Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: [Fwd: Nightlybuild - Powermanagement issues]]

2007-08-17 Thread Aubrey Li
On 7/26/07, Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/07/07, Mark Haywood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aubrey Li wrote: On 7/26/07, Aubrey Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/26/07, Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/07/07, Aubrey Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: [osol-discuss] This is not a Solaris helpdesk

2007-08-17 Thread Manoj Joseph
Alan Burlison wrote: I agree, the opensolaris-help forum is *not* well signposted enough, and the first one we point people at is opensolaris-discuss, so that needs fixing. Absolutely! Go to http://opensolaris.org/os/discussions/ and first on the list is opensolaris-discuss. This is what it

Re: [osol-discuss] This is not a Solaris helpdesk

2007-08-17 Thread Alan Burlison
Manoj Joseph wrote: Absolutely! Go to http://opensolaris.org/os/discussions/ and first on the list is opensolaris-discuss. This is what it says: OpenSolaris: discuss OpenSolaris General Discussion. All topics involving OpenSolaris are open for discussion. Should we be surprised if

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-17 Thread Al
What makes you think Novell's legal team have as little subtlety and smarts as SCO's? There are other options. [b]Bruce Lowry, Novell Spokesman, Aug 2007[/b] We're not interested in suing people over Unix, Novell spokesman Bruce Lowry said. We're not even in the Unix business anymore.

[osol-discuss] Failure to complete solaris registration wizard: Your login information does not match a valid Sun Account

2007-08-17 Thread Jonathan Groll
Opensolaris CE originally installed as b65 but BFUd to b67. (SPARC, running on U60). I cannot complete the solaris registration wizard, and so cannot run the update manager. I have created a valid sun online account, which lets me into sun connection. However, the error Your login information

Re: [osol-discuss] Failure to complete solaris registration wizard: Your login information does not match a valid Sun Account

2007-08-17 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 8/17/07, Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/08/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The update manager wont' be any use to you anyway since it is only providing data for Solaris 10 not Solaris Express releases. Is there any reason it ships with SXCE? It's the first

Re: [osol-discuss] This is not a Solaris helpdesk

2007-08-17 Thread Bonnie Corwin
Alan Burlison wrote: Manoj Joseph wrote: Absolutely! Go to http://opensolaris.org/os/discussions/ and first on the list is opensolaris-discuss. This is what it says: OpenSolaris: discuss OpenSolaris General Discussion. All topics involving OpenSolaris are open for discussion. Should we be

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: [Fwd: Nightlybuild - Powermanagement issues]]

2007-08-17 Thread Mark Haywood
Aubrey Li wrote: On 7/26/07, Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/07/07, Mark Haywood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aubrey Li wrote: On 7/26/07, Aubrey Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/26/07, Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/07/07, Aubrey Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: [osol-discuss] remove snapshots

2007-08-17 Thread David Smith
To list your snapshots: /usr/sbin/zfs list -H -t snapshot -o name Then you could use that in a for loop: for i in `/usr/sbin/zfs list -H -t snapshot -o name` ; do echo Destroying snapshot: $i /usr/sbin/zfs destroy $i done The above would destroy all your snapshots. You could put a grep on

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-17 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
What makes you think Novell's legal team have as little subtlety and smarts as SCO's? There are other options. The SCO suit caused a havoc, b/c the authorship ( thus the copyright ownership) is a big mess in Linux. Linus never bothered to keep track of who owned what, and/or verify

[osol-discuss] Does anyone uses netpipe

2007-08-17 Thread Rao Shoaib
Folks, If you use netpipe for latency measurements, I would like to hear about your experience especially about the stability and accuracy of the benchmark. Thanks, Rao. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Sun hardware to disappear?!?!

2007-08-17 Thread Brandorr
On 8/16/07, Giles Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First we get the new T2 being GPL'ed. Now it looks like we will have IBM servers preloading Solaris. http://www.physorg.com/news106499717.html Is Sun planning to leave the hardware market? Jonathon Swartz said: Despite having what's

Re: [osol-discuss] Fonts looking bad vs Windows?

2007-08-17 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
When I come to think of it, Solaris looks ok. The problem is that Firefox browsing doesnt look as good as Windows Firefox (it is a distinct difference). That is why I made this thread. My mistake, to blame it on Solaris. Although it looks better now. Thanx for you help. Actually, I feel

[osol-discuss] Trusted Extensions admin scripts, offered to opensolaris.org

2007-08-17 Thread Dave Walker - Sun UK
Hi everyone, See http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/ trusted_extensions_admin_scripts_offered :-) Cheers, -- Dave Walker Client Solutions, Sun Microsystems UK Tel: +44 780 3079264 http://blogs.sun.com/davew/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Sun hardware to disappear?!?!

2007-08-17 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 00:23 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: Why would they want to leave the hardware market? Are they not turning a profit? I heard someone mention a potential buyout by IBM, this sounds more plausible than Sun leaving the hardware market...not that IBM and Sun would be a

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-17 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:14 -0700, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Side note, $14million seems an awful lot for just some drivers. Matthew At that time it was well accepted that the (then) big bad Sun Micro used the licensing fee as a pretense to underwrite part of SCO's legal expenses

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-17 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Side note, $14million seems an awful lot for just some drivers. Matthew At that time it was well accepted that the (then) big bad Sun Micro used the licensing fee as a pretense to underwrite part of SCO's legal expenses against Linux. Microsoft paid much more (I believe it was $50

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Sun hardware to disappear?!?!

2007-08-17 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 13:40 -0400, Brandorr wrote: On 8/17/07, Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 13:21 -0400, Brandorr wrote: On 8/16/07, Giles Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First we get the new T2 being GPL'ed. Now it looks like we will have IBM

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-17 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:25 -0700, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: What makes you think Novell's legal team have as little subtlety and smarts as SCO's? There are other options. The SCO suit caused a havoc, b/c the authorship ( thus the copyright ownership) is a big mess in Linux. Linus never

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Sun hardware to disappear?!?!

2007-08-17 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 13:21 -0400, Brandorr wrote: On 8/16/07, Giles Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First we get the new T2 being GPL'ed. Now it looks like we will have IBM servers preloading Solaris. http://www.physorg.com/news106499717.html Is Sun planning to leave the hardware

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2007-08-17 Thread Nabulsi, Zuheir
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Smith Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 9:55 AM To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] remove snapshots To list your snapshots: /usr/sbin/zfs list -H -t snapshot -o name

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2007-08-17 Thread Nabulsi, Zuheir
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2007-08-17 Thread Nabulsi, Zuheir
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Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] This is not a Solaris helpdesk

2007-08-17 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Alan Burlison wrote: They post because it is the first mailing list we refer to on the site that looks even vaguely appropriate. That's our fault, not theirs, and I'm going to attempt to improve the situation. It may be a chicken-and-egg situation, but hiding our heads

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] This is not a Solaris helpdesk

2007-08-17 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Alan Burlison wrote: Garrett D'Amore wrote: Btw, on the topic of this page, newbies might not be the best name for this page. newbie or NOOB is often perceived as a derogatory term... I don't want us to be perceived as elitest... I don't personally feel it is

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Sun hardware to disappear?!?!

2007-08-17 Thread Brandorr
On 8/17/07, Kaiwai Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 13:21 -0400, Brandorr wrote: On 8/16/07, Giles Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First we get the new T2 being GPL'ed. Now it looks like we will have IBM servers preloading Solaris.

[osol-discuss] Next SXCE/SXDE release?

2007-08-17 Thread Gary Gendel
According to the web page, SXCE releases should come every other week. I haven't seen an announcement for over a month. Has this process stalled, or has the focus changed because of the Indiana project? The last time I asked, the announcement came a few hours later. Let's see if lightning can

Re: [osol-discuss] Newbie here with some questions.

2007-08-17 Thread Daniel Atencio
I just ran into a little setback.Upon installation,one of the disks is not being recognized by the system and when I tried to format it I get a disk not recognized message.I then went on to do an auto select since the exact drive is not in the list and it said that auto configuration had

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-17 Thread Al
[b]McNeely: We had to pay SCO more money so we could open the code. [/b] Nobody here has yet explained how Sun managed to legitimately open-source code without getting permission from Novell. The fact that SCO agreed to this and Sun paid them money to do so seems to be irrelevant in light of

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-17 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 14:26 -0700, Al wrote: [b]McNeely: We had to pay SCO more money so we could open the code. [/b] Nobody here has yet explained how Sun managed to legitimately open-source code without getting permission from Novell. The fact that SCO agreed to this and Sun paid them

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Al wrote: Nobody here has yet explained how Sun managed to legitimately open-source code without getting permission from Novell. And no one here is likely to divulge the contents of confidential contracts signed between Sun and other companies either. Sun's lawyers and execs know the

Re: [osol-discuss] Gathering support to replace the current DHCP

2007-08-17 Thread Dave Miner
Allen Wittenauer wrote: ... As a sidenote, while the Solaris DHCP server back-end is supposed to be pluggable, example code was (and probably still is) non-existent unless you grovel through the (Open)Solaris codebase. When I last asked Dave Miner about it a few years ago, he said he didn't

Re: [osol-discuss] Next SXCE/SXDE release?

2007-08-17 Thread Dick Davies
On 17/08/07, Gary Gendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the web page, SXCE releases should come every other week. I haven't seen an announcement for over a month. Has this process stalled, or has the focus changed because of the Indiana project? From

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-17 Thread Mario Goebbels
Nobody here has yet explained how Sun managed to legitimately open-source code without getting permission from Novell. The fact that SCO agreed to this and Sun paid them money to do so seems to be irrelevant in light of the recent court decision. What does Novell have to do with Sun's

Re: [osol-discuss] Unix belongs to Novell - any impact for Solaris?

2007-08-17 Thread Paul Gress
Al wrote: [b]McNeely: We had to pay SCO more money so we could open the code. [/b] Nobody here has yet explained how Sun managed to legitimately open-source code without getting permission from Novell. The fact that SCO agreed to this and Sun paid them money to do so seems to be irrelevant

Re: [osol-discuss] SATA problems on chipset VIA VT8237R (epia EK)

2007-08-17 Thread ying tian - Sun Microsystems - Beijing China
Lu, Baolu wrote: On Thursday, August 16, 2007 6:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lu, Baolu wrote: OpenSolaris does support SATA controllers, but there are some comments. I am not familiar with the VT8237R chipset, but I can share with you my experiences on Intel chipsets. On the Intel server