Deepak Bhatia wrote:
When we do
#cc test.c
We get a.out file but it is again ELF File format file.
A.out is the name of a binary format that predates ELF. This compiler
always produces ELF output files, even if the file name happens to be
"a.out".
Hi,
I am working on a project related
Stephen Harpster wrote:
We're wondering if this would increase participation. There are a lot
of GPL bigots out there. If OpenSolaris were available under GPL, would
there be more people willing to participate who have to date ignored us
because we're CDDL only?
That seems unlikely. At leas
Wyllys Ingersoll wrote:
I would like to propose a new project for OpenSolaris.org.
The project will be called "Solaris TPM Drivers".
The goal is to create TPM (Trusted Platform Module)
kernel drivers and cryptographic framework plugins
for OpenSolaris to facilitate future secure computing
work.
Darren J Moffat wrote:
Wyllys Ingersoll wrote:
I would like to propose a new project for OpenSolaris.org.
The project will be called "Solaris TPM Drivers".
The goal is to create TPM (Trusted Platform Module)
kernel drivers and cryptographic framework plugins
for OpenSolaris to facilitate futur
Donald Brownlee wrote:
I installed update 3 Saturday.
I think that I had to check the box other than the
one that was checked by default -- maybe I misread
the explanation?
No, you're correct. In Solaris 10, you need to give a non-default answer
to the install question in order to get the conf
Darren J Moffat wrote:
Eric Boutilier wrote:
Thanks, Wyllys. Your proposal has been seconded. I'll contact
you offline to get you set up.
Given the project is more than just a driver for the TPM chip to plugin
to the crypto framework can we *please* use a project name that reflects
that, ple
Steven Xie wrote:
echo EFG|/usr/xpg4/bin/tr '[EFG]' '[pBC]'
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
echo EFG|/usr/xpg6/bin/tr '[EFG]' '[pBC]'
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
echo EFG|/usr/bin/tr '[EFG]' '[pBC]'
pBC
hard to pick now.
This is crazy. Has anybody filed a bug yet?
Scott
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Ian Collins wrote:
sprintf (start_command,"%s", "/opt/SUNWdsee/start-slapd");
(void) system(start_command);
In addition to the other reply, you shouldn't have to use the ghastly
(void)system() just to silence lint warnings.
Well, you *could* examine the retur
Anne wrote:
All
When I start Xwindows from my workstation and connect to my Solaris 10
boxes, and I choose the Sun Java Desktop (not the classic CDE), I can't
use the
backup space key in the terminal windows. It's terribly annoying and in
fact, I have to run CDE from now on because of it.
Brian Gupta wrote:
> Here's the basic truth about Apple and OpenSource:
> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200602/apple.html
The first half-dozen paragraphs, describing the obstacles facing
external developers when the Apple source was still reasonably open,
seem eerily familiar.
s/Apple/Sun/g
s/20
Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> hey ... anyone have an updated count of the number of lines of code in
> the OpenSolaris source?
>
> Jim
(Ada) 33 files,18944 lines
(Tcl) 6 files, 1028 lines
(make) 5016 files, 101157 lines
(other) 2520 files, 805011 li
Edward Pilatowicz wrote:
>
> given the total file count i'd guess that these numbers are
> just for ON, which is only one component of opensolaris.
> ed
Good point. I did my count on the ON usr/src tree because I had it
conveniently available (/ws/onnv-clone/usr/src at Sun).
Scott
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Anil Gulecha wrote:
>>
>> Total 40012 files, 8793366 lines
>>
>
> Thats funny, I remember seeing '11m' mentioned in some opensolaris
> slides. Marketing to blame?
Remember my example about cat.c, where wc -l shows 630 lines, but my
tool reports 379 lines?
It's likely that the 11M num
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Thommy M. Malmström wrote:
>> Seems as if there was a change in default behaviour of the less command
>> between b72 and b76. It now clears the screen at exit which I find most
>> annoying. Or is it the GNOME terminal that has changed???
>>
>> Anyway, why have the behavi
Jennifer Pioch wrote:
> On 1/30/08, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Jennifer Pioch writes:
>>> On 1/30/08, Richard Zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just come to solaris from linux, and find Tab auto-completion doesn't
work in console.
why?
>>> # cp /usr/bin/i86/ksh93 /s
Shawn Walker wrote:
> Not only that, is uptime really an indicator of operating system
> reliability, or hardware reliability and system administration
> policies?
Or lack of system use?
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Andrew Watkins wrote:
> Come on folks! The first answer should be "What has this got to do
> with OpenSolaris?
>
> But you are presuming that the file has only the 4 lines in it. What
> happens if the crontab is much longer
>
> # more data here 0 0 * * * /usr/bin/true #Start of lines added by
> S
James Hardwick wrote:
So I have been working in Solaris, and *nix in general recently for the
first time in a long long while. Trying to do various things which may
be easy to you guys, but not so much to me. Anyways, here goes it...
I am currently running in Solaris 10 w/ TX, build 42. I have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
#!/bin/csh
Refuses to run if real and effective uids don't match.
#!/bin/csh -b
Runs set-uid scripts just tine
Yes, to be complete I should have included csh -b. The point I wanted to
emphasize, however, is that csh (with no options) will refuse to r
Darren J Moffat wrote:
Patrick wrote:
just wondering if there is any free software to back-up and keep
up-to-date certain folders on my hard drive to external hard drive?
basically i need to be able to plug in my external USB HD and be able
to tell which files have changed and which files are
wb wrote:
Hi.
I have a /tmp FS for swap, and a really big file crout* inside. The /tmp was
95% up.
I decided to remove the crout file.
The problem, is the /tmp is not decreasing, but still growing.
How could I make it decrease?
Removing the file just deletes the directory entry in /tmp. The
ch time as
someone does the work to update ON to build using later versions. Which
I'd imagine will have to happen at some point.
You can at least compile ON with gcc 4.x now, though that's a recent
development. See CR 6795209.
Scott
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ot;it compiles and it seems to run"? Or was a gcc
4.4 compiled ON send to PIT?
Casper
All I claim is that the ON code compiles cleanly. I'm not certain that
the resulting kernel will even boot.
This putback was a collection of minor syntax fixes for errors reported
by gcc 4.
a revolutionary thread-cutting
"Scissors" CPU?
Scissors cuts Paper, so Fujitsu doesn't stand a chance. But Rock
crushes Scissors, so maybe the Rock will win after all?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_scissors_paper
I suggest Spock.
http://www.samkass.com/theories/RPSSL.html
I saw the "I am not a programmer" statement above. So "someone" may
not be you. I might be interested in trying this for fun, but I'm not
sure how soon I'd get around to it.
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n Ada to C translator, but I didn't find anything. Looks
like you had better luck.
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our best bet is to create the new pool and then use zfs
send/receive for each filesystem.
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.
I haven't personally tried the A605, but I assume that it would run
OpenSolaris equally well.
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k the forums to see if the Toshiba R600 uses a
special OpenSolaris build.
I can't comment on the other Toshiba models, but I can answer your
second question. I have personally installed an R600 using the standard
2009.06 CD.
Scott
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to see the same basic functionality implemented
dozens and dozens of times.
Scott
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Shawn Walker wrote:
Scott Rotondo wrote:
Yes, I think there is no getting away from arbitrary scripting, though
I understand the desire to move it out of the installation context.
That's funny, last I checked there have been OpenSolaris 200x releases
since 2008.05 without relyi
to perform some operation. A much better approach is to have
the script/program just try the operation and report an error if it
doesn't succeed.
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a fragile implementation that may break
whenever the underlying OS changes.
It's a far more effective programming model to simply issue the commands
and see if they succeed or not.
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er_attr will include "type=role".
[2] The regular user account must be authorized to assume the root role,
indicated by "roles=root" in its /etc/user_attr entry.
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Pho
assume the root role, even if he still
knows the root password.
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haved this way out of the box, but given that
he followed those steps earlier it all makes sense.
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o use pfexec to run with privilege) are direct results of overwriting
those files.
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stead.
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p://www1.lexmark.com/products/view/Printers/Lexmark-C543dn/catId=cat10006-category&prodId=4609-product
I realize this doesn't help with the original inkjet question, but I
thought the rest of opensolaris-discuss might be interested.
Scott
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Cyril Plisko wrote:
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/blades/index.html
Oh well...
I don't see it. Maybe it's been fixed already?
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d the child process tries to execute child.sh using
execve(). If this succeeds, the arguments you see in ptree show the
child script. If it fails (because there is no #! line), the child
process interprets the script, but the process args still match those of
the parent.
Have a look at shell_exec
h the service that I'm trying to start depends on?
Sure: svcadm enable -r. See svcadm(1M).
Scott
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wo binaries are essentially
equivalent. However, I believe there are minor differences between what
elfcmp considers "the same" and what IPS does.
That may be fine for your purposes; just don't expect matching results
100% of the time.
Scott
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Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Juergen Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hmm, in usr/src/uts/common/fs/hsfs/hsfs_vfsops.c function hs_mountfs(),
>> whenever we use one of the first three |goto cleanup|, the local variables
>> |svp| and |jvp| are uninitialized. That should corrupt the kernel heap
>>
Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Scott Rotondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>>
>>> Does it help to intialize the pointers to NULL?
>>>
>> Sure. This code
>>
>> 943 if (fsp)
>> 944
Vincent Boisard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently trying to reduce the number of services running on my headless
> server.
> My main problem is that for most of them, I can't find info on what they do
> so I don't know if I
> need them or not. My system is headless so no X server, only cli.
1.
Vincent Boisard wrote:
> 2. I want to disable services for two reasons: improving security and
> reducing resource usage.
> I have already disabled, for example, the web management console, to
> avoid running a JVM (I don't use the web console: it currently only
> manages ZFS and CLI tools are
andrew wrote:
> I have started to create a page to explain some of the jargon that is
> specific to Solaris and/or Sun but I'm stock on a few terms. Can some
> knowledgeable folk possibly have a look and reply here with definitions for
> those I've not got meanings for, and also check I've got t
Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>> Here are some key terms. The FCS or GA release and the ABI, the SPI and
>>> API.
>>>
>>> I have always been curious what the difference was between FCS and GA. I
>>> think that GA means General Availability and perhaps is the same as FCS.
>>>
>>>
>>
b101 and see if it
> still is having the issue.
I'd be surprised if a later build of Solaris makes any difference. From
what I've seen, FF3 is unbelievably slow everywhere, even on Windows.
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cronym. What's wrong with "iSER" as a project name anyways?
I think it's unavoidable that the URL for the project page will include
an abbreviation that is incomprehensible to outsiders (for me, iSER and
SRP are about equivalent). As long as the project title spells out "
you request a reset of a
forgotten password, for example.
Obviously your birthdate isn't really secret, but you may want to
consider this before posting it on a website.
Scott
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e than just parity with Linux.
If the GNU utilities are as unstable (from an interface perspective) as
has been suggested on this thread, maybe we should seriously consider
one of the hybrid approaches that has been suggested here.
Scott
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d this and used it to view and print a handful of PDF
files. This is so much better than the 20th century Acroread 4.x we had
before that it's hard to describe. Now I never have to run Evince again!
Scott
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hanged? Does someone actually
rely on the current behavior?
Scott
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Harry Putnam wrote:
Scott Rotondo writes:
casper@sun.com wrote:
The most broken part of bash is its signal handling:
cd /net/somehost/file/dir ; rm -rf *
"somehost" hangs; now you type a ^C to interrupt the "cd".
What happens?
bash-3.2$ sleep 10; echo
t.
All of the local-only services, like the X server, have documentation on
their man pages about how to enable remote use.
Scott
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ice to be able to toggle this one behavior while still
compiling with -Xa. Anyone know of a not-so-obvious Sun Studio option to
do that?
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fbay/dev .
If that's not true, then you won't be able to reach ipkg.sfbay since
it's an internal system.
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or
you could create SMF profiles to enable and disable the specific
services and apply them with svccfg apply.
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Is there any particular reason you thought it would be something other than the
standard JVM?
Scott
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On Jun 20, 2010, at 12:36 PM, "W. Wayne
Please don't speculate about anyone's departure, including whether it was
voluntary or not.
I won't comment on any individual, but suffice it to say that Oracle is not
actively "sending away" senior Solaris engineers.
Scott
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ntax fixes in a handful of additional files I haven't
integrated yet.
Note that I'm talking about syntactic correctness only; I haven't tried
to run the resulting binaries.
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tion of
/usr/bin/crontab or a process that directly writes to the file in
/var/spool/cron/crontab.
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gular user account by running
rolemod -K type=normal root
but I wouldn't recommend that unless you can't find another solution.
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n to a user account first and then
providing the root password. Even if the user accounts have weak (or
non-existent) passwords, the situation is no worse than it was with a
single root user account.
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. I suspect it
tries to look up userIDs via LDAP first and has a long timeout. Best
to su to root in that situation.
Have a look at /etc/nsswitch.conf. The search order is configurable.
Scott
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On 07/30/10 03:49 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Jul 30, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Scott Rotondo wrote:
Regarding the expansion of the attack surface, remember that
assuming the root role requires logging in to a user account first
and then providing the root password.
Well, yes and no. It's
root password to boot in single-user mode, even when root is a role.
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known issue with x86 debuggers - needing to break at
+3 so that the frame pointer is set up before you try to
examine arguments or local variables?
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ted in order to set the frame pointer in %ebp.
If the debugger automatically modifies your breakpoint request, you
don't have to worry about this. If it literally sets the breakpoint
where you tell it, you have to be aware of this little trick.
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the Primary Administrator profile using usermod -P. Better yet, create a
new profile containing just the command(s) that need to run with
privilege and assign that to the user.
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How can I change it?
ls there single user mode as linux when booting? How
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