Re: [osol-discuss] How to make syslogger write to a fifo?

2009-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Sun UK writes: > Hi Harry, > > I've got nothing canned which I can quickly pass on, however, anything > I gather will be from google ;-) [...] Stephen Hahn writes: [...] > A relatively recent (Mar 2009) tool is Chris Miles's "manifold", > host

Re: [osol-discuss] strange bash behavior

2009-10-28 Thread Gopi Desaboyina
as soon as you login post the o/p of these. grep /etc/passwd pfexec zfs list cat /etc/auto_master /etc/auto_home alias set -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2009.06 - BSP

2009-10-28 Thread Folkert Meeuw
Still information about a BSP missing, that supports the VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter. Thanks a lot. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ldom console issue

2009-10-28 Thread gorak
Nope. I'm not talking about the control domain here. It's actually the guest domain. From the control domain i connect to the guest domain's console using telnet localhost portnumber. Now assume I start some programs like installing solaris cluster patches which run for a long time. If i quit th

Re: [osol-discuss] strange bash behavior

2009-10-28 Thread Chris
Home directory in /etc/passwd is /home/chris Underlying path is on mirrored zfs drives data/home/chris did not make any automounter modifications. My $HOME variable is /home/chris which is correct my home directory originally was /export/home/chris but then moved over the the mirrored drives on

Re: [osol-discuss] Need a How-to on installing a VM on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i38

2009-10-28 Thread John Martin
Ramon F. McDougall wrote: Mr Martin, can you tell if my Ultra 27 is running openSolaris? Your original message said "SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09". This is Solaris 10 10/09 (aka Update 8). ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@ope

Re: [osol-discuss] Need a How-to on installing a VM on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i38

2009-10-28 Thread John Martin
Ramon F. McDougall wrote: Greetings to All. Can someone help me out here. I'm a new user to Solaris evaluating an Ultra 27 workstation. I would like be able to install other operating systems on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i386. I can't find the correct documentation. Is there a dif

[osol-discuss] Need a How-to on installing a VM on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i38

2009-10-28 Thread Ramon F. McDougall
Greetings to All. Can someone help me out here. I'm a new user to Solaris evaluating an Ultra 27 workstation. I would like be able to install other operating systems on top of SunOS 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i386. I can't find the correct documentation. Is there a difference between my system a

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to access the open solaris across the network..Urg!!!

2009-10-28 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
> looks like it works different for different > people(may be based on how it gets treated.) I would say that you have to work really hard NOT to get it working. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] Which Download For Fresh Install

2009-10-28 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
> That's the latest release version. However, you can > pick up the > bi-weekly development build from http://genunix.org. > It's got almost 4 > months of fixes and enhancements since the 2009.06 > release. In my opinion it's better to start with the base install of 2009.06 and then add the dev

Re: [osol-discuss] Which Download For Fresh Install

2009-10-28 Thread Keith Mitchell
The ISO you first referred to has the latest "release" packages, and the iso's on genunix.org have the latest development packages. There's no standalone ISO that will install from the network just yet. Carlos Williams wrote: I figure I might as well ask but mots Linux distributions I use "Deb

Re: [osol-discuss] KSH93 problem?

2009-10-28 Thread Kyle McDonald
ольга крыжановская wrote: On 10/28/09, Kyle McDonald wrote: [Resend to opensolaris-discuss too.] Hi! Yesterday while debugging a shell script I think I may have found a bug in ksh93 from sNV b124. Please test if the ksh93 download from http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+

Re: [osol-discuss] Which Download For Fresh Install

2009-10-28 Thread Viktor Cemasko
Greetings, first sorry for my English. On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:36:49 +0100, Carlos Williams wrote: I am wanting to learn OS and would like to download an ISO for my new x86 PC. Should I simply download the latest version called x86 LiveCD "osol-0906-x86.iso"? ... http://genunix.org/distrib

Re: [osol-discuss] Which Download For Fresh Install

2009-10-28 Thread Carlos Williams
I figure I might as well ask but mots Linux distributions I use "Debian / CentOS / Arch" have a 'Netinst' ISO file available for download that basically installs every package the OS needs from the Internet rather than having old outdated packages on a disk that need to updated after the system

Re: [osol-discuss] KSH93 problem?

2009-10-28 Thread ольга крыжановская
On 10/28/09, Kyle McDonald wrote: > [Resend to opensolaris-discuss too.] > > Hi! > > Yesterday while debugging a shell script I think I may have found a bug > in ksh93 from sNV b124. Please test if the ksh93 download from http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+ksh93-integration/2009-10-18

Re: [osol-discuss] Which Download For Fresh Install

2009-10-28 Thread Alan Steinberg
That's the latest release version. However, you can pick up the bi-weekly development build from http://genunix.org. It's got almost 4 months of fixes and enhancements since the 2009.06 release. -- Alan Keith Mitchell wrote: That's the correct iso, Carlos. Carlos Williams wrote: I am wanting

Re: [osol-discuss] KSH93 problem?

2009-10-28 Thread Kyle McDonald
A new test script: #!/bin/ksh93 COUNT=0 OLDCOUNT=0 while true; do if ! echo gretsch-p21-396 | grep '\.$'; then true else echo "false - $? - ${COUNT} - $(( COUNT - OLDCOUNT ))" OLDCOUNT=${COUNT} fi COUNT=$(( COUNT + 1 )) done Produces output like: false - 1 - 181500 - 181500 false

Re: [osol-discuss] Which Download For Fresh Install

2009-10-28 Thread Keith Mitchell
That's the correct iso, Carlos. Carlos Williams wrote: I am wanting to learn OS and would like to download an ISO for my new x86 PC. Should I simply download the latest version called x86 LiveCD "osol-0906-x86.iso"? Will this allow me to install the latest version of the OS including Gnome DE

[osol-discuss] KSH93 problem?

2009-10-28 Thread Kyle McDonald
Hi! Yesterday while debugging a shell script I think I may have found a bug in ksh93 from sNV b124. The script is basically checking a large list of DNS hostnames for ones that already end in a '.'. I've boiled it down to a simpler test case: while true; do if ! echo gretsch-p21-396 | grep '\

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to access the open solaris across the network..Urg!!!

2009-10-28 Thread Thompson Kernighan Ritchie
thank you very much paul. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Which Download For Fresh Install

2009-10-28 Thread Carlos Williams
I am wanting to learn OS and would like to download an ISO for my new x86 PC. Should I simply download the latest version called x86 LiveCD "osol-0906-x86.iso"? Will this allow me to install the latest version of the OS including Gnome DE and everything else I need? I am new and am coming from

[osol-discuss] KSH93 problem?

2009-10-28 Thread Kyle McDonald
[Resend to opensolaris-discuss too.] Hi! Yesterday while debugging a shell script I think I may have found a bug in ksh93 from sNV b124. The script is basically checking a large list of DNS hostnames for ones that already end in a '.'. I've boiled it down to a simpler test case: while true; do

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to access the open solaris across the network..Urg!!!

2009-10-28 Thread Thompson Kernighan Ritchie
os means open solaris. os is used on virtual box(vb). But, you missed one thread in help forum(undetected ntfs partitions ). I found os on vb very slow. So, i uninstalled os and vb. I made all my partitions primary using some win app software. I installed os on one of the partitions. So, there i

Re: [osol-discuss] ldom console issue

2009-10-28 Thread Octave Orgeron
Hi, This has to do with how you connect to the control domain. You are escaping out of the session several levels up. You can change the escape sequence, so that this does not happen. Either in your ssh session or when connecting to the console with the telnet command. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia support in OpenSolaris 2010.02?

2009-10-28 Thread Pen-Yuan Hsing
Good points. What about bluetooth and better graphics support? There are many things needed to attract new users or make people switch. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ldom console issue

2009-10-28 Thread gorak
Does no one has any clue about this? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Solaris 10 multi-user services to be enabled without running inetd service

2009-10-28 Thread usha ganti
We would like to have input and help on how to resolve this issue. 1. To enable multi-user services since they are needed for scripts in /etc/rc2.d and multi-user-server is needed for scripts in /etc/rc3.d but we don't want inetd service to be enabled. Is there a way to accomplish this ? disa

Re: [osol-discuss] [website-discuss] New-Website Hell __/__ Fwd: [ogb-discuss] Leaderless collectives

2009-10-28 Thread Alan Burlison
Martin Bochnig wrote: Have a look at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/fox/SPARC-Xorg/ Next dead link now ... (times out) These outages are a consequence of the tweaking we are doing to the redirects - it is working again now, but may stop again in a bit. I'll send out a notificati

Re: [osol-discuss] [website-discuss] New-Website Hell __/__ Fwd: [ogb-discuss] Leaderless collectives

2009-10-28 Thread Alan Burlison
Alan Burlison wrote: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2006033001/ That's not working properly, I'll investigate. We've identified the cause of the problem and are working on a fix, we'll send out a heads-up when it is in place. -- Alan Burlison -- ___

Re: [osol-discuss] [pkg-discuss] pkg search hangs in b125 (os2009.06)

2009-10-28 Thread Shawn Walker
solarg wrote: hello all, since i upgraded from b111b to b125, i'm unable to use pkg search to find files. I'm on a home network. Hopefully, the GUI is working and permit to install the necessary files. he...@ultra20:~# pfiles 1069 1069:/usr/bin/python2.4 /usr/bin/pkg search -r hexedit Do

Re: [osol-discuss] Some problems removing packages on opensolaris

2009-10-28 Thread Shawn Walker
carlopmart wrote: Hi all, I am trying to uninstall all gnome packages from an opensolaris 2009.06 installation and returns me some errors: HASEACTIONS Removal Phase35634/43799 Warning - directory var/log/gdm not empty - cont

[osol-discuss] prosed project - comment solicitation

2009-10-28 Thread S Miller
Hello. First post here. I have some past familiarity with *nix OSs and VM managers, but not specifically Solaris and VirtualBox. I am about to set-up a colocated server. The primary role will be as a company-wide file server (authenticated access only), using PureFTPd. There may be some limited

Re: [osol-discuss] New-Website Hell __/__ Fwd: [ogb-discuss] Leaderless collectives

2009-10-28 Thread Martin Bochnig
> BTW: > >> Have a look at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/fox/SPARC-Xorg/ > > Next dead link now   ...  (times out) Update: After 10 minutes now it suddenly loads. > rgds. > - > %martin ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@

Re: [osol-discuss] New-Website Hell __/__ Fwd: [ogb-discuss] Leaderless collectives

2009-10-28 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: > Martin, > > [Regarding the website move] >> >> How was it possible that nobody prevented this nightmare from happening? >> Why did Sun pay (!!!) somebody to implement this? >> >> Does such a measure increase transparency? >> Or is somebody tr

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris support for Sparc

2009-10-28 Thread Martin Bochnig
> Have a look at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/fox/SPARC-Xorg/ Dead link now ... ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris support for Sparc

2009-10-28 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: >> Once again I am back with the same question that still hasn't found a >> satisfactory answer. I have sparc and no x86 based machine to spare to >> install OpenSolaris on it to boot/install on sparc. I tried oth

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris support for Sparc

2009-10-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: > Once again I am back with the same question that still hasn't found a > satisfactory answer. I have sparc and no x86 based machine to spare to > install OpenSolaris on it to boot/install on sparc. I tried other methods to > install OpenSolaris following guidance I found

Re: [osol-discuss] New-Website Hell __/__ Fwd: [ogb-discuss] Leaderless collectives

2009-10-28 Thread Peter Tribble
Martin, [Regarding the website move] > > How was it possible that nobody prevented this nightmare from happening? > Why did Sun pay (!!!) somebody to implement this? > > Does such a measure increase transparency? > Or is somebody trying to implement it more like a corporate website > where transpa

Re: [osol-discuss] How to view network statistics? My "iftop" doesn't work ...

2009-10-28 Thread Xiang Zhou
On 10/28/09 16:48, Jim Walker wrote: Why don't you try the SUNWiftop IPS pkg from the /dev repo? http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/en/search.shtml?token=SUNWiftop&action=Search BTW. Xiang Zhou is the maintainer for SUNWiftop. Yes, looks like the iftop got by pkg-get doesn't work. Indeed iftop

Re: [osol-discuss] [website-discuss] New-Website Hell __/__ Fwd: [ogb-discuss] Leaderless collectives

2009-10-28 Thread Alan Burlison
Martin Bochnig wrote: http://www.google.com/search?q=shadow+compilation%C2%A8opensolaris&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a The google results often include JSESSIONID in the URLs, e.g. I see the following as the first link in the search results: http://w

Re: [osol-discuss] New-Website Hell __/__ Fwd: [ogb-discuss] Leaderless collectives

2009-10-28 Thread Martin Bochnig
In the past it was easily possible to wget -m the entire website and to watch what is where. Now certainly not so easy anymore ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] New-Website Hell __/__ Fwd: [ogb-discuss] Leaderless collectives

2009-10-28 Thread Martin Bochnig
-- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Bochnig Date: Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [ogb-discuss] Leaderless collectives To: Peter Tribble Cc: Alan Burlison , website-disc...@opensolaris.org, Governing Board Discussions On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Peter Tribble w

Re: [osol-discuss] How to view network statistics? My "iftop" doesn't work ...

2009-10-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> Indeed iftop is a choice to view the statistics of the network usage, > we > now have a better way on OpenSolaris 0906 or nevada 105+ by > "flowadm(1M)" introduced by crossbow project. If you just want get > network statistics, it could be a choice. Same problem - I'm running solaris 10u6 (10 1

Re: [osol-discuss] How to view network statistics? My "iftop" doesn't work ...

2009-10-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> Why don't you try the SUNWiftop IPS pkg from the /dev repo? > > http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/en/search.shtml?token=SUNWiftop&action=S > earch Unfortunately, I'm running solaris, not opensolaris. An opensolaris package shouldn't work (or be attempted) on solaris, right? Is there another way

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris support for Sparc

2009-10-28 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: > Once again I am back with the same question that still hasn't found a > satisfactory answer. I have sparc and no x86 based machine to spare to > install OpenSolaris on it to boot/install on sparc. I tried other methods to > install Open

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris support for Sparc

2009-10-28 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Once again I am back with the same question that still hasn't found a satisfactory answer. I have sparc and no x86 based machine to spare to install OpenSolaris on it to boot/install on sparc. I tried other methods to install OpenSolaris following guidance I found on various blogs, but with uns

Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia support in OpenSolaris 2010.02?

2009-10-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Martin Bochnig wrote: > With USB there is NO way. Not even with cdrecord and its option > driveropts=burnfree. Well, some USB converters work with Solaris and the USB converters that do not work on Solaris work on Linux. It seems that there are problems in the USB mass storage driver that enca

Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia support in OpenSolaris 2010.02?

2009-10-28 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Martin Bochnig wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Joerg Schilling > wrote: >> Pen-Yuan Hsing wrote: >> >>> General question: >>> What is the situation of multimedia support in the upcoming OpenSolaris >>> 2010.02? >> >> As multi-media also means playing

[osol-discuss] Some problems removing packages on opensolaris

2009-10-28 Thread carlopmart
Hi all, I am trying to uninstall all gnome packages from an opensolaris 2009.06 installation and returns me some errors: HASEACTIONS Removal Phase35634/43799 Warning - directory var/log/gdm not empty - contents preserved in

Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia support in OpenSolaris 2010.02?

2009-10-28 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Pen-Yuan Hsing wrote: > >> General question: >> What is the situation of multimedia support in the upcoming OpenSolaris >> 2010.02? > > As multi-media also means playing and writing CD/DVD/PluRay media, part of the > multimedia support i

Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia support in OpenSolaris 2010.02?

2009-10-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Pen-Yuan Hsing wrote: > General question: > What is the situation of multimedia support in the upcoming OpenSolaris > 2010.02? As multi-media also means playing and writing CD/DVD/PluRay media, part of the multimedia support is a working SCSI driver system. Since a year, the SCSI subsystem fr

Re: [osol-discuss] How to view network statistics? My "iftop" doesn't work ...

2009-10-28 Thread Jim Walker
Why don't you try the SUNWiftop IPS pkg from the /dev repo? http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/en/search.shtml?token=SUNWiftop&action=Search BTW. Xiang Zhou is the maintainer for SUNWiftop. Cheers, Jim Edward Ned Harvey wrote: I used opencsw to pkg-get to install iftop, but when I run it, it alway

Re: [osol-discuss] ipv6 ->ipv4

2009-10-28 Thread Ulrich Hiller
Sebastien and Tomas: Thank you for the hint with the nwam-discuss-group. What do you mean with 'old fashioned way'? This is my configuration: /etc/hostname.e1000g0 is set to the coorect IP (in ipv4 format) /etc/defaultrouter is set correct. 'ping www.google.com' gives me an 'alive'. Which also m

Re: [osol-discuss] Error running make on Mplayer in OpenSolaris 2009.06

2009-10-28 Thread Pen-Yuan Hsing
Got to this website, followed instructions, and got mine to work! http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2653&start=10#p11214 Putting the link here for the record and for future reference. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ op

Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia support in OpenSolaris 2010.02?

2009-10-28 Thread Pen-Yuan Hsing
Thanks all for the useful info! Just to confirm, do the plugins you referred to work in Firefox 3.5 for web content? And since the Fluendo plugins claim H.264 support, does that mean I *could* play Quicktime content such as apple.com/trailers? Again thanks for the pointers for a newbie! -- This

[osol-discuss] pkg search hangs in b125 (os2009.06)

2009-10-28 Thread solarg
hello all, since i upgraded from b111b to b125, i'm unable to use pkg search to find files. I'm on a home network. Hopefully, the GUI is working and permit to install the necessary files. he...@ultra20:~# pfiles 1069 1069: /usr/bin/python2.4 /usr/bin/pkg search -r hexedit Current rlimit: 25

Re: [osol-discuss] Marvel OpenRD as a zfs nas?

2009-10-28 Thread Cyril Plisko
Adding osarm-dev mailing list, where it seems to belong On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Gene wrote: > The OpenRD is intriguing to me as a NAS. If it's like the sheevaplug it would > only pull about 10 watts of power or so. It uses the same kirkwood series of > marvel processor. The pci-e 1x s