Re: [osol-discuss] eSATA works fine?

2011-03-16 Thread Ben Taylor
gt; Thus, the following would only change the electrical > form: > > eSATA - it changes the physical connector and cable, > but doesn't make > any other information change your comments seem orthogonal to my experience with my E-Sata device. Ben > -- > Erik Trimble

Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-04 Thread Ben
Love the sound of this project! If there is a fork in the future, do we think that we can just point our installs to the Illumos repo and do `pkg image-update`? Or am I missing the point somewhat? Whatever happens, good luck to you guys! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-07-07 Thread Ben Lavery
Thanks for the clarification Alan :) On 6 Jul 2010, at 22:46, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Ben wrote: >> While OpenSolaris isn't an open source project, isn't Indiana an open source >> project? > > That question seems to be confused about both what OpenSolar

Re: [osol-discuss] Where is OpenSolaris 2010 release?

2010-07-06 Thread Ben
While OpenSolaris isn't an open source project, isn't Indiana an open source project? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] So who is ready to be let down?

2010-06-28 Thread Ben
I feel I have seen similar language and behaviour when people have kicked off on many different forums, especially Linux forums, how dare you say anything bad about their Linux distro! (to mention a few: Ubuntu, Suse, Debian, Gentoo) The problem is that we are all fed up with waiting, and we are

Re: [osol-discuss] Mounted nfs share - client root cannot write to it.

2010-06-23 Thread Ben
Hi tpaktop, >From my understanding, you have to make sure that the folder you are sharing >has the relevant permissions. Is the folder owned by Staff? Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opens

Re: [osol-discuss] build fails from fresh install?

2010-06-22 Thread Ben
Hi! Thanks for the tip. I had read that elsewhere too. Installing the Perl 5.10 and extras worked... That is, the build mail at least reported "completed", the packages built, and I was able to update and boot my server from the results. But, there are still all sorts of errors in the mail t

[osol-discuss] build fails from fresh install?

2010-06-21 Thread Ben
Hi all, and thanks in advance for any help!! Appologies if this is the wrong forum. I installed a fresh copy of OpenSolaris, from the blastwave b134 LiveCD(because update to b134 from 2009.06 doesn't work). I installed the compilers, and onbld per instructions, and set up the sources, cloned

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-14 Thread Ben
> Slightly tangential, but it sounds like the Glassfish > community found > themselves in a similar situation recently. However, > Oracle just > released a roadmap that covers the future of both > their commercial and > open source offering > > I have no insight into whether Oracle will be doi

Re: [osol-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-14 Thread Ben
being made public sounds encouraging, it could be that 2010.04 is on it's way! For everyone else, I've found that people in the Indiana board seem to give better answers as to what the show-stoppers are. I would presume this is because they a

Re: [osol-discuss] An idea for spreading the word

2010-03-30 Thread Ben
IMO, SMF is a HUGE plus for OpenSolaris too, I always mention it when talking about the OS. It really simplifies things after getting your head around the manifests, and it really brings UNIX into the 21st century, it's great to see (Open)Solaris achieving that. -- This message posted from ope

Re: [osol-discuss] A statement for defending OpenSolaris

2010-03-29 Thread Ben
e the product and would choose it myself over many other platforms. Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] study for Solaris admin certifications

2010-03-28 Thread Ben
When I took the certification last year it was mainly Solaris related. Personally, I wouldn't give a certification any credit...One of the questions was: On what Solaris 10 installation disk can you find the SUNWvts package? But as I said, if you do want to pursue it, it's probably only Solari

[osol-discuss] NIS not working on 2009.06?

2010-03-10 Thread Ben
NIS clients... The master and clients are all running OpenSolaris 2009.06 with no updates, and I'm currently running them in VirtualBox 3.1.2 (3.1.4 causes problems on my machine) and they all have bridged networks through the same physical NIC. Any ideas? Many, many thanks, Ben -- This

Re: [osol-discuss] When OpenSolaris 2010.3 will release?

2010-03-02 Thread Ben
Ha ha! Apologies, I didn't see that. I thought that the beginning of the month would have been a nice idea. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] When OpenSolaris 2010.3 will release?

2010-03-02 Thread Ben
Is there any news on the 2010.03 release? I thought it was slated for yesterday (1st March) having already slipped by a month... Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Opensolaris 2008/11, format & zpool discrepencies, [newbie disclaimer]

2010-02-19 Thread Ben Huxham
Hi I've installed OS 2008/11 to a mirror ~# zpool list NAMESIZE USED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT rpool 232G 4.44G 228G 1% ONLINE - ~# zpool status pool: rpool state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM rpool O

Re: [osol-discuss] [tools-compilers] OS b132: Sun C++ cannot compile C++ source due to linker segfault.

2010-02-17 Thread Ben Taylor
orkaround, but it should work. Fortunately, it's only 4 or 5 files for 141858 for each arch (i386, x64) But agreed. It would be easier to image from an existing S10/SS12.1 install. Ben > > On 02/16/2010 06:45 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> >> John Martin wrote: >>

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributing code?

2010-02-09 Thread Ben
Many thanks Shawn :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Contributing code?

2010-02-09 Thread Ben
> Yeah, yeah, I know. "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs > are shallow..." etcetera. But I would say it's rather > complex to just dive into the Solaris code if you're > not a rather experienced coder. I'm not looking at coding, but does all of the code conform to a standard coding spec? Are [i]al

[osol-discuss] Contributing code?

2010-02-08 Thread Ben
7;ve made a change, what do I do to submit the change? Many thanks, I'd love to start helping out :) Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org vs Opensolaris.com

2010-02-08 Thread Ben
I've always felt that .org is meant for both developers and experts who want to discuss and ask for detailed help on topics, whereas .com is meant for your average user experiencing some problems. .org is where developers and admins help each other out. .com is where users help each other out..

Re: [osol-discuss] SSD anyone

2009-09-20 Thread Ben Rockwood
I'm using an SSD root disk (16GB MTron SLC; my home dir, etc, are on a 1TB ZFS Mirror); to be honest I don't think its worth the expense for Solaris which is pretty good at caching. For OS's like Windows which hit the root disk constantly its a bigger win, imho. benr. -- This message posted

Re: [osol-discuss] SAS/SATA II disk controller

2009-05-28 Thread Ben Lausman
Sorry to hijack but... I just got an Adaptec 2405 and would like it to work with OpenSolaris. Can you tell me how you got your card working with Solaris? (i may need to switch to that) Cheers! gigabot -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris + fold...@home (FAH)

2009-04-25 Thread Ben
much appreciate you sharing it :) Many thanks, Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so...

2009-04-15 Thread Ben Taylor
> > Yeah, unfortunately it seems that with Sun's large > operating expenses, headcount, and poor sales that > continuing to operate will be rather tricky. To make > matters worse, in this economy most businesses are > dependent on credit for doing things like pay-roll as > the income can vary each

Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so...

2009-04-15 Thread Ben Taylor
> > Yeah, unfortunately it seems that with Sun's large > operating expenses, headcount, and poor sales that > continuing to operate will be rather tricky. To make > matters worse, in this economy most businesses are > dependent on credit for doing things like pay-roll as > the income can vary each

[osol-discuss] OpenGL, QT 4.5.0, and GCC 4.3.3 issues

2009-03-25 Thread Ben
cc version 4.3.3 (GCC) i...@decepticon:~$ ld -v GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.19 Thanks in advance and any ideas would be appreciated. Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [storage-discuss] NDMPCOPY Test Tool and NDMP Protocol Test Suite Released

2009-02-08 Thread Ben Rockwood
Vilas Deshpande, I love you!!! Thank you! I've been needing this badly! benr. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

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] After pkg image-update,

2008-08-31 Thread Ben Golding
can delete, that's your > best workaround. Ah, that fits the description of my system. I have it running under vmware so I'll try bumping up the size of the virtual disk and see whether that works. Ben. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] After pkg image-update, I see beadm: Unable to activate opensolaris-3

2008-08-27 Thread Ben Golding
this. I seem to be able to boot this when I select it manually from the grub menu so I don't understand what's wrong. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ben. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discu

[osol-discuss] Open Solaris problem

2008-08-14 Thread Ben Ursel
ialize state change for svc (not owner)" - Then a prompt comes up and requests a root password to enter maintenance mode - If I don't enter the password, the cycle starts over again, if I enter the root password, it comes up to a prompt that says "-bash-3.2#" Than

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrading from 91 to 95

2008-08-12 Thread Ben Rockwood
Ian Collins wrote: > Ben Rockwood writes: >> >> Upgrades get even easier if you put filesystems like /opt or >> /usr/local on the zpool. Post-install just mount /opt and /usr/local >> from the zpool (zfs set mountpoint=/usr/local pool/local && zfs mount >

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrading from 91 to 95

2008-08-12 Thread Ben Rockwood
Ian Collins wrote: > Ben Rockwood writes: >> >> Upgrades get even easier if you put filesystems like /opt or >> /usr/local on the zpool. Post-install just mount /opt and /usr/local >> from the zpool (zfs set mountpoint=/usr/local pool/local && zfs mount >

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrading from 91 to 95

2008-08-12 Thread Ben Rockwood
Zpools are self contained, so as stated before its safe. In upgrades like this I often will actually pull or disconnect the zpool disks just for paranoia sake. As for the config of the existing machine, keeping a copy of /etc is never a bad idea. I typically will rsync a copy of it out somewhe

Re: [osol-discuss] Thumper, ZFS and performance

2008-08-12 Thread Ben Rockwood
The setup in the first example protects you against failure of a complete controller. The second configuration leaves you open significantly because you only need to loose 2 disks before your data is toast. Aside from that, stripes so large suffer in terms of performance. Keep your stripes sma

Re: [osol-discuss] HP Laptop hangs with b93

2008-07-28 Thread Ben Miller
I just wanted to updated this that a work around has been found by passing "-B pci-reprog=off" to the kernel from grub. A proper fix is still being worked on. The bug ID report is at http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6728455 Ben > I've been running SX b78 fine,

[osol-discuss] HP Laptop hangs with b93

2008-07-21 Thread Ben Miller
seudo/[EMAIL PROTECTED] npe0 at root: space 0 offset 0 npe0 is /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 The laptop is an HP compaq nx6125 with a Turion64 processor and 1GB of RAM. I've seen some people report similar problems with Sony Vaio's. Any workaround or fix expected in an upcoming build? Any ideas

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrading obp without a operating system

2008-05-14 Thread Ben Taylor
h as the one > on a jumpstart server (if you have one). You can boot net to install the firmware. I'm not sure it's recommended, but I've been doing it for years with the systems which did not have the automatic prom update patch (280R/480/490)... Ben This message

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-05-14 Thread Ben Taylor
ic* process if you do not stay aware of all the implications of the environment you setup. It's doubly dangerous to the average user who just wants his favorite tool on Solaris, and there's no where to download a binary. As soon as you start compiling, you might try and fix the

Re: [osol-discuss] Kernel panic: BAD TRAP: type=e

2008-03-14 Thread Ben Middleton
Hi, Thanks for the advice. I've moved the 2 mirrored SATA boot disks off the ICH9R controller and onto my 8-port Marvell one - so far no panics any more - if they reoccur I'll try your suggestions. Ben This message posted from opens

[osol-discuss] Kernel panic: BAD TRAP: type=e

2008-03-10 Thread Ben Middleton
unplug the disk? Many thanks, Ben This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Help with Qemu 0.8.2

2008-03-05 Thread Ben Taylor
Qemu_Networking/ it has links to some prototype files to do the kind of think you want to do. Ben And then upgrade to qemu-0.9.1. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Any interest in a Wine Community for OpenSolaris?

2008-01-03 Thread Ben Taylor
iling list, that > we > > could effectively > > work on Solaris bugs in Wine. > > > > I'm willing to support a community if the rest of > the > > community thinks > > there is value in a Open Solaris Wine community. > > > > Thoughts? > >

Re: [osol-discuss] Cisco VPN Client for Solaris x86, anyone?

2008-01-02 Thread Ben Taylor
> Ben Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > John Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > If something else can get the job done well, > I'm > > > not averse to using it. But it appears at moment > I > > >

[osol-discuss] Any interest in a Wine Community for OpenSolaris?

2008-01-02 Thread Ben Taylor
#x27;t being seen on other OS's. I'm wondering if we had our own community and mailing list, that we could effectively work on Solaris bugs in Wine. I'm willing to support a community if the rest of the community thinks there is value in a Open Solaris Wine community. Thoughts

Re: [osol-discuss] Cisco VPN Client for Solaris x86, anyone?

2008-01-02 Thread Ben Taylor
pnc.devel or http://lists.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/pipermail/vpnc-devel/ I remember trying to compile it like 6 months ago, and it needed a newer version of libgcrypt (as what came with Solaris 10, so I used blastwave's libgcrypt). I got it built, but I can't find any of my build notes. I was ne

Re: [osol-discuss] Build 78 ,79

2007-12-10 Thread Ben Middleton
Also awaiting 78 for a Wireless Network fix... :) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Middle management at Sun destroys OpenDS is OpenSolaris next?

2007-12-01 Thread Ben McGinnes
base of GNU/BSD systems already freely available. The operating system's value is only realised in conjunction with the hardware it leverages. It's not a matter of "Sun's goodwill," regardless of how Sun's attitude may be spun that way, it's simply enlightened se

Re: [osol-discuss] Push for Matlab on Solaris x86

2007-11-16 Thread Ben Miller
; I wouldn't blame > them for doing that. > Exactly! We have lots of Matlab users for several years, they aren't going to change. And now we have started to teach Matlab to all engineering students. Brandz has been a great help and I'll be trying out the experimental L

[osol-discuss] Push for Matlab on Solaris x86

2007-11-15 Thread Ben Miller
EMAIL PROTECTED] and let them know. Ben This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] A proposal for ensuring sustained Community Growth and Success

2007-11-08 Thread Ben Rockwood
Jim Grisanzio wrote: > Ben Rockwood wrote: > >> I agree, a singular leader would be important. I have come to >> believe that the following are the requirements: >> >> 1) They must have non-Sun, non-Solaris F/OSS experience >> 2) They must have some understa

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] A proposal for ensuring sustained Community Growth and Success

2007-11-08 Thread Ben Rockwood
Shawn Walker wrote: > The only remedy available, in the author's view, is to ensure that > four changes are made by amending our constitution: > > 1) The OGB is empowered to make more decisions for the community. > I believe that the OGB has almost unlimited powers. That is to say, there is li

Re: [osol-discuss] Apple's new focus on making server administration

2007-10-19 Thread Ben Rockwood
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Ben Rockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I think they've been UNIX certified for a long time although I'm too lazy to >> check. >> > > It happened this year and I am sure they only passed the UNIX complian

Re: [osol-discuss] /export/home vs. /home

2007-10-18 Thread Ben Rockwood
Do you actually need the automounter? Personally, on every box I install I disabled the automounter and use /home as usual. benr. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] equal access to opensolaris.org

2007-10-18 Thread Ben Rockwood
Other sites have solved this problem by providing an audio option. Frankly I wasn't aware there were CAPTCHA's at all. I wouldn't worry much about it unless there was an explicit complaint/request. benr. This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [osol-discuss] Apple's new focus on making server administration

2007-10-18 Thread Ben Rockwood
I think they've been UNIX certified for a long time although I'm too lazy to check. Frankly, I'd be happy to see Apple succeed in this space, it only means competition in a much needed area of simplifying and modernizing administrative tools. The key, however, is for them to not just focus o

Re: [osol-discuss] MS Windows 2003 to Solaris 10 ISCSI

2007-08-16 Thread Ben Rockwood
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 17:44 +1200, Ian Collins wrote: > >> Curt Mills wrote: >> >>> So we created an ISCSI target on our Solaris box and are now having >>> >> trouble connecting to it from Windows 2003, Windows Vista, or Windows >> XP when the target is great

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS with ISCSI on x86

2007-07-03 Thread Ben Rockwood
Dick Davies wrote: > On 03/07/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Either you wait until this stuff is backported to Solaris 10, which is 6 >> months at a minimum, or you download the source code and compile and package >> the stuff yourself. >> > > It's in update4, that's out

[osol-discuss] REMINDER: OpenSolaris Picnic in Sunnyvale Tomorow!

2007-06-15 Thread Ben Rockwood
Just a friendly reminder to everyone. We're having the first annual OpenSolaris Community Picnic tomorrow at Baylands Park in Sunnyvale! Get details on the event at http://cuddletech.com/tamr/ in Tamarah's blog. If you want to register for the event (most people aren't) visit http://upcoming

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-13 Thread Ben Taylor
> > Oh, you mean I shouldn't compile any of my own code > > on my own system cause I might have to rm -rf it instead of > > builiding a package every time. I'm really sure the new > > users we are catering too are just *gonna* love that. > > Course, packaging for Solaris is quite a bit of mag

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-11 Thread Ben Taylor
> > Course, it would help if there was a locate command on Solaris, > > Dear Sir, > if you need to use the `locate` command to find > something, you have a MUCH bigger problem. Dude I know more ways to find stuff than I can count. I'm only recanting the whines from folks who claim that more tha

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-11 Thread Ben Taylor
> James C. McPherson wrote: > > frank wang wrote: > >> Sun will keep two universes, 1 is "Linux" alike, > >> the other "Solaris" alike. User can just pick what > >> they like or are familiar with. But it > >> can't replace the efforts to scale the train > >> coverage on everyting about > >> Solari

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-11 Thread Ben Taylor
> James C. McPherson wrote: > > frank wang wrote: > >> Sun will keep two universes, 1 is "Linux" alike, > >> the other "Solaris" alike. User can just pick what > >> they like or are familiar with. But it > >> can't replace the efforts to scale the train > >> coverage on everyting about > >> Solari

[osol-discuss] Re: Installing Firefox using Blastwave Breaks System

2007-04-25 Thread Ben Taylor
efault path have you? No, but he probably has /opt/csw/bin in front of the default /usr/bin path. Could we do something like "rm -rf /" for LD_LIBRARY_PATH? :-) Ben This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: limit number of sftp/scp sessions

2007-04-17 Thread Ben
We currently use ssh in our system and are investigating ways to fulfill an Application STIG requirement. Here's the req APP0530:Session limits do not exist for the application. Its actually a checklist item to determine if you have a security finding. That's why it looks like a negat

[osol-discuss] Re: limit number of sftp/scp sessions

2007-04-16 Thread Ben
Since all these services are derivatives of ssh, then ideally I'd like to limit ssh, and I have a workaround for ssh. I can limit ssh sessions by limiting the number of ptys in /etc/system. Am I missing some way to limit ssh as a whole? This message posted from opensolaris.org _

[osol-discuss] Re: limit number of sftp/scp sessions

2007-04-11 Thread Ben
We actually have this issue in Solaris 10 as well, we just don't have to address it yet. So can this be solved in Solaris 10? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] limit number of sftp/scp sessions

2007-04-10 Thread Ben
I'm looking for a way to limit the number of authenticated sftp/scp sessions that are allowed to connect to my box. I've searched the sunsolve forums and docs.sun.com, but I'm not seeing any config that would give me the ability to limit active sessions. Does something like this exist? This i

Re: [osol-discuss] Marc Hamilton, Introduction

2007-04-09 Thread Ben Rockwood
Marc Hamilton wrote: Hi, I wanted to introduce myself to the OpenSolaris community. Some of you might know me from my previous roles at Sun, or from my blog, but starting today I'll be leading up Sun's Solaris marketing efforts, including OpenSolaris marketing. The first thing I want to do is

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE Build 61 available

2007-04-04 Thread Ben Rockwood
Derek Cicero wrote: Please find the links to SXCE Build 61 at . Helloo CPU Caps! A big congrats to everyone who works on CPU-Caps and especially Alexander Kolbasov, *Andrei Dorofeev, and **Jonathan Chew*. Awesome job all! All we're mi

[osol-discuss] Re: Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Ben Taylor
> The ARC Cases for the WebStack NG Project have been > submitted for review (and hopefully approval), and i would > like to ask our community's input regarding two important > questions which have come up during our discussions: > > 1. Should the initial components released for this projec

Re: [osol-discuss] Why should I vote for you?

2007-03-13 Thread Ben Rockwood
Martin Bochnig wrote: Jim Grisanzio wrote: Glynn Foster wrote On 03/09/07 10:58,: Hi, Even though I'm a candidate, there's one overriding question that a lot of candidates haven't answered since they've produced absolutely no content other than accepting their nomination. Why should I

Re: [osol-discuss] Revenge of the Unkillable Process

2007-03-10 Thread Ben Rockwood
Dennis Clarke wrote: Ben, I'm reading this and calling up Cory Omand also who is the resident Apache2 guru here at Blastwave. We know that the worker model has been tweaked here to cooincide with work from the CoolStack. I am sure that Stefan Teleman will also have some insights. Regar

[osol-discuss] Revenge of the Unkillable Process

2007-03-09 Thread Ben Rockwood
I brought up a similar issue some time back (http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=20355) which pertained to ligHTTPd. A fix on that issue has been integrated into snv_57, however, I'm seeing a similar situation with other applications include Mongrel and Apache and uncertain as

Re: [osol-discuss] Y2K7 update?

2007-03-05 Thread Ben Rockwood
Lloyd Staley Jr wrote: Hi, While not as precise as Dennis' answer a quick and dirty one: zdump -v $TZ | grep 2007 On my B56 system it shows: alpha% zdump -v $TZ | grep 2007 US/Pacific Mon Mar 5 03:07:34 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 4 19:07:34 2007 PST isdst=0 US/Pacific Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 20

[osol-discuss] Joyent is Hiring: OpenSolaris Savvy Jr SysAdmin's Needed!

2007-02-22 Thread Ben Rockwood
sume. Serious applicants only please. Ben Rockwood Director of Systems Joyent, Inc. Official Posting: Joyent is looking for a junior systems administrator. Joyent has been in the business of hosting small to large applications since 2004, and via its hosting product was the first to e

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Community participation

2007-02-08 Thread Ben Rockwood
as we can. Bonnie Ben Rockwood wrote: While that would be handy, we already have a good program in place, its just buried. I refer to "Bite Sized Bugs". I've pointed to this problem before: how do you find them? Bugs are (were) flagged in the database but finding a list of th

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal for Xfce Desktop

2007-02-05 Thread Ben Rockwood
Ian Collins wrote: Ben Rockwood wrote: Provisional -1. I think this would be too granular. I'd like to see a rational for why this needs to be an OpenSolaris project. Xfce is developed in its own community setting already, creating a project here would constitute a fork, or par

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal for Xfce Desktop

2007-02-04 Thread Ben Rockwood
Provisional -1. I think this would be too granular. I'd like to see a rational for why this needs to be an OpenSolaris project. Xfce is developed in its own community setting already, creating a project here would constitute a fork, or parallel fork if you will, in my mind. The question then

Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you? (was Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?])

2007-02-03 Thread Ben Rockwood
Simon Phipps wrote: On Feb 3, 2007, at 07:49, Ben Rockwood wrote: This is neither the first nor the last time this discussion will occur and frankly I don't see it as productive. You would rather Sun had not asked? Has there previously been a conclusive discussion about GPLv3 (I am awa

Re: What does OpenSolaris Success look like to you? (was Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] GPLv3?])

2007-02-02 Thread Ben Rockwood
Dennis Clarke wrote: Just the facts, sir. 1. There are ~800 people registered on this list. There are ~15 people in these threads making most of the comments. I conclude that there are others to hear from. I do not conclude that your view is either representative or unrepresentative, just that

[osol-discuss] Re: Proposal to create an OpenSolaris KDE project

2007-02-02 Thread Ben Klang
+1 I would personally very much like to see a KDE that is well integrated with Solaris. /BAK/ This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Community participation

2007-02-01 Thread Ben Rockwood
While that would be handy, we already have a good program in place, its just buried. I refer to "Bite Sized Bugs". I've pointed to this problem before: how do you find them? Bugs are (were) flagged in the database but finding a list of these is difficult or impossible. I've suggested in th

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: SXCR Build 56 available

2007-02-01 Thread Ben Rockwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since your commenting on good things in B56 I'll add the following server observations (on X4100): - Boot seems faster - There isn't any more "first boot lag"... Solaris has always dog'ed when dealing with devices aft er an install finishes. This is often seen w

[osol-discuss] Re: SXCR Build 56 available

2007-01-31 Thread Ben Rockwood
Since your commenting on good things in B56 I'll add the following server observations (on X4100): - Boot seems faster - There isn't any more "first boot lag"... Solaris has always dog'ed when dealing with devices after an install finishes. This is often seen when you have installed a system a

[osol-discuss] Re: SXCR Build 56 available

2007-01-30 Thread Ben Rockwood
w00t! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Availability Suite

2007-01-29 Thread Ben Rockwood
A very enthusiastic second! benr. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: ETA for SX:CR B56

2007-01-29 Thread Ben Rockwood
Er, I jumped the gun. I need SX:CR. B56 sources and archives are available, sure, but those have been available for some time in nightlies. So I'm still looking for an ETA on SX:CR B56 itself. Friday? Sooner? Will a case of beer smooth the process? :) benr. This message posted from op

[osol-discuss] Re: ETA for SX:CR B56

2007-01-29 Thread Ben Rockwood
Thanks for the clarification Steve. I was about to have a heart attack. :) Incidentally, none of the putbacks were flagged as "Duckhorn". The big pieces were integrated as 3 separate PSARC's which I reported here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18813&tstart=0 Thanks for

[osol-discuss] ETA for SX:CR B56

2007-01-29 Thread Ben Rockwood
Is there an ETA for SX:CR B56? I've got a lot of things on hold for this release. I know the B55 respin threw a wrench in the works, but any updates or best guesses as to when we'll see 56 would be appreciated. benr. This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: ze5375 HP Pavillion notebook builtin wireless ethernet support

2007-01-21 Thread Ben Taylor
> I have attached the current output of "prtconf -pv" > for the notebook ze5375 (HP Pavillion). I used the frkit on my ze4100 and it worked fine (well, until the card died). This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing lis

[osol-discuss] Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-20 Thread Ben Taylor
a C++ ABI, someone > would need to get a > >source first and then check where the dependencies > to the Host OS are. > > > > > > Unfortunately does it appear to depend on Bruce Evans > C Compiler. > Worse, not

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenGrok useless?

2006-12-23 Thread Ben Rockwood
Cyril Plisko wrote: On 12/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the beginning the opensolaris source index with OpenGok was extremely useful; unfortunately, it has become useless, IMHO, because it also indexes all projects on opensolaris.org. Another thing is that opengrok us

[osol-discuss] Re: Unkillable Processes

2006-12-17 Thread Ben Rockwood
You guys are the kings. Indeed it was bug 6455727. And indeed that DTrace one-liner illuminated the problem where no other tool could. The resolution was simple, add the following line to lighttpd.conf: server.network-backend = "writev" The Blastwave package is built with this backend, so its

[osol-discuss] Unkillable Processes

2006-12-16 Thread Ben Rockwood
I'm posting this to OS Discuss because I'm not sure where it would better be posted. If there is a more appropriate list please say so. I've run into a sad situation several times now, processes that can't be killed. In all cases it happened to be 'lighttpd'. It sits on CPU consuming cycles

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: OpenSolaris Audit

2006-12-13 Thread Ben Rockwood
Another enthusiastic thumbs up. I'd love a forum to specifically discuss auditing and its future development. benr. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 Apache 2 Tomcat and mod_jk

2006-11-25 Thread ben short
pache module DSO? [ Nov 22 20:31:44 Method "start" exited with status 1 ] On 11/22/06, Matthew Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Running 'svcs -xv' will show you the status of any services in maintenance mode, including a pointer to the SMF logfile to check for more informa

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