Re: [osol-discuss] A proposal for ensuring sustained

2007-11-08 Thread MC
> If Sun management has decided it wants to move from the democratic > model of open source project to the benevolent dictator model, it > needs to come out and say so. Bold and underline this one, baby! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ o

[osol-discuss] SXCE V76 DVD Download

2007-11-08 Thread Fernando Ochoa de Zuazola
Hello, I downloaded SXCE V76 DVD files (3), when I try to uncompress the files I receive an error. Md5sum check isn't correct. I tried with the CDs too (6), first one has the same problem. Regards, Feranndo. This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [osol-discuss] Using SPARC formated disks on X86?

2007-11-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jim Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only two Solaris file systems that are endian-neutral are ISO > 9660 (High Sierra), which is read-only, and of course ZFS. The "endian-neutrality" of ISO-9660 is a joke! As the data in question is not properly aligned in the on-dosk structures, there

Re: [osol-discuss] Password formats...

2007-11-08 Thread Darren J Moffat
Kyle McDonald wrote: > Hi all. > > I just setup a new NIS server on NV. > > Then I pasted all the passwd and shadow entries from one of the local > linux boxes on the end of yp source files. > > It just hit me though. The linux box was storing the encrypted passwords > in a newer format (I bel

Re: [osol-discuss] Using SPARC formated disks on X86?

2007-11-08 Thread Darren J Moffat
Jim Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only two Solaris file systems that are endian-neutral are ISO > 9660 (High Sierra), which is read-only, and of course ZFS. Personally I wouldn't say that ZFS isn endian-neutral but endian aware (or adaptive). Writes are done in the local endianness bu

Re: [osol-discuss] Using SPARC formated disks on X86?

2007-11-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only two Solaris file systems that are endian-neutral are ISO > > 9660 (High Sierra), which is read-only, and of course ZFS. > > Personally I wouldn't say that ZFS isn endian-neutral but endian aware > (o

Re: [osol-discuss] Start Using SX*E, Or Just Wait?

2007-11-08 Thread Patrick Finch
Robert Mazur wrote: > SHORT: Where is a OpenSolaris newbie to go? Is SX*E a dead-end and should I > not bother using anything here at the moment? SX*E is not a dead end, although we can expect SXDE to be replaced by Project Indiana at some stage. > EXPLANATION: I am a use of Solaris since

Re: [osol-discuss] Do programs made for linux work in solaris?

2007-11-08 Thread Orvar Korvar
There is a program, once called BrandZ for Linux that allows you to run Linux programs on Solaris kernel. However the Linux kernel must be v2.4 you can use CentOS4 or Redhat4(?). There is some experimental support for linux v2.6 kernel, but that is not really supported. I have installed linux d

Re: [osol-discuss] Password formats...

2007-11-08 Thread Kyle McDonald
Darren J Moffat wrote: > Kyle McDonald wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> I just setup a new NIS server on NV. >> >> Then I pasted all the passwd and shadow entries from one of the local >> linux boxes on the end of yp source files. >> >> It just hit me though. The linux box was storing the encrypted >> pas

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE V76 DVD Download

2007-11-08 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
Did you use the Sun Download Manager? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Let's focus. (2nd Draft)

2007-11-08 Thread James Carlson
W. Wayne Liauh writes: > Sun owns the trademark "Open Solaris". I don't know how things were > arranged, however, it is reasonable to assume that the > OpenSolaris.org must have acquired a license, either explicitly or > by implication, to use the mark Open Solaris or OpenSolaris. Indeed, a lack

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE V76 DVD Download

2007-11-08 Thread Fernando Ochoa de Zuazola
I downloaded using both ways, SDM and directly. Regards, Fernando. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Password formats...

2007-11-08 Thread Darren J Moffat
Kyle McDonald wrote: > If possible, I'd like someone to confirm what I think I've proved by my > experiments: > > 1. The default Solaris config will compare the password entered with the > encrypted version in the shadow file using what ever crypt method *the > existing password* was encrypted

Re: [osol-discuss] Password formats...

2007-11-08 Thread Kyle McDonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If someone changes their password and they are using a deprecated algrithm > their new password will be encoded with the default. > > Ahh. That's what I missed. I (for some reason) thought if I depracated an algorithm, all accounts using that algorithm would be unab

Re: [osol-discuss] HAL error: No batteries found

2007-11-08 Thread Roman Morokutti
Congratulations, b76 has solved this problem. No error message shown now. Great. Regards Roman This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Password formats...

2007-11-08 Thread Casper . Dik
>1. The default Solaris config will compare the password entered with the >encrypted version in the shadow file using what ever crypt method *the >existing password* was encrypted with? Yes, the existing encryption is encoded in the hash and that encryption is used, obviously, to compute the ha

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE V76 DVD Download

2007-11-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Hello, > I downloaded SXCE V76 DVD files (3), when I try to > uncompress the files I receive an error. Md5sum check > isn't correct. > I tried with the CDs too (6), first one has the same > problem. > Regards, Feranndo. I downloaded the three SXCE76 DVD files last night and the following are the

Re: [osol-discuss] Start Using SX*E, Or Just Wait?

2007-11-08 Thread Robert Mazur
Thank you for your detailed response! More in-line responses from me below. > When you installed, did you explicitly choose > Developer Edition? I > think that you can choose between Developer Edition > and Community > Edition on the same image. If you don't have > NetBeans, or SunStudio > (

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE V76 DVD Download

2007-11-08 Thread Robert Mazur
I just wanted to put in another positive vote for the SDM. I makes the downloading procedure more predictable and a clean process. Rob This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-08 Thread Peter Tribble
On 11/6/07, Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 6, 2007, at 4:05 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > Putting /usr/gnu at the head of PATH causes incompatibilities to > > apply. > > Failure to put /usr/gnu at the head of PATH will cause a huge class > of potential Solaris users to be confused

[osol-discuss] Support for setkeycodes command in Indiana

2007-11-08 Thread David Clack
Hi All, Any idea if we have a project to implement setkeycodes in Indiana ? This is a show stopper for my OEM customers thinking about putting Indiana on laptops. The gnome-keybinding-properties application from gnome control center is basically useless in Indiana. In Ubuntu and Fedora the

Re: [osol-discuss] Let's focus. (2nd Draft)

2007-11-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> I believe you've greatly mischaracterized the effort > of the people > involved, and I request that you take a few moments > to familiarize > yourself with the discussion that has occurred on > ogb-discuss, and the > summary of yesterday's board meeting. > > -- > James Carlson, Solaris Networki

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE V76 DVD Download

2007-11-08 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
I downloaded DVD parts with SDM yesterday and all md5sums are according to the listing. The final ISO is working too. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] MPxIO over multiple channels ALL active/online

2007-11-08 Thread Dale Ghent
On Nov 8, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Josh Leckner wrote: > What I want to be able to see is that both HBA's report active and > online with (1) channel off of each HBA, while the other channel on > the same HBA is the standby mode. I also want to keep failover > enabled as well. Or is there a way t

[osol-discuss] frequency scalling in opensolaris

2007-11-08 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
i have a core2 duo intel laptop running indiana and after seeing messages like: Nov 8 20:23:43 saturn cpudrv: [ID 495817 kern.info] NOTICE: cpudrv_pm_set_topspeed: instance 1: has new max power of 1833 MHz in dmesg, i was wondering if there is a way to force the processor to run at a lower frequen

Re: [osol-discuss] Support for setkeycodes command in Indiana

2007-11-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Hi All, > Any idea if we have a project to implement setkeycodes in Indiana ? > This is a show stopper for my OEM customers thinking about putting Indiana on > laptops. > The gnome-keybinding-properties application from gnome control center is > basically useless in > Indiana. > In Ubuntu

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there a restart option button?

2007-11-08 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
> I've always wondered why Solaris doesn't give you a > GUI option to reboot the system, even for root. It > seems like such an obvious thing to have, I can't > believe it hasn't been added already. Why is it > missing? We're so new to the reboot stuff... This message posted from opensolaris.o

[osol-discuss] lofi questions?

2007-11-08 Thread Kyle McDonald
Hi, I recently read that the option for compression on loopback devices was put back recently. This is good news. Where to look for more info? like: What compression types are supported? I'm specifically hoping to use it on compressed .iso files. In the PC world there are several utilities th

[osol-discuss] MPxIO over multiple channels ALL active/online

2007-11-08 Thread Josh Leckner
okhow? I have configured a sparc box running Solaris 10 u4 with (2) Qlogic 2460 HBA's, each with a single channel to a seperate switch, and then (2) channels from the switch to a Sun 6540 Array. This shows up with (4) channels, (2) per HBA, to the drives on the array. I have used the stms

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there a restart option button?

2007-11-08 Thread Casper . Dik
>I've always wondered why Solaris doesn't give you a GUI option to >reboot the system, even for root. It seems like such an obvious thing to >have, I can't believe it hasn't been added already. Why is >it missing? Because you shouldn't reboot all that often? Casper __

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there a restart option button?

2007-11-08 Thread andrewk9
I've always wondered why Solaris doesn't give you a GUI option to reboot the system, even for root. It seems like such an obvious thing to have, I can't believe it hasn't been added already. Why is it missing? Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get my linksys and ati

2007-11-08 Thread andrewk9
A quick google search reveals that wireless card uses the RaLink 2573 chipset. Support for the 2500 chip was recently integrated into Solaris Nevada. The device support list at http://ralink.rapla.net/ says that the Linksys WUSB54G v4 and WUSB54GP v4 are supported, but I don't know enough about

[osol-discuss] Cannot get RSA webagent to work under Solaris 10 08/07

2007-11-08 Thread Philip
Neither the Sun Java web server version nor the Apache version of RSA's web agent client (5.3) seems to work under Solaris 10 08/07. Both versions 5.2 and 5.3 of the Sun Java web server RSA webagent work on a pre-08/07 kernel, however. Under 08/07, both agents work from the command line (acetes

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there a restart option button?

2007-11-08 Thread Brian Cameron
Everyone: The below steps that David provides aren't exactly right if you are using Nevada. Note that on Solaris 10 the GDM configuration file is /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, but on Solaris Nevada there are two configuration files. The default values are in /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf and you can ov

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] A proposal for ensuring sustained Community Growth and Success

2007-11-08 Thread Ben Rockwood
Shawn Walker wrote: > The only remedy available, in the author's view, is to ensure that > four changes are made by amending our constitution: > > 1) The OGB is empowered to make more decisions for the community. > I believe that the OGB has almost unlimited powers. That is to say, there is li

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] A proposal for ensuring sustained Community Growth and Success

2007-11-08 Thread Shawn Walker
On 08/11/2007, Ben Rockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > The only remedy available, in the author's view, is to ensure that > > four changes are made by amending our constitution: > > > > 1) The OGB is empowered to make more decisions for the community. > > > I believe that

Re: [osol-discuss] Let's focus. (2nd Draft)

2007-11-08 Thread john g4lt
On 11/8/07, W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe you've greatly mischaracterized the effort > > of the people > > involved, and I request that you take a few moments > > to familiarize > > yourself with the discussion that has occurred on > > ogb-discuss, and the > > summary of y

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] A proposal for ensuring sustained Community Growth and Success

2007-11-08 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Ben Rockwood wrote: > I agree, a singular leader would be important. I have come to believe > that the following are the requirements: > > 1) They must have non-Sun, non-Solaris F/OSS experience > 2) They must have some understanding of Sun and Solaris history and > practices > 3) They must be

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] A proposal for ensuring sustained Community Growth and Success

2007-11-08 Thread Ben Rockwood
Jim Grisanzio wrote: > Ben Rockwood wrote: > >> I agree, a singular leader would be important. I have come to >> believe that the following are the requirements: >> >> 1) They must have non-Sun, non-Solaris F/OSS experience >> 2) They must have some understanding of Sun and Solaris history and >

Re: [osol-discuss] HAL error: No batteries found

2007-11-08 Thread Jedy Wang
Really? As far as I know, we have not made any change about the battery status applet in nevada. Regards, Jedy On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 07:41 -0800, Roman Morokutti wrote: > Congratulations, b76 has solved this problem. > No error message shown now. Great. > > Regards > Roman > > > This message

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] A proposal for ensuring sustained Community Growth and Success

2007-11-08 Thread ken mays
I'd like to separate some things here: The OGB is an elected body by the Members and it runs nothing. It sets policy and enforces policy. The Facilitators run the community from a management perspective (potentially, anyway). There are, what, 150 or so Members and 40 or so Facilitators. The Me