Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dell 15810 bricked after latest update

Boot to last BE? Original Message From: irixuzer [mailto:irixu...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2022, 8:15 PM To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] dell 15810 bricked after latest update I’ve been updating and going since 2019 *I think*.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] web proxy server w/SSL/TLS termination (on OI)

thank you, that does seem to be an interesting twist on my plan. Jerry Original Message From: Matjaž M Sent: Fri, Dec 28, 2018 3:17 PM CST To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] web proxy server w/SSL/TLS termination (on OI) Hi Jerry, perhaps you

[OpenIndiana-discuss] web proxy server w/SSL/TLS termination (on OI)

among other things, I have a personal collection in my home of old workstations (SGI Irix boxes and earlier Sun workstations), older Macs, etc. For example, a recent acquisition was a Sun SPARCserver 1000e system (Sun4d), with several external drive units. Pics here:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NTP not starting in Zones

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but typically, I typically only set time/run NTP in the Global zone, and my observations are that, NTP in the Global zone will take care of the GZ, HW time and everything else. As such, I do not run NTP, or do anything else to set time, aside from configuring the TZ

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] compile package

assuming an accidental typo, but, and assuming you wanted a base/prefix directory of /usr , it would be # ./configure --prefix=/usr I state this without going into specifics for this particular application. regarding this comment:: ... When I run the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Procedure for enabling Sun keys

Hello Gary, Thank you for that. Regardless of OS and HW platform, I pretty much always use either a Sun (or Oracle) type 5 or type 7 keyboard. Jerry On 08/07/18 16:53, Gary Mills wrote: I'm using a Sun USB keyboard on my OI-hipster system. It was previously a Solaris 11.3 system. I'd

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana on Minix Z83-4 Pro (Cherry Trail) ?

referencing this small system here. wondering if anyone has explored this box to install OpenIndiana on. Not looking to exploit video or audio, or even wireless

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD graphics for OI?

Thank you Ken, I had no idea that this existed. So would I be correct in stating that I could load up OI on a system, along with one of the supported AMD frame buffers and your drivers, and, thru those drivers + OpenCL, could use the GPU's to process the computational type of data that people

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on small X96 systems WAS::Re: OI Hipster 2018.04 snapshot

Please see inline comment. On 01/05/18 17:09, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: I don't think that hw vendor will be able to help with OI. Will try to ask but I think that they may have to small customers base to provide such support (will try to ask them). No, I completely agree here. If you get OI

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on small X96 systems WAS::Re: OI Hipster 2018.04 snapshot

Hello kloczek, I've been looking for some small x86/x64 systems like this to run Open Indiana on, for personal/hobby purposes. Assuming you are able to overcome any issues here and are able to get OI to install and function correctly, just wondering if you are purchasing the UP Board Squared

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Does anyone else have Emacs issue?

thanks for that post. For a while, I was wondering if I was the only person running focus-follows-mouse. Jerry On 25/04/18 08:29, Gary Mills wrote: STUFF DELETED HERE I've never seen that problem, but I've checked: Select windows when the mouse moves over them in the Window

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] failsafe boot howto on older OpenIndiana system

thanks for the quick reply Andrew!! On 24/01/18 18:49, Andrew Gabriel wrote: On 24/01/2018 22:55, Jerry Kemp wrote: Had a bad power outage (another story un-into itself) at home, apparently took multiple drives out on an older OpenIndiana (pre-Hipster) system. I believe the OS (SSD) drive

[OpenIndiana-discuss] failsafe boot howto on older OpenIndiana system

Had a bad power outage (another story un-into itself) at home, apparently took multiple drives out on an older OpenIndiana (pre-Hipster) system. I believe the OS (SSD) drive is OK, and I believe that I probably forgot to set the zfs fail=continue switch on the other pools. My yahoo-fu must be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Intel hardware

Thanks for the info Russell. I'm curious about the AMD thing though. My understand had always been that Intel had purchased/leased/whatever acquired the x86 64 bit extensions from AMD. Maybe its all the difference between the "meltdown" and the "spectre" vulnerability though. Sparc, unless

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana or OpenSolaris version with PowerPC support?

This is the last copy I downloaded of the PPC source code 542 % ls -l sunlabs-osppc-src-20061002.tar -rw-rw-rw- 1 jkempusers373918208 Aug 17 2010 sunlabs-osppc-src-20061002.tar 543 % I believe that this was the last publically available source download, but if anyone can confirm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NoMachine or X2Go on Openindiana?

Can't speak for others, but the SunRay is/was always a great product. I'm still using SunRay's in my home. Jerry On 11/16/17 01:17 PM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Yea, I think that I remember working a little bit with the SunRay stuff some years ago and did not know that folks were still using

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Some opt to open their systems while others don't

On 10/ 3/17 12:18 AM, Nikola M wrote: LOTS OF STUFF DELETED HERE About free vs proprietary, Openindiana/illumos currently uses Nvidia proprieatary drivers for desktop graphics cards and even they funcion great and Nvidia have probably best long term proprietary driver support, AMD lacks same

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Some opt to open their systems while others don't

I don't believe that this page is anything new. OS X has been open since the beginning, with the exclusion of their "Aqua" GUI, or what ever it is currently called. Jerry On 10/ 1/17 02:50 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: Apple has just open the source code ofall

[OpenIndiana-discuss] [SUMMARY] Re: BIND 9.11.2 compile problems on OpenIndiana

/21/17 02:06 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote: Highlight, BIND 9.11.x has some neat new items I wanted to play/work with, so I compiled and installed a fresh copy of OpenSSL 1.0.2l, then attempted to compile a copy of BIND 9.11.2, linked against my new OpenSSL libraries. In short, the compile runs for some

[OpenIndiana-discuss] BIND 9.11.2 compile problems on OpenIndiana

Highlight, BIND 9.11.x has some neat new items I wanted to play/work with, so I compiled and installed a fresh copy of OpenSSL 1.0.2l, then attempted to compile a copy of BIND 9.11.2, linked against my new OpenSSL libraries. In short, the compile runs for some time, and actually produces (good

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] possible to modify the log file location for CRON?

On 08/ 3/17 02:47 AM, Peter Tribble wrote: On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 6:34 AM, Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.lis...@oryx.us> wrote: Wondering if it is possible to change/configure the directory location for cron from the stock /var/cron/log location to somewhere else. Not that I know of. It'

[OpenIndiana-discuss] possible to modify the log file location for CRON?

Wondering if it is possible to change/configure the directory location for cron from the stock /var/cron/log location to somewhere else. Looking at the man page, All I really see as configurable is that logging can be turned off in the /etc/default/cron file. The PATH environmental variable

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] debugging mouse freeze/lockup

Hello Tim, thanks for posting this. It doesn't happen frequently, but I have been fighting the same issue. Gigabyte MB, Sun/Oracle type 7 USB keyboard and Sun Crossbow USB 3 button mouse. Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 SE frame buffer. NVIDIA driver version 295.75. I will look specifically for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NMS software for snmp-based network monitoring that runs on OI? What's your favourite?

Assuming (please confirm) that this is what you are referencing? Jerry On 05/10/17 04:54 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: As a data point, I often use SDig (switch digger), which is a mix of scripts from early 2000's to query ARP and similar tables over

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NMS software for snmp-based network monitoring that runs on OI? What's your favourite?

Hello Hans, Monitoring tools are something that I try to keep a pulse on. It seems as I jump from position to position thru out my career, monitoring seems to be something I occasionally have my hands on. just as a rule of thumb, anything commercial is going to require SPARC. For open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: USB 3 on OI Hipster 2017.05

I was reviewing the CPU's, and the prices are pretty affordable, at least from the States/from Amazon. It looks like the 8 core version is also compatible for not much more money. AMD FD8350FRHKBOX FX-8350 FX-Series 8-Core Jerry On 05/ 9/17 06:55 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: Hello, The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] USB 3 on OI Hipster 2017.05

Hello Apostolos, thanks for the post. I'm in need of a new motherboard/CPU myself. Hoping you might share specific model numbers for the group. Sorry if its in here somewhere and I am just overlooking it. Jerry On 05/ 8/17 10:21 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] many duplicates - Re: OpenIndiana Hipster at Servethehome (call for a regular minimal stable)

Guenther, I don't know if it is just me, or the whole list, but I have received a couple dozen copies of this email. is anyone else seeing lots of duplicates? Jerry On 04/26/17 04:50 AM, Guenther Alka wrote: I have started a thread on a popular forum with many Illumos users about OI

[OpenIndiana-discuss] sas2ircu ::::WAS::::: Re: identify drive

Hallo Günther, Wasn't familiar with sas2ircu till your post. After hitting the search engines, Oracle points to an LSI page: And I also see that there is a github page Wondering which

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Older vbox (5.0.28) failure - maybe something simple

I'm not running hipster yet. I need to figure out a new ATX board to upgrade to before I move from older code to hipster. Jerry On 04/14/17 03:45 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.lis...@oryx.us> writes: FWIW, I have been running strong and with no issues with version

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Older vbox (5.0.28) failure - maybe something simple

FWIW, I have been running strong and with no issues with version 5.0.2. Good luck, Jerry On 04/14/17 10:23 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Wanting to get vms running that I brought over when making the move to hipster from 151_9... I found first that newer vbox versions are a no-go for now. So,

[OpenIndiana-discuss] tamp command WAS:::: mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

Off topic question. Wasn't familiar with the tamp utility you were referencing in your sample command below. After some research, I believe you are referencing this: https://blogs.oracle.com/timc/resource/tamp-2.5-source.zip

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana on ARM - WAS:: the end is near? ::Fwd: Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on 32 bit?

Thanks Bob, I know ARM is a popular platform, I keep holding back from exploring further as every time I look into it, it seems that one of the distro's is close to having a somewhat functional port. Jerry On 03/20/17 02:26 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Jerry Kemp wrote

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana on ARM - WAS:: the end is near? ::Fwd: Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on 32 bit?

I think that the OpenIndiana discussion is spot on, and I am always excited to see this discussion come back to a head. I believe I have reposted this previously, but in case you haven't seen it, here is one of the earliest post from Erik Trimble @ Sun announcing that OpenSolaris/Indiana,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Install Solaris 1/13 on Sun Fire X2200

Hello Arhipkin, I'm not sure that I exactly understand your question. What I believe that I am reading is that (possibly) the HDD that your OS lives on has died, and you are not able to do a new install over the network, either via Jumpstart or AI. If my comments above are correct, probably

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Oios ????? Re: mailinglist oios

Came across this post searching my personal archives for something else. Robert/OpenBabel, Assuming you are still here with us, what is/was Oios? An OpenIndiana based distro? Or, do/did you sell OpenIndiana compatible hardware? I followed the flickr.com post, and I do see a bunch of pretty

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2031 is near

Hello Bob, Is this something that personally happened to you? Jerry On 01/28/17 12:45 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Oracle determines who is allowed to run Solaris based on who they allow to purchase a support contract. Once your hardware is no longer eligible for a support contract then

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

It may or may not be. But, it list Solaris-next from 2017 out. I remember going to Oracle briefings, and they did the same stupid thing in 2011. They were calling the next release Solaris next, like there might be some better name other than Solaris 11. You may or may not be right, I have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSSH GSS-API-key-exchange

My vote is to drop the patch. If the patch is applied, my vote is to have GSSAPI options disabled by default. Jerry On 12/19/16 01:42 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hello. Currently OpenSSH in OpenIndiana supports GSSAPIKeyExchange option and enables it by default (support for authenticating

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Root login

sed s/role model/usermod/ or s/role model/rolemod/ depending on distro and/or version. -- Jerry Sent from my Apple Newton On 12/16/16 06:29 PM, Jason Matthews wrote: role model -k type=normal root Make the sshd_config mentioned Svcadm restart ssh (or sshd whichever) Sent from my iPhone

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] basic nfs on oi

Any time, glad your issue is resolved. Jerry On 11/ 7/16 06:28 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.lis...@oryx.us> writes: Sorry, please disregard reply. I didn't see that the OP had resolved his issue a dozen or so post later. Your post was still helpful since I did not

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun Ray server, OS and VDI patches were released by Oracle last week.

Yep, the filibeto.org mailing list. The last post that I have was from 24 September 2015. I need to qualify my comment. AFAIK, there was no official end that was posted that I was aware of. At some point, shortly after Oracle announced that they would be discontinuing the SunRay line, all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] basic nfs on oi

Sorry, please disregard reply. I didn't see that the OP had resolved his issue a dozen or so post later. :( On 11/ 7/16 01:41 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote: I have always had mixed luck attempting anything involving using both linux and NFS unfortunately. when you run "showmount" com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] basic nfs on oi

I have always had mixed luck attempting anything involving using both linux and NFS unfortunately. when you run "showmount" commands from the client against the NFS server, can you see the NFS share being presented? From the Hipster NFS server, when you type in just "share" with no

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun Ray server, OS and VDI patches were released by Oracle last week.

Thank you for the post, I'm a big SunRay fan myself, and unfortunately, the SunRay mailing list has gone defunct some time ago. Jerry On 11/ 6/16 05:52 PM, Ivar Janmaat wrote: Hello, Since there are still people (like me) who like to run Sun Rays on Hipster I thought this information might

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE

I'm certain that it is. Regardless, it can't hurt to ask. On 09/ 1/16 10:52 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 09/ 1/16 08:50 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote: ...unless... we can get OpenWindows back. That would be highly unlikely. -alan

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE

I would 2nd that request. ...unless... we can get OpenWindows back. Jerry On 09/ 1/16 08:42 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: Today I managed finally to test MATE. It is actually a GNOME desktop but it seems to me it is far more efficient. I think it was a wise

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] updating/modifying gnome-terminal title from the command line?

Thanks for the feedback Alan, I use c shell as my interactive shell, but as I test your prompt variable, I see that it sets both the shell prompt and the window title. Jerry On 08/18/16 05:25 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 08/18/16 02:57 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote: I spend a good part of my

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] donations - WAS::::: I got USB3.0 xhci finally working on Illumos (in this case on OI/Hipster).

Hello Martin, I don't/will not use paypal. Do you accept donations by any other method? If so, please share. Thanks, Jerry On 08/14/16 10:59 AM, Мартин Бохниг via openindiana-discuss wrote: On my Tablet I now have USB3 / xhci not only on booted Sol11.3 but also on OpenSolaris. I

[OpenIndiana-discuss] updating/modifying gnome-terminal title from the command line?

I spend a good part of my life at a shell prompt in a Gnome terminal. I frequently have a lot of tab's open, and it is helpful for me to set the title for each tab to some unique setting. I fired up duckduckgo, and after some searches, I came up with this, as a way to set the tab title from

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Postfix w/TLS - WAS:::::::::::::::::Re: Dovecot error on OpenIndiana

Thank you for asking your question, it is something I need to accomplish also. Can you please start a new thread for the new topic? Thank you, Jerry On 08/14/16 12:51 AM, Sakuma, Koshiro wrote: Hi, Bod, Sorry again. I would like to know about option of postfix installation. Please see

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BIG BREAKTHROUGH! Found needle in hay stack in wrong mb2 hdr, finally boots Sol11.1++ via Grub2 UEFI32

Thank you Мартин On 08/ 9/16 09:13 AM, Мартин Бохниг via openindiana-discuss wrote: BIG BREAKTHROUGH! Found needle in hay stack in wrong mb2 hdr, finally boots Sol11.1++ via Grub2 UEFI32 on Lenovo MIIX 300-10IBY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhQaTvCyyog with quad-core Atom Z3735F

[OpenIndiana-discuss] [off-topic] Samsung acquires Joyant

I'm also subscribed to the Joyant SmartOS list, although I don't keep up with it as well as I do the OpenIndiana one. Catching up on post, I find that Samsung is acquiring Joyant, makers of the SmartOS distro, among many other neat things. https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What changed my files timestamp?

On 06/26/16 04:39 PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: But to actually tell exactly what did it, yes, I don't think anything but auditing already set up, and collecting the applicable information, would do that. I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for the replies. I was pretty sure

[OpenIndiana-discuss] What changed my files timestamp?

Using the routeadm command as an example. /sbin 445 # ls -l /sbin/routeadm -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin45992 Dec 16 2010 /sbin/routeadm /sbin 446 # If I were to look at this file next week, and saw that it was identical, aside from the fact that it now had a new time stamp of 24

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 5.0.22 does not install under OI

Hello Russell, A post earlier in the month shared this information. . "Workaround is to put: *set disable_smap=1 *in */etc/system* and reboot, before starting VirtualBox", together with "*|touch /etc/vboxinst_vboxflt"

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Docs - Demo 2.0

Wow Michael, That's awesome. Thank you. Jerry On 06/12/16 08:56 AM, Michael Kruger wrote: Hello All, I am happy to announce further development of the OpenIndiana Docs static HTML website concept. This latest demonstration site uses the MkDocs content authoring and static website

[OpenIndiana-discuss] New box/new motherboard suggestions

I am at a point where I need to build a new box for $HOME, and I believe that unless something else pops up, I'm looking at a SuperMicro ATX motherboard + some Intel CPU's. Right now, I'm looking at these motherboards, but I'm open to something else::

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Community interest in illumos PF port?

I am assuming that you already know that Packet Filter (PF) is included with Solaris 11.3, and although ipfilter is still there, it is being depreciated. Jerry On 12/05/16 16:01, Adam Števko wrote: Hello, Some of us love the Packet Filter (PF) from OpenBSD. It would be awesome to have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh to servers with recent openssh

I did something similar. I built from source, after building from the latest OpenSSL source. I used aliases in my .cshrc file vs symlinks though. Jerry On 05/11/16 01:34 PM, russell wrote: Hi, I had a similar problem with the ssh provided with OI but I fixed this by downloading building my

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Phoronix: OpenSolaris-Derived OpenIndiana For A Media PC? You Can Now Run Kodi

Thanks for sharing this. I didn't realize that XBMC had been renamed. Jerry On 01/13/16 01:53 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: FYI: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Kodi-Can-Do-OpenIndiana ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] FAQ update

Are there specific items you want added/removed/updated/etc ? Or is this just a general comment? Thanks, Jerry On 01/ 7/16 03:11 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: Hi, If someone wants to give it a shot, this page needs love: http://www.openindiana.org/documentation/faq/ because it is fairly

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ARM port

I was just poking around over at the Illumos site and discovered this: Just wondering out loud if anyone on this list is doing anything utilizing ARM? Thanks, Jerry ___

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

Thank you Alan. :) Merry Christmas, Jerry Kemp On 12/23/15 04:29 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Oracle Communications Messaging Server - according to the data sheet it's available for: - Oracle Solaris 64-bit SPARC and x64 10, 11 - Oracle Linux 6, Rd Hat Enterprise Linux 6 http

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

Not that it needs confirming, but I can 2nd Jim's comments. A few years back I did a 3 year contract at a very large telco. If you used your telco provided email account (i.e. either cell phone/mobile device or broadband) your email lives and is processed both by Sparc based Sun/Oracle

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Posting inline

Hello Robert, Interesting concern. And I'm not voting against your issue, but I am wondering out loud how many blind & visually impaired OpenIndiana users we have here? FWIW, its been some time, but I did provide support for several legally blind individuals in a past life at a $GOVT $WORK

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Apache sobre Hipster?

Running Apache on OpenIndiana, Solaris, or any other Unix or Unix clone is no difference. The directories you mention below are all configurable in the Apache configuration files. If you really need your Apache stuff set up the way you had it in lunux, there is nothing stopping you from

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

On 11/ 6/15 03:27 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Probably the subject line should have been "What is the recommended way to restore configuration from the root pool"? It seems easy enough to back up the root pool (via filesystem or zfs send) but restoring the desired parts on top of a freshly

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken zpool

Absolutely Bob, I know that the OP wasn't happy to hear it, but Jason made a very good (reply) post that shared the comments that I'm sure that we were all thinking. I have a (Solaris admin) friend at another company who apparently has quite a few friends/colleagues/etc who are running

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newer versions of Firefox -- What About Chrome?

Sorry for bottom posting here but it seems appropriate here. On 08/23/15 08:43 PM, j...@m5.chicago.il.us wrote: And, speaking of OpenSXCE (from which one can apparently obtain a working version of Firefox 37) -- there was a huge amount of discussion on this mailing list a while back about

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Newer versions of Firefox - WAS::::Re: Firefox 31

I was reviewing some technical news site and saw that there was a new version of Firefox out, 39.x something, to address some big security hole. I have been stuck on Firefox 25 for some time now, having been bitten by the Firefox won't save downloaded files issue, and had somewhat stopped

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sendmail logging

I'm not necessarily recompiling for every box. Should have made that more clear in my earlier note. I get a good compile, make a package, then stick it on the Jumpstart or AI server and I am good to go. Regardless of the quality of OS provided packages, if compile time options you require

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sendmail logging

I use sendmail every day on a multitude of hosts. I would also 2nd the comment made by an earlier poster concerning an in-house compile. For basic, low level apps, it fine to use OS provided packages. But for more complex and customizable apps (i.e. Apache httpd, Sendmail, Proftpd, BIND DNS

[OpenIndiana-discuss] current status? - Re: [xwin-discuss] OpenCL or CUDA?

Its been a while since CUDA and OpenCL has been discussed, and I'm wondering if there has been any progress, or lack thereof, on OpenIndiana, or Solaris, or any of the other Solaris based distro's? Assuming there hasn't been any progress, I'm wondering if there can or will be any movement

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Libreoffice

On 06/10/15 09:45 AM, Volker A. Brandt wrote: You write that LibreOffice is the primary candidate for an office suite for Tribblix. Why did you select LibreOffice over OpenOffice? It's got greater mindshare, more developers, more users, shipped by more distros. Well... maybe... Does it

[OpenIndiana-discuss] fishing for suggestions for new motherboard

I'm long overdue to build out a new x86/x64 system to run (primarily) OpenIndiana on, and I looking for comments and suggestions from others who have recently done the same. I have already reviewed our HCL here: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Motherboards But I fear it is dated, as the last

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fishing for suggestions for new motherboard

Hello Tim, Thanks for the comments. Specifically the USB ones, I really wasn't aware. My personal opinion and experience with USB (and we all know what opinions are worth) is that it does fine for use as a keyboard and mouse interface. And that is all I would ever use it for. I would

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

On 02/ 1/15 01:50 PM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: Jerry Kemp wrote: You have taken it a lot further than I would have. For an Ultra 5 or 10, I probably would not have gone past Solaris 10, and due to your ram being well under 4 Gb, I would stay on UFS vs ZFS. When you say Solaris 11 install

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

On 02/ 1/15 03:12 PM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: Sure, but before spending much time on them, do bare in mind they are about same performance as a 15-20 year old Pentium II system. You could probably move all their workloads to a single current x86 system, and have loads of CPU capacity left

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SATA Expansion cards

I thought that SATA expansion cards were always bad news when used with Solaris, and Solaris based distro's. There are tons of horror stories out there, primarily thru the ZFS mailing list. Has this changed? Are there end users out there using SATA expansion cards with OpenIndiana, Solaris,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

Bob, You are truly a master wordsmith! :) Thank you for your post. Jerry On 01/25/15 03:15 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2015, Jerry Kemp wrote: +1 for staying as a mailing list. forum's do not lend themselves to local archiving of (personal) valuable data and shared ideas

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] forum creation

+1 for staying as a mailing list. forum's do not lend themselves to local archiving of (personal) valuable data and shared ideas. Jerry On 01/25/15 03:07 PM, Glenn Holmer wrote: On 01/25/2015 11:41 AM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: I asked what was broken, so the text

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sparc

By the way, as a way to support Martin's work and get some well-preserved and functional desktop-ready SPARC gear, people are encouraged to take a look at his blog since he recently began setting up auctions to sell off the machines used to develop and test OpenSXCE since their intricacies

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 30

Its (Firefox 30.0) not here yet, but if/when it does become available, I will expect to be looking in the standard location: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/30.0/contrib/ Jerry On 06/27/14 04:08 PM, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote: Does anybody know where to find Firefox 30

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 28.0 still broken for me - Re: Firefox can't save files

Hello Predrag, thanks for the reminder note. It looks like it has been a while since anyone has posted a non-beta version of Thunderbird. However, it looks like Firefox 29 is available here: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/29.0/contrib/solaris_tarball/ Is there a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fail2ban for sshd

Hello Gary, I don't have an answer on your fail2ban issue, but if you aren't able to resolve it, I am doing exceedingly well with a product called denyhost. http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ Jerry Kemp On 04/24/14 05:43 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Fail2ban seems to randomly miss ssh matches

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 28 on Hipster

On 04/14/14 09:58 AM, Thorsten Heit wrote: Hi, just after I posted my mail I discovered that FF28 obviously shows the same (mis-)behaviour as was discussed a few weeks ago in the thread Firefox can't save files ( http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2014-March/015308.html ):

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 28.0 still broken for me - Re: Firefox can't save files

I might try to archive then remove my $HOME/.mozilla directory, and see if that does any good. Again, thanks for the comments. Jerry On 03/25/14 10:54 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: I missed Apostolos' responses to the questions whether he tried to reproduce with a virgin user account

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 28.0 still broken for me - Re: Firefox can't save files

untarred in a directory, so I kicked that off, and low and behold, everything works again. I guess I will stand tall till either Firefox 29 or 30 is released, and give things a try again. Again, any comments or speculation is appreciated. thank you, Jerry On 03/25/14 06:37 PM, Jerry Kemp

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 28.0 still broken for me - Re: Firefox can't save files

This has kind of quieted down, and I am wondering if others are still seeing this issue, or if it has resolved itself. I just upgraded from 27 to 28.0, and made an attempt to download a new copy of thunderbird. For me, nothing has changed, from the download window, it is indicated that the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mount ext2/3

György, I don't know that I necessarily have a direct fix for you, but the message below I had archived from the Solaris x86 mailing list, original post date in March 2006. I checked the website (below), and the ext software is still there. Hope this helps, or provides another possible

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

Stirring up an old discussion here. Not directly related to OpenIndiana, but got (2) emails from the Solaris userland mailing list today related to SSH. One line item in particular states: 15769261 SUNBT7135649 Deliver OpenSSH 6.0P1 in the userland gate (OpenSSH migration phase 2) content

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] XStream Desktop beta EA1

Its broken for me also. Looking forward to reading the updated link. Jerry On 12/17/13 05:48 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: Gabriel, Seems that the link is somewhat broken. I get a ResultSet not positioned properly, perhaps you need to call next. Gary On 12/17/2013 05:19 PM, Gabriele Bulfon

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Tribblix updated

Thank you for the update Peter. On 11/29/13 08:12 AM, Peter Tribble wrote: After rather longer than I planned, a new update of Tribblix (milestone 8) is now available http://www.tribblix.org/download.html Main focus here has been on getting PXE boot and network install to work (still

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] tcl usage

I do. I use both TCL and Expect quite a bit. I am still on version 7, I haven't yet updated to version 8/hipster. Jerry On 10/30/13 09:16 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: Hello. Does someone actually uses TCL on OpenIndiana? I'm asking just because of a) curiosity; b) the fact that 64-bit TCL

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] skype on OI

https://web.archive.org/web/20091006035801/http://blogs.sun.com/migi/entry/skype_on_opensolaris_the_last Jerry Kemp On 10/24/13 04:08 AM, Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator] wrote: Hi, i don't think that Microsoft will ever release Skype for OI (or solaris)... See also: https

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] skype on OI

It was listed/shared for reference, such as the google groups link. Jerry Kemp On 10/24/13 09:30 AM, Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator] wrote: Hi Jerry, that was back in 2009, an i used to use it a lot... Now, on IO 151a1 1.8 flash is NOT working anymore and more, IMO site

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Booting current generation (EFI) laptops?

I don't have a helpful comment here, but I certainly wish you luck. Sometime 4th quarter, Apple has planned to release their new Mac Pro, aka Mac-mini Pro, aka trashcan Mac. Nothing would make me happier that to purchase one of these for use as a desktop and to run OI on it, then to be able

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Workaround for Flash Plugin using older one

I am using flash 10.0 r45 with Firefox build 21.0. After hitting a few Yahoo links, I came across this Mozilla support page that showed how to disable the warnings: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/928105 . Try to disable

[OpenIndiana-discuss] hipster repo - WAS::::Re: [UNSUBSCRIBE]

What is the hipsters repo? Can someone share the information for that. And is there any chance it has a working copy of VLC? Jerry On 06/ 9/13 04:57 AM, ken mays wrote: Stefan, Samba 3.5.21 binary package is in the OI hipster repo. Samba 3.6.15 and patches are already in the OI-userland

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