Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Looking for capable notebook for OI and other OSes, small size and with real network.

2013-03-26 Thread Gregory S. Youngblood
If you find a good option I would like to know. The last good laptop I have personally used that worked great with open Indiana was my Lenovo T61p from 2008. I still have it and it works well though it is a bit dated and big. -- Sent from my Jelly Bean Galaxy Nexus Hans J. Albertsson

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] opensolaris.org shutting down next month

2013-02-15 Thread Gregory S. Youngblood
And it can go away at any time. If they change robots.txt to block spiders they will remove content. That happened to an old site I had in the 90s that they archived. I let domain go and new owners did that and archive blocked or purged my sites pages. -- Sent from my Jelly Bean Galaxy Nexus

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh root login

2013-01-12 Thread Gregory S. Youngblood
Don't forget by default root is not a regular user account. Or at least it didn't used to be. You may need to issue the command to make root a full account before you can ssh to the root account. Also, depending on what you're doing, you might consider ssh to a regular user and then escalate

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Tribblix update

2012-12-16 Thread Gregory S. Youngblood
Don't know what the current state is but window maker had wdm that used to work pretty well. Disclaimer, used to maintain it briefly on Linux 10 or so years ago. Greg -- Sent from my Jelly Bean Galaxy Nexus Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote: On 12/16/12 11:48 AM, Richard L.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Gregory S. Youngblood
WindowMaker sounds good. Used it for a while a few years ago. Been thinking about looking at it again. :) -- Sent from my Jelly Bean Galaxy Nexus Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: On Thursday, November 01, 2012 03:01 AM, Ben Taylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS; what the manuals don't say ...

2012-10-23 Thread Gregory S. Youngblood
Probably should use find -type f to limit to files and also cp -a to maintain permissions and ownership. Not sure if the will maintain ACLs. For the truly paranoid, dont delete the original file so early, rename it, move the temp file back as the original filename, then compare md5 or sha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Namespace management and symlinks in /usr

2012-10-17 Thread Gregory S. Youngblood
I took a different approach to do something very similar. I used an env file where all the executable locations were defined and also built a few aliases. I then used uname to detect the os and source the appropriate file. Wrapped that in a single file something so my scripts started with .