opensolaris

How do you get nano/pico running on OpenSolaris?

We're setting up an OpenSolaris server on Amazon's EC2 service. However, vi/vim doesn't work properly, and pkg doesn't have nano/pico. Is there any other text-editor maybe? ...

Can ZFS mirror an entire hard drive in OpenSolaris?

I am upgrading an OpenSolaris development workstation and recently purchased two 500GB SATA hard drives expecting to use the features of the motherboard to mirror the drives. OpenSolaris doesn't recognize the drives when configured to be mirrored through the BIOS but it sees them just fine otherwise. Can ZFS mirror an entire drive and wi...

Relation between Opensolaris source and Solaris releases

The source code available for OpenSolaris is very useful for finding out about the internals of Solaris (together with dtrace and mdb). However, as far as I know there is no way of finding out exactly how the OpenSolaris source code relates to the binaries released as formal update releases of Solaris. I.e. which versions of the source f...

I am a long time Ubuntu Linux user (a developer), what are the benefits of using Open Solaris

I am a web developer (J2EE application developer) and just want to expand what tools I use. I want to use Open Solaris for my personal projects. I have nothing against Linux and It looks like a lot of the same tools are on both systems. Have you jumped to Solaris, was it a good experience? ...

How painful can a Linux to OpenSolaris migration be?

We have a business application that basically runs on an os-independent stack (tomcat+java+mysql) but we have always run it redhat or centos. There is a customer that is insisting to run it on opensolaris for his own reasons (an expensive everything-is-included support agreement with Sun). How painful can such a migration be? We have ...

Creation of solaris zone

For these part : zonecfg:[zone name]:net> set address= zonecfg:[zone name]:net> set physical= How do i know what kind of values i should set? I am using a vmware machine open solaris and current setting up a zone. I want to be able to putty in to that zone. Thanks ...

OpenSolaris: Remove user from a group from command line

How can I remove a user from a group from the command line in OpenSolaris (2008.11)? I know I can define a user's primary group and a add a user to a group with: usermod -g primarygroup user usermod -G group_list user What's the corresponding command to undo that action and remove a user from the group without just editing /etc/group...

OpenSolaris Brandz and JNI a good mix?

I'd like to run a java application on a OpenSolaris machine but this application uses a dll/so that I only have the linux binary. Can it be possible, and this is because I know nothing about the OpenSolaris Brandz feature, that I can deploy the dll on a linux brandz and link to it from a jvm running on the OpenSolaris side? ...

How to get Xorg to work well with Intel Q35 on OpenSolaris?

OpenSolaris doesn't seem to support the Intel 82Q35 chipset. This is translated into slow Xorg whose performance degrades with time and is not usable at all even doing a ls on a fullscreen gnome console terminal. I notice that a huge amount of memory (>400Mb) is used by Xorg process and gnome (>100Mb per gnome app). Once I switched to v...

How to create OpenSolaris self bunle volume on EC2

I'm using OpenSolaris 2008.11 on EC2. I want to create self bundle . in ubuntu sudo ec2-bundle-vol -d /mnt -k $EC2_PRIVATE_KEY -c $EC2_CERT --fstab /etc/fstab --user $AWS_ACCUNT_ID -r i386 but OpenSolaris does not have /etc/fstab Do you know? ...

Problem compiling gcc 4.4.0 on OpenSolaris 2009.6

I am attempting to compile gcc 4.4.0 on opensolaris 2009.6 Currently in the box (which is a AMD 64bit machine), I have the gcc 3.4.6 installed. I unpacked the gcc 4.4.0 tarball. I set the following env variables: export CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++ export CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc Then I ran "configure && make" and this is the error messag...

javac Exception on Opensolaris 2009.6

OpenSolaris 2009.6 does not come with a javac. So I installed the SUNWj6dvx package. It installed a javac alright, but when i run the javac, I got this error message: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/tools/javac/Main Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.tools.javac.Main at java.net.U...

How do I get the TeamWare filemerge GUI to run on OpenSolaris?

How do I get the TeamWare filemerge GUI to run on OpenSolaris? % filemerge ld.so.1: filemerge: fatal: libtt.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory Killed TeamWare is no longer a supported source management system, but it's is still widely used in the OpenSolaris project, and within Sun Microsystems. ...

Tomcat6 webapp using log4j for logging, unable to log to syslog

Hello, I am trying to log my webapp logs into syslog at local4 level. Environment: Tomcat6, OpenSolaris, Struts2, log4j. Content of my log4j.properties is as follows- log4j.rootLogger=INFO, SYSLOG log4j.appender.SYSLOG=org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender log4j.appender.SYSLOG.syslogHost=localhost log4j.appender.SYSLOG.layout=org.apache...

How does one compile libqt4 OR wkhtmtltopdf for Solaris?

Anyone have REALLY specific and accurate information about which libraries I need in order to compile both libqt and wkhtmltopdf in Solaris? ...

Error 1 & 2 when compiling GCC 4.4.2 on OpenSolaris 2009.06

My problem: I've been trying to compile, build, and install GCC 4.4.2 in my installation of OpenSolaris 2009.06 on my VirtualBox 3 i386 machine. But I keep getting this same error when running make: > checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for i386-pc-solaris2.11-gcc... /src/gcc-4.4.2/host-i386-pc-solaris2.11/gcc/xgcc -B/src/gcc-...

Can't make Mplayer in OpenSolaris 2009.06

I downloaded the latest SVN source of Mplayer from the official website and have successfully run: ./configure --cc=/usr/bin/gcc-4.3.2 But when I run make I get a single line error message saying: gmake: *** osdep/: Is a directory. Stop. What does this mean and what should I do? Thanks! P.S. This is being attempted on i386 Open...

What are some of the major pro/con of FreeBSD vs GNU Linux vs OpenSolaris?

What are some of the major pro/con of FreeBSD vs GNU Linux vs OpenSolaris? Which is the best operating system to program/develop against? ...

Problem installing Shoutpy + Boost.python on opensolaris

Hi all, Im trying to install shoutpy on opensolaris 2009.6. It relies on boost.python. i've installed the boost_devel libraries from blastwave and linked /opt/csw/include/boost to /usr/include/boost . But when I try to easy_install shoutpy I get the following output munderwo@opensolaris-test1:/usr/include$ pfexec easy_install shoutpy S...

InetAddress.getLocalHost() throws UnknownHostException

Hi, I am testing our server-application (written Java) on different operating systems and thought that OpenSolaris (2008.11) would be the least troublesome due to the nice Java integration. Turns out I was wrong, as I end up with a UnknownHostException try { computerName = InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName(); if (computerName.i...