Re: [osol-discuss] Measuring average system load with millisecond resolution

2011-03-01 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Kishore Kumar Pusukuri wrote: > >> Hi, >> Using either uptime(1) command or getloadavg(3) system call, we can measure >> average system load with minutes resolution. However, I would like to >> measure average system load (average number

Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.7.0 ready for testing

2010-07-24 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Robert Milkowski wrote: > On 24/07/2010 02:39, Shawn Walker wrote: >> >> On 07/23/10 04:41 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: >>> >>> Why? IPS was shoved down the community's throat in a heavy handed and >>> decidedly not FOSS manner. >> >> Sorry, but that's simply not true

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-24 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Moinak Ghosh wrote: > >>I am taking guesses here but I suspect this boot performance may >>be relative. AFAIK SMF does not restrict the extent of concurrency. >>So if there are 100 non-interdepend

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-23 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Stefan Parvu wrote: > Interesting. Do you have any comparative numbers between > OSOL and others: RHAT, Ubuntu for instance ? > > I had the impression SMF did improve things. As I read your post > it seems, sometimes in past but not anymore ... why is that ? > Pro

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-18 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:41 AM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: >> On 17 Jul 2010, at 18:07, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: >> > One of the biggest problems with all of our >> community distros is that they are not compatible >> with IPS.  This problem is further complicated by the >> fact that Sun's own OpenSolar

[osol-discuss] Fwd: [distribution-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-14 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Mail bounced first time so forwarding again ... -- Forwarded message -- From: Moinak Ghosh Date: Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:45 PM Subject: Re: [distribution-discuss] [osol-discuss] Community distro To: Dennis Clarke Cc: Alan Coopersmith , Open Solaris , distribution-disc

Re: [osol-discuss] [distribution-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-14 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Rob McMahon wrote: > So, let's get positive here. Where do we get started to form a Community > Distro, based on the latest sources including IPS. Not a cut down version, > or replacing the userland (no offence there, that's good work too), just a > take on Sola

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Paul Gress wrote: [...]> > While I believe Oracle is gung-ho about Opensolaris, I don't believe it's in > sync with our views. I believe they would like to close the source if they > can. I'm starting to look at it this way. > > * Oracle is smart > * If I were Or

Re: [osol-discuss] OGB Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head

2010-07-13 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: [...]> >> No one is suggesting that Oracle is doing a good job >> of living up to >> their commitments or communicating their intentions. >> However, they >> hold all of the cards. > > Exactly! I'm probably sounding like a broken record but

Re: [osol-discuss] RAMDISK performance

2010-05-25 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Giovanni wrote: > Hello everybody, I think there might be performance issues with ramdisks (or > I am missing something) and in general with disks > > Test Environment: dual x5570 quad core, 32Gb ram ddr3 1333Mhz, supermicro > board x8dthi, 16 600Gb SAS2 Cheetah

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Distributions

2010-04-20 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Ken Mays wrote: >> >> OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions as of April 19, 2010: >> [...]>> > > Great list! > > I'm a bit confused about the "distribution" meaning that's commonly used in > OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/src in 2010.03 or later?

2010-04-03 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: [..]> If one were to produce a self-hosting source distro, I think it should > take maximum advantage of zfs snapshots/clones; that would allow > easily reverting any change that turned out not to work (provided it > didn't corrupt the zpo

Re: [osol-discuss] Task Queue library

2010-02-21 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Hi Folks, > >   There is a facility in the OpenSolaris kernel called Task Queues that make > it > downright easy to dispatch tasks to threads without having to do the thread > management yourself. This framework is exten

[osol-discuss] Task Queue library

2010-01-30 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Hi Folks, There is a facility in the OpenSolaris kernel called Task Queues that make it downright easy to dispatch tasks to threads without having to do the thread management yourself. This framework is extensively used in the the OpenSolaris kernel and is also used by a ZFS userland library fo

Re: [osol-discuss] Building ON on opensolaris

2009-12-28 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Vikram Hegde wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Has anything changed with building ON ? I followed the current >> instructions on the ON community web-page and had to jump through >> hoops

Re: [osol-discuss] Building ON on opensolaris

2009-12-28 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Vikram Hegde wrote: > Hi, > > Has anything changed with building ON ? I followed the current > instructions on the ON community web-page and had to jump through > hoops to compile the current onnv-clone on OSOL-build 130. This > included installing a bunch of missi

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

2009-12-08 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Jörg Stephan wrote: > Hi there, > > at the weekend i installed OpenSolaris 2009.06 on an AMD Athlon64 X2 5200+ > with 1GB DDR Ram. I wanted to try virtualization with VirtualBox. But i there > where some things i really dont like, maybe you can help me to understa

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] about Secondlife latest viewer on Solaris(OpenSolaris)

2009-11-24 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: > > Ken: > > I just tried the "OSOL 2008.11 and higher" client.  I didn't have a > Second Life account, so I created one at their website. > > Then, when I try to use the client, I enter my username and password > and click the "Connect" button

[osol-discuss] BeleniX 0.8 Beta1 available via the Network Installer

2009-11-03 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Hi Folks, After Belenix 0.8 Alpha which included exciting features such as the Google Widgets, Webkit, and KDE 4.2.4 -- all built with GCC 4.4.0 in addition to Gnome 2.26, BeleniX 0.8 Beta1 is now available with improvements (bug fixes and functionality) to the KDE 4.3.1 desktop and other apps and

Re: [osol-discuss] Error 1 & 2 when compiling GCC 4.4.2 on OpenSolaris 2009.06

2009-10-25 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Pen-Yuan Hsing wrote: > I've been trying to compile, build, and install GCC 4.4.2 in my installation > of OpenSolaris 2009.06 on my VirtualBox 3 i386 machine. But I keep getting > this same error when running make: > > "checking whether ln -s works... yes > check

Re: [osol-discuss] [belenix-discuss] scanner of hp officejet all in one 4288 not working on osol

2009-10-10 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Arun Tomar wrote: > hi! > > i've an hp office jet all in one f4288. the printer gets detected and > works if i configure cups but the scanner doesn't. sane gives the error > > a...@opensolaris:~# scanimage -L > > No scanners were identified. If you were expecting s

Re: [osol-discuss] [belenix-discuss] opensolaris+ipython+readline+autocomplete

2009-10-09 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Arun Tomar wrote: > hi! > [...]> > Well I'll have to search for belenix 0.7 cd from which i don't even get > a GUI. In the meantime i've installed belenix 0.8alpha in a diff. BE on > my osol0906 machine. > > I"m attaching /var/log/Xorg.0.log files from both the BE.

Re: [osol-discuss] [belenix-discuss] not able to create vnic over wlan card

2009-10-08 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Arun Tomar wrote: > hi! > > i was trying to create vnic over my wifi card so that i can use it with > virtualbox for further networking etc, but failed, any help is > appreciated. > > a...@opensolaris:~# dladm show-phys > LINK         MEDIA                STATE    

Re: [osol-discuss] [belenix-discuss] opensolaris+ipython+readline+autocomplete

2009-10-07 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Arun Tomar wrote: > Dear all, > > I've been trying really hard to get this combination working. > > opensolaris 2009.06+ python2.6+ipython with readline and autocomplete > support. If anybody has successfully setup this combination, could you > please share it. > [

Re: [osol-discuss] Minimal OpenSolaris

2009-09-30 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:58 PM, agvk wrote: > Hey Guys, > I created a minimal OpenSolaris ISO using new Distro Constructor. > > But i am getting problem when I try to create boot archive after copying all > stuff from ISO onto the disk. > > # bootadm update-archive -R /zfsroot >

[osol-discuss] KDE 4.3.1 Available on BeleniX

2009-09-23 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Hi, The current 4.3.1 release of KDE is now available on BeleniX 0.8 Alpha. See this link for the details: http://www.belenix.org/content/KDE-431-now-available-BeleniX-08-Alpha. Thanks to the KDE-Solaris team's repo and Fedora Core 11 repository for patches. Currently 0.8 Alpha is only available

Re: [osol-discuss] Basic question about OpenSolaris-derived distributions

2009-09-17 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Jason White wrote: > > I am currently a Linux user but also have an interest in other > free/open-source operating systems. At some point, I would like to try > OpenSolaris. As there now appear to be several distributions under > development, is there a good summa

Re: [osol-discuss] error "unknown domain coordination type 2147483648"

2009-08-31 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Pavel Kovalenko wrote: > after initial load system "hungs" with this error (huge thread of messages), > can anybody help what this error means and how to solve it? I've been > googled, but can't find anything useful. Looks like something to do with CPU power m

Re: [osol-discuss] VLC 1.0.0 is out, but it doesn't compile under osol 2009.06

2009-07-10 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: > Of course I'm not building mplayer as root! Why would I do that? I hardly > ever use su any more, since pfexec is so much more elegant... > > I'm running snv_117 now, since it turns out that I was wrong when I thought > that sound is bro

Re: [osol-discuss] Gparted OpenSolaris

2009-06-26 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 5:12 PM, SERG wrote: > I have the false installation Gparted after install OpenSolaris. I really > dont know why Gparted don't install... > I have downloaded gparted-0.4.5.tar.bz2 > > [quote]gparted-0.4.5 > aclocal.m4    configure.in           help                 m4 > AUTH

Re: [osol-discuss] GCC 4.4: Can we handle it?!?

2009-06-16 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Lurie wrote: >> And you're waiting for the ARC review to do that?  I >> haven't looked too closely but I'm not generally aware >> of any security problems introduced by pfexec in OpenSolaris. > > By default OpenSolaris gives the default user adminstrator privileges

Re: [osol-discuss] random OpenSolaris complaints [was Re: StudioExpress-sol-x86-2009-03-pkg.sh installer woes]

2009-06-12 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:27 PM, James Carlson wrote: > Anon Y Mous writes: >> When are we going to get an "OpenSolaris" server core that is command line >> and text only with no X-windows dependencies? > > The answer depends on when people decide to stop complaining about > missing features in th

Re: [osol-discuss] GCC 4.4: Can we handle it?!?

2009-06-12 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:15 PM, ken mays wrote: > >> Regardless, as long as Sun Studio remains closed, it is >> important that the OpenSolaris community provide a viable, >> up-to-date, open source option as much as possible. >> >> Cheers, >> -- Shawn Walker > > Just so everyone knows, this has no

Re: [osol-discuss] htdig 3.1 for solaris? compilation fails

2009-05-12 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Nico Sabbi wrote: > Hi, > I need to run htsearch (just that, the rest of htdig is totally > useless for my needs) on solaris-x86, but unfortunately I can't > compile it: > > [r...@nodo1: ~/htdig-3.1.6/htfuzzy ]$ make > c++ -o htfuzzy -L../htlib -L../htcommon -L../d

Re: [osol-discuss] Xnomad in OpenSolaris?

2009-04-25 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Ryan Barry wrote: > Sort of raising the dead, but I'm trying to get Xmonad running.  Everything > is fine except... no status bar.  xmobar depends on hinotify, which in turn > depends on the Linux inotify implementation and I cannot for the life of me > get it t

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris and oracle

2009-04-25 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: > If you are going to support 1000-2000 clients, then you should consider > Solaris 10 and not OpenSolaris. OpenSolaris is not that stable as S10 is. For > production S10 is recommended. I advice you to not use OpenSolaris for > 1000-2000 use

Re: [osol-discuss] frustrated in installing Sun Studio 12 in opensolaris

2009-04-23 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Shao Xuan wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks Moinak, now sun studio 12 can be launched with your help by installing > SUNWmfrun. But the sun studio 12 can't display Chinsese characters (I can > only see squares instead of Chinsese characters). The terminal output is as > f

Re: [osol-discuss] frustrated in installing Sun Studio 12 in opensolaris

2009-04-22 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Shao Xuan wrote: > Hi, > > I've been doing "prodreg unregister "Sun Studio 12 software"", then removing > /opt/SUNWspro (since prodreg by itself gives me "Could not find prodreg GUI > program: /usr/dt/bin/sdtprodreg"), and now I can reinstall Sun Studio 12. But

Re: [osol-discuss] Packaging was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > Moinak Ghosh wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Shawn Walker >> wrote: >>> >>> Alexander Vlasov wrote: >>>> >>>> Lurie wrote: >>>> That's w

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg(5) was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > Moinak Ghosh wrote: >> >> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Lurie wrote: >>>> >>>> So modern Linux package managers do not have any  of these qualities ? >>> >>> Some of them ? Of

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > Alexander Vlasov wrote: >> >> Lurie wrote: Yes.. writing an entire package manager from the ground up is *less* work than maintaining the patches. >>> >>> This is called "moving forward", IPS is based on new novel ideas, a >>> s

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Lurie wrote: >> So modern Linux package managers do not have any  of these qualities ? > > Some of them ? Of course. All of them ? No. Just a few points: > 1. They usually upgrade a live system (and while it's possible for some to do > a non-live upgrade, the live

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-04 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Lurie wrote: >> Yes.. writing an entire package manager from the >> ground up is *less* work than maintaining the patches. > > This is called "moving forward", IPS is based on new novel ideas, a secure > package manager without any arbitrary post/pre-install script

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-04 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Lurie wrote: >> and in the end, we have yet-another-package-manager. > > while I agree with you on some of the points, I have to say that I love IPS > and how it uses ZFS, if the code would have been based off some Linux package > manager then the changes would n

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-31 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Zoltan Farkas wrote: > Look at his blog, and you will notice the macOS screen shots, > I attempted to post a comment about how I think as a Sun CEO he should use > every opportunity to promote Sun products... my post was censored and did not > go through... I am

Re: [osol-discuss] ARM port?

2009-03-24 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: > Moinak Ghosh schrieb: >> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:32 PM, C. wrote: >>> Martin Bochnig wrote: >>>>> Would it be possible at all to strip down OpenSolaris enough so that it >>>>> c

Re: [osol-discuss] ARM port?

2009-03-24 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:32 PM, C. wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: >> >>> Would it be possible at all to strip down OpenSolaris enough so that it >>> could fit into 8MB of flash or would that require spinning of an embedded >>> version which makes a lot of compromises? >>> >> >> You might have a l

Re: [osol-discuss] Read/Write NTFS Partitions

2009-03-19 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:36 AM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > Many, if not most, of us still have this misconception that OpenSolaris does > not write on, or even read from, NTFS partitions.  This, of course, is not > true. > > To enable r/w of NTFS partitions, simply download the ASntfs-3g-1.5012 ta

[osol-discuss] [Slightly OT]Re: Phoronix Linux vs OpenSolaris benchmark

2009-02-17 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Rich Reynolds wrote: > shawn - > > while things have changed... the fact that a IPS upgrade from b106 to b107 > involved 600+MB of download tells me that the model is still substantially a > WOS. I can understand that in a substantial upgrade like 2008.05 to .11

Re: [osol-discuss] building and testing OpenSolaris from an iphone

2009-01-12 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Jim Walker wrote: > http://blogs.sun.com/jwalker/entry/test_farm_and_ssh_on > Heh. Welcome to Cloud Computing. Regards, Moinak. -- http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ _

Re: [osol-discuss] Adding memory

2008-10-25 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:31 PM, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a OpenSolaris B99 installation that works well with 2GB memory so I > thought I would increase to 8GB to help zfs, howver the server now loads but > at the login screen there is no text and the mouse/keyboard do not work.

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-23 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moinak Ghosh wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 10/23/08 8:06 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: >>>> >&

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-23 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/23/08 8:06 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: >> What some of the corporate sponsors for the community choose to do with >> their products and trademarks is their rightful decision and community >> members should not expect to hav

[osol-discuss] BeleniX Package Repository now online!

2008-10-14 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Hi Folks, I am pleased to announce that the BeleniX package repository is now online with the spkg package manager client being almost fully functional. It uses the very nice Axel download accelerator to do multi-site chunked downloads. Instructions on installing spkg and getting started with

Re: [osol-discuss] Lisence issue

2008-10-07 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Marcelo Arbore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OpenSolaris is a community. > A while ago the source code of Solaris 10 was donated by Sun, and then a > community was created around that (opensolaris.org). > Now Solaris 10 is one distribution of OpenSolaris source code.

Re: [osol-discuss] any way to access another partition ?

2008-09-25 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Given a disk with a partition table thus : > > Total disk size is 17849 cylinders > Cylinder size is 16065 (512 byte) blocks > > Cylinders > Parti

Re: [osol-discuss] Kernel debugging

2008-08-30 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Mike Aldred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day, > > I've been playing with OpenSolaris a little, and I've installed on my > desktop machine at home (dual booting with Windows), my personal storage > server, and at work for e-mail, etc. > > I've recently had some p

Re: [osol-discuss] Connecting via pppoe

2008-08-18 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Jay Mahadeokar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am following the tutorial here: > http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Connect_Solaris_to_BSNL_DataONE > > What I am not able to figure out is: what will be my INTERFACENAME (please > see the conventions menti

Re: [osol-discuss] GDM session configuration

2008-08-16 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 1:18 AM, andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where are the GDM sessions configured on OpenSolaris 2008.05 and 2008.11? My > googling reveals that most distros have a file /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions but this > isn't present on 2008.11 . I've had a look in the various files in >

Re: [osol-discuss] df doesn't work well with chroot,

2008-08-14 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:27 PM, wan_jm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry: i have mounted all you ask, but it still doesn't work. > /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 4.9G 3.8G 1.1G78%/secroot > /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s4 39G 2.5G37G 7%/secroot/var > /etc/mnttab 0K 0K

Re: [osol-discuss] df doesn't work well with chroot,

2008-08-13 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:15 AM, wan_jm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > could any one give me more help on this topic. > thanks. > Is it a bug? I did the same operation on Solaris9 which give the right result. > > when can I find how to solve it? Can you try all the suggested mounts mentioned in m

Re: [osol-discuss] build 94 panics doing nightly

2008-08-07 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > Ok. From looking at the code, it appears that the system decides it is > too hot > and issues an immediate halt via mdboot(). Using mdb, I changes the > parameters > in the thermal_zone_t (specifically, crt)

Re: [osol-discuss] configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-08-07 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Krenz von Leiberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > I just tried to run configure on gnu sed. > I got this output: > > [quote] > /root/bld/sed-4.1.5# /root/src/sed-4.1.5/configure > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c > checking whethe

Re: [osol-discuss] some command can't be used in chroot,

2008-08-06 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:07 AM, wan_jm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks. resolved. > > another question: can i use chroot to add driver in the virtual system. Yes you can but what is the point ? Chroot does not run a separate kernel. It is just a filesystem jail within the running OS. Re

Re: [osol-discuss] No /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2008-08-05 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Brian Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moinak: > >> Yes VT will help but may not solve this problem I think since there >> will be an >> Xorg already running and another Xorg will refuse to run with >> -configure. Not >> entirely sure though. > > You are ri

Re: [osol-discuss] problem upgrading opensolaris snv93 -> snv_94

2008-08-05 Thread Moinak Ghosh
BTW it is better to just let root be a role and just su to root after logging in via ssh as normal user. Why do you want to ssh directly as root ? Regards, Moinak. On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Moinak Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Tommas

Re: [osol-discuss] problem upgrading opensolaris snv93 -> snv_94

2008-08-05 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Moinak Ghosh wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Tommaso Boccali >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> ciao, I solved. >>> I am n

Re: [osol-discuss] problem upgrading opensolaris snv93 -> snv_94

2008-08-05 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Tommaso Boccali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ciao, I solved. > I am not even sure it was having to do with the update... > > Some time ago I had promoted root from a role to a real user as in > > roottype=role;auths=solaris.*,solaris.grant;profiles=All;lock_afte

Re: [osol-discuss] No /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2008-08-05 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Brian Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Moinak: > > Another way would be simply to boot into single user mode to get to > console. VT is integrating soon into Nevada, I believe, so once that > is integrated users will have a more reasonable mechanism to switch

Re: [osol-discuss] VFS version 5 coming to OpenSolaris?

2008-08-04 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Boris Dušek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I finally managed to find the answer myself: > > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/diff/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/sys/vfs.h?r1=/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/sys/[EMAIL > PROTECTED]&r2=/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/

Re: [osol-discuss] No /etc/X11/xorg.conf

2008-08-03 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 6:58 PM, J.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read this topic > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=199453 because I need > Bulgarian phonetic layout but looks like I have more problems. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11/bin# ./Xorg -configure > > Fatal server

Re: [osol-discuss] [ug-bosug] Inconsistent Filesystem Structure

2008-08-03 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Angad Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (sorry for the cross-posting) > > On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Sriram Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Angad Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I am running OpenSolaris 2008.05. I di

Re: [osol-discuss] SMF and Peoplesoft assistance.

2008-08-02 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Leigh O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been tasked with trying to have SMF monitor our Peopelsoft instance. > In order to start the appserver I used a delivered compile module who, in our > instance starts 44 processes. Is SMF smart enough to recognize i

Re: [osol-discuss] why there is no CDE in solaris Express

2008-07-22 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It's the application that eat the memory. Your list ran happily with 2G >> of RAM (for several weeks) on a very big desktop. Runs until Firefox >> absorbs all the RAM... > >

Re: [osol-discuss] Quietest 6+ drive box for ZFS/rsync

2008-07-20 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 1:46 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for some suggestions here - I am an OSOL noob. I have used Linux > mainly, and some FreeBSD. Originally I planned on using FreeBSD for this, but > am a bit nervous about it's ZFS support, might as well run it on the na

Re: [osol-discuss] root: role or account?

2008-07-14 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Moinak Ghosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> >insecure applications like firefox into /etc/security/exec_attr >> >> >that takes away this to

Re: [osol-discuss] root: role or account?

2008-07-14 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Moinak Ghosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > - Add a new privileges(5) privilege that allows to disallow to use >> >pfexec. >> > >> >

Re: [osol-discuss] root: role or account?

2008-07-14 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > > As there is nothing like OpenSolaris Architecture Design, I take this list > > >> James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Doing this should fix the problem: >> >

Re: [osol-discuss] Any lsof tool for nv ?

2008-07-14 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Has lsof been ported for nevada ? >> It seems that it was not included in the sunfreeware >> nv iso image >> and the Solaris 10 version does not work on nv >> or is there any other tool that can find information >>

Re: [osol-discuss] Live-CD only in 640x480 mode.

2008-07-13 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 6:29 PM, theUser BL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi! > > Yesterday I have buyed a magazine, where on one DVD is OpenSUSE 11 and one > DVD is a XXL version of OpenSolaris: > http://www.heise.de/kiosk/special/ct/08/05/ > > I have not installed OpenSolaris, but have starte

Re: [osol-discuss] running opensolaris on intel with xp

2008-07-11 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Cj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not using vista but XP will I have the same issue then? > Anyone done this with XP? Should work fine with XP. I have used it on many laptops. However as usual I cannot give you a guarantee. Backup your data and backup the

Re: [osol-discuss] [pkg-discuss] samba 3.2.0 on os200805 won't get past configure

2008-07-10 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to figure out .. what is wrong. It could be me or it could > be my system state .. not too sure. > > I cna build samba 3.2.0 on a trusty old Solaris 8 x86 machine without > much fanfare : > [...]> but with os2008

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS on SXCE?

2008-07-05 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:27 AM, Sabeeh Baig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been working with pkgsrc on OpenSolaris and SXCE for a bit, and I can > say from experience that pkgsrc isn't entirely suitable for SXCE, at least > from the ease-of-use point of view. Gilles Dauphin has been doing

[osol-discuss] New BeleniX website now online

2008-07-05 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Hi Folks, I am please to announce that new overhauled BeleniX website on a new server is now online thanks to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the fantastic work of Angad Singh. You can checkout the new website at the usual http://www.belenix.org/ URL. The website is powered by Drupal 5.7 with a new

Re: [osol-discuss] how to make a customed opensolaris img ISO?

2008-07-05 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:06 AM, likaijun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ,everyone. > I want to create a customed opensolaris ISO like NexentaOS. Can someone give > me some suggestion? method ,doc,tools ,env etc? > Several days ago ,I built the opensolaris kernel according to the DOC > "build

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux -> OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/27 W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Folks; >>> >>> another migration-related question: I do have a >>> fairly well sized USB >>> drive to hold data so far to share between Linux, >>> Windows and >>> OpenSolari

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting "rpm" to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:39 PM, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kristian Rink writes: >> Mauro Mozzarelli schrieb: >> > Please, could you expand on your statement? Why would it be a bad >> > idea? To me, it would solve most of the problems we have today with >> > OpenSolaris on having t

Re: [osol-discuss] Can I create a distribution Live CD skip the interactive configuration

2008-06-24 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Chen Jianxun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > When I use a live cd to boot a system. at the beginning of the boot, > system will prompt configure Language. How can I skip this phase and > boot the system directly. Another question is how can I use root login

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-28 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:55 PM, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There is no post-install script facility within IPS >> so you have to run the >> mkheaders script yourself .. for now : > > What!?!?! > > There are no equivalents of pre- and postinstall, no equivalents of pre- and > postre

Re: [osol-discuss] Ready to try again.... but audio card not seen.....

2008-05-19 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Elwood Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just received my openSolaris cd in the mail, so I booted it up... but > just like the one I downloaded and burned, my laptop's audio card isn't seen. > > My card is reported in Ubuntu as: > Multimedia audio control

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot archives

2008-05-15 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Nico Sabbi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> not exactly: boot-archive tends to be very big , while I've never >> seen initrd images larger than 4 or 5 MB. >> Is it possible to shrink boot_archive much much smaller ? >> > > Linux is a static OS while Solaris is ful

Re: [osol-discuss] Are there plans to make more "official" packages available for 2008.05?

2008-05-11 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Helge G. wrote: > Hi, > > yesterday I installed OpenSolaris 2008.05. It works perfectly, but I'm > missing the huge number of packages available for Linux distributions like > Ubuntu or Debian. E.g., I need Ruby with sqlite support. On a Debian or > Ubuntu system (with compilers installed), I co

Re: [osol-discuss] AWN for OpenSolaris

2008-05-08 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Rallavagu wrote: > Do we have a Opensolaris version for AWN? > > https://launchpad.net/awn > It is a simple matter to downloading the source and compiling it. If you want an automated package build just build SFEavant spec file in the SFE repository: http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net

Re: [osol-discuss] Suggestion: Add VirtualBox guest additions to Nevada and Indiana

2008-05-03 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > andrew wrote: > >> Given that Nevada already has mouse and video drivers for VMware, it would >> seem logical to add the equivalent drivers for VirtualBox to Nevada. It >> would also be nice to have them in Indiana as well. >> >> Is this in the pipeline? >> > > N

Re: [osol-discuss] Shutting down PC

2008-03-22 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Emmanuel De Paepe wrote: > I disabled the service but it didn't help. > For now I have only tried it for Solaris Express. > > It is a strange error, since when I perform an 'init 6' it always reboots. > In my opinion this means that the OS is shut down correctly, except the > powering off is missin

Re: [osol-discuss] How to edit files inside a ISO-image?

2008-03-18 Thread Moinak Ghosh
sunil wrote: > Hey Tulsa, > Can you please specify the exact parameters you provided to mkisofs for > modifying the Nevada x86 iso. I have not been able to get this to work. The > iso gets created but when i again try to lofi mount it it complains about it > not being a hsfs format. > > I am at

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-02-14 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Simon Phipps wrote: > > On Feb 14, 2008, at 14:23, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > >> Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> Moinak Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>> However, it should be noted that the Solaris port of VirtualBox is >&g

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-02-14 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Moinak Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> However, it should be noted that the Solaris port of VirtualBox is only a >>> beta, and it came out, AFAIK, only yesterday. I am sure there are many >>> loose ends t

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-02-13 Thread Moinak Ghosh
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: >> Attached is a screenshot showing Indy2 running in >> SXDE4 under VirtualBox. >> > > I know I am getting carried away, but-- > > I used to work in Exxon's Prudhoe Bay field (at that time it was producing > close to 2 million barrels of oil a day). Located near the Arc

Re: [osol-discuss] Software Change was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-05 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Shawn Walker wrote: > [...] >> But when the program that manages automatically mounting removable media >> was integrated and required these API's, libraries, and daemons, I think >> it should have been obvious to move them to some other more 'system >> level' package and not allowed to stay in lar

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