[osol-discuss] Re: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] project proposal __/__ WAS: Re: Re: Re:

2007-01-05 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
The kqemu module itself is IP of Fabrice Bellard. Not sure if I can integrate it into the pkgs, probably NOT. Thanks for the clarification. I understand the IP situation and won't have any problem downloading kqemu as a separate package. The wrapper module will continue to be available

Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread Casper . Dik
Peter Tribble wrote: On 1/1/07, wb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a /tmp FS for swap, and a really big file crout* inside. The /tmp was 95% up. I decided to remove the crout file. The problem, is the /tmp is not decreasing, but still growing. How could I make it decrease?

[osol-discuss] Problem using acctcom...

2007-01-05 Thread Arun
when i try using acctcom in my solaris 10 machine, it gives out the foll error essage : acctcom: cannot open /var/adm/pacct Am kind of new to the environment so am not able to trace out the problem... Can anyone help me out with this??? thanks and Regards, Arun DK This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] libc_pic.a not found

2007-01-05 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi, While building the dynamic linker using dmake all, the build process failed because of libc_pic.a library not found in /usr/lib/pics. Build the full workspace, then build the dynamic linker updates. There are some parts in the ON workspace which depend on other bits being build first.

Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somehow I am wondering why Solaris doesn't ship lsof in /usr/sbin/ ... is this just noone had time yet or something else ? Wasn't there a blog where someone explained why lsof is a perfornance pig and should be avoided in favor of other tools? Jörg --

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attrand publickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
Peter C. Norton wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 02:59:55AM +0100, Martin Bochnig wrote: So how would you be able to bypass any nameservice defined in nsswitch.conf, getting those user_attr attributes in a nameservice-independent way? I mean, either you get it locally (files), or you may get it

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attrand publickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
Martin Bochnig wrote: Peter C. Norton wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 02:59:55AM +0100, Martin Bochnig wrote: So how would you be able to bypass any nameservice defined in nsswitch.conf, getting those user_attr attributes in a nameservice-independent way? I mean, either you get it

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attr and publickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Darren J Moffat
Martin Bochnig wrote: Maybe getuserattr() or getauthattr() ? Plus getpublickey() Or don't those work with files as NS ?? /etc/publickey works just fine with files. -- Darren J Moffat ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attr and publickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Darren J Moffat
Roland Mainz wrote: Hi! Is there a nameservice-independent way to obtain the values for user_attr and publickey from a shell script (if not I would propose to add a extension to getent) ? publickey no there isn't. For user_attr it depends which values you want. user_attr is a little

Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
Joerg Schilling wrote: Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somehow I am wondering why Solaris doesn't ship lsof in /usr/sbin/ ... is this just noone had time yet or something else ? Wasn't there a blog where someone explained why lsof is a perfornance pig and should be avoided in

Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Martin Bochnig wrote: [ ... ] What I had seen is, that you apparently have to rebuild it for Solaris10 06/06, versions built for older releases don't work correctly under 06/06 anymore. But that's certainly not a reason, why SUNW couldn't ship it. Well, so what exactly

Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:59:27AM +, Frank Hofmann wrote: On the other hand, the request for lsof in Solaris is anything but new, and the reference to pfiles, the mentioning that lsof does nasty digging in the kernel's intestines as a reply is neither, and the arguments that the output

Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:59:27AM +, Frank Hofmann wrote: On the other hand, the request for lsof in Solaris is anything but new, and the reference to pfiles, the mentioning that lsof does nasty digging in the kernel's intestines as a reply is

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] project proposal __/__ WAS: Re: Re: Re:

2007-01-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: The kqemu module itself is IP of Fabrice Bellard. Not sure if I can integrate it into the pkgs, probably NOT. Thanks for the clarification. I understand the IP situation and won't have any problem downloading kqemu as a separate package. The wrapper module will

[osol-discuss] Re: New SUNWqemu cvs20070102tue in the works .... rgds. -Martin

2007-01-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
Martin Bochnig wrote: soon (Sorry for cross-posting, but too many people are waiting for one or another thing.) Merging several small and bigger diffs into the CVS was not so much of a problem. But they at qemu (i.e. Thiemo Seufer) have professionally reimplemented DMA support into

[osol-discuss] Current SUNWqemu status ... : qemu_cvs20070102tue__solaris__MB.gdiff.bz2

2007-01-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
qemu_cvs20070102tue__solaris__MB.gdiff.bz2 Description: application/bzip ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread James Carlson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No; it's something that we won't ship, ever because of the nature how lsof trawls for its events. That's not true. Though there are folks around who have expressed the never opinion, that does not represent the opinion of all of Solaris development. Our group has

Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread Casper . Dik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No; it's something that we won't ship, ever because of the nature how lsof trawls for its events. That's not true. +1 for a project to integrate the lsof command line interface. Design and implementation to be determined. ;-} Strange as it may seem, this is pretty

[osol-discuss] Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] project proposal __/__ WAS: Re: Re: Re: Is M

2007-01-05 Thread UNIX admin
Second, when we criticize Firefox, we should perhaps also mention the version number. The 1.5s are dogs. Firefox 2.0 is now included in 54+. If snv_54 is the one that integrated Vermillion, then that's the Firefox I've in the meantime learned to *love to hate*. It's a really crappy

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] project proposal __/__ WAS: Re: Re: Re: Is M

2007-01-05 Thread UNIX admin
Later this year (Q2/Q3 2007) anyone (users of Solaris 10++ [sparc and x86/64]) will additionally have the alternative to use the then available MRTX packages, including MRTXseamonkey. Do you plan to deliver MRTXseamonkey in /opt/mrtx resp. /etc/opt/mrtx and /var/opt/mrtx (for config and

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] project proposal __/__ WAS: Re: Re: Re: Is M

2007-01-05 Thread UNIX admin
The MRTX pkgs will. However, marTux itself will be rpm based while offering pkgadd compatibility at the same time. I believe that your time reengineering / repackaging software in RPM would be better spent formally extending `pkgadd` and friends with features that `rpm` has and `pkgadd`

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] project proposal __/__ WAS: Re: Re: Re: Is M

2007-01-05 Thread UNIX admin
Huh ? Thats that the automounter is for! Exactly. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] project proposal __/__ WAS: Re: Re: Re: Is M

2007-01-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
UNIX admin wrote: Otherwise, you run the risk of never being a suitable candidate for production environments, like banks, insurance companies, industrial corporations, the military, government, etcetera: you simply won't have enough compatibility with stock Solaris and will diverge too far

[osol-discuss] rpm vs pkgadd (again!)

2007-01-05 Thread Darren J Moffat
UNIX admin wrote: The MRTX pkgs will. However, marTux itself will be rpm based while offering pkgadd compatibility at the same time. I believe that your time reengineering / repackaging software in RPM would be better spent formally extending `pkgadd` and friends with features that `rpm` has

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] project proposal __/__ WAS: Re: Re: Re: Is M

2007-01-05 Thread Darren J Moffat
Martin Bochnig wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Martin Bochnig wrote: Okay, he is partially right: First you have more mount points when staying SVR4 compliant with config dirs here and there. Second, the nfs client may not have /etc/opt/csw or /etc/opt/mrtx yet, and you need to mkdir them

Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread Josh Hurst
On 1/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Tribble wrote: On 1/1/07, wb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a /tmp FS for swap, and a really big file crout* inside. The /tmp was 95% up. I decided to remove the crout file. The problem, is the /tmp is not decreasing, but

Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread Josh Hurst
On 1/5/07, Frank Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Martin Bochnig wrote: I think Sun has to overcome both not invented here and the instinctive reject via not perfect, therefore not 'good enough' no matter what the users say, before lsof goes into mainstream Solaris. If

Re: [osol-discuss] Booting Solaris into trusted mode?

2007-01-05 Thread Josh Hurst
On 12/30/06, Boyd Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/12/2006, at 5:08 AM, Josh Hurst wrote: How can I boot (Open)Solaris into the Trusted Solaris mode? Josh It's not as simple as booting into Trusted Solaris mode. You need to install and configure the Trusted Extensions. There is ample

Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread Josh Hurst
On 1/5/07, Rich Teer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Note that lsof doesn't have to do kmem craling. For example on Linux it only uses proper procfs interfaces. As such proper interfaces seem to exist on Solaris as well for use with pfiles it shouldn't

Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread Darren J Moffat
Josh Hurst wrote: On 1/5/07, Frank Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Martin Bochnig wrote: I think Sun has to overcome both not invented here and the instinctive reject via not perfect, therefore not 'good enough' no matter what the users say, before lsof goes into mainstream

Re: [osol-discuss] rpm vs pkgadd (again!)

2007-01-05 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 1/5/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UNIX admin wrote: The MRTX pkgs will. However, marTux itself will be rpm based while offering pkgadd compatibility at the same time. I believe that your time reengineering / repackaging software in RPM would be better spent formally

Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread James Carlson
Josh Hurst writes: On 1/5/07, Frank Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Martin Bochnig wrote: I think Sun has to overcome both not invented here and the instinctive reject via not perfect, therefore not 'good enough' no matter what the users say, before lsof goes into

Re: [osol-discuss] Booting Solaris into trusted mode?

2007-01-05 Thread James Carlson
Josh Hurst writes: On 12/30/06, Boyd Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is ample documentation here: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/ 175.9 Why are the Trusted Extension packages not installed by default? I selected 'Full Install' during installation and the installer did not

Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Josh Hurst wrote: Vic's name is spelled 'Abell', two e- Whoops, my bad! Sorry Vic (I thought something didn't look quite right when I wrote that post)... -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member . *

Re: [osol-discuss] rpm vs pkgadd (again!)

2007-01-05 Thread Darren J Moffat
Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: On 1/5/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UNIX admin wrote: The MRTX pkgs will. However, marTux itself will be rpm based while offering pkgadd compatibility at the same time. I believe that your time reengineering / repackaging software in RPM

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] project proposal __/__ WAS: Re: Re: Re: Is M

2007-01-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
Darren J Moffat wrote: Martin Bochnig wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: Okay so you have 3 mounts instead of 1. That is 3 lines in one automount map in the nameservice - big deal. Solaris unlike some other systems really doesn't have a problem scaling to thousands of client side mounts -

[osol-discuss] Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] project proposal __/__ WAS: Re: Re: Re: Is M

2007-01-05 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
the UI is quite different don't help Firefox's case either. You need to go into about:config to change the UIs to suit your taste (e.g., the way tabs are closed, etc.) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attrand publickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 02:59:55AM +0100, Martin Bochnig wrote: So how would you be able to bypass any nameservice defined in nsswitch.conf, getting those user_attr attributes in a nameservice-independent way? I mean, either you get it locally (files), or you may get it via one of the

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attrand publickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:25:30PM +0100, Martin Bochnig wrote: Martin Bochnig wrote: Peter C. Norton wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 02:59:55AM +0100, Martin Bochnig wrote: So how would you be able to bypass any nameservice defined in nsswitch.conf, getting those user_attr attributes in a

Re: [osol-discuss] Booting Solaris into trusted mode?

2007-01-05 Thread Darren J Moffat
Josh Hurst wrote: On 12/30/06, Boyd Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/12/2006, at 5:08 AM, Josh Hurst wrote: How can I boot (Open)Solaris into the Trusted Solaris mode? Josh It's not as simple as booting into Trusted Solaris mode. You need to install and configure the Trusted

Re: [osol-discuss] Booting Solaris into trusted mode?

2007-01-05 Thread Darren J Moffat
Josh Hurst wrote: On 12/30/06, Boyd Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/12/2006, at 5:08 AM, Josh Hurst wrote: How can I boot (Open)Solaris into the Trusted Solaris mode? Josh It's not as simple as booting into Trusted Solaris mode. You need to install and configure the Trusted

Re: [osol-discuss] rpm vs pkgadd (again!)

2007-01-05 Thread Laszlo (Laca) Peter
(cc'ing install-discuss) On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 16:15 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: exactly which needed features are those that rpm has that pkgadd does not ? One feature that's missing, and would be infinitely useful for online package repositories, is = style version checking in

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] project proposal __/__ WAS: Re: Re: Re: I

2007-01-05 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
My biggest gripe with Blastwave is that they are not System V compliant. Dennis says this is because they wanted everything in one place. I fail to see how NFS-mounting /etc/opt/csw from another server would have been a problem, but OK. I like the way Blastwave.org is structured as I can

Re: [osol-discuss] rpm vs pkgadd (again!)

2007-01-05 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 1/5/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: On 1/5/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UNIX admin wrote: The MRTX pkgs will. However, marTux itself will be rpm based while offering pkgadd compatibility at the same time. I believe that

[osol-discuss] opensolaris tag on upcoming.org

2007-01-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
I was playing around with upcoming.org today, yahoo's web 2.0 social bookmarks style global upcoming events calendar and noticed there were no events tagged opensolaris, so I entered two of them, just to see what happens: http://upcoming.org/tag/opensolaris/ It might be an interesting place

Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread Casper . Dik
No; it's something that we won't ship, ever because of the nature how lsof trawls for its events. You could send patches to fix lsfo if you do not like it's implementation :) You could check the source code and look for my name there. While I understand James' aversion against my comments, I

Re: [install-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Booting Solaris into trusted mode?

2007-01-05 Thread Casper . Dik
Why are the Trusted Extension packages not installed by default? I selected 'Full Install' during installation and the installer did not install these packages Because the system then becomes a Trusted System and behaves differently (no ordinary zones, for one) Casper

[osol-discuss] Re: rpm vs pkgadd (again!)

2007-01-05 Thread UNIX admin
exactly which needed features are those that rpm has that pkgadd does not ? That's really for Martin and not for me to say, since he seems to be the one preferring `rpm` to `pkgadd` and friends. But since you're asking me, I'll tell you what I plan to do to `pkgadd`. I plan to extend it such

Re: [install-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] rpm vs pkgadd (again!)

2007-01-05 Thread James Carlson
Laszlo (Laca) Peter writes: (cc'ing install-discuss) On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 16:15 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: exactly which needed features are those that rpm has that pkgadd does not ? One feature that's missing, and would be infinitely useful for online package repositories, is =

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attrand publickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread James Carlson
Peter C. Norton writes: I think he wants to be able to add a flag, i.e. -nssvc nis, -nssvc dns, -nssvc 'ldap', etc. to getent that will dlopen the appropriate nss_blah library instead of following the lookup in nsswitch.conf so that the lookup to a particular database can be scripted. Better

Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread Josh Hurst
On 1/5/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just because /bin/sh isn't your shell of choice doesn't make it crappy. Really? Take 1: /bin/sh /dev/urandom Illegal Instruction (core dumped) Take 2-29: cat /var/adm/messages* | grep -F core.sh | sort Dec 10 11:09:41 fido genunix: [ID

[osol-discuss] Re: rpm vs pkgadd (again!)

2007-01-05 Thread UNIX admin
exactly which needed features are those that rpm has that pkgadd does not ? Third thing that I find ingenious in both `inst` and `swinstall` on HP-UX is hierarchical namespaces: on both IRIX and HP-UX one is able to package software hierarchichally, for example (on IRIX:) eoe.sw.bind -

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] project proposal __/__ WAS: Re: Re: Re: I

2007-01-05 Thread UNIX admin
I like the way Blastwave.org is structured as I can mount everything in a separate partition to be shared by multiple Solaris installations. The installations can be subsequently upgraded, but /opt/csw stays there. No need to re-install those packages. Coming from Linux background, this

[osol-discuss] Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread UNIX admin
In the current implementation for Solaris it pokes around in kernel memory and it has no business doing so, it can and will break. Right; according to the author of `lsof` himself, `lsof` peeks into private Solaris kernel structs and is likely to crash if those are changed. This is what

[osol-discuss] Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread UNIX admin
Really? Take 1: /bin/sh /dev/urandom Illegal Instruction (core dumped) Take 2-29: cat /var/adm/messages* | grep -F core.sh | sort You can take takes 'till the cows come home, but the day Solaris breaks backward compatibility is the day Solaris will become crap, just like some other

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: rpm vs pkgadd (again!)

2007-01-05 Thread Peter Tribble
On 1/5/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: exactly which needed features are those that rpm has that pkgadd does not ? ... There are principally several major features `pkgadd` is lacking, and those are: if I need REV 1.0 or 2007.01.05.07 of some dependency, and I have REV 3.2 or

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: rpm vs pkgadd (again!)

2007-01-05 Thread Peter Tribble
exactly which needed features are those that rpm has that pkgadd does not ? The one that I would like to see implemented (I need more time...) is that when I go pkgadd pkg1 pkg2 and pkg1 depends on pkg2 it is smart enough to automatically install pkg2 first followed by pkg1. Ditto pkgrm.

[osol-discuss] WLAN on dell 1501 with NDIS and Solaris 10 06/11

2007-01-05 Thread Sergio TRETA
Hi, following the document on Solaris NDIS Wrapper Toolkit (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ndis/), I'm trying to build the driver on my DELL 1501 (equipped with an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56 and a mini WLAN Dual Band wireless DELL 1490) with Solaris 10 06/11, but without

Re: [osol-discuss] recommended software?

2007-01-05 Thread Peter Tribble
On 1/5/07, Charles Hedrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm an experience Solaris sysadmin, but I haven't used a current version on the desktop. I'm trying to figure out what software to use. I've tried nextenta. It works pretty well, but I really want Solaris, not Linux on a Solaris kernel. The

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: rpm vs pkgadd (again!)

2007-01-05 Thread James Carlson
Peter Tribble writes: pkgadd pkg1 pkg2 Dependency ordering is already present for patchadd. There are many bugs on this for the pkg* tools: RFE 1105830 is the granddaddy of them and requests ordering RFE 1145132 requests pkgadd to prompt for and install dependencies RFE 1249489 is a

Re: [osol-discuss] recommended software?

2007-01-05 Thread Dennis Clarke
I'm an experience Solaris sysadmin, but I haven't used a current version on the desktop. I'm trying to figure out what software to use. The best option seemed to be Solaris Express. However it doesn't seem to be a complete enviornment. I've used packages from Sun Freeware with it without

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: rpm vs pkgadd (again!)

2007-01-05 Thread John Plocher
UNIX admin wrote: if I need REV 1.0 or 2007.01.05.07 of some dependency, and I have REV 3.2 or 2007.04.18.23 of the said software, `pkgadd` should be able to recognize that I have satisfied the min REV required, and plough on instead of doing a string-like check and *insisting* that I need

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-05 Thread John Plocher
UNIX admin wrote: `lsof` peeks into private Solaris kernel structs and is likely to crash if those are changed. So my hair stands up on my head when I sit in management meetings and one of my collagues whines why we can't have `lsof` integrated in our internal build of Solaris... absolutely

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] recommended software?

2007-01-05 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Dennis, Friday, January 5, 2007, 11:25:45 PM, you wrote: I see that Blastwave doesn't support Solaris Express, so that looks like an unsafe source. DC No one supports Solaris Express. Not even Sun. I think what you mean is DC that the software is fully expected to run just fine.

Re: [osol-discuss] recommended software?

2007-01-05 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Charles, Friday, January 5, 2007, 10:12:57 PM, you wrote: Generally Blastwave should and does work on SX. There's already gcc included in Solaris (and SX) - however there's no gdb (yet). Eventually go with gcc from Blastwave - works fine. Additionally you may want to try Sun Studio 11 as

[osol-discuss] Re: U20 nge driver not working since build 52

2007-01-05 Thread Robin McDonald
So has this bug been fixed yet ? Rgds Robin This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: recommended software?

2007-01-05 Thread Haik Aftandilian
The best option seemed to be Solaris Express. However it doesn't seem to be a complete enviornment. I've used packages from Sun Freeware with it without problems. But a few things I want aren't there. I had hoped to use Blastwave, but when I loaded Scribus from there, it messed things up

[osol-discuss] Re: WLAN on dell 1501 with NDIS and Solaris 10 06/11

2007-01-05 Thread Bob Palowoda
--- with a lot of messages in the /var/adm/messages file (see below for a little extract) -- --- Jan 5 20:41:43 d1501 genunix: [ID 387338 kern.notice] symbol

Re: Re[2]: [osol-discuss] recommended software?

2007-01-05 Thread Dennis Clarke
Hello Dennis, Friday, January 5, 2007, 11:25:45 PM, you wrote: I see that Blastwave doesn't support Solaris Express, so that looks like an unsafe source. DC No one supports Solaris Express. Not even Sun. I think what you mean is DC that the software is fully expected to run just

Re: [osol-discuss] recommended software?

2007-01-05 Thread Dennis Clarke
Hello Charles, Friday, January 5, 2007, 10:12:57 PM, you wrote: Generally Blastwave should and does work on SX. There's already gcc included in Solaris (and SX) - however there's no gdb (yet). Eventually go with gcc from Blastwave - works fine. Additionally you may want to try Sun

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] recommended software?

2007-01-05 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Dennis, Saturday, January 6, 2007, 2:45:32 AM, you wrote: Hello Charles, Friday, January 5, 2007, 10:12:57 PM, you wrote: Generally Blastwave should and does work on SX. There's already gcc included in Solaris (and SX) - however there's no gdb (yet). Eventually go with gcc from

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: rpm vs pkgadd (again!)

2007-01-05 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 02:34:27PM -0800, John Plocher wrote: UNIX admin wrote: if I need REV 1.0 or 2007.01.05.07 of some dependency, and I have REV 3.2 or 2007.04.18.23 of the said software, `pkgadd` should be able to recognize that I have satisfied the min REV required, and plough on

Re: Re[2]: [osol-discuss] recommended software?

2007-01-05 Thread Dennis Clarke
Generally Blastwave should and does work on SX. There's already gcc included in Solaris (and SX) - however there's no gdb (yet). Eventually go with gcc from Blastwave - works fine. Additionally you may want to try Sun Studio 11 as Denis pointed out - it's free and with SXCR 55 (which

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attrandpublickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: Martin Bochnig wrote: Peter C. Norton wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 02:59:55AM +0100, Martin Bochnig wrote: [snip] How does nisinit get names from dns even if your system is set to resolve via NIS+? Maybe you mean, Roland would want to clone the methods in which

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attrandpublickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: [snip] Normal users with limited privileges may naturally have no - or limited - access. Didn't you find any help in the man pages for NIS, NIS+ and LDAP? That was not the goal. The matching scripts should be able to operate regardless how the backend

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attrandpublickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Roland Mainz
James Carlson wrote: Peter C. Norton writes: I think he wants to be able to add a flag, i.e. -nssvc nis, -nssvc dns, -nssvc 'ldap', etc. to getent that will dlopen the appropriate nss_blah library instead of following the lookup in nsswitch.conf so that the lookup to a particular database

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attr andpublickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Roland Mainz
Darren J Moffat wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: Is there a nameservice-independent way to obtain the values for user_attr and publickey from a shell script (if not I would propose to add a extension to getent) ? publickey no there isn't. For user_attr it depends which values you want. I

[osol-discuss] Re: Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attr andpublickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
I too would like to see getent extended to handle everything in nsswitch.conf for which the results would be useful, a get*() function exists, and the extension would be reasonably straightforward. I didn't see anything in SUSv3 about getent, so if there's anything that would forbid adding