Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with /bin/sh: pipe discards empty lines.

2010-12-09 Thread Roland Mainz
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Karel Gardas karel.gar...@centrum.cz wrote: Hello, thanks for your reply. I'm trying to reproduce the same error on vanilla 2010.11 installation and to my surprise I'm not able to. What I need to do is: export PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH and then I'm able to

[osol-discuss] AST/ksh93/busybox standard conformance and interface stability... / was: Re: community driven distro...

2010-05-23 Thread Roland Mainz
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote: [snip] My impression is that a number of the AST tools have picked up the major options previously unique to the GNU tools, while trying to retain better standards compliance.  Assuming that to be true, I think

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

2010-05-11 Thread Roland Mainz
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Dave Johnson dave.johnson.inqu...@googlemail.com wrote: [snip] Here is the evidence: Evidence 1: - Project cooperation with ksh project withdrawn - GNU commands as replacements are the future -- Forwarded message -- From: John Sonnenschein

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

2009-09-15 Thread Roland Mainz
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 ? Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.ma...@nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, CJAVASunUnix

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

2009-09-15 Thread Roland Mainz
Norm Jacobs wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: 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 ? I have some vague recollection that tmpfs doesn't support ACLs snd it appears

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

2009-09-15 Thread Roland Mainz
Ian Collins wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: Norm Jacobs wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: 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 ? I have some vague recollection

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

2009-09-15 Thread Roland Mainz
Robert Thurlow wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: Ok... does that mean that I have to create a ZFS filesystem to actually test ([1]) an application which modifies ZFS/NFSv4 ACLs or are there any other options ? By all means, test with ZFS. But it's easy to do that: # mkfile 64m /zpool.file

[osol-discuss] [Annoucement] ksh93-integration update2 2009-08-22 binaries available for download (for Solaris 11 Nevada = B110+OpenSolaris/Indiana) ...

2009-08-21 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2009-08-22: ksh93-integration update 2 tarballs for Solaris 11 Nevada+OpenSolaris/Indiana These tarballs ([2]) are intended to be installed over an existing Solaris Nevada/Indiana/OpenSolaris = B110 i386 or SPARC installation and provide ksh93t+_20090505 and the content described in

Re: [osol-discuss] (www|hg|svn|wiki).genunix.org down ?

2009-07-11 Thread Roland Mainz
Al Hopper wrote: On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Al Hopper a...@logical-approach.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Al Hopper a...@logical-approach.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Roland Mainz roland.ma...@nrubsig.org wrote: Does anyone know what's wrong

[osol-discuss] [Annoucement] ksh93-integration update2 2009-05-11 binaries available for download (for Solaris 11 Nevada = B110+OpenSolaris/Indiana) ...

2009-05-11 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2009-05-11: ksh93-integration update 2 tarballs for Solaris 11 Nevada+OpenSolaris/Indiana These tarballs ([2]) are intended to be installed over an existing Solaris Nevada/Indiana/OpenSolaris = B110 i386 or SPARC installation and provide ksh93t+_20090505 and the content described in

[osol-discuss] [Annoucement] ksh93-integration update2 2009-04-20 binaries available for download (for Solaris 11 Nevada = B110+OpenSolaris/Indiana) ...

2009-04-28 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2009-04-20: ksh93-integration update 2 tarballs for Solaris 11 Nevada+OpenSolaris/Indiana These tarballs ([2]) are intended to be installed over an existing Solaris Nevada/Indiana/OpenSolaris = B110 i386 or SPARC installation and provide ksh93t+_20090310 and the content described in

[osol-discuss] Please stop this flamewar... / was: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] General THANKLESS- and RESPECTLESSnesstowards Joerg Schilling (and others, which I leave out of this msg.) __/__ Was:

2009-03-25 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Josh Hurst joshhu...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/25/09, Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.org wrote: [snip] Flame wars should be fought privately, if at all. speaking_as_list_admin * First: I would _STRONGLY_ prefer to keep all non-technical

[osol-discuss] Emancipation vs. POSIX commands community vs. closed-bin stuff.. / was: Re: [on-discuss] Emergency project to rescueOpensolaris fr

2009-03-25 Thread Roland Mainz
Miles Nordin wrote: You wish to talk to Roland Mainz, Glenn Fowler and Jennifer Pioch then. They have opensource replacements for /usr/bin/sed, /usr/xpg4/bin/sed, /usr/bin/tail, /usr/xpg4/bin/tail, /usr/bin/tr and /usr/xpg4/bin/tr. is this a joke? No, this is no joke. I am

[osol-discuss] Using |mmap()| for Xorg pixmap allocations... / was: Re: [desktop-discuss] Poor interactive performanceunder heavy system load

2009-02-27 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Another issue: Xsun did use mmap() to allocate bigger parts of memory in the X server. If big memory leaking program like netscape died in former times, Xsun did shrink. Today, we have firefox that itself allocates less memory than before

Re: [osol-discuss] [ksh93-integration-discuss] [tools-discuss] ksh93 sleep

2009-02-18 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Irek: I'm setting the Reply-To: to opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ... I would be really nice to keep the stone throwing out of the ksh93-integration-disc...@opensolars.org list - we're trying to get technical stuff done in this list and not rant about the history of Solaris or

[osol-discuss] Memory requirements of Solaris/OpenSolaris... / was: Re: [tools-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPSarchitecture

2009-01-01 Thread Roland Mainz
Mark Martin wrote: [Resent for Reply-all] On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org 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

Re: [osol-discuss] Memory requirements of Solaris/OpenSolaris... /was: Re: [tools-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port toMIPSarchitecture

2009-01-01 Thread Roland Mainz
ken mays wrote: [snip] Mark Martin wrote: [snip] Assuming you only use UFS and cut-down some system tuneables Solaris can run on a 64MB machine (my Ultra5 only has 128MB now after one of the DIMMs failed and it still works fine with CDE). The problems start if you want to run some

[osol-discuss] Weired at job with *.ctrl: No such file or directory ...

2008-12-21 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Does anyone remeber a component of Solaris (OS/Netm SFWNV, Studio or punchin) which produces the following kind of at jobs: -- snip -- From r...@terror.alquiekquak.org Tue Dec 16 00:00:55 2008 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:53 +0100 (CET) From: Super-User r...@terror.alquiekquak.org To:

Re: [osol-discuss] genunix.org experiencing tech difficulties

2008-12-03 Thread Roland Mainz
Al Hopper wrote: Please bear with us as we find/fix the hardware issues currently causing constipation at www.genunix.org. Wiki users - don't worry - we have current backups. But please allow at least 12 hours for the site to be restored to normal operation. I guess our uptime record of

Re: [osol-discuss] genunix.org experiencing tech difficulties

2008-12-03 Thread Roland Mainz
Cyril Plisko wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Hopper wrote: PS: belenix.org runs on genunix.org infrastructure but is running on other hardware and is unaffected by this outage. Was svn.genunix.org somehow be affected, too ? Its a zone

[osol-discuss] [Annoucement] ksh93-integration update1 2008-11-14 binaries available for download (for Solaris Nevada = B84+OpenSolaris/Indiana) ...

2008-11-14 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2008-11-14: ksh93 update tarballs for Solaris Nevada+Indiana These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris = B84 i386 or SPARC installation and provide ast-ksh.2008-11-04 (ksh93t_20081104) and match PSARC/2008/094 (ksh93 Update 1 ;

[osol-discuss] [Annoucement] ksh93-integration update1 2008-08-10 binaries available for download (for Solaris Nevada = B84+Indiana) ...

2008-08-13 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2008-08-10: ksh93 update tarballs for Solaris Nevada+Indiana These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris = B84 i386 or SPARC installation and provide ast-ksh.2008-07-25 (ksh93t_20080725) and match PSARC/2008/094 (ksh93 Update 1 ;

[osol-discuss] Multithreaded browsers... / was: Re: The end of Sparc desktops?

2008-08-07 Thread Roland Mainz
Richard L. Hamilton wrote: [snip] Hmmm... that'd be a close shave. Having worked with UltraSPARC T2s quite a bit, I'd say that the T2 is still pretty weak for the desktop workloads, precisely because of his single-thread performance. You'd have to have software that was highly optimized

[osol-discuss] SXCE download area... / was: Re: sxce b95 download sucks

2008-08-07 Thread Roland Mainz
Ian Collins wrote: Herschel Krustofsky writes: I agree completely with Bruno, getting the distribution out there properly is a showstopper. This subject comes up over and over (and has for years) and the answer remains the same. Why do you think Indiana was created? AFAIK this issue

Re: [osol-discuss] REVIEW System Admin. Guide for the Back toSchool Kit

2008-08-04 Thread Roland Mainz
Kathy Slattery wrote: Currently, I'm using a customized version of Epic to author the book. The source isn't available yet, but I plan to move it into mercurial after the August 8th release. May I ask for any links to that soft, google search does not give my any reasonable

[osol-discuss] hexfloat format not supported by |strtod()| in C99/SUSv3 mode ? / was: Re: Can Solaris be discussed here?

2008-08-02 Thread Roland Mainz
Dennis Clarke wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Ming Kin Lai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a feeling that Sun has abandoned maintaining Solaris, and shifted its resources to OpenSolaris. Well, that's good news to people here, I guess. So, can I discuss things about Solaris 10

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2008-06-24 update binaries available for download (for Solaris Nevada = B84+Indiana) ...

2008-06-25 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2008-06-24: ksh93 update tarballs for Solaris Nevada = B84+Indiana These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris = B84 i386 or SPARC installation and provide ksh93t-_20080614 and match PSARC/2008/094 (ksh93 Update 1 ;

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2008-06-17 update binaries available for download (for Solaris Nevada = B84+Indiana) ...

2008-06-19 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2008-06-17: ksh93 update tarballs for Solaris Nevada+Indiana These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris = B84 i386 or SPARC installation and provide ksh93t-_20080614 and match PSARC/2008/094 (ksh93 Update 1 ;

[osol-discuss] ${HOME} of root is now /root ... / was: Re: [security-discuss] $HOME of root

2008-03-18 Thread Roland Mainz
Dirk Wetter wrote: Am 10.03.2008 09:51, Joep Vesseur schrieb: On 03/10/08 01:41, Roland Mainz wrote: Is there any status update ? Did you hit any major problems ? On the list for integration any time now (I can't say which build since I'm not the one who will put

Re: [osol-discuss] ${HOME} of root is now /root ... / was: Re: [security-discuss]$HOME of root

2008-03-18 Thread Roland Mainz
Gary Winiger wrote: -- X-Sun-Data-Type: text X-Sun-Data-Description: text X-Sun-Data-Name: text X-Sun-Charset: us-ascii X-Sun-Content-Lines: 8 It's done! :-) See attached commit notification email. Flag day notification is

[osol-discuss] VMware tools don't rock the clock in B83a/B84 ...

2008-03-15 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! More or less an update to my original VMware's rock around the clock...-posting (http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-March/013848.html): 1. In Solaris 11 B83a and B84 the VMware tools no longer sync the time with the host OS (I'm not using ntpdate to slew the

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2008-02-29 update binaries available for download (for Nevada = B72+Indiana) ...

2008-03-03 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2008-02-29: ksh93 update tarballs for OpenSolaris These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris = B72 + Indiana distribution i386 or SPARC installation and provide ksh93s+_20080202 (the content matches PSARC/2008/094

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

2008-01-31 Thread Roland Mainz
Moritz Willers wrote: On 29 Jan 2008, at 22:59, Derek Cicero wrote: Please find the links to SXCE Build 81 at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/ /IMPORTANT:/ The SDLC has changed how the downloads works. Now you choose the Platform first and then see a list of

Re: [osol-discuss] [pkg-discuss] 142 Replace /sbin/sh with ksh93

2008-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ksh93/bash holy war is off-topic for pkg-discuss. This list is for the discussion of the development of the packaging system. Indiana-discuss, or perhaps alt.fetish on USENET, would be a better forum for this thread. Or just remind people (either via email

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2007-11-05 update binaries available for download (for Nevada = B72) ...

2007-11-06 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2007-11-05: ksh93 _update tarballs_ for OpenSolaris = B72 These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris i386 or SPARC installation (= Nevada B72) to update the provided ksh93 installation to ksh93sü_20071101. Note that the binaries are provided for testing

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2007-10-31 test binaries available for download (for Nevada B61-B71) ...

2007-10-31 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! [If you run Solaris 11 = B72 please ignore this] A new set of tarballs containing an OS/Net version of ksh93 [1] (based on ksh93s+_beta_20070418 [2]) is now available from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/downloads/2007-10-31/ These tarballs are intended to be

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Indiana milestone reached!

2007-10-31 Thread Roland Mainz
Glynn Foster wrote: I'm very pleased to announce that the first milestone of Project Indiana is now available - called OpenSolaris Developer Preview. It's available for download at http://dlc.sun.com/osol/indiana/downloads/current/in-preview.iso [snip] Congrats to all! :-) I only

[osol-discuss] sendmail project at opensolaris.org ?

2007-10-19 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Just curious: Would be there any interest to create a sendmail and/or mail-related community or project which bundles all the sendmailmail tool activities (e.g. sendmail maintaince, updates, mailx things, building a managing sendmail on Solaris (+SMF) FAQ etc. (the idea came up today

Re: [osol-discuss] Running Solaris 11/Nevada B72 on a M4000 ...

2007-10-01 Thread Roland Mainz
Roland Mainz wrote: Does anyone here run Solaris 11/Nevada B72 on a M4000 ? I need some feedback whether it runs (more or less) stable on that type of machine... ... does anyone have a M4000 or M5000 around to test this, please ? Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL

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

2007-10-01 Thread Roland Mainz
Brandorr wrote: On 9/28/07, nospam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project had released XO Laptops for the public using G1G1 (Buy 2 Get 1). One laptop will be sent to the buyer, another laptop will be sent to a child in developing country. Unfortunately the XO

[osol-discuss] Running Solaris 11/Nevada B72 on a M4000 ...

2007-09-28 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Does anyone here run Solaris 11/Nevada B72 on a M4000 ? I need some feedback whether it runs (more or less) stable on that type of machine... Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, CJAVASunUnix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL

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

2007-09-20 Thread Roland Mainz
Roland Mainz wrote: Does anyone know whether bugs.opensolaris.org is sick again ? I'm missing two bug reports: 1. DTrace causes system hang and 2. DTrace ksh scripts Can anyone please check what happened to these bugs ? Erm... did anyone see these bug reports somewhere or should I

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun + Microsoft cooperation = codecs forSiolaris, finally?

2007-09-20 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Coopersmith wrote: UNIX admin wrote: In fact, Sun, under this agreement has access to all and any Microsoft technology, and is free to implement that technology in Solaris in any way Sun pleases! I've never seen the agreement, and I'm sure anyone who has will not be commenting on

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

2007-09-19 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Does anyone know whether bugs.opensolaris.org is sick again ? I'm missing two bug reports: 1. DTrace causes system hang and 2. DTrace ksh scripts Can anyone please check what happened to these bugs ? Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[osol-discuss] Internet clipboard opensolaris.pastebin.ca set up...

2007-09-18 Thread Roland Mainz
kind of version # counter to handle incompatible changes to the history file format) typeset -r history_file=${HOME}/.shnote/history0.txt USAGE=$' [-?\n@(#)\$Id: shnote (Roland Mainz) 2007-09-18 \$\n] [-author?Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [+NAME?shnote - read/write text data to internet

[osol-discuss] Small experiment with twitter.com and /var/adm/messages ...

2007-09-15 Thread Roland Mainz
client identifer typeset -r http_user_agent=shtwitter/ksh93 (2007-09-14; $(uname -s -r -p) USAGE=$' [-?\n@(#)\$Id: shtwitter (Roland Mainz) 2007-09-14 \$\n] [-author?Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [+NAME?shtwitter - read/write text data to internet clipboards] [+DESCRIPTION?\bshtwitter\b

[osol-discuss] http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/lib/libshell/common/ appears... disappears... appears... disappears... appears... disappears... appears... disappears...

2007-08-22 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Does anyone know what may currently be wrong with http://src.opensolaris.org/ ? New sources like http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/lib/libshell/common/ are sometimes available, sometimes they disappear, then they appear again and then they disappear again

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] New OpenSolaris Xen drop available

2007-07-22 Thread Roland Mainz
John Levon wrote: New binaries and sources are available for the OpenSolaris on Xen project. For more details: http://blogs.sun.com/levon/entry/solaris_xen_update Is there anywhere a webrev for the changes ? Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2007-07-14 test binaries available for download...

2007-07-13 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! A new set of tarballs containing an OS/Net version of ksh93 [1] (based on ksh93s+_beta_20070418 [2]) is now available from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/downloads/2007-07-14/ These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris i386 or

Re: [osol-discuss] VMware's rock around the clock...

2007-06-24 Thread Roland Mainz
Andy Tucker wrote: On 3/6/06, Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hitting some problems with Solaris guest installations in VMware (e.g. Solaris being the guest in a VMware VM): Sometimes the clock is going out-of-sync. I configured xntpd to counteract these issues - but suddenly

Re: [osol-discuss] Compiler mailing list?

2007-06-11 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Coopersmith wrote: William James wrote: No one from Sun's compiler team did bother to respond to my emails. They may not care about good customer support but I do. I think the best way is now to move forward and create a mailing list at opensolaris.org The most logical place to do

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Open Sound System

2007-06-11 Thread Roland Mainz
Dev Mazumdar wrote: The rumors are true, we're planning on open sourcing Open Sound (on June 14th). We will be offering the source code under CDDL to Solaris and GPLv2 for Linux BSD, OpenServer etc. At this time, we'd like to propose that Open Sound be started as a project under the

[osol-discuss] blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?

2007-05-08 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Today I stumbled over http://blogs.sun.com/olympus/ and http://blogs.sun.com/samqfs/ (erm, this is not thought as offense against the QFS or Olympus people but AFAIK group/project blogs should be in the project-specific blogging areas at opensolaris.org and not at blogs.sun.com) ...

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?

2007-05-08 Thread Roland Mainz
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Today I stumbled over http://blogs.sun.com/olympus/ and http://blogs.sun.com/samqfs/ (erm, this is not thought as offense against the QFS or Olympus people but AFAIK group/project blogs should be in the project-specific blogging areas at opensolaris.org and

Re: [osol-discuss] blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?

2007-05-08 Thread Roland Mainz
Artem Kachitchkine wrote: somehow this feels not good that products start to have blogs It can be interesting to meet real people behind a product share their views from the other side of the fence. Right... and I don't disagree with that... but somehow the idea that products start to

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Roland Mainz
Ted Pogue wrote: Project Overview: I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org, to bring to the community Solaris host-based data services; namely the Storage Archive Manager or SAM and the Solaris shared file system QFS. These data services exist today and are

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2007-04-19 test binaries available for download...

2007-04-22 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! [Sorry for the repost but the original annoucement had a few dates/etc. wrong... ;-( ] A new set of tarballs containing an OS/Net version of ksh93 [1] (based on ksh93s+_beta_20070418 [2]) is now available from

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2007-03-18 test binaries available for download

2007-04-20 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! A new set of tarballs containing an OS/Net version of ksh93 [1] (based on ksh93s+_beta_20070418 [2]) is now available from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/downloads/2007-04-19/ These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris i386 or

[osol-discuss] bugs.opensolaris.org loosing bugs again ?!

2007-04-17 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Is it possible that bugs.opensolaris.org is loosing bugs (again) ? I am missing two bug reports: 1. usr/src/cmd/perl/ build installs Subversion directories (.svn) in the proto area (note that this is not the exact title). That one was filed seveal days ago and since noone

[osol-discuss] The shell project now open...

2007-04-05 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Just a quick announcement that the shell project is now open. What are we are doing ? The shell project should investigate and execute improvements related to shells and the shell environment in (Open-)Solaris: * Improve usuablity for plain users, including beginners and

[osol-discuss] Problems with uata: [ID 464412 kern.warning] WARNING: timeout: reset target chno = 0 targ = 0 ...

2007-04-01 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! My Solaris 11/B48 Ultra5 sometimes (while doing lots of disk I/O) hangs for a few seconds and then recovers while logging the following lines to /var/adm/messages -- snip -- $ tail /var/adm/messages Apr 2 02:50:37 jupiterb48 uata: [ID 464412 kern.warning] WARNING: timeout: reset

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2007-03-18 test binaries available for download

2007-03-19 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! A new set of tarballs containing an OS/Net version of ksh93 [1] (based on ksh93s_final_20070111 [2]) is now available from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/downloads/2007-03-18/ These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris i386 or

dtksh status / was: Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-23 Thread Roland Mainz
or any of the other related issues. We're now working on getting ksh93 integrated into (Open-)Solaris and trying to leave the old problems behind us. Thanks! :-) John Plocher wrote: Josh Hurst wrote: WIll Sun FIX dtksh? Both experts in this field - David Korn and Roland Mainz have complained

ShellsUtilities community ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-22 Thread Roland Mainz
Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: So the /usr/gnu proposal[1] was approved by PSARC. Obviously, the reason for defining /usr/gnu wasn't theoretical -- it allows moving GNU packages from /usr/sfw to /usr or /usr/gnu and it helps us integrating more GNU packages into Solaris. We have already seen

Re: [osol-discuss] Reading/posting via threaded web interface andNNTP (Was: SPAM-Attack via Jive..)

2007-02-22 Thread Roland Mainz
Mike Kupfer wrote: Eric == Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric ... In fact Gmane already is carrying some opensolaris lists (I Eric don't know the who/when/why)... There should be some discussion of this in the opensolaris-discuss archives for July 2005 (gmane and

Re: [osol-discuss] SPAM-Attack via Jive (AGAIN) ... / was: [Fwd: [ksh93-integration-discuss] For sale:Nokia n95:$300, Nokia n93:$230]

2007-02-20 Thread Roland Mainz
Stephen Hahn wrote: * Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-18 15:10]: Is there a way to prevent things like the posting below ? For example is it possibe to reconfigure Jive to allow postings only for people who are subscribed to that list or make sure that such postings are queued

Re: [website-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] SPAM-Attack via Jive (AGAIN)... / was: [Fwd: [ksh93-integration-discuss] For sale:Nokian95:$300, Nokian93:$230]

2007-02-20 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Burlison wrote: Stephen Hahn wrote: Not easily, no. I'll look at the moderation idea, but the subscribers only request contradicts the aims of most legitimate forum posters. Another alternative would be to moderate the first few posts from new registrants. This should stop

[osol-discuss] SPAM-Attack via Jive (AGAIN) ... / was: [Fwd: [ksh93-integration-discuss] For sale:Nokia n95:$300, Nokia n93:$230]

2007-02-18 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Is there a way to prevent things like the posting below ? For example is it possibe to reconfigure Jive to allow postings only for people who are subscribed to that list or make sure that such postings are queued for moderation by the list admins automatically ? Original

Xorg memory allocation / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Community participation (was GPLv3ravings)

2007-02-06 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Doug Scott wrote: Thanks for the explanation. This explains what is happening to firefox. Is Xorg looking into the problem, as it can be a real pain having to restart X every so often. I don't know of anyone at X.Org looking into the problem since it's pretty

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Rich Teer wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Bruno Jargot wrote: I think it's better to stick with bzip2 archives. They need less bandwidth and less room on disks. Using gzip again would be a step backwards. Really. I resepctfully disagree. Casper and I discussed this ages ago (I forget

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: Rich Teer wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Bruno Jargot wrote: I think it's better to stick with bzip2 archives. They need less bandwidth and less room on disks. Using gzip again would be a step backwards. Really. I resepctfully disagree. Casper and I discussed this

bzip2 performance on SPARC / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Eric Enright wrote: On 1/29/07, Bruno Jargot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/29/07, Michelle Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rich, [snip] Waiting a little extra time to receive the archive is far better than waiting a lot of extra time to unpack it. Offtopic: Both gzip and bzip2 run much

Re: [osol-discuss] Status of Power PC port?

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
ken mays wrote: What is the status of the Opensolaris Power PC port? Is the project still active? There were not any status reports or updates in the last months. Bruno - Cyril, PPC for Solaris community lead, can best answer that question over in

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: I vote to use bzip2 to compress all the developer sources... usually the disks are slower than uncompressing the tarball anyway... Not if the uncompressed archives are bigger than, say, 100MB. Try it out on a U60 with 1x300MHz and let's see if your

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Michelle Olson wrote: Thanks for this message, really good to hear from you. I will ask the gatekeeper to make this change if there are more folks who prefer gzip to bzip2--you are the first to ask. What about providing both gzip and bzip2 tarballs ? Bye, Roland P.S.: Would it be

Sun Studio 11 tarball for OS/Net compressed with /usr/bin/compress / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Stephen Lau wrote: Michelle Olson wrote: Thanks for this message, really good to hear from you. I will ask the gatekeeper to make this change if there are more folks who prefer gzip to bzip2--you are the first to ask. My personal preference is for bzip2 - but that's just cause I

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Eric Enright wrote: On 1/29/07, Roland Mainz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michelle Olson wrote: Thanks for this message, really good to hear from you. I will ask the gatekeeper to make this change if there are more folks who prefer gzip to bzip2--you are the first to ask. What about

Re: [osol-discuss] Status of Power PC port?

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Dennis Clarke wrote: ken mays wrote: [snip] 5. Support for PowerPC G4 to G5 (PPC750GX) Will Apple G3 machines still be supported ? probably not for a lng time Why (I still have the chance to get an older Apple G3-based IMac... question is whether it makes sense to buy it...) ?

Transparent codeset conversion in filesystems ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Suggestion: PCFS Open Development Project

2007-01-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Ienup Sung wrote: Yes, we have numerous locales with different codesets. Solaris 10, as an example, we have 165 locales with 23 different codesets. In many cases, codesets use quite similar representation forms and yet the mappings between the code point values and actual characters/glyphs

[osol-discuss] Release of OS/Net B56 source ?

2007-01-22 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Does anyone know when the B56 sources will be released ? Seems that this may be the version we'll pick for final code review of the ksh93-integration tree... Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, CJAVASunUnix programmer /O

Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Roland Mainz
John Sonnenschein wrote: Following the official proposal guidelines, I'd like to take this opportunity to propose that we collaborate with the KDE e.V. and kde-core-devel in order to integrate KDE as an OpenSolaris project Ok, lets refine this proposal: 1. Deliver KDE3 to /usr/kde3/ and

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Refined OpenSolaris KDE proposal / Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-01-17 Thread Roland Mainz
Holger Berger wrote: On 1/17/07, Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Need clarification please. Are John Sonnenschein and Roland Mainz co-owners of the KDE proposal now? I remember the day when it was considered 'impossible' to convince Sun to introduce ksh93 to Solaris and somehow

[osol-discuss] Offtopic: Blogging engine with DocBook support ?

2007-01-13 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! [Ok... this may be horrible offtopic for OpenSolaris... but maybe there are some people who played around with Roller (which runs http://bugs.sun.com) and other Blog engines and may be able to help] Does anyone have a recommendation for a blogging engine which accepts DocBook/XML as

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attrandpublickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: Martin Bochnig wrote: Peter C. Norton wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 02:59:55AM +0100, Martin Bochnig wrote: [snip] How does nisinit get names from dns even if your system is set to resolve via NIS+? Maybe you mean, Roland would want to clone the methods in which

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attrandpublickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: [snip] Normal users with limited privileges may naturally have no - or limited - access. Didn't you find any help in the man pages for NIS, NIS+ and LDAP? That was not the goal. The matching scripts should be able to operate regardless how the backend

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attrandpublickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Roland Mainz
James Carlson wrote: Peter C. Norton writes: I think he wants to be able to add a flag, i.e. -nssvc nis, -nssvc dns, -nssvc 'ldap', etc. to getent that will dlopen the appropriate nss_blah library instead of following the lookup in nsswitch.conf so that the lookup to a particular database

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attr andpublickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Roland Mainz
Darren J Moffat wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: Is there a nameservice-independent way to obtain the values for user_attr and publickey from a shell script (if not I would propose to add a extension to getent) ? publickey no there isn't. For user_attr it depends which values you want. I

Re: [osol-discuss] Recent putback of PSARC 2006/356 Reliable DatagramSockets

2007-01-04 Thread Roland Mainz
Cyril Plisko wrote: [snip] 26 * Copyright (c) 2005 SilverStorm Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 27 * 28 * This software is available to you under a choice of one of two 29 * licenses. You may choose to be licensed under the terms of the GNU 30 * General Public License

Shipping lsof with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-04 Thread Roland Mainz
Peter Tribble wrote: On 1/1/07, wb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a /tmp FS for swap, and a really big file crout* inside. The /tmp was 95% up. I decided to remove the crout file. The problem, is the /tmp is not decreasing, but still growing. How could I make it decrease?

[osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attr and publickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-04 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Is there a nameservice-independent way to obtain the values for user_attr and publickey from a shell script (if not I would propose to add a extension to getent) ? Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, CJAVASunUnix

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attrand publickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-04 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: Martin Bochnig wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: Is there a nameservice-independent way to obtain the values for user_attr and publickey from a shell script (if not I would propose to add a extension to getent) ? Maybe getuserattr() or getauthattr() ? Plus getpublickey

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent user_attrand publickey data from a shell script ?

2007-01-04 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: Martin Bochnig wrote: Martin Bochnig wrote: Maybe getuserattr() or getauthattr() ? Plus getpublickey() Or don't those work with files as NS ?? *shrug* Exclusively from a shell script, no C? Yes... Can't you analyse the files in /etc directly then? No,

Re: [osol-discuss] zfs-discuss is being spammed

2007-01-01 Thread Roland Mainz
Josh Hurst wrote: On 12/29/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do we have for SPAM filters ? Just curious. The whole list system appears to be damaged. The whole ksh93 list archive is gone. Maybe a hack? No, the the machine's filesystem was just full (don't worry, the data

Re: [osol-discuss] Large file clean /usr/bin/diff

2007-01-01 Thread Roland Mainz
Joerg Schilling wrote: does anybody know why diff is not compiled in large file mode? No, but I guess noone expected that source files get that big... :-) ... what's the bug id for the problem ? Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: vfork issues

2007-01-01 Thread Roland Mainz
Felix Schulte wrote: On 12/20/06, Felix Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/19/06, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not something one is supposed to take advantage of! From vfork(2) (albeit admittedly the SX version of the man page): The vfork() function is

[osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Mailman list archives gone ?

2007-01-01 Thread Roland Mainz
Stephen Lau wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: It seems all the list archives are gone from mail.opensolaris.org - for example http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/ only shows an empty directory instead of the archived messages... ;-(( Can anyone please check what

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: vfork issues

2007-01-01 Thread Roland Mainz
Felix Schulte wrote: On 12/19/06, Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not something one is supposed to take advantage of! From vfork(2) (albeit admittedly the SX version of the man page): The vfork() function is deprecated. Its sole legitimate use as a prelude to an

Trouble with ASCII art in gmail + Jive / was: Re: [osol-discuss] What's the status of virtual consoles?

2007-01-01 Thread Roland Mainz
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[osol-discuss] Mailman list archives gone ?

2006-12-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! It seems all the list archives are gone from mail.opensolaris.org - for example http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/ only shows an empty directory instead of the archived messages... ;-(( Can anyone please check what is going wrong there ? Bye,

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2006-12-14 test binaries available for download

2006-12-17 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! A new set of tarballs containing an OS/Net version of ksh93 [1] (based on ksh93s_alpha_20061207 [2]) is now available from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/downloads/2006-12-14/ These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris i386/AMD64

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