Recent content by mattaw

A good start to unix and solaris 9: http://www.riddleware.com/solx86/Free-Solaris-Ebook.zip Its a great dive into solaris from a 'how do I do this' point of view without requiring too much technical knowhow. Matthew Family motto: Curvus, non infractus. The Universe: God's novelty screensaver?

It may well be installed already: SUNWsmbac samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX (client) SUNWsmbar samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX (Root) SUNWsmbau samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX (Usr) Check for /etc/init.d/samba man pkginfo as well...

Err, let me get this straight: XP PC -> cable -> router. Win2000 PC -> USB wireless -> router. Laptop -> PCI wireless? -> router. Now the system you use is the Win2000 PC with the wireless router. Now 40% connectivity... are you talking only using 40% of your broadbands bandwidth, or only 40%...

Thats true. I would either recommend suns packaged samba (On the solaris extras disk) or from www.sunfreeware.com as opposed to compiling your own. NFS is the standard Unix Network filesystem mechanism and it works well. UFS is the hard disk filesystem. Matthew Family motto: Curvus, non...

Right, I have just successfully done the instructions in the linked thread, are you sure you did it right, and you did it as superuser? So log in as root and follow the last instructions. Make sure you copy them exactly! Except replace 'somedir' with where you want the file to go. Matthew...

If you don't have to return the disks the best option is to actually take a hammer to the disks, one or two dents and then it will take a national goverment to get the data off. Otherwise not only format but I would reinstall the entire system to a default solaris install and copy the...

Not really, debug info is a HUGE number of entry and exit points and variable tables and names. It allows the debugger to map variable types and locations to human names and find functions etc. It would explain everything. Also the debugging libraries will run slower (generally speaking)...

right, swap -s includes all swap both HDD and the computers memory as swap is formed from both. swap -l just lists the disk areas allocated to swap. Looks like for some reason there is no swap mounted at all. Look at the output of mount and look for swap space there. If there are no entries...

Ohhh eck! Not normally no, TBH. Question: Your bosses email, it that handled by the ISP that provides the DSL? or is it internal? Matthew Family motto: Curvus, non infractus. The Universe: God's novelty screensaver?

What were the optimisation options they were built with by default? (Just checking :) ) Matthew Family motto: Curvus, non infractus. The Universe: God's novelty screensaver?

Also there are linux firmwares for the router which include traffic shaping. This however is not a job for the faint hearted so think carefully before doing it. Google will provide several sites with firmwares. Matthew Family motto: Curvus, non infractus. The Universe: God's novelty screensaver?

Right well as to the router the old Linksys routers can disconnect by themselves occasionally, fixed by modern firmwares. That could be it. Matthew Family motto: Curvus, non infractus. The Universe: God's novelty screensaver?

Site: www.Sunfreeware.com If you haven't heard of this site before it builds and packages GNU software for Solaris for free. If you are used to Linux and feel that Solaris is missing several valuable utilities then you can get them here along with the famous GCC compiler for SPARC. The...

another method would be to use gnu tar from www.sunfreeware.com An excellent site that offers solaris packages of GNU utils. with GNU tar, go to the dir to unpack to and then use: tar -xzvf <filename to tar.gz> Well worth the change, Matthew Family motto: Curvus, non infractus. The...

Don't forget all the clusters UFS needs to keep track of file names, sizes, direcories etc, and it will automatically absorb a percentage that is only useable by root. This is very handy to prevent fragmentation of the files when in use. It also means the logs will be written last before the...