[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Intel Macs Petition?

2006-04-11 Thread Ché Kristo
I'll sign it :) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] To start samba in a zone

2006-04-11 Thread Nilotpal Bhattacharyya
Trying to start samba in a zone and failing, What to look for or do next !! ?? . Some guidance needed -- Thanks -- Nil == bash-3.00# svcadm restart samba === bash-3.00# svcs

Re: [osol-discuss] To start samba in a zone

2006-04-11 Thread James C. McPherson
Nilotpal Bhattacharyya wrote: Trying to start samba in a zone and failing, What to look for or do next !! ?? . Some guidance needed -- Thanks -- Nil == bash-3.00# svcadm restart samba

[osol-discuss] Network Configuration Problem

2006-04-11 Thread Vincenzo Sciarra
I have a problem with my network. I'll paste below : ** # host google.com google.com has address 64.233.167.99 # ping 64.233.167.99 64.233.167.99 is alive # ping google.com ping: unknown host google.com

[osol-discuss] Re: C shells

2006-04-11 Thread UNIX admin
Thanks for all the information to all of you. Does anybody know when Solaris will get the latest tcsh? Current is 6.14.0 and Solaris 10 includes 6.12.0. No, but why would that be important? One of the major differences you might have noticed between Linux and (Open)Solaris communities is

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: C shells

2006-04-11 Thread Cyril Plisko
On 4/11/06, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the information to all of you. Does anybody know when Solaris will get the latest tcsh? Current is 6.14.0 and Solaris 10 includes 6.12.0. No, but why would that be important? One of the major differences you might have

[osol-discuss] Re: To start samba in a zone

2006-04-11 Thread William D. Hathaway
what does in say in /var/svc/log/*samba* ? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: To start samba in a zone

2006-04-11 Thread Nilotpal Bhattacharyya
=== bash-3.00# ls -al *samba* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134 Apr 6 08:40 network-samba:default.log HERE IS THE LOG The log files bash-3.00# cat network-samba\:default.log [

Re: [osol-discuss] Network Configuration Problem

2006-04-11 Thread Alan Hargreaves
Vincenzo Sciarra wrote: I have a problem with my network. I'll paste below : ** # host google.com google.com has address 64.233.167.99 # ping 64.233.167.99 64.233.167.99 is alive # ping google.com ping:

[osol-discuss] Re: To start samba in a zone

2006-04-11 Thread Nilotpal Bhattacharyya
In response to the e-mail I received I tried to enable it again, here it is again -- Yes, the files in question are in /etc/sfw/smb.conf == bash-3.00# svcadm enable samba bash-3.00# svcs -l samba fmri svc:/network/samba:default name

[osol-discuss] SUNWscpu ? Am I old fashioned and confused ?

2006-04-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
This is an important question to me. I have been using UNIX in some flavour and on various systems since about 1984 and am more than able to throw my oversized ego over the wall in the hopes of education and instruction. I have recently run into a situation where I am unclear on what to do. I

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWscpu ? Am I old fashioned and confused ?

2006-04-11 Thread James Carlson
Dennis Clarke writes: SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands vipw(1B) ^^^ That's a key phrase there. It doesn't say museum artifact, but it could. SYNOPSIS /usr/ucb/vipw [...] This system is a Solaris Neveda build 35 system complete with

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWscpu ? Am I old fashioned and confused ?

2006-04-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
Dennis Clarke wrote: I recently adopted a style of doing things that may be Linux like and thus a bad thing in the strict UNIX world. I began to put my root user in a home directory of /root along with all of the dot files that get created for PSARC 2003/039 Alternate home directory for root

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWscpu ? Am I old fashioned and confused ?

2006-04-11 Thread James Dickens
On 4/11/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Do we need vipw to safely edit the /etc/passwd file ? YES!!! absolutely, people make mistakes, and no one wants to go down to the datacenter or even the basement, and boot the system with an emergency disk or install disk to fix

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWscpu ? Am I old fashioned and confused ?

2006-04-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dennis Clarke wrote: I recently adopted a style of doing things that may be Linux like and thus a bad thing in the strict UNIX world. I began to put my root user in a home directory of /root along with all of the dot files that get created for PSARC 2003/039 Alternate home directory for

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWscpu ? Am I old fashioned and confused ?

2006-04-11 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 04/11/06 15:25, James Dickens wrote: On 4/11/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Do we need vipw to safely edit the /etc/passwd file ? YES!!! absolutely, people make mistakes, and no one wants to go down to the datacenter or even the basement, and boot the system with an

Re: [osol-discuss] technical (kernel?) discussion list progress?

2006-04-11 Thread Eric Lowe
Peter Buckingham wrote: There was some discussion about having a more technical mailing list/community ala freebsd hackers/lkml/... Was there any progress made on that? I'm definitely interested in discoverying/learning more about the internals of Solaris. It has been discussed, but there

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWscpu ? Am I old fashioned and confused ?

2006-04-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 4/11/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Do we need vipw to safely edit the /etc/passwd file ? YES!!! absolutely, people make mistakes, and no one wants to go down to the datacenter or even the basement, and boot the system with an emergency disk or install disk to

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWscpu ? Am I old fashioned and confused ?

2006-04-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
Dennis Clarke wrote: It says State : Closed, fixed and thus must be in a patch somewhere for Solaris 10 GA ? Or strictly solaris_nevada(snv_36) ? Probably a patch on the way. Don't know if it is being backported or not. Closed, fixed doesn't imply that there is a backported fix. --

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWscpu ? Am I old fashioned and confused ?

2006-04-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 04/11/06 15:25, James Dickens wrote: On 4/11/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Do we need vipw to safely edit the /etc/passwd file ? YES!!! absolutely, people make mistakes, and no one wants to go down to the datacenter or even the basement, and boot the system with

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWscpu ? Am I old fashioned and confused ?

2006-04-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dennis Clarke wrote: It says State : Closed, fixed and thus must be in a patch somewhere for Solaris 10 GA ? Or strictly solaris_nevada(snv_36) ? Probably a patch on the way. Don't know if it is being backported or not. Closed, fixed doesn't imply that there is a backported fix. Ah

[osol-discuss] Re: To start samba in a zone

2006-04-11 Thread Nilotpal Bhattacharyya
===The error like this smbldap_open_connection: Secure connection not supported by LDAP client libraries! Connection to LDAP server failed for the 1 try! smbldap_open_connection: Secure connection not supported by LDAP client libraries! == Was taken care of by

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-11 Thread Jürgen Keil
Or I can wait until the grub menu timeout expires. This starts loading the default entry. multiboot and the boot_archive is loaded. Text screen is cleared, , and the system hangs - before printing the SunOS Release 5.xx copyright string. A completely wild guess but maybe we got

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-11 Thread Jürgen Keil
If this is similiar to a different platform I worked on you might want to try removing the i8042 driver... just a wild guess. It was hanging in multiboot, kb_init(), which expects that x86 hardware using the standard console must have a working ps/2 keyboard controller. It seems the i8042

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
Jürgen Keil wrote: any I'm able to boot in Intel iMac into a snv_34 failsafe kernel boot archive ! YEAH! Quick questions since I haven't had time to setup the environment to play with your patches yet. Did you see any disks, or can't you type anything yet ? The reason I ask is

Re: [osol-discuss] technical (kernel?) discussion list progress?

2006-04-11 Thread Al Hopper
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Eric Lowe wrote: Peter Buckingham wrote: There was some discussion about having a more technical mailing list/community ala freebsd hackers/lkml/... Was there any progress made on that? I'm definitely interested in discoverying/learning more about the internals of

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-11 Thread Al Hopper
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, [UTF-8] Jürgen Keil wrote: snip . any I'm able to boot in Intel iMac into a snv_34 failsafe kernel boot archive ! Nice Work JK!! :) Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: To start samba in a zone

2006-04-11 Thread lianep
Nilotpal Bhattacharyya writes: Well, I take it all back , as it stands now . I had to do a svcadm restart samba and than svcadm refresh samba Glad it's working. -- Close the Thread . In order for things to get better, we need bugs

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
Jürgen Keil wrote: Quick questions since I haven't had time to setup the environment to play with your patches yet. Did you see any disks, Yes, I see both the optical device and the s-ata hdd, both on pci-ide controllers: I noticed that in the prtconf output you sent in the next message,

Re: [osol-discuss] technical (kernel?) discussion list progress?

2006-04-11 Thread Eric Lowe
Al Hopper wrote: On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Eric Lowe wrote: Peter Buckingham wrote: There was some discussion about having a more technical mailing list/community ala freebsd hackers/lkml/... Was there any progress made on that? I'm definitely interested in discoverying/learning more about the

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: C shells

2006-04-11 Thread UNIX admin
Stability and compatibility doesn't necessary imply outdated software. In fact nowadays running oldish software gives nothing by unattractive look. And that is what spookes many potential users. I disagree. Having latest-and-greatest, if it comes from the Linux camp, does not mean quality.

Re: [osol-discuss] technical (kernel?) discussion list progress?

2006-04-11 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Apr 11, 2006, at 7:20 PM, Eric Lowe wrote: Al Hopper wrote: On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Eric Lowe wrote: Peter Buckingham wrote: There was some discussion about having a more technical mailing list/community ala freebsd hackers/lkml/... Was there any progress made on that? I'm definitely

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: C shells

2006-04-11 Thread David J. Orman
Understandably, latest and greatest may not always be the *best* option. There is a lot to be said for stability/status quo. However, you need to look at both ends of the spectrum. Here in the State of Hawaii, I am a data processing systems analyst in order to help fund the startup of my data

Re: [request-sponsor] Re: [osol-discuss] Contributing Code

2006-04-11 Thread Karyn Ritter
OK, I've updated the table at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/oss_bite_size/ . Some notes: * This page only contains oss-bite-size bugs that might be available for the community to work on: there is a link to the fixed oss-bite-size bugs. * I was planning to use the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris on Intel Macs??

2006-04-11 Thread Ian Collins
Jürgen Keil wrote: Hmm, well, I've not yet tried installing Solaris x86 on this Intel Mac, so I'm not 100% it will corrupt the HDD. Most likely the HDD will end up beeing corrupted, I'd say. Does the Solaris installer know how to install to EFI partitioned HDDs? I don't think so...

Re: [osol-discuss] technical (kernel?) discussion list progress?

2006-04-11 Thread Ian Collins
Al Hopper wrote: On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Eric Lowe wrote: Peter Buckingham wrote: There was some discussion about having a more technical mailing list/community ala freebsd hackers/lkml/... Was there any progress made on that? I'm definitely interested in discoverying/learning more about

Re: [request-sponsor] Re: [osol-discuss] Contributing Code

2006-04-11 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 02:43:47PM -0700, Karyn Ritter wrote: OK, I've updated the table at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/oss_bite_size/ . Some notes: It doesn't seem useful to me to split out Accepted bugs. The accepted state doesn't really mean very much at all (I've even seen

[osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-11 Thread Keith M. Wesolowski
I'd like to propose a project similar to SFW Nevada for the forthcoming opening of the collection previously known as the Solaris Software Companion. This body of software consists of Free and Open Source software not supported by Sun; it installs into /opt/sfw and is delivered with Solaris 10

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-11 Thread lianep
Keith M. Wesolowski writes: I'd like to propose a project similar to SFW Nevada for the forthcoming opening of the collection previously known as the Solaris Software Companion. This body of software consists of Free and Open Source software not supported by Sun; it installs into /opt/sfw

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: C shells

2006-04-11 Thread Casper . Dik
Stability and compatibility doesn't necessary imply outdated software. In fact nowadays running oldish software gives nothing by unattractive look. And that is what spookes many potential users. I disagree. Having latest-and-greatest, if it comes from the Linux camp, does not mean

[osol-discuss] Project Proposal : Community Software for Solaris

2006-04-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
re : Keith M. Wesolowski wrote: I'd like to propose a project similar to SFW Nevada for the forthcoming opening of the collection previously known as the Solaris Software Companion. This body of software consists of Free and Open Source software not supported by Sun; it installs into

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
I think a better idea might be to create something like Blastwave but for Solaris 10 Sparc and x86, where we can just install software into /opt/sfw using pkg-get or something similar. It'll be far more useful than a co-bundled product, which gets too stale to be useful over time. see :