Re: [dtrace-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Spencer Shepler wrote: On Wed, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: OK, I have emailed you the link to snoop files. I have noticed quite a few carrier_errors on the server bash-3.00# kstat -n elxl0 | grep carrier carrier_errors 842217 but how came it affects

Re: [dtrace-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Spencer Shepler
On Wed, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Spencer Shepler wrote: > > >On Wed, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: > >>On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Spencer Shepler wrote: > >> > > It seems that the transfer start quickly, but after some time it gets > slower and slower. > >> > >>Will do. What

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread TJ Yang
> On 6/29/05, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > My 2 cents: > > > > - A big strike against deb and portage (for > Solaris/OpenSolaris) is > > that no work's been done yet. > > > > - A big strike against Solaris packaging is it's > not open-source yet. > > > > - A big point in fav

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 6/29/05, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So it seems to me that one feasible path would be to take a minimal > > OpenSolaris-based OS (SchilliX) and integrate an rpm registry onto > > it -- at least for now. Then when Solaris packaging (sv

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 6/29/05, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This suggest that the Solaris-specific build knowledge that every > > OpenPKG package maintainer had to acquire in order to deliver Solaris > > packages to the OpenPKG system has been captured and m

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 05:37:59PM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: > > > So "them" is this commuity here, and the "distribution" is SchilliX. So > > in that context, "What suites us?" is the issue I'm raising. > > I'd think the packaging system used by

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Shawn Walker
On 6/29/05, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So it seems to me that one feasible path would be to take a minimal > OpenSolaris-based OS (SchilliX) and integrate an rpm registry onto > it -- at least for now. Then when Solaris packaging (svr4) is > open-sourced, migrating to a svr4 regist

Re: [dtrace-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Spencer Shepler wrote: On Wed, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Spencer Shepler wrote: It seems that the transfer start quickly, but after some time it gets slower and slower. Will do. What do you want me to snoop? cp or dd? what block size? If copying 300M

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Shawn Walker wrote: > ... > On 6/29/05, Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - If new packages are added in existing consolidations, how should > > they be named? Where is the registry that prevents conflicts? > > Having a central package registry where definitive

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Shawn Walker
On 6/29/05, Laszlo Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I feel like it's time to mention my baby: pkgbuild Sweet! rpmbuild really has me spoiled as a dev, admin, and user. Nice to see a Solaris equivalent. Once the packaging tools are opened up as well I think this in combination with pkgsrc would m

Re: [dtrace-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Spencer Shepler
On Wed, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Spencer Shepler wrote: > > >> > >>It seems that the transfer start quickly, but after some time it gets > >>slower and slower. > > > >(note: in the future the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list may be a > >better target for these discussions). > > Ah, di

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Shawn Walker
On 6/29/05, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This suggest that the Solaris-specific build knowledge that every > OpenPKG package maintainer had to acquire in order to deliver Solaris > packages to the OpenPKG system has been captured and made available for > re-use in Solaris-specific sr

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Sunil wrote: > > - A big strike against deb and portage (for > > Solaris/OpenSolaris) is > > that no work's been done yet. > you assume too much...:) > > work on portage for opensolaris has been slow. there are battles to be fought > with gentoo people for full support. And

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 05:37:59PM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: > So "them" is this commuity here, and the "distribution" is SchilliX. So > in that context, "What suites us?" is the issue I'm raising. I'd think the packaging system used by SchilliX is for Joerg to decide, in concert with his user

Re: [dtrace-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi Dragan, On 06/30/05 00:00, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: [cut] Where is the cp source, btw? usr/src/cmd/mv - cp and mv have common source. Another example of slow transfer: copying these 4 isos to our install server (using setup_install_server + add_to_install_server) took the whole day (some 5

Re: [osol-discuss] Source Browser for Mozilla/Firefox

2005-06-29 Thread Ben Rockwood
Ben Rockwood wrote: I wrote an engine interface for Mozilla/Firefox search. Nab it in my blog: http://cuddletech.com/blog/ I sorta wrote some more. ;) http://cuddletech.com/opensolaris/search.shtml BTW, the bugdatabase can't be wrapped because the search plugins for Mozilla/Firefox are

Re: [dtrace-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Spencer Shepler wrote: It seems that the transfer start quickly, but after some time it gets slower and slower. (note: in the future the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list may be a better target for these discussions). Ah, didn't know that it exists. OK, my next problem will go the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > > ... > ... > Making the svr4 packaging tools available in source form is a high > priority; assuming it's possible - a likely proposition Note that open-sourcing Solaris packaging is currently slated to happen no earlier than 9-12 months from now.

Re: [dtrace-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Spencer Shepler
On Wed, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Gavin Maltby wrote: > >Hi Dragan, > > Hi Gavin, > > > >On 06/30/05 00:00, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: > >[cut] > >>Where is the cp source, btw? > > > >usr/src/cmd/mv - cp and mv have common source. > > Ah, that explains it. > > > > >>Another exa

Re: [dtrace-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Gavin Maltby wrote: Hi Dragan, Hi Gavin, On 06/30/05 00:00, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: [cut] Where is the cp source, btw? usr/src/cmd/mv - cp and mv have common source. Ah, that explains it. Another example of slow transfer: copying these 4 isos to our install serve

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Laszlo Peter wrote: > I feel like it's time to mention my baby: pkgbuild > (pkgbuild.sf.net), which is an rpmbuild replacement that > produces Solaris SVr4 packages. This is what we use for > building JDS/Solaris (all GNOME, Mozilla, Evolution, APOC). > We have rpm spec files

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
Chris -- First, let me echo Shawn... +1 on your explanation. So one more big question... On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Chris Ricker wrote: > ... > > With Solaris, you build your wad of binaries (or whatever you're bundling) > to package any which way you can ;-). Once you've got a hopefully working > set

Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Alex Kiernan wrote: On 6/30/05, Dragan Cvetkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Alex Kiernan wrote: Those symptoms immediately make me think duplex mismatch. I thought so as well, but the ftp transfer confuses me (sca is the NFS client, lokrum is the NF

Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Alex Kiernan
On 6/30/05, Dragan Cvetkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Alex Kiernan wrote: > > > On 6/30/05, Dragan Cvetkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> To recapitulate and simplify a bit: I want to copy via NFS a large file > >> (Solaris Express b17 first iso, some 300MB). My NF

Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Alex Kiernan wrote: On 6/30/05, Dragan Cvetkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To recapitulate and simplify a bit: I want to copy via NFS a large file (Solaris Express b17 first iso, some 300MB). My NFS server is a x86 machine running onnv16, my NFS client is a SPARC machine

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Laszlo Peter
I feel like it's time to mention my baby: pkgbuild (pkgbuild.sf.net), which is an rpmbuild replacement that produces Solaris SVr4 packages. This is what we use for building JDS/Solaris (all GNOME, Mozilla, Evolution, APOC). We have rpm spec files [with a few enhancements], patches and community ta

[osol-discuss] Booting my built kernel gives "cannot mount root path"

2005-06-29 Thread Raymond Scott
After an apparently successful compile of the kernel using Studio 10 on my X86 platform, I used Install to create the tar file and then untarred it to create /platform/i86pc/kernel.tarkus (yes, after the EL&P album) Booting from this kernel panics the box... from the kernel debugger, ::msgbuf

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Sunil
> - A big strike against deb and portage (for > Solaris/OpenSolaris) is > that no work's been done yet. you assume too much...:) work on portage for opensolaris has been slow. there are battles to be fought with gentoo people for full support. And there is of course lot of work to get it going

Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Alex Kiernan
On 6/30/05, Dragan Cvetkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Rich Teer wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: > > > >> after starting truss -afe -o /dev/null -p 2079, it managed to copy some > >> 10MB of data in one minute or so, but after killing truss, it tak

[osol-discuss] Source Browser for Mozilla/Firefox

2005-06-29 Thread Ben Rockwood
I wrote an engine interface for Mozilla/Firefox search. Nab it in my blog: http://cuddletech.com/blog/ benr. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Rich Teer wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: after starting truss -afe -o /dev/null -p 2079, it managed to copy some 10MB of data in one minute or so, but after killing truss, it takes 5 minutes to copy 2MB of data. What is going on here? How can I find t

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 15:43, Eric Boutilier wrote: > > - A big strike against deb and portage (for Solaris/OpenSolaris) is > > that no work's been done yet. > > > > - A big strike against Solaris packaging is it's not open-source yet. > > > > - A big

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Darren J Moffat wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 12:43, Eric Boutilier wrote: > > Tending to be a bit of a reductionist, I can't help but throw out what > > I think is the #1 foundational question here. > > > > What's the best package architecture (database) standard for > > Open

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Hugh McIntyre
|> - How do you prevent the situation in which multiple packages could |> satisfy a dependency but they have different names? Conversely, how |> would you prevent the existence of incompatible packages with the same |> names? Fink under MacOS X seems to have a solution for this. For example in c

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Shawn Walker
On 6/29/05, Chris Ricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow! I couldn't have put it better than that. Nicely done! -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Chris Ricker
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Eric Boutilier wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Chris Ricker wrote: > > ... > > > > Also, keep in mind the big difference between something like rpm and SysV > > package format -- rpm manages not just the packaging, but also the > > building... > > Chris, > > Sorry but could yo

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 02:43:27PM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: > > Are you talking about how binaries built from ON and other Solaris > consolidations are delivered... No. > or about a hypothetical community-led > third-party application repositor

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Shawn Walker
On 6/29/05, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > But, as someone that's implemented an entire software deployment system > > based on OpenPKG, I'm heavily biased towards it. Especially since there > > is a rich set of portable packages already available and Solaris is an > > offici

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Shawn Walker
These questions to me frame the entire set of problems for any existing packaging system that tries to integrate with a native one or when you have a 3rd party providing the packages instead of the original project. On 6/29/05, Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - If new packages are

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Chris Ricker wrote: > ... > > Also, keep in mind the big difference between something like rpm and SysV > package format -- rpm manages not just the packaging, but also the > building... Chris, Sorry but could you elaborate a bit more -- especially in terms of contrasting thi

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
> ... > But, as someone that's implemented an entire software deployment system > based on OpenPKG, I'm heavily biased towards it. Especially since there > is a rich set of portable packages already available and Solaris is an > officially supported platform for the OpenPKG project... Just wanted

Re: [osol-discuss] bite-size bugs

2005-06-29 Thread Jim Walker
Nice lead in Eric :) To signup on the opensolaris testing-discuss list you just send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then reply to the confirmation message. The testing community page outlines some of the initiatives we are working on: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/opensolaris_test_qe

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 12:43, Eric Boutilier wrote: > Tending to be a bit of a reductionist, I can't help but throw out what > I think is the #1 foundational question here. > > What's the best package architecture (database) standard for > OpenSolaris? The canonicial choices, listed alphabetically,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
Previously Shawn Walker wrote: > As far as I can tell from reading the documentation, TWW is a high > level package management system that can't work on it's own, as it > relies on the underlying operating system to have a native packaging > system. Think of it as an abstract packging system layer

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris User Group Community

2005-06-29 Thread Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck
Jim, one thing we did in the beginning was provide a template for a website and offer hosting that linked to a common repository of resources (software, FAQs, etc.). In some cases all they did was translate the site into their native language. Here are a couple more examples of the older

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 02:43:27PM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: > Tending to be a bit of a reductionist, I can't help but throw out what > I think is the #1 foundational question here. > > What's the best package architecture (database) standard for > OpenSolaris? The canonicial choices, listed a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Chris Ricker
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Eric Boutilier wrote: > My 2 cents: > > - A big strike against deb and portage (for Solaris/OpenSolaris) is > that no work's been done yet. > > - A big strike against Solaris packaging is it's not open-source yet. > > - A big point in favor of Solaris packaging is compati

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris User Group Community

2005-06-29 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck wrote: Hi Jim, one suggestion: Let the User Groups be User Groups. The Community Leaders you mentioned should be mentors to the Users that step up to the responsibility to lead/manage groups. Set some requirements and empower the local guys to do their thing wi

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 15:43, Eric Boutilier wrote: > - A big strike against deb and portage (for Solaris/OpenSolaris) is > that no work's been done yet. > > - A big strike against Solaris packaging is it's not open-source yet. > > - A big point in favor of Solaris packaging is compatibiltiy wit

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting the source...

2005-06-29 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jun 29, 2005, at 1:04 AM, Glynn Foster wrote: Hey, Okay, I know JDS hasn't been released as part of the OpenSolaris project. However, as a Solaris user, I obviously have the right to obtain certain parts of it because of the license they're under, such as Metacity, etc. Where can I get

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Shawn Walker
On 6/29/05, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My 2 cents: > > - A big strike against deb and portage (for Solaris/OpenSolaris) is > that no work's been done yet. > > - A big strike against Solaris packaging is it's not open-source yet. > > - A big point in favor of Solaris packaging

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting the source...

2005-06-29 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, > > Okay, I know JDS hasn't been released as part of the OpenSolaris > project. However, as a Solaris user, I obviously have the right to > obtain certain parts of it because of the license they're under, such > as Metacity, etc. Where can I get the source tarballs from? Or whom do > I contac

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
Tending to be a bit of a reductionist, I can't help but throw out what I think is the #1 foundational question here. What's the best package architecture (database) standard for OpenSolaris? The canonicial choices, listed alphabetically, are: * deb * pkgsrc (implemented by pkgsrc system) *

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris User Group Community

2005-06-29 Thread Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck
Hi Jim, one suggestion: Let the User Groups be User Groups. The Community Leaders you mentioned should be mentors to the Users that step up to the responsibility to lead/manage groups. Set some requirements and empower the local guys to do their thing within the context of your guidance.

[osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris User Group Community

2005-06-29 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Hey, guys. I'm getting a lot of calls regarding user groups, and some user groups are already starting to crop up out there -- Brazil, UK, USA, Australia, and I hear the Canadians are interested. There's also been some interest at universities, too, so this could get pretty big. Special than

Re: [osol-discuss] bite-size bugs

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Schrock
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 08:48:16PM +0200, Jasse Jansson wrote: > > And how will the community test those fixes in a proper way? > > Are the special test tools needed (yeah, I know they exist) > or will 'continuous use' count as testing? > > Well, I'm not on the 'test list', maybe I should subscr

Re: [osol-discuss] bite-size bugs

2005-06-29 Thread Jasse Jansson
On Jun 29, 2005, at 8:24 PM, Eric Schrock wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:11:45AM -0700, Brian Y Wong wrote: there was a short discussion last night about bite-size bugs in the OpenSolaris User Group. I took a look, and many of these bugs already have proposed fixes. Why not just apply

Re: [osol-discuss] pthread_attr_getstack broken?

2005-06-29 Thread Bart Smaalders
Guenter Feldmann wrote: Hi Solaris developers, a little bit out of topic. But I hope to get some competent reply from this list. I'm trying to run the C# environment mono under Solaris10/x86 and have problems with the pthreads implementation. I can't state if the procedure 'pthread_attr_getsta

Re: [osol-discuss] bite-size bugs

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Schrock
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:11:45AM -0700, Brian Y Wong wrote: > there was a short discussion last night about bite-size bugs in the > OpenSolaris User Group. I took a look, and many of these bugs already have > proposed fixes. Why not just apply the fixes and get on with more > interesting pro

[osol-discuss] bite-size bugs

2005-06-29 Thread Brian Y Wong
there was a short discussion last night about bite-size bugs in the OpenSolaris User Group. I took a look, and many of these bugs already have proposed fixes. Why not just apply the fixes and get on with more interesting problems? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Help: Schillix 0.1 booted without GUI

2005-06-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Xirui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm... > > The second one sounds easier. :-) How long will it take? I can't tell. The next release will definitely not have a GUI. I am not sure about the release after the next one ;-) Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin

[osol-discuss] Re: router creation using OpenSolaris

2005-06-29 Thread Tim Hedwig
Joerg wrote: > Do you like to build something like a DSL router box > using OpenSolaris? Hm - but I am interested in changing my DLS woody-router to a schillix/OpenSolaris or a FreeBSD one. Is it possible, at the current devlopment stage, to setup a small router (firewall, NAT, [DHCP, squid, DN

[osol-discuss] Re: pthread_attr_getstack broken?

2005-06-29 Thread Alan J. Burlison
See http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5137/6mba5vpja?a=view - a staddr of NULL and a stsize of zero means the system defaults are being used. Also, make sure the pthread_attr_t object has been initialized properly with pthread_attr_init() before it is passed to any of the other pthread_attr_X

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Louwtjie Burger
Thanks guys ... and Albert. Your blog sums it up really well, ... "hometown swamped with tourists". :) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] pthread_attr_getstack broken?

2005-06-29 Thread Guenter Feldmann
Hi Solaris developers, a little bit out of topic. But I hope to get some competent reply from this list. I'm trying to run the C# environment mono under Solaris10/x86 and have problems with the pthreads implementation. I can't state if the procedure 'pthread_attr_getstack' dosn't work, or if the

Re: [osol-discuss] what do you like about using opensolaris?

2005-06-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 07:07, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > What is the difference between a general dumping ground /usr/gnu and > > /usr/sps? > > The same as the difference between /usr/sfw and /usr/xpg? today. > > /usr/xpg? is only for the things that di

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Shawn Walker
Not directed at TJ yang, rather at those whom read this thread: On 6/29/05, TJ Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regarding to package mangement, pleasealso see this thead. > http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=804&tstart=0 > > You have choice of using Local (PMS) Package Management S

[osol-discuss] TCP SNOOP

2005-06-29 Thread Ravi Swaminathan
Please let me know if you have any feedback for http://blogs.sun.com/roller/comments/raviswam/Weblog/tcp_snoop_using_dtrace This script snoops traffic at tcp level, the traffic being snooped can be filtered using the wrapper shell script provided. This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread TJ Yang
Regarding to package mangement, pleasealso see this thead. http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=804&tstart=0 You have choice of using Local (PMS) Package Management System or Hyper PMS. LPMS candidate for opensolaris are Portage and pkg-get. But if you want to avoid yourself to be l

Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: > after starting truss -afe -o /dev/null -p 2079, it managed to copy some > 10MB of data in one minute or so, but after killing truss, it takes 5 > minutes to copy 2MB of data. > > What is going on here? How can I find that out? This sounds li

[osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: Btw, b17 seem to be available for downloads. Just downloaded it and I am now getting my courage to install it :-) Btw, I am noticing very strange behaviour here: I am copying the image files to the install server in the usual way: 1. unzip CD1 o

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Albert White
Hi, Others have already clarified most of this. Any package management solution that an opensolaris distribution uses will be up to that distro. I've written a little on keeping a binary distribution up to date on http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/albertw?entry=updaing_software_in_the_open a

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Peter C. Tribble wrote: James Lick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said This is a bit confusing, but there is no ISO distribution of OpenSolaris. Sure there is. Solaris Express and the Community Release. Btw, b17 seem to be available for downloads. Just downloaded it and I am now

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Peter C. Tribble
James Lick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said >>> >>>This is a bit confusing, but there is no ISO distribution of >>>OpenSolaris. Sure there is. Solaris Express and the Community Release. >>>You are probably thinking of the Solaris Express Community >>>Release which comes as four ISOs. That's not OpenSo

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 05:33:46PM +0800, James Lick wrote: > The only Sun > provided distribution of OpenSolaris comes only as source code (and a > bunch of binaries that are still closed source). You need to Solaris Not so. There is a binary "distribution" in the form of BFU archives. These

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Louwtjie Burger
Sorry James, I'll try again :) You need the Express ISO's to deploy the opensolaris source, yes. My question is, looking down the line in 3-6 months (or 12), will there be any opensolaris distro's (directly from Sun)? Will they continue with Express as the representative of the open work ...?

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread James Lick
Louwtjie Burger wrote: First question is specificly to Sun's opensolaris distribution... Will it continue to be in the format of downloadable iso's with the standard release cycle or variation thereof? This is a bit confusing, but there is no ISO distribution of OpenSolaris. You are pro

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris distributions and package managment

2005-06-29 Thread Louwtjie Burger
First question is specificly to Sun's opensolaris distribution... Will it continue to be in the format of downloadable iso's with the standard release cycle or variation thereof? If yes, does this mean that a regular download of 4 ISO's are on the cards? If no, are there any internal work being

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Boot CD problem

2005-06-29 Thread Stoyan Angelov
Eric Schrock wrote: Just to note that a large number of these problems relating to krtld either missing or panicking are due to bad media/hardware. You may want to investigate re-burning/re-downloading the CD images, or trying the CDs in different machines to see if the problem still happens the