Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 8 on Dell Poweredge 4300 - Update 2

2012-07-27 Thread Peter Tribble
, but if someone has a memory > or two of how they got Solaris 8 to work on a Dell Power edge 4300 or > similar hardware it would be really appreciated. As I said before, get the Solaris Driver, create the DU diskette, and load it when prompted to add a driver. That's pretty much it.

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 8 on Dell Power Edge 4300

2012-07-21 Thread Peter Tribble
to do the same again at the end of the installation before you reboot. I built a lot of systems like that, but it's been the best part of a decade since I did the last one. Good luck. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ __

Re: [osol-discuss] c0t0d0 versus c0t${blah}d0 ... and partitions and mirroring in solaris 11 express

2011-07-26 Thread Peter Tribble
ok at the historical development of the naming scheme, but I think you're trying to read to much into this. There are separate names for different purposes. Just use p* from fdisk. Just use s* to refer to Solaris slices. Just use d0 for zfs to refer to the whole drive. -- -Peter Trib

Re: [osol-discuss] c0t0d0 versus c0t${blah}d0 ... and partitions and mirroring in solaris 11 express

2011-07-26 Thread Peter Tribble
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: Peter Tribble [mailto:peter.trib...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 8:38 AM >> >> (Hint: install the Hardware Management Pack >> and then you can get everything from the Storage tab in the

Re: [osol-discuss] c0t0d0 versus c0t${blah}d0 ... and partitions and mirroring in solaris 11 express

2011-07-23 Thread Peter Tribble
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: Peter Tribble [mailto:peter.trib...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 8:38 AM >> >> That often happens. It shouldn't matter. If the d0 node doesn't exist, >> then >> telling zf

Re: [osol-discuss] c0t0d0 versus c0t${blah}d0 ... and partitions and mirroring in solaris 11 express

2011-07-22 Thread Peter Tribble
tc, and wipe out > the first disk.  Boot from the 2nd disk.  Then re-partition the first disk > the same as the 2nd disk and start mirroring.  This sounds like a pointless > hassle that must be avoidable SOME how. > > > > ;-)   Thanks for any answers/info/suggestions. > > __

Re: [osol-discuss] Mounting hard drive NTFS

2011-01-29 Thread Peter Tribble
much slower speeds - 3MB/s at best sounds about right. And I hung the machine I was using several times, so pretty much gave up on that idea. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle clears the air on OpenSolaris, but Sparc future looks dim

2010-08-02 Thread Peter Tribble
the things that might be called OpenSolaris). Sun and now Oracle could never get this right, there's no point expecting journalists to do so. Sometimes I've wondered whether we need a debunking project to dissect articles like this. Mind you, it would just be a lot easier if Or

Re: [osol-discuss] Can opensolaris do CDP

2010-07-23 Thread Peter Tribble
uous stream you either wait for a gap (the upload stops or the overall change finishes, for example) or say you don't wait longer than N seconds. The talk will be placed here shortly, I expect: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/User+Group+losug/v-2010 -- -Peter Tribble http://www.pet

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris/Opensolaris, for a Server, or Desktop?

2010-07-19 Thread Peter Tribble
rking on something else, all transparently. (As it were...) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Tribble
. So the OGB would have to violate its own rules and act contrary to what we were elected for. Again, the OGB would really have to quit the current system and reform in some other guise, or new people could start afresh. For all this, anybody could have done it over the past 5 years o

Re: [osol-discuss] More negative press: Oracle maintains silence on OpenSolaris' future

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Tribble
htly worrying. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] More negative press: Oracle maintains silence on OpenSolaris' future

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Tribble
he OGB. Even the (limited) contact with User Groups has really been an end-run around our community governance structures. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [opensolaris-discuss] Were to from here?

2010-07-13 Thread Peter Tribble
're talking about the community (and associated project). We're not (directly) talking about the codebase, or about any commercial products that happen to have the same name. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [opensolaris-discuss] Were to from here?

2010-07-13 Thread Peter Tribble
is better to wait after the  OpenWorld show to dissolve,  who > knows they may have a surprise. Why wait? It just drags out the deception even longer. What we're in need of here is openness and engagement. Relying on a marketing surprise is entirely counter to that. -- -Peter Tribble http

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris/Opensolaris, for a Server, or Desktop?

2010-07-06 Thread Peter Tribble
t people can just pick one and use that as a base. > I haven't used sol/osol for wifi.  Does it have a good wifi utility for > joining networks? I have a couple of laptops. OpenSolaris just works, flawlessly, on the one - much better than either Windows or Linux do. On the other, it kinda

Re: [osol-discuss] PC Emulator for OpenSolaris?

2010-06-07 Thread Peter Tribble
op of OpenSolaris? VirtualBox www.virtualbox.org (Oh. Wait. It's GPL licensed. But it works extremely well.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Garrett D'Amore joins Nexenta. if needed, can nexenta become the fork?

2010-05-16 Thread Peter Tribble
sary to shout it from the rooftops all the time.) > It is two months past the release date for 03.2010 and not a word. It is not any time since the release date, because the published release date is "first half of calendar year 2010", ie, before the end of

Re: [osol-discuss] This is how Oracle treats open communities and projects. Will OGB intervene?

2010-05-11 Thread Peter Tribble
cuss bcc'ed so they see this but don't have to see any ensuing procedural minutiae.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] 2010.03, when will it be available?

2010-05-10 Thread Peter Tribble
on with the community that many would like. You, though, seem to have privileged access to information that's not available to the rest of the community - perhaps you would like to share that with us? Or are you scaremongering based on incomplete (or no) data? -- -Peter Tribble h

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris

2010-05-01 Thread Peter Tribble
nning than we are to its present state. Fedora is now quite successful, but it wasn't an easy ride. If that is a valuable model to consider, how do we get to that from where we are now? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - htt

Re: [osol-discuss] Someone please tell me I'm wrong

2010-05-01 Thread Peter Tribble
way decent Linux distro again. Ugh. OpenSolaris isn't *that* bad. > I know it's open source but will OpenSolaris die off soon through lack of > interest/funding, whatever, or can I get interested in that? > > Am I the only one who feels this way about Sun Microsystems &

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-05-01 Thread Peter Tribble
to questions that have already been answered officially isn't helping anybody. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] solaris volume manager help.

2010-04-30 Thread Peter Tribble
ted configuration, you can just guess at what it looks like, metainit, and try accessing it read-only to see if you've done it right. (Of course, if it was a metaset, then just metaimport it. If the metassist command was used originally, then you'll be dealing with

[osol-discuss] Compellent endorsement of ZFS and Nexenta

2010-04-27 Thread Peter Tribble
It's not all doom and gloom. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/27/compellent_znas/ Pretty much a ringing endorsement of ZFS and Nexenta. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-di

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

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Tribble
better that is worth the damage down by a fork? (I can see different technical decisions as being valid drivers for going along an alternative path. But I think you need to clearly formulate your goals before deciding how to implement your strategy.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertri

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news about 2010.3?

2010-04-04 Thread Peter Tribble
bsolutely clear public commitments that there will be a release, and the only official statement on the date I've seen is that it will be in the first half of calendar year 2010. (If people have been paying attention they may have seen the term 2010.H1 used in places.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [basic] cmds to discover/report hardware

2010-04-01 Thread Peter Tribble
se utilities are reliant on the hardware and bios actually reporting data back, which is somewhat variable in both quantity and quality. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2010-03-31 Thread Peter Tribble
rd OpenSolaris will NOT have all packages > from Solaris prime. That's always been the case since the OpenSolaris distribution was created over 2 years ago. Again, nothing new, unless you're referring to or know something different. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - h

Re: [osol-discuss] Usage of psinfo_t from procfs.h

2010-03-14 Thread Peter Tribble
d(procfd, &psi, sizeof(psinfo_t)) < 0) { perror("read"); return -1; } printf("arg vector addr: %d\n", psi.pr_argv); printf("cmd line: %s\n", psi.pr_psargs); close(procfd); return 0; } -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Says OpenSolaris Will Stay Open Source

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Tribble
m IRC logs here, where you can see the whole chat verbatim: http://www.spcoast.com/irclogs/opensolaris-meeting/index.php Look just after 12 noon on the 26th of Feb. (I assume "TechJournalist" on the chat is the author of the above articles.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribb

Re: [osol-discuss] xscreensaver disable

2010-02-28 Thread Peter Tribble
n. (I turn pretty much everything off, which makes life noticeably quicker.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] An idea for helping OpenSolaris survive

2010-02-25 Thread Peter Tribble
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Matthew Nawrocki > wrote: >> Uh oh... slashdot is claiming that the writing is on the wall for >> OpenSolaris. > > They've been doing that for 5 years. We're still here.

Re: [osol-discuss] An idea for helping OpenSolaris survive

2010-02-25 Thread Peter Tribble
row. (#opensolaris-meeting on freenode) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Community Reports 2009-2010

2010-02-12 Thread Peter Tribble
ly to me (Peter Tribble). -- -Peter Tribble Vice-Chair, OpenSolaris Governing Board ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] pkgadd failure - cannot be installed on this system/zone?

2010-02-12 Thread Peter Tribble
tduu SUNWftdur and if you get two lines back, they're already installed. But that's a pretty old version, you know? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Election

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Tribble
nunix.org/wiki/index.php/OGB_2009/009 some commentary: http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OGB_2009/009_ReleaseNotes -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2010-01-30 Thread Peter Tribble
7;t expect business as usual. I would imagine that Oracle have a different philosophy and different goals, and that the shape of OpenSolaris and the community around it will change and adapt to fit that world. So what I want to know is what shape will the overall OpenSolaris family take in this

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

2010-01-29 Thread Peter Tribble
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote: > What happens to JavaFX? Well, they talked about that. See, for example, a summary here: http://learnjavafx.typepad.com/weblog/2010/01/oracle-we-will-invest-heavily-in-javafx.html -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - h

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Peter Tribble
months to plan and to get everything in order. I wonder if they actually worked on the changes a while back. If you look at the x64 and CMT server pages, they list several systems that I thought had disappeared and I'm sure are EOL, such as the T1000, X2200, X4150, and Ultra 24. -- -Peter T

Re: [osol-discuss] Compile pidgin-sipe-1.7.1 plugin

2010-01-19 Thread Peter Tribble
7.1 specifically (I'm running 1.6.3) but according to my notes, just deleting the two lines it complains about in uuid.h was enough to get pidgin-sipe working for me. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_130

2010-01-04 Thread Peter Tribble
where). > > http://blogs.sun.com/aalok/entry/automated_installer_from_media That gets round the wanboot limitation, so you can boot, but does it include the packages or do you need a repository? And if the latter, where do you get the repository iso from? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg scripts are evil :-) (was Some Why?-Questions)

2009-12-17 Thread Peter Tribble
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: >> But that problem arises not because SVR4 packaging supports scripting >> but because it only does so badly. What's needed is: >> >> 1. For the packaging system to fully su

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg scripts are evil :-) (was Some Why?-Questions)

2009-12-17 Thread Peter Tribble
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: >> >> IPS ought to do this right, and is pretty much there because it actually >> does have the framework to do everything correctly, but claims that >> scripting is forbidden and therefore

Re: [osol-discuss] pkg scripts are evil :-) (was Some Why?-Questions)

2009-12-17 Thread Peter Tribble
e it actually does have the framework to do everything correctly, but claims that scripting is forbidden and therefore doesn't provide the public hooks, again forcing every script writer into carrying the responsibility themselves. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptri

Re: [osol-discuss] Quick Question. "pkginfo -q" equivalent in IPS

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Tribble
;s a huge difference. In one case the packaging system can help the admin by telling you that there's a problem, and even let you clamber out of the hole you've landed in. In the other case you have a system that's broken and have no hope of diagnosing or fixing it.

Re: [osol-discuss] Quick Question. "pkginfo -q" equivalent in IPS

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Tribble
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Shawn Walker >> wrote: >>> >>> Vikash Tulsiyan wrote: >>>> >>>> Do we have a " pkginfo -q" equivalent in

Re: [osol-discuss] Quick Question. "pkginfo -q" equivalent in IPS

2009-12-13 Thread Peter Tribble
yourself is common practice. In this case looking to see if a package is listed in /var/pkg/pkg, or actually running pkginfo, becomes a likely source of cheating.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] New-Website Hell __/__ Fwd: [ogb-discuss] Leaderless collectives

2009-10-28 Thread Peter Tribble
he site need to make sure their content is good. (Opportunity for evaluation of opportunities for improvement as well, I suspect.) Some are simple bugs, and people need to report those. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/

Re: [osol-discuss] SNMP Traps

2009-10-27 Thread Peter Tribble
retty specific, so you'll need to be more precise in what you're after. To receive, you need to get a trap receiver running. Out of the box on Solaris 10, you can run snmptrapd and have that listening for snmp traps. Or go to opennms.org and download and install OpenNMS which i

Re: [osol-discuss] Display CPU temprature

2009-10-03 Thread Peter Tribble
g like: ipmitool sensor list On sparc, I begin with prtpicl -c temperature-sensor -v -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2009-08-27 Thread Peter Tribble
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Brock Pytlik wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Darren J Moffat >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Peter Tribble wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> # ptime pkgadd SUNWzsh >>

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

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Tribble
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: >> >> # ptime pkgadd SUNWzsh >> >> real   2.390 >> user   0.808 >> sys    1.380 > > That I assume was local disk, right ? Yup. But http over the network isn't that dif

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

2009-08-25 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:27 PM, wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:21:18PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: >> It's not just search that's slow - most pkg operations feel slow. > > How about providing some data instead of wild accusations? > > I can instal

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

2009-08-25 Thread Peter Tribble
de it faster than grep in some cases, and not much slower for most, and that supported a much richer search syntax (it got stuck on wondering whether to use shell glob patterns or string REs). Other SVR4 operations could be sped up significantly as well. Are there performance targets f

[osol-discuss] Status of Various Community Groups

2009-08-17 Thread Peter Tribble
27;t active, pruning should be considered a healthy part of community development. -- -Peter Tribble OGB Vice-Chair ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2009-08-16 Thread Peter Tribble
x27;anything' requires essentially arbitrary scripting. First you tell us that arbitrary scripting will never be allowed, then you tell us that it's necessary, but we all have to implement our own mechanisms to get it. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] DRAFT: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal

2009-08-16 Thread Peter Tribble
ject Members: > > Need 5 or more initial members, they will become Core Contributors. > > o Facilitator: > > Need 1 facilitator. Nit: Core contributors and Facilitators apply to communities, not projects, so that wouldn't apply. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co

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

2009-08-11 Thread Peter Tribble
et alone deployment. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] StudioExpress-sol-x86-2009-03-pkg.sh installer woes

2009-06-11 Thread Peter Tribble
where packaging comes into play. Sometimes you just want the thing to be dumb. Software integrated with the OS is packaged; no doubt about that though. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discu

Re: [osol-discuss] osol-0906-ai-sparc.iso not bootable?

2009-06-06 Thread Peter Tribble
t isn't designed as a livecd. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Reports from the Community for CommunityOne

2009-05-22 Thread Peter Tribble
ll presentations, we would like to know about that too; and if there's something you already have there's no need to create something new. Some templates you may wish to use are available at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/Reports/ Please reply directly to me (Peter Tri

Re: [osol-discuss] zfs sharenfs command

2009-02-19 Thread Peter Tribble
. Is there a better way to achive that? Or what am I missing > here? You're missing sharing it with root access. zfs set sharenfs="rw=192.168.36.39,root=192.168.36.39" backup/192.168.36.39 -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Sar - log rentention past 10 days

2009-01-11 Thread Peter Tribble
y the file naming in that script and the /usr/lib/sa/sa1 script. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] vmware/prstat/mpstat question

2008-11-14 Thread Peter Tribble
t and mpstat are for the whole system, unless you've allocated the zone to a processor set or have some other resource controls applied to the zone. In particular, things like the load average apply to the system as a whole. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co

Re: [osol-discuss] Simple Panels

2008-10-16 Thread Peter Tribble
; programs like Tivoli or HP-OpenView which don't support Solaris > as well, but have reasonable support of many platforms. For monitoring like that, would you want SunMC or Zabbix/Nagios/whatever? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Simple Panels

2008-10-13 Thread Peter Tribble
one to choose!). Put together a brief summary of the proposal (see section 2.2 of the above document), and either send it to sysadmin-discuss or to me and I'll push it through for you. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - ht

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

2008-09-27 Thread Peter Tribble
ite, but you can download it from the project page: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/phpEasyTools/ -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] How to debug a weird nis+ issue?

2008-09-23 Thread Peter Tribble
bin/true (login fails). >>> >>> How can I dig deeper on this weird issue? This issue almost drives me crazy. >> >> What does the passwd entry in your /etc/nsswitch.conf file look like? >> >> (Are you using compat?) >> >> -- >> -Peter Tribbl

Re: [osol-discuss] How to debug a weird nis+ issue?

2008-09-19 Thread Peter Tribble
rather > unstable. Sometimes it is /bin/tcsh (login is ok), sometimes it is > /bin/true (login fails). > > How can I dig deeper on this weird issue? This issue almost drives me crazy. What does the passwd entry in your /etc/nsswitch.conf file look like? (Are you using compat?)

Re: [osol-discuss] Equivalent of showrev command in opensolaris

2008-09-01 Thread Peter Tribble
S packages, the pkg command gives you everything. For SVR4 packages, you want pkginfo For patches (which only apply to SVR4 packages) then you probably want patchadd -p instead of showrev -p. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribb

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

2008-08-11 Thread Peter Tribble
ied this, and it works the way it should - if I have entries in the hosts file then I see no DNS lookups. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2008-08-11 Thread Peter Tribble
> above example will stop the search if it finds what it is looking for in > files. SUCCESS=return is the default behaviour. Or it should be - are you saying that it's not? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] The end of Sparc desktops?

2008-08-03 Thread Peter Tribble
ll find the vendor picking up the slack is eBay. You can get quite decent machines there - at least as good if not better than anything Sun have been selling new for the last couple of years - at quite acceptable prices. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.u

Re: [osol-discuss] Some confusion/comments

2008-05-29 Thread Peter Tribble
> driver without this feature. Because IPS knows how to handle driver installation as a first class operation without having to resort to postinstall hackery. (As it understands how to handle other common classes of object. that might be installed on a system.) -- -Peter Tribble http

Re: [osol-discuss] Using OpenSolaris in production?

2008-05-23 Thread Peter Tribble
configure, although we use env CC=cc CXX=CC CXXFLAGS=-O CFLAGS=-O ./configure to get it to go faster than the default build. And OpenSolaris currently includes 6.3.4 I believe. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ __

Re: [osol-discuss] Using OpenSolaris in production?

2008-05-22 Thread Peter Tribble
d (yet anyway)... Well, it already has Solaris - and if you're serious about servers then that's a pretty solid choice. They're now going after (or at least, they think they're trying to go after) developers as well; time will tell if they can produce a new platform that can bot

Re: [osol-discuss] Using OpenSolaris in production?

2008-05-22 Thread Peter Tribble
ly anything to stop you using it there if you're happy to manage it. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Using OpenSolaris in production?

2008-05-22 Thread Peter Tribble
any of those tools to work on Solaris. Especially ImageMagick - it's one of the most crucial tools in our development environment now and it just builds fine (although it takes a little tweak to get it optimized, which is important when you run it millions of times a day). -

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris NDIS Wrapper Toolkit!

2008-05-20 Thread Peter Tribble
at doesn't include the high rate of flapping I encountered in airports, which tended to make the machine panic.) http://ptribble.blogspot.com/2008/04/ndis-wrapper-on-indiana.html -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrading obp without a operating system

2008-05-12 Thread Peter Tribble
that? Maybe having a > bootable live cd or? You don't say what sort of sparc hardware. There was an upgrade CD in the Solaris 7 timeframe, but that would obviously only work on systems of that era (generally, those that didn't have 64-bit capable firmware and had to be upgraded to allow

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't update date in zone

2008-05-08 Thread Peter Tribble
esh copies. So if you make changes to files that the packaging system hasn't marked as editable then those changes show up in the local zones. I use this to modify the sample nsswitch.* files to add dns for hostname resolution to the nis and nisplus

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't update date in zone

2008-05-07 Thread Peter Tribble
ngst all zones. (You can have different zones in different timezones, of course.) I filed bug 6528655 to get a more useful usage message: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6528655 which I think is currently being fixed. -- -Peter Tribble htt

Re: [osol-discuss] Informal (and unsanctioned) poll

2008-02-28 Thread Peter Tribble
bers on > opensolaris.org; I think that makes any result a passing fancy at > best. Well, it's got higher participation than many of the important discussions that have been going on recently. (Assuming it's not the same half a dozen people submitting mu

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-15 Thread Peter Tribble
ndiana is trying to be (or is seen to be, or is being marketed as) several different things at once and, apart from the confusion that results, it could end up in a 'jack of all trades, master of none' scenario. So I think I would prefer to see a situation where a given release focussed on o

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-13 Thread Peter Tribble
k about it and look at what has been announced and what's happening, the less clear it is to me what Indiana stands for. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Lessons from elsewhere, was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-08 Thread Peter Tribble
#x27;t have to deal with it any more. It may well be that there are some features of inst that could teach us how to do better. If that's the case, call them out so we can learn from them. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk

Re: [osol-discuss] Lessons from elsewhere, was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-06 Thread Peter Tribble
gt; advanced operating system on the planet" to shame, > > > > Care to give some examples? > > Indeed I can, your "favorite": inst(1M) I'm familiar with it. A shining example of how not to do it. Something capable of tangling your installed software into su

[osol-discuss] Lessons from elsewhere, was Re: [osol-announce] No update on SXCE Build 79

2008-02-06 Thread Peter Tribble
he > statement you made above. > > Especially if we consider that IRIX still has technology that puts "the most > advanced operating system on the planet" to shame, Care to give some examples? I've used and administered IRIX, and nothing immediately springs to mind. --

Re: [osol-discuss] The impossible SDLC download... / was: Re: [osol-announce] SXCE Build 81 available

2008-02-01 Thread Peter Tribble
DM and start my standalone version, then it picks up the images I've selected and downloads them fine. So, the SDLC is best described as broken at this time. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Really only a recompile between x86 and SPARC?

2008-01-17 Thread Peter Tribble
on x86.) Generally, code should just recompile without issues, and most of it does. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] How to use Network Management Port

2007-12-05 Thread Peter Tribble
ll access to the console using the network management port, use "console -f". -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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

2007-11-08 Thread Peter Tribble
Open)Solaris fixed so that using /usr/gnu like this is unnecessary, but I think that the current choice is pretty reasonable in the circumstances. (Even if the subtle incompatibilities it generates do drive me up the wall!) -- -Peter Tribble http://www

Re: [osol-discuss] Democracy and open source - nit - Re: [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-11-01 Thread Peter Tribble
it's the positioning and rhetoric that are coming from some quarters that worry me. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Eradicating sendmail - risky?

2007-10-30 Thread Peter Tribble
cement. Just pkgrm the sendmail packages and you're good to go. The only other thing is that if you use the vacation feature then save a copy of the vacation binary before you remove sendmail and put it back manually. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.p

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

2007-09-29 Thread Peter Tribble
6M. You'ld have trouble with gnome as currently built (medialib bloats the running sizes quite a lot, but that could be trimmed), and I certainly don't think you would enjoy running much in the way of java or staroffice. Even firefox would be a problem if you visited more than a few p

Re: [osol-discuss] Basic OpenSolaris License Questions

2007-09-23 Thread Peter Tribble
ne of the goals of project Indiana is to create a distribution that is freely redistributable.) > - can I promote OpenSolaris OS (and its logo - if any) in my website? Oh yes. See: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/buttons/ -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-24 Thread Peter Tribble
otherbotherbotherbotherbother..... -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] OT: Coffee, was Re: SXCE 70's installer and laying out file systems

2007-08-20 Thread Peter Tribble
ne for yourself. Sadly most of the folks in my team are tea drinkers. :-( -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Java package name allocations

2007-08-19 Thread Peter Tribble
avoid conflicts. (Using the project name as the last component seems reasonable, as project names ought to be unique.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-di

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