Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-03 Thread Edward Martinez
> Hi, > > I. The > Linux market on the other hand is becoming very over > loaded with folks and servers. What that means at the > end of the day is lower profit margins for vendors > and lower wages for workers. Seems like times have changed. Linux professionals are currently in high demand and

Re: [osol-discuss] The Case of The Missing Drive

2010-06-03 Thread Bryan Horstmann-Allen
+-- | On 2010-06-02 16:13:13, Andrew Greimann wrote: | | When I "ls /dev" from the terminal, I get a zillion lines. I'm aware from reading a post or two Solaris works with "drive slices" but what in the world is a drive

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-03 Thread Edward Martinez
> On 06/ 1/10 11:59 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: > > I just read AMD opterons and Linux is powering the > worlds fastest supercomputer. If the x86 platform and > Linux now has the capacity to produce this type of > results, where does this leave Power and SPARC > platfroms? > > > http://www.market

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-03 Thread Владимир Новосельцев
03.06.2010 14:01, Edward Martinez пишет: On 06/ 1/10 11:59 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: I just read AMD opterons and Linux is powering the worlds fastest supercomputer. If the x86 platform and Linux now has the capacity to produce this type of results, where does this leave Power

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-03 Thread bsd
"Matrurity of Linux" That is a funny mix of words, and certainly not how I would conjoin them. Consider SLES9 was released only a few years ago, yet with an ext3 filessytem you cannot grow it online! In AIX 3.2, circa 1995, you could grow a filesystem online. A supposedly modern operating sy

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-03 Thread Bruno Sousa
Well, despite i agree with you to a certain degree don't you think you are being a little bit "unbalanced" towards IBM tech? Despite the fact that Linux does indeed lacks some things, it also provides quite a huge amount of enterprise features but for a fraction of the price of AIX. It's like havi

Re: [osol-discuss] The Case of The Missing Drive

2010-06-03 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Thank you paul for this great explanation. Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® -Original Message- From: Paul Gress Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:50:31 To: Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] The Case of The Missing Drive ___ opensolaris-d

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-03 Thread Edward Martinez
> 03.06.2010 14:01, Edward Martinez пишет: > >> On 06/ 1/10 11:59 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: > >> > >>> I just read AMD opterons and Linux is powering > the > >>> > >> worlds fastest supercomputer. If the x86 platform > and > >> Linux now has the capacity to produce this type > of >

[osol-discuss] How to set NFS permissions

2010-06-03 Thread Duncan Groenewald
Hi, I have a ZFS share but am unable to access the share from a Windows PC. The windows PC mounts the share but indicates No Access. I can't find any useful information on how to grant access to an NFS share. Any ideas on how to give a user on a WIndows PC access to the NFS share. They don'

Re: [osol-discuss] How to set NFS permissions

2010-06-03 Thread Edward Martinez
> Hi, I have a ZFS share but am unable to access the > share from a Windows PC. The windows PC mounts the > share but indicates No Access. > > I can't find any useful information on how to grant > access to an NFS share. Any ideas on how to give a > user on a WIndows PC access to the NFS share.

Re: [osol-discuss] How to set NFS permissions

2010-06-03 Thread Duncan Groenewald
Thanks, yes I have the Windows NFSClient installed and the share gets mounted correctly. Just unable to access the files on the share - presumably because some permissions need to be set on the server side. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-03 Thread bsd
IBM has released AIX 6.1 with three different price levels: express edition, standard edition, and enterprise edition. The express edition costs $300 per core. Three hundred per core with the features available, GLVM, KSPK, Kernel Recovery, etc.; it is more bang-for-the-buck than you would ge

Re: [osol-discuss] How to set NFS permissions

2010-06-03 Thread Edward Martinez
> Thanks, yes I have the Windows NFSClient installed > and the share gets mounted correctly. Just unable to > access the files on the share - presumably because > some permissions need to be set on the server side. Then I think "sharectl" command needs to be used along with "sharemgr" i can be w

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-03 Thread Edward Martinez
> IBM has released AIX 6.1 with three different price > levels: express edition, standard edition, and > enterprise edition. The express edition costs $300 > per core. > > Three hundred per core with the features available, > GLVM, KSPK, Kernel Recovery, etc.; it is more > bang-for-the-buck than

Re: [osol-discuss] How to set NFS permissions

2010-06-03 Thread Duncan Groenewald
The NFS share is already set up and works fine from my Macbook, just not from the Windows PC. But the the Macbook is running UNIX and the user ID is the same as the user id on the opensolaris server. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ ope

Re: [osol-discuss] How to set NFS permissions

2010-06-03 Thread Edward Martinez
> The NFS share is already set up and works fine from > my Macbook, just not from the Windows PC. But the > the Macbook is running UNIX and the user ID is the > same as the user id on the opensolaris server. If it's works with other UNIX then I the think something may be wrong on the windows sid

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-03 Thread Uros Nedic
The ark has been developed by the men led by God's hands, hasn't it?Professional above all professionals! (no irony, no sarcasm) The main fact is that at some point during development you experiencevery high challenges due to mistakes you made during the early timesof design and development whe

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-03 Thread Svein Skogen
On 03.06.2010 14:54, bsd wrote: > IBM has released AIX 6.1 with three different price levels: express edition, > standard edition, and enterprise edition. The express edition costs $300 per > core. And how well does AIX run on hardware with no RS6000 or PowerPC processor? //Svein -- ---

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?

2010-06-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Gerdts writes: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: > >> All that said, I'm still a little mystified as to why the "normal" >> development builds are being held back. > > Could it be because "pkg image update" is known to work pretty well > going forward (b134 -> b134b) but

Re: [osol-discuss] How to set NFS permissions

2010-06-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Duncan Groenewald writes: > The NFS share is already set up and works fine from my Macbook, just > not from the Windows PC. But the the Macbook is running UNIX and > the user ID is the same as the user id on the opensolaris server. I think you were on the right track wondering if smb would not

[osol-discuss] Missing partition on opensolaris: help?

2010-06-03 Thread Andrew Greimann
Sorry I've replied to the post late! Thank you for the help so far! I'll work with the terminal using the commands you've supplied and get back to you shortly. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?

2010-06-03 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mike Gerdts writes: > >> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: >> >>> All that said, I'm still a little mystified as to why the "normal" >>> development builds are being held back. >> >> Could it be because "pkg image update" i

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-03 Thread Edward Martinez
The ark has been developed by the men led by God's hands, hasn't it? Professional above all professionals! (no irony, no sarcasm) Since bsdfan in the comment before mine describe AIx as a

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?

2010-06-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Gerdts writes: > Good starting points are: > > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+indiana/building_on > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/downloads#HBuildingOpenSolaris Thanks .. great clues. I noticed at the first URL the author made the mistake often made, that everyone i

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-03 Thread bsd
Part of AIX's strength is that is runs on dedicated hardware, so what you ask means nothing. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-03 Thread Erik Trimble
On 6/3/2010 5:06 AM, Edward Martinez wrote: 03.06.2010 14:01, Edward Martinez пишет: On 06/ 1/10 11:59 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: I just read AMD opterons and Linux is powering the worlds fastest supercomputer. If the x86 platform an

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-03 Thread Erik Trimble
On 6/3/2010 11:45 AM, bsd wrote: Part of AIX's strength is that is runs on dedicated hardware, so what you ask means nothing. Not so much that it runs on "dedicated" hardware, but that it runs on *well-designed* hardware. You can build *well-designed* hardware with commodity parts, but

[osol-discuss] Missing partition on opensolaris: help?

2010-06-03 Thread Andrew Greimann
Thanks for the commands and support so far. The only issue is that when I type the commands you had specified, and...@netbook:~# rmformat Looking for devices... No removables found. and...@netbook:~# format Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c8d0 /p...@0,

Re: [osol-discuss] Missing partition on opensolaris: help?

2010-06-03 Thread Keith Mitchell
The output of format shows disks, not partitions. Run: fdisk /dev/rdsk/c8d0p0 You should see the defined partitions there. The first partition maps to: /dev/rdsk/c8d0p1, the second to p2, etc. - Keith On 06/ 3/10 02:04 PM, Andrew Greimann wrote: Thanks for the commands and support so far.

[osol-discuss] Missing partition on opensolaris: help?

2010-06-03 Thread Andrew Greimann
Thanks, everyone! I have a *small* understanding now of OpenSolaris disks! The disk is now mounted and I used ls -l to list it by mount point when I finished mapping it out. (In case anyone was wondering, I originally wrote moron in one sentence. The blog five-starred it when I reviewed the blo

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-03 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jun 3, 2010, at 4:19 AM, bsd wrote: > "Matrurity of Linux" > > That is a funny mix of words, and certainly not how I would conjoin them. > Consider SLES9 was released only a few years ago, yet with an ext3 filessytem > you cannot grow it online! In AIX 3.2, circa 1995, you could grow a >

[osol-discuss] Opensolaris roadmap

2010-06-03 Thread Steve
Greetings, I've been reading a lot of the threads on here about the future of opensolaris, and it seems that there *might* be a future, depending on whose post you read. While I truly hope for that, I would like a definitive answer, or at least one I could work off of in the future. Right

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris roadmap

2010-06-03 Thread ken mays
Steve, Oracle's account managers handle this sort of thing. The other solution is talk to someone like Nexenta. Now ensure you understand is that somone like Oracle may look at 'best tool for the job' so what is 'under the hood' may or may not be what you expect. ~ Ken Mays --- On Thu, 6/3/

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris roadmap

2010-06-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Steve wrote: > Greetings, > >I've been reading a lot of the threads on here about the future of > opensolaris, and it seems that there *might* be a future, depending on whose > post you read. While I truly hope for that, I would like a definitive answer, > or at least one I could work off o

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris roadmap

2010-06-03 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Hi steve, my two cents on the matter...opensolaris is here to stay as future builds are developed and OS surpasses its current level of maturity. I think it will be foolish for Oracle to terminated the project since a great deal of their OS revenue is coming from Opensolaris and their enterprise

Re: [osol-discuss] How to set NFS permissions

2010-06-03 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Hi edward, try checking the permissions and the folder/file ownership. I am almost certain something is wrong along those lines. Take care. Lisandro --Original Message-- From: Edward Martinez Sender: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subje

Re: [osol-discuss] How to set NFS permissions

2010-06-03 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Hi duncan, since you are having issues with NFS and your windows file sharing setting...looking into samba and smb would be a great option since it supports better integration with the windows environment. Can you tell us what are you using for authentication...LDAP, pam,files or active director

[osol-discuss] How much opensolaris is sun/oracle, and how much community?

2010-06-03 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
I know there's no realistic quantitative measurement. But even "gut feel" of some people who are regularly active in the code would be interesting knowledge. Roughly what percentage of solaris/opensolaris codebase is developed by sun/oracle employees, and what percentage is contributed by the

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris roadmap

2010-06-03 Thread Alexander
There are a lot of options for data storage. In my mind, ideal solution is EMC Clarion (i really like it:)) or some other specialized hardware & soft. For self-build soft I would look at FreeBSD or some specialized solution like FreeBSD-based FreeNAS (http://freenas.org/) or OpenSolaris-based

Re: [osol-discuss] How to set NFS permissions

2010-06-03 Thread Duncan Groenewald
Thanks, I'll try the permissions thing first and then just share via SMB as well. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] How to set NFS permissions

2010-06-03 Thread Duncan Groenewald
To many questions... Authentication - nothing. I struggled to find any information of how NFS access control works. For some reason the NFS shares are accessible from the Macs but not from the Windows PC. I very much suspect its something to do with permissions on the file. I have no LDAP