[osol-discuss] Re: /usr/sbin/format: where is the -force flag?

2006-08-02 Thread Vansteene
Hi, I'm having the same problem today with Solaris 10 06/06. Exactly for the same reason I would like to split an unused partition into 2 slices in order to create metadb... I think format should detect, for example, that changes only affect unmounted partitions ... and -f is required

[osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Community graphics for home page

2006-08-02 Thread Martin Man
Hi Sara, given the holiday time, I simply think 7th of August is a very tight deadline to get some meaningful results we can later vote on, would you mind extending the submission deadline to the end of August? just my .2 cents, Martin (who tries to do some graphic from time to time and

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-02 Thread Martin Man
Hi Alan, Alan DuBoff wrote On 2006-08-02 00:07,: I am not sure I am proposing a new community, or just expressing myself with a problem that has existed and will continue to get worse, in the way opensource software is incorporated on OpenSolaris distributions. seems very similar to the

[osol-discuss] Re: Mounting from external USB Sata Drive?

2006-08-02 Thread Shawn Walker
Shawn Walker wrote: Hi Shawn, you might need to thump the scsa2usb driver.conf file a bit. Have a look in /kernel/drv/scsa2usb.conf. My setting - which I'm keeping until Tamarack rocks up, is to add attribute-override-list = vid=* reduced-cmd-support=true removable=false; I made the

[osol-discuss] Support for Cell accelerator boards?

2006-08-02 Thread I. Szczesniak
Is Sun interested in adding support for Cell-based accelerator boards such as http://www.mc.com/products/view/index.cfm?id=106type=boards to their UltraSPARC and Opteron workstations? Irek ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Community graphics for home page

2006-08-02 Thread Martin Man
Hi Sara, Sara Dornsife wrote On 2006-08-02 16:40,: The reason we went with such a tight deadline was so that the home page didn't sit blank for too long. Any ideas there? I understand what you are saying. no idea how to speed things up, but when it comes to graphic that should be there for

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [website-discuss] Community graphics for home page

2006-08-02 Thread Dennis Clarke
The reason we went with such a tight deadline was so that the home page didn't sit blank for too long. Any ideas there? I understand what you are saying. Sara I had a few ideas .. but I'll have to sketch them quickly, then see if I can get the colors right .. then transfer to a computer

Re: Solved: Re: [osol-discuss] Problems with SX B39 on dual Opteron

2006-08-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Gavin Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/31/06 00:08, Joerg Schilling wrote: While this patch did not help, I am now able to boot the newer Solaris kernels on this system. What I did: I did replace the 2 Opteron 242 by 2 Opteron 275 borrowed from AMD. So it looks like

[osol-discuss] IMPT: Mail Server Down Today From 11 - 2 PM PT

2006-08-02 Thread Derek Cicero
All, The mail server will be going down today for maintenance from 11 am to 2 PM PT. I will send mail when we begin and end the outage. The website will remain running. Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division

[osol-discuss] Project Proposal: CoolCLI

2006-08-02 Thread Jignesh K. Shah
All traditional shells (sh,ksh,bash) expect users to know UNIX commands in and out and not intuitive. They are meant for UNIX savvy people. ksh93 also won't help Solaris to gain new users who are not exposed to UNIX before. Plus they are single-threaded, need to know lot of options and not

[osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Community graphics for home page

2006-08-02 Thread Sara Dornsife
The reason we went with such a tight deadline was so that the home page didn't sit blank for too long. Any ideas there? I understand what you are saying. Sara Martin Man wrote: Hi Sara, given the holiday time, I simply think 7th of August is a very tight deadline to get some meaningful

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [website-discuss] Community graphics for home page

2006-08-02 Thread Sara Dornsife
hopefully when you say contains those colors there is no restrictions to putting in red or dark blue or anything else. Geez. Why be so color restrictive ? Takes all the fun out of it. Yes, it can contain other colors, but it will look best on the home page if our colors are in there

Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Formal Proposal : Port OpenSolaris to PowerPC

2006-08-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Josh Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My answer is: It depends on the requirements on the user side. Both sides of the spectrum have valid arguments. However the backwards compatibility of ksh93 is very good as outlined by Roland Mainz. I think we should switch NOW or allow the users to switch

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: CoolCLI

2006-08-02 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Jignesh K. Shah wrote: As an example lets consider the ls command which can be implemted as follows (open for discussion of course) LIST FILES {pattern} {[IN path] {[ADDED | MODIFIED | ACCESSED] IN LAST [N] [DAYS|MONTHS|YEARS]}} LIST DIRECTORIES and going beyond that

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: CoolCLI

2006-08-02 Thread Felix Schulte
On 8/2/06, Jignesh K. Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All traditional shells (sh,ksh,bash) expect users to know UNIX commands in and out and not intuitive. They are meant for UNIX savvy people. ksh93 also won't help Solaris to gain new users who are not exposed to UNIX before. Plus they are

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: CoolCLI

2006-08-02 Thread James Carlson
Rich Teer writes: LIST DEVICES {OF TYPE REMOVABLE| HARDDISK | NETWORKADAPTERS | } LIST USERS { LOGGEDON | INACTIVE } LIST GROUPS LIST FILESYSTEMS Let me guess, you're a VMS fan? ;-) Personally, I liked the Adventure shell from way back when: $ look There are two exits, called

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [website-discuss] Community graphics for home page

2006-08-02 Thread Dennis Clarke
hopefully when you say contains those colors there is no restrictions to putting in red or dark blue or anything else. Geez. Why be so color restrictive ? Takes all the fun out of it. Yes, it can contain other colors, but it will look best on the home page if our colors are in there

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [website-discuss] Community graphics for home page

2006-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Dennis Clarke wrote: hopefully when you say contains those colors there is no restrictions to putting in red or dark blue or anything else. Geez. Why be so color restrictive ? Takes all the fun out of it. Yes, it can contain other colors, but it will look best on the home page if our

Re: [osol-discuss] Support for Cell accelerator boards?

2006-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
I. Szczesniak wrote: Is Sun interested in adding support for Cell-based accelerator boards such as http://www.mc.com/products/view/index.cfm?id=106type=boards to their UltraSPARC and Opteron workstations? This is OpenSolaris-discuss, not Sun-Workstation-Marketing. If you want to talk about

[osol-discuss] Problem with site attachments

2006-08-02 Thread Derek Cicero
We made a seemingly 'transparent' change to handle the attachments that apparently just broke. All attachments to the site are currently unavailable. We are trying to fix it ASAP. Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division

[osol-discuss] Site attachments fixed

2006-08-02 Thread Derek Cicero
Site Attachment are working again. We had a permissions issue. Nothing should have been lost, but if you think something is missing, let me know ASAP. Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division ___

[osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Community graphics for home page

2006-08-02 Thread John Plocher
+-- Sara Dornsife wrote: The reason we went with such a tight deadline was so that the home page didn't sit blank for too long. Any ideas there? I understand what you are saying. How about doing this on a monthly basis? That is, plan on updating the graphic on the 1st of each month, picking

[osol-discuss] Possible OSUG project: setting up NTP pool servers?

2006-08-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
In the ARC review of the GNOME system tools project this week, one of the issues raised was the hardcoded list of public NTP servers used in the Date Time panel. I suggested both that a better default was pool.ntp.org and that the good community citizen thing to do would be to have Sun provide

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible OSUG project: setting up NTP pool servers?

2006-08-02 Thread Dennis Clarke
In the ARC review of the GNOME system tools project this week, one of the issues raised was the hardcoded list of public NTP servers used in the Date Time panel. I suggested both that a better default was pool.ntp.org and that the good community citizen thing to do would be to have Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Site attachments fixed

2006-08-02 Thread Dennis Clarke
Site Attachment are working again. We had a permissions issue. Nothing should have been lost, but if you think something is missing, let me know ASAP. possibly unrelated but .. did b45 just vanish from the source download area? I was just downloading 20060724 and then moved on to b45 and

Re: [osol-discuss] Site attachments fixed

2006-08-02 Thread Stephen Lau
Derek Cicero wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: Site Attachment are working again. We had a permissions issue. Nothing should have been lost, but if you think something is missing, let me know ASAP. possibly unrelated but .. did b45 just vanish from the source download area? I was just

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-02 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 02:00 am, Martin Man wrote: Alan DuBoff wrote On 2006-08-02 00:07,: I am not sure I am proposing a new community, or just expressing myself with a problem that has existed and will continue to get worse, in the way opensource software is incorporated on

[osol-discuss] Uncaught bounce notifications

2006-08-02 Thread Derek Cicero
All Mailing List Owners, When we moved the machines today, a torrent of uncaught bounce notifications was released. You can delete these messages. We are are going to change the settings so list owners no longer receive these messages, only the site admin. I apologize for the

[osol-discuss] Mail Service Restored

2006-08-02 Thread Derek Cicero
The mail outage has ended. There may be delayed deliveries for some folks due to the change in DNS settings. Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Site attachments fixed

2006-08-02 Thread Derek Cicero
Dennis Clarke wrote: Site Attachment are working again. We had a permissions issue. Nothing should have been lost, but if you think something is missing, let me know ASAP. possibly unrelated but .. did b45 just vanish from the source download area? I was just downloading 20060724 and then

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: CoolCLI

2006-08-02 Thread Jignesh K. Shah
Actually I have never used VMS in my life. But I like SQL and I think in many ways I am thinking of standardized commands which will work on any structure be it file , processes, directories, etc. Similar to how /proc etc in some sense. -Jignesh Rich Teer wrote: On Wed, 2 Aug 2006,

[osol-discuss] configuring PPPoE

2006-08-02 Thread pietro maggi
Hi, I need to know ho to configure my adsl connection using PPPoE protocol. I gues is a simple task, by I'm totally new to Solaris, so I need some little help... thank in advence Pietro This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] Re: configuring PPPoE

2006-08-02 Thread Layne Ethington
Hi Pietro, The System Administration Guide: Network Services provides lots of info about PPPoE. See http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4555/ and look in the Serial Networking Topics section. You'll see overview, task, and reference chapters about PPPoE. I think you'll particularly be