[osol-discuss] Eradicating sendmail - risky?

2007-10-30 Thread Nico Sabbi
Hi, after many years of tears I could never get accustomed to the pain of sendmail, thus I'd like to eradicate it from all my solaris boxes (as I did in all my linux boxes) in order to replace it with postfix. Is it risky? Is there any reason why I shouldn't do it? Is there anything unexpected

Re: [osol-discuss] Eradicating sendmail - risky?

2007-10-30 Thread Peter Tribble
On 10/30/07, Nico Sabbi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, after many years of tears I could never get accustomed to the pain of sendmail, thus I'd like to eradicate it from all my solaris boxes (as I did in all my linux boxes) in order to replace it with postfix. Is it risky? Is there any reason

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !?

2007-10-30 Thread James Carlson
stefan writes: *) one feature i Really Need for my laptop is PPTP vpn. I need to connect to a VPN server at work but when i ran SXCE72 i was not able to get it working, is it possible at all to connect to a pptp vpn server from solaris? No; there's no support (yet) for Microsoft's

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !?

2007-10-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ché Kristo wrote: *) i am wondering what would be the better road to take, should I download an run Opensolaris Indiana or SXCE75/76/77, or will they be available at all when indiana is released? How does indiana compare to SXCE SXCE at least will be discontinued, SXDE will likely continue

Re: [osol-discuss] Eradicating sendmail - risky?

2007-10-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 10/30/07, Nico Sabbi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, after many years of tears I could never get accustomed to the pain of sendmail, thus I'd like to eradicate it from all my solaris boxes (as I did in all my linux boxes) in order to replace it with postfix. Is it risky? Is there any reason

Re: [osol-discuss] [ug-nycosug] Voice your opinion on whether the Indiana distro project should be called OpenSolaris

2007-10-30 Thread Isaac R.
Brandorr wrote: At the heart of it is the questions, Should the OpenSolaris brand/trademark refer to a runnable OS?, and If, so, do we limit to distros that are binary copies of the Indiana distro? I think we need to define a difference between what constitutes an 'operating system' and an

Re: [osol-discuss] [ug-nycosug] Voice your opinion on whether the Indiana distro project should be called OpenSolaris

2007-10-30 Thread S h i v
On 10/30/07, Isaac R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandorr wrote: At the heart of it is the questions, Should the OpenSolaris brand/trademark refer to a runnable OS?, and If, so, do we limit to distros that are binary copies of the Indiana distro? I think we need to define a difference

Re: [osol-discuss] Eradicating sendmail - risky?

2007-10-30 Thread Nico Sabbi
Il Tuesday 30 October 2007 16:04:24 Dennis Clarke ha scritto: It is real tough to argue with the stability of SendMail though isn't it ? of course, but... Once you get the config done and you compile the .cf file this is the point: I can't accept to waste hours just to compile macros

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !?

2007-10-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that 32-bit applications have no problem handling large files on Solaris, so it's really more of an issue in run-time memory space than anything else. 32bit Applications cannot access files with file stamps that do not fit into the 32 bit range.

Re: [osol-discuss] how to disable sun cc optimization partly in program?

2007-10-30 Thread Bart Smaalders
?? TaoJie wrote: Dear all: My platform is: Intel Pentium 4 CPU OpenSolaris B74, built by myself Sun Studio 11 In my program, I use asm(rdtsc) to measure the time cost between two rdtsc. for example: int some_func(...) { long long time1, time2; int i = 3198, j = 324;

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !? (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Frank . Hofmann
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that 32-bit applications have no problem handling large files on Solaris, so it's really more of an issue in run-time memory space than anything else. 32bit Applications cannot access files with file

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !? (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread James Carlson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that 32-bit applications have no problem handling large files on Solaris, so it's really more of an issue in run-time memory space than anything else. 32bit

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !? (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You won't see them by default, thanks to PSARC 2005/361 (bug 6248624) - PCFS clamps the timestamps to the UN*X 32bit time_t range unless explicitly told not to by a mount option (noclamptime). See pcfs(7fs) and mount_pcfs(1m) about that.

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !? (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread James Carlson
Joerg Schilling writes: James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right ... plus, if it were important enough to contend with, I'd think we could create (yet another) new stat interface to deal with the problem. I would be really happy with this! I would propose to make it effective for

Re: [osol-discuss] Eradicating sendmail - risky?

2007-10-30 Thread Gary Gendel
I routinely remove sendmail and replace it with qmail on my mail servers. Recently, I've been toying with the idea of replacing sendmail with an as needed mail subsystem on my OpenSolaris laptops. You need something or things like cron can't send mail. But to have a running service all the

Re: [osol-discuss] IP addr -Process ID without LSOF?

2007-10-30 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
You may find what you want in the output of pfiles /proc/* although since the PID and the IP won't be on the same line, it may not be pretty. Also, think process(es), not just process, since a socket or TLI/XTI STREAM, like any other fd, can be inherited. This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !? (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling writes: James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right ... plus, if it were important enough to contend with, I'd think we could create (yet another) new stat interface to deal with the problem. I would be really happy with

[osol-discuss] how do I change text and background colors?

2007-10-30 Thread arun P
Hi, I'm a total newbie and I have aquestion. I read a lot of PDF documents and I would like to change the default black text on white background to other colors, ie. black on grey... Here's what my .Xdefault have acroread*Background: black acroread*Foreground: white This only changes the

Re: [osol-discuss] package add and remove in non-interactive mode

2007-10-30 Thread Nikolay Molchanov
Thank you very much, guys, for giving this example: % yes | pkgrm ... It really works! But it is absolutely not understandable why a standard Unix solution does not work: % echo y | echo y | pkgrm ... What is interesting, the first y works, but the second y does not. Why? Is it a bug? Here

Re: [osol-discuss] package add and remove in non-interactive mode

2007-10-30 Thread John Brewer
Using the admin script is great for pkgadd / pkgrm for jumpstart kickstart and automated updates via scripts, A lot of venders have not kept up with this , here is man entry note form zoneadm: The act of installing a new non-global zone is a fresh ins- tallation of the Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] package add and remove in non-interactive mode

2007-10-30 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 10/30/07, Nikolay Molchanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you very much, guys, for giving this example: % yes | pkgrm ... It really works! But it is absolutely not understandable why a standard Unix solution does not work: % echo y | echo y | pkgrm ... What is interesting, the

Re: [osol-discuss] how do I change text and background colors?

2007-10-30 Thread John Brewer
Depending on which GUI you use it all over the board: i.e: xterm /usr/openwin/lib/X11/app-defaults /usr/openwin/lib/app-defaults old CDE for dtterm /usr/dt/app-defaults X11 programs i.e: XOrgCfg XvidtuneSUNWgnome-session /usr/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults Login manager for gdm /etc/X11 gnome

Re: [osol-discuss] package add and remove in non-interactive mode

2007-10-30 Thread Nikolay Molchanov
I tried another way to pass 2 y replies: rm -f /tmp/yes.txt touch /tmp/yes.txt echo y /tmp/yes.txt echo y /tmp/yes.txt cat /tmp/yes.txt | pkgrm SPROprfnx And it also does not work. It reads fisrt y, but ignores the second y. At the same time /usr/sbin/pkgadd works just fine. It also asks 2

[osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-30 Thread Ian Murdock
When Project Indiana was first conceived, it was envisioned to be a community distribution of OpenSolaris--in other words, built by the community and called OpenSolaris [1]. My basic observation, as someone who came into the OpenSolaris community from the outside - even perhaps from the

Re: [osol-discuss] package add and remove in non-interactive mode

2007-10-30 Thread dougs
Quoting Nikolay Molchanov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tried another way to pass 2 y replies: rm -f /tmp/yes.txt touch /tmp/yes.txt echo y /tmp/yes.txt echo y /tmp/yes.txt cat /tmp/yes.txt | pkgrm SPROprfnx Also you can try - printf y\ny\n | pkgrm SPROprfnx Doug

Re: [osol-discuss] package add and remove in non-interactive mode

2007-10-30 Thread Nikolay Molchanov
Good idea! Unfortunately it also does not work, and I suspect the root of the problem is a bug in /usr/sbin/pkgrm command. Here is the output: # printf y\ny\n y y # printf y\ny\n | pkgrm SPROprfnx The following package is currently installed: SPROprfnx Sun Studio 12 Non-ship 64-bit

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-30 Thread MC
Not that I care for bureaucracy, and not that I know what is happening here, but... I think if you strong-arm past the OpenSolaris community bureaucracy (and again, not saying you are, because I don't know much about it), it'll be archived forever and referenced in the future to show how Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-30 Thread John Plocher
[Followups to trademark-policy-dev, please. To post you will need to subscribe by first sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -John ] Ian Murdock wrote: ... The first step to a branding program is to define the OpenSolaris binary core, and I invite the community to help define it, using the