Re: [osol-discuss] [powerpc-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-24 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
Sounds like a good charter. Gets my vote (even though I'm not on the advisory board). Obligatory disclaimer: I am an IBM contractor, and am a fan of IBM POWER, MIPS and SPARC architectures. On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Mark Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:12 P

Re: [osol-discuss] [emerging-platforms-discuss] [powerpc-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-24 Thread Dennis Clarke
> OK, the charter looks good, I just need a couple names to put down as > project leads. > > If I don't hear anything I'll put down John as one. > > Also, I apologize for being slow about this, but I really do need to make > a PowerPC project under Emerging Platforms and delete the PowerPC CG once

Re: [osol-discuss] Q: DVB support ?

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Martin
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:12 PM, John Weekley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Not at the moment. You're probably talking about Power or MIPS based >> systems, with limited memory and flash based file systems. While it may be >> possible in some time to see OpenSolaris running on those cpu's, the ch

Re: [osol-discuss] Account only available when LDAP is not?

2008-10-24 Thread Ian Collins
Josh Rivel wrote: > I would like to have a local admin type account on ~700 Open Solaris snv_81 > boxes that can only be used when LDAP is *not* working. > > When the network is up and running we would like all access to be only for > LDAP users, but if LDAP is down, there is a "backdoor" in via

Re: [osol-discuss] Q: DVB support ?

2008-10-24 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 2:12 AM, John Weekley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Martin wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:42 PM, homerun <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Any plans to create support for DVB receivers ? >> >> >> Not at the moment.

Re: [osol-discuss] Q: DVB support ?

2008-10-24 Thread John Weekley
Mark Martin wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:42 PM, homerun <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Hi > > Any plans to create support for DVB receivers ? > > > Not at the moment. You're probably talking about Power or MIPS based > systems, with limited memory a

Re: [osol-discuss] [emerging-platforms-discuss] [powerpc-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-24 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:57 AM, William Kucharski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, the charter looks good, I just need a couple names to put down as project > leads. > > If I don't hear anything I'll put down John as one. > > Also, I apologize for being slow about this, but I really do need to ma

Re: [osol-discuss] [emerging-platforms-discuss] [powerpc-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-24 Thread William Kucharski
OK, the charter looks good, I just need a couple names to put down as project leads. If I don't hear anything I'll put down John as one. Also, I apologize for being slow about this, but I really do need to make a PowerPC project under Emerging Platforms and delete the PowerPC CG once and for a

Re: [osol-discuss] sources for SVR4 package tools ?

2008-10-24 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This looks to be pretty barren : > > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/svr4_packaging/files/ > > any idea where the sources are ? > > -- > Dennis Clarke Hello, between 20080718 and 20080722 they have been dropped from

Re: [osol-discuss] replacing default java version

2008-10-24 Thread Manel Aragon
Hello. In SXCE I replace Java in /usr/jdk/instances Unpack jdk.sh in this folder. Delete instances/jdk1.6.0 rename jdk1.6.0_10 to jdk1.6.0 cd /usr/jdk delete jdk1.6.0_0? delete latest do: ln -s instances/jdk1.6.0 jdk1.6.0_10 ln -s jdk1.6.0_10 latest cd /usr rm java ln -s jdk/jdk1.6.0_

Re: [osol-discuss] [emerging-platforms-discuss] [powerpc-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-24 Thread John Sonnenschein
On 24-Oct-08, at 7:20 AM, Mark Martin wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:12 PM, William Kucharski <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > So if there is sufficient interest in a MIPS project, I would be > happy to get the ball rolling by formally proposing the creation of > such a project under th

[osol-discuss] Account only available when LDAP is not?

2008-10-24 Thread Josh Rivel
I would like to have a local admin type account on ~700 Open Solaris snv_81 boxes that can only be used when LDAP is *not* working. When the network is up and running we would like all access to be only for LDAP users, but if LDAP is down, there is a "backdoor" in via the router that the OpenSo

Re: [osol-discuss] Q: DVB support ?

2008-10-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Mark Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any plans to create support for DVB receivers ? > > > Not at the moment. You're probably talking about Power or MIPS based > systems, with limited memory and flash based file systems. While it may be > possible in some time to see OpenSolaris running

Re: [osol-discuss] [OT] was Re: The future of the IPS system

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Martin
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:53 AM, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > A more interesting question for this group, I think, is what > requirements need to put onto the projects delivering into OpenSolaris > consolidations so that those systems can work. Right now, I think we > have a possi

Re: [osol-discuss] Q: DVB support ?

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Martin
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:42 PM, homerun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Any plans to create support for DVB receivers ? Not at the moment. You're probably talking about Power or MIPS based systems, with limited memory and flash based file systems. While it may be possible in some time to

[osol-discuss] memory usage, especially in the kernel

2008-10-24 Thread Joseph Sokol-Margolis
Hi all, I'm trying to understand how my system's memory is being use. My database server is running opensolaris nevada build 96, on a x4100, with the system postgres 8.3 packages. Data is on an external raid, using zfs volumes. It's been up about a month and a half, and I'm not quite sure how to

Re: [osol-discuss] [OT] was Re: The future of the IPS system

2008-10-24 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 02:03:23PM +0200, Martin Bochnig wrote: > > when you invest your life, don't get paid, don't get recognition, then > you have a right to criticize. > sigh. at this point, what you call "criticizing" i call "whining". you seem to feel like you've personally been wronged by

[osol-discuss] Q: DVB support ?

2008-10-24 Thread homerun
Hi Any plans to create support for DVB receivers ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] sources for SVR4 package tools ?

2008-10-24 Thread Dennis Clarke
This looks to be pretty barren : http://opensolaris.org/os/project/svr4_packaging/files/ any idea where the sources are ? -- Dennis Clarke ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] nslookup question

2008-10-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Cedric Tucker wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to make my system look at the host file first when doing a > nslookup, but am having problems. I have updated the nsswitch.conf, > nsswitch.files, and nsswitch.dns files to say hosts:files, but it still does > not resolve correctly. nslookup is spe

Re: [osol-discuss] nslookup question

2008-10-24 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Cedric Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to make my system look at the host file first when doing a > nslookup, but am having problems. I have updated the nsswitch.conf, > nsswitch.files, and nsswitch.dns files to say hosts:files, but it sti

[osol-discuss] nslookup question

2008-10-24 Thread Cedric Tucker
Hi, I am trying to make my system look at the host file first when doing a nslookup, but am having problems. I have updated the nsswitch.conf, nsswitch.files, and nsswitch.dns files to say hosts:files, but it still does not resolve correctly. Can somone please help.. Thanks -- This message

Re: [osol-discuss] [powerpc-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Martin
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:12 PM, William Kucharski < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So if there is sufficient interest in a MIPS project, I would be happy to > get the ball rolling by formally proposing the creation of such a project > under the Emerging Platforms CG. I thought we had enough votes

Re: [osol-discuss] [OT] was Re: The future of the IPS system

2008-10-24 Thread James Carlson
Martin Bochnig writes: > Also: I'm not talking about getting "famous" like Madonna. It would be > very nice already, if _certain_ folks would stop throwing fish at me. > Or better: If the community would protect me from experiences like > that. I doubt that having others choose a different packagi

Re: [osol-discuss] [OT] was Re: The future of the IPS system

2008-10-24 Thread Martin Bochnig
Glenn, thanks for your comments, they are very appreciated :) Only two points: I'm not talking about making or not making a fortune here, and it is unlikely that I expected anything like that. In that case I would probably have chosen a different job. What I am talking about is pure survival. Wi

Re: [osol-discuss] [OT] was Re: The future of the IPS system

2008-10-24 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Martin Bochnig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > p.s. OpenSolaris.com can continue to use IPS. It is their loss > (truly). I would not benefit at all if they ever switched to conary > (what they will never do, because they _cannot_ admit they made the > smallest thing wrong). I'm not the author of c

Re: [osol-discuss] [OT] was Re: The future of the IPS system

2008-10-24 Thread Martin Bochnig
Hello Pawel, when you invest your life, don't get paid, don't get recognition, then you have a right to criticize. I don't understand how you can interpret this as "aggressive and uncultured style of discuss". Those who only talk and chat and never contribute can obviously always be colorful, fan

Re: [osol-discuss] [OT] was Re: The future of the IPS system

2008-10-24 Thread Paweł Tęcza
Martin Bochnig pisze: > You folks are talking, talking, talking. > I work on real code, but nobody wants to help me (in whatever[!]) way. > Rename it from "Developer community" to "chatting community". Hello Martin, Are you surprised? I'm not. I was watching that long and hot thread and my comme