On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 3:00 PM, the outsider
wrote:
> I still think that Steve Jobs was sleeping when Oracle wanted to buy SUN.
> Apple could have ruled the world on desktop and server level.
> (although it wouldn't be good for the world)
>
I don't think Jobs particularly wanted to sell servers
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Nikola M wrote:
> Using worst possible and least private solution is hardly the answer.
> I suppose hosting mail server at some small or middle size company, where
> there is payed full-time email server administrator is the better solution,
> then putting company
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Nikola M wrote:
> I recently figured that Gmail through it's web interface forbids sending
> any type of archive within the mail messages (.zip, .7z, .rar etc) and that
> level of user-bashing combined with mandatory indexing of message contents
> and lack of priv
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Gary Gendel wrote:
>
> Strange, this is exactly why IMAP was created. I run my own mail server
> using spamdyke for SMTP and dovecot for IMAP. I have a dozen of mobile and
> desktop devices that read and send mail and don't have an issue.
My experience was that
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Rich Teer wrote:
> This conversation reminds me of this old chestnut:
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What's the most annoying thing on Usenet and in email?
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
wrote:
> My long standing rule is swap = 8 x core.
Hmm. I could see that working for small systems, but I have some machines
where that would require dedicating a terabyte of disk to swap. That
doesn't seem reasonable
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Nikola M wrote:
> I think that having your own mail server/domain these days it dirty cheap
> and everyone should have one :D
It's cheap in terms of money but costs a LOT of time.
In a previous job I managed a mail server and I probably spent a third of
my wor
Oh, and additionally, swap can serve as a useful safety valve if memory
gets fragmented and the kernel has to allocate a large, contiguous page for
some kind of DMA buffer or the like. I don't know if that's a common
scenario on OI, but I've seen it happen on Linux.
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Jacob Ritorto
wrote:
> If the swap partition ends up being on ZFS, it'll garner the additional
> benefit of being able to be periodically scrubbed to check for degradation
> of the SSD (these only accommodate a finite number of write cycles, but
> most modern ones
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
>>
>> Anyway, based on earlier comments I'm pretty sure the OP isn't interested
>> in, or in a position to, pay for a subs
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:59 AM, John D Groenveld
wrote:
> The OP might appreciate more details.
>
Eh, I didn't want to seem like I was shilling, especially shilling a
service that was in direct competition with an OSS system you already
mentioned.
Anyway, based on earlier comments I'm pretty s
n the US,
since monopoly cable carriers are starting to enforce them.
On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 2:38 PM, John D Groenveld
wrote:
> In message <
> cahhaouaf9yub2gugudy09eqtche6j5gqypsn57+gsspetvn...@mail.gmail.com>
> , David Brodbeck writes:
> >set up and maintain a pupp
On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Philip Robar
wrote:
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the thing that both Jerry's
> administrator friend and David are missing is that ZFS data redundancy
> isn't just a "sexy" form of reliability. It is also provides data
> integrity, i.e. with redundancy ZFS
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Tim Mooney wrote:
> Just MHO, but automated installation (jumpstart, kickstart, etc.) +
> rigorous use of a configuration management system (puppet, ansible,
> chef, etc.) is the way to go for OS config. It's probably both faster
> and (almost certainly) safer to
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> (Scope) creeping out further, can any of the *BSD's or Lunux distro's do a
> full system restore to blank disk?
I've usually done it by booting from a LiveCD, and doing the restore from
there. I think this is probably the ideal method.
Anoth
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Jerry Kemp
wrote:
> From a high level view, his comment to them is to NOT run a mirror. His
> suggestion to them is to just run a straight drive, then every evening or
> downtime, bring the other disk(s) online and sync them with the online
> master, using rsync
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> Assume that this is for a network server with advanced network
> configuration settings, ssh config, zones, etc.
>
> If was the same as a standard OS install without subsequent configuration,
> then backing u
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:15 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> You can also boost security with no passwords allowed, keys only for ssh
> auth ;)
>
True. I do this with machines where I'm the only one who'll be logging
in. With machines that have lots of other users it becomes too much of an
administrati
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> Got no qualms about ssh (or openvpn) on port 443 - indeed, if one sets up
> something non-standard, gotta be ready for the consequences. And to all
> ids'es and sniffers, cryptotraffic looks much the same (different dynamic
> flow patterns may
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via
openindiana-discuss wrote:
> The real problem is that OI has no community---just people who contribute
> almost nothing (of course there are brilliant exceptions...) and who are
> always critical about this and about that.
I think partly
Yeah, sorry, I admin a lot of Linux servers so I'm used to thinking of it
generically as 'noatime'. :)
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 4:02 AM, James Carlson
wrote:
> On 05/14/15 05:15, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> > noatime, isn't that a UFS specific mount option??
>
> There's a ZFS equivalent:
>
> % ma
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 4:33 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK)
wrote:
> On 13/05/2015 09:20, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>
>> This is what it looks like on the FreeNAS box
>>
>> NAME AVAIL USED USEDSNAP USEDDS
>> USEDREFRESERV USEDCHILD
>> Tank/cifs8.9
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Bruce Lilly wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Nikola M wrote:
>
> > Regarding managing services on Unix-like OSes, illumos and Opensolaris
> > descendent OS'es enjoy Service management Facility (SMF), maybe you could
> > comment how it stand for you, comp
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Peter Tribble
wrote:
> For regular distros there are a couple of major resource constraints:
> ZFS has a certain footprint. (Although it's somewhat overstated - I've
> run zfs based systems that have 512M of memory quite happily. Not
> as file servers, of course.)
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Jacob Ritorto
wrote:
> Going to recompile the bins on bsd.
> Absolutely LOVING the keyboard. Gosh, I missed that thing.
>
> Otherwise, yeah, don't need a pc here. I admit that I'm a little nervy
> about the bsd learning curve, but, hey - it's a nice thing to
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Nikola M wrote:
> People in the business and personal world are using Mail clients very
> intensively.
> Not every Mail server admin or service provider is happy with keeping all
> copies of all messages on servers forever, so Mail clients are in wide use
> and th
Oh, I went into the discussion knowing there would never be a forum. It
doesn't fit with the character and target audience of this project, which
is firmly rooted in old UNIX traditions. If it were still possible to use
UUCP bang paths, this list would do it. ;) I just found the
generation-based
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:53 PM, James Carlson
wrote:
> Indeed. That's mostly as a side-effect of all those developers setting
> up little Facebook-like forum fiefdoms. I hate having to visit 100 of
> these just to keep up, so I don't. If it comes to me via email (for
> which I've subscribed),
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Nikola M wrote:
>
> I think it breaks down mostly between "people that know how to use mail
> client", valuing their privacy and people who just "click" on someone's
> proprietary services, depending on someone else for use of even basic
> services on internet.
>
The forum vs. email split seems to break down along the lines of polling
vs. push. People who have used email for a long time and know how to
manage large amounts of it prefer the push model; people who are less
familiar with it, and think in terms of online "communities," tend to
prefer forums.
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Richard L. Hamilton
wrote:
> PS yes, vi is a PITA to learn, (I had to learn vi decades ago having
> previously used early incarnations of the much friendlier Rand Editor), but
> as a general purpose editor, once you _have_ learned it, you can work
> faster with i
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Alan Coopersmith <
alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On 10/ 2/14 07:00 AM, Brandon Hume wrote:
>
>> On many (most? all?) Linuxes, /bin/sh *is* /bin/bash.
>>
>
> Many, but not all - the Debian family and some others use a lighter weight,
> POSIX compatible shell
to uncover the
battery connections, and supply external power that way. Those are some
memories. Not often you get to attack a computer with a Dremel. ;)
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>
> Are there other hint's than using GCC?
>
> Uwe
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y. The pam.conf line creates a Windows-hashed
copy of the password and keeps it in sync.
On a Samba installation this is normally done with the smbpasswd tool,
instead.
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On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:02 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Ian Collins wrote:
>
>> Hands up all those who've bricked a Linux system or had a Solaris 10
>> system that wouldn't play with live upgrade.
>>
>
>
Sv4 and went to NFSv3, which also meant scrapping
ZFS in situations where I couldn't use an automount map. I simply got
tired of rebooting hung clients and servers, and having to explain to my
users why the system was down yet again.
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d-term. This is especially
true of the Linux kernel, where new kernel versions often bring unexpected
regressions.
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:16 AM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com <
dormitionsk...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm probably trolling here, and this is definitely off-topic, but gee --
> we have a communist president, who's filled his White House staff with
> communists... They've been subtly teaching sociali
f mirror
verification shows the two disks differ, there's no way of knowing which is
correct.
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if you're not already part of the inner
circle. The *BSDs OS's, in particular, are known for being hostile to
outside contributors.
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ed it was an
easy way to find out which email addresses on their lists were
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iana doesn't
have much in the way of local console support; I think the idea is you'll
primarily be managing it remotely.
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re.
I've seen that happen too, but on OpenSolaris. (Haven't upgraded any
production servers to OpenIndiana yet.) In my case the cause was a memory
leak in svc.configd. It would slowly grow until after a few weeks the
system would suffer from memory exhaustion.
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spinning just as long as the rest of the disks.
This is, incidentally, why I don't run single-parity RAID anymore. That
and I like to stay in bed at night. ;)
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On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Gary Mills wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:01:43AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
> > Try something like this to open a virtual console:
> > ipmitool -I lanplus -H -U sol activate
>
> Thanks. That works nicely. The terminal emulati
ou should set "Continue console redirection
after OS loads" to OFF. Obviously you'll need to adjust the baud rate
and unit number to suit what speed and port you're using.
I haven't tried to configure OI for a serial console yet, so I can't
help you with that, but
party drives and then creating support problems,
so they locked out non-Dell drives in the firmware of some of their cards.
>
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run filebench and look at the results. I'm not sure how
> NFS handles FSYNC and DSYNC to be honest.
>
NFS does a *lot* of synchronous writes and will probably benefit from a
fast ZIL device.
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e please?
>
One tip: make sure you're mounting it as 'cifs' and not 'smbfs'. I don't
know if Xubuntu is still shipping smbfs alongside cifs, but smbfs is quite
out of date at this point and probably buggy.
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ut this remark struck me as odd. I've
never considered popularity a sign of the merit of an OS. If I did I'd run
everything on Windows. ;)
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Like anything it gets easier with experience, and there are decided
advantages to it; it's just a bit of a jolt for people who are used to nice
UNIX-y text scripts that you can just go and look at. It seems more aimed
at the convenience of packaging scripts than at being manipulated by actu
ng I've noticed about Xming is it does not allocate a TTY or create a
login shell when it connects. This has caused problems for me in the past;
for example if you have a .profile or a system-wide /etc/profile neither
will be run for an Xming connection.
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labeled OPT1. I don't know if it's supported on all
newer drives or not. Here's an image from Western Digital explaining the
jumper options:
http://support.wdc.com/images/kb/sata.gif
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can't agree on the name, it won't work. NFSv3 sends uid numbers over the
wire, so it doesn't have this requirement.
One solution to this is to implement NIS or LDAP so that all your machines
see a unified set of users.
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I found no improvement in performance when setting
that flag, but that was on FreeBSD, so it may be a bug in their port of the
code. Haven't tried it in OI yet, that's next on my agenda when I get some
free time...
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Un
tching ZFS on FreeBSD get better.
FreeBSD has much better support for common disk controllers, probably
because they're not hoping to sell own-brand hardware to end users.
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nfused. I use 'sudo -i' exclusively, and whenever I get in, I have
> valid command history.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: David Brodbeck [mailto:bro...@uw.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 3:49 PM
> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
> Subject: Re: [Op
quot;su -", chdir back to the right working
directory) is a hassle. Some of the OS's I work with (FreeBSD, in
particular) have very basic statically-linked shells for root, in order to
make system recovery easier, and these often lack good tab-completion and
command history features.
apshoot. I've done it many times successfully. I've also spent an
hour desoldering and replacing a blown mini-fuse in a motherboard keyboard
power circuit, so those times it doesn't work can be painful. ;)
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things never really change. ;)
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Largo wrote:
> David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> > I'd be interested in seeing references to that.
>
>
> http://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/199501735/microsoft-waves-patent-lawsuit-stick-at-linux.htm
>
> Quote: "Microsoft Gen
id the loss of goodwill.
To me this all seems like speculation and FUD. I'm not sure it's going to
lead to a useful discussion.
(Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer.)
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pfexec works for most things, but there are some commands that don't play
along well with it.
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everal unpatched
security holes, at this point.)
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e amounts of internal cache.
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On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Lou Picciano wrote:
> Mark, It may not help at all - but what kind of network interface hardware
> are you using?
>
igb is the Broadcom driver.
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; if I manually did an "ifconfig up" followed by
manually running the route command, it worked. After doing this a couple
times it magically started working automatically on boot, so I'm not sure
what exactly I did to fix it.
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OpenSolaris support with their drivers has been pretty spotty.
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