UNIX admin tripivc...@hotmail.com
writes:
Setup: Opensolaris.11 buiid 110
I've wondered if there is an application available
for OpenSolaris
that is capable of backup (incrementally) windows
machines across a
network?
Yes, there is.
It is called Bacula (http://www.bacula.org/), and
UNIX admin tripivc...@hotmail.com
writes:
Can anyone tell me what I need to do in
/etc/syslog.conf
To make the system logger create a file if it isn't
present.
I wanted a general debug file so put this in
/etc/syslog.conf
*.debug/var/adm/debug
hen I boot up I get error
Sean Bushby sean.bus...@gmail.com
writes:
I think the USB sticks might be a false alarm. I switched back and
forth numerous times lastnight after that and was fine. Switch to
desktop, finished up and went to bed. This morning it had rebooted.
Do you have any problems with the KVM itself?
Can anyone tell me what I need to do in /etc/syslog.conf
To make the system logger create a file if it isn't present.
I wanted a general debug file so put this in /etc/syslog.conf
*.debug/var/adm/debug
When I boot up I get error about there being no /var/adm/debug
present. If I
Setup: Opensolaris.11 buiid 110
I've wondered if there is an application available for OpenSolaris
that is capable of backup (incrementally) windows machines across a
network?
My background is linux somay be I just haven't heard of the apps
that can do this. Or maybe just don't know how to use
UNIX admin tripivc...@hotmail.com
writes:
And let's not forget bash: a broken we know better replacement for
Korn and Bourne shells.
Don't mean to keep pounding here but you didn't really give a specific
example of this brokenness. I'm not sharp enough to just `get' what
you are driving at.
Scott Rotondo scott.roto...@sun.com writes:
casper@sun.com wrote:
The most broken part of bash is its signal handling:
cd /net/somehost/file/dir ; rm -rf *
somehost hangs; now you type a ^C to interrupt the cd.
What happens?
bash-3.2$ sleep 10; echo foo
^C
foo
bash-3.2$
Sean Bushby sean.bus...@gmail.com
writes:
unplugged USB stick and seems ok now? Weird??
From a machine or from a USB port on KVM unit?
I'm having mysterious reboots too, and use a kvm. But don't have any
usb sticks plugged in anywhere.
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UNIX admin tripivc...@hotmail.com
writes:
GNU userland is just garbage, unfortunately most casual users aren't even
aware just how shoddy and crappy GNU userland is.
First, your posts have been good reading...
About the gnu garbage... I see that attitude is common amongst long
time Solaris
UNIX admin tripivc...@hotmail.com
writes:
I'm using what would pass as junk hardware to many here. Its older
hardware and cheapo cards... but I've had to use PCI sata cards
because OSOL does not recognize my onboard sata controller.
Believe me when I write that I completely understand your
Lurie y...@gmx.co.uk writes:
If they wanted (because they wanted) some revolutionary python based
system like IPS, they could have used rPath's conary, which is in
development since 2004.
You've talked enough about Conary with Stephen Hahn before, so I'm not
going into this again.
Conary?
Henry Pepper henryp...@gmail.com
writes:
Hi
A snv_110 x86 NFS client has a problem with a Linux NFS server.
The mount works fine, but even though the user has the same uid on
both client and server, then the user on the client is not given
access to directories with 770 mode.
It seems
Anon Y Mous system5u...@yahoo.com
writes:
Sorry, that is the wrong type of disk.
Perhaps the latest version will help. Let me get back to you on that.
Dennis
I heard rumors that SMART tools don't work well with most SATA disks / SATA
controllers in Solaris. Anybody know if this is true?
[...]
Dennis wrote:
You can find SMARTmontools at :
i386: http://blastwave.network.com/csw/unstable/i386/5.11/
smartmontools-5.36,REV=2006.09.11-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
sparc : http://blastwave.network.com/csw/unstable/sparc/5.11/
My setup:
Athlon64 2.2ghz 3400+ - AK86-L Aopen mobo (Topped out at 3gb ram)
4 500gb IDE drives on IDE controllers
2 750gb SATA drives on PCI sata controller
(adaptec 1205sa [Sil3112a chip])
Currently: osol-2008.11 build 110
= * = * = * =
[...]
Sorry to
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
/opt/csw/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/rdsk/c5d0s0
smartctl version 5.36 [i386-pc-solaris2.8] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Gackkk... sorry I didn't understand the bit about -T
A mandatory SMART command
My setup:
Athlon64 2.2Ghz 3400+|Aopen AK86-L mobo|(Topped out at 3GB ram)
4 500gb IDE drvs on IDE builtin controllers
2 750 gb Sata II on PCI sata controller
(Adaptec 1205sa (Sil3112a chip)
Currently running: SunOS 5.11 snv_110 i86pc
= * = * = * = * = *
roland devz...@web.de writes:
Original Poster: can you please take a look at cfgadm? Seems like
sil believes disk is still there or gone mad, maybe it cam be solved
by switching it off or marking unconfigured.
i can take a look at the end of the week and will report. anyway -
how can this be
Hans van der Made s...@ukemi.com
writes:
[...]
I don't know which components you've used, and if these parts work
fine in other people's systems, but your description does not breed
confidence in this particular card. Of course, there's also BIOS
settings, firmware, bus mastering problems,
Hans van der Made s...@ukemi.com
writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
Like you, I'm thinking if I'm going to have that much trouble when
pulling a disk, its looking like a large blemish on the usability of
zfs for my NAS server.
I've just checked the archives and it seems like you've had quite
I'm compiling emacs from cvs but am used to doing this on linux where
the ./configure command mostly knows where to look for things like the
developement files for X, and the various X toolkits (like gtk or
motif) used to compile emacs.
Also the development files for handling images. tiff, gif
Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org
writes:
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'm compiling emacs from cvs but am used to doing this on linux
where the ./configure command mostly knows where to look for things
like the developement files for X, and the various X toolkits (like
Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.org
writes:
Setup:
amd Athlon64 2.2Ghz +3400 - Aopen Ak-86 mobo
Can anyone tell me if there is some application that can tell the
temperatures of my harddrives?
Do we have anthing like lm_sensors in the linux world?
Anyway at all short of booting to BIOS?
Setup: Osol.11 build 109
amd Athlon64 +3400 architecture
I'm attempting to replace 2 200gb sata drives with 2 750 gb drives.
All drives concerned are WD.
And the 2 200gb are attached to a:
Adeptec 1205sa PCI sata card (non-raid)
The two existing drives are in a mirror configuration so I
casper@sun.com writes:
As boot up proceeds it gets by the brief memory check that a screen
saying:
Press F3 to enter configuration utility
Primary channel: WDC WD750-blah-bah = my new 750gb drive
Ah, I can't help you there; I don't have a configuration utility for the
disks. Did
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
As boot up proceeds it gets by the brief memory check that a screen
saying:
Press F3 to enter configuration utility
Primary channel: WDC WD750-blah-bah = my new 750gb drive
Ah, I can't help you there; I don't have a configuration utility
Setup: Osol.11 build 109
Athlon64 3400+ Aopen AK-86L mobo
adeptec 1250sa Sata PCI controller card
I'm having trouble with an adaptec 1205sa (non-raid) SATA PCI card.
It was all working fine when I plugged 2 used sata 200gb disks of a
windows xp machine into it. Booted my osol server and added a
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Setup: Osol.11 build 109
Athlon64 3400+ Aopen AK-86L mobo
adeptec 1250sa Sata PCI controller card
I'm having trouble with an adaptec 1205sa (non-raid) SATA PCI card.
Sorry that post was intended for zfs group
Setup:
amd Athlon64 2.2Ghz +3400 - Aopen Ak-86 mobo
Can anyone tell me if there is some application that can tell the
temperatures of my harddrives?
Do we have anthing like lm_sensors in the linux world?
Anyway at all short of booting to BIOS?
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UNIX admin tripivc...@hotmail.com
writes:
You get a 60GB mirror.
I suspected as much, hence my question.
Then, when you remove the 60G disk and your reboot or
export/import the
pool, then it will reevaluate the size of the vdev.
It tried and it worked (and zpool history remembers
how I
Hay, Mausul W mausulw@xerox.com
writes:
/dev/dsk/c0d0s0 | ufsrestore rf -; rm restoresymtable)
However, I have not yet played with ZFS and can't say whether it would
work with it...
Mausul.
Be nice to know, looks handy. But zfs, it turns out has at least two
builtways to get the job
John Brewer jabre...@rochester.rr.com writes:
ZFS Root Mirror
This is a simple Tutorial how you can create a bootable ZFS Root
Mirror with Opensolaris. I had some help from both
Opensolaris-Forums (com/org) and this Blog from Malachi.
And here we go with the Tutorial:
Yes, a nice
casper@sun.com writes:
2) Casper indicated a different 2 step procedure in the event where the
newdevice needs to be bootable. That is the case for me.
I wondered if I might be able to use the first technique anyway:
zpool pool replace olddevice newdevice
And then run
casper@sun.com writes:
[...]
Is there a better way?
Yes.
[...]
zpool pool attach olddevice newdevice (make a mirror)
and later, after a reboot from the new mirror (and after installing grub)
zpool pool detach pool olddevice
Well, I'm still having trouble here. No
Mike Gerdts mger...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
Can I use `dd' for that task or is that likely to have problems with
zfs?
Is there a better way?
Probably so, using zfs to do the copying of only the used blocks.
It goes something like:
1. Physically install the new disk.
2. Partition it as
casper@sun.com writes:
I want to move my OS (rpool) to a different disk. It's all a pretty
new install but I have gotten enough updates and config edits in place
that I'd not like to re-install from 2008.11 101b.
Can I use `dd' for that task or is that likely to have problems with
zfs?
How can make dates on files appear in americanized format?
Instead of
lrwxrwxrwx 1 reader staff 36 2009-03-07 [...]
I'd see:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 reader staff 36 Mar 7 2009 [...]
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Robs r...@sun.com writes:
bash-3.2$ ls -l --time-style=+%b %d %Y
total 407317
-rw-r--r-- 1 robs staff 15171 Nov 15 2008 adblock.txt
drwxrwxrwx 2 robs staff21 Mar 14 2009 addons
drwxr-xr-x 2 robs staff 7 Jan 29 2009 Backups
bash-3.2$ man date
Reformatting page.
Danek Duvall danek.duv...@sun.com writes:
The environment variable LC_TIME (see environ(5)) is supposed to control
that. However, neither /usr/bin/ls nor /usr/gnu/bin/ls seem to do the
right thing, as far as I can tell. GNU ls differentiates between C and any
other locale when using ls -l
Ron Halstead rdhalst...@gmail.com
writes:
To the 'genius' who pared down the shutdown process in snv_110, well
done. I read your writeup in the bug report / CR and thought, if he
can only pull this off. My machine now shuts down in 13 seconds,
down from 60 and it doesn't hang up on
Danek Duvall danek.duv...@sun.com writes:
What do you mean by `C' above. As in:
GNU ls differentiates between C and any other locale when using ls -l
(C gets you the style you want)
The value of LC_TIME, which is the name of one of the locales installed on
your system, as can be
Harry asks:
Is there a better way?
casper@sun.com replies:
Yes.
zpool pool replace olddevice newdevice
System says on, you can use the data and after a while it is done.
If it's a bootable pool, then there might be a problem; you can do it in
two steps:
zpool pool
Danek Duvall danek.duv...@sun.com writes:
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 04:47:16PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
What does it mean if user $LC_TIME returns (nothing
There are three levels of locale-related environment variables.
If LC_ALL is set, it's used for all the locale classes (date/time
I'm attempting to create a mirror of my rpool with the aim of moving
the os to the new disk making it bootable then pulling the original
rpool disk out. And in a few days dropping in a new matching disk for
mirror of rpool once again.
The current rpool resides on a 25 gb partition on a 60 gb
Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org writes:
The problem is that you're setting syntax on *before* you set the
value of t_Co. Move this:
Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors
Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern.
if t_Co 2 || has(gui_running)
I want to move my OS (rpool) to a different disk. It's all a pretty
new install but I have gotten enough updates and config edits in place
that I'd not like to re-install from 2008.11 101b.
Can I use `dd' for that task or is that likely to have problems with
zfs?
Is there a better way?
The
I'm getting close to what I wanted to setup, but in the course of all my
bumping around, experimenting and pestering these lists to death, I've
ended up with zpool on a partition.
But first let me thank this list for your tolerance and patience.
Its a 60gb disk, that I had partitioned
rea...@newsguy.com writes:
My Solaris machine is down for some hardware installs and it's taking me
forever to get it done keep tinkering with other stuff. And had
to return a sata controller, so another few days to wait. I didn't
want to put it all back together until I could add that
Ché Kristo ch...@internode.on.net writes:
Whilst it is an RTFM case I think its a reasonable request that when
distributing the liveCD to have it printed on the CD or CD case.
When it comes to usability its sometimes good to think...what would
Apple do?
Another way to go at is to think...
I hope this hasn't been beat to death here... googling around I'm not
finding clear evidence indicating there is somekind of sensor pkg that
can tell hdd and cpu temps.
Maybe something along the line of lm_senors in the linux world.
I carved a home made fan port in the door of my pc to blow
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Setup:
OS=Opensolaris 2008.11
vim=See full `:version output at the end
I think parts of this thread stayed on gmane.editors.vim or at least I
thought I saw a post here somewhere that asked me to post my vimrc.
In case anyone is still willing to help
Sean Sprague s...@cvok.co.uk writes:
You'd think it might be but if so then :so .vimrc would find the same
problem but it does not... It just works if I do a manual source.
Can you post the contents of your .vimrc somewhere (like pastebin) ?
Egad yes... I should have done that
Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org writes:
It looks like it's opening it just fine. So maybe there's a syntax
error in the file or something causing vim to ignore its contents?
What makes you believe it's being ignored
Greg Palmer gregorylpal...@netscape.net
writes:
[...]
I am beginning to disagree about contents too. I'm way low on the
skill level in unix or Solaris but have run unix or unix like OS for
over 10 yrs, mostly linux but with several months experience with 2 of
the BSDs (open and free) and at
David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net writes:
--
David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/
Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/
Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/
Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
Thanks for the input, glad to hear someone say it isnt just me. I´m
James Carlson james.d.carl...@sun.com writes:
Harry Putnam writes:
I wanted to partition and slice up my disk to be able to work with
raidz. Maybe that isn't really important and all the same stuff
applies to any zpool. I don't know yet... I'm just getting
started.
I'm not sure that's
Lurie y...@gmx.co.uk writes:
Worked fine for me for all builds (now on b109), so you might want
to simply copy it, instead of using a symlink.
Yes, of course I did that right away but it made no difference.
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Brandon Hume hume...@bofh.ca writes:
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:47 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
It worked for me for a while too. But now it doesn't. To test, I
moved the actual actual file into ~/ and as I showed in OP it belongs
to me.
What does truss tell you is happening?
ie: truss -o
I´m about to add a brand new disk to my opensol-108 install and
suddenly realized I did´nt know if I needed to do anything to the disk
once installed.
I don´t have anything but experimental deletable stuff setup yet.
(Aside fromm rpool) but plan to put the new disk and one already
installed (that
Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org writes:
It looks like it's opening it just fine. So maybe there's a syntax
error in the file or something causing vim to ignore its contents?
What makes you believe it's being ignored?
You'd think it might be but if so then :so .vimrc would find the same
Thomas Maier-Komor tho...@maier-komor.de
writes:
If you only have two disks for a new ZFS pool, I'd recommend a mirror
setup instead of a RAIDZ1. I'm not even sure if you can setup two disks
as a RAIDZ1... Anyway a regular mirror will be much faster than a RAIDZ1
and you won't lose any space
Howard Yeh hay...@gmail.com writes:
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:45 PM, stephen bond sten...@go.com wrote:
I have OSolaris 11 with emacs from the IPS.
setting mark by C-space does not work and I have to use C-@ which is very
inconvenient.
Please, help with getting C-space to do its usual job.
Ché Kristo ch...@internode.on.net writes:
I am wondering if the book can be purchased as a PDF, as I am always
where the book is not when I need to reference it :-(
You probably know this already but 2 full chapters are available at
opensolaris sites. There is probably a link at
Setup:
OS=Opensolaris 2008.11
vim=See full `:version output at the end
When I start vim on a file it does not source the ~/.vimrc file.
That file is actually a symlink to the hard file elsewhere.
Permissions are on both slink and hard copy:
ls -l ~/.vimrc:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 reader staff 35 [...]
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
You probably know this already but 2 full chapters are available at
opensolaris sites. There is probably a link at opensolaris.org but I
know for sure there is an obvious link on the left side at
opensolaris.com
Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.com writes:
Dave:
Specifically in the case of partitioning, I think we chose not to
emphasize this as strongly, as ZFS makes it a far less interesting topic
in general; you really want to just be giving it whole disks and making
your life simpler. Perhaps
Can anyone tell me how to get rid of the aggravating `Key Ring' dialog
the jumps up on the opensolaris desktop every time I try to log into a
remote machine via ssh.
I want to do it the simple way and enter my paswwd at the command
line. Don't want to be bothered in anyway by helpful (unhelpful
Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org writes:
But still it does not get sourced when I start vim on a file.
What build are you on? I'm using 106.
I´m on 108
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Emmanuel De Paepe
emmanuel_depa...@yahoo.com writes:
Idem over here.
I paid it only 28.5 Euro, which is an excellent price if you see the '50 US
dollar' on the back of the cover.
The only issue is the quality of the book. I was surprised that Wiley uses
such low quality phone book paper.
I hope this doesn't come over as just more carping, but I'm wondering
if any developers are actively working on making the console login
evironment more efficient?
Are there already ways available to make the console a place where
work can get done quickly and efficiently?
Maybe somekind of
Lingbo Tang lingbo.t...@sun.com writes:
[...]
There must be skilled users who work in console mode extensivley,
maybe someone can give me some tips.
There have been virtual console functionality in solaris kernel. It's
easy to
extend the console environment, like scrollable screen in
Dennis Keane d...@panix.com writes:
The Add button remains Greyed Out. Do I need to add a port number like
the SunFreeware repository? http://pkg.sunfreeware.com:9000/
Or do I have to specify which version I want?
The pkg.opensolaris.org/dev page shows 0.5.11-0.108 as the current
I've been working on getting a working and up to date Osol-11 (101b), now
updated to 208. Now that I have a good start, I need to re-arrange
hardware in the box I intend to use as zfs server.
I want to move the working OS which is on a 60 gb IDE drive to a
similar sized partition on a 250gb
What is the trick to getting a working mouse in console mode.
I last tried at least 5 yrs ago with earlier versions of what became
opensolaris and had major trouble with it. Is that still the case?
I don't remember how or even if I ever solved it.
Strangely a walk through the System
The controller appears on the HCL list
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/components/details/801.html
I don't know enough about hardware to know if a sata controller that
says its 32 bit, will work on a 64 bit Athlon64. Or if that is a a
non-starter.
I have only pci slots to work with and
Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com
writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
What is the trick to getting a working mouse in console mode.
First you write the code to make it work
I'd be a happy camper if I was up to that... so far struggling hard
enough with just the basics.
Sorry
I'm sorry to be sniveling about this but I'm having a heck of a time
finding basic troubleshooting guides.
I've installed from osol-11 101b LiveCd.
Later attempted upgrading to dev.
I used the awkward clunky, slow GUI package manager because I couldn't
make out enough from `man pkg' to feel at
Sorry to ask this here but I'm not finding the info with google.
I find plenty of info about the subject `after install' but I want to
look at discs, use `format' and other things that require root
privileges.
User `jack' apparently does not have such privileges on the opensol-11
install cd.
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Sorry to ask this here but I'm not finding the info with google.
I find plenty of info about the subject `after install' but I want to
look at discs, use `format' and other things that require root
privileges.
User `jack' apparently does not have
James Carlson james.d.carl...@sun.com writes:
I did not find info about where to find any configuration files for
pkg.
There aren't any. Should there be?
I'm not telling pkg where to connect to on the command line. Yet it
knows. Its getting information somewhere... in some sense that is
I'm having a bit of trouble understanding some things about the pkg
system.
man pkg give a lot of info, but some things I'm not finding.
what does an `authority' designation look like (the URL).
Where is that set if not command line (pkg -a AUTH)?
I did not find info about where to find any
James Carlson james.d.carl...@sun.com writes:
Personally, I chose to use this stanza in my .emacs file to avoid
changing the meaning of Alt and Meta for other programs:
(setq x-alt-keysym 'meta)
I haven't found that the above works for the odd changes in the Xorg
server that occurred
James Carlson james.d.carl...@sun.com writes:
[...]
If you're using the OpenSolaris distribution (and it sounds like you
are), then you need to switch to the dev branch to see the newer
builds -- change your authority to http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/;.
If you do that, you should be able
dag.wan...@sun.com (Dag H. Wanvik) writes:
Dieter Kluenter die...@dkluenter.de writes:
and a ~/.xmodmaprc file
keycode 64 = Meta_L Alt_L
this allows Alt+x operations
Personally, I chose to use this stanza in my .emacs file to avoid
changing the meaning of Alt and Meta for other programs:
Aubrey Li aub...@opensolaris.org writes:
[...]
It looks like xorg.conf messed your box up.
Now edit grub menu.lst to the following(remove the first 4 line and
remove console = graphics):
Thanks for the clear succinct answer... got it going now.
Frank van der Linden
Aubrey Li aub...@opensolaris.org writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
Raises another question I've been meaning to ask... how can I use the
pkg tools to get a list of the files a package has installed on the
system. The gui tool seems to show some of it.
Is pkg contents what you need? run
Summary:
I'm having trouble finding advice or a documentation of how to get
inside and repair and install that cannot be booted.
Details:
This is a fairly new install of osol-11 from a recent iso image.
Host is winXP using VMware (VirtualBox freezes the OS repeatedly)
I'd been running the new
I'm hoping some fellow emacs users will be willing to share the
keybindings they use under solaris.
I'm new to solaris but a long time emacs user (although not
particuilarly skilled). Certain keybindings
that are completely integral to my usage such a Alt+x to get the M-x
prompt do not work the
vmware-6.5
osol-11
First let me ask if this group is the place to bring problems with
installing opensolaris as a guest inside vmware on windows XP?
My problem seems pretty severe since after installing from the
osol-11.iso and on reboot, I get a big mess of several different ascii
char with
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
My problem seems pretty severe since after installing from the
osol-11.iso and on reboot, I get a big mess of several different ascii
char with each keystroke. And that is trying to boot from what I
guess is the gui kernel.
Problem not solved
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