Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-15 Thread Scott Howard
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 06:58:24PM -0700, Jake Hamby wrote: > I just did a quick performance test of bsdtar vs. gnutar, star, and Solaris > tar in extracting a large (704MB uncompressed) .tar.bz2 archive: > > $ time gtar -xjf ~/Downloads/kde/KDEkderequired-341.tar.bz2 > > $ bzcat ~/Downloads/kde

Re: [osol-discuss] "... on OpenSolaris" is an oxymoron

2005-07-15 Thread Scott Howard
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:31:12AM -0700, John Plocher wrote: > Is it important (as an architectural goal...) that we could say > "runs on OpenSolaris[1]" > in the face of multiple "OpenSolaris based" distros? There is some mention of this at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/trademark

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: always wondered about this

2005-07-09 Thread Scott Howard
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 09:51:17PM -0700, Sunil wrote: > # roleadd -u 0 -o -g 0 -G 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,12 -d / -s /bin/pfksh ^^^ There's your problem - you can't have a role and a user with the same UID. If you want to make root a role, then follow the (trivial) procedure for doin

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: always wondered about this

2005-07-09 Thread Scott Howard
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 08:37:57PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > I would say you've found a bug then. Since the roles manpage claims Or far more likely he's done something wrong in configuring the role. # uname -a SunOS f3800a 5.9 Generic_117171-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire # roleadd -d /home/role

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: always wondered about this

2005-07-09 Thread Scott Howard
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:41:40PM -0700, Sunil wrote: > if I were to ask my question again, it would be: > > is there a version of 'su' or equivalent piece of software which uses rsa/dsa > keys to authenticate locally, instead of password? I don't want to have sshd > running for this because it

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 05:33:46PM +0800, James Lick wrote: > The only Sun > provided distribution of OpenSolaris comes only as source code (and a > bunch of binaries that are still closed source). You need to Solaris Not so. There is a binary "distribution" in the form of BFU archives. These