[osol-discuss] Project Presto is open for business...

Yesterday, a new project page was added to the OpenSolaris project list for Presto - Automatic Printing Configuration Presto aims to simplify and automate printing related configuration management task allowing Solaris to dynamically adapt t

[osol-discuss] Initial Presto prototype bits available.

The Solaris Printing team and the Desktop team have been working together to improve the printing experience for Solaris users. One of the areas that is being addressed is printing management. A few months ago, the Presto project was initiated on OpenSolaris with the aim of easing printing co

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Initial Presto prototype bits available.

As you point out, there are plenty of devices (new and legacy) that may not be detected. Also, there are virtual (software) devices that won't fit the automatic model. So let me allay your fears, we aren't planning on removing the ability to perform user initiated configuration. As far as co

Re: [osol-discuss] LDAP Printing Problem on snv_66

Maybe more information than you want, but... In Nevada (around build 44), we replaced many of the print commands with PAPI enabled print commands. These new print commands are capable of communicating with a local LP spooler or remote spoolers via RFC-1179 or IPP. Actually, the print service

Re: [osol-discuss] Apple bought CUPS source code.

A couple of weeks ago, Mike announced that Apple bought CUPS back in February and is now employing him. From what I read, Mike will be working on something other than CUPS (don't know what) at Apple, but will still be supporting CUPS. As for forking the code... For a while now, the licensing

Re: [osol-discuss] Apple bought CUPS source code.

the Open Source community *may* not see all future bug fixes or enhancements from Apple. Only time will tell. -Norm Brian Gupta wrote: > Here's the basic truth about Apple and OpenSource: > http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200602/apple.html > > -Brian > > On 7/30/07, *N

Re: [osol-discuss] Apple bought CUPS source code.

Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > the issues experienced trying to setup printers in Solaris, its a > nightmare > One thing I wouldn't mind seeing is CUPS + Gutenprint + Foomatic - given Foomatic and Gutenprint are in Solaris today. Foomatic is reasonably current, but could use an update. We are in the p

Re: [osol-discuss] Apple bought CUPS source code.

nt side to generate printer ready output, you need to make sure and select a make/model that matches the printer so foomatic-rip will generate printer-ready output. -Norm Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 10:00 -0500, Norm Jacobs wrote: > >> Kaiwai Gardin

Re: [osol-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

Joerg Schilling wrote: > Norm Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Your argument there is with the open source community. It's the >> ImageMagick open source project that chose the name "compare" for their >> program. Yes, we did choose to

Re: [osol-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

Actually, we have a cooperative process for dealing with this kind of thing. It's call ARCing. Joerg Schilling wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>> For this reason, the "compare" from imagemagick either needs to be renamed >>> or it needs to be put into a different directory. >>>

Re: [osol-discuss] NSA has backdoors into Windows?

Do we really want to go down this path... We need to base our value on our laurels, not others' deficiencies (perceived or otherwise). -Norm MC wrote: >> Here is information that NSA may have access into Windows Vista >> > > Last I heard: > > - The Bush administration has illegally wiretap

Re: [printing-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] My printer

PPD files delivered in SUNW* packages should be listed in the ppdcache. If they are not, it's very likely an oversight and therefore a bug. The ppdcache management tools that Cindy posted about a while back will provide a means of easily updating and rebuilding the cache. As we update the

Re: [printing-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] My printer

hings to update and/or include. -Norm Christopher Lemire wrote: > Will Solaris 11 support my printer? What about Solaris Express? Are > there any new projects that currently support my printer? I have a HP > DeskJet 722C that does not work on Solaris 10 x86. Thank you. > &g

[osol-discuss] Project Proposal: PRESTO - Automatic Printing Configuration

Inside of Sun, we have been looking at and discussing some of this for a while now and we have posted information about this in the OpenSolaris Printing Community portal, but we wanted to open this up to a wider audience and see if we can't garner more interest and participation. As a result, I a

Re: [osol-discuss] Install from repository

FWIW, You may want SUNWmysql51 which is v5.1.30. SUNWmysql is v4.0.24. -Norm Steven Acres wrote: Igor Korot wrote: Hi, ALL, I just installed OpenSolaris. Now I would like to install "subversion" and "mySQL". However, when opening the repository, I couldn't find both those packets. D

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris b121 and printing

This looks like a known issue and I'm pretty sure that there is a bug filed against it, though I can't seem to locate it (See http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=87603&tstart=0). There are two possible workarounds here. 1. modify the interface script that LP uses to print t

Re: [osol-discuss] Featurerequest

Darko Hojnik wrote: Hi Can i submit here featurerequests? Wireshark Networksniffer Wireshark integrated in build 114 A Dialog to configure the Printersettings (Collors, Format) and to print a testsite in Gnome If you switch from LP to CUPS as your active print service, you w

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris b122 and printing

I forgot to mention that if you use CUPS as your print system, you don't need the printers:snmp service because CUPS and it's managment app system-config-printer, don't use HAL for network attached printer discovery. -Norm Norm Jacobs wrote: Once you apply the d

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris b122 and printing

Once you apply the diffs in http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2656 This looks like http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6875964 I would have to guess that this is somehow related to the net-snmp upgrade in build 120. perhaps snmp_select_info() no longer works as i

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris b122 and printing

Paul Gress wrote: Norm Jacobs wrote: I forgot to mention that if you use CUPS as your print system, you don't need the printers:snmp service because CUPS and it's managment app system-config-printer, don't use HAL for network attached printer discovery. So let me see if I ha

Re: [osol-discuss] Which kind of ACLs does tmpfs support ?

I have some vague recollection that tmpfs doesn't support ACLs snd it appears to be so... ZFS opensolaris% touch /var/tmp/bar opensolaris% chmod A=user:lp:r:deny /var/tmp/bar opensolaris% TMPFS opensolaris% touch /tmp/bar opensolaris% chmod A=user:lp:r:deny /tmp/bar chmod:

Re: [osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] Which kind of ACLs does tmpfssupport?

Roland Mainz wrote: Robert Thurlow wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: Ok... does that mean that I have to create a ZFS filesystem to actually test ([1]) an application which modifies ZFS/NFSv4 ACLs or are there any other options ? By all means, test with ZFS. But it's easy to do that:

Re: [osol-discuss] #top - Segmentation Fault

Personally, I can't say that I've had it dump core for me. Perhaps pstack(1) or mdb(1) might give some idea where/why it's dumping core. -Norm Roman Naumenko wrote: The top command gives "Segmentation fault" # top Segmentation Fault #uname -a SunOS zsan02 5.11 snv_118 i86pc i386 i86pc So

Re: [osol-discuss] mysql-dev ???

They show up at /usr/mysql/include/mysql from SUNWmysql51. -Norm Kristoff Bonne wrote: Hi, We have here some tools writen in C that interface with a mysql-database that needs to be moved from a linux-box to opensolaris. What packages do I need to install for the mysql includefiles (/usr/i

Re: [osol-discuss] 3rd Party Libraries

You can use the Source Juicer (jucr.opensolaris.org) to build them and get them put into the contrib repo (http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib/), but python and zlib are already in Solaris. -Norm russell aspinwall wrote: Hi, I was looking at Building Free-CAD (link below) on OpenSolaris htt

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

Moinak Ghosh wrote: 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 wer

Re: [osol-discuss] enable LPR on Linux users let them use Unix printers

I'm including printing-discuss since it's probably a better forum for this. The Window printing model differs from Solaris in that a Windows print server pretty much expects that the client systems will supply printer ready output, so depending on your needs, you might consider creating a loc

Re: [osol-discuss] doubt in solaris

karthik rengasamy wrote: can we run objective-c programming language in solaris,because it will be run only in Mac os Assuming that you don't need any of the classes from MacOS, you should be able to compile Objective-C on Solaris. The gcc on OpenSolaris appears to have Objective-C suppor

Re: [osol-discuss] Has something changed with root logins [b 124]

Harry Putnam wrote: I've diddled around for 35 minutes googling for the release notes for build 124 to see if something is in there about root logins. Can some kind sole please direct me. Google stings like `opensolaris "release notes" 2010' `opensolaris "release notes" build

Re: [osol-discuss] #top - Segmentation Fault

I use it all of the time on lots of different systems and it has been working just fine. Can you send me or point me to a core file? I'd like to help you, but you have to meet me somewhere closer to halfway here. -Norm Chris Du wrote: Got it on snv_124 too. ___

Re: [osol-discuss] root account

Harry Putnam wrote: Scott Rotondo writes: But some posters here have said in build 124 root has been removed as an account...or reduced to a role or something like that, so depending on what you mean by `setting root as a regular account', I'm not sure whats going on. I believe the

Re: [osol-discuss] enable LPR on Linux users let them use Unix printers

/inetd.conf on the linux print server. -Norm Thanks & Best Regards -Original Message- From: Norm Jacobs [mailto:norm.jac...@sun.com] Sent: 13/10/2009 19:07 To: Nibal Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org; printing-disc...@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [osol-discuss]

Re: [osol-discuss] [printing-discuss] enable LPR on Linux users let them use Unix printers

Nibal wrote: so what to do to enable listener? Thanks use the instructions at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/faq/sol2lin.html Enable LPD client support on CUPS on the Linux Print Server * - Login to the Linux print server * - As root, or using sudo, ed

Re: [osol-discuss] change root password

sridhar wrote: how to change the root user password without logging as root user? Assuming that you have the 'root' role, you can use opensolaris% pfexec passwd root -Norm ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.or

Re: [osol-discuss] #top - Segmentation Fault

Thanks Jurgen. This will be fixed in build 127. -Norm Jürgen Keil wrote: I think I can reproduce something when I have the following process running, and run env LD_PRELOAD=libumem.so.1 UMEM_OPTIONS=backend=mmap UMEM_DEBUG=firewall=1 top I've filed http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_b

Re: [osol-discuss] question about ignoreeof

It's fixed in build 127. In build 127, the files in /etc/bash are renamed to *.example and provided as examples. -Norm Alexander wrote: Hello. Does someone know why is ignoreeof set by default in bash now in /etc/bash/bashrc ? It is quite annoying :) I understand, that I can export IGNO

Re: [osol-discuss] Why it is so difficult...

You can probably make this work under LP or CUPS on OpenSolaris. The linuxprinting.org page for this printer claims that it works fine with the Ghostscript pxlmono driver (http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-2150N). You should be able to use the Brother HL-2060 / Fo

Re: [osol-discuss] Why it is so difficult...

jose rafael castillo wrote: not sure the why but really cups should come as default in osol We should be there soon. , and btw you may think as an option to extract the network printer detection algorithm in kde4.3 cuz so far as long as the printer is in the network kde autodetect it, my pri

Re: [osol-discuss] How can I disable cover ( banner ) page on CUPS

On your ubuntu CUPS server, you can turn off all banners for jobs that come in via rfc-1179 by adding '-o job-sheets=none,none' to the cups-lpd command line options. In /etc/inetd.conf it would look something like this: printerstreamtcpnowaitroot /usr/lib/cups/daemon/c

Re: [osol-discuss] How can I disable cover ( banner ) page on CUPS

Halton Huo wrote: lpadmin -p -o nobanner lpadmin(1m) -o options are server side only. They are stored in the LP server configuration and actually could be overridden by a requester in many cases, though 'banner', et al is a "special" case. At any rate, Nibal's configuration is a Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] How can I disable cover ( banner ) page on CUPS

the same as nobanner and means "don't print a burst page unless requested" banner=never was new and meant "don't ever print a burst page" -Norm Thanks & Best Regards Nibal -Original Message- From: Norm Jacobs [mailto:norm.jac...@su

Re: [osol-discuss] tcpdump -A equivalent in snoop?

Chavdar Ivanov wrote: $ pfexec pkg set-publisher -O http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib/ contrib $ pfexec pkg install tcpdump It will show up in the dev repo in build 129. -Norm ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolar

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

Boyd Adamson wrote: joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) writes: Dennis Clarke wrote: [..] I think /opt/schily/bin/star or even the /opt/csw/bin/star is cool for me and some others "in the know" but most folks will expect /usr/bin/star or similar.

Re: [osol-discuss] build 130 nonsense

andrew wrote: andrew wrote: So OpenSolaris 2010.02 will not even support printing out of the box, I now need to download and install several meg of packages just to print? Of course 2010.03 will support printing - is your problem a printer not supported by the included CUPS drive

Re: [osol-discuss] Printer and SUNWgutenprint problem

On 01/15/10 02:36 PM, Guy Woolley wrote: Just installed SUNWgutenprint from the osol repository to try with my photo printer. When I go to add printer from the GNOME Print Manager, gutenprint doesn't show as a driver for it. Can I carry on from a terminal window ? If so what are the commands ?

Re: [osol-discuss] Printer and SUNWgutenprint problem

On 01/15/10 04:04 PM, Guy Woolley wrote: Thanks Norm - my build 130 (updated earlier this month from my original 111) has LP as the default. I see from pkg manager that CUPS and CUPS-manager are there but not installed. After I install CUPS from the repo I have to disable LP. I can't have both

Re: [osol-discuss] Printer and SUNWgutenprint problem

On 01/18/10 06:36 AM, solarg wrote: On 01/15/10 11:51 PM, Norm Jacobs wrote: On 01/15/10 04:04 PM, Guy Woolley wrote: Thanks Norm - my build 130 (updated earlier this month from my original 111) has LP as the default. I see from pkg manager that CUPS and CUPS-manager are there but not

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there Lexmark printer support? [X4875 in particular]

On 01/23/10 06:45 AM, Andreas Braathen wrote: I've bought a Lexmark X4875 printer and to my big disappointment I cannot find any driver or guidelines on how to set it up. Does anyone have any experience with this printer and been able to make it work with CUPS? I doesn't seem to be listed at

Re: [osol-discuss] b132 is out!

On 02/ 5/10 01:30 AM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: For some reason Firefox 3.6 (tar.gz version) won't start in b132 (it worked in b131). Looks like the nightly build was built only against S10? Please this not be the case; so many people have worked so hard on OpenSolaris! I had to set the

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.45.2 seen working ?

On 04/ 6/10 03:37 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: Anyone seen this ver work on snv_134 or any recent rev of an OpenSolaris(tm) distro? FWIW, It works on 134 and later for me, thought hulu stopped working on osol for me a few months back. Given that they only claim to support Windows, MacOS, and Li

Re: [osol-discuss] Using OpenSolaris in production?

Seems odd to me that ImageMagick was any trouble. OpenSolaris includes ImageMagic 6.3.4-2. It should just build on OpenSolaris out of the box. If you are having any problems getting it to build, please let me know. I would be happy to work with you to build a newer version or get a newer versi

Re: [osol-discuss] How can I download a bug fix ?

Since OSOL 2008.05 was based on snv_86, it's already fixed there. If you find a fix for something you want in some later build, you can always upgrade your bits from the IPS repository on the net using pkg(1). In general, if you are running a build (uname -v) that is newer than a bug report

Re: [osol-discuss] printing from firefox3 vs firefox2...

Other than the fact that firefox dumps core when you print, it seems to print. You may very well be running into 6743432 firefox is corrupting it's malloc buffers. which appears to be the cause of 6750542 memory corruption in firefox breaks printing It looks like LD_PRELOAD of libc.s

Re: [osol-discuss] printing from firefox3 vs firefox2...

Bill Shannon wrote: > Norm Jacobs wrote: >> Other than the fact that firefox dumps core when you print, it seems >> to print. You may very well be running into >> >> 6743432 firefox is corrupting it's malloc buffers. >> >> which appears to be the

Re: [osol-discuss] weird printer behavior - multiple "add printer queue" instances

weknox wrote: > After much trial and error I have a printer that works on opensolaris snv_98, > an amd_64. > > There are a few problems that show up, however. > > 1. The "add printer queue" pop-up keeps multiplying. There are now about 15 > instances that show up when I boot up the machine. Ma

Re: [osol-discuss] CUPS errors

Perhaps you can provide a little information about your printer and how you have things configured. What kind of printer is it (HP Photospart C7280, Epson CX8300, ...)? How are you configured to communicate with it (USB, socket, ipp, lpd, ...)? How did you create your queue? Which PPD fil

Re: [osol-discuss] toshiba laptops opensolaris preinstalled

I seem to recall that some hardware vendors reluctantly offered refunds for the unused MS Windows software under the right circumstances. You might look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_refund -Norm On 04/20/10 10:49 AM, Albert Lee wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:45:01 PDT, Edward Mar

Re: [osol-discuss] printers:snmp appears to be in maintenance mode. snv_134

This looks remarkably like bug 6883815 device-discovery/printers:snmp always goes into maintenance which has the following workaround # pfexec pkg install SUNWnet-snmp-core # pfexec patch -b /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf < + EOF If you are using CUPS as your defaul

Re: [osol-discuss] printers:snmp appears to be in maintenance mode. snv_134

ers:snmp in maintenance: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied Fix integrated into build 141. -Ghee On 06/ 2/10 04:45 AM, Norm Jacobs wrote: This looks remarkably like bug 6883815 device-discovery/printers:snmp always goes into maintenance which has the following workaround # pfexec pkg install SUNWnet-snmp-core # pfex

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

zones actually have pretty small overhead in general. The creation of an initial non-global zone can take a little time simply to install the bits (a few minutes), but after that, you can clone that zone very quickly, run your app, and destroy the clone as much as you want . Cloning a templat

Re: [osol-discuss] printer install

Assuming that you are running current bits and CUPS is your active print service, It should work. It looks like your printer is supported by the version of gutenprint that is in OpenSolaris. You should be able to use the print manager to create a queue for it. -Norm On 07/ 1/10 09:28

Re: [osol-discuss] printer installation

FWIW, the Gutenprint driver shipped in OpenSolaris supports this Epson printer, so it should show up in the "print manager" (system-config-printer) or CUPS web interface as an option for make/model. -Norm On 07/ 6/10 11:17 AM, Ghee Teo wrote: On 07/ 6/10 04:36 PM, chuck bowers wrote: I ha

Re: [osol-discuss] I think Oracle needs a new name for [Open]Solaris ..

On 07/ 7/10 12:43 PM, Gary wrote: Oracle didn't develope any of them, they bought SUN. My plastering their name on everything they are giving the impression they created it. Big difference. From your choice of words and some of the other statements in your post, I will assume that you f

Re: [osol-discuss] I think Oracle needs a new name for [Open]Solaris ..

On 07/ 7/10 02:21 PM, Gary wrote: I'm well aware of what IBM bought. That didn't seem apparent to me from my initial read of your reply, though it's possible that I misunderstood or missed some prior context where that was clearly imparted. I'll go back to this for just a minute, since it

Re: [osol-discuss] When's source included?

On 08/21/10 01:19 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: This is the same with all Open Source programs; regardless of whether you wrote or modified or merely built the program, if you distribute the binary, then you have to provide the source if asked. The mechanism by which you make the source available i

Re: [osol-discuss] iSCSI broken in snv_134?

Rather than destroying and re-creating your pool, you might try # zpool clear (pool-name) or # zpool export (pool-name) ; zpool import (pool-name) It's likely that the problem you are running into is that ZFS is trying to import the pool before the iSCSI device is available on the syste