[osol-discuss] Open Solaris Shutdown (SMF Services?)

2006-10-31 Thread David Lloyd
Hi There, My Solaris installation takes a long time to shut down (it seems to be inordinately long). Here's what I do: 1. Log in as myself 2. su - 3. shutdown -g0 -i5 -y X stops almost straight away and then my machine just does nothing. Eventually, I'm told that the CDE Login service

[osol-discuss] Re: Wake on LAN

2006-10-31 Thread UNIX admin
Wake on LAN is in my view going to be tough to push as an RFE because the intended use case is radically different from the core customer base -- which are customers running high availability / mission critical servers 24x7x365. Most likely WOL capability will have to be done entirely by an

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ast-users] one more test for ksh

2006-10-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Felix Schulte wrote: Tell that Sun. They are still proud to deliver their broken ksh88 junk with Solaris and claim that this is in the best interest of their customers Pride has nothing to do with it, not that it matters to someone like you who is just interested in flaming and slowing down

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Wake on LAN

2006-10-31 Thread Darren J Moffat
UNIX admin wrote: Wake on LAN is in my view going to be tough to push as an RFE because the intended use case is radically different from the core customer base -- which are customers running high availability / mission critical servers 24x7x365. Most likely WOL capability will have to be

[osol-discuss] Re: Will the Solaris OS run on your x86 system? Click to find out.

2006-10-31 Thread Stephen Potter
Finally skipped nge0, but it took a lot longer than I normally expect. I also realized that the other timers didn't seem to be running normal speed. However, I'm now into the installation and most everything seems to be defined correctly. It's actually installing, and I hope I didn't screw up

Re: [osol-discuss] Concerns about the removal of Xsun

2006-10-31 Thread Stephen Harpster
I totally understand. The problem is that open sourcing existing proprietary code requires work, specifically legal work. Given our priorities and resources, it's difficult to justify spending time and money on old code, but I'll ask.. Rich Teer wrote: On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Stephen

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Wake on LAN

2006-10-31 Thread Alan Coopersmith
UNIX admin wrote: Wake on LAN is in my view going to be tough to push as an RFE because the intended use case is radically different from the core customer base -- which are customers running high availability / mission critical servers 24x7x365. Wake on LAN for x86 machines is being done by

Re: [osol-discuss] Concerns about the removal of Xsun

2006-10-31 Thread Stephen Harpster
One of the main benefits of open source is to encourage folks to develop support for obscure or obsolete equipment. So yes, we strongly encourage the community to port older drivers to X.org. If you want to include those in opensolaris.org, that's relatively easy to do as well. We, Sun, are

Re: [printing-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] My printer

2006-10-31 Thread Christopher Lemire
Will Solaris 11 support my printer? What about Solaris Express? Are there any new projects that currently support my printer? I have a HP DeskJet722C that does not work on Solaris 10 x86. Thank you. On 9/12/06, Norm Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PPD files delivered in SUNW* packages should be

Re: [printing-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] My printer

2006-10-31 Thread Norm Jacobs
The pnm2ppa driver is not currently shipping in Solaris, but assuming there are no legal issues (license, patent, ...), I'm sure that it can be added. If you are interested in working on getting it into Solaris, I would be happy to help you. Otherwise, I will add it to my growing list of things

Re: [osol-discuss] Concerns about the removal of Xsun

2006-10-31 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Stephen Harpster wrote: One of the main benefits of open source is to encourage folks to develop support for obscure or obsolete equipment. So yes, we strongly encourage the community to port older drivers to X.org. If you want to include those in opensolaris.org,

[osol-discuss] Re: [ast-users] one more test for ksh

2006-10-31 Thread Felix Schulte
On 31 Oct 2006 11:59:59 -0500 (EST), Dave Morano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephan Titard wrote: on cygwin, ksh93r does 500 iterations in 1.73s (1.06s with no field splitting), pdksh in 2.06s(1.8s) and bash in 18.23s(4.7s) on HP-UX 11.00 the system ksh (Version 11/16/88) runs about 10 times

[osol-discuss] Re: Will the Solaris OS run on your x86 system? Click to find out.

2006-10-31 Thread Stephen Potter
Rather than continuing to reply to myself and filling people's mailboxes, please check out http://lopsa.org/blog/2 (I got nv 50 up, graphics work, nge works). This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Will the Solaris OS run on your x86 system? Click to find out.

2006-10-31 Thread Casper . Dik
Tried booting standard nevada 50 install media. Same asy0 errors, get to the point of choosing in stall method. Choose Interactive (default), starts RPC, then sits forever trying to configure nge0 . We see the asy0 problems a lot with Toshiba laptops; I think changing to either config all

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: ON Tool Hg Conversion

2006-10-31 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Bonnie. Your project proposal has seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Eric On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Bonnie Corwin wrote: I propose the 'ON Tool Hg Conversion' project to convert the ON tools that currently have knowledge of TeamWare and/or SCCS to work with Mercurial. The

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ast-users] one more test for ksh

2006-10-31 Thread Stephen Lau
Felix Schulte wrote: On 31 Oct 2006 11:59:59 -0500 (EST), Dave Morano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephan Titard wrote: on cygwin, ksh93r does 500 iterations in 1.73s (1.06s with no field splitting), pdksh in 2.06s(1.8s) and bash in 18.23s(4.7s) on HP-UX 11.00 the system ksh (Version

[osol-discuss] Re: Wake on LAN

2006-10-31 Thread Randy Fishel
Wake on LAN is in my view going to be tough to push as an RFE because the intended use case is radically different from the core customer base -- which are customers running high availability / mission critical servers 24x7x365. Most likely WOL capability will have to be done entirely by

[osol-discuss] broken counters with UCD snmpd?

2006-10-31 Thread Eric Sproul
Hi, I've been trying to graph context switches and interrupts on a quad Opteron running 6/06 and getting weird results. For example, doing successive gets for the ssRawContexts OID (.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.60.0): SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.2021.11.60.0 = Counter32: 139746744

[osol-discuss] Re: Will the Solaris OS run on your x86 system? Click to find out.

2006-10-31 Thread Li Ye
As to the File Transfer Failed error, following steps might be a solution to resolve it: (1) Open a terminal and run the following command: # javaws And then a window of Java Application Cache Reviewer will display. (2) Choose the menu Edit - Preferences... And then a window of

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Country/Language Portals for opensolaris.org

2006-10-31 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote On 10/30/06 22:43,: +1 can we do this as a wiki? that should lower the entry barrier for contributors Hi ... The site infrastructure will stay as it is for these portals and will be managed from a technical perspective just as the main site is. Each portal

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Wake on LAN

2006-10-31 Thread Bob Palowoda
UNIX admin wrote: Wake on LAN is in my view going to be tough to push as an RFE because the intended use case is radically different from the core customer base -- which are customers running high availability / mission critical servers 24x7x365. Wake on LAN for x86 machines is being

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Country/Language Portals for opensolaris.org

2006-10-31 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Joey Guo wrote On 10/31/06 01:26,: +1 My pleasure to bring up cn.opensolaris.org in China. Excellent! I sort of expected that China would be a big part of this project. Welcome! You guys are leaving everyone in the dust with your OpenSolaris university program, so having a Chinese

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Country/Language Portals for opensolaris.org

2006-10-31 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Venky wrote On 10/31/06 16:33,: +1 Thanks! can we do this as a wiki? that should lower the entry barrier for contributors A huge +1 to that! :) Sorry, I don't have wiki to offer. But I hope you get involved anyway. Having the site in multiple language could change the dynamic of the