Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Poor SATA performance on x86

2007-04-02 Thread Chung Hang Christopher Chan
> So, I guess that the high cpu usage combined with > low disk utilization (%b) could indicate something, > right? Am I looking at kernel driver issues or what? > I'm using an Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard with an > Nforce chipset. If you are using the Nforce chipset, then you are running in PATA mode

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Poor SATA performance on x86

2007-04-02 Thread James C. McPherson
Ola Leifler wrote: I'm aware that this is not an optimal setup for zfs given more hardware resources, but currently I'm constrained by the size of the server box, cost (it's only a home server) and such considerations. My rationale was basically that I wanted the redundancy of a mirror, the ease

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-02 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Joerg Schilling wrote: James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: gns writes: Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-02 Thread Moinak Ghosh
James Carlson wrote: gns writes: Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run-time performance. This should also b

[osol-discuss] Disk I/O error handling in SVM or shared qfs

2007-04-02 Thread Atul Vidwansa
Hi, If SVM or Shared QFS is striping data across multiple disks and one of the disk replies with I/O error, how is that error handled? In case error is persistant, does SVM or shared QFS will roll back that transaction? For example, lets say I am striping across 4 disks using SVM. While writ

[osol-discuss] Re: Poor SATA performance on x86

2007-04-02 Thread Ola Leifler
I'm aware that this is not an optimal setup for zfs given more hardware resources, but currently I'm constrained by the size of the server box, cost (it's only a home server) and such considerations. My rationale was basically that I wanted the redundancy of a mirror, the ease of filesystem mana

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Audio File Support

2007-04-02 Thread Brian Cameron
Kaiwai: Oh, another thing to consider. Remember that Fluendo's plugins only work with GStreamer 0.10. Unfortunately GStreamer 0.10 is *not* compatible with GStreamer 0.8, which is what we ship on Solaris 10. If there is a desire to support Fluendo's advanced plugins on Solaris 10, then it woul

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Audio File Support

2007-04-02 Thread Brian Cameron
Kaiwai: The JDS multimedia team has the following FAQ which discusses the different media programs on Solaris and their functionality. You might find this useful: http://sceri.prc.sun.com/wiki//index.php/RealPlayer_Supportted_file_type#FAQ Ignore the fact that the URL indicates it is RealP

Re: [osol-discuss] ON C-Team or how to make the process more open

2007-04-02 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, Stephen Lau wrote: > Mark J. Nelson wrote: >> 7. I haven't figured out what will be needed in the way of an on-discuss >>mailing list. We traditionally have not had such a beast inside Sun, >>though on-all has occasionally been [ab]used in this fashion. >> >>Anybody got an opinio

Re: [osol-discuss] New to OS; Request for basic information.

2007-04-02 Thread michelle olson
Hi Tom, Welcome, you can find a lot of useful information linked from the Documentation Community here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation You might also start with the OpenSolaris Developer's Reference Guide here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/devref_toc/ For comm

Re: [osol-discuss] ON C-Team or how to make the process more open

2007-04-02 Thread Valerie Anne Bubb
Thanks, Mark... A few notes and lots of trimming :) On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Mark J. Nelson wrote: [...] 4. How the members of the C-Team are being [s]elected ? Selected. An excellent question, and one that cries out for both documentation and change. Traditionally, it's a volunteer duty, and

Re: [osol-discuss] ON C-Team or how to make the process more open

2007-04-02 Thread Stephen Lau
Mark J. Nelson wrote: 7. I haven't figured out what will be needed in the way of an on-discuss mailing list. We traditionally have not had such a beast inside Sun, though on-all has occasionally been [ab]used in this fashion. Anybody got an opinion on this? I don't think we need an o

Re: [osol-discuss] ON C-Team or how to make the process more open

2007-04-02 Thread Mark J. Nelson
"C-Team Consolidation Team: the release team managing a specific Consolidation. " So, before I start with the PSARC case integraition policy - 1. ON C-Team - who are these people ? Since "managing a specific Consolidation" isn't really useful: this is the group of people that review proj

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [summerofcode] Reviewing projects, assigning mentors

2007-04-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Rob Giltrap wrote: Seeing that Garrett has applied to Mentor it then your perceived problem is solved as he is not a Sun person. You might want to go doublecheck namefinder (just ignore the second entry for Garrett.Deleteme.Damore)... -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to register or update

2007-04-02 Thread Shawn Walker
On 02/04/07, Shawn Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am running the latest version of opensolaris CE. I built the DVD last friday and every time I attempt to register or update it simply hangs and does nothing, to be honest the only way to kill the process is by ising the init command to re

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to register or update

2007-04-02 Thread Ian Collins
Shawn Raymond wrote: >Do you know how to update opensolaris then? The updater tool will not run >without registration login. > > > You upgrade to the nest release. I always recommend leaving a spare slice the same size as your root when installing so you can use Live Upgrade to do your upgrade

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to register or update

2007-04-02 Thread Ian Collins
Shawn Raymond wrote: >During the Patch updater it requires login to the registration, my account >at sun lets me login but the application hangs and then will not let me >update. The registration page does the same thing. Even though I have an >account that I can login with at sun. > > > > There

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: joining Sun

2007-04-02 Thread a b
Solaris is a good OS. Unfortunately, its the last remaining SysV worth learning. HP-UX is dead, as is IRIXmy Octane2 at home not withstanding. Let's not make this a "the mountain has to come to Mohammed" thing. The question is whether or not Solaris wants greater mind share...that is the Linux

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling [was Re: Re:joining Sun]

2007-04-02 Thread a b
UNIX admin wrote: So now we have some new binaries, some data files that have not changed, some binaries that are the same again. Patch or Package ? The documentation clearly states that a patch must never deliver new functionality. What documentation is that? It's clearly buggy. And I

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Audio File Support

2007-04-02 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 01/04/07, Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 05:22:43PM +1200, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > >Hi, > > >Just having a look around; along with hardware support, I thought it >would be best to help provide a 'link database' to link up customer >needs to sol

[osol-discuss] Re: Audio File Support

2007-04-02 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 31/03/07, Kaiwai Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Just having a look around; along with hardware support, I thought it would be best to help provide a 'link database' to link up customer needs to solutions that exist for Solaris. Case in point, https://shop.fluendo.com/ who sell curr

Re: [osol-mktg] RE: [osol-discuss] Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-04-02 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 31/03/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 31/03/07, Kaiwai Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 31/03/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 30/03/07, Kaiwai Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, I can understand the chicken and the egg scenario, however, o

Re: [osol-mktg] RE: [osol-discuss] Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-04-02 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On 31/03/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 30/03/07, Kaiwai Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I can understand the chicken and the egg scenario, however, one has to > look at this; I went down the road today, window shopping, every laptop I > had a look at down at the compu

[osol-discuss] Audio File Support

2007-04-02 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
Hi, Just having a look around; along with hardware support, I thought it would be best to help provide a 'link database' to link up customer needs to solutions that exist for Solaris. Case in point, https://shop.fluendo.com/ who sell currently support for WMA/WMV/Mp3 playback for Solaris x86/SPA

Re: [osol-mktg] RE: [osol-discuss] Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-04-02 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
Hi, Yes, I can understand the chicken and the egg scenario, however, one has to look at this; I went down the road today, window shopping, every laptop I had a look at down at the computer retailers had the Intel 3945 A/B/G wireless chipset - it is the most popular chipset out there, and normally

[osol-discuss] Re: [summerofcode] Reviewing projects, assigning mentors

2007-04-02 Thread John Sonnenschein
I'm perfectly fine with no code coming back my way, I expected as such. Really my only concern is that the code ends up rejected for putback because someone perceived some NDA violation or another, which would be very unfortunate. I'm not privy to the precise legal encumberences with the code, so

[osol-discuss] Re: [summerofcode] Reviewing projects, assigning mentors

2007-04-02 Thread Garrett D'Amore
If just having access to the i18n code rules out mentors, then you have to rule out everyone with access to SWAN, as that code is posted in places where anyone on SWAN can find it. I would argue that as long as the mentor is not providing code back to the student, then there shouldn't be any p

[osol-discuss] Re: [summerofcode] Reviewing projects, assigning mentors

2007-04-02 Thread Rob Giltrap
Seeing that Garrett has applied to Mentor it then your perceived problem is solved as he is not a Sun person. Personally I place the emancipation project very highly, it's only one part of a much bigger issue but as the saying goes... you eat an elephant one bite at a time. John Sonnenschein

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gns writes: > > Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 > > > > Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for > > OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros > > and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to register or update

2007-04-02 Thread Ian Collins
Shawn Raymond wrote: >I am running the latest version of opensolaris CE. I built the DVD last friday >and every time I attempt to register or update it simply hangs and does >nothing, to be honest the only way to kill the process is by ising the init >command to restart the system. Is there an

[osol-discuss] Unable to register or update

2007-04-02 Thread Shawn Raymond
I am running the latest version of opensolaris CE. I built the DVD last friday and every time I attempt to register or update it simply hangs and does nothing, to be honest the only way to kill the process is by ising the init command to restart the system. Is there an issue or does anyone know

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [osol-mktg] RE: Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-04-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Supposedly Leopard will have UNIX certification according to Apple's > advertising materials. That will be interesting to see... I am not sure whether this will work. They claim that their default filesystem now supports case sensitive operation (if co

[osol-discuss] Re: Poor SATA performance on x86

2007-04-02 Thread William D. Hathaway
Can you post your dd command line? What are you using for a block size? How long does it take for a much smaller dd to complete? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Poor SATA performance on x86

2007-04-02 Thread Ian Collins
Ola Leifler wrote: >Hi! > >I'm new to OpenSolaris and have just set up my own home server with ZFS. The >server seems to be working alright except for, what I can tell, extremely poor >i/o performance. When creating a 4.8Gb test file with dd, I get the following >iostat: > ># iostat -d > cmdk

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [osol-mktg] RE: Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-04-02 Thread Frank Van Der Linden
UNIX admin wrote: They perverted the nice FreeBSD UNIX by crossing it over with a braindead MacOS 9 and the experimental CMU Mach kernel and created a genetically mutated monster, that is neither MacOS nor FreeBSD UNIX. However, they advertise it as FreeBSD. Well, actually, it started out m

[osol-discuss] New to OS; Request for basic information.

2007-04-02 Thread tom bartus
Greetings, I've recently discovered openSolaris and wish to investigate further; more precisely, from a beginners perspective and how basic linux knowledge might map into oS. I've been reading the project website as well as googling but cannot seem to find material that covers the basics of op

[osol-discuss] Re: Installing Sol 10 x86 on Dell Latitude D820

2007-04-02 Thread Chris
After editting /boot/grub/menu.lst file & add -B acpi-user-options=2 in "kernel ...", I'm able to boot up the os w/o any more issues. I'm using Intel 945GM graphics chip set. Pls let me know what do I have to do to improve the sharpness of my screen. Thx again, -Chris This message posted

[osol-discuss] Re: Poor SATA performance on x86

2007-04-02 Thread Ola Leifler
iostat -cxnz 1 201 gives the following indication: cpu us sy wt id 22 78 0 0 extended device statistics r/sw/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 0.0 43.00.0 159.5 0.0 0.10.12.3 0 10 c1d0 0.0 43.0

[osol-discuss] Re: [discuss] Project proposal: Input Method Project

2007-04-02 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Yong. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Yong Sun wrote: I'd like to propose a project about Input Method for OpenSolaris. The scope of this project would be: 1. To support IIIMF (which is currently the defualt IM framework on Solaris) on

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-02 Thread James Carlson
gns writes: > Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 > > Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for > OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros > and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run-time > performance. This should also be useful in the

[osol-discuss] Re: Installing Sol 10 x86 on Dell Latitude D820

2007-04-02 Thread Chris
You are right on the $$$, after I edit -B acpi-user-options=2 in "kernel " selection, I'm able to boot up sol to multi user. However, during a reboot, I see this error msg: .. hostname: dellsolaris configuring devices asy1: UART @ 2f8 scratch register: expected 0x5a, got 0xff

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-02 Thread Bruno Jargot
On 4/2/07, gns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 +1 Bruno Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run-time performanc

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-02 Thread Shawn Walker
On 02/04/07, gns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run-time performance. This shou

Re: [osol-discuss] E_SEC_SHELL_WARN ( running lint )

2007-04-02 Thread Scott Rotondo
Ian Collins wrote: sprintf (start_command,"%s", "/opt/SUNWdsee/start-slapd"); (void) system(start_command); In addition to the other reply, you shouldn't have to use the ghastly (void)system() just to silence lint warnings. Well, you *could* examine the retur

[osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-02 Thread gns
Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run-time performance. This should also be useful in the appliance domain. T

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: [osol-mktg] RE: Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-04-02 Thread UNIX admin
> Supposedly Leopard will have UNIX certification > according to Apple's > advertising materials. That will be interesting to > see... The thing that *infuriated* me was the moment when I realized that - there are OS X server, which has *some* of the functionality I needed to integrate it with m

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [osol-mktg] RE: Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-04-02 Thread Shawn Walker
On 02/04/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With respect to many kernel features, Mac OS X is > stuck in the early 1990s. Em, yep! As a Mac OS X (l)user, I can testify that OS X is about as dumb as a doornail underneath the slick Aqua GUI. They perverted the nice FreeBSD UNIX by cross

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: [osol-mktg] RE: Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-04-02 Thread UNIX admin
> With respect to many kernel features, Mac OS X is > stuck in the early 1990s. Em, yep! As a Mac OS X (l)user, I can testify that OS X is about as dumb as a doornail underneath the slick Aqua GUI. They perverted the nice FreeBSD UNIX by crossing it over with a braindead MacOS 9 and the experim

[osol-discuss] Dwarf GUI Demo available

2007-04-02 Thread Sarah Jelinek
Hi All, For those who might be interested to see how the Dwarf GUI is progressing, we have created a binary package (X86) which is a snapshot of the latest development code. Package can be downloaded from here: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/files/SUNWgui-install.pkg To install an

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Heads-up: ZFS Boot support for the x86 platform bld 62

2007-04-02 Thread Bart Smaalders
John Brewer wrote: Is this URL availble http://fs.central/projects/zfsboot/how_to_netinstall_zfsboot out side on OpenSolaris site? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling [was Re: Re: joining Sun]

2007-04-02 Thread Bart Smaalders
UNIX admin wrote: Patches are not allowed to deliver upgrades or otherwise upgrade software on Solaris. Patches are explicitly not allowed to deliver new functionality. Upgrades do that. Patches are supposed to amend existing packages in a hopefully coherent fashion. Whether that amendment

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: joining Sun

2007-04-02 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 4/2/07, Jason J. W. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Solaris is a good OS. Unfortunately, its the last remaining SysV worth learning. HP-UX is dead, as is IRIXmy Octane2 at home not withstanding. Let's not make this a "the mountain has to come to Mohammed" thing. The question is whether

[osol-discuss] Re: Sun Cluster

2007-04-02 Thread Brian Keith
James, Not yet. But, be careful about what you wish for, because... -Brian Keith -Technical Writer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. -El Segundo, CA This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: joining Sun

2007-04-02 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Solaris is a good OS. Unfortunately, its the last remaining SysV worth learning. HP-UX is dead, as is IRIXmy Octane2 at home not withstanding. Let's not make this a "the mountain has to come to Mohammed" thing. The question is whether or not Solaris wants greater mind share...that is the Linux

Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun

2007-04-02 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Joerg, No need to get bristled about it. Feel is one of the big reasons folks don't move off Linux... -J On 3/31/07, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Jason J. W. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Alan, > > A packaging system like apt is exactly what I'd like. Frankly, a

[osol-discuss] Re: Poor SATA performance on x86

2007-04-02 Thread Andrew Slough
IIRC by default ZFS doesn't do write caching when it is just given a slice of a disc rather than the whole disc This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: [osol-mktg] RE: Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

2007-04-02 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
I don't know that either would need to buy the other; they don't overlap very much, so they could perhaps cooperate. They seem to have done so informally already, insofar as the relevant Sun experts seem to have provided a bit of assistance to Apple in porting dtrace at least. Now, if Apple would

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling [was Re: Re:joining Sun]

2007-04-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
a b wrote: UNIX admin wrote: So now we have some new binaries, some data files that have not changed, some binaries that are the same again. Patch or Package ? The documentation clearly states that a patch must never deliver new functionality. What documentation is that? It's clearly bug

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: joining Sun

2007-04-02 Thread UNIX admin
> It gives the guys here hope that Solaris will move > faster to adopt > things like /usr/gnu, and generally adopt the > usability improvements > Linux has had. While there are pockets of folks that > seem to admit the > usability gap between Linux and Solaris > toolchains...there seem to be > a lo

[osol-discuss] Re: Poor SATA performance on x86

2007-04-02 Thread UNIX admin
> Hi! > > I'm new to OpenSolaris and have just set up my own > home server with ZFS. The server seems to be working > alright except for, what I can tell, extremely poor > i/o performance. When creating a 4.8Gb test file with > dd, I get the following iostat: > > # iostat -d iostat -cxnz 1 201

Re: [osol-discuss] PROJECT PROPOSAL - CPK Cryptosystem

2007-04-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Guan Zhi (William) wrote: PROJECT PROPOSAL - CPK Cryptosystem I would like to propose a "CPK cryptosystem" project to implement CPK (Combined Public Key) algorithm on OpenSolaris. CPK is an identity-based cryptographic algorithm, which means users can send an encrypted email to anyone only needs

Re: [osol-discuss] E_SEC_SHELL_WARN ( running lint )

2007-04-02 Thread Brian Nitz
Isn't the 21st century way of starting a service to use SMF in OpenSolaris? This website walks through a specific example with openldap: http://lowks.inigo-tech.com/blog/coreblogentry.2007-03-23.0477221442 Once you have the manifest set up, you can use interface libraries in libscf such as smf_

pkgadd [was Re: [osol-discuss] joining Sun]

2007-04-02 Thread James Carlson
Joerg Schilling writes: > BTW: has "pkgadd" already been enhanced to include a tsort(1) like > feature to automatically install a list of packages in the right order? CRs 4159916 and 4795539. (I think the latter should be closed as a dup of the former.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

[osol-discuss] PROJECT PROPOSAL - CPK Cryptosystem

2007-04-02 Thread Guan Zhi (William)
PROJECT PROPOSAL - CPK Cryptosystem I would like to propose a "CPK cryptosystem" project to implement CPK (Combined Public Key) algorithm on OpenSolaris. CPK is an identity-based cryptographic algorithm, which means users can send an encrypted email to anyone only needs to know his email address.

[osol-discuss] Re: Heads-up: ZFS Boot support for the x86 platform bld 62

2007-04-02 Thread Iban Nieto
No, I cannot view this URL :-( This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Heads-up: ZFS Boot support for the x86 platform bld 62

2007-04-02 Thread Iban Nieto
No, I cannot view anything in this URL :-( This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] xpg/bin/tr unexpect output on Sparc?

2007-04-02 Thread I. Szczesniak
On 3/29/07, Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I. Szczesniak wrote: > /usr/bin/tr is one of the big problems in Solaris - the behaviour is > nonstandard and Sun declared long ago that fixes to support multibyte > locales are off limits because they would break backwards > compatibility.

[osol-discuss] Poor SATA performance on x86

2007-04-02 Thread Ola Leifler
Hi! I'm new to OpenSolaris and have just set up my own home server with ZFS. The server seems to be working alright except for, what I can tell, extremely poor i/o performance. When creating a 4.8Gb test file with dd, I get the following iostat: # iostat -d cmdk0 cmdk1 sd0

[osol-discuss] Translating LPI certifications for OpenSolaris

2007-04-02 Thread Gueven Bay
Hello dear OpenSolaris community, I am in the process of translating the objectives of the Linux Professional Institute certifications to OpenSolaris topics. I want to collect knowledge about OpenSolaris in parallel to Linux topics so that it will be easier to translate Linux skills to OpenSolar

Re: [osol-discuss] group ,limit for users

2007-04-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Soeren wrote: I just realised that the following limits still apply : Users can belong to up to 15 secondary groups. Are there plans to change this in the future ? That limit only exists if you are using NFS with the default AUTH_SYS (weak) authentication. If you configure NFS to use Kerb

Re: [osol-discuss] How can we implement LaunchDaemons in MAC to Solaris10

2007-04-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Amit Sharma - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore wrote: I am currently working with MAC OS X server, there we have /System/Library/LaunchDaemons, can solaris also supports LaunchDaemons ? Do solaris have deamons, if so where exactly they are, and how do we implement those daemons if need to do so?

Re: [osol-discuss] To checkout opensolaris code

2007-04-02 Thread Paul Durrant
On 4/2/07, Vikrant Kumar Choudhary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please tell me the procedure to checkout the opensolaris code. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/ -- Paul Durrant http://www.linkedin.com/in/pdurrant ___ opensolaris-discuss mail

Re: [osol-discuss] group ,limit for users

2007-04-02 Thread Joerg Schilling
Soeren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just realised that the following limits still apply : > > Users can belong to up to 15 secondary groups. > > Are there plans to change this in the future ? If you did change this, you could no longer mount filesystems from NFSv3 servers. Jörg -- EMail:[E

[osol-discuss] group ,limit for users

2007-04-02 Thread Soeren
I just realised that the following limits still apply : Users can belong to up to 15 secondary groups. Are there plans to change this in the future ? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@

[osol-discuss] To checkout opensolaris code

2007-04-02 Thread Vikrant Kumar Choudhary
Please tell me the procedure to checkout the opensolaris code. Thanks, Vikrant This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org