Re: [osol-discuss] Re: new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-15 Thread Dick Davies
On 15/01/07, noel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: great. so what should we do to get this cheat sheet goin? What would be the most important commands to put? and which config files are also significant and different for administering the system? There's an 'immigrants' project at opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-14 Thread Jean-François Ndi
Hi, 3. does anyone know if solaris will work with the mcp51 nvidia chipset and video card? ... (I have an hp pavilion dv2000 series laptop) I don't know for the dv2000 but I have installed SXCR b54 on two HP dv6000 (Turion64 X2) which have an MCP51 NVIDIA chipset. There is a problem with

[osol-discuss] Re: new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-14 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
Hi Dennis 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # uname -a SunOS topgun 5.11 snv_43 i86pc i386 i86pc Made the entry into /etc/user_attr mritundefaultpriv=basic,!proc_info Before: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# ps -ef | wc -l 84 After (logout then again login) 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# ps -ef | wc -l 4 It

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
Hi Dennis 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # uname -a SunOS topgun 5.11 snv_43 i86pc i386 i86pc Made the entry into /etc/user_attr mritundefaultpriv=basic,!proc_info Before: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# ps -ef | wc -l 84 After (logout then again login) 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# ps -ef | wc -l

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-14 Thread Menno Lageman
Dennis Clarke wrote: Hi Dennis 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # uname -a SunOS topgun 5.11 snv_43 i86pc i386 i86pc Made the entry into /etc/user_attr mritundefaultpriv=basic,!proc_info Before: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# ps -ef | wc -l 84 After (logout then again login) 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# ps

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-14 Thread Rich Teer
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Dennis Clarke wrote: At what rev of Solaris does this work ? Solaris 10 GA ? Or is this a Yep; it relies on process privs, which were introduced with Solaris 10. feature that will work in Solaris 9 also ? We know that Solaris 8 is out Nope. -- Rich Teer, SCSA,

[osol-discuss] Re: new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-14 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
The reason why Windows is so easy to install is only because it comes pre-installed. Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org This (i.e., Windows is easy to install) is true only to a very limited

[osol-discuss] Re: new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-14 Thread UNIX admin
I think we need to point out to our Linux friends that once they do this hat will will pollute the root directory with crud. Things like the bash_history and if they actually login vie dtlogin/gdm or whatever that they will really bork it up wwith junk. That's why I think that just

[osol-discuss] Re: new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-14 Thread UNIX admin
Yes, there's an RFE in progress to make /root root's home directory. Now THAT really stinks! There is *nothing wrong* with .files in /! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-14 Thread noel
great. so what should we do to get this cheat sheet goin? What would be the most important commands to put? and which config files are also significant and different for administering the system? Hmm, I was just checking out solaris cuz sun says its the most secure os. But my real question

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-14 Thread John Weekley
UNIX admin wrote: I think we need to point out to our Linux friends that once they do this hat will will pollute the root directory with crud. Things like the bash_history and if they actually login vie dtlogin/gdm or whatever that they will really bork it up wwith junk. That's why I think

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-14 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 1/14/07, noel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: great. so what should we do to get this cheat sheet goin? What would be the most important commands to put? and which config files are also significant and different for administering the system? Hmm, I was just checking out solaris cuz sun says its

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-14 Thread James C. McPherson
noel wrote: so what should we do to get this cheat sheet goin? What would be the most important commands to put? and which config files are also significant and different for administering the system? all this depends on what you need to find out. Perhaps it would help to start by asking what

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-14 Thread Derek E. Lewis
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, noel wrote: Hmm, I was just checking out solaris cuz sun says its the most secure os. But my real question is why people are leaving linux for a foreign environment like solaris. It seems that there is somewhat less software available for solaris. (I don't mind paying for

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-14 Thread David Lloyd
Heh, Solaris will run 99% of the applications that are available for Linux, like MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP, Apache2, gcc, Firefox, Mozilla, Evolution, XMMS, X-Chat, etc. etc. And if you can't get it working under Solaris, you can always try Centos 3.8 :P DSL

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-14 Thread David Lloyd
Heh, Solaris will run 99% of the applications that are available for Linux, like MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP, Apache2, gcc, Firefox, Mozilla, Evolution, XMMS, X-Chat, etc. etc. And if you can't get it working under Solaris, you can always try Centos 3.8 in a BrandZ Linux zone :P DSL