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 start/run

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 in $PATH.

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 build SXCE can be kept in

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

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] OpenSolaris, Solaris 10, SXCE, Indiana: which to use for a developer?

2010-01-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org 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

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] 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

[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

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 light-weight easy to

[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 luca(AT)morettoni.net | OpenSolaris SCA

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

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

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

2010-01-05 Thread andrew
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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 night

[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

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 version

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

[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] 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 also

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,

[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

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 willing to run a depot server (which

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

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 been

[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

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] 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 provider_class_name [-providerArg arg]] ... cheers Sven

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 -- Scott

[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

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-magic

[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

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.

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 levels of