Re: No reason to change the current XATTR API / was: Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re:[tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-13 Thread Casper . Dik
How should the shell then be able to access the XATTR files ? Almost everything in the original Unix was contructed around files and the shell and therefore I don't feel well with suddenly having to deal with filesystem objects which are inaccessible from the shell. And as I said in

[osol-discuss] Sun HW developer discounts

2006-05-13 Thread UNIX admin
I used to work for a company that was a Sun strategic partner. We had something called a developer discount that enabled us to get ANY piece of Sun HW at down to 20% of the sticker price. For example, I spec'd out a 280R (this was six years ago!) with a T3 -- fully loaded -- that cost around

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

2006-05-13 Thread UNIX admin
if something rsync-ish looks like the right kind of thing this might be of interest... http://www.dirvish.org/ dirvish is a backup utility that does snapshot style backups using rsync. the documentation page also has links to some useful-looking rsync documentation and links to sites

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun HW developer discounts

2006-05-13 Thread Bill Rushmore
UNIX admin wrote: I used to work for a company that was a Sun strategic partner. We had something called a developer discount that enabled us to get ANY piece of Sun HW at down to 20% of the sticker price. For example, I spec'd out a 280R (this was six years ago!) with a T3 -- fully loaded

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Having to subscribe to post considered obnoxious (Re: [zfs-discuss] OSOL mailing list issues)

2006-05-13 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Fri 05/12/06 at 13:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:32:43PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: Also, I'm getting tired of replying to some e-mail only to get a post awaits moderator approval reply. I understand why we do that for non-subscribers. And I guess

[osol-discuss] Re: Having to subscribe to post considered obnoxious (Re: [zfs-discuss] OSOL mailing list issues)

2006-05-13 Thread Casper . Dik
The ZFS discuss list was getting heavily spammed, resulting in me having to spend the first 15 minutes of every day sifting through notifications and going to reject the messages. The current policy for zfs-discuss is to reject any non-member mail, though all *.sun.com addresses are

[osol-discuss] Re: Sun HW developer discounts

2006-05-13 Thread Wes Williams
Although not a absolute answer to you main concern, here are a few money-saving tips: 1) http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/mary?entry=how_to_get_the_sun 2) https://partneradvantage.sun.com/partners/10moves/securestabilize.html Perhaps a call to Sun is in order to discuss this privately?

[osol-discuss] Tar and long paths

2006-05-13 Thread homerun
Greetings Been fasing several times to situation when using Solaris bundled tar to untar archive that is done with gnu tar and archive has long paths or file/directory names. Then during untarring with Solaris bundlet tar i get error messages about too long paths/filenames/directorynames and

Re: [osol-discuss] Tar and long paths

2006-05-13 Thread Casper . Dik
Greetings Been fasing several times to situation when using Solaris bundled tar to untar archive that is don e with gnu tar and archive has long paths or file/directory names. Then during untarring with Solaris bundlet tar i get error messages about too long paths/filenames /directorynames and

Re: [osol-discuss] Tar and long paths

2006-05-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
homerun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings Been fasing several times to situation when using Solaris bundled tar to untar archive that is done with gnu tar and archive has long paths or file/directory names. Then during untarring with Solaris bundlet tar i get error messages about too

Re: [osol-discuss] Tar and long paths

2006-05-13 Thread Dennis Clarke
homerun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings Been fasing several times to situation when using Solaris bundled tar complaints snipped This is caused by the fact that GNU tar is not creating POSIX compliant archives. further snippage Jörg ! For the love of God man can ya please update

[osol-discuss] Re: Tar and long paths

2006-05-13 Thread homerun
Hi Thanks for quick reply. now i know more :-D case closed This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Tar and long paths

2006-05-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jörg ! For the love of God man can ya please update the CSWstar package to be the same rev as the star that ships in SchilliX 0.5.2 !?! Those of us that use star every day and twice on Sunday would like an up to date release that we don't have to copy

Re: [osol-discuss] Sequencers/music editors on Opensolaris

2006-05-13 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 16:08 -0700, Serge wrote: Hi all, It appears that most musical apps on Unix requires ALSA. I know, the Sun audio0 API is itself very nice, other hand ALSA is Linux, but how to compose music (with Rosegarden, for example) on Solaris without ALSA ? In other words,