[OpenIndiana-discuss] import of zpools not exported

2017-03-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Is there a way to import zpools that I forgot to export before shutdown and fresh install. Or will it be best to mount one of the mirrored discs from old install somewhere and just rsync stuff to new zfs fs. No need in this case of worry about snapshots and such plus there is not much data involv

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] import of zpools not exported

2017-03-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Friesenhahn writes: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Is there a way to import zpools that I forgot to export before shutdown >> and fresh install. >> >> Or will it be best to mount one of the mirrored discs from old install >> somewher

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Is hipster repo slow for pkg commands

2017-03-24 Thread Harry Putnam
[Note: comments below NOT to be seen as load complaining] Running pkg update I've noticed that is seems really slow. Maybe a local network mess I've made? or is the repo pretty slow? During pkg update (last was Mar 3) I see speed measured in 700-900 k/s during pkg downloads, shouldn't I be seei

[OpenIndiana-discuss] about pkg list for building gnu stuff from source

2017-03-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Can anyone offer a list of pkgs one would need in order to be able to compile the odd gnu type packge from source I have installed gcc-5 and automake and I see make is already onboard. I haven't attempted any builds as yet but I hoped someone would know off the top of there head what packages wou

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Is hipster repo slow for pkg commands

2017-03-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Aurélien Larcher writes: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> [Note: comments below NOT to be seen as load complaining] >> >> Running pkg update I've noticed that is seems really slow. Maybe a >> local network mess I've made? or is

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 800GB in 6 discs - 460GB in raidz

2017-03-24 Thread Harry Putnam
I continue to have a problem understanding the output of zfs list. I've googled up a couple of what seem to be thorough explainations but somehow am still not getting it. Or maybe this is just what it looks like, that is, a lot of space gone to parity striping. NameUSEDAVAIL REFER

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 800GB in 6 discs - 460GB in raidz

2017-03-25 Thread Harry Putnam
jason matthews writes: > On 3/24/17 3:43 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I continue to have a problem understanding the output of zfs list. > > You may want zpool list, depending on what you trying to get. Let's > see what you have done. please show us: zpool status p0 A

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 800GB in 6 discs - 460GB in raidz

2017-03-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Timothy Coalson writes: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> On the vm, I've created discs like so: >> >> 2 @ 96G >> 2 @ 116G >> 2 @ 216G >> >> These have just over 2x variation in size, and you put them all in a

[OpenIndiana-discuss] send/receive .. I expected .zfs directories

2017-03-25 Thread Harry Putnam
I just completed my very first send/receive. I was suprised to find no .zfs directories once the recv completed. Did I do something wrong or is that normal? Am I supposed to create them? Here is what I did in general. On send-host I had two fs p0/vb p0/vb/vm Sent/recv'ed p0/vb and then ditto for

[OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do when zfs destroy -f or -R or both doesn't destroy

2017-03-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Cleaning out a machine I'm about to bring down and reinstall hipster in place of 151_9 that has been running there. I found one stubborn snapshot that zfs destroy just will not remove. Tried -f flag -r and -R flags The zfs message says the snapshot is busy. I could not find any evidence of it a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] send/receive .. I expected .zfs directories

2017-03-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Doug Hughes writes: > silly question: is the filesystem mounted on the receive side? if > you just sent it, you'll want to mount it. Yes, for a silly pilot. You nailed it .. I was to dopey to notice it was not mounted. ___ openindiana-discuss mailin

[OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

2017-03-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Trying to learn how to use mbuffer and tamp to do zfs send/receive rather than ssh which is pretty slow even on my home gigabit lan at home where there is very little traffic. So far using ready made examples from posters on this group or a few I found online I've constantly run into `connection r

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

2017-03-27 Thread Harry Putnam
James Carlson via openindiana-discuss writes: > On 03/27/17 04:40, Harry Putnam wrote: >> My rendition: >> >> zfs send p0/vb/vm@170326_1 |tamp|mbuffer -s 128k -m1000m -0 >> recv-host:31337 | mbuffer -s 128k -m 1999m -I 31337 |tamp -d | >> zfs recv -vF p0/vb/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

2017-03-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Geoff Nordli writes: [...] > > Just a thought here, you may want to try a different ssh cipher. Give > arcfour a try and see if that is fast enough for you. > Can that be done on ssh command line or must be done in ssh_config? ___ openindiana-discus

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do when zfs destroy -f or -R or both doesn't destroy

2017-03-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Geoff Nordli writes: [...] >> Ok now back to the troublesome snapshot: In the console shell again >> zfs destroy just plain will not remove this snapshot and hence the fs >> itself. zfs message >> ontinues to say the snapshot is busy. >> >> Surely there is someway to get this thing destroyed?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

2017-03-27 Thread Harry Putnam
jason matthews writes: Sorry that I slaughtered your nifty commands so bad. I haven't been able to get copy paste working on the vm that is the target and so have been torturing things with my poor typing. This time I scpped your message across to both hosts so no bunky retyping > step: > 1. o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

2017-03-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Timothy Coalson writes: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 9:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Geoff Nordli writes: >> >> [...] >> >> > >> > Just a thought here, you may want to try a different ssh cipher. Give >> > arcfour a try and see if that i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

2017-03-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > I think what Timothy C has in mind is dropping mbuffer/tamp and using > ssh for the whole thing > > zfs send p/fs@now | ssh RECV_HOST zfs recv p/fs OOps that should have read ... I think what Geoff N

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

2017-03-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Geoff Nordli writes: > On 2017-03-27 07:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Geoff Nordli writes: >> >> [...] >> >>> Just a thought here, you may want to try a different ssh cipher. Give >>> arcfour a try and see if that is fast enough for you. >>&

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

2017-03-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > I tried this at ~/.ssh/config on source host. The host named > in the config is the destination host that is running the rsync cmd. > > Host g1 <= name of linux host > HostName g1.local.lan <=same linux host > Ciphers arcfour Neve

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do when zfs destroy -f or -R or both doesn't destroy

2017-03-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Jason Matthews writes: >> > > Re busy > What about loop back mounts? > Any shares of any type? > Anything like that? > > Re failed service > The local fs error maybe because the system is trying to mount a fs on > top of a non-empty directory or equivalently two file systems have the > same m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

2017-03-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Geoff Nordli writes: > Just a thought here, you may want to try a different ssh cipher. Give > arcfour a try and see if that is fast enough for you. > > Geoff I made an attempt to see about the various speeds available with different Ciphers were like I didn't use any solaris hosts yet, as I w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

2017-03-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > As you see the default Cipher was barely a minute faster than > the arcfour over 28.7 GB of data. > > Absolutely NOT a diffinative test in any way but should at least show > that on this network arcfour is likely to be no faster than the > defaults

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mbuffer connection refused on varius ports ... what to try

2017-03-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > As you see the default Cipher was barely a minute faster than > the arcfour over 28.7 GB of data. > > Absolutely NOT a diffinative test in any way but should at least show > that on this network arcfour is likely to be no faster than the > defaults

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Comparison of mbuffer/tamp to ssh (A novice attempt)

2017-03-31 Thread Harry Putnam
[Test conducted 170330] An attempt to measure the difference using mbuffer/tamp compared to hipsters latest version of ssh: pkg list|grep ssh service/network/ssh 7.2.0.2-2017.0.0.4 = Send HOST: A vbox vm running hipster on a windows

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Comparison of mbuffer/tamp to ssh (A novice attempt)

2017-03-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Jonathan Adams writes: > Do you have any info on just how much of the time difference is just down > to the SSH header overhead? > > Do you know how long this takes in comparison to starting an rsyncd server > and sending/receiving via rsync with compression on? No to both. I did do some testin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Comparison of mbuffer/tamp to ssh (A novice attempt)

2017-04-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Timothy Coalson writes: Thanks for the excellent input. I like the details. [...] >> root # time zfs send p0/tst.2/isos@170330 | tamp | mbuffer -s 128k -m >> 1000m -O oi0:31337 >> > > tamp is compression, which takes cpu time. Since your network is gigabit > and you are running substantially

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How reformat a hdd to new state

2017-04-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: oi bld 151_9 running on: Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5470 @ 3.33GHz - 32 GB ram I'm about to do fresh install on hardware cited above, of 161030 .. or might use the 170314 hipster that was offered for test only recently. (I've been running the test iso since it was offered with n

[OpenIndiana-discuss] mirroring rpool oi html pages

2017-04-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Reviewing the oi wiki pages before trying this out I wondered if the material here: https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/2.1+Post-installation Is still up to date? There has been quite a lot of talk of using whole discs everywhere possible... no slices, yet it appears that is what is being said there.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] about exporting rpool

2017-04-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: Running oi bld 151_9 on hardware: Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5470 @ 3.33GHz - 32 GB ram I'm about to shut down the above host and attempt to install hipster from the 161030 or maybe from the TEST isos of 170313. Even though Alexander P. does say they are TO BE USED ONLY FOR TESTIN

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] about exporting rpool

2017-04-08 Thread Harry Putnam
cjt writes: > On 04/07/2017 11:39 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Mine are exact mirrors of 2 disks. I just want to make sure this bit >> from `man zpool' is not referring to those kind of shared disks. And >> that I do NOT have to break the mirrors before export. &g

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hrdwr - 4GB ram to 8GB ram sticks

2017-04-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5470 @ 3.33GHz - 32 GB ram I'm considering exchanging my 4gb Ram stick for 8gb which would double by 32GB ram 64 GB I wondered if any one here is running an HP xw8600 2x - xeon that might have an idea what I could expect from doubling the ram capabilit

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAM/CPU usage and ZFS send/receive

2017-04-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikola M writes: > Please see if you can make your subjects in ML messages On-topic, > because I welcome general hardware talk, but we are actually more > Openindiana/illumos Solaris-derived related then just hardware > related. First, thanks for answering with all the good detailed info about z

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Preparing used disks for hipster install on x86-64bit

2017-04-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Sorry to keep hammering on this, but I am still thoroughly confused about how to prepare used disks for use as rpool under hipster. I realize it is Sunday and most of you will be relaxing a bit and probably not pounding away at newsgroups... but hopefully there will be a few kind souls watching th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Preparing used disks for hipster install on x86-64bit

2017-04-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Pyhalov writes: > On 04/ 9/17 05:41 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> 3) It's been said here that the 161030 media will handle creating a >> mirrored rpool. >> >> But when I used that media to install to a vm, I never saw >> anything l

[OpenIndiana-discuss] About newly installed 3tb discs - should I be worried

2017-04-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Hardware: HP xw8600 2x Xeon 5470 - cpu 3.33 Ghz 2 750 Mirrored and 2 3tb mirrored Following a fresh successful install of hipster on the hardware above, I've pulled my old 1 tb discs for use elsewhere and installed 2 new 3tb discs. On bootup I went to BIOS to see if things appeared ok... what I s

[OpenIndiana-discuss] What do I need to install so that ~/.inputrc

2017-04-12 Thread Harry Putnam
When I tried install vbox-5.1.18 with `pkgadd -d': I get this error: Oracle VM VirtualBox(i386) 5.1.18,REV=2017.03.15.16.41.114002 Oracle Corporation ## Executing checkinstall script. Checking package dependencies... ## Missing packages: ## IPS : system/library/gcc/gcc-c++-runtime or system/lib

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install vbox on new hipster install

2017-04-12 Thread Harry Putnam
[Sorry to have messed this up on first go around.. still not sure how I managed to get the wrong subject in to the original post] Originall posted under subject: Subject: What do I need to install so that ~/.inputrc Which is completely unsuitable to the actual subject. Hopefully I haven't complet

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install vbox on new hipster install

2017-04-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Geoff Nordli writes: > basically the answer is this: > > build# pkgtrans VirtualBox-5.1.18-SunOS-amd64-r114002.pkg . all > Transferring package instance > build# rm SUNWvbox/install/checkinstall > build# sed -i /checkinstall/d SUNWvbox/pkgmap > build# pkga

[OpenIndiana-discuss] What is state of KVM on latest hipster

2017-04-13 Thread Harry Putnam
Since I appear not to skilled enough to get a working vbox running, I wondered if other vm options might be in better shape. Can anyone say what the state of KVM is on latest hipster? ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install vbox on new hipster install

2017-04-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Pyhalov writes: [...] Harry wrote: >> I don't understand what is different about hipster that it just >> absolutely cannot handle the pkgs on offer at Vbox. I mean the ready >> made binaries. >> > Alexander P replied: > Hi. > This is not about OI, it's about VirtualBox. You take bin

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Older vbox (5.0.28) failure - maybe something simple

2017-04-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Wanting to get vms running that I brought over when making the move to hipster from 151_9... I found first that newer vbox versions are a no-go for now. So, went back to 5.0.28 and I can see it wants to install .. it went like this (large chunks elided): root # pkgadd -d ./VirtualBox-5.0.28-SunOS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Older vbox (5.0.28) failure - maybe something simple

2017-04-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Will Brokenbourgh writes: > On 04/14/17 08:23, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Wanting to get vms running that I brought over when making the move to >> hipster from 151_9... I found first that newer vbox versions are a >> no-go for now. >> [...] >>Checking for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Older vbox (5.0.28) failure - maybe something simple

2017-04-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Jerry Kemp writes: > FWIW, I have been running strong and with no issues with version 5.0.2. > Good to hear... what does `uname -a' report? ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Older vbox (5.0.28) failure - maybe something simple

2017-04-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Jerry Kemp writes: > I'm not running hipster yet. I need to figure out a new ATX board to > upgrade to before I move from older code to hipster. I used versions of Vbox from earlyish 4.0.X all the way up to 5.0.28 on older code too. oi bld 151_9. The first big stumbling Block is that Vbox is u

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAM/CPU usage and ZFS send/receive

2017-04-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikola M writes: > On 04/ 9/17 04:18 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> PS - I'm on 151_9 getting it ready to reinstall from hipster.. not on >> it because I want to continue using it. But thanks for the comments >> on that as well. >> >> I may take up the hardware

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] metainit service not running

2017-04-15 Thread Harry Putnam
> Hi Brogyi > > Could it be that you ran into https://www.illumos.org/issues/7797? > Is your Installation up to date? > Would be interesting to know if that is the case. Excuse me barging in but I hit that issue on boot up with at least 2 hipster hosts.. one hardware 1 vm Both are thoroughly up t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] metainit service not running

2017-04-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Andreas Wacknitz writes: > You will have to manually remove the remnents of it by issuing > svccfg delete metainit > After that it may also be necessary to run > svcadm clear metainit Thanks. Here, `svcadm clear' complains of not having a matching pattern. Which, of course, does make se

[OpenIndiana-discuss] HP wx8600 and 3 tb (seagate) drives

2017-04-18 Thread Harry Putnam
HARDWARE: HP xw8600 2x Xeon 5470 3.33 Ghz - 32 GB ram The hardware was first put into operation in 2008 and has BIOS version of 1.46 which I'm pretty sure is the latest at Sep 2012. I stumbled into something that I probably should have done some research on first... but did not. Recently bought

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP wx8600 and 3 tb (seagate) drives

2017-04-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikola M writes: >> * Which products are affected? – Only ProLiant servers, and only >> system ROM and complex programming logic device (CPLD) firmware is >> affected. “Entitlement requirements” won't apply to iLO, I/O or >> controller firmware. Thanks for the commentary and citing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS on Openindiana vs ZFS on oracle linux

2017-04-27 Thread Harry Putnam
David Johnson writes: > Does anyone have any editorial comments on how well ZFS is handled on > Openindiana > vs. Oracle Linux? It looks like these may be my only two choices if I > want to > have an OS that has native ZFS support, and allow me to get updated > security patches. Two points: 1)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] many duplicates - Re: OpenIndiana Hipster at Servethehome (call for a regular minimal stable)

2017-04-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Till Wegmüller writes: > For me it's happening only with the How do I boot mail. > > Sometimes Messages with older Timestamps arrive later than once with > newer ones. Does Mailman have a hicup or is somebody playing with > time? > Here, too. Only the `How do i boot' subject, is the only one.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: Using Mate desktop on hipster... oi updated frequently... most recently yesterday. Hardware: HP xw8600 2x Xeon 5074 3.33 Ghz - 32 GB ram Mouse hardware: USB Razor - Death adder Also ... I work habitually thru a KVM switch and have for years. Sorry to bring something seemingly al

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Mills writes: > On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 09:35:41AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Summary: mouse control is really touchy... trying to acquire the corner >> of an open window like an xterm, ff etc takes seconds to accomplish. >> The cursor turning to a corner

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Till Wegmüller writes: [...] > What I understood from your mails is that when you place the cursor on > an edge carefully and then try to catch the edge you can not grab it > as it basicly goes past what you want or not far enough. > > In this case I would put the cause for the twitchyness more

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Mills writes: > I found a document on the web that actually explains what > ConstantDeceleration does. It's this one: > > https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/PointerAcceleration/ > > It also describes the possible values of that option, as well as other > options that you c

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Annoying mouse twitchyness [Mate]

2017-05-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Mills writes: [...] > At least it does provide the names of the variables and possible > values for them. That's really all that's needed to experiment > with some of the variables. Yes, I see that too ... thanks. A note just for completeness. In the OP of this thread I said the mouse

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install or uninstall Vbox older version blocking the way

2017-05-10 Thread Harry Putnam
I was working toward rounding up information as to why recent vbox versions are not installable (in gui format), on openindiana As I recall it had to do with vbox recent builds depending on a gcc install older than that installed on hipster ... at least since 161030 releases. I hoped to record th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install or uninstall Vbox older version blocking the way

2017-05-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Will Brokenbourgh writes: [...] >> So when I went to run thru installing the newest 5.1.22...I'm told >> there is a VBox already installed... so `pkgrm SUNWvbox', but that fails >> with what sounds like an unusual error (Failed to parse the Solaris >> kernel major version): >> >>pkgrm SUNWvb

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install or uninstall Vbox older version blocking the way

2017-05-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Jim Klimov writes: > The error message sounds like something that my > https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxconfig_sh tries to alleviate. Indeed, > after the different Solaris and illumos distros split ways, it became > very difficult to guess for a script whether a needed kernel/feature > level is a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install or uninstall Vbox older version blocking the way

2017-05-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Jim Klimov writes: >>The newest patch is almost 2 yrs old. The newest vbox version (5.1.22) >> >>is from last month I think... >> >>So before I bugger something up with my ill-informed bungling, can >>anyone say if this newest patch is likely to work with vbox 5.1.22 or >>should I be getting an

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install or uninstall Vbox older version blocking the way

2017-05-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Jim Klimov writes: [...] > > For me, the last Oracle-released Virtualbox package that got installed > was a recent 5.0.x one. The 5.1.x need qt5 and some differently-named > packages as dependencies, so there were efforts to roll OI's own. I > did not yet look into replacing its config-scripts o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana.org website maintance

2017-05-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Will Brokenbourgh writes: > On 05/12/2017 09:16 AM, openbabel wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I noticed there is some unwanted entries on the dashboard of the >> site. Is there currently a maintainer for the site ? >> >> Robert Jones If you dig back in the archives of this list just a few weeks, I thi

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Peculiar behavior when start running vbox vms

2017-05-13 Thread Harry Putnam
OS: oi hipster latest updates as of yesterday Hardware: HP xw8600 workstation 2x Xeon 5470 3.33ghz - 32 GB ram 3 matched sets of disks in mirror configuration. (including rpool) 4 TB total space I jumped from oi 151_9 to hipster about 1.5 mnths ago. I was running 6 Vbox vms that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Peculiar behavior when start running vbox vms

2017-05-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Kees Nuyt writes: > By default, the right Ctrl key is assigned to the VBox "Host" key, > and totally captured by VBox whenever a VM window has the focus. > The left Ctrl key should behave as usual. > https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#idm8607 Not related far as I can tell, its the left

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Peculiar behavior when start running vbox vms

2017-05-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: [...] > OK, getting to the chase: In every one of those vms the Ctrl key on > std 104 key US keyboard does not work. Needless to say such things as vim > and emacs suffer severely when Ctrl does not work. > > Even the xterms I use a lot, suffer with no cap

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hijacking of Shift-F5

2017-05-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Jean-Pierre André writes: > Hi, > > [new thread as a follow-up to a similar one by Harry Putnam] > >>> >>> I'm guessing the main OS (oi-hipster) has in someway hijacked >>> exclusive use of CTRL key. But I have no idea how to begin to fix >>

[OpenIndiana-discuss] About readline and ~/.inputrc

2017-05-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Does anyone know what readline pkgs are necessay to make bash's ~/.inputrc file work? These are the pkgs shown by `pkg list -a' on current OS image: SUNWgnu-readline5.2-0.133--r library/readline6.3-2017.0.0.1 i-- web/php-54/extension/ph

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with some error while upgrading to latest open indiana

2017-05-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Zoltan Farkas via openindiana-discuss writes: > I am trying to upgrade to latest openindiana, I am getting some > errors due to some lib being obsolete. any help appreciated, here is > the detail: [...] I think the sort of normal advice I've seen here is if possible do an install from scratch.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-25 Thread Harry Putnam
How can quickly tell what bit my Hipster 2017.04 is? ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Coopersmith writes: > On 05/25/17 02:10 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> How can quickly tell what bit my Hipster 2017.04 is? > > "isainfo -kv" will tell you which kernel is running. > And so it does... thanks: sudo isainfo -kv

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris github repositories

2017-05-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst writes: > Sorry if you already know for this, I though it might be worth > sharing: > https://blogs.oracle.com/observatory/github-repos-with-software-for-solaris Thanks for that link... And thanks to Alan Coopersmith. I wondered how one adds the `us

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Coopersmith writes: > For the one I work on (not OI, but "Big Red"), we've been making > this conversion across 5+ years now, and are >90% done in our > development trunk, though much less done in what's been released so > far. I've written far more about the topic for the terminally > curi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris github repositories

2017-05-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Coopersmith writes: > On 05/26/17 05:48 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst >> writes: >> >>> Sorry if you already know for this, I though it might be worth >>> sharing: >>> https://blogs.oracle.com/ob

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

2017-05-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Coopersmith writes: > On 05/26/17 11:34 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Alan Coopersmith writes: >> >>> For the one I work on (not OI, but "Big Red"), we've been making >>> this conversion across 5+ years now, and are >90% done in our >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bug in emacs with latest Hipster

2017-06-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Mills writes: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 05:35:50PM +0300, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: >> On 06/23/17 04:49 PM, Gary Mills wrote: >> >I've always used emacs as my editor, but when I tried it on a recent >> >Hipster, I got a surprise. It happens when I run emacs in curses >> >mode, and when I pa

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Should we be able to install and run recent vbox versions

2017-07-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: OS: Openindian/hipster (A branch of Solaris 11) Hardware: HP xw8600 workstation: 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5470 @ 3.33GHz - 32 GB Ram --- --- ---=--- --- --- I've heard that recent versions of Vbox (above 5.0.X) are based on qt5 Should we

[OpenIndiana-discuss] New request for info `Are we able to install recent vbox versions'

2017-07-22 Thread Harry Putnam
p my OS if installing qt5 and trying to run recent version of Vbox are likely to cause me grief, I might not be able to contend with. But I do need to get a newer version of Vbox installed and working. >From July 9th: From: Harry Putnam Subject: Should we be able to install and run recent

[OpenIndiana-discuss] roughly normal rsyncing data point to point on localhost

2017-07-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: OS: Openindian/hipster (A branch of Solaris 11) Hardware: HP xw8600 workstation: 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5470 @ 3.33GHz - 32 GB Ram --- --- ---=--- --- --- I curious to find out if what I'm seeing while rsyncing data from point to point

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] roughly normal rsyncing data point to point on localhost

2017-07-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Till Wegmüller writes: > Hi Harry > > Could it be that you are copying many small files from a single > harddrive to another folder inside that drive? No smaller than one might incur in an operating OS. For example; not hundreds of thousands of emails or news posts. > If so it could be that yo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New request for info `Are we able to install recent vbox versions'

2017-07-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Till Wegmüller writes: > Hi Harry > > There is a wiki entry to install recent virtualbox. > https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.2+VirtualBox > > You may need the vboxconfig.sh patch. Yes, I used Jim K's documentation (before it was on the wiki) to install the vbox I am currently running 5.0.40. B

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New request for info `Are we able to install recent vbox versions'

2017-07-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Peter Tribble writes: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I posted this query July 9th but got no takers far as a response. >> Is this question in appropriate here? Is it a foolish question? >> >> If both answers are no, I'd r

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New request for info `Are we able to install recent vbox versions'

2017-07-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Peter Tribble writes: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I posted this query July 9th but got no takers far as a response. >> Is this question in appropriate here? Is it a foolish question? >> >> If both answers are no, I'd r

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] New request for info `Are we able to install recent vbox versions'

2017-07-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Peter Tribble writes: > Sure. > > Over time, functions get added to libc. We don't change the version number > of libc itself; the versioning is handled internally. Wow.. thanks for such a thorough explanation. So, it must be some hefty work to get that straightened out or it would be. I see t

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Time-slider has stopped working

2017-08-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: OI/hipster with recent updates Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram The time-slider has stopped working... I see the time-slider icon in upper right of MATE desktop blinking furiously. right clicking tells me to `configure-timeslider'... I've tried repeatedly. s

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Timeslider apparently intermitten; What to do about reluctant timeslider

2017-08-18 Thread Harry Putnam
I posted about this problem on Aug 5 Newsgroups: gmane.os.openindiana.general From: Harry Putnam Subject: Time-slider has stopped working To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 11:07:12 -0400 (1 week, 5 days, 22 hours ago) Message-ID: <871soqf3z3@local.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] sendmail single user host sending to internet thru Smarthost: examples

2017-08-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Can anyone here show a working example of sendmail setup for single user HOST sending mail out by relay to a `smarthost' More explicitly, the host has no REAL domain name just a made up domain of the home lan, not resolvable from internet. I would guess such a host would be doing something with `

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sendmail single user host sending to internet thru Smarthost: examples

2017-08-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Jonathan Adams writes: [...] > segments from my sendmail.mc, not that I use sendmail any more since the > company took the decision to move to office365 ... [...] Thanks for the example. I'm working up a sendmail.mc and gives a place to start. ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sendmail single user host sending to internet thru Smarthost: examples

2017-08-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Hugh McIntyre writes: > Harry, > > It looks like you've asked about sendmail several times before. Did > you previously have a working config, but changing to Comcast broke > things? Or changing to a new domain name for email, etc.? Kind of a long story there. I did try to get sendmail working

[OpenIndiana-discuss] what to expect setting timeslider to `all'

2017-08-25 Thread Harry Putnam
[Note: this message was inadvertently posted to gmane.os.illumos.general but was intended for gmane.os.openindiana.general] , | Subject: what to expect setting timeslider to `all' | Newsgroups: gmane.os.illumos.general | To: disc...@lists.illumos.org | Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 19:3

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] what to expect setting timeslider to `all'

2017-09-05 Thread Harry Putnam
[...] Harry Wrote: >> Running: >> Openindiana/hipster updated today (170825) >> >> With timeslider tool enabled and set to `all' should I expect >> snapshots only to appear at zfs filesystems that are an endpoint? >> >> An example I see here: >> >> With these filesystems created: >> >> p1/vb >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] what to expect setting timeslider to `all'

2017-09-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Dave Miner writes: > On 09/ 5/17 07:48 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> Harry Wrote: >> >>>> Running: >>>> Openindiana/hipster updated today (170825) >>>> >>>> With timeslider tool enabled and set to `

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] what to expect setting timeslider to `all'

2017-09-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Pyhalov writes: [...] Harry wrote: >>> This is happening on a recently updated (about 170825 or so) hipster >>> OS. >>> >>> So if an old bug has recurred somehow, one would think it would be >>> getting reported by others on this list. >>> Dave M responded: >> If hipster is still usin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] what to expect setting timeslider to `all'

2017-09-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > Alexander Pyhalov writes: > > [...] > > Harry wrote: >>>> This is happening on a recently updated (about 170825 or so) hipster >>>> OS. >>>> >>>> So if an old bug has recurred somehow, one would think it would

[OpenIndiana-discuss] migrate rpool to new larger disk with newer bootloader in place

2017-09-08 Thread Harry Putnam
The HOST this query is about is a recently updated hipster rpool. Running as vbox guest on windows 10 host. I started out with what I now see is too small of a disk for rpool. Currently 35 GB... and it appears 31 GB is already in use. I'd like to move to around a 70-80 GB disk. Since I'm dealing

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replicate one hosts installed image to another host

2017-09-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Once a new install is updated and all the pkgs you expect to need are installed, how can I replicate that installed image onto another host? Or more likely, onto several more hosts. Hoping to eliminate some of the chores involved in bringing a new install up to date and having all pkgs I'm likely

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Attempting to mirror and expand an rpool do I have old bootloader

2017-09-10 Thread Harry Putnam
I created a vbox vm running oi a while back, just for some experiments... over time I've begun to add to it and do more with it. I'm finding my original rpool, on a vbox disc of 34 gb has nearly run out of space. Rather than reinstalling with bigger disks I hoped to mirror and expand the existing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] remote root login failing .. even after edits to sshd_config

2024-11-20 Thread Harry Putnam
On Wed, Nov 20, 2024, at 16:58, Christian Meier wrote: > Hi > > I think root user is a role as it is default on OI/Solaris > > # grep root /etc/user_attr grep root /etc/user_attr roottype=normal;auths=solaris.*,solaris.grant;profiles=All;lock_after_retries=no;clearance=admin_high;min_label=

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