Re: [osol-discuss] [ug-bosug] Open Source, 450 BC

2008-07-04 Thread Manish Chakravarty
Please mark such posts [OT] Thanks, Manish On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to traditional, semi-legendary historical accounts preserved in Livy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livy, during the earliest period of the [Romane]

Re: [osol-discuss] OT - [ug-bosug] Open Source, 450 BC

2008-07-04 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Manish Chakravarty wrote: Please mark such posts [OT] Indeed, not quite sure whether legal code and computer code are related. It's a case for -advocacy mailing lists, I guess. But even then, the Roman law is far from the first one made public. There are things more than

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC

2008-07-04 Thread Tim Scanlon
RBAC is a standard. Like POSIX is a standard. Sudo is a single tool. They are in no way equivalent. I suggest this as reading to get somewhat up to speed: http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/45980-1.html http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/opensolaris_and_the_nsa_national

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC

2008-07-04 Thread UNIX admin
Learning new things Adds Value to your esteemed services...whether you like it or not, unless of course you don't want that job all that badly. ... A google for sudo rbac finds plenty of info...it shouldn't be that bad... You are implying that I don't know or understand RBAC. Au

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC

2008-07-04 Thread UNIX admin
RBAC is a standard. Like POSIX is a standard. Sudo is a single tool. They are in no way equivalent. RBAC is a standard? That's certainly news to me. Even if it were so, what good is a standard that is useless outside of Solaris, and what good is a standard that is overcomplicated for any

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC

2008-07-04 Thread UNIX admin
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/rbac/standards.html Oh, and by the way, I was one of the engineers to implement that role system and the 1,300 roles for that bank in the article above. Perhaps you'll find that funny... This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Help me create snv91 sparc boot cd

2008-07-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alexander R. Eremin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody knows how to use mkisofs to create Sparc Nevada boot CD? ( I have /boot (with hsfs.bootblock and sparc.miniroot) and /platform directories.)Old methods tell me create image with slices but last SXCE have miniroot image. Need help. The

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC

2008-07-04 Thread Tim Scanlon
ux-admin wrote: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/rbac/standards.html Oh, and by the way, I was one of the engineers to implement that role system and the 1,300 roles for that bank in the article above. Perhaps you'll find that funny... Then how can you possibly be conflating the use of RBAC

Re: [osol-discuss] Help me create snv91 sparc boot cd

2008-07-04 Thread Alexander R. Eremin
Well, string for mkisofs is -G .../hsfs.bootblock -B ... -l -ldots -R -N -D -V SOL_11_SPARC -o .../solaris_1.iso .../solaris_1.product' I make iso with this string and succesfully booting with it but my iso has only two slices, snv iso has 6... Need to know how make other symbolic slices

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting rpm to package OpenSolaris?

2008-07-04 Thread Tim Scanlon
I've thought a lot about what people have said in this thread. I personally do not care what format ends up being used as long as i have tools to deal with the old format(s) were. Linux users might not like the idea of SRV4 packages, but a lot of 3rd party vendors for commercial Unix flavors do

[osol-discuss] pci driver locking

2008-07-04 Thread Siegfried Schmidt
Hi, I have written a driver for a special PCI Card on Solaris 10, Dual Core 2,4 GHz. The application uses the driver via ioctl to get one byte from the PCI Card. I use ddi_getxx to read the registers of the PCI Card, locked with mutex_enter and mutex_exit. Between ioctl_entry and ioctl_return

Re: [osol-discuss] Help me create snv91 sparc boot cd

2008-07-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alexander R. Eremin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, string for mkisofs is -G .../hsfs.bootblock -B ... -l -ldots -R -N -D -V SOL_11_SPARC -o .../solaris_1.iso .../solaris_1.product' I make iso with this string and succesfully booting with it but my iso has only two slices, snv iso has 6...

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC channel

2008-07-04 Thread john kroll
Just one question not even sure who to reference it to; all of you guys are way out of my league. Once sx:ce becomes solaris11 : the bleeding edge of Sun will be solely opensolaris right?? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] pci driver locking

2008-07-04 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Siegfried Schmidt wrote: Hi, I have written a driver for a special PCI Card on Solaris 10, Dual Core 2,4 GHz. The application uses the driver via ioctl to get one byte from the PCI Card. I use ddi_getxx to read the registers of the PCI Card, locked with mutex_enter and

[osol-discuss] Any news from MMS project ?

2008-07-04 Thread Patrice BLEUZE
Looking at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/mms/ I can't see where this project goes on. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Question on how Swap works

2008-07-04 Thread Frank Mancini
Quick question. On my server, I have: 16 gigs of real memory 5 gigs are free 32 gigs of swap 28 gigs of swap used Doesn't memory fill the real physical first and how come I'm using so much swap? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] WARNING: No randomness provider enabled...,

2008-07-04 Thread Solomon Homicz
I installed opensolaris on a virtual hard disk in Virtual Box, but I get this message on boot up - WARNING: No randomness provider enabled for /dev/random. Use cryptoadm(1) to enable a provider. What is this? and how do I deal with it? I am totally new to open source, and am searching for

Re: [osol-discuss] WARNING: No randomness provider enabled...,

2008-07-04 Thread Shawn Walker
2008/7/4 Solomon Homicz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I installed opensolaris on a virtual hard disk in Virtual Box, but I get this message on boot up - WARNING: No randomness provider enabled for /dev/random. Use cryptoadm(1) to enable a provider. What is this? and how do I deal with it? I am totally

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC

2008-07-04 Thread UNIX admin
Then how can you possibly be conflating the use of RBAC with using sudo as gods only gift to role requirements? RBAC was evaluated and found to be completely useless as it is a Solaris-only technology, in addition to being overly complicated. The system was implemented using an Oracle

Re: [osol-discuss] Question on how Swap works

2008-07-04 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Frank Mancini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick question. On my server, I have: 16 gigs of real memory 5 gigs are free 32 gigs of swap 28 gigs of swap used Doesn't memory fill the real physical first and how come I'm using so much swap? When an

Re: [osol-discuss] Trouble with mount_smbfs of Mac Shares in Open

2008-07-04 Thread Hans
Good news, folks ! I successfully mounted CIFS shares from Mac OS X. The trick is to get Sharity Light from http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity-light/download.html Sharity-Light.1.1-Solaris2.6-i386.tar.gz is good enough. Or you compile 1.3 version or download it from sunfreeware.com. If you

[osol-discuss] pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2008-07-04 Thread Sabeeh Baig
Hi, guys! I've been working with pkgsrc on OpenSolaris. One thing I've noticed is that pkgsrc isn't Solaris 10-ready. It officially supports up till Solaris 9. This is the root of the problem that you encounter when you try to bootstrap pkgsrc. Apparently, it still looks for the install