Re: [osol-discuss] adp driver & the extra repository

2009-10-30 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, Francois Laagel píše v čt 29. 10. 2009 v 12:04 -0700: > Can we expect the adp driver (present in SXCE build 125) to be included into > the OpenSolaris extra repository at some point in the future? That driver > supports a bunch of old Adaptec HBAs--the AHA 2940 (aka AIC7861) being one of >

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox does not see printers

2009-10-30 Thread Luca Morettoni
On 10/29/09 06:55 PM, Mike DeMarco wrote: I am running build 121 with firefox 3.5.1. Even thought the system can see network printers and can print to them, firefox will not list any printers and will only print to file?? I reported the same problem some times ago, I fixed with this method

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox does not see printers

2009-10-30 Thread Mike DeMarco
Thanks all: I was able to fix this by: 1) I removed the _all line from my home directory .printers 2) I added a new printer using Solaris LP printer manager. After both steps were done both defined printers showed up under firefox. Thanks all. mike -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox does not see printers

2009-10-30 Thread Stewart Walters
Mike DeMarco wrote: Thanks all: I was able to fix this by: 1) I removed the _all line from my home directory .printers 2) I added a new printer using Solaris LP printer manager. After both steps were done both defined printers showed up under firefox. Thanks all. mike Glad to hear it, I'd

Re: [osol-discuss] Problems with hal service on OpenSolaris 2009.06

2009-10-30 Thread Brian Ruthven - Sun UK
You might find that this is http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6850995 and simply re-installing the package has only fixed it once. If it happens again, try "svcadm clear hal" and see if things spring into life again. I did see something like this under builds 124 a

Re: [osol-discuss] firefox does not see printers

2009-10-30 Thread Ghee Teo
Hi Stewart, What build are yyou running? can you do /usr/sbin/print-service -q ? How are the network printers you know exists setup? Try this: Just in $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 or /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc. Just adding the line gtk-print-backends="file,lpr,papi,cups" -Ghee Stewart Walters wrote: Mike DeMarc

Re: [osol-discuss] adp driver & the extra repository

2009-10-30 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Some light on Adaptec ;-) Note: In the past years Adaptec has lied to us repeatedly about forthcoming documentation which would have allowed us to stabilize, improve and manage RAID support for these (rather buggy) raid controllers. As a result, we do not recommend the Adaptec cards for use. Of

Re: [osol-discuss] How to make syslogger write to a fifo?

2009-10-30 Thread Brian Ruthven - Sun UK
Hi Harry, It's not actually that difficult once you get used to it. Think of it like learning a new programming language - you're not going to write an entire OS from scratch on your first day. Here's an example that took about 30 mins to write (although the bulk of this was looking into the

Re: [osol-discuss] Old(ish) Sparc Support

2009-10-30 Thread Shawn Walker
Charles Monett wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: Jensen Lee wrote: At least they should be doing the right thing to "open" the source code of every hardware component Sun no longer plan to support commercially, to encourage their continued use and support in the "ope

Re: [osol-discuss] Setting up my OpenSolaris server, ZFS, Zones, ldap and picking a distro

2009-10-30 Thread Butch Whitby
>Hello, Hi how are ya? >I am very new to Solaris, I was using OpenSolaris 2008 LiveCD in Virtual Box >and after spending >some time reading about it, I quite like ZFS and Zones. I >have played around with ZFS in Virtual >Box creating multiple drives and >simulated failures. I have decided to b

[osol-discuss] patchadd terminates when installing patch 120222-31 & 119090-31

2009-10-30 Thread gorak
Hi, I'm getting the following errors when applying patch 120222-31 and 119090-31 to my alternate BE. Any clues? bash-3.00# patchadd -R /a 120222-31 Validating patches... Loading patches installed on the system... Done! Loading patches requested to install. Done! Checking patches that you sp

Re: [osol-discuss] patchadd terminates when installing patch 120222-31 & 119090-31

2009-10-30 Thread Alan Steinberg
What OS release are you running? These patches were made for Solaris 10. -- Alan gorak wrote: Hi, I'm getting the following errors when applying patch 120222-31 and 119090-31 to my alternate BE. Any clues? bash-3.00# patchadd -R /a 120222-31 Validating patches... Loading patches installed o

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] perl broken after upgrading from os2008.11 to os2009.06

2009-10-30 Thread Brian Utterback
Shawn Walker wrote: If those modules install under /usr/lib/*, yes. If you can have CPAN install and deliver those modules under /usr/local/perl5 ... or perhaps /opt/perl5/locl or some other directory that doesn't belong to an existing package, then you should be ok. Isn't the whole pur

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] perl broken after upgrading from os2008.11 to os2009.06

2009-10-30 Thread Shawn Walker
Brian Utterback wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: If those modules install under /usr/lib/*, yes. If you can have CPAN install and deliver those modules under /usr/local/perl5 ... or perhaps /opt/perl5/locl or some other directory that doesn't belong to an existing package, then you should be ok.

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] perl broken after upgrading from os2008.11 to os2009.06

2009-10-30 Thread Brian Utterback
Shawn Walker wrote: Brian Utterback wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: If those modules install under /usr/lib/*, yes. If you can have CPAN install and deliver those modules under /usr/local/perl5 ... or perhaps /opt/perl5/locl or some other directory that doesn't belong to an existing package, t

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] perl broken after upgrading from os2008.11 to os2009.06

2009-10-30 Thread Shawn Walker
Brian Utterback wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: Brian Utterback wrote: Shawn Walker wrote: If those modules install under /usr/lib/*, yes. If you can have CPAN install and deliver those modules under /usr/local/perl5 ... or perhaps /opt/perl5/locl or some other directory that doesn't belong t

Re: [osol-discuss] How to make syslogger write to a fifo?

2009-10-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian Ruthven - Sun UK writes: > Hi Harry, > > It's not actually that difficult once you get used to it. Think of it > like learning a new programming language - you're not going to write > an entire OS from scratch on your first day. Here's an example that > took about 30 mins to write (although

Re: [osol-discuss] How to make syslogger write to a fifo?

2009-10-30 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
I like what you're doing... will keep tuned. Will Splunk do what you're looking for, or have you reviewed it? Sorry if you already have. Wow... learning a *lot* about Unix in here. =) On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 13:53, Harry Putnam wrote: > Brian Ruthven - Sun UK > writes: > >> Hi Harry, >> >> It'

Re: [osol-discuss] patchadd terminates when installing patch 120222-31 & 119090-31

2009-10-30 Thread gorak
It's running Solaris 10 Update 6. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] patchadd terminates when installing patch 120222-31 & 119090-31

2009-10-30 Thread Alan Steinberg
[Added the rest of the conversation for those of us using email for the forum frontend.] This isn't an OpenSolaris topic, but I have a couple of suggestions: Try running the failing command by hand to see if you get additional output. If that doesn't help, you can check the Solaris 10 forums o

Re: [osol-discuss] How to make syslogger write to a fifo?

2009-10-30 Thread Harry Putnam
"Alex Smith (K4RNT)" writes: > I like what you're doing... will keep tuned. > > Will Splunk do what you're looking for, or have you reviewed it? Sorry > if you already have. Splunk is aimed at much broader level than my scripting. I'm not sure if the same logging input would occur either. I've