Re: [zones-discuss] Using zones for simple usage

2009-07-22 Thread Moore, Joe
Jeff Victor wrote: > Seriously, it would be helpful for Sun to understand the advantages of > a release that doesn't have a GUI as an option. In other words, what > problems are caused by the existence of the GUI software (besides > wasted disk space)? > > Instead of a separate distro, perhaps it

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone copy in Live Upgrade

2009-07-22 Thread Steve Lawrence
The issue is that from the global zone context (non-zlogin), stuff like symbolic links to something like /etc could copy files from the global zone. I'm not sure why this is dangerous in this case, as we are only reading from the zone, as cpio does not traverse/open sym links, it just copes the li

Re: [zones-discuss] show which zone

2009-07-22 Thread Mike DeMarco
That works, thanks -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] show which zone

2009-07-22 Thread Derek McEachern
Not using ps -efZ. If you use ps -eo and select the fields you want to see you can get the full zonename. >From the ps(1) man page -Z Prints the name of the zone with which the process is associated under an addi- tional c

[zones-discuss] show which zone

2009-07-22 Thread Mike DeMarco
>From the global zone I can do a ps -efZ to see which zone a process is running >in but it only prints the first 8 characters of the zone name. This is a >problem with our naming convention on zones as the last characters in the name >are often the unique ones. Is it possible ot expand the name

[zones-discuss] Zone copy in Live Upgrade

2009-07-22 Thread Martin Rehak
Hi, I am trying to get Live Upgrade better by reimplementing some parts of the code. What I am not sure of is whether is it safe to do a copy of non global zone imports (filesystems dedicated to a zone in its config) from the global zone. This is existing code (lucopy.sh:1808, install-nv-clone):

Re: [zones-discuss] sysidcfg file can not be cloned?

2009-07-22 Thread taiyo K
Hello Mike, I took a look at /usr/lib/brand/native/postclone on my Solaris 10 machine and now understood that's how it works. Thanks for sharing the info. Robinky -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discus

Re: [zones-discuss] "clone -m copy" works on OpenSolaris?

2009-07-22 Thread taiyo K
Hi Jordan, Thanks for the explanation. I am now clearer in understanding why ipkg does not support the option. >Why do you need to use '-m copy'? Are you trying to clone zones across >ZFS zpools? The idea behind of this question was I expected it possible to copy my customized data to new/clone

Re: [zones-discuss] "clone -m copy" works on OpenSolaris?

2009-07-22 Thread taiyo K
Hi Jordan, Thanks for the explanation. I am now clearer in understanding why ipkg does not support the option. >Why do you need to use '-m copy'? Are you trying to clone zones across >ZFS zpools? The idea behind of this question was I expected it possible to copy my customized data to new/clone