[osol-discuss] Re: since opnsolaris has limited driver support..adding wmware esx layer?

2006-09-11 Thread Stephen Potter
hi, I need some driver for opensolaris or belenix that do not exist currently... What driver specifically do you need. There are a large number of drivers available on the net, but not necessarily built into any of the current distibutions. but if wmware esx abstract the hardware and has

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] list applied patches for Solaris 8 9

2006-09-11 Thread Dave Miner
Peter Tribble wrote: On 8/30/06, *Dave Miner* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: Patches get applied almot as if they are packages. You will find a complete list of the patches in /var/sadm/patch and if you look there with ls

[osol-discuss] Community Proposal: Gardeners

2006-09-11 Thread Dan Price
I would like to propose a new community called Gardeners based on some recent discussions on opensolaris-code. [1,2] The mission of the community is simple: raise the overall code quality of the system. The intention of the community is to provide a nexus for a group of people who are already

Re: [osol-discuss] Community Proposal: Gardeners

2006-09-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
Dan Price wrote: I would like to propose a new community called Gardeners based on some recent discussions on opensolaris-code. [1,2] The mission of the community is simple: raise the overall code quality of the system. The intention of the community is to provide a nexus for a group of people

[osol-discuss] backup software?

2006-09-11 Thread Patrick
just wondering if there is any free software to back-up and keep up-to-date certain folders on my hard drive to external hard drive? basically i need to be able to plug in my external USB HD and be able to tell which files have changed and which files are new and copy them down. i thought

[osol-discuss] Outbound mail issues fixed

2006-09-11 Thread Derek Cicero
We had an issue today (10 am - 1:30 PM) where the firewall was blocking outbound mail, so any registrations/password reminders or bug form submissions were not working. It has now been corrected. Sorry for any inconvenience. Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group,

Re: [osol-discuss] Community Proposal: Gardeners

2006-09-11 Thread David Powell
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:58:03AM -0700, Dan Price wrote: I would like to propose a new community called Gardeners based on some recent discussions on opensolaris-code. [1,2] The mission of the community is simple: raise the overall code quality of the system. The intention of the

Re: [osol-discuss] Community Proposal: Gardeners

2006-09-11 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 9/11/06, Dan Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to propose a new community called Gardeners based on some recent discussions on opensolaris-code. [1,2] The mission of the community is simple: raise the overall code quality of the system. The intention of the community is to

Re: [osol-discuss] Community Proposal: Gardeners

2006-09-11 Thread Danek Duvall
+1 Danek ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Community Proposal: Gardeners

2006-09-11 Thread Eric Lowe
I would like to propose a new community called Gardeners based on some recent discussions on opensolaris-code. [1,2] ... I think this is great. +1 - Care and feeding of the build process Any improvements in this area would be greatly appreciated. In particular, my personal nit is that

Re: [osol-discuss] Community Proposal: Gardeners

2006-09-11 Thread Roland Mainz
Dan Price wrote: I would like to propose a new community called Gardeners based on some recent discussions on opensolaris-code. [1,2] The mission of the community is simple: raise the overall code quality of the system. The intention of the community is to provide a nexus for a group of

[osol-discuss] Re: Community Proposal: Gardeners

2006-09-11 Thread Stephen Potter
Not thrilled with the name Gardeners as it almost seems backwards from what the charter is. However, +1 to the overall idea. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Community Proposal: Gardeners

2006-09-11 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 9/12/06, Stephen Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not thrilled with the name Gardeners as it almost seems backwards from what the charter is. However, +1 to the overall idea. would it be possible to have something like kernel newbies to encourage new programmers to hack the opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Community Proposal: Gardeners

2006-09-11 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 12 Sep 2006 at 02:23AM, Ignacio Marambio Cat?n wrote: On 9/12/06, Stephen Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not thrilled with the name Gardeners as it almost seems backwards from what the charter is. However, +1 to the overall idea. would it be possible to have something like kernel

[osol-discuss] Printing

2006-09-11 Thread Chris Lemire
Could someone point me to some good easy to understand documentation or guide on getting the printer setup in Solaris 10 x86? Right now from the GUI, Solaris doesn't see the printer. First, I need to get it working. Second, I need to set it up to be shared on the network. I looked all over

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Community Proposal: Gardeners

2006-09-11 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 9/12/06, Stephen Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Price wrote: And then to pick up an oss-bite-size bug and work on it: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/oss_bite_size/ I can vouch for this. I am the epitome of a newbie; I haven't really coded any C since college over a decade

[osol-discuss] My printer

2006-09-11 Thread Chris Lemire
I have tried configuring my printer from the Add/Remove printer in JDS. If I get a website for using my printer from the command line, I will do that instead. My printer is a HP Deskjet 722C that works with the pnm2ppa driver in Linux. I downloaded HP-DeskJet_722C-pnm2ppa.ppd from somewhere on the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Community Proposal: Gardeners

2006-09-11 Thread Stephen Lau
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:43:32AM +0200, Ignacio Marambio Catn wrote: On 9/12/06, Stephen Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Price wrote: And then to pick up an oss-bite-size bug and work on it: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/oss_bite_size/ I can vouch for this. I am the

[osol-discuss] Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] My printer

2006-09-11 Thread Brad Hall
Chris, There is a fair amount of documentation on using the lp print service in the solaris 10 system administrator collection. Here's a link: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/47.16 (specifically the advanced administration guide) Alternatively you can install cups using pkg-get, and then you

[osol-discuss] SXCR Build 47 available for download

2006-09-11 Thread Derek Cicero
SXCR Build 46 is now available for download. Please find the links at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/. Thanks, Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list