On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote:
Wonderful. I await the day when Solaris techs will be
numerous as MCSEs and LPI guys, Solaris professionals
as many as RHCEs and (Open) Solaris is something that
a user knows.
I await the day that you'll actually install
Hi Atul,
There should be four VM images for download. Three are Solaris 10,
and the last one is the latest release: Solaris Express, Developer
Edition which is an OpenSolaris based distro.
-Alfred
Atul Vidwansa wrote:
Never mind. I got the images at
I await the day that you'll actually install
Solaris/OpenSolaris.
Alan, maybe Nexenta is not quite considered Open
Solaris but I had that installed and updated to
'elatte' with the b55 kernel/ON but then I had to wipe
it out with Solaris Express b59 to get the latest
iscsi-target code that is
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote:
Alan, maybe Nexenta is not quite considered Open
Solaris but I had that installed and updated to
'elatte' with the b55 kernel/ON but then I had to wipe
it out with Solaris Express b59 to get the latest
iscsi-target code that is supposed to
On 4/6/07, Yang Mingshan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a jackaroo on Solaris. And the problem puzzles me.
There is such a sentence in an article:Those devices which have other devices
attached to them (typically via a bus) use nexus drivers. Then, for the nexus
drivers(for example SCSI HBA
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote:
regarding hardware raid...when will 3ware come to
Solaris? Are those guys not at all interested?
I've just sent a message to the product manager and am trying to get him
to come over here and possibly create a community for 3ware.
Do
--- Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan
wrote:
Great, made your day then.
Not really, I use Solaris/OpenSolaris as my primary
operating system.
Heh, i'd love to get centos 4 off my home box. i guess
i will just look out for a cheapo
Le pb est toujours la connexion à internet. Sur le net j'ai trouvé un excellent
article sur le sujet à l'adresse www.phildev.net/solaris/spppoe.html. J'ai donc
créé une interface sppp0, ensuite j'ai essayé de l'utiliser avec un ping (ping
www.yahoo.fr) qui me répond : adresse inconnue. Dans
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 09:52 -0700, Rich Teer wrote:
By my reckonging, Solaris 10 installs ask more questions than before (e.g.,
NFSv4 domain, etc.), and yet S10 has the greatest take up of any version
of Solaris in SUn's history, by a long shot.
True, but those adopters still consistently
First let me apologize if this question has been asked before. I could not
find any references and I am pretty new to the OpenSolaris Boards.
I don't have as much experience with Solaris as I do with AIX and HP/UX so my
question may be elementry.
My question is in reference to Solaris Zone
Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote:
I guess in this regard the installers available are
better on Linux since they support installing on raid
arrays and when they did not such as in the RH9 days,
you could still hit the console during the
partitioning section and manually create what raid
arrays
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 07:08:40PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
anyone else seen this on snv_61 ?
# Apr 7 19:06:53 mercury svc.startd[7]: system/webconsole:console failed
fatally: transitioned to maintenance (see 'svcs -xv' for details)
Yes. Haven't had time to look for an existing bug yet.
On 10/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Plugging in card, turning on box and then plugging
in
the sata drives and running cfgadm twice and then
a
zpool command without any 'echo magic
/proc/scsi'
as you do on Linux was a really nice experience.
At
least
If you are still stuck, and feel eager, you could modify the script
/lib/svc/method/svc-webconsole by adding some debug messages, and run
it manually from command prompt.
#/lib/svc/method/svc-webconsole start
and see where it is failing. Its a simple script and you will need to
debug the
Adding in case someone else has a similar question.
(1) If the root (global) zone goes - They all go!
(2) It is almost essential that you setup multipathing and redundancy to the
host zone. Everything else will be transparent to the hosted zones so you
would not have to have anything
Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote:
No dist-upgrade this. So why do we have a monthly CD
release instead of a monthly kernel package(s)
release?
Because the development release procedure was originally designed
when all the people using them were in a few buildings with high
bandwidth
Oh, FYI, there are a lot of companies/admins out
there
that do not subscribe to Redhat support. If Sun
Microsystems has no interest in this field then I
guess the whole packaging/server maintenance for
Open
Solaris is a moot point and I would be sorry that
I
raised this point here.
--- Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote:
No dist-upgrade this. So why do we have a monthly
CD
release instead of a monthly kernel package(s)
release?
Because the development release procedure was
originally designed
when all the people using
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, James Carlson wrote:
Not all things in Solaris are under the CDDL. Only the things that
Sun has licensed under CDDL are marked that way. Some things have
different owners who've given different licenses.
Seems that having the license in the man page would be helpful,
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, James Carlson wrote:
The issues are complex, and there are notable exceptions, but in
general, I suspect the licenses are not meaningful for people who need
to know how to use the system.
I am not sure why they would be so complex. Seems the man pages pertain to
each
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, James Carlson wrote:
The issues are complex, and there are notable exceptions
So I see:
(just to list a few)
bash
GFDL
hgignore
hgrc
pdfimages
gzip
gzcat
xine-config
zip
libfontconfig
I really don't like finding ersatz advertising in the documentation.
Is there any
hold on a sec ...
http://www.blastwave.org/docs/step-063.html
That thing there is my principal sin ?
What if I were to back up a few steps to here :
http://www.blastwave.org/docs/step-061.html
Then I diverge the path into two alternate methods for setting up the
disk.
Was that intended as a joke?
I'm sure it was.
Static linking introduces horrors that are far harder to solve than
any of the issues I mentioned with dynamic linking. You can't patch,
for one thing.
For one, you could not have pluggable modules.
But yes, having no shared libraries means you
The point is, that if you're maintaining your own stack, you don't
need to integrate with the base OS's packaging system. In fact, you
usually don't want to mess with or touch the base stack at all!
Similar to how blastwave works actually, and why it works relatively
well...
I disagree. I
Hi,
On a box where Solaris has been freshly installed, one sees this behavior.
-bash-3.00# useradd manoj
-bash-3.00# tail -1 /etc/passwd
manoj:x:100:1::/home/manoj:/bin/sh
-bash-3.00# mkdir /home/manoj
mkdir: Failed to make directory /home/manoj; Operation not applicable
-bash-3.00# df -h
Manoj Joseph wrote:
Hi,
On a box where Solaris has been freshly installed, one sees this behavior.
-bash-3.00# useradd manoj
-bash-3.00# tail -1 /etc/passwd
manoj:x:100:1::/home/manoj:/bin/sh
-bash-3.00# mkdir /home/manoj
mkdir: Failed to make directory /home/manoj; Operation not applicable
Darren J Moffat wrote:
Manoj Joseph wrote:
Hi,
On a box where Solaris has been freshly installed, one sees this
behavior.
-bash-3.00# useradd manoj
-bash-3.00# tail -1 /etc/passwd
manoj:x:100:1::/home/manoj:/bin/sh
-bash-3.00# mkdir /home/manoj
mkdir: Failed to make directory /home/manoj;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, James Carlson wrote:
The issues are complex, and there are notable exceptions
So I see:
(just to list a few)
bash
GFDL
hgignore
hgrc
pdfimages
gzip
gzcat
xine-config
zip
libfontconfig
I really don't like finding ersatz advertising in the
Bart Smaalders wrote:
Darren J Moffat wrote:
Manoj Joseph wrote:
Hi,
On a box where Solaris has been freshly installed, one sees this
behavior.
-bash-3.00# useradd manoj
-bash-3.00# tail -1 /etc/passwd
manoj:x:100:1::/home/manoj:/bin/sh
-bash-3.00# mkdir /home/manoj
mkdir: Failed to make
Hello Grady,
Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 2:01:24 PM, you wrote:
GP First let me apologize if this question has been asked before. I
GP could not find any references and I am pretty new to the OpenSolaris Boards.
GP I don't have as much experience with Solaris as I do with AIX and
GP HP/UX so my
Bonnie Corwin writes:
Is there any plan to clean up the eratz advertising that is currenting
in the man pages?
This is not advertising. It is attribution and/or verbatim use of
third-party man pages.
Remember that man pages are also source files. When we use third-party
man pages
Doug Scott wrote:
Bart Smaalders wrote:
Darren J Moffat wrote:
Manoj Joseph wrote:
Hi,
On a box where Solaris has been freshly installed, one sees this
behavior.
-bash-3.00# useradd manoj
-bash-3.00# tail -1 /etc/passwd
manoj:x:100:1::/home/manoj:/bin/sh
-bash-3.00# mkdir /home/manoj
Bart Smaalders wrote:
How about just fixing it so that the automounter finds any home
directories in /etc/passwd and mounts those on demand?
When you create the user with useradd(1M) it sets the home dir to what
ever you ask for usually /home/user. The problem was creating the
directory
James Carlson wrote:
Bonnie Corwin writes:
Is there any plan to clean up the eratz advertising that is currenting
in the man pages?
This is not advertising. It is attribution and/or verbatim use of
third-party man pages.
Remember that man pages are also source files. When we use
I concur that the Solaris Open Fabrics User Verbs /API Support project
should be done. Let's get this going.
-Bill
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Bart Smaalders wrote:
We really want our home directories today to always be /home/user
in /etc/passwd; that way things Just Work (TM) when we move from
host to host. This does mean that we need another map to convert
from /home/barts to wherever my home directory actually is... OR we
So some
Bart Smaalders wrote:
We really want our home directories today to always be /home/user
in /etc/passwd; that way things Just Work (TM) when we move from
host to host.
I agree that it makes a lot of sense to be consistent.
But hey, the installer, by default creates the filesystem
I personally prefer the Solaris 9 installer to the Solaris 10 installer. Yes,
the built-in kiosk browser is based on a decrepit version of Netscape, but it
requires a lot less memory, making use of a swap partition on the hard disk,
and has a full screen Solaris logo. Not sure why they got rid
Hey guys I'm looking forward to trying out Solaris and hopefully leave Windows.
I'm baffled on some of the information on this site. For instance, it's
mentioned a few times here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ that it's
a developer version? I only want to use Solaris as a desktop
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote:
There was no backup server before the Open Solaris
box.
So, are you saying you have no experience with running a backup server
before this install? I would imagine it would be hard to evaluate an
operating system properly in that case.
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote:
CentOS not being anything like the official Solaris
release, I beg to differ. It is essentially what you
can get with RHEL sans Redhat trademarks and direct
Redhat support. Then there is Ubuntu.
Linux may not be carrier grade but what it
Hi,
The Starter Kit is the best place to start, it has Belenix included and
installation instructions for Belenix and other distributions along with the
LiveCDs. Plus information about the OpenSolaris communities and good training
materials.
http://docs.sun.com provides the complete set of
Manoj Joseph wrote:
Bart Smaalders wrote:
We really want our home directories today to always be /home/user
in /etc/passwd; that way things Just Work (TM) when we move from
host to host.
I agree that it makes a lot of sense to be consistent.
But hey, the installer, by default creates the
Hi
sorry I'm a little late to this party. But this may still help you or
someone else who finds this thread later.
Here is a blog entry I share with new Solaris users,
http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2005/02/youre-never-far-from-home.html it
explains why Solaris does this and how to configure
Manoj Joseph wrote:
Bart Smaalders wrote:
We really want our home directories today to always be /home/user
in /etc/passwd; that way things Just Work (TM) when we move from
host to host.
I agree that it makes a lot of sense to be consistent.
But hey, the installer, by default creates the
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Bonnie Corwin wrote:
This is not advertising. It is attribution and/or verbatim use of
third-party man pages.
Remember that man pages are also source files. When we use third-party man
pages or take information from third-party sources, we must explicitly cite
the
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, James Carlson wrote:
I was referring to having _Sun_ insert random licensing goop from the
underlying software into the man page, not preserving pass-through
pages.
I was talking about a 3rd party driver writer inserting them there.
I agree (obviously) that where we
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Darren J Moffat wrote:
The easy way to do this might be to change the files repository case to not
have an auto_home managed, after all if you are using files for the automount
map in nsswitch.conf chances are the mounts are local rather than NFS anyway.
That would
Alan DuBoff wrote:
I was told that ARC doesn't like copyrights in the man pages.
Really? I wouldn't think ARC would have any opinion on the matter,
other than making sure you honor the requirements of the license if
it's one of the include this statement in documentation sort.
Alan DuBoff writes:
I was told that ARC doesn't like copyrights in the man pages.
Say what?
Please explain, and do so without the passive voice.
Alan DuBoff writes:
I agree (obviously) that where we ship somebody else's written
materials (including man pages), we need to preserve this sort
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Unfortunately, a lot of people pass around ARC won't let you do _
without actually asking the ARC.
The ARC's only real involvement with any of this branding and/or
licensing stuff is to ensure that the branding information is not
intermingled with the architectural
This :
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6503848
says its fixed in snv_61 but when I build ON based on the current hg repo I
get this at boot :
SunOS Release 5.11 Version 20070326 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Unfortunately, a lot of people pass around ARC won't let you do _
without actually asking the ARC.
I guess that would be me listening to those people.
The doc person told me it was ok, and was planning to use the one with the
copyright. I
Alan DuBoff wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Unfortunately, a lot of people pass around ARC won't let you do _
without actually asking the ARC.
I guess that would be me listening to those people.
The doc person told me it was ok, and was planning to use the one with
For background on what this is, see:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=24416#24416
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=25200#25200
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, John Plocher wrote:
The ARC's only real involvement with any of this branding and/or
licensing stuff is to ensure that the branding information is not
intermingled with the architectural artifacts. That is, don't make
a [marketing, license, code] name part of an interface
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Huh? I don't see a case from you on the PSARC agenda, either regular
or fasttrack.
Should have been, I'll check with Bart, he's my sponsor.
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Thanks, Pramod. Your proposal has been seconded. I'll contact
you offline to get you set up.
Eric
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Pramod Badripra Gunjikar wrote:
Hello,
I would like to propose an open solaris project for :
Solaris Open Fabrics User Verbs / API Support
Open Fabrics User Verbs / API is
Thanks, Eric. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline
to get you set up.
EricB
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Eric Saxe wrote:
I'd like to propose a project to provide an enhanced platform independent
power
management architecture...to be known as Project Tesla.
From a high level, this project would
Hi Eric
We need a few items to initiate your project:
- A short name for the URL. This is generally one word or
abbreviation (e.g tesla), or two words separated by a hyphen.
- A one-line title (Tesla?)
- A descriptive sentence or short paragraph (a few sentences)
explaining the project or
Sorry for the accidental Cc to opensolaris-discuss.
:-(
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Eric Boutilier wrote:
Hi Eric
We need a few items to initiate your project:
- A short name for the URL. This is generally one word or
abbreviation (e.g tesla), or two words separated by a hyphen.
- A one-line
I'm looking for a way to limit the number of authenticated sftp/scp sessions
that are allowed to connect to my box. I've searched the sunsolve forums and
docs.sun.com, but I'm not seeing any config that would give me the ability to
limit active sessions. Does something like this exist? This
JamesD wrote:
it explains why Solaris does this and how to configure Solaris and Linux boxes
to be the server for the home direcories
This is one of the most common questions on comp.unix.solaris USENET
forum as well.
It is really because Solaris is more Server-Centric than
On 10/04/07, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, how is OpenSolaris different to Solaris?
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/general_faq/#opensolaris-solaris
By the way what's 'Looking Glass'? Is it available on KDE or Xfce? Or can it
run on any environment?
Looking Glass is an
On 10/04/07, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking for a way to limit the number of authenticated sftp/scp sessions
that are allowed to connect to my box. I've searched the sunsolve forums and
docs.sun.com, but I'm not seeing any config that would give me the ability to
limit active
Hi,
Replies inline
On 4/11/07, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, how is OpenSolaris different to Solaris?
OpenSolaris is the core (kernal+networking+commands) .. Solaris is a
distribution (opensolaris + Gnome+ applications)
BeleniX looks like the ideal way for me to begin and with any
No slice for Live Upgrade?
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Darren J Moffat wrote:
Manoj Joseph wrote:
Bart Smaalders wrote:
We really want our home directories today to always be /home/user
in /etc/passwd; that way things Just Work (TM) when we move from
host to host.
I agree that it makes a lot of sense to be consistent.
But hey, the installer,
Bart Smaalders wrote:
Manoj Joseph wrote:
Bart Smaalders wrote:
We really want our home directories today to always be /home/user
in /etc/passwd; that way things Just Work (TM) when we move from
host to host.
I agree that it makes a lot of sense to be consistent.
But hey, the installer, by
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