Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance bit rot

2012-01-24 Thread James Carlson
can't point at anything definitive. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-24 Thread James Carlson
until a problem happens, do you see any output produced? If so, then this could fairly readily point the way to the problem. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-24 Thread James Carlson
of the entries in the /var/adm/messages and they do not match the freeze-ups by the minute. I assume that refers to the NWAM messages previously reported. No, I don't think those are the proximate cause of your problem. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-25 Thread James Carlson
Robin Axelsson wrote: On 2012-01-24 21:59, James Carlson wrote: Well, unless you get into playing tricks with IP Filter. And if you do that, then you're in a much deeper world of hurt, at least in terms of performance. Here's what the virtualbox manul says about bridged networking

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-25 Thread James Carlson
(e1000g1, e1000g2 and rge0) even though they are disabled from the host which is good. So I guess that once again the bets are on and all is good then... That sounds much better to me. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-26 Thread James Carlson
. If portability to older Solaris systems is necessary, it should be enumerating DLPI interfaces using libdevinfo. Piggybacking on IP isn't right at all. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread James Carlson
On 01/27/12 07:51, Robin Axelsson wrote: On 2012-01-25 21:50, James Carlson wrote: By default, the first IP layer object created on a given datalink layer object has the same name as that datalink layer object -- even though they're distinct ideas. The second and subsequent such objects

[OpenIndiana-discuss] plumbing for zones [was Re: CIFS performance issues]

2012-01-27 Thread James Carlson
it, then you could break the security model, so the limitation is a good thing. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread James Carlson
more complex in order to avoid problems. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread James Carlson
remember details about the old one ... Perhaps it already does so. If not it should at least unplumb one connection to prevent the interference issues the James Carlson was talking about, or at least give warning messages about it. If we want to make it even more user friendly it could also have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread James Carlson
Robin Axelsson wrote: On 2012-01-27 15:32, James Carlson wrote: What NWAM is supposed to do is configure only one usable interface (guided by user selection criteria) for the system. The fact that you got multiple interfaces configured is indeed an anomaly, and one I can't explain. I don't

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

2012-01-27 Thread James Carlson
Robin Axelsson wrote: On 2012-01-27 16:45, James Carlson wrote: Robin Axelsson wrote: On 2012-01-27 15:32, James Carlson wrote: What NWAM is supposed to do is configure only one usable interface (guided by user selection criteria) for the system. The fact that you got multiple interfaces

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance bit rot

2012-01-30 Thread James Carlson
related. It sounds to me like this is a pretty good clue. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] intermittent CIFS loss, spontaneous-reboot with OI148/151a and IBM Megaraid M5015?

2012-02-01 Thread James Carlson
commands might give a good enough signature that someone could identify the cause. (I'm not a CIFS expert, but if you gather some basic log information about the problem, I imagine one may be able to help.) -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgraded OI to oi_151.1.2, suddenly there's no default route???

2012-02-23 Thread James Carlson
also do that. RIP-2 and OSPF can do the same job, but are much more flexible and can provide arbitrary network and host routes as well. If you don't use any of those, then you have to configure the default route manually, along with some way to make it persist. -- James Carlson 42.703N

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] etherstub and bridge

2012-02-25 Thread James Carlson
interface. As for the STATE unknown bit, I believe that's because etherstubs don't have physical links and thus don't have physical link status. It's probably harmless. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] etherstub and bridge

2012-02-26 Thread James Carlson
of the definition of bridging. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Per packet load balancing in openindiana

2012-02-27 Thread James Carlson
surprised, with high-speed links, to see the performance drop to less than what you get by putting all the traffic over one link. But if it's worth it to you to try, then by all means, change the driver and publish the results. ;-} -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nfs mounting and cascading dataset access?

2012-02-27 Thread James Carlson
in this case. Automount, of course, is your friend. ;-} -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPv6 DHCP

2012-02-27 Thread James Carlson
, then it will not be run. If you have no IPv6 routers (a bit of a degenerate case in the standards), then DHCPv6 is required to run, and the system will run it, but it's almost completely useless. See in.ndpd(1M), dhcpagent(1M), and ifconfig(1M) for details. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPv6 DHCP

2012-02-28 Thread James Carlson
is invoked by the actions of in.ndpd, because there's a standard Router Advertisement based mechanism that tells a node whether DHCPv6 is in use. For v6, it should have nothing to do with NWAM. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPv6 DHCP

2012-02-28 Thread James Carlson
to do with how DHCPv6 works. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] USB audio input support in OpenIndiana

2012-03-05 Thread James Carlson
messages. A key clue is seeing usb_mid attaching to the device when it's inserted. That means that no standard class driver works on that device, and you're getting the generic driver that allows user-space implementations. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Spontaneous server reboots

2012-03-19 Thread James Carlson
in /var/crash. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to /etc on a pool from another system?

2012-03-19 Thread James Carlson
, and you'll have to change the fpool/ROOT/bename mount point to something temporary, and then change it back to / when done. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to /etc on a pool from another system?

2012-03-19 Thread James Carlson
was unable to mount fpool/ROOT/openindiana because the /mnt directory was not empty? -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to /etc on a pool from another system?

2012-03-19 Thread James Carlson
. zfs get -o all all fpool/ROOT/opensolaris -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to /etc on a pool from another system?

2012-03-20 Thread James Carlson
list quite a bit. In any event, the confluence of comments got me to the solution. Which is what matters. None of that rings true to me, but if it's working for you, that's great. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Routing and avahi questions

2012-03-26 Thread James Carlson
(WAN) and bge1 (LAN) nics. These should be the same thing -- just block UDP port 5353 in the places where you don't want Avahi/mDNS stuff to leak. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] REALTEK network card and pppoe config

2012-04-09 Thread James Carlson
, or at least disable the DHCP default route mechanism. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] probable NWAM problems [was Re: REALTEK network card and pppoe config]

2012-04-10 Thread James Carlson
+management -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] probable NWAM problems [was Re: REALTEK network card and pppoe config]

2012-04-11 Thread James Carlson
before. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI BIND server

2012-04-12 Thread James Carlson
? I'd make it root:root and mode 0640. /usr/sbin/named normally runs as UID root, GID root, but if it's different on your system, you might need to adjust. You could check by doing something like this: ps -o uid,gid,comm -p `pgrep -d, named` -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OMNIOS

2012-04-23 Thread James Carlson
/the-desktop-and-server-oil-and-water -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot open: Illegal byte sequence with a file containing a question mark

2012-04-26 Thread James Carlson
to tell tar not to do national character set conversions that it might already be doing. Set LANG=at.UTF-8 in your environment and try unpacking that way. (See locale -a for viable settings.) -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot open: Illegal byte sequence with a file containing a question mark

2012-04-26 Thread James Carlson
is set up for UTF8. But maybe I'm wrong about that. Someone who knows the internals of tar better should probably look at it. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntp woes

2012-04-26 Thread James Carlson
us.pool.ntp.org If that works, then you'll probably want to go looking at your firewall configuration. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntp woes

2012-04-26 Thread James Carlson
Gary Gendel wrote: On 4/26/12 12:55 PM, James Carlson wrote: If that works, then you'll probably want to go looking at your firewall configuration. Thanks for the -u option. That worked fine so now I have to figure out what's going on. Since the other machines work fine, it means

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] no external connectivity on link

2012-05-02 Thread James Carlson
interface really does work in individual link mode. Once you're sure that both links do work when used individually, you're down to LACP configuration problems, possibly on the switch itself. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Building in zones

2012-05-02 Thread James Carlson
- check name resolution in the zone, both /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/resolv.conf. My bet would be that /etc/nsswitch.conf doesn't have the necessary hosts: dns setting ... but other problems are possible. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] kernel modules

2012-05-02 Thread James Carlson
. modload won't fix it. If you're doing something else, then please explain in detail. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Massive numbers of man files, missing on 151a4

2012-05-07 Thread James Carlson
tougher to do on a modern Open Indiana system, as zfs works outside of the /etc/vfstab scheme.) -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] unable to start nfs

2012-05-07 Thread James Carlson
, is to look into what's wrong with the service. Start with svcs -x and svcs -l nfs/server. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] unable to start nfs

2012-05-07 Thread James Carlson
Tim Dunphy wrote: root@openindiana:~# svcs -x nfs/server svc:/network/nfs/server:default (NFS server) State: disabled since May 7, 2012 01:57:11 PM EDT Reason: Temporarily disabled by an administrator. What happens if you do this? svcadm enable nfs/server -- James Carlson

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nfs permission denied

2012-05-08 Thread James Carlson
write to them. Opening up root access isn't too different from making everything world-writable. If nobody isn't to your taste, you can set up root_mapping=uid to change it to some other value. See share_nfs(1M) and nfssec(5) for details. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BTRFS for OI, anyone?

2012-05-09 Thread James Carlson
btrfs as a separate package from the core system would be more than enough fig leaf. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BTRFS for OI, anyone?

2012-05-09 Thread James Carlson
. Compared to what was available on Linux before, BTRFS is indeed better. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] boot-archive timing out after 3ware driverinstall

2012-05-10 Thread James Carlson
as if you said refresh, because it's almost certainly what you intend, but that's just not how it works. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cron best practice

2012-05-15 Thread James Carlson
it to mean something else is a Bad Idea. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs and usb drives

2012-05-31 Thread James Carlson
possible that the USB drivers have improved greatly since circa 2009, and that this is just old news, but I'm gunshy now. I don't think I'd even attempt to use USB for an external file system, except possibly as a backup mechanism. Your mileage will vary. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] chicken and egg file sharing problem

2012-06-01 Thread James Carlson
, then share the copied ZFS file system as you wish. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS hidden files

2012-06-05 Thread James Carlson
annoying. They're nasty, but they're part of the game. Stick with local file systems if you really can't stand them. :-/ The only thing to do with these files is to remove them after after a system crash or similar event. +1 -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS hidden files

2012-06-05 Thread James Carlson
the object resides. They're not the object itself. I believe an option to hide them would do no harm. Fortunately, it's an open process. Read RFCs 1813 and 3010 to start, and propose your own design. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS hidden files

2012-06-06 Thread James Carlson
a file is open. In the case of unmounting a file system, though, you're revoking access to a set of structures that are actively in use, and that requires a choice; either the one removing loses (EBUSY) or the one using loses (ENOENT or similar). -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS hidden files

2012-06-06 Thread James Carlson
and hard. You can't write to them. You can't remove them. You can't even rename them. They end up with a big yellow police line - do not cross ribbon around them, which sometimes makes software upgrade interesting. It's a weird world out there. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W

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

2012-06-06 Thread James Carlson
interfaces.) If they've given you a single /64 on a non-broadcast type interface (such as a point-to-point tunnel), then please specify. That'd be a simple thing to handle. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DHCP server for IPV6

2012-06-07 Thread James Carlson
Gary Gendel wrote: 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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] Is it possible to do shared networking for LZ different from IP stack in GZ?

2012-06-11 Thread James Carlson
. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] Is it possible to do shared networking for LZ different from IP stack in GZ?

2012-06-11 Thread James Carlson
James Carlson wrote: For what it's worth (and having worked on the code in the now-distant past), I certainly agree with you at a high level. What you're describing is an obvious generalization of the exclusive stack concept. It was obvious enough that we actually discussed it internally

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Intel 82579V ethernet not recognized

2012-07-03 Thread James Carlson
, so the failure to attach reported here is not surprising.) An alternative might be the 'em' driver from Masayuki Murayama. See: https://www.illumos.org/issues/832 -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Intel 82579V ethernet not recognized

2012-07-03 Thread James Carlson
used on Linux or BSD or some other system, then that's usually a good choice so that people don't get too confused. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Intel 82579V ethernet not recognized

2012-07-04 Thread James Carlson
On 7/4/2012 6:37 PM, Glenn Holmer wrote: On 07/03/2012 07:27 AM, James Carlson wrote: The 82579V should use the e1000g driver, but will need updates for the new chipset. (It did need updates on Linux, so the failure to attach reported here is not surprising.) An alternative might be the 'em

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] system/syseventd, zfs errors and network downtime

2012-07-11 Thread James Carlson
a whole lot like this bug: http://wesunsolve.net/bugid/id/6646104 which was fixed long ago. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DHCPv6-PD

2012-07-27 Thread James Carlson
Gary Gendel wrote: On 7/27/12 11:02 AM, James Carlson wrote: Seeing /128 means that something in that fundamental mechanism has broken down. Either in.ndpd has been somehow disabled or the upstream router is not providing complete information. It's the latter. From my conversation

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

2012-08-06 Thread James Carlson
... but if the mount process itself requires networking, you're stuck. This is exactly what the automounter is for ... though I somewhat doubt that it makes adminstrative sense to have anything remote-mounted under /etc. The whole point of /etc is that it's local. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

2012-08-06 Thread James Carlson
to keep them up-to-date, so that a failure (or unreachability) of the NFS server doesn't cause otherwise-independent machines to fail. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

2012-08-06 Thread James Carlson
it and (b) the mechanism that underlies it is far more general than just auto_home. It allows you to trigger configured mounts based on file system access, and handles fail-over, platform-related variable expansion, and directory service integration. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [solarisx86] For those nostalgic fellas

2012-08-07 Thread James Carlson
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Holy water ... check. Wooden stakes ... check. Silver bullets ... check. Chainsaw ... check. Okay, all ready here, we'll make sure it can't get back in. *shrug* The world can be a scary place. http://openlook.sourceforge.net/ -- James Carlson 42.703N

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HW sensors for OI?

2012-08-27 Thread James Carlson
Rich wrote: The IPMI driver from FreeBSD got ported by the SmartOS guys back in April. I don't know if it's useful anymore (I haven't used it in quite a while), but this was handy at one point: http://bolthole.com/solaris/drivers/health/ -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backup User for zfs send and receive

2012-09-04 Thread James Carlson
= for that user. The user_attr(4) man page may also be helpful. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-05 Thread James Carlson
may well be barking up the wrong tree. Details on precisely what software you're using and what you have connected to what via a serial link would probably be helpful in getting a more useful response. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-05 Thread James Carlson
. I don't think anything at all is wrong with the Solaris line discipline support. But those writing books can say whatever they want. ;-} -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-06 Thread James Carlson
here, and it makes the problem far harder to solve. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-07 Thread James Carlson
do much in terms of terminal emulation -- it's truly ancient and assumes that you have equivalent UNIX systems at both ends -- while Kermit is highly configurable and has no such assumptions. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-07 Thread James Carlson
terminal lf-display crlf ... at least it's there on a modern C-Kermit. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] isc-dhcp client

2012-09-07 Thread James Carlson
implementation typically requires special tricks to be able to send and receive UDP/IP messages without having the IP interface configured. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-07 Thread James Carlson
that the system console service still works right after removal. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot ping localhost (with NoNet configuration)

2012-09-07 Thread James Carlson
? There is a way to ping localhost using NoNet profile? No, that's not normal. It should work fine without external network interfaces. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot ping localhost (with NoNet configuration)

2012-09-08 Thread James Carlson
thing I see in this case is that you have nothing running on that port. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot ping localhost (with NoNet configuration)

2012-09-08 Thread James Carlson
On 9/7/12 5:02 PM, Ivan Gualandri wrote: On 7 September 2012 22:43, James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com wrote: What do netstat -ni and netstat -nr say? It says: Routing Table: IPV4 Destination: Gateway: FLAGS REFUse Interface 127.0.0.1

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot ping localhost (with NoNet configuration)

2012-09-10 Thread James Carlson
PING Statistics 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip (ms) min/avg/max/stddev = 0.067/0.073/0.077/0.005 -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problems with netcat zfs receive

2012-09-11 Thread James Carlson
tells it to ignore stdin. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris cp problems

2012-09-24 Thread James Carlson
limits (ulimit -a) do you have? I think bash defaults to 256, which isn't much. ulimit -n 4096 may help. You might also try other commands, such as: find sourcedir -depth -print | cpio -p -@dmPV destdir -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread James Carlson
(poolcfg(1M)), and then assigning zones to pools. You can control just about everything through resource pools, but, at least to me, it's not exactly simple. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Same networking with varied NICs

2012-10-01 Thread James Carlson
to achieve. It's also unclear to me what doing that would buy, except perhaps lower performance. It should be much easier to create VNICs on top of a chosen Ethernet interface. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Same networking with varied NICs

2012-10-01 Thread James Carlson
Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-10-01 15:04, James Carlson wrote: Given that etherstubs aren't real Ethernet interfaces and thus cannot be bridged, that plan may be hard to achieve. It's also unclear to me what doing that would buy, except perhaps lower performance. As for the idea with bridging

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Debugging systems startup

2012-10-01 Thread James Carlson
Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-10-01 15:28, James Carlson пишет: Jim Klimov wrote: I want to inject some echo's into my SMF startup scripts to report about the progress of my systems startup (and possible problems). Actually I did that, and echo... /dev/console if a special flag-file exists

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

2012-10-01 Thread James Carlson
to deliver arbitrary horrors inside scripts, but the new system doesn't allow that. OpenSolaris (and OpenIndiana) still supports SysV packaging, but the main software, at least in the main line of code, is delivered via IPS. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

2012-10-03 Thread James Carlson
of the installed package against an accepted manifest. pkg verify and pkg fix in IPS. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is OI/illumos stance on recreation of features from Solaris 11 (and other proprietary OSes)?

2012-10-10 Thread James Carlson
to just discuss ideas rather than ownership. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is OI/illumos stance on recreation of features from Solaris 11 (and other proprietary OSes)?

2012-10-10 Thread James Carlson
-- but it'd be better than discussing here. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is OI/illumos stance on recreation of features from Solaris 11 (and other proprietary OSes)?

2012-10-10 Thread James Carlson
unhelpful and downright dangerous to bother with it as part of OpenIndiana. I've probably crossed the line from trying to shut it down to being part of the problem, so I'm going to try to shut up now ... -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability

2012-10-12 Thread James Carlson
guess that's up to them. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

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

2012-10-17 Thread James Carlson
that those who want to live in an unprefixed world can just prepend that to their PATHs. Best of both with little pain. I suspect that final set of bad actors is really quite small, but perhaps you or one of the other contributors has something else in mind. -- James Carlson 42.703N

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-22 Thread James Carlson
. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SS cc multithread compilation switch (e.g., Parrot)

2012-10-31 Thread James Carlson
that most of the distinction is now moot. Turn on -mt if you like, but I think you may be waving a dead chicken. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SS cc multithread compilation switch (e.g., Parrot)

2012-10-31 Thread James Carlson
but doesn't use it. I suspect that the remaining -mt uses are just stale.) -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Gnome and the future

2012-11-04 Thread James Carlson
in some service providing scenarios (e.g., a web server), but it's quite unclear at least to me how it'd be very much helpful to build a window manager. Perhaps there are multi-lingual people who really do need to have a window manager that can decorate each window differently ... but really? -- James

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-06 Thread James Carlson
. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem running rsync with smf service

2012-12-07 Thread James Carlson
page) and SMF (start with smf(5)). Changing the start-up script is at best a hack. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org

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