[OpenIndiana-discuss] How do I debug this?

2012-02-08 Thread Gary Gendel
Hi, I've got a service set up via svc and within a few days it crashes. Even though fmd it says it dumped core I can't find it anywhere. I even added a cd into a directory and expected the core to go there, but no go. When I run it using the startup script outside of svc, it runs fine...

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How do I debug this?

2012-02-08 Thread Gary Gendel
Thanks. I'll give it a go and see if I get a core file. Interesting that I have per-process core dumps enabled but this one just didn't show up. On 2/8/12 8:30 AM, Gary Mills wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:27:03AM -0500, Gary Gendel wrote: I've got a service set up via svc and within

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a update?

2012-02-15 Thread Gary Gendel
On 2/15/12 10:03 AM, Daniel Kjar wrote: successfully updated as well. Fonts do seem much sharper. Very nice. Still have this funkiness where if I reboot (even without an update) the system kernel panics right before or as X is loading, system restarts and then boots up fine. I suspect

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a update?

2012-02-15 Thread Gary Gendel
On 2/15/12 10:44 AM, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 16:11, Gary Gendelg...@genashor.com wrote: On 2/15/12 10:03 AM, Daniel Kjar wrote: successfully updated as well. Fonts do seem much sharper. Very nice. Still have this funkiness where if I reboot (even without an update)

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sendmail dependencies

2012-02-16 Thread Gary Gendel
Hi, I tried to start up smtp-notify, but it failed because sendmail-client wasn't running. This is a problem because I have a sendmail replacement (qmail) running. Once I modified the dependencies using svccfg to exclude sendmail-client and include qmail-smtp (which provides the sendmail

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Setting up sendmail with SSL support

2012-02-27 Thread Gary Gendel
My setup is a bit more complicated, but I've been running this setup (with tweaks and changes) since the early 90s on a sparc IPC. Dovecot, qmail (with patches), mailfront, spamdyke, spamassassin, sslserver, tcpserver. I use two interfaces... port 25 with full spam control, and port 587

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Metacity core dumps

2012-03-25 Thread Gary Gendel
Found an associated log file. It looks like the client may be misbehaving but it still shouldn't cause gdm and metacity to crash. On 3/25/12 7:59 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: I have a vnc client that I was configuring and I noticed that metacity was core dumping. All I did was to get the login

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Routing and avahi questions

2012-03-26 Thread Gary Gendel
I have my OpenIndiana box providing wan/lan routing with firewall/nat. I was having some really slow wan performance so I started digging in. The performance issue was a compromised user account and a machine on the internet downloading everything from the account, pegging my upload

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need a PCI e-sata card for OI151a

2012-03-27 Thread Gary Gendel
Dan, I can't give you specifics, but I went through a lot of pain early on until I found cards from LSI that worked really well. At the time, the best supported chipset was from Marvell. The Silicon Image chipsets worked unreliably and needed firmware reflashing to turn off RAID support.

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

2012-04-20 Thread Gary Gendel
Chris, There are no packages for Qmail that I am aware of. However, it's pretty trivial to build and install since it's dependencies are extremely small. I wrote some SMF scripts so I could use svcadm. I have two chains for incoming email. The first is on the standard port 25 and has no

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

2012-04-22 Thread Gary Gendel
Which brings us back to qmail. I've been using it flawlessly starting on a Sparc IPC running SunOS before Postfix was a gleam in Wietse Venema's eye. The darn thing is rock solid, secure, lightweight, and fast. That said, I have nothing against Postfix other that I've never had a reason to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OMNIOS

2012-04-23 Thread Gary Gendel
Sounds like a minimal system, closer to SmartOS than OpenIndiana, but since most of their links were broken so it's hard to compare. On 4/23/12 9:27 AM, paolo marcheschi wrote: HI I see that there is a variant of opensolaris known as Omnios: http://omnios.omniti.com/ Is that related with

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

2012-04-24 Thread Gary Gendel
With all this discussion about Postfix vs. Qmail, I started looking at what it would take to replace my Qmail installation with Postfix. I started looking at what it would take to replace spamdyke with postfix functionality. Most things have a direct correlation. One case so far,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OT postfix v.s Qmail

2012-04-24 Thread Gary Gendel
Låzaro, Thanks for the pointer. Policy-light is much closer to spamdyke's capabilities than postfix is. The big difference is that qmail uses process chaning and passes information via environment variables where postfix uses a database to provide the information and proxies to the

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

2012-04-25 Thread Gary Gendel
that quite awhile ago except for my mailing lists which I don't have a problem shutting down. Gary On 4/25/12 10:42 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: On 24/04/12 09:30 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: The pipeline architecture of qmail has been instrumental at making third-party additions incredibly simple. You can

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

2012-04-25 Thread Gary Gendel
On 4/25/12 11:38 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: On 25/04/12 11:06 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: Chris, I've replaced my qmail chain for SASL delivery with postfix. It took me a few rounds to get all the bits I needed working, but I'm good with the results. The non-SASL chain will be a big nut to crack

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

2012-04-26 Thread Gary Gendel
On 4/26/12 5:01 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: On 26/04/12 12:17 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: That isn't what spamdyke is trying to accomplish here. This checks to see if the sender is trying to spoof the MTA. What spamdyke is trying to do is to blacklist emails based upon the ip address embedded

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

2012-04-26 Thread Gary Gendel
On 4/26/12 11:54 AM, låzaro wrote: Thread name: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Qmail-to-go on openindiana? Mail number: 33 Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2012 In reply to: Gary Gendelg...@genashor.com Chris, I'm still unclear on how to do this. How could you write a regular express to check to see if the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ntp woes

2012-04-26 Thread Gary Gendel
I could use a bit of advice. My OpenIndiana machine can not update it's time from the ntp servers. I noticed that the time was off by a couple of minutes. The machine has two nics: bge0 - wan bge1 - lan and serves as a router for my lan. All the machines on my lan that use ntp, make

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntp woes

2012-04-26 Thread Gary Gendel
On 4/26/12 12:55 PM, James Carlson wrote: Gary Gendel wrote: I could use a bit of advice. My OpenIndiana machine can not update it's time from the ntp servers. I noticed that the time was off by a couple of minutes. The machine has two nics: bge0 - wan bge1 - lan and serves as a router

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

2012-04-27 Thread Gary Gendel
On 4/26/12 10:53 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Thursday, April 26, 2012 08:30 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: On 4/26/12 5:01 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: On 26/04/12 12:17 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: That isn't what spamdyke is trying to accomplish here. This checks to see if the sender is trying

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Root as role vs. user and rsync

2012-05-06 Thread Gary Gendel
I finally decided to take the bullet and make root a role instead of a user. All went well except for my nightly backup. I have a backup server that rsyncs my various collection of Linux, OpenIndiana, Windows, and Mac machines nightly. Without root as a user, how do I set up rsync to ssh

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to deal with IPV4/6 as a router

2012-06-06 Thread Gary Gendel
My Home OI box currently serves as my router/gateway to my ISP. Under IPV4 I have Cable Modem - bge0 - ipfilter/nat - bge1 - network. My ISP has turned on IPV6 and I can get as many addresses as I want. However, some of my devices aren't ipv6 capable so I have to deal with a mix of ipv4 and

[OpenIndiana-discuss] DHCP server for IPV6

2012-06-07 Thread Gary Gendel
Moving from IPV4 to IPV4/IPV6 on my home network is like peeling an onion, so I'm taking it one step at a time. :( Currently I only see the old Solaris dhcp server for OI. Can this handle ipv6? I couldn't find any examples but ipv6 support was superficially mentioned in some documents I came

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DHCP server for IPV6

2012-06-07 Thread Gary Gendel
On 6/7/12 12:17 PM, James Carlson wrote: Gary Gendel wrote: Moving from IPV4 to IPV4/IPV6 on my home network is like peeling an onion, so I'm taking it one step at a time. :( Currently I only see the old Solaris dhcp server for OI. Can this handle ipv6? No. DHCPv6 is really a very different

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help, please! Starting to use postfix in an OI151_a5 environment, from scratch

2012-07-16 Thread Gary Gendel
Hans, You have the basics right. The problem is that there is no clean way to replace sendmail in OI yet. When you install postfix, it will overwrite /usr/lib/sendmail. I actually have two replacements for sendmail, I use Qmail for non-authorized access on port 25 because of it's superior

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Some help with ipadm

2012-07-16 Thread Gary Gendel
Albert, Yes, I still have the hostname.xxx files in /etc. What is the appropriate replacement for this mechanism? Gary On 7/14/12 1:19 PM, Albert Lee wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Gary Gendel g...@genashor.com wrote: I had things configured originally via ifconfig

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help, please! Starting to use postfix in an OI151_a5 environment, from scratch

2012-07-16 Thread Gary Gendel
Hans, Unfortunately, many programs expect /usr/bin/sendmail to work. That means that you either have to keep sendmail running, or replace /usr/lib/sendmail with the sendmail.postfix version. If you do the latter, then any upgrade that includes sendmail will replace whatever you put in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualisation in OI 151

2012-07-19 Thread Gary Gendel
John, There are a few ways to run jailed VMs in OpenIndiana. I would look to see if zones meets your needs as it is a very lightweight way to have jailed Virtual Machines. As long as you don't care that you're running OpenIndiana machines, this is very easy to set up and use. There are

[OpenIndiana-discuss] DHCPv6-PD

2012-07-27 Thread Gary Gendel
Does OpenIndiana support this protocol? If so, does anyone have a basic howto written that will step me though setting up my OI server to do IPV6 routing via Comcast. So far, I have only been able to get a single /128 address, but with DHCPv6-PD it should get a /64 address. Thanks. Gary

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DHCPv6-PD

2012-07-27 Thread Gary Gendel
On 7/27/12 11:02 AM, James Carlson wrote: Gary Gendel wrote: Does OpenIndiana support this protocol? If so, does anyone have a basic howto written that will step me though setting up my OI server to do IPV6 routing via Comcast. So far, I have only been able to get a single /128 address

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Some Howto pointers?

2012-08-31 Thread Gary Gendel
I'd like to contribute ISC 4.2.4 dhcp as a package to OpenIndiana. Using the following configure options, it compiles and runs the self-tests cleanly: CC=cc ./configure --enable-use-sockets --enable-ipv4-pktinfo --sysconfdir=/etc/inet --sbindir=/usr/lib/inet --bindir=/usr/sbin --prefix=/usr

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

2012-09-02 Thread Gary Gendel
On 9/2/12 7:23 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: On 2/09/12 02:48 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Robin Axelsson wrote: I'm fully aware of the power of the command line and it is the command line that really makes me like Unix based OSes (including Linux). But making OI look

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

2012-09-02 Thread Gary Gendel
that you can change/alter anything without getting deeper and into the commandline. -Original Message- From: Gary Gendel [mailto:g...@genashor.com] Sent: zondag 2 september 2012 16:53 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

[OpenIndiana-discuss] isc-dhcp client

2012-09-05 Thread Gary Gendel
Hi, Anyone know if there is a fundamental reason why we can't wholesale replace the Sun/Oracle dhcp client with the ISC one? If we don't get any updates downstream from Oracle we will never get features like ipv6 prefix delegation. This feature is becoming important as some big ISPs (i.e.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] isc-dhcp client

2012-09-06 Thread Gary Gendel
, but this not a good final solution. Gary On 9/6/12 9:13 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: On 6 September 2012 02:51, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Gary Gendel wrote: snip If the answer is that I should be able to replace it, the next question is if anyone has done this before

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] isc-dhcp client

2012-09-06 Thread Gary Gendel
Au contraire mon frere. :) I packaged the server up and I'm waiting for the thumbs up to push it into the main branch. I was wondering if I should include the server. As for the client on Solaris, my interpretation of the text tells me that it may work but since it exists on Solaris they

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] isc-dhcp client

2012-09-07 Thread Gary Gendel
on bge0? Gary On 9/6/12 10:23 AM, Gary Mills wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 10:06:15AM -0400, Gary Gendel wrote: Whoops! Make that I was wondering if I should include the client. I guessed that was it. I'd expect the client to be in a separate package since it should replace `dhcpagent

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-10 Thread Gary Gendel
I've got an enterprise 450 (Sparc II), with a PGX graphics card and a bum HME nic so I use a fiberchannel card currently running Solaris 10 using zfs root. I'll pitch in to test openindiana if I can create a separate BE rather than blow Solaris 10 away (which I actually use to build and test

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI stopped booting after 151a6 update.

2012-09-13 Thread Gary Gendel
Milan, Please contact me directly if you need me to run some experiments or collect some data. I tried Richard Palo's workaround but it only worked in the current session; a reboot brought it back and wouldn't go away with a re-applied fix. I blew a6 away, but I can put it back if you tell

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] killing graphical login

2012-10-02 Thread Gary Gendel
That would be great. On 10/ 2/12 12:01 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: You may also want to look into FreeNX, I believe I requested it, and I thought they closed the ticket saying they were adding it to one of the community repos, not 100% sure though. On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Jim

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Archive for unsupported machines

2012-10-18 Thread Gary Gendel
Hi, Does anyone know if firmware updates from devices (in my case SunFire v20z I've had since the late 90s) are available somewhere? I've been able to find a lot of archives for the old Sun pages, but the download links for these packages fail. I had tried but failed to update this box many

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Slow ssh login?

2012-10-20 Thread Gary Gendel
Well, my problem seems to be exactly opposite. If I restart sshd, I get really good response at first and then it deteriorates to a several second login delay. dig and dig -x is always fast. I even disabled reverse DNS on sshd with no difference. Every once in a while I get fast response.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Slow ssh login?

2012-10-21 Thread Gary Gendel
I think I found it... https://www.illumos.org/issues/1983 So far, so good. Logged in and out a dozen times with no lag. Gary On 10/21/12 5:00 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-10-21 9:40, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: Perhaps setting UseDNS to no in sshd_config could help. :) Also, if you only

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

2012-10-23 Thread Gary Gendel
On 10/23/12 8:23 AM, Doug Hughes wrote: On 10/23/2012 7:52 AM, Sebastian Gabler wrote: Hi, I am facing a problem with zfs receive through ssh. As usually, root can't log on ssh; the log on users can't receive a zfs stream (rights problem), and pfexec is disabled on the target host (as I

[OpenIndiana-discuss] freenx

2012-12-19 Thread Gary Gendel
I'm real close to getting freeNX working. However, I'm stumped by the error I'm getting: $ ssh -X phoenix /usr/NX/bin/nxnode --agent :1000 NX-:1000 1000 NXNODE - Version 3.2.0-73 OS (GPL, using backend: 3.5.0) NX 716 Starting NX Agent ... NXAGENT - Version 3.5.0 Copyright (C) 2001, 2011

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] freenx

2012-12-20 Thread Gary Gendel
try installing it. On Dec 19, 2012, at 7:27 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: I'm real close to getting freeNX working. However, I'm stumped by the error I'm getting: $ ssh -X phoenix /usr/NX/bin/nxnode --agent :1000 NX-:1000 1000 NXNODE - Version 3.2.0-73 OS (GPL, using backend: 3.5.0) NX 716

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] freenx

2012-12-20 Thread Gary Gendel
and enable XDMCP ? On 20 December 2012 12:58, Gary Gendel g...@genashor.com wrote: Jon, Thanks, that got me past the problem. BTW, I tried your package which gave me the same results as mine. In addition, when I log in to user nx your installation complains about embedded newlines in strings

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] freenx

2012-12-20 Thread Gary Gendel
that I'd like to use, but haven't had a chance to even try installing it. On Dec 19, 2012, at 7:27 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: I'm real close to getting freeNX working. However, I'm stumped by the error I'm getting: $ ssh -X phoenix /usr/NX/bin/nxnode --agent :1000 NX-:1000 1000 NXNODE

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anti-Virus strategy

2012-12-26 Thread Gary Gendel
Michelle, The first thing I would do for performance is to limit your scans to user home directories unless you're really paranoid. Then you can use one of the intrusion detectors to make sure none of the system files were touched. For me, validating that the system files haven't been tampered

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any oi software to stream video to androids?

2013-01-04 Thread Gary Gendel
I've been using a Java based server successfully: http://www.serviio.org/ Gart On 1/4/13 5:18 PM, Paolo Marcheschi wrote: I think Llink can be useful to you. more here: http://goo.gl/5TKd4 Paolo Il 1/4/13 8:43 PM, Ray Arachelian ha scritto: I'm looking for something to stream video that to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any oi software to stream video to androids?

2013-01-04 Thread Gary Gendel
Ray, I used the one in sfe-encumbered in package pkg:/video/ffmpeg@1.0-0.151.1.6 Gary On 1/4/13 6:08 PM, Ray Arachelian wrote: On 01/04/2013 05:53 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: I've been using a Java based server successfully: http://www.serviio.org/ Thanks. What did you do to get ffmpeg going

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a7 smnpd core dump

2013-01-05 Thread Gary Gendel
Every once in a while the snmpd daemon core dumps. When I run dbx on it it tells me that the checksum doesn't match the executable. (dbx) proc -map Loadobject mappings for current core file: 0x0040 /usr/sbin/amd64/snmpd Warning: checksum in file(845c) doesn't match image(dd35)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Vnc to mimic SunRay behaviour, how??

2013-02-27 Thread Gary Gendel
Jon, You're a better man than I. I tried but got stuck somewhere. I remember getting many of the pieces working, but not all. Gary On 02/27/2013 12:32 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote: you cannot really use VNC do do that ... you would be better off using something similar to freeNX ... it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DLNA server

2013-03-07 Thread Gary Gendel
Michelle, I've had luck with serviio, a java-based DLNA server from http://www.serviio.org/. I had it running recently, streaming to a Moxi PVR, but I'm currently using XBMC on an old mac mini I decommissioned for work instead. I remember reading a thread where they had to upgrade

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DLNA server

2013-03-07 Thread Gary Gendel
it, and my server is text only. I couldn't find any instructions on manual config file settings either in the serviio structure or in my home directory, so I'm currently a bit stuck. Michelle. On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:37:23 -0500 Gary Gendel g...@genashor.com wrote: Michelle, I've had luck

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone using OpenIndiana in production?

2013-03-29 Thread Gary Gendel
James, I have a similar situation in a home office. I've got a Sun V40Z running 151a7 with 2 internal and 6 external mirrored zfs drives to give me 14 TB of storage. It runs my mail, dns, web, dhcp, router, multi-media streaming, nightly backup, networked storage and other (several Mac,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPNAT redirection.

2013-04-19 Thread Gary Gendel
Jon, I redirect ports fine using nat. I'm trying to understand what's different between your and my setup. For example in my ipnat.conf file I have: rdr bge0 0.0.0.0/0 port 2022 - 10.101.1.9 port 22 tcp/udp Where bge0 is my external nic (bge1 is my internal nic). BTW, I use 0.0.0.0/0 so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPNAT redirection.

2013-04-19 Thread Gary Gendel
We've all been there. :( On 04/19/2013 08:08 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: ignore me, i'm just being stupid! on the accelerated host I needed to add the route to the external server :( On 19 April 2013 12:58, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 April 2013 11:45, Gary Gendel g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss libfmevent problem with installing

2010-12-21 Thread Gary Gendel
On 12/21/10 7:00 AM, openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org wrote: Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:58:13 +1100 From: Andrew Myersam2...@gmail.com To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] libfmevent problem with

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Thinkpad Z61p problems

2010-12-28 Thread Gary Gendel
This laptop is happily running oi_147, but I has some serious problems with oi_148. 1) The oi_148 liveCD doesn't recognize the built-in keyboad or trackpad. 2) Trying to upgrade to oi_148 from the package manager complains with a message like cannot upgrade a live image. 3) Upgrading to oi_148

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading from 134b to 148 fails

2011-01-06 Thread Gary Gendel
Hi, I'm getting very frustrated with OpenIndiana installation issues. It works fine in a VirtualBox environment, but I haven't been able to try it on bare metal. Thinkpad Z61p running oi_147: * LiveCD install doesn't recognize built-in keyboard or mouse. * If updated from repository, boot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrading from 134b to 148 fails

2011-01-06 Thread Gary Gendel
=flowed I have it running perfectly on a v40z and that was an upgrade from 134. It was a very clean 134 install though, I believe srss and sunstudio were the only 'additional' packages I had install in 134. On 01/ 6/11 07:56 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Hi, I'm getting very frustrated

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fresh install to a new BE

2011-01-08 Thread Gary Gendel
Is it possible to do a fresh install to a new BE rather than image-update? This would make it possible to go back to the previous BE in case there was an installation problem? Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

[OpenIndiana-discuss] image-update causes pkg to crash with File exists error for a man page

2011-01-11 Thread Gary Gendel
I've been struggling to update from snv_134b to OpenIndiana, but both 147 and 148 fail when trying to install SUNWxwpnm, the X-Window man pages. The crash comes because a file already exists. I don't know what file so I don't know how to get around it. Any ideas? -- The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] image-update causes pkg to crash with File exists error for a man page

2011-01-12 Thread Gary Gendel
in this library in a strchr() call when initializing the usb connection. It shows a SIGSEGV permission problem. I had to go back to 134b because I can't find who is using the cpus. Gary On 1/11/11 9:39 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: I've been struggling to update from snv_134b to OpenIndiana

[OpenIndiana-discuss] General ZFS questions (Michelle Knight)

2011-01-13 Thread Gary Gendel
Michelle, Though I generally agree with the advice that you received, I take an exception to the statement that checksums always indicate hardware or driver failure. As a long-time raidz user, I can attest to the fact that, occasionally, changes to the zfs code have wreaked havoc with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-16 Thread Gary Gendel
Guys, Kudos for the great discussion going on here. This is exactly the right discussion to get things moving forward. As for the You should include , this can go on forever and facture the community. As for choice of MTA, everyone has their own favorite (mine happens to be a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-25 Thread Gary Gendel
Personally, whether it's sendmail, postfix, qmail or something else I couldn't care less. We all have our MTA of choice. For the mail server I pull whatever it is it out to run spamdyke/qmail with an IMAP (dovecot) interface for access from all the other machines. I've done it dozens of

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

2011-01-28 Thread Gary Gendel
Does napp-it suit the bill? How about Webmn? On 1/28/11 1:09 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: On 01/28/11 09:27, Dmitry G. Kozhinov wrote: So I vote for (stable) Server GUI distribution of OI. A GUI server version seems good; it directly competes with other gui server OS. whatever was

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox Sync

2011-02-01 Thread Gary Gendel
On 2/1/11 2:07 AM, Hillel Lubman wrote: On 02/01/2011 12:52 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: Hi, has anyone got Firefox Sync on Firefox 3.6.12 working, using oi_147 as the host platform? Cheers, Nope, it might have crypto module issues. If you really want to use Sync better install Firefox 4.0

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Performance problem with Flash Firefox 4.0 b10

2011-02-01 Thread Gary Gendel
I've seen similar problems posted on the OpenSolaris discuss-desktop mailing list. You might want to see if they posted a solution. On 2/1/11 3:14 PM, Hillel Lubman wrote: After upgrading to Frefox 4.0 b10 and Flash plugin 10.1 r102 on OpenIndiana oi_148, Flash started to consume close to

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris and dynamic DNS

2011-02-07 Thread Gary Gendel
Something that someone mentioned in passing triggered a thought. My server gets it's ip address via DHCP from my ISP. Currently I have a cron job that queries the address and, if it changed, update a DNS server externally. This way I can use mail and web services external to my network.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris and dynamic DNS

2011-02-09 Thread Gary Gendel
On 2/9/11 5:56 AM, Matt Connolly wrote: On 08/02/2011, at 6:16 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Thanks for all the responses. Indeed, I've already replaced my cron script. On 2/7/11 11:08 AM, Dave Miner wrote: On 02/ 7/11 10:43 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Something that someone

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-dev-148 failure on V20z

2011-02-11 Thread Gary Gendel
This sounds more like the CD is corrupt and the drive is having problems reading the disk. Two things to try... See if it installs on another machine and try an external usb drive. In the past I found that the external drive to be much more reliable than the internal drive on the v20z. Gary

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-dev-148 failure on V20z

2011-02-12 Thread Gary Gendel
Forgot... Here is the article that goes along with the script: http://moinakg.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/network-installer-for-openindiana/ On 2/12/11 7:32 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Marion, I have somewhat successfully brought up oi_148 on my v20z. I only had two issues that I didn't have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Quadro 600 No Joy - Solved

2011-02-28 Thread Gary Gendel
Ooh! This looks just like what was happening when I tried 148 on my v20z. Looks like something in the 148 bge driver is wacked. On 2/28/11 9:22 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 07:33 +, Chris Ridd wrote: On 28 Feb 2011, at 04:20, Ken Gunderson wrote: But

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Quadro 600 No Joy - Solved

2011-02-28 Thread Gary Gendel
Jon, This particular v20z refuses to update to the latest firmware, but bge works properly for OpenSolaris up to and including 134b so it looks to be a change to the bge driver found in Oi 147 or 148. There is another issue where apcupsd wouldn't run because of some change in libusb as

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI boot problem

2011-03-28 Thread Gary Gendel
On 3/28/11 8:58 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: The shutdown command certainly is not broken. If indeed the Linux newbie must be catered to, then we can change the defaults, and tell them to just use shutdown. This command does not do the expected thing and that is the problem. The GNU

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sunfire v20z success!

2011-04-17 Thread Gary Gendel
All, A big congratulations to the development team. My main SOHO server's OS has not been upgraded since os_134b because OpenIndiana failed to install for one reason or another. The last of the problems was with bge and usb drivers. I tried oi_148b and finally have OpenIndiana running.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] update-refresh dependency

2011-04-26 Thread Gary Gendel
I'm using oi_148 from dev_il and I get the following cron job failure. Why does update-refresh require a running display? Regards, Gary Your cron job on phoenix /usr/lib/update-manager/update-refresh.sh produced the following output:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] php iconv //TRANSLIT error

2011-04-28 Thread Gary Gendel
I'm trying to get z-push running and I have run into what seems to be a bug in oi_148 (dev_il). After looking at this in detail, it looks like the iconv call is failing. I put together a simple testcase: ?php echo iconv(ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, This is a test) ? This displays This is a test in

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

2011-05-03 Thread Gary Gendel
Hi, I installed a package that overwrote my privileges in user_attr. Now I can't pfexec or do anythiing requiring raised privileges (software manager, etc.). The laptop is running the dev_il repository. How the heck to I recover from this? The only LiveCD I know of uses an earlier

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

2011-05-03 Thread Gary Gendel
On 5/3/11 9:02 PM, Albert Lee wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Jamon Camissojamonat...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/3/2011 7:21 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: Hi, I installed a package that overwrote my privileges in user_attr. Now I can't pfexec or do anythiing requiring raised privileges

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

2011-05-04 Thread Gary Gendel
curious. It's interesting to see that corruption of a single file can cause such a big issue. I let the person that created the package what happened so he can fix his install procedure. On 4 May 2011, at 00:21, Gary Gendel wrote: Hi, I installed a package that overwrote my privileges

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Qt 4 on OpenIndiana?

2011-05-06 Thread Gary Gendel
I've built Qt3 and Qt4 for OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana with reasonable success. However, there are pre-built packages available via the OpenSolaris KDE project. Gary On 5/6/11 11:42 AM, David wrote: Hello, Does Qt 4 run on OI? If so, are there any packages for the Qt SDK? Thank you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sound juicer doesn't propose mp3 as output?

2011-05-09 Thread Gary Gendel
You can try here: http://solaris.homeunix.com/ They provided gstreamer codecs and other packages. I'm not sure what the current state is. Gary On 5/9/11 6:53 AM, Chris Ridd wrote: On 9 May 2011, at 09:43, Ken Gunderson wrote: Yes, the lame encoder package, wh/is not available in

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Front panel shutdown

2011-05-18 Thread Gary Gendel
Hi, Can anyone point me to information on how to get the front panel power button to work? I have a SunFire V20z that I would do a quick power-down by pressing the button with OpenSolaris but I just tried it when I had a power outage and I wanted it to shut down. However, it didn't

[OpenIndiana-discuss] usb

2011-05-31 Thread Gary Gendel
Seems that the bug in the usb library that I saw in 147, which was ok in 148, is back in 151. Because of this, the apcusbd program crashes like it did in 147: (gdb) where #0 0xfee5c3ec in strtok_r () from /lib/libc.so.1 #1 0xfee5c37f in strtok () from /lib/libc.so.1 #2 0xfef42619 in

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Debug network slowdown

2011-08-30 Thread Gary Gendel
I've got a weird problem that I'm struggling to get a handle on. It's been going on for many months now. I've got a Sunfire V20z acting as a firewall router (as well as providing other services) (bge0 is the WAN and bge1 is the LAN). What I see is that a ping (let's say to yahoo.com),

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot archive repair oi-151

2011-09-06 Thread Gary Gendel
I've been getting boot-archive timeout messages upon boot. I figured that I needed to update the boot archive manually. When I do, I get the following: # bootadm update-archive -v cannot find: /etc/cluster/nodeid: No such file or directory cannot find: /etc/devices/mdi_ib_cache: No such file

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot archive repair oi-151

2011-09-06 Thread Gary Gendel
*** Updated: I meant init 5, not init 6. I've been getting boot-archive timeout messages upon boot. I figured that I needed to update the boot archive manually. When I do, I get the following: # bootadm update-archive -v cannot find: /etc/cluster/nodeid: No such file or directory

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Announcing OpenIndiana Build 151a

2011-09-14 Thread Gary Gendel
Happy Anniversary! Thanks for the hard work of a small group that made this happen. On 9/13/11 11:37 PM, Albert Lee wrote: The wait is over. Today, the OpenIndiana project is pleased to announce the next development release of the open source, enterprise operating system. OpenIndiana build

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Apache error on reboot

2011-10-11 Thread Gary Gendel
I've got a machine that I've been upgrading since about snv_64ish. Since upgrading to OpenIndiana (and possibly slightly before) apache doesn't come up after a reboot. Since I don't reboot this very much I keep forgetting about this problem. I've having frequent power failures lately which

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh sessions timing out?

2011-10-13 Thread Gary Gendel
On 10/13/11 8:47 AM, James Carlson wrote: Dan Swartzendruber wrote: No, same LAN. Only thing in between is a gigabit switch. The OI is actually a virtual machine, and 3 other hosts (linux) are on the same hypervisor and my win7 workstation can hit them with no issues. Since it's saying it's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh sessions timing out?

2011-10-13 Thread Gary Gendel
On 10/13/11 9:04 AM, James Carlson wrote: Gary Gendel wrote: Back on topic... My OpenIndiana ssh service seems to take a long time to connect with a client (long delay before the password prompt is displayed). It happens most of the time and feels like a network timeout issue. How can I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh sessions timing out?

2011-10-13 Thread Gary Gendel
On 10/13/11 9:41 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: On 10/13/11 9:04 AM, James Carlson wrote: Gary Gendel wrote: Back on topic... My OpenIndiana ssh service seems to take a long time to connect with a client (long delay before the password prompt is displayed). It happens most of the time and feels like

[OpenIndiana-discuss] This doesn't seem right

2011-12-09 Thread Gary Gendel
It looks like either gmtime or strftime is not functioning as I expect. In the following program, I always get the local time instead of UTC. #include time.h #include stdio.h int main() { char datebuf[64]; time_t now = time(0); struct tm *tm = gmtime(now); strftime(datebuf, sizeof

[OpenIndiana-discuss] This doesn't seem right

2011-12-09 Thread Gary Gendel
Sorry for the repeat. I forgot to add the print statement: It looks like either gmtime or strftime is not functioning as I expect. In the following program, I always get the local time instead of UTC. #include time.h #include stdio.h int main() { char datebuf[64]; time_t now = time(0);

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun Fire

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Gendel
I have a possibility of picking up a decommissioned X4340 (thumper) w/o disks to replace my aging V20z ( and multiple external drive stacks cheap. It looks like it should be supported by looking at the HCL. Is there any gotchas I should be aware of before I commit to purchase? Is there

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