[osol-discuss] limit number of sftp/scp sessions

2007-04-10 Thread Ben
I'm looking for a way to limit the number of authenticated sftp/scp sessions that are allowed to connect to my box. I've searched the sunsolve forums and docs.sun.com, but I'm not seeing any config that would give me the ability to limit active sessions. Does something like this exist? This i

[osol-discuss] Re: limit number of sftp/scp sessions

2007-04-11 Thread Ben
We actually have this issue in Solaris 10 as well, we just don't have to address it yet. So can this be solved in Solaris 10? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: limit number of sftp/scp sessions

2007-04-16 Thread Ben
Since all these services are derivatives of ssh, then ideally I'd like to limit ssh, and I have a workaround for ssh. I can limit ssh sessions by limiting the number of ptys in /etc/system. Am I missing some way to limit ssh as a whole? This message posted from opensolaris.org _

[osol-discuss] Re: limit number of sftp/scp sessions

2007-04-17 Thread Ben
We currently use ssh in our system and are investigating ways to fulfill an Application STIG requirement. Here's the req APP0530:Session limits do not exist for the application. Its actually a checklist item to determine if you have a security finding. That's why it looks like a negat

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org vs Opensolaris.com

2010-02-08 Thread Ben
I've always felt that .org is meant for both developers and experts who want to discuss and ask for detailed help on topics, whereas .com is meant for your average user experiencing some problems. .org is where developers and admins help each other out. .com is where users help each other out..

[osol-discuss] Contributing code?

2010-02-08 Thread Ben
7;ve made a change, what do I do to submit the change? Many thanks, I'd love to start helping out :) Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributing code?

2010-02-09 Thread Ben
> Yeah, yeah, I know. "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs > are shallow..." etcetera. But I would say it's rather > complex to just dive into the Solaris code if you're > not a rather experienced coder. I'm not looking at coding, but does all of the code conform to a standard coding spec? Are [i]al

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributing code?

2010-02-09 Thread Ben
Many thanks Shawn :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] When OpenSolaris 2010.3 will release?

2010-03-02 Thread Ben
Is there any news on the 2010.03 release? I thought it was slated for yesterday (1st March) having already slipped by a month... Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] When OpenSolaris 2010.3 will release?

2010-03-02 Thread Ben
Ha ha! Apologies, I didn't see that. I thought that the beginning of the month would have been a nice idea. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] NIS not working on 2009.06?

2010-03-10 Thread Ben
NIS clients... The master and clients are all running OpenSolaris 2009.06 with no updates, and I'm currently running them in VirtualBox 3.1.2 (3.1.4 causes problems on my machine) and they all have bridged networks through the same physical NIC. Any ideas? Many, many thanks, Ben -- This

Re: [osol-discuss] study for Solaris admin certifications

2010-03-28 Thread Ben
When I took the certification last year it was mainly Solaris related. Personally, I wouldn't give a certification any credit...One of the questions was: On what Solaris 10 installation disk can you find the SUNWvts package? But as I said, if you do want to pursue it, it's probably only Solari

Re: [osol-discuss] A statement for defending OpenSolaris

2010-03-29 Thread Ben
e the product and would choose it myself over many other platforms. Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] An idea for spreading the word

2010-03-30 Thread Ben
IMO, SMF is a HUGE plus for OpenSolaris too, I always mention it when talking about the OS. It really simplifies things after getting your head around the manifests, and it really brings UNIX into the 21st century, it's great to see (Open)Solaris achieving that. -- This message posted from ope

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-14 Thread Ben
being made public sounds encouraging, it could be that 2010.04 is on it's way! For everyone else, I've found that people in the Indiana board seem to give better answers as to what the show-stoppers are. I would presume this is because they a

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-14 Thread Ben
> Slightly tangential, but it sounds like the Glassfish > community found > themselves in a similar situation recently. However, > Oracle just > released a roadmap that covers the future of both > their commercial and > open source offering > > I have no insight into whether Oracle will be doi

[osol-discuss] build fails from fresh install?

2010-06-21 Thread Ben
Hi all, and thanks in advance for any help!! Appologies if this is the wrong forum. I installed a fresh copy of OpenSolaris, from the blastwave b134 LiveCD(because update to b134 from 2009.06 doesn't work). I installed the compilers, and onbld per instructions, and set up the sources, cloned

Re: [osol-discuss] build fails from fresh install?

2010-06-22 Thread Ben
Hi! Thanks for the tip. I had read that elsewhere too. Installing the Perl 5.10 and extras worked... That is, the build mail at least reported "completed", the packages built, and I was able to update and boot my server from the results. But, there are still all sorts of errors in the mail t

Re: [osol-discuss] Mounted nfs share - client root cannot write to it.

2010-06-23 Thread Ben
Hi tpaktop, >From my understanding, you have to make sure that the folder you are sharing >has the relevant permissions. Is the folder owned by Staff? Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opens

Re: [osol-discuss] So who is ready to be let down?

2010-06-28 Thread Ben
I feel I have seen similar language and behaviour when people have kicked off on many different forums, especially Linux forums, how dare you say anything bad about their Linux distro! (to mention a few: Ubuntu, Suse, Debian, Gentoo) The problem is that we are all fed up with waiting, and we are

Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-07-06 Thread Ben
While OpenSolaris isn't an open source project, isn't Indiana an open source project? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] OpenGL, QT 4.5.0, and GCC 4.3.3 issues

2009-03-25 Thread Ben
cc version 4.3.3 (GCC) i...@decepticon:~$ ld -v GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.19 Thanks in advance and any ideas would be appreciated. Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris + fold...@home (FAH)

2009-04-25 Thread Ben
much appreciate you sharing it :) Many thanks, Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread Ben
Love the sound of this project! If there is a fork in the future, do we think that we can just point our installs to the Illumos repo and do `pkg image-update`? Or am I missing the point somewhat? Whatever happens, good luck to you guys! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] Revenge of the Unkillable Process

2007-03-09 Thread Ben Rockwood
I brought up a similar issue some time back (http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=20355) which pertained to ligHTTPd. A fix on that issue has been integrated into snv_57, however, I'm seeing a similar situation with other applications include Mongrel and Apache and uncertain as

Re: [osol-discuss] Revenge of the Unkillable Process

2007-03-10 Thread Ben Rockwood
Dennis Clarke wrote: Ben, I'm reading this and calling up Cory Omand also who is the resident Apache2 guru here at Blastwave. We know that the worker model has been tweaked here to cooincide with work from the CoolStack. I am sure that Stefan Teleman will also have some insights. Regar

Re: [osol-discuss] Why should I vote for you?

2007-03-13 Thread Ben Rockwood
Martin Bochnig wrote: Jim Grisanzio wrote: Glynn Foster wrote On 03/09/07 10:58,: Hi, Even though I'm a candidate, there's one overriding question that a lot of candidates haven't answered since they've produced absolutely no content other than accepting their nomination. Why should I

[osol-discuss] Re: Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Ben Taylor
> The ARC Cases for the WebStack NG Project have been > submitted for review (and hopefully approval), and i would > like to ask our community's input regarding two important > questions which have come up during our discussions: > > 1. Should the initial components released for this projec

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE Build 61 available

2007-04-04 Thread Ben Rockwood
Derek Cicero wrote: Please find the links to SXCE Build 61 at . Helloo CPU Caps! A big congrats to everyone who works on CPU-Caps and especially Alexander Kolbasov, *Andrei Dorofeev, and **Jonathan Chew*. Awesome job all! All we're mi

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-09 Thread Ben Rockwood
Marc Hamilton wrote: Hi, I wanted to introduce myself to the OpenSolaris community. Some of you might know me from my previous roles at Sun, or from my blog, but starting today I'll be leading up Sun's Solaris marketing efforts, including OpenSolaris marketing. The first thing I want to do is

[osol-discuss] Re: Installing Firefox using Blastwave Breaks System

2007-04-25 Thread Ben Taylor
efault path have you? No, but he probably has /opt/csw/bin in front of the default /usr/bin path. Could we do something like "rm -rf /" for LD_LIBRARY_PATH? :-) Ben This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-11 Thread Ben Taylor
> James C. McPherson wrote: > > frank wang wrote: > >> Sun will keep two universes, 1 is "Linux" alike, > >> the other "Solaris" alike. User can just pick what > >> they like or are familiar with. But it > >> can't replace the efforts to scale the train > >> coverage on everyting about > >> Solari

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-11 Thread Ben Taylor
> James C. McPherson wrote: > > frank wang wrote: > >> Sun will keep two universes, 1 is "Linux" alike, > >> the other "Solaris" alike. User can just pick what > >> they like or are familiar with. But it > >> can't replace the efforts to scale the train > >> coverage on everyting about > >> Solari

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-11 Thread Ben Taylor
> > Course, it would help if there was a locate command on Solaris, > > Dear Sir, > if you need to use the `locate` command to find > something, you have a MUCH bigger problem. Dude I know more ways to find stuff than I can count. I'm only recanting the whines from folks who claim that more tha

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-13 Thread Ben Taylor
> > Oh, you mean I shouldn't compile any of my own code > > on my own system cause I might have to rm -rf it instead of > > builiding a package every time. I'm really sure the new > > users we are catering too are just *gonna* love that. > > Course, packaging for Solaris is quite a bit of mag

[osol-discuss] REMINDER: OpenSolaris Picnic in Sunnyvale Tomorow!

2007-06-15 Thread Ben Rockwood
Just a friendly reminder to everyone. We're having the first annual OpenSolaris Community Picnic tomorrow at Baylands Park in Sunnyvale! Get details on the event at http://cuddletech.com/tamr/ in Tamarah's blog. If you want to register for the event (most people aren't) visit http://upcoming

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS with ISCSI on x86

2007-07-03 Thread Ben Rockwood
Dick Davies wrote: > On 03/07/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Either you wait until this stuff is backported to Solaris 10, which is 6 >> months at a minimum, or you download the source code and compile and package >> the stuff yourself. >> > > It's in update4, that's out

Re: [osol-discuss] MS Windows 2003 to Solaris 10 ISCSI

2007-08-16 Thread Ben Rockwood
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 17:44 +1200, Ian Collins wrote: > >> Curt Mills wrote: >> >>> So we created an ISCSI target on our Solaris box and are now having >>> >> trouble connecting to it from Windows 2003, Windows Vista, or Windows >> XP when the target is great

Re: [osol-discuss] open solaris for me?

2005-09-03 Thread Ben Rockwood
shea martin wrote: I have an Ultra 10, which I use for my personal webserver box, and some hobby OSS development. It currently runs Solaris 10, but I am thinking of swithing it over to OpenSolaris so that I can have access to Sun Studio 10 compilers, but I have some questions. You need to b

Re: [osol-discuss] Porting ReiserFS to Solaris?

2005-09-04 Thread Ben Rockwood
Shawn is right, ReiserFS is not the de facto standard for any Linux distro that I know of, and based on what I'm seeing and hearing it perhaps never will be. ReiserFS _was_ in a possition to take over the reigns of power from ext2 when ext3 was pretty new and suffering some issues several year

Re: [osol-discuss] Porting ReiserFS to Solaris?

2005-09-04 Thread Ben Rockwood
Christoph Hellwig wrote: You don't seem to have any expertise about linux filesystems, and what you're writing is both totally offtopic here and completely wrong. Please let this sub-thread die. Since you are the expert why don't you give us some details on where we're wrong? [1] My observ

Re: [osol-discuss] Porting ReiserFS to Solaris?

2005-09-04 Thread Ben Rockwood
Kool. Thanks Christoph. :) benr. Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:35:54PM -0700, Ben Rockwood wrote: Christoph Hellwig wrote: You don't seem to have any expertise about linux filesystems, and what you're writing is both totally offtopic here and comple

[osol-discuss] PlanetSolaris and PlanetSun

2005-09-10 Thread Ben Rockwood
Does anyone know whats up with PlanetSolaris and PlanetSun? Both are redirected to gbnet.net. Looks like perhaps a bill didn't get paid. I don't recall who owned the sites (sorry) but they were of great use and if there is a hosting problem I'd like to help out. benr. __

Re: [osol-discuss] PlanetSolaris and PlanetSun

2005-09-11 Thread Ben Rockwood
Great. Thanks guys. Without PlanetSolaris blogs would eat up twice as much time as they already do. :) benr. Simon Phipps wrote: I checked with Dave Edmondson and he told me there had been a DNS outage at his ISP - all fixed now. S. On Sep 11, 2005, at 07:36, Ben Rockwood wrote: Does

Re: [osol-discuss] Informix database

2005-09-25 Thread Ben Rockwood
Mike Menache wrote: Has anyone successfully compiled an Informix database on OpenSolaris successfully? I don't know of anyone running Informix on OpenSolaris, and the 90 day trial of Informix IDS is for Windows, Linux, and AIX only. But, if it runs on Solaris10 it should run on OpenSolaris

[osol-discuss] Fibre Channel on x86

2005-10-05 Thread Ben Rockwood
Does anyone have or know of a complete list of Fibre Channel HBAs that are supported on Solaris10 /X86? Looks like none of the common older (read: cheap) HBAs have support (Tachyon and QLA2100's), some of the Emulex do, I think some of the JNI's. A complete list would be useful. I can scrape

Re: [osol-discuss] Fibre Channel on x86

2005-10-05 Thread Ben Rockwood
Al Hopper wrote: On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Ben Rockwood wrote: Does anyone have or know of a complete list of Fibre Channel HBAs that are supported on Solaris10 /X86? Looks like none of the common older (read: cheap) HBAs have support (Tachyon and QLA2100's), some of the Emulex do, I think

Re: [osol-discuss] Fibre Channel on x86

2005-10-05 Thread Ben Rockwood
Cyril Plisko wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 12:58 -0700, Ben Rockwood wrote: Does anyone have or know of a complete list of Fibre Channel HBAs that are supported on Solaris10 /X86? Looks like none of the common older (read: cheap) HBAs have support (Tachyon and QLA2100's), some o

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris rsync

2005-10-25 Thread Ben Rockwood
What are our prospects of making OpenSolaris distributables avalible to mirrors via Rsync? Right now the reason Genunix updates are taking so long is because of the time involved; due to the monster URLs used by SDC I'm having to download each file manually via a browser, then upload to genunix

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris and the Helix (RealPlayer) Community

2005-10-26 Thread Ben Rockwood
Last night at the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris Users Group meeting we had a very special treat, Scott Nelson (Dir. of Business Development, Helix Community from Real Networks) spoke to us about Real, the Helix Community, and answered questions regarding Solaris development efforts. At this meeti

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 book?

2005-10-26 Thread Ben Rockwood
Carlos wrote: Does anyone.. and i mean anyone have a book they would recommend for a person new to Solaris 10? I have searched but could not find any books that cover the newer features of 10. I was thinking of just settling for a Solaris 9 book to bridge the gap until i can find something o

[osol-discuss] Geunix Mirror Updated

2005-11-05 Thread Ben Rockwood
Genunix is mirroring B26 now. Also, FYI, Genunix is also mirroring SchilliX and BeleniX. We plan to be mirroring Nexenta shortly as well. benr. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Genunix Nexenta Mirror

2005-11-07 Thread Ben Rockwood
Fast mirror is up: http://www.genunix.org/distributions/gnusolaris/ Both images (LiveCD and Install) are there. benr. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Fun Bay Area OpenSolaris Opportunity

2005-12-18 Thread Ben Rockwood
Thursday night, after I presented at Bay Lisa, the President of LinuxCertified, Inc (www.linuxcertified.com) came up to me about the possibility for his company to get involved with OpenSolaris. Along with education (as implied by the name) they also sell Linux "Workstation Replacement" laptop

Re: [osol-discuss] Fun Bay Area OpenSolaris Opportunity

2005-12-20 Thread Ben Rockwood
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Sunday 18 December 2005 03:19 pm, Ben Rockwood wrote: Thursday night, after I presented at Bay Lisa... I brainfarted and missed it. You did mention to me you were doing this, but didn't announce it that week or anything...:-( Oh well... I didn't

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris X86/Amd64 and chipsets

2006-01-01 Thread Ben Rockwood
Lars Tunkrans wrote: Hi, It seems to me that a lot of traffic in different discussion forums suffers from the fact that there is a lack of detail in the available info as to which chip-sets are actually supported by Solaris. Lots of people buy or try PC hardware and get it w

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris X86/Amd64 and chipsets

2006-01-04 Thread Ben Rockwood
Lars Tunkrans wrote: Ben Rockwood wrote: You said it, the HCL is the answer. The problem is that not enough of us (myself included) are actually contributing enough to it. If we'd all pitch in it'd be a much more useful resource. While the HCL may have some limits, I don'

Re: [osol-discuss] Idea for Sysadmin community for OpenSolaris

2006-01-05 Thread Ben Rockwood
Octave Orgeron wrote: Hi Everyone, I think there should be a community on the OpenSolaris site for sysadmins to join. It should be focused on the following: 1. Enhance OpenSolaris to be easier to deloy and manage. 2. Help direct efforts for the manageability of OpenSolaris(Webmin, N1 Systems M

[osol-discuss] Next Sol Express community edition?

2006-01-12 Thread Ben Miller
Will there be Solaris Express Community edition ISOs of b30 put up? It looks like b28 is still currently up. If not what build will the next Community edition be and what determines which build ISOs are put up for? thanks, Ben This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] New Community Proposal: Naming Services

2006-01-20 Thread Ben Rockwood
Anup Sekhar wrote: The Network Repository team would like to propose a "Naming Services" community dealing with our codebase. We are primarily responsible for developing and maintaining naming and directory services and fit under the umbrella of approachability and interoperability. These includ

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
Jim Grisanzio wrote: Here is a proposal to form a project to produce article content for opensolaris.org. OpenSolaris Articles Project Community members have been asking if they can write articles for opensolaris.org and what the process would be to produce those articles. Yes, we'd love th

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
Alan DuBoff wrote: On Monday 23 January 2006 02:44 pm, Jim Grisanzio wrote: I'll look at BigAdmin for this and for any overlap (and for borrowing of any ideas, too). Jim, What you'll find is that the bigadmin folks want to control any and all content on the site, and that content pu

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
To be formal Speaking on behalf of myself, with the honorable Docs community in mind, I do hereby Second the proposal forwarded by Mr Grisanzio from the Great State of California. Great idea Jim. This is something the docs community has wanted very much to do but the rubber hadn't quite

Re: [osol-discuss] X4200 + build 28/30?

2006-01-25 Thread Ben Rockwood
Rich Teer wrote: Hi all, I'm having problems (SCSI timeouts) installing SXCE on my X4200. I've tried builds 28 and 30 without any success (will try Solaris 10 1/06 later tonight), so as a sanity check I thought I'd check here to make sure that there are no known problems. I haven't tried Ope

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenGrok Firefox toolbar

2006-01-28 Thread Ben Rockwood
Stephen Lau wrote: The OpenGrok Firefox toolbar extension is now up for download in the OpenGrok Files section: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/opengrok/files/ This is a fairly simple toolbar that is just a quick interface to searching cvs.opensolaris.org and bugs.opensolaris.org. It sho

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenGrok Firefox toolbar

2006-01-28 Thread Ben Rockwood
Stephen Lau wrote: The OpenGrok Firefox toolbar extension is now up for download in the OpenGrok Files section: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/opengrok/files/ This is a fairly simple toolbar that is just a quick interface to searching cvs.opensolaris.org and bugs.opensolaris.org. Just

Re: [osol-discuss] Another delay in release cycle ?

2006-01-30 Thread Ben Rockwood
Dennis Clarke wrote: On 1/30/06, Cyril Plisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any ideas why there is no source drop for b32 and no ISOs for b31/b32 ? I was thinking the same. In any case .. I have a new mirror site ready to go .. I think I will post that just as soon as all is synced up.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Jonathan Schwartz and OpenSolaris & GPLv3

2006-01-31 Thread Ben Rockwood
UNIX admin wrote: I always take what Jonathan writes about with a pinch of salt. To be sure, the man's got some great ideas and he's got some vision. But unfortunately, he's becoming more of a marketeer then he ever was before, in the most negative sense. That's such a pity. Sure, one should

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: genunix wiki online

2006-02-12 Thread Ben Rockwood
John Brewer wrote: http://wiki.opensolaris.org is not found when I try to open it up, as of this morning ! The real address is www.genunix.org/wiki/. A redirect from wiki.opensolaris.org may be avalible in the future but isn't currently. benr. _

[osol-discuss] Seeking an OpenSolaris Celeb

2006-02-14 Thread Ben Rockwood
Hello All, The OpenSolaris Project is a monster of a project. By my count we've got 38 communities, 5 projects, 93 mailing lists (many of those are the OSUG lists), and hundreds of blogs. This is absolutely no way to stay informed about whats happening in the project, and where people are

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Seeking an OpenSolaris Celeb

2006-02-15 Thread Ben Rockwood
Jim Grisanzio wrote: Hello All, The OpenSolaris Project is a monster of a project. t. By my count we've got 38 communities, 5 projects, 93 mailing lists (many of those are the OSUG lists), and hundreds of blogs. This is absolutely no way to stay informed about whats happening in the projec

Re: [osol-discuss] Bi-weekly roll-up report experiment (Was: Seeking an OpenSolaris Celeb)

2006-02-15 Thread Ben Rockwood
Very nice indeed! Highly complementary. This sort of data definate answers the age old questions "Where is everyone?" very well. The data would need to be generated on a weekly basis though, any longer than 1 week and the data isn't terrably useful because all the discussions are too old to

Re: [osol-discuss] Bi-weekly roll-up report experiment (Was: Seeking an OpenSolaris Celeb)

2006-02-16 Thread Ben Rockwood
Eric Boutilier wrote: This sort of data definate answers the age old questions "Where is everyone?" very well. The data would need to be generated on a weekly basis though, any longer than 1 week and the data isn't terrably useful because all the discussions are too old to get involved in, and

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: ZFS Cryptographic Support

2006-02-16 Thread Ben Rockwood
Darren J Moffat wrote: I'd like to add a project as part of the ZFS community for adding encryption support to ZFS. It would also be affiliated with the security community. The project will cover the architecture, design and implementation of encryption support for ZFS and the key management.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NWAM project proposal

2006-02-16 Thread Ben Rockwood
John Beck wrote: Michael> Network Automagic Michael> (http://opensolaris.org/os/community/approachability/nwam/) has Michael> been working as part of the approachability community for a while. Michael> Recently we put out ... the first revision of our architecture. Michael> We are interested in

Re: [osol-discuss] AMD 64 X2 processor support

2006-02-20 Thread Ben Rockwood
Ken wrote: anyone have experience using solaris 10 with the amd 64 x2 processors? I am looking to build a rather cheap low end server. TIA Yes. ;) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ psrinfo -vp The physical processor has 2 virtual processors (0 1) x86 (chipid 0x0 AuthenticAMD family 15 model 43 step 1

Re: [osol-discuss] NexentaOS (elatte) Alpha 3 released

2006-02-22 Thread Ben Rockwood
Nexenta Alpha3 is also available from Genunix: http://www.genunix.org/distributions/gnusolaris/index.html Great work on the distro guys! benr. Alex Ross wrote: NexentaOS (elatte) Alpha 3 is now available for download at: http://www.gnusolaris.org/Download This release contains 3,596 packa

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting ON 35 - mirrors?

2006-03-14 Thread Ben Rockwood
Stephen Lau wrote: Eric Ziegast wrote: The Announcements forum listed this URL to get ON35: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b35/ I've been trying to access that page for over 2 hours with no response. Perhaps it's overloaded or overwhelmed. It's not my network connection, because I

[osol-discuss] Re: [networking-discuss] Crossbow OpenSolaris Project Proposal

2006-03-14 Thread Ben Rockwood
Kais Belgaied wrote: Sebastien Roy wrote On 03/14/06 18:27,: Carol Gayo wrote: The Crossbow project (http://opensolaris.org/os/community/networking/crossbowpreso.pdf) is a network virtualization technology that greatly improves resource control, performance and network utilization need

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: iSCSI Target implementation?

2006-03-22 Thread Ben Rockwood
Nigel Smith wrote: Yes, please could you check & report back if any work or progress is being made on 'iSCSI target' support for Solaris. If it were possible to team-up an SCSI target with the ZFS filesystem, it would be really useful, and get lot's of new people using Solaris. A good iSCSI

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: JAVA iSCSI Target implementation ? / was: Re: Re:

2006-03-27 Thread Ben Rockwood
Roland Mainz wrote: Nigel Smith wrote: No, I don't think so. As far as I'm know, the iSCSI target software needs to be written in 'C' as it needs to link into the kernel, and it's the sort of thing where performance of the code is critical. Correct me if I am wrong: A iSCSI target is

[osol-discuss] Changes to the Genunix Wiki

2006-03-28 Thread Ben Rockwood
Hello All, Due to the spamming tirade of late we've had to make some changes to the Genunix Wiki. Effective immediately all users must login to edit pages. At the moment I'm allowing anyone and everyone to create accounts for themselves and I'm hoping that this won't need to change. Perso

Re: RFE: Mailman list for genunix Wiki diffs / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Changes to the Genunix Wiki

2006-03-28 Thread Ben Rockwood
Roland Mainz wrote: Ben Rockwood wrote: If there are any further issues, annoyances, requests or general Genunix comments please, as usual, address them to Al Hopper and/or myself. Is it possible to get a mailman list to which the diffs (gdiff -u) of the changes are posted (similar

Re: RFE: Mailman list for genunix Wiki diffs / was: Re: [osol-discuss]Changes to the Genunix Wiki

2006-03-31 Thread Ben Rockwood
Roland Mainz wrote: Erm... I was proposing a mailinglist for the diffs of the Genunix.org Wiki commits, not something for the OpenSolaris main repository... Ah, I misread it... doing too many things at once. Anyway, same answer, if you want to implement it, let me know and I can arrange t

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: RENO

2006-04-07 Thread Ben Rockwood
Nicolas Williams wrote: The goal of Project RENO [0] is to facilitate interoperability with Active Directory (see project WINCHESTER [1]), as well as with any directory that requires "self-credentialed" lookups [2] for information relevant to the login process, and the DCE model of distributing s

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-13 Thread Ben Rockwood
Dennis Clarke wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: The Solaris Community has something for you : See : https://lists.blastwave.org/mailman/listinfo Simply join the users list. It has existed for quite some time. Then you can begin a discussion on the topic of open source software t

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-13 Thread Ben Rockwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here I am in 2006 with people upset and outright angry with me. I have a guy sending me an email that tells me to issue an apology to Kieth and Steve C. I see another guy wants to run around to all his clients and tell them to avoid blastwave. We're not angry

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-13 Thread Ben Rockwood
Dennis Clarke wrote: Hi folks, I was informed there was a bit of a broohaha over here, about packaging up open source binaries for solaris and opensolaris. So, as the author of pkg-get, and the creator/leader of the CSW packaging efforts living on blastwave.org, I thought I'd poke my head in and

[osol-discuss] Install SX on an HP nx6125

2006-04-18 Thread Ben Miller
from the CD. Any ideas? Ben This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Install SX on an HP nx6125

2006-04-19 Thread Ben Miller
thanks for the pointer. Using tips from there allowed the install to come up and set npe:pcie_error_disable_flag = 1 in /etc/system allows it to boot fine. Ben This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Wiki: Community SketchPads

2006-05-03 Thread Ben Rockwood
Hello All, Several communities have had a need for a general purpose Wiki-space where they could sketch out various ideas, concepts, docs, proposal, etc, in a easily accessable and collaborative way. The Genunix Wiki was created (www.genunix.org/wiki/) at the request of the OGB for this pur

[osol-discuss] support for any pci-e scsi on x2100?

2006-05-04 Thread Ben Miller
tioncards.jsp, lists that one will be available sometime this quarter. Does anyone know of a third party card that will work? I found an LSI one, but it has RAID support and too pricey for my application. thanks, Ben This message posted

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Percentage of Solaris now open source ?

2006-05-05 Thread Ben Rockwood
Richard L. Hamilton wrote: A third metric (arguably as silly) is the percentage of bytes in files in the whole Solaris distro derives entirely from open-sourced source files (counting shared libraries separately from what links to them). Perhaps you just need to: * think about what metric is m

Re: [osol-discuss] Patricipation in the .org pavilion at Linuxworld SF

2006-06-02 Thread Ben Rockwood
Teresa Giacomini wrote: Hi folks, The OpenSolaris community has been invited to participate in the .org pavilion at Linuxworld San Francisco. Anyone out there interested in taking the lead on this? I'm happy to help out with logistics and such, but I'd love to see some local folks get invol

Re: [osol-discuss] Patricipation in the .org pavilion at Linuxworld SF

2006-06-06 Thread Ben Rockwood
Teresa Giacomini wrote: Awesome Ben. Thanks so much for taking this on. And to Alan for offering to be there. Rich, I've got no idea whether Sun will be able to fund a tripI think the answer is likely not. I'm happy to help with logistics and suchlike concall numbers fo

Re: [osol-discuss] Patricipation in the .org pavilion at Linuxworld SF

2006-06-07 Thread Ben Rockwood
Sounds good. I'll take what we've got. ;) Thanks for offering the ISO Steve. ;) benr. Sara Dornsife wrote: I have ordered both CDs and DVDs, so you can use which ever is appropriate. Sara Teresa Giacomini wrote: Fantastic. Hey Ben, what do you think? This is a cool idea. We c

Re: [osol-discuss] Anniversary meet up for Bay Area locals?

2006-06-13 Thread Ben Rockwood
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 13:23 -0700, Octave Orgeron wrote: Hi Karyn Great idea! For those who are a little further north in SF, would anyone be willing to meet up downtown? I'm a little bit south though, at San Jose. (vicinity of airport) How many are going anyway

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Award Winners are posted

2006-06-15 Thread Ben Rockwood
Calum Benson wrote: On 15 Jun 2006, at 18:53, Sara Dornsife wrote: You can find all of the Contributor Award Winners at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/contributoraward/ Blimey, that's quite a list... did any of the nominees /not/ win? :) Four persons were removed from th

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributor Award Winners are posted

2006-06-15 Thread Ben Rockwood
Simon Phipps wrote: On Jun 16, 2006, at 01:13, Ben Rockwood wrote: Four persons were removed from the original list of 53 nominees making for 49 total winners. Those excluded were: Al Hopper & Rich Teer, because they are CAB members who "judged" on the list. Sara Dornsife

Re: [osol-discuss] Where is the “community” in Solaris Express Community Release?

2006-06-17 Thread Ben Rockwood
James Dickens wrote: OpenSolaris has been out a year now and the number one download of the community is Solaris Express Community Release, but what makes it the Community release? Is it because it's released 2 weeks earlier than Solaris Express? How about adding things into it that makes it di

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