Life is too short for bad printer softwareEver used lpadmin? It's a big pain—command line oriented with little error checking. It's hard to use and has many...
Life is too short for bad printer softwareEver used lpadmin? It's a big pain—command line oriented with little error checking. It's hard to use and has many options to get you into trouble.That's why I prefer CUPS, Common UNIX Printing System, which is used mostly on Linux and hasweb-based menus. The CUPS menus only present relevant options and have extensive error checking.The tutorial below shows how to use CUPS to access one network printer from Solaris 10. The network...
Life is too short for bad printer softwareEver used lpadmin? It's a big pain—command line oriented with little error checking. It's hard to use and has many options to get you into trouble.That's...
Screen shot of my IBM Thinkpad T-40 laptop running Solaris 10. It shows batstat, apcipowertool, and GNOME battery status.My old, miss-used 6-cell battery only...
Screen shot of my IBM Thinkpad T-40 laptop running Solaris 10. It shows batstat, apcipowertool, and GNOME battery status.My old, miss-used 6-cell battery only lasts an hour, as you can see. My new 9-cell battery lasts 4 hours.Solaris does not have a battery status or monitor applet built-in,at least yet.However, thanks to Casper Dik and Darren Moffat, these tools are available.You can run Casper Dik's batstat CLI or acpipowertool GUI,and if you're using GNOME, you can...
Screen shot of my IBM Thinkpad T-40 laptop running Solaris 10. It shows batstat, apcipowertool, and GNOME battery status.My old, miss-used 6-cell battery only lasts an hour, as you can see. My...
I've had a problem mounting a NFS filesystem on Solaris 10 from Linux 2.6 (SUSE 10.1). The NFSv4 filesystem was on a Linux server, and Solaris was the client...
I've had a problem mounting a NFS filesystem on Solaris 10 from Linux 2.6 (SUSE 10.1). The NFSv4 filesystem was on a Linux server, and Solaris was the client where I was trying to mount.I got this error message:nfs mount: mount: /netdrive: Not ownerThe error message isn't helpful (it's because of the limited error codes in errno.h), but the problem is NFSv4 support is broken in Linux.There's two solutions for this:1. Add this line to Solaris file...
I've had a problem mounting a NFS filesystem on Solaris 10 from Linux 2.6 (SUSE 10.1). The NFSv4 filesystem was on a Linux server, and Solaris was the client where I was trying to mount.I got...
Here's a collection I've been gathering of email signature tag lines. None are mine (I just keep it simple with two lines). However, here's ones I've saved over...
Here's a collection I've been gathering of email signature tag lines. None are mine (I just keep it simple with two lines). However, here's ones I've saved over the years. I removed the names and addresses to protect the innocent.In UNIX, no one can hear you scream...\*veni, vedi, velcro\*"I came, I saw, I stuck around." /\\_/\\( o.o ) | Trust me, I know ) \^ ( | what I'm doing.ø¤º°°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°°º¤ø,¸¸,øThose who wanderare not always lost...ø¤º°°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°°º¤ø,¸¸,ø \\\\|// -...
Here's a collection I've been gathering of email signature tag lines. None are mine (I just keep it simple with two lines). However, here's ones I've saved over the years. I removed the names and...
There have been a couple postings recently regarding relocation warnings that have been observed when using the link-editors -z verbose option. The first...
There have been a couple postings recently regarding relocation warnings that have been observed when using the link-editors -z verbose option. The first warning originates from building a shared object: ld: warning: relocation warning: R_SPARC_DISP32: file shared.o: \ symbol <unknown>: displacement relocation applied to the \ symbol __RTTI__1nEBase_: at 0x8: displacement relocation will \ not be visible in output image Then, if this shared object is referenced as a...
There have been a couple postings recently regarding relocation warnings that have been observed when using the link-editors -z verbose option. The first warning originates from building a...
After reading a previous posting on versioning, a developer asked how they could specify what version to bind to when they built their application. For example,...
After reading a previous posting on versioning, a developer asked how they could specify what version to bind to when they built their application. For example, from the version definitions within libelf.so.1: % pvs -d /lib/libelf.so.1 libelf.so.1; SUNW_1.5; SUNW_1.4; .... SUNWprivate_1.1; how could you restrict an application to only use the interfaces defined by SUNW_1.4. Note, version SUNW_1.4 inherits previous versions. The Linker and Libraries Guide covers this topic in...
After reading a previous posting on versioning, a developer asked how they could specify what version to bind to when they built their application. For example, from the version definitions...
A developer who wished to add /usr/sfw/lib to their default runtime search path, managed to turn their system into a brick by using crle(1): # crle -l...
A developer who wished to add /usr/sfw/lib to their default runtime search path, managed to turn their system into a brick by using crle(1): # crle -l /usr/sfw/lib # ls ld.so.1: ls: fatal: libsec.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory Killed The problem was that crle(1), in this basic form, created a system wide configuration file. This configuration file defined that the default runtime search path for shared object dependencies is /usr/sfw/lib. This search path...
A developer who wished to add /usr/sfw/lib to their default runtime search path, managed to turn their system into a brick by using crle(1): # crle -l /usr/sfw/lib # ls ld.so.1: ls:...
Solaris CAT is a crash analysis tool (C.A.T, get it?) that a small team of dedicated engineers in Sun's Support Services kernel team have been developing over...
Solaris CAT is a crash analysis tool (C.A.T, get it?) that a small team of dedicated engineers in Sun's Support Services kernel team have been developing over the past 10 years. It's been available internally for ages, and with the 4.0 release we got the go-ahead to provide it to you, our customers, via SDLC.We've also got version 4.1 on SDLC but that doesn't support Solaris 10.We've had a few hiccups along the path to getting 4.2 out for you and we also branched to start a...
Solaris CAT is a crash analysis tool (C.A.T, get it?) that a small team of dedicated engineers in Sun's Support Services kernel team have been developing over the past 10 years. It's been...
The term cookies in computerspeak refers to a "token" of information passed among software. It was first used with the UNIX® Portable C Compiler (PCC). Later,...
The term cookies in computerspeak refers to a "token" of information passed among software. It was first used with the UNIX® Portable C Compiler (PCC). Later, the term was used for video terminal software and web browsers.Anyway, here's the story of the origin of cookies from Steve Johnson, author of PCC atBell Labs:From uucp Tue Nov 20 00:19 EST 1984 remote from hcrFrom research!grigg!scj Mon Nov 19 18:18:22 1984 remote from decvaxReturn-Path: Received: by decvax.UUCP...
The term cookies in computerspeak refers to a "token" of information passed among software. It was first used with the UNIX® Portable C Compiler (PCC). Later, the term was used for video terminal...
