Re: [osol-discuss] pax considered harmful

2010-06-14 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
  Hello,
  
  can anyone confirm my observations with the
 attached
  test script?
  
  pax corrupts files if they contain more than 57
 holes
  in it.
  
  I just found out today by accident after copying a
  large backup file. I was 
  able to reproduce the bug on Solaris 10 and
 snv133,
  on UFS and ZFS.
  
  Is pax in the closed bins? I couldn't find its
 source
  code.
 
 yes it is.

Is the Solaris version of pax somehow superior to the
open source implementation(s)?  If not, then why not replace
it with an open source version?

In particular, I see some mention in
http://cvsweb.de.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/bin/pax/pax.c?rev=HEAD
of handling sparse files, although I gather it may simply treat aligned
zero blocks as sparseness rather than explicitly detecting and recording
sparseness.  (but unless the archive format specifies a way to record
holes without storing the zero blocks, what can you do?)

Anyway, it might be a starting point for both addressing the problem
_and_ getting rid of one more closed bin.
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Re: [osol-discuss] append new disk, has no /dev/dsk node for entire disc

2010-06-14 Thread Jürgen Keil
 ls /dev/dsk/c4t?d0
 /dev/dsk/c4t0d0 /dev/dsk/c4t1d0 /dev/dsk/c4t2d0
 /dev/dsk/c4t3d0 /dev/dsk/c4t4d0

Are you sure those /dev/dsk/c*d0 entries
are device nodes? 

Try ls -l  /dev/dsk/c*d0
and ls -lL  /dev/dsk/c*d0,
maybe they are files that have been
created  by accident by a user user
with root  privileges?


 where /dev/dsk/c4t5d0  ???

Such a device does not exist.

c?t?d? is the prefix of a disk device name,
it is followed by p0 (whole disk),
p1 .. pN (fdisk partition) or
s0 .. sN (solaris slice).
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Re: [osol-discuss] append new disk, has no /dev/dsk node for entire disc

2010-06-14 Thread Dmitry
rd...@znas:~$ ls -l /dev/dsk/c*d0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  58 апр. 19 09:03 /dev/dsk/c4t0d0 - 
../../devices/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@9/pci15d9,5...@0/s...@0,0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  58 апр. 19 09:03 /dev/dsk/c4t1d0 - 
../../devices/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@9/pci15d9,5...@0/s...@1,0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  58 апр. 19 09:03 /dev/dsk/c4t2d0 - 
../../devices/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@9/pci15d9,5...@0/s...@2,0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  58 апр. 19 09:03 /dev/dsk/c4t3d0 - 
../../devices/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@9/pci15d9,5...@0/s...@3,0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  58 апр. 21 09:49 /dev/dsk/c4t4d0 - 
../../devices/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@9/pci15d9,5...@0/s...@4,0:wd
rd...@znas:~$
rd...@znas:~$
rd...@znas:~$ ls -lL /dev/dsk/c*d0
brw-r-   1 root sys   83, 199 июня 14 08:56 /dev/dsk/c4t0d0
brw-r-   1 root sys   83, 263 июня 14 08:56 /dev/dsk/c4t1d0
brw-r-   1 root sys   83, 327 июня 14 08:56 /dev/dsk/c4t2d0
brw-r-   1 root sys   83, 391 июня 14 08:56 /dev/dsk/c4t3d0
brw-r-   1 root sys   83, 455 июня 14 08:56 /dev/dsk/c4t4d0

format show c4t5d0 disk exist, but entire raw node havn't been created
i've created two zpool mirror  c4t0d0+c4t1d0 c4t2d0+c4t3d0
and want to create third zpool from raw disks c4t4d0+c4t5d0

 how to tell opensolaris what to do int's nodes ?
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Re: [osol-discuss] pax considered harmful

2010-06-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote:

 Is the Solaris version of pax somehow superior to the
 open source implementation(s)?  If not, then why not replace
 it with an open source version?

There is nothing like _the_ OSS implementation.
There are several OSS implementations and every implementation has it's 
problems and it's strengths.

 In particular, I see some mention in
 http://cvsweb.de.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/bin/pax/pax.c?rev=HEAD
 of handling sparse files, although I gather it may simply treat aligned
 zero blocks as sparseness rather than explicitly detecting and recording
 sparseness.  (but unless the archive format specifies a way to record
 holes without storing the zero blocks, what can you do?)

Programs that do not use the SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA interface that has been 
created for star cannot correctly reproduce files with holes.

But even other programs usually do not implement sparse file suppot correctly.
The only program with correct sparse file support I am aware of is still star.


 Anyway, it might be a starting point for both addressing the problem
 _and_ getting rid of one more closed bin.

It ie most unlikely that there is such a will at Oracles's side. There was no
such will with Sun as otherwise Sun did follow my proposal to replace pax
by star. 5 years have passed and nothing did happen.

Jörg

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[osol-discuss] Thank you Adobe - Flash 10.1 rc available

2010-06-14 Thread Tim Scanlon
Before I plaster the link that follows, I'd like to thank Adobe for their 
support for Solaris  OpenSolaris. Yea, I know there's various GNU-ish projects 
around, but I seriously dislike the GPL template license too. Not only that but 
objectively Adobe's stuff is good software.

If I could, I'd encourage Adobe to do everyone else in the world a solid favor 
 release the native code translation tools that Stevie Jobs rejected because 
he wanted to cover for what crap his products are. The truth is those tools 
would be very useful to everyone else too. If you can't think of how, that's a 
failure of your imagination, not mine. So work on that with a positive groove  
you might come to agree with me about that idea.

In any case, the newer released code, most importantly with security fixes can 
be found with an (as always for security updates), free download from the 
following site. Please note, these are rc candidates, but I noticed right off 
there are some performance improvements on my less-than-stellar old Dell that's 
my desktop system. I haven't tested sparc yet, but I'm sure it'll do the job on 
that just fine too. Here is the URL:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Again, many thanks from someone who cares about security, performance,  using 
an OpenSolaris desktop.

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Re: [osol-discuss] append new disk, has no /dev/dsk node for entire disc

2010-06-14 Thread Dmitry
Simple:
it might be an EFI partition is required. It should be created with:
format -e  

:)

rd...@znas:~$ ls -v /dev/dsk/c*d0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  58 апр. 19 09:03 /dev/dsk/c4t0d0 - 
../../devices/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@9/pci15d9,5...@0/s...@0,0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  58 апр. 19 09:03 /dev/dsk/c4t1d0 - 
../../devices/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@9/pci15d9,5...@0/s...@1,0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  58 апр. 19 09:03 /dev/dsk/c4t2d0 - 
../../devices/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@9/pci15d9,5...@0/s...@2,0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  58 апр. 19 09:03 /dev/dsk/c4t3d0 - 
../../devices/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@9/pci15d9,5...@0/s...@3,0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  58 апр. 21 09:49 /dev/dsk/c4t4d0 - 
../../devices/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@9/pci15d9,5...@0/s...@4,0:wd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  58 июня 14 12:41 /dev/dsk/c4t5d0 - 
../../devices/p...@0,0/pci8086,3...@9/pci15d9,5...@0/s...@5,0:wd
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Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread bsd
You're right.  Someone will still be waiting after 120 days for customer 
service to come back and help them.  Why they continue to wait, who knows?
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Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Alan Hargreaves

bsd wrote:

You're right.  Someone will still be waiting after 120 days for customer 
service to come back and help them.  Why they continue to wait, who knows?


Your implication that a call can be logged with support and no customer 
contact in 90-120 days is way outside of any kind of process and should 
have been flagged to management *WELL* before this kind of time.


If you can provide me with evidence of such (eg a case number), I would 
be happy to investigate.


I will take the absence of any such evidence to be confirmation that you 
are simply spreading FUD.


Regards,
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Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Mike DeMarco
4 months we have been stuck on build 134, 4 months! I don't call this 
progress, at this rate Oracle will have to push Solaris 10 out to update 40 
before Solaris next is ready. The patch bundle for Solaris 10 is now so large 
that it takes 4 hours to patch from update 6 to update 8. Solaris next delay is 
not only hurting the Open Solaris community but is also hurting the Solaris 
community by making it impossible to apply a patch bundle inside a maintenance 
window. Yes It may be what Oracle has been saying all along but they have been 
saying it 4 months without a drop of progress. There is only two weeks left in 
First half of CY2010.
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Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread schatten
 • New platform support

Does this mean new driver support?
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Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
  • New platform support
 
 Does this mean new driver support?

Indirectly it might.  But I think it has always meant
running on new models of systems; that might mean
as much support for newer CPUs or newer chipsets
as for controllers and other sorts of devices.

Someone could always look through the code and
try to figure out the codename of the new system. :-)
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Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Software Product Map- opensolaris not included

2010-06-14 Thread Brian Utterback
On 06/08/10 13:31, Jason King wrote:
 A fast-track case is describing more the review/approval process than
 how fast it's being putback.  I'm sure there are many examples of
 fast-tracks that weren't integrated for many months (if not longer)
 from when they were filed.
 

Sometimes never. I recently sponsored a case during which a comment by
a reviewer caused the project team to re-evaluate and abandon their
original approach, despite the case being approved. I eventually
withdrew the case, but the follow up paper work is often not done.

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[osol-discuss] Happy Birthday OpenSolaris

2010-06-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
On June 14th 2005, OpenSolaris was made available to the public.
Today is June 14th 2010 and OpenSolaris is celebrating it's 5th
anniversary.

I hope that OpenSolaris still has a long life to expect in future

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Re: [osol-discuss] Happy Birthday OpenSolaris

2010-06-14 Thread Sean Sprague

Jörg



On June 14th 2005, OpenSolaris was made available to the public.
Today is June 14th 2010 and OpenSolaris is celebrating it's 5th
anniversary.
   


Thanks for the reminder. Happy 5th B'day to OpenSolaris indeed.


I hope that OpenSolaris still has a long life to expect in future
   


+1

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Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Edward Martinez
 4 months we have been stuck on build 134, 4 months!
 I don't call this progress, at this rate Oracle will
 have to push Solaris 10 out to update 40 before
 Solaris next is ready. The patch bundle for Solaris
 10 is now so large that it takes 4 hours to patch
 from update 6 to update 8. Solaris next delay is not
 only hurting the Open Solaris community but is also
 hurting the Solaris community by making it impossible
 to apply a patch bundle inside a maintenance window.
 Yes It may be what Oracle has been saying all along
 but they have been saying it 4 months without a drop
 of progress. There is only two weeks left in First
 half of CY2010.

I think the reason why we have been using  build  134  that long is because the 
next stable release of opensolaris will be from  build 134 and oracle wants to 
get it right before it's availabe for download,  it appers they are alredy 
working on respins of build 134 in the form of build 134a and 134b. 134b  may 
be used for  the next realease.  I don't have a link to the site but I remember 
 reading a while back that solaris 11 was going to be based from opensolaris 
snv_134. I have seem this type of postponements before e.g. freebsd 5, i think 
it was in development for three years before it was released, etc 

Builds 134a  134b are respins of build 134 to fix stopper bugs for the 
OpenSolaris 2010.03 release.   In the main Nevada branch, these fixes 
integrated in later builds.

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+x_win/changelogs-nv_130
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Re: [osol-discuss] Thank you Adobe - Flash 10.1 rc available

2010-06-14 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Thank you for the heads-up, time to upgrade my station to 10.
Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®

-Original Message-
From: Tim Scanlon t...@uprising.net
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:43:36 
To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Subject: [osol-discuss] Thank you Adobe - Flash 10.1 rc available

Before I plaster the link that follows, I'd like to thank Adobe for their 
support for Solaris  OpenSolaris. Yea, I know there's various GNU-ish projects 
around, but I seriously dislike the GPL template license too. Not only that but 
objectively Adobe's stuff is good software.

If I could, I'd encourage Adobe to do everyone else in the world a solid favor 
 release the native code translation tools that Stevie Jobs rejected because 
he wanted to cover for what crap his products are. The truth is those tools 
would be very useful to everyone else too. If you can't think of how, that's a 
failure of your imagination, not mine. So work on that with a positive groove  
you might come to agree with me about that idea.

In any case, the newer released code, most importantly with security fixes can 
be found with an (as always for security updates), free download from the 
following site. Please note, these are rc candidates, but I noticed right off 
there are some performance improvements on my less-than-stellar old Dell that's 
my desktop system. I haven't tested sparc yet, but I'm sure it'll do the job on 
that just fine too. Here is the URL:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Again, many thanks from someone who cares about security, performance,  using 
an OpenSolaris desktop.

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Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Edward Martinez wrote:
 I think the reason why we have been using  build  134  that long is because 
 the next stable release of opensolaris will be from  build 134 

That is correct.

 I remember  reading a while back that solaris 11 was going to be based from 
 opensolaris snv_134.

That is not (unless you consider a later snv_* build to be based from 134).

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Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Edward Martinez
 Edward Martinez wrote:
  I think the reason why we have been using  build
 134  that long is because the next stable release of
  opensolaris will be from  build 134 
 That is correct.
 
 
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 -alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
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 ow System
 
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I'm not sure if I've  already asked this before. Are  these  development snv 
builds, starting with build snv_135,  will be  made availabe to the public 
after the offical stable  release is out?

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+x_win/changelogs-nv_130
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Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread bsd
There have been occasions where a FreeBSD RELEASE is not on time, but they 
typically have RC1, RC2, etc., until the final RELEASE.  Such as the case with 
FreeBSD 8.0.  I believe there was only to be RC1 and RC2, but there were 
actually four release candidates.

As with the case of a release taking a long time, and I don't recall how long 
it took for the 5.0 branch release, however, even if it took 2 years, the 4.x 
release branch was still being actively developed.

Here with OpenSolaris, we are stuck with a release that is one year old, and no 
release candidates have been published.  Unless you consider 134 a RC, but I'd 
consider it more of a -stable because I don't think it has been frozen and is 
ready for a release.  Build 138 would be more -current.

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Re: [osol-discuss] Happy Birthday OpenSolaris

2010-06-14 Thread Aurélien Larcher

Yup, thank you Jörg for your email :)

5 years already ...

Few months later I started using SXCE on my good ol' Ultra 60 :)

Joyeux anniversaire !!!

Le 14/06/10 17:50, Sean Sprague a écrit :

Jörg



On June 14th 2005, OpenSolaris was made available to the public.
Today is June 14th 2010 and OpenSolaris is celebrating it's 5th
anniversary.


Thanks for the reminder. Happy 5th B'day to OpenSolaris indeed.


I hope that OpenSolaris still has a long life to expect in future


+1

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[osol-discuss] video card question

2010-06-14 Thread rabindranath seunarine singh
My apologies in advance if I'm posting this in the wrong place. I have a 
Netra240 server and I'd like to use a video card so I can get a graphical 
desktop. I put in a SIS 6326 PCI card, but my monitor just goes to sleep. Does 
anyone know if I need to activate any settings in the server hardware to use a 
non-Sun card? Please note, I have not reached the stage of installing an OS as 
yet.

thanks
robin
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Re: [osol-discuss] video card question

2010-06-14 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
On 14.06.2010 20:43, rabindranath seunarine singh wrote:
 My apologies in advance if I'm posting this in the wrong place. I have a 
 Netra240 server and I'd like to use a video card so I can get a graphical 
 desktop. I put in a SIS 6326 PCI card, but my monitor just goes to sleep. 
 Does anyone know if I need to activate any settings in the server hardware to 
 use a non-Sun card? Please note, I have not reached the stage of installing 
 an OS as yet.
 
 thanks
 robin

I suspect this is your first Sun, isn't it?

It will be probably much easier to install the Netra using the serial
console. Anyway, if you prefer having a graphical login or even doing an
interactive GUI based install you'll need a Sun card with fcode.
Otherwise OpenBoot won't be able to initialize the card for the install
routine or even displaying the boot prompt.

Additionally, I'm not sure if you will be happy with a GUI on a Netra.
This is not the place where you'll find the power of the Sun. The power
of the Sun is hidden in the command-line.

Therefore, I can only recommend you to take a step back, and read the
installation guides and learn how to use the serial or network console
(I don't know if the Netra already has ALOM) to perform an installation.
It's a bit of a learning curve, but it's worth the effort. And once you
have done one remote installation via serial/network console, where the
machine is located in a noisy room and you have a comfortable place in
your office, you don't want to do a regular PeeCee installation again ;-)

Cheers,
Thomas
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Re: [osol-discuss] video card question

2010-06-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
rabindranath seunarine singh wrote:
 My apologies in advance if I'm posting this in the wrong place. I have a 
 Netra240 server and I'd like to use a video card so I can get a graphical 
 desktop. I put in a SIS 6326 PCI card, but my monitor just goes to sleep. 
 Does anyone know if I need to activate any settings in the server hardware to 
 use a non-Sun card?

SPARC systems are not PC's and cannot use PC video cards as is - the system
firmware will only be able to display on cards with OpenBoot PROM support,
while most PC video cards only have PC BIOS support.   (They won't work in
Macs either, which also don't have PC BIOS'es, unless they support
OpenFirmware as well.)

You'll find it much easier to connect a serial line for the console than to
get a non-Sun card to work.

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Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Edward Martinez
 There have been occasions where a FreeBSD RELEASE is
 not on time, but they typically have RC1, RC2, etc.,
 until the final RELEASE.  Such as the case with
 FreeBSD 8.0.  I believe there was only to be RC1 and
 RC2, but there were actually four release
 candidates.
 
 As with the case of a release taking a long time, and
 I don't recall how long it took for the 5.0 branch
 release, however, even if it took 2 years, the 4.x
 release branch was still being actively developed.
 
 Here with OpenSolaris, we are stuck with a release
 that is one year old, and no release candidates have
 been published.  Unless you consider 134 a RC, but
 I'd consider it more of a -stable because I don't
 think it has been frozen and is ready for a release.
  Build 138 would be more -current.
 
 Just my take.


 


 I do consider 134 as an RC because  it was said last year that next stable 
release would be  2010.02 and be based from b 134 but how would that be 
possible, if build 134 was released on march 8?  b134 is not that old, it's 
three or four months old  depending  how you look at it and respins of b134 are 
being worked on. 

I would be concern if only b133 was out and not b134
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Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Edward Martinez wrote:
  I do consider 134 as an RC because  it was said last year that next stable 
 release would be  2010.02 and be based from b 134 but how would that be 
 possible, if build 134 was released on march 8? 

It wouldn't be, which is why that was never said.

When the plan was originally made for 2010.02, it was going to use build 132.
When the plan shifted last fall to 2010.03, it also shifted to build 134.

(Contrary to mistaken belief by many people, 2010.02 didn't slip at the last
 minute - the plans changed months in advance to better align with other
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Re: [osol-discuss] video card question

2010-06-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Rabindranath Seunarinesingh wrote:
 Thanks Alan, that piece of info seems to be the missing link in all of
 this. I have no problem installing via CLI/console, but does that mean I
 wouldn't be able to give the user a GUI desktop even if he connects to
 the server via the network?

No.  He needs a video card in the machine connected to the monitor he wants
to view the output on.   There's no need for a video card in the server
to generate a GUI over the network.

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Re: [osol-discuss] video card question

2010-06-14 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
On 14.06.2010 21:26, Rabindranath Seunarinesingh wrote:
 Thanks for the reply Thomas. I don't have a Sun card, so I guess the
 graphical install is out. Now, if I install via console, how can I give
 the user a GUI desktop? Will that be possible at all?
 BTW, I'm in the same noisy room with all the servers (:
  
 thanks
 robin
 


your user is probably happy with an ssh login. You could also setup the
Sun to provide a remote graphical display with X11. Therefore, you need
to modify /etc/dt/config/Xaccess to include the hosts that should be
allowed to be a remote display. Read the man pages on Xaccess, dtlogin
and friends to learn more.

But, IMHO, forget about the GUI login, learn how to use the shell and
login via ssh. Only on the shell you'll be able to take full advantage
of all those little Sun extras...

Cheers,
Thomas
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Re: [osol-discuss] good news- opensolaris updated roadmap

2010-06-14 Thread Edward Martinez
 Edward Martinez wrote:
   I do consider 134 as an RC because  it was said
 last year that next stable release would be  2010.02
 and be based from b 134 but how would that be
 possible, if build 134 was released on march 8? 
 
 It wouldn't be, which is why that was never said.
 
 When the plan was originally made for 2010.02, it was
 going to use build 132.
 When the plan shifted last fall to 2010.03, it also
 shifted to build 134.
 
 (Contrary to mistaken belief by many people, 2010.02
 didn't slip at the last
 minute - the plans changed months in advance to
  better align with other
 schedules.)
 
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thanks, with this explanations has taken away any misconceptions i had,  now 
I'm more concinved that opensolaris is here for enternity
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Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox in extra repository is lagging behind

2010-06-14 Thread alan pae
Thanks Alan.
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