Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

2012-08-06 Thread James Carlson
u need to have the local file systems mounted in order to start up the networking services ... but if the mount process itself requires networking, you're stuck. This is exactly what the automounter is for ... though I somewhat doubt that it makes adminstrative sense to have anything remo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

2012-08-06 Thread James Carlson
n if I'm sharing configuration between machines, I set up rsync to keep them up-to-date, so that a failure (or unreachability) of the NFS server doesn't cause otherwise-independent machines to fail. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

2012-08-06 Thread James Carlson
export/home -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

2012-08-06 Thread James Carlson
if you don't like it and (b) the mechanism that underlies it is far more general than just auto_home. It allows you to trigger configured mounts based on file system access, and handles fail-over, platform-related variable expansion, and directory service integration. -- James Carlson

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ActiveDirectory UID mapping (netatalk)

2012-08-06 Thread James Relph
under the correct UID seems to suggest that the mapping is at least going on. Thanks, James. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [solarisx86] For those nostalgic fellas

2012-08-07 Thread James Carlson
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Holy water ... check. > Wooden stakes ... check. > Silver bullets ... check. > Chainsaw ... check. > > Okay, all ready here, we'll make sure it can't get back in. *shrug* The world can be a scary place. http://openlook.sourcef

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ActiveDirectory UID mapping (netatalk)

2012-08-07 Thread James Relph
en if the ephemerally mapped UID is in the 2^31 to 2^32 range. Very, very odd. Any insight gratefully appreciated! James. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Code Bounty (Active Directory Integration)

2012-08-08 Thread James Relph
iana, if you drop me an email we can discuss a project bounty on this. We've got a potentially reasonably large budget for funding work on this as we can see some business opportunities that this would make significantly easier. Thanks, James. __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Synchronizing Sun DHCP servers

2012-08-09 Thread James Carlson
pport active probing (arp/ping) whether > the IP address it is going to lease is actually available and not > used by some squatter (or a client of another DHCP server), and > logging the result? Yes. And doing so is part of the standard. See dhcpsvc.conf

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ActiveDirectory UID mapping (netatalk)

2012-08-13 Thread James Relph
sing moving to SAMBA+winbindd is the VSS integration? The snapshots are still there and all the other ZFS features, you just lose the right-click - restore previous versions option (which most enterprises seem to disable for clients anyway). James. ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ActiveDirectory UID mapping (netatalk)

2012-08-13 Thread James Relph
- because it really feels a bit strange that at the moment the native AD integration is significantly better for just CIFS/NFS than for any other process. James. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris privileges and seteuid()

2012-08-16 Thread James Relph
rom that after seeing what Gea has said is the "must store SIDs *or* map all UIDs", which makes me wonder if there's an easy way to store the SIDs that then lets you write the UIDs. That's obviously what the CIFS client is doing, but it&#x

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris privileges and seteuid()

2012-08-16 Thread James Relph
ing, it sounded like what it does is to actually store the SID on-disk and convert that on the fly to an ephemeral UID. That might mean that the non-persistence of the ephemeral IDs across reboots doesn't matter (as the SID itself is still stored), but it's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Code Bounty (Active Directory Integration)

2012-08-17 Thread James Relph
ink now I've got a better understanding of ephemeral IDs (thanks for the confirmation by the way) then they make more sense, yet it still feels a little like the easier route was taken on the development side, leaving a slightly more complicated situation on the adminis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris privileges and seteuid()

2012-08-17 Thread James Relph
how that works over the weekend (in particular after a reboot, what UID/GID will a file/folder show (ie. with ls) until the same user logs in again and the new ephemeral mapping is created?). Thanks again, James. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mail

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris privileges and seteuid()

2012-08-22 Thread James Relph
che. I really don't understand why the ephemeral UIDs are quite so ephemeral (certainly keeping them static between reboots seems a bit of a minimum). Honestly would be willing to put up a respectable bounty if anyone wants to have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HW sensors for OI?

2012-08-27 Thread James Carlson
Rich wrote: > The IPMI driver from FreeBSD got ported by the SmartOS guys back in April. I don't know if it's useful anymore (I haven't used it in quite a while), but this was handy at one point: http://bolthole.com/solaris/drivers/health/ -- James Carlson

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris privileges and seteuid()

2012-08-29 Thread James Relph
al > (certainly keeping them static between reboots seems a bit of a minimum). > > Honestly would be willing to put up a respectable bounty if anyone wants to > have a go at improving the AD integration! > > James. Obviously not getting much of a bite in terms of a boun

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris privileges and seteuid()

2012-08-29 Thread James Relph
al > (certainly keeping them static between reboots seems a bit of a minimum). > > Honestly would be willing to put up a respectable bounty if anyone wants to > have a go at improving the AD integration! > > James. Obviously not getting much of a bite in terms of a boun

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backup User for zfs send and receive

2012-09-04 Thread James Carlson
add it to the "profiles=" for that user. The user_attr(4) man page may also be helpful. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

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

2012-09-04 Thread James Relph
t;time with the AD plugin for OS X - which is frighteningly easy to setup). James. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-04 Thread James Relph
ommunity (and Linux in particular has benefitted massively from the support of companies like IBM and RedHat). James. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-05 Thread James Relph
. Hi Frank, Winbind worked straight away with netatalk, and was tons more reliable/configurable (you can just give it a UID range to use). The problem was getting the Solaris CIFS server to work with it, which didn't seem to be possible. James. ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-05 Thread James Carlson
e. I'm not sure, though, how hard that'd be. Why are you hacking at stty ... ? -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-05 Thread James Carlson
tunately there's a fair bit of open source stuff that doesn't like > Solaris :-( It was a good bit of work to get this far. > > In view of the admin overhead, I'll probably defer working on ttymon & > friends until I can setup a faster OI machine. Working on OI

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-05 Thread James Carlson
w/ 2 free pins can use RS-232 to talk to > the outside world. > > This is what stty & ttymon exist for. But it doesn't seem to work and > appears to have been broken for some time as Solaris 10 has the same problem. &

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-06 Thread James Relph
had any luck getting it working? Best regards, James. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-06 Thread James Relph
> You need to post and/or analyse the errorlog of the smb service. > Assuming killed more cats than curiosity ;-) > I know, but this had been a bit of a marathon getting to this point alone, and all I needed at the time was AFP. I will have another look when I get half an hou

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-06 Thread James Carlson
So another thing is to spin up > OI on a box w/ a real serial port and see how it behaves. I still think you're really barking up the wrong tree here, and it makes the problem far harder to solve. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-06 Thread James Carlson
bits on the wire and the interface exposed to the application. If you can get a real serial port (often not included in modern hardware, but usually available on an adapter board), you're far, far better off using that. (Yeah, I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-06 Thread James Relph
to AD? Can you not just give it winbind as a pam module and leave it in Workgroup mode? James. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-07 Thread James Carlson
ents actually worked, and thus spent untold hours manipulating the wrong bits. I suggest getting a copy of C-Kermit rather than using tip. tip doesn't really do much in terms of terminal emulation -- it's truly ancient and assumes that you have equ

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-07 Thread James Carlson
reading the docs and experimenting w/o finding way. "set terminal lf-display crlf" ... at least it's there on a "modern" C-Kermit. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] isc-dhcp client

2012-09-07 Thread James Carlson
egular IPv6 interfaces, while IPv4 DHCP implementation typically requires special "tricks" to be able to send and receive UDP/IP messages without having the IP interface configured. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ Ope

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] isc-dhcp client

2012-09-07 Thread James Carlson
James Carlson wrote: > On 09/07/12 09:12, Gary Gendel wrote: > At a guess, you may need to do this: > > ifconfig inet6 bge0 plumb up Obviously, that should have been: ifconfig bge0 inet6 plumb up -- James Carlson 42.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-07 Thread James Carlson
blocking item in removing it is making sure that the system console service still works right after removal. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot ping localhost (with NoNet configuration)

2012-09-07 Thread James Carlson
uot; and "netstat -nr" say? > Is that normal? There is a way to ping localhost using NoNet profile? No, that's not normal. It should work fine without external network interfaces. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot ping localhost (with NoNet configuration)

2012-09-08 Thread James Carlson
d 127.0.0.1 are "localhost", so those numbers are fine. The only thing I see in this case is that you have nothing running on that port. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-disc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot ping localhost (with NoNet configuration)

2012-09-08 Thread James Carlson
On 9/7/12 5:02 PM, Ivan Gualandri wrote: > On 7 September 2012 22:43, James Carlson wrote: >> What do "netstat -ni" and "netstat -nr" say? >> > It says: > > Routing Table: IPV4 > Destination: Gateway: FLAGS REFUse

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot ping localhost (with NoNet configuration)

2012-09-10 Thread James Carlson
.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2. time=0.067 ms ^C 127.0.0.1 PING Statistics 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip (ms) min/avg/max/stddev = 0.067/0.073/0.077/0.005 -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-disc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problems with netcat zfs receive

2012-09-11 Thread James Carlson
n a tty, and that confuses netcat. The netcat "-d" option tells it to ignore stdin. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris cp problems

2012-09-24 Thread James Carlson
escriptor limits (ulimit -a) do you have? I think bash defaults to 256, which isn't much. "ulimit -n 4096" may help. You might also try other commands, such as: find -depth -print | cpio -p -@dmPV -- James Carlson

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread James Carlson
reating resource pools (poolcfg(1M)), and then assigning zones to pools. You can control just about everything through resource pools, but, at least to me, it's not exactly "simple." -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ O

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Same networking with varied NICs

2012-10-01 Thread James Carlson
erstubs aren't real Ethernet interfaces and thus cannot be bridged, that plan may be hard to achieve. It's also unclear to me what doing that would buy, except perhaps lower performance. It should be much easier to create VNICs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Debugging systems startup

2012-10-01 Thread James Carlson
both of them > if available? I know that I can write to /dev/term/a when > running with a physical console, but I can't be certain in > advance that on a particular system this port is plugged > as a remote or serial console. And I'm not sure which TTY > name addresse

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Same networking with varied NICs

2012-10-01 Thread James Carlson
Jim Klimov wrote: > 2012-10-01 15:04, James Carlson wrote: >> Given that etherstubs aren't real Ethernet interfaces and thus cannot be >> bridged, that plan may be hard to achieve. It's also unclear to me what >> doing that would buy, except perhaps lower perform

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Debugging systems startup

2012-10-01 Thread James Carlson
Jim Klimov wrote: > 2012-10-01 15:28, James Carlson пишет: >> Jim Klimov wrote: >>> I want to inject some echo's into my SMF startup scripts to >>> report about the progress of my systems startup (and possible >>> problems). Actually I did that, and "

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

2012-10-01 Thread James Carlson
ment -- the old scripting mechanisms allowed software developers to deliver arbitrary horrors inside scripts, but the new system doesn't allow that. OpenSolaris (and OpenIndiana) still supports SysV packaging, but the main software, at least in the main line of code, is del

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] from the lost to the river

2012-10-03 Thread James Carlson
ng was a good simple solution. > SVR4 packages include the ability to perform integrity checks of the > installed package against an accepted manifest. "pkg verify" and "pkg fix" in IPS. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is OI/illumos stance on recreation of features from Solaris 11 (and other proprietary OSes)?

2012-10-10 Thread James Carlson
ingement. That can have a significant effect on liability. Much better to just discuss ideas rather than ownership. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is OI/illumos stance on recreation of features from Solaris 11 (and other proprietary OSes)?

2012-10-10 Thread James Carlson
end to talk about risk rather than absolute yes/no answers -- but it'd be better than discussing here. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is OI/illumos stance on recreation of features from Solaris 11 (and other proprietary OSes)?

2012-10-10 Thread James Carlson
to invent" or "prior art." In any event, I still think it's somewhere between unhelpful and downright dangerous to bother with it as part of OpenIndiana. I've probably crossed the line from "trying to shut it down" to being part of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability

2012-10-12 Thread James Carlson
h it away by changing OSes, well, I guess that's up to them. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Namespace management and symlinks in /usr

2012-10-17 Thread James Carlson
n cross-platform allowance for GNU stuff, and having a separate unprefixed /usr/gnu/bin directory means that those who want to live in an unprefixed world can just prepend that to their PATHs. Best of both with little pain. I suspect that final set of bad actors is really quite small, but perh

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-22 Thread James Carlson
already in a bad state. So, yes, limiting the ARC is (unfortunately) a good thing. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SS cc multithread compilation switch (e.g., Parrot)

2012-10-31 Thread James Carlson
eaded versus single-threaded distinction in the past, and it's a good thing that most of the distinction is now moot. Turn on "-mt" if you like, but I think you may be waving a dead chicken. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SS cc multithread compilation switch (e.g., Parrot)

2012-10-31 Thread James Carlson
tions. (There are a few places using "-mt", but there are many more where the code is MT-hot but doesn't use it. I suspect that the remaining "-mt" uses are just stale.) -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Gnome and the future

2012-11-04 Thread James Carlson
ndow differently ... but really? -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-06 Thread James Carlson
ocale on the fly. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] iSCSI target in a zone

2012-11-07 Thread James Relph
rget. It's not critical but I was trying to find a shortcut to something so I thought it was worth a quick look! Thanks, James Principal Consultant ACSA 10.5 ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://ope

[OpenIndiana-discuss] iSCSI CHAP Authentication Failure

2012-11-13 Thread James Relph
initiator, setup the same way, it's giving auth errors. Really strange, host groups look fine, and obviously the first one we setup worked no problem. Do they need to have unique CHAP secrets or should that not cause a problem (clutching at straws a little here). Thanks in advance, J

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Dying iSCSI Initiator

2012-11-30 Thread James Relph
I can wipe out the iSCSI config and the machine will boot fine. In /var/adm/messages we get: iscsi session resource is in use but I can't find anything that seems relevant when searching for that. I'd be grateful for any tips! Thanks, James Principal Cons

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dying iSCSI Initiator

2012-12-01 Thread James Relph
Hi Gonzalo, Thanks for the reply. Nothing in the logs on the storage server (which is OI151a7 so I would expect fairly decent compatibility!), and the IQNs definitely haven't changed. Bit of a puzzler. James Principal Consultant www.themacplace.co.uk On 30 Nov 2012, at 20:17, Go

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dying iSCSI Initiator

2012-12-02 Thread James Relph
re you able to see the initiator host ? Yep. Still can't work out what it's doing. I think the "resource busy" error is probably the core issue, but I can't find any information as to what that relates to. Thanks, James. ___ O

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dying iSCSI Initiator

2012-12-02 Thread James Relph
n the physical side, but access the storage network by one vmxnet3 instance (10Gb). James. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

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

2012-12-07 Thread James Carlson
all-powerful. Only the credentials you have give you power on Solaris.) If your actual goal here is to limit the risk of running rsyncd, you should probably read up on Least Privilege (start with the privileges(5) man page) and SMF (start with smf(5)). Changing the start-up script is at b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-10 Thread James Carlson
(you didn't say), check the BIOS. What does it say about installed cards? Next, check /usr/bin/scanpci and "/usr/sbin/prtpicl -v". What do they say about PCI devices discovered and the drivers attached? Finally, check with Mr. Google. He knows almost every

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing 151a5 server from USB over serial console

2012-12-14 Thread James Carlson
o /lib/svc/method and trying to run "ksh -x ./fs-usr" might be interesting. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing 151a5 server from USB over serial console

2012-12-19 Thread James Carlson
trying to do this? On whatever hardware you're using with whatever limitations and/or configuration it might have? Possibly so. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@ope

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Joining an Active Directory Domain with smbadm

2013-01-03 Thread James Carlson
' list [always including the specified 'domain' as well] for the newer ones. Of course, I don't think you'll encounter such software on OpenIndiana, so the point is moot. Just say "search" and be done with it.) -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

2013-01-16 Thread James Carlson
rm, but to help identify the cause of a hard hang, it can be useful. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] VMware vmxnet3

2013-01-26 Thread James Relph
m and iSCSI won't come back up over that interface. It seems like a really odd error and I wondered if anyone had any ideas? Thanks, James. Sent from my iPhone ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HA or keepalived in OI / solaris

2013-01-28 Thread James Carlson
ould be able to do this. See this for a possible starting point: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1453/gkkky.html I have personal reservations against using VRRP in this manner, but there are obviously quite a few who disagree. -- James Carlson 42.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-28 Thread James Relph
this list and hasn't been replied to (if ever even read by someone who could do it). James ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-28 Thread James Relph
developers are actively involved and what they think? James ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-29 Thread James Relph
sly heavily cloud-oriented) or companies very focussed on selling (not necessarily cheap) support. I'd quite like to see OpenIndiana thrive as a community supported general purpose OS based on Illumos. James ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing l

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-29 Thread James Relph
penIndiana thrive as a > community supported general purpose OS based on Illumos. > > James > Just as an addendum, we're happy to pay for support/development (and we're deploying Nexenta somewhere at the moment), but it's not the solution for a lot of our clients (eith

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Funding Martin, was Re: OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-29 Thread James Relph
> As Martin mentions SCHUFA it seems Martin is already fallen off the > cliff, so I'd like to encourage anbody who's considering to donate > something to Martin's efforts to act *now*. > --f I've sent something as well Martin, hope we can get ri

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Developer funding model musings

2013-01-29 Thread James Relph
developers (I'm thinking of a way to avoid the situation where, for example, a neat ZFS project gets loads of funding, but really critical (but maybe more boring) security projects don't get enough? James ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Developer funding model musings

2013-01-29 Thread James Relph
ng > for a system or support. There might be a value in having some sponsor pages for donations past a certain threshold, but announcing actual figures might put some people off. I think we really need to get the devs involved though, to see if they're actually interested in any of thi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Developer funding model musings

2013-01-29 Thread James Relph
ould be a step in that direction. It might be workable though, I guess the question would be what would be the next step in setting this up, and who would we need to talk to? I have to be honest and say I couldn't actually name many Oi devs! James _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI_151a7 install grumble

2013-02-01 Thread James Relph
xattr and ACL support, whic seems to work well. We actually did tests syncing files with extended attributes from OS X to Oi 151 and even that worked (the OS X xattrs were stored as ZFS xattrs as well). Quite neat really. James ___ OpenIndiana-d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-03 Thread James Carlson
erformance in ordinary use. It adds a ton of complexity to the driver software with little to show for it. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird packet garbling problem

2013-02-04 Thread James Carlson
On 02/04/13 10:01, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: >> From: James Carlson [mailto:carls...@workingcode.com] >> >> Which of the many Broadcom drivers is this? If it's bnx, try editing >> /kernel/drv/bnx.conf, and uncommenting and changing the "checksum=&

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Quick zone-networking question.

2013-02-13 Thread James Carlson
Outbound is a bigger problem, because the output interface that will be used will be determined ENTIRELY by the destination address -- i.e., the remote peer -- and will have NOTHING to do with the source address used. It's possible to use IP-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread James Relph
get of Nexenta, Joyent etc., but we've got a bit. The problem is finding appropriate developers, we've advertised, asked around online and at two Universities near us, and not had anyone either with any Solaris/Illumos experience, or interested in learning. We may have found one person now in

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Diagonal Mapping

2013-02-24 Thread James Relph
like that. When testing with one user, it works brilliantly, if I add: idmap add wingroup:tmp@themacplace.private unixuser:tmp then login with the first account, james, I can write (and then read) files/folders and it creates them as the unix user tmp. That all looked really promising, but in

[OpenIndiana-discuss] idmap timeout

2013-02-25 Thread James Relph
acplace.private) 13:11:00 uid=2147491846(james@themacplace.private) gid=2147483650(Domain Users@themacplace.private) 13:12:00 uid=2147491846(james@themacplace.private) gid=2147483650(Domain Users@themacplace.private) 13:13:00 uid=2147491846 gid=2147483650(Domain Users@themacplace.private)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] idmap timeout

2013-02-25 Thread James Relph
job? #/bin/bash datestring=$(date +"%H:%M:%S") userdata=$(/usr/bin/id james@themacplace.private) echo "$datestring" " " "$userdata" >> /root/idtest.log > Checking idmap.db per the notes in feature #677 shows the expiration time > being set prope

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] idmap timeout

2013-02-25 Thread James Relph
ably I did and that should be in effect anyway? James. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] idmap timeout

2013-02-25 Thread James Relph
> FWIW "svcadm restart idmap" loads the new setting properly on oi_151a7 w/o an > "svcadm refresh idmap". Yep, didn't make any difference: 18:30:00 uid=2147508225(james@themacplace.private) gid=2147483650(Domain Users@themacplace.private) 18:31:00 uid=21475

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] idmap timeout

2013-02-25 Thread James Relph
g to a range of IDs that would be good enough. James. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] idmap timeout

2013-02-25 Thread James Relph
(i.e. instead of just having > static and ephemeral, have static, ephemeral and cached - with cached > basically being automatically created user mappings). When I say cached I mean a cached copy of the users in AD (with some ADs that could be a big ask though...). I added idmap dump

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] idmap timeout

2013-02-25 Thread James Relph
will Windows & Mac OS reveal > w/o requiring installing a program. If OI can query the AD hosts, then idmap > can trigger an update on a fail of identifier lookup. That's a pretty clean > change. One function call in the right place.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] idmap timeout

2013-02-25 Thread James Relph
ate static maps between AD users/groups and Oi users/groups I wouldn't think that would be fast though, and I wouldn't know the best way of triggering it. James. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash brace expansion in non-C locales??

2013-03-12 Thread James Carlson
one specific to OpenIndiana, I could see it being pretty serious, but it doesn't seem like either of those. Instead, it sounds like an opportunity to try out the work in some other scripting environment that has explicit Unicode sup

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Locale questions in OI-151a7

2013-03-13 Thread James Carlson
"n";"o";"p";"q";"r";"s";"t";"u";"v";"w";"x";"y";"z" > hans@klaus%83%15:37> Looking at the source code for locale.c, I see this: #define CSSIZE 128 [...] prt_ctp(char *name) [...] for (i = 0; i < CSSIZE; i++) { ... so, it just prints the mappings for the first 128 bytes, regardless of the type of character set. This doesn't mean that the actual isalpha() doesn't work and doesn't include the national language character set code points you're interested in -- it almost certainly does -- it just means that the 'locale' program is too weak to show them to you. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Configuring an ethernet interface for just Wireshark listening?

2013-03-14 Thread James Carlson
onfig to be "deprecated" and "-norouter". The latter is equivalent to what you once did with ndd. But I think that's just making things unnecessarily difficult. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash brace expansion in non-C locales??

2013-03-15 Thread James Carlson
/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strč_prst_skrz_krk Classic Onion from 1995 (no longer on line from theonion.com but available other places): http://www.cartalk.com/content/vowels-bosnia -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W ___ OpenIndiana-discuss ma

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash brace expansion in non-C locales??

2013-03-15 Thread James Carlson
ays yet more confusing languages out there to be learned, and the ones you don't yet know will almost certainly look or sound odd. Or do Americans just see the funny letters and laugh? ;-} -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W _

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