Re: [osol-discuss] Re: recommend the opensource anti-virus for opensolaris?

2007-06-16 Thread Manoj Joseph
UNIX admin wrote: 2. even if there were a virus written to run specifically on Solaris, a regular user running this virus couldn't do anything to the system. It's simply pointless. How about this for instance? I am a net banking user. I login to my bank a/c from my non-superuser a/c. Malwar

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris index database?

2007-06-16 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 5/31/07, Anne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know if Solaris 10 has the ability to index all of it's contents and those contents are available for query? (Akin to Red Hat's "locate" and "updatedb" features.) The "find" command is so sllow Hi Anne, I wrote a quick howto on getti

[osol-discuss] Re: Opensolaris x64 and iso images?

2007-06-16 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Hi, > > How come the opensolaris has 3 iso's in download > section instead of 4 ? What's been taken out ? And > why does it say x86 Platform what happened to x64 ? > > thank you 1. The 4th file is the check-sum md5sum file. The dvd iso image is segmented into three iso files in case there i

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris x64 and iso images?

2007-06-16 Thread Ian Collins
Horvath wrote: > Hi, > > How come the opensolaris has 3 iso's in download section instead of 4 ? > What's been taken out ? And why does it say x86 Platform what happened to x64 > ? > > Look at the sizes and add them up. It's always been x86, it's the generic name. If they called it x64, peop

[osol-discuss] Opensolaris x64 and iso images?

2007-06-16 Thread Horvath
Hi, How come the opensolaris has 3 iso's in download section instead of 4 ? What's been taken out ? And why does it say x86 Platform what happened to x64 ? thank you This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list open

[osol-discuss] Re: [desktop-discuss] Project Proposal: Fingerprint Authentication

2007-06-16 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
Now it just focuses on the fingerprint. The design is required to be able to easily extended to other biometrics. If the resources in opensolaris are enough, the bioAPI may be considered to be imported to cover all the biometrics. Thanks. So perhaps it should use something more generic than "f

[osol-discuss] Re: solaris index database?

2007-06-16 Thread Andrew Pattison
As far as I know, Solaris does not come with an equivalent to RadHat's "locate" command. But if you visit Blastwave.org you can download GNU "findutils" (find it in the package list here: http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php), which gives you basically the same thing, only the commands are "gup

[osol-discuss] Re: b65 Input Not Supported

2007-06-16 Thread Horvath
well I'm booting of the dvd and starting the installation of developer edition and then select interactive setup then I select a language (English by default) and right after I hit F2 to confirm the screen goes black and Input Not Supported comes up. my specs : cpu: conroe x6800 video geforce

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: Re: recommend the opensource anti-virus foropensolaris?

2007-06-16 Thread Hugh McIntyre
UNIX admin wrote: so even if the virus did do a successful buffer overrun and managed to get a parent process's shell, it'd still end up causing no harm because regular user can't touch the system. This is all very well and true. But for any system that mostly used by a single person (such

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: solaris index database?

2007-06-16 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 6/15/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting! All these years of using them and I > never knew that. Wonder why > SUN hasn't bothered to include it (as Red Hat did) in > their installs? Because if you've done everything "by the book", you'll never need it. `locate` is nothing