reboot
your main box or X crashes and takes down the box... gui software is not as
stable as it used to be. Its basicly a set it and forget it solution that
will run for months with out a hick-up.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
___
opensolaris-discuss
recurring work thanks to Solaris stability
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
nacho
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris
On 5/24/07, Brian Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe the kernel modules have been open sourced, so they can be
ported
if you are enough of a solaris/linux kernel module guru. But at
least it
wont require much recurring work thanks to Solaris stability
I was under the (quite possibly
Solaris and Linux boxes
to be the server for the home direcories.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
On 4/10/07, Manoj Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
On a box where Solaris has been freshly installed, one sees this behavior.
-bash-3.00# useradd manoj
-bash-3.00# tail -1 /etc/passwd
manoj:x:100
blog and my activities on
#opensolaris and #solaris as well as posting to numerous email lists and
filing many bug reports. Just thought I would bring it to your attention.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
On 3/5/07, Simon Phipps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nominations for the forthcoming
drives are not cheap and are hard to find used.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
February 2007 Selection: LSARC Chair of the Month Club
per
drive max.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
This message posted from opensolaris.org
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
about 2 guys using vmware in the trenches, they claim to save
at least 50% of the costs by using vmware + sunrays and sun e4600 servers.
http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2007/01/sun-ray-x4600-vmware-esx-stories-from.html
James Dickens
http://uadmin.blogspot.com
The whole idea got thrown in the trash
On 2/3/07, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
don't want anything that is in Solaris. A number of core
Linux developers have said we can't use ZFS because of the way its
implemented. Even more Linux developers have decided that they are doing
have so much re-occurring cost. This is something you
should
consider more than what license we have.
+1 how ever can be done, as long as it happens.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
--
Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group
Advocate of insourcing at Sun - hire people
, and workstations such as a little brother to the u40 and u20.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
Regards,
Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT
OpenSolaris.Org Community Advisory Board (CAB) Member - Apr
On 1/16/07, Robert Milkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello James,
Monday, January 15, 2007, 10:14:31 PM, you wrote:
JD On 1/15/07, Martin Bochnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James C. McPherson wrote:
Despite the years of experience with ZFS and how it uses kmem...
IMNSHO the bottom
task, it takes up to
30-45 seconds till i get the box to respond to a carridge return in a
shell. The only hope of getting anywhere decent performance with a u10
is to max out its memory.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
Performance would be the next question (while he did not ask it).
He should
2 2 0 0 0 189 0 0 1082 1836 1156 7 18 75
0 0 0 1210616 141480 33 288 145 0 0 0 0 0 21 0 0 573 909 536 2 5 93
0 0 0 1211288 142048 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 526 427 442 2 7 91
enterprise:catdoc-0.94.2#
it still handles it quite nicely.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
ZFS i highly recomend maxing out
the ram in the ultra 10 to 1GB. A 80GB ide drive should be easy to
fine. Though the ide controller in the ultra 10 is not the best
quality its good enough to learn on.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
Thanks
Andrew.
This message posted from opensolaris.org
that has been in business for about
15 years and have been in enterprises almost all of them. oracle linux is a
free download, no need to purchase a support contract untill the project
goes live.
James Dickens
I mean this is just insane. Don't tell me people actually fork out that sort
of money
On 11/1/06, David Van Couvering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to propose the formation of a new Open Solaris communityfocused on databases within Solaris.The charter of this communitywould be to provide a forum for discussion of all things databaseswithin the context of Solaris:
On 10/26/06, Alta Elstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does the Solaris OS support your x86 PCI devices?Your answer may be only a click away with the newa href="" href="http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html">http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html
Sun DeviceDetection
On 10/26/06, Gavin Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HiOn 10/25/06 10:24, Gino Ruopolo wrote: Hi All, - THIS IS NOT A FLAME!! --I'll take your word for it :-) I'm doing some serious comparison to decide what to do with some old USIII 900 servers.
What do you mean by the 900?900MHz US-III -
Sorry if this is a bit off topic, perhaps it will help a few people find the anwser they need so it may reduce the traffic on this email list.
I decided to try out Google's new custom search, it allows you
give priority to sites you choose. So you find the answers you want quicker. I have
On 10/19/06, David Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,I intend to run Solaris Community Edition or Solaris 10 for my desktopsystem and to purchase a system from Sun.I am, though, finding it difficult to determine if I should go for aSparc Ultra IIIi solution or an AMD Opteron solution.
For
On 10/19/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 19, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: Shao Wu wrote: For persnal use, I would suggest to go with AMD -- you can swap the processor at a later time for a faster cpu or for quart-core
chips without replacing the machine.Just make
-based business desktops?
But Solaris still doesn't work on AM2 type motherboards. (Or does it?)
some of sun's servers and desktop have been released with m2 versions
(am2) and the rest are on the way... so yes it supprts some am2 mother
boards
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
This message
of vmware server.
haven't booted b46 solaris express yet on it
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
I mean .. before I get to it tonight ? :-)
--
Dennis Clarke
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
On 8/28/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I created this blog entry
http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/08/day-in-life-of-solaris-11-admin.html
it gives a look at the day of an OpenSolaris admin, in the future, if
you are bored, or need an anwser to why use opensolaris for a
and SX releases
at all. Even in the least degree.
the difference between SXCR and SX is about 2 weeks ;-p, SXCR is
released every two weeks or so in an ideal world, and SX is released
every month. So SXCR has the latest bits you can get all in a
precompiled release.
James Dickens
in the
spirit of true open source.
If that is there opinion, IBM has played the game as well, with Linux.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
We have been very happy to get directly involved and contribute to
Linux and Apache and the Eclipse Foundation. with We're not going to
open-source AIX. It's
a valuable tool for NFS performance diagnosis
and
adapting data management policies to I/O workloads.
sounds awesome
+1
i can finally figure out why unix services for windows sometimes takes
for ever to display a nfs mounted file system. :-)
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
Team Members
Piyush
On 6/19/06, Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's something to try for fun: After a long thread on
opensolaris-discuss finally peters out, sort it by sender and count how
many people from the project in question participated. Usually very few --
even none. So what the heck is this
This project started out because of this thread,
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=10137tstart=0
I was trying to add some community software to the Solaris Express
Community release. Since the consensus was that it would be better if
we added them to Nevada aka Solaris express
On 6/19/06, Stephen Harpster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What you're proposing is the Companion CD. Check out the
a href=http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/companion/;Companion
Project/a.
You can add the stuff you want there where it will automatically show up in
Solaris
Express.
not
these could be
added to the Solaris Express Install quite painlessly before each
Solaris Express Community Release Drop.
New users and converts are turned off by saying go download foo. To
make Solaris work the way they expect it to behave.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
On 6/17/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
On 6/17/06, Ben Rockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On 6/17/06, Ben Rockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James Dickens wrote:
All 5 current distrobutions are currently handicaped. There are lack
the ability of including close bits that are included by Solaris
Express. Untill everything is open it has advantages that no other
distrobution can
.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
Gavin
___
networking-discuss mailing list
networking-discuss@opensolaris.org
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
a disk or remove a nic, and the
system breaks, its currently a robust system lets keep it that way.
UNIX gives you enough rope to shoot your self in the foot, but it
doesn't mean we don't have to learn to load the gun or tie a knot.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
- automatic discovery of new
systems. It needs 100 copies of the jumpstart scripts because
each system has it own WWN for the root device. However, only one copy
is needed if root device has a generic name.
I didn't notice anyone saying that /dev/dsk/root couldn't exist, it
just has to exist with the current solution.
James
a couple days ago solaris10U2 would be during this
quarter during its network computing presentation. There quarter ends
in June.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
_Felix Schulte
_|_|_ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(0 0)
ooO--(_)--Ooo
in the future.
+1. -- justin
+1 i agree
if those people that don't like the [ ] tags they can adjudst there
filters to remove them.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
laptop for a thousand instead of the white box.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
so since i can't decide, lets vote on what i should buy and i'll post pics
and opensolaris screenshots when i get it!
This message posted from opensolaris.org
be done on Blastwave's servers but the
Blastwave brand name will be dead and Dennis will get left footing the
bill for this projects dreams.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
Thank you.
Stefan Teleman
--
Stefan Teleman
[EMAIL PROTECTED
the OpenSolaris community to do all the work and
bless it over the pre-existing community.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
Personally, I believe that an apology is owed to, at the minimum, Keith
and Steven.
benr.
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
to understand how it is that someone
can grab the source for all of blastwave and rebuild it on their
own machine. Is that possible? Planned?
yes its planned, a subversion repository is being setup and will be
ready for code to be added to it shortly.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
: it would help new converts and old unix gurus have access to an
extra level of safety and security, no namespace conflicts
Cons: adds one more filename to /usr/sbin, and uses dozen or bytes on
the filesystem
if no one disagrees too much, i will be filing an RFE for this later today.
James Dickens
are today.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
So what makes the difference? What do others do?
- BMW talks about Fahrvergnügen, which is actually a German word, but
people seem to like it.
- Apple doesn't talk at all, they only have some dancing persons
- Marlboro - I think this cowboy died
this include zfs boot or not?
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
stephen lau // [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net
opensolaris // solaris kernel development
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
On 2/25/06, Walter Craig Bunton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need some advice about the reality of setting up a Solaris 10 system for my family and friends. Essentially, I have all sorts of people around me that use computers but are lousy system administrators. They get viruses, don't backup, have
On 2/23/06, Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James Dickens wrote: On 2/22/06, Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Octave Orgeron wrote: [snip] I'm very happy to see the new Ultra20 and Ultra40 workstations, they
offer a lot of nice features at a more reasonable price. It's great
.
or better yet, prstat maybe even with -L to get a report on which
threads are using all the cpu. prstat also uses less CPU and resources
than top.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
Ian
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss
ZFS + samba as easy as ZFS + NFS is today, so that
solaris intergrates as well with the M$ world as it does with
Linux/Unix.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
Phil
This message posted from opensolaris.org
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
different from what Solaris does, they
conduct formal code reviews, have people test so the bugs don't eat
your data. Yet they still have features that Linux won't have for
years.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
Here is another example, Grandma calls and says my computer isn't
working. With Solaris
on the subject
http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2005/02/youre-never-far-from-home.html
its a bit different, to get started but it ends up being a very
powerful and flexible system once you get used to it, especially in
places with more than one computer.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
This message posted from
that are
new in comparison.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
This message posted from opensolaris.org
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing
. But they will each have to deal there own
security problems outside of the kernel and combined packages. Check
each site for more details on that.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
Robert
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss
oops meant this to go to the full list
-- Forwarded message --
From: James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Nov 26, 2005 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris - Why should I care? More questions.
To: Robert Glueck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/26/05, Robert Glueck [EMAIL
On 11/26/05, Robert Glueck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James Dickens wrote:
Solaris 10 and Solaris Express and Solaris Express
Community build are availible free for both SPARC, x86/x64
If you want the source... opensolaris is what you want.
OK, Solaris 10, Solaris Express, Solaris
damm i did it again... meant this to go to the full group
-- Forwarded message --
From: Gregory Benjamin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Nov 26, 2005 8:44 PM
Subject: [osol-help] Solaris Express build 27 screen res was 1600x1200
now 640x480
To: opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
I set
snapshot if she has deleted some important file.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
This message posted from opensolaris.org
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
?
This will be 100% open and free-of-any-charge easy-to-install easy-to-use
distribution. Coming out soon!
is there an iso to get started testing?
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
For Developers
==
There are probably very few projects that can come anywhere close to Nexenta
On 11/2/05, Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 23:25 -0600, James Dickens wrote:
3) Developer's portal at http://www.gnusolaris.org - fully functional,
with
downloads, APT repository, discussion forums, developer's hack zone, bug
database, blogs, and numerous
it is!Giving reasons for the differences creates more understanding.
just my 0.001 cent
that is explained in my blog entry
http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2005/02/youre-never-far-from-home.html
including information on how to set it up for sharing on linux and
servers.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
oops meant that to go the the list as well
-- Forwarded message --
From: James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Oct 30, 2005 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Installation Issues on Pentium III 128 MB PC
To: Ashish Banerjee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 10/30/05, Ashish Banerjee [EMAIL
than a sparcstation. You can also
visit #opensolaris and #solaris on freenode.net for interactive help.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
it 90 miles north to milwaukee, where a pilot member
resides? ;-) If not i will make plans to attend in Chicago.
James Dickens
opensolaris pilot member
uadmin.blogspot.com
Eric
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
years of using it.
Reserfs on the other hand, has screwed up files on clean shutdowns,
and this was the stable version So it basicly is removed from my
consideration.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
okay meant to cc the list
On 9/10/05, James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/10/05, Octave Orgeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I agree that this would be worth looking at. A union style FS or as
they call it in the linux world copy-on-write (even thought that
should
, they are sending them out in batches grouped by zipcode
either the first 3 or 5 digits of the zip code, so they get the best
rates from the U.S.P.S.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
--
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member
President,
Rite Online Inc.
Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL
i have heard others in the 53XXX zip code areas got there's as well...
so keep the faith they are coming and they look really nice
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
/3 is what people
need. XFS/JFS would be damned nice.
benr.
Felix Schulte wrote:
On 9/4/05, James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/3/05, Felix Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone at Sun yet thought about porting ReiserFS to OpenSolaris?
Not for booting
some day i will remember to click reply all not just reply :-)
On 9/3/05, James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/3/05, Felix Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone at Sun yet thought about porting ReiserFS to OpenSolaris?
Not for booting but having a way to share partitions
oops meant to paste to the group.. some day i will do it right the first time
On 9/1/05, Victor Feng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, all,
This is brand new box with standard installation. O.S.5.9 9/04. Auto_home is
on in auto_master file. Out of curiosity, why is the user not permitted to go
ignoance.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
to be lacking, It is time to increase
choices and keep the community growing not for sun to steam roll the
community.
I for one will not support a community of freeware that is created
without a full discussion and a vote.
James Dickens.
marilyn
---
Marilyn Shoemaker
Solaris Program
users that are comming in from Linux.
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
___
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss
oops meant that to go to everyone.
On 8/22/05, James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/22/05, W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most if not all of the technical questions posted on this forum are left
unanswered, but Sun's engineers do find time to engage in non-technical
to read a document many pages long instead of anwsering
his question.
You and many other people in this list use infinitely long linesthat are close to impossible to read.
most other people use a email client that breaks lines automaticly making the best use of a gui interface.
James Dickens
sorry meant this to go to group as well On 7/30/05, James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/30/05, ahmet a a [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Well,
i am an absolute beginner to solaris (and unix), so my problems might
bore you. i am stubborn, i want to learn Solaris. ok here i go.i
have installed
distro's and individuals that might be interesting
in working on this project. As an individual if you got involved you
could do step one or two on a package and get it admitted into the
repository for everyone to use, instead of helping one group you could
help everyone.
The Dreamer,
James Dickens
, if everyone is using the same base
libraries,
it should be easy to symlink from a community location even if
you have to have one version for packages compiled with gcc and another
that are compiled with Sun Studio, 2 is still better 4 or 8.
sincerely
James Dickens
uadmin.blogspot.com
On 7/14/05, ken mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/14/05, ken mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope that this short review will help to
understand the problems of us OpenSolaris developers
oops meant that to go to the list as well
On 7/9/05, James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
when you are in the OBP, ok prompt execute probe-scsi-all and it
will list all scsi drives that are attaached to or installed in the
box. if it comes back with 0 drives or an error you may need
oops meant this to go to everyone -- Forwarded message --From: James Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Jul 7, 2005 9:35 AMSubject: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Qemu (was Re: Solaris vs. Linux)To: Jürgen Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 7/7/05, Jürgen Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apropos qemu
83 matches
Mail list logo
