Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Asus A7V8X-X LAN Setup

2006-05-15 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Sunday 14 May 2006 03:04 am, UNIX admin wrote: Perhaps a much better question would be, why isn't Masayuki Murayama working for Sun yet? I can not understand how Sun can afford NOT to have people like Juergen Keil, Joerg Schilling, Masayuki Murayama and Darren Reed on Sun's payroll. I'm

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Asus A7V8X-X LAN Setup

2006-05-15 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Sunday 14 May 2006 11:46 am, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: The problem here is actually more than just frustrating but insulting. We appreciate the helpful comments, but, when Solaris does not supply the NIC driver for the NIC at issue here (which happens to be the most popular NIC in the entire

[osol-discuss] SVOSUG - May meeting call to arms (moved to JavaOne) Tues. 5:30pm

2006-05-15 Thread Alan DuBoff
Folks, can you hear Sherrif John singing... Put another candle on the birthday cake, you're another year older today... Well, that outta date me to growing up in California as kid, for any of you other natives that know who Sherrif John was... Anway, not only are we another year older, it's

Re: [osol-discuss] Tar and long paths

2006-05-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cdrecord does support DVD media since February 1998. Well DVD-R and DVD-RW yes. Totally. On media that is either 120mm or 80mm just fine. But not DVD+RW or DVD+R . Of course, DVD+ works. What is your problem? Well, let us see. If I take a piece

Re: [osol-discuss] Tar and long paths

2006-05-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I take a piece of DVD+RW 120mm media and perform a few inquiries I see this : [1] use the -atip option looks OK [2] now try to blank that media This cannot work! This is a limitation of the DVD+ Standard DVD+RW need to be overwritten. Now I

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

2006-05-15 Thread Serge
Hi Stefan, I'm happy to read from you in this forum. As i explained a few monthes ago in your kde-solaris forum, old versions from the new Rosegarden have really full worked with old versions of aRTs, i mean only two or three years ago. I tried this at the summer 2005 with actuals versions of

Re: [osol-discuss] Tar and long paths

2006-05-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I take a piece of DVD+RW 120mm media and perform a few inquiries I see this : [1] use the -atip option looks OK I agree [2] now try to blank that media This cannot work! This is a limitation of the DVD+ Standard great. so we can not

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [smf-discuss] Project proposal: Enhanced SMF Profiles

2006-05-15 Thread Milan Jurik
Hello, On Fri, 12 May 2006, David Bustos wrote: Quoth De Mena, Ron on Fri, May 12, 2006 at 09:51:36AM -0400: Please correct me if I am wrong... You are looking to add properties and features similar to what /etc/default/sendmail file does for the sendmail service when we would define MODE=

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

2006-05-15 Thread Sergio
Le dim 14/05/2006 02:37, Kaiwai Gardiner a crit: 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

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [smf-discuss] Project proposal: Enhanced SMF Profiles

2006-05-15 Thread David Bustos
Quoth Milan Jurik on Sun, May 14, 2006 at 12:51:16PM +0200: Does it mean that SMF Profiles will be like MS Windows registry? I don't think so. Do you have a specific characteristic in mind? In this case some SQLite files

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [smf-discuss] Project proposal: Enhanced SMF Profiles

2006-05-15 Thread Darren J Moffat
Milan Jurik wrote: Does it mean that SMF Profiles will be like MS Windows registry? In this case some SQLite files probably etc.? No text files for easy editing with vi-like editors? Problem restoring after corruption of SQLite data files? Yes the SMF repository is a binary data base.

Re: [osol-discuss] Tar and long paths

2006-05-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. It fails right away : bash-3.00# /opt/csw/bin/readcd -v dev=0,0,0 meshpoints=16 f=sol-nv-b38-x86-dvd.test scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Read speed: 11080 kB/s (CD 62x, DVD 8x). Write speed: 5540 kB/s (CD 31x, DVD 4x).

[osol-discuss] Proposal for the mailman cross posting approval problem

2006-05-15 Thread Darren J Moffat
I think I might have a short term workaround for the cross posting problem we have with the mailman aliases when the sender is only a member of one of the aliases. Rather than hacking on mailman code to do this why don't we dump the list of members of all lists and stick it through uniq(1).

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Tar and long paths

2006-05-15 Thread James Carlson
homerun writes: Thanks for quick reply. now i know more :-D case closed Before you close it, you should know that Solaris *comes with* GNU tar. It's in /usr/sfw/bin/gtar, in package SUNWgtar, which is in all metaclusters from SUNWCuser and up. You don't need to install anything extra to

[osol-discuss] onnv SXCR status

2006-05-15 Thread Karyn Ritter
Steve just posted the source for onnv_40, and will also post a nightly snapshot (20060515) tomorrow/Wed. Build 40 of SXCR is on track to deliver on 5/26. Thanks, Karyn Original Message Subject: [osol-announce] ON build 40 available Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 09:15:14 -0700 From

Re: [osol-discuss] Tar and long paths

2006-05-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. It fails right away : bash-3.00# /opt/csw/bin/readcd -v dev=0,0,0 meshpoints=16 f=sol-nv-b38-x86-dvd.test scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Read speed: 11080 kB/s (CD 62x, DVD 8x). Write speed: 5540 kB/s (CD 31x, DVD 4x).

[osol-discuss] Project proposal: Having /usr/ports on OpenSolaris

2006-05-15 Thread Roman Bekker
Hello all. Some time ago there was a discussion about having a mechanism of easy automatic installation of new software on OpenSolaris from a central repository, in a manner similar to, say, apt-get in Debian. There is already a project called NexentaOS, which is effectively a Debian

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: opensolaris vmware server

2006-05-15 Thread James Carlson
RH writes: (note slice 2 shows the entire available storage of all slices - I've got two disks if 18gb mounted - should total to 36gb; why it shows 33gb I'm not sure - but slice 2 - backup reports all available slices combined) Because disk manufacturers use base 10, despite the fact that

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Having /usr/ports on OpenSolaris

2006-05-15 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Roman Bekker wrote: 2. In addition to packages, my idea is to have a tree of /usr/ports on OpenSolaris, like we have on FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, with links to places where an user can automatically download, patch for clean compile on OpenSolaris, build, verify and

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

2006-05-15 Thread Mike Kupfer
Casper == Casper Dik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Casper How can I configure it to reject non-member mail? Go to the Mailman list admin page. The control is under Privacy options-Sender filters (Action to take for postings from options-non-members...). mike

Re: [osol-discuss] BugZilla for OpenSplaris projects ?

2006-05-15 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Ian Collins wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: Is there somewhere a BugZilla[1] which can be used for OpenSolaris projects ? If there is no such installation - could genunix.org host such a beast ? [1]=I am asking explicitly for BugZilla for several reasons... please

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

2006-05-15 Thread Casper . Dik
Casper == Casper Dik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Casper How can I configure it to reject non-member mail? Go to the Mailman list admin page. The control is under Privacy options-Sender filters (Action to take for postings from options-non-members...). Never noticed these options; thanks.

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

2006-05-15 Thread Stefan Teleman
On 5/15/06, Serge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Stefan, I'm happy to read from you in this forum. Hi. :-) As i explained a few monthes ago in your kde-solaris forum, old versions from the new Rosegarden have really full worked with old versions of aRTs, i mean only two or three years ago.

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Having /usr/ports on OpenSolaris

2006-05-15 Thread Roman Bekker
Rich Teer wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006, Roman Bekker wrote: 2. In addition to packages, my idea is to have a tree of /usr/ports on OpenSolaris, like we have on FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, with links to places where an user can automatically download, patch for clean compile on

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Having /usr/ports on OpenSolaris

2006-05-15 Thread Peter Tribble
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 20:56, Roman Bekker wrote: Rich Teer wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006, Roman Bekker wrote: 2. In addition to packages, my idea is to have a tree of /usr/ports on OpenSolaris, like we have on FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, with links to places where an user can

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Having /usr/ports on OpenSolaris

2006-05-15 Thread Roman Bekker
Patrick wrote: Hi, I like the idea, but not the use of /usr/ports. How about /opt/ports? But to what end ? and with what back end compilers ? Regarding backend compilers, please just recall how /usr/ports work on *BSD. There are makefiles, which do just what is specified by the

Re: I wish Sun would open-source QFS... / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-15 Thread Peter Tribble
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 19:52, Roland Mainz wrote: Actually you can simply use QFS. And I really wish Sun would make QFS open-source. Even now it has many features which are still missing in ZFS - and it's much much faster, too... I wished Sun would open-source QFS too, but that was from the

[osol-discuss] Disable Sun Update Manager Registration Wizard ?

2006-05-15 Thread Thomas Stein
A couple of days ago I installed Solaris 10. Unfortuantely every boot time the Sun Update Manager registration wizard pops up awaiting my registration. Is there a way to disable it (permanently) or at least for the next 3 month ? Thank you Thomas This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] How Do You Use OpenSolaris?

2006-05-15 Thread Stephen Harpster
We've been giving lots of talks around the world about OpenSolaris. One question that comes up a lot, which unfortunately I've been unable to answer, is how are people using OpenSolaris? I have a good handle on what universities are doing with it, but what are others doing with it? How are

[osol-discuss] cdrtools-2.01.01a09 released

2006-05-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Today, I happily announce new features and the release of the DVD-code into the OpenSource. After long discussions with various people on OpenSource Licenses and their effects on interproject usage and the effect on the authors themselves, I contacted the authors

Re: [osol-discuss] Offtopic: Solaris C API to clear a terminal screen...

2006-05-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:00:32AM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote: Hi! This is slightly offtopic but due lack of a better list for this I am asking this here: Does Solaris have any C API (maybe something in libc ?) which works like /usr/bin/clear but does not require a |fork()|

Re: [osol-discuss] Offtopic: Solaris C API to clear a terminal screen...

2006-05-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jonathan Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you might avoid *some* of the expense (since, as of Solaris 10, system() uses vfork(), even on multi-threaded processes. So the duplicating the address space just to tear it down at exec() time cost is gone. Isn't vfork() nowerdays only slightly more

Re: [osol-discuss] Offtopic: Solaris C API to clear a terminal screen...

2006-05-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is slightly offtopic but due lack of a better list for this I am asking this here: Does Solaris have any C API (maybe something in libc ?) which works like /usr/bin/clear but does not require a |fork()| (=expensive call) nor uses

Re: [osol-discuss] Offtopic: Solaris C API to clear a terminal screen...

2006-05-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:38:05AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Jonathan Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you might avoid *some* of the expense (since, as of Solaris 10, system() uses vfork(), even on multi-threaded processes. So the duplicating the address space just to tear it down at

Re: [osol-discuss] Offtopic: Solaris C API to clear a terminal screen...

2006-05-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:33:43PM -0700, Jonathan Adams wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:00:32AM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote: Hi! This is slightly offtopic but due lack of a better list for this I am asking this here: Does Solaris have any C API (maybe something in libc ?)

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

2006-05-15 Thread user
Le lundi 15 mai 2006 15:36 -0400, Stefan Teleman a crit : i'm working on a native Solaris driver for Jack. which will remove the need for aRts, and Rosegarden has builtin support for Jack audio. and midi, i presume : we compose in midi mode, and Rosegarden need a midi device

Re: [osol-discuss] cdrtools-2.01.01a09 released

2006-05-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
Today, I happily announce new features and the release of the DVD-code into the OpenSource. Thank you Jörg ! I am going to now install a new Sony DRU-820A DVD burner into my trusty server here and finally be able to burn dual layer DVD's. I also have DVD+R DL 120mm media at

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

2006-05-15 Thread Eric Fluger
thanx. very concise and helpful. i have this feeling that i have more questions lurking somewhere, but i think i'll hit the docs and murl things over a bit first. :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: How Do You Use OpenSolaris?

2006-05-15 Thread Michael Kiedrowski
We've been giving lots of talks around the world about OpenSolaris. One question that comes up a lot, which unfortunately I've been unable to answer, is how are people using OpenSolaris? I have a good handle on what universities are doing with it, but what are others doing with it? How

Re: [osol-discuss] How Do You Use OpenSolaris?

2006-05-15 Thread Bill Rushmore
On May 15, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Stephen Harpster wrote: We've been giving lots of talks around the world about OpenSolaris. One question that comes up a lot, which unfortunately I've been unable to answer, is how are people using OpenSolaris? I have a good handle on what universities are

[osol-discuss] Re: How Do You Use OpenSolaris?

2006-05-15 Thread Wes Williams
General productivity workstation desktop (XMMS, StarOffice, email/web), ZFS home data NFS Samba exports to LAN, Java Studio Creator2 corresponding app servers, PostgreSQL, mathematical analysis, some Apache2 web serving in a few zones. I'm also trying various configurations to try and

[osol-discuss] Thoughts on freeware ports and GUI library sub-stacks

2006-05-15 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thinking (and toying with) the concept of a minimal desktop over the weekend, I got to thinking about how Firefox has become an indispensable desktop application, and how it is based on the GTK+ (Glib, etc.) sub-stack library set. The point being that even for non-GNOME desktop environments,

Re: [osol-discuss] cdrtools-2.01.01a09 released

2006-05-15 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
Joerg, this is great! Thank you for all the hard work. Next stops - BD and HDDVD? :) -Artem. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] cdrtools-2.01.01a09 released

2006-05-15 Thread Tao Chen
On 5/15/06, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today, I happily announce new features and the release of the DVD-code into the OpenSource. After long discussions with various people on OpenSource Licenses and their effects on interproject usage and the

[osol-discuss] Re: cdrtools-2.01.01a09 released

2006-05-15 Thread Ché Kristo
Good work Jörg. Nice choice of license too ;) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Asus A7V8X-X LAN Setup

2006-05-15 Thread Glenn Weinberg
Hope I'm not betraying a confidence here, but the answer is because he's happy where he is. Not everyone can or should work for Sun.  The whole idea of OpenSolaris is to have a community that includes both Sun and non-Sun contributors.     Regards,     Glenn UNIX admin wrote: As