Re: [osol-discuss] /etc/release on Solaris Express

2008-10-27 Thread Rich Reynolds
What does "release" mean when describing a probably patched system??? last time i looked at an old Solaris 10 u5 system, 'uname' gave me the base OS install '10_u5', but not even the patch ID of the kernel jumbo patch. and what about all the other patches that have been applied??? are they impo

Re: [osol-discuss] Install wireless USB zyxel

2008-10-27 Thread Michael Li
Jaime Pérez peñaloza ??: > Hello > I am a novice in this OpenSolaris on the topic of unix .. but now and had > some problems, I wanted to see if I can help please > I must be honest that I wore before ubuntu and the truth and had no major > problems because I recognized all the drivers on my comp

Re: [osol-discuss] /etc/release on Solaris Express

2008-10-27 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> James Carlson wrote: > > However, I'd say that if you're using the contents > of /etc/release to > > make any automated decisions, then you're pretty > much on your own. > > Those aren't in any way "stable" interfaces -- we > don't commit to any > > sort of stability in the text contained in that

Re: [osol-discuss] How is it to determine that file is indexed?

2008-10-27 Thread Jerry Tan
yes, you can. you can try tracker-stats to see how many files is indexed. and try tracker-files to see what are they. > Hi, > Is there a way to determine that the files is indexed or what files are in > index? In my case it appears that some symbols declared in the file are > missing in search

[osol-discuss] duplicate 2-channel audio

2008-10-27 Thread Brad Bobak
Hi, I am trying to duplicate stereo out (2 channel) to the back two channels. I'm using SXCE build 99. I cannot install oss due to installation failures (kernel panic during install). I am wondering if there is another audio mixer using sunaudiosink which will let me duplicate the channels. F

Re: [osol-discuss] second_root for upgrade of next release

2008-10-27 Thread Ian Collins
sososo wrote: > THanks for response. > >> But if you select ZFS >> root instead of UFS the second root partition is not required for Live >> Upgrade >> > Just to make sure, you meaned in graphical installer of opensolaris community > express, I can graphiccaly choose ZFS instead of UFS? >

Re: [osol-discuss] second_root for upgrade of next release

2008-10-27 Thread sososo
THanks for response. >But if you select ZFS >root instead of UFS the second root partition is not required for Live Upgrade Just to make sure, you meaned in graphical installer of opensolaris community express, I can graphiccaly choose ZFS instead of UFS? Thanks and regards -- This message posted

Re: [osol-discuss] second_root for upgrade of next release

2008-10-27 Thread Dave Uhring
> At installation with all default options, it not created second_root (default > name) partition for me for upgrade of next release. > I remembered that till release b74 or 85, as default it created second_root. Not b85 for sure. I had to create that partition myself. But if you select ZFS root

Re: [osol-discuss] second_root for upgrade of next release

2008-10-27 Thread sososo
bump -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Adding memory

2008-10-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:43 PM, John Fitton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Martin > Ok here is what I have done this evening. > > Bios Update - same issue > Vesa driver - boots ok with 8GB yah :) rubbish resolution though - but that's > probably just my config file. > So does that mean I stay w

Re: [osol-discuss] /etc/release on Solaris Express

2008-10-27 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
Perhaps using uname would be a better way to distinguish the releases? This is in machine-readable format, from what I understand... On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:16 PM, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Ian Collins writes: > > James Carlson wrote: > > > If we wanted to change these four > >

Re: [osol-discuss] /etc/release on Solaris Express

2008-10-27 Thread James Carlson
Ian Collins writes: > James Carlson wrote: > > If we wanted to change these four > > lines to read: > > > > Sorry > > We > > Broke > > You > > > > ... there'd be no real impediment to doing it. ;-} > Is Sun relocating to Redmond? > > :) No. I'm just trying to make it really clea

Re: [osol-discuss] /etc/release on Solaris Express

2008-10-27 Thread Andrew Wasilczuk
James Carlson wrote: > However, I'd say that if you're using the contents of /etc/release to > make any automated decisions, then you're pretty much on your own. > Those aren't in any way "stable" interfaces -- we don't commit to any > sort of stability in the text contained in that file, or the ev

Re: [osol-discuss] /etc/release on Solaris Express

2008-10-27 Thread Andrew Wasilczuk
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > Solaris Express Community Edition snv_100a X86 >Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. > Use is subject to license terms. > Assembled 09 October 2008 > Thanks Alan.

Re: [osol-discuss] /etc/release on Solaris Express

2008-10-27 Thread Ian Collins
James Carlson wrote: > If we wanted to change these four > lines to read: > > Sorry > We > Broke > You > > ... there'd be no real impediment to doing it. ;-} Is Sun relocating to Redmond? :) -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-discuss mai

Re: [osol-discuss] /etc/release on Solaris Express

2008-10-27 Thread James Carlson
Andrew Wasilczuk writes: > I'm patching a bit of software to work on opensolaris which uses > /etc/release to get system information from. I've only got indiana > installed here and I'm not sure how different /etc/release is on sxde. > It would be nice to make it work on both. Could someone w

Re: [osol-discuss] /etc/release on Solaris Express

2008-10-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Andrew Wasilczuk wrote: > Hiya, > > I'm patching a bit of software to work on opensolaris which uses > /etc/release to get system information from. I've only got indiana > installed here and I'm not sure how different /etc/release is on sxde. > It would be nice to make it work on both. Could

[osol-discuss] /etc/release on Solaris Express

2008-10-27 Thread Andrew Wasilczuk
Hiya, I'm patching a bit of software to work on opensolaris which uses /etc/release to get system information from. I've only got indiana installed here and I'm not sure how different /etc/release is on sxde. It would be nice to make it work on both. Could someone with sxde around please pa

[osol-discuss] Install wireless USB zyxel

2008-10-27 Thread Jaime Pérez peñaloza
Hello I am a novice in this OpenSolaris on the topic of unix .. but now and had some problems, I wanted to see if I can help please I must be honest that I wore before ubuntu and the truth and had no major problems because I recognized all the drivers on my computer .. I have a USB wireless ante

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_99 jumpstart issue

2008-10-27 Thread Tom Albers
It sure looks like a match. This was closed as a dup of 6754716. James Carlson wrote: > Tom Albers writes: > >>My jumpstart no longer works as of build snv_99. Build snv_98 works fine. >>Problem occurs on both SPARC and x64 architectures. Is there an existing >>CR and a workaround? > > > It

Re: [osol-discuss] How is it to determine that file is indexed?

2008-10-27 Thread Mario Goebbels
>> Is there a way to determine that the files is indexed or what files are in >> index? In my case it appears that some symbols declared in the file are >> missing in search at all. > > What index? Likely Metatracker/trackerd. -mg ___ opensolaris-disc

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_99 jumpstart issue

2008-10-27 Thread James Carlson
Tom Albers writes: > My jumpstart no longer works as of build snv_99. Build snv_98 works fine. > Problem occurs on both SPARC and x64 architectures. Is there an existing > CR and a workaround? It might be CR 6760873 ... but the bug system seems to be down. :-< -- James Carlson, Solaris Networ

Re: [osol-discuss] Question about file system direct entry

2008-10-27 Thread Ian Collins
kevin wrote: > In /usr/include/sys/dirent.h I see this: > > /* > * File-system independent directory entry. > */ > typedef struct dirent { > ino_t d_ino; /* "inode number" of entry */ > off_t d_off; /* offset of disk > dir

Re: [osol-discuss] How is it to determine that file is indexed?

2008-10-27 Thread Ian Collins
Andrei Zakharov wrote: > Hi, > Is there a way to determine that the files is indexed or what files are in > index? In my case it appears that some symbols declared in the file are > missing in search at all. > What index? -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-

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

2008-10-27 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Josh Rivel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does not seem to work and then local accounts (i.e. root) are not seen as > valid ones unless LDAP is down (which is not what we need) We just need a > single account to only be able to login if LDAP is down. I suppose I co

[osol-discuss] snv_99 jumpstart issue

2008-10-27 Thread Tom Albers
Hi, My jumpstart no longer works as of build snv_99. Build snv_98 works fine. Problem occurs on both SPARC and x64 architectures. Is there an existing CR and a workaround? Thanks, Tom Rebooting with command: boot net - install Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],70/[EMAIL PROTECTED] File and

Re: [osol-discuss] Adding memory

2008-10-27 Thread John Fitton
Martin Here is what I have done. 1) Machine memory reduced to only 2GB 2) Booted OpenSolaris 2008.05 LiveCD 3) Installed to harddrive (as assumed the log files would be reset at boot) 4) restarted and booted from hard drive to make sure all ok 5) shutdown added memory to 8GB 6) booted - had to hold

Re: [osol-discuss] Adding memory

2008-10-27 Thread John Fitton
Hi Martin Failsafe mode is textonly. Not too sure how I can send log files where it doesn't work as the machine doesn't respond to any inputs - need to pull the plug to reboot? I think I will boot with 2GB and get all the log files you mention - as I am new to solaris are there any other logs tha

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

2008-10-27 Thread Josh Rivel
Does not seem to work and then local accounts (i.e. root) are not seen as valid ones unless LDAP is down (which is not what we need) We just need a single account to only be able to login if LDAP is down. I suppose I could put something into that users .profile checking for the LDAP server and

Re: [osol-discuss] æ„è§å’Œå» ºè®®

2008-10-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
see 17657 files at Beijing http://blastwave.unix-center.net/OpenSolaris/ and http://blastwave.unix-center.net/csw and http://blastwave.unix-center.net/OpenSolaris/update updates 4 times a day ... see http://blastwave.unix-center.net/reports/?C=M;O=D Dennis Clarke http://www

Re: [osol-discuss] 意见和建议

2008-10-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
2008/10/27 kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 2008/10/27 JimmyZhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > >> 刚从ACM国际大学生程序赛回来,听了sun公司的讲座。工程师们提到opensolaris的种种好处,什么we >> b2.0阿,ZFS阿,连GNOME的摇摆窗口都拿出来讲了一会,本来我是有个问题要问的不过没问上,那就是:如果 >> 给SUN公司的to do >> list上的事情重要性排个名次的话,那么opensolaris在高校使用者中的推广要排第几名?没有教育网的更 >> 新源和访问速度更快的讨论区的现实让

Re: [osol-discuss] 意见和建议

2008-10-27 Thread kevin
> 2008/10/27 JimmyZhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 刚从ACM国际大学生程序赛回来,听了sun公司的讲座。工程师们提到opensolaris的种种好处,什么we > b2.0阿,ZFS阿,连GNOME的摇摆窗口都拿出来讲了一会,本来我是有个问题要问的不过没问上,那就是:如果 > 给SUN公司的to do > list上的事情重要性排个名次的话,那么opensolaris在高校使用者中的推广要排第几名?没有教育网的更 > 新源和访问速度更快的讨论区的现实让好多想尝试opensolaris的人望而却步阿。最新的软件的获得,使用时问 > 题的提交和

Re: [osol-discuss] 意见和建议

2008-10-27 Thread kevin
Oops, I forgot to install Chinese language packages... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Question about file system direct entry

2008-10-27 Thread kevin
In /usr/include/sys/dirent.h I see this: /* * File-system independent directory entry. */ typedef struct dirent { ino_t d_ino; /* "inode number" of entry */ off_t d_off; /* offset of disk directory entry */ un

Re: [osol-discuss] 意见和建议

2008-10-27 Thread Yong Sun
高校推广当然是重中之重,教育网有更新服务器啊,http://pkg-edu.unix- center.net,估计去讲座的人没提到。 JimmyZhang 写道: > 刚从ACM国际大学生程序赛回来,听了sun公司的讲座。工程师们提到opensolaris的种种好处,什么web2.0阿,ZFS阿,连GNOME的摇摆窗口都拿出来讲了一会,本来我是有个问题要问的不过没问上,那就是:如果给SUN公司的to > do > list上的事情重要性排个名次的话,那么opensolaris在高校使用者中的推广要排第几名?没有教育网的更新源和访问速度更快的讨论区的现实让好多想尝试opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] 意见和建议

2008-10-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
2008/10/27 JimmyZhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 刚从ACM国际大学生程序赛回来,听了sun公司的讲座。工程师们提到opensolaris的种种好处,什么web2.0阿,ZFS阿,连GNOME的摇摆窗口都拿出来讲了一会,本来我是有个问题要问的不过没问上,那就是:如果给SUN公司的to > do > list上的事情重要性排个名次的话,那么opensolaris在高校使用者中的推广要排第几名?没有教育网的更新源和访问速度更快的讨论区的现实让好多想尝试opensolaris的人望而却步阿。最新的软件的获得,使用时问题的提交和交流解决方法都受到非常大的阻

[osol-discuss] 意见和建议

2008-10-27 Thread JimmyZhang
刚从ACM国际大学生程序赛回来,听了sun公司的讲座。工程师们提到opensolaris的种种好处,什么web2.0阿,ZFS阿,连GNOME的摇摆窗口都拿出来讲了一会,本来我是有个问题要问的不过没问上,那就是:如果给SUN公司的to do list上的事情重要性排个名次的话,那么opensolaris在高校使用者中的推广要排第几名?没有教育网的更新源和访问速度更快的讨论区的现实让好多想尝试opensolaris的人望而却步阿。最新的软件的获得,使用时问题的提交和交流解决方法都受到非常大的阻碍。 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[osol-discuss] How is it to determine that file is indexed?

2008-10-27 Thread Andrei Zakharov
Hi, Is there a way to determine that the files is indexed or what files are in index? In my case it appears that some symbols declared in the file are missing in search at all. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

[osol-discuss] Minix in VirtualBox

2008-10-27 Thread kevin
Sorry, since I'm new to this forum, I don't know where should I ask this question. Firstly, thanks to all that help me figure out how to suspend the solaris on my laptop. It's so fast to suspend it. I am wondering now, why XP suspends itself so slow and write so lot of things to the disk. I saw

[osol-discuss] second_root for upgrade of next release

2008-10-27 Thread sososo
Hi, I installed recently released solaris express community b99. At installation with all default options, it not created second_root (default name) partition for me for upgrade of next release. I remembered that till release b74 or 85, as default it created second_root. Am I missing something th