[osol-discuss] Help: How to install Java SE and use Java Web Start..

2008-09-30 Thread Tai
Hi, I am newbie to Solaris and OpenSolaris. I hope someone can help me out or give me a insight on how it works. I install OpenSolaris through the LiveCD. It was great, most common tasks works. However, I need to run Sun Download Manager (SDM), and it requires Java SE. I thought Java SE

Re: [osol-discuss] Help: How to install Java SE and use Java Web Start..

2008-09-30 Thread Kristian Rink
Tai; Tai schrieb: I am newbie to Solaris and OpenSolaris. I hope someone can help me out or give me a insight on how it works. I install OpenSolaris through the LiveCD. It was great, most common tasks works. However, I need to run Sun Download Manager (SDM), and it requires Java SE.

[osol-discuss] migrators question: virtual terminals?

2008-09-30 Thread Kristian Rink
Folks; maybe a stupid question: One thing I found extremely helpful while running Linux on my machines was/is the ability to switch between different virtual terminals using ALT-Fn (while in a command prompt without X running) or CTRL-ALT-Fn (swiching from X to some text based terminal) where I

Re: [osol-discuss] migrators question: virtual terminals?

2008-09-30 Thread Jan Friedel
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:40:25AM +0200, Kristian Rink wrote: Folks; maybe a stupid question: One thing I found extremely helpful while running Linux on my machines was/is the ability to switch between different virtual terminals using ALT-Fn (while in a command prompt without X running) or

Re: [osol-discuss] migrators question: virtual terminals?

2008-09-30 Thread Kristian Rink
Jan; Jan Friedel schrieb: Not now, but: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2008092402/ As of SXCE build 100, it should be (back) available. AFAIK, you could expect the functionality to be available in the OpenSolaris 2008.11 as well.

[osol-discuss] ZSF Solaris

2008-09-30 Thread Ram Sharma
Hi, can anyone please tell me what is the maximum number of files that can be there in 1 folder in Solaris with ZSF file system. I am working on an application in which I have to support 1mn users. In my application I am using MySql MyISAM and in MyISAM there is 3 files created for 1 table. I

Re: [osol-discuss] migrators question: virtual terminals?

2008-09-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Fredrich Maney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Psuedo terminals have been available on pretty much every Unix-like OS for at least 15 years through screen/iscreen/GNUscreen - with far more features I might add. The Project Page: http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ Screen exists for at least 20

[osol-discuss] [Solaris 10]Problem with syslogd

2008-09-30 Thread Leví Teodoro da Silva
Hi guys !!! I have installed Solaris 10 at my machine and when the system will start i got the follow message : syslogd : line 24 : WARNING loghost could not be resolved Someone know something about this problem !? I see my etc/hosts file, and there i could not see the loghost, just my IP, my

Re: [osol-discuss] ZSF Solaris

2008-09-30 Thread Thommy M.
Ram Sharma wrote: Hi, can anyone please tell me what is the maximum number of files that can be there in 1 folder in Solaris with ZSF file system. 2 to the power of 48 as from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS That's _very_ many files... I am working on an application in which I have

Re: [osol-discuss] Help: How to install Java SE and use Java Web Start..

2008-09-30 Thread James Carlson
Tai writes: P.S. And how would I know which OpenSolaris version I am running? This should tell you what you want to know: % uname -v -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 /

Re: [osol-discuss] ZSF Solaris

2008-09-30 Thread James Carlson
Ram Sharma writes: Hi, can anyone please tell me what is the maximum number of files that can be there in 1 folder in Solaris with ZSF file system. I am working on an application in which I have to support 1mn users. In my application I am using MySql MyISAM and in MyISAM there is 3

Re: [osol-discuss] VBox 2.0.2 vs. 1.6.6

2008-09-30 Thread John Brewer
I believe suspend mode is not totally worked out yet in the kernel, I am using snv_b98 and I get a dmesg error to the effect saying power management is not enabled so Vista probably ( I have AMD 9950 on a MB GA-MA78GM-S2H 1.0 and 1.1 w. 8g mem) it can not pass back to the Solaris kernel the

Re: [osol-discuss] migrators question: virtual terminals?

2008-09-30 Thread Ron Halstead
Not now, but: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2008092402/; The xorg.tar.gz, when gunzipped and untared results in tar: directory checksum error --ron -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] migrators question: virtual terminals?

2008-09-30 Thread Brian Cameron
Kristian/Jan: Agreed, VT is very useful and I am really excited that it seems this code is finally integrating into Solaris/OpenSolaris. I can not speak for the Virtual Terminals team, but I do not think the initial delivery of VT will be functional. I believe it is turned off initially.

Re: [osol-discuss] migrators question: virtual terminals?

2008-09-30 Thread Robert Thurlow
Fredrich Maney wrote: Psuedo terminals have been available on pretty much every Unix-like OS for at least 15 years through screen/iscreen/GNUscreen - with far more features I might add. The Project Page: http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ Screen is wonderful - I use it every day. But

Re: [osol-discuss] migrators question: virtual terminals?

2008-09-30 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Ron Halstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not now, but: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2008092402/; The xorg.tar.gz, when gunzipped and untared results in tar: directory checksum error gnu tar (/usr/sfw/bin/gtar) and Sun's tar

[osol-discuss] Unknown SUNWexplo error message

2008-09-30 Thread Rob Sandifer
Greetings To All! Results of uname -a: SunOS XXb1s5 5.9 Generic_118558-20 sun4u sparc SUNW,Serverblade1 I am running SUNWexpl version 5.13 I am getting the following root e-mail message via Logcheck alert: Your cron job on XXb1s5 /opt/SUNWexplo/bin/explorer -e -q # SUNWexplo

Re: [osol-discuss] migrators question: virtual terminals?

2008-09-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mike Gerdts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Ron Halstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not now, but: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2008092402/; The xorg.tar.gz, when gunzipped and untared results in tar: directory checksum error gnu

Re: [osol-discuss] Choices Staying up to date

2008-09-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
Hi, I'm facing a difficult choice, I'm currently setting up a new soho server, which will act as a NAS, and it will also be used for storing source code via SVN. Without starting a religious war, I have the choice between Linux, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris. I'm wondering how stable OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Problems in debugging a core file using DBX.

2008-09-30 Thread Ian Collins
Vlakshmi wrote: Hello All, I facing some issue while trying to debug a core file using DBX. http://forums.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=852 Is the place to ask about dbx. Ian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is best Solaris for server !?

2008-09-30 Thread Peter Bortas
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Leví Teodoro da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am configuring a server at my work and i need some advices. [b]I want to know what is best solaris distro to install on my server ?![/b] I installed Solaris 10, but i installed and it has a graphical interface. I

Re: [osol-discuss] VBox 2.0.2 vs. 1.6.6

2008-09-30 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Ed.: I am doing this on an HP dv6928us notebook which is an Intel core2duo system with 3GB/250GB memory. In order not to break the warranty, I installed os0805 on a USB stick. Everything works works very well. However, I have problems booting os0811 from the USB stick. If anyone has any

[osol-discuss] sudden huge slowdown

2008-09-30 Thread Matt Harrison
Everything was working fine on our snv_97 fileserver then one day our transfers had slowed to a crawl. I originally thought it was CIFS only but after some tests I can see that its all network transfers including scp and ftp. I've run some benchmarks like bonnie++ and disk IO seems to be ok. A

Re: [osol-discuss] sudden huge slowdown

2008-09-30 Thread Bryan Allen
How full is your pool? Service starts crawling as ZFS has to spin the platters to search for free blocks in disparate parts of the disks. (Perhaps someone else can explain that better, but that's my understanding as to why full pool = slow pool.) I try to keep my pools at 90% utilization.

Re: [osol-discuss] VBox 2.0.2 vs. 1.6.6

2008-09-30 Thread John Brewer
I have zfs setup on slice 5 for Xen and my Virtualbox Vista images and it was quite snappy as well, like you said zfs does use memory, so anything over 2 gig is worth getting ( I have 8g). Also if you had a extra Sata drives , this would offer better IO performance, even if you use zfs zpool