Re: [osol-discuss] Change host name on ora-Sol 11

2011-11-15 Thread Mark Haywood
On 11/15/11 9:55 PM, Mike Gerdts wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: Is there some different way to change host name in oracle-solaris 11? There is no /etc/nodename file. and I find the only place under /etc/ the hosts' current name is referenced is

[osol-discuss] zfs-auto-snapshot backup issue

2011-10-06 Thread Mark Pace
. Thanks! Mark Pace -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS dedup destroy woes!

2011-03-13 Thread Mark Pace
Interesting story. So basically: avoid dedup. But you didnt loose any data. Right? Correct, I did not lose any data. pace -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS dedup destroy woes!

2011-03-10 Thread Mark Pace
Deleting the dedup'ed data won't work better, since ZFS will have to process it quite the same way as if you're destroying a ZFS volume. This was my only dedup'd dataset, so I have no other experience deleting them. Do you think that, had there been no data, my zfs destroy would have taken 3

[osol-discuss] ZFS dedup destroy woes!

2011-03-09 Thread Mark Pace
I know there are lots of threads on this issue, but I figured I start a new one to share my 3 day horror story. My hopes are that someone won't repeat my mistakes and, if they do, they might find some hope of how to determine how long it will take to get your pool back. I began my adventure

Re: [osol-discuss] SMF Howto

2010-12-29 Thread Mark Haywood
On 12/29/10 3:05 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: I keep finding some basic SMF how to guides, but none seem to be able to answer my quandary: There are command line substitutions in some of the manifests exec strings %m, %i, etc. Where can I find information about what substitutions are available

Re: [osol-discuss] No network/Internet

2010-10-16 Thread Mark Haywood
What does 'dladm show-link' show? On 10/16/10 12:56 PM, Willian wrote: 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

Re: [osol-discuss] unable to setup IP address to network port on recent Solaris Express

2010-08-25 Thread Mark Haywood
reboots, then remove the -t option above. Mark I tested on a Sun x86 server with 4 igb ports whose default mother board nic, igb0, has been set to 172.17.138.74. But when I try to setup any other none-default port, I always fail with ifconfig: could not create address:Operation not supported

[osol-discuss] bridging question

2010-08-24 Thread Mark Maule
bits and pieces in an effort to minimize the footprint. It is based off of build 135. Thanks in advance. Mark Maule -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-23 Thread Mark Bennett
We are sys admins of some Sun muchines we've sold to a customer in the Sun era. A T5120 with a ZFS mirror, had a disk fault, causing cyclic reset of the machine. Our hardware guy ran to the customer, disabled the disk and moved it out of the machine. Upon reboot the machine started normally,

[osol-discuss] Where too now?

2010-08-13 Thread Mark Bennett
name remain ? For a new name .. comOS (community OpenSolaris) or maybe just a OpenSolaris 2010-comOS Mark. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] VLC building help

2010-07-20 Thread Mark Wright
information, then you could try asking the linker aliens at: http://opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=63 Regards, Mark -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris on DELL PowerEdge Servers

2010-07-14 Thread Mark van Kerkwyk
I notice that the R510 isn't actually certified. We have installed it without any modifications at all and there are no missign drivers at all. I wonder why the R510 seems to miss out on the certifications when the R310 te R610 are certified ?? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [distribution-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-14 Thread Mark Martin
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Moinak Ghosh moin...@belenix.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Rob McMahon rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk wrote:  So, let's get positive here.  Where do we get started to form a Community Distro, based on the latest sources including IPS.  Not a cut down

Re: [osol-discuss] [distribution-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-14 Thread Mark Martin
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Mark Martin storycraf...@gmail.com wrote: Create a website and forums to allow the community to reorganize itself without the shadow of a hollow and unsupported charter. So the OGB

Re: [osol-discuss] [distribution-discuss] Community distro

2010-07-14 Thread Mark Martin
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:59 PM, John Plocher john.ploc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Paul Gress pgr...@optonline.net wrote: Great idea. Not what the current OGB, as the OGB, is chartered to do. The OGB would really have to quit the current system and reform in some

Re: [osol-discuss] Register: Solaris, OpenSolaris, and the Oracle wall of secrecy

2010-06-30 Thread Mark Kaiman
This is the kind of crap they pull at Apple. Everything is a big secret. Keep your customers in the dark. Oracle management must have gone to the Steve Jobs school of how to treat your customers with contempt. Will there ever be another OpenSolaris release? I'm beginning not to care. -- This

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Software Product Map- opensolaris not included

2010-06-20 Thread Mark Kaiman
I hope you're right and all of that is true. I dont want to see OpenSolaris become another orphan OS or another might have been. BTW, I use it as a desktop OS, not as a server. There are some things I have to use Windows 7 for, but most of my day to day computing tasks can be accomplished with

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Software Product Map- opensolaris not included

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Kaiman
I dont think its at all clear that OpenSolaris (or Solaris for that matter!) has a future under Oracle. They're as bad as Apple. Secretive. Uncommunicative. Leaving customers in the dark. Time to jump ship to Ubuntu? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] b134b / 2010.05

2010-05-20 Thread Mark F Villa
The pages are gone. I guess they really want use to look at Genunix.org -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Very long delay before login prompt (GDM splash)

2010-05-12 Thread Mark Martin
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Robin Axelsson gu99r...@student.chalmers.se wrote: I'm not using any particular locale (I use the default system language) and I use a Swedish keyboard layout. The keyboard is a Logitech keyboard connected via the PS/2 port and the mouse is a Logitech USB mouse.

Re: [osol-discuss] Cloud services

2010-05-10 Thread Mark Martin
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Peter Jones bloosk...@netscape.net wrote: I am interested in storage/back up products such as dropbox for personal computing Crashplan has a backup solution for OpenSolaris (among other clients). I've been using the home version across 4 different platforms

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

2010-05-06 Thread Mark J. Nelson
, but it is now gone. This was mentioned (barely) in the IPS transition flag day notice [2], but it would be easy to miss there. You must now resolve conflicts manually, as described in section 5.3.2 of the Developers' Reference [3]. --Mark 1. http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/ 2. http

[osol-discuss] Mapping physmem in a kernel module

2010-04-04 Thread Maule Mark
module. Any pointers would be appreciated. thanks in advance Mark ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2010-03-24 Thread Mark R. Bowyer
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 15:44 +0100, casper@sun.com wrote: 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

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

2010-03-20 Thread Mark R. Bowyer
a very well thought out solution too. Ta, Mark. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] NTFS Fuse speed?

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Phalan
On 02/ 6/10 12:39 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote: I tried the ntfs-3g driver on OpenSolaris and it was dog slow, I got like 100kb/sec. Is this Fuse driver faster? If you are using it, which read/write speed do you get? Is it like 30-40MB/sec or is it 100kb/sec?

Re: [osol-discuss] [xen-discuss] OSOL Bug 13743

2010-01-23 Thread Mark Johnson
- De: Mark Johnson mark.john...@sun.com À: Bruno Damour ll...@ruomad.net Envoyé: Jeudi 21 Janvier 2010 15h44:31 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne Objet: Re: [xen-discuss] OSOL Bug 13743 Bruno Damour wrote: I can confirm this bug. Happens to me with a xvm server

Re: [osol-discuss] building standalone modules

2010-01-19 Thread Mark Maule
. Mark -Original Message- From: erik.trim...@sun.com [mailto:erik.trim...@sun.com] Sent: 2010-01-18 17:27 To: Mark Maule Cc: Jason King; Milan Jurik; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] building standalone modules Mark Maule wrote: Agreed - we plan

[osol-discuss] howto: solaris 10 and OpenSolaris on the same zfs root pool

2010-01-19 Thread Mark Johnson
Here's a quick dump on how to get Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris on the same rpool. http://blogs.sun.com/mrj/entry/solaris_10_and_opensolaris_on MRJ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] building standalone modules

2010-01-18 Thread Mark Maule
, possibly running Linux. As far as cc/ld flags necessary for generating the kernel modules, is that formally documented somewhere, or do I just look to ONNV modules for examples? thanks Mark -Original Message- From: milan.ju...@sun.com [mailto:milan.ju...@sun.com] Sent: 2010-01-18 13:09

Re: [osol-discuss] building standalone modules

2010-01-18 Thread Mark Maule
for the responses. Mark -Original Message- From: jason.brian.k...@gmail.com [mailto:jason.brian.k...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jason King Sent: 2010-01-18 15:30 To: Milan Jurik Cc: Mark Maule; opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] building standalone modules I would

[osol-discuss] building standalone modules

2010-01-16 Thread Mark Maule
be to build them outside the os-nv tree in order to avoid polluting the tree with vendor-specific module (and command) code. thanks in advance Mark ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] How to do a p2v for OpenSolaris

2010-01-15 Thread Mark Johnson
For those who are interested, I wrote up some hints on how to do a p2v for a x86 machine running OpenSolaris. I have an example where I moved a physical x86 machine running OpenSolaris (which had multiple BEs) into a VirtualBox guest.. http://blogs.sun.com/mrj/ MRJ

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130 hangs

2009-12-29 Thread Mark R. Bowyer
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 12:19 +0100, solarg wrote: Le 28/12/09 11:00, solarg a écrit : On 12/26/09 11:45 AM, Adrian Carpenter wrote: I have just got the kernel to start by passing: acpi-user-options=0x8 (which I google told me to try to look for IDE timeouts) i have the hang

Re: [osol-discuss] Interrupt warnings in dmesg?

2009-12-15 Thread Mark Johnson
Travis Tabbal wrote: Dec 15 08:04:39 nas intrd[562]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] Optimizing interrupt assignments Dec 15 08:04:39 nas intrd[562]: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] Unable to move interrupts Dec 15 08:04:39 nas intrd[562]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] Interrupt assignments optimized Dec

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenVPN

2009-12-07 Thread Mark Grant
I haven't tried OpenVPN on Solaris, but presumably an MTU setting is incorrect somewhere in the system? I remember having to tweak such settings before on Linux. I think there's an MTU setting in the OpenVPN config file, you could try reducing it to see if smaller packets get through

[osol-discuss] Installing Nevada and OpenSolaris on the same zfs rpool

2009-11-21 Thread Mark Johnson
If anyone is interested, I wrote relatively simple python script which lets you install an OpenSolaris BE on a Nevada based x86 system (assuming you have a zfs root). Got tired of re-installing between the two for testing... :-) DISCLAIMER: this is totally unsupported by Sun, could mess up your

[osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Mark Martin
(Rough) straw project proposal for your consideration. My interest is solely as an eventual beneficiary of your work. = *XSun emancipation***Project = Name *XSun emancipation* alias: *xsun*-disc...@os.o Synopsis A project to emancipate the XSun sources and write wrappers to use

Re: [osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Mark Martin
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Mark Martin wrote: (Rough) straw project proposal for your consideration. My interest is solely as an eventual beneficiary of your work. = *XSun emancipation***Project = Name *XSun emancipation* alias: *xsun*-disc...@os.o Synopsis A project to emancipate

Re: [osol-discuss] XSun emancipation project proposal (Was: Re: [xwin-discuss] Sun UltraSparc: XVR-500, Expert 3D, legacy graphic cards)

2009-11-05 Thread Mark Martin
Mauro M. wrote: Emancipation sounds inappropriate as its meaning is about freeing people from oppression and slavery, Xsun is a software component, not a person and it isn't really oppressed. Firstly, the term emancipation hits the nail on its head most precisely. Although I

Re: [osol-discuss] perl broken after upgrading from os2008.11 to os2009.06

2009-10-26 Thread Mark J. Nelson
to new. If you do that with the new boot environment active, then anything using perl (like the intrd service) will be interrupted. I say probably not recommended, because that merely propagates the changes, but does nothing to prevent similar problems from recurring. --Mark

Re: [osol-discuss] About the pkg manager on default desktop

2009-10-13 Thread Mark Phalan
On 10/12/09 08:29 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: Mark Phalan wrote: I would warn strongly against doing that. Primary Administrator basically means root. NOT something you want to have associated with your local user. The fact that OpenSolaris assigns the Primary Administrator role is a serious

Re: [osol-discuss] About the pkg manager on default desktop

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Phalan
On 10/11/09 06:21 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Michal Pryc michal.p...@sun.com writes: [...] Harry, Icon on the desktop is invoking: gksu packagemanager whoops... I missed that... thanks Which de facto is calling pfexec. So it looks like your privilages are broken. Here is what I have

Re: [osol-discuss] About the pkg manager on default desktop

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Phalan
On 10/12/09 12:21 PM, Mark Phalan wrote: On 10/11/09 06:21 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Michal Pryc michal.p...@sun.com writes: [...] Harry, Icon on the desktop is invoking: gksu packagemanager whoops... I missed that... thanks Which de facto is calling pfexec. So it looks like your

Re: [osol-discuss] What does it take to get a NIC driver into OpenSolaris as part of the core tree?

2009-09-16 Thread Mark Phalan
On 09/16/09 09:04 AM, Henry Pepper wrote: Hi Having a Toshiba Satellite Pro A300D I'm interested to know what it would take to get the Marvell youkon NIC driver into the core distribution of OpenSolaris? Looks like that was integrated a couple of days ago: Author: Barry Harding

[osol-discuss] What happened to rarpd?

2009-09-16 Thread Mark Kilgore
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? Thanks. -mak

Re: [osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] Which kind of ACLs does tmpfs support ?

2009-09-15 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Roland Mainz wrote: Hi! Does anyone know out-of-the-head whether tmpfs supports ACLs - and if yes - which type(s) of ACLs (e.g. NFSv4/ZFS, old POSIX draft ACLs etc.) are supported by tmpfs ? tmpfs does not support ACLs see _PC_ACL_ENABLED in [f]pathconf(2). You can query the file

[osol-discuss] modifying the console-login:default service

2009-09-01 Thread Mark
Apologies if this is the wrong area, but I didn't really see a good place to ask this. I'm looking for some information on changing the behavior of the console-login:default service. I would like to change it from the standard login service to a custom menu system, but am not having good

Re: [osol-discuss] Mercurial Cadmium extension question

2009-08-26 Thread Mark J. Nelson
. The cadmium extension is being updated in the next day or two to work with 1.3.1, and Mercurial 1.3.1 is expected in one of the next couple builds of OpenSolaris. --Mark On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:30:24AM -0700, Wing Choi wrote: Hi, is there a discussion group dedicated to the cadmium extension? I

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE end-of-life plans

2009-08-11 Thread Mark Martin
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Glynn Fosterglynn.fos...@sun.com wrote: Sun is announcing the intent to discontinue production of the Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) by the end of October time-frame. As we intend to continue on a bi-weekly build schedule, consolidations will move

[osol-discuss] Odd smf issue with console-login service

2009-08-10 Thread Mark
is the stock version from opensolaris snv_111b Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated. -- Mark -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Is `bacula' available in a pkg repository somewhere

2009-07-22 Thread Mark Martin
Harry Putnam wrote: Robert Hartzell b...@rwhartzell.net writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Sean s...@ttys0.net writes: We just compile it ourselves. It builds without any issues. It fails here when ./configure is run like this: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/src/test

Re: [osol-discuss] Is `bacula' available in a pkg repository somewhere

2009-07-22 Thread Mark Martin
Harry Putnam wrote: Mark Martin storycraf...@gmail.com writes: ps- I also tried with includedir set after setting LDFLAGS as above. Same result... same error. You may want to try variations on the --includedir...sometimes there's an implicit #include mysql/mysql.h in there... Try

Re: [osol-discuss] Spell checking for Emacs?

2009-07-09 Thread Mark Martin
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Alex Viskovatoffviskovat...@imap.cc wrote: Well, I've had to sort this out on my own. It turns out that it's relatively easy to get spell checking working under Emacs with aspell. That's what the two Linux distros I have, OpenSUSE and Fedora, use for Emacs.

Re: [osol-discuss] metadb slice starts at cylinder 0

2009-07-06 Thread Mark J. Nelson
not have to be identical across all submirrors, but all submirrors must either include or not include cylinder 0. The documented, and correct, answer to your question is no, it is not dangerous to have the metadb slice start at cylinder 0. --Mark

Re: [osol-discuss] metadb slice starts at cylinder 0

2009-07-06 Thread Mark J. Nelson
reason to believe otherwise, please provide more information; your first post did not include error messages or details of the failure. --Mark PS I suspect that many folks also stopped reading as soon as you started your note with S10U4, as this is an opensolaris discussion alias. I'm not so

Re: [osol-discuss] OS 2009.06 Marvel Yukon NIC issue

2009-07-03 Thread Mark Phalan
On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 03:09 -0700, Anon Y Mous wrote: Arpunk, if you have a choice, I recommend not using the Myk driver. Use the YukonX driver instead. If you read all the way through this blog: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/05/_opensolaris_20.html it explains how

Re: [osol-discuss] GCC 4.4: Can we handle it?!?

2009-06-14 Thread Mark Martin
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:38 PM, john krolljek0...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Sorry sir my comment was not specific to GCC 4.4 OpenSolaris and Debian being, as examples, tending towards opposite ends of that spectrum. At the end of the day, this is a lot of hot air over little. I simply meant

Re: [osol-discuss] GCC 4.4: Can we handle it?!?

2009-06-11 Thread Mark Martin
Glenn Lagasse wrote: * Jim Langston (jim.langs...@sun.com) wrote: Glenn Lagasse wrote: * Ian Collins (i...@ianshome.com) wrote: Glenn Lagasse wrote: * ken mays (maybird1...@yahoo.com) wrote: Hello, Since developers are getting more

Re: [osol-discuss] GCC 4.4: Can we handle it?!?

2009-06-11 Thread Mark Martin
Shawn Walker wrote: Stephen Lau wrote: You do a disservice by dismissing anyone who may know about Sun Studio as either lacking skill or being lazy. There are plenty of developers who have written software on other platforms (OS X, Linux, etc.) who have written perfectly good software with

Re: [osol-discuss] Any OpenSolaris hoster to recommend ?

2009-05-22 Thread Mark Blackman
Hmm, think there's much demand for it? I know of a business that might be interested in starting to do that. - Mark On 22 May 2009, at 09:57, Sébastien Stormacq wrote: Hello, I am looking for an hosting solution for an association. Can you recommend any reliable and serious Virtual Private

Re: [osol-discuss] Installing subversion - via sunfreeware vs blastwave vs whatever

2009-05-21 Thread Mark J. Nelson
updates to 1.6.2 are in the pipeline, and will be available before the next update to the Solaris packages. --Mark ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Java Desktop

2009-04-26 Thread Mark Breecher
Thanks, I think I'll just download Solaris 10 from sun site instead. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] mutex_owner_running not checking for null pointer

2009-04-24 Thread Mark Phalan
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 05:37 -0700, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: Hi, I was just playing around with fuse a little bit on an opensolaris box running in a virtual box. Then I had a situation where I had an assertion fault in my libfuse linked executable in the middle of running a rename. This

Re: [osol-discuss] b111a: Power Management and nwam-issue ?

2009-04-24 Thread Mark Haywood
:20:200100 New Bug with b111a ? The cpu_info kstat might be a little deceiving now that the power aware dispatcher has integrated. Try running /usr/bin/powertop. It might be more informative. Mark 2. I also have the impression that the boot up is much more disk-io intensiv

[osol-discuss] Java Desktop

2009-04-24 Thread Mark Breecher
Hi all, Is there any way to get rid of GNOME and get JDS on an OpenSolaris Installation? Thanks Mark -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Java Desktop

2009-04-24 Thread Mark Breecher
? Is it possible to have this desktop version on Open Solaris. Perhaps i'm being over picky on something trivial but its just that I hate GNOME, it reminds me of Linux. Are you saying that this is the future of the Java Desktop System? Thanks again Mark -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Impact of Oracle acquisition of Sun?

2009-04-20 Thread Mark Miller
Does anyone believe that Oracle's acquisition of Sun is a good thing? I have many friends at the valley who say that Oracle acquires companies and runs them into the ground. Obviously there is a great strategic use of Solaris to compete against IBM. Has Oracle been a good contributor to any

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle to buy Sun.

2009-04-20 Thread Mark Miller
What is Oracle's history with other acquisitions? This is a great strategic move for Oracle and makes sense, but what about the OpenSolaris community? Has Oracle been a major contributor to open source projects? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so...

2009-04-15 Thread Mark Blackman
going bankrupt regarded as a probable outcome in the near future? I was under the impression, they simply weren't making much profit, but didn't appreciate they were losing money in general. /me retires to read up on the point. - Mark

Re: [osol-discuss] Fatman In Need Of HELP: NAS ZFS Permissions Question

2009-04-10 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Mr. Hu Mongous wrote: Hi Everyone, This is my first post and hopefully not the last :-p I've been reading up on ZFS and it looks awesome. So much so, I went and purchased OpenSolaris Bible (a little pricy 60$ cdn) and dived right into it. I've built up my first NAS using Asus M2N-LR,

Re: [osol-discuss] Fatman In Need Of HELP: NAS ZFS Permissions Question

2009-04-10 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Mr. Hu Mongous wrote: Thanks for the response. I guess I didn't make myself 100% clear. I executed /usr/bin/ls -dv /zstorage/Software and got the following: r...@osbox:~# /usr/bin/ls -dv /zstorage/Software/ drwx--+ 17 root root 28 Apr 9 21:03 /zstorage/Software/

Re: [osol-discuss] Fatman In Need Of HELP: NAS ZFS Permissions Question

2009-04-10 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
fails. You should also take a look at the CIFS server admin guide. http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-2429 http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_CIFS_Service CIFS specific questions should be asked on cifs-disc...@opensolaris.org -Mark r...@osbox:~# /usr/bin/ls -vd /zstorage

[osol-discuss] SourceJuicer v1.0 Release

2009-03-24 Thread Mark Duggan
*SourceJuicer v1.0 Released - March 24th 2009* http://jucr.opensolaris.org SourceJuicer is a web application , designed for the community, whose goal is to simplify contributions to OpenSolaris. This application is the gateway into the community IPS repositories. From today, SourceJuicer

Re: [osol-discuss] ARM port?

2009-03-24 Thread Mark Martin
Moinak Ghosh wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Thomas Maier-Komor tho...@maier-komor.de wrote: Moinak Ghosh schrieb: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:32 PM, C. codest...@osunix.org wrote: Martin Bochnig wrote: Would it be possible at all to strip down OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Read/Write NTFS Partitions

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Phalan
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 22:55 -0700, Ché Kristo wrote: I am curious as to why these packages aren't in the opensolaris IPS repositories, is it due to patent concerns or just lack of interest on the part of Sun? Sun is funding the FUSE effort now (previously it wasn't). FUSE will have its

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-16 Thread Mark R. Bowyer
, it would be a different issue. But changing the default PATH is an easy fix. Indiana has become the main OS on my laptop, and I've used it to do customer presentations. Wobbly Windows and OOo make for a nice introduction ;O) Ta, Mark. ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-16 Thread Mark R. Bowyer
*not* in the US ;O) But yes, the Cultural Imperialism option does still default to on. Ta, Mark. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] default shipped partition sizes on sun X2100 boxes.

2008-11-06 Thread Mark Blackman
is kind enough to point me at a more solaris 10 focussed list, I'd be grateful. Mark Blackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 0207 778 9311 F: 0207 329 7555 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] default shipped partition sizes on sun X2100 boxes.

2008-11-06 Thread Mark Blackman
Thanks. I flicked through the paper versions, yes. No reference to what Sun would have shipped as far as I can tell, so far. - Mark On 6 Nov 2008, at 18:35, Rich Reynolds wrote: did you wade through the docs here: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/x2100??? rich Mark Blackman wrote: Hi, I

Re: [osol-discuss] default shipped partition sizes on sun X2100 boxes.

2008-11-06 Thread Mark Blackman
Hmm, further investigation indicates partitions are fine, but GRUB isn't, so it's just a *boot* problem. I suppose it's grubinstall for me. - Mark On 6 Nov 2008, at 18:58, Mark Blackman wrote: Hmm, I lie, I can see this.. Note - Make sure to keep the 55 MB diagnostic partition in place when

Re: [osol-discuss] [powerpc-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Martin
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:12 PM, William Kucharski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if there is sufficient interest in a MIPS project, I would be happy to get the ball rolling by formally proposing the creation of such a project under the Emerging Platforms CG. I thought we had enough votes as

Re: [osol-discuss] Q: DVB support ?

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Martin
OpenSolaris running on those cpu's, the chance that it will run on those particular hardware platforms is low, in my opinion. You're welcome to contribute to either porting project (PowerPC or MIPS) in the meantime. Mark ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] [OT] was Re: The future of the IPS system

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Martin
voices that are raising interesting questions are only just shouting into the coming storm at this point. Do we need to define the problem statement further? Mark ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Q: DVB support ?

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Martin
that it will run on those particular hardware platforms is low, in my opinion. You're welcome to contribute to either porting project (PowerPC or MIPS) in the meantime. Mark Interesting assumption... TiVo uses MIPS, but there are some very popular, open source alternatives. I just put one

Re: [osol-discuss] The future of the IPS system

2008-10-21 Thread Mark Martin
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Mario Goebbels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Bochnig wrote: ... Seriously, persecution complex much? For what it is worth, Martin is not alone with the concern, especially given how similar the projects are becoming. While I may not agree with the

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-19 Thread Mark Martin
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Cyril Plisko [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: do you have enough hardware documentation to do this ? At the moment that is a gap. This was also a gap for other platforms considered for the PowerPC platform (Sony PS3, Apple PowerMacs), but I believe our advantage

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-19 Thread Mark Martin
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:04 PM, john g4lt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 my qube votes +1 too XD In fact, for optimal political success for this, I'd suggest making the MIPS qubes the primary target, since they were acquired by Sun with the entire Cobalt company Not a bad idea, but

Re: [osol-discuss] [tools-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-19 Thread Mark Martin
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:44 AM, C. Bergström [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Mark Martin wrote: I am seeking approval for a project for porting OpenSolaris to the MIPS architecture. Proposal: Provide code changes, tools, documentation, and other necessary artifacts for a port of OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-19 Thread Mark Martin
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Cyril Plisko [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Isn't Qube too old to be considered a viable target for this project ? One of the lessons I've learned from the PPC port is to make sure the hardware is readily available and not going to die soon. Otherwise the software

Re: [osol-discuss] [tools-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-19 Thread Mark Martin
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Cyril Plisko [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Mark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is also a gap. I believe it is possible to build at least the OpenSolaris ON consolidation bits with GCC at the moment (although I am

[osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-18 Thread Mark Martin
. A discussion list and source repository are also requested. Mark ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPS architecture

2008-10-18 Thread Mark Martin
[Resent for Reply-all] On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Martin Bochnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 Except that it would be nice if somebody would make the Polaris port functional, before starting a new port. Also, why MIPS, not ARM? Isn't MIPS dead a bit? Thanks for the vote and the

Re: [osol-discuss] Installation OpenSolaris and Windows vista

2008-09-24 Thread Mark R. Bowyer
luck. Mark. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Nevada on a Macbook pro/air?

2008-09-04 Thread Mark Phalan
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 02:10 -0700, Attila Nagy wrote: Hi all, thank you all for your comments! So to sum things up: if I understand correctly, basically everything should work, just not everything out-of-the box - but that shouldn't be a problem. ...so I dare to recommend him to give it

Re: [osol-discuss] Nevada on a Macbook pro/air?

2008-09-02 Thread Mark Phalan
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 07:41 -0700, Attila Nagy wrote: Hi all, just wanted to ask, what is the current state of support? I don't use, nor have a Mac myself, but I have a friend, who's considering to try the latest Solaris bits. He is a developer, and used Solaris sometime in the past. It's

Re: [osol-discuss] rhythmbox on build 96

2008-08-25 Thread Mark F Villa
I pulled the DVD image from https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Solaris Express Community Edition, Build 96. I tried the 'libgcc' link but that didn't help. Is there any way to see how applications like rhythmbox or totem are

Re: [osol-discuss] rhythmbox on build 96

2008-08-25 Thread Mark F Villa
* Ooops! Some of the file permissions I had were wrong. Fixed that. * rhythmbox displays this error: The GStreamer plugins to decode MP3 files cannot be found for non-MP3 files (.MOV/QuickTime). It may be a reference to the audio content, but 'mplayer' plays them - audio and video -

[osol-discuss] rhythmbox on build 96

2008-08-24 Thread Mark F Villa
I can't play mP3 files using rhythmbox. I've looked at this thread: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=259463 and done what it says but it still doesn't work. Things seem to be installed but neither rhymbox nor totem recognize MP3 files. I've also tried BlastWave's rhythmbox

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