Re: [osol-discuss] can I run solaris express

2008-01-09 Thread James Carlson
e latest and greatest Nevada build from Sun. There are other distributions that are based on OpenSolaris, though, including Indiana (an experimental one from Sun), Nexenta (an independent GNU-flavored one), SchilliX, BeleniX, and MarTUX. Pointers are here: http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.

Re: [osol-discuss] can I run solaris express

2008-01-08 Thread James Carlson
is means I can not install solaris express??? No ... it only means that nobody who is using one has bothered to submit a report for the HCL. > Why I ask this question because I heared that solaris is not "friendly" with > hardware as linux such as redhat etc. That doesn't sou

Re: [osol-discuss] kernel holding too much memory

2008-01-07 Thread James Carlson
ags=0xf" in /etc/system and then using ::findleaks in mdb? (Note that 120011-14 is a patch ID number, which means that you're running Solaris 10, which is *NOT* based on OpenSolaris. When seeking help for problems in non-OpenSolaris-based distributions, you might do better with a list ot

Re: [osol-discuss] Adding public key to profile on opensolaris.org

2008-01-03 Thread James Carlson
:graph:]]+'" How are you entering the data? I got similar errors until I did the cut-and-paste from an emacs buffer. It seems that errant line-feed characters can cause the parser to fail. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems /

Re: [osol-discuss] Pb starting zones after hw upgrade

2008-01-02 Thread James Carlson
32 bits, the zones came up. I haven't seen that sort of a problem happening, but if you've got a reproducible test case, I'd suggest filing a bug. It doesn't make sense that it should fail in that way. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [osol-discuss] How to create ISO image of a cd/dvd on Solaris

2008-01-02 Thread James Carlson
build 79 -- CR 6628960. -- 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] profiles(1) + exec_attr(4) + zfs(1M) == Awesome(TM) ?

2007-12-21 Thread James Carlson
blems there. - This (using ZFS snapshots for versioning control) sounds very much like what the ZFS boot and Caiman teams are already doing. You might want to check with them. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Dri

Re: [osol-discuss] Correlation of snv_66 to S10 u4

2007-12-21 Thread James Carlson
27;t install by default that way. > I have a feeling that I am going to be scraping everything and installing > SXDE this afternoon. It appears that it would be a better way to go on > balance. I'd suggest so, particularly for a home machine. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networ

Re: [osol-discuss] Possibly coming from Linux and I have some questions

2007-12-21 Thread James Carlson
all a third-party driver to read them. There's no support for writing NTFS right now. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS

Re: [osol-discuss] Correlation of snv_66 to S10 u4

2007-12-21 Thread James Carlson
ity all the time." It's a release under development, though, so things change over time. For what it's worth, nearly all of our build servers and desktops run the latest bits, most of us have it running on our laptops and home machines, and many other internal Sun servers (mail serv

Re: [osol-discuss] Correlation of snv_66 to S10 u4

2007-12-20 Thread James Carlson
came out as 127728-02 for SPARC and 127729-02 for x86. It was released back in early November. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS

Re: [osol-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-20 Thread James Carlson
ight not like ImageMagick in /usr/bin, but given our current direction, it's an entirely proper and consistent decision. For what it's worth, I've made my peace with those decisions. There are aspects I don't like, but there's more that I *do* like, so even if someone compl

Re: [osol-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-20 Thread James Carlson
her see project proposals, but I'm very much doubting that'll happen. > I mean, does the process need to looked at and revised, or are we dealing > with an emotional factor here as well? I think it's purely the latter. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAI

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-19 Thread James Carlson
g, if someone wants to go through with integration, then under the current rules, he needs to get a sponsor. Bonus points if he doesn't somehow manage on the way to discourage and offend all who might otherwise have been interested in helping out. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-19 Thread James Carlson
ust evaluating potential choices. At that level, and considering the relative popularity of ImageMagick, it seems like the right choice was made. You might not like that answer, but belaboring it and purposefully insulting the people involved when the decision has been explained in excruciating deta

Re: [osol-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-19 Thread James Carlson
and already integrated into the /usr/sfw/bin ghetto, something that is commonly known and used on many other platforms, and the project team wanted to move it over to /usr/bin. Per the rules we came up with in PSARC 2005/185 ("Enabling serendipitous discovery") and 2007/047 (&

Re: [osol-discuss] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-12-19 Thread James Carlson
Joerg Schilling writes: > James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The OGB's power here is to dissolve the ARC Community. Is that what > > you're asking? If so, then on what basis? > > I like to see the ARC to work in a way that is mo

Re: [osol-discuss] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-12-17 Thread James Carlson
in over all sorts of matters, and community groups (and their members) need to resolve those things on their own. Insisting that the community group is broken and the sky is falling because you don't agree with the decision that's made doesn't seem productive to me. The OGB's

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-14 Thread James Carlson
uot;older?") > You claim that the only choice compatible with ALL ImageMagick > installations is the "worst choice" is beyond me. > > IMHO, it's the best choice that a distro can make. Indeed. I completely agree. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] Porting efforts on Solaris 10 from SPARC to Solaris/x86

2007-12-13 Thread James Carlson
, does it take more efforts compared with > porting from Solaris10/SPARC to Solaris10/x86? In most cases, I'd say that going from one minor release of Solaris to another (e.g., from S9 SPARC to S10 SPARC) is a no-brainer, because we intentionally support binary compatibility. In other words,

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris with iSCSI Luns and IPMP 3 x "1 Gbe" eth SAN . Is it sens

2007-12-11 Thread James Carlson
mentation if necessary. Note that DNS caching on the client systems (the ones generating that inbound traffic) can sometimes interfere with this mechanism. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsyste

Re: [osol-discuss] How do I update my bugreport?

2007-12-11 Thread James Carlson
Patrick Ale writes: > It's CR 6639382. JDS Soundsystem not working properly. Even though I > got the answer yesterday per this mailing list I'd like to update the > bugreport per request of the engineer. The RE assigned is Brian Cameron; you should contact him directly.

Re: [osol-discuss] does the issue that writing more than 1K bytes to pty hangs still exist on Solaris8/10?

2007-12-11 Thread James Carlson
same day it was filed back in 1995. The problem, as best I can tell, was with the test program. It was writing data but the other end wasn't reading anything, so the writing end was blocked. The program was blocked; it was not losing data. I don't think that CR has much to do with the

Re: [osol-discuss] How do I update my bugreport?

2007-12-11 Thread James Carlson
e same directory 6639117 JDS only starts with xVM kernel Was it one of those, or something else? -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 0

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris with iSCSI Luns and IPMP 3 x "1 Gbe" eth SAN . Is it sensib

2007-12-10 Thread James Carlson
1000g0 -d e1000g1 -d e1000g2 1 > # ifconfig aggr1 plumb 192.168.10.210 <http://192.168.1.200/> up I'm a bit confused by that. This may well work, but if aggregation is possible, I would have expected that it would be possible at both ends. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel GB NICs (82573 PCI-E) not working

2007-12-10 Thread James Carlson
igure out the output of prtconf, prtpicl, and similar utilities. If "ifconfig -a plumb" doesn't find the interface, then this means that either the hardware isn't recognized by Solaris as being associated with any usable driver, or the driver installed isn't a network driv

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris with iSCSI Luns and IPMP 3 x "1 Gbe" eth SAN . Is it sensib

2007-12-10 Thread James Carlson
spreading alone, as long as interfaces are marked "up" in the group, they'll be used. They don't all have to have addresses, and interfaces that are "up" but with 0.0.0.0 address will be used for outbound load spreading using source (data) addresses from other interfac

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris vs. Solaris10 application compatibility

2007-12-06 Thread James Carlson
a that meet the goals you're asking about, but that you're looking at a snapshot in time of that work, and may not necessarily see what you're expecting. Or for a shorter answer: "yes." -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [osol-discuss] Does Sun intends its Solaris OS to become a widely used OS like Windows?

2007-12-04 Thread James Carlson
... and then decide for yourself whether it fits your needs. If so, then great, and welcome aboard! -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Bu

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris kernel build and cpu-specific files

2007-12-04 Thread James Carlson
'm compiling on is a ultrasparc-IIi, the question is what > directory or directories (sparc, sun, sun4, sun4u, or sun4v) are chosen for > that particular architecture. All of them. > Furthermore, what architecture-dependent files are chosen? See the $($(MACH)_ARCHITECTURES) variable

Re: [osol-discuss] "Indiana" review

2007-12-03 Thread James Carlson
d, they're here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sending mail to the wrong list just increases the overall noise level. See also: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/reporting_bugs/ All projects can produce experimental bits for their own purposes. If you use those bits, there just aren&#x

Re: [osol-discuss] 'more' broken in b77 miniroot?

2007-11-28 Thread James Carlson
Kyle McDonald writes: > James Carlson wrote: > > Jürgen Keil writes: > > > >> In snv_75a, the miniroot /sbin/sulogin shell script contains this line: > >> > >> exec 0<> /dev/console 1>&0 2>&0 > >> > >> The minir

Re: [osol-discuss] 'more' broken in b77 miniroot?

2007-11-28 Thread James Carlson
Jürgen Keil writes: > In snv_75a, the miniroot /sbin/sulogin shell script contains this line: > > exec 0<> /dev/console 1>&0 2>&0 > > The miniroot /sbin/sulogin from snv_75a has SCCS ID > "@(#)sulogin.sh 1.5". Has that changed for snv_

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 and SXDE

2007-11-21 Thread James Carlson
tp://developers.sun.com/sxde/ But I don't know of a "simple" summary list. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 M

Re: [osol-discuss] Preconditions for luupdate

2007-11-20 Thread James Carlson
s onto it. Use luupgrade to upgrade to build 4, switch to ver_04, and reboot. ... and so on, ping-ponging between the same two environments (renamed) every two weeks. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W

Re: [osol-discuss] Usage statistics for server and opensolaris

2007-11-20 Thread James Carlson
ormation is very valuable and not generally treated as "open," at least in my experience. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UB

Re: [osol-discuss] Behavior of "smpatch add -b BE_name"

2007-11-19 Thread James Carlson
event, I don't think you're reaching the right people on this forum. Since you're using S10 rather than an OpenSolaris-based distribution, you'd be better off working with your local Sun representatives and/or forums such as BigAdmin: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/ -- James Car

Re: [osol-discuss] Preconditions for luupdate

2007-11-19 Thread James Carlson
snv_77 -n snv_77 I may use "lumount -n snv_77" here, check for errors, and then "luumount -n snv_77". It helps to make sure the upgrade was ok before switching over. Then switch over: # luactivate -n snv_77 # init 6 There's also a "liveupgrade_20" Java pro

Re: [osol-discuss] Preconditions for luupdate

2007-11-19 Thread James Carlson
mounts, which look like the same file system to "find.") -- 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] Preconditions for luupdate

2007-11-16 Thread James Carlson
If things go sour, you can just boot back to the previous environment. It usually takes me 10-20 minutes to clean up after an upgrade, and I normally look through /var/sadm/system/logs/upgrade_log to make sure everything went as expected. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EM

Re: [osol-discuss] Preconditions for luupdate

2007-11-16 Thread James Carlson
harder to use LU. You need to (1) unmount that file system and (2) remove it from /etc/vfstab. Do this *before* running lucreate. It's (unfortunately) a bit complicated to clean up if you try to run lucreate first. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] DHCP setup question.

2007-11-16 Thread James Carlson
Kyle McDonald writes: > James Carlson wrote: > > You wouldn't have to reboot the client if you had a permanent lease > > and decided to change the address. You'd just need to issue "dhcp > > extend" via ifconfig or otherwise restart the interface.

Re: [osol-discuss] Preconditions for luupdate

2007-11-16 Thread James Carlson
ons at all exist? You need a separate disk slice for the alternate root. Use the "format" command to display the available disks and slices. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-related parts going GPLv3?

2007-11-15 Thread James Carlson
hat make my head spin a bit. I think that helps point out that this was just another confusing press article, nothing more or less. I'd expect that there are enough real problems without driving out of our way to invent new ones. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAI

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-related parts going GPLv3?

2007-11-15 Thread James Carlson
Shawn Walker writes: > On 15/11/2007, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Shawn Walker writes: > > > A wide-range of licensing has been embraced, to be sure. However, that > > > has only applied so far to 3rd party or non-OS pieces so far. > &

Re: [osol-discuss] Preconditions for luupdate

2007-11-15 Thread James Carlson
> If not, how to create such a slice? /usr/sbin/format -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 018

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-related parts going GPLv3?

2007-11-15 Thread James Carlson
laris and OpenSolaris (such as Java and the SPARC CPUs) available under other licenses? Do they affect anything about OpenSolaris? Other than stirring up another painful and ultimately irrelevant GPLv3 thread, I'm not sure what goal you have in mind here. -- James Carlson, Solaris Netwo

Re: [osol-discuss] I'm losing my mind... Or I've missed some change in NV...

2007-11-15 Thread James Carlson
Kyle McDonald writes: > James Carlson wrote: > > The same case works fine here. It sounds to me like a local problem > > of some sort. > > > > > Are you on b74? No -- 77. I upgrade when the new build comes out. > Though I'm inclined to agree with

Re: [osol-discuss] I'm losing my mind... Or I've missed some change in NV...

2007-11-14 Thread James Carlson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] might be a better match.] Kyle McDonald writes: > # ping gatekeeper > ping: unknown host gatekeeper The same case works fine here. It sounds to me like a local problem of some sort. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Micro

Re: [osol-discuss] DHCP setup question.

2007-11-14 Thread James Carlson
reboot the client if you had a permanent lease and decided to change the address. You'd just need to issue "dhcp extend" via ifconfig or otherwise restart the interface. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Dri

Re: [osol-discuss] gcc not installed properly in solaris 10

2007-11-14 Thread James Carlson
vinay simha bn writes: > i installed solaris developer edition,when i give command gcc,shell > shows gcc not found but if i give man page i'l get man page of gcc > and it's version is 3.4.3,so how to intsall gcc properly in solaris > 10 Did you look in /usr/sfw/bin/g

Re: [osol-discuss] Stateless Solaris

2007-11-14 Thread James Carlson
Andrew Blatt writes: > Anyone working on Stateless Solaris, like what was done in Red Hat 5? It sounds similar to both the Indiana installer image and traditional Solaris diskless operation. I'd suggest contacting the Install community ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) instead. -- James Carlson,

Re: [osol-discuss] Finding upgraded OS version after doing aLiveupGrade

2007-11-14 Thread James Carlson
he > correct file. ( all this happens before luactivate and init 6. so we > won't have the upgraded info with uname -r) There's no way I know of to do that. I'd suggest redesigning the application so that this sort of thing isn't necessary. -- James Carlson, Solaris Ne

Re: [osol-discuss] Finding upgraded OS version after doing aLiveupGrade

2007-11-14 Thread James Carlson
ot;init 6," but it could also be an errant command to luactivate. lustatus should tell you what state it's in. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212

Re: [osol-discuss] Let's focus. (2nd Draft)

2007-11-08 Thread James Carlson
ogb-discuss, and the summary of yesterday's board meeting. (For what it's worth, I do think that the whole problem has been a horribly wasteful and needless distraction. This shouldn't have happened, and it's extremely disappointing and distressing. That doesn't mea

Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana is nothing fancy and is not a community project !

2007-11-07 Thread James Carlson
lman/listinfo/opensolaris-discuss ... and manage your subscription over the web. -- 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] A proposal for ensuring sustained Community Growth and Success

2007-11-06 Thread James Carlson
At least in the context of the OGB, I don't think it matters. Why Sun chose to give up the source code and the control to an outside body, and how it plans to make money of the deal, are Sun's own issues. I don't think we can or should debate them here. -- James Carlson, Sol

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] A proposal for ensuring sustained Community Growth and Success

2007-11-06 Thread James Carlson
like to hear what Sun's management intends to do here, but I cannot agree that they actually get the last word -- at least within the context of the community itself. That ship sailed when OpenSolaris itself was launched. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] A proposal for ensuring sustained Community Growth and Success

2007-11-06 Thread James Carlson
ted) would necessarily address any of the problems we've faced any better than the existing board does, or how it would avoid the sorts of problems that clearly result from such a structure, so, given that it sounds like a solution out looking for a problem, I'd have to vote -1 on the propo

Re: [osol-discuss] Let's focus. (2nd Draft)

2007-11-06 Thread James Carlson
OGB) cannot stop me from doing > the "perceiving". I agree that we need a more diverse leadership in _many_ ways -- in terms of affiliation, geography, background, and, yes, gender. As it's an elected position, though, the only remedy I can suggest is to encourage more people to

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-05 Thread James Carlson
ffered by many existing projects on their own web sites. The confusion that I see here is over the naming and the prominent links provided to the project web pages, and not over the violation of any review rules. The project hasn't delivered any changes anywhere. -- James Carlson, Solaris Net

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Let's focus. (2nd Draft)

2007-11-05 Thread James Carlson
ensity to control or at least affect the direction of > OpenSolaris could first try to make a concerted effort to help those > struggling/frustrating newcomers like myself. That way, you/they will have a > better chance to win our respect and thus support when there is a conflict >

Re: [osol-discuss] My wishes for Solaris in future

2007-11-05 Thread James Carlson
just a bug, and should be fixed. That might have been an acceptable answer 25 years ago, but it's not now, and if any part of OpenSolaris really needs the "-funroll-loops" sort of manual hackery, then we're in deep trouble. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-02 Thread James Carlson
d and that a community-wide vote should precede exclusive use of community space -- seems more prudent to me. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-02 Thread James Carlson
e as next steps. When you feel you're ready to do so, ask for a community-wide vote on the endorsement of this particular distribution as the only one to be called simply "OpenSolaris." -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 3

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-02 Thread James Carlson
vant? We haven't given everything, > so therefore we've given nothing? It just misses the point. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 4

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Let's focus. (2nd Draft)

2007-11-02 Thread James Carlson
Keith M Wesolowski writes: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 01:00:46PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > > > I'll counter with this amendment that I believe makes the requirement > > clear by citing the specific terms used on the web site: > > > > Until that time, we a

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Let's focus. (2nd Draft)

2007-11-02 Thread James Carlson
aris Developer Preview," "OpenSolaris binary distribution," or any other name implying exclusive endorsement of the OpenSolaris Community. 1. Whoever those person or persons may be. It seems we're in a strange place where we cannot even know or admit to this much. -- Jam

Re: [osol-discuss] Name Change?

2007-11-01 Thread James Carlson
B takes coordination, > especially with a board spread across 3 continents, and differing sets of > opinions to reconcile. And I think we're pretty close to agreement on exactly what public action we'll take. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [osol-discuss] Name Change?

2007-11-01 Thread James Carlson
his. I have it on Dave Miner's word that it wasn't the project team's idea. The project team (as I understand it) wanted to have the trademark usage policy in place *first* before ever getting to this point, but that's not what happened. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networkin

Re: [osol-discuss] Trust: Trademark, Sun and the Community

2007-11-01 Thread James Carlson
up for the community to urge Sun to hold a > vote, and Sun to hold that vote and act in good faith by following it. We're working through the issue right now. Stay tuned. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive

Re: [osol-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-11-01 Thread James Carlson
Simon Phipps writes: > > On Nov 1, 2007, at 14:18, James Carlson wrote: > > > That's a significant community-wide power. It's a big change, without > > regard to the trademark legal issues. > > Only if we sit around and leave it as-is. You're speaking

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-11-01 Thread James Carlson
Simon Phipps writes: > On Nov 1, 2007, at 13:35, James Carlson wrote: > > > For instance, one direct effect is that prior to Indiana, a project > > was "in OpenSolaris" if it went through the established community > > endorsement process, and no other change was

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-11-01 Thread James Carlson
OpenSolaris distribution" fixes those conflicts definitively, though I can see why the Indiana proponents don't want that result. As an alternative, putting the issue to a community-wide vote would also decide the issue (though perhaps result in more unwanted division). Simply driving on fro

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-11-01 Thread James Carlson
told me to," I think including that kind of qualification is a positive attribute, and in no way at all diminishes the authority of the statement. Instead of being "reduced," as you're saying, it simply avoids usurping _false_ power that the author does not have. That

Re: [osol-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread James Carlson
Indiana as _Sun's_ vision, and not the or even "a" community vision. In that light, it becomes Sun's distribution and nobody else's. That's why the naming is such an important thing. Frankly, I don't really know which viewpoint is correct. But I do think we're

Re: [osol-discuss] package add and remove in non-interactive mode

2007-10-31 Thread James Carlson
th fixing. If you're really intent on doing this, I'd suggest using the 'expect' program instead. Then, at least, you'd have some control over the behavior of your script in the event that pkgadd or pkgrm issued a prompt you *weren't* expecting. -- James Carlson,

Re: [osol-discuss] package add and remove in non-interactive mode

2007-10-31 Thread James Carlson
ther stdio would have to make read(2) calls of a single byte at a time when filling its buffers (which would make everything very slow) or we'd need to add something like ldterm(7M) to pipes. Either way, the result would be strange, likely slow, possibly incompatible with the standard

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !? (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread James Carlson
Joerg Schilling writes: > James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right ... plus, if it were important enough to contend with, I'd think > > we could create (yet another) new stat interface to deal with the > > problem. > > I would be really happy with

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !? (fwd)

2007-10-30 Thread James Carlson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Note that 32-bit applications have no problem handling large files on > >> Solaris, so it's really more of an issue i

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris as my main laptop OS, advice needed !?

2007-10-30 Thread James Carlson
ch as debuggers) are forced to be 64-bit and 32-bit because they deal in kernel data structures that vary depending on the type of kernel. Note that 32-bit applications have no problem handling large files on Solaris, so it's really more of an issue in run-time memory space than a

Re: [osol-discuss] alom question

2007-10-26 Thread James Carlson
27;s correct, but I don't think this is a Solaris question, let alone an OpenSolaris question. The ALOM isn't part of the operating system. It's part of the hardware platform. You'll need to get in touch with the vendor's (Sun's) hardware support group. -- Jam

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris as a rounter and fileserver

2007-10-25 Thread James Carlson
t do you experts think, is this possible to do using OpenSolaris (without > too much experimental code)? It sounds quite doable. The one issue you may run into is the currently relatively-high memory requirement for the installer itself -- it needs 768MB to run. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networ

Re: [osol-discuss] x4500 running Solaris 10 8/07 unresponsive again

2007-10-15 Thread James Carlson
As for debugging it, I would suggest booting under kmdb ("-k" flag; see the kmdb(1M) man page), and forcing debugger entry when the system gets into this state. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.2

Re: [osol-discuss] BohShell and portability

2007-10-11 Thread James Carlson
add some detail to your web site? There are many different mature and feature-rich shells from which to choose, and many that are highly portable ... what is or will be special about yours in particular? How is it different or better? -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMA

Re: [osol-discuss] /export/home vs. /home

2007-10-10 Thread James Carlson
r ways to do this, though. One is to remove the auto_home references from /etc/auto_master and then either mount a new file system directly over /home or use lofs to mount in a lower level directory. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsys

Re: [osol-discuss] setting uname reply via dtrace issues

2007-10-08 Thread James Carlson
sh, and csh.) Perhaps it's a custom and unusually broken shell ... ? -- 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] setting uname reply via dtrace issues

2007-10-08 Thread James Carlson
jason west writes: > it returns > syscall::uname:entry: not found > syntax error at line 5: `(' unexpected I can't reproduce that on any S11 or S10 system. It looks like dtrace is somehow corrupted on your system. What does this say? # dtrace -l -n syscall::uname:

Re: [osol-discuss] Boise OpenSolaris Users Group

2007-10-08 Thread James Carlson
t contacting the Advocacy community group instead, as that's where user's groups are discussed: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/ -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442

Re: [osol-discuss] setup syslog to another server?

2007-10-04 Thread James Carlson
es > AND another base server. Try: *.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice /var/adm/messages *.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice @anotherserver -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212

Re: [osol-discuss] setup syslog to another server?

2007-10-04 Thread James Carlson
t messages speci- fied by the selector are to be forwarded to the syslogd on the named host. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Bu

Re: [osol-discuss] Connecting to the Internet using Modem

2007-10-04 Thread James Carlson
the documentation. > And how do I connect to Wi-Fi in Solaris? See dladm(1M) ... OpenSolaris includes drivers for many 802.11 devices, but you may need to figure out what hardware you have first. /usr/X11/bin/scanpci can be helpful for that. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] Porting OpenSolaris To OLPC XO AMD Geode Laptops

2007-10-03 Thread James Carlson
We're no longer designing for the "3M" systems that were the holy grail when I was in school, and design points change over time. ("3M" doesn't refer to the midwest company. It means one megabyte of RAM, one million instructions per second, and one million [mon

Re: [osol-discuss] Porting OpenSolaris To OLPC XO AMD Geode Laptops

2007-10-03 Thread James Carlson
problem, not the linking method. -- 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 Registration Wizard hangs indefinately

2007-10-01 Thread James Carlson
by at least two projects (perhaps more) that are in progress now on opensolaris.org. These aim to provide a more familiar package (rather than patch) oriented upgrade mechanism. The issues involved are mostly technical, not revenue-related. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] configure iqara broadband in solaris express

2007-09-29 Thread James Carlson
" I/O:error "... This sounds like one of the PCFS problems that were recently fixed; search the archives. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-2

Re: [osol-discuss] VNC on OpenSolaris

2007-09-24 Thread James Carlson
gcc make CC=/usr/sfw/bin/gcc Typically, you'll need to tell the "./configure" script (or equivalent for your software) to use gcc _before_ attempting to build. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network D

Re: [osol-discuss] Where are my bug reports (season 6, episode 66) ?

2007-09-21 Thread James Carlson
> > Can anyone please check what happened to these bugs ? > > Erm... did anyone see these bug reports somewhere or should I just > assume they're "MIA" (="missing in action") and need to be resubmitted ? Unless you've got CR numbers or some solid searc

Re: [osol-discuss] performance between Solaris 10 and Solairs Express Build X

2007-09-17 Thread James Carlson
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Re: [osol-discuss] What ever happened to Solaris New Boot for Sparc?

2007-09-13 Thread James Carlson
uot;new boot," see PSARC 2006/525: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2006/525/ -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442

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