Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/system tuneable to set thedefaultpagesize

2006-03-07 Thread Casper . Dik
Yes, exactly. Once enough applications make assumptions about pagesize the platform pagesize might as well have been part of the ABI.. as I recall it was more than one application that broke, so we can't reasonable change it now and claim to remain binary compatible. And even between 4K

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Building the kernel with Studio 11 supported?

2006-03-06 Thread Casper . Dik
On 3/6/06, Jasse Jansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 6, 2006, at 7:09 PM, Felix Schulte wrote: On 3/6/06, Michael Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's recommended that you use Studio 10; perhaps you should try that first. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/sun_studio_tools/

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

2006-03-02 Thread Casper . Dik
Now, instead of being told to go to a certain web site to download the necessary NIC driver (doe s anyone see a problem here?) we the mortals can be instructed to copy the driver from the DVD. As I reported in my post, all the necessary drivers are there. The issue is inclusion ( lack ther

Re: [osol-discuss] Why aren't more kernel modules unloadable?

2006-02-26 Thread Casper . Dik
Now, that's just rude. I mean, why can't a reference count be maintained (by hsfs_mount(), hsfs_unmount(), and maybe one or two others) so that modunload would be permitted whenver thereference count was zero? Granted it might actually take a bit more than that, but I'd like to think it still

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 on SUN Blade 2000

2006-02-22 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi, recently I have [u]upgraded[/u] to Soalris 10(Release 3/05) from Solaris 8 on my SUN Blade 200 0. Since then I am unable to use DVDROM and USB ports. I received recommended S-10 Patches also. Bu t of no use. Can any body help? I suspect S10 does not support the three year old achitecture

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What is the relationship between OpenSolaris and SolarisExpress/community?

2006-02-19 Thread Casper . Dik
If you can wait a few weeks, and you're taking into account the fact that BFU is ON only, then I think it just boils down to personal preference. BFU'ing causes less heartburn than doing a fresh install for some people, while for other people doing a fresh install causes less heartburn than

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: OpenSolaris on a SPARCserver 1000

2006-02-18 Thread Casper . Dik
UNIX admin writes: Solaris 9 ought to work, if it doesn't try 8. S9 won't work. The machine is just too ancient. See: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/9/sparc/ http://docs.sun.com/source/817-6356-10/eos.html Why didn't you guys at least do like HP does for their gear? For

Re: [osol-discuss] UDFS R/W support for CD-RW / DVD+-RWs?

2006-02-18 Thread Casper . Dik
When will R/W UDF support be available for CD-RWs and DVD+-RWs? Perhaps a better question is, why can't I simply mkfs -F udfs /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0` (DVD+RW drive) right now as it is? Why won't Solaris let me asequentially write onto those devices? Much of the RW media doesn't support random

Re: [osol-discuss] UDFS R/W support for CD-RW / DVD+-RWs?

2006-02-18 Thread Casper . Dik
Because the number of supported write cycles is not sufficient. Fewer than 1000, except for DVD-RAM. (And the other limitations make incremental writing through the OS cumbersome except for DVD-RAM) Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: OpenSolaris on a SPARCserver 1000

2006-02-18 Thread Casper . Dik
V890 .. now thats a nice machine but I'd rather have an 8-way T2000 with 16GB of RAM. Rack space and power saved in a big way. And very nicely engineered, just like its Opteron sibling the X4200 (which needs to be screwed down in the rack or it will take off :-) These boards and systems look

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris on a SPARCserver 1000

2006-02-17 Thread Casper . Dik
I have a dual processor SPARCserver 1000 laying arround that I was thinking of using as a mail and XMPP server for my house. I was originally just going to run Linux as I'm more familar with it bu t as the sun4m arch is rather strange Linux doesn't support it in multiprocessor mode. Does

Re: [osol-discuss] New Community Proposal: Solaris on zSeriesMainframe Server

2006-02-15 Thread Casper . Dik
On 2/15/06, Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cyril Plisko wrote: Having Solaris on zSeries will be a nice complement to Polaris which targets IBM pSeries among other platforms, leaving IBM no options but one - to embrace Solaris across all the product range:) OpenSolaris WD

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCR b30

2006-02-14 Thread Casper . Dik
--Boundary_(ID_psS4Mz8w2HlD4QtT4suLvQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline On 2/14/06, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 14 February 2006 12:31 am, Dennis Clarke wrote: Now we have a drop in communications. I

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCR b30

2006-02-14 Thread Casper . Dik
Everything. It is official statement that SXCR b32 is a prerequisite for building current ON consolidation. I saw no mentions of Nexenta, SchilliX or anything else as a supported platform. They can or can not be used for that purpose, but as long as opensolaris.org goes it is SXCR b32, no less.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CDE Vs JDS

2006-02-14 Thread Casper . Dik
Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Qt licensing was part of it, avoiding the nightmare of C++ binary incompatibility between compilers (or even between different g++ versions) was another. The official FAQ answer is at:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: CDE Vs JDS

2006-02-14 Thread Casper . Dik
Mmm, how is this related to star? =20 Sorry J=F6rg, but star is an ordinary word or is astrology the science devoted to s-tar? Astrology isn't a science, and it's not related to stars either. Astronomy, my bad. Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: ksh93 integration project

2006-02-08 Thread Casper . Dik
Uhm... in theory such a project would be nice but first I'd like to focus on ksh93 - which is already a quite large beast to handle (assuming libshell, libc, profile shells, bugfixing and some sort of backwards-compatibility+migration tools should be handeled, too.). There will likely some

Re: [osol-discuss] Couldn't access /dev/ip with ndd -get /dev/ip \?

2006-02-06 Thread Casper . Dik
I am able to see /dev/ip in my solaris box. But i'm having problem with the following command, $ ndd -get /dev/ip \? open of /dev/ip failed: Permission denied The fact that you are not allowed to do this is not a bug. The /dev/ip device cannot be opened by just any user. When I was searching

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

2006-02-03 Thread Casper . Dik
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Rich Teer wrote: OK, S10 U1 has got a lot further than build 28 or build 30 of Nevada (it's currently installing as I type). Hurrah! The problem was definately with builds 28 and 30 of Nevada; S10 U1 has finished installing, with no problems. Whew--I was starting to

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

2006-01-30 Thread Casper . Dik
Is Jonathan Schwartz going to repeat the License mistake (made with OpenOffice) with OpenSolaris? http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan Thinking about GPLv3 While this may sound nice, it would open the new problem that contributors may license new stuff for OpenSolaris under the GPLv3 only

Re: [osol-discuss] Error 28: Selected item cannot fit in to memory when installing Open Solaris 10-U1 from DVD

2006-01-22 Thread Casper . Dik
I have: 4a5d672dd34f8257f5262ed453402391 /export/home/iso/sol-10-u1-ga-x86-dvd-iso-a 6b3be40d35dd01d13555aba9cdcc9f92 /export/home/iso/sol-10-u1-ga-x86-dvd-iso-b e747678cebee5bab330e844c073185f0 /export/home/iso/sol-10-u1-ga-x86-dvd-iso-c 854d314830dc81f76adf1121335a8408

Re: [osol-discuss] Final draft of the OpenSolaris Charter available for review

2006-01-19 Thread Casper . Dik
The OGB shall be comprised of natural persons of number and nature to be defined by the Constitution, but in no event shall they be fewer than three in number at any time. What does it mean natural persons, the only thing I can come up with is that it is trying to keep androids off of the OGB.

Re: [osol-discuss] ACPI PCI-E issues installing on HP NX9600 laptop

2006-01-16 Thread Casper . Dik
Bruce Riddle wrote: I'm having no luck installing Solaris express on my HP nx9600. http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12114_na/12114_na.HTML It is currently running Express Build 16 from ~06/05. I have subsequently tried to install 24,27,28 and now 30 with no luck. I've tried

Re: [osol-discuss] Can fssnap be run on solaris 8 or 9?

2006-01-11 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi, I am wondering if I can run port fssnap into old solaris system, does it need modify ufs source co de, too? Yes, the ufs code was changed to support fssnap. (Note that there are many interface changes in the file system layer over the years so backporting ufs isn't hassle free) Casper

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Solaris and SSH

2006-01-10 Thread Casper . Dik
One of the most important pieces of information a hacker can have is the OS flavor and version of a remote host. Armed with this knowledge, a hacker can narrow his search for possible vulnerabiliti es to that specific operating system and version. An SSH ID string with OpenSSH does not give away

Re: [osol-discuss] Respect . Was Solaris and SSH

2006-01-10 Thread Casper . Dik
On the particular issue, I would consider a flag, such as Disable OS Identification to client to be an acceptable option for all parties to consider. Do you understand that the ramifications of this flag are: SSH will frequently fail to interoperate with different

Re: [osol-discuss] Respect . Was Solaris and SSH

2006-01-10 Thread Casper . Dik
Finally, I am not beefing about SSH or other tech implementation. Ya'll do whatever you like. I am, however, concerned about the We work at Sun and we know what's best attitude. Solaris 10 _may_ be the best operating system in the world, but if people don't use it (for whatever reason, however

Re: [osol-discuss] Please update 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-01-09 Thread Casper . Dik
Can someone please update http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4113420 ? 1. The bug should be closed as WONTFIX as Sun seems to have lost interest in upgrading /usr/bin/ksh to ksh93 We cannot upgrade /bin/ksh because ksh93 is *not* compatible with ksh88. 2. If no one

Re: [osol-discuss] New Community Proposal: Appliances

2006-01-09 Thread Casper . Dik
My general preference for disk-based appliances would be the same (i.e. install it all, use SMF to determine what happens, make robust booting a reality). However, now that flash memory is so cheap, I do think we should also look at solid state boot configs built around a lightweight,

Re: [osol-discuss] Please update 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-01-09 Thread Casper . Dik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not integrate the current Korn shell as /usr/sbin/ksh93? Replacing /usr/bin/ksh is just not an option; the list of known incompatibilities stretches over many pages. Looks like you did forget that there is no ksh88 compliant /usr/bin/ksh. No; that's not what I

Re: [osol-discuss] Please update 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-01-09 Thread Casper . Dik
/usr/bin/ksh being a bastard version of ksh88 adds a *SIGNIFICANT* **BURDEN* for people who develop and ship software. Every shell script needs to be back ported to ksh88 to support Solaris. And I personally think this cannot be tolerated anymore. It costs immense manpower just to support Sun's

Re: [osol-discuss] Please update 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-01-09 Thread Casper . Dik
On 1/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are many ways format, but from Sun's perspective none include replacing ksh with ksh93. Is this the OFFICIAL position of Sun Microsystems? Why do you think I have an official position of any kind? There are always exceptions and

Re: [osol-discuss] Please update 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-01-09 Thread Casper . Dik
Various people, though, may have positions. I agree with Casper that the best way forward is to develop a transition that breaks nothing that anyone would ever notice. At least with my ARC hat on, I'd be more than willing to listen to arguments that one or another bit of breakage is not

Re: [osol-discuss] New Community Proposal: Appliances

2006-01-08 Thread Casper . Dik
I think the appliance concept is a great idea! What is first needed is to determine the base install is. Min packages=min vulerabilities. I don't think this is necessarily true; removing packages may make a system harder to maintain and that in the end may cause more vulnerabilities, not fewer.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris and SSH

2006-01-08 Thread Casper . Dik
Darren wrote: Why not ? Why can't OpenSolaris just be as quick as OpenBSD ? When there is a problem with OpenSSH, does the Sun team investigate whether it affects their forke d code base? If so, don't they have to port the fix and then do regression testing? Doesn't this ta ke time? Yes, and

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris and SSH

2006-01-08 Thread Casper . Dik
Totally agree! It's not worth trying to maintain OpenSSH,Kerberos,PAM. It's smarter to let Sun maintain SunSSH. If there is something that really needs to be fixed or added to SunSSH, then file a bug or RFE. As for the banner issue, all SSH implentations I've used have a banner:) Or fix it

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

2006-01-06 Thread Casper . Dik
Take a look at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/cab/governance_proposal/#Communities - basi cally, if there's enough interest, the CAB pays attention and blesses us :-) I'll happily +1 a Sysadmin Community. Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-05 Thread Casper . Dik
Not even in the man pages that come with SX B27 What man pages to you refer to? The -d option is mentioned twice; see below at OPERANDS where it specifies the URL. Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2006-01-04 Thread Casper . Dik
BTW: I see a http proxy option but no hint on how to use pkgadd via the network. pkgadd -d http:// Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris and SSH

2006-01-03 Thread Casper . Dik
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 01:56, Gary Gendel wrote: I just installed snv_28 Sparc and am now seeing these strange errors in my log: [ID 336459 user.info] libpkcs11: /usr/lib/security/pkcs11_softtoken.so CRYPTOKI minor version, 2 0, may not be compatible with minor version 11. Things seem

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Companion CD [ was: KDE, GNOME, etc. ]

2006-01-02 Thread Casper . Dik
It's one of those historical things. For almost all of the Companion CD's lifetime (going on 6 years now) the Sun Studio compilers were not freely available. So in the interest of transparency, Companion CD packages (as much as possible) were built with gcc. The philosophy being that

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris equivalent to AIX Physical Partition (PP) Layout

2006-01-02 Thread Casper . Dik
(Removed Sun-managers because that's not a discussion list) In fact, their tools i.e. lspv etc etc showed clearly the PP layout on the physical disk. Solaris never really liked more than 8 physical partitions on a disk; this AIX mechanism looks like something you'd do when disks are huge and

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris equivalent to AIX Physical Partition (PP) Layout

2006-01-02 Thread Casper . Dik
I'm not sure I completely agree with that. AIX's PP facility is not really like Solaris' use of physical partitions at all. Instead, PPs on AIX are a way to segment storage on a single disk so that you can grow LVs when you need to and without dedicating storage to them ahead of time. I

Re: [osol-discuss] Non-debug builds question

2006-01-02 Thread Casper . Dik
Hello! I've upgraded my Thinkpad R50 from SX-b23 to SXCE-b28 and it seems somewhat slower. X server is particularly slowed down. Xorg never worked properly for me in SX-b23 and now that it is further slowed down, I can almost see the windows while being drawn. What graphics does it have?

Re: [osol-discuss] Non-debug builds question

2006-01-02 Thread Casper . Dik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What graphics does it have? I think b28 has a lot more Xorg changes. I have ATI Radeon Mobility 9000. Never had any issues with those. b28 should have new settings like: Option AccelMethod EXA which you could try, Oh yeah, one other thing (and this used to happen

Re: [osol-discuss] WHY? Oh God oh, why do they make it so hard to find the download page?

2005-12-27 Thread Casper . Dik
I don't know if I'm in the right place to post this but I need to vent! Every time I look for Sola ris Enterprise, Nevada, SunOS 5.11, whatever, the list of downloadable stuff only lists Solaris 10 (x86 of course although I do have a Sparc Ultra 5). I eventually stumbled upon it and

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Companion CD [ was: KDE, GNOME, etc. ]

2005-12-24 Thread Casper . Dik
Steven Christensen wrote: With regard to KDE. I am currently putting Stefan's KDE work on sunfreeware.com http://sunfreeware.com and its mirrors for use, testing, comments, etc. I hope to put an announcement up this weekend when I am sure it is all there and Stefan says it is OK. The

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 1/06 Which Solaris Express Version

2005-12-21 Thread Casper . Dik
I see that Solaris 10 1/06 has just been released and looking at the documnetation it looks like i t is based on Solaris Express 11/05 (no ZFS). Is this correct, or is it based in an early version. Incorrect; Solaris 10 1/06 is based on Solaris 10 and has no direct relationship with any of

Re: OpenSolairis a choice for the government desktop? // Re: [osol-discuss] KDE, GNOME, etc.

2005-12-19 Thread Casper . Dik
Felix Schulte wrote: Having two desktops does not make sense for the customers - and KDE is the primary government desktop here. Support for KDE will be a requirement for further contracts as far as I can see from my POV. The European governments are looking into further ways to save costs

Re: [osol-discuss] Roles on Solaris

2005-12-18 Thread Casper . Dik
It seems to be forbidden to log into a rule directly, but how is this impleted? Does the 'login' program check /etc/user_attr and forbids a login into a role directly? It's implemented through a pam module (pam_roles.so.1) which checks when authenticating a role whether this is a login or

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: KDE 3.4.1 Solaris 10: Source Code Patches

2005-12-17 Thread Casper . Dik
Solaris also definitely does not support file sizes 4GB and I would guess that there are even problems with a file size 2 GB. Since Solaris 9 04/03 the supported max. file size is 16 TB. If an app on solaris has problems wit h files bigger than 2GB or 4GB then because either the app code

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: _fini()

2005-12-13 Thread Casper . Dik
Well, my aim is to understand how to unload module without modunload, for example,via kmdb and /de v/kmem.If I know the address of _fini() somewhere in kernel memory,can i do jmp addr to it? No, calling _fini() does *not* unload the module. You'll need to call the modctl system call.

Re: [osol-discuss] sun4m, why the strong defense against putting it back in for last release?

2005-12-07 Thread Casper . Dik
Even if the code was pulled early, there's no real reason to drop out a workable release of code(t hat is, something that would build cleanly for sun4m, not just raw code known not to work without u nobtainable tools) for perfectly runnable machines. It'd not be much, but something based off of

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: sun4m, why the strong defense against putting it back in for last rel

2005-12-07 Thread Casper . Dik
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of interest in maintaining them, even Ultra-1 support for those who feel that they are happy to run the risk of 64 bit on UltraSPARC-I. This, to me, would be a far more worthwhile project. Yes, the US-I is long in the tooth, but I've never

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: [zh-users-discuss] ask two question about opensolaris !]

2005-12-05 Thread Casper . Dik
joey.guo wrote: The second question: Can I use the sunstudio11 to compiler the opensolaris source code. not yet. people have reported warnings/errours trying to compile ON with studio 11. And that's why you can download a version of Studio 10 exactly patched as used

Re: [osol-discuss] console redirection

2005-12-05 Thread Casper . Dik
I have a V20z and am using a serial console. So naturally enough I used 'eeprom' to set console=ttya and things worked fine until during some driver testing I killed the box. I then needed to boot 'failsafe' only to find my console going to screen/keyboard. This makes sense since the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: how to do read/write files in the kernel?

2005-12-01 Thread Casper . Dik
I make a kernel module. In the module, I redirect write system call. Before the data write to the file, I need to handle the data. In my write system call's function, what I do like this: 1. allocate the memory Note that this can be an near infinite amount; write can be called with more

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS Quaestions

2005-12-01 Thread Casper . Dik
1. seems the root disk still , so still have to use svm for mirroring root disk Correct. 2. I can't find option to use hotspare in raid1 or raidz 3. is it possible for zfs to do the same thing as concate pro in vxvm When asking questions like does ZFS have feature Y from fooFS is helps to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Incorporating open-source cmds/libs into OpenSolaris

2005-12-01 Thread Casper . Dik
On Thursday 01 December 2005 03:30 am, Joerg Schilling wrote: In former times, it was usual to (by intention) have a limited PATH for root in order to reduce provlems by miss-typed commands and similar. Let's try to forget about the past, and let's try to look towards the future. We also had

Re: [osol-discuss] Is distribution neutral application compatibility feasible?

2005-12-01 Thread Casper . Dik
Yep. I looked into the problem again and found that not much API/ABI changes happened betwen so.4 and so.6. This should simplify the thing actually since symbolic link (in some cases) will be sufficient. But not for building; the soname (-h option passed to ld when building library) should match

Re: [osol-discuss] lchmod

2005-11-28 Thread Casper . Dik
Gary Gendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a Solaris equivalent to the lchmod library function found on Linux? The chmod changes the protection of the file the symbolic link is pointing to whereas lchmod changes the protection o f the link itself. I couldn't find a direct replacement.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: OpenSolaris - Why should I care?

2005-11-27 Thread Casper . Dik
OpenBSD also supports numerous crypto cards and the crypto instructions on VIA CPUs. And OpenBSD i sn't locked into 10 year old technology. New security features are being developed and integrated a ll the time. In Solaris 10 we've added the kernel crypto framework which allows us to plug in

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris - Why should I care? More questions.

2005-11-27 Thread Casper . Dik
1. What are the resource requirements for all this wonderful Solaris 10 software to work and perform reasonably well? Is it all available for x86 systems? Does it require a 64-bit dual or quad processor system, 4 GB of RAM and a 200 GB HDD? Or would it all work on a 1.8 GHz Intel Celeron

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris - Why should I care? More questions.

2005-11-27 Thread Casper . Dik
The GNU utilities carry both a stability and compatibility risk. Nothing in Solaris proper can fix that. This statement true for any software in general, unless development is pretty much dead. :-) Perhaps I should have quantified that: when used as default in a Solaris environment..

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris - Why should I care? More questions.

2005-11-27 Thread Casper . Dik
Yes. It's all fully available on low powered systems. (Even a VIA C3 CPU with 512 MB of ram works just fine, even as Sun RAY server; boot Solaris from flash too, if that's your thing) Neat. Does it work on the PLE133 chipset? I think I actually have an old ASUS PC with a similar chipset

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: OpenSolaris - Why should I care?

2005-11-26 Thread Casper . Dik
I may have underestimated SMF. Probably, but it does work better on SPARC systems Well SMF itself is no differnet from one architecture to the next; but it you're talking about fault managemet, the focus for hardware fault handling has traditionally been on hardware we developed and sold. And

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-26 Thread Casper . Dik
I'll take a look, thanks. I was affraid that it means you have to use nfs via loopback on standalo ne machine to be unixlike :) The Solaris automounter actually works correctly in that respect; it determines if a mountpoint is remote or local and will use an NFS or loopback depending on the

Re: [osol-discuss] coding style

2005-11-23 Thread Casper . Dik
* Paul Durrant [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-23 09:51]: Apologies if this has been asked before... Is the Sun coding style doc. available to the opensolaris community? Given that, I presume, code taken from contributors from outside Sun still has to pass the standard ON cstyle/hdrchk stuff it

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-23 Thread Casper . Dik
Perhaps what he meant to say was that SVr4 comes in part from BSD. As I recall the order events: You forgot the first event: which is that Unix escaped from Bell Labs and is enhanced elsewhere, including Berkeley; BSD did include ATT materials -People at Berkeley write BSD, some of these

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-23 Thread Casper . Dik
Clearly? If you discount the inventions done for SunOS at Sun, I don't think there's that much to show: sockets, reliable signal handling, r* commands. I thought sockets and reliable signals were originated from Berkley. Sun invented NFS, and the big gest take from SunOS were the virtual

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: UltraSPARC-I port project

2005-11-22 Thread Casper . Dik
That sound like a great idea Rich!! I actually bought a Ultra 1 just to run Solaris 10 on. I was a bit di= sappointed when it wasn't supported.=20 That was announced a long time ago. What is the mainwork that needs to be taken care of i order to get Op= enSolaris to run on a U1 ? Not much,

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris support of USB Ethernet Adapters for external USB ports

2005-11-18 Thread Casper . Dik
Ethernet adapters are availalbe that plug directly into an external USB port, just like a camara o r other consumer product. Does Solaris 10 or Opensolaris support such cards? The nic on the integrated chipset (nforce4) of my system is not suppport by either. I thought nforce 4 was

Re: [osol-discuss] milestone none really means nothing running at all really

2005-11-17 Thread Casper . Dik
But the explanation is fairly simple: you cannot recover from a number of failures (corrupt vfstab, bad /dev* links for boot device) without having /usr mounted; you cannot mount /usr when those things happen. And you cannot recover if the same happens with a big / installation either. You

Re: [osol-discuss] milestone none really means nothing running at all really

2005-11-17 Thread Casper . Dik
Please explain why you believe this. the only difference I see in your case is that you would need to find the /devices entry to mount /usr so it makes sense to have find or a name completing shell in / When you boot from a device the node does not need to be present in /dev* in order for you

Re: [osol-discuss] milestone none really means nothing running at all really

2005-11-16 Thread Casper . Dik
-sh: /bin/i386: not found -sh: /usr/sbin/quota: not found -sh: /bin/cat: not found -sh: /bin/mail: not found # # df -ak df: not found # ls ls: not found # pwd /root That looks like you have split / and /usr, right ? And we've long said you shouldn't be doign that :-) Not sure

Re: [osol-discuss] fd limit on 32bit solaris i386 box

2005-11-16 Thread Casper . Dik
It would be simple to add a (maybe hidden) flag to the FILE * data structures that tell stdio that the calling program is aware of the new interface because it has been compiled with the new include files. There's always an issue with old libraries and such and FILE *'s being passed around to

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris on EPIA?

2005-11-15 Thread Casper . Dik
Has anyone tried to install Opensolaris on an EPIA Mini-itx mainboard? I'd be interested to know if Opensolaris supports the following mobo chipset: - VIA CN400 North Bridge - VT8237R South Bridge and the folowing nic chipset: - VIA VT6122 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet Controller (GbE LAN) - VIA

Re: [osol-discuss] VM Image of OpenSolaris

2005-11-15 Thread Casper . Dik
I have an idea that might help get people started with OpenSolaris. I would like to create and distribute a VM image of a basic OpenSolaris system that people can run with the free VMWare player or VM Workstation. Basically what I would be doing is distributing a VM of Solaris Express with

Re: [osol-discuss] fd limit on 32bit solaris i386 box

2005-11-14 Thread Casper . Dik
For folks interested in the details, the issue here is old binaries that were compiled with a fileno macro that directly dereferenced the char that holds the file descriptor. This was changed in 1998 (Solaris 7) to always be a function call with the fix for: 4155198 fileno() macro is evil and

Re: [osol-discuss] fd limit on 32bit solaris i386 box

2005-11-12 Thread Casper . Dik
I heard about a 256 fd limit on solaris 32bit boxes due to some stdio limit... will anything chang e in opensolaris? is it possible to increase this limit? There's not 256 fd limit; there's a limitation on using file descriptors over 255 in FILE *s. I.e., once all fds = 255 are taken you can

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: fd limit on 32bit solaris i386 box

2005-11-12 Thread Casper . Dik
Instead of fclose, use close, etc. Using those routines you'll have (depending on the OS and settings) the ability to use thousands of descriptors. For vanilla Solaris 10 you'll have 1024 by default with a hard limit of 65536. why the hard limit is 65536? The *default* hardlimit is

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Free T-Shirt ?

2005-11-11 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi guys, just to let you know. I finally received the t-shirt, good, but the federal tax office, had put a US$ 21 related to impo rt tax, unbelieveable. Then I noticed, the pack had a kind of 30 number, where the tax office emplo iyee thought, was the price I paid for that t-shirt. Luckly, I

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Minds - the OpenSolaris story

2005-11-11 Thread Casper . Dik
On 11/11/05, Sara Dornsife [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Real Media is our corporate standard for video production (which is a long thread all on its own I know). I'm sorry if it is a problem for some. So how do people at Sun watch these videos? Realplayer on Solaris. Casper

Re: [osol-discuss] Opteron Powernow! and Solaris

2005-11-07 Thread Casper . Dik
Any information on when this driver will be available in Solaris. No. I'm trying to get the power people to come out and be more visible in the community. I've noticed Caspers Dik's blog and his Ferrari 4000 powernow driver... but I'm not sure whether t here is an official version in OS.

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-04 Thread Casper . Dik
My fear in tragetting Linux explicitly for migration like this is the name is an enduring hostile act just towards Linux. I prefer immigrants - nothing to stop it focussing just on the Penguinistas under that banner for now. Exactly my argument; my +1 is conditional on not including linux

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Casper . Dik
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Adam Leventhal wrote: There seems to be at least a loose concensus that this would be a useful community. Any +1 votes from the CAB? +1 +1 Absolutely agree. I think we should also be open for those in exile such as South Koreans who may seen be exiled from Windows :-)

Re: [osol-discuss] community proposal: Linux Immigrants

2005-11-03 Thread Casper . Dik
In my opinion, a big part of the value of this community will be that it helps to explain the relevance of OpenSolaris to the wider Linux community. Extending the scope beyond Linux immigrants could threaten that. wider Linux comminity? I think the value of OpenSolaris does not derive from

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS forum yet?

2005-11-01 Thread Casper . Dik
Rumor is the developers got somewhere with ZFS integration, and at least Solaris Express may see ZFS soon; presumably OpenSolaris some time thereafter? So maybe a forum specifically for ZFS might be a good idea sooner rather than later? Rumor?

Re: [osol-discuss] Installation Issues on Pentium III 128 MB PC

2005-10-30 Thread Casper . Dik
I have downloaded the Open Solaris (Solaris Express Build 24, CD 1, English for x86 platforms). I have trouble installing Open Solaris on my pentium III, ~ 128 MB system. Sorry, but the minimum requirement for Solaris with newboot is 256 MB of memory. (The kernel uses 128MB of scratch memory to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [osol-code] Accessing libkstat with perl

2005-10-30 Thread Casper . Dik
Oh...it is this perl /usr/perl5/bin/perl and my perl that I am using = is perl 5.8.6 :) which has a different INC path and cannot load the module Regards. So it's not the standard perl; in that case you'll need to get CPAN's most recent kstat module. Casper

Re: [osol-discuss] Studio 11

2005-10-27 Thread Casper . Dik
Hello all, LKR has recently told us about the record performance of Studio 11. I would very much like to cut down my current 12-hour+ build time for OpenSolaris (OK, I should buy some new H/W ;-) ); so when is Studio 11 going to be let loose on the OpenSolaris community? Real soon

Re: [osol-discuss] Accessing libkstat with perl

2005-10-26 Thread Casper . Dik
Hello friends Can any one please tell me how can I acess libkstat with perl. I mean using API .. Thanks, Nikhil using the kstat perl module (see the kstat program for an example of how to use it) Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrading to solaris 10 10/05 from 03/05

2005-10-23 Thread Casper . Dik
Hello I had earlier installed OpenSolaris 03/05 x86 platform system, but now I am planning to upgrade it to Solaris 10/05 release without any installation . Is there anyway where I can upgrade without disturbing the existing system. much like the way of up2date/yum on Linux systems. Regards,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: SchilliX-0.2 ready, but SchilliX (the project) needs help

2005-10-22 Thread Casper . Dik
Thank you for reporting! I get bscv: 64-bit driver module not found in amd64 mode, and your aperture driver fails with undefined symbol 'hat_getkpfnum' but works in x86 mode. As there is no source for the bscv driver, we need to addres this question to the Sun folks.. It's not that

Re: [osol-discuss] NTFS Drivers

2005-10-19 Thread Casper . Dik
We've been pondering the idea of creating a kernel/user bounce module to be able to write userspace filesystem providers. Seems that this exists there. How I hate these licensing issues. FUSE is GPL, of course ... should not be a show stopper, imho. Project like this has clear API between

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: StarOffice 8

2005-10-14 Thread Casper . Dik
strings stupid.doc | more This reminds me of a story: one person used this method to read .documents; but he didn't understand the email he got from his manager as it was confidential and not concerning him. It turned out that this was another one of those: take a document as template, delete

Re: [osol-discuss] Jim's OpenSolaris Story

2005-10-14 Thread Casper . Dik
--Boundary_(ID_cdrTXVNPYFEDnLNon9P0Rg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline On 10/14/05, Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted my draft slides and notes about OpenSolaris:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: StarOffice 8

2005-10-13 Thread Casper . Dik
Jim Grisanzio wrote: Solaris runs nicely on my laptop. Same here. It's picky, but when it runs, it runs very well. Also a lot of thanks to Sun for maki ng available the Solaris version of StarOffice 8. I wonder if any of our resident Solaris experts can explain the following to me: In

Re: [osol-discuss] inode numbers on ZFS

2005-10-12 Thread Casper . Dik
ZFS is a 128 bit filesystem, isn't it? So I hope it uses 128 bit inode numbers too. but it should at least use 64 bit for inode numbers. Now what happens to a 32 bit application that calls stat(2) on a file that uses an inode number that is outside the 32 bit scope. Whill this cause stat(2)

Re: [osol-discuss] inode numbers on ZFS

2005-10-12 Thread Casper . Dik
Eric Schrock wrote: ZFS inode numbers are 64 bits. The current implemenation restricts this to a 48-bit usable range, but this is not an architectural restriction. Future enhancements plan to extend this to the full 64 bits. 32-bit apps that attempt to stat() a file whose inode number is

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