Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Xvnc/gdm Problems in build 130?

2009-12-30 Thread John Meyer
ut at least GDM is not crashing any more. John -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ sysadmin-discuss mailing list sysadmin-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [desktop-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Xvnc/gdm Problems in build 130?

2009-12-30 Thread John Meyer
a blank, black screen. After about a minute or so, the standard X cross-cursor appears, but that's it. Are there xstartup or xsession files missing? I am beginning this for the first time, so please don't assume I have anything VNC-related in place. John -- This message posted fro

[sysadmin-discuss] Xvnc/gdm Problems in build 130?

2009-12-29 Thread John Meyer
ng contract 185. ] Is anyone else seeing these problems? I hesitate to file a bug report until someone can tell me definitively that I'm not doing anything stupid. Surely there are plenty of people out there who are running Xvnc and upgrading to build 130 ... ;-) Thanks, John -- This me

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Do you use "sag"?

2009-11-17 Thread John Zambon
I find sar to be very reliable and convenient. It's not my sole means of gathering data, though; I use Cacti also. On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Mike Gerdts wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Peter Tribble > wrote: >> in order to get the network stats. I get the feeling that there's

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Device to connect multiple consoles

2009-10-26 Thread John
Like a Cyclades? I've had very good experience with them. On Oct 26, 2009, at 2:40 AM, Lubos Kocman wrote: Hello, I'd like to ask you guys for an advice. I'd like to purchase a device which will allow me to connect multiple consoles on separated physical machines (solaris/sparc) via ser

[sysadmin-discuss] Help with odd issue with mysql-zrm

2009-07-06 Thread John-Paul Drawneek
mysql-zrm is a nice perl wrapper around mysqldump to manage sql backups - also does other stuff. Right into a weird issue with mysql-zrm in that mysqldump stops working when dumping on the larger databases I am trying to backup. There does not seem to be anything wrong with mysqldump - as when

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Administration - commands or files?

2009-03-28 Thread john
To me, it depends. Both methods can be elegant. For example, I like using commands like zfs/zpool to set configuration parameters, but I don't like the way it's done in LVM or VxVM. In particular, LVM and VxVM require too many different commands to achieve a goal. On the other hand, if

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] JET failing at make_client for X4450

2009-02-16 Thread John Brewer
Try adding this to your menu.lst unix options: unix -rkv -m verbose install or unix -rkv -m verbose text-install -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ sysadmin-discuss mailing list sysadmin-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/m

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Postfix - a good reason to get it!

2009-02-03 Thread John Beck
reported. Given that we found a working configuration, I am suspending my investigation into this issue, though I may resume it if at some point further data sheds enough light to allow me to proceed. Meanwhile, I wanted to let everyone know that Uwe was not hallucinating :-) as sendmail really was

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Postfix - a good reason to get it!

2009-01-29 Thread John Beck
Jerry> Back on 18 January, John Beck from Sun wrote you a nice reply (posted Jerry> at the bottom of this message), offering help and requesting more Jerry> details. Jerry> I have not seen those details on this list. Did you share those Jerry> details privately? Yes, Uwe and I ha

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Postfix - a good reason to get it!

2009-01-18 Thread John Beck
rovide details in an effort to find the problem(s) in a sendmail configuration, please send them to me privately, then one of us can post a follow-up to the list once we have resolved everything. -- John http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck ___ sysadmin-dis

Re: [sysadmin-discuss] [xwin-discuss] SXCE 101 fails to initialize nVidia graphics chip

2008-10-30 Thread John Martin
> > Eric Sproul wrote: >> Hi, >> I am currently running SXCE 99 on a Dell Optiplex 740n (Athlon64, nVidia >> MCP51 >> chipset with integrated Geforce 6150 graphics). I live-upgraded to 101, but >> it >> gets stuck in a loop trying to start desktop login (the text console just >> blinks >> and