[osol-discuss] Migrating to ZFS from Gentoo Linux

2008-05-28 Thread Matt Harrison
, is smb.conf in use at all? Is it even using samba or is it using CIFS? How can I go about setting up the finer points of the samba/CIFS sharing? Anything that can help a linux/samba geek migrate to solaris would be so helpful to me right now. Thanks in advance - -- Matt Harrison -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [osol-discuss] Migrating to ZFS from Gentoo Linux

2008-05-29 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thommy M. Malmström wrote: | Matt Harrison wrote: | | Hi everyone, I'm planning a migration of my fileserver from Gentoo | Linux with samba to SCXE with ZFS and samba/cifs sharing. Being a linux | junkie I don't have any previous experience in Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Migrating to ZFS from Gentoo Linux

2008-05-31 Thread Matt Harrison
created files. group users should have read/list/execute permissions to the files, and also any new files that are create by people in the staff group. I know this sounds simple but I've just spent 2 hours playing with ACLs and I haven't come up with anything that works. Thanks in advance - -- Matt

Re: [osol-discuss] Migrating to ZFS from Gentoo Linux

2008-05-31 Thread Matt Harrison
, yet it doesn't. Can anyone please supply some examples of how they solved a problem like this? Thanks in advance - -- Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.genestate.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkhB7u0ACgkQxNZfa

Re: [osol-discuss] Migrating to ZFS from Gentoo Linux

2008-05-31 Thread Matt Harrison
to a user who is only in the users group and make sure that read perms are ok and that write perms are blocked, but otherwise I seem to be working fine now. Thanks very much for the help, this is the last obstacle I was facing before my migration to ZFS next week. - -- Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [osol-discuss] genunix.org Down?

2008-06-10 Thread Matt Harrison
there's something more going on that simple dns changes. Hope someone find this of use -- Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.genestate.com No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.2.0/1493 - Release Date: 09/06/2008 17:25

Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?

2008-06-16 Thread Matt Harrison
, but maybe a google search for multiple monitors X11 might turn up some useful information. HTH Matt Harrison pgpCHQn9ZBjGp.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] PANIC: VirtualBox on os2008-05 installing os2008-05

2008-06-18 Thread Matt Harrison
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:00:12PM -0700, Glenn Lagasse wrote: Sure, anything is 'possible'. But in reality, none of the virtualization systems I've used (Xen, Vmware, VirtualBox, Parallels) actually support/work being run in a virtualized environment. I've certainly never gotten any sort of

[osol-discuss] updating packages

2008-06-25 Thread Matt Harrison
the svn_91 disc and ran that, but there's no option to do updates. I'm just wondering what the standard procedure for keeping my system up to date it as I've so far been unable to find this info myself. Thanks - -- Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mattharrison.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [osol-discuss] updating packages

2008-06-26 Thread Matt Harrison
to the pkg command, which I can't find. - -- Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mattharrison.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkhjSVwACgkQxNZfa+YAUWHSbACfelpOK2wV0Y3/GyzbuUMTj0gI 4m4An3hrPUvnZPsNCdFSGvXs87Y6IQYE =FjKa -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [osol-discuss] updating packages

2008-06-26 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kristian Rink wrote: | Matt Harrison schrieb: | I have tried that, unfortunately the pkg command isn't on this system | and it was installed with the most complete package selection. | | This is the problem I've had, everything I can find on google

Re: [osol-discuss] updating packages

2008-06-26 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugh McIntyre wrote: | Matt Harrison wrote: | | Kristian Rink wrote: | | H, what kind of installation medium did you initially use to | install | | OpenSolaris from? IIRC the IPS facility (and thus the pkg command) | | was/is just included in more

Re: [osol-discuss] sxce94 : registration wizard still not working

2008-07-28 Thread Matt Harrison
john kroll wrote: I still like to register the software even though you guys don't really have organized support or updates ; Hoping the registration might collect something useful. This install is on dell e521 running bfe third party driver. Wizard claims no internet connection. I am

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrading from 91 to 95

2008-08-12 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Halstead wrote: | I assume the zpool is on a second disk(s). If so, zpool export pool, do the installation of _95 and zpool import pool. Your data will be safe even if you don't export the pool, but, I'm paranoid. I used to do it that way before I

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrading from 91 to 95

2008-08-12 Thread Matt Harrison
Ben Rockwood wrote: Zpools are self contained, so as stated before its safe. In upgrades like this I often will actually pull or disconnect the zpool disks just for paranoia sake. As for the config of the existing machine, keeping a copy of /etc is never a bad idea. I typically will

[osol-discuss] missing lots of headers

2008-08-15 Thread Matt Harrison
I did a re-install of an SCXE machine to get it onto a zfs root and I've run into a problem. This time round I did an End-User install instead of Entire Distribution and it has left out installing a lot of things. The box is used to run mongrel server for Ruby on Rails websites. I have so far

Re: [osol-discuss] missing lots of headers

2008-08-15 Thread Matt Harrison
Andras Barna wrote: probably SUNWhea excellent, that solved it, Thanks Matt ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] bash line wrapping

2008-08-15 Thread Matt Harrison
I connect to my SXCE box regularly over ssh and I've got a bash line wrapping problem that is driving me mad. I googled about this for 2 weeks and haven't found any solution. If I type a command that exceeds 65 characters (including the shell prompt), it causes the line to wrap to the

Re: [osol-discuss] bash line wrapping

2008-08-15 Thread Matt Harrison
Shawn Walker wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: I connect to my SXCE box regularly over ssh and I've got a bash line wrapping problem that is driving me mad. I googled about this for 2 weeks and haven't found any solution. If I type a command that exceeds 65 characters (including the shell

Re: [osol-discuss] bash line wrapping

2008-08-18 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Penczek wrote: Hi, On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I connect to my SXCE box regularly over ssh and I've got a bash line wrapping problem that is driving me mad. I googled about this for 2 weeks

[osol-discuss] which package provides math.h?

2008-08-20 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to get coloured syntax highlighting working in vim, and after a lot of work it looks like i'm going to have to compile my own vim, using ncurses. Ncurses requires math.h but I can't find which package provides it. A pointer to the package

Re: [osol-discuss] which package provides math.h?

2008-08-20 Thread Matt Harrison
I probably should have mentioned, I'm running SXCE (snv_95). I've tried all the TERM=xtermc, TERM=xterm-color stuff, and I'm still in black and white. Thanks Matt ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] which package provides math.h?

2008-08-20 Thread Matt Harrison
Mike Gerdts wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I probably should have mentioned, I'm running SXCE (snv_95). I've tried all the TERM=xtermc, TERM=xterm-color stuff, and I'm still in black and white. I have the following in my .vimrc: :if has

Re: [osol-discuss] which package provides math.h?

2008-08-20 Thread Matt Harrison
Glenn Lagasse wrote: * Matt Harrison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I probably should have mentioned, I'm running SXCE (snv_95). I've tried all the TERM=xtermc, TERM=xterm-color stuff, and I'm still in black and white. Works just fine for me on SXCE 92 (and thus it should work just fine

Re: [osol-discuss] Bittorrent client for Solaris

2008-08-23 Thread Matt Harrison
Gizd wrote: I wanted to install libtorrent and I believe I did install it, but since it's the first time ever I'm installing a package I'm not entirely sure I did everything I had to. I downloaded libtorrent-0.11.4-sol10-x86-local.gz from SunFreeware, then what I did was: gunzip

[osol-discuss] dropping ethernet connection

2008-09-10 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, My OSOL fileserver has started dropping the ethernet connection every now and then. It's very annoying and I can't see what's going on. All I know is that network is disrupted and I get messages like this sometimes repeated continuously: Sep 10 19:03:01 exodus mac: [ID 486395 kern.info]

Re: [osol-discuss] dropping ethernet connection

2008-09-10 Thread Matt Harrison
James Carlson wrote: Matt Harrison writes: My OSOL fileserver has started dropping the ethernet connection every now and then. It's very annoying and I can't see what's going on. All I know is that network is disrupted and I get messages like this sometimes repeated continuously: Sep 10 19

Re: [osol-discuss] dropping ethernet connection

2008-09-10 Thread Matt Harrison
It appears that for whatever reason, the interface refuses to enter the RUNNING state. No matter what I do I can't get nge0 RUNNING and that means I'm without network :/ This is really a big problem for me right now, any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm going to try putting in an old

Re: [osol-discuss] dropping ethernet connection

2008-09-10 Thread Matt Harrison
James Carlson wrote: Matt Harrison writes: Its running SXCE snv_95 and has been running since 95 was released with no problems whatsoever. OK. All the problems I had predated build 95. It's just one of those problems that (for me) is really hard to track down but very annoying. I'll

Re: [osol-discuss] dropping ethernet connection

2008-09-10 Thread Matt Harrison
After messing around for a while with ifconfig I just tried: svcadm disable network/physical:default and svcadm enable network/physical:default and I seem to be working again, although for how long I have no Idea. Corrrection, I got a link light, but I'm not workingI can't find how

Re: [osol-discuss] dropping ethernet connection

2008-09-10 Thread Matt Harrison
James Carlson wrote: At a guess, doing this would have fixed it as well: # config=`ifconfig nge0 configinfo` # ifconfig nge0 unplumb # ifconfig $config That's a good clue, though I don't know enough about the driver to know why that would work. Yes I could have done

Re: [osol-discuss] dropping ethernet connection

2008-09-12 Thread Matt Harrison
James Carlson wrote: Matt Harrison writes: It appears that for whatever reason, the interface refuses to enter the RUNNING state. No matter what I do I can't get nge0 RUNNING and that means I'm without network :/ That means that the underlying driver is reporting link down. It's

Re: [osol-discuss] autoconf and packages

2008-09-13 Thread Matt Harrison
Dennis Clarke wrote: I'm trying to install Ruby Enterprise Edition and it's failing because autoconf isn't installed. I've got automake installed ok but I can't find a package for autoconf anywhere unless it has a really cryptic name like most of the other packages. I've also tried to

Re: [osol-discuss] autoconf and packages

2008-09-13 Thread Matt Harrison
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: I'm trying to install Ruby Enterprise Edition and it's failing because autoconf isn't installed. I've got automake installed ok but I can't find a package for autoconf anywhere unless it has a really cryptic name like most of the other packages

Re: [osol-discuss] autoconf and packages

2008-09-13 Thread Matt Harrison
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: I'm trying to install Ruby Enterprise Edition and it's failing because autoconf isn't installed. I've got automake installed ok but I can't find a package for autoconf anywhere unless it has a really cryptic name like most of the other packages

Re: [osol-discuss] Burn a bootable DVD

2008-09-29 Thread Matt Harrison
LevĂ­ Teodoro da Silva wrote: Hi guys I use OpenSolaris 2008.05 at my workstation and i will install Solaris 10 on my server. I am downloading the ISO for solaris 10. =) My question is simple : How can i do to create a bootable dvd with this ISO using OpenSolaris !? I do not know a

[osol-discuss] sudden huge slowdown

2008-09-30 Thread Matt Harrison
Everything was working fine on our snv_97 fileserver then one day our transfers had slowed to a crawl. I originally thought it was CIFS only but after some tests I can see that its all network transfers including scp and ftp. I've run some benchmarks like bonnie++ and disk IO seems to be ok. A

Re: [osol-discuss] sudden huge slowdown

2008-10-01 Thread Matt Harrison
Bryan Allen wrote: How full is your pool? Service starts crawling as ZFS has to spin the platters to search for free blocks in disparate parts of the disks. (Perhaps someone else can explain that better, but that's my understanding as to why full pool = slow pool.) I try to keep my pools

Re: [osol-discuss] sudden huge slowdown

2008-10-01 Thread Matt Harrison
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Matt, Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 10:52:57 PM, you wrote: MH Everything was working fine on our snv_97 fileserver then one day our MH transfers had slowed to a crawl. I originally thought it was CIFS only MH but after some tests I can see that its all

Re: [osol-discuss] sudden huge slowdown

2008-10-01 Thread Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Matt, Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 10:52:57 PM, you wrote: MH Everything was working fine on our snv_97 fileserver then one day our MH transfers had slowed to a crawl. I originally thought it was CIFS only MH but after some tests I can see

[osol-discuss] output from fmadm faulty

2008-11-03 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, As I want to know when one of the disks in our fileserver is faulty, I have it run fmadm faulty through cron so I can get informed when something goes down (ie a disk). So far it hasn't produced any output until today when I get this: ---

Re: [osol-discuss] PgSQL support in PHP

2008-11-11 Thread Matt Harrison
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:44:47AM +, Matt Harrison wrote: Hi all, I'm running an snv_97 box here and trying to get a couple of apps working with PHP and postgres. From the compile options in phpinfo() it appears it was compiled with pgsql support but for some reason no matter what I

[osol-discuss] CUPS errors

2008-12-24 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, I'm trying to get a printer to work for my network through CUPS. I've got the printer installed and looking ok, but when I try to print a test page from the CUPS interface, I get Unsupported format 'application/postscript'! Printing even a simple plaintext file results in Unsupported

Re: [osol-discuss] CUPS errors

2008-12-24 Thread Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison wrote: Also, once the printer is working locally, how can I set it up on the client machines? Since I'm using the in-kernel CIFS (in domain mode), I realise that the printer won't be accessible as it would with samba. I think I need to use IPP but no idea how :P I have

Re: [osol-discuss] CUPS errors

2008-12-27 Thread Matt Harrison
Norm Jacobs wrote: Perhaps you can provide a little information about your printer and how you have things configured. What kind of printer is it (HP Photospart C7280, Epson CX8300, ...)? How are you configured to communicate with it (USB, socket, ipp, lpd, ...)? How did you create

Re: [osol-discuss] migrating issues from SXCE to 2008.11

2009-01-11 Thread Matt Harrison
m...@bruningsystems.com wrote: Hi Matt, Matt Harrison wrote: Hi all, I've got a filer using SXCE installed and I'm thinking about migrating to OpenSolaris due mainly to the improved pkg command. I've tried testing it on VMware (6.0.0 build-45731) but there is an immediate problem

Re: [osol-discuss] migrating issues from SXCE to 2008.11

2009-01-11 Thread Matt Harrison
m...@bruningsystems.com wrote: Hi Matt, Matt Harrison wrote: I'll have a fiddle and see what I can come up with. You might also want to look at ~/.xsession-errors max Well I couldn't find that file, presumably because I hadn't got to login yet. But, I ran xorgconfig

[osol-discuss] diagnosing server hang

2009-01-24 Thread Matt Harrison
(ouch), the data is apparently fine and scrubbing shows no problems, the machine continues to work perfectly until the next hang. I have no idea how to continue investigating this, so any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance Matt Harrison Nov 03 11:40:16 9b069e20-9ea9-6169-ff93

Re: [osol-discuss] diagnosing server hang

2009-01-24 Thread Matt Harrison
Ian Collins wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: Hi all, We've got an SXCE snv_97 filer that has been working ok for a few months now. Recently, it has started falling over when large amounts of data are being copied from it. There is nothing printed to the console and I can't find anything

Re: [osol-discuss] diagnosing server hang

2009-01-24 Thread Matt Harrison
Ian Collins wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: Ian Collins wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: Hi all, We've got an SXCE snv_97 filer that has been working ok for a few months now. Recently, it has started falling over when large amounts of data are being copied from it. There is nothing printed

Re: [osol-discuss] diagnosing server hang

2009-01-25 Thread Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison wrote: thanks Ian, I'll look into this tomorrow. Well I'm not sure if it's good news or not. I've got the machine running memtest86+ with the standard tests and so far it's done 2 passes (3 hours runtime) without a single error. I'm going to leave it running overnight but does

Re: [osol-discuss] diagnosing server hang

2009-01-27 Thread Matt Harrison
m...@bruningsystems.com wrote: Hi Matt, Matt Harrison wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: thanks Ian, I'll look into this tomorrow. Well I'm not sure if it's good news or not. I've got the machine running memtest86+ with the standard tests and so far it's done 2 passes (3 hours

Re: [osol-discuss] diagnosing server hang

2009-01-30 Thread Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison wrote: m...@bruningsystems.com wrote: Hi Matt, Matt Harrison wrote: Matt Harrison wrote: thanks Ian, I'll look into this tomorrow. Well I'm not sure if it's good news or not. I've got the machine running memtest86+ with the standard tests and so far it's done 2

Re: [osol-discuss] diagnosing server hang

2009-01-30 Thread Matt Harrison
, I can follow that and I will try it very shortly. I am happy to move list, I'll subscribe to mdb-discuss and post my next reply there. I'll try what you've given me and post back in an hour or two. Thanks again -- Matt Harrison ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] diagnosing server hang

2009-01-30 Thread Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison wrote: I'll try what you've given me and post back in an hour or two. Wellnot exactly good news, but it's something. For whatever unfathomable reason, the server has stopped hanging when we copy large amounts of data from it. It has been doing it steadily for at least 2

[osol-discuss] worrying hangs

2009-07-09 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, We've got a filer built on consumer hardware running SXCE snv_97, holding a small (1.4TB) raidz array. It's been going great for the last 6 months or so, but recently its started misbehaving. We use in-kernel CIFS for most of our needs and it works perfectly when playing media or

Re: [osol-discuss] worrying hangs

2009-07-11 Thread Matt Harrison
Che Kristo wrote: If you are concerned about the availability maybe move it to at least a stable opensolaris release, running of SXCE in production seems to be asking for trouble Thanks for the reply. I am aware that SXCE isn't the best release. I've been planning a move to 2009.06, but I

Re: [osol-discuss] worrying hangs

2009-07-12 Thread Matt Harrison
Che Kristo wrote: If you are concerned about the availability maybe move it to at least a stable opensolaris release, running of SXCE in production seems to be asking for trouble Thanks for the push, I forced myself to make time and reinstalled the machine with 2009.06. I managed to get the

Re: [osol-discuss] Some Why?-Questions

2009-12-08 Thread Matt Harrison
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 06:10:40AM -0800, J??rg Stephan wrote: Hi there, at the weekend i installed OpenSolaris 2009.06 on an AMD Athlon64 X2 5200+ with 1GB DDR Ram. I wanted to try virtualization with VirtualBox. But i there where some things i really dont like, maybe you can help me to

[osol-discuss] terrible idmap blunders and confusion

2011-03-01 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi list, A couple of years ago I set up a zfs/smb/idmap server talking to my active directory. Everything works well and except for the occasional reboots, I don't usually have any problems. I had to sync my clock with the domain controller (300 seconds out) but after that I was getting

[osol-discuss] [SOLVED] Re: terrible idmap blunders and confusion

2011-03-01 Thread Matt Harrison
On 02/03/2011 00:53, Matt Harrison wrote: Hi list, A couple of years ago I set up a zfs/smb/idmap server talking to my active directory. Everything works well and except for the occasional reboots, I don't usually have any problems. I had to sync my clock with the domain controller (300

[osol-discuss] machine drops off the network

2011-03-19 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, Things have been going pretty well with my home fileserver, but recently and I think increasingly, the system is dropping off the network for just long enough to disrupt connections. It only really happens when copying large amounts of data, for example an 8 gig folder of mixed file

Re: [osol-discuss] hangs all over

2011-04-10 Thread Matt Harrison
On 10/04/2011 23:31, Ian Collins wrote: On 04/11/11 10:29 AM, iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:20:38AM +1200, Ian Collins wrote: On 04/11/11 10:06 AM, iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi list, I've got a machine running OSOL...can't remember the exact version