Solaris

What's this about sun/oracle type-7 keyboards being only PC layout? (soon?)
Heard a rumor that (a) sun no longer made type-6 keyboards, and (b) that soon the type-7 keyboards would all be of PC layout, ie with the control-key way down at the bottom, NOT adjacent to the "a". If that's true, how the heck are we to use either VI or EMACS (ie without having it hurt every time we used a co... 7 May 2010 04:33

Scriptable method to determine if user is local (/etc/passwd)user or LDAP user on Sol10 server
On 05/ 7/10 05:07 AM, CKM wrote: Besides some grepping through /etc/passwd and assumptions of repository order in nsswitch.conf, is there any method to easily determine is a user is local vs LDAP? The ldaplist command is a pretty good start to tell me if a user is in LDAP, but it doesn't preclude a us... 6 May 2010 16:30

Scriptable method to determine if user is local (/etc/passwd) user or LDAP user on Sol10 server
Besides some grepping through /etc/passwd and assumptions of repository order in nsswitch.conf, is there any method to easily determine is a user is local vs LDAP? The ldaplist command is a pretty good start to tell me if a user is in LDAP, but it doesn't preclude a user being in /etc/passwd and depending on nss... 6 May 2010 22:02

Internal CD drive?
Dear All I have installed Solaris 2.6 on my virtual qemu-system-sparc . My platform has internal CD drive so I want to install applications from . Can you please let me know how can I distinguish this on my virtual Solaris 2.6 ? Thank you ... 8 May 2010 04:43

Is this an interpose library?
If I've got a shared library, how can I tell if it was linked with the -z interpose flag? ... 6 May 2010 09:39

Small tip about Adobe Acroread 9 and zlib 1.2.5
Just wanted to share info about an obscure bug I found with the combination Acrobat Reader 9.3.1, zlib 1.2.5 and libxml2 2.7.7 (compiled with zlib 1.2.5). So the problem started with me installing zlib 1.2.5 on my Solaris 10 system to get the LFS-support introduced in zlib 1.2.4, but because the new zlib is inco... 7 May 2010 03:29

NFS mount through SSH
Hi all, Is there any doc/page that mentioning NFS mount through SSH under solaris NFS server? I also need the method to establish the SSH tunnel by: 1. non-interactive mode for giving password 2. automounting 3. Solaris and Linux (OpenSuSE) NFS client. Thanks in advance. -- Johnson Chow ... 5 May 2010 10:25

USB driver SDK/tutorial
Hi, I am in a need for a dedicated simple HW debug application that sends commands over a USB interface. For a skilled HW guy, is there some tutorials/templates along with needed SDK for this around, OpenSolaris or S10 on a embedded Intel Atom device? /michael ... 5 May 2010 02:47

ioctl() behaving different on Linux
Hello, I am migrating an c application from Solaris to RHEL 5.x x86_64 platform. Here are the platform details: ------------------------------------------- 1. OS: Red Hat Linux 5.x, kernel 2.6.x 2. gcc compiler : 4.1.2.x V ioctl() call on Linux returning "Bad Address". I have simulated the problem with b... 3 May 2010 22:02

nfs client uses reserved port?
Does solaris provide nfs client which uses reserved port for security? Such as Freebsd, it can use "vfs.nfsrv.nfs_privport=1" as kernel config. However, I found Opensolaris which has "set rpcmod:clnt_cots_do_bindresvport=1" optins on /etc/system, but it could not apply to solaris 10. Does Solaris 10 have the... 3 May 2010 18:43