Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPNAT redirection.

2013-04-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
of active sessions: RDR 192.168.0.12 143 - - n.n.62.35144 [n.n.180.45 36138] neither worked ... I can only assume that I can't port forward in this way, and will just go back to using delegate. Jon On 19 April 2013 10:22, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote: Actually

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPNAT redirection.

2013-04-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 19 April 2013 11:45, Gary Gendel g...@genashor.com wrote: 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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPNAT redirection.

2013-04-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
. Ahh well ... another thing to write up on the internal wiki. Thanks everyone. On 19 April 2013 13:10, Gary Gendel g...@genashor.com wrote: 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

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 2.88Mb floppy image file.

2013-05-01 Thread Jonathan Adams
Hi ... I was recently trying to create a 2.88Mb floppy file to try and BIOS upgrade a Dell computer that wouldn't boot anything graphical. I know I'm probably going about this wrong, but I cannot seem to use fdformat, or mkfs -F pcfs on a file, in order to burn the file to a cdrom ...

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2.88Mb floppy image file.

2013-05-01 Thread Jonathan Adams
: On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi ... I was recently trying to create a 2.88Mb floppy file to try and BIOS upgrade a Dell computer that wouldn't boot anything graphical. I know I'm probably going about this wrong, but I cannot seem

[OpenIndiana-discuss] gmake-3.82

2013-05-29 Thread Jonathan Adams
I was trying to compile Mozilla Firefox with GCC recently and came across a funny macro bug of sorts ... probably just a bad file, but I spent a little time looking for it ... anyway, I noticed that I wasn't using the latest, greatest version of gmake (installed was gmake-3.81 from 2006) and a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dedup status

2010-10-01 Thread Jonathan Adams
Thanks for this, please keep us informed. We have multiple systems with ZFS raid (3 disks per pool) that are snapshot'd and those snapshots are rsynced over the internet and replayed onto a duplicate server in a different location ... currently these servers are on Solaris 10. I would be really

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dedup status

2010-10-01 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 1 October 2010 11:22, Albert Lee tr...@opensolaris.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for this, please keep us informed. We have multiple systems with ZFS raid (3 disks per pool) that are snapshot'd and those snapshots

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sunsolve retires today

2010-11-02 Thread Jonathan Adams
not exactly related, but an Sun^H^H^HOracle supplier that we deal with was unable to tell us when we can get some new hardware from them because Oracle had retired the Sun purchasing system they were using and they were back to using pieces of paper. On 30 October 2010 12:46, Nathan Evans

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I figured this deserved a separate thread

2010-11-04 Thread Jonathan Adams
... but maybe I'm reading this wrong. Jon On 4 November 2010 14:33, Guido Berhoerster g...@openindiana.org wrote: * Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com [2010-11-04 15:11]: not that my $0.02 is worth much, but Illumos and OpenIndiana, although connected are separate entities. If you compare

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 147 doesn't get screen size right

2010-11-08 Thread Jonathan Adams
I know that this thread has finished, but a user called seeger posted on the laptop-discuss: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=135165tstart=0 apparently NVidia have just released upgraded versions of their driver that fix multiple issues on on b134 Jon On 29 October 2010

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Amnesiac LDAP Configuration

2010-11-18 Thread Jonathan Adams
with a good nsswitch.conf I was able to get it working again be re-enabling the service ldap/client which seems to turn off after a reboot. I wish it wouldn't since I run a locally mirrored OpenLDAP server so that it works when I'm off site ... Good job I added local users before I set up the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 4.0

2010-12-23 Thread Jonathan Adams
Not sure if any of you have seen that the new VirtualBox 4 is out, which has packages in GPL format with the ability to add extensions, with the only extension available so far being the PEULd one that adds USB/RDP/PXE support. however, on looking at the packages I found the vboxconfig.sh file

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IO_b148 on an ATI HD 5770: Xorg failure / black screen

2010-12-23 Thread Jonathan Adams
) but it works and has never shown any such symptoms. I have tried connecting another monitor to the other outputs using a DVI-VGA adapter but there is no signal in any of the outputs. On 2010-12-23 11:22, Jonathan Adams wrote: do you have another monitor that you can try? a CRT might be a good

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

2011-01-04 Thread Jonathan Adams
ago On 01/ 4/11 09:28 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: does anyone know how any of these (lxde, xfce, etc) fare on SunRays? On 4 January 2011 14:22, Ken Gundersonkgund...@teamcool.net  wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 12:21 +, Peter Tribble wrote: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Gary Gendelg

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

2011-01-04 Thread Jonathan Adams
The Sunrays are running on Solaris10 servers, so I'm not moving them yet, just thinking ahead :) On 4 January 2011 17:10, Nikola M. minik...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/ 4/11 11:46 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: Seriously, is it possible to get this to run on OpenIndiana? I know I'm a luddite and all

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Chime Visualization Tool for DTrace

2011-01-06 Thread Jonathan Adams
Version 1.5 of the Chime tool for working visually with DTrace has been released as per the announcement on the OpenSolaris Feed. Announcement: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=136486 Chime: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+dtrace%2Dchime/ just in case anyone was

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

2011-01-07 Thread Jonathan Adams
You aren't by any chance using hardware raid on the v20z, are you? I know that Solaris 9 wouldn't work on the v20z's with hardware raid at all, and Solaris 10 didn't really like them ... but with ZFS on the disks you are as well turning off the hardware raid and lettings the OS handle it. We

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

2011-01-17 Thread Jonathan Adams
not sure if it helps any, or even if it helps in OpenSolaris/Illumos/OpenIndiana ... we've had problems in the past with usb devices and memory allocation ... admittedly this was when we had quite a few devices in the system, but we had to set the ehci:ehci_qh_pool_size in /etc/system: set

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Enable samba

2011-01-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
And I'm assuming that you've created an smb.conf file in /etc/sfw ... On 19 January 2011 17:10, Steve Gonczi gon...@comcast.net wrote: Just a Wild guess you may have The kernel cifs occupying The Smb Ports already Make sure cifs Is shut off -:::-sG-:::- On Jan 19, 2011, at 11:43, Paul

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BSD Magazine mentions OpenIndiana

2011-01-25 Thread Jonathan Adams
Ta for the link ... It's interesting and probably fair :) On 25 January 2011 17:32, Edward Martinez mindbende...@live.com wrote: Hi in this month BSD (01/2011) issue, has  an article  comparing OpenIndiana to the BSDs on the desktop. the  article starts on pg: 36 and it's a free download

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox wedged system

2011-01-26 Thread Jonathan Adams
Which Firefox? I uninstalled FF 4b8 the other day because the only way to recover was to power off ... but FF 3.6 works fine. On 26 January 2011 15:49, Reginald Beardsley pulask...@yahoo.com wrote: FWIW Firefox just wedged OI_148 so tight the only thing that would still respond was the mouse

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

2011-02-02 Thread Jonathan Adams
Yeah I had problems, in the end I downgraded to FF 3.6 and the problem went away. You can turn off the plugin protection code (about:config ... can't remember which specific flag to change) and it might well fix the issue, but I don't need FF 4 yet. On 1 February 2011 20:29, Hillel Lubman

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

2011-02-02 Thread Jonathan Adams
the firefox sync plugin in 3.6 (only for solaris) but the native one works in 4.x.  For me, it's currently moot because I can't get 148 running on my laptop or server (for different reasons).  Once the illuminos based version is ready I'll give it another try. Gary On 2/2/11 7:57 AM, Jonathan Adams

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nwam

2011-02-05 Thread Jonathan Adams
NWAM is a tool with a specific purpose ... if you don't have that need then NWAM seems to be just a hindrance ... Before it existed I had scripts to plumb interfaces and bring up wireless networks ... you might be better off creating your own rc2.d/rc3.d script using dladm to connect your

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] An odd permissions issue...

2011-02-11 Thread Jonathan Adams
We had a funny issue where windows machines couldn't destroy any files, but could create new ones and had problems with directories ... it was down to the nt acl support being turned on (after compiling different samba's, tracking down and comparing smb.conf's etc.) This may not be your problem

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Developer] ZFS spare disk usage issue

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan Adams
http://bugs.illumos.org/ works for me from here. We're always delicate with our ZFS systems ... we've been trialling ZFS raid over USB for quite a while, since early ZFS days, and we were never sure if it was the USB or the ZFS ... If you remove all your ZFS drives, reboot, export, devfsadm -C

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How old is openindiana ?

2011-03-09 Thread Jonathan Adams
Damn! That was 35 English billion (million, million) years ago. Can we hold claim for the first ever OS, one used by the possible first strands of DNA? On 9 March 2011 08:51, Mark mark0...@gmail.com wrote: My installation must be very ancient after this resilver. pool: rpool  state: ONLINE

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Developer] Unable to boot OpenIndiana on my dell studio 1450

2011-03-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
to get OI to boot. but, now i do not have my ethernet working nor the wifi, ethernet is a brodcom and wirelesscard is that from intel. But atleast i got it to boot :) Thanks all. On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Nikola M. minik...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/21/11 10:36 AM, Jonathan

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New illumos based OpenIndiana test repo

2011-03-28 Thread Jonathan Adams
done ... can't notice any changes, so I'd say Good job ... how can I tell if I'm using Illumos? Jon On 28 March 2011 14:14, Andrzej Szeszo asze...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, We have a new test repo available at: http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev-il illumos is properly integrated now. Perl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New illumos based OpenIndiana test repo

2011-03-28 Thread Jonathan Adams
Didn't work ... for some reason I can't have 2 repositories at the same site ... and it kept the original OpenIndiana one, silently. On 28 March 2011 15:01, Nikola M. minik...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/28/11 03:14 PM, Andrzej Szeszo wrote: Hi All, We have a new test repo available at:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New illumos based OpenIndiana test repo

2011-03-28 Thread Jonathan Adams
Woo, sorry for being thick :) jadams@jadlaptop:~$ more /etc/release OpenIndiana Development oi_148b X86 (powered by illumos) Copyright 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New illumos based OpenIndiana test repo

2011-03-28 Thread Jonathan Adams
I assumed that since it was announced to discuss that it was getting close and you just wanted more people to boot and test. how close to production do you feel we are? On 28 March 2011 16:06, Alasdair Lumsden alasdai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, This is an internal test and development repo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] reboot/shutdown commands (Was: Re: OI boot problem)

2011-03-28 Thread Jonathan Adams
1) the more progressive amongst us do I take exception to this statement ... some of the GNU commands are broken on Solaris, and secure accounts should have as little in it's path (if you use root or any secure account) as possible so that you can be _sure_ of which app you are using. 2) reboot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New illumos based OpenIndiana test repo

2011-03-28 Thread Jonathan Adams
the things I use normally work ... will it help if I include hardware descriptions/PCI listings? On 28 March 2011 16:16, Alasdair Lumsden alasdai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jonathan, On 28/03/2011 16:11, Jonathan Adams wrote: I assumed that since it was announced to discuss that it was getting close

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] reboot/shutdown commands (Was: Re: OI boot problem)

2011-03-28 Thread Jonathan Adams
feel free to create these script and store them in a folder called /usr/myreboots you can then add this to your path: reboot: #!/sbin/sh init 6 shutdown: #!/sbin/sh init 5 thankyou. On 28 March 2011 16:45, Kevin J. Woolley k...@javabunny.net wrote: On 28 March 2011 08:24, Jonathan Adams

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] reboot/shutdown commands (Was: Re: OI boot problem)

2011-03-28 Thread Jonathan Adams
I'm not sure about you, but if I'm changing run levels, and I'm remote accessing a machine, I _do_ double check with uname ... mainly to make sure I'm on the correct host, not the OS. I remember the phone conversation after I connected into birmingham instead of braintree ... the names of the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs incremental send?

2011-03-29 Thread Jonathan Adams
probably won't help you, but we ZFS send to a local file, transfer the file with rsync (rsync can work with part transferred files, also if you use the rsyncd a riverbed can optimise/remember the connection) and then at the other end zfs receive the file. We have a large number of ZFS streams

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] zfs incremental send?

2011-03-29 Thread Jonathan Adams
we always do ZFS receives from a local disk, after we had the system with the ZFS drives die in a big way when the link went down. It might work with better fault tolerance nowadays, and our ISP was playing up at the time, but we never want to have to fix that type of error again ... ghostly

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] zfs incremental send?

2011-03-29 Thread Jonathan Adams
Just to clarify; Our issue was we did a send and receive in the same pipe, when it died the receive died too, and that caused trouble. the send on it's own was alright, the receive caused problems. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] zfs incremental send?

2011-03-29 Thread Jonathan Adams
was writing to.   Rattled me pretty badly. Have Fun! Reg --- On Tue, 3/29/11, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] zfs incremental send? To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss

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

2011-03-30 Thread Jonathan Adams
I suggest that we convert the OpenIndiana project into a bootstrapper to install the Ubuntu OS on your hard disk this would enable all the _lovely_ Linux commands and maintain compatibility with all the Linux Applications/sarcasm ___ OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on USB stick

2011-03-30 Thread Jonathan Adams
I've Installed OS on an external USB hard drive and managed to boot to it, so I'm guessing that it should be possible with a USB stick ... was a long time ago though, and I did do it by accident (external disk plugged in, internal disk removed from chassis of a laptop) ... Grub should cope if

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Pancakes vs. Waffles

2011-04-01 Thread Jonathan Adams
I like waffles, and I eat them most of the time (95%), but every so often my son wants pancakes (5%) ... What I'd propose is that we try to make pancakes more like waffles so that the people who eat waffles will feel more comfortable with them, and won't feel alienated when they come to having to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI meeting April 4th 2011 write up

2011-04-06 Thread Jonathan Adams
Good job Deano. Much appreciated, I'm sure, but others like me who simply cannot make the meetings but very keen on keeping abreast on the current state of affairs.  Seems like you hit a good balance between hitting highlights while not getting into too much minute administrivia detail,

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ConsoleKit to be deprecated?

2011-05-05 Thread Jonathan Adams
Passing on a message posted to Desktop-Discuss in the OpenSolaris groups, by Alan Coopersmith@oracle ... Should we be worried that it looks like GDM (the login screen and associated user/password checking) is going a Linux-only route? (he links to a freedesktop post which links to a google doc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-18 Thread Jonathan Adams
How do I check oi_148(b)/IPS?  When I try adding package repo dev-il it seems to rather instead modify standard dev repo to whatever I used for new dev-il name and still point to standard dev repo regardless of me having specified dev-il, as per the 148b wiki page here:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-18 Thread Jonathan Adams
as I put it in the attachment: pkg set-publisher -P -O http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev-il/ openindiana.org this will replace the openindiana.org publisher with the dev-il one. kvg@athena:~$ su Password: kvg@athena:~# pkg set-publisher -O http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev-il oi-dev-il pkg

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sharing zfs volume on QLogic QLE4062C

2011-05-20 Thread Jonathan Adams
for it. I'm missing something, I think -- Da: Jonathan Adams A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Data: 19 maggio 2011 21.12.44 CEST Oggetto: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sharing zfs volume on QLogic QLE4062C have you seen

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bad pool....

2011-05-24 Thread Jonathan Adams
what do you get from a zpool status -v? do you know which files are corrupted? On 23 May 2011 19:27, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: Hi all I have a rather large pool that has been a bit troublesome. We've lost some drives (WD Black), and though that should work out well, I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bad pool....

2011-05-24 Thread Jonathan Adams
hmm, thats a weird one ... the old drive does usually stay there until it's replaced ... you could just try removing both the disks from the mirror, then try re-adding the new one into the array. PS. If you don't care about the files that are damaged in the array, you can just rm them and then

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox on OI

2011-05-31 Thread Jonathan Adams
I've got a few Images running in VirtualBox, they seem solid enough, but I don't leave them running for more than a Day, I don't enjoy staring at the Windows Logo on my nice laptop ... I've never had any critical services running in them either, I have the images more for applications that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Jonathan Adams
Apache didn't want OpenOffice originally according to press/blogs of people in the know ... probably because Apache got bitten over the whole Java thing. There was, however, a contract with Sun to keep maintaining and improving OpenOffice, which passed to Oracle, and after all the dev team left

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Jonathan Adams
I've just read ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/01/oracle_openoffice_apache/page2.html ) that Oracle will retain the OpenOffice name, so basically they've given Apache all the code and rights to change the licenses, and then stopped developing ... way to go Oracle. LibreOffice will be much

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 2 June 2011 12:08, Gabriel de la Cruz gabriel.delac...@gmail.com wrote: -What were those indians called? -Sir, do you mean Apaches? -Whatever, give it back to them... -... +1 FTW ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache

2011-06-02 Thread Jonathan Adams
Well in cases like this I suggest people to switch to Windows or MacOS. In other words, people demand too much without contributing anything. A.S. I cannot recommend Windows to anyone who doesn't have a specific need for it. People who have not used Windows for a while can balk at the changes

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mono

2011-06-07 Thread Jonathan Adams
No, to take a Valuable Money making project and turn it into a money sucking hole, you needed Sun ... Oracle tries to find ways of _making_ money from money sucking holes ... On 7 June 2011 12:00, Apostolos Syropoulos asyropou...@yahoo.com wrote:  According to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs only to version 5 after upgrading to oi-151?

2011-06-08 Thread Jonathan Adams
Oracle have sorta said that they will release all the changes they have made to ZFS (and some other changes) after they have finally released Solaris 11, because the ZFS was Open Source ... and we might then be able to incorporate the changes that they have made into Illumos ... However Oracle

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs only to version 5 after upgrading to oi-151?

2011-06-08 Thread Jonathan Adams
As I said However Oracle own the code, so if they want to change the License to a non-Open Source one, they are probably within their rights ... so I'm not going to hold my breath. 2011/6/8 Ignacio Marambio Catán darkjo...@gmail.com: Oracle never said such thing officially. i think it was part

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backups and snapshots

2011-06-13 Thread Jonathan Adams
We've given up on tapes in house, they are far to costly per Gb, and we were spending all day backing up to them. We have gone over to a fully ZFS system ... replicated at 3 sites per active machine. data is generated (by users) at site 1 (on ZFS raid ... generally 2 disks), this is then

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backups and snapshots

2011-06-13 Thread Jonathan Adams
...@gmail.com wrote: Question do you have ha on each site? Or you just use 2nd site to protect 1st site Thx Sent from my iPad Hung-Sheng Tsao ( LaoTsao) Ph.D On Jun 13, 2011, at 4:49 AM, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote: We've given up on tapes in house, they are far to costly per Gb

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Setting up Samba 3.5.9

2011-06-20 Thread Jonathan Adams
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/SWAT.html According to this it should be possible to run the swat in demo mode by specifying the -a flag ... although this isn't advised in production ... you should then be able to modify the config and specify the allowed hosts and the

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

2011-06-22 Thread Jonathan Adams
Not that I wanted to get involved in this at all ... Therbeeos from https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Helios (ish) Therbeeo is one of the horses said to pull the sun across the sky, it's 3 syllables, might even pass some kind of phonetic translation into other languages. I'd prefer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

2011-06-30 Thread Jonathan Adams
not that it matters too much, but on my Intel graphics box, when I cntrl-alt-f1 I get a blank screen, but it is still connected to a virtual console ... I can still log in (if I don't make mistakes) and pkill Xorg to get my screen working properly (although hopefully that is fixed after the latest

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntpd not keeping time in sync

2011-07-13 Thread Jonathan Adams
ntpdate once an hour/half hour in cron?, or grep for the message in a loop and ntpdate if it sees the message? but that's just the hacker in me ... On 13 July 2011 02:56, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 09:54 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: On

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs error when creating zones on OI-148

2011-07-21 Thread Jonathan Adams
did you create the directory template ? if so, delete it and try again. On 20 July 2011 22:06, Jerry Kemp sun.mail.lis...@oryx.cc wrote: I am having problems installing my first OpenIndiana b148 zone, and am running into this error: .. # zoneadm -z template install ERROR:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A problem with setting up a zone on oi-147

2011-07-25 Thread Jonathan Adams
sudo zoneadm -z rpmzone install ? rather than: sudo zoneadm install -z rpmzone install On 24 July 2011 14:04, Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org wrote: Hey everyone: Problem: I'm unable to set up a zone on oi build 147. Constraints: 1. I'm running oi-147 (I can't move to 148 yet, since

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] LDAP being disabled

2011-07-28 Thread Jonathan Adams
you need to modify your nwam setup to set up your nsswitch.ldap as the nsswitch.conf file that you want. I've done it graphically, someone'll be able to tell you how to do it from the command line. Jon On 28 July 2011 14:27, CJ Keist cj.ke...@colostate.edu wrote: I have strange issues with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenCDE in OpenIndiana

2011-09-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
I can't find the conversation now, but I remember being told that the openCDE relied on OpenMotif which is incompatible with the X sources that we use ... and possibly with the licenses ... Jon On 15 September 2011 05:28, Philip J. Robar philip.ro...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 14, 2011, at 9:57

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenCDE in OpenIndiana

2011-09-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
motifmm appears to have a dependency on openmotif ... On 15 September 2011 17:18, Gary gdri...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: I can't find the conversation now, but I remember being told that the openCDE relied on OpenMotif which is incompatible

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website

2011-10-11 Thread Jonathan Adams
+1 On 11 October 2011 15:32, Ken Gunderson kgund...@teamcool.net wrote: Hello Peter: I think your accusations of bikeshedding are unfounded and unkind. Many stayed out of this discussion until noting that a few oi-dev regulars like Alasdair, jeffpc, drlou, herzen, etc. expressed some

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and GNU grep

2011-10-11 Thread Jonathan Adams
jadams@jadlaptop:~$ set | grep -i grep jadams@jadlaptop:~$ which grep /usr/bin/grep jadams@jadlaptop:~$ echo foo | grep '[A-Z]' jadams@jadlaptop:~$ echo $PATH /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/ccs/bin:/opt/tools/bin:/usr/gnu/bin jadams@jadlaptop:~$ On 11 October 2011 17:42, Richard Jones

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problems with vboxnet0 interface

2011-10-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
did you set 'vboxnet0's IP address to 192.168.56.1/24 after you brought it up? On 18 October 2011 22:12, Ron Parker rdpar...@gmail.com wrote: I am moving some VM's from a Linux host to OpenIndiana 151a. They all have 1 NAT interface and one host-only. My problem is that I cannot connect to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problems with vboxnet0 interface

2011-10-20 Thread Jonathan Adams
I'm using nwam, so I have the vboxnet0 in /etc/nwam/llp and /etc/nwam/ncp-User.conf On 20 October 2011 15:10, Ron Parker rdpar...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote: did you set 'vboxnet0's IP address to 192.168.56.1/24 after you brought

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] where is hostname kept

2011-10-31 Thread Jonathan Adams
/etc/nodename ? On 31 October 2011 14:53, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: running b 151a If I wanted to change the hostname of a server permanently, where is the hostname kept and where is it read by the OS besides /etc/hosts file? Sorry for the lameo question but googling, the hits

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hard disk stalling

2011-11-02 Thread Jonathan Adams
When updating (and failing) to a newer kernel (ticket outstanding) I noticed that there appears to be another possible problem. When I am busy doing nothing in particular on the laptop (although strangely if I am actually doing nothing for hours this doesn't appear to happen) the hard disk

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?65756-Solaris-11-source-code-leaked http://news.softpedia.com/news/Oracle-Solaris-11-Kernel-Source-Leaked-241597.shtml Has this been leaked? do we want to try to look/keep well clear in order to see where ZFS changes are made with encryption, to enable

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
according to the reports I listed, the general consensus is that it's licensed under CDDL ... but I haven't looked at it to confirm. Jon On 19 December 2011 15:53, Chris Ridd chrisr...@mac.com wrote: On 19 Dec 2011, at 14:38, Jonathan Adams wrote: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?

2011-12-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
it wouldn't need to be a disgruntled Oracle employee, they still deal with Intel, and other manufacturers ... just needs to be someone with access to the code and no emotional ties to Oracle. If code is tagged with the CDDL, can that code not be CDDL? if so a third party with no involvement, or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Removing one file from a ZFS Snapshot

2011-12-20 Thread Jonathan Adams
the only way to remove the file from your snapshots is to remove your snapshots ... On 20 December 2011 11:32, Gabriele Bulfon gbul...@sonicle.com wrote: Hi, I was wandering if there is any way to permanently delete a file from one or more snapshots. It may happen the need to delete a very

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Setting up Ldap client

2012-01-04 Thread Jonathan Adams
I think you're going to want to try and get ldapclient to setup your service for you. if you have a profile (which we do here) then you are well off using the init method, from the man page: /usr/sbin/ldapclient [-v | -q] init [-a profileName=profileName] [-a domainName=domain]

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] (probably) Stupid question regarding Iscsi

2012-01-06 Thread Jonathan Adams
what is the 440Mb file that you've transferred? is it easily compressed? On 6 January 2012 10:51, Open Indiana openindi...@out-side.nl wrote: I have a rather stupid question i guess.. The following is the case 1. I have a 100GB iscsi target created at my homeserver within OpeinIndiana 2. the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Jonathan Adams
Please note that although we all thought it was FUD; Alan Coopersmith (notice his email address) who works for Oracle (but still thankfully watches these forums) has already responded to this in the negative, and hasn't included any of the usual caveats about it being a different department. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing OI 151 ssh with OpenSSH 5.9?

2012-01-17 Thread Jonathan Adams
For many years with Solaris 8 I used OpenSSH (installing the /dev/random patch, installing OpenSSL and installing OpenSSH was part of my standard setup script) ... but since Solaris 9; I've always relied on the in-built ssh server ... why do you want to change it? Jon On 17 January 2012 17:49,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA Quadro 2000 1 Gbyte Graphics Card

2012-01-17 Thread Jonathan Adams
On NVidia's site there is a downloadable driver for that both those cards for Solaris. if you want 3D support you can't get better than NVidia ... I don't have those myself (wish I did stupid Intel laptop) so I can't test, but I've not had a problem with NVidia drivers in years. Jondriver On 17

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-18 Thread Jonathan Adams
I know it's Solaris 10, not OI, but we recently took all our arrays of USB external disks and inserted then as SATA disks inside DELL servers because we were getting fed up of USB errors ... my boss is able to sleep again now. we no longer trust USB as a permanent solution (although it works well

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [UNSUBSCRIBE]

2013-06-06 Thread Jonathan Adams
while Kernel Mode Setting is kernel related, it is of no significance for distros running on servers. while USB3 support is kernel related, it is of no real significance for those specifying the servers with specific bits of hardware, USB just isn't enterprise quality. OpenOffice/LibreOffice and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool degraded

2013-06-20 Thread Jonathan Adams
just an FYI, The disk may not be dead ... but you'll need to give it a low level format and surface scan to check that it's not broken. On 20 June 2013 18:25, Christian Manal moen...@informatik.uni-bremen.dewrote: Am 20.06.2013 17:16, schrieb Alessio: The result of the command zpool status

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zone detach / tar archive / attach

2013-07-04 Thread Jonathan Adams
I'm assuming that the zone on the originator computer is not ZFS, and that is why you are using tar. root@salmon190-90:~# zfs list -r /zones NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT rpool1/export/zones 7.84G 207G35K /zones

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How viable is Hipster/oi_151a8 ?

2013-07-09 Thread Jonathan Adams
I bit the bullet (on my laptop, not on the servers) and installed hipster last Thursday. it installed easily enough, but some notes. 1) the update takes up more than 5Gb extra disk space. 2) flash player doesn't play videos from bbc.co.uk or youtube (haven't tried many others) everything else

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] gnome-terminal fails

2013-07-11 Thread Jonathan Adams
Confirming that it happens to me too ... however I usually don't make them smaller, just bigger. On 11 July 2013 09:52, Paolo Marcheschi paolo.marches...@ftgm.it wrote: Yes I confirm, it happens to me also with terminator, the only alternative now is substitute it with XTERM, that runs fine.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Stops Sun Ray development

2013-07-16 Thread Jonathan Adams
We have about 50 SunRays throughout our group, relying on the Smart Cards to move/lock the session (we're a Laboratory, and have people moving station all the time) with this news, we'll have to think long term about replacing them with other thin-clients, but I cannot find anything equivalent

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Stops Sun Ray development

2013-07-16 Thread Jonathan Adams
anyone have any experience of these guys: https://www.igel.com/uk/ igel technology ... UD3 and UD5 have smart-cards built in, can't find prices, but there are demonstration units available. On 16 July 2013 13:54, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Adaptec series 7

2013-08-13 Thread Jonathan Adams
Adaptec aren't exactly renowned for their reliability: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=125783114503531w=2 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=126775051500581w=2 On 13 August 2013 14:04, Grant Albitz gr...@schultztechnology.com wrote: I checked the HCL and saw that basically no adaptec cards

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Edit file in /etc/ from InstallCD

2013-08-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
what output do you get from a zpool import -f ? On 14 August 2013 21:30, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: jason matthews ja...@broken.net writes: On Aug 14, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Jim K responded: No, this is an alternate root - a path

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] minimum swap requirements for VirtualBox on OI

2013-08-29 Thread Jonathan Adams
in the olden days, when we didn't have much memory in our solaris boxes, and because we logged files to /tmp and /var/run we used to make swap be at least twice as much as memory ... not that you would actually want to swap out that much :) I know with KVM in Illumos that when it pre-allocates

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] smp_start: get unknown iocstatus: 8090

2013-08-29 Thread Jonathan Adams
have you tried swapping the slot that the card is in, or is it on the motherboard? IRQ sharing shouldn't really be a problem with PCI, you probably won't see any reduced performance, but if you are unsure swapping the card slot will change it's IRQ. Jon On 28 August 2013 23:53, CJ Keist

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] re-install grub [SOLVED]

2013-08-30 Thread Jonathan Adams
I always keep a copy of this to hand: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/ helpful any time I get a system that f*cks up grub or grub2 :) On 30 August 2013 13:54, axelle_apvri...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi, I'll now need to work out how to have Linux/Windows/OpenIndiana on the same

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Group Membership Limitation

2013-09-13 Thread Jonathan Adams
Doesn't really help you I guess, but I get around this by sticking to the latest 3.5 version of samba. manrecserver# /opt/samba/bin/testparm -V Version 3.5.21 (well it was the latest at the time I compiled it) ./configure --prefix=/opt/samba3 --with-ldap --with-aio-support --with-acl-support

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pulseaudio

2013-10-10 Thread Jonathan Adams
SunRays aren't easily replaced. they're a very cheap, reliable and versatile system. SunRays all support high resolutions out of the box. They all support smart card technology to connect to the correct session. They are a true thin-client, a SunRay client uses less electricity than my set of

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