Re: [osol-discuss] Newbie: How to install packages from remote desktop?

2008-05-28 Thread Terence Ng
After I type: pkgadd -d /path/to/SUNWmfrun/ SUNWmfrun the output is: pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in /path/to/SUNWmfrun Did I copy the wrong directory or miss some files from CD? I copy SUNWMFRUN directory from Solaris_10/PRODUCT in CD. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Newbie: How to install packages from remote desktop?

2008-05-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Terence Ng wrote: After I type: pkgadd -d /path/to/SUNWmfrun/ SUNWmfrun the output is: pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in /path/to/SUNWmfrun Should be pkgadd -d /path/to SUNWmfrun (i.e. the -d is the parent directory of the SUNWmfrun directory). -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread Thommy M. Malmström
Jesse Lehman wrote: Some more thoughts: * From Sun's Ruby Developer site: Get NetBeans. Get GlassFish. Get Cool Stack. Or get them all with Solaris Express, Developer Edition Sounds great, but the development has been taken out of the developer edition. The transformation to

[osol-discuss] Network Installation of OpenSolaris 2008.05?

2008-05-28 Thread Karthik S S
Hi, OpenSolaris 2008.05 media is available as LiveCD or LiveUSB. But is it possible to install this image through Jumpstart or some network install method. I need to install OpenSolaris on about 10 servers and I think network install will be a good idea. Thanks, Karthik S S This message

Re: [osol-discuss] Using OpenSolaris in production?

2008-05-28 Thread UNIX admin
Tell that to me. We have been using SXDE as _primary_ development platform for months now. That's really great, and I'm happy to read about more developers using Solaris as a primary development platform. However, what type of work do you do? If you are not doing strictly operating system

Re: [osol-discuss] Using OpenSolaris in production?

2008-05-28 Thread UNIX admin
Platform(s) actually. One of them is Windows and others are supposed to be Solaris 10. Application platform is Java and we're using Sun's App/web stack. Aaah, but I'm not that far along yet: I'm in bootstrapping stage, and that means making PHP work first. Then I too can afford not to

Re: [osol-discuss] Using OpenSolaris in production?

2008-05-28 Thread UNIX admin
SXDE is, arguably, much better than S10 when it comes to being a workstation OS. Yes, absolutely, but I don't think that should even be up for discussion. As a desktop OS, SX: DE shines. The only catch is that desktop != production. And a nasty catch at that. This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] mutex_lock_queue

2008-05-28 Thread Nishant Arora
Hi All request your urgent help on this problem, this issue is blocking an urgent market release. We are stuck!! server details now as below /etc cat release Solaris 10 11/06 s10s_u3wos_10 SPARC Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms.

Re: [osol-discuss] Any interest in a Wine Community for OpenSolaris?

2008-05-28 Thread Ché Kristo
All, I have proposed a community under the Desktop Community: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=61767 As this proposal would fall into that area we are better off focusing our efforts in that list rather than the general discuss area. Please post your support on the above

Re: [osol-discuss] Network Installation of OpenSolaris 2008.05?

2008-05-28 Thread Shawn Walker
2008/5/28 Karthik S S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, OpenSolaris 2008.05 media is available as LiveCD or LiveUSB. But is it possible to install this image through Jumpstart or some network install method. I need to install OpenSolaris on about 10 servers and I think network install will be a good

Re: [osol-discuss] becoming postgres user

2008-05-28 Thread Vladimir Kotal
Glenn Holmer wrote: How do I become the postgres user to set up the initial database accounts? I tried su - postgres -c psql template1 after becoming root, but got No shell. If I'm reading /etc/passwd correctly, the postgres user's shell is /usr/bin/pfksh. This is what I got from

Re: [osol-discuss] Newbie: How to install packages from remote desktop?

2008-05-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
The parent of SUNWmfrun then is /var/tmp, so you need: pkgadd -d /var/tmp SUNWmfrun or cd /var/tmp ; pkgadd -d . SUNWmfrun -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Terence Ng wrote: I have sftp the

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg confusion

2008-05-28 Thread Mark J. Nelson
I am trying to get my head around IPS, and struggling a tad... I just chose an arbitrary, but less run-of-the mill binary to locate /usr/lib/labeld from TX, and did pkg search labeld on my 2008.05 installation. The binary is on the system, but the above command reported nothing. I then tried

Re: [osol-discuss] tap interface for Solaris 10 5/08 AMD64

2008-05-28 Thread Klaus Hackenberg
Greetings, I am running Solaris 10 U5 on an Dell Optiplex 745. I just downloaded your tuntap-sol-amd64.tar.bz2 file and installed it. Following the readme file I got bash-3.00# /usr/sbin/modload brdg can't load module: No such file or directory What has gone wrong? TIA This message

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread UNIX admin
There is no post-install script facility within IPS so you have to run the mkheaders script yourself .. for now : What!?!?! There are no equivalents of pre- and postinstall, no equivalents of pre- and postremove?!?!? This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread UNIX admin
/usr/bin/ls -- 32 bit Unix SYSV(?) ls Yes. /usr/ucb/ls -- BSD ls I think Yes, BSD. Well, SunOS 4.x, which was BSD based. /usr/xpg4/bin/ls -- Posix ?? ls /usr/xpg6/bin/ls -- Posix ?? ls Yes. /usr/bin/amd64/ls-- 64 bit ls /usr/5bin/ls -- ??? It

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:25 PM, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no post-install script facility within IPS so you have to run the mkheaders script yourself .. for now : What!?!?! There are no equivalents of pre- and postinstall, no equivalents of pre- and postremove?!?!?

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:32 PM, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/bin/ls -- 32 bit Unix SYSV(?) ls Yes. /usr/ucb/ls -- BSD ls I think Yes, BSD. Well, SunOS 4.x, which was BSD based. /usr/xpg4/bin/ls -- Posix ?? ls /usr/xpg6/bin/ls -- Posix ?? ls Please

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:55 PM, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no post-install script facility within IPS so you have to run the mkheaders script yourself .. for now : What!?!?! There are no equivalents of pre- and postinstall, no equivalents of pre- and postremove?!?!?

Re: [osol-discuss] tap interface for Solaris 10 5/08 AMD64 - Working

2008-05-28 Thread russell aspinwall
When using the pre-compiled binaries, it is safer to reboot, this should result in the everything loading. I have VirtualBox v1.6 running with Tap and host connection successfully with Checkpoint's SecureClient. I created two scripts called vnic_start.sh and vnic_stop.sh which are used by

Re: [osol-discuss] tap interface for Solaris 10 5/08 AMD64 - Working

2008-05-28 Thread russell aspinwall
Some of the posting on the VirtualBox forum advise using the Intel network adapter for Tap use. Make sure you use the latest Intel 82540EM driver available http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=983lang=eng This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] how do I install openoffice.org and other sw

2008-05-28 Thread Shawn Walker
2008/5/28 Cj [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am new to the opensolaris operating system. I have an AIX background so if someone has a AIX to opensolaris sheet they would like to pass along great. I downloaded opensolaris and installed it ok. I installed virtual box but get an error of [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread Jesse Lehman
Thanks for all the replies. I hadn't seen any NWAM success stories online, but now I know that they're out there. I've also cleared up some misconceptions about the size of Solaris 10. I don't think that I'll stick with OpenSolaris, but the problem is more with my preconceptions than with

[osol-discuss] how do I install openoffice.org and other sw

2008-05-28 Thread Cj
I am new to the opensolaris operating system. I have an AIX background so if someone has a AIX to opensolaris sheet they would like to pass along great. I downloaded opensolaris and installed it ok. I installed virtual box but get an error of [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usrVirtualBox Qt WARNING:

Re: [osol-discuss] how do I install openoffice.org and other sw

2008-05-28 Thread Thommy M.
Cj wrote: I am new to the opensolaris operating system. I have an AIX background so if someone has a AIX to opensolaris sheet they would like to pass along great. I downloaded opensolaris and installed it ok. I installed virtual box but get an error of [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] how do I install openoffice.org and other sw

2008-05-28 Thread Cj
Not to sound stupid but how do i do that at the os level? Do you meen in my /etc/profile? I set it in the Mozilla setting. I have downloaded the package from openoffice.org and that wont install either. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread Haluk Durmus
I have the same problem, but don't want to give up opensolaris. my ethernet and wireless kart are not suported (Broadcom b44 and bwm4312), and to get it working, I also tried to compile the ndiswrapper to import the windows drivers. I got an error message that gcc is not found. So I tried to

[osol-discuss] Hi, how can I download?

2008-05-28 Thread Reggie
Hi, how can I download from the opensolaris package repository in Windows XP with internet? I can't get online yet with opensolaris 2008.5 so I can't use that. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

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

2008-05-28 Thread Reggie
init 6 isn't working anymore? Any other suggestions? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] New features I would like to see

2008-05-28 Thread Reggie
Some new features I would like to see would be a restart option in the quit menu, more packages included in the live cd yeah. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris NDIS Wrapper Toolkit!

2008-05-28 Thread Reggie
Does this require internet, because I can't get online. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Migrating to ZFS from Gentoo Linux

2008-05-28 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, I'm planning a migration of my fileserver from Gentoo Linux with samba to SCXE with ZFS and samba/cifs sharing. Being a linux junkie I don't have any previous experience in Solaris and there's a couple of questions I have about my

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread UNIX admin
No. Pkg is a no-scripting zone: http://blogs.sun.com/sch/entry/pkg_1_a_no_scripting I read that when he first wrote it, just thought that he meant that they came up with another system. The only facility being worked on is a postrun action that will allow a limited form of

Re: [osol-discuss] New features I would like to see

2008-05-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Reggie wrote: Some new features I would like to see would be a restart option in the quit menu, more packages included in the live cd yeah. The Live CD is the size of a full CD already - which packages would you like evicted from it to make more room for the ones you want added? (Though work

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
UNIX admin wrote: How is that supposed to work? There are TONS of code that my System V packages run, in order to reach full hands-off automation. What am I supposed to do now?!?!?!? Now? Right now? Provide requirements and ask questions of the pkg team on the pkg-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread MC
There are TONS of code that my System V packages run, in order to reach full hands-off automation. What am I supposed to do now?!?!?!? You should tell the IPS developers what requirements you need met, that way everyone can see if any sheep have been left in the pasture!!! :-) This

Re: [osol-discuss] New features I would like to see

2008-05-28 Thread MC
Reggie wrote: Some new features I would like to see would be a restart option in the quit menu, more packages included in the live cd yeah. The Live CD is the size of a full CD already - which packages would you like evicted from it to make more room for the ones you want added?

[osol-discuss] OpenOffice font problem

2008-05-28 Thread Bill Shannon
This may be a Sun-specific problem, but... Now that I'm running OpenSolaris on my Ultra 20 desktop instead of SXDE on my SunBlade 2500, I'm using OpenOffice instead of StarOffice. Unfortunately, many fonts display differently. In particular, fonts used widely in Sun presentations, such as Arial

Re: [osol-discuss] mutex_lock_queue

2008-05-28 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:35 AM, Nishant Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All request your urgent help on this problem, this issue is blocking an urgent market release. We are stuck!! server details now as below /etc cat release Solaris 10 11/06 s10s_u3wos_10 SPARC Copyright 2006 Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] New features I would like to see

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Kaiman
I'd like to see a more stable wpi0 driver for wireless internet and a better package manager. Its so slow. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Lock Screen menu item?

2008-05-28 Thread Bill Shannon
Anyone know how to add the Lock Screen menu item to a menu? I know it exists in the default menu but I long ago customized the default menu and my customized version doesn't have it. It's not in my Add to Panel dialog, but if I log in as a user using the default configuration, it does appear in

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenOffice font problem

2008-05-28 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
This may be a Sun-specific problem, but... Now that I'm running OpenSolaris on my Ultra 20 desktop instead of SXDE on my SunBlade 2500, I'm using OpenOffice instead of StarOffice. Unfortunately, many fonts display differently. In particular, fonts used widely in Sun presentations,

[osol-discuss] Chicken and Egg Problem with gcc and ndis

2008-05-28 Thread Haluk Durmus
Hello, my ethernet and wireless kart are not suported (Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX and BCM4312 802.11a/b/g), and to get it working, I tried to compile the ndiswrapper to import the windows drivers. I got an error message that gcc is not found. So I tried to find a gcc package to download it