[osol-discuss] Can we EOL indiana soon?

2009-10-12 Thread Sean Sprague
Hello all, Can we please EOL the use of *indiana* soon, archive all the mailing list entries and website pages, and formally replace it (and rename/reallocate the project) with(in) OpenSolaris? Mike Kupfer recently pointed out the fact the opening sentence on the indiana docs page (

Re: [osol-discuss] About the pkg manager on default desktop

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Phalan
On 10/11/09 06:21 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Michal Pryc michal.p...@sun.com writes: [...] Harry, Icon on the desktop is invoking: gksu packagemanager whoops... I missed that... thanks Which de facto is calling pfexec. So it looks like your privilages are broken. Here is what I have

Re: [osol-discuss] Can we EOL indiana soon?

2009-10-12 Thread Che Kristo
Which is where the (somewhat ill thought out) differentiation between the opensolaris product and opensolaris community becomes a problem. Personally I believe that the opensolaris product should just be named as Solaris Enterprise for the current Solaris, Solaris Standard for the indiana stable

Re: [osol-discuss] About the pkg manager on default desktop

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Phalan
On 10/12/09 12:21 PM, Mark Phalan wrote: On 10/11/09 06:21 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Michal Pryc michal.p...@sun.com writes: [...] Harry, Icon on the desktop is invoking: gksu packagemanager whoops... I missed that... thanks Which de facto is calling pfexec. So it looks like your

Re: [osol-discuss] [belenix-discuss] practical zfs implementation problem

2009-10-12 Thread Binu Jose Philip
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Arun Tomar tomar.a...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I really love zfs. What i want to do is to create a zfs based storage solution say 15 TB from commodity hardware. What I have: software: opensolaris 0906, belenix and solaris 10. hardware: 2 normal

Re: [osol-discuss] [belenix-discuss] link aggregating

2009-10-12 Thread Binu Jose Philip
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Arun Tomar tomar.a...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I've a zfs box for storage and gigabit network. the max data transfer speed that i could get is may be between 100-125 mbps need to check that. I wanted to achieve close to 300mbps of data transfer speed. I

Re: [osol-discuss] [networking-discuss] link aggregating

2009-10-12 Thread James Carlson
Arun Tomar wrote: I've a zfs box for storage and gigabit network. the max data transfer speed that i could get is may be between 100-125 mbps need to check that. Is that MBps (megabytes per second) or Mbps (megabits per second)? The former sounds about right. I wanted to achieve close to

Re: [osol-discuss] Nvidia graphics cards

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Jones
There seems to be a bit more about this two year dispute than meets the eye. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20081016063449_Foxconn_Set_to_Stop_Producing_Nvidia_GeForce_Graphics_Cards_Sources_Confirm.html -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] 128 bit technology

2009-10-12 Thread John Thompson
On 2009-10-11, Peter Jones bloosk...@netscape.net wrote: Microsoft has announced that the next release windows 8 will be a 128 bit system.Apart from haveing few applications,isv,isv,on their side.Is this a marketing gimmick or saine thinking? Will opensolaris work on 128 bit? I'd say it's

Re: [osol-discuss] b124: root window terminal

2009-10-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Clarence CHU wrote: Dear Alan, So, all the users with no shell specified in /etc/passwd had to be changed, done. next is: Accessories-Terminator doesn't work. That appears to be another bug you could have found in a search of http://defect.opensolaris.org/ (though you'd have to do

Re: [osol-discuss] b124: root window terminal

2009-10-12 Thread Hemantha Holla
Clarence CHU wrote: Dear Alan, So, all the users with no shell specified in /etc/passwd had to be changed, done. next is: Accessories-Terminator doesn't work. This sounds like 6885253. You could edit terminator.py to remove the pair of brackets (as suggested in the full bug report behind

Re: [osol-discuss] 128 bit technology

2009-10-12 Thread Paul Gress
John Thompson wrote: On 2009-10-11, Peter Jones bloosk...@netscape.net wrote: Microsoft has announced that the next release windows 8 will be a 128 bit system.Apart from haveing few applications,isv,isv,on their side.Is this a marketing gimmick or saine thinking? Will opensolaris work on

Re: [osol-discuss] b124: root window terminal

2009-10-12 Thread Ghee Teo
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Clarence CHU wrote: Dear Alan, So, all the users with no shell specified in /etc/passwd had to be changed, done. next is: Accessories-Terminator doesn't work. That appears to be another bug you could have found in a search of http://defect.opensolaris.org/

[osol-discuss] Weird boot issue with sxce_124

2009-10-12 Thread Attila Nagy
I have the habit of putting my root's home onto a separate partition, so /root is /dev/dsk/c1d1s1 /dev/rdsk/c1d1s1/root ufs 1 yes - (yep, I know it's lame to be always root :)) I LU'ed from nv_104 to 124, and during boot the system goes into maintenance mode, stating

[osol-discuss] osol-1002-XXX-sparc.iso

2009-10-12 Thread Niki W. Waibel
does anyone know when we get a osol-1002-XXX-sparc.iso release? osol-1002-124-ai-sparc.iso is there -- which is good and very much (!) appreciated -- but a osol-1002-XXX-sparc.iso would ease install and setup a lot on sparc. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] About the pkg manager on default desktop

2009-10-12 Thread Shawn Walker
Mark Phalan wrote: I would warn strongly against doing that. Primary Administrator basically means root. NOT something you want to have associated with your local user. The fact that OpenSolaris assigns the Primary Administrator role is a serious security problem. The first thing I do after

[osol-discuss] Laptop Battery Monitor

2009-10-12 Thread Johnathon Tyler Harmon
When i installed open solaris on my Campaq laptop the battery monitor would never change off of 100% one time it even turned off on me when it said a 100% . Any one have any ideas on how to fix that. If i could get that fixed i would love to change back from windows to open solaris. -- This

Re: [osol-discuss] [storage-discuss] help! I need long-term data protection advice

2009-10-12 Thread allen joslin
I need the locally-connected behavior of iScsi -- our work-a-day machines are Macs and I want to use Time Machine After I wrote this note I _then_ saw pointers to Comstar, and will be exploring that this week. I think I will likely end up using CIFS for communication between my various

[osol-discuss] Why fsflush/pageout damemon were implemented by newproc() as kernel process

2009-10-12 Thread javen wu
I have a question about solaris boot strap main() function. solaris create fsflush/pageout in main function by newproc() as sys class kernel process and use kernel address space? Is there any special reason we cannot implement fsflush(pid 2) and pageout daemon(pid3) by thread_create() as a