On Dec 10, 2007 3:55 PM, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a question... Is there any plan to integrate
PulseAudio as the sound server in Solaris?
I suggest to contact the developers of PulseAudio to ask them if they
have any plans on porting this software to Solaris.
That's not
On Dec 3, 2007 1:45 PM, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You should never be logged in as root directly, unless you are on the
console, in text mode.
That is sysadmin 101.
Yes, and it's dogma. There are plenty of situations where root login is the best
tool for the job.
2. RBAC is
On Dec 3, 2007 6:36 PM, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, and it's dogma. There are plenty of situations
where root login is the best
tool for the job.
On your desktop, yes. And even then, not in a GUI.
There you go again.
I'm trying to point out gently that you dont' necessarily
On 11/6/07, Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you are
the sort of user who thinks OpenOffice is better because it is open,
then consider using ogg-vorbis, theora, FLAC, Speex, or other open
formats for your audio and video as well. Don't be a free and open
software hypocrite.
On 05/11/2007, Steven Stallion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The argument that modifying the PATH is too difficult for the average user
is nonsense. Any user who knows enough to know what runtime they prefer,
know precisely how to change their PATH to reflect that.
Hear, hear. Throwing this in
On 01/11/2007, Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
o ZFS as the default filesystem
Is that as in 'ZFS root'?
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On 02/09/07, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm having trouble understanding this:
zfs create zfspool/home
zfs create zfspool/home/u1
zfs create zfspool/home/u2
For arguments sake u1 contains 5gb worth of data and u2 7gb worth of data.
Doing 'zfs list' zfspopol/home/u1 and
On 17/08/07, Gary Gendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
According to the web page, SXCE releases should come every other week. I
haven't seen an announcement for over a month. Has this process stalled, or
has the focus changed because of the Indiana project?
From
On 30/07/07, Korey Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is true that users alone will not make Open Solaris into a great product,
but they are the final judge of its success. The Open Solaris community must
remember who will use their software when the development is done: the user.
Is
On 31/07/07, MC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most people use Windows because it came with their PC, not for any
technical reason.
It comes with their PCs because it is technically the best desktop OS. Dell
doesn't sell Windows PCs instead of OS/2 Warp PCs because of a coin flip.
Windows is
On 17/07/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dick Davies wrote:
Why should an end user actually care what the name of the NIC is ?
Because one of the cards might be a) slower or b) non-WPA aware.
but do you need to know about the different NICs or do you need NWAM to
do
On 17/07/07, Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The new power management in B70 should also make it a nice platform for
university - I like sitting in the cafe doing some study without seeing
my battery drop like a rock.
That's interesting - is that the 'frkit/power management' packages
On 16/07/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dick Davies wrote:
1. Ubuntu on the same machine (and WLANs) presents a list like this:
ipw0 (Intel Centrino .)
-- Granny Smith (WEP)
-- BT Voyager (WPA)
-- mywlan (WPA)
ath0 (Atheros .)
-- Granny Smith (WEP
On 15/07/07, Doug Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a b wrote:
Something must be wrong with your build as Mplayer rarely crashes for me.
What ever is wrong with my build of Mplayer is wrong for everybody else,
for I installed it from Blastwave.
No, you incorrectly assume that
On 13/07/07, Orvar Korvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I try to see films on my nevada b67, the film viewers doesnt work. None
of the default players work. I want my vlc! :o(
Any suggestions?
I'd suggest mplayer for video files and ogle for DVDs
(both from blastwave).
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Ah, I must have some other problem then:
vera # lustatus
Boot Environment Is Active ActiveCanCopy
Name Complete NowOn Reboot Delete Status
-- -- - -- --
c0d0s0 yes
I've seen this a bit on my asus - which is also on SXDE.
ISTR a couple of messages during boot about i915 registers.
It's generally really good, but JDS seemed to lock up after a while
I put it down to RAM starvation (it only has 512Mb of RAM) - CDE
seems much more stable.
I noticed that there
On 08/07/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Modern Solaris does not use nor need /boot.
You should only have four slices: s0 /, s1 swap, s2 (don't touch!) and s7
(64MB for metadb).
You need /boot to do LU on x86 (if you want to be able to free up the
old root slice afterwards).
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On 03/07/07, Mbi Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to implement ISCSI on X4500.This box is running Solaris 10 11/06
s10x_u3wos_10 X86. I want to be able to create iSCSI targets on this box
inoder to attached to a Host(initiator).
I downloaded iscsitgt.x86 packages from OpenSolaris
On 03/07/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Either you wait until this stuff is backported to Solaris 10, which is 6
months at a minimum, or you download the source code and compile and package
the stuff yourself.
It's in update4, that's out in a month or 2.
One thing that's unclear
Install it into /opt.
On 26/06/07, yoyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
but install will
cp .libs/libphp5.so /usr/apache2/libexec/libphp5.so
Installing PHP CLI binary:/usr/local/bin/
Installing PHP CLI man page: /usr/local/man/man1/
Installing build environment:
On 31/05/07, Girts Zeltins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If Sun Microsystems will go this road then Solaris can become leader operating
systems.
Windows does ok. How many does it run on?
PPC would be good, but a lot of NetBSDs platforms are relatively
unused. I don't see the
benefit of porting
usermod -s /usr/bin/bash root
On 23/05/07, Gerard Nualla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I make BASH the root's default shell?
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On 23/05/07, Sean Sprague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gerard,
How can I make BASH the root's default shell?
This question has come up more times than possibly any other. The answer is invariably
(and correctly) Don't do it!.
What's the technical reason for that?
Because all I've heard is
a)
On 23/05/07, Sean Sprague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dick,
On 23/05/07, Sean Sprague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gerard,
How can I make BASH the root's default shell?
This question has come up more times than possibly any other. The
answer is invariably (and correctly) Don't do it!.
What's
On 23/05/07, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's not use hateful phrases on the lists please such as b), even if in jest.
Agreed, I apologize for that if it's caused anyone any offense
(I use it because I've heard those exact words from solaris advocates,
and I'd like it to stop).
On 19/05/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One picks Linux as the best choice only if one doesn't know what one is
doing. It is as simple as that.
snip a load of bile
This kind of thing is coming across more and more as irrational hatred.
Take it elsewhere, it's not helpful.
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On 16/05/07, Alan DuBoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Frank Van Der Linden wrote:
You can't do that with zones as they stand now. There's a whole list of
things you can't do in a non-global zone.
That is true today, but Xen might change that. We do have branded zones
today
On 10/05/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And what's the default? Oh yeah that shell
that's still stuck in
the first century?
I don't see anything wrong with `exec tcsh -l`. That's only in root's case
anyway, and hopefully not much time should be spent working as root anyway.
On 04/05/07, Thomas Rampelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dick Davies wrote:
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b63/on-changelog-b63.html
That works! Is there a link to that somewhere or is this an insider's tip?
I just change the 2 embedded numbers every fortnight and there it is :)
I
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b63/on-changelog-b63.html
?
On 04/05/07, Thomas Rampelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I saw that B63 was available for download now and was looking for a
changelog. I can't seem to find a link on opensolaris.org and googling
doesn't appear to produce any
On 15/04/07, gns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Many mailing lists these days require entering of a verification code or
characters displayed on the page while subscribing.
I must say I've never seen one (and I'm on a *lot* of mailing lists).
Do you have any evidence that bots are registering on
Definitely. I own it and it's dreadful.
Did you read any of the reviews? It's just a solaris 9
book that the guy wrote 'includes detailed information for solaris 10'
on the cover of. By all accounts the solaris 9 version was good, too.
Honestly, he should be ashamed of himself.
The dtrace and
Send it back. Seriously, it has *nothing* in it about Solaris 10 - no zones,
dtrace or zfs.
On 07/04/07, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone read this? I just ordered a copy from:
That's exactly the model http://joyent.com/ are using
with their accelerators. Seems to be very well recieved
by their hosting customers (of which I'm one).
On 25/03/07, Adam Luzecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the primary benefits of Containers is
delegated administration.
Think of a
On 22/03/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dick Davies wrote:
On 22/03/07, Thomas De Schampheleire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
pkginfo SUNWman does show:
system SUNWman On-Line Manual Pages
doesn't this mean it is installed?
That's the man command, not the man pages
On 22/03/07, Thomas De Schampheleire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- then there are the command line programs. There might be a good
reason for this, but I feel that some of the Solaris-shipped tools are
inferior to the GNU tools. For example, I don't see a reason why a
simple recursive grep with
On 22/03/07, Thomas De Schampheleire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
pkginfo SUNWman does show:
system SUNWman On-Line Manual Pages
doesn't this mean it is installed?
That's the man command, not the man pages.
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On 19/03/07, Carlos Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ian,
Thanks, I tried running device detection tool, but it only runs on certain
versions of Linux or on Windows, so it would not run on my system.
There's a 'livecd' version at :
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check_sx.html
If you want a NAS, why do you care what GNOME does?
Webfrontend maybe, but not a GUI.
And read the manpages, they're accurate and updated often.
On 18/03/07, MC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problems with Solaris for me so far are driver support and ease of
administration.
Driver support is
I've tolerated CDE before now, but only because it
was less resource-hungry that JDS/Gnome.
There are much nicer, lightweight GUIs available IMO.
Something that could run .xinitrc off the bat would let
people run what suits them.
On 02/03/07, Girts Zeltins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I
Can't recommend docs.sun.com highly enough - very good quality documentation
(choose the 'solaris 10' collection - everything under there still
applies to SXCR).
And make use of the man pages too - in my experience Linux
manpages vary greatly in quality. The solaris ones are excellent.
On
Hi, I recently subscribed to the security RSS feed
http://blogs.sun.com/security/feed/entries/rss
and there are a few doozies (zones are broken for instance).
There's no mention of SXCR or opensolaris vulnerabilities in the advisories
(which is completely understandable).
I just wondered if
It looks like Opensolaris b56 came out over the weekend:
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b56/on-changelog-b56.html
Isn't it normally 2 weeks before that becomes SXCR?
Incidentally, I hope I missed something, because I see no mention of
duckhorn in that changelog
On 29/01/07, Ben
On 24/01/07, Edward Diener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I installed Solaris Express Community Release b50 on my computer but the
installation process did not setup my ethernet card for me which allows
me to connect to my lan and to the Internet via a router and a DSL
modem. How do I do this this
On 15/01/07, noel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
great.
so what should we do to get this cheat sheet goin? What would be the most
important commands to put? and which config files are also significant and
different for administering the system?
There's an 'immigrants' project at opensolaris.org
On 03/01/07, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can always pkg-get Mozilla and/or Seamonkey from
blastwave.org . No need to have these in the Solaris
proper.
I don't know about you, but I *liked* the fact that Mozilla was a *suite* of
e-mail, IRC, newsreader and MUA, all-in-one,
Is it me, or are a lot of the ON changelog entries for b53
repeated for b54 (Tamarack and iscsi/zfs for example)?
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b53/on-changelog-b53.html
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b54/on-changelog-b54.html
On 09/12/06, Derek Cicero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 04/12/06, Hari Sundararajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Two people have referred to something called the community edition. Is that the same as
the Express Edition? Is that what ian refers to when he says Sun's distribution,
the community edition, is the most complete ??
Try this:
On 30/11/06, Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IMO email would be much better - it allows an easy access, more or less
real-time notification and it would not tax the bug database by
zillions of RSS clients which are polling the RSS feed every minute for
updates (guess why bugzilla has no
sorry, CCed to wrong list (should have been zfs-discuss).
On 15/11/06, Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 14/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, we have considered this. On both SPARC and x86, there will be
a way to specify the root file system (i.e
On 14/11/06, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What other news stories can we expect from slashdot?
It's a comment (from an idiot) on a story, not a story.
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I wanted to BFU up to b50. Thought it might be worth
BFUing SXCR b49 - opensolaris b49, then bumping that
to opensolaris b50 (is that the right procedure)?
Anyway, I installed SUNWonbld and tried to BFU, but I get:
Copying /opt/onbld/bin/bfu to /tmp/bfu.888
Executing /tmp/bfu.888
On 21/10/06, Iwan Rahabok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I know what's new in this build? I searched/browsed around, but unable
to find any info on things added/updated/fixed/removed on this build.
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b50/on-changelog-b50.html
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On 27/09/06, Boyd Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 27/09/2006, at 6:57 PM, Dick Davies wrote:
On 27/09/06, Boyd Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 27/09/2006, at 4:49 AM, Ryan Ross wrote:
The one problem I have come across is the the UFS system partition.
This is not backed up
mini-itx / nano-itx
http://mini-itx.com/store/
Nice kit (if a little pricy).
On 22/09/06, UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These VIA boards work fine with PXE boot (for
suitably modified
miniroot) and they also boot fine from flash.
(We've installed Solaris on a flash card device on
Thanks Derek
wondered what the schedule was for SXCR (and opensolaris) releases?
Is there a fixed timetable anywhere?
On 12/09/06, Derek Cicero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SXCR Build 46 is now available for download. Please find the links at
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/.
On 20/06/06, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan DuBoff wrote:
On Friday 16 June 2006 11:09 pm, Ian Collins wrote:
I guess I should follow the install list to see where we are with live
upgrade and ZFS and Zones.
Ian,
I see quite a few folks provided you the info that this is a
On 20/06/06, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dick Davies wrote:
erk!
zfs list -t filesystem -o mountpoint|egrep -v '^(legacy|MOUNTPOINT)$'
You don't need to use egrep to get rid of the MOUNTPOINT you use the -H
flag to zfs list and it won't print the header.
Why would you want
On 19/06/06, Josh Berkus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan, Dick,
Josh, can you give a status on SMF manifests and/or if they're not in
now, when they'll be going in?
We're still working out some technical issues with the SMF manifests. It's
possible that you'll need to download them as an
On 17/06/06, Peter Tribble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 03:16, David J. Orman wrote:
For goodness sake, I've got two FreeBSD boxes doing all my web serving
because I didn't want to go through the hassle of hand compiling
apache/php/modules/mysql/postgresql/etc (not to
On 13/06/06, Felix Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/31/06, Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Starting with yesterday's nightly delivery, we will be delivery
Mercurial (Hg) changeset bundles [1] in addition to the raw source
tarball. You should be able to unpack these bundles and have
Sorry if there's a better place to ask, but is
anyone using Nevada b40 on an x4100?
I'm seeing very long boot times (6+ minutes) which seem to be down
to slow SCSI bus detection, and I can't see the console anymore if I ssh
to the ILOM (although the KVM java app works fine).
Console was fine
On 02/06/06, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
UNIX admin writes:
One of the rare things I like is how Linux solved this: regardless
of the networking HW, all interfaces are named eth[0-N], for
example eth0, eth1, ... , ethN.
Linux isn't the only one to do this. AIX, BSD, and other
On 20/05/06, Matthew Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
for example, if ZFS can 'compress' a
file, then why not make it an option in the 'about this file' dialogue?
( I think zfs compresses filesystems, not files. So this
would be the equivalent of GNOME letting you set mount options
for a
On 21/05/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It compresses all files in a filesystem. This can be turned off by
mountpoint.
Even if it was doable on a per file basis, the question is whether this
would be a useful feature to expose to the users.
Exactly - and to my mind that's
On 20/05/06, Matthew Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 20 May 2006 17:39, Shawn Walker wrote:
What do you mean by, The question is, will GNOME integrate itself into
ZFS...?
The same way that ACL capabilities need to be integrated in with GNOME
Not really. GNOME needs to be aware
On 09/05/06, Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 8 May 2006, Andrew Watkins wrote:
My manager asked me if I could a mirror copy of our /var/mail on
another system, just in case the system went down.
There's a distributed filesystem especially tailored for /var/mail,
its called
On 02/05/06, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also I'm sure I heard somewhere else that there was a pretty darn large
other open source project also moving to Mercurial, can't remember which
one.
Xen.
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On 02/05/06, Holger Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/2/06, Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 02/05/06, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also I'm sure I heard somewhere else that there was a pretty darn large
other open source project also moving to Mercurial, can't
it's my hosting provider too :)
Have a look at the Textdrive blog. Jason has been raving about ZFS since
it came out, but I think it was the TCP improvements that made his mind up.
http://weblog.textdrive.com/
(I hadn't heard an official announcement but it's good news as far as I'm
On 08/04/06, Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is VMware available for Macs?
Answering my own question:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2006/4/8/3520
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On 31/03/06, Thomas Maier-Komor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And what makes an OS fancy? When and how do you see an OS? During booting!
Personally I don't do that too often.
The first thing users have to actually deal with is the *installer*.
If you want to overhaul the UI, concentrate on that,
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