Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-27 Thread Anon Y Mous
Thought you all might find this breaking news interesting: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/More-IBM-Layoffs-Coming-608504/ ...the nightmare continues... Now I'm not an IBM hater. I actually think certain things such as the REXX scripting language, Parallel Sysplex, and System Z

Re: [osol-discuss] OT reply to Martin - WAS: OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions

2009-03-27 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Martin, I believe it would be nice if you either stop trolling or stop reproaching others for trolling. Martin Bochnig wrote: Then why comment? ?? Sorry that I took the freedom to ask a question. It's your beer if you get a law-suit (filed by others, I would never do anything like that). I

[osol-discuss] could ZFS be used to replace FAT/FAT32 in removeable media

2009-03-27 Thread russell aspinwall
Hi, After purchasing a USB to IDE/SATA drive caddy to allow system backups, my attempt was to use a 120GB IDE drive that came out of an old PC. While changing the partition information with fdisk was straight forward, newfs'ing the disk was more of a problem as you had to enter the number of

Re: [osol-discuss] regarding ptrace equivalent in solairs

2009-03-27 Thread Abhishek
#includestdio.h #includeunistd.h #includeprocfs.h #includesys/regset.h int main() { FILE *fp; pstatus_t san; int c; pid_t pid; lwpstatus_t san2; int nlwp; pid=getpid(); char str[40]; sprintf(str, /proc/%d/status, pid); fp=fopen(str,r); fread(san, sizeof(san), 1, fp); san2=san.pr_lwp;

Re: [osol-discuss] Any way to tell temperature of hard drives

2009-03-27 Thread Anon Y Mous
Another easy way to get SMART type data is the SUNWhd package used on the Thumper servers, but I think it only works with certain kinds of Marvell chip sets: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=312887 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any way to tell temperature of hard drives

2009-03-27 Thread Casper . Dik
The best part of all is that I've heard rumors that you can even mount the CD-ROM drive from your laptop at home on the remote server and re-install the operating system remotely through the ILOM card if your internet connection is fast enough. Yep; and I also use it *upgrade* the BIOS and

Re: [osol-discuss] OT reply to Martin - WAS: OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Alexander Vlasov alexander.vla...@sun.com wrote: Martin, I believe it would be nice if you either stop trolling or stop reproaching others for trolling. Martin Bochnig wrote: Then why comment? ?? Sorry that I took the freedom to ask a question. It's your

Re: [osol-discuss] regarding ptrace equivalent in solairs

2009-03-27 Thread Abhishek
Also, when are the files in the proc file system updated? Like if once the file is read, will the data in the file be same throughout, till be close and re-open it while the corresponding process is executing? Just wondering... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] regarding ptrace equivalent in solairs

2009-03-27 Thread Casper . Dik
printf(eip=%d\n,san2.pr_reg[EIP]); printf(nlwp=%d\n,san.pr_nlwp); printf(eax=%d\n,san2.pr_reg[EAX]); eip=-17832443 nlwp=1 eax=3 I tried this code. But the values the EIP register returned were not what we expect, right? Why is EIP returning a garbage value. The same is the case with other

Re: [osol-discuss] Any way to tell temperature of hard drives

2009-03-27 Thread Anon Y Mous
Here's also how to compile the smartmon tools from the original source code: http://cafenate.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/setting-up-smartmontools-on-opensolaris/ This info might come in handy some day if you ever want to become a developer / programmer / maintainer for smart tools on solaris and

Re: [osol-discuss] OT reply to Martin - WAS: OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions

2009-03-27 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Trying to return one person to reasonable discussion style. What are you doing right now? I expect an apology. -- | Regards, | Alexander 'Sasha' Vlasov. | Solaris System Test: Hitting tomorrow bugs today ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] could ZFS be used to replace FAT/FAT32 in removeable media

2009-03-27 Thread Casper . Dik
As ZFS does not have the limits of FAT/FAT32 and is also open source, could it be proposed to the makers of digitial devices like camera, usb memory manufacturers, router manufacturers, etc as a way of eliminating the FAT licensing yoke. This of course would require drivers to be available for

[osol-discuss] Tesla power management group

2009-03-27 Thread Peter Jones
Is this incorporated into opensolaris? If not could a home grown version be included called ecopower??? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] regarding ptrace equivalent in solairs

2009-03-27 Thread Casper . Dik
Also, when are the files in the proc file system updated? Like if once the file is read, will the data in the file be same throughout, till be close and re-open it while the corresponding process is executing? They don't exist; whenever you read from such a file, its content is created on the

Re: [osol-discuss] regarding ptrace equivalent in solairs

2009-03-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Abhishek abhishek_dha...@yahoo.co.in wrote: #includestdio.h #includeunistd.h #includeprocfs.h #includesys/regset.h int main() { FILE *fp; pstatus_t san; int c; pid_t pid; lwpstatus_t san2; int nlwp; pid=getpid(); char str[40]; sprintf(str, /proc/%d/status, pid); fp=fopen(str,r);

Re: [osol-discuss] OT reply to Martin - WAS: OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions

2009-03-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alexander Vlasov alexander.vla...@sun.com wrote: Trying to return one person to reasonable discussion style. What are you doing right now? I expect an apology. I hope that you will do this next time people send personal insults as done recently. As you did not do this a few days ago,

[osol-discuss] Who is right(disk usage)?

2009-03-27 Thread Alexander
Hello, I'm very confused with the following situation: I have FS rpool/export/uichome mounted on /exprt/uichome. du -sh says its size is 924 Mb: $ du -sh /export/uichome/ 924M /export/uichome df -h says its size is about 3 GB. I can understand this, du doesn't count for open files: $ df -h

Re: [osol-discuss] could ZFS be used to replace FAT/FAT32 in removeable media

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:19 PM, casper@sun.com wrote: As ZFS does not have the limits of FAT/FAT32 and is also open source, could it be proposed to the makers of digitial devices like camera, usb memory manufacturers, router manufacturers, etc as a way of eliminating the FAT licensing

Re: [osol-discuss] Who is right(disk usage)?

2009-03-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
$ du -sh /export/uichome/ 924M /export/uichome $ df -h /export/uichome/ Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on rpool/export/uichome35G 3,0G26G11%/export/uichome Du can't count files that you don't have access to. Try again as sudo and you might

Re: [osol-discuss] Any way to tell temperature of hard drives [amd athlon hrdwr]

2009-03-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.org writes: Setup: amd Athlon64 2.2Ghz +3400 - Aopen Ak-86 mobo Can anyone tell me if there is some application that can tell the temperatures of my harddrives? Do we have anthing like lm_sensors in the linux world? Anyway at all short of booting to BIOS?

Re: [osol-discuss] Any way to tell temperature of hard drives [amd athlon hrdwr]

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.org [...] SMART firmware based disks can be queried with smartctl. You can find SMARTmontools at :   i386: http://blastwave.network.com/csw/unstable/i386/5.11/      

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions as of March 26, 2009

2009-03-27 Thread UNIX admin
OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions as of March 26, 2009: 12. Polaris (OpenSolaris on PowerPC project, b104+) There's a downloadable Polaris ISO image? Where? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] could ZFS be used to replace FAT/FAT32 in removeable media

2009-03-27 Thread 7willows
Hi Casper, Thanks for the reply. It would nice to have an Open Source file system format which could be used by these electronic devices which did not require FAT. casper@sun.com wrote: As ZFS does not have the limits of FAT/FAT32 and is also open source, could it be proposed to the

Re: [osol-discuss] Who is right(disk usage)?

2009-03-27 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
zfs snapshots won't be accounted for in du/dh tools. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Who is right(disk usage)?

2009-03-27 Thread Jan Kesten
Hello Alexander. $ df -h /export/uichome/ vs $ zfs list -r rpool/export/uichome What is the reason for this behavior? The difference is that in the first case you count the actual space used by files under /export/uichome. The second one shows your zfs including your snapshots -

[osol-discuss] Gack New sata replacement... no boot

2009-03-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: Osol.11 build 109 amd Athlon64 +3400 architecture I'm attempting to replace 2 200gb sata drives with 2 750 gb drives. All drives concerned are WD. And the 2 200gb are attached to a: Adeptec 1205sa PCI sata card (non-raid) The two existing drives are in a mirror configuration so I

Re: [osol-discuss] Gack New sata replacement... no boot

2009-03-27 Thread Casper . Dik
The two existing drives are in a mirror configuration so I figured to just pull out one, insert a 750 and let it resilver. Understanding it would end up a 200gb mirror. You could do that; make sure you scrub before starting on this exercise. (You have only one copy, of course) Then pull the

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-27 Thread Mykola Maslov
I think it's a horrible, horrible mistake. I have worked for IBM, I have had to work with them as a vendor, and doing either has become something that I seek to avoid. I would not recommend them to anyone as a vendor, and I sincerely hope that this deal does not go through. I do not think the

[osol-discuss] Testing validity of Solaris Zones and memory and cpu capping?

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Mancini
What is a good method to test the validity of memory (rcapd) and cpu shares on a particular zone? Does Sun have any tools because tools like top and prstat don't give you a clue to how much memory is really available to a zone. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] could ZFS be used to replace FAT/FAT32 in removeable media

2009-03-27 Thread Paul Gress
casper@sun.com wrote: There are many reasons why this doesn't fly: - First of all you will need to build away to easily, automatically import and export removable ZFS pools - Installed base (windows, USB, cameras) - pcfs uses about 1/10 of the code needed for

Re: [osol-discuss] could ZFS be used to replace FAT/FAT32 in removeable media

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Paul Gress pgr...@optonline.net wrote: casper@sun.com wrote:  There are many reasons why this doesn't fly:    - First of all you will need to build away to easily, automatically      import and export removable ZFS pools    - Installed base (windows,

[osol-discuss] what do you use for vector graphics?

2009-03-27 Thread Craig van Vliet
Hi Coming from windows I previously used illustrator, then in ubuntu it was inkscape and xara extreme. These packages aren't available (yet??), so what do people use to draw pictures. If they are working in an opensolaris only environment? Cheers Craig -- This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] Testing validity of Solaris Zones and memory and cpu capping?

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Frank Mancini frank...@hotmail.com wrote: What is a good method to test the validity of memory (rcapd) and cpu shares on a particular zone? Does Sun have any tools because tools like top and prstat don't give you a clue to how much memory is really available

Re: [osol-discuss] what do you use for vector graphics?

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Craig van Vliet craigvanvl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Coming from windows I previously used illustrator, then in ubuntu it was inkscape and xara extreme. These packages aren't available (yet??), so what do people use to draw pictures. If they are working in an

Re: [osol-discuss] what do you use for vector graphics?

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
Sorry, for having suggested you gimp, I have no experience with vector graphics. All I can suggest is something like this: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22vector+graphics%22+solarisie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=org.mozilla:en-US:officialclient=firefox-a -- %martin

Re: [osol-discuss] what do you use for vector graphics?

2009-03-27 Thread Mykola Maslov
Hi Coming from windows I previously used illustrator, then in ubuntu it was inkscape and xara extreme. These packages aren't available (yet??), so what do people use to draw pictures. If they are working in an opensolaris only environment? Cheers Craig They are compiling necessary

Re: [osol-discuss] what do you use for vector graphics?

2009-03-27 Thread Ghee Teo
On 03/27/09 15:47, Craig van Vliet wrote: Hi Coming from windows I previously used illustrator, then in ubuntu it was inkscape and xara extreme. These packages aren't available (yet??), I think inkscape is in the pipeline. Not sure when, but I reckon soon. Don;t know what xara extreme is.

Re: [osol-discuss] Tesla power management group

2009-03-27 Thread Aubrey Li
Hi Peter, On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Peter Jones bloosk...@netscape.net wrote: Is this incorporated into opensolaris? If not could a home grown version be included called ecopower??? I'm not sure I catched your point, when you mentioned tesla, do you mean the work at here:

Re: [osol-discuss] what do you use for vector graphics?

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
I found this: http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/skencil http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/sodipodi There you go. %martin ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] what do you use for vector graphics?

2009-03-27 Thread Paul Gress
Craig van Vliet wrote: Hi Coming from windows I previously used illustrator, then in ubuntu it was inkscape and xara extreme. These packages aren't available (yet??), so what do people use to draw pictures. If they are working in an opensolaris only environment? Cheers Craig I use

[osol-discuss] sell China Electronics Products with good quality and reasonable price

2009-03-27 Thread WangPeng
Welcome to www.electrondiscountshop.cn http://www.electrondiscountshop.cn As far as you see, Our company trades mainly in electronic products. Since the trades began, we always purse the perfect with heart and soul. We provide lower price but better quality. Our goal is sending surprising

[osol-discuss] hot sell digital camera, Digital video at www.electrondiscountshop.cn

2009-03-27 Thread WangPeng
Welcome to www.electrondiscountshop.cn http://www.electrondiscountshop.cn As far as you see, Our company trades mainly in electronic products. Since the trades began, we always purse the perfect with heart and soul. We provide lower price but better quality. Our goal is sending surprising

[osol-discuss] ★★★best price and good q uality laptop,printer,Projector etc

2009-03-27 Thread WangPeng
Welcome to www.electrondiscountshop.cn http://www.electrondiscountshop.cn As far as you see, Our company trades mainly in electronic products. Since the trades began, we always purse the perfect with heart and soul. We provide lower price but better quality. Our goal is sending surprising

[osol-discuss] Supply mobile phone,MP4,Home Theater,DVD,TV

2009-03-27 Thread WangPeng
Welcome to www.electrondiscountshop.cn http://www.electrondiscountshop.cn As far as you see, Our company trades mainly in electronic products. Since the trades began, we always purse the perfect with heart and soul. We provide lower price but better quality. Our goal is sending surprising

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone compile ffmpegthumbnailer on opensolaris

2009-03-27 Thread Andre Lue
My install path is /opt/mediatomb and the pkg-config cmd as run by configure sees them (/opt/mediatomb/usr/include/libavcodec/avcodec.h etc) avcodec.h etc) fine but some other check is failing. moviedecoder.h/c has 2 paths. One seems to secondary /usr/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h ffmpeg symlink

Re: [osol-discuss] Gack New sata replacement... no boot

2009-03-27 Thread Harry Putnam
casper@sun.com writes: As boot up proceeds it gets by the brief memory check that a screen saying: Press F3 to enter configuration utility Primary channel: WDC WD750-blah-bah = my new 750gb drive Ah, I can't help you there; I don't have a configuration utility for the disks. Did

Re: [osol-discuss] what do you use for vector graphics?

2009-03-27 Thread Calum Benson
On 27 Mar 2009, at 15:47, Craig van Vliet wrote: Hi Coming from windows I previously used illustrator, then in ubuntu it was inkscape and xara extreme. These packages aren't available (yet??), so what do people use to draw pictures. If they are working in an opensolaris only

Re: [osol-discuss] what do you use for vector graphics?

2009-03-27 Thread Craig van Vliet
Hi, Sodipodi is early inkscape, and I did have it in use from blastwave before, I have a new machine I am setting up. Skencil is a kde app, and I am not sure how well it works in gnome. I have found dia extremely useful in the past, and only after posting did I think of it again. I also agree

Re: [osol-discuss] OT reply to Martin - WAS: OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2009-March/045786.html Now I'm curious.. can you site a reference or which ™ you were scared of using? Just for the records, for what it is worth, the only questionable domain name (of a whole bunch) which I ever mentioned in

[osol-discuss] Site Maintenance 03/29, 3-4 hours @ 4am PT

2009-03-27 Thread Derek Cicero
We need to do some extended database maintenance this weekend, so the site will be down on Sunday, March 29th for 3-4 hours, starting at 4am PT [7 am ET/11am GMT]. Sorry for any inconvenience. Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division

Re: [osol-discuss] Lags with OpenSolaris 2008.11 - help investigate

2009-03-27 Thread Axelle Apvrille
Ok. Thanks. Yes, it looks like the problem comes from Xorg. It's the process that takes the CPU. I'd like to try the hints you provide, but, it's going to sound stupid, but I can't find any xorg.conf on my PC ?? I tried to slocate it: none. Would you know why/how to do it ? Regards Axelle --

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-27 Thread Tim Scanlon
system5 said: CISCO buying SUN makes more sense from a purely business perspective because CISCO values engineering and Sun's engineers are the best. CISCO also seems to be interested in getting in to the server market (although the results would probably still be negative for the OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Gack New sata replacement... no boot

2009-03-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: As boot up proceeds it gets by the brief memory check that a screen saying: Press F3 to enter configuration utility Primary channel: WDC WD750-blah-bah = my new 750gb drive Ah, I can't help you there; I don't have a configuration utility for the

[osol-discuss] Growing a zpool mirror breaks on Adaptec 1205sa PCI card

2009-03-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: Osol.11 build 109 Athlon64 3400+ Aopen AK-86L mobo adeptec 1250sa Sata PCI controller card I'm having trouble with an adaptec 1205sa (non-raid) SATA PCI card. It was all working fine when I plugged 2 used sata 200gb disks of a windows xp machine into it. Booted my osol server and added a

[osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-03-27 Thread roland
hello, i`m using a sil3114 sata controller with a zfs configured as mirror. if i disconnect one of the drives, the whole system stalls until i reconnect the drive. i cannot even login via network anymore. this lasts at least for some minutes (don`t know if it cures itself after a while),

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN cc has the option -save_args?

2009-03-27 Thread Ian Collins
Jin Yao wrote: Hi, The X64 passes the first six arguments in registers %rdi, %rsi, Can I use one compiler option like -save_args to store argments in stack like what the i386 does? I tried this option, but it's failed. The logs are here: cc -O -g -save_args -m64 -c -o cpc.o

Re: [osol-discuss] Growing a zpool mirror breaks on Adaptec 1205sa PCI card

2009-03-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Setup: Osol.11 build 109 Athlon64 3400+ Aopen AK-86L mobo adeptec 1250sa Sata PCI controller card I'm having trouble with an adaptec 1205sa (non-raid) SATA PCI card. Sorry that post was intended for zfs group.

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-03-27 Thread Hans van der Made
roland wrote: i`m using a sil3114 sata controller with a zfs configured as mirror. if i disconnect one of the drives, the whole system stalls until i reconnect the drive. i cannot even login via network anymore. Not all hardware is suitable for hot removal of devices, whether the OS supports

Re: [osol-discuss] Tesla power management group

2009-03-27 Thread Aubrey Li
Peter Jones wrote: Yes this is spot on.. but my point is that more and more CIO's should be aware the system should be differentiating itself as eco friendly in terms of low power running cost decisions but also as a differentiator in market terms to other types of systems.The point of

Re: [osol-discuss] Testing validity of Solaris Zones and memory and cpu capping?

2009-03-27 Thread Frank Mancini
Thanks Martin, are you saying you can't use the rcapd in the global to limit memory via the FSS in the non-global zone? What is a good way to test to see if your cpu is really capping correctly? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-27 Thread Anon Y Mous
More bad news Oracle and HP are bidding on a joint Sun Dismemberment Deal http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/03/26/oracle_hp_joint_sun_deal/ I'm still hoping that this going to fall through and end up doing nothing but raising Sun's stock price over the short term. -- This

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-27 Thread Anon Y Mous
More bad news Oracle and HP are bidding on a joint Sun Dismemberment Deal http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/03/26/oracle_hp_joint_sun_deal/ I'm still hoping that this going to fall through and end up doing nothing but raising Sun's stock price over the short term. I'm guessing

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-27 Thread John Brewer
Competition is good for the marketplace and brings innovation, I believe Ben Franklin coined the orig quote. The other hidden issue that no one talks about in these deals is how much they would save in royalties in buying a target company. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org