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[osol-discuss] why osol loses it DHCP ip?

2009-11-06 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, I have an OSOL-2008/11 (maybe) that I can't update because pkg is broken (python errors after an unhappy update) and that I can barely access (they are vmware virtual machines). The problem I have is that the dhcp settings get irregularly lost: sometimes twice a day, sometimes never for week

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

2009-07-10 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Friday 10 July 2009 06:44:02 Alex Viskovatoff wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > (I understand that if code gets sufficiently close to machine > level, then the code must be modified to work on a different OS. > (For example, I've ported SBCL (Steel Bank Common Lisp) from x86 > Solaris to AMD64 So

Re: [osol-discuss] broken pkg

2009-06-19 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Friday 19 June 2009 11:27:53 Shawn Walker wrote: > On Jun 19, 2009, at 2:54 AM, Nico Sabbi wrote: > > Hi, > > after I don't know what operation pkg in a Osol 2008-11 virtual > > machine stopped working. I had this kind of errors: > > ... > > so, how can I

[osol-discuss] broken pkg

2009-06-19 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, after I don't know what operation pkg in a Osol 2008-11 virtual machine stopped working. I had this kind of errors: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 2228, in ? __ret = main_func() File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 2171, in main_func return catalog_refresh(mydir, pa

[osol-discuss] Zone can't talk to Foundry ServerIron XL load balancer

2009-05-14 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, for days I've been struggling to understand what's going on but I can't find a solution. I installed Apache on a zone but I can't make it talk with a FoundryNet ServerIrol XL (a load balancer) because, as far as I can see with wireshark, the zone doesn't even receive the control packets tha

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

2009-05-12 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 14:11:43 Chad Kellerman wrote: > 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'

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

2009-05-12 Thread Nico Sabbi
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../db/dist -L/usr/lib Endings.o EndingsDB.o Exact.o Fuzzy.o Metaph

[osol-discuss] How to monitor load averages with zones?

2009-05-06 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, I need to monitor cpu load averages of both the global and the local zones, but I'm experiencing some problem -in the GZ I can't find an option to report cpu and memory usage of the single processes when running prstat with -Z -if I understand correctly the cpu load of each LZ is actually t

[osol-discuss] 64 bit perl for solaris?

2009-04-24 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, I'm trying to install apache+mod_perl+mod_php in a fully 64 bit environment, but apparently I can't proceed because every single version of perl around for solaris (sun's, blastwave's, webstack's) is compiled exclusively in 32-bit mode. I even had to manually patch the makefiles in mod_per

Re: [osol-discuss] Can mysql be slower in a zone?

2009-04-10 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Friday 10 April 2009 17:42:43 Johan Hartzenberg wrote: > Hello Nico > > When you see the slow performance, what do you see which you define > as slow? What exactly are you measuring? > > When looking at the basics (CPU, IO, MEM) where do you expect the > bottle neck to be? > > look at > prstat

Re: [osol-discuss] Can mysql be slower in a zone?

2009-04-10 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Friday 10 April 2009 16:19:28 Mike DeMarco wrote: > You should only see a very little performace hit when using zones. > Maybe 1 or 2 %. Are you using exclusive NIC to move the TCP stack > down into the zone? Have you tuned the zone for mysql? > What disk do you have the zone OS on? > Do you hav

[osol-discuss] Can mysql be slower in a zone?

2009-04-10 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, I have mysql running in a V20 equipped with 4 GB ram and a hardware raid card, but confined in a zone. It's the only application running, basically the server is all dedicated to mysql. Is it possible that mysql runs slower just for being in the zone? I mean, if I moved it to the global zone

[osol-discuss] How to know how much memory a running process can use?

2008-07-17 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, the subject says everything: mysqld says that it can't allocate more memory, but I didn't set any limit on its virtual memory. How can I know how much memory it can use and it's acqually using? rcapd is not running, if it's of any use. Thanks, Nico

Re: [osol-discuss] Music and Video

2008-07-01 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Tuesday 01 July 2008 11:30:03 Sergio Enrique Schvezov wrote: > I have the build env setup, have installed/compiled many packages. > But I ran into many problems with mplayer (still working on it), if > I were still a student I would of had it by now, but I can't take > that much time away from

Re: [osol-discuss] How a (wrong) accent can lock y ou out of your server

2008-06-12 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Thursday 12 June 2008 13:26:38 Petr Hruska wrote: > yes compose key is an option, you can look at possible combinations > at: > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2521/new-21?l=en&a=view&q=comp >ose http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-2521/6mi67tj51?l=en&a=view > > however might happen that i

[osol-discuss] Why are mysql and postgres compiled as 32 bit?

2008-05-30 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, out of curiosity: why aren't there 64bit binaries of mysql and postgres in OpenSolaris? They are compiled and installed as 32bit binaries even when the OS is installed in 64bit mode. I thought that if there are applications than actually benefit from a larger address space they are DBMS.

Re: [osol-discuss] How a (wrong) accent can lock you out of your server

2008-05-23 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Friday 23 May 2008 15:20:12 you wrote: > 2008/5/23 Nico Sabbi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > I'd like to point out this stupidity in the localization of > > scp/ssh, that can have *VERY* dangerous consequences (like being > > locked out of your serve

[osol-discuss] How a (wrong) accent can lock you out of your server

2008-05-23 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, I'd like to point out this stupidity in the localization of scp/ssh, that can have *VERY* dangerous consequences (like being locked out of your server). At the first connection ssh asks you if you want to continue the connection towards an unknown host, but the italian-localized version accept

[osol-discuss] A couple of problems with zones in Opensolaris SXDE 01/08

2008-05-16 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, it's the second time that after having installed and booted a zone in SCDE 01/08 I experience these 2 problems: - sysidtool:net hangs there forever locking all following services (I could unlock it only removing /etc/.UNCONFIGURED and rebooting the zone) . The log didn't say anything more us

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot archives

2008-05-15 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Thursday 15 May 2008 11:13:21 you 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

Re: [osol-discuss] Boot archives

2008-05-15 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 22:28:18 andrew wrote: > You shouldn't really be cutting it that fine with UPS shutdown. The > boot archive is a compressed version of Solaris including all of > the drivers it need to boot the kernel on your machine. Once the > kernel is booted, it can then access the file

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't update date in zone

2008-05-07 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 17:10:20 Peter Tribble wrote: > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Nico Sabbi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > in the global zone I can't update my time: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> LANG=C LC_ALL=C date 1046.00 > >

[osol-discuss] Can't update date in zone

2008-05-07 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, in the global zone I can't update my time: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> LANG=C LC_ALL=C date 1046.00 date: Not owner usage: date [-u] mmddHHMM[[cc]yy][.SS] date [-u] [+format] date -a [-]sss[.fff] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> while in the global zone I

Re: [osol-discuss] DHCP with update of 2 DNS servers?

2008-05-05 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Monday 05 May 2008 13:11:22 Nico Sabbi wrote: > Hi, > I need to configure a DHCP server in order to update not only the > DNS on the same host but also a secondary DNS on a different host > of the same subnet (yes, paranoia is at work ... ) . > Problem is that only the DNS on t

[osol-discuss] DHCP with update of 2 DNS servers?

2008-05-05 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, I need to configure a DHCP server in order to update not only the DNS on the same host but also a secondary DNS on a different host of the same subnet (yes, paranoia is at work ... ) . Problem is that only the DNS on the same host is updated. This is the relevant portion of dhcpd.conf: ddns-

Re: [osol-discuss] Mysql's Innodb immensely slow on ZFS

2008-04-10 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Thursday 10 April 2008 02:21:36 you wrote: > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Nico Sabbi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - limiting zfs's usage of memory to 256MB (appending to > > /etc/system set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 0x800 > > and rebooting, hopefully I

Re: [osol-discuss] Mysql's Innodb immensely slow on ZFS

2008-04-05 Thread Nico Sabbi
Il Saturday 05 April 2008 12:23:19 Lurie ha scritto: > http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-zfs.html > > that is the first document I read, but none of the tips helped in any way. I forgot to mention that I disabled the doublewrite, but without any improvement ___

[osol-discuss] Mysql's Innodb immensely slow on ZFS

2008-04-05 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, yesterday I installed Solaris 01/08 on a Sun's server with two 2Ghz Opterons and 2 GB ram (I don't remember the model of the server but it's one of those 1U rack-mountable servers with -hideous- rocket-loud fans that never slow down, maybe VX2200 ? ) I configured the bundled Mysql 5.0.xx to

Re: [osol-discuss] Authoring an HD DVD

2008-02-15 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Friday 15 February 2008 05:06:12 Francois Dion wrote: > Alright, I know some might say heresy, Sun is a Bluray partner and > all, but I'm looking at the following. > > I'm currently archiving my non HD video recordings to DVD-R. I have > 2 DVD burners on my sun box. Using a script that takes wha

Re: [osol-discuss] Tab auto-completion doesn't work?

2008-01-30 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 10:40:09 UNIX admin wrote: > > I just come to solaris from linux, and find Tab > > auto-completion doesn't work in console. > > why? > > Because on Solaris, the default shell for root is /sbin/sh. > > This can be fixed very simply: > > # exec tcsh -l > > And [TAB] compl

Re: [osol-discuss] Tab auto-completion doesn't work?

2008-01-30 Thread Nico Sabbi
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 09:31:49 Richard Zhao wrote: > I just come to solaris from linux, and find Tab auto-completion > doesn't work in console. why? > > because the default shell isn't bash. run bash or ask your sysadmin to change it definitely in /etc/passwd (doesn't Solaris have chsh? ) _

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform RC3 available

2008-01-28 Thread Nico Sabbi
Il Monday 28 January 2008 05:58:00 MC ha scritto: > > Nexenta Core Platform (NexentaCP) RC3 is available > > I find that NexentaCP has quickly grown into my favorite > OpenSolaris distribution. I believe it set out to be a basic "core > platform", and it has succeeded impressively at that. > > I b

[osol-discuss] chrooting ftp users?

2008-01-23 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, is there a way to configure the ftp server in Solaris in such a way that users be automatically chdir-ed to their home directory and that they see it as / ? I don't care if ftpd actually calls chroot() or not. I tried to set some option in /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess, but with miserable results (I fin

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta/Debian APT integrated with ZFS now...

2007-12-22 Thread Nico Sabbi
Il Saturday 22 December 2007 01:12:46 hai scritto: > > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 16:20 +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote: > > Il Wednesday 19 December 2007 23:57:07 Erast Benson ha scritto: > > > > I've just installed NCP 1.0test3 and updated/upgraded it with > > the unstable

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta/Debian APT integrated with ZFS now...

2007-12-20 Thread Nico Sabbi
Il Wednesday 19 December 2007 23:57:07 Erast Benson ha scritto: > Hi All, > > This is the road to NCP 1.0... > > Our motto: > > """Ubuntu makes best Debian Desktop platform - Nexenta makes best > Debian Server/Storage platform.""" > > Some latest Nexenta related news: > > 1) Official Nexenta Core P

Re: [osol-discuss] Does Solaris has similar Linux command "mount -o"

2007-12-12 Thread Nico Sabbi
Il Wednesday 12 December 2007 16:29:05 Kyle McDonald ha scritto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> #!/usr/bin/bash > >> mkdir $2 > >> lofiadm -a $1 /dev/lofi/1 > >> mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 $2 && echo -e "\n\t I have > >> mounted $1 under the folder $2\n\n" > > > > You should realize that "lof

Re: [osol-discuss] problem installing mplayer and vlc

2007-12-04 Thread Nico Sabbi
premise: I had to hand-edit by hand, sorry for breaking the thread :) vineet kumar vineet7kumar at gmail.com wrote: >Hi, > I am using SXDE build 76 (64 bit) on intel x86. >I tried to install mplayer and vlc . > >[u]problems with mplayer:[/u] > >I got the mplayer source MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2 >I

Re: [osol-discuss] pointers on compiling drivers for nics?

2007-11-12 Thread Nico Sabbi
Il Saturday 10 November 2007 10:12:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > >sys/common/sys/mac.h > >sys/common/sys/mac_ether.h > >sys/common/sys/mac_impl.h > >sys/common/sys/mac_wifi.h > > > >These and similar files were not part of the tool chain on the > > DVD. (In fact, the tool chain on the DVD seem

Re: [osol-discuss] Default media player? Change would be good

2007-11-06 Thread Nico Sabbi
Il Tuesday 06 November 2007 17:24:48 Mike DeMarco ha scritto: > How do you change the default media player out from being Totem. > Not that there is anything wrong with Totem (except that it will > not play any file type I try.) I would like to be able to change > the default to point to xine or xm

Re: [osol-discuss] eclipse-SDK-3.3.1.1-solaris-gtk-x86.zip

2007-10-31 Thread Nico Sabbi
Il Wednesday 31 October 2007 09:18:56 Clarence CHU ha scritto: > Dear All, > > please find the file > http://compass.com.hk/eclipse-SDK-3.3.1.1-solaris-gtk-x86.zip for > your opensolaris/x86 distributions. it's just not on > download.eclipse.org. > > it requires jdk1.6.0, as every europa distribut

Re: [osol-discuss] Eradicating sendmail - risky?

2007-10-30 Thread Nico Sabbi
Il Tuesday 30 October 2007 16:04:24 Dennis Clarke ha scritto: > It is real tough to argue with the stability of SendMail though > isn't it ? of course, but... > Once you get the config done and you compile the .cf > file this is the point: I can't accept to waste hours just to compile macro

[osol-discuss] Eradicating sendmail - risky?

2007-10-30 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, after many years of tears I could never get accustomed to the pain of sendmail, thus I'd like to eradicate it from all my solaris boxes (as I did in all my linux boxes) in order to replace it with postfix. Is it risky? Is there any reason why I shouldn't do it? Is there anything unexpected tha

Re: [osol-discuss] Writing DVD +/-R DL

2007-09-05 Thread Nico Sabbi
Douglas Atique wrote: >I have tried writing my first DVD double layer with a 6.8GB iso image using >cdrw in SXCE b70. It seems not to be supported. Is this a known limitation? >Should I file a bug? Is there a workaround? >Sorry for posting this here, but I found no other list that would suit the

Re: [osol-discuss] DVB support

2007-08-24 Thread Nico Sabbi
homerun wrote: >Hi > >Just like to start discussion is there others than me like to get DVB support >to solaris. >i mean similar like "http://linuxtv.org/"; >So support and api's for DVB broadcasts and hardware > >Thanks > > I'd love to see support for DVB hardware in solaris, whether with lin

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-08 Thread Nico Sabbi
Joerg Schilling wrote: >Nico Sabbi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>can I suggest considering the following items? >>1) a current, working and maintained port of eclipse >>2) kde (much more powerful, lightweight and usable than gnome, IMO) >>3) the Re

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-07 Thread Nico Sabbi
Alan DuBoff wrote: >The next meeting of SVOSUG will feature a presentation by the Xorg group, >notably Alan Coopersmith, showing the latest Xorg changes and/or what is >in store, but to also show Compiz. > >Your comments got me to thinking, and I have really come to the conclusion >that Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] SATA problems on chipset VIA VT8237R (epia EK)

2007-07-24 Thread Nico Sabbi
alessioc wrote: >i'm trying to install osol b68 but it seems it does not recognize the hdd >attached to the sata controller of my motherboard (chipset via VT8237R). >is there any way to know what's going wrong? >is there any way to know if this chipset is supported? > > > maybe the raid mode

Re: [osol-discuss] vlc player?

2007-07-15 Thread Nico Sabbi
UNIX admin wrote: >The only "small" problem with Mplayer is that it: > >a) crashes often on Solaris > > bugreport with gdb backtrace? >b) doesn't support any kind of Windows / DivX / common video playing formats >"out of the box", rendering the program nearly useless; > you must be using some

Re: [osol-discuss] vlc player?

2007-07-14 Thread Nico Sabbi
Thomas Wagner wrote: >Orvar, > > >I use mplayer myself to play video on Nevada build 66. > >As Andras mentioned, you could build mplayer yourself with the >same toolkit as the GNOME-on-solaris team uses. > > uhm, with some of tools needed to build gnome, but it also needs other libraries that th

Re: [osol-discuss] vlc player?

2007-07-14 Thread Nico Sabbi
Tim Cook wrote: >I'd suggest someone *in-the-know* getting on that asap then. Mplayer is most >definitely NOT a replacement for VLC. If I had the skillZ I'd do it myself... >alas, my coding is rusty at best, and that's most likely out of my league. > > > mplayer doesn't implement dvd menu n

Re: [osol-discuss] The reason for non-working arrows and backspace?

2007-07-04 Thread Nico Sabbi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Hi, >>although I really like Opensolaris I find really hideous having the >>terminal spit out control sequences >>when hitting arrow keys and backspace instead of moving the cursor >>(the only extra key that works correctly is Del, and it works backwards >> >> > > >I

[osol-discuss] The reason for non-working arrows and backspace?

2007-07-04 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, although I really like Opensolaris I find really hideous having the terminal spit out control sequences when hitting arrow keys and backspace instead of moving the cursor (the only extra key that works correctly is Del, and it works backwards (like backspace)). It's not only hideous, but a se

Re: [osol-discuss] Why was I unsubscribed from opensolaris-announce?

2007-06-21 Thread Nico Sabbi
Dave Marquardt wrote: I received notification that I had been unsubscribed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I didn't ask to unsubscribe. Anyone else seeing anything like this? Or did I miss some administrative announcement about opensolaris-announce? Thanks. me too -- Email.it, the professional e

Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia on Solaris?

2007-04-29 Thread Nico Sabbi
Mario Goebbels wrote: Hi, I've multiple questions about multimedia stuff on Solaris. 1) How's video performance? I've yet to get VLC or Xine to build correctly, so my current tests are limited to the Flash 9 beta with YouTube. As soon the system load goes up, I've witnessed video playback by