Re: Unix shells and XATTRs / was: Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, and the XATTR API seems to be incompatible to the POSIX shell. Wonderfull... ;-( Let me give a short answer in advance: If you are able to prove that the Sun XATTE interface

Re: [osol-discuss] Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-10 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 9 May 2006, Dick Davies wrote: On 09/05/06, Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 May 2006, Andrew Watkins wrote: My manager asked me if I could a mirror copy of our /var/mail on another system, just in case the system went down. There's a distributed filesystem

[osol-discuss] Re: Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-10 Thread Andrew Watkins
it's not completely clear to me how this filesystem is used and how you are planning to manage your alternate service, so the following may or may not be useful... I will clear up exactly what I was hoping for. Want I wanted is to mirror 2 disks on 2 different machines, so that both disks

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Asus A7V8X-X LAN Setup

2006-05-10 Thread UNIX admin
I don't mean to be a pain, but I can *barely* understand what is written below. That is so because the original text has not been written by a human being, but rather by some sort of a sophisticated spam-phishing tool. Unfortunately, whoever is using this tool is clearly out of their

[osol-discuss] Re: Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-10 Thread UNIX admin
My manager asked me if I could a mirror copy of our /var/mail on another system, just in case the system went down. He suggested that Windows has DFS (Distributed File System) and I said I would look into it. Over the weekend I thought of CacheFS which comes will solaris which allows you

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Asus A7V8X-X LAN Setup

2006-05-10 Thread James Carlson
Moazam Raja writes: I don't mean to be a pain, but I can *barely* understand what is written below. It's not quite clear, but I think the answer is someone (actually anyone) can file a bug/RFE using the existing tools on opensolaris.org, and then someone with a contributor agreement can

Re: Moving runat away from /usr/bin / was: Re: Subversion in Solaris / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-10 Thread Darren J Moffat
Roland Mainz wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Holger Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think runat(1) is a good debug/development tool. I don't believe that it is useful for building applications on top of, if you need to build apps then use openat(2) and friends not shell scripting. Please

[osol-discuss] Re: Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-10 Thread Eric Fluger
Big YES !!! (but with reservation...) If a shared storage solution is practical to implement it's the best bet. Sounds like what you have in mind is building (a subset of) a campus cluster. Definitely the most general, robust, and elegant solution to the problem. However, it sounded to me

[osol-discuss] Re: sata or pata on older sparc/pci workstations ?

2006-05-10 Thread Eric Fluger
When you folks say that various item are broken or not implemented, are we talkin' strictly about the open version of sol 10 or the official version as well ? If these limit apply to both, is there a better release to use on this particular machine for now? [Background: I got this machine

Re: [osol-discuss] onnv and SXCR delivery status

2006-05-10 Thread Stephen Lau
Dennis Clarke wrote: Steve published a nightly snapshot of the onnv source today ( http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current ). SXCR Build 39 is on schedule to deliver Friday (5/12). Just out of curiosity, when I see a release like 20060508 only days before the release of snv_39 am I

Re: [osol-discuss] Latest build - 20060508 - really sweet !

2006-05-10 Thread Stephen Lau
Dennis Clarke wrote: I want to be the first to jump up and say Thank You loudly! I just went through another nightly/BFU/ACR/reboot cycle and everything was as smooth as silk. I made some really minor tweaks to lgrpplat.c such that I could see multiple memory nodes reported on my dual Opteron

[osol-discuss] Re: sata or pata on older sparc/pci workstations ?

2006-05-10 Thread Wes Williams
If these limit apply to both, is there a better release to use on this particular machine for now? ZFS is such a great feature, I'd suggest grabbing SX (Solairs Express) and use ZFS now, or you can wait until June when Solaris 10 update 2 should be out, and include ZFS. You can't, yet,

Re: [osol-discuss] Latest build - 20060508 - really sweet !

2006-05-10 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dennis Clarke wrote: I want to be the first to jump up and say Thank You loudly! I just went through another nightly/BFU/ACR/reboot cycle and everything was as smooth as silk. I made some really minor tweaks to lgrpplat.c such that I could see multiple memory nodes reported on my dual

Re: [osol-discuss] Latest build - 20060508 - really sweet !

2006-05-10 Thread Stephen Lau
Dennis Clarke wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: I want to be the first to jump up and say Thank You loudly! I just went through another nightly/BFU/ACR/reboot cycle and everything was as smooth as silk. I made some really minor tweaks to lgrpplat.c such that I could see multiple memory nodes

[osol-discuss] Re: sata or pata on older sparc/pci workstations ?

2006-05-10 Thread Eric Fluger
thanx for the input. just fyi: that was musicAL data (as in musical chairs) not music data. I'm moving stuff around. :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Latest build - 20060508 - really sweet !

2006-05-10 Thread Bart Smaalders
Dennis Clarke wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: I want to be the first to jump up and say Thank You loudly! I just went through another nightly/BFU/ACR/reboot cycle and everything was as smooth as silk. I made some really minor tweaks to lgrpplat.c such that I could see multiple memory nodes

[osol-discuss] Re: Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-10 Thread Eric Fluger
afterthought: under side effects i meant to include, but forgot: prospective effects of your solution on host and network performance. Could be good, bad, or negligable depending on what you do. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Fujitsu's position to OpenSolaris?

2006-05-10 Thread Jonathan L. O'Brien
Disclaimer: I'm not an employee of Fujitsu Limited so my observations/opinions are my own. The platform support for Fujitsu primepower systems that folks are seeing in the SX builds are from S10. The way our internal RE process works is all packages in the current GA release roll forward into

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: sata or pata on older sparc/pci workstations ?

2006-05-10 Thread ken mays
If these limit apply to both, is there a better release to use on this particular machine for now? ZFS is such a great feature, I'd suggest grabbing SX (Solairs Express) and use ZFS now, or you can wait until June when Solaris 10 update 2 should be out, and include ZFS. You can't, yet,

[osol-discuss] replace xinetd in solaris 10

2006-05-10 Thread YJ Fan
Our company is make library software that need sevel ports connection. When going to solaris 10, they started to use xinetd. After I showed how ease of the smf, now they are using smf-inetd. but still the xined existed for the port forwarding. e.g. server1 access server server2 oracle db

[osol-discuss] Project proposal: NTP

2006-05-10 Thread Rainer Orth
We propose the creation of an NTP project on OpenSolaris.ORG, affiliated with the Nevada and Device Driver communities. While historially SunOS 4 and Solaris have been platforms of choice for NTP timekeeping and leading-edge development, Solaris has fallen behind other platforms (notably FreeBSD)

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: NTP

2006-05-10 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Rainer Orth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: We propose the creation of an NTP project on OpenSolaris.ORG, affiliated with the Nevada and Device Driver communities. Sounds good to me. +1. Cheers, -- Glenn Lagasse KISS/Approachability Sun Microsystems, Inc. x21293, 781-442-1293

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: NTP

2006-05-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Rainer Orth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We propose the creation of an NTP project on OpenSolaris.ORG, affiliated with the Nevada and Device Driver communities. While historially SunOS 4 and Solaris have been platforms of choice for NTP timekeeping and leading-edge development, Solaris has

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: NTP

2006-05-10 Thread Rainer Orth
Joerg Schilling writes: Don't forget the missing support for cheap DCF77 receivers. This needs driver support (e.g. save kernel hr time triggered on external status interrupts) and user level support. Both user level and kernel support are available with the PARSE driver and STREAMS

Re: [osol-discuss] replace xinetd in solaris 10

2006-05-10 Thread Dave Miner
YJ Fan wrote: Our company is make library software that need sevel ports connection. When going to solaris 10, they started to use xinetd. After I showed how ease of the smf, now they are using smf-inetd. but still the xined existed for the port forwarding. e.g. server1 access server server2

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: NTP

2006-05-10 Thread Joerg Schilling
Rainer Orth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling writes: Don't forget the missing support for cheap DCF77 receivers. This needs driver support (e.g. save kernel hr time triggered on external status interrupts) and user level support. Both user level and kernel support are

Re: [osol-discuss] Security: Only allow execution of cryptographically signed binaries?

2006-05-10 Thread Valerie Anne Bubb
On Sat, 6 May 2006, Martin Schaffstall wrote: I just had an idea: Would it be useful/feasible to sign all executabley in Solaris with a cryptographic key and only allow execution of signed binaries then? Would this help to improve system security? Hi Martin - It may be useful, and in fact we

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: NTP

2006-05-10 Thread Eric Lowe
Rainer Orth wrote: We propose the creation of an NTP project on OpenSolaris.ORG, affiliated with the Nevada and Device Driver communities. Seconded. - Eric ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-10 Thread Eric Fluger
if something rsync-ish looks like the right kind of thing this might be of interest... http://www.dirvish.org/ dirvish is a backup utility that does snapshot style backups using rsync. the documentation page also has links to some useful-looking rsync documentation and links to sites for

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: NTP

2006-05-10 Thread Bart Smaalders
Rainer Orth wrote: We propose the creation of an NTP project on OpenSolaris.ORG, affiliated with the Nevada and Device Driver communities. While historially SunOS 4 and Solaris have been platforms of choice for NTP timekeeping and leading-edge development, Solaris has fallen behind other

[osol-discuss] 3 new request-sponsor putbacks: 54 total

2006-05-10 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Thanks to Rob Benson, Yann Poupet, and Juergen Keil for these three fixes below and to Shudong Zhou, Eric Lowe, Alan Perry for sponsoring the work through to putback: Putback 49 ID: 6375097 Desc: x86 ramdisk should always contain xmd64 kernel and binaries Submitted by Rob Benson on 1/21/06 Sun

[osol-discuss] Project proposal: NFS/RDMA

2006-05-10 Thread Spencer Shepler
I would like to propose the creation of an NFS/RDMA project to be affiliated with the OpenSolaris NFS community. The purpose of this project is to update the existing NFS/RDMA(Infiniband) support in OpenSolaris to match the most recent Internet Drafts on the topic. It would also undertake

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: smbfs support

2006-05-10 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 5/10/06, Robert Thurlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Worse case scenario, SUN creates a java based NFS client/server for Windows users - as for the good old business case, why not :-)You're aware that Microsoft themselves offer the free download called Services For Unix that

Re: [osol-discuss] Request for new forum: embedded-discuss

2006-05-10 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 5/9/06, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 08 May 2006 11:15 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: I completely agree; this has been the best move SUN has done in its 20 or so odd years of existence, it almost makes up for all the complete whipe-outs past failed take overs have been (Cobalt

Fwd: [osol-discuss] Re: Request for new forum: embedded-discuss

2006-05-10 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
-- Forwarded message --From: Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: May 11, 2006 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Request for new forum: embedded-discussTo: Stephen Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED]On 5/10/06, Stephen Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Duboff writes: On Sunday 07

[osol-discuss] Mozilla 1.7.13 builds for Solaris10, Solaris 8/9 is now available internally

2006-05-10 Thread Dave Lin
Please do NOT reply to this address. If you have any problems, feel free to send email to the alias [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Mozilla 1.7.13 builds for Solaris10, Solaris 8/9 is now available on mozilla.org Download Page and Location == external: coming soon(there is some