Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-25 Thread Mark
Postfix is probably the easiest drop-in replacement. But IMO a packaging of it should get lots of testing before going into a stable distro, and regardless of which is eventually the default or preferred choice, both should remain available. I did poke around at this, but found that the fm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-25 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On Jan 25, 2011, at 10:22 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 10:58 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> On 01/25/11 10:50 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: >>> As for the MTA discussion, Postfix is pretty much a drop in replacement >>> for Sendmail, and my vote would be to replace Sendmail e

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-25 Thread Gary Gendel
Personally, whether it's sendmail, postfix, qmail or something else I couldn't care less. We all have our MTA of choice. For the mail server I pull whatever it is it out to run spamdyke/qmail with an IMAP (dovecot) interface for access from all the other machines. I've done it dozens of time

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-25 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 10:58 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 01/25/11 10:50 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > As for the MTA discussion, Postfix is pretty much a drop in replacement > > for Sendmail, and my vote would be to replace Sendmail entirely. > > I still don't understand this subthread - i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BSD Magazine mentions OpenIndiana

2011-01-25 Thread Ian Collins
On 01/26/11 07:03 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: On 25 January 2011 17:32, Edward Martinez wrote: Hi in this month BSD (01/2011) issue, has an article comparing OpenIndiana to the BSDs on the desktop. the article starts on pg: 36 and it's a free download OI is getting exposure :-) http://bsdm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] crippling dladm set-linkprop limitations when setting allowed-ips, resulting in dladm: property list too long

2011-01-25 Thread Jonathan Kinney
I did try CIDR masking, and it responds with "invalid IP address". If that were to work, it would be good enough, but when it comes to automation, quite a bit of logic to write. Even if I could incrementally add to the list, that would be useful, but I do not see a way to do that either. Jonath

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] crippling dladm set-linkprop limitations when setting allowed-ips, resulting in dladm: property list too long

2011-01-25 Thread Lou Picciano
Jonathan - Though we do use dladm quite a bit, haven't run into this limitation of the allowed property... On the other hand, doesn't this property accept CIDR masking; wouldn't this go a long way toward consolidating your 'allowed' requirements? Lou - Original Message - From:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] crippling dladm set-linkprop limitations when setting allowed-ips, resulting in dladm: property list too long

2011-01-25 Thread Jonathan Kinney
I was wondering if anyone has insight into this problem I ran into. While adjusting the link properties for an existing vnic, I found that if you try to add more than 243 characters worth of comma separated IP addresses to the allowed-ips= property, it results in the error "dladm: property list t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-25 Thread Edward Martinez
On 01/25/11 13:52, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: Hi Ken, On 25 Jan 2011, at 18:50, Ken Gunderson wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 20:36 +, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: Hi All, I believe now would be a really good time for us to create our first stable branch of OpenIndiana, given the timing of some de

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-25 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 21:52 +, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > Hi Ken, > > On 25 Jan 2011, at 18:50, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 20:36 +, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I believe now would be a really good time for us to create our first > >> stable

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-25 Thread Kevin J. Woolley
On Tuesday, 25 January, 2011 13:52, "Alasdair Lumsden" said: > You are right though about needing more software in our repos, and this is > something we do intend to do via the OIAC project, please see: > > http://wiki.openindiana.org/display/~guido/OI+Extra+Consolidation > > If you'd like to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-25 Thread Bernd Helber
Am 25.01.11 19:58, schrieb Alan Coopersmith: > On 01/25/11 10:50 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: >> As for the MTA discussion, Postfix is pretty much a drop in replacement >> for Sendmail, and my vote would be to replace Sendmail entirely. > > I still don't understand this subthread - if someone wants t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-25 Thread Alasdair Lumsden
Hi Ken, On 25 Jan 2011, at 18:50, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 20:36 +, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I believe now would be a really good time for us to create our first stable >> branch of OpenIndiana, given the timing of some developments within the >> proj

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/25/11 10:50 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > As for the MTA discussion, Postfix is pretty much a drop in replacement > for Sendmail, and my vote would be to replace Sendmail entirely. I still don't understand this subthread - if someone wants to start working on postfix as a development project f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

2011-01-25 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 20:36 +, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > Hi All, > > I believe now would be a really good time for us to create our first stable > branch of OpenIndiana, given the timing of some developments within the > project. Was a consensus ever reached on this? Opinions are easier

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BSD Magazine mentions OpenIndiana

2011-01-25 Thread Jonathan Adams
Ta for the link ... It's interesting and probably fair :) On 25 January 2011 17:32, Edward Martinez wrote: > Hi > > in this month BSD (01/2011) issue, has  an article  comparing OpenIndiana to > the BSDs on the desktop. > the  article starts on pg: 36 and it's a free download > > OI is getting ex

[OpenIndiana-discuss] BSD Magazine mentions OpenIndiana

2011-01-25 Thread Edward Martinez
Hi in this month BSD (01/2011) issue, has an article comparing OpenIndiana to the BSDs on the desktop. the article starts on pg: 36 and it's a free download OI is getting exposure :-) http://bsdmag.org/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenI

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to install a different OS version from scratch, NOT as an upgrade, in a separate BE (or however one might do it) on an OSol B134 machine

2011-01-25 Thread Edward Martinez
On 01/25/11 06:31, Daniel Kjar wrote: installing from the bootable DVD iso, on the same machine, w/o interfering with the existing OSol b134 environment why not just run OpenIndiana in VIrtualbox? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to install a different OS version from scratch, NOT as an upgrade, in a separate BE (or however one might do it) on an OSol B134 machine

2011-01-25 Thread Daniel Kjar
I have the three bits of software you mention installed and had no problem with the upgrade. Just saying. Not sure what else you are having issues with In fact my system is more stable now (throws far fewer core dumps anyway). On 01/25/11 08:27 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: I have an

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to install a different OS version from scratch, NOT as an upgrade, in a separate BE (or however one might do it) on an OSol B134 machine

2011-01-25 Thread Gary Gendel
Yes. You can use the install_openindiana script from here: http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/install_openindiana This will create a new BE and install a fresh copy of indiana in it. It really is a life-saver. Gary On 1/25/11 8:27 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: I have an installation of OpenSo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to install a different OS version from scratch, NOT as an upgrade, in a separate BE (or however one might do it) on an OSol B134 machine

2011-01-25 Thread Michael Schuster
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 14:27, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: > I have an installation of OpenSolaris b134, with lots of addons: SunRay > Software, mplayer, VirtualBox... almost anything I could find got installed. > Make no mistake: it is ALL useful to me and my users, so there isn't > anything that c

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to install a different OS version from scratch, NOT as an upgrade, in a separate BE (or however one might do it) on an OSol B134 machine

2011-01-25 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
I have an installation of OpenSolaris b134, with lots of addons: SunRay Software, mplayer, VirtualBox... almost anything I could find got installed. Make no mistake: it is ALL useful to me and my users, so there isn't anything that can be removed out-of-hand. But: We do want to move on! OI b148

[OpenIndiana-discuss] G11n consolidation - CLDR 1.9

2011-01-25 Thread ken mays
Update... The G11n consolidation code was to be updated to CLDR 1.9 which puts it more inline with work elsewhere. I took care of the fonts and a few other things. This was by direction of the G11n team as I inquired about migrating to Unicode 6.x once released. EveryCity/Illumos is collabor