Re: [osol-help] How to show the full (=uncut) start command in a ps-ef output?

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Johnston
From the man page for ps CMD (all) The command name (the full command name and its argu- ments, up to a limit of 80 characters, are printed under the -f option). Paul -Original Message- From: opensolaris-help-boun...@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] How to show the full (=uncut) start command in a ps-ef output?

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Johnston
command in a ps-ef output? If you are on openindiana, opensolaris or Solaris 11 Express, then simply use the ps command with Berkely style args. eg $ ps guaxwww If you are on Solaris 10 or older, you will need to run $ /usr/ucb/bin/ps guaxwww Regards, Alan Hargreaves On 07/ 5/11 05:45 PM, Paul

Re: [osol-help] Postgresql in Solaris 11 express

2010-12-14 Thread Paul Johnston
Loads of postgres stuff here! Last login: Thu Dec 2 15:19:04 2010 from mcasspj.humanit Oracle Corporation SunOS 5.11 snv_151aNovember 2010 pa...@solaris:~$ pfexec pkg list -a | grep post SUNWpostgr8.1.11-0.130known --o--

[osol-help] Conflicting pkg names

2010-12-14 Thread Paul Johnston
Following on about postgres pa...@solaris:~$ pfexec pkg install postgres-84 Creating Planpkg: 'postgres-84' matches multiple packages service/database/postgres-84 database/postgres-84 pa...@solaris:~$ pfexec pkg install database/postgres-84 Creating Planpkg: 'database/postgres-84'

Re: [osol-help] installing OpenSolaris

2010-10-21 Thread Paul Johnston
Have you seen this? http://hell.jedicoder.net/ Despite the name it's a blog on making OpenSolaris and Windows 7 dual bootable -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] VLC and Firefox 3.6.10

2010-10-12 Thread Paul Johnston
For firefox see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Download_Mozilla_Source_Code I tried to build VLC quite a while ago and never succeeded, something about it was really made with linux in mind! This is quite old but it gives you an idea of the problems. Think I might revisit this problem for

Re: [osol-help] Opinions and how to move forward?

2010-10-05 Thread Paul Johnston
Interesting! The question of what would happen if a security issue arose in 134b needs to be considered as well as the possibility of using a newer (better?) version of ZFS. I would not want to run dedup on production at the moment but would really like it at a later date. For that to happen I

Re: [osol-help] What is the default cmdline (!) mail client in OpenSolaris? mailx ?

2010-09-01 Thread Paul Johnston
Funny you should say that! Just tried to install mutt and got the following pa...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg install mutt DOWNLOAD PKGS FILESXFER (MB) Completed 1/1 109/109 1.9/1.9 PHASE

Re: [osol-help] Adding a system call to OpenSolaris

2010-09-01 Thread Paul Johnston
pa...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec find / -name syscall*.h -print /usr/include/sys/syscall.h /tmp/tmpLkdJha/usr/include/sys/syscall.h Forget the tmp one :-) What compiler have you installed, pa...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg list | grep gcc developer/gcc-3 3.4.3-0.134

Re: [osol-help] Gathering hardware specs from Sun boxes through commands

2010-08-04 Thread Paul Johnston
My starter for ten would be pa...@opensolaris-2:~$ pfexec psrinfo -v Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 08/04/2010 16:52:31 on-line since 07/29/2010 15:20:17. The i386 processor operates at 2533 MHz, and has an i387 compatible floating point processor. Status of virtual processor 1

[osol-help] Location of OpenSolaris (was The epic ...)

2010-07-30 Thread Paul Johnston
Kebaber wrote: Regarding if Oracle hates OpenSolaris but loves Solaris: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/opensolaris/overview/index.html Here is OpenSolaris officially on Oracle home page. I dont think Oracle hates OpenSolaris. OpenSolaris is the basis for next gen Solaris 11.

Re: [osol-help] The epic of the OpenSolaris b134 ZFS meltdown. ...a cautionary tale.

2010-07-26 Thread Paul Johnston
I suppose being at the bleeding edge you cannot not expect this sort of thing to happen. I would be curious to know if this is specifically a zfs or a OpenSolaris issue. What version of zfs and zpool are available for Solaris 10 (I have zfs version 4 and zpool version 22 on 134) and what do the

Re: [osol-help] Marvel Yukon PCI-E

2010-07-23 Thread Paul Johnston
Don't take it too hard! We have been told to wait and see if we will be getting a new iteration of the OS since Oracle bought Sun and it seems a lot of people are just drifting away. Internally we see references to build 145 (thanks Alan) yet the last release made generally available was 134 in

Re: [osol-help] Marvel Yukon PCI-E

2010-07-23 Thread Paul Johnston
You say you cannot get into the export directory do you mean the pa...@opensolaris-2:~$ ls -l /export total 2 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4 2010-05-12 09:29 home What are the permissions on it? Using the pfexec command gives you accelerated rights i.e. drwx-- 2 root root 2 2010-07-23

Re: [osol-help] b134 USB keyboard/mouse not recognised

2010-06-03 Thread Paul Johnston
Am I right in thinking you might have removed the keyboard after installing it? If so I have had it where the keyboard during the install is mapped to a particular usb port and if you move it to another I get exactly the same as you see. I would power the machine down (access using ssh ?) then

[osol-help] Getting ipfilter to read ipf.config

2010-05-21 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi How do I get ipfilter to read /etc/ipf/ipf.config when I use pfexec svcadm refresh ipfilter I can manually force it to read my config file using pfexec ipf -Fa -f /etc/ipf/ipf.conf pa...@opensolaris-2:~$ pfexec ipfstat -ni @1 block in log quick from 130.88.105.55/32 to any @2 block in log

Re: [osol-help] Need iptraf / ntop console tool for OpenSolaris?

2010-05-19 Thread Paul Johnston
Have you tried building ntop? Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Acessing smb share (password sync file issue) 6832178

2010-05-12 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi Running SunOS opensolaris-2 5.11 snv_134 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris I'm rebuilding my machine and when I setup a smb share I cannot access it. The share looks the same as my working one on the old machine however googling I found:

Re: [osol-help] Compiling nmap nmap-5.30BETA1

2010-04-09 Thread Paul Johnston
Cheers, the only other thing I needed to do was make a sym link to pcre.h in /usr/include and it compiles :-) Many thanks Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Compiling nmap nmap-5.30BETA1

2010-04-08 Thread Paul Johnston
Just wondering if anyone had any joy compiling the above? using pa...@workdellgx620:~/Downloads/nmap-5.30BETA1$ uname -a SunOS workdellgx620 5.11 snv_134 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris What's all this linux thing :-) /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include

Re: [osol-help] Finding the contents of a 'package' (ruby-dev)

2010-03-30 Thread Paul Johnston
Many thanks! I saw The -m option may also be used, as a shorthand for '-Ho action.raw'. But didn't read any further. Should of RTFM :-) Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list

[osol-help] Finding the contents of a 'package' (ruby-dev)

2010-03-27 Thread Paul Johnston
Wanted to see what ruby-dev actually contained so I did: pa...@opensolaris:~$ pkg contents -r ruby-dev PATH Curious, not much there! So I tried: pa...@opensolaris:~$ pkg contents -r tcl-sqlite-3 PATH usr usr/lib usr/lib/tcl8.4 usr/lib/tcl8.4/sqlite3 usr/lib/tcl8.4/sqlite3/32

[osol-help] Copying 134 to a usb pen drive

2010-03-26 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi Trying to get OpenSolaris 134 from genunix onto a pen drive. Using a copy of the script from Milax I get pa...@workdellgx620:~/milax$ pfexec ./os_usbcopy.v200 osol-dev-134-x86.usb os_usbcopy.v200 v2.0 03.05.2008 - copy OpenSolaris to a USB device Searching USB devices ... Found the following

Re: [osol-help] Copying 134 to a usb pen drive

2010-03-26 Thread Paul Johnston
'pfexec svcadm disable hal' worked a treat! Many thanks Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Playing with zfs dedup

2010-03-26 Thread Paul Johnston
And even better !! pa...@workdellgx620:~/milax$ time pfexec zdb -S rpool Simulated DDT histogram: bucket allocated referenced __ __ __ refcnt blocks LSIZE PSIZE DSIZE blocks

Re: [osol-help] Why sunstudio?

2010-03-24 Thread Paul Johnston
134, like to be at the bleeding edge :-) Not sure if it installed anything else as I left it running and went to bed! With a baby not sleeping too well I take my sleep where I find it, I'll look when I get home :-) Cheers Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Why sunstudio?

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Johnston
I wanted to install apache22 so I run pfexec pkg install apache-22 Why then does it start to download developer/sunstudio12u1? TIA Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Lost Permission

2010-03-08 Thread Paul Johnston
Somehow I seem to have lost the permissions on my primary account pa...@workdellgx620:~$ pfexec pkg image-update pkg: Could not operate on /var/pkg/lock because of insufficient permissions. Please try the command again using pfexec or otherwise increase your privileges. pa...@workdellgx620:~$

Re: [osol-help] Lost Permission

2010-03-08 Thread Paul Johnston
Ooops! pa...@workdellgx620:~$ grep paulj /etc/user_attr pauljtype=normal;profiles=Postgres Administration;roles=postgres pa...@workdellgx620:~$ Cheers Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list

Re: [osol-help] Lost Permission

2010-03-08 Thread Paul Johnston
From http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/postgresql_opensolaris.jsp Did 2. Add the role and profile to database administrators: At least one user must have been assigned the role postgres. The profile is not necessary, because the postgres role has been assigned and all operations

Re: [osol-help] Lost Permission

2010-03-08 Thread Paul Johnston
Apologies for rhetorical question. ;-) No root password and no admin rights on normal account what to do? Reboot into an older beadm, remove broken one, run pkg image-update. Thanks to everyone who is working on OpenSolaris it's brilliant ! IMHO Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Opensolaris 2009.6 and supermicro X8DT3-LN4F (NI

2010-02-12 Thread Paul Johnston
Funny I am on a Dell 620 and I had problems with 131 but fine with 132 SunOS workdellgx620 5.11 snv_132 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris See http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=122413tstart=30 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-help] Installing DBD-mysql-4.013

2010-02-06 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi Trying to install the above from CPAN and whilst they do take a bit of fudging I can normally get perl modules installed this one has me foxed. Basically it boils down to ld: fatal: library -lCrun: not found What is Crun? Tried googling and have found nothing on Crun, anyone any ideas?

Re: [osol-help] Upgrade 130 - 131 problem

2010-02-05 Thread Paul Johnston
Well now on pa...@workdellgx620:~$ uname -a SunOS workdellgx620 5.11 snv_132 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris pa...@workdellgx620:~$ cat /etc/release OpenSolaris Development snv_132 X86 Copyright 2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Re: [osol-help] opensolaris ram used and required.

2010-01-31 Thread Paul Johnston
In my experience OpenSolaris has one feature which can really hammer memory usage specifically zfs. There are plenty of threads about this, google something like opensolaris zfs memory usage. I've decided to take it as the price I'll pay although it does surprise me how bad you say it is.

Re: [osol-help] Upgrade 130 - 131 problem

2010-01-28 Thread Paul Johnston
Thanks! My machine at home sucessfully upgraded, it just seems the Dell GX 620 I have the issues with. Still considering I rescued it from a University cluster upgrade how can I complain, it was free ;-) As it is mainly used for samba storage it's not critical. Reverted back to snv_130. What

[osol-help] Upgrade 130 - 131 problem

2010-01-25 Thread Paul Johnston
Hello again :-) Upgraded from 130, to 131. Read http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=122290tstart=0 but cannot see anything about it letting you log in then logging you straight out again after its rendered your desktop. I get the below but why it would fail to execute firefox-bin

[osol-help] Strange entry in dmesg

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi Looking at the output of dmesg I am seeing lines with Jan 13 14:31:36 workdellgx620 mDNSResponder: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Correcting TTL from 240 to 60 for 207 hp LaserJet 1320 series (83B3BE)._printer._tcp.local. TXT txtvers=1 Seen the various threads on google, should it be a worry

Re: [osol-help] Xorg out of control

2010-01-12 Thread Paul Johnston
Thanks, did most of the workarounds from the link you sent when I upgraded. Not really a show stopper (we always have ssh :-)) It's the price of being keen isn't it ! Will wait until the next version. Regards Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Xorg out of control

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi Got a Dell GX620 running SunOS workdellgx620 5.11 snv_130 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris Quite often when I log on the screen locks up and I can see if I ssh into it: PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP 1348 paulj 319M 61M cpu0100 0:03:02

Re: [osol-help] Playing with zfs dedup

2009-12-21 Thread Paul Johnston
Like yourself it seems to be better under 129 pa...@workdellgx620:~/dedup_on$ pfexec zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREECAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT herring - - - - - FAULTED - rpool 74G 57.2G 16.8G77% 3.00x ONLINE - pa...@workdellgx620:~/dedup_on$

Re: [osol-help] Playing with zfs dedup

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Johnston
Tried it on my machine at home and it eventually hung and restarting the machine seemed to totally hose it. Looks like a reinstall as it comes back saying cannot find the disk. Ah well know not to do that again :-) Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Compiling Erlang

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Johnston
Works a treat, many thanks! Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Playing with zfs dedup

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Johnston
Now we have dedup I fancy having a play and there was an old blog from Eric Kustarz among other things it showed how zdb could show the percent that could be duped. http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/entry/how_dedupalicious_is_your_pool However the man page for zdb is sparse and frightening. Is

Re: [osol-help] Playing with zfs dedup

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Johnston
Think I need to try it on a bigger machine :-) pa...@workdellgx620:~$ pfexec zfs get dedup rpool/export/home/paulj/dedup_on NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE rpool/export/home/paulj/dedup_on dedup sha256 local pa...@workdellgx620:~$ pfexec zdb -S rpool

Re: [osol-help] Playing with zfs dedup

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Johnston
pa...@workdellgx620:~$ prtconf | grep Memory Memory size: 2047 Megabytes -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Compiling Erlang

2009-12-03 Thread Paul Johnston
No afraid not. I had to rebuild my machine so I compiled it under 111 then updated the machine. Do you get the problem with 'ifr_hwaddr' ? Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list

Re: [osol-help] Compiling Erlang

2009-12-03 Thread Paul Johnston
Thats fine if you want the Sun package but it's compiling from source which causes problems. Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[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

[osol-help] Upgrading from 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris

2009-11-23 Thread Paul Johnston
Just done a clean install and have set my package authority to dev, i.e. pa...@opensolaris-home:~$ pkg authority PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS URI opensolaris.org (preferred) origin online http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/ homeunix

Re: [osol-help] Compiling Erlang

2009-11-01 Thread Paul Johnston
Thanks There is a difference in versions, On my home machine I am running SunOS opensolaris-home 5.11 snv_126 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris pa...@opensolaris-home:~$ erl -v Erlang R13B01 (erts-5.7.2) [source] [smp:2:2] [rq:2] [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false] But on my work machine SunOS

[osol-help] Compiling Erlang

2009-10-29 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi Sorry if considered off topic but where would I start to look if I got error: `IFHWADDRLEN' undeclared (first use in this function) when running make I'm running SunOS workdellgx620 5.11 snv_125 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris I have previously built erlang several times on the same machine but

Re: [osol-help] background images

2009-10-18 Thread Paul Johnston
You go in via System - Preferences - Appearance - Background Then you can add your own stuff which I guess is what your after :-) Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Adding a usb printer

2009-10-16 Thread Paul Johnston
Do you have any specifics about what HP printers you would recommend with regards USB? Was hoping to use the existing one otherwise I get told off for bringing yet more gear home :-) Also will get killed if I spend more than £200!!! Cheers Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Adding a usb printer

2009-10-14 Thread Paul Johnston
Have a usb printer (HP Laserjet 1018) What's the best way of seeing it the machine is aware it is connected? IMHO OpenSolaris doesn't always deal with USB devices very well. snip When I plug in my Kingston 16GB Datatraveler I get a pop up warning box saying Cannot mount volume which it then

[osol-help] Totem Movie Player

2009-10-12 Thread Paul Johnston
Apologies for my ignorance on such topics but running SunOS workdellgx620 5.11 snv_124 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris Which has Totem Movie Player 2.27.2 When I try and open a MPG file from my camera I get A MPEG-1 System Stream demuxer plugin is required to play this stream but not installed. Er

Re: [osol-help] Totem Movie Player

2009-10-12 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi pfexec pkg set-publisher -O http://ips.homeunix.com:10906/; homeunix pfexec pkg install MBLgst-plugin-mpegstream Totem now plays except it shows some nice swirly patterns, funny as the actual file shows my daughter playing with a remote control car :-) Seriously thanks for that, will play

Re: [osol-help] Update Manager tells me I need updates, and then tells me I'm updated

2009-10-12 Thread Paul Johnston
Where does your machine look for updates? Try pfexec pkg publisher Mine says PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS URI dev (preferred) origin online http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/ homeunix origin online

Re: [osol-help] Broken system

2009-10-07 Thread Paul Johnston
Thanks will try in the morning! Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Using tip

2009-09-18 Thread Paul Johnston
Thanks I keep getting pa...@workdellgx620:~$ pfexec tip hardwire all ports busy I see pa...@workdellgx620:~$ pfexec pmadm -l PMTAG PMTYPE SVCTAG FLGS ID PMSPECIFIC zsmon ttymon ttya uroot /dev/term/a I - /usr/bin/login - 9600

[osol-help] Using tip

2009-09-16 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi I'm interested in using tip on my OpenSolaris box to connect to the serial port on a Sunfire v100 I have just acquired. But being a complete novice at this serial lark I am a bit confused about devices and settings. The machine is a Dell Optiplex GX620 and the Device Drive Utility says it

[osol-help] Building MPlayer

2009-08-21 Thread Paul Johnston
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-optimization

Re: [osol-help] Problems with Opera

2009-07-28 Thread Paul Johnston
Now it gets seriously weird. Ignored the Choose start/blank page stuff and I can get it to work, it some times will just die for no apparent reason but it sort of works :-) Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing

Re: [osol-help] Problems with Opera

2009-07-25 Thread Paul Johnston
Details as requested! pa...@opensolaris-home:~$ cat /etc/release OpenSolaris Development snv_118 X86 Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 06

[osol-help] Additional NIC

2009-07-23 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi I've added an additional NIC to my machine with the idea of routing traffic through it to a NAS box. pa...@workdellgx260:~/programming/erlang/mnesia1$ ifconfig -a lo0: flags=2001000849UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff00 bge0:

Re: [osol-help] Additional NIC

2009-07-23 Thread Paul Johnston
Firstly can I use nwam for two nics? quote There is a limitation that only one link is active at a time in auto-magic mode. /quote I tried anyway and afraid no joy with that. pa...@workdellgx260:~$ cat /etc/nwam/llp bge0dhcp iprb0 static 10.99.56.41 vboxnet0static

[osol-help] Problems with Opera

2009-07-23 Thread Paul Johnston
Anyone having problems with Opera? Reinstalled my system from scratch and installed opera It appears to have installed. Starting it brings up the 'Welcome to Opera' page then when I choose Start with blank page it just dies?? pa...@opensolaris-home:~$ which opera /usr/local/bin/opera

Re: [osol-help] Memory usage too high

2009-07-20 Thread Paul Johnston
When people say it's using too much RAM I would perhaps rephrase this and say there isn't a lot of free RAM but then if it's free you arn't using it so it's wasted! Without seeing a prstat I would suggest it's ZFS making use of memory. Only if you tried using some memory hungry application

[osol-help] Building VLC

2009-07-08 Thread Paul Johnston
Has anyone had any success building VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html on OpenSolaris? Got as far as checking for FRIBIDI... configure: error: Package requirements (fribidi) were not met: No package 'fribidi' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment

Re: [osol-help] Issue with adobe flash player

2009-07-05 Thread Paul Johnston
Exactly which directory have you put it in? Was it /usr/lib/firefox/plugins? Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Sun binary versions

2009-07-03 Thread Paul Johnston
Could be considered off topic, if so sorry! I thought it would be useful to see what changes between versions, I thought this would be very simple, just a shell script to report the output of binary and --version, -V or -v whatever floats its boat. Generally the GNU versions use --version but

Re: [osol-help] Another problem upgrading to 117

2009-06-30 Thread Paul Johnston
Cheers! New baby + teething = little sleep = me being dumb :-) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Another problem upgrading to 117

2009-06-30 Thread Paul Johnston
Tried what you suggested but no joy! This follows on from http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=106706tstart=15 Guess I'll wait until 118 after all I just need to do is manually choose opensolaris-7 from the grub menu :-) pa...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec beadm list BEActive

[osol-help] Another problem upgrading to 117

2009-06-29 Thread Paul Johnston
Finally got the 117 working but grub seemed to like to default to the previous 111b image so I though I'd remove that one and see how it went. pa...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec beadm list BEActive Mountpoint Space Policy Created ---- -- - --

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris 2010.02 (osol-1002-117) doubles the space disk requirements?

2009-06-28 Thread Paul Johnston
Obvious thought would be to look at the sum size of all the files however what does pfexec zfs list -t snapshot show, these seem to sneak up on you :-) Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list

Re: [osol-help] Can't type in the opensolaris console login

2009-06-27 Thread Paul Johnston
Once it moves pass this and gets to the GUI can you login? If so would guess a keyboard driver problem. Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Installing songbird on open-solaris

2009-06-26 Thread Paul Johnston
Looks like your trying to install something looking for linux. Suggest you try pfexec install SUNWsongbird works for me :-) Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Installing songbird on open-solaris

2009-06-26 Thread Paul Johnston
Doh ! :-) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Problems upgrading from 111b

2009-06-26 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi Having problems upgrading looks like something to do with the nics but not sure, any suggestions? See below for output. Cheers Paul pa...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg image-update DOWNLOADPKGS FILES XFER (MB) Completed

Re: [osol-help] New install problem

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Johnston
Update exactly what? Do you mean pfexec pkg image-update ? Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] New to Solaris?

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Johnston
For getting info on processors you can use psrinfo e.g. pa...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec psrinfo -v Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 06/23/2009 19:40:36 on-line since 06/23/2009 18:37:08. The i386 processor operates at 2612 MHz, and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.

Re: [osol-help] New install problem

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Johnston
See what you mean now, I never use the GUI to update as for example it says I have updates then when I try to update it says I am already up to date. IMHO stick to the command line and use pkg it seems to have a lot less problems. Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Music player

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Johnston
Have you looked at songbird? See http://blogs.sun.com/pengyang/entry/songbird_1_0_is_hatched Install with pa...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg install SUNWsongbird Regards Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing

Re: [osol-help] Error while building using gcc

2009-06-22 Thread Paul Johnston
Apologies just seen the e-mail, which does have the lt; and gt;s Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] cc MIA?

2009-06-21 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi I noticed today update manager said there were updates waiting to be installed and one of them was SunStudio. Funny as I'm using SunOS opensolaris 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris and there is not an image update available as yet. I NEVER use the graphical interface for updates

Re: [osol-help] Can't install perl modules

2009-06-19 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi I've had this one and reverted to manual installs but this may give you clues to what's happening. The problem seems to be confusing options that are in the Sun C compiler with gcc What I did was after perl Makefile.pl you get a Makefile This has options such as CCDLFLAGS = -KPIC and

Re: [osol-help] Can't install perl modules

2009-06-19 Thread Paul Johnston
I would hesitate to call it a bug! Now assuming 'which cc' returns the one in /usr/gnu/bin which inturn links to sfw/bin/gcc on my machine I found making it point to /usr/bin/cc which inturn points to /opt/SunStudioExpress/bin/cc Then it doesn't complain about the options. Basically making

Re: [osol-help] grub //menu.lst

2009-06-17 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi If your ever looking for a file pfexec find / -name menu.lst -print will find it, it also accepts wildcards Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Execessive process

2009-06-16 Thread Paul Johnston
Just rebooted my OpenSolaris box (SunOS workdellgx260 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris) and the process notification-da/1 is being a total hog! 1142 paulj 105M 28M run 500 0:05:53 94% notification-da/1 Any idea what is going on? Cheers Paul -- This message posted from

[osol-help] wxPython

2009-04-06 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi Looking to build/install wxPython on SunOS opensolaris 5.11 snv_110 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris I have installed pa...@opensolaris:~$ pkg list -a | grep wx SUNWwxwidgets 2.8.9-0.110 installed SUNWxwxft 2.1.12-0.110

[osol-help] Adding a disk

2009-03-15 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi I have two identical disks in a machine and have installed on c3d0 leaving c4d0 free. pa...@opensolaris:~$ zpool status pool: rpool state: ONLINE status: The pool is formatted using an older on-disk format. The pool can still be used, but some features are unavailable. action: Upgrade

[osol-help] Keyboard problem in 108

2009-03-05 Thread Paul Johnston
I normally get. /etc/default/kbd has LAYOUT=UK-English No such problems with 106 Anyone any ideas? Cheers Paul Paul Johnston Humanities Development Team Room 2.12 Bridgeford Street Building Manchester University Tel 0161 275 1396 Mail paul.johns...@manchester.ac.uk Web http://web-1

Re: [osol-help] Keyboard problem in 108

2009-03-05 Thread Paul Johnston
problem in 108 Hi Paul, On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 10:35 +, Paul Johnston wrote: Upgrading to 108 my keyboard lost its gb layout. Looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log I can see (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtula core keyboard. (WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre0XKB keymap

[osol-help] More keyboard strangeness

2009-02-05 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi Just upgraded to SunOS gbm6 5.11 snv_106 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris and the double quotes seem to stop working. Using a standard UK keyboard and LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Now I have seen this before but it sorted itself out, possibly as part of an upgrade. Typing shift-2 gives nothing the first time

Re: [osol-help] Changing pkg preferred authority

2009-01-28 Thread Paul Johnston
Steve Scargall wrote: pkg list reports on the state of packages in the current image (local). The order will always be the same unless you install another package or add flags to the pkg list command. This is why you get the same results when you change the repository. What you

Re: [osol-help] stdio.h and milax

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi Steve Thought so, just when I looked it didn't seem to be available! Not at the machine now, it's at home but will check tonight. It (IPS) does however behave a little strangely as the first time I installed the gcc3 packages the permissions were something like rx- --- --- (or something

[osol-help] Changing pkg preferred authority

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Johnston
Sort of a follow up to my missing stdio.h but asks a deeper question. Using the info on http://opensolaris.org/os/project/milax/documentation/IPS/ I have set my preferred pkg authority to blastwave and doing a pfexec pkg list -a shows 1715 packages all starting with IPS However what I really

[osol-help] stdio.h and milax

2009-01-26 Thread Paul Johnston
Hi Using milax 0.3.2 and have installed the IPSgcc packages but havn't got stdio.h. To be honest /usr/include/ looks pretty sparse! What package/packages should I be looking at installing please. TIA Paul ___ opensolaris-help mailing list

[osol-help] Another iSCSI question

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Johnston
Evening! Been playing around with iSCSI on snv_105 x86 and all is well getting to mount the disk on a windows target. However trying to use the svc:/network/iscsi_initiator I get a rather strange disk identifier. I've just includes the last bit of the process but why the

Re: [osol-help] german characters on solaris/zfs

2009-01-21 Thread Paul Johnston
opensolaris-h...@compulab-consult.de wrote: Does anybody know how to setup solaris/zfs to be able to store special german charaters? At the moment even a touch üöä doesn't work. kind regards Robert

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