[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] 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] 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] roles can only be assumed by authorized users

2008-11-05 Thread David Powell
Chris Quenelle wrote: > Is there any way to authorize the "root" role for my NIS login account > without needing permissions to manage the NIS inforamtion? > > Can I perform a local modification that grants rights to NIS account? > > I would like to leave RBAC enabled, but I need to login using

[osol-help] volmgt

2008-08-20 Thread David Powell
Emmanuel De Paepe wrote: > Sometimes I use this in Solaris 10: > > # /etc/init.d/volmgt stop > > # eject -d > > # /etc/init.d/volmgt start I'm not sure why it is necessary to stop volume management. Is 'eject -d' alone not working on OpenSolaris? Dave

[osol-help] volmgt

2008-08-20 Thread David Powell
Emmanuel De Paepe wrote: > In Solaris 10, volmgt is located in /etc/init.d/ > Where is it located in OpenSolaris? > Or is there something equivalent accessible through svcs? I think before your question can be answered, we'll need to know what you were using volmgt for. Turning it off?

[osol-help] truss

2008-08-06 Thread David Powell
Emmanuel De Paepe wrote: > How safe is this command? > > I used this on my computer (not as a su) in Solaris 10 and suddenly > the whole environment was hanging. I logged in from another computer > on this machine and could perform an 'init 6' without a problem. So > apparently it made the GUI han

[osol-help] service trim

2008-08-01 Thread David Powell
darren wrote: > what is the most appropriate method of establishing which services > (smf) I REALLY need to run. I'd like to lock down the node to a > minimal client with Xserver/client running. First of all, note that many of the services 'svcs' shows you don't represent running daemons, bu

[osol-help] Making legacy software use svcadm and svcs

2008-07-21 Thread David Powell
Paul Johnston wrote: > I built the latest from source but is there a version from one of the > repositories which allows me to user the newer commands to control it? > > Using SunOS opensolaris4 5.11 snv_91 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris I'm not sure if it's the version you're looking for, but if y

[osol-help] Not able to login as Root

2008-05-06 Thread David Powell
Hans wrote: > ok > this is the same as sudo from debian/ubuntu. > but is there a way too use the root account anyway? > i say, i know abaout the danger of the root accunt, but want to use it. > what is the solution? You can either su to root from a user that has that role (the user you

[osol-help] [rm-discuss] resource manager on S10

2008-03-14 Thread David Powell
Hi Thiago, Thiago Sobral wrote: > please, I need some help to set some kernel parameters within resource > manager. > > On Solaris9 I used to type the parameters below into /etc/system, but > now I read that I need to setup this using resource manager. Strictly speaking, it isn't nece

[osol-help] can't find head file "libcontract_priv.h" when I complile init

2007-11-12 Thread David Powell
Xizhi Zhu wrote: > When I "dmake all" the init on my box, it says that the head file "libcontract_priv.h" can't be fount! But I can find it in the src/lib/libcontract/common/ directory. Any one konws the solution? Thanks! > > PS I compiled the latest source code (Nov. 5th) with the SunStudio 1