[osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express - Solaris 11 / iBus problems

2011-12-07 Thread Rob McMahon
. Cheers, Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris 11 - The First Cloud OS

2011-11-10 Thread Rob McMahon
:20100306T002124Z pkg://opensolaris.org/developer/gcc/gcc-libobjc@4.3.3,5.11-0.133:20100306T002135Z These packages may not be installed together. Any non-conflicting set may be, or the packages must be corrected before they can be installed. I'll persevere with unpicking this. Rob -- E

Re: [osol-discuss] fmadm fault and disabling dimms

2011-03-11 Thread Rob Johnston
. What fmd will do is retire the physical pages of memory one which UE's (or a high rate of CE's) has been detected. This will reduce the amount of physical memory available, though not by a huge amount. rob -- Robert Johnston, Fishworkshttp://blogs.sun.com/robj On 03/11/2011 09:21

Re: [osol-discuss] fork1() fails with ENOMEM

2011-02-24 Thread Rob McMahon
swapfile dev swaplo blocks free /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 256,1 16 67108848 25095728 /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 256,1 67108864 67108864 67108864 swap -s total: 33592920k bytes allocated + 246624k reserved = 33839544k used, 47414296k available Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma

Re: [osol-discuss] can you help about process?

2011-01-14 Thread Rob McMahon
then - have a go at the man-page, it provides a lot of detail :) ... and `pfiles /pid/' gives a lot of what `lsof -p' gives. Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England

Re: [osol-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 Express available

2010-11-16 Thread Rob McMahon
seat-id for object `CkSession' can't be set after construction None of these seems to be a major problem since the machine is working fine, but I'm curious, especially about the display warnings. Googling doesn't come up with anything interesting. Cheers, Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma

Re: [osol-discuss] Bordeaux running on OpenIndiana

2010-10-05 Thread Rob McMahon
confess I never thought to look in illumos.org for issues, since this release isn't yet based on illumos.) Apart from that, it's been solid. I'm not sure how rushed it's been: it sounds like it's been in the pipeline for a while, and looks pretty polished. Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-09-08 Thread Rob Healey
. Speaking as someone who has been shaking his head at the AIX kernel implementation since ROMP days in the 80's... -Rob -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Is anyone planning an alternative to Illumos or a fork?

2010-09-07 Thread Rob Jones
is anyone planning an alternative to Illumos or a fork? -- David Blake, IT Consultant Given the proliferation example of the Linux kernel I would expect further distros to follow. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Doc for build upgrade

2010-09-06 Thread Rob McMahon
systems. I had to do this on both machines. I hope this helps others out there. Can we get the build document (http://illumos.org/projects/illumos-gate/wiki/How_To_Build_illumos) updated ? Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon

Re: [osol-discuss] Doc for build upgrade

2010-09-02 Thread Rob McMahon
with the code download and build, but I'm suspicious now. Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Doc for build upgrade

2010-09-02 Thread Rob McMahon
On 02/09/2010 12:30, Rob McMahon wrote: Eric Andersen wrote: If you want to build the official Oracle ON, I don't know. I think you need access to closed bits of the OS. If you want to move to the Illumos ON, there are instructions here (at least to get you to 145, not sure about 146

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-26 Thread Rob Jones
Uros Nedic wrote: You are starting a new fork? The existing forks already have names, chosen by the people working on them, not spectators on mailing lists. Like Oracle Solaris name is chosen by people working on it like you :).Or Solarix Express :). For the distros I work on, the names

[osol-discuss] So, What happens to opensolaris.org?

2010-08-13 Thread Rob Healey
the Solaris Express's of old/lore. I had hoped the distributions would have remained open to Murcurial without support. I wonder if this is what Gosling meant in his blog a few days ago? Alas poor OpenSolaris, we hardly knew Ye... -Rob -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

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

2010-07-25 Thread Rob McMahon
people say putback in b135, fixed in b140, the version in b144 is so much better when we're all stuck at b134. Aagh. Rob ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] First release for ARM platform

2010-07-22 Thread Rob Clark
OpenSolaris MIPS. Rob -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] VLC building help

2010-07-22 Thread Rob Clark
Compiling VLC, that will be a good lesson in meeting your Dependancies. Look at this thread: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=47881 Mplayer may be easier but if you want better DVD playing then you will want VLC. Rob -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] First release for ARM platform

2010-07-18 Thread Rob Clark
], [miro revision 144368], [lto revision 144375], for versions 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.3.0, ,4.3.0, 4.4.0, 4.5.0 - so if anyone can do it, I can. References: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+qemu/guest http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+osarm/installation Thanks, Rob

Re: [osol-discuss] Why do we need Oracle's permission or vision for OpenSolaris?

2010-07-16 Thread Rob McMahon
to get this rolling. Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-14 Thread Rob McMahon
Rich Lowe's work for starters, but I wouldn't know how to take that and form a repository. Can we talk about this and get something started ? Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England

Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-14 Thread Rob McMahon
On 14/07/2010 15:36, Dennis Clarke wrote: - Original Message - From: Alan Coopersmithalan.coopersm...@oracle.com Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:25 am Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro To: dcla...@blastwave.org Cc: Rob McMahonrob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk, Open

Re: [osol-discuss] [opensolaris-discuss] Were to from here?

2010-07-13 Thread Rob McMahon
, and that was really welcome, though it didn't play nicely for me with NWAM and I managed to break my install. Can we not collectively continue this sort of work, add the missing bits, and set up an IPS repository. I'd be willing to spend some of my spare time helping out where I can. Rob -- E-Mail

Re: [osol-discuss] SNV_142 Test DVD Blastwave's AMP stack

2010-06-21 Thread Rob McMahon
mounted on /tmp/... I did a beadm umount on-nightly-142 before rebooting, because that's given me problems before, I think it caused /opt to be empty. I also just did init 6, not poweroff / on. I hope that doesn't come back to bite me ... A happy camper, Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma

Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-10 Thread Rob McMahon
to recreate it and post the results. Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-10 Thread Rob McMahon
On 10/06/2010 10:08, Rob McMahon wrote: ;))) Hm-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m... O.k, I'll consider bying it somewhat later if you kindly explain me where's the keyboard there to type pfexec nightly.sh... Have you actually done this ? I've been trying to do this on and off for two weeks, and I'm

Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-10 Thread Rob McMahon
`sh nightly'. Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-06-07 Thread Rob McMahon
/src/tools/proto/opt/onbld/bin/i386/cw -_cc -_versions /dev/null 2/dev/null; then ... which doesn't exist, /export/testws/usr/src/tools/proto is empty, although /opt/onbld/bin/i386/cw does exist. I'll keep trying, but it ain'a that easy. Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg problems

2010-06-07 Thread Rob Nelson
Same problem here. I think it is an issue at pkg.opensolaris.org/dev so a reinstall will not help, but please post if it does. r...@gb4000-04:/# pkg refresh pkg: 1/2 catalogs successfully updated: Catalog file '/var/pkg/publisher/opensolaris.org/catalog/catalog.base.C' is invalid. --

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg problems

2010-06-07 Thread Rob Nelson
Seems to be a problem with http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/. I am having this problem on multiple systems. --full has same issue: r...@gb4000-04:# pkg refresh --full Caching catalogs ... An error was encountered while attempting to read image state information to perform the

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg problems

2010-06-07 Thread Rob Nelson
Thanks Shawn. Its all working for me now... -Rob On Jun 7, 2010, at 1:41 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 06/ 7/10 10:35 AM, Rob Nelson wrote: Seems to be a problem with http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/. I am having this problem on multiple systems. --full has same issue: r...@gb4000-04

Re: [osol-discuss] This is how Oracle treats open communities and projects. Will OGB intervene?

2010-05-10 Thread Rob McMahon
and will be revised as part of a bigger project to provide Solaris modernization using GNU utilities for /usr/bin. -JohnS ___ opensolaris-arc mailing list opensolaris-...@opensolaris.org Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44

[osol-discuss] onnv 135 MIA? Skipped or delayed? (knock, knock) Is this Mic turned on?...

2010-04-02 Thread Rob Healey
and that the next dev release to be make available will be 136? 137? Lack of communication from the project on dev release cycles at this time doesn't help the already jittery, from Oracle(tm) (Open)Solaris cricket noises, community... -Rob -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade 133 - 134, now can't boot anything :-(

2010-03-18 Thread Rob McMahon
On 11/03/2010 12:07, Rob McMahon wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, but I think this is my own fault. I think I've shot myself in the foot by enabling compression on rpool. Replying to myself in case anyone else gets themselves in this position. What worked for me was to burn a new 134

Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade 133 - 134, now can't boot anything :-(

2010-03-11 Thread Rob McMahon
the (compressed) new boot environment, activate the previous environment, and hope I'm back on track. I do think the system should have told me that I was making my rpool unbootable by turning on compression, though, and made me use a `-f' flag or something. Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk

[osol-discuss] Upgrade 133 - 134, now can't boot anything :-(

2010-03-10 Thread Rob McMahon
just go back. Cheers, Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Moving Storage to opensolaris+zfs. What about backup?

2010-03-03 Thread Rob Healey
Storage that large you might want to consider using backup packages like Bacula or Amanda. Both should support your changer/LTO3 drive setup. I believe both package have bare metal restore capability. I've mostly used bacula with Solaris/Linux/BSD and Amanda is pretty common as well. -Rob

Re: [osol-discuss] Syslog-ng?

2009-12-07 Thread Rob McMahon
the standard syslog files and tweaked them.) XML and script attached. Cheers, Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England #!/sbin/sh # # Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All

[osol-discuss] Non-working external microphone

2009-12-07 Thread Rob McMahon
86:86 0-100:0-100 audiohd#0beep 75 0-100 audiohd#0record-sourcemicmic $ Any ideas ? What can I try ? Rob -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] crontab

2009-12-03 Thread Rob McMahon
. I never worked with the crontab-command. But if /etc/crontab is not supported, I have to go new ways... You can just do crontab -l /etc/crontab (edit /etc/crontab) crontab /etc/crontab if you like. I thought this had always been true. Cheers, Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk

Re: [osol-discuss] virtualbox 3.0.12 IPS?

2009-12-01 Thread Rob McMahon
(#2816 http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2816) I like it, really. Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Flash player running too fast

2009-09-01 Thread Rob McMahon
. One work application, and Windows-only media files to go. Thanks Ginn Rob Has anyone seen this ? On my Toshiba laptop (Satellite Pro P300), graphics card: pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1002 device 0x95c4 ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series release

Re: [osol-discuss] Flash player running too fast

2009-08-25 Thread Rob McMahon
that the sound doesn't work at all... not my main application. I thought I had a 111b release on hand, but I got too cocky and upgraded the zfs volumes so it won't boot any more. Rob Has anyone seen this ? On my Toshiba laptop (Satellite Pro P300), graphics card: pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00

[osol-discuss] Flash player running too fast

2009-08-19 Thread Rob McMahon
. Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_118 boot error

2009-07-14 Thread Rob Johnston
Yeah - I hit that one, too. It's a known issue - see the following bug report for a workaround: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9960 rob Konstantin Lebedev wrote: After updating to snv_118 there is an error at a loading stage: Jul 14 10:37:26 svc.startd[7]: svc:/network

[osol-discuss] ssh issue with b118

2009-07-14 Thread Rob McMahon
hostnames were for two completely different hosts. Anyone else seen this ? Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] ssh issue with b118

2009-07-14 Thread Rob McMahon
,blowfish-cbc,aes192-ctr,aes192-cbc,aes256-ctr,aes256-cbc] Anyway, many thanks to you and Casper for an impressively fast response. Rob Rob McMahon wrote: I've just updated to b118 (from 117), and something nasty seems to have happened to ssh. Each connection to a known host comes back with, e.g

Re: [osol-discuss] which merge tool for Hg on OpenSolaris?

2009-06-24 Thread Rob McMahon
-clicky maybe, but a really good merging tool. Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

[osol-discuss] 2009.06 update and IPv6...

2009-06-03 Thread Rob Vassar
I just allowed update manager to update my personal OS machine to 2009.06. Somehow, somewhere... I seem to have lost my IPv6 config. I had stateless autoconfiguration working via a Cisco 1721. It appears that it just wiped out the /etc/hostname6.int file. Adding it back appears to have

Re: [osol-discuss] partition for user data

2009-05-27 Thread Rob McMahon
be modified later? Just create new filesystems in the root pool. The trouble with this is that the root pool can only be a single partition or that mirrored. If you have 4 disks, and you want the best part of that to be one big pool for user data, what do you do ? Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma

Re: [osol-discuss] How to allow multiple users have different VNC sessions on OpenSolaris?

2009-04-21 Thread Rob Nelson
You could follow these instructions: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=361235 To setup multiple Xvnc servers running on multiple ports (5901, 5902, 5903, ...) Give each user his/her own port. This will be an individual desktop for each user. Cheers, nola -- This message

[osol-discuss] Thunderbird and 107

2009-02-19 Thread Rob McMahon
anyone else seen this ? Rob -- E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] output from fmadm faulty

2008-11-03 Thread Rob Johnston
is the output of /usr/lib/fm/fmd/fmtopo -V #2 and #3 could be large - probably better to include those as attachments thanks, rob Matt Harrison wrote: Hi all, As I want to know when one of the disks in our fileserver is faulty, I have it run fmadm faulty through cron so I can get informed when

Re: [osol-discuss] What type of memory

2008-10-22 Thread Rob Johnston
This sort of information *may* be encoded in the SMBIOS records. Unfortunately, the quality and completeness of SMBIOS data varies quite a bit from vendor to vendor. You can dump the SMBIOS records for DIMMs (if present) with the following command: % smbios -t SMB_TYPE_MEMDEVICE rob Mike

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

2008-10-11 Thread Rob Giltrap
Matt Wilby wrote: Any ideas when SXCE b100 will be released? According to this... http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/schedule/ October 16th is the estimate. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Unknown SUNWexplo error message

2008-09-30 Thread Rob Sandifer
Greetings To All! Results of uname -a: SunOS XXb1s5 5.9 Generic_118558-20 sun4u sparc SUNW,Serverblade1 I am running SUNWexpl version 5.13 I am getting the following root e-mail message via Logcheck alert: Your cron job on XXb1s5 /opt/SUNWexplo/bin/explorer -e -q # SUNWexplo

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Input Method Project

2008-09-25 Thread Rob McMahon
there have been issues with fonts in the last few releases, but I thought that was supposed to have been fixed by '98. Rob -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England inline

Re: [osol-discuss] autofs smbfs user writable

2008-09-16 Thread Rob Thurlow
, so different Unix users who create files will see that they're owned by the same user on the CIFS server. Rob T ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Marvell Ethernet cards

2008-08-07 Thread Rob McMahon
Rob McMahon wrote: frank Che wrote: Have you tried the 'myk' driver from http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/index.html ? Thanks for this pointer. In summary, both the yukonx driver and the skge driver crash in the attach routine with a NULL pointer dereference

Re: [osol-discuss] Marvell Ethernet cards

2008-08-06 Thread Rob McMahon
the machine to crash on reboot (NULL pointer dereference in the attach routine). I've just tried the skge driver from http://www.skd.de/e_en, and the machine has hung solidly after doing update_drv -a -i 'pci11ab,436c' skge Rob -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: +44 24 7652

[osol-discuss] Marvell Ethernet cards

2008-08-05 Thread Rob McMahon
if there a driver out there that works on this card ? (Annoyingly, just to rub my nose in it, the Wireless works fine, but I have no way out to the internet that way ...) Cheers, Rob -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University

[osol-discuss] Install opensolaris snv_91 instead of snv_93?

2008-07-29 Thread Rob
Hello All, (first, sorry about the crosspost!) If I install a new opensolaris 2008.5 system, is it possible to upgrade it to snv_91 instead of the latest? (snv_93) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] os200805 + '93 updates - memory use.

2008-07-24 Thread Rob McMahon
) Cheers, Rob -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] os200805 + '93 updates - memory use.

2008-07-23 Thread Rob McMahon
, that would have been a few months. I know I can do without all the fancy eye-candy, but I'm pushing the system to see what I can recommend to other people, and I don't believe it should come at this cost. Rob -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon

Re: [osol-discuss] B93 and java after installation

2008-07-22 Thread Rob McMahon
|O_NONBLOCK I won't bore you with a stack trace ... it's 33 threads and 500 lines. Rob -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] B93 and java after installation [SOLVED]

2008-07-22 Thread Rob McMahon
did have other reasons.) I do like VirtualBox, the only thing that seems to have phased it is sharing a directory full of nasties like sockets and fifo's (like /tmp and my home directory). Rob -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick

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

2008-07-03 Thread Rob Clark
There is another thread on Package Management here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=59952tstart=0 This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS on SXCE?

2008-07-03 Thread Rob Clark
I have OpenSolaris 2008.05 running and really enjoy the ease of the Package Manager GUI. I was disappointed when I fired up Solaris Express: Community Edition (SX:CE) snv_91 and found there was no package manager. I looked for the package's project and found that one could compile it from

[osol-discuss] question about future opensolaris releases

2008-06-09 Thread Rob
I thought I read at one point that the plan was to do a 6-month refresh of opensolaris... so I'm a bit surprised about this weekend's snv90 release to opensolaris! Will this trend continue? When can we expect a truly stable release? Are there any plans to do a Debian style

Re: [osol-discuss] question about future opensolaris releases

2008-06-09 Thread Rob
While I love new stuff to play with, I think that a bit more transparency about the plans for the distribution would be appreciated by all users. Opensolaris 2008.5 has been awesome for us as a server platform so far. Although we're still testing things out, it's been a nice comprimise between

Re: [osol-discuss] question about future opensolaris releases

2008-06-09 Thread Rob
re: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=63169tstart=0 This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Creating SNMP Strings To Trap ALOM Console Messages On Sunfire T-1000

2008-03-27 Thread Rob Sandifer
appreciate anyone who has ever done this before to share his/her advice/experience/notes with me. Thanks in advance! Rob Sandifer This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Google Summer of Code 2008 is on!

2008-03-04 Thread Rob Giltrap
join the list and let us know. http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/summerofcode For more information on GSoC ask on the list or get info direct from Google at... http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html Cheers, Rob. ___ opensolaris-discuss

[osol-discuss] Logcheck (Port Sentry) Problem

2008-01-21 Thread Rob Sandifer
message alert to the sysadmin. Any ideas as to what I need to do to correct this problem so that Logcheck will report the failed ssh login attempt? Andy and all responses are very much appreciated! Thanks ahead of time! Rob Sandifer This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] setfacl v NFSv4 FACLs: Was: Correlation of snv_66 to S10 u4

2007-12-21 Thread Rob McMahon
? Rob -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-12-19 Thread Rob McMahon
is not very productive. The change from dump to ufsdump between SunOS 4 and Solaris 2 caused me enough grief ... I think you need to chill. Rob -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England

Re: [osol-discuss] Nevada Built 77 Screen Resolution Refresh Rate

2007-12-09 Thread Rob Giltrap
Steven Sim wrote: I have Nevada Build 77 JDS running and I noticed from the Screen Resolution Applet that the refresh rate is only 50 Hz. I would really like to bump this up to 75 Hz (I know my HBA and LCD can handle this). I was taught that anything below 60 Hz would give the user a big

Re: [osol-discuss] How to enable XDM?

2007-12-06 Thread Rob Nelson
Here's how we do it. We use Gnome and not CDE, don't know if CDE is different. 1) Enable the gnome display manager: # svcadm enable svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default [If your a GUI person, you can also start Administration-Services and in the Services settings dialog enable the

Re: [osol-discuss] Middle management at Sun destroys OpenDS is OpenSolaris next?

2007-11-30 Thread Rob McMahon
to every tale. Rob -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Logging Telnet Sessions

2007-11-29 Thread Rob Sandifer
I am trying to find the following information regarding the logging of telnet sessions within a Solaris 10 environment: (1) How can I tell if the logging of telnet sessions is enabled on a Solaris 10 machine? (2) Assuming that the logging of telnet sessions is not enabled, what is the

Re: [osol-discuss] Logging Telnet Sessions

2007-11-29 Thread Rob Sandifer
Thanks for the heads-up on the security-discuss group! To answer your question, I am interested in logging telnet logon/authentication events. Thanks! RobSand This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-24 Thread Rob Giltrap
Dennis Clarke wrote: There was a major power outage in SF that affected our servers. three little letters : U P S better yet : A P C get some :-) It should have been part of their B C P ;-) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-22 Thread Rob Giltrap
In terms of software installation it could be better and will be MUCH better with the first 'Project Indiana' release which is heavily focussed on ease of installation and subsequent package management. Last plans I saw were for an October-ish release. Lu, Baolu wrote: By my understanding,

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris build/install help needed

2007-07-13 Thread Rob Nelson
Was hoping the cc: would move the whole thread, guess not. Here's the original question: Hello All: A newbie here with OpenSolaris and could use some pointers from you seasoned veterans: I have install snv_66 from binaries (it works great!) I have built with nightly both the source tarball

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-06-01 Thread Rob Giltrap
in some similar form) is essential. Once this is done what ever is decided in terms of distros can be implemented, without it I can only see this being a talk fest. Regards Rob Giltrap (NB: I'm a Sun Contractor but I'm not working with the Engineering groups in any way

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: BASH as root shell

2007-05-31 Thread Rob McMahon
honestly can't see the problem people are trying to solve. I login as root and can't use command line editing ? If you're logging in as root you better know how to type tcsh, or ksh, or bash, or zsh, ... (I always liked `rc' myself, but it didn't seem to take off.) Rob -- E-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-18 Thread Rob McMahon
the default output from standard commands. Rob -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

[osol-discuss] Re: [summerofcode] Reviewing projects, assigning mentors

2007-04-02 Thread Rob Giltrap
of inability to prove that there wasn't NDA violations. On 3/29/07, Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Thanks to Rob, we're already starting the process of being able to rate the submitted student proposals. We have some pretty tight deadlines of deciding the best ones, and assigning

Re: [osol-discuss] cpu error in Sunfire 15K

2007-03-29 Thread Rob Johnston
logs then it's not a big concern. If you were to see several of these occurring in a short period of time, then it could be an indicator that the processor is faulty - at which point you might consider having service come out and take a look . rob Satyanarayan Pati wrote: Hi, I found

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Fault Management Event Registry

2007-02-27 Thread Rob Johnston
+1 rob cindi wrote: This project will export the fault management registry of event specifications and diagnosis article content. The initial delivery to the OpenSolaris community will include the registry contents and a set of CLIs and a web-based browser tools to access event class

Re: [osol-discuss] Assembler Output

2007-01-23 Thread Rob McMahon
of years ago). Hmm, pwd /usr/local/bin file * | fgrep 'Sun demand paged SPARC executable' | wc -l 154 ls -l ded -rwxr-xr-x1 root staff 98304 Jul 26 1989 ded Looks like I better get re-compiling ... Rob -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Rob McMahon
these days. I used star once, and felt the same way: there's no way I can remember the syntax. I use ufsdump, gcp, or gtar these days. Sorry, I know you contribute a lot to the community and respect what you do, but I can't cope with these odd-ball eccentric commands. Soz, Rob -- E-Mail

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris 10 06/06 x86 HP DL585 boot hang aftrer reboot HELP!!!

2006-07-19 Thread Rob McMahon
Dana H. Myers wrote: Rob McMahon wrote: For another datapoint, I'm seeing what looks like exactly the same problem on a DL385 (single AMD Opteron 280). Setting the appropriate flags in /etc/system, the hang ends with: How much memory do you have, and how often does the machine hang

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris 10 06/06 x86 HP DL585 boot hang aftrer reboot HELP!!!

2006-07-17 Thread Rob McMahon
For another datapoint, I'm seeing what looks like exactly the same problem on a DL385 (single AMD Opteron 280). Setting the appropriate flags in /etc/system, the hang ends with: Search PCI Hot-Plug Resource Table starting at 0xF Found PCI Hot-Plug Resource Table at f4ee0 No. of PCI

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris 10 06/06 x86 HP DL585 boot hang aftrer reboot HELP!!!

2006-07-17 Thread Rob McMahon
Ah, I should have said this is Solaris 10U2, not the community or express editions. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris 10 06/06 x86 HP DL585 boot hang aftrer reboot HELP!!!

2006-07-17 Thread Rob McMahon
-2 pci_autoconfig: [ID 496449 kern.notice] NOTICE: probing dev 0x4, func 0x0 Anything I can do to help resolve this problem, please let me know. Cheers, Rob * -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL

Re: [osol-discuss] OBP definitive list of parms

2006-06-07 Thread Rob Johnston
page. For a list of OBP commands, your best reference is probably the OBP section of the Sun Systems Handbook: http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/ rob ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Community Forum Proposal: Packaging, Patching,

2006-02-13 Thread Rob
of a bootable distribution on CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, netinstall images, etc. rob This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Community Forum Proposal: Packaging, Patching, and Distribution Mgmt

2006-01-31 Thread Rob
]Initial Community Leaders[/b] Dave Miner, dminer Rob Anderson, rander [b]References[/b] [] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment https://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=6758 [] The binary versions of the Solaris packaging tools are found @ [u]http://www.opensolaris.org/os

[osol-discuss] Re: Distributions and package managment forum request

2006-01-26 Thread Rob
the OpenSolaris site should include a reference to the Solaris Ready service from Sun for use by the community - http://www.sun.com/solarisready/ rob This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] 64-bit zfs ?

2006-01-18 Thread Rob Johnston
You'll find many of the binaries under /usr/bin and /usr/sbin have only 32bit versions. That said most of the real work wrt zfs is done in the kernel, which on SPARC platforms is 64 bit only. rob Dennis Clarke wrote: # file /sbin/zfs /sbin/zfs: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1

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