Re: [osol-discuss] i have lost the shift keys with opensolaris 5.11 snv_110

2009-03-30 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Can you see your shift keys with xev? We have quite a lot of ultras 20 and 24 and they work fine under opensolaris. Dennis Clarke wrote: burned and booted the latest live cd image in fact, i am running it now, note the complete lack of capital letters here no punctuation either other than

Re: [osol-discuss] i have lost the shift keys with opensolaris 5.11 snv_110

2009-03-30 Thread Dale Ghent
On Mar 30, 2009, at 12:07 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: Perhaps this loss of shift keys is somehow related to my selection of a desktop with maximum fancy visual effects? Has anyone else seen this ? Not exactly this, but similar shenanigans - now and then my keyboard will get stuck in all

Re: [osol-discuss] i have lost the shift keys with opensolaris 5.11 snv_110

2009-03-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Mar 30, 2009, at 12:07 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: Perhaps this loss of shift keys is somehow related to my selection of a desktop with maximum fancy visual effects? Has anyone else seen this ? Not exactly this, but similar shenanigans - now and then my keyboard will get stuck in all

Re: [osol-discuss] Does wvdial work for OpenSolaris?

2009-03-30 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Paul Harper pjhar...@yahoo.com wrote: I use wvdial to connect to my gprs phone with Linux. I have tried to find a ready made  wvdial package for OpenSolaris but apparently one does not exist. Would wvdial work for OpenSolaris if compiled or is OpenSolaris's

Re: [osol-discuss] i have lost the shift keys with opensolaris 5.11 snv_110

2009-03-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
Can you see your shift keys with xev? We have quite a lot of ultras 20 and 24 and they work fine under opensolaris. Actually, I logged out as jack and then did a simple FailSafe Xsession and launched a xterm and then firefox and everything worked there. So I closed those and logged in again

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

2009-03-30 Thread Alexander Vlasov
sil3114 is, politely speaking, not the best piece of hardware I've ever seen, however it supports hotplug. Original Poster: can you please take a look at cfgadm? Seems like sil believes disk is still there or gone mad, maybe it cam be solved by switching it off or marking unconfigured. Hans

[osol-discuss] useradd

2009-03-30 Thread Hanma
how to use useradd comand in terminal? i can't understand how in manual. can you give me example? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Does wvdial work for OpenSolaris?

2009-03-30 Thread James Carlson
Martin Bochnig writes: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Paul Harper pjhar...@yahoo.com wrote: I use wvdial to connect to my gprs phone with Linux. I have tried to find a ready made  wvdial package for OpenSolaris but apparently one does not exist. Would wvdial work for OpenSolaris if

Re: [osol-discuss] useradd

2009-03-30 Thread Mike DeMarco
useradd -u a unique userid between 0 - 65535, 0 = root, 65535 = nobody -g a group id defined in /etc/group -s the shell the user will want to use ie /bin/ksh -c describe the user ie. John Doe -d home directory for user /home/jdoe

Re: [osol-discuss] useradd

2009-03-30 Thread James Carlson
Hanma writes: how to use useradd comand in terminal? i can't understand how in manual. can you give me example? # useradd newuser -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 /

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

2009-03-30 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
В пт, 27/03/2009 в 15:07 +0100, Jan Kesten пишет: 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.

[osol-discuss] Available ZFS Commands on a COMSTAR LUN

2009-03-30 Thread Matthew R. Burger
Hello, I am wondering if it is possible to use ZFS replication commands on a COMSTAR LUN? It gets created with ZFS commands, but every time I want to do a ZFS snapshot and/or zfs send... It says that the device is busy. Are the LUN's created via COMSTAR not able to have standard ZFS commands

Re: [osol-discuss] useradd

2009-03-30 Thread Hanma
thank you veru much -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] useradd

2009-03-30 Thread Hanma
sory, I have a new question. how can I create password to this user in terminal? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] useradd

2009-03-30 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
passwd username On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Hanma dante...@mail.ru wrote: sory, I have a new question. how can I create password to this user in terminal? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] useradd

2009-03-30 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
if your user is called hanma you need to write passwd hanma you should really start thinking about getting a basic unix manual all these things are covered there On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Hanma dante...@mail.ru wrote: can you write me an example? -- This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] useradd

2009-03-30 Thread Hanma
I've got it thanks everyone -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Performance issues

2009-03-30 Thread Paul Nichols
The latest stable release is much improved from a GUI perspective. However, this version is really slow. Even with no GUI, the performance has really taken a hit! Any ideas on how to speed up the latest release to acceptable performance levels? The OS is about 2 times slower than RedHat OS

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

2009-03-30 Thread Paul Nichols
Although many consider IBM to be a leader in Open Source, I find quite the opposite to be true. Yes, IBM has been good to Linux. They have been good for Apache. To some degree, they have been good with Java. But that is where it ends. None of the IBM products outside Eclipse are open source or

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

2009-03-30 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
I'm hearing rumors of piles of layoffs to go with some announcement tomorrow. What I wish was that someone would take My Little Pony out into a field, shoot him, and make glue out of his stupid ass. This is the same crap he did with LightHouse Design, and when Sun picked him to lead I was

Re: [osol-discuss] compiling cvs emacs on osol

2009-03-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Martin Bochnig wrote: Not sure if the OpenSolaris.com distro currently includes OpenMotif by default (or at least in a repo). It does not. As of build 110, it includes the Solaris Motif 2.1 binaries though, in the /devel repo. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Performance issues

2009-03-30 Thread Bartlomiej Pelc
What is your hardware spec? ZFS configuration? Maybe check # prstat for some processes taking much of CPU time or memory -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2009-03-30 Thread Axelle Apvrille
Ok. I created my xorg.conf using Xorg -configure, then I tried both options. Unfortunately the problem is still the same. And the lags do seem to come from Xorg. Any hints ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

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

2009-03-30 Thread Jürgen Keil
Ok. I created my xorg.conf using Xorg -configure, then I tried both options. Unfortunately the problem is still the same. And the lags do seem to come from Xorg. Any hints ? Could this be similar to bug 5332 ? http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5332 -- This message posted

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

2009-03-30 Thread roland
Original Poster: can you please take a look at cfgadm? Seems like sil believes disk is still there or gone mad, maybe it cam be solved by switching it off or marking unconfigured. i can take a look at the end of the week and will report. anyway - how can this be solved by switching it of or

Re: [osol-discuss] Performance issues

2009-03-30 Thread Bart Smaalders
Paul Nichols wrote: The latest stable release is much improved from a GUI perspective. However, this version is really slow. Even with no GUI, the performance has really taken a hit! Any ideas on how to speed up the latest release to acceptable performance levels? The OS is about 2 times slower

Re: [osol-discuss] Performance issues

2009-03-30 Thread Paul Nichols
Ok here are the hardware specs I can put the info on the message, but basically it should fly!! Machine: Processor: AMD Athlon x264 5400+ RAM: 8 GIG DDR2 PC6400 Graphics (although this is a server): 128meg NVidia GeForce 4 Microstar MB Intel Eth0, eth1 100 Pro Server HardDrive: (1) WD 7200 RPM,

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

2009-03-30 Thread Harry Putnam
roland devz...@web.de writes: Original Poster: can you please take a look at cfgadm? Seems like sil believes disk is still there or gone mad, maybe it cam be solved by switching it off or marking unconfigured. i can take a look at the end of the week and will report. anyway - how can this be

[osol-discuss] Graphics on start up and the need for opensolaris to sell itself to a wider

2009-03-30 Thread Peter Jones
As a suggestion would you be able to use the graphics and code from the opensolaris installer,add a Tesla graphic to inform the user of the technology innovation opensolaris users enjoy Dtrace,predicive healing etc on the start up sequence ?- -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Graphics on start up and the need for opensolaris to sell itself to a wider

2009-03-30 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Peter Jones bloosk...@netscape.net wrote: As a suggestion would you be able to use the graphics and code from the opensolaris installer,add a Tesla graphic to inform the user of the technology innovation  opensolaris users enjoy Dtrace,predicive healing etc on

Re: [osol-discuss] Performance issues

2009-03-30 Thread Bart Smaalders
Paul Nichols wrote: Ok here are the hardware specs I can put the info on the message, but basically it should fly!! Machine: Processor: AMD Athlon x264 5400+ RAM: 8 GIG DDR2 PC6400 Graphics (although this is a server): 128meg NVidia GeForce 4 Microstar MB Intel Eth0, eth1 100 Pro Server

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

2009-03-30 Thread Hans van der Made
Like you, I'm thinking if I'm going to have that much trouble when pulling a disk, its looking like a large blemish on the usability of zfs for my NAS server. At the moment, the OpenSolaris ZFS experience seems to be rather hardware dependent. With Sun hardware, I haven't had any problems,

[osol-discuss] DHCP obtained address random released

2009-03-30 Thread zhang yi
Hi expert: This issue annoy me so much. I am now using opensolaris 101a version. The NIC card release its DHCP obtained IP address automatically without renew its address after maybe 24 hrs of work. The address disappears without notice. wow... So fancy features... This seems also exist in

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

2009-03-30 Thread Hans van der Made
Harry Putnam wrote: Like you, I'm thinking if I'm going to have that much trouble when pulling a disk, its looking like a large blemish on the usability of zfs for my NAS server. I've just checked the archives and it seems like you've had quite a ride already, sorry to hear that! Let's hope

Re: [osol-discuss] Performance issues

2009-03-30 Thread Paul Nichols
Bart Smaalders wrote: Paul Nichols wrote: The latest stable release is much improved from a GUI perspective. However, this version is really slow. Even with no GUI, the performance has really taken a hit! Any ideas on how to speed up the latest release to acceptable performance levels? The OS

Re: [osol-discuss] Performance issues

2009-03-30 Thread Bart Smaalders
Paul Nichols wrote: Really do not care about the grapihics performance. This is a server. However, what I do care about is performance. The earlier version of Open Solaris for X64, was quite a bit faster on the same hardware. My point was, yes the graphics and GUI look more polished in this

Re: [osol-discuss] Performance issues

2009-03-30 Thread Shawn Walker
Paul Nichols wrote: Really do not care about the grapihics performance. This is a server. However, what I do care about is performance. The earlier version of Open Solaris for X64, was quite a bit faster on the same hardware. My point was, yes the graphics and GUI look more polished in this

Re: [osol-discuss] Performance issues

2009-03-30 Thread Paul Nichols
Really do not care about the grapihics performance. This is a server. However, what I do care about is performance. The earlier version of Open Solaris for X64, was quite a bit faster on the same hardware. My point was, yes the graphics and GUI look more polished in this release, but the kernel

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

2009-03-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Hans van der Made s...@ukemi.com writes: [...] I don't know which components you've used, and if these parts work fine in other people's systems, but your description does not breed confidence in this particular card. Of course, there's also BIOS settings, firmware, bus mastering problems,

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

2009-03-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Hans van der Made s...@ukemi.com writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Like you, I'm thinking if I'm going to have that much trouble when pulling a disk, its looking like a large blemish on the usability of zfs for my NAS server. I've just checked the archives and it seems like you've had quite a

[osol-discuss] running benchmark hard locks opensolaris

2009-03-30 Thread Scott N.
I have been quickly testing a few OS's to use as sort of a network storage box for my home. Always being a Solaris fan I decided to throw OpenSolaris into the mix. Downloaded latest snapshot last week (osol-0906-109-x86) and installed. I was impressed that basically everything worked