[osol-discuss] Re: limit number of sftp/scp sessions

2007-04-16 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
I don't see any feature of sshd that provides for limiting the number of sessions. I suspect it wouldn't be all that difficult to add such a feature. There is a feature to limit the number of sessions that have not yet completed the authentication phase, but I don't know how much that would help y

Re: [osol-discuss] Spam mails...

2007-04-16 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
> > Nah. If you look at the headers and even the > bottom of > > the post, the spam is injected through > > opensolaris.org's forum software: > > They still need to go through an email verification > process, so any spam > that makes it onto a list is either the result of > moderator mistake or

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Weekly News #57

2007-04-16 Thread Glynn Foster
Frank Van Der Linden announced [1] that the Hg/SVN repository access on opensolaris.org had now moved out of beta, having fixed the main issues to come out of the beta testing. Frank believed it now paved the way for fully open development for the project. 1.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/o

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-16 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
> No system to date is without sacrifice in some way > for Solaris. I'd like > to hear a lot more of how we can make Solaris be > itself. I mean this in > regards to pkgsrc wanting things in /usr/pkg, > belenix wanting /usr/foss, > and even Solaris using /usr/sfw...or duplication of > libs runn

Re: [osol-discuss] Spam mails...

2007-04-16 Thread Derek Cicero
Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: Very probably. People who are in the unfortunate position of using Windoze but are subscribed to the mailing list could well have their computers acting as a spam bot without their knowledge. :-( It's more likely that people subscribe and then

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-16 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
> The caveats are that Vendors like RedHat often have > a significant > number of patches included with their builds. I > maintained packages > for a set of RHEL system for a few years, trust me, > it is not as easy > as it sounds to "customise" and rebuild packages. Significant number of patches

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-16 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: Alien is a package translator last check, while apt4rpm is just a port of apt-get, etc. for RPM-based systems. Yes, alien isn't a transport at all. apt-get has super cow powers, Alien does not, or something like that ;) Well, it's funny because it w

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-16 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: Well, Red Hat has been good at finding loopholes in the past which make it difficult for people. Removing all the configure and Makefiles make it quite hard to just rebuild, they used to do that with their RHES product. That I never encountered, but las

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 16/04/07, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: > The only relatively easy part was setting up the repository with apt4rpm. > > Everything else was a rather painful experience for me. I've never messed with the rpm formats at all, but apt4rpm sounds s

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-16 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: The caveats are that Vendors like RedHat often have a significant number of patches included with their builds. I maintained packages for a set of RHEL system for a few years, trust me, it is not as easy as it sounds to "customise" and rebuild packages.

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 16/04/07, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: > Huh? What caveats may I ask? Whether apt+deb or > yum+rpm, both handle this in a most trivial manner. Well, Red Hat has been good at finding loopholes in the past which make it difficul

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-16 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: Huh? What caveats may I ask? Whether apt+deb or yum+rpm, both handle this in a most trivial manner. Well, Red Hat has been good at finding loopholes in the past which make it difficult for people. Removing all the configure and Makefiles

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 16/04/07, Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That isn't to say that there can't be some 3rd party > easy way of doing > this, such as "ports for Solaris" -- but I wouldn't > expect it to be > part of the base OS. On an RHEL system, you can of > course download the > srpms

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-16 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
> That isn't to say that there can't be some 3rd party > easy way of doing > this, such as "ports for Solaris" -- but I wouldn't > expect it to be > part of the base OS. On an RHEL system, you can of > course download the > srpms, alter the spec file, and rebuild the packages > and then deploy > a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [csw-maintainers] New F/OSS reference document spanning multiple projects

2007-04-16 Thread John Weekley
Rich Teer wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, John Weekley wrote: Exactly. Sometimes, Blastwaves' packages have more dependencies than I care to shake a stick at. Here's the problem: Blastwave maintainers tailor the package dependencies to *their* requirements. Not mine. This not meant to disparage

[osol-discuss] Re: no CDDL on /bin/which

2007-04-16 Thread David Comay
> For example knowing that libreadline is under the GPL > rather than the > LGPL or CDDL would be good information, particularly > since libtecla is > available as an alternative set of functionality. One idea some of us have thrown around is to provide a command to provide this information giv

[osol-discuss] Re: Intel945G onboard display not supported with Solaris10update3 installat

2007-04-16 Thread John Brewer
meetcm, Submit a BUG-ID/RFE on your Solaris install, include the /usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v ,the prtconf -pv outputs and the X logs from /var/log directory. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discu

[osol-discuss] Re: MPxIO problem with metadb !!!

2007-04-16 Thread John Brewer
Have you applies the latest patch cluster There were quite a few patches that deal with Storage, MPXIO and kernel patches from http://SunSolve.sun.com or a better idea upgrade to Solaris 10 1107 version if you can? This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: Packaging issues - was Re: [osol-discuss] xpg/bin/tr unexpect output on Sparc?

2007-04-16 Thread James Carlson
Bart Smaalders writes: > Darren J Moffat wrote: > > Bart Smaalders wrote: > >> Packages should represent a minimization boundary; e.g. they > >> are either installed or not installed depending on the > >> proposed use of the system. > >> > >> Solaris has areas where packages are too fine-grained, >

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-16 Thread Shawn Walker
On 16/04/07, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Thomas Rampelberg wrote: > Now, onto packaging (and this is gonna sound a lot like emerge on gentoo, I > like it!), I'd like to see something that by default has generic binaries > that are compiled in the normal manner. Howe

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-16 Thread Thomas Rampelberg
Now, onto packaging (and this is gonna sound a lot like emerge on gentoo, I like it!), I'd like to see something that by default has generic binaries that are compiled in the normal manner. However, there are times that I'd like to select specific "features" of the binaries. In gentoo these a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Constant ACPI errors caused by tzmon/bad ACPI table

2007-04-16 Thread Dana H. Myers
Petteri Tammiaho wrote: > Hi, > > And thanks, I'll crawl to the nearest corner and stay there a while after > this feeling > very much ashamed. Should have slept first and had another look. It was the > typo. And > I managed to screw up the exlude somehow a week ago. Now after renaming the > f

[osol-discuss] Re: Constant ACPI errors caused by tzmon/bad ACPI table

2007-04-16 Thread Petteri Tammiaho
> > Double-checl your spelling on the filename; I believe > you wanted to type: > > /boot/acpi/tables/DSDT_INTELR_AWRDACPI.dat > > unless this is a typo in the message and not on your > system :-) I have > successfully replaced ACPI tables a number of times > without problem. > > You can preve

Re: [osol-discuss] Constant ACPI errors caused by tzmon/bad ACPI table

2007-04-16 Thread Dana H. Myers
Petteri Tammiaho wrote: [...] > Motherboard is an Abit AB9 Pro with Intel E6300 Core 2 Duo CPU > > The problem starts after the tzmon has been loaded: > Apr 16 21:20:14 sauron genunix: [ID 936769 kern.notice] pcie_pci5 is /[EMAIL > PROTECTED],0/pci8086,[EMAIL PROTECTED],5 > Apr 16 21:20:14 saur

Re: [osol-discuss] Divert sockets equivalent in Solaris ! or Netinfo

2007-04-16 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Lenin wrote: I have been trying to use pfil/IPfilter to intercept packets in solaris but couldn't do so successfully. I am basically trying to develop something like a NAT-PT to intercept ip v4 packets and translate them to v6 and reinject them to the network and vice ver

[osol-discuss] Re: limit number of sftp/scp sessions

2007-04-16 Thread Ben
Since all these services are derivatives of ssh, then ideally I'd like to limit ssh, and I have a workaround for ssh. I can limit ssh sessions by limiting the number of ptys in /etc/system. Am I missing some way to limit ssh as a whole? This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [osol-discuss] was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-16 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Thomas Rampelberg wrote: I think you make a valid point about about tracking Debian unstable, or from my experience with Gentoo, just going along with the latest portage tree and evolving the system. Having a set package version to a set OS version is very comforting in the

[osol-discuss] Constant ACPI errors caused by tzmon/bad ACPI table

2007-04-16 Thread Petteri Tammiaho
Hi, I have a pretty fresh Solaris Express Community Edition installation that works for the most part just fine but still have a couple of issues left to solve. The most visible and annoying problem is constant ACPI errors coming to messages. They are coming soo often, that it pretty much rende

[osol-discuss] Re: Zfs pool status UNAVAIL

2007-04-16 Thread Tim
Well then again... Had a power outage today... And 'zpool import' no longer works. System continuously panics on import now... Bummer! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.or

Re: Packaging issues - was Re: [osol-discuss] xpg/bin/tr unexpect output on Sparc?

2007-04-16 Thread Bart Smaalders
Darren J Moffat wrote: Bart Smaalders wrote: Packages should represent a minimization boundary; e.g. they are either installed or not installed depending on the proposed use of the system. Solaris has areas where packages are too fine-grained, it also has areas where the packages are much too l

Re: Packaging issues - was Re: [osol-discuss] xpg/bin/tr unexpect output on Sparc?

2007-04-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
Bart Smaalders wrote: Packages should represent a minimization boundary; e.g. they are either installed or not installed depending on the proposed use of the system. Solaris has areas where packages are too fine-grained, it also has areas where the packages are much too large to be useful in thi

Re: Packaging issues - was Re: [osol-discuss] xpg/bin/tr unexpect output on Sparc?

2007-04-16 Thread Bart Smaalders
Peter Tribble wrote: On 4/11/07, John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Or, looking at it the other way, packages map to the output of an independent, distributed development team. They are the ultimate "consolidation" boundary - everything within a package is delivered together as a unit and

Re: [osol-discuss] Spam mails...

2007-04-16 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Nils Nieuwejaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-15 20:45]: > Unfortunately, the volume of spam that ended up in the moderators' queue > was so unmanageable that we eventually had to start rejecting all > submissions from non-subscribers sight-unseen. That's a lousy way to have > to run a mailing li

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [csw-maintainers] New F/OSS reference document spanning multiple projects

2007-04-16 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, John Weekley wrote: > Exactly. Sometimes, Blastwaves' packages have more dependencies than I care to > shake a stick at. Here's the problem: Blastwave maintainers tailor the > package dependencies to *their* requirements. Not mine. This not meant to > disparage their work,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [csw-maintainers] New F/OSS reference document spanning multiple projects

2007-04-16 Thread John Weekley
Dennis Clarke wrote: also .. what is the purpose of this ? I'd find these recipes very useful. Often, a binary package comes close, but doesn't entirely fit the needs of an organization. By using these recipes, I'd able to more easily build packages that fit my needs. well we can currently

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel945G onboard display not supported with Solaris10update3 installation

2007-04-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Murali Chellamuthu wrote: We checked for higher versions of Solaris like build 60 which needs more than 768 mb ram Only for the full Developer Express graphical install. If you choose the non-Developer Express / non-graphical install, it requires much less RAM (256 Mb I believe). Express Int

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris parted

2007-04-16 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, sujay wrote: Greetings, We have ported parted :) Nice! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Spam mails...

2007-04-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: The scripter in any case is still stupid imho to spam mailing lists/forums here because no one is going look and the only achievement is the irritating of list/forum members. Most of the ones I've seen come in through the forums seem to be more intent on boost

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Spam mails...

2007-04-16 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
--- Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gns wrote: > > Many mailing lists these days require entering of > a verification code or characters displayed on the > page while subscribing. This ensures the > subscription is done by a *human* and not a bot. > > "CAPTCHA" schemes, in which th

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris 9 with xp

2007-04-16 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 4/16/07, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I wan to installa a solaris 9 and a xp. I thint that I have to begin to install the xp and then de solaris 9, but ...how I must create the partitions? 2 primary? one NTFS and the other linux ex3 or swap? Thanks a lot and sorry for my english.

[osol-discuss] solaris 9 with xp

2007-04-16 Thread david
Hi, I wan to installa a solaris 9 and a xp. I thint that I have to begin to install the xp and then de solaris 9, but ...how I must create the partitions? 2 primary? one NTFS and the other linux ex3 or swap? Thanks a lot and sorry for my english. This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[osol-discuss] Intel945G onboard display not supported with Solaris10update3 installation

2007-04-16 Thread Murali Chellamuthu
Dear Solaris Installation Team , Here is a list of system configuration that we have at our M.Tech Lab We are in the process of installation. We tried various installation build starting from Solaris 10 update 2 to latest solaris 11 build 60.The installation starts in blue screen and gets compl

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GVIM 7.0 with GTK: is a .pkg available? (not blastwave)

2007-04-16 Thread Mark Phalan
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 16:29 +0700, Doug Scott wrote: > Mark Phalan wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 14:30 +0530, Manish Chakravarty wrote: > > > >> Hi Doug, > >> > >> I have SXDE. Does that mean the build env is already set up on my box? > >> > >> > > > > You definitely don't need the CBE t

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GVIM 7.0 with GTK: is a .pkg available? (not blastwave)

2007-04-16 Thread Doug Scott
Mark Phalan wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 14:30 +0530, Manish Chakravarty wrote: Hi Doug, I have SXDE. Does that mean the build env is already set up on my box? You definitely don't need the CBE to build vim 7. IIRC it simply built out of the box with no problems. Just download it and

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GVIM 7.0 with GTK: is a .pkg available? (not blastwave)

2007-04-16 Thread Doug Scott
Manish Chakravarty wrote: Hi Doug, I have SXDE. Does that mean the build env is already set up on my box? Unfortunately no. You will have to download and install the JDS CBE from the JDS download area. http://dlc.sun.com/osol/jds/downloads/cbe/ Once you has the CBE installed you can ch

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GVIM 7.0 with GTK: is a .pkg available? (not blastwave)

2007-04-16 Thread Mark Phalan
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 14:30 +0530, Manish Chakravarty wrote: > Hi Doug, > > I have SXDE. Does that mean the build env is already set up on my box? > You definitely don't need the CBE to build vim 7. IIRC it simply built out of the box with no problems. Just download it and try the usual configur

Re: [osol-discuss] How could i visulize the memory utilization in clusters.

2007-04-16 Thread Suraj Verma
Hi Vikrant, I am not sure about your exact requirements, but you could try running $prstat -p to see the the RSS/size of the process. If you want to look at system memory consumption, you could try running vmstat or sar Thanks Suraj Vikrant Kumar Choudhary wrote: Hi , I have a program whic

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: GVIM 7.0 with GTK: is a .pkg available? (not blastwave)

2007-04-16 Thread Manish Chakravarty
Hi Doug, I have SXDE. Does that mean the build env is already set up on my box? >> Hi All, >> >> I wanted to use GVIM 7.0 with GTK. >> I use SXDE and I note that gvim 6.3 is present in >> /opt/SUNWspro/contrib/vim/ >> >> But: >> >> 1) It's version 6.3 >> 2) It is compiled with xlibs, not with GTK

[osol-discuss] Re: GVIM 7.0 with GTK: is a .pkg available? (not blastwave)

2007-04-16 Thread Doug Scott
> Hi All, > > I wanted to use GVIM 7.0 with GTK. > I use SXDE and I note that gvim 6.3 is present in > /opt/SUNWspro/contrib/vim/ > > But: > > 1) It's version 6.3 > 2) It is compiled with xlibs, not with GTK , making > it look very ugly. > > Has anyone compiled GVIM 7.0 with GTK on SXDE/SXCE ?

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: How dose a nexus driver look for its child devices?

2007-04-16 Thread Yang Mingshan
Ok, thank you very much! I have read the book Writing Device Drivers, but there is no more detailed information about my problem. I will post on storage-discuss for more detailed answer. ^_^ Yang Mingshan This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris parted

2007-04-16 Thread UNIX admin
> This is great news! > Thank you. Ported GNU Parted should speed up porting > of various > Linux-only installers to OpenSolaris-based distros. > I'm thinking about > NexentaOS, where we could benefit from libparted and > make full port of > Debian installer.. If anyone interested to start this > e

[osol-discuss] GVIM 7.0 with GTK: is a .pkg available? (not blastwave)

2007-04-16 Thread Manish Chakravarty
Hi All, I wanted to use GVIM 7.0 with GTK. I use SXDE and I note that gvim 6.3 is present in /opt/SUNWspro/contrib/vim/ But: 1) It's version 6.3 2) It is compiled with xlibs, not with GTK , making it look very ugly. Has anyone compiled GVIM 7.0 with GTK on SXDE/SXCE ? If yes is there a package

[osol-discuss] Divert sockets equivalent in Solaris ! or Netinfo

2007-04-16 Thread Lenin
I have been trying to use pfil/IPfilter to intercept packets in solaris but couldn't do so successfully. I am basically trying to develop something like a NAT-PT to intercept ip v4 packets and translate them to v6 and reinject them to the network and vice versa. I know there's some work related

[osol-discuss] How could i visulize the memory utilization in clusters.

2007-04-16 Thread Vikrant Kumar Choudhary
Hi , I have a program which takes lots of memory. So, i wanted that to run on clusters.But how do i visualize the memory used by my program. Not only that , i want to see how much memory left . Thanks, Vikrant This message posted from opensolaris.org ___