Re: [osol-discuss] pfexec does not work any longer

2011-11-16 Thread Casper . Dik
Brian, Thanks for the information, but it does not work. I will have another look at the documentation, since I may be missing something in the new release. Andrew pfexec was only intended for roles and not for ordinary users; the Primary Administrator was dangerous but when it was

Re: [osol-discuss] Is raidz root support on Solaris 11

2011-11-15 Thread Casper . Dik
Can I ask if raidz is support on root with Solaris 11? I am having problem doing it from auto-installer and I just thought that may be the reason. No possible; only a mirror is allowed (and only standard compression, not gzip). Casper ___

Re: [osol-discuss] New problem?

2011-03-16 Thread Casper . Dik
It's an issue in format. Don't relabel your disks and get an older version of format. Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] svccfg question

2011-02-15 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi After trying to svccfg import /var/svc/manifest/site/nag.xml It is showing maintenance but not online maintenance =A0 =A0 10:18:54 svc:/site/nag:default What is this problem? First start reading the log file; the system didn't start properly. Casper

Re: [osol-discuss] too many tcp connection in close-wait

2011-02-14 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi, I use solaris Unix . I find there is some problem in application and it generate many close-wait tcp connect and stay in the server . it is generate by process id 7740 [CODE] root@XX # netstat -an | grep CLOSE_WAIT | wc -l 285 root@XX # /usr/local/bin/lsof -i:34805 COMMAND

Re: [osol-discuss] firewall and tcpwrapper help

2011-01-05 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi Now I try to use inetadm but there is no tcpwrapper there. inetadm | grep tcpwrapper Does it mean tcpwrapper is not in the system? No. tcpwrappers is not a service, it a property of all of the other services. How can I install it? It is part of the base OS. For the firewall, can I use

Re: [osol-discuss] firewall and tcpwrapper help

2011-01-05 Thread Casper . Dik
Thank you inetadm -p The tcp_wrappers=3DFalse How can I set it to TRUE? Any file is for this setting? You do that with inetadm. Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Zones' init broken after upgrade from OpenSolaris 134b to Solaris11Express

2010-11-21 Thread Casper . Dik
Nov 20 10:11:25 silence genunix: [ID 729207 kern.warning] WARNING: init(1M) for zone router2 (pid 1326) core dumped on signal 12: restarting automatically Nov 20 10:11:25 silence genunix: [ID 729207 kern.warning] WARNING: init(1M) for zone buildbot (pid 1306) core dumped on signal 12:

Re: [osol-discuss] 32-bit noexec_user_stack on per-process basis?

2010-10-20 Thread Casper . Dik
I had a few minutes today to try an experiment, and I'm afraid the idea of having ld always generate a PT_SUNWSTACK is a non-starter. The problem is that it overrides the behavior of 'set noexec_user_stack=1' in /etc/system, and can therefore quietly allow programs that would not previously

Re: [osol-discuss] 32-bit noexec_user_stack on per-process basis?

2010-10-20 Thread Casper . Dik
I picture this somehow as being just a bit more functionality added to mprotect(2): /* following magic to identify operating on that segment, rather than * a particular address */ #define ADDR_STACK (void *) (-1) #define ADDR_HEAP (void *) (-2) mprotect(ADDR_STACK, 0,

Re: [osol-discuss] 32-bit noexec_user_stack on per-process basis?

2010-10-20 Thread Casper . Dik
How does the trampoline work on architectures which have noexec bit for stack by default, like sparcv9? A long time ago, I made some changes to gcc; I'm not sure if the changes are still in current gcc, but what happens is that we run mprotect() on the parts of the stack where we need to

Re: [osol-discuss] 32-bit noexec_user_stack on per-process basis?

2010-10-20 Thread Casper . Dik
Which does the PT_SUNWSTACK header apply to? It sets the fields in the proc structure which defines the stack protection. I'm not sure what point there would be in per-thread control; if any one thread in an address space is exploitable, the whole address space is potentially corruptible.

Re: [osol-discuss] 32-bit noexec_user_stack on per-process basis?

2010-10-20 Thread Casper . Dik
Looks to me like http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/lib/libc/port/threads/thr.c checks sysconf(_SC_STACK_PROT) and honors it. The only problem is that it caches the return value (static variable stackprot), which would have to be invalidated by the mprotect() wrapper

Re: [osol-discuss] 32-bit noexec_user_stack on per-process basis?

2010-10-16 Thread Casper . Dik
Thanks for the info. Doesn't help with existing binaries, but it's good to know for when one can re-link. If there's a way to construct an LD_PRELOAD'able shared object to do the trick for existing binaries, I don't see how given the description of mprotect(2), to specify the entire present

Re: [osol-discuss] No network/Internet

2010-10-16 Thread Casper . Dik
Here are the commands i've typed. And additionally, a image of my screen. j...@opensolaris:~$ svcadm disable svc:/network/physical:nwam j...@opensolaris:~$ svcadm enable svc:/network/physical:default j...@opensolaris:~$ ifconfig

Re: [osol-discuss] 32-bit noexec_user_stack on per-process basis?

2010-10-15 Thread Casper . Dik
ppgsz(1) or mpss.so.1(1) can set preferred page size for existing (ppgsz) or new (both) processes. Is there anything that can similarly remove execute permission from the stack of 32-bit processes, without do so on a system-wide basis (i.e. without putting set noexec_user_stack=1 in

Re: [osol-discuss] // napp-it WebUI + NAS-appliance Online-Installer with OpenIndiana support

2010-10-12 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi, yesterday I tried to set up the webservd as requested and I removed the All:suser:cmd:::*:uid=0 from /etc/security/exec_attr, but after doing that I couldn't access any low level system function in napp-it, like viewing the discs or the zpools. All should be exacty like:

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express

2010-10-01 Thread Casper . Dik
Uros Nedic ur...@live.com wrote: I'm wondering if it possible that Solaris Development could be op= ened at least on a binary level so we could update on a bi-weekly basis our builds as we did = with OpenSolaris? If Oracle did this, Oracle would be in conflict with the CDDL. No. If they

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 Express

2010-10-01 Thread Casper . Dik
Oracle does not own the complete Copyright on the code, so they need to follow the CDDL. All the code where Sun added the CDDL are owned by Sun, now Oracle, *including* all the contributed files through SCAs. Which files are you referring to where Sun/Oracle doesn't have the copyright?

Re: [osol-discuss] [illumos-Developer] zpool upgrade and zfs upgrade behavior on b145

2010-09-29 Thread Casper . Dik
Additionally, even though zpool and zfs get version display the true and updated versions, I'm not convinced that the problem is zdb, as the label config is almost certainly set by the zpool and/or zfs commands. Somewhere, something is not happening that is supposed to when initiating a zpool

Re: [osol-discuss] zfs send/receive?

2010-09-26 Thread Casper . Dik
hi all I'm using a custom snaopshot scheme which snapshots every hour, day, week and month, rotating 24h, 7d, 4w and so on. What would be the best way to zfs send/receive these things? I'm a little confused about how this works for delta udpates... Vennlige hilsener / Best regards The

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-17 Thread Casper . Dik
* SVR4 packages vs IPS vs whatever packaging scheme Nexenta uses (there too there's a problem, inasmuch as other tools like beadm and zonecfg are also involved, although I gather it ought to be possible to come up with different versions of them for each packaging scheme that some distro or

Re: [osol-discuss] Merge other distros to OpenIndiana?

2010-09-17 Thread Casper . Dik
Cloning somewhat helps with the disk footprint, but the savings there will get lower over time as more and more binaries are upgraded. We clearly have to work on that. The memory saving of sparse root zones was nothing to sniff at. So a share-able executable, library, or object had

Re: [osol-discuss] NetApp and Oracle settle patent dispute over ZFS

2010-09-13 Thread Casper . Dik
There's also a public good argument. When you patent something, yes, you get a temporary monopoly -- but the tradeoff is you have to publicly reveal it. In the absence of patents, more technological advances would be treated as trade secrets and kept out of the public eye. I do think there

Re: [osol-discuss] NetApp and Oracle settle patent dispute over ZFS

2010-09-13 Thread Casper . Dik
casper@sun.com wrote: Also, the law should be changed to disallow patent trolls: if you don't ship or plan to ship a product using your patent, then clearly you're not suffering when someone else is using a similar invention. This is against the original intention for patents: Patents

Re: [osol-discuss] kudos

2010-09-08 Thread Casper . Dik
You'll notice something similar, once you point your MS Windows based brows= er to a CIFS server that's build using ZFS and ZFS-snapshots... MS is also capable of interpreting the CIFS versioning/ZFS snapshot/history= ... Thanks for pointing this out; I'm using my Solaris server as a CIFS home

Re: [osol-discuss] [illumos-Developer] SchilliX-0.7.1 based on b147+ available

2010-09-03 Thread Casper . Dik
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:10:23PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: SchilliX-0.7.1 is based on the latest ONNV source published by Oracle. This is build 146 with 16 additional putbacks. see: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix I just tried booting this image on my Acer Aspire AspireAS3810T-6827

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Casper . Dik
Let me guess what the Solaris 11 Express will be: The demo version of commercial Solaris 11. Utilizing only limited amount of RAM, disk space, and limited number of CPU cores. Name one downloadable Oracle product which is limited in some way. (Other than the license) Casper

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Casper . Dik
Let me guess what the Solaris 11 Express will be: The demo version of commercial Solaris 11. Utilizing only limited amount of RAM, disk space, and limited number of CPU cores. I've never heard of any version of Solaris, commercial or otherwise, that was purposely crippled to use only

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Casper . Dik
Dmitry G. Kozhinov d...@desktopfay.com wrote: I've never heard of any version of Solaris, commercial or otherwis= e, that was purposely crippled to use only limited RAM, disk space, and CPU cores. That's because Solaris was under Sun, not under Oracle. In 1990 Sun did tell costomers that

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-19 Thread Casper . Dik
On 08/19/10 10:09 AM, usafverteran wrote: What's your point? IBM has had DB2 Express for quite some time. The point was the statement Name one downloadable Oracle product which is limited in some way. (Other than the license). Dmitry simply found one example. He was right; it's

Re: [osol-discuss] libmtmalloc vs libumem

2010-08-13 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi, I am able to understand how libmtmalloc works from the documentation of libmtmalloc.c source file. However, I am unable to find proper documentation for libumem. Could someone provide the key diffe rences between libmtmalloc and liumem, please? Please also provide me links to the

Re: [osol-discuss] So who is ready to be let down?

2010-06-28 Thread Casper . Dik
And the other operating systems I printed release dates for are RELEASES. I'm not talking about development releases like you mentioned. If I were to do that the list would be too long. All of those are RELEASES. OpenSolaris hasn't had a RELEASE in 13 months (and it's 14 months old). z/OS has

Re: [osol-discuss] samba version

2010-06-15 Thread Casper . Dik
So, basically with out clear communication from Sun, Sun has abandoned a key functional component? Yes, better ACL integration would be nice but to use CIFS I have to setup a WIndows domain controller? I use CIFS at home and I don't have a AD controller. Casper

Re: [osol-discuss] Netservices Limited

2010-05-20 Thread Casper . Dik
Does anybody know of a way to exclude a service that netservices limited would stop. I'm thinking along the lines of having the ftp service running all the time even if netservices limited is executed. I know I can start the service afterwards but I would like to if possible exclude it.

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Corporation SunOS 5.11 snv_138 Apr. 15, 2010

2010-04-30 Thread Casper . Dik
Oh look ... snv_138 appears quite suddenly out of nowhere .. cool. Thanks to whomever made that happen. Oh, I see one of the big sources of delay. Its good to see the branding process is going well. r...@aequitas:/root# uname -a SunOS aequitas 5.11 snv_138 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] pam_list and pam_sm_authenticate errors - console login opensolaris 2009.06

2010-04-30 Thread Casper . Dik
Dear All, Having enabled pam_list in /etc/pam.conf I can then happily control who can log on via ssh and that works fine. HOWEVER, once pam_list is included in /etc/pam.conf then console logins ALL fail with messages such as

Re: [osol-discuss] URGENT: Kernel lets 32bit process consume 4G memory?

2010-04-25 Thread Casper . Dik
A 32-bit process _can't_* be bigger than 4GB, and as far as the kernel is concerned, AFAIK won't be bigger than 2GB in terms of regular memory (although it could have a frame buffer or something mapped in the part of the address space reserved for I/O devices, making its total size perhaps appear

Re: [osol-discuss] Review of OpenSolaris at Desktop Linux Reviews

2010-04-23 Thread Casper . Dik
bsd mascotgr...@yahoo.com wrote: The way he states it in his article is that Sun made significant changes = after buying SVR4, which is incorrect, because changes to SVR4 were made af= ter Solaris was open sourced. Significant changes were made when SVR4 was = developed, not after. Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Review of OpenSolaris at Desktop Linux Reviews

2010-04-23 Thread Casper . Dik
casper@sun.com wrote: The SVR4 kernel was developed from SunOS-4.0, but SunOS-5.x (Solaris-2.x) was developed from SunOS-4.1.x. I don't think that that is correct; SVR4 was developed with ATT from SunOS 4.x and SVr3; the SCCS files proof that. Unfortunately, the code was copied as

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeing .nfs0000000000002def00000002 on nfs mounts from linux

2010-04-22 Thread Casper . Dik
Using an Osol b 133 nfs server. When working from a linux client I sometimes see files like: .nfs2def0002 .nfs2f6b0001 Appear on the filesystem as I'm working... any attempt to remove them (from the linux client) fails, with the

Re: [osol-discuss] toshiba laptops opensolaris preinstalled

2010-04-20 Thread Casper . Dik
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:45:01 PDT, Edward Martinez mindbende...@live.com wrote: I was wondering if i would be voiding the laptop warranty by erasing windows and installing opensolaris either on a m10 or a portege ? Warranties for general-purpose computer hardware that dictate what

Re: [osol-discuss] Is rolemod only for uid 1024 ?

2010-04-19 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi I get an error ERROR: Roles must be modified with ''rolemod''. when running /usr/sbin/usermod -c 'Super-User' -d /sub_home/root -e ' ' -f 0 -g 0 -u 0 -s /usr/bin/ksh root And Users must be modified with ``usermod''. When running /usr/sbin/rolemod -c 'Default tut' -d /export/home/tut -e '

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-14 Thread Casper . Dik
Just a completely different question...is there any plans for btrfs ? Will ZFS and btrfs co-exist or there's a chance that the less used one would be dropped? Which OS supports both? Linux support brtfs, Solaris supports ZFS. Casper ___

Re: [osol-discuss] brtfs on Solaris? (Re: [indiana-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?)

2010-04-14 Thread Casper . Dik
brtfs could be supported on Opensolaris, too. IMO it could even complement ZFS and spawn some concurrent development between both. ZFS is too high end and works very poorly with less than 2GB while brtfs reportedly works well with 128MB on ARM. Both have license issues; Oracle can now re-license

Re: [osol-discuss] can't edit files with vi properly

2010-04-09 Thread Casper . Dik
Not sure, if this is the correct group. I'll give it a shot anyway. sshing into the gloabl zone and editing a file there with vi (TERM set to xterm) is no problem. However- zlogin to a zone (TERM is xterm here too - set by .profile) WYSINWYG. Only when I position the curser to the left column

Re: [osol-discuss] Any one knows which package libzonecfg.h is in and how to find out?

2010-04-02 Thread Casper . Dik
Hello Does anyone know which package libzonecfg.h is in and how to find out? I'm not able to find the file in sxce 127. Any ideas are welcome Part of the source, not distributed. Why do you need it? Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] syslog-ng?

2010-03-31 Thread Casper . Dik
Saw someone in opensolaris-help having trouble building syslog-ng, and it got me to wondering why that hasn't been integrated (perhaps with any changes needed to support doors rather than a Unix domain socket for local communication). AFAIK, the existing syslog has a lot less functionality.

Re: [osol-discuss] syslog-ng?

2010-03-31 Thread Casper . Dik
casper@sun.com wrote: Clearly syslog-ng needs to be able to pick up such messages *and* create a door where it can say yes, I'm still running. Wouldn't it be better to use SMF for that now instead of a custom door solution for just that one service? Considering that we need to call that

Re: [osol-discuss] AMD64/NUMA: is it possible to limit amount of memory available to one CPU?

2010-03-25 Thread Casper . Dik
Richard L. Hamilton wrote: C, the standard network stack runs on CPU0 (along with many other kernel items), though it might need some tuning for your particular app. [...] I thought that at least since FireEngine, the network stack could use multiple CPUs! Oooh! I just looked

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

2010-03-24 Thread Casper . Dik
Mike, I do not notice anyone from Sun/Oracle making any comment on this thread. Why are you guys so quiet? Aside to AlanC's (always) measured response, I suspect an implicit gagging order might be present. This is just too funny. Casper

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot boot after power failure...

2010-03-22 Thread Casper . Dik
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:34:15PM +0100, casper@sun.com wrote: Thanks for that explanation of why there is no failsafe boot option for OpenSolaris. I had wond ere d about that, since I'd seen it in Solaris Nevada/Express. Ok, except that the CD boot is much slower. Why is that a

Re: [osol-discuss] MythTV

2010-03-22 Thread Casper . Dik
On 03/18/10 10:20 AM, homerun wrote: Greetings Just asking , is there interest to port MythTV to OpenSolaris. http://www.mythtv.org/ How long will the supported list of video capture cards be useful? The notices I've been receiving from Comcast sound like they are moving to most

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot boot after power failure...

2010-03-20 Thread Casper . Dik
I have a storage server running on snv_129. When trying to reboot my server it was stuck in the perpetual loop of the happy face boot screen. After trying to boot in single-user mode, I got this error message: WARNING: The following lines in / differ from the boot archive: changed

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot boot after power failure...

2010-03-20 Thread Casper . Dik
Thanks for that explanation of why there is no failsafe boot option for OpenSolaris. I had wondere d about that, since I'd seen it in Solaris Nevada/Express. Ok, except that the CD boot is much slower. Why is that a problem? Why should one worry about the boot time for a rescue procedure?

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2010.03 improvements?

2010-03-15 Thread Casper . Dik
Assuming you mean Firefox, remember that (Open)Solaris x86 runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit with a single binary distro (unlike Linux, where AFAIK a 64-bit kernel normally runs only 64-bit binaries, so 32-bit and 64-bit are separate binary distros*). So to have 64-bit Firefox and still be able to

Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade 133 - 134, now can't boot anything :-(

2010-03-11 Thread Casper . Dik
Thanks for the suggestions, but I think this is my own fault. I think I've shot myself in the foot by enabling compression on rpool. So: `root (TAB' gives you a nice clue about how to proceed, it says there's a ZFS filesystem at partition 2. `findroot (pool_rpool, 2, a)' succeeds, and finds

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop] NVIDIA driver install

2010-03-09 Thread Casper . Dik
Thank you! Hum... j...@opensolaris:~$ pfexec beadm list BEActive Mountpoint Space Policy Created ---- -- - -- --- opensolaris - - 20.48M static 2010-03-05 14:00 opensolaris-1 - - 13.75M static

[osol-discuss] Performance comparison of OpenSolaris upgrade vs liveupgrade

2010-03-05 Thread Casper . Dik
I've been upgrading a new systems and compare them with SXDE (118 or later) Output: time, I/O done Ultra 40, sufficient memory SXDE 28m16 read 924M write 6192M OSOL 29m44 sd1 read 4305M write 2243M M3000, sufficient memory SXDE (+/- 16 minutes, between the upgrade_script was

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

2010-03-01 Thread Casper . Dik
For example, on my system, when I did an image-update from build 110 to build 111, with all of the data to be installed downloaded already, it only took about five minutes to upgrade 666 packages and move around 480 megabytes worth of data. That's not too shabby if you ask me. Compare

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

2010-03-01 Thread Casper . Dik
It only *looks* like it downloads everything again -- this is purely a misleading display issue that we're hoping to improve at a future point. It did take a reasonable amount of time. Not less than downloading the first time, but I can't be sure. The ips server is local, though. What

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

2010-02-28 Thread Casper . Dik
* efficient update operations -- Because pkg(5) only retrieves the files that have changed between package versions between updates, the client only downloads exactly what it needs to perform update operations. Other systems have chosen to implement this by pre-generating deltas

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

2010-02-28 Thread Casper . Dik
For example, on my system, when I did an image-update from build 110 to build 111, with all of the data to be installed downloaded already, it only took about five minutes to upgrade 666 packages and move around 480 megabytes worth of data. That's not too shabby if you ask me. Compare

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

2010-02-27 Thread Casper . Dik
well the whole install took 2 hours for 1 pkg !! it seems that disk read/write here is the bottleneck (?). iostat -D 2 shows my hd busy at around 100% iosnoop reports a lot of access by pkg : How much memory? It is possible that you're paging to death. Casper

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

2010-02-27 Thread Casper . Dik
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:48 PM, casper@sun.com wrote: well the whole install took 2 hours for 1 pkg !! it seems that disk read/write here is the bottleneck (?). iostat -D 2 shows my hd busy at around 100% iosnoop reports a lot of access by pkg : How much memory? =A0It is possible that

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWluu packages for b132

2010-02-15 Thread Casper . Dik
They are not available in IPS. You can install the SVR4 packages on your system, but I am not sure what you need the live upgrade user package for. We don't use the old live upgrade on OpenSolaris, we have 'Snap Upgrade', which is managed via beadm(1M). I don't think they'll work properly

Re: [osol-discuss] strange ps behaviour

2010-02-05 Thread Casper . Dik
I noticed that : # /bin/ps --help /bin/ps: illegal option -- help usage: ps [ -aAdefHlcjLPyZ ] [ -o format ] [ -t termlist ] [ -u userlist ] [ -U userlist ] [ -G grouplist ] [ -p proclist ] [ -g pgrplist ] [ -s sidlist ] [ -z zonelist ] [-h lgrplist]

Re: [osol-discuss] strange ps behaviour

2010-02-05 Thread Casper . Dik
On second thought it seems the ps command is switchning between bsd behaviour (old /usr/ucb/ps) if options are not preceded with '-' and new solaris behaviour if there is a '-' Is that correct ? Almost. This is what the main routine in ps look like today: int main(int argc, char **argv) {

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris vs OpenSolaris (NOW: Read The ARCHIVES)

2010-02-04 Thread Casper . Dik
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:33:27 -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: PLEASE GO READ THE MAILING LIST ARCHIVES. This question has been asked, discussed, and answered by several folks (myself included) in fairly exhaustive detail, a large number of times. Most recently, I think, LAST WEEK. Google

Re: [osol-discuss] Asterisk

2010-02-02 Thread Casper . Dik
Mtmalloc Linked? Calls per secondContext SwitchesUser CPU % System CPU % no 90017,000-19,000 66 32 yes 1,40014,000-15,000 66 28 Was it also

Re: [osol-discuss] Need to find files with F6 in name. How?

2010-02-02 Thread Casper . Dik
So I have lots of files with weird characters in the name. Those F6, F4, etc characters are listed as ?, for instance Making?Food?Recipe.doc. The version of CIFS I use, (b125) does not allow listing of files with those characters in WinXP clients. I must stay with b125 because of issues in later

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

2010-01-29 Thread Casper . Dik
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

Re: [osol-discuss] Atom based board, and experiences?

2010-01-29 Thread Casper . Dik
Super Micro has an attractive board for low power home systems: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=3DH Has anyone already put his hands on that thing, or knows, if the actual OpenSolaris build will/does support the compleet hardware? (Aka: Network,

Re: [osol-discuss] Atom based board, and experiences?

2010-01-29 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi Matthias, have you also evaluated going the AMD route? I am also looking into setting up a home server, and I have seen that with AMD one can get ECC RAM for much less money. Which systems are you thinking of? Additionally, there seem to be not much difference power consumption wise when

Re: [osol-discuss] UltraSPAR_K_

2010-01-28 Thread Casper . Dik
Cyril Plisko wrote: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/blades/index.html Oh well... I don't see it. Maybe it's been fixed already? It looked at it again, saw SPARK; refreshed it and now it says SPARC. Casper ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Casper . Dik
Well, it's a good thing that for marketing purposes, Sun starting calling SunOS Solaris, startin g with SunOS 5. If they hadn't done that, we'd have to to call Solaris OracleOS now! No, really, there was a Solaris 1.0.1 (SunOS 4.1.4) Casper ___

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris snv_130 panic.

2010-01-13 Thread Casper . Dik
Experiencing very strange behaviour with upgraded OpenSolaris machine ( from snv_124 to snv_130 ) Machine gets panic, with the following error: trap: Unknown trap type 8 in user mode. panic[cpu0]/thread = fbc2e3a0: mutex_enter: bad mutex, lp=20 owner=f000e987f000fea0 thread

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-04 Thread Casper . Dik
casper@sun.com wrote: I've noticed that more and more things have stopped working in SXCE; specifically X which is now only partially delivered (no Xnest) and, We've always only delivered the Xnest built on Xsun, so it's there on SPARC, been gone on x86 since we removed Xsun on x86 in

Re: [osol-discuss] devfsadm:driver failed to attach:driver_name

2010-01-04 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi Brian, I tried as you said, I placed the actual file 'dummy' in /usr/kernel/dummy and the conf file 'dummy.conf' also in the same folder. But then also its not working. It asks me to place the driver file (dummy) in correct directory. and to reboot. The device driver must be in

Re: [osol-discuss] devfsadm:driver failed to attach:driver_name

2010-01-04 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi Casper, I placed the files in the directories according to your instructions. I got the following messages in /var/adm/messages when I try to do #add_drv dummy -- Jan 4 20:58:39

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-02 Thread Casper . Dik
Happy new year every1! 130 is the final SXCE release planned though, as previously announc= ed. Which is too bad, really. Maybe the infrastructure to build SXCE can be kept in place a little bit longer. The final release of SXCE could then be cut in sync with the official OS 2010.02

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

2009-12-24 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi, 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. How do I cheat the server that cover is always closed? If you run the system with an open cover, you will disturb the airflow and the system

Re: [osol-discuss] Syslog-ng?

2009-12-07 Thread Casper . Dik
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Eugene Vilensky evilen...@gmail.com= wrote: Hi, Is syslog-ng available for OpenSolaris, through IPS or otherwise? = =A0If I were to build it, is there an easy metapackage for the build system, maybe analogous to Red Hat's rpmbuild+dependencies or Debia= n's

Re: [osol-discuss] Syslog-ng?

2009-12-07 Thread Casper . Dik
Solaris Syslog doesn't log using a door. Solaris logs on /dev/conslog but uses the door only to determine if the syslogd is running. Casper I always wondered at the sanity of using a door for this purpose. My biggest problem with the code is that syslogd_ok() is always called, even

Re: [osol-discuss] lx zone no /dev/mem or /dev/kmem

2009-11-06 Thread Casper . Dik
Yes Casper. This is not open source application. Rather it is Server administration application and while installing, it checks for server id to check whether installation is done on supported server system. My doubt is that server ids are stored in predefine memory location of particular server

Re: [osol-discuss] exec_attr is empty..

2009-10-20 Thread Casper . Dik
I've tried to reproduce it. Unsucessfully. Everything updated normally. Maybe because this time pa ckage was taken from cache... Can't happen when you install a SVr4 package; if exec_attr is empty, then it is either: a SVr4 package with a non-standard i.rbac install script or

Re: [osol-discuss] How to make syslogger write to a fifo?

2009-10-19 Thread Casper . Dik
Will keep reading so any ouput from system logger is displayed... but a regular kind of command like: cat named-pipe cat will close after the first line is read. Not my experience; cat works. Similar for something like awk '/REGEX/{print}' named-pipe some.log awk will close after the

Re: [osol-discuss] How to make syslogger write to a fifo?

2009-10-16 Thread Casper . Dik
Can anyone tell me how to make the system logger write to a fifo? I've tried this in /etc/syslog.conf *.debug |/var/adm/flt Where `flt' is a fifo and the two elements are separated by tabs. I'm assuming that flt is a named pipe; doesn't it work when you use /var/adm/flt? I

Re: [osol-discuss] doubt in solaris

2009-10-13 Thread Casper . Dik
can we run objective-c programming language in solaris,because it will be run only in Mac os You will need an Objective-C compiler. Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] limit number of file-descriptors in system.

2009-10-01 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi, all. I'd like to limit number of file-descriptors in system. What do I set a parameter? In process level, I know rlim_fd_max paramter. There's no system wide limit. Why do you want this? Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] limit number of file-descriptors in system.

2009-10-01 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi Casper. I'd like to run hundreds process, and they have thousands file-descriptors. Therefore, I'd like to limit them in system. So that processes will fail? What problem are you trying to solve? Sorry, I don't know max number of them in system level. There is no such limit so you cannot

Re: [osol-discuss] Point-of-View ION+Atom 330

2009-09-22 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi, I have recently bought this motherboard and I was plaining use OpenSolaris so I went and installed release 2009/06 but it seems the release doesn't support video/network card. http://www.pointofview-online.com/showroom.php?shop_mode=product_detailproduct_id=97 So I installed svn_123b

Re: [osol-discuss] [ug-bosug] usb 2.0 works slow

2009-09-21 Thread Casper . Dik
i was trying to achieve the speeds mentioned according to the usb 2.0 specs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_2.0#USB_2.0 Hi Arun, What is the speed that you are expecting? Line speed for USB Hi speed is 480 Mbits/s. So it is 60 MB/s. (Note the differences ib M*Bits* and M*Bytes*) You are

Re: [osol-discuss] What happened to rarpd?

2009-09-17 Thread Casper . Dik
All; This weekend I installed osol 0906 on my laptop and in the process of copying files and testing configurations found that there is no rarpd. I need rarpd for performing Jumpstart/JET builds on SPARC based systems. How can I get this installed on my laptop asap? Why not using DHCP (boot

Re: [osol-discuss] External disk 1TB

2009-09-17 Thread Casper . Dik
I tried also with format (on an Opensolaris 64-bit where I can see th= e disk), then connected the disk back on the 32-bit system, same error. Any other ideas? Disks 1TB will just not work on a 32 bit Solaris. Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] How to delete files as dos 'del *.java /s' on command line

2009-09-09 Thread Casper . Dik
thank you, can you tell me what does it mean {} + ? can you suggest me a tutorial or an online manual for beginners? -- man find. {} - expanded to the name of the files found + - call the command with multiple file arguments Casper

Re: [osol-discuss] Nokia Booklet 3G

2009-09-07 Thread Casper . Dik
As far as I know there are closed binaries drivers produced by hardware vendors for Linux world. To be able to run such drivers on Linux there is a piece of code licensed under LGPL allowing such thing. That is the purpose of LGPL. Some hardware vendors still do not want to write open source

Re: [osol-discuss] [on-discuss] [pkg-discuss] ON/SXCE bi-weekly schedule not valid anymore?

2009-08-25 Thread Casper . Dik
It's not just search that's slow - most pkg operations feel slow. And SVR4 performance is pretty dire - performance is one of the main criticisms of SVR4 packaging. The code is old and hasn't had much TLC, and there's a fair amount of low hanging fruit. I had some fixes for pkgchk that made it

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-19 Thread Casper . Dik
Ghee Teo wrote: So what is your 'supports' for doing the things the ways you are doing that are supposed to be helpful to Solaris users to migrate/upgrade to OpenSolaris. Have you considered also the hundreds of ISV for Solaris will now to adapt to the new paradigm? I can't answer that as

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-19 Thread Casper . Dik
Shawn Walker wrote: The popularity of the OpenSolaris 200x releases vs. that of the Solaris Express releases in terms of usage speaks for itself IMO. Do you have the numbers? I certainly would want to know those, also because of the number of the SPARC vs the x86 downloads now that we have

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