Re: [osol-discuss] Problem with /bin/sh: pipe discards empty lines.

2010-12-09 Thread Roland Mainz
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Karel Gardas wrote: > Hello, > thanks for your reply. I'm trying to reproduce the same error on vanilla > 2010.11 installation and to my surprise I'm not able to. What I need to do is: > > export PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH > > and then I'm able to reproduce this err

[osol-discuss] AST/ksh93/busybox standard conformance and interface stability... / was: Re: community driven distro...

2010-05-23 Thread Roland Mainz
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: [snip] > My impression is that a number of the AST tools have picked up the > major options previously unique to the GNU tools, while trying to retain > better standards compliance.  Assuming that to be true, I think they'd > be the way

[osol-discuss] Slap the troll... / was: Re: This is how Oracle treats open communities and projects. Will OGB intervene?

2010-05-11 Thread Roland Mainz
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Dave Johnson wrote: [snip] > Here is the evidence: > > Evidence 1: > - Project cooperation with ksh project withdrawn > - GNU commands as replacements are the future > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: John Sonnenschein > Date: Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at

Re: [osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] Which kind of ACLs does tmpfssupport?

2009-09-15 Thread Roland Mainz
Robert Thurlow wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > > Ok... does that mean that I have to create a ZFS filesystem to actually > > test ([1]) an application which modifies ZFS/NFSv4 ACLs or are there any > > other options ? > > By all means, test with ZFS. But it's

Re: [osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] Which kind of ACLs does tmpfssupport?

2009-09-15 Thread Roland Mainz
Ian Collins wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > Norm Jacobs wrote: > >> Roland Mainz wrote: > >>> Does anyone know out-of-the-head whether tmpfs supports ACLs - and if > >>> "yes" - which type(s) of ACLs (e.g. NFSv4/ZFS, old POSIX draft ACLs > &g

Re: [osol-discuss] Which kind of ACLs does tmpfs support ?

2009-09-15 Thread Roland Mainz
Norm Jacobs wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > Does anyone know out-of-the-head whether tmpfs supports ACLs - and if > > "yes" - which type(s) of ACLs (e.g. NFSv4/ZFS, old POSIX draft ACLs > > etc.) are supported by tmpfs ? > > I have some vague recollection t

[osol-discuss] Which kind of ACLs does tmpfs support ?

2009-09-15 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Does anyone know out-of-the-head whether tmpfs supports ACLs - and if "yes" - which type(s) of ACLs (e.g. NFSv4/ZFS, old POSIX draft ACLs etc.) are supported by tmpfs ? Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.ma...@nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Su

[osol-discuss] [Annoucement] ksh93-integration update2 2009-08-22 binaries available for download (for Solaris 11 Nevada >= B110+OpenSolaris/Indiana) ...

2009-08-21 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2009-08-22: ksh93-integration update 2 tarballs for Solaris 11 Nevada+OpenSolaris/Indiana These tarballs ([2]) are intended to be installed over an existing Solaris Nevada/Indiana/OpenSolaris >= B110 i386 or SPARC installation and provide ksh93t+_20090505 and the content described in P

Re: [osol-discuss] (www|hg|svn|wiki).genunix.org down ?

2009-07-11 Thread Roland Mainz
Al Hopper wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Al Hopper > wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Al Hopper > > wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Roland Mainz > > > wrote: > > > > Does anyone know what's wrong with &g

[osol-discuss] [Annoucement] ksh93-integration update2 2009-07-02 binaries available for download (for Solaris 11 Nevada >= B110+OpenSolaris/Indiana) ...

2009-07-06 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2009-07-02: ksh93-integration update 2 tarballs for Solaris 11 Nevada+OpenSolaris/Indiana These tarballs ([2]) are intended to be installed over an existing Solaris Nevada/Indiana/OpenSolaris >= B110 i386 or SPARC installation and provide ksh93t+_20090505 and the content described in P

[osol-discuss] [Annoucement] ksh93-integration update2 2009-05-11 binaries available for download (for Solaris 11 Nevada >= B110+OpenSolaris/Indiana) ...

2009-05-11 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2009-05-11: ksh93-integration update 2 tarballs for Solaris 11 Nevada+OpenSolaris/Indiana These tarballs ([2]) are intended to be installed over an existing Solaris Nevada/Indiana/OpenSolaris >= B110 i386 or SPARC installation and provide ksh93t+_20090505 and the content described in P

[osol-discuss] [Annoucement] ksh93-integration update2 2009-04-20 binaries available for download (for Solaris 11 Nevada >= B110+OpenSolaris/Indiana) ...

2009-04-28 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2009-04-20: ksh93-integration update 2 tarballs for Solaris 11 Nevada+OpenSolaris/Indiana These tarballs ([2]) are intended to be installed over an existing Solaris Nevada/Indiana/OpenSolaris >= B110 i386 or SPARC installation and provide ksh93t+_20090310 and the content described in P

[osol-discuss] Emancipation vs. "POSIX commands community" vs. closed-bin stuff.. / was: Re: [on-discuss] Emergency project to rescueOpensolaris fr

2009-03-25 Thread Roland Mainz
Miles Nordin wrote: > > You wish to talk to Roland Mainz, Glenn Fowler and > > Jennifer Pioch > > then. They have opensource replacements for > > /usr/bin/sed, > > /usr/xpg4/bin/sed, /usr/bin/tail, /usr/xpg4/bin/tail, > > /usr/bin/tr and > > /usr/xpg4/bi

[osol-discuss] Please stop this flamewar... / was: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] General THANKLESS- and RESPECTLESSnesstowards Joerg Schilling (and others, which I leave out of this msg.) __/__ Was:

2009-03-25 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Josh Hurst wrote: > > On 3/25/09, Dennis Clarke wrote: [snip] > Flame wars should be fought privately, if at all. * First: I would _STRONGLY_ prefer to keep all non-technical issues (including politics, license discussions, personal issue

[osol-discuss] Using |mmap()| for Xorg pixmap allocations... / was: Re: [desktop-discuss] Poor interactive performanceunder heavy system load

2009-02-27 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Another issue: Xsun did use mmap() to allocate bigger parts of memory in the > > X server. If big memory leaking program like netscape died in former times, > > Xsun did shrink. Today, we have firefox that itself allocates less memory > > than >

Re: [osol-discuss] [ksh93-integration-discuss] [tools-discuss] ksh93 sleep

2009-02-18 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Irek: I'm setting the Reply-To: to opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ... I would be really nice to keep the "stone throwing" out of the ksh93-integration-disc...@opensolars.org list - we're trying to get technical stuff done in this list and not rant about the history of Solaris or th

Re: [osol-discuss] Memory requirements of Solaris/OpenSolaris... /was: Re: [tools-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port toMIPSarchitecture

2009-01-01 Thread Roland Mainz
ken mays wrote: [snip] > > Mark Martin wrote: [snip] > > Assuming you only use UFS and cut-down some system > > tuneables Solaris can > > run on a 64MB machine (my Ultra5 only has 128MB now after > > one of the > > DIMMs failed and it still works fine with CDE). The > > problems start if > > you wa

[osol-discuss] Memory requirements of Solaris/OpenSolaris... / was: Re: [tools-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPSarchitecture

2009-01-01 Thread Roland Mainz
Mark Martin wrote: > > [Resent for Reply-all] > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Martin Bochnig > wrote: > > +1 > > Except that it would be nice if somebody would make the > Polaris port functional, before starting a new port. > Also, why MIPS, not ARM? Isn't MIPS dead a

[osol-discuss] Weired "at" job with "*.ctrl: No such file or directory" ...

2008-12-21 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Does anyone remeber a component of Solaris (OS/Netm SFWNV, Studio or punchin) which produces the following kind of "at" jobs: -- snip -- >From r...@terror.alquiekquak.org Tue Dec 16 00:00:55 2008 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:53 +0100 (CET) From: Super-User To: r...@terror.alquiekquak.o

Re: [osol-discuss] genunix.org experiencing tech difficulties

2008-12-03 Thread Roland Mainz
Cyril Plisko wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Al Hopper wrote: > >> > >> PS: belenix.org runs on genunix.org infrastructure but is running on > >> other hardware and is unaffected by this outage. >

Re: [osol-discuss] genunix.org experiencing tech difficulties

2008-12-03 Thread Roland Mainz
Al Hopper wrote: > > Please bear with us as we find/fix the hardware issues currently > causing "constipation" at www.genunix.org. Wiki users - don't worry - > we have current backups. But please allow at least 12 hours for the > site to be restored to normal operation. > > I guess our uptime r

[osol-discuss] [Annoucement] ksh93-integration update1 2008-11-14 binaries available for download (for Solaris Nevada >= B84+OpenSolaris/Indiana) ...

2008-11-14 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2008-11-14: ksh93 update tarballs for Solaris Nevada+Indiana These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris >= B84 i386 or SPARC installation and provide ast-ksh.2008-11-04 >(ksh93t_20081104) and match PSARC/2008/094 ("ksh93 Update 1" ; >http://www.opensola

[osol-discuss] [Annoucement] ksh93-integration update1 2008-08-10 binaries available for download (for Solaris Nevada >= B84+Indiana) ...

2008-08-13 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2008-08-10: ksh93 update tarballs for Solaris Nevada+Indiana These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris >= B84 i386 or SPARC installation and provide ast-ksh.2008-07-25 >(ksh93t_20080725) and match PSARC/2008/094 ("ksh93 Update 1" ; >http://www.opensolar

[osol-discuss] SXCE download area... / was: Re: sxce b95 download sucks

2008-08-07 Thread Roland Mainz
Ian Collins wrote: > Herschel Krustofsky writes: > > I agree completely with Bruno, getting the distribution out there properly > > is a showstopper. > > > This subject comes up over and over (and has for years) and the answer > remains the same. > > Why do you think Indiana was created? AFAIK t

[osol-discuss] Multithreaded browsers... / was: Re: The end of Sparc desktops?

2008-08-07 Thread Roland Mainz
"Richard L. Hamilton" wrote: [snip] > > Hmmm... that'd be a close shave. Having worked with > > UltraSPARC T2s quite a bit, I'd say that the T2 is > > still pretty weak for the desktop workloads, > > precisely because of his single-thread performance. > > You'd have to have software that was highly

Re: [osol-discuss] REVIEW System Admin. Guide for the Back toSchool Kit

2008-08-04 Thread Roland Mainz
Kathy Slattery wrote: > > > Currently, I'm using a customized version of Epic > > to author the > > > book. The source isn't available yet, but I plan to > > move it into > > > mercurial after the August 8th release. > > > > May I ask for any links to that soft, google search > > does not give my a

[osol-discuss] "hexfloat" format not supported by |strtod()| in C99/SUSv3 mode ? / was: Re: Can Solaris be discussed here?

2008-08-02 Thread Roland Mainz
Dennis Clarke wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Ming Kin Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a feeling that Sun has abandoned maintaining Solaris, and shifted > > its resources to OpenSolaris. Well, that's good news to people here, I > > guess. > > So, can I discuss things about So

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2008-06-24 update binaries available for download (for Solaris Nevada >= B84+Indiana) ...

2008-06-25 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2008-06-24: ksh93 update tarballs for Solaris Nevada >= B84+Indiana These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris >= B84 i386 or SPARC installation and provide ksh93t-_20080614 and match PSARC/2008/094 ("ksh93 Update 1" ; http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communi

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2008-06-17 update binaries available for download (for Solaris Nevada >= B84+Indiana) ...

2008-06-19 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2008-06-17: ksh93 update tarballs for Solaris Nevada+Indiana These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris >= B84 i386 or SPARC installation and provide ksh93t-_20080614 and match >PSARC/2008/094 ("ksh93 Update 1" ; >http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/

Re: [osol-discuss] [blog post] Terminal with colors in OpenSolaris 2008.5

2008-05-08 Thread Roland Mainz
On 5/8/08, Silveira Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Put colors for bash: > http://silveiraneto.net/2008/05/07/terminal-with-colors-in-opensolaris/ > Edit ~/.bashrc and insert in the end: > > alias ls='ls –color=auto' > reopen your terminal and you got colors. > > I could not find the global bashr

Re: [osol-discuss] ${HOME} of "root" is now "/root" ... / was: Re: [security-discuss]$HOME of root

2008-03-18 Thread Roland Mainz
Gary Winiger wrote: > > -- > X-Sun-Data-Type: text > X-Sun-Data-Description: text > X-Sun-Data-Name: text > X-Sun-Charset: us-ascii > X-Sun-Content-Lines: 8 > > > It's done! :-) > > > > See attached commit notification email. "Flag day" notification is > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/co

[osol-discuss] ${HOME} of "root" is now "/root" ... / was: Re: [security-discuss] $HOME of root

2008-03-18 Thread Roland Mainz
Dirk Wetter wrote: > Am 10.03.2008 09:51, Joep Vesseur schrieb: > > On 03/10/08 01:41, Roland Mainz wrote: > >> Is there any status update ? Did you hit any major problems ? > > > > On the list for integration any time now (I can't say which build since I'm

[osol-discuss] VMware tools don't rock the clock in B83a/B84 ...

2008-03-15 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! More or less an update to my original "VMware's rock around the clock..."-posting (http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-March/013848.html): 1. In Solaris 11 B83a and B84 the VMware tools no longer sync the time with the host OS (I'm not using "ntpdate" to slew

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2008-02-29 update binaries available for download (for Nevada >= B72+Indiana) ...

2008-03-03 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2008-02-29: ksh93 update tarballs for OpenSolaris These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris >= B72 + Indiana distribution i386 or SPARC installation and provide >ksh93s+_20080202 (the content matches PSARC/2008/094 >(http://www.opensolaris.org/os/commun

[osol-discuss] The impossible SDLC download... / was: Re: [osol-announce] SXCE Build 81 available

2008-01-31 Thread Roland Mainz
Moritz Willers wrote: > On 29 Jan 2008, at 22:59, Derek Cicero wrote: > > Please find the links to SXCE Build 81 at > > > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/ > > > > /IMPORTANT:/ > > > > The SDLC has changed how the downloads works. > > > > Now you choose the Platform first and t

Re: [osol-discuss] [pkg-discuss] 142 Replace /sbin/sh with ksh93

2008-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The ksh93/bash holy war is off-topic for pkg-discuss. > > This list is for the discussion of the development of the packaging system. > > Indiana-discuss, or perhaps alt.fetish on USENET, would be a better > forum for this thread. Or just "remind" people (either via

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2007-11-05 update binaries available for download (for Nevada >= B72) ...

2007-11-06 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! 2007-11-05: ksh93 _update tarballs_ for OpenSolaris >= B72 These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris i386 or SPARC installation (>= Nevada B72) to update the provided ksh93 installation to ksh93sü_20071101. Note that the binaries are provided for testing

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Indiana milestone reached!

2007-10-31 Thread Roland Mainz
Glynn Foster wrote: > > I'm very pleased to announce that the first milestone of Project Indiana is > now > available - called OpenSolaris Developer Preview. > > It's available for download at > > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/indiana/downloads/current/in-preview.iso [snip] Congrats to all! :-) I

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2007-10-31 test binaries available for download (for Nevada B61-B71) ...

2007-10-31 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! [If you run Solaris 11 >= B72 please ignore this] A new set of tarballs containing an OS/Net version of ksh93 [1] (based on ksh93s+_beta_20070418 [2]) is now available from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/downloads/2007-10-31/ These tarballs are intended to be

[osol-discuss] sendmail project at opensolaris.org ?

2007-10-19 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Just curious: Would be there any interest to create a sendmail and/or mail-related community or project which bundles all the sendmail&&mail tool activities (e.g. sendmail maintaince, updates, mailx things, building a "managing sendmail on Solaris (+SMF)" FAQ etc. (the idea came up toda

Re: [osol-discuss] Porting OpenSolaris To OLPC XO AMD Geode Laptops

2007-10-01 Thread Roland Mainz
Brandorr wrote: > On 9/28/07, nospam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project had released XO Laptops for the public > > using G1G1 ("Buy 2 Get 1"). > > One laptop will be sent to the buyer, another laptop will be sent to a > > child in developing country. > > > > Unfort

Re: [osol-discuss] Running Solaris 11/Nevada B72 on a M4000 ...

2007-10-01 Thread Roland Mainz
Roland Mainz wrote: > Does anyone here run Solaris 11/Nevada B72 on a M4000 ? I need some > feedback whether it runs (more or less) stable on that type of > machine... ... does anyone have a M4000 or M5000 around to test this, please ? Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.

[osol-discuss] Running Solaris 11/Nevada B72 on a M4000 ...

2007-09-28 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Does anyone here run Solaris 11/Nevada B72 on a M4000 ? I need some feedback whether it runs (more or less) stable on that type of machine... Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ T

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun + Microsoft cooperation = codecs forSiolaris, finally?

2007-09-20 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > UNIX admin wrote: > > In fact, Sun, under this agreement has access to all and > > any Microsoft technology, and is free to implement that > > technology in Solaris in any way Sun pleases! > > I've never seen the agreement, and I'm sure anyone who has will not > be commen

Re: [osol-discuss] Where are my bug reports (season 6, episode 66) ?

2007-09-20 Thread Roland Mainz
Roland Mainz wrote: > Does anyone know whether bugs.opensolaris.org is "sick" again ? I'm > missing two bug reports: > 1. DTrace causes system hang > > and > > 2. DTrace ksh scripts > > Can anyone please check what happened to these bugs ? Erm... did

[osol-discuss] Where are my bug reports (season 6, episode 66) ?

2007-09-19 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Does anyone know whether bugs.opensolaris.org is "sick" again ? I'm missing two bug reports: 1. DTrace causes system hang and 2. DTrace ksh scripts Can anyone please check what happened to these bugs ? Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/_

[osol-discuss] Internet clipboard "opensolaris.pastebin.ca" set up...

2007-09-18 Thread Roland Mainz
ecord name is '%s'\n" "${recordname}" typeset url_host="opensolaris.pastebin.ca" typeset url_path="/raw/${recordname}" typeset url="http://${url_host}${url_path}"; # I hereby curse Solaris for not having an entry for "http

[osol-discuss] Small experiment with "twitter.com" and /var/adm/messages ...

2007-09-15 Thread Roland Mainz
;Host: ${url_host}\n" request+="Authorization: Basic $(encode_http_basic_auth "${SHTWITTER_USER}" "${SHTWITTER_PASSWD}")=\n" request+="User-Agent: ${http_user_agent}\n" request+="Connection: close\n" request+="Content-Type: applic

[osol-discuss] http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/lib/libshell/common/ appears... disappears... appears... disappears... appears... disappears... appears... disappears...

2007-08-22 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Does anyone know what may currently be wrong with http://src.opensolaris.org/ ? New sources like http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/lib/libshell/common/ are sometimes available, sometimes they disappear, then they appear again and then they disappear again (an

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-announce] New OpenSolaris Xen drop available

2007-07-22 Thread Roland Mainz
John Levon wrote: > > New binaries and sources are available for the OpenSolaris on Xen project. For > more details: > > http://blogs.sun.com/levon/entry/solaris_xen_update Is there anywhere a webrev for the changes ? Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2007-07-14 test binaries available for download...

2007-07-13 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! A new set of tarballs containing an OS/Net version of ksh93 [1] (based on ksh93s+_beta_20070418 [2]) is now available from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/downloads/2007-07-14/ These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris i386 or SPAR

Re: [osol-discuss] VMware's rock around the clock...

2007-06-24 Thread Roland Mainz
Andy Tucker wrote: > > On 3/6/06, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm hitting some problems with Solaris guest installations in VMware > > (e.g. Solaris being the guest in a VMware VM): > > Sometimes the clock is going out-of-sync. I configured &qu

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Open Sound System

2007-06-11 Thread Roland Mainz
Dev Mazumdar wrote: > The rumors are true, we're planning on open sourcing Open Sound (on June > 14th). We will be offering the source code under CDDL to Solaris and GPLv2 > for Linux BSD, OpenServer etc. > > At this time, we'd like to propose that Open Sound be started as a project > under the

Re: [osol-discuss] Compiler mailing list?

2007-06-11 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > William James wrote: > > No one from Sun's compiler team did bother to respond to my emails. > > They may not care about good customer support but I do. I think the > > best way is now to move forward and create a mailing list at > > opensolaris.org > > The most logical p

Re: [osol-discuss] blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?

2007-05-08 Thread Roland Mainz
Artem Kachitchkine wrote: > > > somehow this feels not good that "products" start to have blogs > > It can be interesting to meet real people behind a product share their > views from the other side of the fence. Right... and I don't disagree with that... but somehow the idea that "products" sta

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?

2007-05-08 Thread Roland Mainz
"W. Wayne Liauh" wrote: > > Today I stumbled over http://blogs.sun.com/olympus/ > > and > > http://blogs.sun.com/samqfs/ (erm, this is not > > thought as offense > > against the QFS or Olympus people but AFAIK > > group/project blogs should > > be in the project-specific blogging areas at > > opens

[osol-discuss] blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?

2007-05-08 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Today I stumbled over http://blogs.sun.com/olympus/ and http://blogs.sun.com/samqfs/ (erm, this is not thought as offense against the QFS or Olympus people but AFAIK group/project blogs should be in the project-specific blogging areas at opensolaris.org and not at blogs.sun.com) ... som

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-24 Thread Roland Mainz
Ted Pogue wrote: > > Project Overview: > > I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org, to bring to the > community Solaris host-based data services; namely the Storage Archive > Manager or SAM and the Solaris shared file system QFS. These data > services exist today and are di

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2007-04-19 test binaries available for download...

2007-04-22 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! [Sorry for the repost but the original annoucement had a few dates/etc. wrong... ;-( ] A new set of tarballs containing an OS/Net version of ksh93 [1] (based on ksh93s+_beta_20070418 [2]) is now available from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/downloads/2007-04-19

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2007-03-18 test binaries available for download

2007-04-20 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! A new set of tarballs containing an OS/Net version of ksh93 [1] (based on ksh93s+_beta_20070418 [2]) is now available from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/downloads/2007-04-19/ These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris i386 or SPAR

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtual Console new release available NOW!

2007-04-19 Thread Roland Mainz
LingBo Tang wrote: > > This mail has been posted in virtual console discussion alias. The > broadcasting is for those who may be interested in this feature on solaris. > > The new release for "Virtual Console" is available now, you can download > and try for fun: > http://opensolaris.org/os/proje

[osol-discuss] bugs.opensolaris.org loosing bugs again ?!

2007-04-17 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Is it possible that bugs.opensolaris.org is loosing bugs (again) ? I am missing two bug reports: 1. "usr/src/cmd/perl/ build installs Subversion directories (.svn) in the proto area" (note that this is not the exact title). That one was filed seveal days ago and since noone f

[osol-discuss] The "shell" project now open...

2007-04-05 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Just a quick announcement that the "shell" project is now open. What are we are doing ? The "shell project" should investigate and execute improvements related to shells and the shell environment in (Open-)Solaris: * Improve usuablity for plain users, including beginners and ad

[osol-discuss] Problems with "uata: [ID 464412 kern.warning] WARNING: timeout: reset target chno = 0 targ = 0" ...

2007-04-01 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! My Solaris 11/B48 Ultra5 sometimes (while doing lots of disk I/O) hangs for a few seconds and then recovers while logging the following lines to /var/adm/messages -- snip -- $ tail /var/adm/messages Apr 2 02:50:37 jupiterb48 uata: [ID 464412 kern.warning] WARNING: timeout: reset target

[osol-discuss] ksh93-integration 2007-03-18 test binaries available for download

2007-03-19 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! A new set of tarballs containing an OS/Net version of ksh93 [1] (based on ksh93s_final_20070111 [2]) is now available from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/downloads/2007-03-18/ These tarballs are intended to be installed over an existing OpenSolaris i386 or SPAR

dtksh status / was: Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-23 Thread Roland Mainz
or any of the other related issues. We're now working on getting ksh93 integrated into (Open-)Solaris and trying to leave the old problems behind us. Thanks! :-) John Plocher wrote: > Josh Hurst wrote: > > WIll Sun FIX dtksh? Both experts in this field - David Korn and Roland

Re: [osol-discuss] Reading/posting via threaded web interface andNNTP (Was: SPAM-Attack via Jive..)

2007-02-22 Thread Roland Mainz
Mike Kupfer wrote: > > > "Eric" == Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Eric> ... In fact Gmane already is carrying some opensolaris lists (I > Eric> don't know the who/when/why)... > > There should be some discussion of this in the opensolaris-discuss > archives for July 2005 ("g

"Shells&&Utilities" community ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-22 Thread Roland Mainz
"Laszlo (Laca) Peter" wrote: > So the /usr/gnu proposal[1] was approved by PSARC. Obviously, the > reason for defining /usr/gnu wasn't theoretical -- it allows moving > GNU packages from /usr/sfw to /usr or /usr/gnu and it helps us > integrating more GNU packages into Solaris. We have already see

Re: [osol-discuss] What keeps "6414874 Revive le(7D) driver" frombeing done?

2007-02-20 Thread Roland Mainz
James Carlson wrote: > Tom Haynes writes: > > Are there any legal ramifications in open sourcing the le(7D) driver? [snip] > - whether the code itself was based on either code or information > (such as hardware manufacturer documentation) that is itself > encumbered. > > As well as poten

Re: [website-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] SPAM-Attack via Jive (AGAIN)... / was: [Fwd: [ksh93-integration-discuss] For sale:Nokian95:$300, Nokian93:$230]

2007-02-20 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Burlison wrote: > Stephen Hahn wrote: > > Not easily, no. I'll look at the moderation idea, but the > > "subscribers only" request contradicts the aims of most legitimate > > forum posters. > > Another alternative would be to moderate the first few posts from new > registrants. This s

Re: [osol-discuss] SPAM-Attack via Jive (AGAIN) ... / was: [Fwd: [ksh93-integration-discuss] For sale:Nokia n95:$300, Nokia n93:$230]

2007-02-20 Thread Roland Mainz
Stephen Hahn wrote: > > * Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-18 15:10]: > > Is there a way to prevent things like the posting below ? For example is > > it possibe to reconfigure Jive to allow postings only for people who are > > subscribed to that list or ma

[osol-discuss] SPAM-Attack via Jive (AGAIN) ... / was: [Fwd: [ksh93-integration-discuss] For sale:Nokia n95:$300, Nokia n93:$230]

2007-02-18 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Is there a way to prevent things like the posting below ? For example is it possibe to reconfigure Jive to allow postings only for people who are subscribed to that list or make sure that such postings are queued for moderation by the list admins automatically ? Original Messa

Xorg memory allocation / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Community participation (was GPLv3ravings)

2007-02-06 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Doug Scott wrote: > > Thanks for the explanation. This explains what is happening to > > firefox. Is Xorg > > looking into the problem, as it can be a real pain having to restart X > > every so often. > > I don't know of anyone at X.Org looking into the problem since i

Re: [osol-discuss] Status of Power PC port?

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Dennis Clarke wrote: > > ken mays wrote: [snip] > >> 5. Support for PowerPC G4 to G5 (PPC750GX) > > > > Will Apple G3 machines still be supported ? > > probably not for a lng time Why (I still have the chance to get an older Apple G3-based IMac... question is whether it makes sense to buy i

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Eric Enright wrote: > On 1/29/07, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michelle Olson wrote: > > > Thanks for this message, really good to hear from you. > > > I will ask the gatekeeper to make this change if there > > > are more folks who pref

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Bruno Jargot wrote: > On 1/29/07, Michelle Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for this message, really good to hear from you. I will ask the > > gatekeeper to make this change if there are more folks who prefer gzip to > > bzip2--you are the first to ask. > > I think it's better to stic

Sun Studio 11 tarball for OS/Net compressed with /usr/bin/compress / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Stephen Lau wrote: > Michelle Olson wrote: > > Thanks for this message, really good to hear from you. > > I will ask the gatekeeper to make this change if there > > are more folks who prefer gzip to bzip2--you are the > > first to ask. > > My personal preference is for bzip2 - but that's just ca

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Michelle Olson wrote: > Thanks for this message, really good to hear from you. > I will ask the gatekeeper to make this change if there > are more folks who prefer gzip to bzip2--you are the first to ask. What about providing both gzip and bzip2 tarballs ? Bye, Roland P.S.: Would it be pos

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > >I vote to use bzip2 to compress all the developer sources... usually the > >disks are slower than uncompressing the tarball anyway... > > Not if the uncompressed archives are bigger than, say, 100MB. > Try it out on a U60 wit

Re: [osol-discuss] Status of Power PC port?

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
ken mays wrote: > > What is the status of the Opensolaris Power PC port? > Is the project > still active? There were not any status reports or > updates in the last > months. > > Bruno > - > > Cyril, PPC for Solaris community lead, can best answer > that quest

bzip2 performance on SPARC / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Eric Enright wrote: > On 1/29/07, Bruno Jargot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/29/07, Michelle Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Rich, [snip] > Waiting a little extra time to receive the archive is far better than > waiting a lot of extra time to unpack it. Offtopic: Both gzip and bzip

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: > Rich Teer wrote: > >On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Bruno Jargot wrote: > > > >>I think it's better to stick with bzip2 archives. They need less > >>bandwidth and less room on disks. Using gzip again would be a step > >>backwards. Really. > > > >I resepctfully disagree. Casper and I d

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Mainz
Rich Teer wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Bruno Jargot wrote: > > I think it's better to stick with bzip2 archives. They need less > > bandwidth and less room on disks. Using gzip again would be a step > > backwards. Really. > > I resepctfully disagree. Casper and I discussed this ages ago (I > for

Transparent codeset conversion in filesystems ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Suggestion: PCFS Open Development Project

2007-01-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Ienup Sung wrote: > > Yes, we have numerous locales with different codesets. Solaris 10, > as an example, we have 165 locales with 23 different codesets. > In many cases, codesets use quite similar representation forms and yet > the mappings between the code point values and actual characters/glyp

[osol-discuss] Release of OS/Net B56 source ?

2007-01-22 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Does anyone know when the B56 sources will be released ? Seems that this may be the version we'll pick for final code review of the ksh93-integration tree... Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer

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

2007-01-17 Thread Roland Mainz
Holger Berger wrote: > > On 1/17/07, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Need clarification please. Are John Sonnenschein and Roland Mainz > > co-owners of the KDE proposal now? > > I remember the day when it was considered 'impossible' to conv

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

2007-01-17 Thread Roland Mainz
John Sonnenschein wrote: > > Following the official proposal guidelines, I'd like to take this opportunity > to propose that we collaborate with the KDE e.V. and kde-core-devel in order > to integrate KDE as an OpenSolaris project Ok, lets refine this proposal: 1. Deliver KDE3 to /usr/kde3/ and

[osol-discuss] Offtopic: Blogging engine with DocBook support ?

2007-01-13 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! [Ok... this may be horrible offtopic for OpenSolaris... but maybe there are some people who played around with "Roller" (which runs http://bugs.sun.com) and other Blog engines and may be able to help] Does anyone have a recommendation for a blogging engine which accepts DocBook/XML as

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent "user_attr" and"publickey" data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Roland Mainz
Darren J Moffat wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > Is there a nameservice-independent way to obtain the values for > > "user_attr" and "publickey" from a shell script (if not I would propose > > to add a extension to "getent") ? > > publ

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent "user_attr"and"publickey" data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Roland Mainz
James Carlson wrote: > Peter C. Norton writes: > > I think he wants to be able to add a flag, i.e. -nssvc nis, -nssvc > > dns, -nssvc 'ldap', etc. to getent that will dlopen the appropriate > > nss_blah library instead of following the lookup in nsswitch.conf so > > that the lookup to a particular

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent "user_attr"and"publickey" data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: [snip] > "Normal" users with limited privileges may naturally have no - or > limited - access. > Didn't you find any help in the man pages for NIS, NIS+ and LDAP? That was not the goal. The matching scripts should be able to

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent "user_attr"and"publickey" data from a shell script ?

2007-01-05 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: > >Peter C. Norton wrote: > >>On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 02:59:55AM +0100, Martin Bochnig wrote: [snip] > >>How does nisinit get names from dns even if your system is set to > >>resolve via NIS+? > > Maybe you mean, Roland would want to clone the methods

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent "user_attr"and "publickey" data from a shell script ?

2007-01-04 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: > >Martin Bochnig wrote: > >>>Maybe getuserattr() or getauthattr() ? > > > >Plus getpublickey() > > > >Or don't those work with "files" as NS ?? > > > >*shrug* > > Exclusively from a shell script, no C? Yes... > Can't you analyse the files in /etc di

Re: [osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent "user_attr"and "publickey" data from a shell script ?

2007-01-04 Thread Roland Mainz
Martin Bochnig wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: > >Roland Mainz wrote: > >>Is there a nameservice-independent way to obtain the values for > >>"user_attr" and "publickey" from a shell script (if not I would propose > >>to add a extension

[osol-discuss] Obtaining nameservice-independent "user_attr" and "publickey" data from a shell script ?

2007-01-04 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Is there a nameservice-independent way to obtain the values for "user_attr" and "publickey" from a shell script (if not I would propose to add a extension to "getent") ? Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Uni

Shipping "lsof" with Solaris ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] problem with /tmp FS still up

2007-01-04 Thread Roland Mainz
Peter Tribble wrote: > On 1/1/07, wb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a /tmp FS for swap, and a really big file crout* > > inside. The /tmp was 95% up. > > I decided to remove the crout file. > > The problem, is the /tmp is not decreasing, but still > > growing. > > > > How could I make

Re: [osol-discuss] Recent putback of PSARC 2006/356 Reliable DatagramSockets

2007-01-04 Thread Roland Mainz
Cyril Plisko wrote: [snip] > 26 * Copyright (c) 2005 SilverStorm Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. > 27 * > 28 * This software is available to you under a choice of one of two > 29 * licenses. You may choose to be licensed under the terms of the GNU > 30 * General Public Licen

Trouble with ASCII art in gmail + "Jive" / was: Re: [osol-discuss] What's the status of virtual consoles?

2007-01-01 Thread Roland Mainz
Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: > > . * * . * .* . > > . * . .* > > President, * . . /\ ( . . * > > Rite Online Inc.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: vfork issues

2007-01-01 Thread Roland Mainz
Felix Schulte wrote: > On 12/19/06, Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's not something one is supposed to take advantage of! > > > > >From vfork(2) (albeit admittedly the SX version of the man page): > > The vfork() function is deprecated. Its sole legitimate use as a prelude t

[osol-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Mailman list archives gone ?

2007-01-01 Thread Roland Mainz
Stephen Lau wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > It seems all the list archives are gone from mail.opensolaris.org - for > > example http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/ > > only shows an empty directory instead of the archived messages... ;-(( > &

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