[osol-help] updating Firefox and Thunderbird

2009-11-25 Thread Mark Kaiman
The version of Firefox I have is 3.1 beta 3 and Thunderbird is 2.0.0.21. How do I update them? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Sun Java Desktop

2009-11-25 Thread Mark Kaiman
Is there a way to change the OpenSolaris UI so it looks like the Java Desktop in Solaris 10? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] mdadm

2009-11-25 Thread Florin
Hello, First of all, I am new to (Open)Solaris environment, so please be gentle. Previously, I worked with Ubuntu Linux distribution and now I switched to Solaris 10, only because of ZFS file system. Now, my problem is related to the fact that under Ubuntu I build a RAID5 system using mdadm

Re: [osol-help] Strange dd problem

2009-11-25 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 17:00 -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > [...] when I use dd to > read from stdin, it can only read partial records, > [example command is:] > cat random-1G-file | time dd of=/dev/rmt/0n bs=256k ; time mt -f /dev/rmt/0 rewind For the partial-record problem, try "obs=256k" ins

[osol-help] Oracle DB on OpenSolaris

2009-11-25 Thread Paul Johnston
Anyone any idea of the chances of getting an Oracle db to run on OpenSolaris to enable me to have a play. Am I stuck with Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.1) Express Edition on a VBox on my OpenSolaris box :-) TIA Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] how do i configure services

2009-11-25 Thread Leslie H Wood
You have a typo for "Naming Service Switch" pfexec cp /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/nsswitch.conf svcadm enable svc:/network/dns/client:default svcadm restart system/name-service-cache:default I assume you have an appropriate "/etc/resolv.conf" file in place. evelin wrote, On 11/24/09 23:10: h

Re: [osol-help] virtualbox 3.0.12 IPS?

2009-11-25 Thread W Brian Leonard
Hi Keith, There's no way that I know of to update the IPS version of VirtualBox. I'm expecting it to be here soon (I agree it's taken longer than normal this time to hit the repository). If you're really anxious, just unintstall the IPS version and install the SVR4 version from their site. R