Re: [osol-discuss] Using OpenSolaris as a security gateway

2010-01-05 Thread Karel Gardas
> Another powerful security feature that Solaris 10 has > that OpenBSD doesn't have is trusted extensions: > > > ttp://osug.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/screensho > t.png > > If you look at the link above you can see that the > different windows and documents are classified at > different l

Re: [osol-discuss] Bad news for running Oracle on Solaris?

2010-01-05 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2010-01-05 22:20:35, Anon Y Mous wrote: | | or do you think it's just more anti-Solaris F.U.D. ? Published December 10, 2006 EOF -- bda cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk. __

[osol-discuss] Bad news for running Oracle on Solaris?

2010-01-05 Thread Anon Y Mous
Do any of you here think that this Oracle related article has any truth to it: http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/no-more-oracle-ports-to-solarisaixhp-ux-after-oracle11g/ or do you think it's just more anti-Solaris F.U.D. ? To me this article doesn't make any sense at all: the Applicat

Re: [osol-discuss] Using OpenSolaris as a security gateway

2010-01-05 Thread Anon Y Mous
I personally would not use OpenSolaris for a minimal firewall appliance because the OpenSolaris 2009.06 "Caimain" installer is very inflexible: It forces you to use DHCP (there's no way to set a static IP address set during the installation process- and you obviously don't want "network auto-mag

[osol-discuss] virt-manager hangs

2010-01-05 Thread Gaiseric Vandal
I am running Solaris Express Community Edition snv_127 X86. I am having promblems running virt-manager (the GUI XVM manager.) When I run virt-manager I get the following warning: Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module": ld.so.1: isapython2.4: fatal: libpk-gtk-module.so: open fail

Re: [osol-discuss] redirect "command --help" to file

2010-01-05 Thread Scott Rotondo
Sven Aluoor wrote: Hi folks [Please add me CC] How to redirect "command --help" to file? Why normal way doesn't work? keytool --help > /tmp/keytool The help text is written to stderr, not stdout. From sh or ksh, try keytool --help 2>/tmp/keytool instead. Scott -- Scot

[osol-discuss] redirect "command --help" to file

2010-01-05 Thread Sven Aluoor
Hi folks [Please add me CC] How to redirect "command --help" to file? Why normal way doesn't work? > keytool --help > /tmp/keytool or > keytool --help | tee /tmp/keytool keytool usage: [...] > cat /tmp/keytool [-providerClass [-providerArg ]] ... cheers Sven __

Re: [osol-discuss] Bugster CR 6889221 Intel IOMMU fix which helps M10 shutdown bug CR 6913815

2010-01-05 Thread andrew
> Hi, > > The fix is on track to make build 132 and 2010.02. > > I have checked this issue. The R600 does power off > but it takes a very long > time (approx 2-3 minutes). Cool - thanks for the update. Andrew. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] Trying 2009.06 on T42 laptop, can't get Samsung Ptr to work. Help?

2010-01-05 Thread Kim Wibbing
Hi all, Hoping someone can help with this. I went to the HCL pages and the T42 was listed as compatible for OpenSolaris, but I couldn't find anything on my printer which is a Samsung ML-1740 laser printer (cheap one from around 2005.) Is it possible to get it up and running? I tried the Mana

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-05 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Oh I agree, but I bet there's a lot of us who have > been using, live > upgrading, testing and providing feedback on SXCE > since it was a stroppy > teenager and haven't made the leap into the > OpenSolaris realm. It's > been too stable for its own good. > > -- > Ian. > Of course! I have

Re: [osol-discuss] Bugster CR 6889221 Intel IOMMU fix which helps M10 shutdown bug CR 6913815

2010-01-05 Thread Vikram Hegde
Hi, The fix is on track to make build 132 and 2010.02. I have checked this issue. The R600 does power off but it takes a very long time (approx 2-3 minutes). Vikram On Tuesday 05 January 2010 10:12:39 am andrew wrote: > The following comments were added to CR 6913815: > > This is a IOMMU rel

Re: [osol-discuss] build 130 nonsense

2010-01-05 Thread andrew
> On 01/ 5/10 06:12 AM, andrew wrote: > >> > >> On Jan 3, 2010, at 6:53 AM, andrew wrote: > >> > On 01/ 1/10 10:36 AM, andrew wrote: > > Sorry - my mistake. Still looking for ability > to > install from local files though. ;-) > > You can do that now as long as you're willin

[osol-discuss] Bugster CR 6889221 Intel IOMMU fix which helps M10 shutdown bug CR 6913815

2010-01-05 Thread andrew
The following comments were added to CR 6913815: This is a IOMMU related issue. It's a dup of 6884091 Portege R600 doesn't power all-the-way down after "poweroff" is uttered if IOMMU is enabled Vikram is having a fix for this via 6889221, so I'm closing this as a dup of 6889221 also. Can you t

Re: [osol-discuss] new member: documentation contributor

2010-01-05 Thread Calum Benson
On 22 Dec 2009, at 06:25, Vikram Dhillon wrote: > Hi all, >Hope everyone is doing good. I am currently writing documentation for > Ubuntu, Kubuntu, GNOME, KDE, Firefox and FreeBSD so I have some experience in > writing :D Now I would like to get started with documentation in OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Change Logs (or something similar) for dev releases?

2010-01-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joseph Mocker wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm curious if there is a good location that contains a list of changes, > enhancements, bug fixes, etc for each OpenSolaris dev release? > > The email that comes out on opensolaris-announce, as far as I can tell, > only includes IPS bugfixes, etc. > > I've a

[osol-discuss] Change Logs (or something similar) for dev releases?

2010-01-05 Thread Joseph Mocker
Hi Folks, I'm curious if there is a good location that contains a list of changes, enhancements, bug fixes, etc for each OpenSolaris dev release? The email that comes out on opensolaris-announce, as far as I can tell, only includes IPS bugfixes, etc. I've also found the "Flag Days" pages,

Re: [osol-discuss] build 130 nonsense

2010-01-05 Thread Dave Miner
On 01/ 5/10 06:12 AM, andrew wrote: On Jan 3, 2010, at 6:53 AM, andrew wrote: On 01/ 1/10 10:36 AM, andrew wrote: Sorry - my mistake. Still looking for ability to install from local files though. ;-) You can do that now as long as you're willing to run a depot server (which is a very ligh

Re: [osol-discuss] new vi [was: OpenSolaris, Solaris 10, SXCE, ....]

2010-01-05 Thread Claus Assmann
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010, Shawn Walker wrote: > I know this may not please some people, but which would you rather > have? A known buggy, unmaintained for years version of vi, or a > recent version of vim with vi compatibility? What about a 3rd choice: nvi (or vi from OpenBSD who updated their versi

[osol-discuss] Using OpenSolaris as a security gateway

2010-01-05 Thread carlopmart
Hi all, I need to deploy a new perimetral security infraestructure to install the following services: - High availability and load balacing firewalls - VPNs - IDS/IPS My first choice to install this scenario is to use openBSD, but will be possible to do this with opensolaris?? The mos i

Re: [osol-discuss] X problem fixed in build 131? (bug 13598)

2010-01-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Luca Morettoni wrote: > As reported in bug 13598[1] (opened by me) the changes in build 130 > introduce a bug related to DRM with Intel video card, any hope to see > that fixed in build 131? > > Thanks! > > [1] http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=13598 Since build 131 closed last ni

Re: [osol-discuss] Here's some more info for bugster CR 6913752

2010-01-05 Thread andrew
> > > > > andrew wrote: > cite="mid:1485805089.881262654193109.JavaMail.Twebapp > sf-app1" > type="cite"> > It doesn't have an option to use > external power, however I'm assuming I can power it > off a USB port on another PC. I'll give that a try > tomorrow. > I can tell you that the power

Re: [osol-discuss] PKG - dev repository

2010-01-05 Thread Brian Ruthven - Sun UK
This has been discussed before on this list (I don't have a reference handy , but google should be your friend here, and I think it was Nick Todd who posted it). From memory, the steps are something like this: beadm create snv-126 beadm mount snv-126 /mnt pkg install -R /mnt ent...@0.5.11,5.

Re: [osol-discuss] PKG - dev repository

2010-01-05 Thread Che Kristo
Not that I am aware of. You could just download that particular release as an ISO and install it... On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 21:51, Vinicius Segantin Viteri < vinicius.vit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I configured my repository to http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/ and > always that i use "pkg image

[osol-discuss] X problem fixed in build 131? (bug 13598)

2010-01-05 Thread Luca Morettoni
As reported in bug 13598[1] (opened by me) the changes in build 130 introduce a bug related to DRM with Intel video card, any hope to see that fixed in build 131? Thanks! [1] http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=13598 -- Luca Morettoni | OpenSolaris SCA #OS0344 Web/BLOG: http://ww

Re: [osol-discuss] build 130 nonsense

2010-01-05 Thread andrew
> > On Jan 3, 2010, at 6:53 AM, andrew wrote: > > >> On 01/ 1/10 10:36 AM, andrew wrote: > >>> Sorry - my mistake. Still looking for ability to > >> install from local files though. ;-) > >> > >> You can do that now as long as you're willing to > run > >> a depot server > >> (which is a very li

[osol-discuss] PKG - dev repository

2010-01-05 Thread Vinicius Segantin Viteri
Hi, I configured my repository to http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/ and always that i use "pkg image-update" the system is upgraded to the last version (snv_130 now). But i don't want the snv_130. Is there any configuration on pkg that i can set to upgrade the opensolaris snv_111 (release) to snv_12

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-05 Thread Ian Collins
Shawn Walker wrote: On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Ian Collins wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: Volker A. Brandt wrote: Happy new year every1! 130 is the final SXCE release planned though, as previously announced. Which is too bad, really. Maybe

Re: [osol-discuss] Here's some more info for bugster CR 6913752

2010-01-05 Thread Brian Ruthven - Sun UK
andrew wrote: It doesn't have an option to use external power, however I'm assuming I can power it off a USB port on another PC. I'll give that a try tomorrow. I can tell you that the power is shut off to the USB port since the eSATA enclosure has a blue light that is illuminated when power

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris, Solaris 10, SXCE, Indiana: which to use for a developer?

2010-01-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker wrote: > The vi that was previously delivered was replaced with vim's vi compatibility > mode. The reason? The vi traditionally delivered with Solaris is > essentially completely unmaintained. As has been discussed before, much of > the Solaris userland is being obsoleted, drop

Re: [osol-discuss] Syslog-ng?

2010-01-05 Thread Predrag Zecevic
I was able to compile and install it using http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/ a) Install SFE environment and build pkgtool and cd /path/to/build/of/packages/spec-files-extra.2009116 b) pkgtool build-only --svr4 --download --autodeps --interactive SFEeventlog.spec (build-only, because installation

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

2010-01-05 Thread Jeroen Pouwiel
Hi Masa, Thx for responding: I have used netperf, here's the ouput: jer...@ex58ud501:~/Downloads/netperf-2.4.5/src# ./netperf TCP STREAM TEST from :::0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to ex58ud501 (127.0.0.1) port 0 AF_INET Recv SendSend Socket Socket Message

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-05 Thread Shawn Walker
On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Volker A. Brandt wrote: >> >>> Happy new year every1! >>> >>> >>> 130 is the final SXCE release planned though, as previously announced. >>> Which is too bad, really. Maybe the infrastructure to b

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris, Solaris 10, SXCE, Indiana: which to use for a developer?

2010-01-05 Thread Shawn Walker
On Jan 2, 2010, at 1:03 PM, Claus Assmann wrote: > On Sat, Jan 02, 2010, Jürgen Keil wrote: > [OpenSolaris Indiana: GNU?] > >> Well, it does have both the gnu utilities (/usr/gnu/bin) >> and the solaris counterparts, and in the default setup >> the /usr/gnu/bin directory is ahead of /usr/bin i

Re: [osol-discuss] build 130 nonsense

2010-01-05 Thread Shawn Walker
On Jan 3, 2010, at 6:53 AM, andrew wrote: >> On 01/ 1/10 10:36 AM, andrew wrote: >>> Sorry - my mistake. Still looking for ability to >> install from local files though. ;-) >> >> You can do that now as long as you're willing to run >> a depot server >> (which is a very light-weight easy to sta