Re: [osol-discuss] Working with Cron under Solaris 10

2011-01-18 Thread Brandon Hume
*And* when the crontab/at commands are run. Which restarts cron unless there were no changes made, it which case crontab is not read No, crontab signals cron through /etc/cron.d/FIFO, which then re-reads the crontab. cron is not restarted. This is easily verifiable through truss, and

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-05 Thread Brandon Hume
On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 07:06 -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: I know, but, it's Theo. And, that's all I'm gonna say on that topic. :-) I'm not sure that the OpenSolaris codebase is sufficiently angry and rude to be a *proper* Theo. *Cough* :) ___

Re: [osol-discuss] So it is true about the Media Pack

2010-08-01 Thread Brandon Hume
Or you just pay $400/yr to have a paid license with updates. I wish you'd be careful throwing around absolute numbers like that. That value is *your* quote. I'm happy for you that you work for a company that can demand such a low support cost. It must be a large company, or at least a big

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox internal networking

2010-07-13 Thread Brandon Hume
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 10:29 -0700, Gary wrote: Is it not possible with VirtualBox using internal networking to be able to communicate with the FreeBSD jails? I thought I'd replied to you, but the reply must have been lost. The answer is no; see:

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Slow ssh login to server

2010-06-01 Thread Brandon Hume
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:22 -0700, lance tan wrote: When I login to osol from another host in the LAN, obviously, the DNS server couldn't reverse resolve the IP inside the LAN. But there is no way to disable DNS reverse lookup by SunSSH. No, but you can trick it. Toss the IPs in question

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

2010-03-30 Thread Brandon Hume
On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 06:47 -0700, Mike DeMarco wrote: If you do not like a topic you can skip over it. I do not understand people that have to get on a thread and trash it for being in the wrong place, Why do you not just skip reading this thread if you do not agree with it being here.

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] cyrus mailer

2010-01-26 Thread Brandon Hume
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 21:03 +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote: krb5.h should be in /usr/include/kerberosv5/. It's in the SUNWhea package. Yes, it was installed, but NOT found. After I symlinked it to /usr/include the make went further but stopped after all with: Remove the symlink, and try

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWopenldap doesn't start from smf

2010-01-25 Thread Brandon Hume
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:12 -0500, Kent Watsen wrote: Oh, and I should add that the manually-created /var/run/openldap directory, per the bug's remediation, is removed after every reboot - something more is needed to keep the directory from disappearing... /var/run is a tempfs filesystem,

Re: [osol-discuss] etc on separate pool

2010-01-23 Thread Brandon Hume
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 00:55 -0800, Alexander wrote: Is it possible to have /etc on separate zfs pool in OpenSolaris? The purpose is to have rw non-persistent main pool and rw persistent /etc... As Shawn mentioned, you're probably setting yourself up for a world of hurt. What are you trying to

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris installation hanging ( during installation from jumpstart Server)

2009-12-15 Thread Brandon Hume
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 02:45 -0800, Pradeep wrote: I have setup a solaris x86 jumpstart server and trying to install solaris on a client , intial tftp boot went fine . But while loading miniroot installation is hanging . Iam trying to install solaris 10 update8 which has 64 bit

Re: [osol-discuss] freezing a zone

2009-11-18 Thread Brandon Hume
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 11:05 +0100, Gaëtan Lehmann wrote: Is it possible to freeze a zone and unfreeze it a few seconds later? No; a zone isn't a virtual machine in the way you seem to be thinking. There's only one kernel running. You can kill -STOP the processes (some will ignore it) but you

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to access the open solaris across the network..Urg!!!

2009-10-23 Thread Brandon Hume
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 10:45 -0700, sridhar wrote: just say yes or no to following questions to enable others to give solutions. Yes Have you made the network configuration manual? Yes Is your network configuration based on static ip or dhcp? Yes No For manual n/w config and static ip,

Re: [osol-discuss] create a directory/ file

2009-10-22 Thread Brandon Hume
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 04:38 -0700, sridhar wrote: in my computer science graduation course. Since 1997, I have been using windows and installing and reinstalling windows and several user related applications. I created, modified and deleted several That might be part of your problem. Unix

Re: [osol-discuss] create a directory/ file

2009-10-22 Thread Brandon Hume
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 04:54 -0700, sridhar wrote: come out of commands man. Please don't be patronizing and insulting. That won't do anything to aid your point. This is not 70s or 80s. Even for such a simple thing like creating directory, don't make a user go thru this. I am the owner of

Re: [osol-discuss] password -d, but still asking for passwd

2009-10-21 Thread Brandon Hume
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 04:11 -0700, Abid R S wrote: i gave a command (passwd -d) on the bash shell with the root's role, as i dont like to be prompted for passwd again and again. now, i m not able to login to openSolaris, as its saying, password or userId is not correct. From the passwd

Re: [osol-discuss] cpan problem with installing readline::gnu

2009-10-21 Thread Brandon Hume
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 10:55 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Anyone recognize the problem I hit while installing Term::ReadLine::Gnu cc -c -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_TS_ERRNO -xO3 -xspace -xildoff -DVERSION=\1.19\ -DXS_VERSION=\1.19\ -KPIC

Re: [osol-discuss] How to go about finding where apache logs errors?

2009-09-24 Thread Brandon Hume
But of course this `log' is nearly useless. And is beyond useless for anything to do with connection errors like misfiring cgi or whatever. That's because that's not Apache's log, that's SMF's log as relates to its duties starting/stopping Apache. Why are the usefull logs not listed

Re: [osol-discuss] zfs copy slows desktop performance

2009-09-19 Thread Brandon Hume
Jürgen Keil wrote: I suspect the reason the notebook is slow / freezes is one or more of: the use of gzip compression; the amount of memory; running the 32-bit kernel; having only one cpu core; having a slower cpu; using a slow notebook hdd. On Thursday I had a 1.5G firefox dump core.

Re: [osol-discuss] 64 Bit Vista under VirtualBox

2009-07-22 Thread Brandon Hume
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 16:53 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: did someone succeed to install a 64 Bit Vista under VB? I did try to do this with 3.0.2 and I get a message that there was a hardware problem. Not 3.0.2, but VB 2.2.4 is running Vista64 just fine at the moment on b117. This is on an

Re: [osol-discuss] Trouble repairing boot-archive

2009-07-10 Thread Brandon Hume
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 07:13 -0700, Marcelo H Majczak wrote: Take note of what the current mountpoint is, then set a temporary one:: zfs get mountpoint rpool/ROOT/opensolaris zfs set mountpoint=/mnt/xxx rpool/ROOT/opensolaris This may not be necessary. Depending on the livecd, you can

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10: send mail to SMTP-Host with originator x...@xxx.org

2009-06-26 Thread Brandon Hume
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 15:39 +0200, Sven Aluoor wrote: I have a default Solaris 10 box with sendmail. How to configure to send mails to external SMTP-host with custom originator (not usern...@hostname.domain) I believe you should research genericstable. There is plenty of documentation

Re: [osol-discuss] blastwave.org - any info?

2008-08-07 Thread Brandon Hume
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 13:45 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: The restore from the blastwave.berlios.de is complete now, the restore state is the state from 2 hours before the original data went away. Out of curiosity, how large is the repository? ___

Re: [osol-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC channel

2008-07-02 Thread Brandon Hume
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 07:32 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: So to make you happiest here Sun should kill Solaris and switch to Linux? I think you've missed a lot of his earlier posts. He'd be happiest if Sun killed Solaris and switched to *IRIX*. ___

Re: [osol-discuss] From Ubuntu to Solaris

2007-09-19 Thread Brandon Hume
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 19:03 -0700, Richard Eng wrote: A friend of mine (a Solaris professional) has strongly recommended using Solaris instead of Linux. I must confess, I'm a bit trepidatious. I don't really have too much time to mount yet another learning curve. So I have some basic

Re: [osol-discuss] How to connect 2 laptop

2007-08-14 Thread Brandon Hume
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 06:44 -0700, stefan bejanof wrote: How to connetc two laptops with bluetooth??? +phentermine no prescription What the hell is it with the obnoxious drug spam attached to every one of your posts? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris,

2007-07-27 Thread Brandon Hume
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 12:37 -0700, UNIX admin wrote: That's correct - they do, and that also goes along with my previous point: they prefer Windows because they are computer illiterate. This is a dangerous statement. It allows you to pigeonhole anyone who might like Windows for some reason,

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread Brandon Hume
The only thing is getting into the people's skulls that they *don't* need a desktop, and that the network is the computer. You need to seriously re-examine that network is the computer chant, and how well it jives with the world you've described... where you've robbed the average person of

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread Brandon Hume
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 11:35 -0700, UNIX admin wrote: Well, why must it be on the Internet? Can't we have a server that sits in a living room or in a closet or in the basement, which stores all our data on encrypted disks, centrally, secured by ZFS? Who builds and installs that server in the

Re: [osol-discuss] Write privileges in Sparse root zone

2007-07-20 Thread Brandon Hume
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 10:25 -0400, Chrysek W. wrote: But is there a way to install zone with its own /usr that is not taken from globalzone right? What are you actually trying to accomplish? A separate /usr runs the risk of getting out of sync with the global zone (and perhaps even the

Re: [osol-discuss] stdout : no space

2007-07-04 Thread Brandon Hume
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 19:01 +0100, a b wrote: I might be an old-fashioned gray-beard candidate, but some things that we're still nurturing in UNIX tradition really are obsolete and need to be axed. This is one of those. There's a number of reasons to chop up a single-disk machine into multiple

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RE: Re: recommend the opensource anti-virus foropensolaris?

2007-06-15 Thread Brandon Hume
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 06:32 -0700, UNIX admin wrote: 1. SPARC (and nowdays AMD and intel) processors support a so-called no execution stack bit, and this bit is set to 1 by default; what that means is, you can't execute any malicious code that you put on the stack, the hardware won't allow

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Project Proposal: Open Sound System

2007-06-13 Thread Brandon Hume
By the way, OpenSolaris does not run on the Sun v215. OpenBSD does. How Open is OpenSolaris if it does not even run on Sun's own hardware? Not very, I suppose. Theo has a poor understanding of Open. Which is why this response isn't much of a surprise at all.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: joining Sun

2007-03-29 Thread Brandon Hume
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 15:36 -0300, Javier O. Augusto wrote: MC wrote: Sometimes choice is bad. erm, when? Well, to put it most simply: when the chooser doesn't take responsibility for the choices they make. Something most of us in the IT industry are familiar with, I'd think... especially

Re: [osol-discuss] Using isaexec approach

2007-03-26 Thread Brandon Hume
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 11:09 -0700, Durga Deep Tirunagari wrote: But how do I get the return value of the binary, I know that exec family of functions won't return any value ?. Is there any way i can get the return value of mybinary after it executes ?. Say if mybinary returns 1 ( failure )

Re: [osol-discuss] which iso is for production server

2007-03-14 Thread Brandon Hume
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 16:10 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: I very very strongly disagree, it is up to each individual to choose what risks they want to take. Do they want a newer release but with While I very much agree with this, I think the reality should be acknowledged that if you have to

[osol-discuss] Re: NFS mounting problem from Solaris 10 U2 to Solaris 9, 8 and RedHat WS

2007-02-21 Thread Brandon Hume
/net/etc/auto.net -fstype=nfs,hard,intr,nodev,tcp,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid,actimeo=0 That rsize and wsize is very small compared to the defaults/recommendations I've seen (ie: Oracle's documents). Can I ask why? I'm in a mixed RH/Sol environment too, and I'm wondering for the sake