[osol-discuss] Wiki: Community SketchPads

2006-05-03 Thread Ben Rockwood
Hello All, Several communities have had a need for a general purpose Wiki-space where they could sketch out various ideas, concepts, docs, proposal, etc, in a easily accessable and collaborative way. The Genunix Wiki was created (www.genunix.org/wiki/) at the request of the OGB for this pur

[osol-discuss] Re: Problems booting Solaris (10 01/06, NV_33) on HP Pavilion dv8000

2006-05-03 Thread Jean-François Ndi
> HP nc6230: wont't boot with Solaris Express 2/06, > snv_34 or Solaris Express 4./06 (snv_38?). My guess > is that, at a minimum, most of HP's recent "business > laptops" are affected. Hello, Could you post the output of /usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v ? I had strange results on an HP DV5000, but upgra

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-05-03 Thread Ché Kristo
Sorry about the duplications everyone...there were some java exceptions when i was submitting these and i didn't think they were posting :| This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.

[osol-discuss] Google SoC Student Application Process Active

2006-05-03 Thread Jim Grisanzio
For student developers out there ... Google has opened the student application process at the Google Summer of Code: http://code.google.com/soc/ (see link near the top under the headline) You can also see OpenSolaris listed on that page and view our project ideas on the Genunix wiki. If you are

[osol-discuss] Stanford seminar: Designing Digital Democratic Institutions

2006-05-03 Thread Mike Kupfer
(Although this is related to the current governance work, this isn't strictly CAB business, so I'm posting this here, rather than on cab-discuss.) Apologies to those not in the Bay Area, but there's a seminar this Friday at Stanford that looks relevant to the current governance work. I believe thi

[osol-discuss] Re: Problems booting Solaris (10 01/06, NV_33) on HP Pavilion dv8000

2006-05-03 Thread sean walmsley
HP nc6230: wont't boot with Solaris Express 2/06, snv_34 or Solaris Express 4./06 (snv_38?). My guess is that, at a minimum, most of HP's recent "business laptops" are affected. The kernel debugger workaround summarized by briddle (Apr 24) does allow me to boot this machine and install using th

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-05-03 Thread David J. Orman
This one works for me too. Much cooler and non-offensive/vulgar (yet still capable of stirring up emotions in people who are forced into the drudgery known as windows administration..) David - Original Message - From: UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, May 3, 2006 9:57 am S

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-05-03 Thread UNIX admin
> That's a variant on the old DEC number plate: > > > live free or die > > U N I X That'll work too. I don't know how I ever did without UNIX. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolar

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-05-03 Thread Casper . Dik
>> Why not just put a picture of your >> middle finger raised with "Use OpenSolaris" printed >> below it? That would have the same meaning, and >> people won't think you made a typo. > >Because Ben Rockwood came up with a much cooler slogan than that: > >use UNIX or die. > >(Ben, you rock.) That'

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-05-03 Thread UNIX admin
> Why not just put a picture of your > middle finger raised with "Use OpenSolaris" printed > below it? That would have the same meaning, and > people won't think you made a typo. Because Ben Rockwood came up with a much cooler slogan than that: use UNIX or die. (Ben, you rock.) This message

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: re:live upgrade with zones

2006-05-03 Thread James Carlson
YJ Fan writes: > i am very interested to know this feature. the live upgrade is creating > another copy while OS is running, i wonder where it find the space. You have to supply the space. See the "-m" argument for the lucreate(1M) command. -- James Carlson, KISS Network<[E

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-03 Thread Moazam Raja
Yuhp. Turning off the subject headers today will be a lot less painful for everyone compared to revisiting the idea and doing it 1 year from now when there are even more people subscribed to each list. (notice the subject header of this email? "Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Re: P

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: re:live upgrade with zones

2006-05-03 Thread YJ Fan
i am very interested to know this feature. the live upgrade is creating another copy while OS is running, i wonder where it find the space. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-03 Thread James Carlson
John Plocher writes: > This violates the "if we use tags and it was posted on alias X, it > should have an [X] tag on it" and "be predictable about the tags on > a message" mailing list expectations. This makes it a "-1" for me. Indeed. Removing _all_ the tags doesn't share that flaw. > Dorking

[osol-discuss] Re: Does this potential security for SCSI devices only?

2006-05-03 Thread YJ Fan
And how to crash the global zone by using the raw device in non-global with non-global root access? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Re: Propose removing [] prefixes in Subject

2006-05-03 Thread John Plocher
Stephen Hahn wrote: A revised proposal has already been made: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=35607謗 This proposal seems to be Given that the [tags] are unordered and unpredictable in order, remove all but the first one found on the Subject: line. Thi

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris 10 upgrade 0305 to 0106 with zones and metadb

2006-05-03 Thread YJ Fan
Thank you very much for your information. I will try the upgrade option. I have to perform my first upgrade on one our E4900 production zone. I can not even find a workstation to do some preparation. The upgrade option is simple. The initial option is more comfortable, but need more time and spa

Re: [osol-discuss] how to make the server go "beep" !

2006-05-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis Clarke wrote: >> >> >> On a machine I have here I see this : >> >> # ls -lap /dev/audio >> /dev/audio: No such file or directory >> >> Now I know that when I issue a shutdown command I generally get a beep >> out of the box. At some point. Is there a snippit of code in there >> somewher

Re: [osol-discuss] how to make the server go "beep" !

2006-05-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Dennis Clarke wrote: This may seem like a silly question. On your average machine these days there is generally a small speaker in there somewhere. This may not be true for telco gear or embedded gear or blades but certainly your average PC type gear. On a machine I have here I see this : #

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: re:live upgrade with zones

2006-05-03 Thread David Comay
Unfortunately, I can't speak to a date but the work is well underway. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] how to make the server go "beep" !

2006-05-03 Thread Casper . Dik
>On a machine I have here I see this : > ># ls -lap /dev/audio >/dev/audio: No such file or directory > >Now I know that when I issue a shutdown command I generally get a beep >out of the box. At some point. Is there a snippit of code in there >somewhere ( 30 million lines of it ) that creates t

[osol-discuss] how to make the server go "beep" !

2006-05-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
This may seem like a silly question. On your average machine these days there is generally a small speaker in there somewhere. This may not be true for telco gear or embedded gear or blades but certainly your average PC type gear. On a machine I have here I see this : # ls -lap /dev/audio /de

[osol-discuss] a better? slab memory allocator

2006-05-03 Thread Amit Kulkarni
Maybe somebody could draw Jonathan Adams attention (or other libumem devs) to look at this paper? http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/heaplayers.html I came across this while reading the C++ report article of Andrei Alexandrescu and Emery Berger at http://www.ddj.com/dept/cpp/184402039 Just a FYI

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: SOSUG #7 - Call for speakers

2006-05-03 Thread Luke Deller
Alan Hargreaves wrote: My bad for not checking the date. It appears that May 24 is the same day as the State of Origin Rugby League (a rather largely watched match between NSW (where we are) and Queensland). While we have once before had this clash and siply adjourned to a local bar to watch th

[osol-discuss] Lightweight ZFS NAS requirements?

2006-05-03 Thread Tom Smith
Hi. I've been thinking about building a SOHO NAS project using ZFS as some others have suggested doing but I'm curious how lightweight I can make Solaris (from a processor, memory, and install disk space) perspective and still have decent performance for a home file server. If I took some time

[osol-discuss] Overview (rollup) of recent activity on opensolaris-discuss

2006-05-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
For background on what this is, see: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=24416#24416 http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=25200#25200 = opensolaris-discuss 04/16 - 04/30 = Threads or anno

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: /usr/sbin/format: where is the -force flag?

2006-05-03 Thread Sarah Jelinek
Jürgen Keil wrote: I have to edit /etc/vfstab twice, before step 2. and after step 5. I will file a bug. Basically, the swap -d doesn't remove the swap entry from vfstab, and then we get in to trouble from there. 1 question, why do you have to remove the entry again after step 5?

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: /usr/sbin/format: where is the -force flag?

2006-05-03 Thread Jürgen Keil
> > I have to edit /etc/vfstab twice, before step 2. and after step 5. > > > I will file a bug. Basically, the swap -d doesn't remove the swap entry > from vfstab, and then we get in to trouble from there. > > 1 question, why do you have to remove the entry again after step 5? In step 5 I edi

Re: [osol-discuss] Request for new forum: embedded-discuss

2006-05-03 Thread Casper . Dik
>I'm trying to advocate expanding the meaning of "appliances", >with respect to OpenSolaris, so that as a community or forum >it has a better chance of matching up with more projects. The archive may reflect a first interest mainly in home build server appliances; but we have not yet gotten to t