[OpenIndiana-discuss] When adding a mirror disk to rpool

2010-11-21 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm about to create a mirror to rpool that currently is a single disk. I remember it being somewhat more involved than any other pool for adding a mirror. Involving the boot bits and running grub... maybe other stuff as well. I wondered if anyone has a URL where I might read about the procedure,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] When adding a mirror disk to rpool

2010-11-22 Thread Harry Putnam
McBofh writes: > On 22/11/10 02:18 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'm about to create a mirror to rpool that currently is a single >> disk. I remember it being somewhat more involved than any other pool >> for adding a mirror. >> >> Involving the boot bits an

[OpenIndiana-discuss] livecd zpool import -fR /a xpool but no files

2010-11-27 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm having trouble trying to use the livecd for oi to get the existing rpool mounted and accessable. I've booted with livecd build 147 zpool import -f -R /a xpool Gives me: zpool list NAMESIZE ALLOC FREECAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT xpool 17.9G 4.94G 12.9G27% 1.00x ON

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] livecd zpool import -fR /a xpool but no files

2010-11-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Calum Mackay writes: > On 27/11/10 22:14, Calum Mackay wrote: >> If not, I got it to work here, something like this: > > Mind you, the above may not be wise: if you import your real rpool > into the livecd, that may end up leaving the rpool in a state where it > won't look right to the "real" env

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] livecd zpool import -fR /a xpool but no files

2010-11-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Calum Mackay writes: > To address your current situation, I would try booting the ISO/Live > again, and seeing what "zpool import" says. If it's xpool, or anything > other than rpool, then: > > zpool import -f -R /a badpool rpool > > [where "badpool" is whatever was reported by "zpool impor

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] livecd zpool import -fR /a xpool but no files

2010-11-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Calum Mackay writes: > On 29/11/10 15:34, Frank Middleton wrote: >> Just a guess, but shouldn't the mountpoint first be set back to "/" >> >> zfs umount newrpool/ROOT/openindiana >> zfs set mountpoint=/ newrpool/ROOT/openindiana >> zpool export newrpool > > I did not find that to be necessary in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] livecd zpool import -fR /a xpool but no files

2010-11-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Frank Middleton writes: > On 11/29/10 10:48, Calum Mackay wrote: >> On 29/11/10 15:34, Frank Middleton wrote: >>> Just a guess, but shouldn't the mountpoint first be set back to "/" >>> >>> zfs umount newrpool/ROOT/openindiana >>> zfs set mountpoint=/ newrpool/ROOT/openindiana >>> zpool export ne

[OpenIndiana-discuss] The static network that never works

2010-12-01 Thread Harry Putnam
I wonder why it appears to be so difficult under openindiana and its predecessors to simply and quickly setup a static network. Virtually all other OS's I've tried, probably 10-12 or so, have had provision to quickly and easily setup a static network and they worked straigh away. Installing f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The static network that never works

2010-12-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Oscar del Rio writes: >> Installing from oi-b147... once installed the icon on right upper of >> gnome window display has dialog for setting up a static network... but >> when I follow it, I get a network that even says its connected... but >> it goes no where... can't ping anything even on home

[OpenIndiana-discuss] cifs under oi

2010-12-01 Thread Harry Putnam
When setting up the cifs server under oi (b147) is it still necessary to edit /etc/pam.conf when expecting to share files with windows OS. Adding a line like: other password required pam_smb_passwd.so.1 nowarn At the end? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] cifs under oi

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
awatkins1...@gmail.com writes: > This is only required when dealing with Workgroups. It is not > required for Domain setup. > Good information there thanks. As it happens this is a workgroup setup so I'll need to do it. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailin

[OpenIndiana-discuss] livecd zpool import -fR /a xpool but no files

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
# [HP 12/02/10_18:39:32 Some discussion of how to use livecd as rescue disk # ] ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] livecd zpool import -fR /a xpool but no files

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > # [HP 12/02/10_18:39:32 > Some discussion of how to use livecd as rescue disk > # ] Sorry .. please disregard... ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.or

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Why is user logged into `/'

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
In two separate installs of b 147.. I find that my user gets logged into `/' on login. home is mounted normally: mount |grep home /export/home on rpool/export/home read/write/setuid/devices/nonbmand/exec/xattr/atime/dev=950008 on Thu Dec 2 19:06:19 2010 /export/home/reader on rpool/ex

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Why is user logged into `/'

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Calum Mackay writes: > On 03/12/2010 01:25, Harry Putnam wrote: >> /etc/passwd clearly shows user at /home/reader > > What do you have for: > > grep ^automount /etc/nsswitch.conf > > and assuming it's "files", what do you have in /etc/auto_home ?

[OpenIndiana-discuss] about devlopment tools

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
I remember from opensolaris when I wanted to compile a few minor things not available in the repos that I needed to install a specific pkg that contained many of the needed tools. I wonder if anyone can guess what that might have been. These are small non complicated sources like xbindkeys. Anot

[OpenIndiana-discuss] No timeslider... what gives

2010-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
On a new install of b147 when the gui is up I attempt to access the timeslider tool from the System menu. I'm asked for root passwd Ok done. Then the watch shows as if something is taking time start. That disappears and nothing every appears on the desktop. This should just work

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No timeslider... what gives

2010-12-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Sriram Narayanan writes: > Harry: > > You seem to be facing many problems with your current OI install, > which no one else has faced so far. Yeah I noticed that... hehe. > Is a reinstall an option for you? Yes, not at all out of the question except for 1 thing... this is a reinstall from havi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] about devlopment tools

2010-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Sriram Narayanan writes: > Both gcc-3.3 as well as gcc-4.x are available. I use these on OI > (actually illumos) for the working on the next Belenix releases. Apart > from a specific linking problem for one of the shared libraries, GCC > works fine on OI. The only one that comes up in a search (

[OpenIndiana-discuss] auto-snaps cannot be started is this the known bug[s]

2010-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
After a fresh install, my third in a series this last week (inside vbox), this time on windows XP, I'm unable to turn on the auto-snapshot services. I enabled the time slider in the gui then proceeded to try to turn on the services. I got in a hurry and tried to do it with a for loop from the cmd

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Any have a ready made script to run from cron for snapshots

2010-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Before there was a time slider, people must have run snapshots from cron or something similar. Since in 3 tries at new installs, using different media each time has resulted in a useless crippled time slider I wondered if any of you still have or use some kind of cron driven scripting for snapshot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any have a ready made script to run from cron for snapshots

2010-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Sriram Narayanan writes: > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Before there was a time slider, people must have run snapshots from >> cron or something similar. >> >> Since in 3 tries at new installs, using different media each time has >> re

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any have a ready made script to run from cron for snapshots

2010-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Sriram Narayanan writes: > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Sriram Narayanan writes: > > ... >> However the work you pointed too looks like it will be a very nice >> tool once some of the wrinkles are ironed out. >> > > Actual

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Root role and root user

2010-12-08 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm sure to get scolded for running as root quite often but it is my preferred method quite often. It's no doubt not a good idea but I still bull headedly, prefer it quite often. I like to be able to ssh to root whenever I please. It makes lots of things easier... and since this is a home setup a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Root role and root user

2010-12-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Mads Worsøe Duun writes: Running root as user is dirty, and for > lazy persons. Exactly! .. now you've got the idea. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Root role and root user

2010-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk writes: > # usermod -K type=normal root Haa, that was nice and simple ... and it make the needed edit to user_attr as well Thank you ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.o

[OpenIndiana-discuss] man pages to solaris cmds

2010-12-18 Thread Harry Putnam
What is the MANPATH to the solaris cmds that there are also gnu versions of. /bin/ls for example If I call man /bin/ls I get warnings about opening a binary file, and when the man page opens there is lots of guff in it like escape sequences. ___ Op

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] man pages to solaris cmds

2010-12-19 Thread Harry Putnam
appropriate for your path. For most users, having > MANPATH set is more likely to do harm than good. Mine isn't set, but I've been able to do man /bin/ls in the past .. not sure why not now. > http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2007/688/20071212_mike.gerdts I couldn't ma

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] man pages to solaris cmds

2010-12-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Albert Lee writes: [...] Harry Wrote: >>  Someone advised me to set LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1.  When I did that, it >> does cure my on-going problem, but now wondering if when calling >> `man /bin/ls' ... it may act differently with LANG set that way. >> >> Yup... I just tested that theory out.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] man pages to solaris cmds

2010-12-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Gerdts writes: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I couldn't make heads or tails of that. . sorry. > > Perhaps the kinder, gentler heads up message will make more sense. > > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+on/2008051

[OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Harry Putnam
A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard choice. I've been running osol on this hardware: cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3400+ motherboard: AOpen AK86-L (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM hard drives: 2 IDE 500GB, 2 sata 500GB, 2 sata 750GB The motherboard h

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Mills writes: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:42:44AM -0800, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: >> >> Do you have a recommendation for a socket AM3 CPU that will run Solaris well? > > This is what I bought in March to run Opensolaris. It runs Openindiana > flawlessly. All the devices are supported. > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Harry Putnam
"Kevin J. Woolley" writes: > On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 10:00, "Harry Putnam" said: > >> A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard >> choice. >> >> I've been running osol on this hardware: >> >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-23 Thread Harry Putnam
"Alex Smith (K4RNT)" writes: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 19:58, Harry Putnam wrote: [...] >> Thanks for the input. >> >> The spec says its `form factor' is micro ATX >> >> Does that mean the screw holes won't fit an ATX MidTower (antec sonata

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Mills writes: >> The spec says its `form factor' is micro ATX > > That was because I had a micro ATX case. I believe ASUS also makes > a similar board in the ATX form factor. So the micro ATX will NOT work on an ATX format box then? And do you have an idea what might be considered a `simi

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Need coaching about used equipment

2011-01-12 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been running oi on what is now an older AMD Athlon64 +3400 with three GB ram which is the max on that Abit board. My setup is only a small scale home server intended to supply my need of lots of room for video editing files and other hefty graphic projects. Something has happened to render

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 2 small Qs about Sata controllers

2011-02-18 Thread Harry Putnam
When looking at motherboard specs and I see this notation: (Note: Taken from: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131655 Newegg showing ASUS M4A89TD PRO/USB3 AM3 AMD 890FX ) PATA1 x ATA133 2 Dev. Max SATA 6Gb/s 6 x SATA 6Gb/s ---

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2 small Qs about Sata controllers

2011-02-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Ignacio Marambio Catan writes: >> Question 1) >> >> pata1 x ATA133 2 Dev. Max >> Does it mean there is only 1 IDE hdd may be installed? >> > No, you can install 2 drives > >> 6x SATA [...] >> Does it mean only 6 sata hdd may be installed? >> > That would de accurate I think I'

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2 small Qs about Sata controllers

2011-02-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Jeppe Toustrup writes: > 2011/2/19 Harry Putnam : >> I'm a bit confused... does the `x' in each case stand for a >> controller? >> >> So Pata controllers support 2 drives, >> but SATA controllers only support 1? >> > > No, it's the num

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Being much a novice in building for a zfs server, I've cobbled up a setup with one of those build it online setups... on ebay this one was. But before I plunge for the green backs. I'd really feel a bit more confident if a few experienced people ran there eye down the lineup and see if anything lo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Johannes Bohse writes: > you do not need to worry about the size. zfs is very efficient in > scrubbing and resilvering. zfs scrubs used sectors only and resilvers > only "missing" transactions. Spare sectors are not involved in both > complexity equations. Good info thank you. Is there not any

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ECC question

2011-02-20 Thread Harry Putnam
ECC memory or not, buffered or not. What does it do/mean At risk of being stoned for bringing this up again, I am not finding threads from the past that provide (to me) a basic idea of what the terms means and what the concepts do. I'm sure this will sound horribly illiterate in computer tech,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Russ Price writes: > I'm running an ASUS M4A785-M with an Intel SASUC8I HBA, and it's been > flawless with OpenSolaris b134, OI 147, and OI 148. I was a bit cheap > with the RAM, with 4x1GB sticks of ECC RAM, but it has performed well > for me. I'm using all six onboard SATA ports, all eight port

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Explain the Goal of oi

2011-02-26 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm getting a little confused about what OI is trying to do exactly. I changed to oi with Opensolaris looked untenable due to oracle maneuvers, expecting to see a basic continuation of what was happing from b 101 up to 134. I've been seeing little snippets of subjects and the like that seem to in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Explain the Goal of oi

2011-03-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Apostolos Syropoulos writes: >> I've been seeing little snippets of subjects and the like that seem to >> indicate that oi is merging with Illumini (no sure what that is called >> by full name). > > The least I would expect from people to do is a basic google search > before posting. Is this

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to index all files on a oi system

2011-03-15 Thread Harry Putnam
If you wanted a list of all the files on a host (4 smallish zfs filesystem...probably 10s of thousands, but nothing much compared to many users here) Does zfs offer anything special for something like that? If not, then is there some better way than running 'find' on all the drives and compiling

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Explain the Goal of oi

2011-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
"Kevin J. Woolley" writes: >> This list always so friendly and encouraging... >> :D > > Really? I think it does pretty darn well. I won't try to convince you, > though. As OP, I agree. I also agree that I should have kept my yap shut when the sniper came in. All input was quite useful. Tha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to index all files on a oi system

2011-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Matt Connolly writes: > Perhaps you might be interested in installing the "locate" command from gnu > findutils: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/ > > It's installed by default on Mac OSX systems, and is really handy. There's > probably some very good security reasons that it's not insta

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Explain the Goal of oi

2011-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Apostolos Syropoulos writes: > Yes I am very very serious! A serious person would had first read the > wikepedia article You might want to ease up a bit, on that very very part you do know there are health risks right? ___ OpenIndiana-discus

[OpenIndiana-discuss] For a basic dev environment

2011-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
When I was running opensolaris 101, up to 133 before switching to oi, there used to be a basic set of pkgs one needed installed to have a basic developmental environment. I mean just enough to do basic compile from source of gnus pkgs and the like. Is that still true with oi? If so can anyone sa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Explain the Goal of oi

2011-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Christopher Chan writes: > On Thursday, March 17, 2011 06:54 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Apostolos Syropoulos writes: >> >>> Yes I am very very serious! A serious person would had first read the >>> wikepedia article >> >> You might want to eas

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] For a basic dev environment

2011-03-16 Thread Harry Putnam
"Kevin J. Woolley" writes: > On 16 March 2011 16:27, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> When I was running opensolaris 101, up to 133 before switching to oi, >> there used to be a basic set of pkgs one needed installed to have a basic >> developmental environment.  I me

[OpenIndiana-discuss] exporting zpools toward switching machines

2011-05-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: b 133 (opensolaris) on older athlon +3400 as home lan zfs server No commercial operations, home use only. Current hardware is dying and partially dead now. I've laid zfs down for a good number of months. Not on purpose so much as just too busy with life. Conseque

[OpenIndiana-discuss] exporting rpool with system running

2011-07-31 Thread Harry Putnam
[ I apologize if a very similar post from me has already shown up here. Having some kind of delivery or receive problem] How can I export the rpool with the system up? Can it only be done from a livecd or such like? Trying a simple export command just tells me rpool is busy. __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] exporting rpool with system running

2011-08-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk writes: > AFAIK, exporting an rpool while running on it, is quite > impossible. Why would you want to export it? So use livecd then? The reasons to do this have been discussed here at least twice. Thats why I didn't include that information. Thinking about it again after

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Edit rpools (export status) from livecd

2011-08-01 Thread Harry Putnam
With hardware that has no cdrom or floppy drive... how can I start the OS from livecd?.. I've never done a network style startup. Just a brief outline would be very welcome. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] exporting rpool with system running

2011-08-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Reginald Beardsley writes: [ reordered by ed -hp] > --- On Mon, 8/1/11, Harry Putnam wrote: > > From: Harry Putnam > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] exporting rpool with system running > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Date: Monday, August 1, 2011, 7:14

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] gcc 4.x on OpenIndiana 151

2011-09-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Hillel Lubman writes: > Well, SFE is a separate repository now. The warning is for the case when you > have gcc 4.x installed from OpenSolaris repo. Just uninstall it if you do, > add SFE repo to your system, and install gcc from there. > It has 4.6.1 now: Sorry for the illinformed butt in here.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] extreme sloth on fresh install bootup

2011-10-17 Thread Harry Putnam
I've just installed oi on a vm (virtualbox) as guest on an older P4 3.06 with 2gb ram an running Debian wheezy as HOST OS. I gave the oi OS only 900mb of ram. On reboot following install I'm seeing what seems to be inordinate sloth in the boot process. As the services are being enumerated its ta

[OpenIndiana-discuss] After install for text based iso

2011-10-17 Thread Harry Putnam
I've just installed oi 151 from the text based installer: oi-dev-151a-text-x86.iso To get a minimum basic gui desktop what pkgs would need to be installed? There is such a vast array of X related stuff to look through from the command line, I'm having trouble figuring out what is basic. Some a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] After install for text based iso

2011-10-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > I've just installed oi 151 from the text based installer: > oi-dev-151a-text-x86.iso > > To get a minimum basic gui desktop what pkgs would need to be > installed? > > There is such a vast array of X related stuff to look through from the

[OpenIndiana-discuss] get X working after install from text base iso

2011-10-18 Thread Harry Putnam
I installed from a recent oi-dev-151a-text-x86.iso. That iso is apparently a server model and doesn't really expect to have a gnome desktop... I'd sooner try to install required pkgs and whatever else I need to do to get X running, than start over with though desktop iso. I followed up installing

[OpenIndiana-discuss] menu.lst on a machine booting into X

2011-10-18 Thread Harry Putnam
How does a machine booting into an X session's /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst differ from this: , | title OpenIndiana Development oi_151a X86 | findroot (pool_rpool,0,a) | bootfs rpool/ROOT/openindiana | kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS | module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/bo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] menu.lst on a machine booting into X

2011-10-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Coopersmith writes: [...] > There are no grub changes needed to run X. > >> Are there any services besides gdm that must be running to run an X >> session? > > dbus, consolekit, hal, fc-cache, and a bunch of desktop-cache ones. > (Assuming a normal gnome desktop.) Thanks, I managed to get

[OpenIndiana-discuss] development environment

2011-10-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Are there a set of packages I should have installed to have basic developement environment. I don't mean developement of oi but just the ability to do general software compiling. The auto tools, that are in common use now and a compiler etc. ___ Open

[OpenIndiana-discuss] What package for `floatingpoint.h'

2011-10-18 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm trying to compile a pkg called `xbindkeys'. After installing guile the ./configure script seemed to find all it needed, but on running `make' I hit a snag pretty early on: (wrapped for mail) , | make all-am | make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/xbindkeys-1.8.5' | gcc -DHAVE_CONFI

[OpenIndiana-discuss] desktop (dvd) iso will not boot in virtual box

2011-10-19 Thread Harry Putnam
I installed the server iso 151a with no problems recently, but today trying to install from the desktop (dvd) iso, downloaded from oi home page. I am unable to boot from that iso at all. I thought perhaps the download had guffed up the iso so downloadeded it again. But still it will not boot and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] desktop (dvd) iso will not boot in virtual box

2011-10-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > I installed the server iso 151a with no problems recently, but today > trying to install from the desktop (dvd) iso, downloaded from oi home > page. I am unable to boot from that iso at all. > > I thought perhaps the download had guffed up the iso so do

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] desktop (dvd) iso will not boot in virtual box

2011-10-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> I installed the server iso 151a with no problems recently, but today >> trying to install from the desktop (dvd) iso, downloaded from oi home >> page. I am unable to boot from that iso at all. >> >> I though

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Disjointed hardware questions

2011-10-19 Thread Harry Putnam
First, I'm trying to find a way to use Solaris and zfs for a homeboy NAS, but without the normal hardware (until I get some money of course) Currently I have a fairly powerful laptop with i7 820 with 8GB ram. I'm running win7 on it, and that will need to stay since I'm doing video editing and gra

[OpenIndiana-discuss] About auto snapshots

2011-10-21 Thread Harry Putnam
I've just recently installed oi 151. I've enabled auto snapshot in the desktop slider application. That was some hours ago, but when I look in any of the .zfs/snapshots directories there has been no snapshot done. Should I expect to see snapshots by now or is there something else I have to do?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About auto snapshots

2011-10-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Jeppe Toustrup writes: > On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 01:39, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I've just recently installed oi 151.  I've enabled auto snapshot in >> the desktop slider application. >> >> That was some hours ago, but when I look in any of the .zfs/snaps

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Example cron scripts for snapshot admin

2011-10-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Since the auto timeslider doesn't work, I'm thinking people have created any number of scripts, cron jobs, etc to do something similar. I wonder if there are a bunch of examples kept somewhere in our resources? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list Open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] development environment

2011-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Paolo Marcheschi writes: > Yes you can follow this guide: > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Building+with+oi-build > > Personally I created a zone in order to create an indipendent > compilation environment. That guide looks like a lot more than what I was thinking of. Perhaps you missed my comm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] About auto snapshots

2011-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Gernot Wolf writes: [...] > So why is this feature working on my box when according to "known > issues" it shouldn't, and obviously isn't working on other oi-151a > boxes...??? > > Not that I want to complain ;) - just curious... [...] Oscar del Rio writes: [...] > "works for me" (tm) [...

[OpenIndiana-discuss] log messages from failed time-slider daemon

2011-10-27 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been told that the time-slider does not work on 151 but also several posters responded that it works fine for them. I'm hoping I can get it to work too, but not sure where to start. application/time-slider:default fails during boot up. When I look at the log I see it attempting to start ove

[OpenIndiana-discuss] heavy cpu usage inside VirtualBox on linux

2011-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
I wondered if anyone can verify if its normal to see such high cpu usage in these situtations. Running b 151 inside VirtualBox on a linux OS (debian). The hardware is older P4 with Celeron 3.06 Ghz CPU and 2gb of ram. The VM is assigned 888 MB of the available 2025. I'm not sure how much is Vir

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] log messages from failed time-slider daemon

2011-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
James Carlson writes: > On 10/27/11 18:34, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Note that top line about `crontab'. Is that the reason for the >> subsequent failures? > > It appears to be. > >> What is going on that requires crontab to be read? And what might make >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] log messages from failed time-slider daemon

2011-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
James Carlson writes: >> What is going on that requires crontab to be read? And what might make >> it not open.. permissions? > > The script this service runs modifies crontab entries (yecch!). Not > opening could be due to user modification of the time-slider service > itself, bad permissions s

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Checking procedure to move to new machine

2011-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
I kind of know the commands and what they are supposed to do, but have no actual experience with moving zpools from one machine to another. Or in this case from vbox guest on a debian linux host OS, to vbox guest on a win7 host OS. (The linux box doesn't really have enough ram) So, is this the b

[OpenIndiana-discuss] send/receive.. and mountpoint

2011-10-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Running b 151a in Vbox This is my first real try at using the send/receive commands offered in zfs. I'm moving data from one vm guest on a debian linux OS to a new vm guest on a win7 OS. I thought there would be a way to have a file system on the old server to just be duplicated on the new. On

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Where is received filesystem

2011-10-30 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been tinkering with send/receive trying to understand how it all works. I've found what appears to my inexperienced eyes to be something of an anomaly. I successfully sent/received two filesystems: zp2/hosts zp2/hosts/reader I think I made some changes in a certain script, and maybe

[OpenIndiana-discuss] where is hostname kept

2011-10-31 Thread Harry Putnam
running b 151a If I wanted to change the hostname of a server permanently, where is the hostname kept and where is it read by the OS besides /etc/hosts file? Sorry for the lameo question but googling, the hits are apparently out of date and say things like /etc/hostname.NIC.. and I see nothing li

[OpenIndiana-discuss] List of installed pkgs begining with pkg:/

2011-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
How can I get a list of installed pkgs that begin with pkg:/[...] I'm trying to match one OS to another with more installed pkgs. I thought I could just do: pkg list > installed_mach1 pkg list > installed_mach2 Diff the lists and have the pkg names. But as many of you will know... `pkg list' doe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] List of installed pkgs begining with pkg:/

2011-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Oscar del Rio writes: > On 11/ 1/11 09:33 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> How can I get a list of installed pkgs that begin with pkg:/[...] >> >> I thought maybe something like: >> >> pkg list |awk '{print $2}' |uniq sort -o uniq_installed >> &

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] List of installed pkgs begining with pkg:/

2011-11-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Coopersmith writes: > No, they are installed as separate packages, and including the pkg:/ > prefix would give you the same list: > > http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev-il/info/0/editor%2Fvim%407.2.308%2C5.11-0.151.1%3A20110912T022847Z > > http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev-il/info/0/editor%2Fgvim%4

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Where are my auto snapshots?

2011-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
A new install of 151a as virtual guest on win7 OS (with Vbox) I've enabled time-slider in the gui All sevices appear to be running: # svcs -a |grep 'time-slider\|auto-snap' disabled Oct_29 svc:/application/time-slider/plugin:zfs-send disabled Oct_29 svc:/application/time-sl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Where are my auto snapshots?

2011-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Jeppe Toustrup writes: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 23:41, Harry Putnam wrote: >> A new install of 151a as virtual guest on win7 OS (with Vbox) >> >> I've enabled time-slider in the gui >> >> All sevices appear to be running: >> >>  # svcs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Where are my auto snapshots?

2011-11-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Oscar del Rio writes: > On 11/4/2011 10:32 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Yes, of course but it is also a known issue that many here (or maybe >> its more like `some' here) have auto-snapshots working with no >> problem. Maybe someone can tell why it is not for me. And furt

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Where are my auto snapshots?

2011-11-05 Thread Harry Putnam
"LinuxBSDos.com" writes: [...] > On a new installation, it worked for me. You may view some screenshots of > the snapshots as viewed from Nautilus at > http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/10/15/openindiana-151a-desktop-review/ Was this in a virtual machine? I didn't actually see any screen shots

[OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

2011-11-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Too much a noob to be able to figure this out for myself. I see what appears to be a serious lot of new stuff in release notes of oracle-solaris 11. Can anyone compare that new OS with oi espeically considering the usage being a home nas. (So maybe not needing many of the sol 11 enhancements but

[OpenIndiana-discuss] [lame q] point to documentation for rescue type boot

2011-11-10 Thread Harry Putnam
I knew how to handle this problem sometime in the past, but like so many things, now I need it again I'm sort of drawing blanks. I've done enough damage on an oi setup (b 151a as guest in VB on win7) that when I attempt to start the vm it goes thru grub and stays at the page one sees just before e

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [lame q] point to documentation for rescue type boot

2011-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Oscar del Rio writes: >> I'm not sure what all I've done but the main thing is that I disabled >> gdm. I did it on purpose and have done that in the past on other oi >> and os before that to make bootup go to a console instead of the gui. > > press Esc key to get the login prompt. > Then remove

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Coopersmith writes: > On 11/10/11 23:00, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: >> Oracle announced availabilty of Solaris 11. >> Do you notice any real news in the O.S. that OI/IllumOS has not? > > http://blogs.oracle.com/darren/entry/completely_disabling_root_logins_on It appears to no longer even be pos

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Coopersmith writes: >> It appears to no longer even be possible to circumvent the suggested >> usage of root account and allow root logins. >> >> Anyone know for sure if it is still possible to enforce an old >> fashioned root account with regular login access? If so how might it >> be done

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] restoring the root account - WAS:: Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Jerry Kemp writes: > I am home today playing around with Solaris 11 on an old T1000, and (at > least here locally), the `rolemod -K type=normal root' appears to be > working fine for me. > > Hope this helps. Thanks for the input... please see my response to Alan, but briefly put ... it was all p

[OpenIndiana-discuss] nfs4 both server and client

2011-11-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Can someone point me to a full description of how to setup nfs4? Googling finds so much stuff, a lot of it is either dated or maybe for a different flavor of solaris. I don't know enough to know if the setup for nfs4 is generic to all flavors or what. But surely there must be documentation that

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Where can I find a full Walk thru setting up nfs4 from scratch

2011-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Where can I find an up to date detailed description of setting up nfs4 from scratch on a home lan zfs server with linux nfs4 clients. I've turned up loads of stuff googling, way too much to paw through it all. I'm running openindiana and have posted a similar request on that group. Some of the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Where can I find a full Walk thru setting up nfs4 from scratch

2011-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > Where can I find an up to date detailed description of setting up nfs4 > from scratch on a home lan zfs server with linux nfs4 clients. Yikes, that message was supposed to go to opensolaris... its a near duplicate of one I already posted here...

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Where can I find a full Walk thru setting up nfs4 from scratch

2011-11-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Running openindiana b 151a as vm guest on host win7 Where can I find an up to date detailed description of setting up nfs4 from scratch on a home lan zfs server with linux nfs4 clients. I've turned up loads of stuff googling, way too much to paw through it all. I'm running openindiana and have

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