Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AD Authentication and Samba 4 Active Directory

2014-10-01 Thread Ben Taylor
According to a similar ticket I had opened with Oracle, when passwordless ssh key logins stopped working on Solaris 10 hosts, after we migrated from DSEE to AD, they suggested the following: Example pam_conf file for pam_ldap Configured for Account Management Note – Previously, if you enabled

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] FW: Low low end server

2014-02-12 Thread Ben Taylor
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Ben Taylor bentaylor.sol...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Saso Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.comwrote: On 2/11/14, 7:59 PM, Ben Taylor wrote: That's a cool unit. Could use something like that internal drive bay that supported SAS disks

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] FW: Low low end server

2014-02-11 Thread Ben Taylor
That's a cool unit. Could use something like that internal drive bay that supported SAS disks. On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Floris van Essen ..:: House of Ancients Amstafs ::.. i...@houseofancients.nl wrote: Hi Hans, Take a look at this :

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] FW: Low low end server

2014-02-11 Thread Ben Taylor
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Saso Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.comwrote: On 2/11/14, 7:59 PM, Ben Taylor wrote: That's a cool unit. Could use something like that internal drive bay that supported SAS disks. Don't know if somebody mentioned it before, but the MicroServer's internal

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Ben Taylor
Surprised someone hasn't developed a SATA power cable with small battery Passthrough for this exact application. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Doug Hughes d...@will.to wrote: true, Volker.. Just to note though, the 320s have no battery, but they do have enough capacitor to flush anything

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Ben Taylor
...@will.to wrote: capacitors are better. Batteries wear out and are difficult to have the correct monitoring for replacement. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Ben Taylor bentaylor.sol...@gmail.com wrote: Surprised someone hasn't developed a SATA power cable with small battery Passthrough

[OpenIndiana-discuss] sparc support

2014-01-22 Thread Ben Taylor
I am looking at decom'ing some sparc hardware in Chicago, and have found someone willing to host the hardware out there, on the agreement that someone is going to actively use the hardware for the sparc port. Any volunteers? Ben ___ OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving /var and/or /usr to own zfs filesystem

2013-09-11 Thread Ben Taylor
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:04 PM, James Carlson carls...@workingcode.comwrote: On 09/10/13 12:31, Ben Taylor wrote: I really can't see the wisdom of splitting out /usr from / on a ZFS file system. I had an open bug with Sun in 2009 regarding the separate /var partition, and we went months

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Moving /var and/or /usr to own zfs filesystem

2013-09-10 Thread Ben Taylor
I really can't see the wisdom of splitting out /usr from / on a ZFS file system. I had an open bug with Sun in 2009 regarding the separate /var partition, and we went months arguing with support regarding whether or not that was a supported configuration. The main issue was that single user and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun Fire

2013-06-21 Thread Ben Taylor
x4540s use the LSI controller. We got an upgrade on our x4500 because of systemic problems with our Raid-z setup and the Marvel controllers and the drivers (This has been several years, maybe 4) On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Gary Gendel g...@genashor.com wrote: On 06/21/2013 11:56 AM,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

2013-04-06 Thread Ben Taylor
Patching is a bit of arcane art. Some environments don't have test/acceptance/pre-prod with similar hardware and configurations, so minimizing impact is understandable, which means patching only what is necessary. I prefer to patch everything when I build, or in environments where I have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Ben Taylor
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:25 AM, openbabel openba...@gmail.com wrote: I am of a commercial view. I am interested in the most popular desktop and most developed environment which is accepted by the current or potential user base.It would not be the correct choice going with a project which

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] new Firefoxes and ILOM web access

2012-10-17 Thread Ben Taylor
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) udo.grabow...@kit.edu wrote: On 10/17/12 06:52 PM, Oscar del Rio wrote: Works for me. Firefox 16.0.1 on Solaris 11 x86, connecting to Sun server ILOM SP Firmware Version 3.0.6.15.d Have you updated the ILOM of your servers? No, the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VERY slow server performance

2012-09-06 Thread Ben Taylor
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Stuart Shirley antarc...@sympatico.ca wrote: Hi - Look for some assistance in improving disk access performance on my OpenIndiana install. Wanting to upgrade my server based on OpenSolaris and ZFS to 3TB drives, I upgraded the OS to OpenIndiana 151a.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] moving existing rpool onto larger disks, in-place: zpool/zfs ashift/blocksize musings

2012-05-14 Thread Ben Taylor
If you can add the third disk, why not do a zfs send/receive to put it down on the new disk with a new rpool name. Then you can just move the disk around (or the bios settings) and do a little magic to boot to the new disk. On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Hans J. Albertsson

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 1.51a not install on Hp DL385

2012-02-07 Thread Ben Taylor
I'd pull out any PCI{-EX} cards. I just installed S10 U10 on a DL360 G4 with a couple of Qlogic FC HBAs. It got through the install and then started panicing on reboot. I removed the HBA's and patched the image, and when I reinstalled the HBA's, everything was happy again. My panic looked alot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] adding SPICE to KVM

2011-12-07 Thread Ben Taylor
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote: There has been some effort to expand the functionality of the KVM port. Does anyone know if adding SPICE functionality to KVM is a feature people are looking at? thanks, Geoff I know there was some discussion on the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Stack not written error on install attempt

2011-07-16 Thread Ben Taylor
Oh, I think I know what that problem is. I saw problems with my Radeon X1550 PCI. That board has a PCI to PCI-E bridge on it, and I had similar issues you are reporting with Solaris 10 and Solaris Express. Early on (S10U6/7) I could get systems to boot with that board in, but then the system

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle removes 32bit x86 cpu support for solaris 11 will OI do same?

2011-06-23 Thread Ben Taylor
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Gary Driggs gdri...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 22, 2011, at 7:19 PM, Ben Taylor wrote: I can almost see dumping 32-bit x86. but dumping 64-bit US-III/IV? Use a kill-a-watt or a smart PDU to compare the power draw for these older systems. Do you really want

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle removes 32bit x86 cpu support for solaris 11 will OI do same?

2011-06-22 Thread Ben Taylor
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:03 PM, McBofh james.c.mcpher...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/06/11 11:52 AM, Michael Kerpan wrote: Wow. They killed a lot of stuff. Not only 32-bit x86 support but tons of other stuff too. SPARC Workstation support has been killed off (no more UltraSparc I/II/III/IV

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-23 Thread Ben Taylor
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 08:51 AM, Gary wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: Yeah, I read the thread, and that aspect I do agree with.  The part that irked me was the this makes

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] compiling qt4 with gcc

2011-05-19 Thread Ben Taylor
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos asyropou...@yahoo.com wrote: Builds fine with Sol Studio 12U1.  Quite a few patches needed to fix issues, and most of the qt/webkit ones have been pushed to trunk so next release we should be able to dump them. Now try to compile k9copy!

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No Keyboard boot problem reappeared

2011-05-05 Thread Ben Taylor
2011/5/5 Attila Fülöp a...@gesindel.org: On 05/ 5/11 01:06 PM, Robin Axelsson wrote: I cannot get into grub and edit the lines if I don't have a keyboard so that guide is not of much help. I tried to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst but it looks nothing like the actual menu that I have. The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-22 Thread Ben Taylor
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Edward Ned Harvey openindi...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: James Kohout [mailto:jkoh...@yahoo.com] So looking to upgrade to io148 to be able to enable deduplication.  So does have any experience running a ZFS RaidZ2 pool with deduplication in a production

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] swap nvidia graphics for amd

2011-04-13 Thread Ben Taylor
I might be inclined to disable the window manager prior to removing the adapter, and work with the text login. You can always start the Xserver manually to test if there are issues. Ben On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Hillel Lubman shtetl...@gmail.com wrote: You can try replacing it, and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS shares mounting during system startup

2011-04-01 Thread Ben Taylor
I am not surprised in the least that the wifi setup is taking too long. Given the pressures to improve boot times, I'd suspect that the parallelism in the start sequence is the result of the problem. What you probably would like is some way to flag the system to either wait on the wifi network

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Pancakes vs. Waffles

2011-04-01 Thread Ben Taylor
I was gonna make a comment about Sourdough Belgian Waffles, but nah.. ;-) On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Garbage being printed by format command?

2011-04-01 Thread Ben Taylor
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: I had done an OI install onto a PATA disk. After reboot, I followed a howto to convert the rpool into a mirror, and it seems to all work. However, when I run the format command, I see this: AVAILABLE DISK

[OpenIndiana-discuss] system hang

2011-03-30 Thread Ben Taylor
just installed oi148 on my old AthlonXP 2600 with 1GB of ram. Had to put -B cpuid_features_edx_exclude='0x4000' on the initial boot, as I used to do when it was running Solaris 10. Three times in the last day, the system has hard hung while pulling a git tree from gitorious.org. I managed to