[OpenIndiana-discuss] Timeslider

2012-02-23 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm running OI b 151a. I haven't touched it for at least 5/6 mnths due to a move from northern Indiana USA to Atlanta GA USA. Finally gotten around to start re-establishing my zfs (home lan) server that was reduced to some saved harddrives during the move. The hardware they ran was dumped. So

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Revive retired disks with data sets on them with vitual OI

2012-03-25 Thread Harry Putnam
I have several disks from a period when I had a hardware setup of OI on its own physical machine. I'm now trying to run OI as a Virtualbox Guest on a 64bit win 7 machine. I've had it running for some time but just using some small virtual disks to play around with. The win7 box is a Sager

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Revive retired disks with data sets on them with vitual OI

2012-03-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com writes: Probably not the most reliable, but definitely the easiest, way to get access to your data is to use USB disks because VirtualBox allows direct USB passthrough. My boss uses OpenSolaris with USB drives to get access to the ZFS pool running on his

[OpenIndiana-discuss] i7 cpu that accepts ECC Ram

2013-01-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Summary: I hope someone here can tell me if there is a setup using recent i7 cpus that supports ECC ram. Is there a motherboard that supports both? Further, please feel free to suggest the best setup in your opinion for running OI, (primarily for the zfs based storage setup with several

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] i7 cpu that accepts ECC Ram

2013-02-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us writes: [...] If you are not dead-set on having an an i7 CPU, then there are many more options. SuperMicro makes some nice motherboards which work with Xeon CPUs and support ECC memory and built-in audio. These motherboards are basically

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Auto snapshots

2013-02-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Probably well trodden ground, but looking back into the past list discussions I'm not noticing a straight answer about this. I quit working with OI some 1.5 yrs ago and have forgotten most of what I ever learned about using it. I do remember there was a problem with auto snapshots in the early

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Pounding on well trod ground..

2013-04-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Sorry to go over what must have been already covered many times but I dropped out of OI participation for a good long while. Hopefully someone will feel kindly disposed and post a brief outline of how to go from zero to running a vb vm of current OI on a win7 64bit host. I know the repos have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Pounding on well trod ground..

2013-04-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) openindi...@nedharvey.com writes: Once I have a running install, is the syntax for the packages still something like REPONAME/dev? sudo pkg search subversion sudo pkg install subversion (or whatever) I probably phrased poorly. What I'm asking there is once

[OpenIndiana-discuss] should there be a network inplace on first boot

2013-04-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Once installed and on first boot of newly installed OS. Should there be a network in place or does all that need to be done once os is running before the pkg tool can be used . The install itself is able to create a network but then it seems the booted OS is back to square 1.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] [b 134] consensus on create static IP

2010-11-08 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been pawing around with google looking for a standard way to set up a static IP address on newer opensolaris builds, in this case b 134. I see at least 3 different methods described... all different. The most recent appears to be Jan 2010... but doesn't say what build. Before I start just

[OpenIndiana-discuss] [b 147] Consensus on how to set up static IP

2010-11-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Can anyone point me to, or supply a brief step thru describing a known to work method for setting up a static IP address. One with complete steps that are current, as it appears from googling around that there are several ways described and not all work on newer opensolaris like b 134. Does that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [b 147] Consensus on how to set up static IP

2010-11-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Can anyone point me to, or supply a brief step thru describing a known to work method for setting up a static IP address. One with complete steps that are current, as it appears from googling around that there are several ways described and not all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [b 147] Consensus on how to set up static IP

2010-11-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk writes: On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 07:16 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Can anyone point me to, or supply a brief step thru describing a known to work method for setting up a static IP address. One with complete steps that are current

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] Can this scenario be accomplished?

2010-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Sean s...@ttys0.net writes: After a zpool import of the attached zpool, the zpool and associated zfs filesystems will be visible and accessible. Thanks again... that cleared some of it up. I see what I've been stumbling over is what `importing' is really like. I had visions of actually

[OpenIndiana-discuss] find size of raw disks

2010-11-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Is there some way to determine the size of disks discovered with `format' An attempt to create a 2 disk mirror failed with the message that the disks were different sizes, but I thought they were the same size... I must have used the wrong identifier for one of the disks... so to find the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] find size of raw disks

2010-11-21 Thread Harry Putnam
McBofh james.c.mcpher...@gmail.com writes: On 22/11/10 01:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there some way to determine the size of disks discovered with `format' An attempt to create a 2 disk mirror failed with the message that the disks were different sizes, but I thought they were the same

[OpenIndiana-discuss] When adding a mirror disk to rpool

2010-11-21 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm about to create a mirror to rpool that currently is a single disk. I remember it being somewhat more involved than any other pool for adding a mirror. Involving the boot bits and running grub... maybe other stuff as well. I wondered if anyone has a URL where I might read about the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] When adding a mirror disk to rpool

2010-11-22 Thread Harry Putnam
McBofh james.c.mcpher...@gmail.com writes: On 22/11/10 02:18 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm about to create a mirror to rpool that currently is a single disk. I remember it being somewhat more involved than any other pool for adding a mirror. Involving the boot bits and running grub... maybe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] livecd zpool import -fR /a xpool but no files

2010-11-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Calum Mackay calum.mac...@cdmnet.org writes: On 27/11/10 22:14, Calum Mackay wrote: If not, I got it to work here, something like this: Mind you, the above may not be wise: if you import your real rpool into the livecd, that may end up leaving the rpool in a state where it won't look right

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] livecd zpool import -fR /a xpool but no files

2010-11-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Calum Mackay calum.mac...@cdmnet.org writes: To address your current situation, I would try booting the ISO/Live again, and seeing what zpool import says. If it's xpool, or anything other than rpool, then: zpool import -f -R /a badpool rpool [where badpool is whatever was reported by

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] livecd zpool import -fR /a xpool but no files

2010-11-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Calum Mackay calum.mac...@cdmnet.org writes: On 29/11/10 15:34, Frank Middleton wrote: Just a guess, but shouldn't the mountpoint first be set back to / zfs umount newrpool/ROOT/openindiana zfs set mountpoint=/ newrpool/ROOT/openindiana zpool export newrpool I did not find that to be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] livecd zpool import -fR /a xpool but no files

2010-11-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Frank Middleton f.middle...@apogeect.com writes: On 11/29/10 10:48, Calum Mackay wrote: On 29/11/10 15:34, Frank Middleton wrote: Just a guess, but shouldn't the mountpoint first be set back to / zfs umount newrpool/ROOT/openindiana zfs set mountpoint=/ newrpool/ROOT/openindiana zpool

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The static network that never works

2010-12-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Oscar del Rio del...@mie.utoronto.ca writes: Installing from oi-b147... once installed the icon on right upper of gnome window display has dialog for setting up a static network... but when I follow it, I get a network that even says its connected... but it goes no where... can't ping

[OpenIndiana-discuss] cifs under oi

2010-12-01 Thread Harry Putnam
When setting up the cifs server under oi (b147) is it still necessary to edit /etc/pam.conf when expecting to share files with windows OS. Adding a line like: other password required pam_smb_passwd.so.1 nowarn At the end? ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] cifs under oi

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
awatkins1...@gmail.com writes: This is only required when dealing with Workgroups. It is not required for Domain setup. Good information there thanks. As it happens this is a workgroup setup so I'll need to do it. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Why is user logged into `/'

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
In two separate installs of b 147.. I find that my user gets logged into `/' on login. home is mounted normally: mount |grep home /export/home on rpool/export/home read/write/setuid/devices/nonbmand/exec/xattr/atime/dev=950008 on Thu Dec 2 19:06:19 2010 /export/home/reader on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Why is user logged into `/'

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Calum Mackay calum.mac...@cdmnet.org writes: On 03/12/2010 01:25, Harry Putnam wrote: /etc/passwd clearly shows user at /home/reader What do you have for: grep ^automount /etc/nsswitch.conf and assuming it's files, what do you have in /etc/auto_home ? Yeah.. files Should

[OpenIndiana-discuss] about devlopment tools

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
I remember from opensolaris when I wanted to compile a few minor things not available in the repos that I needed to install a specific pkg that contained many of the needed tools. I wonder if anyone can guess what that might have been. These are small non complicated sources like xbindkeys.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] No timeslider... what gives

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
On a new install of b147 when the gui is up I attempt to access the timeslider tool from the System menu. I'm asked for root passwd Ok done. Then the watch shows as if something is taking time start. That disappears and nothing every appears on the desktop. This should just

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No timeslider... what gives

2010-12-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org writes: Harry: You seem to be facing many problems with your current OI install, which no one else has faced so far. Yeah I noticed that... hehe. Is a reinstall an option for you? Yes, not at all out of the question except for 1 thing... this is a

[OpenIndiana-discuss] auto-snaps cannot be started is this the known bug[s]

2010-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
After a fresh install, my third in a series this last week (inside vbox), this time on windows XP, I'm unable to turn on the auto-snapshot services. I enabled the time slider in the gui then proceeded to try to turn on the services. I got in a hurry and tried to do it with a for loop from the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Any have a ready made script to run from cron for snapshots

2010-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Before there was a time slider, people must have run snapshots from cron or something similar. Since in 3 tries at new installs, using different media each time has resulted in a useless crippled time slider I wondered if any of you still have or use some kind of cron driven scripting for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any have a ready made script to run from cron for snapshots

2010-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org writes: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Before there was a time slider, people must have run snapshots from cron or something similar. Since in 3 tries at new installs, using different media each time has resulted

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any have a ready made script to run from cron for snapshots

2010-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org writes: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org writes: ... However the work you pointed too looks like it will be a very nice tool once some of the wrinkles are ironed out. Actually

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Root role and root user

2010-12-08 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm sure to get scolded for running as root quite often but it is my preferred method quite often. It's no doubt not a good idea but I still bull headedly, prefer it quite often. I like to be able to ssh to root whenever I please. It makes lots of things easier... and since this is a home setup

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Root role and root user

2010-12-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Mads Worsøe Duun m...@worsoe.dk writes: Running root as user is dirty, and for lazy persons. Exactly! .. now you've got the idea. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

[OpenIndiana-discuss] man pages to solaris cmds

2010-12-18 Thread Harry Putnam
What is the MANPATH to the solaris cmds that there are also gnu versions of. /bin/ls for example If I call man /bin/ls I get warnings about opening a binary file, and when the man page opens there is lots of guff in it like escape sequences. ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] man pages to solaris cmds

2010-12-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Albert Lee tr...@opensolaris.org writes: [...] Harry Wrote:  Someone advised me to set LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1.  When I did that, it does cure my on-going problem, but now wondering if when calling `man /bin/ls' ... it may act differently with LANG set that way. Yup... I just tested that

[OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Harry Putnam
A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard choice. I've been running osol on this hardware: cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3400+ motherboard: AOpen AK86-L (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM hard drives: 2 IDE 500GB, 2 sata 500GB, 2 sata 750GB The motherboard

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:42:44AM -0800, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: Do you have a recommendation for a socket AM3 CPU that will run Solaris well? This is what I bought in March to run Opensolaris. It runs Openindiana flawlessly. All the devices are

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Kevin J. Woolley k...@javabunny.net writes: On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 10:00, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com said: A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard choice. I've been running osol on this hardware: cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhun...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 19:58, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: [...] Thanks for the input. The spec says its `form factor' is micro ATX Does that mean the screw holes won't fit an ATX MidTower (antec sonata) Alex S responded: Any

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: The spec says its `form factor' is micro ATX That was because I had a micro ATX case. I believe ASUS also makes a similar board in the ATX form factor. So the micro ATX will NOT work on an ATX format box then? And do you have an idea what might be

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Need coaching about used equipment

2011-01-12 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been running oi on what is now an older AMD Athlon64 +3400 with three GB ram which is the max on that Abit board. My setup is only a small scale home server intended to supply my need of lots of room for video editing files and other hefty graphic projects. Something has happened to render

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 2 small Qs about Sata controllers

2011-02-18 Thread Harry Putnam
When looking at motherboard specs and I see this notation: (Note: Taken from: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131655 Newegg showing ASUS M4A89TD PRO/USB3 AM3 AMD 890FX ) PATA1 x ATA133 2 Dev. Max SATA 6Gb/s 6 x SATA 6Gb/s ---

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2 small Qs about Sata controllers

2011-02-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Ignacio Marambio Catan darkjo...@gmail.com writes: Question 1) pata1 x ATA133 2 Dev. Max Does it mean there is only 1 IDE hdd may be installed? No, you can install 2 drives 6x SATA [...] Does it mean only 6 sata hdd may be installed? That would de accurate I think

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2 small Qs about Sata controllers

2011-02-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Jeppe Toustrup openindi...@tenzer.dk writes: 2011/2/19 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com: I'm a bit confused... does the `x' in each case stand for a controller? So Pata controllers support 2 drives, but SATA controllers only support 1? No, it's the number of connectors of the kind

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Being much a novice in building for a zfs server, I've cobbled up a setup with one of those build it online setups... on ebay this one was. But before I plunge for the green backs. I'd really feel a bit more confident if a few experienced people ran there eye down the lineup and see if anything

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Johannes Bohse openindiana-a...@ko-sys.com writes: you do not need to worry about the size. zfs is very efficient in scrubbing and resilvering. zfs scrubs used sectors only and resilvers only missing transactions. Spare sectors are not involved in both complexity equations. Good info thank

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Russ Price rjp_...@fubegra.net writes: I'm running an ASUS M4A785-M with an Intel SASUC8I HBA, and it's been flawless with OpenSolaris b134, OI 147, and OI 148. I was a bit cheap with the RAM, with 4x1GB sticks of ECC RAM, but it has performed well for me. I'm using all six onboard SATA

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Explain the Goal of oi

2011-02-26 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm getting a little confused about what OI is trying to do exactly. I changed to oi with Opensolaris looked untenable due to oracle maneuvers, expecting to see a basic continuation of what was happing from b 101 up to 134. I've been seeing little snippets of subjects and the like that seem to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Explain the Goal of oi

2011-03-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Apostolos Syropoulos asyropou...@yahoo.com writes: I've been seeing little snippets of subjects and the like that seem to indicate that oi is merging with Illumini (no sure what that is called by full name). The least I would expect from people to do is a basic google search before

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to index all files on a oi system

2011-03-15 Thread Harry Putnam
If you wanted a list of all the files on a host (4 smallish zfs filesystem...probably 10s of thousands, but nothing much compared to many users here) Does zfs offer anything special for something like that? If not, then is there some better way than running 'find' on all the drives and compiling

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Explain the Goal of oi

2011-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Kevin J. Woolley k...@javabunny.net writes: This list always so friendly and encouraging... :D Really? I think it does pretty darn well. I won't try to convince you, though. As OP, I agree. I also agree that I should have kept my yap shut when the sniper came in. All input was quite

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to index all files on a oi system

2011-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Matt Connolly matt.connolly...@gmail.com writes: Perhaps you might be interested in installing the locate command from gnu findutils: http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/ It's installed by default on Mac OSX systems, and is really handy. There's probably some very good security reasons

[OpenIndiana-discuss] For a basic dev environment

2011-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
When I was running opensolaris 101, up to 133 before switching to oi, there used to be a basic set of pkgs one needed installed to have a basic developmental environment. I mean just enough to do basic compile from source of gnus pkgs and the like. Is that still true with oi? If so can anyone

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] For a basic dev environment

2011-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Kevin J. Woolley k...@javabunny.net writes: On 16 March 2011 16:27, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: When I was running opensolaris 101, up to 133 before switching to oi, there used to be a basic set of pkgs one needed installed to have a basic developmental environment.  I mean just

[OpenIndiana-discuss] exporting zpools toward switching machines

2011-05-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: b 133 (opensolaris) on older athlon +3400 as home lan zfs server No commercial operations, home use only. Current hardware is dying and partially dead now. I've laid zfs down for a good number of months. Not on purpose so much as just too busy with life.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] exporting rpool with system running

2011-07-31 Thread Harry Putnam
[ I apologize if a very similar post from me has already shown up here. Having some kind of delivery or receive problem] How can I export the rpool with the system up? Can it only be done from a livecd or such like? Trying a simple export command just tells me rpool is busy.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] exporting rpool with system running

2011-08-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net writes: AFAIK, exporting an rpool while running on it, is quite impossible. Why would you want to export it? So use livecd then? The reasons to do this have been discussed here at least twice. Thats why I didn't include that information. Thinking

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Edit rpools (export status) from livecd

2011-08-01 Thread Harry Putnam
With hardware that has no cdrom or floppy drive... how can I start the OS from livecd?.. I've never done a network style startup. Just a brief outline would be very welcome. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] gcc 4.x on OpenIndiana 151

2011-09-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Hillel Lubman shtetl...@gmail.com writes: Well, SFE is a separate repository now. The warning is for the case when you have gcc 4.x installed from OpenSolaris repo. Just uninstall it if you do, add SFE repo to your system, and install gcc from there. It has 4.6.1 now: Sorry for the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] extreme sloth on fresh install bootup

2011-10-17 Thread Harry Putnam
I've just installed oi on a vm (virtualbox) as guest on an older P4 3.06 with 2gb ram an running Debian wheezy as HOST OS. I gave the oi OS only 900mb of ram. On reboot following install I'm seeing what seems to be inordinate sloth in the boot process. As the services are being enumerated its

[OpenIndiana-discuss] After install for text based iso

2011-10-17 Thread Harry Putnam
I've just installed oi 151 from the text based installer: oi-dev-151a-text-x86.iso To get a minimum basic gui desktop what pkgs would need to be installed? There is such a vast array of X related stuff to look through from the command line, I'm having trouble figuring out what is basic. Some

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] After install for text based iso

2011-10-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: I've just installed oi 151 from the text based installer: oi-dev-151a-text-x86.iso To get a minimum basic gui desktop what pkgs would need to be installed? There is such a vast array of X related stuff to look through from the command line, I'm

[OpenIndiana-discuss] get X working after install from text base iso

2011-10-18 Thread Harry Putnam
I installed from a recent oi-dev-151a-text-x86.iso. That iso is apparently a server model and doesn't really expect to have a gnome desktop... I'd sooner try to install required pkgs and whatever else I need to do to get X running, than start over with though desktop iso. I followed up

[OpenIndiana-discuss] What package for `floatingpoint.h'

2011-10-18 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm trying to compile a pkg called `xbindkeys'. After installing guile the ./configure script seemed to find all it needed, but on running `make' I hit a snag pretty early on: (wrapped for mail) , | make all-am | make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/xbindkeys-1.8.5' | gcc

[OpenIndiana-discuss] desktop (dvd) iso will not boot in virtual box

2011-10-19 Thread Harry Putnam
I installed the server iso 151a with no problems recently, but today trying to install from the desktop (dvd) iso, downloaded from oi home page. I am unable to boot from that iso at all. I thought perhaps the download had guffed up the iso so downloadeded it again. But still it will not boot and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] desktop (dvd) iso will not boot in virtual box

2011-10-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: I installed the server iso 151a with no problems recently, but today trying to install from the desktop (dvd) iso, downloaded from oi home page. I am unable to boot from that iso at all. I thought perhaps the download had guffed up the iso so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] desktop (dvd) iso will not boot in virtual box

2011-10-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: I installed the server iso 151a with no problems recently, but today trying to install from the desktop (dvd) iso, downloaded from oi home page. I am unable to boot from that iso at all. I thought perhaps

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Disjointed hardware questions

2011-10-19 Thread Harry Putnam
First, I'm trying to find a way to use Solaris and zfs for a homeboy NAS, but without the normal hardware (until I get some money of course) Currently I have a fairly powerful laptop with i7 820 with 8GB ram. I'm running win7 on it, and that will need to stay since I'm doing video editing and

[OpenIndiana-discuss] About auto snapshots

2011-10-21 Thread Harry Putnam
I've just recently installed oi 151. I've enabled auto snapshot in the desktop slider application. That was some hours ago, but when I look in any of the .zfs/snapshots directories there has been no snapshot done. Should I expect to see snapshots by now or is there something else I have to do?

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Example cron scripts for snapshot admin

2011-10-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Since the auto timeslider doesn't work, I'm thinking people have created any number of scripts, cron jobs, etc to do something similar. I wonder if there are a bunch of examples kept somewhere in our resources? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] development environment

2011-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Paolo Marcheschi paolo.marches...@ftgm.it writes: Yes you can follow this guide: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Building+with+oi-build Personally I created a zone in order to create an indipendent compilation environment. That guide looks like a lot more than what I was thinking of.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About auto snapshots

2011-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Gernot Wolf gw.i...@chello.at writes: [...] So why is this feature working on my box when according to known issues it shouldn't, and obviously isn't working on other oi-151a boxes...??? Not that I want to complain ;) - just curious... [...] Oscar del Rio del...@mie.utoronto.ca writes:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] log messages from failed time-slider daemon

2011-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been told that the time-slider does not work on 151 but also several posters responded that it works fine for them. I'm hoping I can get it to work too, but not sure where to start. application/time-slider:default fails during boot up. When I look at the log I see it attempting to start

[OpenIndiana-discuss] heavy cpu usage inside VirtualBox on linux

2011-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
I wondered if anyone can verify if its normal to see such high cpu usage in these situtations. Running b 151 inside VirtualBox on a linux OS (debian). The hardware is older P4 with Celeron 3.06 Ghz CPU and 2gb of ram. The VM is assigned 888 MB of the available 2025. I'm not sure how much is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] log messages from failed time-slider daemon

2011-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com writes: On 10/27/11 18:34, Harry Putnam wrote: Note that top line about `crontab'. Is that the reason for the subsequent failures? It appears to be. What is going on that requires crontab to be read? And what might make it not open.. permissions

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] log messages from failed time-slider daemon

2011-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
James Carlson carls...@workingcode.com writes: What is going on that requires crontab to be read? And what might make it not open.. permissions? The script this service runs modifies crontab entries (yecch!). Not opening could be due to user modification of the time-slider service itself,

[OpenIndiana-discuss] send/receive.. and mountpoint

2011-10-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Running b 151a in Vbox This is my first real try at using the send/receive commands offered in zfs. I'm moving data from one vm guest on a debian linux OS to a new vm guest on a win7 OS. I thought there would be a way to have a file system on the old server to just be duplicated on the new. On

[OpenIndiana-discuss] where is hostname kept

2011-10-31 Thread Harry Putnam
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 are apparently out of date and say things like /etc/hostname.NIC.. and I see nothing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] List of installed pkgs begining with pkg:/

2011-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Oscar del Rio del...@mie.utoronto.ca writes: On 11/ 1/11 09:33 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: How can I get a list of installed pkgs that begin with pkg:/[...] I thought maybe something like: pkg list |awk '{print $2}' |uniq sort -o uniq_installed How about 'pkg info'? pkg info | awk

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] List of installed pkgs begining with pkg:/

2011-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com writes: No, they are installed as separate packages, and including the pkg:/ prefix would give you the same list: http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev-il/info/0/editor%2Fvim%407.2.308%2C5.11-0.151.1%3A20110912T022847Z

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Where are my auto snapshots?

2011-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
A new install of 151a as virtual guest on win7 OS (with Vbox) I've enabled time-slider in the gui All sevices appear to be running: # svcs -a |grep 'time-slider\|auto-snap' disabled Oct_29 svc:/application/time-slider/plugin:zfs-send disabled Oct_29

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Where are my auto snapshots?

2011-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Jeppe Toustrup openindi...@tenzer.dk writes: On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 23:41, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: A new install of 151a as virtual guest on win7 OS (with Vbox) I've enabled time-slider in the gui All sevices appear to be running:  # svcs -a |grep 'time-slider\|auto-snap

[OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

2011-11-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Too much a noob to be able to figure this out for myself. I see what appears to be a serious lot of new stuff in release notes of oracle-solaris 11. Can anyone compare that new OS with oi espeically considering the usage being a home nas. (So maybe not needing many of the sol 11 enhancements

[OpenIndiana-discuss] [lame q] point to documentation for rescue type boot

2011-11-10 Thread Harry Putnam
I knew how to handle this problem sometime in the past, but like so many things, now I need it again I'm sort of drawing blanks. I've done enough damage on an oi setup (b 151a as guest in VB on win7) that when I attempt to start the vm it goes thru grub and stays at the page one sees just before

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [lame q] point to documentation for rescue type boot

2011-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Oscar del Rio del...@mie.utoronto.ca writes: I'm not sure what all I've done but the main thing is that I disabled gdm. I did it on purpose and have done that in the past on other oi and os before that to make bootup go to a console instead of the gui. press Esc key to get the login prompt.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com writes: On 11/10/11 23:00, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Oracle announced availabilty of Solaris 11. Do you notice any real news in the O.S. that OI/IllumOS has not? http://blogs.oracle.com/darren/entry/completely_disabling_root_logins_on It appears to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com writes: It appears to no longer even be possible to circumvent the suggested usage of root account and allow root logins. Anyone know for sure if it is still possible to enforce an old fashioned root account with regular login access? If so how

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] restoring the root account - WAS:: Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Jerry Kemp sun.mail.lis...@oryx.cc writes: I am home today playing around with Solaris 11 on an old T1000, and (at least here locally), the `rolemod -K type=normal root' appears to be working fine for me. Hope this helps. Thanks for the input... please see my response to Alan, but briefly

[OpenIndiana-discuss] nfs4 both server and client

2011-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Can someone point me to a full description of how to setup nfs4? Googling finds so much stuff, a lot of it is either dated or maybe for a different flavor of solaris. I don't know enough to know if the setup for nfs4 is generic to all flavors or what. But surely there must be documentation that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] setting up nfs4 from scratch

2011-11-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark mark0...@gmail.com writes: [...] Thanks for the very complete instructions. On my linux distro [debian wheezy] I see this in /etc/idmapd.conf # set your own domain here, if id differs from FQDN minus hostname # Domain = localdomain And since `hostname -f (-f means show fqdn) shows

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Where can I find a full Walk thru setting up nfs4 from scratch

2011-11-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Driggs gdri...@gmail.com writes: I am a bit curious why NFSv4 would be the first choice for such a small LAN as the original poster's. Do you wish to use Kerberos and ACLs to manage access from Windows? No, I'm not concerned with acls or kerberos at all... being as how it is a small

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Where can I find a full Walk thru setting up nfs4 from scratch

2011-11-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: [...] When I start to edit /etc/default/nfs as described in some of the directions I've found I see: # Moved to SMF. Use sharectl(1M) to manage NFS properties. Ditto for /etc/default/autofs But when I go to man sharectl, there is no mention

[OpenIndiana-discuss] getting cpan shell to `addhistory' (readline)

2011-11-16 Thread Harry Putnam
What else do I need to have installed besides `pkg:/library/readline' in order for the cpan shell to be fully readline enabled. That is, capable of supplying `history' with up/down arrows. I vaguely remember on other OSs needing term-readline... but I don't see anything like that other than rxvt

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] setting up nfs4 from scratch

2011-11-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark mark0...@gmail.com writes: [...] Oh, and what chmod cmd do you use on any shares to be shared with windows platforms? In the past, for cifs, I've used: chmod -R A=everyone@:full_set:fd:allow When security isn't an issue, then this will be easier. Files created from windows will

[OpenIndiana-discuss] about list of snaps in specific fs

2011-11-28 Thread Harry Putnam
I must be just getting the syntax all wrong but zfs man page makes appear possible to list snapshots of a specific file system. zfs list -t snapshot zp2/hosts/reader zfs list -t snapshot zp2/hosts/reader cannot open 'zp2/hosts/reader': operation not applicable to datasets of this type

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Hoping to save any more googling and pawing thru specs etc by letting someone that knows just name motherboards that allow 24 gb max ram and have option for ECC memory too. This will be for a zfs server but will also be the home of many installed guest vms... hence the high ram spec. I've looked

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which mobo allows 24 GB ram and ECC

2011-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Jerry Kemp sun.mail.lis...@oryx.cc writes: I have one of these running OI b151a without issue. Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 I only have 12 Gb of ram installed, but it goes to 24 Gb. At neweggs page with specs I don't see any mention of ECC memory. Do you know if it is supported?

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