On my Solaris 10 x86 desktop, I find I need a viewer for pdf file. Since Adobe Reader for Solaris x86 is not yet available (it's known to become available this year!), my choice would be xpdf, or evince or QuickTransit. After brief consideration, I have decided for xpdf.  My place to go is Blas...

Hi How to import the new service which i created without root permission. As well how we can set the uid in service. When i import i got the following error, svccfg import /var/svc/manifest/site/newservice.xml svccfg: Could not create temporary service "TEMP/site/newservice" (permission de...

hi,'m using the 5.11 kernel version on amd64 architecture, 32-bit. i need help on the following issues 1)a proper structure to represent the register structure in the architecture 2)a function which would change the register values of the child when the control is with the parent.. ptrace_setregs is...

Hey all! I'm working on Solaris10 right now and I was fiddling around with a fresh install and was wondering about the service that uses resolv.conf? I know prior to Sol10 (SMF) it was /etc/init.d/inetsvc stop and start to reload resolv.conf changes but I can't seem to find the correct SMF FMRI to r...

I've just released a new version of scsi.d that fixes a strange bug that only effected 10 but would result in scsi.d not starting: # dtrace -qCs scsi.d-1.16 dtrace: failed to compile script scsi.d-1.16: "/usr/include/sys/scsi/scsi_pkt.h", line 33: incomplete struct/union/enum struct scsi_a...

Today, I am proud to announce the release of version 0.9 of the Solaris Package Companion. This new version is primary based upon a set of patches provided by Jerome Blanchet that provided support for the collection and processing of reverse dependency information ("R" entries in a package's depend(...

Das Tutorial am Dienstag und am Mittwoch wird in etwa dieser Agenda folgen:...

One of the big complaints about using OpenSolaris and Solaris is multi media support. The lack of codecs to allow you to play "common" if not "open" formats is irritatings. I've been using the Fluendo mp3 codecs for a while as they have a compelling price point, being free. Fluendo also have a bundl...

Am Dienstag und Mittwoch läuft ja das Tutorial "Less known Solaris Features" auf der GUUG. Für die Leute die kommen werden einige Hinweise: Ich werde die Images nicht zum Download mitbringen sondern auf DVD als Virtualbox-Image bereitstellen. Es ist einfach viel zu gross geworden fuer den Download...

Hi All, How to keep the volumes offline after reboot also, i make it offline like below # metaoffline d0 d20 after reboot its automatically getting online, however i have to keep it offline and as on required i have to make it online as per business. Thanks in anticipation...