[osol-help] is there anyway to make rsync preserve solaris ACL's

2010-02-08 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
ating to build 132 would help, but that means jumping from stable to development -- and half my attempts at that in virtual machines on another system failed to complete the upgrade. A new stable is supposed to be out in March, so sometime in April seems possible ;-). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b

[osol-help] is there anyway to make rsync preserve solaris ACL's

2010-02-05 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
rkflow best to make a new snapshot, send it, and then delete it. Compression is a filesystem property; it'll do what the destination is set to do. (The zfs-discuss list is where the real ZFS experts hang out.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info

[osol-help] is there anyway to make rsync preserve solaris ACL's

2010-02-05 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
(also have unix permissions > which i'd like to keep) Solaris (not gnu, I think) cp ought to be able to replicate the ACLs. Recursive, preserving file modes. Since you say "pool", you're probably talking ZFS filesystems, in which case ZFS send / receive will do w

[osol-help] Upgrade from 2009.06 to dev build 132

2010-02-05 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
tching my production system to dev. But getting better at managing this stuff is always worthwhile. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info

[osol-help] Network.COM

2010-02-04 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
(The page served at network.com is a Sun cloud computing solutions promo.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info

[osol-help] Finding install, update, boot logs

2010-02-04 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
(and because I'm used to looking in /var/log :-)). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info

[osol-help] 2009.06 to dev upgrade doesn't work

2010-02-03 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
d forth for a long time before the gdm login appears. > In case you are using the opensolaris graphical ("happy face") > boot: Did you switch to the text console by pressing the ESC > key? Did it perhaps stop at a console prompt, waiting > for console input? As I said, it

[osol-help] 2009.06 to dev upgrade doesn't work

2010-02-03 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
in case.) I'm really glad I tried this test; I'm working up to upgrading my home fileserver, which is currently on 2009.6. Maybe I *will* wait until the next stable release, instead of stepping into /dev as I had planned. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots

[osol-help] Basic home user firewall

2010-01-14 Thread David Powell
On 01/14/10 03:44, Jaideep Das wrote: > i have install vpanel-firewall on my laptop. I want to know how to enable a > basic firewall on my laptop. Or is there a firewall running already. OpenSolaris comes with ipfilter, though it isn't enabled unless you explicitly enable it. Since you hav

[osol-help] computer restarts when booting from live cd

2009-12-21 Thread Livadaru David
Why I need to edit every time kernelline? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] computer restarts when booting from live cd

2009-12-21 Thread Livadaru David
Hy I'm a newbie in english and same in Unix/Linux,only 1 year of experience in Ubuntu.Now I want to try something new like OpenSolaris.But I've got the same problem as Andreja. I have an AMD Athlon 64 3 GHz,1 GB DDR1,and Ati XPRO600 128 mb. How can I install OpenSolaris 0906 on my system? -- Th

[osol-help] OpenSolaris 2009.06 ZFS - COMSTAR iSCSI - NFS Reboot Issue

2009-12-07 Thread David Bond
Do you have the same problem with CIFS, I posted a problem with my server rebooting (kernel panic) on snv125 when i transfered data for a while to my home server. Posted in networking first thinking it was my network adapter dropping off the network, didnt notice it had rebooted, they tried to h

[osol-help] Small, redundant ZFS backed SAN?

2009-11-18 Thread David Pratt
Hi. Regardless of SAN/NAS software licensing cost, HA storage is going to cost $$. I am more comfortable if I can take charge of the OS or software so am hoping to get this to work. I see less value in a web gui for me but will see how far I get. A big factor in this is hardware compatibility fi

[osol-help] ZFS on a fileserver with OpenSolaris?

2009-11-16 Thread David Pratt
Hi. I am interested in same thing, however I am contemplating opensolaris vs nexentacore. My goal is to create a mirrored pool under raidz2 and make it available as iSCSI. I have a second filer that I want to setup for high availability using Open HA Cluster so there is redundancy. I found a do

[osol-help] Minimal Server Install

2009-11-16 Thread David Pratt
Hi. I am new to opensolaris and looking for a minimal install of opensolaris for a server setup. Also is there a security hardening guide for the OS anywhere? Many thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Marvell Yukon Ethernet Driver Help! (YUKONXsolx -> yge)

2009-10-23 Thread David Bond
My marvell yukon (cheap 3com, 3c920) doesnt work on 124, the drivers are installed from the marvell site, but they dont attach. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Installing and running Gimp

2009-10-10 Thread david
Thanks for the quick response. I can start the program from the command line but pkill did not make it appear in the menu. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Installing and running Gimp

2009-10-10 Thread david
I used the addmoresoftware utility to install Gimp but it was not added to the graphics menu and it is not listed as a program in the "open with" list. Summary: The Gimp image editor Size: 27.29 MB Category: Applications/Graphics and Imaging Ins

[osol-help] nVidia MCP67 ethernet driver for compaq presario v6700

2009-10-03 Thread david
Does anyone have any information on a working ethernet driver for the hardware listed above? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] zpool is very slow

2009-10-02 Thread David Stewart
No, I am not using xvm. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] zpool is very slow

2009-10-02 Thread David Stewart
zpool. The "zpool status" command shows no errors with the zpool and iostat: mediaz used 470k avail 5.44T read 0 write 0 bandwidth read 37 bandwidth write 44 How do I find what is accessing the zpool and stop it? David -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ v. RAIDZ1

2009-10-02 Thread David Stewart
sist. Sheepish grin. David -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] RAIDZ v. RAIDZ1

2009-10-01 Thread David Stewart
and RAIDZ1? Shouldn't the size be the same for "zpool create raidz ..." and "zpool create raidz1 ..." if I am using the exact same drives? David -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] [ZFS-discuss] RAIDZ drive "removed" status

2009-09-29 Thread David Stewart
I ran zpool after a few days of uptime and copying 2.4TB of data to the system I received the following: david at opensolarisnas:~$ zpool status mediapool pool: mediapool state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices are faulted in response to persistent errors. Sufficient replicas

[osol-help] nVidia 9800m GTX Driver

2009-09-29 Thread David
The ISO image is 744MB and will not burn to CD as the CD only supports 700MB. Suggestions??? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] nVidia 9800m GTX Driver

2009-09-28 Thread David
Downloading now...thank you... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] nVidia 9800m GTX Driver

2009-09-24 Thread David
I have installed OpenSolaris 2009.06 (which is supposed to support the geForce 9800m GTX out-of-the-box) and am having display driver problems. I had to do a remote install and that is the only way I can login to the system. On boot it hangs at the splash screen. Research has shown that there

[osol-help] Help for two obstacles before full port

2009-09-11 Thread David Babb
Good Afternoon all, I passed on 8.11 because I didn't think it was mature enough. I installed 0906 on my "testing" partition and it looks like this version leaves me with only a couple of obstacles to overcome. Obstacle #1: I have two applications that I use in work related activities that re

[osol-help] Bad disk under VBox 3.0.4

2009-09-09 Thread David Lines
Thanks for the response. I did have problems with my disk drive and replaced it a few weeks ago. (That doesn't mean I couldn't have another bad drive.) I don't see any messages in my eventlog and the disk analysis I run at boot time doesn't report any kind of problem. I'm at a loss of what t

[osol-help] Printer setup

2009-09-09 Thread David Lines
This is probably a really stupid question, but how do I set up and use a printer, connected to my host OS, in OpenSolaris running under VirtualBox 3.0.4? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Bad disk under VBox 3.0.4

2009-09-09 Thread David Lines
When trying to bring up my OpenSolaris guest on VirtualBox, I get the following: WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 1,1/ide at 1/sd at 0,0 (sd0): Error for Command: read(10)Error Level: Fatal Requested Block: 0 Error Block: 0 Vendor: VB

[osol-help] Install OpenSolaris 2009.06 on VirtualBox 3.0.4

2009-09-07 Thread David Lines
I have tried to install OpenSolaris 2009.06 in VirtualBox 3.0.4 running under Windows. I am trying to get a working copy of OpenSolaris so that I can play with it and understand it before making that my platform of choice. So far I am not having much success. I have installed OpenSolaris a co

[osol-help] The wifi of my laptop (802.11bg wireless) doesn't work

2009-09-02 Thread David Montero
I'm trying to use the ndis-wrapper to activate Wlan on my Lenovo 3000 N500 4233 72G OpenSolaris snv_111 x86. It uses the Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g. The details of my laptop are the following: * Lenovo 3000 N500 4233 * T3400(2.16GHz) - 2GB RAM * 250GB 5400rpm HD * 15.4

[osol-help] Building MPlayer

2009-08-21 Thread David Powell
Paul Johnston wrote: > On the "I think I should .." thread mention was made of MPlayer and how it > was better for OpenSolaris than VLC (which I unsuccessfully tried to build). > Anyway tried to build MPlayer > > Running make I fail with > > gcc -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.. -Wundef -Wdisabled-op

[osol-help] I think I should forget about OpenSolaris... opinion?

2009-08-20 Thread David Powell
Vic Webster wrote: > I am not saying there is any shortcoming in the operating system, the > shortcoming is in me! > > Well, to be fair to myself, I'm not sure that the operating system is > genuinely built to incorporate those with "general, everyday usage" > in mind (something I was hoping to co

[osol-help] can't download more than 154MB of sunstudioexpress

2009-08-13 Thread David E Anderson
thanks - that worked... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] VMWare/SSD Questions

2009-08-13 Thread David Babb
Good Morning All, I have backed up my system onto different media. I have the system ready to go. For an old disabled Vietnam Vet, this is a big plunge from Linux to OpenSolaris. I will NOT need to install windows if: Q: I can get either VMWare Server, or VMWare Workstation, w/directx support.

[osol-help] can't download more than 154MB of sunstudioexpress

2009-08-12 Thread David E Anderson
the pkg install process keeps retrying and eventually times out. I have run this in a loop for a few hours. I have installed other packages successfully. I am running sv118 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] how to set Path

2009-07-22 Thread david
Ok, this may seem like an amateur question but how do you set the Path. I keep seeing stuff about this but I don't know what it is exactly or how to use it. What I do know is that if I install software from Blastwave or SunFreeWare, I don't have access to it from the normal gnome. I have to

[osol-help] Java apps for OpenSolaris

2009-07-14 Thread david
Wow. I never knew. Thanks. I looked up what you told me to look up and found that the links to download the Solaris versions are Forbidden. I suppose that is it for Azureus. You wouldn't happen to know how I could take some source code, say like for Gnote and use Sun Studio to compile it

[osol-help] Java apps for OpenSolaris

2009-07-14 Thread david
I am scratching my head a bit here. All I know about Java is that you can write the application one time and it should run on any system, from Windows, to Mac, to Solaris, provided of course that they have a JRE. Supposedly the same is true of Mono. What I actually experience is that applic

[osol-help] SXCE stuff in OpenSolaris (like Star Office 9)

2009-07-06 Thread david
First let me thank all of you for the great help you all gave me with some of the problems I had before. My "edit menus" buttons had not broken again since. It looks like it was installing OpenOffice.org from the installer instead of the IPS that was causing it. I have been running Solaris

[osol-help] ELOM Console failure/upgrade

2009-06-22 Thread David
> total 16144 > drwxrwxrwx 2 xxx staff 4 Dec 2 2008 . > drwxrwxrwx 10 xxx staff 10 Dec 2 2008 .. > -rwxrwxrwx 1 xxx staff 7865344 Dec 2 2008 > x2200-320_3B26 > -rwxrwxrwx 1 xxx staff 8389632 Dec 2 2008 > x2200-320_3D12 That appears to be the BIOS upgrades, not the SP one. I'

[osol-help] ELOM Console failure/upgrade

2009-06-22 Thread David
Reading "Embedded Lights Out Manager Administration Guide" and http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x2200/downloads.jsp; it sounds like I should be able to flash the ELOM remotely, via either the CLI or the https: interface, and NOT lose the IP addresses/passwords etc. But the note about the BIOS upg

[osol-help] ELOM Console failure

2009-06-22 Thread David
[gateway, version 3.20] Well; we're batting .500... Copyright 2004-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Version 3.15 /SP -> show /SP/AgentInfo Properties: HWVersion = 0 FWVersion = 3.15 MacAddress = 00:16:36:76:4C:8C IpAddress = x.x.156.139

[osol-help] ELOM Console failure

2009-06-22 Thread David
We are trying to run a 2200M2 in a colo via the ELOM, but having major grief. The guru in the group set up the box locally; then we installed it... and ran into problems. We can reach the box & its ELOM via ssh etc. to the appropriate IP; restart it etc. but not the remote console we need to upgr

[osol-help] Strange problems

2009-06-11 Thread david
I have been using OpenSolaris for half a year now and I like it. I am even thinking of starting a business around it but before I can do something like that I need to get some things fixed. These aren't very big things but they annoy me and I can not understand why an OS would do it. I certai

[osol-help] Can anyone point me in right direction?

2009-06-10 Thread David Anderson
Drivers: Ricoh R5C843 MMC host controller R5C832 IEEE1394 R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/ host adapter RL5c476 II bridge controller Intel MEI & KT controllers for Intel PM965/GM965 ...all for HP Compaq 6910p laptop thanks to who ever's listening... -- This message p

[osol-help] VirtualBox Headless

2009-06-05 Thread David Burge
I'm seeing the same thing with my installation. I used this page as a guide: http://wikis.sun.com/display/BigAdmin/VirtualBox+on+Opensolaris+short+cuts The only difference I really see is that we are both using 2.2.4. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Task Bar

2009-06-04 Thread David Sellers
At school I use a Solaris workstation which I check Common Desktop Environment option when I log in. At the desktop I have a panel at the bottom with various buttons. In the middle are four rectangle buttons that allow me to have 4 desktops, and on each side are four other options and each has a

[osol-help] Need help listing open files user locks on OpenSolaris CIFS shares

2009-06-01 Thread David Day
We have setup a Server which is no running OpenSolaris snv114. Everything seems to be working great so far. My one problem is before we can role this out for live production we need a way to see what CIFS shares are open by what user. Normally if this were just Samba we could use the "smbstat

[osol-help] Need help showing open CIFS shares on OpenSolaris

2009-06-01 Thread David Day
We have steup a Server which is no running OpenSolaris snv114. Everything seems to be working great so far. My one problem is before we can role this out for live production we need a way to see what CIFS shares are open by what user. Normally if this were just Samba we could use the "smbstat

[osol-help] Hangs and crashes with no tracks

2009-03-01 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
e crash or hang). Is there some other log file I should also be looking in? I've poked through a bunch of others that seemed vaguely relevant and I find nothing. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://

[osol-help] Power management, file server

2009-02-28 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
GE amount of trouble, but it's worth a little poking. Any chance? If so, where should I start looking? Mostly I've seen battery-oriented power management info, and that's not the issue here. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd

[osol-help] ZFS zpool importing

2009-02-16 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
and the originals are currently occupying those. I'm about 100.0% sure this is user error (me being the user), but I'm stuck on this right now. What am I expecting wrong? Or doing wrong? -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info

[osol-help] No-ip client to work on openSolaris

2009-02-15 Thread David Welford-Costelloe
Ok edited the make file: Makefile Uncommented: # for solaris, uncomment the next two lines LIBS=-lsocket -lnsl ARCH=sun Commented: # these defines are for Linux # LIBS= # ARCH=linux Forgot to use a root terminal once I had permissions things worked ok. Thanks -- This message posted from open

[osol-help] No-ip client to work on openSolaris

2009-02-15 Thread David Welford-Costelloe
Already looked at the readme file: This is the error: gcc -Wall -g -Dlinux -DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\" noip2.c -o noip2 noip2.c:176:29: linux/sockios.h: No such file or directory noip2.c: In function `dump_shm': noip2.c:930: warning: unsigned int format, long unsigned int arg (arg 3) noip2.c:940: wa

[osol-help] Need help from an Open Solaris Perl Expert...

2009-02-11 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
x27;t understand, so I needed to shift from using rsync to using zfs send / recv for my backups. But the rewrite is as a shell script instead of in Perl because I can't get any CPAN modules to install.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-

[osol-help] Help with VNC or Remoe Desktop from my Mac

2009-02-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
system (whether Solaris or Linux), it fails. What's up with that? I've googled around a lot, but all the keywords are practically generic, and I haven't found the solution yet. (My desktop is Windows XP, with Xming X server. ) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b

[osol-help] ZFS zpool importing

2009-02-02 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
e mount foreign root at our choosen folder, them mount other filesystem > to folders on mounting foreign root. But how to do it with ZFS? The altroot property will do essentially this. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/da

[osol-help] openSolaris 2008.11 - Now have Sound on DELL Dimension!!!

2009-02-02 Thread David Welford-Costelloe
Thanks to all I now have sound on my Dell! Perfect!! Many thanks David... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] openSolaris 2008.11 - No Sound on DELL Dimension

2009-01-29 Thread David Welford-Costelloe
directory root at opensolaris:/dev/sound# ls 0 0ctl Hope this helps David.. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] openSolaris 2008.11 - No Sound on DELL Dimension

2009-01-29 Thread David Welford-Costelloe
Sorry forgot to set the buffer for the terminal. All included now. Thanks -- This message posted from opensolaris.org -- next part -- root at opensolaris:~# uname -a ; prtdiag -v ; dmesg ; /usr/X11/bin/scanpci ; prtconf -Dpv ; prtpicl -v SunOS opensolaris 5.11 snv_101b

[osol-help] openSolaris 2008.11 - No Sound on DELL Dimension

2009-01-28 Thread David Welford-Costelloe
Hi, Attached is the requested output. Thanks -- This message posted from opensolaris.org -- next part -- / (picl, 9f0001) :PICLVersion 1.10 :_classpicl :name / platform (upa, 9f0005) :PlatformGroup i86pc :OS-Version

[osol-help] openSolaris 2008.11 - No Sound on DELL Dimension

2009-01-28 Thread David Welford-Costelloe
Hi, I have no sound available on my Dell: Error: No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found. How can I install support for sound? Thanks David -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] HP E200i driver available?

2009-01-26 Thread Darren David
Thanks in advance, Darren David -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] CPAN non-functional

2009-01-24 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
ear out the options I set. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info

[osol-help] Swapping drives on a ZFS pool...

2009-01-23 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
7;s easy > enough to have 2 shares, like 'music' and 'pictures' and have each be > a 1.5tb mirror. I throw multiple mirrors into a single pool. Then the music filesystem comes out of that pool, and my peronal filesystem (mostly photos) comes out of that pool. So the fr

[osol-help] 2008.11 Install on Acer 8920 reboots at 44%

2009-01-21 Thread David Powell
Luke Hall Bland wrote: > /usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v: > No PCI devices found I think you get this message if you run scanpci as a non-privileged user. Try running it as root. Dave

[osol-help] Curiosity

2009-01-21 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
ironment. I get the feeling that there are old-time sysadmins around who think people should have to prove they are worthy before they're allowed to run Solaris -- or at least who believe that helping people just encourages the weak. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Sna

[osol-help] Mounting a thumb drive

2009-01-20 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
acing that simm with a new one did not bring the failure back. So the particular dumps in question are probably NOT of any interest to ZFS people. But I still want to know how to get things on and off a system in single-user mode!) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots

[osol-help] Just to be sure

2009-01-19 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
heard support for BCM is present since release 100 ...the question > is: how can I be sure to download a more recent release?? ...because I > can't update it without my ethernet card ;) The OpenSolaris 2008.11 LiveCD I have is svn101. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd

[osol-help] Reboot loop

2009-01-18 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
yed here. Want this to work!!! (Yeah, I know, if I want 24x7 commercial support I can have it for a price, starting with much pricier hardware to begin with and much LOUDER hardware, which wouldn't work since this system lives in my office/bedroom.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd

[osol-help] 2008.11 Install on Acer 8920 reboots at 44%

2009-01-18 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
bad ram. Is memtest86 going to find things that cause Solaris to reboot? Or how do I go about verifying the theory that it might be caused by memory? (Obviously removing some sticks is another way.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/Snapsh

[osol-help] How to get going with CIFS?

2009-01-18 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
of hardware trouble going on). Also -- I discovered the hard way that the smbpasswd file caches the UID. So if you ever change the UID of a user, be sure to change it all places! (I had to do that to connect to a previously existing zpool with lots of user files on it). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-

[osol-help] zfs null pointer deref, getting data out of single-user mode

2009-01-12 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
hich does NOT sound like hardware. I'll be reinstalling tomorrow night, unless somebody says they need the data, in which case I can work on getting the data out, if anybody can give me some clues on *how* to get the data out. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snaps

[osol-help] CIFS shares with ZFS ?

2009-01-12 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
ell keep playing; I can roll back later if I really need to. It's very strange staring at a file with mode "000" and still being able to access it. It's also very strange being root and being unable to delete a file due to protection issues. I don't believe I approve. (And I&

[osol-help] Volume labels for CIFS

2009-01-10 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
abel "home" (it's not an auto-home share or anything). The windows volume label tool reports a permissions problem when I try to change it from the windows end. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: ht

[osol-help] How can i change the bios settings while system is in running state ?

2009-01-09 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
didn't know about either of these until just now! -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info

[osol-help] Creating zfs filesystem with users

2009-01-09 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
t's very useful. I haven't tried to automate it; I don't have people moving into the house fast enough to make it worthwhile really :-), so I don't have any suggestions for you on that end. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/

[osol-help] Swapping drives on a ZFS pool...

2009-01-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
ers, so it's probably not what gets into your formal channels, and it may not be what's actually important to Sun to get working. The fact that the competition doesn't have it either probably helps :-). Except for Drobo. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Sna

[osol-help] Swapping drives on a ZFS pool...

2009-01-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
* because of limitation on the drivers in older versions) I might have used a root mirror plus two 3-disk RAIDZ groups.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info

[osol-help] Changing DHCP to a static IP address

2009-01-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
at keeps me going. Snapshots. Replicated metadata even on non-redundant pools. Block checksums. Background scrub. None of the simple cheap solutions give me ANY of those. (I do have a bit of a wistful fondness for the Drobo, though; I might have been happy with that set of tradeoffs.) -- David

[osol-help] Screen utility for Open Solaris 2008.11

2009-01-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, January 7, 2009 16:38, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> Say what? It is? I've added two other repositories (looking for >> screen), >> but I haven't changed the initial definition of the opensolaris one. >> What's yours

[osol-help] Screen utility for Open Solaris 2008.11

2009-01-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, January 7, 2009 16:01, Francisco Andrades Grassi wrote: > Hi, > > David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> I can't find it in sunfreeware or blastwave (sunfreeware has screen-4.02 >> for Solaris 10, but I don't find it on the IPS server). Clues? > > It's on O

[osol-help] Screen utility for Open Solaris 2008.11

2009-01-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
I can't find it in sunfreeware or blastwave (sunfreeware has screen-4.02 for Solaris 10, but I don't find it on the IPS server). Clues? -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photograp

[osol-help] sudo didn't work

2009-01-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
ably next find out that you need to configure yourself in /etc/sudoers (as parthasarathi susarla pointed out). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info

[osol-help] Osol-0811 Much nicer than NV 76

2009-01-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
ftware complement in Osol-0811 more to my taste, more familiar, more what I expected a modern system to have available, than I did the older CE releases. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info

[osol-help] Keeping up-to-date

2009-01-05 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
If I installed the 11/08 osol release from packages, and if I keep updated on those packages through the new package system, will I be "up-to-date" on security patches? From the default repository, or do I have to add a security repository or something? -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b a

[osol-help] Osol-0811 Much nicer than NV 76

2009-01-04 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
es, I just remember I found a lot of what I think of as "outdated software" in the default distribution for my earlier install, and had to hunt around and find modern versions.) It's still a bit strange to type "ping" and not see the responses, though (I look at the latency

[osol-help] Does "System Administration Guide: Windows Interoperability" really exist?

2009-01-03 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
s to windows clients, and it sounds like CIFS might do a better job (on properties and such in particular, and maybe on performance as well). And the documentation is supposed to be in that manual. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbu

[osol-help] Visual Effects hang up Vaio

2008-12-31 Thread David Smith
This was resolved thanks to a reply on the bugs list. The trick is to use gnome-cleanup at the console login. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Visual Effects hang up Vaio

2008-12-31 Thread David Smith
Sorry this is long. It's a sad story. I spent several days setting up openSolaris on a Sony Vaio lap-top model VGN-FZ140N. It worked great until on a whim I decided to enable the whizzy Visual Effects from Preference -> Appearance. This is supposed to show a panoramic view of the four screen

[osol-help] Open Solaris on Vaio Lap-top Hangs (Appearance option)

2008-12-30 Thread David Smith
I spent a week getting Open Solaris set up on a Sony Vaio VGN-FZ140N. On a whim, I change the screen appearance option from boring to the option where you move the cursor top left and get the four screens in a cute row. Unfortunately, when I moved the mouse top left, everything froze. Worse,

[osol-help] HELP! drivers for emachines

2008-12-27 Thread david
hi. im new user of open solaris i need all the drivers for an emachines t360e if someone can help me please dont let me down! what else need to know of my computer?? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Xorg driver fails on thinkpad x30 (i810, intel) on livecd

2008-12-18 Thread David Gurvich
Thank you for the link. I've tested that out and the Xserver does start. The only issue is that the xserver is running with about a 3 pixel wide line across the top. If I press ctrl+alt+backspace, I see the gnome desktop for 1/10 of a second. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Xorg driver fails on thinkpad x30 (i810, intel) on livecd

2008-12-18 Thread David Gurvich
I have a thinkpad x30 with an integrated intel 830 graphics chipset. The xorg driver shipped with the livecd fails to load a useable configuration. On linux there are two xorg drivers, i810 and intel. I need to blacklist the i810 driver and use the intel driver, but that is with version 7.4 o

[osol-help] [SOLVED] Re: Dell Precision T7400 Show Stopping Bug in 2008.11

2008-12-17 Thread David Babb
Install 2008.5, update your system, but do NOT do an image_update if you are an affected user. I tried every solution in every thread I could find, including going through the bugs @ bugs.opensolaris I also contacted Dell. They were quick to inform me that they didn't support Solaris in AN

[osol-help] Instalacion SOLARIS

2008-12-17 Thread david
Buenas, les escribo para hacerles una consulta. Quiero empeasr a incursionar en opensolaris pero tengo algunas duas con las versiones y nose cual bajar. Pido disculpas si esto ya fue tratado, yo no lo he encontrado. 1.- Si voy a la pagina http://www.opensolaris.com/get/index.jsp?lang=ls , me b

[osol-help] Instalacion

2008-12-17 Thread david
Buenas, les escribo para hacerles una consulta. Quiero empeasr a incursionar en opensolaris pero tengo algunas duas con las versiones y nose cual bajar. Pido disculpas si esto ya fue tratado, yo no lo he encontrado. 1.- Si voy a la pagina http://www.opensolaris.com/get/index.jsp?lang=ls , me b

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