anything complete enough for independent implementation, and has always felt free to change the imple

Re: [osol-discuss] Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-08 Thread Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland
Plain NFS should work fine. We (sun) have a (few) large /var/mail shared out via nfs which works fine. We also live on NFS for just about everything, (installs, home dirs, shared place for applications, you name it) If you've a large number of connections to the nfs server up the nfs t

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: smbfs support

2006-05-08 Thread Anze Vidmar
I see. Thank you very much for explaining it to me! regards, Anze This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-08 Thread Andrew Watkins
My manager asked me if I could a mirror copy of our /var/mail on another system, just in case the system went down. He suggested that Windows has DFS (Distributed File System) and I said I would look into it. Over the weekend I thought of CacheFS which comes will solaris which allows you to hav

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: smbfs support

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Thurlow
Anze Vidmar wrote: Thank you for the info. However, I'm still wondering why smb/cifs support was never included in the solaris kernel? Is it a legal issue? We were talking about a CIFS client for Solaris in 1999 or so, but we couldn't proceed because we couldn't make the business case. At tha

Re: [osol-discuss] XATTRs

2006-05-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Frank Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there **ANY** shell which actually supports this amyelencephalus? > > > > What is that word you keep using I can't find a definition for it. > > You didn't properly search then :) > > amyelencephalia (amy·el·en·ce·pha·lia) > congenital absence

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: XATTRs

2006-05-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Holger Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no way for a shell script to read, write, rename or delete an You may do this either with 'cd -@ file' or using "runat". > attribute file. Applications without special support for the openat() > API have no way to access the files either. All

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Holger Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think runat(1) is a good debug/development tool. I don't believe that > > it is useful for building applications on top of, if you need to build > > apps then use openat(2) and friends not shell scripting. > > Please relocate the tool to /sbin/runa

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Holger Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Roland proposed to implement "cd -@ file" in addition to runat(1). > > In which list was this amyelencephalus proposed? Could you lease try to use words that could be found in a dictionary? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAI

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Holger Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Sun implemention appeared 2 months after there was a XATTR related > > discussion on the POSIX mailing list. > > > > The Sun XATTR implementation solves all problems shown by the Microsoft > > members > > of the OpenGroup board without suffering

Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Holger Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/5/06, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Holger Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What if the "application" is the shell itself? The shell cannot access > > > > This is not really true. the shell may access the files aft

[osol-discuss] Re: XATTRs usage

2006-05-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > I see no reason to change the current API. > > Thanks thats good to know. I like this implementation since it appeared a short time after Microsoft proposed a non-POSIX compliant way for the same purpose in 2001. It has the

Re: [osol-discuss] Percentage of Solaris now open source ?

2006-05-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to calculate (plus or minus about 5%) what percentage of the > whole Solaris product is open source today and what percentage it is > likely to be when Solaris 11 releases. It doesn't matter if the source > is hosted on opensolaris.org or is

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-05-08 Thread Boyd Adamson
I'll try when mine arrives :) I take it this means that the keyboards on the Macbooks are more standard than those on the powerbooks (ADB) On 08/05/2006, at 3:21 PM, Ché Kristo wrote: there is no diff at all moving from an imac to macbook (mind you i have only tried this on a 15"). So far