Re: [osol-discuss] create a directory/ file

2009-10-24 Thread Tomas Bodzar
man pages are documentation about system for users, admins and developers. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean that it's bad. If some user has brain he don't need to go through it. He can use right click in GUI as in Windows. And name home is very clean description of for what

Re: [osol-discuss] create a directory/ file

2009-10-24 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Again and again. You don't read anything about ZFS. 1) You can't have full home partition if you have some free space on disk because ZFS will use free space for your file in home. Of course you can set quotas so user can use say 20GB of space and so on 2) Same situation. Until you have some

Re: [osol-discuss] create a directory/ file

2009-10-24 Thread Tomas Bodzar
K.I.S.S. Keep It Simple Stupid , that's why Unix-world use a lot of text. Because people can read text no some binary data stuff ;-) And yes, you can build nice GUI on text base as you can see in MacOs or OpenSolaris or Ubuntu. OS = Operating system system mean most of the times some complex

Re: [osol-discuss] create a directory/ file

2009-10-24 Thread Tomas Bodzar
You can have full power of Unix in GUI if you know what do. You don't know so you must use what someone prepared for you. If it's not what you are looking for then you can use your old solution or try another. It's a freedom. Just because you don't understand power of CLI doesn't mean that it's

Re: [osol-discuss] create a directory/ file

2009-10-24 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Just because you were visiting some school doesn't mean that you have appropriate knowledge. Restricting user to home directory is not too much restrictive. Normal user don't need anything outside of his/her home directory. If he/she use some apps which need something like that then developer

Re: [osol-discuss] create a directory/ file

2009-10-24 Thread Tomas Bodzar
http://www.opensolaris.org http://docs.sun.com And you think that we are somewhat bad on you, but it's not true. A lot of people are giving help to you, but it looks like you don't want to listen and understand. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] create a directory/ file

2009-10-24 Thread Ian Collins
Tomas Bodzar wrote: Just because you were visiting some school doesn't mean that you have appropriate knowledge. To whom or to what are you replying? Context, please. -- Ian. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] create a directory/ file

2009-10-24 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Make OS for newbies and only newbies will want to use it. If 80% or 90% of users use something doesn't mean that it's good for me too. You are trying to tweak something to Windows way. Maybe by accident only, but still. A lot of friends around me have Ubuntu, either parents,

Re: [osol-discuss] create a directory/ file

2009-10-24 Thread Tomas Bodzar
It's reply on this : I know basic unix things like file permissions and file system navigation. I gone thru basic unix and shell dumb theories / commands in my computer science graduation course. Since 1997, I have been using windows and installing and reinstalling windows and several user

Re: [osol-discuss] gnome desktop - no app tabs on task bar

2009-10-24 Thread Aurélien Larcher
Don't you see them on the bottom taskbar ? Otherwise you can use the compiz window manager which provides plugins that allow displaying apps with a mouse gesture. Install SUNWcompiz-fusion-main and SUNWcompiz-fusion-extra then go to System Preferences Appearance Visual Effects and clic on

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris under Oracle?

2009-10-24 Thread Park Jin Sung
http://www.pinegin.com/2009/08/26/install-oracle_10g-opensolaris-sunos-5-11/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to access the open solaris across the network..Urg!!!

2009-10-24 Thread Sergio Schvezov
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 11:27 -0700, sridhar wrote: looks like we have to say that very fundamental/basic static ip configuration is not working in open solaris 2009.06. Any relevant authorized person around here, please confirm this. You mentioned Virtual Box window in another thread

Re: [osol-discuss] create a directory/ file

2009-10-24 Thread Sergio Schvezov
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 23:11 -0700, sridhar wrote: Assuming that there are other partitions with empty space. Only the partition with os and home dir is full. Assume that all apps are installed in this same partition. Then tell what open solaris will do in the following two cases: 1. If I

Re: [osol-discuss] create a directory/ file

2009-10-24 Thread Sergio Schvezov
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 12:05 -0400, Paul Gress wrote: sridhar wrote: In short, I want the full power of unix and all it's commands in the GUI form. Oh, GOD, when I will use that kind of unix. I think it will be a dream as long as there are incorrigible fans of CUI commands in user

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris under Oracle?

2009-10-24 Thread Krzysztof Abramowicz
I suppose that Oracle Is going to Support Opensolaris . Reasons are few . OpenSolaris is base for Future Solaris 11 OpenSolaris have large Communnity and Respected For Many Admins and Developers OpenSolaris is optymilisated for Sun Servers including DB and Data Server :) OpenSolaris is probably

[osol-discuss] White papers repo?

2009-10-24 Thread Uros Nedic
I would like to ask if anyone knows if there is some place where we couldfind *all* white papers published from SUN. Personally I enjoy reading them,and if there isn't something like that then I would like to ask you if it ispossible to establish such *repository*? (not IPS repository but some

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris under Oracle?

2009-10-24 Thread John Martin
Krzysztof Abramowicz wrote: Sun is now the biggest sponsor of opensource Sun has been and continues to be the largest corporate contributor to open source. The proposed acquisition was not the start of this. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] gnome desktop - no app tabs on task bar

2009-10-24 Thread Brian Cameron
Note that for the applications to appear in the panel, you need to have the Window List applet in your panel. You might try right-clicking on an empty area of the panel and select Add to panel. Then add the Window List applet. Does this fix the problem? By default this applet is in your

[osol-discuss] any work on bug ID 6807184

2009-10-24 Thread M D
This bug is for the RTL8111 chipset and the rge driver. The problem has been going on for some time and the bug has also been open for quite some time without updates. Is anyone working this problem? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] os2008.11 to os2009.06: Zone update on attach failed

2009-10-24 Thread solarg
hello all, i have a machine os2008.11, with many zones. I'm in the process of upgrade to os2009.06, the global zone is ok, but some zones failed: Indexing Packages ... Done Updating non-global zone: (Stage 2). Output follows pkg: The following package(s) violated constraints:

[osol-discuss] Solaris Upgrade with LDOMS and zones

2009-10-24 Thread gorak
Hi, In our setup we have a few coolthread systems running S10U6. We have around 5 ldoms on each of those servers, each of which are running a few zones. I need to apply the latest Solaris patch clusters on the control domain, ldoms and the corresponding zones. The control domain and the ldoms

Re: [osol-discuss] lame question concerning `ls'

2009-10-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker A. Brandt v...@bb-c.de writes: Hi Harry! I seem to recall having a fairly simple way to make the dates in `ls -l' command show unix dates (seconds since epoch). Is there a ls flag that does that? I don't see one. This is not such a lame question, there isn't one in Solaris ls.

Re: [osol-discuss] lame question concerning `ls'

2009-10-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Knut Anders Hatlen knut.hat...@sun.com writes: /usr/gnu/bin/ls -l --time-style=+%s Haaa, the instant I saw your post the memory rushed back... to bad it didn't rush before I posted... many thanks.. very helpful. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] quick shell question

2009-10-24 Thread Orvar Korvar
I need to copy 1.3TB to two drives. I have two drives, called Movies1 and Movies2. Each drive is one zpool. Thus, I have two zpools. I want identical copies of my 1.3TB data. I want to do one command at a time, and not simultaneous: # zfs send tank/vi...@now | zfs receive Movies1/now1 # zfs

Re: [osol-discuss] quick shell question

2009-10-24 Thread Nicholas Senedzuk
Put a semicolon between the commands on one line so you would have, # zfs send tank/vi...@now | zfs receive Movies1/now1; zfs scrub Movies1; etc This will run each command in a serial fashion instead of a parallel fashion. On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Orvar Korvar

Re: [osol-discuss] quick shell question

2009-10-24 Thread Sean Johnson
On Oct 24, 2009, at 4:59 PM, Nicholas Senedzuk wrote: Put a semicolon between the commands on one line so you would have, # zfs send tank/vi...@now | zfs receive Movies1/now1; zfs scrub Movies1; etc This will run each command in a serial fashion instead of a parallel fashion. Change

Re: [osol-discuss] any work on bug ID 6807184

2009-10-24 Thread John Martin
M D wrote: This bug is for the RTL8111 chipset and the rge driver. The problem has been going on for some time and the bug has also been open for quite some time without updates. Is anyone working this problem? The bug was evaluated fairly quickly after creation and was not reproducible

Re: [osol-discuss] any work on bug ID 6807184

2009-10-24 Thread John Martin
John Martin wrote: M D wrote: This bug is for the RTL8111 chipset and the rge driver. The problem has been going on for some time and the bug has also been open for quite some time without updates. Is anyone working this problem? The bug was evaluated fairly quickly after creation and was

Re: [osol-discuss] quick shell question

2009-10-24 Thread Orvar Korvar
And how long can a line be? It turns out that I have several zfs send.. | zfs receive... things. If I put them all on one line, that line will be very long. I think I have to break into several lines Can I put them on separate lines, in one shell file? zfs send... | zfs receive... zfs send...

Re: [osol-discuss] quick shell question

2009-10-24 Thread Edi Hardjono
And how long can a line be? It turns out that I have several zfs send.. | zfs receive... things. If I put them all on one line, that line will be very long. I think I have to break into several lines Can I put them on separate lines, in one shell file? Use backspace (\) at the end of each

[osol-discuss] AMD based motherboard recommendations?

2009-10-24 Thread Hugh McIntyre
I'm looking for a new AMD-based motherboard that can take an AM3 CPU (so an AM3 or AM2+ motherboard is in scope). Obviously I'm checking the HCL, but the HCL does not necessarily answer the following questions: - What's are the current recommendations if I want to make sure power

[osol-discuss] Error 1 2 when compiling GCC 4.4.2 on OpenSolaris 2009.06

2009-10-24 Thread Pen-Yuan Hsing
I've been trying to compile, build, and install GCC 4.4.2 in my installation of OpenSolaris 2009.06 on my VirtualBox 3 i386 machine. But I keep getting this same error when running make: checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for i386-pc-solaris2.11-gcc...

[osol-discuss] Error running make on Mplayer in OpenSolaris 2009.06

2009-10-24 Thread Pen-Yuan Hsing
[sorry about cross posting] I downloaded the latest SVN source of Mplayer from the official website and have successfully run: ./configure --cc=/usr/bin/gcc-4.3.2 But when I run make I get a single line error message saying: gmake: *** osdep/: Is a directory. Stop. What does this mean and

[osol-discuss] pkgadd - pkg_get error

2009-10-24 Thread Jase
Hey Guys, Please help. I recently installed Solaris Open Source and have been following guides to begin installing programs. My first problem has been with installing the pkg_get package. i use the following command, as per displayed on blastwave, to install the package. [i]# pkgadd -d