Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Resilver restarting on second dead drive?

as the rest of the disks. This is, incidentally, why I don't run single-parity RAID anymore. That and I like to stay in bed at night. ;) -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Server hangs weekly

pressure. I've seen that happen too, but on OpenSolaris. (Haven't upgraded any production servers to OpenIndiana yet.) In my case the cause was a memory leak in svc.configd. It would slowly grow until after a few weeks the system would suffer from memory exhaustion. -- David Brodbeck System

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to switch to text login screen

doesn't have much in the way of local console support; I think the idea is you'll primarily be managing it remotely. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Qmail-to-go on openindiana?

realized it was an easy way to find out which email addresses on their lists were valid... -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

. The *BSDs OS's, in particular, are known for being hostile to outside contributors. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability Scrubs

, there's no way of knowing which is correct. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Future of OI

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:16 AM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm probably trolling here, and this is definitely off-topic, but gee -- we have a communist president, who's filled his White House staff with communists... They've been subtly teaching socialism

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

kernel versions often bring unexpected regressions. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

also meant scrapping ZFS in situations where I couldn't use an automount map. I simply got tired of rebooting hung clients and servers, and having to explain to my users why the system was down yet again. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:02 PM, David Brodbeck bro...@uw.edu wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: Hands up all those who've bricked a Linux system or had a Solaris 10 system that wouldn't play with live upgrade. I've had a couple instances where

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Can anyone recommend an external SATA card?

3ware driver, and OpenSolaris support with their drivers has been pretty spotty. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot get static IP network setup to work

the route command, it worked. After doing this a couple times it magically started working automatically on boot, so I'm not sure what exactly I did to fix it. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] It just trashed itself!!

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Lou Picciano loupicci...@comcast.netwrote: Mark, It may not help at all - but what kind of network interface hardware are you using? igb is the Broadcom driver. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good SLOG devices?

amounts of internal cache. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

, at this point.) -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] bug reports

. pfexec works for most things, but there are some commands that don't play along well with it. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Legal Safety

speculation and FUD. I'm not sure it's going to lead to a useful discussion. (Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer.) -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Legal Safety

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Largo splat...@proinbox.com wrote: David Brodbeck wrote: I'd be interested in seeing references to that. http://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/199501735/microsoft-waves-patent-lawsuit-stick-at-linux.htm Quote: Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux vs. Solaris (Oh please...)

. Some things never really change. ;) -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Antwort: Re: System halts on boot when there is no keyboard

successfully. I've also spent an hour desoldering and replacing a blown mini-fuse in a motherboard keyboard power circuit, so those times it doesn't work can be painful. ;) -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Discuss] branding for illumos/openindiana

has much better support for common disk controllers, probably because they're not hoping to sell own-brand hardware to end users. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS4 users

the wire, so it doesn't have this requirement. One solution to this is to implement NIS or LDAP so that all your machines see a unified set of users. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] Question about WD drives with Super Micro systems

supported on all newer drives or not. Here's an image from Western Digital explaining the jumper options: http://support.wdc.com/images/kb/sata.gif -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Familiarity, was Re: Help with website

, and there are decided advantages to it; it's just a bit of a jolt for people who are used to nice UNIX-y text scripts that you can just go and look at. It seems more aimed at the convenience of packaging scripts than at being manipulated by actual humans. ;) -- David Brodbeck System Administrator

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SMB transfer failure

' and not 'smbfs'. I don't know if Xubuntu is still shipping smbfs alongside cifs, but smbfs is quite out of date at this point and probably buggy. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fileserver performance with log and cache devices?

run filebench and look at the results. I'm not sure how NFS handles FSYNC and DSYNC to be honest. NFS does a *lot* of synchronous writes and will probably benefit from a fast ZIL device. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane with SAS2008 (PERC H200)

drives and then creating support problems, so they locked out non-Dell drives in the firmware of some of their cards. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone else using IPMIView20 on OpenIndiana?

. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone else using IPMIView20 on OpenIndiana?

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Gary Mills gary_mi...@fastmail.fm wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:01:43AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: Try something like this to open a virtual console: ipmitool -I lanplus -H hostname -Uusername sol activate Thanks. That works nicely. The terminal

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS and openindiana

of the password and keeps it in sync. On a Samba installation this is normally done with the smbpasswd tool, instead. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] php 5.5.0 with Studio 12.3

__**_ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@**openindiana.orgOpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/**mailman/listinfo/openindiana-**discusshttp://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- David

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Offtopic question to old SPARC users

connections, and supply external power that way. Those are some memories. Not often you get to attack a computer with a Dremel. ;) -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington GPG key fingerprint: 0DB7 4B50 8910 DBC5 B510 79C4 3970 2BC3 2078 D875

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote: On 10/ 2/14 07:00 AM, Brandon Hume wrote: On many (most? all?) Linuxes, /bin/sh *is* /bin/bash. Many, but not all - the Debian family and some others use a lighter weight, POSIX compatible shell instead,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Graphical Desktop environment on server

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote: PS yes, vi is a PITA to learn, (I had to learn vi decades ago having previously used early incarnations of the much friendlier Rand Editor), but as a general purpose editor, once you _have_ learned it, you can work

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi or hipster for ultra5?

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Jacob Ritorto jacob.rito...@gmail.com wrote: Going to recompile the bins on bsd. Absolutely LOVING the keyboard. Gosh, I missed that thing. Otherwise, yeah, don't need a pc here. I admit that I'm a little nervy about the bsd learning curve, but, hey -

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi or hipster for ultra5?

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.com wrote: For regular distros there are a couple of major resource constraints: ZFS has a certain footprint. (Although it's somewhat overstated - I've run zfs based systems that have 512M of memory quite happily. Not as file

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

The forum vs. email split seems to break down along the lines of polling vs. push. People who have used email for a long time and know how to manage large amounts of it prefer the push model; people who are less familiar with it, and think in terms of online communities, tend to prefer forums. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:53 PM, James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com wrote: Indeed. That's mostly as a side-effect of all those developers setting up little Facebook-like forum fiefdoms. I hate having to visit 100 of these just to keep up, so I don't. If it comes to me via email (for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

Oh, I went into the discussion knowing there would never be a forum. It doesn't fit with the character and target audience of this project, which is firmly rooted in old UNIX traditions. If it were still possible to use UUCP bang paths, this list would do it. ;) I just found the generation-based

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Nikola M minik...@gmail.com wrote: People in the business and personal world are using Mail clients very intensively. Not every Mail server admin or service provider is happy with keeping all copies of all messages on servers forever, so Mail clients are in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Nikola M minik...@gmail.com wrote: I think it breaks down mostly between people that know how to use mail client, valuing their privacy and people who just click on someone's proprietary services, depending on someone else for use of even basic services on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] All of a sudden I'm feeling stupid.... Where does the COW and the newly written data go for snapshots?

Yeah, sorry, I admin a lot of Linux servers so I'm used to thinking of it generically as 'noatime'. :) On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 4:02 AM, James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com wrote: On 05/14/15 05:15, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: noatime, isn't that a UFS specific mount option?? There's a ZFS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] All of a sudden I'm feeling stupid.... Where does the COW and the newly written data go for snapshots?

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 4:33 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) udo.grabow...@kit.edu wrote: On 13/05/2015 09:20, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: This is what it looks like on the FreeNAS box NAME AVAIL USED USEDSNAP USEDDS USEDREFRESERV USEDCHILD Tank/cifs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No longer using OI Desktop

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org wrote: The real problem is that OI has no community---just people who contribute almost nothing (of course there are brilliant exceptions...) and who are always critical about this

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Who is trying to break in ?

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:15 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: You can also boost security with no passwords allowed, keys only for ssh auth ;) True. I do this with machines where I'm the only one who'll be logging in. With machines that have lots of other users it becomes too much of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Who is trying to break in ?

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: Got no qualms about ssh (or openvpn) on port 443 - indeed, if one sets up something non-standard, gotta be ready for the consequences. And to all ids'es and sniffers, cryptotraffic looks much the same (different dynamic flow

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the recommended way to back up root pool?

monopoly cable carriers are starting to enforce them. On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 2:38 PM, John D Groenveld <jdg...@elvis.arl.psu.edu> wrote: > In message < > cahhaouaf9yub2gugudy09eqtche6j5gqypsn57+gsspetvn...@mail.gmail.com> > , David Brodbeck writes: > >set up and ma

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken zpool

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Philip Robar wrote: > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the thing that both Jerry's > administrator friend and David are missing is that ZFS data redundancy > isn't just a "sexy" form of reliability. It is also provides data > integrity,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the recommended way to back up root pool?

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:59 AM, John D Groenveld wrote: > The OP might appreciate more details. > Eh, I didn't want to seem like I was shilling, especially shilling a service that was in direct competition with an OSS system you already mentioned. Anyway, based on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the recommended way to back up root pool?

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, David Brodbeck wrote: > >> >> Anyway, based on earlier comments I'm pretty sure the OP isn't interested >> in, or in a position to, pay for a subscription s

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the recommended way to back up root pool?

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote: > (Scope) creeping out further, can any of the *BSD's or Lunux distro's do a > full system restore to blank disk? I've usually done it by booting from a LiveCD, and doing the restore from there. I think this is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the recommended way to back up root pool?

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > Assume that this is for a network server with advanced network > configuration settings, ssh config, zones, etc. > > If was the same as a standard OS install without subsequent configuration, > then backing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken zpool

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote: > From a high level view, his comment to them is to NOT run a mirror. His > suggestion to them is to just run a straight drive, then every evening or > downtime, bring the other disk(s) online and sync them with the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD as a dedicated swap device

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Jacob Ritorto wrote: > If the swap partition ends up being on ZFS, it'll garner the additional > benefit of being able to be periodically scrubbed to check for degradation > of the SSD (these only accommodate a finite number of write

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The mailing list is dead

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Nikola M wrote: > I recently figured that Gmail through it's web interface forbids sending > any type of archive within the mail messages (.zip, .7z, .rar etc) and that > level of user-bashing combined with mandatory indexing of message

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The mailing list is dead

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Nikola M wrote: > Using worst possible and least private solution is hardly the answer. > I suppose hosting mail server at some small or middle size company, where > there is payed full-time email server administrator is the better solution, >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The mailing list is dead

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Nikola M wrote: > I think that having your own mail server/domain these days it dirty cheap > and everyone should have one :D It's cheap in terms of money but costs a LOT of time. In a previous job I managed a mail server and I probably

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD as a dedicated swap device

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: > My long standing rule is swap = 8 x core. Hmm. I could see that working for small systems, but I have some machines where that would require dedicating a terabyte of disk

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI roadmap (for production)

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Rich Teer wrote: > This conversation reminds me of this old chestnut: > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What's the most annoying thing on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The mailing list is dead

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: > > Strange, this is exactly why IMAP was created. I run my own mail server > using spamdyke for SMTP and dovecot for IMAP. I have a dozen of mobile and > desktop devices that read and send mail and don't have an issue. My

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mailservers and clients that work on OI

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 3:00 PM, the outsider wrote: > I still think that Steve Jobs was sleeping when Oracle wanted to buy SUN. > Apple could have ruled the world on desktop and server level. > (although it wouldn't be good for the world) > I don't think Jobs