Re: [osol-discuss] Lessons from elsewhere, was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Peter Tribble
On 2/6/08, a b [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I'm telling you: inst(1M) is simply phenomenal. It usually works, but is clumsy and not terribly user-friendly. Worse, it can get its knickers in such a complete twist that it can go neither forward nor back. I'm glad I don't have to deal with it any

Re: [osol-discuss] How to edit files inside a ISO-image?

2008-02-08 Thread Roman Morokutti
Warning: == Never use cpio to do this kind of work! cpio has a bug with hard link handling that will cause real problems if you use the outdated mkisofs that currently comes with Solaris. Would you say that with a more recent version of mkisofs those problems are gone?

Re: [osol-discuss] How to edit files inside a ISO-image?

2008-02-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roman Morokutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warning: == Never use cpio to do this kind of work! cpio has a bug with hard link handling that will cause real problems if you use the outdated mkisofs that currently comes with Solaris. Would you say that with a more

Re: [osol-discuss] How to edit files inside a ISO-image?

2008-02-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roman Morokutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, you would also recommend to update cpio then, or using isomaster? What does I have to do in general to activate a program which has been freshly built and installed when to want to exchange mkisofs, for example? I would not trust programs like

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:00:57 + Chris Linton-Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This test _only_ checks for one small and single aspect of POSIX vs. Bourne compatibility. If you find a program like pdksh that intends to be POSIX compatible to return Bourne with this test, it only proves that

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chris Linton-Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The best way to deal with this bug is to use rxvt or gnome terminal instead of xterm. Both programs map the key position code from the BS key to DEL before sending the event to the speudo tty. None of my servers run X - it's console

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chris Linton-Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's actually pdksh, wh/was +/- based off of ksh88, w/Korn's blessings, from back in day when ATT was less amenable to open source licenses. On Solaris /bin/ksh is ksh88+ If pdksh is compatible with the existing /sbin/sh, why not use that

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
It's actually pdksh, wh/was +/- based off of ksh88, w/Korn's blessings, from back in day when ATT was less amenable to open source licenses. On Solaris /bin/ksh is ksh88+ If pdksh is compatible with the existing /sbin/sh, why not use that as its replacement? I've been using OpenBSD for a

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
This test _only_ checks for one small and single aspect of POSIX vs. Bourne compatibility. If you find a program like pdksh that intends to be POSIX compatible to return Bourne with this test, it only proves that this shell needs a major rewrite to become POSIX compliant. But the consensus

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Casper . Dik
Cheers - I just wanted to check that Bourne-style = non-POSIX (rather than Korn-style = POSIX) That is actually unclear to me; certainly I would like to have chapter and verse quoted of the relevant POSIX standard. I certainly believe that this should work: read value from-file but

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Casper . Dik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheers - I just wanted to check that Bourne-style = non-POSIX (rather than Korn-style = POSIX) That is actually unclear to me; certainly I would like to have chapter and verse quoted of the relevant POSIX standard. I certainly believe that this should work:

[osol-discuss] CIFS vs SAMBA for home NAS: Who is faster?

2008-02-08 Thread Aaron
A few weeks ago I decided to use Solaris as the basis of my home NAS. After learning about the benefits of ZFS I just couldn't let myself use anything else. Setting up the RAIDZ storage (4x500GB in my case) is the easy part. The hard part is making all that storage available to the Windows and

Re: [osol-discuss] /bin/sh was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Shawn Walker
On Feb 8, 2008 6:01 AM, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really, any changes to the existing shell, whether its outright replacement or otherwise need a lot of testing. I myself even created a patch to add support for export BLAH=FOO syntax

Re: [osol-discuss] Interrup read using libusb blocks the calling process

2008-02-08 Thread Anand Bheemarajaiah
Here is the output of the program with usb_debug_level set to 5 - $./a.out libusb debug level is 5 usb_set_debug(): Setting debugging level to 5 (on) usb_claim_interface(): hdl=0x8062e98: interface = 0 configuration_value=1,

Re: [osol-discuss] RAIDZ(2) expansion?

2008-02-08 Thread Brandon Barker
This is pretty startling. I just assumed that something like this would work, since most people have growing data needs and adding new pools to a stripe would be a waste of money, space, power, time, etc. I'm glad I read this - I'll go ahead and buy more hard drives now, though I would rather

Re: [osol-discuss] Lessons from elsewhere, was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread a b
It may well be that there are some features of inst that could teach us how to do better. If that's the case, call them out so we can learn from them. One of the main features is the namespaces. For example, sgi came out with eoe.sw.ssh.(man|sw|libs) If I want the latest SSH, I make my own

Re: [osol-discuss] Right mailing list for NIS/NameService discussions?

2008-02-08 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:53:19 -0500 Kyle McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see no [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailiing list. (I also didn't see a nameservice-discuss, or ldap-discuss list either) Is there a goo list whee one can find experts or developers for the differen nameservices in

[osol-discuss] Interrup read using libusb blocks the calling process

2008-02-08 Thread Anand Bheemarajaiah
I am currently working on a project to build bluetooth usb driver for opensolaris using libusb. I can read the details of the ( configuration , interface and endpoint numbers) of the usb bluetooth dongle. I have written a code to send a HCI command to device and read the event packet arriving

Re: [osol-discuss] Lessons from elsewhere, was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread a b
It usually works, but is clumsy and not terribly user-friendly. Worse, it can get its knickers in such a complete twist that it can go neither forward nor back. I'm glad I don't have to deal with it any more. inst(1M) is almost like a woman: you gotta love a woman right, and if the woman's

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheers - I just wanted to check that Bourne-style = non-POSIX (rather than Korn-style = POSIX) That is actually unclear to me; certainly I would like to have chapter and verse quoted of the relevant POSIX standard. I certainly believe that this should work:

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
stty erase ^h Not followed the whole discussion but above does not work? It does - that's just made my Friday - cheers. Now for tab completion and editable command history.. :) Chris ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot look at too few claims from POSIX. the definitions for read say that read affects the shell execution environment unless it is run on a sub shell. As in cat from-file | read value the read command is not run in a sub shell environment, it needs

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheers - I just wanted to check that Bourne-style = non-POSIX (rather than Korn-style = POSIX) That is actually unclear to me; certainly I would like to have chapter and verse quoted of the relevant POSIX standard. I

Re: [osol-discuss] /bin/sh was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really, any changes to the existing shell, whether its outright replacement or otherwise need a lot of testing. I myself even created a patch to add support for export BLAH=FOO syntax to the current /bin/sh:

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Casper . Dik
You cannot look at too few claims from POSIX. the definitions for read say that read affects the shell execution environment unless it is run on a sub shell. As in cat from-file | read value the read command is not run in a sub shell environment, it needs to affect the environment. You

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Casper . Dik
As the terrm multi-command pipeline is not defined, it is questionable what this text should mean It's a pipeline with more than one command as directly follows from the pipeline definition. A pipeline is a sequence of one or more commands separated by the control operator

Re: [osol-discuss] CIFS vs SAMBA for home NAS: Who is faster?

2008-02-08 Thread Aaron
Someone pointed out that storage - discuss is a better place for this. Discuss there instead: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=51522 This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] How to edit files inside a ISO-image?

2008-02-08 Thread Roman Morokutti
Joerg Schilling schrieb: Roman Morokutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warning: == Never use cpio to do this kind of work! cpio has a bug with hard link handling that will cause real problems if you use the outdated mkisofs that currently comes with Solaris. Would

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Shawn Walker
On Feb 8, 2008 4:04 AM, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Linton-Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm afraid I'm no POSIX expert, so I'm not clear on whether the Bourne/Korn test below implies POSIX compatibility *only* if Korn-style is returned; but if using a POSIXy shell for

Re: [osol-discuss] /bin/sh was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan Hargreaves wrote: The functionality to change shell is in passwd, but there is a completely wrong check in there. See CR 6638715 Checks in passwd should be authorisation based, not uid based And of course the ancient RFE 1226020 *other* RFE: add chfn chsh commands to Solaris 2 (now

Re: [osol-discuss] CIFS vs SAMBA for home NAS: Who is faster?

2008-02-08 Thread Aaron
Adding CC This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] CIFS vs SAMBA for home NAS: Who is faster?

2008-02-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
A few weeks ago I decided to use Solaris as the basis of my home NAS. After learning about the benefits of ZFS I just couldn't let myself use anything else. Hello MacBoy2000 : ( I saw that in your email ) I have a fairly excellent build of Samba 3.0.28 if you want to do some testing :

[osol-discuss] Right mailing list for NIS/NameService discussions?

2008-02-08 Thread Kyle McDonald
I see no [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailiing list. (I also didn't see a nameservice-discuss, or ldap-discuss list either) Is there a goo list whee one can find experts or developers for the differen nameservices in solaris? -Kyle ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Test image for Preview 2

2008-02-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Installation (on an AMD64x2, ATI video chipset) seems to be flawless. OOo 2.3.1 now runs on Preview 2 out of the box (see attached screenshot). The missing (Chinese) fonts problem seems to have been at least ameliorated (see another screenshot). Additional truetype fonts can be easily

[osol-discuss] Crazy CIFS behavior

2008-02-08 Thread Brian M
I reinstalled using CXDE 1/08 and decided to try using the built-in CIFS server instead of Samba. I have a very simple setup (simply trying to share some ZFS filesystems to my Mac). No domains, no Active Directory, etc. I think I have everything setup according to the documentation and can

Re: [osol-discuss] Right mailing list for NIS/NameService discussions?

2008-02-08 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Kyle McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-08 19:56]: I see no [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailiing list. (I also didn't see a nameservice-discuss, or ldap-discuss list either) Is there a goo list whee one can find experts or developers for the differen nameservices in solaris? [EMAIL PROTECTED]