Re: [osol-discuss] Sun incompetence continues to fragment communities

2008-09-13 Thread Ché Kristo
Andrew I see that your position rests on the com/org site split. The fact is that the sites cater to two different audiences. Much the same as Mozilla have done with the Mozilla org and com sites. It goes something like this: - The .COM site is of home of the OpenSolaris product, namely the bi

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta : Ubuntu Server with ZFS goodness

2008-09-13 Thread Ben Rockwood
Nice. Thanks posting this! benr. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] cannot edit /etc/services

2008-09-13 Thread Ben Rockwood
If you do this, make sure you change it back. The easer thing to do is to is to, in vi, force the write ":w!". benr. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] cannot edit /etc/services

2008-09-13 Thread john long
me too, and answered - thanks -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] cannot edit /etc/services

2008-09-13 Thread Dave Uhring
> how can i open this to edit it? i am su, but it only opens read only. chmod u+w /etc/inet/services first. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] cannot edit /etc/services

2008-09-13 Thread Jim Shearer
The file /etc/services is a link to /etc/inet/services That file may be edited vi /etc/inet/services Jim -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] cannot edit /etc/services

2008-09-13 Thread Ian Collins
john long writes: > how can i open this to edit it? i am su, but it only opens read only. > thanks, Assuming you are using vi, just use w! to force a write. Ian ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] autoconf and packages

2008-09-13 Thread Matt Harrison
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > Matt Harrison wrote: >> I'm trying to install Ruby Enterprise Edition and it's failing because >> autoconf isn't installed. >> >> I've got automake installed ok but I can't find a package for autoconf >> anywhere unless it has a really cryptic name like most of the othe

Re: [osol-discuss] autoconf and packages

2008-09-13 Thread Matt Harrison
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > Matt Harrison wrote: >> I'm trying to install Ruby Enterprise Edition and it's failing because >> autoconf isn't installed. >> >> I've got automake installed ok but I can't find a package for autoconf >> anywhere unless it has a really cryptic name like most of the othe

[osol-discuss] Sun incompetence continues to fragment communities

2008-09-13 Thread andrew
Let me start by saying that the efforts of all of the engineers working on OpenSolaris are to be applauded. It is truly a great OS well capable of taking over form Linux as the OS of choice for *nix developers. That said, I am increasingly concerned that there is not enough consideration being

Re: [osol-discuss] Live CD download.. where is it

2008-09-13 Thread andrew
If you visit opensolaris.org ther eis a big "download" button at the top left of the page. Click that, then on thepage that is displayed you will find download links for most current distros. Unfortunately it doesn't have links to the latest test ISOs of OpenSolaris 2008.11 - you will need to vi

Re: [osol-discuss] autoconf and packages

2008-09-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Matt Harrison wrote: > I'm trying to install Ruby Enterprise Edition and it's failing because > autoconf isn't installed. > > I've got automake installed ok but I can't find a package for autoconf > anywhere unless it has a really cryptic name like most of the other > packages. > > BTW I'm runni

Re: [osol-discuss] autoconf and packages

2008-09-13 Thread Dennis Clarke
>> >> http://blastwave.network.com/testing/autoconf-2.62,REV=2008.09.09-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz >> >> or just change that to sparc .. if needed >> > > Thanks Dennis, > > That certainly would help, but how do I go about installing it? > > Currently I copy needed packages from the CD to /var/spool/p

Re: [osol-discuss] autoconf and packages

2008-09-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Matt Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install Ruby Enterprise Edition and it's failing because > autoconf isn't installed. > > I've got automake installed ok but I can't find a package for autoconf > anywhere unless it has a really cryptic name like most of the other > packages.

Re: [osol-discuss] autoconf and packages

2008-09-13 Thread Matt Harrison
Dennis Clarke wrote: >> I'm trying to install Ruby Enterprise Edition and it's failing because >> autoconf isn't installed. >> >> I've got automake installed ok but I can't find a package for autoconf >> anywhere unless it has a really cryptic name like most of the other >> packages. >> >> I've als

Re: [osol-discuss] autoconf and packages

2008-09-13 Thread Dennis Clarke
> I'm trying to install Ruby Enterprise Edition and it's failing because > autoconf isn't installed. > > I've got automake installed ok but I can't find a package for autoconf > anywhere unless it has a really cryptic name like most of the other > packages. > > I've also tried to compile using Sun

[osol-discuss] Live CD download.. where is it

2008-09-13 Thread Jim Shearer
This is in the announcements but where is the download.. ?? OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions as of September 11, 2008: 1. OpenSolaris 2008.11 Live CD (b96, GNOME 2.22.2) 2. Solaris Express Community Edition DVD (b97, GNOME 2.22.2) Jim -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

[osol-discuss] dhcpconfig: Error - creating server macro for server java.lang.NullPointerException.

2008-09-13 Thread Henry Pepper
Hi Running: dhcpconfig -D -r SUNWfiles -p /var/dhcp -h files fails with: -- Created DHCP configuration file. Created dhcptab. Added "Locale" macro to dhcptab. dhcpconfig: Error - creating server macro for server java.lang.NullPointerException. -- OS: snv_96 non-xvm I tried running dhcpmgr Tha

Re: [osol-discuss] Adobe Reader on OpenSolaris

2008-09-13 Thread mario heimel
thanks -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org