Re: [osol-discuss] sun qfe card

2008-10-20 Thread James Carlson
qfe (same hardware, different package) are supported on x86 yet. These two are CRs 6342827 and 6401215. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757

Re: [osol-discuss] crontab

2008-10-20 Thread James Carlson
stable, and documented facility, such as FMA or SNMP. Getting the right answer though costs far more than getting an expedient and fragile one. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR0

Re: [osol-discuss] ISC DHCPD problem (3.1.1 version).

2008-10-17 Thread James Carlson
oreground. That's unlikely to be what you want. It'll block the SMF start method from completing, and when that times out, it'll go into maintenance state. Remove the '-d' (just use syslog for debugging) and you should be fine. -- James Carlson, Solaris Netw

[osol-discuss] solaris 10 desktop plans [was Re: Adobe Acrobat for Solaris x86]

2008-10-16 Thread James Carlson
. But if you have an S10 subscription, then talking with your Sun representative about the features you want to see in future updates would probably be the best approach. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWlucfg not found on Solaris 10 11/06 DVD image

2008-10-15 Thread James Carlson
n is simple: >Solaris 10 11/06 s10s_u3wos_10 SPARC [...] > Can anyone please let me know where I can find SUNWlucfg package? There is no SUNWlucfg package on Solaris 10 Update 3. It first showed up in Solaris 10 Update 4. Just install SUNWluu and SUNWlur, and continue with your upgrade. -- James

Re: [osol-discuss] rpool full?

2008-10-14 Thread James Carlson
l will become 36GB in size once the 18GB drive is gone. That's all there is to it. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burli

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get WEP/WPA key out of Vista?

2008-10-08 Thread James Carlson
in the first place ... > Thus anyone know where the WEP key is kept in Vista ... is the question. Google seems to suggest this: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_key.html -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Xen virtualization]

2008-10-07 Thread James Carlson
ort that virtual instance > into xVM Server. Neat idea ... though I think you need PSARC 2008/597 'vdiskadm', which doesn't seem to have integrated just yet. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.

Re: [osol-discuss] Xen virtualization

2008-10-07 Thread James Carlson
restore operation. This list is rather high-volume, and doesn't necessarily have all (or any) of the Xen folks subscribed. You may want to consider contacting the Xen OpenSolaris community: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/ irc://irc.oftc.net/solaris-xen [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [osol-discuss] winlock: NOTICE: Process 7456 timed out on lock 8192

2008-10-07 Thread James Carlson
spec = speculation(); speculate(spec); trace(execname); ustack(); } fbt:winlock:lock_giveup:entry /arg1==1/ { commit(spec); } fbt:winlock:lock_giveup:entry /arg1!=1/ { discard(spec); } -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAI

Re: [osol-discuss] IIIMF?

2008-10-06 Thread James Carlson
right or not, is someone's words against mine, but this > matter is so farking significant enough that someone with the real power to > effect "change" should be aware of it. Forward the message any way you like. The email address should be obvious. If it isn't, then feel f

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Jargon

2008-10-06 Thread James Carlson
s Solaris 8 6/00 and Solaris 10/00 respectively. I > can not find anything earlier other than Solaris 8 beta CDROMs and thus I > think that WOS version of "s28_38shwp2" is the lowest common denominator. Actually, that stamp is put there by ON build, not by the WOS. :-/ -- James C

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-03 Thread James Carlson
Bill Shannon writes: > James Carlson wrote: > > Is there still a problem here in the networking component itself > > (other than the GUI)? If so, I'd like to help solve it. > > No, after configuring it all by hand, networking is working fine. > The question is

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris equivalents for GNU packages

2008-10-03 Thread James Carlson
we ever did it) would essentially imply legal advice, "beware the bandersnatch ... and oh, yeah, GPLv2 as well." If we're going into that business, why not go all out and provide full legal services? Why is this one special case encoded in the system architecture? Obviously, I jus

Re: [osol-discuss] New to Unix(Solaris)

2008-10-03 Thread James Carlson
... do you have that installed? -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 ___ o

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-03 Thread James Carlson
any interfaces that claim to do hardware checksum offload just don't work.) As for the static network configuration logic, there's nobody working on that, so it's static. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Driv

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-03 Thread James Carlson
27; service and reenabled the 'physical:default' one, the rest of the networking system works exactly as it has for many, many years on Solaris. Thus, if you're running into trouble here, and if you're already familiar with that system (enough so that you consider it "easie

Re: [osol-discuss] Interesting => MAC addr reversing manually solved the problem !!

2008-10-02 Thread James Carlson
nfiguration error. Do you have 'hosts' and 'ipnodes' set to 'files dns' in /etc/nsswitch.conf? If not, then do this: # cp /etc/nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf Do you have DNS server addresses from your ISP configured in /etc/resolv.conf? If not, then you&#x

Re: [osol-discuss] [networking-discuss] please help => network configuration !!

2008-10-02 Thread James Carlson
t nge" ... there'll be a lot of it, but it should show error counters increasing if there are low-level problems. How old is the software you're using? There were serious problems with 'nge' quite some time ago -- bad enough that I gave up and plugged in an old 3c509 car

Re: [osol-discuss] smbfs on Solaris 10 5/08?

2008-10-02 Thread James Carlson
vailable. Another option would be to upgrade to Solaris Express Community Edition. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA

Re: [osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-02 Thread James Carlson
the > Network admin GUI working to allow me to configure the network? No idea; contact the desktop group. As for the complexity, this is why we strongly recommend using DHCP for configuration. That's what it's designed to do, and it makes things much simpler. -- James Carlson

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris equivalents for GNU packages

2008-10-02 Thread James Carlson
tuck. For now, most folks are told either to bury a private copy (ick!) or use libtecla instead. > > libnet-1.0.2,REV=2004.04.08_rev=a-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz > > I don't know what this is and don't see anything obvious > in nv_98. PSARC 2008/409. It's presumably

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris in 2001

2008-10-01 Thread James Carlson
n/stories/news/0,4586,2345514,00.html -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 ___

Re: [osol-discuss] sudden huge slowdown

2008-10-01 Thread James Carlson
the least capable configuration -- usually half-duplex. Thus, the paradoxical result of "forcing" full-duplex on one side of an Ethernet link is that the other side drops to half-duplex, and you get a lot of errors and dropped packets. That might not be your problem (looking at stat

Re: [osol-discuss] ZSF Solaris

2008-09-30 Thread James Carlson
folder. Does this help? http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/zfs.jsp#1 The directory entry limit is documented as 2^64. In practice, you'll likely run out of other things before you get there. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystem

Re: [osol-discuss] Help: How to install Java SE and use Java Web Start..

2008-09-30 Thread James Carlson
Tai writes: > P.S. And how would I know which OpenSolaris version I am running? This should tell you what you want to know: % uname -v -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS U

Re: [osol-discuss] Some questions (About GNOME, ...)

2008-09-29 Thread James Carlson
d. > How about JDS marketing? > Is there plan to go away from JDS name and use in all place GNOME? I'm not sure that's on-topic for any OpenSolaris list (why would Sun's marketing be an open source issue?), but if it is, I'd guess that'd also be something for the des

Re: [osol-discuss] Burn a bootable DVD

2008-09-29 Thread James Carlson
program for it If you've got the ISO file, then something like this should do it: % pfexec cdrw -C -i solaris10.iso There's also 'cdrecord,' which is a more feature-rich recording program. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [osol-discuss] problem

2008-09-24 Thread James Carlson
il than that, you'll need to explain exactly what drive you're mounting and on what kind of system, what commands you've tried, and what error(s) you've seen. We can't see your system from here. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [osol-discuss] Using Kstat framework

2008-09-24 Thread James Carlson
hout an engine restart. 3. Using simple arithmetic to arrive at interval deltas is simpler and more effective anyway, so there's just no need. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442

Re: [osol-discuss] dropping ethernet connection

2008-09-12 Thread James Carlson
at boot. Similarly, creating those files will cause an interface to be plumbed at boot. (You can have as many as you like configured this way.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS

Re: [osol-discuss] dropping ethernet connection

2008-09-10 Thread James Carlson
nfig rtls0 plumb > I might have to do a > re-install and see what I can do. Only problem is my install images were > on that server so I'll have to download the dvd again on my 0.5Mb > dsl...oh joy I wouldn't expect reinstall to change anything. That's an administrat

Re: [osol-discuss] dropping ethernet connection

2008-09-10 Thread James Carlson
can be looked at by > the experts? bugs.opensolaris.org -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

Re: [osol-discuss] dropping ethernet connection

2008-09-10 Thread James Carlson
what I was going to recommend -- along with filing a bug. (I would have recommended a trusty old Intel PPRO [e1000g] or 3COM [elxl] card, but that RTL8139 [rtls] should work as well.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Netwo

Re: [osol-discuss] dropping ethernet connection

2008-09-10 Thread James Carlson
I'll see if i can come up with any more info Make sure you file a bug on it. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-27

Re: [osol-discuss] dropping ethernet connection

2008-09-10 Thread James Carlson
d enough that I plugged in an old 3c509 card to deal with it -- but it hasn't happened in quite a while. > What could be happening? Most likely driver problems. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232

Re: [osol-discuss] what files should be copied or modified when doing os upgrade.

2008-09-02 Thread James Carlson
existing S9 system to S10, preferably using Live Upgrade (since it seems you have at least one spare disk slice). If you want to copy over to a new system anyway, I think you're probably on your own. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems

Re: [osol-discuss] Posters Be Aware: Jive vs. Mailman

2008-09-02 Thread James Carlson
least. Better would be to put a stake through it during the day when it's safe. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 0180

Re: [osol-discuss] Motherboard/Hardware Failure Question

2008-08-28 Thread James Carlson
> have been done because of, say, a motherboard failure. I think I rmember > seeing it can be done even without the export? That's true. It "just works." The export step is needed just to remove that pool from the previous machine. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] How can I download a bug fix ?

2008-08-28 Thread James Carlson
istrator installed the patches he claims to have installed. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris and SNMP monitoring

2008-08-27 Thread James Carlson
t's in the SUNWCsma cluster -- SUNWsmmgr SUNWsmagt, and SUNWsmcmd packages. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757

Re: [osol-discuss] How can I download a bug fix ?

2008-08-27 Thread James Carlson
x27;d suggest contacting Sun's support group for further help in obtaining patches and maintaining your system. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212

Re: [osol-discuss] Any Ideas

2008-08-26 Thread James Carlson
download restrictions. ANY > IDEAS Finding out what went wrong with those earlier trials might help point out what to do in the future. (Unfortunately, this might not be the best place to get help with Windows programs ... but perhaps someone else will add some clues there.) -- Jame

Re: [osol-discuss] No internet connection

2008-08-26 Thread James Carlson
ving, it sounds like that (misconfigured name services) is a possible source of the problem. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBU

Re: [osol-discuss] datalink-management - dlmgmtd service errors - solved I think

2008-08-26 Thread James Carlson
David Clack writes: > If you come up into single user mode and do a chmod 777 /, everything > starts working again. Yikes. > If anyone could explain what the real permissions for / are, I'd love > to here from you. 755 and root:root. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] Software RAID in solaris 10?

2008-08-22 Thread James Carlson
t that there are other things that are more pressing and it'll happen eventually. You'd find out more by talking with them. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232

Re: [osol-discuss] Software RAID in solaris 10?

2008-08-22 Thread James Carlson
many more ways to hurt yourself. - I'm not so sure SVM does a great job using incrementally-added drives with RAID-5 ... I seem to recall needing to set up a concatenation of RAID-5 volumes in order to get it to work well. (But my memory could be faulty there. I mostly just don&#

[osol-discuss] loss of control over root [was Re: What happened to blastwave.org?]

2008-08-21 Thread James Carlson
w, and I haven't noted any loss of control over the root file system, or problems with having the file systems grow. Please clarify: what are you trying to do, what do you expect to see happen, and what problem are you encountering? Be as specific as possible. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networki

Re: [osol-discuss] Where can I get a 64 bit gcc binary package?

2008-08-21 Thread James Carlson
#x27;t necessarily give you 64-bit binaries, and a 32-bit compiler doesn't restrict you from producing valid 64-bit binaries. What matters are the options used. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox

Re: [osol-discuss] LU doesn't work with ZFS - replacement beadm for lucreate & luupgrade?

2008-08-20 Thread James Carlson
lans. The current 2008.05 CD has the beadm command and does not have the lu* commands. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 7

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE

2008-08-20 Thread James Carlson
o go if you want to talk about planning issues related to one vendor's distribution. The right folks might be listening here, but they might not. It's a wide-ranging and noisy list. (In general, I'd say that the more targeted a list you can find, the better off you'

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE

2008-08-18 Thread James Carlson
staller (the graphic portion) eventually led to the current Indiana work. That's why SXDE is finished. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-

Re: [osol-discuss] NIC failover problem - can't find problem

2008-08-15 Thread James Carlson
Kill off the /usr/lib/inet/in.mpathd process and restart it manually with the "-d" flag to enable debug. This will print all of its activity in excruciating detail on standard output. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Micros

Re: [osol-discuss] LU doesn't work with ZFS

2008-08-15 Thread James Carlson
wn process rules generally forbid us from removing things unless there's a viable replacement -- even if the existing one is rotting away. (This one is probably a more extreme example than most.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems

Re: [osol-discuss] SXDE

2008-08-15 Thread James Carlson
general use. As I would with SXDE, I'd recommend that users of SXCE make use of LU, so that -- if something *does* go south for some unforeseen reason -- they can roll back to a previous working environment. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Micro

Re: [osol-discuss] How can I download a bug fix ?

2008-08-15 Thread James Carlson
. > Don't you think this is the same issue ? It certainly looks like it. It was fixed in Solaris 10 by patch ID 123324-01, which was released about two years ago. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W

Re: [osol-discuss] zfs question.

2008-08-14 Thread James Carlson
quot; and "zfs receive" commands. > Also, would it more efficient if I just mirrored the two drives? It might be slow and difficult, given that one is USB. Transferring sounds smarter to me. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsy

Re: [osol-discuss] LU doesn't work with ZFS

2008-08-14 Thread James Carlson
uding names of parties and terms. :-< That's why there's no helpful list of organizations to blame in the sad list of "encumbered" sources. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/no_source/ -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] LU doesn't work with ZFS

2008-08-13 Thread James Carlson
Rich Reynolds writes: > James Carlson wrote: > > No. As previously mentioned, we do not have the right to publish the > > source. It belongs to someone else. It will _never_ be open. > > > that said - LARGE portions of the LiveUpgrade system are simply shell > scrip

Re: [osol-discuss] LU doesn't work with ZFS

2008-08-13 Thread James Carlson
e right to publish the source. It belongs to someone else. It will _never_ be open. Sorry. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fa

Re: [osol-discuss] LU doesn't work with ZFS

2008-08-12 Thread James Carlson
series of builds code-named "Nevada," and a project "Indiana" that produces a distribution out of those bits.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Bur

Re: [osol-discuss] why should i have to modify the /etc/nsswittch.conf file?

2008-08-11 Thread James Carlson
em (including an incorrect default), file a bug on it. Go ahead and work around the problem until a fix is found (of course), but don't alter your lifestyle to assume that everything around you is infested with bugs. It's not. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EM

Re: [osol-discuss] I want to understand 'Boot Environment'!

2008-08-11 Thread James Carlson
of thing would be in the Indiana project team. They're removing *ALL* of the old LU stuff, and would likely be happy to discuss the new installer and boot environment manager, and how it works. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35

Re: [osol-discuss] why should i have to modify the /etc/nsswittch.conf file?

2008-08-11 Thread James Carlson
> I still trust the defaults; it's much more likely that you've seen > additional lookups even using that same name, especially when running > snoop. It's possible that the previous poster is seeing reverse lookups ... and it's also possible that he modified "hosts&

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris.com : opensolaris.org

2008-08-08 Thread James Carlson
do so, we move software out to the right place. This takes time. It can't be changed overnight because you have to chase down dependencies and make sure you're not going to break anything by the move and because it does require some work to change the packaging, and we don't have that

Re: [osol-discuss] Network on OpenSolaris

2008-08-07 Thread James Carlson
cation within a range specified by the network administrator. If you're using static allocation, then either (a) update /etc/nwam/llp to specify static allocation for the IP address or (b) turn off NWAM and use the old-style /etc/hostname.* files. If you're using DHCP, it should generally

Re: [osol-discuss] installing opensolaris on a sunblade 1500

2008-08-07 Thread James Carlson
a > 15 bytes files. > any idea what i am doing wrong? That's a known temporary problem with the web site. If you look at the contents of the file, you'll see that it says "File not found." I hope the broken link will be fixed soon. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-08-07 Thread James Carlson
> file or directory] 'pkg search' indicates that /lib/cpp comes from SUNWlibms. Do you have that package installed on this system? -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS U

Re: [osol-discuss] installing opensolaris on a sunblade 1500

2008-08-07 Thread James Carlson
oesn't support SPARC. But the SX:CE is built from essentially the same source code. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fa

Re: [osol-discuss] Can Solaris be discussed here?

2008-08-06 Thread James Carlson
om people here are *NOT* necessarily the support folks paid to do that job (and thus pretty much like all those with [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses), and the answers might not apply to the release you happen to be running, then go ahead and ask here. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] Marvell Ethernet cards

2008-08-06 Thread James Carlson
omes up with a bunch of packages, but > none of the un-installed ones look relevant. Is it one of the headers > that isn't opened yet ? No, it's definitely open source. It's just not packaged. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris.com : opensolaris.org

2008-08-06 Thread James Carlson
usly, other distributions based on the OpenSolaris source code can do as they see fit, but I'd expect most to follow suit.) Basically, /usr/sfw was a mistake. When we realized that, we fixed it. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [osol-discuss] Can Solaris be discussed here?

2008-08-04 Thread James Carlson
rt services with Sun's commercial Solaris 10 product, then I suppose it's fair to ask for problem reports submitted however you're willing to give them. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Netwo

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris PF port

2008-07-28 Thread James Carlson
ment has happened > in this area :( I haven't seen any talk of it. It might be better to start a discussion on [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than on this list. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vo

Re: [osol-discuss] Network Configuration for Dummies (me, in this case)

2008-07-28 Thread James Carlson
. The harder one avoids a reboot. First, plumb up everything, then list the results: % pfexec /sbin/ifconfig -a plumb % /sbin/ifconfig -a The second command should show an Ethernet adapter plumbed. Once you find the name (something like "rtls0"), do this: % pf

Re: [osol-discuss] self-compilenced software

2008-07-24 Thread James Carlson
irectory names > > and symlinks ... if it's done well. > > Understood and agreed. Hence the "complicated" comment. However a logical > directory structure makes things quite a bit more simple for a packaging > system > to handle. I'd just say it

Re: [osol-discuss] self-compilenced software

2008-07-23 Thread James Carlson
than just directory names and symlinks ... if it's done well. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 __

Re: [osol-discuss] Keyboard command

2008-07-18 Thread James Carlson
Mr. Z writes: > Is there a keyboard command to switch between workspaces? I'm using OS > 2008.05. Click on "System" -> "Preferences" -> "Keyboard Shortcuts." Workspace switching is near the bottom of the list. -- James Carlson, Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] New to Solaris

2008-07-18 Thread James Carlson
ings that someone has tested and reports to work. Things not listed are not necessarily known to _not_ work. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757

Re: [osol-discuss] where is the information of package placed.

2008-07-18 Thread James Carlson
installed on S9. For one thing, your preinstall scripts are gone. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

Re: [osol-discuss] New to Solaris

2008-07-17 Thread James Carlson
t; and "device" values, which you should report to the folks who maintain the driver. The right mailing list for that is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (No, if the driver doesn't want to load, you can't "force" it to load. Drivers load only when they recognize the attach

Re: [osol-discuss] New to Solaris

2008-07-17 Thread James Carlson
ftware should be installed. Can someone point me to an Open Source A/V > application that I can install and run on OpenSolaris? Good luck on that. Unless you're scanning for viruses in Windows files that you're storing on your OpenSolaris system, I don't think such a thing re

Re: [osol-discuss] Any lsof tool for nv ?

2008-07-16 Thread James Carlson
k you very mcuh. OpenSolaris comes with "pkgadd." If you have a common application already in System V package format, just run "pkgadd" to install it. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71

Re: [osol-discuss] Need help diagnosing failed boot after update

2008-07-15 Thread James Carlson
em is the grub loader itself, and it causes a "can't mount root" panic early in boot. There are many references to this problem in the archives, but the short answer is that you need to run: /boot/solaris/bin/update_grub or use installgrub to reinstall the booter using the lates

Re: [osol-discuss] pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2008-07-07 Thread James Carlson
this should fix the problem: % pfexec pkg install SUNWscp -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-275

Re: [osol-discuss] where is the information of package placed.

2008-07-07 Thread James Carlson
em to S10. If you're going to do a regular system upgrade from S9 to S10, why wouldn't the packaging information for your unbundled software be expected to remain intact? -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive

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

2008-07-07 Thread James Carlson
defined, the leading edge is definitely _already_ OpenSolaris. Besides the fact that all of our own development is done there, you might want to check out sites such as www.joyent.com -- businesses that are running it in production _today_. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EM

Re: [osol-discuss] guide me how to install Solaris OS 10 5/08

2008-07-07 Thread James Carlson
quot;ISO image." > I want to install this in my desktop. My sys is having pentium dual core and > 1GB Ram Shall i proceed to install. Is their any precaution to be taken > before installing the OS. Unless you're planning to purchase support from Sun for S10, I'd recomme

Re: [osol-discuss] Need help in configuring Automatic startup on solaris 10

2008-07-07 Thread James Carlson
it.d/gswgdaemon /etc/rc3.d/S99gswgdaemon ln -s ../init.d/gswgdaemon /etc/rc0.d/K00gswgdaemon See the /etc/rc3.d/README file for more information. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442

Re: [osol-discuss] which difference is /etc/defaultrouter between OpenSolaris08.05&other ver?

2008-07-07 Thread James Carlson
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Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting "rpm" to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread James Carlson
Moinak Ghosh writes: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:39 PM, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No matter _what_ packaging mechanism is used, that's a tall order. I > > certainly don't blame anyone for not tackling it. I suspect it might > > no

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting "rpm" to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread James Carlson
27;m missing the point, but I thought that's exactly what the OpenSolaris distribution (and IPS repository) folks were attempting to do. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR0

Re: [osol-discuss] What about adopting "rpm" to package OpenSolaris?

2008-06-27 Thread James Carlson
ing it. I suspect it might not be fixable in any real sense at all. Merely adopting RPM or any other random packaging technology won't fix the dependencies that are built into the binaries that are being delivered. Packaging is just a container. For me, the right solution is to throw more disk sp

Re: [osol-discuss] Veritas volumes on Global zone,

2008-06-23 Thread James Carlson
ne are on the mark, though. Besides lofs, a better way to do this is with zfs and delegated datasets. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N

Re: [osol-discuss] Cannot find /lib/ld-linux.so.2

2008-06-23 Thread James Carlson
ve ld-linux.so.2 and the other required libraries installed. If you're trying to run a Linux application in a native Solaris zone, that's not going to work. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W

Re: [osol-discuss] StarOffice and JDS Missing

2008-06-20 Thread James Carlson
soft.html#openoffice -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 ___ open

Re: [osol-discuss] Used IPS, now system won't boot.

2008-06-19 Thread James Carlson
ve run into the same problem that many others have run into. The updater is supposed to update the grub booter, but doesn't. You need to boot into the previous environment, mount up the new one and run $ROOT/boot/solaris/bin/update_grub. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris c compiler can`t recognize -Wall option?

2008-06-19 Thread James Carlson
Wonchang Song writes: > But! some strange error occured. > Next is error message. > cc: 筝___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] retriving Mac/ethernet address on Solaris

2008-06-19 Thread James Carlson
irtual memory subsystem?) DLPI just has nothing to do with BSD sockets. That's the root problem. > Sufficiently recent versions of SXCE/SXDE/Nevada/OpenSolaris have > libdlpi (see the man page for this and for the individual functions) which It's also in progress now for

Re: [osol-discuss] PANIC: VirtualBox on os2008-05 installing os2008-05

2008-06-18 Thread James Carlson
I recall correctly) host itself. It's a good proof that you've got all of the virtual details right, and can be useful in debug, but you're right that the usual PC-type environments just don't bother going that far ... and probably need not do so. -- James Carlson, Solaris Ne

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