Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: SchilliX-0.2 ready,
[ ... ]
* How do you handle the inetd failures ? Inetd has a dependency on ksh and
it took me several days of hacking to identify that the same
functionality
exists in /usr/xpg4/bin/sh
That dependency actually isn't in inetd, it's in libc.
It just so happens that there's no other (known to me)
consumer of wordexp(3C) ...
See the source:
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/lib/libc/port/regex/wordexp.c
74 int
75 wordexp(const char *word, wordexp_t *wp, int flags)
76 {
[ ... ]
93 static const char *sun_path = /bin/ksh;
94 static const char *xpg4_path = /usr/xpg4/bin/sh;
[ ... ]
168 if ((pid = fork1()) == -1) {
[ ... ]
174 }
175
176 if (pid == 0) { /* child */
[ ... ]
197 path = __xpg4 ? xpg4_path : sun_path;
198 args[0] = strrchr(path, '/') + 1;
199 args[1] = options;
200 args[2] = (char *)word;
201 args[3] = NULL;
202
203 (void) execv(path, args);
204 _exit(127);
205 }
Which is btw. also what tells you that /usr/xpg4/bin/sh could
be used ...
I find it somewhat odd that libc redelegates something to a
forked child, but anyway that's how said dependency comes to be.
FrankH.
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[osol-discuss] Accessing libkstat with perl
Hello friends Can any one please tell me how can I acess libkstat with perl. I mean using API .. Thanks, Nikhil ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Accessing libkstat with perl
Hi Nikhil Check the following doc: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/kstat_part2.html Cheers Renier Nikhil wrote: Hello friends Can any one please tell me how can I acess libkstat with perl. I mean using API .. Thanks, Nikhil ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Accessing libkstat with perl
Hello friends Can any one please tell me how can I acess libkstat with perl. I mean using API .. Thanks, Nikhil using the kstat perl module (see the kstat program for an example of how to use it) Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Information required on skge gigabit ethernet driver
A K Saravanan wrote: Hi, I am running snv_23 on Toshiba Tecra M3 laptop, This laptop has Gigabit Ethernet. The skge driver which came with snv_23 did not work for this ethernet interface. Downloaded skge driver from syskonnect website and installed, added the driver as given in the bigadmin (ie update_drv -i 'id,id'). Before doing the reboot the ethernet card was detected and shown as skge2. But after the system was rebooted, a menu item called Solaris_reboot_transient got added into grub boot selection menu, and the system never booted after that. It just tries to comes up when the Solaris was selected but again reboots. Did anyone succesfully installed skge drivers in snv_??, thanks in advance. Hi Saravanan, I've been using the skge driver since it was in alpha (middle of 2004) on both Solaris 10 and Nevada. I have not had any problems with it. I think the driver you probably need is actually the nge driver. Could you post your 'prtpicl -v' output for that device entry -- that will help the community with working out what driver you need. As for the failure to boot -- could you please try adding -kvr to the kernel line in the transient grub menu entry. That way when you boot it - and I assume it's panicing - you can get a stack trace and we can see what's _really_ going on with your laptop. best regards, James C. McPherson -- Solaris Datapath Engineering Data Management Group Sun Microsystems ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 on Optiplex 280
Nikhil wrote: I have installed solaris 10 on my optiplex 280, but I see that my NIC card is not getting detected. I have jst confirmed by ifconfig -a. looks like I need to have some drivers installed in ..Can someone please tell me where I can find the NIC drivers please.. This forum is for OpenSolaris, but the same things apply. First, ifconfig -a is not a valid test. First run 'ifconfig -a plumb' and then 'ifconfig -a'. If it still doesn't find anything, you will need to figure out what kind of ethernet card it is. If you already know, look at this site of open source drivers to see if it matches yours: http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/ Alternatively your NIC may be supported by a built in driver but is not being recognized. If you can run 'prtconf -v' and then look for the device with description 'Ethernet Controller', look at the device ID at the beginning of the section which will look something like pci110d,13 and then check here to find out what kind of card it is: http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/iii// Once you have collected more information we will be better able to offer advice. -- James Lick -- 黎建溥 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://jameslick.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.2.1 ready
SchilliX-0.2.1 has just been released. See ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/ It is now based on OpenSolaris build 25. The ISO assembly kit has been reworked and is now accepting parameters to make it easy to use any new OpenSolaris build without a need to edit the shell scripts. The content of the ISO kit has been split into two archives: - schillix-0.2.1-base-kit.tar The pure SchilliX add ons - b25.tar.bz2 The compile results from Build 25 Be carefull and call now: ./makeiso-all SchilliX-0.2.1 25 to create the ISO CD image. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.2-kit released
ken mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a need for various distros of OpenSolaris? Yes. Just like we have various versions of cars and vacuum cleaners all built from a foundation model of that product. I believe that we will have at least a need for two distros: - One distro that looks and feels similar to Sun Solaris - One distro that looks and feels similar to Linux dirtsros I am still in hope that there will be as much collaboration as possible. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] b24 and b25 panic on UltraAXe
I included the crash in the second e-mail which doesn't seem to have appeared on the list. Here it is: http://home.comcast.net/~stonent2/uaxepanic.txt On 10/26/05, Frank Hofmann - Solaris Sustaining [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got panics booting from the b24 and b25 CDs on my UltraAXe. It gets as far as the banner and the little spinning line and then barfs on the screen. I haven't had a chance yet to do it over a serial console to capture the data, but wanted to check if anyone else had a UltraAXe that was working correctly. This system was previously running Solaris 9 with no problems. Does it crash in strlen(), called via hsfs`name_parse-strlcat-strlen ? FrankH. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Accessing libkstat with perl
Thanks to all.. Regards, Nikhil On 10/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello friendsCan any one please tell me how can I acess libkstat with perl. I mean using API .. Thanks,Nikhilusing the kstat perl module (see the kstat program for an example of howto use it)Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: SchilliX-0.2 ready, but SchilliX (the project) needs help
Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are willing to participate in further SchilliX development, I would be happy to help your project too. virtually, all our distros based on the same core bits - sunw*. We are planning quite a bit of work there. So, all these beginnings, (i.e. SchiliX, BeliniX) are very good for overall progress. After all, thanks to GPL/CDDL. It forces/stimulates developers to exchange patches between the projects. Do you use the patches I provide at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/patches/ We will launch pilot GNU/Solaris developer's program by the end of this week. So, if you didn't get invitation yet, send e-mail to me, and hold your breath a little longer. Thank you. I have enough work to do for the whole day, so I will not ask to force something... Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: SchilliX-0.2 ready, but SchilliX (the project) needs help
Venky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The biggest compatibility problem of OpenSolaris (compared to Sun Solaris) is the fact that libm is not part of OpenSolaris. I agree. And now, there are (at least) two separate attempts to develop a replacement: one by you and one by Moinak for BeleniX. Do you think it makes sense to start a project for this and pool efforts? We could host the development repository on sourceforge. It'd have potential to become the de-facto libm for any OpenSolaris distribution and cut down some of the potential incompatibilities we'll eventually have to grapple with. if we like to host things, we should do it on a non-commercial platform like Berlios ;-) As already sayd: I need to clean up my sources in order to publish them. They currenly have a set of makefiles that work with smake, so they may be compiled on SchilliX out of the box. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Re: nForce3 NIC-where the heck is it?
Jeff A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, So after the install of last week's Solaris Express, I see that I now have the SUNWnge driver package installed. 'update_drv -a -i pci10de,df nge' now proceeds without error, and the interface can be plumbed and used. However, the configuration does not persist across reboots-I have to manually pull the 'nge pci10de,df' entry from /etc/driver_aliases, and re-add it with update_drv after every reboot. I am most likely missing something obvious and important. The nfo driver from Masayuki Murayama should work for you and it is part of the SchilliX distro ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/ Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.2.1 ready
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote: SchilliX-0.2.1 has just been released. See ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/ And available at: http://www.genunix.org/distributions/schillix/schillix-0.2.1/index.html Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris.Org Community Advisory Board (CAB) Member - Apr 2005 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: SchilliX-0.2 ready, but SchilliX (the project) needs help
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 18:42 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: virtually, all our distros based on the same core bits - sunw*. We are planning quite a bit of work there. So, all these beginnings, (i.e. SchiliX, BeliniX) are very good for overall progress. After all, thanks to GPL/CDDL. It forces/stimulates developers to exchange patches between the projects. Do you use the patches I provide at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/patches/ lseek.patch looks like we could take. But somehow sunw* stuff works for us as is or with little changes. GNU/Solaris actually will bring 1000+(literally) usability patches applied for GNU software all over the place. We derive them from Ubuntu/Breezy world mostly. Some patches came from Debian directly. See, for Debian GNU/Solaris, proportion is different. We have just 120 sunw* core packages and 3500+ Ubuntu/Debian packages. So, we mostly concentrating on Debian part right now. But we have quite a few plans for sunw* stuff in the near future. Erast ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Re: Fibre Channel on x86
After talking to some people it doesn't look like the QLA2100 or QLA2200 HBA drivers would be made opensource for opensolaris. There just is not a good business case to open the source code for either family of HBAs on Solaris. If someone wants an open source driver they are stuck with Linux. As Sun can attest there is a HUGE financial burden to going from closed source to open source. For the 50-100 customers who might use it within a hobby environment there is no benefit to QLogic other than keeping some people from being disappointed. There are a lot more downfalls to opening the source than letting the old product die. Once you open the source to EOLed products you get people calling support for help with compiling, and diagnosing if a card is bad, this is especially true with the cards that have lasers as the lasers do have a limited lifespan. Those calls tie up a lot of resources than can be spent on customers who purchase current products. Let's not forget about how many OEMs that QLogic has for it's HBAs. There is a perceived risk of cutting into the sales of those OEMs, and additional load on their support centers. Now don't boo me though. I'm just laying out the downside of changing the way things are. Lyle This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris and the Helix (RealPlayer) Community
Last night at the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris Users Group meeting we had a very special treat, Scott Nelson (Dir. of Business Development, Helix Community from Real Networks) spoke to us about Real, the Helix Community, and answered questions regarding Solaris development efforts. At this meeting many of us learned that more activity is already active that we know. Here are some notes: 1) Sun has a dedicated engineer to the Helix Community for Solaris support: /Margot Miller. She's been working on Helix/RealPlayer support for Solaris (both X86 and SPARC) since December! There are many challenges she's had to face but she's made tremendous progress. 2) Anyone who's interested can work together with Margot and the Helix Community on the Helix Community Porting-Solaris mailing list: http://lists.helixcommunity.org/mailman/listinfo/porting-solaris (You can find a list of all the Helix mailing lists here: http://lists.helixcommunity.org/mailman/listinfo) 3) Much of this work is being done with the hopes of packaging Helix/RealPlayer with JDS in future builds (S10 U2 or U3); we're going to be seeing a lot of RealPlayer/Helix in the future. 4) A large effort has been underway by both Sun and Real to make this happen for some time now, the effort has simply gone unnoticed by most of us. I highly recommend that you read through the archives of the Helix Porting-Solaris mailing list to catch up on where things are at. I leave it at that for now. The big take away here is that we have a small community headed by Margot at Helix working on Solaris/OpenSolaris support and we need to provide some linkage between their efforts and OpenSolaris. Claire/ Giordano was present at the meeting last night as well and we all talked over ways to bring our efforts together; this mail is the first step. In the coming days I think we should try and get some links up on OpenSolaris.org and make sure that anyone in the OpenSolaris community thats interested in helping out with Helix has the resources they need to hook up with Margot and the others working on the effort. Now if only Adobe would be so proactive. :) Tremendous thanks go to Scott Nelson and Margot Miller for all their continued efforts that will benefit us all. benr. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] [Fwd: Fwd: Studio 11/ WR Press Release is out!]
Great news! Sun Studio 11 performance records! Sun Studio 11, on the Solaris 10 Operating System, Delivers World Record Performance Results on Sun Fire Servers Wednesday October 26, 8:00 am ET Sun Sets New Benchmark Record for SPECfp2000, Demonstrating Optimized Power of the Sun Studio 11 Compiler http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051026/sfw066.html?.v=33 cheers, LKR -- ---BeginMessage--- FYI...this is part of the momentum build, for Sun Studio, from the galaxy launch (1st mention) towards the Sun Studio 11 launch. /kso Kuldip Oberoi Product Line Manager, Sun Studio Sun Microsystems, Inc. 650.786.0149 (x80149) Begin forwarded message: From: Tom Gryder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 26, 2005 7:24:24 AM PDT To: stp-pteam [EMAIL PROTECTED], Core [EMAIL PROTECTED], PAC [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Studio 11/ WR Press Release is out! Sun Studio 11, on the Solaris 10 Operating System, Delivers World Record Performance Results on Sun Fire Servers Wednesday October 26, 8:00 am ET Sun Sets New Benchmark Record for SPECfp2000, Demonstrating Optimized Power of the Sun Studio 11 Compiler http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051026/sfw066.html?.v=33 Thanks to all who worked on this and helped make it happen in every way! tom -- Tom Gryder Product Line Manager Sun Studio Developer Tools x52546/310-607-2546 ---End Message--- ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] SchilliX kit - the last thing to automate
With Schillix-0.2.1, everything is parameterized now and it is simple to create a new CD image if there is a new OpenSolaris build. There is one thing that is still missing: In order to let SchilliX start up fast, I need to have a populated svc database in /etc/svc. To do this, I need to create a throw away CD and to boot it in order to get a populated /etc/svc/repository.db I tried to create a populated database on the build host by calling svccfg import ... with the xml files. Unfortunately, this did not work. So my question is: How do I create a populated database on a different machine? If this last problem has been solved, I would need less than 3 hours to build a new SchilliX image in case a new OpenSolaris build is available. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.2.1 ready
I can think of the Solaris Univesity Challenge as one way of getting rewarded for doing some cool work on OpenSolaris. ~Joe ken mays wrote: Wow! A lot of progress in a week. I think Schillix-0.2.1 and the build kit is a good starting point of greater things to come. Hope to compare the latest in Belenix and GNU/Solaris. I'm planning to do a bit of development and testing of the OpenSolaris distros (Schillex/Belenix) on a bit of a reference platform: The Hypersonic Aviator EX7 notebook http://secure.hypersonic-pc.com/scripts/custom_sys.asp?sysid=Aviator_EX7 If I remember correctly, a few Sun engineers are using the Acer Ferrari notebooks. How can the issue with 'starving artists' (i.e. unfunded OpenSolaris projects) be addressed in a 'politically correct' manner?!? Many of the pilot members have great ideas, some members are still in college/universities, yet when these projcts are unfunded they tend to slowly 'starve' themselves into the great abyss. Maybe something someone can address at one of those CAB meetings... ??? ~ Ken Mays --- Al Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote: SchilliX-0.2.1 has just been released. See ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/ And available at: http://www.genunix.org/distributions/schillix/schillix-0.2.1/index.html Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris.Org Community Advisory Board (CAB) Member - Apr 2005 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] SchilliX - plans for the next week
I currently believe that it may make sense to work on the task to make SchilliX a self hosting platform. As I did write yesterday, all packets inside the SchilliX basic kit have been compiled on SchilliX. This currently does not work for OpenSolaris itself. People who have already been on this list in June may remember that I was trying to compile OpenSolaris on SchilliX for some time in mid June. Prominent problems that have already been identified are: - rpcgen needs a KR CPP The solution is to install a gcc wrapper - In order to compile OpenSolaris we need a java compiler. The solution is to install the javacompiler. Unfortunately this cannot be done by joe average user because Sun does not make the java compiler available ad a TAR archive and installing the files from the PKG archive manually is a highly complex task (need to chmod +x many files and install many symlinks manually). - Sun, please make a TAR archive for the java compiler available! - Libm was not available in 64 bit mode on SchilliX-0.1 As 64 bit versions of most libraries I manage for Schillix are available since the beginning of August, it makles sense to start with a new try... For these reasons, I will spend an other few days in hope to allow OpenSolaris to be compiled on OpenSolaris For the people who like to help with SchilliX and create TAR packages that may be used with the SchilliX assembly kit, let me give a small note: I did already explain that a TAR pkg may contain a postinstall script. Please look into the SchilliX kit to understand how this works. If you like to create a TAR archive for a package, it may help if I give you a hint how to create the tar archive: sfind . ! -type d | change '*$' ' ? root bin' | star -cPM pkglist=- /tmp/pkg.tar is the right way to go. Start the command chain in the equivalent of root directory for the target system. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Solaris 10 book?
Does anyone.. and i mean anyone have a book they would recommend for a person new to Solaris 10? I have searched but could not find any books that cover the newer features of 10. I was thinking of just settling for a Solaris 9 book to bridge the gap until i can find something on the newer features.. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 book?
Carlos wrote: Does anyone.. and i mean anyone have a book they would recommend for a person new to Solaris 10? I have searched but could not find any books that cover the newer features of 10. I was thinking of just settling for a Solaris 9 book to bridge the gap until i can find something on the newer features.. For Solaris general stuff, I recommend PTR's Solaris Boot Camp. It covers all the general stuff really well (NIS, User management, networking, etc); that'll get you comfortable with Solaris if your coming from another OS or haven't spent alot of time with Solaris. (And I believe a Solaris10 version is in the works.) For S10 stuff, the docs on docs.sun.com are great but also read the blogs. Many of us are blogging about S10 functionality, everything from DTrace, to Zones, to SMF, to Kerberos and Crypto. We're filling in the gaps, so don't ignore the blogs. benr. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 book?
For information about the new features of S10, the following is useful too. It is the 'Solaris 10 What's New' document: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0547 It covers: Key Features in Solaris 10 Software System Administration Tools Desktop Features System Resources Enhancements Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5 Installation Enhancements Security Enhancements System Performance Enhancements Device Management Networking Enhancements Developer Tool Enhancements File System Enhancements X11 Windowing Features Language Support Enhancements Additional Software Freeware Enhancements Solaris 10 Documentation Changes Features by Release Date Hope this helps, Michelle Olson Open Solaris Doc Community X-Original-To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Delivered-To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:24:39 -0700 From: Ben Rockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050323) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 book? Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Oct 2005 22:24:39.0851 (UTC) FILETIME=[0E2C47B0:01C5DA7C] Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org X-BeenThere: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 List-Id: General OpenSolaris Discussion List opensolaris-discuss.opensolaris.org List-Unsubscribe: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-discuss, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] e List-Archive: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss List-Post: mailto:opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-discuss, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Carlos wrote: Does anyone.. and i mean anyone have a book they would recommend for a person new to Solaris 10? I have searched but could not find any books that cover the newer features of 10. I was thinking of just settling for a Solaris 9 book to bridge the gap until i can find something on the newer features.. For Solaris general stuff, I recommend PTR's Solaris Boot Camp. It covers all the general stuff really well (NIS, User management, networking, etc); that'll get you comfortable with Solaris if your coming from another OS or haven't spent alot of time with Solaris. (And I believe a Solaris10 version is in the works.) For S10 stuff, the docs on docs.sun.com are great but also read the blogs. Many of us are blogging about S10 functionality, everything from DTrace, to Zones, to SMF, to Kerberos and Crypto. We're filling in the gaps, so don't ignore the blogs. benr. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 on Optiplex 280
The GX280 uses a Broadcom 57xx series Gig card. All that is needed is an update to the PCI IDs just like I had to do back with the betas of 10 to make it work on my HP laptop. On 10/26/05, James Lick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikhil wrote: I have installed solaris 10 on my optiplex 280, but I see that my NIC card is not getting detected. I have jst confirmed by ifconfig -a. looks like I need to have some drivers installed in ..Can someone please tell me where I can find the NIC drivers please.. This forum is for OpenSolaris, but the same things apply. First, ifconfig -a is not a valid test. First run 'ifconfig -a plumb' and then 'ifconfig -a'. If it still doesn't find anything, you will need to figure out what kind of ethernet card it is. If you already know, look at this site of open source drivers to see if it matches yours: http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/ Alternatively your NIC may be supported by a built in driver but is not being recognized. If you can run 'prtconf -v' and then look for the device with description 'Ethernet Controller', look at the device ID at the beginning of the section which will look something like pci110d,13 and then check here to find out what kind of card it is: http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/iii// Once you have collected more information we will be better able to offer advice. -- James Lick -- 黎建溥 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://jameslick.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] planned changes for ON source organization
Last weekend I blogged about what I've been working on since the OpenSolaris Launch. The changes will have more impact on Sun employees than on the rest of the community, but it won't be entirely transparent externally. Of course, it should all just work, and I don't foresee that external developers will have to change what they do to get a complete built. But if you're curious about what goes on with a build, or you want to know why I'm always saying I'm too busy to get to things :-), you might want to check out the blog. http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/kupfer?entry=on_the_road_to_nightly There's also some discussion about what's needed before we can start doing nightly updates. One of the things I touched on in the blog entry was that the closed-bins tarball will be handled differently with the new setup. Right now a few critical libraries are copied into the proto area when you build usr/src/lib, but the binaries are otherwise ignored unless you use Install.sh or makebfu. In the new approach, the closed binaries will get copied into the proto area at the start of the build. Install.sh and makebfu will need no special support for the closed binaries. I'm planning to post notes and webrev for the Install.sh changes, hopefully later this week. mike ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] SchilliX-0.2.1 ready
--- Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ken mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm planning to do a bit of development and testing of the OpenSolaris distros (Schillex/Belenix) on a bit of a reference platform: The Hypersonic Aviator EX7 notebook http://secure.hypersonic-pc.com/scripts/custom_sys.asp?sysid=Aviator_EX7 If I remember correctly, a few Sun engineers are using the Acer Ferrari notebooks. Isn't this a Intel based system while the Acer Ferrari uses a amd64 CPU? Well, you may order a EM64T compliant CPU Jörg True, that one is Intel and one is AMD. Which is why I picked them! The Acer Ferrari 4000-series seems like an excellent notebook overall and more related directly to the OpenSolaris Pilot project. I also needed a another notebook that had the Nvidia 7800 because we have Solaris hardware-accelerated drivers for it (I hope to see more graphic manufacturers get the ball rolling on this one). I do have a question for you, Jörg. What are the possibilities of porting Schillix to a Genesi Pegasos II ODW now that you have the build kit?? This is a 'serious' open workstation design and I'd think the build kit would make a nice addition not the arsenal of OpenSolaris toolkits for it. I'm sure we have remaining issues - and you have that etc/svc issue to fix... It would also be nice to do this with Belenix and GNU/Solaris with an established packages count. ~Ken Mays __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Community Proposal: ZFS
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Peter, Thursday, October 20, 2005, 11:48:49 PM, you wrote: PT On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 06:20, Dan Price wrote: Hi all, I'd like to propose the creation of a community for technologies related to ZFS (Zettabyte File System). Don't get too excited-- ZFS hasn't finished the spin cycle in the machine just yet; and no, I can't say when that will happen. But it would be good to have a community, and especially a mailing list ready for the day it does become available. ZFS (the Zettabyte File System) is Sun's next generation filesystem, aimed at providing unparalleled data integrity and scalability under a simplified administration model. PT I'm all for it, but: PT If it's that simple, why does it need a separate community? PT One of the fundamental aims of zfs is that it should just work. PT (And by and large my experience supports that.) If it succeeds, what PT will there be to talk about? PT I know that my own hope is that zfs will become essentially invisible PT (unlike things like svm and ufs, which need constant looking at), PT and that the real interest is not in ZFS but the higher level services PT that you can layer on top of it. (Which, in a sense, argues for the PT wider scope of a Data and Storage Management community.) I would love for example other compression algorithms implemented - that's probably good project for community. Other guys would be probably happy with different kinds of encryption, other with some performance improvement, etc... Based on the feedback provided, I am going to go ahead and set up the ZFS community. Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
