Re: [indiana-discuss] Oracle buy SUN. The end of OpenSolaris?

2009-04-20 Thread Tom Georgoulias
dick hoogendijk wrote: Will it be possible to develop / support OpenSolaris any further now SUN's been bought by Oracle? I surely hope this OS will survive. But what are the chances? I highly doubt that anyone who uses and reads this mailing list on a daily basis has any info that could

Re: [indiana-discuss] opensolaris-2009.06

2009-04-17 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Matt Ingenthron wrote: Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I read somewhere that OS2009.06 would be a respin of b111 (111a?) and that the packages would hit the release repo around june. Does this mean the dev repo is not upgraded along with the SXCE betas? (now on b112). I run //dev repo, but would like

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg image-update: where are the details?

2009-03-26 Thread Tom Georgoulias
solarg wrote: This morning, i did an image-update, and it does something How can i see what it did exactly? what files/packages were replaced? pkg history -l doesn't show anything!? I think this is an excellent question. The lack of knowledge about what is happening during an update is a

Re: [indiana-discuss] pkg image-update: where are the details?

2009-03-26 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Shawn Walker wrote: Tom Georgoulias wrote: solarg wrote: This morning, i did an image-update, and it does something How can i see what it did exactly? what files/packages were replaced? pkg history -l doesn't show anything!? I think this is an excellent question. The lack of knowledge

Re: [indiana-discuss] berkeley DB missing from opensolaris.org repos?

2009-02-20 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Brock Pytlik wrote: You might take a look in the pending repo. That has a bdb package that seems to be a Berkeley DB. Please note the terms of use for the pending repo, reproduced here: So, that might be a solution if you prefer that option over building it yourself from scratch. Thanks,

[indiana-discuss] berkeley DB missing from opensolaris.org repos?

2009-02-19 Thread Tom Georgoulias
I was trying to build some software on 2008.11 and noticed that Berkeley DB isn't available in any of the opensolaris.org repos I searched. Am I missing an obvious way to get it, outside of building it from source? Thanks, Tom ___ indiana-discuss

Re: [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Bible

2009-02-10 Thread Tom Georgoulias
I received my copy today. Haven't done much more than flip through it and read a section here and there, but so far so good. It looks like it will be very helpful for me since I have an extensive Linux background and often run into difficulties when trying to find the opensolaris way of

[indiana-discuss] can't remove files from a full zfs filesystem in 2008.11 (snv_101b)

2009-02-05 Thread Tom Georgoulias
I just ran into this or a similar bug on 2008.11: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6453407 In my situation, the zfs filesystem was not the root filesystem, but the end result was the same. The workaround of copying /dev/null onto one or more files, then using the rm

Re: [indiana-discuss] When does OpenSolaris upgrade to next build?

2009-01-16 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Sebastien Roy wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 17:38 +0100, Gilles Gravier wrote: Hi! So... no fun... pkg image-update says nothing to update. Are we really still at b101 with OpenSolaris? Solaris Express Community is at build 105 from opensolaris.org downloads... Are you pointing at the dev

Re: [indiana-discuss] replicating snapshots from time-slider to a remote server

2009-01-12 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Nicolas Williams wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 04:04:55PM -0500, Tom Georgoulias wrote: Renames *were* hard--I never got that working so I gave up. I was encouraged to see your suggestion of a user-defined properties, I was trying to use them to get around the renaming problem and wasn't

Re: [indiana-discuss] replicating snapshots from time-slider to a remote server

2009-01-08 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Nicolas Williams wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:38:33PM -0500, Tom Georgoulias wrote: Absolutely. I've been hacking on a zfs replication shell script that I found on a blog and trying to make it work for my setup. What you've said has just reassured me that the headaches I was running

Re: [indiana-discuss] replicating snapshots from time-slider to a remote server

2009-01-07 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Tim Foster wrote: hey there, On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 01:07 +, Calum Benson wrote: On 17 Dec 2008, at 19:27, Tom Georgoulias wrote: Is it safe to assume my options are to either wait for the next release of time-slider or roll my own? Are there any other options? Well, I guess you

Re: [indiana-discuss] replicating snapshots from time-slider to a remote server

2008-12-17 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Calum Benson wrote: On 16 Dec 2008, at 17:36, Tom Georgoulias wrote: When I last played around with zfs-auto-snapshots 2008.05 I could send the snapshots to a remote server with the zfs send/recv commands. Now that I have time-slider setup on a 2008.11 install, it looks like that send

[indiana-discuss] replicating snapshots from time-slider to a remote server

2008-12-16 Thread Tom Georgoulias
When I last played around with zfs-auto-snapshots 2008.05 I could send the snapshots to a remote server with the zfs send/recv commands. Now that I have time-slider setup on a 2008.11 install, it looks like that send/recv functionality is missing. Was it removed in favor of doing this

[indiana-discuss] SMF for cfengine

2008-12-12 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Has anyone created an SMF configuration for cfengine? I installed the cfengine package from the blastwave repository and it doesn't include an SMF or init script to manage the cfexecd/cfservd daemons, so I'll have to come up with one myself. I figured I'd ask and see if anyone else has

[indiana-discuss] svcadm errors when configuring NIS client on a fresh 2008.11 install

2008-12-08 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Not sure if this is a bug or a configuration mistake on my part. I did a fresh install of 2008.11 using the Live CD and attempted to configure the NIS client on the server after the install was complete. 1. Set the domainname with domainname command 2. Added the NIS servers to /etc/hosts 3.

[indiana-discuss] BE not activate during update from svn_99 to latest (hopefully 08.11 RC1)

2008-11-19 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Having problems getting an x4500 updated from snv_99 to the latest. (I would like to upgrade to the 2008.11 Release Candidates, if at all possible). Here's what I'm running now: SunOS sutl500p 5.11 snv_99 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris Here's what I'm doing to upgrade. ANy ideas on why this is

Re: [indiana-discuss] BE not activate during update from svn_99 to latest (hopefully 08.11 RC1)

2008-11-19 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Ethan Quach wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# pfexec pkg refresh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# pfexec pkg install [EMAIL PROTECTED] No updates available for this image. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# pfexec pkg install [EMAIL PROTECTED] No updates available for this image. Since you're running b99, these should

Re: [indiana-discuss] BE not activate during update from svn_99 to latest (hopefully 08.11 RC1)

2008-11-19 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Ready to label disk, continue? yes format quit 3. Attach the disk. # zpool attach rpool c9t4d0s0 c9t0d0s0 Tom Georgoulias wrote: Ethan Quach wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# pfexec pkg refresh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# pfexec pkg install [EMAIL PROTECTED] No updates available for this image

[indiana-discuss] network trunking--can opensolaris do it?

2008-10-16 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Does opensolaris offer network trunking capabilities? I did some searches on the opensolaris.org site and found references to Sun Trunking software, but it looks like you need a special card for that and an opensolaris version of the pkg isn't present in the repo. Thanks, Tom

Re: [indiana-discuss] network trunking--can opensolaris do it?

2008-10-16 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Jason King wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Tom Georgoulias [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does opensolaris offer network trunking capabilities? I did some searches on the opensolaris.org http://opensolaris.org site and found references to Sun

[indiana-discuss] easy command to display disks present in a server?

2008-10-15 Thread Tom Georgoulias
What's the easiest/best command to use to display a list of disks in a server? I want to create a raidz2 filesystem and I'm looking for something like an fdisk -l on Linux. The server is running 08.11 snv_98 and fdisk -l doesn't work, plus format puts me into an interactive session and I

[indiana-discuss] adding another disk to rpool to create a mirror

2008-10-15 Thread Tom Georgoulias
I need help again, this time with adding another disk to the rpool zpool that was created when I installed opensolaris so I can have a mirrored pool. Server is an x4500 and running opensolaris snv_99, I'm still new to opensolaris and zfs so it's probably my lack of knowledge that is causing

[indiana-discuss] nis client can't bind to domain, spews errors to console prevents login

2008-09-19 Thread Tom Georgoulias
One of my clients is unable to bind to the NIS domain and is spewing tons of ypbind NIS server not responding for domainname; still trying to the console. Unfortunately, I can't ssh into the box because it doesn't respond with a prompt, nor can I login using the IBM remote console

Re: [indiana-discuss] Who is the OpenSolaris user?

2008-09-18 Thread Tom Georgoulias
alan mcclellan wrote: * Network administrator Responsible for maintaining multiple OpenSolaris servers used by multiple people. Responsibilities are more enterprise like, including auto-installations and updates, user management, security, storage, network communication, etc. I

Re: [indiana-discuss] Who is the OpenSolaris user?

2008-09-17 Thread Tom Georgoulias
alan mcclellan wrote: One of the things I've been thinking about since I came on board is exactly how to partition the OpenSolaris user base. To that end, I've come up with the following list. I'd appreciate any comments, clarifications, additions to this list. * Network administrator

Re: [indiana-discuss] sysbench pkg for opensolaris 2008.05

2008-08-15 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Tom Georgoulias wrote: I want to repeat some sysbench tests that I've run with Mysql 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 using Opensolaris 2008.05, but I cannot find a pkg for sysbench at pkg.opensolaris.org. Does anyone know where I can get one without having to compile from source

Re: [indiana-discuss] sysbench pkg for opensolaris 2008.05

2008-08-15 Thread Tom Georgoulias
James Cornell wrote: Have you tried to `find / -name libmysqlclient_r.so.15`? A change may be needed so it explicitly links with that library. sysbench worked after I added /usr/mysql/5.0/lib/mysql to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I forgot to try that before I sent the email. Thanks also to Luojia Chen

Re: [indiana-discuss] Opensolaris 200805 updates / security fixes

2008-08-14 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Sven Herzing wrote: I have a question about installing updates to the stable version of opensolaris 200805. - wasn't opensolaris supposed to have a stable version that will get new releases every 6 month(200805, 200811 ...), and I would be able to run this stable version in a sense that

[indiana-discuss] sysbench pkg for opensolaris 2008.05

2008-08-12 Thread Tom Georgoulias
I want to repeat some sysbench tests that I've run with Mysql 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 using Opensolaris 2008.05, but I cannot find a pkg for sysbench at pkg.opensolaris.org. Does anyone know where I can get one without having to compile from source? Doesn't look like building from