Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to create a bootable USB stick on OI?

2012-08-19 Thread Gary Mills
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 01:55:01PM -0400, Rich wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Gary Mills wrote: > > Has anybody figured out how to do this? I need to update the BIOS on > > a system with a Tyan motherboard. Tyan support sent me an EXE file > > and a BAT file alon

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to create a bootable USB stick on OI?

2012-08-20 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:05:08PM -0400, Albert Lee wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Gary Mills wrote: > > Has anybody figured out how to do this? I need to update the BIOS on > > a system with a Tyan motherboard. Tyan support sent me an EXE file > > and a BAT fil

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Some Howto pointers?

2012-08-31 Thread Gary Gendel
2.4 comes a complete implementation of DHCPv6. If this is true then those of us using Comcast (and some other ISPs) can get a static /64 block of ipv6 addresses. It would be fun to kick the ipv6 tires. Regards, Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-02 Thread Gary Gendel
replacement DVD drive. I was hoping to not only use it for testing, but to use it to help the SPARC OI efforts but it still requires X-windows and WM to be useful for me. I can't believe that I'm the only one that uses OI to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-02 Thread Gary Gendel
I, but that doesn't imply that you can change/alter anything without getting deeper and into the commandline. -----Original Message- From: Gary Gendel [mailto:g...@genashor.com] Sent: zondag 2 september 2012 16:53 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss]

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] tip & ttydefs questions

2012-09-03 Thread Gary Mills
I assume that the microcontroller is not logging in to the OI computer. > The more I read, the more confused I get. So far as I can tell, I > can't configure the port as only an outbound connection, but must > run login on it. Harmless, but annoying. But there are so many > prog

[OpenIndiana-discuss] What does the OpenIndiana leader do?

2012-09-04 Thread Gary Mills
olicy and direction. These are just my thoughts. If I've omitted something or stated something incorrectly, please let me know. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list O

[OpenIndiana-discuss] isc-dhcp client

2012-09-05 Thread Gary Gendel
ISPs (i.e. Comcast) are using this to delegate IPV6 blocks to their business/personal customers. If the answer is that I should be able to replace it, the next question is if anyone has done this before and how difficult this would be to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] isc-dhcp client

2012-09-06 Thread Gary Gendel
but this not a good final solution. Gary On 9/6/12 9:13 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: On 6 September 2012 02:51, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Gary Gendel wrote: If the answer is that I should be able to replace it, the next question is if anyone has done this before and how difficul

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] isc-dhcp client

2012-09-06 Thread Gary Mills
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 08:51:58PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Gary Gendel wrote: > > >Anyone know if there is a fundamental reason why we can't > >wholesale replace the Sun/Oracle dhcp client with the ISC one? If > >we don't get any upda

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] isc-dhcp client

2012-09-06 Thread Gary Gendel
to implement prefix delegation in the existing client which I've already been told would be difficult. Gary On 9/6/12 9:42 AM, Gary Mills wrote: It likely hasn't been packaged yet. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] isc-dhcp client

2012-09-06 Thread Gary Gendel
Whoops! Make that "I was wondering if I should include the client". On 9/6/12 9:58 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Au contraire mon frere. :) I packaged the server up and I'm waiting for the thumbs up to push it into the main branch. I was wondering if I should include the server. As

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] isc-dhcp client

2012-09-06 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 10:06:15AM -0400, Gary Gendel wrote: > Whoops! Make that "I was wondering if I should include the client". I guessed that was it. I'd expect the client to be in a separate package since it should replace `dhcpagent' and possibly `dhcpinfo' and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-06 Thread Gary Mills
characters, including the CR. If that device is another Unix system, its tty will be in cooked mode. That means that it will send a LF (0x0a) after the CR. The cursor on your terminal should first return to the left, and then drop down one line. A firmware device should be doing the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] isc-dhcp client

2012-09-07 Thread Gary Gendel
a logical or virtual nic on bge0? Gary On 9/6/12 10:23 AM, Gary Mills wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 10:06:15AM -0400, Gary Gendel wrote: Whoops! Make that "I was wondering if I should include the client". I guessed that was it. I'd expect the client to be in a separate package

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-10 Thread Gary Gendel
I've got an enterprise 450 (Sparc II), with a PGX graphics card and a bum HME nic so I use a fiberchannel card currently running Solaris 10 using zfs root. I'll pitch in to test openindiana if I can create a separate BE rather than blow Solaris 10 away (which I actually use to build and test p

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI stopped booting after 151a6 update.

2012-09-13 Thread Gary Gendel
f you tell me what you want me to try. BTW, this is on a Lenovo Thinkpad T61p. Gary On 9/13/12 10:40 AM, Milan Jurik wrote: Hi, it would be nice if people affected by this are active on that issue. Currently I have only one reporting person who wrote that the problem seems to be visible on

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Remote console for Tyan motherboards with IPMI

2012-09-25 Thread Gary Mills
this device. The remote console client I use is `ipmitool', available in package: system/management/ipmitool It connects over the network to set the serial port speed and other parameters, and to display the remote console. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Win

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool export import alternate cachefile

2012-09-26 Thread Gary Mills
OC FREECAP HEALTH ALTROOT rpool 136G 8.66G 127G 6% ONLINE - space 278G 212M 278G 0% ONLINE - # ll /etc/zfs/*.cache -rw-r--r-- 1 root root1824 Jul 18 17:51 /etc/zfs/clust.cache -rw-r--r-- 1 root root1716

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hardware control software for OpenIndiana

2012-09-26 Thread Gary Mills
es/viewpage.action?pageId=23856255 -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool export import alternate cachefile

2012-09-26 Thread Gary Mills
get imported at boot time without searching for devices. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Wrong link on wiki page

2012-09-27 Thread Gary Mills
incorrect. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Wrong link on wiki page

2012-09-27 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 04:32:59PM +0200, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Gary Mills wrote: > > > > Unlike the others, this link leads to: > > > > http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=23856255 > > I have fixed

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 1rst mirror in Europe: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)

2012-09-29 Thread Gary Mills
ss run faster. Filing some bug reports in this area would be a good start. I have the SPARC versions of Solaris 11 Express and OI-134 installed on separate boot disks of my V240 server. Both of these use the IPS system. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] killing graphical login

2012-10-02 Thread Gary Gendel
That would be great. On 10/ 2/12 12:01 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: You may also want to look into FreeNX, I believe I requested it, and I thought they closed the ticket saying they were adding it to one of the community repos, not 100% sure though. On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Jim Klimov

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Archive for unsupported machines

2012-10-18 Thread Gary Gendel
formation might be useful for others that are running OI on unsupported Sun boxes. Sorry if this is inappropriate for this list. Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Slow ssh login?

2012-10-20 Thread Gary Gendel
Well, my problem seems to be exactly opposite. If I restart sshd, I get really good response at first and then it deteriorates to a several second login delay. dig and dig -x is always fast. I even disabled reverse DNS on sshd with no difference. Every once in a while I get fast response. Th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Slow ssh login?

2012-10-21 Thread Gary Gendel
I think I found it... https://www.illumos.org/issues/1983 So far, so good. Logged in and out a dozen times with no lag. Gary On 10/21/12 5:00 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-10-21 9:40, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: Perhaps setting UseDNS to "no" in sshd_config could help. :) Also, i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

2012-10-23 Thread Gary Gendel
On 10/23/12 8:23 AM, Doug Hughes wrote: On 10/23/2012 7:52 AM, Sebastian Gabler wrote: Hi, I am facing a problem with zfs receive through ssh. As usually, root can't log on ssh; the log on users can't receive a zfs stream (rights problem), and pfexec is disabled on the target host (as I under

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox security

2012-11-17 Thread Gary Driggs
has drastically limited your risk footprint. In my mind, the most compelling reason for maintaining current versions of Firefox on Solaris & Illumos/OI derivatives is for feature parity. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenInd

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox security

2012-11-17 Thread Gary Driggs
On Nov 17, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Even with x86 binary code, it is possible that the code may be able to > resolve and invoke a standard C library call (e.g. system()) in a way which > works on both Solaris and Linux. I've not seen any code that bothers. Most JavaScript la

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox security

2012-11-17 Thread Gary Driggs
is designed to iteratively check for vulnerable plugins & deliver a payload based on what's available. OS X & Android are the biggest unix targets to date as their user populations are much bigger and less savvy. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem running rsync with smf service

2012-12-07 Thread Gary Mills
] To change the user under which a service runs, you should change the `user' and `group' properties in the manifest. The user must have a home directory. If the user is not root, you will also need to change the `privileges' property to add the necessary privileges. The smf_metho

[OpenIndiana-discuss] freenx

2012-12-19 Thread Gary Gendel
s even if I try to log in from the local OpenIndiana host. I turned on using the font server, and I tried putting in a font path, but it still fails with the same error. Anyone have success getting freeNX working? Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] freenx

2012-12-20 Thread Gary Gendel
Jon, Thanks, that got me past the problem. BTW, I tried your package which gave me the same results as mine. In addition, when I log in to user nx your installation complains about embedded newlines in strings. I can almost taste this now. gary@abby:~> ssh -X phoenix /usr/NX/bin/nxn

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] freenx

2012-12-20 Thread Gary Gendel
custom.conf contains: [xdmcp] Enable=true and "svcs gdm" shows it online. BTW, I can vnc to this machine and get the gdm chooser but I'd prefer NX. Do you get the complaint about /tmp? Gary On 12/20/2012 08:19 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: > hmm ... this works for me ...

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] freenx

2012-12-20 Thread Gary Gendel
up failed". On 12/20/2012 08:21 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: > actually I can't find gdmsetup ... have you enabled gdm in some way though? > > On 20 December 2012 13:19, Jonathan Adams wrote: >> hmm ... this works for me ... >> >> have you "run gdmsetup and ena

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anti-Virus strategy

2012-12-26 Thread Gary Gendel
package you have to take the time to "bless" the changes reported by such a system. On the plus side, it saved me a few times when I accidentally overwrote things (one of those Oh-No! situations). I could easily generate a report of what was changed so I could pull back the original file

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mount NTFS USB under OmniOS

2013-01-02 Thread Gary Mills
will actually function correctly? I can generally do the former, but often not the latter. If the submitter includes information on the test framework they used, is that all that's needed for the function of the code? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manito

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any oi software to stream video to androids?

2013-01-04 Thread Gary Gendel
I've been using a Java based server successfully: http://www.serviio.org/ Gart On 1/4/13 5:18 PM, Paolo Marcheschi wrote: I think Llink can be useful to you. more here: http://goo.gl/5TKd4 Paolo Il 1/4/13 8:43 PM, Ray Arachelian ha scritto: I'm looking for something to stream video that to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any oi software to stream video to androids?

2013-01-04 Thread Gary Gendel
Ray, I used the one in sfe-encumbered in package pkg:/video/ffmpeg@1.0-0.151.1.6 Gary On 1/4/13 6:08 PM, Ray Arachelian wrote: On 01/04/2013 05:53 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: I've been using a Java based server successfully: http://www.serviio.org/ Thanks. What did you do to get ffmpeg

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a7 smnpd core dump

2013-01-05 Thread Gary Gendel
at 0x4056b1 [15] 0x402f7c(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0), at 0x402f7c Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI_151a7 install grumble

2013-01-31 Thread Gary Mills
e an fdisk partition on that disk, the GUI installer should notice it and offer to install illumos on that fdisk partition, leaving the rest of the disk untouched. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zones document (Was: Buildable distro?)

2013-02-06 Thread Gary Mills
lation of dependency packages always imposes. And it shows off > on one of OIs core features. =-) In particular, I'd like to see what changes in planning or design are required to accomodate zones. Is it more memory? Is it more disk space? What about additional filesystems? -- -Ga

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] abandoned support for OpenOffice, Miozilla Firefox, Adobe Flash, etc.

2013-02-10 Thread Gary Driggs
teams. Even without modification "any use of a meta-installer would require [their] prior written permission" per their policies; http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndia

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Vnc to mimic SunRay behaviour, how??

2013-02-27 Thread Gary Gendel
Jon, You're a better man than I. I tried but got stuck somewhere. I remember getting many of the pieces working, but not all. Gary On 02/27/2013 12:32 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote: you cannot really use VNC do do that ... you would be better off using something similar to freeNX .

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Milter-Greylist for OpenIndiana+Postfix?

2013-03-03 Thread Gary Mills
RC). I've been recommending for several years that people discontinue using DRAC and use SMTP authentication instead. DRAC has been obsolete for some time. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DLNA server

2013-03-07 Thread Gary Gendel
s I tried was that I was only able to play, pause, and stop. Rewind and Fast-forward wasn't possible from the PVR on the DLNA stream. Good luck, Gary On 03/07/2013 02:19 PM, Michelle Knight wrote: Hi Folks, I'm not turning up much on a web search, so I'm hoping someone will b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DLNA server

2013-03-07 Thread Gary Gendel
Michelle, I seem to remember you can configure it using the console remotely using the property serviio.remoteHost but I've never tried it. Gary On 03/07/2013 04:26 PM, Michelle Knight wrote: Hi Gary, I've had a shot with Serviio. It seems to need a graphics console in order to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone using OpenIndiana in production?

2013-03-29 Thread Gary Gendel
t's 8 sata cables draping out the back connected to 2 disk cabinets, it's quite a DIY sight. I wish I could find a less power-hungry and quieter machine to replace the v40z at a reasonable price. Being able to put the disks in the same cabinet would be a plus. :) Gary On 03/28

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPNAT redirection.

2013-04-19 Thread Gary Gendel
se 0.0.0.0/0 so it automatically picks up my external nic's ip address (I've have pseudo-dynamic IP from my ISP). Gary On 04/19/2013 05:22 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: Actually in the real system I am trying to forward a port from an external address (on the internet, the address I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IPNAT redirection.

2013-04-19 Thread Gary Gendel
We've all been there. :( On 04/19/2013 08:08 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: ignore me, i'm just being stupid! on the accelerated host I needed to add the route to the external server :( On 19 April 2013 12:58, Jonathan Adams wrote: On 19 April 2013 11:45, Gary Gendel wrote: Jon,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sata Port Multiplier

2013-05-14 Thread Gary Gendel
totally successful. This was back around build 121 so things may be better now. I doubt it because there wasn't much interest in getting this feature working. Sorry I can't give you the magical incantation to get things going. Gary On 05/14/2013 04:07 AM, Mark wrote: I have been try

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] shell script mutex locking or process signaling

2013-05-30 Thread Gary Mills
ice, or that the system admin might do it? SMF has ways to prevent multiple instances of the method from running and to make enable and disable requests synchronous. Can you do what you want within SMF, or does the method script had to do all the process manipulation? -- -Gary Mills--r

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] shell script mutex locking or process signaling

2013-05-30 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 04:51:57PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: > > From: Gary Mills [mailto:gary_mi...@fastmail.fm] > > > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 02:15:12PM +, Edward Ned Harvey > > (openindiana) wrote: > > > > > > Here's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] shell script mutex locking or process signaling

2013-06-01 Thread Gary Mills
ethod should ensure that the server process is fully shut down before it exits. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] shell script mutex locking or process signaling

2013-06-01 Thread Gary Mills
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 02:20:09PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: > > From: Gary Mills [mailto:gary_mi...@fastmail.fm] > > > > If your method script starts a server process in the background and > > then immediately exits, it is broken. > > Fortuna

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun Fire

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Gendel
something more modern I should be looking at instead? Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun Fire

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Gendel
On 06/21/2013 11:56 AM, Peter Tribble wrote: On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: I have a possibility of picking up a decommissioned X4340 (thumper) Hm. An X4340 is some sort of power transfer unit. Thumper = X4500 Thor = X4540 Whoops, it's the X4540 w/o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Odd Samba/winbind issue

2013-06-26 Thread Gary Mills
ib:/usr/sfw/lib [31]RPATH /usr/lib:/usr/sfw/lib This is a good check in case you can't tell what the build script is doing. You can also use `ldd' to see how the paths to shared modules are resolved. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winni

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Switching from lzjb to lz4 compression

2013-06-26 Thread Gary Gendel
Hi, Can I switch from one algorithm to another on the fly? I assume that only newly written data will be affected, but can the system deal with a mixed compression pool? Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Switching from lzjb to lz4 compression

2013-06-26 Thread Gary Gendel
On 06/26/2013 04:16 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-06-26 22:01, Gary Gendel wrote: Hi, Can I switch from one algorithm to another on the fly? I assume that only newly written data will be affected, but can the system deal with a mixed compression pool? I believe it should be same as other

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana server networking problem.

2013-07-02 Thread Gary Mills
192.168.0.1 will reroute it to the final destination. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] USB Audio & Webcam audio device or input audio aka USB Microphone issue.

2013-07-03 Thread gary perreault
Hey How is everyone? I'm Gary and new to Oi Solaris. I just want to start out thanks for a great fork of OpenSolaris and i'm really enjoying this system alot. Everything works good, Except one sort of annoying problem, and trying to resolved this. I am new to this system , learn

[OpenIndiana-discuss] packagemanager core dumps

2013-07-06 Thread Gary Gendel
rland/workspace/components/python/python26/Python-2.6.8/Objects/stringobject.c pkg works fine, so it seems to be something specific to the GUI wrapper. The left-hand pane is displayed but it crashes before populating the right-hand pane. Regards,

[OpenIndiana-discuss] migrating zfs pools

2013-07-18 Thread Gary Gendel
Hi, I have a pool, archive, with zfs files: /archive /archive/gary /archive/dani /archive/ian I want to replace this with a new set of disks along with the appropriate properties set (smb sharing, etc.). Basically, I want to copy the complete pool to a new pool and then import that pool

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] migrating zfs pools

2013-07-18 Thread Gary Gendel
no way to downsize the number of mirror sets in a pool, it looks like that approach is not feasible. Zfs send/receive it is. :) Thanks for the super help. The new disks arrive this weekend so I'll give it a go when I can. Gary On 07/18/2013 02:07 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-07-18

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updating ZFS capabilities on OI

2013-07-23 Thread Gary Gendel
Yes, it's part of hipster. Just keep in mind that hipster is a work in progress and things may break but later be fixed. I've been on hipster since the beginning and I am impressed with the speed that it's evolving. It has been reasonably stable but some issues remain. On 07/23/2013 01:09 P

[OpenIndiana-discuss] zfs question

2013-08-05 Thread Gary Gendel
e to know what is going on. BTW, I use "init 6" to do the reboot. Is this the wrong way to reboot on OI? Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware

2013-08-11 Thread Gary Driggs
most likely culprit. Applying the process of elimination or some other methodology is most advisable for these types of troubleshooting situations. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailm

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrade to oi_151a8 fails on one machine

2013-08-13 Thread Gary Mills
hy did the upgrade to oi_151a7 succeed? I tried adding the correct version of `entire' for oi_151a7, in a new BE, but `pkg image-update -n' still told me it would update only 37 packages. What could be preventing this upgrade from working? What should I do next? -- -Gary Mills

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrade to oi_151a8 fails on one machine

2013-08-14 Thread Gary Mills
ed. When I tried the same `pkg install' command on another machine that was still at oi_151a7, the output seemed fine. There were no rejected files. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ OpenIndi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware (OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 37, Issue 15)

2013-08-14 Thread Gary Driggs
On Aug 14, 2013, at 11:38 AM, James Relph wrote: > the same servers as iSCSI targets has no iSCSI errors at the same time as > VMware is freaking out Is VMware using iSCSI as well or NFS? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrade to oi_151a8 fails on one machine

2013-08-18 Thread Gary Mills
lled Indeed, the installed copy was ``2.4.1,5.11-0.151.1.7'' but the one available on the server was ``0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.8''. If I read this correctly, the version went from 2.4.1 to 0.5.11. The 0.5.11 copy is also marked obsolete. What happened here? I'll try rem

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Upgrade to oi_151a8 fails on one machine

2013-08-19 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 08:45:22AM -0500, Gary Mills wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:57:42AM +0100, Jon Tibble wrote: > > For debugging updates use the process here: > > > > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Troubleshooting+image-update+failures [...] > Reaso

[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a8 does not recognize an audio CD

2013-08-19 Thread Gary Mills
ks on the CD. This all works on oi_151a7. The oi_151a8 system does automatically mount and display an OS DVD with an icon and the file manager when I insert it in the drive. What is the problem here? Where should I look to solve it? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Win

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Unmount DVD from GUI fails with oi_151a8

2013-08-19 Thread Gary Mills
1a7. When I press the eject button on the DVD drive, it does eject the DVD and the icon does disappear. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Unmount DVD from GUI fails with oi_151a8

2013-08-20 Thread Gary Mills
? I'm not familiar with the inner workings of Gnome, but I would think that anything to do with removable devices could be handled by giving the appropriate RBAC privileges to the GUI console user. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Unmount DVD from GUI fails with oi_151a8

2013-08-20 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 09:59:52PM +0200, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: > On 20/08/2013 15:21, Gary Mills wrote: > > > >I thought that /usr/lib/pm-launch was the way to run commands as > >root from the Gnome menus. It prompts for the administrator account > >and password

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Migrating the root pool to a new device

2013-08-27 Thread Gary Mills
+pool -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Wiki page for adding a Windows GRUB entry

2013-09-01 Thread Gary Mills
artition types, with these two included: "Solaris/Linux swap", /* 130 */ "Solaris2", /* 191 */ These are 0x82 and 0xbf respectively. The illumos fdisk command selects the second one by default, and will offer

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Wiki page for adding a Windows GRUB entry

2013-09-01 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 06:56:46PM +0200, Jean-Pierre wrote: > Jean-Pierre wrote: > >Gary Mills wrote: > >>On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 11:14:29AM +0200, Bryan N Iotti wrote: > >>> > >>>You can see the end result here: > >>>http://wiki

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New Wiki page for adding a Windows GRUB entry

2013-09-02 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 09:04:48AM +0200, Jean-Pierre wrote: > Gary Mills wrote: > > > >It sounds as if the OI installer needs to be fixed. Can you file > >a bug report on this problem, if it hasn't already been done? > > Done as bug #4096 (who is going to get th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Some questions

2013-09-11 Thread Gary Gendel
MIchelle, I would take a look at serviio, http://www.serviio.org. It's a java app that does a nice job of providing DLNA. It has a control program that integrated into GNOME desktop. I haven't used it for quite a while, but it was pretty simple to set up and use on OpenIndiana.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a8 User/group gui frontend not usable

2013-09-12 Thread Gary Mills
n all that users files to match? That's what I do. > And even when creating users from the command line, I don't see a way > in `man useradd' to set a numeric owner bit. `useradd -u NNN' should be the way. -- -Gary Mills-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SDHC card support in OI?

2013-09-24 Thread Gary Driggs
On Sep 24, 2013, at 11:22 AM, Bryan N Iotti wrote: > Any other ideas as to what I can try? A different reader? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pulseaudio

2013-10-14 Thread Gary Gendel
Jon, Did you get the NX server running on Solaris/OpenIndiana? I was almost successful but couldn't get all the components compiled and running. Gary On 10/14/2013 05:11 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: The best alternative for light-weight sessions from Solaris was FreeNX, but I haven'

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pulseaudio

2013-10-14 Thread Gary Gendel
Jon, I'd be happy to test what you've done. Gary On 10/14/2013 08:36 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: Okay, I just compiled opennx to get a client (which involved compiling nxssh as well) but it did work, and I've just connected to myself and it's still working ... wonders will

[OpenIndiana-discuss] hipster broke dhcp server with SUNWfiles

2013-11-09 Thread Gary Gendel
idRsrcException: SUNWfiles is not a valid resource. I activated the previous BE and it's fine. Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bug or feature in SMF? "svcadm restart" vs "disable+enable"

2013-11-18 Thread Gary Mills
intimate values of "restart_on" > or even some less documented options in "dependency" definitions, > which would cause "restart" to be processed as "disable; enable", or > is this a feature in SMF (can someone explain the rationale)? Or a bug? These a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bug or feature in SMF? "svcadm restart" vs "disable+enable"

2013-11-19 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 09:12:17PM +0100, Jim Klimov wrote: > On 2013-11-18 20:02, Gary Mills wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 03:27:42PM +0100, Jim Klimov wrote: > >> > >> While testing my works on SMF inter-dependencies (such as with my > >>recent write

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Missing privileges in oi_151a8

2013-11-29 Thread Gary Mills
's an example, taken from one of the existing manifests: If this fixes the problem, please file a bug report or add to an existing one with this information. -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster Packagemanager

2013-12-04 Thread Gary Gendel
g/sfe/ sfe-encumbered (non-sticky) origin online http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe-encumbered/ Gary On 12/04/2013 10:30 AM, Paolo Marcheschi wrote: No It doesn't. but the error change: pollsys(0x0896EF78, 6, 0x, 0x)= 1 read(14, " G I O P01020101 $\0\0\0",

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] X11 memory use

2013-12-09 Thread Gary Mills
o. After all, free memory is wasted memory, isn't it? How much of that 350 MB is only on the paging device? -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] XStream Desktop beta EA1

2013-12-17 Thread Gary Gendel
Gabriel, Seems that the link is somewhat broken. I get a "ResultSet not positioned properly, perhaps you need to call next." Gary On 12/17/2013 05:19 PM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hi, anyone interested can download the first early access release of XStream Desktop, illumos based. P

[OpenIndiana-discuss] aide IDS and hipster

2014-01-14 Thread Gary Gendel
ng is bizarre but I figure I'd pass it along. Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] denyhosts IPS package?

2014-01-15 Thread Gary Gendel
f you want what I've done. Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] denyhosts IPS package?

2014-01-15 Thread Gary Gendel
e sshguard team but I haven't heard back from them so I expect that Solaris/OpenIndiana support is not high on their priority list. :( The executable is only around 400k on my system (not stripped) and I've never even seen it in top/prstat. Gary On 01/15/2014 09:20 AM, Stefan Müll

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bugs 4043 and 4067

2014-01-27 Thread Gary Mills
eded at secpolicy_vnode_owner+0x33 Jan 27 11:06:01 amd genunix: [ID 864859 kern.notice] NOTICE: metacity[3300]: missing privilege "proc_owner" (euid = 107, syscall = 5) needed at secpolicy_proc_access+0x24 -- -Gary Mills--refurb--Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bugs 4043 and 4067

2014-01-27 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:10:07PM +0100, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: > On 27/01/2014 20:30, Gary Mills wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 05:23:23PM +0100, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: > >>On 27/01/2014 15:22, Stephen S. Jones wrote: > >>>OpenIndiana Community (OpenHoo

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