[osol-discuss] Reminder: Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-21 Thread Jim Walker
Remember the deadline for package submissions to be on the contrib repo is May 8th. The Toshiba laptops are very nice! The Software Porters Community can help if you have questions: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/sw-porters/ Cheers, Jim +++ From: Terri Wischmann terese.wischm...@sun.com

Re: [osol-discuss] How to allow multiple users have different VNC sessions on OpenSolaris?

2009-04-21 Thread Halton Huo
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 11:28 -0700, Tom Chen wrote: Hi, Thanks for everyone helping me out on the previous post about VNC setup. The method is to enable Desktop Sharing: System -- Preferences -- Desktop Sharing Vino is run after gnome-session, this means you need have a live session.

[osol-discuss] Backup solution for OpenSolaris

2009-04-21 Thread PG
Hello everyone, just looking for good and 'open' backup solution - server on OpenSolaris and clients for MSWin, linux and OpenSolaris. I know about http://amanda.zmanda.com/ but I wonder if there is anything directly for OpenSolaris ~ OpenStorage. Many thanks, Philip -- This message posted

Re: [osol-discuss] Backup solution for OpenSolaris

2009-04-21 Thread Jan Kesten
Hi, just looking for good and 'open' backup solution - server on OpenSolaris and clients for MSWin, linux and OpenSolaris. I know about http://amanda.zmanda.com/ but I wonder if there is anything directly for OpenSolaris ~ OpenStorage. as I mentioned before - take a closer look at bacula :-)

Re: [osol-discuss] gvim?

2009-04-21 Thread Shawn Protsman
On Apr 20, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: Shawn Protsman wrote: I tried the '-r' flag also. Same result. Perhaps I ought to update to 111? Yes, you'll probably have to. The problem is that SUNWgvim isn't available from the /release repository and wasn't available until build

[osol-discuss] sound in vm?

2009-04-21 Thread Shawn Protsman
I've installed opensolaris both in VMware Workstation 6.5 (host openSUSE 11.0) and the latest Virtual Box (host Mac OS X) and unfortunately audio is disabled in both. Can someone point me to a page, or offer advice, on how to get audio working inside my two instances of opensolaris?

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle to buy Sun.

2009-04-21 Thread xiaoming zhu
http://www.oracle.com/sun/sun-general-presentation.pdf Interesting that it has a title Microsoft PowerPoint - Oracle Sun GP final 04 19 09 final.ppt, will it replace these M$ stuffs with OO.o after this deal? On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Manish Chakravarty manishch...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle to buy Sun.

2009-04-21 Thread Jonathan Evans
Even Linus Torvalds uses PPT for his presentations. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Setup VNC on OpenSolaris

2009-04-21 Thread Tom Chen
Halton, Yes, it works! But unfortunately, some of my servers do not have graphics card, so, have no video output. Is there any script that I can use instead? Tom - Original Message - From: Halton Huo halton@sun.com To: Tom Chen chento...@hotmail.com Cc:

Re: [osol-discuss] How to allow multiple users have different VNC sessions on OpenSolaris?

2009-04-21 Thread Rob Nelson
You could follow these instructions: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=361235 To setup multiple Xvnc servers running on multiple ports (5901, 5902, 5903, ...) Give each user his/her own port. This will be an individual desktop for each user. Cheers, nola -- This message

[osol-discuss] curs_set() bug in curses?

2009-04-21 Thread Johann Myrkraverk Oskarsson
Hi all, % uname -a SunOS asuka 5.11 snv_104 i86pc i386 i86pc I believe I have found a bug in curses as well as xcurses; where should I file a bug report? Basically, with curses curs_set( 0 ) returns ERR, and with xcurses (xpg4) it doesn't do anything; with ncurses, it works. I did not try ucb

Re: [osol-discuss] curs_set() bug in curses?

2009-04-21 Thread Johann Myrkraverk Oskarsson
Hi all, On 4/21/09, Johann Myrkraverk Oskarsson joh...@myrkraverk.com wrote: I believe I have found a bug in curses as well as xcurses; where should I file a bug report? I found the issue, and it's a missing civis entry for xterm in /usr/share/lib/terminfo, ncurses works because it uses

Re: [osol-discuss] frustrated in installing Sun Studio 12 in opensolaris

2009-04-21 Thread Andrew C. Henle
It looks like Sun Studio 12 uninstaller is broken. I just noted the same problem a few days ago, installing Sun Studio 12 on a new install of snv112. I botched the install by doing it from the root home directory, which meant the patch dry run failed (patchadd dry run runs as the user nobody,

Re: [osol-discuss] frustrated in installing Sun Studio 12 in opensolaris

2009-04-21 Thread Andrew C. Henle
(posting to this thread, too, since it seems to be the more active one) It looks like Sun Studio 12 uninstaller is broken. I just noted the same problem a few days ago, installing Sun Studio 12 on a new install of snv112. I botched the install by doing it from the root home directory, which

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle to buy Sun.

2009-04-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
[i]Thankfully, no one is working on an Ubuntu clone at Sun. The goal of the OpenSolaris 200x releases, as I see it, are to create a modern OS distribution that innovates using OpenSolaris technologies such as DTrace, ZFS, and more.[/i] Yes. For the last 2.5 years I was hoping so much that