Re: [osol-discuss] snv_134 slow down every monday morning

2010-09-05 Thread Anon Y Mous
> I've got a bit of an odd bug with my OS NAS, every monday morning I come into > work > and I have to reboot it. SSH doesn't respond and nor does the CIFS shares. > And the > ping response times are very high! Snowpooch, Have you checked if suspend / resume (i.e. suspend to RAM) is enabled o

Re: [osol-discuss] Opera drops browser support for Solaris

2010-04-29 Thread Anon Y Mous
We need to protest this loudly as a community because Opera is the only web browser that makes it easy to browse the web from inside a Solaris zone (for more secure web browsing). If you don't believe me just create a zone, download the Opera SVR4 package, "pkgadd -d" it inside the zone, then ss

Re: [osol-discuss] Someone please tell me I'm wrong

2010-04-29 Thread Anon Y Mous
You're wrong. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] i am on job trials.

2010-04-22 Thread Anon Y Mous
>Friends, i am on job trials. >I have learned solaris 10 and done certification part-1 and part-2. >I am not able to answer the below questions as i do not have work >experience >on solaris. please help me with your answers. >Q.1) What is the project you are presently working on? >Q.2) What is y

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-06 Thread Anon Y Mous
This bug with ZFS deduplication is another one that needs to be fixed correctly before the next "long term support" stable release of OpenSolaris comes out: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6924824 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-06 Thread Anon Y Mous
I think the engineers at Sun should take their time with this release and release it whenever it's ready and bug free and not let peer pressure from the community or from management force them to make a final 2010.04 release that has critical bugs in it. I want to use this next release on produc

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-04-01 Thread Anon Y Mous
Maybe this one is Oracle playing an April Fools joke on us as well? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Save OpenSolaris (according to Katonda)

2010-04-01 Thread Anon Y Mous
Is this an April fools joke? Alexander Eremin got me pretty good last year with the "Opensolaris successfully booting up on an iphone" port. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] An idea for spreading the word

2010-03-31 Thread Anon Y Mous
@bsdfan- I do agree with you that snv_129 is the best build of OpenSolaris Indiana that I have tried so far, because it was almost like a more polished, perfected version of everything that was in 2009.06 (i.e. the best of 2009.06 plus ZFS deduplication, good bug fixes, lots of minor improvement

Re: [osol-discuss] Should OS2010.03 stick to the 2010.03 release date?

2010-03-13 Thread Anon Y Mous
> Since a copyright protection does not extend to functionality--I am sure we > all know this, > writing a software implementing the QQ client protocol is not a copyright > violation. Actually, > there is even a QQ client written in java. :-) If there is a QQ client written in Java, then the J

Re: [osol-discuss] When OpenSolaris 2010.3 will release?

2010-03-02 Thread Anon Y Mous
> Since I've been at Sun, "Solaris Next" has been used for Solaris 8, 9, and 10 > at various phases. Maybe Oracle could rename it from "Solaris Next" to "Solaris (N + 1)" or if we could just get IPS to be as fast as blastwave's pkgutil or Nexenta's apt-get, we could call it "(Solaris)^2" (a.

Re: [osol-discuss] very long wait in the end of pkg install

2010-02-27 Thread Anon Y Mous
Ok, install OpenSolaris on a server, create a zone, and then in your first zone just running this very basic IPS command: pkg install SUNWman takes forever because it downloads each man page file individually. Downloading a large number of small files via FTP or whatever will always be slowe

Re: [osol-discuss] Missing drivers in OpenSolaris.

2010-02-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
The missing driver in OpenSolaris that ticks me off the most (as a sysadmin) is the missing baseboard management controller (bmc) driver. This bug here really rained on my parade: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6799081 Do you think that if I just copy these three fil

Re: [osol-discuss] Failsafe boot for Opensolaris 2009.06 ?

2010-02-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
Also note, while OpenSolaris x86 might not have failsafe boot, it does have "single user mode" which can be pretty useful (see link below): http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/boot_into_single_user_mode -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-discuss] Failsafe boot for Opensolaris 2009.06 ?

2010-02-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
Hugh my friend, the "happy face boot" is the most retarded thing I have ever seen in the history of UNIX server operating systems. Because you're a sysadmin who only uses SSH to connect to remote servers and administer them from the command line, of course you are going to want to disable tha pe

Re: [osol-discuss] Software is free. Service is not. Mike Rocha and Tim Ch

2010-02-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
> And since the source is open for almost all of it, anyone in the community who > chose to do so could backport security updates to a stable branch in their > copy > of the source gate and offer binaries built from that to other community > members > - but in the almost two years since 2008.05 r

Re: [osol-discuss] Software is free. Service is not. Mike Rocha and Tim Chou.

2010-02-14 Thread Anon Y Mous
If Oracle charges for security patches on Solaris then we won't be able to have massive success stories like this one in Serbia: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=123103&tstart=0 Giving the O.S. and the patches for free or maybe giving the O.S. for free and the security patch

Re: [osol-discuss] How to install OpenSolaris ?

2010-02-14 Thread Anon Y Mous
And yes there is a GUI, there is even a graphical interface for ZFS called time slider that allows you to use ZFS snapshots to rewind your computer's file system back in time: http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/entry/zfs_on_the_desktop_zfs -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-discuss] How to install OpenSolaris ?

2010-02-14 Thread Anon Y Mous
Hi Mukesh, if you click on this URL link that I have copied and pasted below: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22installing+opensolaris+2009.06+from+the+live+cd%22 you will find a special video that I have created just for you that points you to the appropriate instructions (click on the first link that ap

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle is creepy

2010-02-14 Thread Anon Y Mous
> My basic concern is that I really like Solaris and OpenSolaris and what Sun > has brought to the table. If you like Solaris and OpenSolaris so much, then how come you only have two posts in this forum? Some of the other people here have hundreds if not thousands of posts and that comes usu

Re: [osol-discuss] b132 is out!

2010-02-05 Thread Anon Y Mous
> Thanks to all developers for good dev release :) If it contained rlwrap, > it would be priceless... I'm still holding my breath for a 100% functional version of the lsof utility: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsof to be integrated in to OpenSolaris. Trying to use pfiles shell scripts to grep

Re: [osol-discuss] Build 131 in reboot loop

2010-02-03 Thread Anon Y Mous
> After reverting to 111b, all the additions I had to root's crontab where > gone. > I had added jobs to do periodic backups, intrusion tests, email graylist > cleanup, spam rule updates, wiki cleanup and zfs scrubs. I brought the > crontab back from the archives and all is well, but I don't un

Re: [osol-discuss] Build 131 in reboot loop

2010-02-01 Thread Anon Y Mous
Having a "reboot loop" is also a pretty good sign that one of your sticks of RAM is bad. Go to the command line and type in this command: gnome-system-monitor and you'll notice that it is probably rebooting whenever it hits that same exact certain bad spot in the RAM. -- This message posted

Re: [osol-discuss] Build 131 in reboot loop

2010-02-01 Thread Anon Y Mous
> Since it happens randomly on on any disk, I would doubt that all 5 disks > suddenly failed. When checksum errors happen randomly on any disk it usually either means that your server has bad RAM or a bad powersupply. Check out this link below: http://blogs.sun.com/elowe/entry/zfs_saves_the_d

Re: [osol-discuss] Asterisk

2010-02-01 Thread Anon Y Mous
Since Asterisk is such a heavily multi-threaded application, I have a client who is actually interested in trying it out on UltraSPARC Niagara to see if open source Asterisk running on Solaris on Sun's Niagara hardware can get better performance than the very costly proprietary solutions that he

Re: [osol-discuss] update-manager freezes system for a long time

2010-01-31 Thread Anon Y Mous
Hi Bruno, What is your output for these commands? cat /etc/release pfexec scanpci ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Bordeaux 2.0.0 for Solaris and OpenSolaris Released

2010-01-30 Thread Anon Y Mous
> I just tested SeaMonkey 2.0.2 on Linux with Bordeaux 2.0.0 and it runs fine.. > I'll test it on OS in a couple days. Awesome! Thanks for testing this. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discus

Re: [osol-discuss] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/22/sun_schwartz_signoff/

2010-01-29 Thread Anon Y Mous
Erik Trimble said: > From my standpoint as a current Sun employee, my biggest problem with > Sun has been it's lack of focus. We've spent way to much time, effort, > and money doing a variety of neat things, all which /might/ be really > sweet. However, as a consequence, all of them tend to be lat

Re: [osol-discuss] What's Going to Happen to OpenSolaris?

2010-01-29 Thread Anon Y Mous
> So show me win 2003/2008 for sparc... I think there is a version of Windows Server 2003 for those big HP-UX Itanium boxes: http://www.microsoft.com/servers/64bit/itanium/overview.mspx I think it's called "Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition" and Microsoft claims that it scales to 512 pr

Re: [osol-discuss] What's Going to Happen to OpenSolaris?

2010-01-28 Thread Anon Y Mous
SMF is already filled up with so much stuff that at a certain point, it starts to become overwhelming from a sysadmin persective just to parse through the output of svcs -a and now the goal is to add even more stuff to it by getting rid of scripting during package installation and offloading all

Re: [osol-discuss] What's Going to Happen to OpenSolaris?

2010-01-28 Thread Anon Y Mous
I just had to play some more whack-a-mole and kill yet another one of these unnecessary services: # svcadm disable avahi-bridge-dsd:default and what does: svc:/application/desktop-cache/mime-types-cache:default do? And why is it running right now on my minimalized headless server that has X-w

Re: [osol-discuss] What's Going to Happen to OpenSolaris?

2010-01-28 Thread Anon Y Mous
> (3) After the installation process is done, only SSH and mail should be > running. alanc: > Done since the Secure by Default project integrated a few years ago. Yes, but I just had to do the following two commands on an OpenSolaris Indiana snv_129 server that a client was evaluating: #svcadm

Re: [osol-discuss] What's Going to Happen to OpenSolaris?

2010-01-28 Thread Anon Y Mous
> With the OpenSolaris distribution, you install a relatively small core > (that is supported), and then you add pieces to that. U, OpenSolaris might be an improvement over Solaris 10 in some ways (i.e. pkg image-update being better than live upgrade) but any OS that forces you to install a

Re: [osol-discuss] What's Going to Happen to OpenSolaris?

2010-01-28 Thread Anon Y Mous
> Why do you think we're designing OpenSolaris as a desktop first? OpenSolaris is designed as a destkop first because the GUI installer doesn't even let you assign a static IP address the way that Red Hat Enterprise Linux / Oracle Unbreakable Linux / CentOS installer does and it forces you to h

Re: [osol-discuss] UltraSPAR_K_

2010-01-28 Thread Anon Y Mous
This is actually a good sign: Oracle puts the spark back in SPARC!!! h, maybe I should give up on this whole sysadmin gig and become a marketing droid? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-di

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Anon Y Mous
> I hope Oracle will not rebrand OpenSolaris / Solaris look and feel, which > tends to be > blue/silver to something bright red. It would be just too > annoying. I always thought we should just stick with the gorgeous and elegant 2008.05 branding for all of the OpenSolaris releases. The dark bl

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Anon Y Mous
> Links to another server. Not a good sign that they plan on keeping it. > They will retire the Sun server infrastructure and cut over to their own > eventually. > Integration would be a better sign! If Oracle retires Sun's infrastructure but still keeps the Solaris / OpenSolaris projects going

Re: [osol-discuss] file command is lame

2010-01-25 Thread Anon Y Mous
Since we're on the subject of commands that we like or dislike, for me as a sysadmin, the much bigger issue is that it takes me like 20 to 40 lines of shell script to do with pfiles what this simple command: lsof -ni does on FreeBSD and Linux. And pfiles pretty much takes forever to grep th

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot add Development reository to upgrade 111b to 131

2010-01-25 Thread Anon Y Mous
> Unfortunately, there's not enough here for me to debug. I can only > guess that there is a routing issue of some sort between your system and > pkg.opensolaris.org. I had a similar problem that I think might be caused by a routing issue with newer versions of OpenSolaris inside older versions o

Re: [osol-discuss] X hangs on snv130

2010-01-23 Thread Anon Y Mous
For me, snv_129 was the last version of OpenSolaris that I was able to install into a usable system from the live CD. I'm starting to really like the stability of 129 so far and I think I'm going to freeze there and wait until newer OpenSolaris has the ability to actually install from the LiveCD

Re: [osol-discuss] Linux Brand Zones and KAV3

2010-01-22 Thread Anon Y Mous
You should post the problem here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=83 in Linux BrandZ discuss, since that's where the people who work on BrandZ zones hang out. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mai

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-21 Thread Anon Y Mous
> If anyone wants to point me to bugs, and if I can add myself I will. How about this one where the scroll bars get corrupted in 2009.06 when you open up an Adobe Acrobat file with a lot of pages in it: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=121969&tstart=0 Anybody know if a bug h

Re: [osol-discuss] Bordeaux 2.0.0 for Solaris and OpenSolaris Released

2010-01-21 Thread Anon Y Mous
Oh, and checking if Google Chrome and Seamonkey: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ work in Bordeaux would be interesting as well. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Bordeaux 2.0.0 for Solaris and OpenSolaris Released

2010-01-21 Thread Anon Y Mous
Hey twicklin, I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate you guys supporting FreeBSD and Solaris. A few quick questions: Has the Bordeaux team ever tried running VLC media player under their version of Wine with OpenSolaris 2009.06, and if so, is it known to work? http://www.videol

Re: [osol-discuss] 128a was the latest fairly stable build

2010-01-21 Thread Anon Y Mous
> [*] I do see a S/R problem if virtualization hardware support > is enabled in the SBIOS, but this is not the default setting. Yes, but I would think that one of the main reasons for buying a Toshiba laptop with OpenSolaris pre-installed is to run a software stack that draws heavily from Sun's

Re: [osol-discuss] Make Opensolaris boot failsafe

2010-01-19 Thread Anon Y Mous
> It looks like ILOM is the way to go, but I'll probably use serial consoles on > the existing servers. Wmeister, it might be helpful to check out this link to Dennis Clarke's blog where he explains how he got OpenSolaris 2008.05 to boot up to a serial console: http://www.blastwave.org/dclark

Re: [osol-discuss] Reliable memory checking tool for C++ based applications?

2010-01-19 Thread Anon Y Mous
kgardas, check out this blog entry that's called "Finding memory leaks on Solaris systems": http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/02/19/finding-memory-leaks-on-solaris-systems/ Basically, there's live kernel debugging tool in Solaris called "mdb" that will let you debug a live kernel with the

Re: [osol-discuss] Bridging firewall with snv_125 and ipfilter

2010-01-18 Thread Anon Y Mous
> It looks like I will have to use OpenBSD. Thanks for the link! OpenBSD can be an intimidating operating system to install and configure if you have never used it before. A good web link for a complete newbie to learn how to install and configure it might be this one: http://www.openbsd10

Re: [osol-discuss] wifi problem @ solaris10 (ath)

2010-01-17 Thread Anon Y Mous
Just go to www.opensolaris.com and download OpenSolaris 2009.06 and the ath driver should work fine. It works fine for me! Solaris 10 is a completely different matter though -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailin

Re: [osol-discuss] Make Opensolaris boot failsafe

2010-01-16 Thread Anon Y Mous
Check this out wmeister, it might be what you're looking for: http://blogs.sun.com/bigadmin/entry/server_administration_from_the_beach http://www.sun.com/systemmanagement/ilom.jsp -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mai

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris snv130 hangs on booting in VMWare

2010-01-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
Are you hitting this problem: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6837 Or http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6820826 http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6820576 ? I think Jurgen Keil posted a workaround here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?thre

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-help] 128a was the latest fairly stable

2010-01-13 Thread Anon Y Mous
Now, just to keep the record straight. I'm not in 100% agreement with Ben Rockwood (maybe only 96% agreement). I actually love Indiana and run it as my main day-to-day desktop OS. The problem is that you can't use Indiana as a minimal server OS in production because the Caiman installer does n

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-help] 128a was the latest fairly stable

2010-01-13 Thread Anon Y Mous
> It already *has* market share. Think of all the Solaris 10 deployments > (from which OpenSolaris was initially started from). Not to mention the > people > (like Joyent) who are running OpenSolaris *today* in *production*. No, this is very much incorrect. Joyent does not run "OpenSolaris Indi

Re: [osol-discuss] 2010.02 now 2010.03??

2010-01-10 Thread Anon Y Mous
> I saw the bottom of the post below about OpenSolaris 2010.03, but can't find > any > other mention of 2010.02 becoming a March release. I think it's actually a good sign that the developers are taking their time and are not forcing a new major release of OpenSolaris Indiana every six months.

Re: [osol-discuss] Smartmontools + SATA disks

2010-01-10 Thread Anon Y Mous
> For my it works on "Asus M2N32 WS PRO" I also wonder if the fact that it works for you on snv_130 has anything to do with this work that Eric Schrock did for integrating SMART into Solaris FMA as part of Fishworks: http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock/entry/solaris_platform_integration_generic_d

Re: [osol-discuss] Smartmontools + SATA disks

2010-01-10 Thread Anon Y Mous
> For my it works on "Asus M2N32 WS PRO" > After install "SUNWhd-1.07.pkg" i can read SMART from disks connected to MCP > sata controller (non > Marvell)!!! > snv_130 Hey slaver_2, now you've got me curious, what is your output for this command: pfexec scanpci -v ? Maybe SUNWhd is a lot

Re: [osol-discuss] Bad news for running Oracle on Solaris?

2010-01-10 Thread Anon Y Mous
> except with tongue firmly in čík I don't know about you but my tongue is always firmly in čík. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Using OpenSolaris as a security gateway

2010-01-08 Thread Anon Y Mous
> do you know if MAC is also available in the OpenSolaris 2009.06? I.e. I > assume > this is mandatory access control implementation from trusted solaris edition, > right? > Thanks, > Karel @kgardas, if you look at the "What's New in OpenSolaris 2008.11" page here: http://www.opensolaris.com/

Re: [osol-discuss] Smartmontools + SATA disks

2010-01-07 Thread Anon Y Mous
> I presume that Solaris simply doesn't implement the right functions. > I'd love to be corrected. Ok zetetic, so I'll love to correct you then. I think Solaris actually does implement the right functions for S.M.A.R.T., and you actually can get S.M.A.R.T. data (and much more) on Solaris 10 us

Re: [osol-discuss] Bad news for running Oracle on Solaris?

2010-01-07 Thread Anon Y Mous
> It's three years old! Touche! I didn't even look at the date. Still the article was lame. I was hoping for more outrage. Currently very disappointed with the lack of outrage and snide remarks from the OpenSolaris community about this ;-) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-discuss] dev releases do not boot up from vmware

2010-01-07 Thread Anon Y Mous
I think that this is a problem with VMware and not a problem with OpenSolaris, and since VMware is a closed-source proprietary architecture, there is nothing we can do to help since only VMware has the source code for their software. If you purchased a support contract from VMware then you can c

[osol-discuss] Bad news for running Oracle on Solaris?

2010-01-05 Thread Anon Y Mous
Do any of you here think that this Oracle related article has any truth to it: http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/no-more-oracle-ports-to-solarisaixhp-ux-after-oracle11g/ or do you think it's just more anti-Solaris F.U.D. ? To me this article doesn't make any sense at all: the Applicat

Re: [osol-discuss] Using OpenSolaris as a security gateway

2010-01-05 Thread Anon Y Mous
I personally would not use OpenSolaris for a minimal firewall appliance because the OpenSolaris 2009.06 "Caimain" installer is very inflexible: It forces you to use DHCP (there's no way to set a static IP address set during the installation process- and you obviously don't want "network auto-mag

Re: [osol-discuss] NVIDIA nfo Basic Networking how to opensolaris

2010-01-04 Thread Anon Y Mous
> I wonder why and how nfo is loaded without instaling the nfo driver for my > weak chipset. I think it's a bug in the Live CD and the Caiman installer that it mistakenly thinks that your Nvidia "nfo" network card is an Nvidia "nge" network card and it installs the wrong device driver for it. O

Re: [osol-discuss] build 130 nonsense

2010-01-04 Thread Anon Y Mous
> Thanks for the info. However, I am still surprised that there is no ability > to install from local files > as we approach for 4th release. On the face of it, it would seem an easy > thing to add. I guess > if I really needed it I could add it myself. Yes! Look at people who are coming over

Re: [osol-discuss] Looking for a OpenSolaris administration book

2010-01-04 Thread Anon Y Mous
There are two recommended books that should be useful: Pro OpenSolaris by Harry Foxwell and Christine Tran: http://www.amazon.com/Pro-OpenSolaris-Harry-Foxwell/dp/1430218916/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262651509&sr=8-1 and "OpenSolaris Bible" by Solter, Jelinek and Miner: http://www

Re: [osol-discuss] Smartmontools + SATA disks

2010-01-03 Thread Anon Y Mous
>Hi there > I'm running smartmontools-5.38 on OpenSolaris 2009.06 (snv_111b) without any > problems. > You can download the source from http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ There are no tricks or work arounds required to compile smartmontools and get SMART data from SATA disks other than the

Re: [osol-discuss] NVIDIA nfo Basic Networking how to opensolaris

2010-01-02 Thread Anon Y Mous
Hey tiptop, what do you get as your output for this command: modinfo or for this command: modinfo | grep nge and this command: modinfo | grep ngo ? I think the problem might be that the old nge device driver is still incorrectly attached to that device and that's why the new nf

Re: [osol-discuss] NVIDIA nfo Basic Networking how to opensolaris

2010-01-02 Thread Anon Y Mous
@Bodie, if you follow what tiptop is doing, he is basically following Masayuki Murayama's instructions for how to install the nfo device driver, which I will copy and paste verbatim for you: 1. Introduction This is the nForce ethernet NIC driver for Solaris. It is distributed under the BSD lic

Re: [osol-discuss] NVIDIA nfo Basic Networking how to opensolaris

2010-01-02 Thread Anon Y Mous
> You say that you use 2009.06 so I suppose that you have really 2009.06 which > is > from June and not something really actual. Download latest build of > OpenSolaris from > www.genunix.org (as you have this unbelievable bad piece of HW from Nvidia) > and > try if it's supported with nge dri

Re: [osol-discuss] Backup Retention

2009-12-31 Thread Anon Y Mous
Hey Carlos, Do you ever use usenet newsgroups? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroups if you're dealing with some obscure problem with ancient SPARC hardware, you might want to try asking in a new topic at the following newsgroup: comp.sys.sun.hardware see link below: http://groups.g

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2009-12-31 Thread Anon Y Mous
> Happy New Year all. Will there be a OpenSolaris Nevada sxce snv_130 or is it > dead? > --ron I hope not. They should probably just skip snv_130 and go straight to snv_131 if the Solaris Express version is going to be anywhere near as buggy as the bleeding edge Indiana version was. If they

Re: [osol-discuss] Backup Retention

2009-12-31 Thread Anon Y Mous
> We have been researching this for 2 days, and the frustration > is setting in - we would like to know WHAT drives the backup retention ? I'm sorry but I don't understand your question? Have you tried using a label maker to make labels for your backup tapes? You also never even made clear wha

Re: [osol-discuss] How to cheat Sun server that cover is closed?

2009-12-28 Thread Anon Y Mous
> I have a Sun Sparc T5240 server. I want to open the cover to hook my test > instruments. But, > if the cover is open, then the server won't boot up. Dude, a SPARC Enterprise T5240 is like a $40,000 to $50,000 server, why do you want to break it so badly? Running it with the cover off will cau

Re: [osol-discuss] X hangs on snv130

2009-12-28 Thread Anon Y Mous
Does anybody have any idea when an OpenSolaris Indiana version based on snv_131 will be put on genunix.org and in the /dev repository so we can either install or pkg image-update to it? I guess until OpenSolaris snv_131 comes out, the only workaround will be to use ZFS's beadm ZFS snapshot and

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130 hangs

2009-12-28 Thread Anon Y Mous
> There's a known problem in snv_130, fixed in snv_131: Any idea when an OpenSolaris Indiana version based on snv_131 will be put on genunix.org and in the /dev repository so we can either install or pkg image-update to it? I've been having a really rough time with updates from snv_111b to the

Re: [osol-discuss] Using a KVM with OpenSolaris

2009-12-05 Thread Anon Y Mous
This is another link that might help: http://www.linuxdynasty.org/opensolaris-serial-console-howto.html -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Using a KVM with OpenSolaris

2009-12-05 Thread Anon Y Mous
> Has anyone figured out a way to fix this? Hey, if it's a server, you don't need a KVM. Just turn off x-windows and GNOME with this commmand: pfexec svcadm disable gdm then set it up so that you can get a command line on the server using a DB-9 serial console cable (i.e. similar to the kind o

Re: [osol-discuss] install/update/uninstall adobe reader/firefox/jdk

2009-12-03 Thread Anon Y Mous
> Ask Sun why they decided to write IPS and not implement pkgsrc or similar. > At least you can do something here to change at least number of available > packages http://pkgfactory.opensolaris.org/ or you may use this > http://www.nexenta.org/ . NetBSD's Pkgsrc is an awesome package managemen

Re: [osol-discuss] install/update/uninstall adobe reader/firefox/jdk

2009-12-03 Thread Anon Y Mous
Also, if you can't find the AdbeRdr9.2-1_i486solaris_enu.bin file in your /export/home/username/Desktop directory using the "ls" command. Then try typing in this series of commands to find it and execute it: pfexec su updatedb -v (wait 10 or 20 seconds for updatedb to finish running an

Re: [osol-discuss] install/update/uninstall adobe reader/firefox/jdk

2009-12-03 Thread Anon Y Mous
Oh, yeah, and I forgot to give you a heads up. There's some kind of a weird bug right now in the scroll bars in the GNOME desktop on OpenSolaris- when you try to view a really long document (like a 300 page book) in Adobe Acrobat reader, the scroll bar becomes smaller than it is supposed to be a

Re: [osol-discuss] install/update/uninstall adobe reader/firefox/jdk

2009-12-03 Thread Anon Y Mous
> 2. I downloaded AdbeRdr9.2-1_i486solaris_enu.bin file. When executing > through CUI/GUI, it is saying "can not execute binary file"/"no app for this > file type" Unfortunately I think you need to run the installer from the command line with root or administrator level permissions for Adobe Ac

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is using Package Manager such a pain in the A$$?

2009-12-03 Thread Anon Y Mous
> waynel - I think you should lay off the man you are talking to. He is not the > original post creator, I am so if you have a beef then bring it to me and if > you have a problem with the word *** then you need to get some help from > someplace other than here. @bsdnix Since we have your atten

Re: [osol-discuss] [brandz-discuss] Centos 5 Branded Zone ?

2009-12-02 Thread Anon Y Mous
> Failure on newer CentOS versions might have to do with the lack of lx brand > *at() syscall emulation. Did you try applying jbit's 2.6 kernel LX brand patches before installing the branded zone? You can find more information about them at these links: http://blog.jbit.net/2009/08/debian-squee

Re: [osol-discuss] system info

2009-12-01 Thread Anon Y Mous
Ok, I really need to apologize for this quadruple post, I'm trying to type in "greater than" and "less than" signs to symbolize input and output redirection in BASH and KSH and for some reason the OpenSolaris forums interpret greater than and less than signs as HTML tags or something similar and

Re: [osol-discuss] system info

2009-12-01 Thread Anon Y Mous
If all you want is basic hardware info (like what stick of RAM is in what slot on the motherboard and what device is in what slot) OpenSolaris has these three commands which I really love: pfexec prtdiag -v pfexec psrinfo -pv pfexec scanpci However, I always thought it was kind of re

Re: [osol-discuss] system info

2009-12-01 Thread Anon Y Mous
If all you want is basic hardware info (like what stick of RAM is in what slot on the motherboard and what device is in what slot) OpenSolaris has these three commands which I really love: pfexec prtdiag -v pfexec psrinfo -pv pfexec scanpci However, I always thought it was kind of re

Re: [osol-discuss] system info

2009-12-01 Thread Anon Y Mous
If all you want is basic hardware info (like what stick of RAM is in what slot on the motherboard and what device is in what slot) OpenSolaris has these three commands which I really love: pfexec prtdiag -v pfexec psrinfo -pv pfexec scanpci However, I always thought it was kind of re

Re: [osol-discuss] system info

2009-12-01 Thread Anon Y Mous
If all you want is basic hardware info (like what stick of RAM is in what slot on the motherboard and what device is in what slot) OpenSolaris has these three commands which I really love: pfexec prtdiag -v pfexec psrinfo -pv pfexec scanpci However, I always thought it was kind of re

Re: [osol-discuss] Static Ip Issue

2009-12-01 Thread Anon Y Mous
> If I may suggest, use # sys-unconfig, you will need to reboot (it'll take > you), but this process will > ensure you change every part correctly. I thought sys-unconfig doesn't work properly on OpenSolaris Indiana. Can anyone confirm or deny this? I know when I got one of those Toshiba OpenS

Re: [osol-discuss] IRQ confilct warning logged at the console.

2009-12-01 Thread Anon Y Mous
Actually ejannett, I kind of messed up, a better way to get interrupt statistics might be to put a time interval after the intrstat command like this: pfexec intrstat 30 for 30 second intervals or pfexec intrstat 60 for 60 second intervals. There's also an "intrtime" command as well. These

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris 2009/06 2010/02 update/upgrade problems

2009-12-01 Thread Anon Y Mous
> BTW he use wifi for this problem : "I am updating over a wireless 11b network" That's what I get for skimming through this thread in less then 3 seconds and firing off a reply without reading everything. I only check this forum in a few spare minutes between doing other work that I actually ge

Re: [osol-discuss] IRQ confilct warning logged at the console.

2009-11-30 Thread Anon Y Mous
Hi ejannet, Can you try running these commands: pfexec scanpci prtdiag -v and copy and paste the output here? Also try running this command: pfexec intrstat and then hit control C after the first couple of pages of output and then copy and paste that output here as well. The "intrsta

Re: [osol-discuss] *.deb equivalent in IPS

2009-11-30 Thread Anon Y Mous
If you're using Solaris 10 or Solaris Express, the older "SysV" packages do let you download a package from a remote FTP server and then install it using the "pkgadd -d" command. OpenSolaris still supports legacy SysV packages and the "pkgadd -d" command for backwards compatibility with Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is using Package Manager such a pain in the A$$?

2009-11-30 Thread Anon Y Mous
Is anybody interested in tacking a crack at re-writing IPS in the C programming language if that would make it run faster? Maybe it might be useful add an optional choice where local OpenSolaris user's groups could use an algorithm similar to bit-torrent to accelerate the downloading of packag

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Cluster

2009-11-30 Thread Anon Y Mous
Hey Leoric, have you read the OpenSolaris Bible yet: http://www.amazon.com/OpenSolaris-Bible-Wiley-Nicholas-Solter/dp/0470385480/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259649986&sr=8-1 One of the authors of the OpenSolaris Bible is Nicholas A. Solter, who is one of the core contributors to the OpenSola

Re: [osol-discuss] any work on bug ID 6807184

2009-11-30 Thread Anon Y Mous
Is there any word on when this improved device driver will be incorporated into an "official" build of OpenSolaris Indiana or Solaris Express distributed by Sun? The URL for the bug id is here: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6807184 The reason I'm asking is because I have a

Re: [osol-discuss] Is there a driver for Marvell?

2009-11-30 Thread Anon Y Mous
This is the official "yge" Marvell Yukon driver that is going to be incorporated into future builds of OpenSolaris: http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2009/08/test-marvell-yukon-2-ethernet-driver.html It should already be in there by default if you're running one of the newer, more bleeding edge dev

Re: [osol-discuss] [networking-discuss] VirtualBox Network Driver problem with Marvell Yukon

2009-11-30 Thread Anon Y Mous
Hi Ted, I recommend that you post on the device driver discuss forum and/or get in contact with Garret D'Amore (see URL link below): http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2009/08/test-marvell-yukon-2-ethernet-driver.html He is a device driver engineer / UNIX jedi master that works on Solaris and NetBS

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris 2009/06 2010/02 update/upgrade problems

2009-11-29 Thread Anon Y Mous
> so is there a reason that you have to use this line? should this not be > something simple to have > already programmed into the package manager? The install really pauses and > then ramps up and > then pauses again and over and over until it finishes or stalls and fails to > download. Hey

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