Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so...

2009-04-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
This is a pretty good dollars and cents reason for why IBM buying Sun was never going to happen: http://finance.google.com/group/google.finance.543040/browse_thread/thread/c34e6cbcef0078e8?hl=en# -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Perl 5.10?

2009-04-15 Thread Laszlo (Laca) Peter
John Sonnenschein is working on submitting it to /contrib, see http://jucr.opensolaris.org/review/packages/265/ Laca On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 16:14 -0700, Shawn Protsman wrote: What is the best way to get Perl 5.10? Compile from source? From a repo somewhere? It has been about 7 months since I

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris vs HP-UX vs AIX

2009-04-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
Quick question since we have a lot of very knowledgable HP-UX sysadmins in this thread: Is HP-UX 11i bundled with HP Virtual Server Environment and HP Serviceguard the same thing as what WPAR's are on AIX 6 and what Zones / N1 Grid Containers are on Solaris? What are the similarities and

[osol-discuss] Why unable to qualify my own domain name when it is defined?

2009-04-15 Thread Uwe Dippel
My /etc/hosts contains [i] # Internet host table # ::1 localhost loghost SolU 127.0.0.1 SolU.my.place.edu.my SolU loghost SolU [/i] and still I get the dreaded 'Subject', and cannot 'mail' from the command line, e.g: mail -s should go through root body . hangs here and

[osol-discuss] [Fwd: [advocacy-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!]

2009-04-15 Thread Jim Walker
---BeginMessage--- Hi All - We are very excited to announce the Apps of Steel Challenge - If you're a student, developer, system administrator, or someone who just likes to develop packages, use your talents and participate for a chance to win a Toshiba OpenSolaris laptop! Submit the best

Re: [osol-discuss] Best practices? user creation? sysadmins please ADVICE!

2009-04-15 Thread UNIX admin
But, Ive heard that to be able to search directories, they must have set x bit, so directories: rwx r-x r-x and files: rw- r-- r-- that sucks. I must treat files different from directories. I can not do chmod -R 744 /tank You can either do what Casper wrote, or you can also do the

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris vs HP-UX vs AIX

2009-04-15 Thread UNIX admin
Is HP-UX 11i bundled with HP Virtual Server Environment It would be the other way around, but I don't remember seeing it on the DVDs; normally when one performs an HP-UX install, it will be years before another install is performed. From hp's web pages, it appears that VSE is a product which

[osol-discuss] How to make pkgtool work properly?

2009-04-15 Thread Shao Xuan
Hello gurus, I'm using opensolaris 2008.11, I have successfully installed Sun Studio 12, pkgbuild and JDS CBE in my system. but when I execute pkgtool to build spec files, it encounters error as follows: yuri...@mars:~$ pkgtool build --download SFEfoo.spec ERROR: SFEfoo.spec not found INFO: No

Re: [osol-discuss] How to make pkgtool work properly?

2009-04-15 Thread kelvin
Hi The spec file you specified should be exist. The spec file let the pkgtool know which source file should be downloaded and should be built. Shao Xuan 写道: Hello gurus, I'm using opensolaris 2008.11, I have successfully installed Sun Studio 12, pkgbuild and JDS CBE in my system. but when

Re: [osol-discuss] How to make pkgtool work properly?

2009-04-15 Thread Matt Keenan
Hi, The spec files that you are trying to build need to be located locally on your machine. the --download option of pkgtool, means to download source tarballs required by the spec file(s), you are trying to build. SFE spec files are located here :

Re: [osol-discuss] How to make pkgtool work properly?

2009-04-15 Thread Laszlo (Laca) Peter
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 02:11 -0700, Shao Xuan wrote: Hello gurus, I'm using opensolaris 2008.11, I have successfully installed Sun Studio 12, pkgbuild and JDS CBE in my system. but when I execute pkgtool to build spec files, it encounters error as follows: yuri...@mars:~$ pkgtool build

Re: [osol-discuss] How can i forbid sftp users to change their home directory

2009-04-15 Thread Jan Pechanec
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, russell aspinwall wrote: Configure the users with /usr/bin/rksh as default shell so they will be unable to change directory. ChrootDirectory option resync went to build 112. I don't have the original post but I guess that's what is looked for here.

Re: [osol-discuss] How to make pkgtool work properly?

2009-04-15 Thread Shao Xuan
Hello, I want to build spec files in http://pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/ and I have already executed :svn co https://pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk SFE But when I execute pkgtool build --download *.spec (*mean anything I

Re: [osol-discuss] Log messages when using an Linux (openfiler 2.3) iscsi target - a problem?

2009-04-15 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi Alastair, I am CCing storage-discuss@ as the best place for this question and Bccing the rest. V út, 14. 04. 2009 v 18:00, Alastair Neil píše: I see these messages in my logs of my snv_111 system. I see messages for every target, the targets are openfiler 2.3 Linux systems. The switches

[osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Terri Wischmann
Hi All - We are very excited to announce the Apps of Steel Challenge - If you're a student, developer, system administrator, or someone who just likes to develop packages, use your talents and participate for a chance to win a Toshiba OpenSolaris laptop! Submit the best package that meets

Re: [osol-discuss] How to make pkgtool work properly?

2009-04-15 Thread Matt Keenan
On 15/04/2009 15:32, Shao Xuan wrote: Hello, I want to build spec files in http://pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/ and I have already executed :svn co https://pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk SFE But when I execute pkgtool

[osol-discuss] smbmount hangs

2009-04-15 Thread BJ Quinn
I think I'm getting the same problem described here http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6676465 Briefly, if ever a share mounted by mount -F smbfs drops connection on the remote end, then no future attempts at mounting shares will ever succeed, they all just hang. I'm

Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so...

2009-04-15 Thread Brian Utterback
Not so. Whatever SEAM would lose for a low bid, it is still less than they would lose if Sun went bankrupt. You cannot make a statement that it was never going to happen without knowing what the stockholders perceptions of the future are. Anon Y Mous wrote: This is a pretty good dollars and

Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so...

2009-04-15 Thread Mark Blackman
On 15 Apr 2009, at 17:02, Brian Utterback wrote: Not so. Whatever SEAM would lose for a low bid, it is still less than they would lose if Sun went bankrupt. You cannot make a statement that it was never going to happen without knowing what the stockholders perceptions of the future are.

Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so...

2009-04-15 Thread Octave Orgeron
Yeah, unfortunately it seems that with Sun's large operating expenses, headcount, and poor sales that continuing to operate will be rather tricky. To make matters worse, in this economy most businesses are dependent on credit for doing things like pay-roll as the income can vary each month.

Re: [osol-discuss] Why unable to qualify my own domain name when it is defined?

2009-04-15 Thread Ron Halstead
Try mailx -v -s should go through root body . The -v is verbose and will show you what is going on. --ron -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so...

2009-04-15 Thread Brian Utterback
Nope, I don't think that Sun is going to go bankrupt at all. But we have had losses, pretty major ones on a GAAP basis. Much less on a non-GAAP basis. Mostly we have been cash-flow positive in actual cash. There is a lot of money in the bank, so the outlook looks good, if the losses are not

Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so...

2009-04-15 Thread Ben Taylor
Yeah, unfortunately it seems that with Sun's large operating expenses, headcount, and poor sales that continuing to operate will be rather tricky. To make matters worse, in this economy most businesses are dependent on credit for doing things like pay-roll as the income can vary each

Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so...

2009-04-15 Thread Ben Taylor
Yeah, unfortunately it seems that with Sun's large operating expenses, headcount, and poor sales that continuing to operate will be rather tricky. To make matters worse, in this economy most businesses are dependent on credit for doing things like pay-roll as the income can vary each

Re: [osol-discuss] Reboots of nv111

2009-04-15 Thread John Martin
/ ff0007899910 unix:die+dd () // ff0007899a20 unix:trap+1752 () // ff0007899a30 unix:cmntrap+e9 () // ff01bafd8000 nvidia:_nv004189rm+1b () // // syncing file systems... // done // dumping to /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/dump, offset 65536, content: kernel // // $C // ff01bafd8000

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
Aw man, the contest started on April 11th, but nobody announced it here until April 13th? That gives everybody else a two day head start over me :-( I think I need to start occasionally hanging out more with all of the Indianites at OpenSolaris.com since I think I'm in the minority of people at

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Anon Y Mous wrote: (2) As far as I can tell there's no way of doing automated / scripted installations of 2008.11 like you can with kickstart in Solaris 10. This combined with points #1 and #3 makes it almost impossible for me to use 2008.11 on production servers even though I actually

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Anon Y Mous (system5u...@yahoo.com) wrote: Aw man, the contest started on April 11th, but nobody announced it here until April 13th? That gives everybody else a two day head start over me :-( I think I need to start occasionally hanging out more with all of the Indianites at

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Lurie
Have you filed bugs on the dtrace toolkit issues (if in fact they actually exist)? I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't work. The networking stack in OpenSolaris is identical to the one in SXCE as is dtracetoolkit. I filed it two months ago...

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
SUNWmfrun is available in the /dev repo starting with build 110. There were licensing issues to be resolved that held it out previously. Thanks for the tip on the auto-installer! Is the root cause of the problem that SUNWmfrun contains some kind of cryptography module that can't be exported

Re: [osol-discuss] LiveCD doesn't boot in a Dell Precision M2300

2009-04-15 Thread Georg-W. Koltermann
Is it working with the native video mode for you? I'm only getting nVidia Corporation unknown chipset (0x065a) rev 161. Using Osol 08.11 over here. It does work in Vesa mode, but that's not quite what I was after... -- Regards, Georg. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Anon Y Mous wrote: Is the root cause of the problem that SUNWmfrun contains some kind of cryptography module that can't be exported under U.S. laws or is it more of an issue with a third-party company that owns intellectual property or part of the code that prevents free re-distribution?

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Shawn Walker
Anon Y Mous wrote: Also, does flar create not work well with the ZFS version used in 2008.11 and that's why it's not in there? Or is flar supposed to be replaced by some feature in ZFS? Or is the flar code owned by a third party that won't allow free redistribution of it? I haven't heard any

[osol-discuss] A Cool Solaris TV Commercial to cheer everyone up :-)

2009-04-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
Everyone's been pretty sullen and gloomy around here with all the talks of IBM buying Sun and what not, so I thought I'd share this clip of a very nifty and elegant Solaris TV Commercial someone made to cheer everyone up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ5sL5niW2w For some reason, this

Re: [osol-discuss] A Cool Solaris TV Commercial to cheer everyone up :-)

2009-04-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
It's still a VERY cool commercial though (better than IBM's and Microsoft's commercials). Don't you guys agree? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Shawn Walker (swal...@opensolaris.org) wrote: Anon Y Mous wrote: Also, does flar create not work well with the ZFS version used in 2008.11 and that's why it's not in there? Or is flar supposed to be replaced by some feature in ZFS? Or is the flar code owned by a third party that won't

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
Sorry - I don't know anything about flar or flash archives - never used them or worked on them. Just thought I'd put it out there and ask if anyone had tried building flar functionality from source code on Indiana yet. I know I tried building the lsof command from source on Indiana and I

Re: [osol-discuss] A Cool Solaris TV Commercial to cheer everyone up :-)

2009-04-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
It's still a VERY cool commercial though (better than IBM's and Microsoft's commercials). Don't you guys agree? What I meant to say is- It's much better than those I'm a Mac vs I'm a PC vs I'm a Linux commercials that Apple, Sun, and IBM are doing. Way better than the silly Project Mojave

Re: [osol-discuss] A Cool Solaris TV Commercial to cheer everyone up :-)

2009-04-15 Thread Octave Orgeron
It's good.. too bad it was never on TV from what I can tell. Sun really needs to beef up on public image.. TV commercials would be ideal. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web:

Re: [osol-discuss] A Cool Solaris TV Commercial to cheer everyone up :-)

2009-04-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
If they were going to show something on TV to catch the ordinary Joe Computer User 's attention, they should have shown this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUgSBKC7pt4feature=related I showed that clip to a bunch of random Windoze users and Mac users and their first reaction was always-

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Calum Benson
On 15 Apr 2009, at 21:36, Anon Y Mous wrote: (4) I really liked the dark blue colors in the Indiana 2008.05 default theme but now in 2008.11, all the default background colors are way too bright. It's really painful to stare at the background screen for a long time when you're using the

Re: [osol-discuss] A Cool Solaris TV Commercial to cheer everyone up :-)

2009-04-15 Thread Ché Kristo
Very good! if only they actually adertised :-| -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] A Cool Solaris TV Commercial to cheer everyone up :-)

2009-04-15 Thread Lurie
That's a really good advertisement! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Apps of Steel Challenge!

2009-04-15 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 13:36 -0700, Anon Y Mous wrote: (1) it doesn't make it easy to do a minimum server install with just a command line and Apache and Tomcat or just Lightttpd or just a command line and a PostFix e-mail server (no GUI!!! yeah you can do svcadm disable gdm, but