Re: [OmniOS-discuss] the right card for a server

2014-01-09 Thread Michael Mounteney
Thanks for your comments Dan. The board I found is a PCI Express x8 whereas the I350 is x4. What does that mean, and does it matter at all ? The server has an x8 slot. > Luckily, the Broadcom part mentioned by the original poster was a NetXreme > I part, which is open-source-happy bge, AND alre

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] the right card for a server

2014-01-09 Thread Michael Mounteney
> Hello, > > you need a Riser-Card (RSC-RR1U-E8) too. > > Take a look at Supermicro add-on Cards: > http://www.supermicro.nl/products/accessories/index.cfm > > There you can find a 4 Port Intel Nic > http://www.supermicro.nl/products/accessories/addon/AOC-UG-i4.cfm I appreciate that you are trying

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] the right card for a server

2014-01-09 Thread Michael Mounteney
> On 1/10/14, 12:46 AM, Saso Kiselkov wrote: >> How about getting a dedicated 8-port gig switch? Sure, it can be a bit >> of extra hassle, but for the kind of money you'll spend on a 4-port >> gig-E server NIC you can also get a reasonable dedicated rack-mountable >> 8-port gig-E switch (Linksys SR

[OmniOS-discuss] Help setting up a boot server

2014-06-24 Thread Michael Mounteney
Hello, I would appreciate some advice in setting-up a boot server. This would have OmniOS as the server and a couple of diskless HP thin clients running Linux as the clients. The Linux kernel is already configured as a diskless NFS root client but it is currently loaded from a small partition on t

[OmniOS-discuss] Anyone built Horde?

2014-09-13 Thread Michael Mounteney
While we're covering the subject of building stuff on OmniOS, has anyone built Horde, following the instructions at http://www.horde.org/apps/horde/docs/INSTALL ? I'm trying to do so in a zone and encountering some difficulty. I installed gcc48 and autoconf and gcc passes the sanity test: echo '

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Anyone built Horde?

2014-09-13 Thread Michael Mounteney
Partly answering my own question, I managed to break into the build process so that pecl didn't delete config.log. It contains: configure:2857: gcc -o conftestconftest.c >&5 conftest.c:9:19: fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory #include ^ compilation terminate

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Anyone built Horde?

2014-09-14 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 19:06:28 -0700 "Paul B. Henson" wrote: > > If you want to try kludging it, you could run "ln -s > /opt/omni/include/ImageMagick/wand /usr/include" and see what happens. > I'd remove the link once you got it built. > Well my experience with kludging some elses build is that it

[OmniOS-discuss] openldap-server package out of sync?

2014-10-02 Thread Michael Mounteney
Hello, I'm on stable. Got all up to date with http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/GeneralAdministration#UpgradingWithNon-GlobalZones then: root@world:/support/Solaris# pkg -R /zone/ldap/root install openldap-server Creating Plan - pkg install: No solution was found to satisfy

[OmniOS-discuss] switching from Stable to LTS

2014-10-02 Thread Michael Mounteney
Thanks for the answers to my question about installing openldap-server. As I would prefer to limit the number of repositories from which I'm taking packages, I'm considering switching to LTS so I can take packages from OmniTI. I'm sure I saw somewhere how to switch from one release to another but

[OmniOS-discuss] best guide to tftp ?

2014-10-24 Thread Michael Mounteney
Hello, I want to use OmniOS as a boot server for various Linux thin clients. What's the most appropriate guide out there? There's a few, referring to obsolete problems, other OSs etc. Thanks, Michael. ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@list

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] switching from Stable to LTS

2014-10-24 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Fri, 3 Oct 2014 01:11:31 +0200 Michael Rasmussen wrote: > I think the generel consensus is that unless you are very very very > knowledgeable in the darkest corners of Illumos, having patience above > and beyond the call of duty, have loads of spare time, and only have a > server populated wit

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] switching from Stable to LTS

2014-10-24 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:13:50 -0400 Dan McDonald wrote: > > OK but let's say despite all the warnings I were going to try > > anyway. Would it be possible to set up a LTS non-global zone on a > > machine on which Stable is installed? > > No. So, er, that's a "no" then ? ;-) > The only way [..

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best guide to tftp ?

2014-11-07 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:51:13 +0200 Natxo Asenjo wrote: > So you should just install the tftp package in the omnios publisher > and then activate the tftp service by editing inetd.conf and adding > the line: > > tftpdgram udp6waitroot/usr/sbin/in.tftpd > in.tftpd -s /tftpboot >

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best guide to tftp ?

2014-11-08 Thread Michael Mounteney
[Later] just running # /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -p -d -s /tftpboot doesn't work either. A client-side $ tftp cortex -c get text times out. ??? ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-

[OmniOS-discuss] Building Haskell on OmniOS

2014-11-16 Thread Michael Mounteney
Last year there was a thread about bootstrapping GHC, mainly by Paul Henson and Matthieu Paindavoine. I'd like to pick it up, because I, like Matthieu, want to build the compiler. There were two separate problems. One was that a stray 'link' call was causing a directory under /tmp to be undeleta

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Building Haskell on OmniOS

2014-11-17 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:57:25 -0500 Dan McDonald wrote: > Have you tried 151012, the current stable release? That yields a different failure, for which I have no ready explanation: ~/ghc-7.4.2 # gmake install [...] /opt/gcc-4.8.1/bin/gcc -E -undef -traditional -P -DINSTALLING -DLIB_DIR='"/opt/

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Building Haskell on OmniOS

2014-11-25 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 07:16:17 +1000 Michael Mounteney wrote: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:57:25 -0500 > Dan McDonald wrote: > > > Have you tried 151012, the current stable release? > > That yields a different failure, for which I have no ready > explanation: [...] Same wi

[OmniOS-discuss] common-factor key exchange

2014-11-28 Thread Michael Mounteney
After a recent upgrade to my Gentoo Linux installations, I can no longer ssh into them from OmniOS: -bash-4.3$ ssh 192.168.1.48 no common kex alg: client 'diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1', server 'curve25519-sha...@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh

[OmniOS-discuss] Postgres on Stable

2014-11-28 Thread Michael Mounteney
Hello, went from LTS to stable to-day and was somewhat taken aback that the highest Postgres version is 8.3 whereas on LTS, 9.3 is available. Is there a way to get 9.3 on stable ? Michael. ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com h

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Postgres on Stable

2014-11-28 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:08:16 -0500 Zach Malone wrote: > We have pretty much abandoned 9.3, and are using 9.2 in production, > with plans to evaluate 9.4 when it's released. May I ask why ? The problem is that I have databases built with 9.3, and I don't know to downgrade or even if it's possibl

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Postgres on Stable

2014-11-28 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 18:37:09 -0500 Zach Malone wrote: > I built postgresql-935 for you on a r151012 system, and published it > to the omniti-ms repo. Want to give it a shot? Past installing it, I > have not tried it on a production system (I'm planning on moving some > systems to r151012 this m

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] common-factor key exchange

2014-11-30 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:55:57 -0800 "Paul B. Henson" wrote: > What is your sshd_config on the gentoo side? Port {something other than 22} PasswordAuthentication no PermitEmptyPasswords no UsePAM no PrintMotd no PrintLastLog no UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox # Default for new installation

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] common-factor key exchange

2014-12-01 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 14:36:03 -0800 "Paul B. Henson" wrote: > I've got no idea why yours is behaving differently. What use flags do > you have set? Mine are: > > [ebuild R] net-misc/openssh-6.6_p1-r1 USE="X hpn kerberos pam > -X509 -bindist -ldap -ldns -libedit (-selinux) -skey -static -tcp

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] common-factor key exchange

2014-12-02 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 18:05:54 -0800 "Paul B. Henson" wrote: > Ah, that must have gone stable right after I did my last update. > Guess I will have this issue to look forward to for our next update > cycle 8-/... I did consider holding on to 6.6 but there must be a good reason for the issuance of 6

[OmniOS-discuss] help with ipfilter rule for DHCP client

2014-12-03 Thread Michael Mounteney
Hello, I tightened up my ipfilter rules and somehow cut out DHCP. Could someone who knows DHCP better than me please have a look and tell me what's missing. I pulled ipf.conf from an Oracle page so it must be slightly different in some respect. What I have now is pass in on e1000g1 all pass in o

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] help with ipfilter rule for DHCP client

2014-12-03 Thread Michael Mounteney
Answering my own question: # Allow access to ISP's specified DHCP server for cable or DSL networks. # The first rule obtains the IP of the server. # The second obtains an address from it. pass out log quick on e1000g0 proto udp from any to any port = 67 keep state pass out quick on e1000g0 proto u

[OmniOS-discuss] adding cua/a as a second login

2014-12-03 Thread Michael Mounteney
There's plenty of stuff about configuring the serial port as the console on login, but I would like to ADD the serial port as a second login; that is, keep the normal console login but have cua/a as a second login access point. Is this possible ? Something to do with SAF on Solaris, IIRC. Micha

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] adding cua/a as a second login

2014-12-04 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:35:04 +0100 Jorge Schrauwen wrote: > Hey, > > I have this setup on my SuperMicro server to have a 2nd console on > the SoL. > I documented it here: > https://docu.blackdot.be/snipets/solaris/misc-serial-console > > Hopefully this is helpful. It certainly is, Jorge; t

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] adding cua/a as a second login

2014-12-04 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 14:22:55 -0800 "Paul B. Henson" wrote: > If you open a ticket in the illumos issue tracker requesting this > feature, I might take a shot at implementing it :). I'm hoping to get > an illumos-gate development environment going under omnios stable > over the Christmas break (the

[OmniOS-discuss] UPS serial non-standard, WHY?

2014-12-04 Thread Michael Mounteney
OK, not an OmniOS matter but as a lot of people here will be using UPSs, I hope it's alright. I made what is apparently the common but incorrect assumption that the serial monitoring port on the back of my APC 700 UPS had a standard serial pinout but for some reason the TxD and RxD are swapped. I

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] UPS serial non-standard, WHY?

2014-12-05 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 09:04:11 +0100 Thomas Wagner wrote: > Michael, > I can't say something on the serial connection. > But I believe that some of the PINs like "carrier detect" > are used to signal power conditions and in the other direction > tell the UPS to power on or off. > Maybe the "null-mod

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] kvm io 10 times slower after r151010 -> r151012 upgrade

2014-12-10 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 06:14:56 +0100 (CET) Tobias Oetiker wrote: > This leads me to suspect, that either only very few people are > using omnios as a kvm server OR it is also a hardware dependent > problem. I think it must be. I'm running KVM (Gentoo Linux guests) and have just gone from 151010 t

[OmniOS-discuss] KVM within a child zone

2014-12-22 Thread Michael Mounteney
Has anyone done this? The main obstacle in my own investigation is that the zonecfg command "add device / set match=/dev/net/vnick0 ; end" is ignored so I can't network the VM. Michael. ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com htt

[OmniOS-discuss] sudden loss of networking

2014-12-22 Thread Michael Mounteney
Just now, r151012 lost networking. I was able to get in via a serial console (very relieved I took the trouble to set that up) but otherwise the machine wasn't even pingable. Thanks to the wonders of NFS, a reboot preserved everything --- I wasn't running any VMs at the time. svcs -a showed that

[OmniOS-discuss] NTP server needs restarting to be usable

2014-12-22 Thread Michael Mounteney
After the reboot referred-to in my earlier message, the NTP server wasn't really working properly. At first ntpclient on a Linux box was reporting: 41994 07614.540 rejected packet: LI==3 41994 07629.556 rejected packet: LI==3 41994 07644.571 rejected packet: LI==3 41994 07659.586 rejected pac

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] sudden loss of networking

2014-12-22 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:27:00 -0500 Dan McDonald wrote: > Lots of possibilities when you "lose networking". Lots of > information helps tell what happened. > > Output of these commands: > - ifconfig -a > - dladm show-link > - dladm show-phys > - dladm show-ether > -

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] NTP server needs restarting to be usable

2014-12-22 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:40:30 -0500 Dan McDonald wrote: > Did you "pkg update" to the very latest NTP server? There's a > security vulnerability attached to it, you know. Oh yes. root@world:/root# pkg list ntp NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSIONIFO serv

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] NTP server needs restarting to be usable

2014-12-22 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:50:24 +0900 takashi ary wrote: > Hello, > > please try using the following setup > [...] Thank you Takashi: that does appear to fix the problem, although the skew hovers around 5 ms. Michael. ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list Om

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] KVM within a child zone

2014-12-23 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:01:16 +0100 Jorge Schrauwen wrote: > IIRC setting the zone to exclusive netstack works to include the > /dev/net/vnicX device: That gets it a bit closer but I still need the real interface (e1000g1) for vnc and sshing in etc. and I can't give that to the zone exclusively.

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] KVM within a child zone

2014-12-23 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:56:30 +0100 Natxo Asenjo wrote: Thanks to you and everyone else for their help. I hope I'm not polluting the list with newbie noise but hopefully this will stay on record and help out someone else later. My knowledge of vnics, sockets etc. is thin, to say the least. It i

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] KVM within a child zone

2014-12-23 Thread Michael Mounteney
Brilliant, with a bit more fiddling I've got it so that the KVM instances can be started within the child zone, AND shut down cleanly via the command "echo system_powerdown | nc -U /var/run/KDE.monsock" so the next step is to put them into a service so that they can be brought up and down within SM

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] KVM within a child zone

2014-12-23 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 00:00:03 +0100 Dominik Hassler wrote: > Michael, > > you might wanna give kvmadm a try ( https://github.com/hadfl/kvmadm ). > > that'll help you putting your kvms under smf control. > > at least you should be able to extract all the infos from there... Thanks Dominic, yes,

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] KVM within a child zone

2014-12-25 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Thu, 25 Dec 2014 11:18:01 +0100 Jim Klimov wrote: > Are ypu sure tuere is no typo? > i.e. vnick0 vs. vnic0 ? Quite sure, Jim. My choice of name, whimsical as it might be. Michael. ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com htt

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Postgres on Stable

2014-12-28 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 18:37:09 -0500 Zach Malone wrote: > I built postgresql-935 for you on a r151012 system, and published it > to the omniti-ms repo. Want to give it a shot? Past installing it, I > have not tried it on a production system (I'm planning on moving some > systems to r151012 this m

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] sudden loss of networking

2015-01-01 Thread Michael Mounteney
Just for the record, I now believe that the cause of the problem is excessive heat. The server is located in a domestic garage in Brisbane, Queensland, and the addition of a larger UPS to the rig has increased the amount of heat in there. The server began to suffer from loss of disk drives (i.e.,

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] adding cua/a as a second login

2015-01-01 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 14:50:28 -0800 "Paul B. Henson" wrote: > Let me know if you have any questions or problems. Thanks Paul; it works very well. There are two very minor niggles that might impede the acceptance of the change: 1. Generally in *nix, items in a list are separated by a colon or

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] sudden loss of networking

2015-01-01 Thread Michael Mounteney
Straight after the thermal diagnosis, a more definite culprit arose. Since April 2013 when the server was commissioned, it's had a three-way rpool mirror: two built-in SATA drives and one external 'cigarette packet' USB-2 drive. I know, I know, not blistering data-centre performance but the idea is

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] sudden loss of networking

2015-01-01 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 01:03:11 +0100 Michael Rasmussen wrote: > If you have a spare PCIe port in your server you could consider > something like this: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132020 Yes, thanks, nice idea but the machine has only one such slot which I'd planned to

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] sudden loss of networking

2015-01-02 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 19:50:19 -0800 "Paul B. Henson" wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 09:35:24AM -0800, Tim Rice wrote: > > Do you have an unused pci(e) cover plate you can swap out? Nope. :-( http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5017/SYS-5017C-LF.cfm It has one, which I'm saving for a

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] sudden loss of networking

2015-01-02 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 20:35:34 -0800 "Paul B. Henson" wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 02:21:11PM +1000, Michael Mounteney wrote: > Ah, I've got a similar unit that's serving as a PBX. There's a pop out > above the vga/serial ports that I think is intended for a p

[OmniOS-discuss] succinct expression of NFS share parameters

2015-01-03 Thread Michael Mounteney
On some of my ZFS volumes, the sharenfs parameter has the value: sec=sys,rw=@192.168.1.0/24:@192.168.2.0/24:@192.168.3.0/24,root=@192.168.1.0/24:@192.168.2.0/24:@192.168.3.0/24 Can that be expressed more succinctly, but still equivalently? Michael. ___

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] succinct expression of NFS share parameters

2015-01-03 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Sat, 3 Jan 2015 14:00:13 + (GMT) Andy wrote: > Not much. @192.168.2.0/23 would cover both 192.168.2.0/24 and > 192.168.3.0/24 You could use @192.168.0.0/22 which covers the three > ranges you have but also includes 192.168.0.0/24 which you might not > want. Hmm, seems a bit 'hacky' but th

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] kvm io 10 times slower after r151010 -> r151012 upgrade

2015-01-03 Thread Michael Mounteney
Sorry to take so long to get back to you Tobias and I hope this is still relevant. As described elsewhere in this list, I had temporarily to downgrade ssh to achieve interoperability between the OmniOS (bloody) host and the Gentoo Linux guests. First, ssh imposes some overhead: mounty@pantry ~ $

[OmniOS-discuss] networking from a zone

2015-01-04 Thread Michael Mounteney
Hello, my server is running a fairly simple firewall. The machine has two interfaces: e1000g0 192.168.0.n/24 connected to the cable modem and the internet. e1000g1 192.168.1.1/24 connected to a hub and hence various client machines. The firewall is basically as per http://pastebin.com/4aYyZhJ8 a

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] tDom on Solaris

2015-01-05 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 23:29:27 + Josh Barton wrote: > I have had some difficulty getting tDom 0.8.3 or frankly any other > version working with OmniOS/Solaris. After a lot of experimentation > the only method that worked was to change line 1793 in the makefile > (where CC is set to "gcc") to CC=

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] tDom on Solaris

2015-01-05 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 23:29:27 + Josh Barton wrote: > I have had some difficulty getting tDom 0.8.3 or frankly any other > version working with OmniOS/Solaris. After a lot of experimentation > the only method that worked was to change line 1793 in the makefile > (where CC is set to "gcc") to CC=

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Any bloody users out there?

2015-01-12 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:04:23 -0500 Dan McDonald wrote: > I'm close to an update (with some exciting developments), but I'm > wondering if anyone is using bloody for actual data. I ask because > as of right this second, both illumos-gate and illumos-omnios have a > potential problem in ZFS. Oh d

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Caldav suggestions?

2015-01-17 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 02:02:45 -0500 Dan McDonald wrote: > I'm surveying Caldav servers. Most require PHP, which bothers me > from a security POV. Am I being overly harsh on PHP? Are there ones > that don't require PHP? You cannot be too harsh on PHP. It is a dog's breakfast of a language and

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Who alters /etc/profile or /etc/.login on their boxes?

2015-02-27 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:27:18 -0500 Dan McDonald wrote: > This is a serious question. A recent illumos push mildly affects > people who have, but in OmniOS's case, it's a mild change (not a > horrible one). > > I'd appreciate some on-list feedback about who does and doesn't > change their /etc/p

[OmniOS-discuss] speeding up file access

2015-03-03 Thread Michael Mounteney
Hello list; this is a very basic question about ZFS performance from someone with limited sysadmin knowledge. I've seen various messages about ZILs and caching and noticed that my Supermicro 5017C-LF (http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5017/SYS-5017C-LF.cfm). This has a single USB socke

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] speeding up file access

2015-03-04 Thread Michael Mounteney
Thanks to Doug and Chip for the replies. On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 08:17:50 -0600 "Schweiss, Chip" wrote: > [...] > > If it's just a home server set up some frequent snapshots and turn > sync off. You may have to throw away the most recent writes in the > case of a power failure, but your performanc

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] And finally -- Happy 3rd Anniversary OmniOS!

2015-04-02 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 22:04:21 -0400 Dan McDonald wrote: > Three years ago OmniOS r151002 was released to the world. It's been > a while, and I've only been here for not quite half it's lifetime, > I'm looking forward to many more years of OmniOS. This might seem rather corny or clichéd Dan, but I

[OmniOS-discuss] LTS just comes to a halt doing mass-copy

2015-04-25 Thread Michael Mounteney
Hello, I've just bailed out of updating to LTS / r151014 because I was unable to copy the data across from the old system. My system has a single rpool mirrored three ways across c2t[023]d0s0 (all on-board SATA) so to upgrade, I: 1. download the update (USB version) and dd it to a stick. 2. #

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] LTS just comes to a halt doing mass-copy

2015-04-25 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 18:03:11 +1000 Michael Mounteney wrote: > zfs destroy -r woz/$I@Z I meant zfs destroy -r rpool/$I@Z Michael. ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] LTS just comes to a halt doing mass-copy

2015-04-25 Thread Michael Mounteney
Supplementary: 1. To revert, I booted from c2t2d0s0 then zpool replaced c2t0d0s0. That went OK. 2. The mass copying process (step 5 of TFA) died on one particular zfs filesystem, which had child systems, although it had already successfully copied another filesystem with child systems. I resta

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] LTS just comes to a halt doing mass-copy

2015-04-27 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 00:55:24 -0400 Dan McDonald wrote: > By "died" you mean the system hung? Did you have a concurrent shell > running at the same time? Did that stop working? If you have a > concurrent shell, it might be nice to take a system dump upon this > freeze. Pretty well. As I me

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] LTS just comes to a halt doing mass-copy

2015-04-29 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:16:11 +1000 Michael Mounteney wrote: Can anyone help on this one ? if not, is there any information about when a kernel or ZFS update might be rolled in to r151014 ? Michael. ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] LTS just comes to a halt doing mass-copy

2015-04-29 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:35:15 -0400 Dan McDonald wrote: > > > On Apr 29, 2015, at 3:13 PM, Michael Mounteney > > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:16:11 +1000 > > Michael Mounteney wrote: > > > > Can anyone help on this one ? if not, is the

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] LTS just comes to a halt doing mass-copy

2015-04-29 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:23:06 -0400 Dan McDonald wrote: > If you can send the snapshot to a file (doesn't matter where) using > '014, then the bug is more likely to be in the receive code instead > of the send code. You're piping, so you were exercising both send and > receive. I asked in an atte

[OmniOS-discuss] failure to mount all zfs volumes

2015-06-07 Thread Michael Mounteney
This has happened to me on several occasions so I assume it must have happened to others. During boot, one or more zfs filesystems cannot be mounted, for whatever reason, including something as trivial as the mountpoint not being empty. When this happens, dependent services and in particular sshd

[OmniOS-discuss] re-tune round-robin reading from a mirror

2015-07-15 Thread Michael Mounteney
equal performance, especially if they're on separate controllers. But SSD changes that. __ Michael Mounteney ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss

[OmniOS-discuss] Unable to install r151014

2015-10-02 Thread Michael Mounteney
compatible hardware. The first step is to capture that stacktrace. How to do that ? __ Michael Mounteney ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss

[OmniOS-discuss] ISC-DHCPD in a zone

2015-10-09 Thread Michael Mounteney
above message in the log. Really I don't care about that lo0:2 interface. Is it the unconfigured ipv6 ? If I could get rid of that, it would solve my problem. Any help ? Either restrict isc-dhcpd or eliminate the interface. __ Michael Mounteney

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] ISC-DHCPD in a zone

2015-10-10 Thread Michael Mounteney
from the command line and via a service. Thanks for your reply. __ Michael Mounteney ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss

[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS stops acting as a DHCP client

2015-11-04 Thread Michael Mounteney
ich has decided that since I'm not running some version of Mess Windows, for my own protection I won't be given an IP address. I repeat: r151014 has been getting its IP from the router's DHCP server for about four weeks and has just stopped doing so to-day, without intervention from me.

[OmniOS-discuss] networking from a zone

2015-12-26 Thread Michael Mounteney
6 to any which may preclude access to your router >> I tried removing this but no difference. << Also [...] 'ipfstat -hion' [...] 'ipmon | grep -w b' >> Tried those but couldn't see anything relevant in the output. The nub of the matter is that somethin

[OmniOS-discuss] networking from a zone

2015-12-26 Thread Michael Mounteney
grep -w b' >> Tried those but couldn't see anything relevant in the output. The nub of the matter is that something in the ipf.conf is treating the LZ e1000g0 interface differently from the GZ's e1000g0 but I cannot see what. Any assistance would be appreciated. -- __ Michael Mounteney ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS stops acting as a DHCP client

2015-12-26 Thread Michael Mounteney
ipfilter**. The actual problem is the lack of a port=68 rule to let the lease-response through. __ Michael Mounteney ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS stops acting as a DHCP client

2015-12-28 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 16:53:25 -0500 Dan McDonald wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2015, at 11:49 PM, Michael Mounteney > > wrote: > > > > The actual problem is the lack of a port=68 rule to let the > > lease-response through. > > Did that clear up this prob

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Zones Backup

2016-02-13 Thread Michael Mounteney
is complete. The above serves to preserve state for a planned upgrade as well. The only 'extras' FOR ME in that case are: # pg_dumpall to prepare for a Postgres upgrade. # slapcat to prepare for an OpenLDAP upgrade. Hopefully the above g

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] LTS r151014 installation issue from USB stick

2016-08-13 Thread Michael Mounteney
against hardware RAID, on this list. __ Michael Mounteney ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss

[OmniOS-discuss] GNU as package?

2016-08-18 Thread Michael Mounteney
Hello, I'm trying to build some gcc-4.1.2 and am encountering this bug: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9362 The solution is to use gnu as but is there an OmniOS package that provides it? __ Michael Mounteney ___ O

[OmniOS-discuss] PHP on LTS

2016-09-07 Thread Michael Mounteney
OK, my secret shame: I want to install PHP on r151014. How ? Latest version available. __ Michael Mounteney ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Installation Failing (Reboots)

2016-09-26 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:56:03 -0400 Garland McAlexander wrote: > Just attempted via IPMI CDROM and the same issue persists, gets to > splash screen, loads a few lines of text and forces a reboot. I had this once and it turned out to be defective media. Try another stick? __ M

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] NEED FEEDBACK: VIM8 and "vi" behavior

2016-10-18 Thread Michael Mounteney
Or would that > be MORE surprising? No strong opinion here. I use vim on Linux so am used to it, and am slightly caught off guard by the differences of vi on OmniOS. __ Michael Mounteney ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists

[OmniOS-discuss] zdb doesn't find a pool

2017-04-15 Thread Michael Mounteney
via zpool split. In the full output of zdb -l /dev/rdsk/c2t4d0s0 (omitted here for brevity), there are four labels numbered 0 to 3. The output is much shorter as well; it doesn't list the individual file objects as zdb vault does. Is this worth a mention on https://www.illumos.org/issue

[OmniOS-discuss] web site seems to attack server internet connection

2017-04-16 Thread Michael Mounteney
I can no longer ping 89.16.167.134 (google.com) from the *server*. It is necessary to take the interface down and up, and delete and add the default route, or maybe some other fiddling, to restore the interface. Does this indicate that Something Nasty is happening? ____

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] web site seems to attack server internet connection

2017-04-24 Thread Michael Mounteney
ut I have successfully bought via Ebay this week, without incident. I am in Australia. __ Michael Mounteney ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] To the OmniOS Community

2017-05-14 Thread Michael Mounteney
lary. I hate to be negative but somebody has to say it and we have to decide how to move on. ______ Michael Mounteney Landcroft Computing ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinf

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] To the OmniOS Community

2017-05-15 Thread Michael Mounteney
of some sort of foundation or committee to coordinate the efforts of the volunteers. __ Michael Mounteney ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss

[OmniOS-discuss] preservation of permissions and ownership of zvols in child zone

2013-02-07 Thread Michael Mounteney
-ZVOL-%28et-al%29-device-node-access-rights.html but there is no conclusion, yet. I wonder if a bodge-fix is to write a service that chmods the zvols on boot, and if so, what would the manifest be ? I have no experience of writing manifests. -- Michael Moun

[OmniOS-discuss] updating all zones

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Mounteney
In the global zone I just did: # pkg update then zlogin to each child zone and # pkg update there as well. They complained: pkg: Unable to clone the current boot environment. I rebooted into the new BE then repeated the pkg update in the child zone with the same result. I then tri

[OmniOS-discuss] Server hang -- hardware or software

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Mounteney
Sun X2250 running bloody 2013_02_08. Has an Intel 4 way GiB ethernet card. It hung hard yesterday and I wondered if anyone could advise on what might be going on, as google throws up nothing relevant. This message appears on the console: arl_dlpi_pending unsolicited ack for DL_UNITDATA_REQ on e

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Unable to install Bind9 server

2013-04-03 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:05:14 +0200 Robin Smidsrød wrote: > I believe svcadm enable network/dns/bind should make it start, though > I'm just a beginner with regards to SMF myself. If you or the installation script hasn't imported an SMF, it won't work. I had to obtain one for dovecot so here's m

[OmniOS-discuss] lofs filesystem not seen inside zone

2013-06-30 Thread Michael Mounteney
Hello, my zones setup appears to be inconsistent and inexplicable (polite word for wrong) in its treatment of filesystems imported into zones. The system has a rpool/home ZFS which is just a container for five 'child' volumes, thus: root@mundo:~# zfs list | grep -w home rpool/home

[OmniOS-discuss] filesystems received from send -R

2013-08-15 Thread Michael Mounteney
I recently moved to a new machine: # ssh root@oldmachine 'zfs send -R rpool@M' | zfs recv rpool/bring the idea being: 1. zfs rename my own filesystems such as rpool/bring/home to rpool/home. 2. Copy settings from rpool/bring/omnios and below whilst setting up the new machine. 3. Refer to

[OmniOS-discuss] performance penalty of a slow mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Michael Mounteney
Hello, as my current OmniOS server doesn't have removable disks, I've added an external USB2 HDD as a mirror, so that in the event of fire or holiday, the external disk can be taken away as a backup. How does OmniOS deal with a very slow mirror ? Does it perform any measurements to work out that

[OmniOS-discuss] VBox to qemu

2013-08-19 Thread Michael Mounteney
Hello, I've just moved servers and the new one has the capability of running qemu-system-x86_64 but is it worth changing over ? I've copied all the VirtualBox images over so it would be easiest just to install VirtualBox on the new machine but if qemu is significantly faster I would change over.

[OmniOS-discuss] NBD on OmniOS

2013-08-26 Thread Michael Mounteney
Network Block Device server. Can't find it in any published repo. I'm using a diskless thin client workstation with NFS root and want to experiment with alternatives as it's pretty slow. Michael. ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omn

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Ang: NBD on OmniOS

2013-08-28 Thread Michael Mounteney
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:57:36 +0200 Johan Kragsterman wrote: > Sorry, can't provide you with the info about NBD, but: > > I'd be interested in your setup. I use thin clients a lot, but so far > only on Linux. I'd love to be able to use omnios as a base server for > that! > > What chroot do you u

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