Re: [i18n-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Virtual Console new release available NOW!

2007-04-19 Thread Manoj Joseph
LingBo Tang wrote: So far, we have no backport plan for S10. Would this be making its way into onnv? Which build? Cheers Manoj ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE Build 62 available

2007-04-19 Thread Dick Davies
Thanks Derek - anyone know where the changelog that would usually live at: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b62/on-changelog-b62.html is? On 20/04/07, Derek Cicero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please find the links to SXCE Build 62 at . -- Rasp

[osol-discuss] Re: Virtual Console new release available NOW!

2007-04-19 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
LingBo Tang wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: [...] > > - What about adding an option ("on" by default) to > use the first line of > > the virtual console to hold the "window title" ? > > This idea is quite interesting. But what will be > displayed in that > position? I'm afraid there is no sense to di

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
> I'm trying to put my money where my mouth is, and > trying to get on the > project to help fix it. IOW, I'm not out there > yappin' about how lousy the > Solaris install it, or how outdated it is. Most of > us have known this for > years. What do you think is so lousy about the Solaris insta

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
> If Chung wants to help, he should get involved and > try to fix it. I have started trying to compile apt and dpkg under Sun Studio 11. As for pooh poohing on the Solaris way of updates, may I point out there is no Open Solaris way of updating. The way liveupgrade is done (liveupgrade seems to m

[osol-discuss] b62 ZFS

2007-04-19 Thread Horvath
Is there a new option in b62 so I can install zfs from the scratch installation. I've seen somewhere it was "promised". Is there a change log or what's new for every new build? Please give a link. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensol

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get disk parameters?

2007-04-19 Thread Atul Vidwansa
Thanks Peter. The HD utility was really helpful. Kudos to you :) -Atul On 4/20/07, Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/19/07, Atul Vidwansa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I want to get various disk parameters including disk serial > numbers (or disk IDs). How do I do that on th

[osol-discuss] Re: Gnome Mail notifier

2007-04-19 Thread Doug Scott
Hey ya, Just hacked together SFEmailnotify.spec and added it to spec-files-extra. I haven't had a chance to test it in action yet, as I am waiting for sxce b62 to download so I can switch to Gnome. I had to turn off evolution support as it included which then tries to include "composer/e-ms

Re: [osol-discuss] Gnome Mail notifier

2007-04-19 Thread Glynn Foster
Doug Scott wrote: > Hey ya, > Just hacked together SFEmailnotify.spec and added it to > spec-files-extra. I haven't had a chance to > test it in action yet, as I am waiting for sxce b62 to download so I can > switch to Gnome. Dude, you rock! ;) > I had to turn off evolution support as it inclu

[osol-discuss] Re: sshfs for solaris

2007-04-19 Thread Gary Gendel
The port of fuse is actively being worked on. And rudimentary capabilities have been ported. However, I don't think enough of it is ported to be truely useful as yet, but it's getting close. I would check out the discuss-fuse forum to see what the current status is. FUSE would make a lot of thin

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtual Console new release available NOW!

2007-04-19 Thread LingBo Tang
John Plocher wrote: LingBo Tang wrote: - What about adding an option ("on" by default) to use the first line of the virtual console to hold the "window title" ? This idea is quite interesting. But what will be displayed in that position? I'm afraid there is no sense to display "console #" for

Re: [i18n-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Virtual Console new release available NOW!

2007-04-19 Thread LingBo Tang
Ken Frank wrote: I didnt see on the vconsole page about what it is and usually used for and how its used. Are there any pointers to this kind of information ? Also, Is it in current solaris 10 ? The usage of virtual console will like other existing OSes, like Linux. We are going to make the

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtual Console new release available NOW!

2007-04-19 Thread LingBo Tang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:35:30PM +0800, LingBo Tang wrote: - What about adding an option ("on" by default) to use the first line of the virtual console to hold the "window title" ? This idea is quite interesting. But what will be displayed in that position? I'm afraid

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 19/04/07, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: > The major bit that seems missing to me is objective-c support for the > Sun compiler suite. That's one area where gcc significantly excels... Shawn, I've always considered the fact that gcc has such

[osol-discuss] Re: Stale bootarchives. and recovery ?

2007-04-19 Thread John Brewer
I agree that the system should never be left in a unknown state boot-achive, In the bootadm man page there is a mention of update-archive, no no logic, on what triggers it. " update-archiveUpdates current boot archive if required. Applies to both SPARC and x86 p

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Ian Collins wrote: The Studio team are working on gcc ABI compatibility. With the source compatibility already in place, Studio CC may well end up as a drop in replacement for gcc. The Intel compiler has a gcc compatible flag mode which is a nice feature, but didn't wor

[osol-discuss] Solaris Express on the new Mx000 series

2007-04-19 Thread Chris Steinke
Anyone here from Sun have Solaris Express working on the new Mx000 series systems yet? I'd be curious to hear about experiences with it. Mainly because I've heard that Fujitsu systems had some compatibility issues with Solaris Express and you needed to use Fujitsu's version of Solaris. The n

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: The major bit that seems missing to me is objective-c support for the Sun compiler suite. That's one area where gcc significantly excels... Shawn, I've always considered the fact that gcc has such broad cross platform support to be a bigger advantage.

Re: [osol-discuss] Gnome Mail notifier

2007-04-19 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, Michael Laajanen wrote: > Hi, > > If this is the wrong forum, PLS advise me to the correct one. > > I have recently installed Solaris express community edition, b61 on Sparc and > noticed that some tool in the gnome GUI is missing compared to Solaris 10. > > One tool that I am missing is

[osol-discuss] SXCE Build 62 available

2007-04-19 Thread Derek Cicero
Please find the links to SXCE Build 62 at . - Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread Ian Collins
Joerg Schilling wrote: >Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>No system to date is without sacrifice in some way for Solaris. I'd like >>to hear a lot more of how we can make Solaris be itself. I mean this in >>regards to pkgsrc wanting things in /usr/pkg, belenix wanting /usr/foss,

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 19/04/07, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> No system to date is without sacrifice in some way for Solaris. I'd like >> to hear a lot more of how we can make Solaris be itself. I mean this in >> reg

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: sshfs for solaris

2007-04-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 19/04/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to get sshfs compiled for solaris, but I > can't get it to work. Has anybody had any success > doing this? Does it even work since it relies on > FUSE? I would prefer to use NFS via ssh, but my > server does not support NFSv4 (Mac O

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 19/04/07, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: True, and I don't have a problem with that. However, I will also grant an irrevocable license to everyone who "receives" my contribution to do whatever they like with it, and that presumably includes any patch that I may post to an OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Binary compatibility between OpenSolaris and Sun Solaris? Cross-compile?

2007-04-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 19/04/07, Lucky Forumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW, can it mount ReiserFS? No. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Jerry Sutton wrote: If this problem were easy I figure you folks would have solved it by now. I'm glad to hear it is being worked. You can say that again. I'm sure there is a tradeoff between enhancing the SVR4 packaging tools, replacing them with some other existing too

Re: [osol-discuss] How to Log the status(dtrace::) messages from a dtrace program?

2007-04-19 Thread Dave Marquardt
"Premal" == Premal Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Premal> I executed the following dtrace command >> dtrace -w -s defects-CSCsh18087-dscript.d-new `pgrep sip` 0 Premal> dtrace: script 'defects-CSCsh18087-dscript.d-new' matched 4 probes Premal> dtrace: allowing destructive actions Premal> How

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread Jerry Sutton
If this problem were easy I figure you folks would have solved it by now. I'm glad to hear it is being worked. I'm sure there is a tradeoff between enhancing the SVR4 packaging tools, replacing them with some other existing toolset, and starting from a shiny new source tree with a complete ne

[osol-discuss] Re: Gnome Mail notifier

2007-04-19 Thread Christian Kelly
You should ask this in Forums >> Desktop >> discuss -chrisk This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: How do I dual boot my machine?

2007-04-19 Thread Jim Adams
Thanks. This worked without a hitch. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] How to Log the status(dtrace::) messages from a dtrace program?

2007-04-19 Thread Premal Gandhi
I executed the following dtrace command > dtrace -w -s defects-CSCsh18087-dscript.d-new `pgrep sip` 0 dtrace: script 'defects-CSCsh18087-dscript.d-new' matched 4 probes dtrace: allowing destructive actions How do I log the "dtrace::" messages to a file ? I cannot pipe or redirect output. Pleas

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Thomas Rampelberg wrote: Thank you! I don't care how it's implemented, I'd simply like to see some functionality added. The current system is working great for some people, and that's nice it is just my opinion that with some added functionality, we could really shine

[osol-discuss] Re: Project proposal: Input Method Project

2007-04-19 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> I'd like to propose a project about Input Method for > OpenSolaris. > > The scope of this project would be: > > 1. To support IIIMF (which is currently the defualt > IM framework on Solaris) on OpenSolaris, including > building/packaging, bug fixing, and adding new > features. > > 2. To support m

[osol-discuss] Xvfb and Open Office - no listening socket created

2007-04-19 Thread Richard Eibrand
Hi Guys, I have a problem that I would like to put past some of you. The generic details are as follows - I have a program that I need to connect to an instance of Open Office 2.1 running in headless mode, and to do this, I have Xvfb running a display for it to connect to. The above scenario work

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No system to date is without sacrifice in some way for Solaris. I'd like to hear a lot more of how we can make Solaris be itself. I mean this in regards to pkgsrc wanting things in /usr/pkg, belenix wanting /usr

[osol-discuss] Re: sshfs for solaris

2007-04-19 Thread Jan Hendrik Mangold
> For encrypted NFS, the clean thing to do is configure > IPSec between two hosts, not tunnel over SSH. > Tunneling NFS over SSH would be a kludge in this > case. > > Plus, IPSec covers all TCP/IP traffic, not just NFS, > so that's an added bonus. true, but how do you do that between a Mac and a

[osol-discuss] Stale bootarchives. and recovery ?

2007-04-19 Thread Lars Tunkrans
Some time every week , when I turn off my AMD64 SNV workstation for the night , a spontaneous " bootadm update-archive " is run. Even though I have not installed new software and have not fiddled with disks a.s.o. I have customers running solaris 10 1/06 for X86 that are experien

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-19 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 09:22:24AM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 13:23 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > Am I correct in my interpretation that, had I signed this agreement, > > that would include this email? Does mail on an OpenSolaris mailing list > > constitute a submission

[osol-discuss] Re: Binary compatibility between OpenSolaris and Sun Solaris? Cross-compile?

2007-04-19 Thread Lucky Forumer
Thanks Jörg! I'm downloading ShilliX now to try it out... BTW, can it mount ReiserFS? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: sshfs for solaris

2007-04-19 Thread UNIX admin
> I am trying to get sshfs compiled for solaris, but I > can't get it to work. Has anybody had any success > doing this? Does it even work since it relies on > FUSE? I would prefer to use NFS via ssh, but my > server does not support NFSv4 (Mac OS X). I guess the question to start with is, is ther

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread UNIX admin
> Wrong. You can perform liveupgrade using an ISO > image. You do not need > CDs, DVDs, or any other media. > > lofiadm -a /path/to/my.iso > mount -f hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt > > Then follow the normal liveupgrade process... > > I've done it myself a couple of times. That'll certainly work, and it

[osol-discuss] Gnome Mail notifier

2007-04-19 Thread Michael Laajanen
Hi, If this is the wrong forum, PLS advise me to the correct one. I have recently installed Solaris express community edition, b61 on Sparc and noticed that some tool in the gnome GUI is missing compared to Solaris 10. One tool that I am missing is the mail notifier on the toolbar from Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 18/04/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "a b" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 2007-04-18 16:55:44: > > If you want to develop on Solaris for Solaris (and other UNIX and UNIX-like > systems), or just keep up and play with the latest, cutting edge technology > in Solaris, then Sola

Re: [osol-discuss] sshfs for solaris

2007-04-19 Thread Jan Hendrik Mangold
On Apr 19, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Mark Phalan wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 10:42 -0700, Jan Hendrik Mangold wrote: I am trying to get sshfs compiled for solaris, but I can't get it to work. Has anybody had any success doing this? Does it even work since it relies on FUSE? I would prefer to use

Re: [i18n-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Virtual Console new release available NOW!

2007-04-19 Thread Shawn Walker
On 19/04/07, Ken Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I didnt see on the vconsole page about what it is and usually used for and how its used. Are there any pointers to this kind of information ? http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/vconsole/ Also, Is it in current solaris 10 ? No. -- "Less

[osol-discuss] Re: Binary compatibility between OpenSolaris and Sun Solaris? Cross-compile?

2007-04-19 Thread Lucky Forumer
My apologies, but I really didn't double-post (I swear) :) I hit the back button after I had started writing the post to do some more forum searching, hadn't typed much text, message was different, slightly different subject, then when I came back, rewrote & submitted, it showed me as having s

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get disk parameters?

2007-04-19 Thread Peter Tribble
On 4/19/07, Atul Vidwansa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I want to get various disk parameters including disk serial numbers (or disk IDs). How do I do that on thumper with OpenSoalris? Is there any equivalent command for hdparm on Solaris? The X4500 downloads http://www.sun.com/servers/x6

Re: [osol-discuss] sshfs for solaris

2007-04-19 Thread Darren J Moffat
Jan Hendrik Mangold wrote: I am trying to get sshfs compiled for solaris, but I can't get it to work. Has anybody had any success doing this? Does it even work since it relies on FUSE? I would prefer to use NFS via ssh, but my server does not support NFSv4 (Mac OS X). FUSE is being ported, s

Re: [osol-discuss] sshfs for solaris

2007-04-19 Thread Mark Phalan
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 10:42 -0700, Jan Hendrik Mangold wrote: > I am trying to get sshfs compiled for solaris, but I can't get it to work. > Has anybody had any success doing this? Does it even work since it relies on > FUSE? I would prefer to use NFS via ssh, but my server does not support NFSv4

[osol-discuss] sshfs for solaris

2007-04-19 Thread Jan Hendrik Mangold
I am trying to get sshfs compiled for solaris, but I can't get it to work. Has anybody had any success doing this? Does it even work since it relies on FUSE? I would prefer to use NFS via ssh, but my server does not support NFSv4 (Mac OS X). This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread Christine Sterner
developers.sun.com/solaris We have articles, code samples, tutorials, demos...links to docs. We only came back online last Oct., so we are still working out the kinks, getting more and more info... Look for big navigational improvements coming in the next quarter :} -chris a b wrote:

Re: [i18n-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Virtual Console new release available NOW!

2007-04-19 Thread Ken Frank
I didnt see on the vconsole page about what it is and usually used for and how its used. Are there any pointers to this kind of information ? Also, Is it in current solaris 10 ? Thanks - Ken Ienup Sung wrote: Roland Mainz wrote at 04/19/07 01:58: LingBo Tang wrote: This mail has been p

[osol-discuss] Réf. : Re: R: [sysadmi n-discuss] How to get disk parameters?

2007-04-19 Thread jeremy . mauro
There is also a tool in the Sun explorer: ls -al /opt/SUNWexplo/bin/diskinfo.* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin36516 Apr 19 2006 /opt/SUNWexplo/bin/diskinfo.i386 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin37064 Apr 19 2006 /opt/SUNWexplo/bin/diskinfo.sparc here is the output: AVAILABLE SCSI DEVICE

[osol-discuss] R: [sysadmin-discuss] How to get disk parameters?

2007-04-19 Thread Alf
iostat -E |grep You'll see the Ser. number next to it! cheers >Messaggio originale >Dal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Data: 19/04/2007 6.46 >A: , <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Ogg: [sysadmin-discuss] How to get disk parameters? > >Hi, >I want to get various disk parameters includi

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread a b
I'm sorry, but how is it okay to bring a production server down completely and spend the 30 minutes it's gonna take to get a flash archive on a server, and then the other hour or more it'll take you to regression test EVERYTHING, since who knows what really happened ... to update a single pack

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-code] How to initiate a distro ?

2007-04-19 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 4/19/07, Eko Budhi Suprasetiawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Thanks, but webstart is actually request user to "install separately" ... what we require is adding a pre-installed application, which require no user interaction. Furthermore, we need to remove some package from Solaris, whic

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread ricky . zhu
"a b" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 2007-04-18 16:55:44: > > If you want to develop on Solaris for Solaris (and other UNIX and UNIX-like > systems), or just keep up and play with the latest, cutting edge technology > in Solaris, then Solaris Express is for you. Otherwise you have to wait > about s

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread a b
Could BFU be more stable and convenient for a common OpenSoalris user as me? I eventually gave up using OpenSolaris and back to Linux after this tool had broken some of my blastwave packages for quite a few times. I doubt it. BFU is meant for an ad-hoc update on a single system for a Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread a b
Geez, Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Centos must all be doing the wrong thing then deploying updates to their thousands of users whether they are individual desktops or people who keep their own local repository for their servers. With the exception of RedHat, those are all developer distros

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread a b
On 17/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you. the concept of apt/yum repositories seems to be very alien here. No, it is not. You just have a hard time believing that we don't embrace it as the "one true way" of doing things. I think the point most people have b

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread a b
Sun Connection is very easy to use to manage updates and is all you're likely to need in a *production* environment. So I don't understand your compliant. Given that you have never indicated actual usage of it, I think it is unfair for you to be critical of it. That's a whole different issue.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread a b
1. Documentation is a major pain in the ass to find. Outside of man pages and the occasional Sun engineer blog entry, there seems to be no decent documentation. In fact, most people admit that the "Solaris 10" books that are currently out, are simply Solaris 9 books with a new cover. How is a u

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtual Console new release available NOW!

2007-04-19 Thread John Plocher
LingBo Tang wrote: - What about adding an option ("on" by default) to use the first line of the virtual console to hold the "window title" ? This idea is quite interesting. But what will be displayed in that position? I'm afraid there is no sense to display "console #" for end users. Since y

[osol-discuss] Re: [dtrace-discuss] Available free memory.

2007-04-19 Thread Benoit
*See script below for a detailed answer *. Beware that it may take time on a large memory footprint. mdb -k *Benoit Chaffanjon* Sun Solution Center Customer benchmarking 12 Network Circle Menlo park CA 94025 - USA Office : 1 - (650) 786-6177 Cell: 1 - (510) 396-0104 B

[osol-discuss] Re: Réf. : Re: R: [sysadmin-discuss] How to get disk parameters?

2007-04-19 Thread David Blasingame
Have you tried "format -e"? Third line on the inquiry on my scsi device returned the serial number. I'm not sure that ATA works that same way, but you might want to check. Let me know. commands to run: format -e (select the drive) scsi inquiry example: format> scsi Warning: these functi

Re: [osol-discuss] Redirecting output of time command not possible?

2007-04-19 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Chad Mynhier wrote: On 4/19/07, Glenn Lagasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Atul Vidwansa wrote: > HI, > If I want to time a utility, Linux allows me to do something like: > > time -oa utility > > which is convinient to put in shell script. On opensolaris, man page > of time(1) does not show an

Re: [osol-discuss] How to initiate a distro ?

2007-04-19 Thread Stephen Lau
Glynn Foster wrote: Hey, Anil Gulecha wrote: If you can hack around with the scripts, you can add this to BeleniX, the opensolaris LiveCD. If your application isnt very big (under 1 mb).. you can easily add that to the miniroot of BeleniX, so the distributed version (On USB or CD) will contian

Re: [osol-discuss] getting TCP/IP statistics on solaris

2007-04-19 Thread Paul Durrant
On 4/19/07, sukruta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm working on a project which requires me to find the TCP/IP statistics using [b]ONLY SYSTEM CALLS or APIs[/b] on a solaris system. I [b]should not[/b] be using the command netstat itself. I can use the netstat.c code. The statistics should be f

Re: [osol-discuss] Redirecting output of time command not possible?

2007-04-19 Thread Chad Mynhier
On 4/19/07, Glenn Lagasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Atul Vidwansa wrote: > HI, > If I want to time a utility, Linux allows me to do something like: > > time -oa utility > > which is convinient to put in shell script. On opensolaris, man page > of time(1) does not show any such option. Isn't

[osol-discuss] Firefox 2.0.0.3

2007-04-19 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
I digged around mozilla.org and found Firefox 2.0.0.3 Installed it on Solaris 10 6/06 x86 but that was a mistake. It dumps core all the time. Switching back to 2.0.0.2... Any comments from developer team? http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.3/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/fir

Re: [osol-discuss] Redirecting output of time command not possible?

2007-04-19 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Atul Vidwansa wrote: HI, If I want to time a utility, Linux allows me to do something like: time -oa utility which is convinient to put in shell script. On opensolaris, man page of time(1) does not show any such option. Isn't it possible to record output of time command (not of the utility

[osol-discuss] getting TCP/IP statistics on solaris

2007-04-19 Thread sukruta
hello, I'm working on a project which requires me to find the TCP/IP statistics using [b]ONLY SYSTEM CALLS or APIs[/b] on a solaris system. I [b]should not[/b] be using the command netstat itself. I can use the netstat.c code. The statistics should be found without actually establishing a conne

[osol-discuss] Redirecting output of time command not possible?

2007-04-19 Thread Atul Vidwansa
HI, If I want to time a utility, Linux allows me to do something like: time -oa utility which is convinient to put in shell script. On opensolaris, man page of time(1) does not show any such option. Isn't it possible to record output of time command (not of the utility invoked) in a file on

[osol-discuss] Re: Noob with a couple questions

2007-04-19 Thread Wes Williams
My personal preference and suggestion for a Solaris Desktop for novice users would be the Solaris Express Developer Editions (SXDE) as they are quite stable and incorporate many new easier-to-use features not currently in Solaris 10. However, if you connect direct to the internet (not behind a

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Agreement

2007-04-19 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 13:23 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > Am I correct in my interpretation that, had I signed this agreement, > that would include this email? Does mail on an OpenSolaris mailing list > constitute a submission to a Project? I'm not a lawyer, but ... I'd think that the act of knowi

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How to get disk parameters?

2007-04-19 Thread Atul Vidwansa
Yes Muthu. I got the device IDs but is there any way to verify the disk with same device id when system is booted into Linux? "hdparm" command in Linux shows Serial numbers, not device IDs. -Atul On 4/19/07, MUTHU KUMAR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, If the SUNWexplo package is not avail

Re: [osol-discuss] Binary compatibility between OpenSolaris and Sun Solaris? Cross-compile?

2007-04-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Lucky Forumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, I need to compile some CGI programs for a web server running Sun > Solaris 10 (it identifies itself as "SunOS webserv 5.10 Generic_125101-02 > i86pc") and I really don't want to repartition my HD to add yet another OS > just for doing thes

[osol-discuss] Re: How to initiate a distro ?

2007-04-19 Thread UNIX admin
> Hello all, > i am new to Open Solaris, but have a demand to have > my own OpenSolaris > installer, > which basically a simple design like this : > > Add a software (e.g Moodle learning management > software) as > pre-installed > > so that, if i distribute my distro, then somebody > will have in

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How to get disk parameters?

2007-04-19 Thread MUTHU KUMAR
Hello All, If the SUNWexplo package is not available,Try -i option with iostat -E command.It will display the "Device Id" instead of the "Serial No". The "Device Id" is a unique identifier registered by a driver through ddi_devid_register. Ex: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iostat -Ei sd0 Soft Error

Re: [osol-discuss] How to initiate a distro ?

2007-04-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eko Budhi Suprasetiawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ehlo, > Belenix is Ok. I have read and install Belenix ... and downloading the > remastering kit. > Not yet success. > > Anyway, i have FTP access @Home, not @Office. with speed just 5kbs :D If you like to download distributions, this is really

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How to get disk parameters?

2007-04-19 Thread Atul Vidwansa
Hi Darren, I did use "iostat -E" as well as /opt/SUNWexplo/bin/diskinfo command from latest explorer as suggested by Jeremy Mouro, but no luck. Here is the output of both commands on my thumper box: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ iostat -E sd45 sd45 Soft Errors: 37 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors:

[osol-discuss] Re: Réf. : Re: R: [s ysadmin-discuss] How to get disk parameters?

2007-04-19 Thread Atul Vidwansa
Hi Jeremy, I installed the latest explorer, but its output shows all the same Serial numbers. Any clues? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Setup]$ /opt/SUNWexplo/bin/diskinfo.i386 /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s2: No such file or directory AVAILABLE SCSI DEVICES: Location Vendor Product Rev Serial

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtual Console new release available NOW!

2007-04-19 Thread Ienup Sung
Roland Mainz wrote at 04/19/07 01:58: LingBo Tang wrote: This mail has been posted in virtual console discussion alias. The broadcasting is for those who may be interested in this feature on solaris. The new release for "Virtual Console" is available now, you can download and try for fun: http

[osol-discuss] Re: R: [sysadmin-discuss] How to get disk parameters?

2007-04-19 Thread Atul Vidwansa
Hi Alf, Thanks for the information. But on my thumper box, iostat is not showing Serial No: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ iostat -E sd45 sd45 Soft Errors: 37 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 Vendor: ATA Product: HITACHI HDS7250S Revision: A20A Serial No: Size: 500.11GB <500107862016 bytes>

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtual Console new release available NOW!

2007-04-19 Thread przemolicc
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:35:30PM +0800, LingBo Tang wrote: > >- What about adding an option ("on" by default) to use the first line of > >the virtual console to hold the "window title" ? > > This idea is quite interesting. But what will be displayed in that > position? I'm afraid there is no sen

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How to get disk parameters?

2007-04-19 Thread Darren J Moffat
Anil Gulecha wrote: On 4/19/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I want to get various disk parameters including > disk serial > umbers (or disk IDs). How do I do that on thumper > with OpenSoalris? > Is there any equivalent command for hdparm on > Solaris? `format`. And once you

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How to get disk parameters?

2007-04-19 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 4/19/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I want to get various disk parameters including > disk serial > umbers (or disk IDs). How do I do that on thumper > with OpenSoalris? > Is there any equivalent command for hdparm on > Solaris? `format`. And once you become an expert wit

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtual Console new release available NOW!

2007-04-19 Thread LingBo Tang
Roland Mainz wrote: LingBo Tang wrote: This mail has been posted in virtual console discussion alias. The broadcasting is for those who may be interested in this feature on solaris. The new release for "Virtual Console" is available now, you can download and try for fun: http://opensolaris.org/

[osol-discuss] zpool list and df -k difference

2007-04-19 Thread frederic
Hi gurus, CU getting differences between zpool list and df -k : Fresh creation of ZFS pool based on 46 465GB disks gives the following : # df -k : 14TB # zpool list : 20.5TB -=-=-=-=- ccxrdsn002 -=-=-=-=- ccxrdsn002_root# zpool status ;echo; zpool list; echo ;df -k /xrootd pool: xrootd state: ONL

Re: [osol-discuss] Binary compatibility between OpenSolaris and Sun Solaris? Cross-compile?

2007-04-19 Thread Ian Collins
Lucky Forumer wrote: >Hi everyone, > Please don't post the same question to more than one list! Answered on help. Ian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Binary compatibility between OpenSolaris and Sun Solaris? Cross-compile?

2007-04-19 Thread Lucky Forumer
Hi everyone, I need to compile some CGI programs for a web server running Sun Solaris 10 (it identifies itself as "SunOS webserv 5.10 Generic_125101-02 i86pc") and I really don't want to repartition my HD to add yet another OS just for doing these builds. I was wondering if Belenix or SchilliX w

[osol-discuss] Re: How to get disk parameters?

2007-04-19 Thread UNIX admin
> Hi, > I want to get various disk parameters including > disk serial > umbers (or disk IDs). How do I do that on thumper > with OpenSoalris? > Is there any equivalent command for hdparm on > Solaris? `format`. And once you become an expert with Solaris disks, slices and VTOC, `format -e`. T

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtual Console new release available NOW!

2007-04-19 Thread Roland Mainz
LingBo Tang wrote: > > This mail has been posted in virtual console discussion alias. The > broadcasting is for those who may be interested in this feature on solaris. > > The new release for "Virtual Console" is available now, you can download > and try for fun: > http://opensolaris.org/os/proje

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-19 Thread UNIX admin
> Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but a flash archive is > simply the clone of > a system that you can then easily get up and running. > The whole > JumpStart framework is pretty cool, and in my opinion > a great feature > but it's completely missing the whole package > management boat in my > op