Re: [osol-discuss] Torrents at http://dlc.sun.com/torrents/

2005-07-01 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 01/07/05, Ben Rockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Genunix seeds were down for some unknown reason (bt now closes the > controlling terminal, even if its a screen session when exiting which > sucks ass). I've brought back up the seeds on genunix and I'm testing. You should look at the "zo

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: SXCR Build 55 available

2007-01-21 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 21/01/2007, at 1:51 PM, John Weekley wrote: Richard Lowe wrote: W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Please find the links to SXCR Build 55 at www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/>. - Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: NTP

2007-03-24 Thread Boyd Adamson
Sorry to revive an old thread, but did anything ever come of this? The project pages exist, but only minimally. On 5/11/06, Rainer Orth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We propose the creation of an NTP project on OpenSolaris.ORG, affiliated with the Nevada and Device Driver communities. While histor

Re: [osol-discuss] Where can I get `pic' preprocessor?

2007-04-14 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 12/04/2007, at 3:33 AM, Luke Huang wrote: Hi all I noticed that in Solaris 10, troff itself eqn tbl are there, but I still need pic, please tell me where can I get this? package or source code are both ok. By coincidence, I just stumbled across http:// heirloom.sourceforge.net/ which am

Re: [osol-discuss] [SVOSUG] Project Indiana, get the skinny direct from the source!

2007-05-22 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 22/05/2007, at 5:57 PM, Alan DuBoff wrote: I would be willing to do that, but for a three hour meeting, I would need about 9-12 hours to do the transcription. I probably need until Sunday night. Also, having any speaking participants introduce themselves would be good for the transcript.

Re: [osol-discuss] [SVOSUG] Project Indiana, get the skinny direct from the source!

2007-05-22 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 5/23/07, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007, Boyd Adamson wrote: >>> I would be willing to do that, but for a three hour meeting, I would need >>> about 9-12 hours to do the transcription. I probably need until Sunday >>> night. Also,

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

2007-07-03 Thread Boyd Adamson
Ben Rockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.

Re: [osol-discuss] Changing a host name

2007-07-05 Thread Boyd Adamson
Carlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All I want to do is change the host name on my laptop. > > Numerous searches turn up to simply change the /etc/host file, but it is > read only and won't accept the change. > > The man pages say not to use sysidconfig manually, so I don't know if it can > b

Re: [osol-discuss] Two problems in the nightly build mail

2007-07-05 Thread Boyd Adamson
"Tao Jie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Ali > > > No, you may safely ignore duplicate SUNW_dynsymsort messages. They are > > more about tidiness than correctness. See here if you are interested > > in the details: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2007052202/ > > I

Re: [osol-discuss] DL385 hangs after 90 minutes with B66

2007-08-02 Thread Boyd Adamson
Chris Linton-Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I am trying to get SXCR B66 running on an HP DL385 G1 with 3x300G disks > on a Smart Array 6i controller. I have managed to get the operating > system installed several times; I use the HP-supplied CPQary3 drivers > and the system appears

Re: [osol-discuss] Post Installation of SUNW developer packages

2007-08-15 Thread Boyd Adamson
Orvar Korvar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are lots of bundled stuff on the Solaris installation. Look > everywhere for them. gcc is in /usr/sfw/bin > > > This is my PATH. I had to manually look in every directory for > executable files, and I found them in: > > /usr/local/bin:/opt/csw/bin:/

Re: [osol-discuss] This is not a Solaris helpdesk

2007-08-15 Thread Boyd Adamson
Alan Burlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sean Sprague wrote: > >>> I agree, the opensolaris-help forum is *not* well signposted enough, >>> and the first one we point people at is opensolaris-discuss, so that >>> needs fixing. > > OK, here's a first stab, not currently linked to from anywhere e

Re: [osol-discuss] This is not a Solaris helpdesk

2007-08-15 Thread Boyd Adamson
David Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Boyd, > >> Isn't this what >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/immigrants/ was >> intended for? > > Yes, but "immigrants" isn't exactly an obvious name to some...maybe > "newbies" could be aliased to redirect to that one? I would also note >

Re: [osol-discuss] Fonts looking bad vs Windows?

2007-08-15 Thread Boyd Adamson
Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Orvar Korvar wrote: >> Ok, ive tried that, sub pixel smoothing and such stuff and it looks >> better. Would installing trutype fonts make it looks better still? I >> can rip them from my Windows XP installation? > > GNOME mainly uses TrueType fonts alr

[osol-discuss] [OT] s10u4 DVD iso link-count oddity

2007-09-13 Thread Boyd Adamson
Sorry this is s10 but I thought someone here may have some idea about this I just noticed (thanks to star complaining about missing links) that numerous (> 2000) files on the s10u4 SPARC DVD seem anomalous. # cd # ls -il Solaris_10/Tools/Boot/usr/bin/{cp,ln,mv} 2777075 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 27

Re: [osol-discuss] Password formats...

2007-11-07 Thread Boyd Adamson
Kyle McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Cyril Plisko wrote: >> >> Linux MD5 passwords should work with Solaris as well. >> At least it works for me. >> > > Hmm. > > I must have missed that change in Solaris. > > How does one get passwd, and ypppasswd to use MD5 when storing new > passwords

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Weekly News #8

2006-04-23 Thread Boyd Adamson
I think it would be a good idea too. The list could potentially end up as a place for "zones weekly news" and "zfs weekly news", etc. Or would those best be included in the same posting? On 22/04/2006, at 2:21 PM, Glynn Foster wrote: Heya, On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 15:30 +0200, Martin Man wrote

[osol-discuss] Re: SOSUG #7 - Call for speakers

2006-05-02 Thread Boyd Adamson
Personally I'd be happy with that... of course, living 800km away and only being present (and presenting at) on meeting may devalue my opinion :) On 03/05/2006, at 1:15 AM, Rodrick Brown wrote: Does the topic have to be Sun/Solaris Centric? Or would any UNIX related technology talks be all

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-05-07 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 02/05/2006, at 10:58 PM, Jürgen Keil wrote: Would someone be willing to help me understand what I need to download and to do to get Solaris installed on a Mac Intel ? I've installed it like this: I prepared an USB 2.0 Solaris x86 boot HDD for the intel imac: - I got an empty USB 2.0 HDD, a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-05-08 Thread Boyd Adamson
I'll try when mine arrives :) I take it this means that the keyboards on the Macbooks are more standard than those on the powerbooks (ADB) On 08/05/2006, at 3:21 PM, Ché Kristo wrote: there is no diff at all moving from an imac to macbook (mind you i have only tried this on a 15"). So far

Re: [osol-discuss] Container / Shared disk question

2006-05-08 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 09/05/2006, at 3:49 AM, Larry Becke wrote: Given the following: 2 Solaris 10/11 boxes, running Sun Cluster software with identical package, hardware and patch loads. Container defined on shared SAN disk, mounted to a shared filesystem. Container information defined in both Global zones. Qu

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Container / Shared disk question

2006-05-09 Thread Boyd Adamson
Hmm.. My reply to your earlier question hasn't shown up at my end. I'll check if it's on the web. Anyway, Assuming your goal is to reduce failover time I'm not sure how much the below would gain you. The below would mean that you save the time to reach milestone/single- user on the destina

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-14 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 15/05/2006, at 3:38 AM, Eric Fluger wrote: -- -- syncronous (real time) mirroring is best if it is practical, however, asyncronous ackowledgements can be acceptable if both the primary and secondary mirrors do not have be accessble to users at the same time, which is the case if i unders

[osol-discuss] SX:CR on Parallels on Mac

2006-05-21 Thread Boyd Adamson
For those skimming, my actual question is below. See 2) . I've just recently taken delivery of a shiny new Macbook Pro 17". Since I've read good things about Parallels, I thought I'd try it out with recent builds. Short answer is: it doesn't work. On reading forum posts both here and at Pa

Re: [osol-discuss] SX:CR on Parallels on Mac

2006-05-23 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 24/05/2006, at 9:14 AM, Nils Nieuwejaar wrote: On Tue 05/23/06 at 14:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 21, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Boyd Adamson wrote: For those skimming, my actual question is below. See 2) . I've just recently taken delivery of a shiny new Macbook Pro 17".

Re: [osol-discuss] OBP definitive list of parms

2006-06-08 Thread Boyd Adamson
der ... what else don't I know?? ;{) I'd have thought that kernel(1M) *should* be definitive. Boyd Adamson ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] skype for opensolaris

2006-06-13 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 13/06/2006, at 10:48 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: Hi All, Skype is officially supported on windows, linux & Mac. Did anyone run Skype on Solaris sparc or x86? If not, Is anyone working on porting skype on opensolaris? gag ... something I have been watching closely : see http://www.skype.com/h

Re: [osol-discuss] SX:CR on Parallels on Mac

2006-06-22 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 24/05/2006, at 11:03 AM, Boyd Adamson wrote: On 24/05/2006, at 9:14 AM, Nils Nieuwejaar wrote: On Tue 05/23/06 at 14:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 21, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Boyd Adamson wrote: For those skimming, my actual question is below. See 2) . I've just recently taken del

Re: [osol-discuss] SX:CR on Parallels on Mac

2006-07-01 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 02/07/2006, at 5:51 AM, John Martinez wrote: On Jun 22, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Boyd Adamson wrote: Ok, an update to this. Summary: Current build ISOs can be made to boot. I'm now running Parallels' release version (build 1848) and it seems they have resolved at least some of the pro

Re: [osol-discuss] SVOSUG - This Thurs, August 24, Sunay Tripathi presents Crossbow 7:30pm SCA03

2006-08-23 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 22/08/2006, at 4:35 AM, Alan DuBoff wrote: We will have a call-in number so that remote folks can hear and be a part of our meeting. Please use the call-in info below. This is limted to the first 125 users. I'm sure it's too late by now, but many of these meetings sound very interesti

Re: [osol-discuss] SVOSUG - This Thurs, August 24, Sunay Tripathi presents Crossbow 7:30pm SCA03

2006-08-24 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 24/08/2006, at 5:16 PM, Alan DuBoff wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 09:58 pm, Boyd Adamson wrote: On 22/08/2006, at 4:35 AM, Alan DuBoff wrote: We will have a call-in number so that remote folks can hear and be a part of our meeting. Please use the call-in info below. This is limted to

Re: [osol-discuss] Some questions....

2006-09-05 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 05/09/2006, at 11:39 PM, Nergal Dimitri wrote: I got a few questions; 1.) Is the 'priocntl' utility used instead of the 'nice' utility, or is it just another priority tool? I got the feeling it's the same as 'nice' I can't remember where I saw this documented, but basically pri

Re: [osol-discuss] Some questions....

2006-09-06 Thread Boyd Adamson
Well, I've been beaten to it, but that's exactly the option I explore in more depth in this post: http://quidocet.blogspot.com/2006/09/basement-processes-in-solaris.html Boyd On 07/09/2006, at 3:42 AM, Andrei Dorofeev wrote: I think running gzip in FX scheduling class at priority 0 could be

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Some questions....

2006-09-07 Thread Boyd Adamson
Hi Stuart! On 07/09/2006, at 4:22 PM, Stuart Remphrey wrote: 3.) What's the actual difference between changing user priority and global priority? What happends if I change both to maximum (say RT). Is the user priority less worth the global? If I as root change the user priority, is there any po

Re: [osol-discuss] backup software?

2006-09-14 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 12/09/2006, at 8:11 PM, Darren J Moffat wrote: Patrick wrote: just wondering if there is any free software to back-up and keep up-to-date certain folders on my hard drive to external hard drive? basically i need to be able to plug in my external USB HD and be able to tell which files ha

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: SX:CR on Parallels on Mac

2006-09-14 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 14/09/2006, at 5:18 PM, Duncan Groenewald wrote: On 02/07/2006, at 5:51 AM, John Martinez wrote: On Jun 22, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Boyd Adamson wrote: I haven't tried with Sol10 06/06 but I can report that build 41 of Nevada works fine with this fix in place. I did have to make sure tha

Re: [osol-discuss] zfs file-server boot redundancy

2006-09-26 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 27/09/2006, at 4:49 AM, Ryan Ross wrote: I would like to set up a Raid-Z/ZFS file server for my home use. I have 4 hard drives I'd like to stripe and still have some semblence of redundancy. I will most likely be using Belenix or Nexenta, I haven't decided (trying them out in VMware).

Re: [osol-discuss] zfs file-server boot redundancy

2006-09-27 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 27/09/2006, at 6:57 PM, Dick Davies wrote: On 27/09/06, Boyd Adamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 27/09/2006, at 4:49 AM, Ryan Ross wrote: > The one problem I have come across is the the UFS system partition. > This is not backed up, therefore if the harddrive it is on fails,

Re: [osol-discuss] zfs file-server boot redundancy

2006-09-27 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 27/09/2006, at 10:09 PM, Boyd Adamson wrote: On 27/09/2006, at 6:57 PM, Dick Davies wrote: On 27/09/06, Boyd Adamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 27/09/2006, at 4:49 AM, Ryan Ross wrote: > The one problem I have come across is the the UFS system partition. > This is n

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-09 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 09/11/2006, at 11:36 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: You see that? I had a maximum of 34 threads in the run queue. But I have hundreds of tasks to run and they are all low priority fixed class processes. According to Section 2.8 of Solaris Performance and Tools the run queue value in vmstat

Re: [osol-discuss] Booting Solaris into trusted mode?

2006-12-29 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 30/12/2006, at 5:08 AM, Josh Hurst wrote: How can I boot (Open)Solaris into the Trusted Solaris mode? Josh It's not as simple as "booting into Trusted Solaris mode". You need to install and configure the Trusted Extensions. There is ample documentation here: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs

Re: [osol-discuss] zfs-discuss is being spammed

2006-12-29 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 30/12/2006, at 4:40 AM, Josh Hurst wrote: On 12/29/06, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What do we have for SPAM filters ? Just curious. The whole list system appears to be damaged. The whole ksh93 list archive is gone. Maybe a hack? I can't speak for the spam. I'm not seeing an

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE end-of-life plans

2009-08-10 Thread Boyd Adamson
No doubt there will be a number of queries from those of us still currently using SXCE. For me the two big missing features in OpenSolaris are: - Sparse root zones (more for the immutability of OS-critical filesystems than for space reasons) - A non-AI based SPARC installer Any plans on e

Re: [osol-discuss] star [was: Some Why?-Questions]

2009-12-20 Thread Boyd Adamson
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) writes: > Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> [..] > >> I think /opt/schily/bin/star or even the /opt/csw/bin/star is cool for me >> and some others "in the know" but most folks will expect /usr/bin/star or >> similar. > > BTS: in my last mail I fogot t

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC channel

2008-07-02 Thread Boyd Adamson
UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You may want to be aware of the fact that sudo is being integrated. >> PSARC/2008/370 sudo was closed-approved on June 18th, 2008. >> >> You may now stop unfairly accusing sun of "NIH syndrome." > > Thank you for the permission, but I will stop accusing S

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC channel

2008-07-02 Thread Boyd Adamson
UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Your implication that this would leave equivalent functionality is >> not based in fact. > > OK then, what makes RBAC roles different from sudo roles, > conceptually? I'd love to know. Well, I was talking about functionality, not conceptual equivalence.

Re: [osol-discuss] POWERtop

2008-07-24 Thread Boyd Adamson
Mike DeMarco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone ge powertop to run? > > I get a dtrace error: > OpenSolaris PowerTOP 1.1 (C) 2007 Intel Corporation > > powertop: cpuidle.c : C-State DTrace probes unavailable I get that message when I run it under Xen on b90. Maybe that's your problem? I read

Re: [osol-discuss] SSH - multiple sessions in one command

2008-08-07 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 07/08/2008, at 2:49 PM, Jan Friedel wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 09:39:45PM -0400, Matt Fioravante wrote: >> I am trying to write a script to move a zone from one host to >> another in one >> command. >> >> Is there a way that I can do multiple ssh commands but only have to >> authenticate

Re: [osol-discuss] Interesting => MAC addr reversing manually solved the problem !!

2008-10-02 Thread Boyd Adamson
onkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All , > I was not able to ping the router at my home from opensolaris box. > > see -> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=77102&tstart=0 > > I did this => > > ifconfig nge0 ether < MAC addr reversed > > ifconfig nge0 dhcp start > > not I

Re: [osol-discuss] Max number of CPUs and memory in OpenSolaris

2008-10-09 Thread Boyd Adamson
Antoon Huiskens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ouch. > > assuming it all runs on sun boxes, I'd look at the biggest and > baddest: the M9000: 2TB of internal memory currently. Likewise, a > T5240 coolthreads machine maxes out at 128GB (but then again, that in > 2 rack units). As for x64 systems, a

Re: [osol-discuss] Max number of CPUs and memory in OpenSolaris

2008-10-10 Thread Boyd Adamson
"Richard L. Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Antoon Huiskens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > ouch. >> > >> > assuming it all runs on sun boxes, I'd look at the >> biggest and >> > baddest: the M9000: 2TB of internal memory >> currently. Likewise, a >> > T5240 coolthreads machine maxes out

Re: [osol-discuss] stunnel without SSL

2008-10-12 Thread Boyd Adamson
Bill Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone know if it's possible to use stunnel without the "s" part? > That is, I just want a tunnel, no SSL. Can I configure stunnel to > just tunnel traffic on port X to a remote machine's port X, without > injecting SSL? Sounds like you want netcat (nc(1

Re: [osol-discuss] RES: Solaris disk label

2009-05-07 Thread Boyd Adamson
# format -e format> label It will ask what label type you want. Choose "SMI". "SOBRAL Thiago" writes: > Searching the internet, I found that I need to change from EFI to SMI. > > > > I tried to follow the tips, but it didn´t work. > > > > Could you please help me ? > > > > Sobral > >

Re: [osol-discuss] RES: Solaris disk label

2009-05-12 Thread Boyd Adamson
Scott McClung writes: > * Boyd Adamson (boyd-adam...@usa.net) [090507 19:23]: >> # format -e >> >> >> >> format> label >> >> It will ask what label type you want. Choose "SMI". > > Unfortunately, for LUNs greater than 1TB,