[osol-discuss] bug submission - appropriate placement

2009-10-20 Thread William D. Hathaway
I wanted to file a bug on the svc manifest for SUNWsquid, but it isn't clear to me what the appropriate product and classification would be on defect.opensolaris.org. Can someone point me towards the appropriate info? I'm using: sunwsq...@2.7.6,5.11-0.125 The defect is:

Re: [osol-discuss] bug submission - appropriate placement

2009-10-20 Thread William D. Hathaway
Thanks Alan, I submitted the bug. I didn't realize the meta info was available, that certainly makes finding the right category easy! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Indiana VMWare Fusion

2007-12-17 Thread William D. Hathaway
Check out the following: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=66 This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ipfilter and tcp timeouts - painful

2007-12-17 Thread William D. Hathaway
If you can't replace your firewall, you might be able to change some settings that eliminate the one minute inactivity timeout. What vendor/version is it? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: How To Install Solaris 10 : A Step by Step Guide

2007-04-10 Thread William D. Hathaway
No slice for Live Upgrade? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Poor SATA performance on x86

2007-04-02 Thread William D. Hathaway
Can you post your dd command line? What are you using for a block size? How long does it take for a much smaller dd to complete? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Heartbeat

2006-10-17 Thread William D. Hathaway
As mentioned in the previous response, Sun Cluster is available for free, but it is pretty complex software and takes some time to get an understanding of how to configure it properly and trouble shoot it. Another free option is http://www.fstha.com/ha.html which looks a lot simpler, but

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: revisiting software issues

2006-06-19 Thread William D. Hathaway
One thing I'd like to see in Blastwave standards is the separation of bin/lib from config/data. While I was a massive fan of CSW on Solaris 9, when trying to build S10+ machines with large numbers of zones, it seemed I like I either needed to make /opt/csw local on each zone, or do lots of

[osol-discuss] Re: To start samba in a zone

2006-04-11 Thread William D. Hathaway
what does in say in /var/svc/log/*samba* ? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Project proposal - Argentix

2006-03-12 Thread William D. Hathaway
Hi SNIP Of course we could have used GNU software, but at the time being, GNU software on top of the Solaris kernel (ON) is unstable. So therefore we would like to try to use non-gnu software in Argentix. SNIP So what do you think? Could you please explain what you mean by GNU software on

[osol-discuss] Re: what is a door file ?

2005-11-13 Thread William D. Hathaway
from the libdoor(3LIB) manpage: Doors are a fast light-weight RPC mechanism for secure control transfer between processes on the same machine. Conceptu- ally, a thread in one process can issue a call using a door descriptor that causes code to be executed in another

[osol-discuss] Re: what is a door file ?

2005-11-13 Thread William D. Hathaway
For sample code, Rich Teer has examples (and a whole 40 page chapter on doors) in his excellent Solaris Systems Programming book. I would highly recommend this book to anyone that is programming on Solaris. You can download sample source code and find more info on his book at