Global distribution of the new OpenSolaris Starter Kit is now live at http://get.opensolaris.org/. There is also a link at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/. The kit contains tutorials, docs, community distributions, source code, and tools all delivered on two DVDs for free.

The Japanese OpenSolaris community opened their portal today: http://jp.opensolaris.org/

This represents the first country portal on opensolaris.org. The project is just beginning, though, so if you'd like to participate in the development of the Japan OpenSolaris portal, sign up on the discussions page here http://jp.opensolaris.org/forums/. The announcement from Sun Japan is here http://jp.sun.com/company/Press/release/2007/0222.html.

The Japan portal is part of the OpenSolaris country portal project, which is an effort to translate the content on opensolaris.org into as many languages as possible: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/portals/. It's a community effort, so you are more than welcome to get involved: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/portals/discussions/.

Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris | http://opensolaris.org/os/

http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b54

"putback by 'robin' on December 1st 2006: 6497364 update zoneinfo timezones to 2006p – (Western Australia DST 12/3/2006)"
- OpenSolaris in time for change to Daylight Savings in Western Australia

Steve Lau announced [1] that Planet OpenSolaris had moved to the opensolaris.org domain.

1. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-November/000333.html

Erast Benson announced [2] that the ON 53 was now available for NexentaOS, including the recent HAL/Tamarack volume management infrastructure.

2. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-November/000335.html

Stephen Harpster announced [3] that there would be a restriction on putbacks for builds 54 and 55, due to an ongoing crisis with bug counts. He expected that build 56 would be the next opportunity to get new features in.

3. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-November/000336.html

Michelle Olson announced [4] the November update for the docs consolidation, including updates to the Solaris installation guide, and system administration guide for security services.

4. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-November/000337.html

Linda Bernal announced [5] a new release of bugs.opensolaris.org, mentioning that in future any work would focus on providing an RSS feature, better search facilities, and providing 'commit to fix' and 'introduced in' fields. Stephen Hahn followed up [6] about the issues currently being faced with providing key functionality so to improve the experiences for external developers.

5. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-discuss/2006-November/001111.html
6. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-discuss/2006-November/001117.html

Darren Moffat proposed [7] a new project for cryptographic framework, moving away from the existing pages on the security community to the new project framework on opensolaris.org. Frank Hoffman proposed [8] a project for PCFS filesystem drivers, also moving towards using an open public Mercurial repository for development.

7. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-November/022165.html
8. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-November/022201.html

Linda Bernal posted [9] the November edition of the OpenSolaris community newsletter.

9. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-November/021411.html

Glenn Lagasse posted [10] an update on the scheduled delivery of the rest of the install consolidation sources. Unfortunately, due to resources, the schedule has pushed out, with a new date of April 2007. Glenn also posted [11] details of the source update for build 54, including a flag day for a build dependency on libspmizones library on Nevada build 53 or higher.

10. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/2006-November/001270.html
11. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/2006-December/001301.html

The next FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting will be on Thursday, December 14, 2006. This will be a social meeting, held at the Splitz bowling center in Westminster, at 104th and 36, near the Promenade movie theaters. Each person will pay for their own shoe rental and food, and their share of the bowling.

Meeting Details:

When: Thursday, December 14, 2006 Time: 6:00pm – ? Where: Splitz Bowling Center, 10685 Westminster Blvd., Westminster, CO 80020 Estimated costs: Bowling: about $6.00, Shoe rental: 4.50, Pizza and soft drinks: 5.00

No RSVP needed — let's meet at the front desk and go from there.

We hope to see you there!
Thanks,
FROSUG

Hi!

I would like to announce the multi-lingual technology glossary project:

http://opensolaris.org/os/project/glossary/

Initial proposal and discussion are found here:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18417&tstart=150

We will be using the I18n Community communication channels to discuss the details:

i18n-discuss at opensolaris dot org
IRC on #opensolaris-i18n at irc.freenode.net

Please join us, and help us develop excellent reference material for OpenSolaris!

Regards,
Young

The Wireless Wide Area Network project is now live at:

http://opensolaris.org/os/project/wwan/

I uploaded pre-release packages of the driver that can be used with EV-DO cards such as Novatel V620. The project page contains installation, configuration and troubleshooting information.

You are welcome to join wwan-discuss AT opensolaris DOT org

-Artem.

Hello all,

There is a new OpenSolaris project for your enjoyment and contribution called the Zone Manager.

The purpose of this project is to simplify Solaris zones creation and management down to a single non-interactive command line tool. The Zone Manager (zonemgr) should enable administrators to do 90% of zone creation and management. Note however, that this project is in NO WAY intended to replace the existing zonecfg/zoneadm commands but rather to supplement them.

To get a since of how this can make your zones life easier, consider the following four examples:

Example #1
The following command will create a non-global and non-networked sparse zone named m1.

# zonemgr -a add -n m1 -z "/zones" -P "abc123"

Example #2
The following command will perform the details stated below.

# zonemgr -a add -n m2 -t w -z "/zones" \
-P "abc123" -R /root \
-I "192.168.0.10|hme0|24|m2host" \
-r "/ds/bits|/bits" \
-w "/data/ds/m2|/ds/m2" \
-s lock -S ssh \
-C /etc/ssh/sshd_config -C /etc/resolv.conf \
-C /etc/nsswitch.conf

1. Create a whole root zone named m2 in /zones/m2.
2. Set the root password of that zone to abc123.
3. Set the home directory of the root user of the non-global zone to /root.
4. Set the IP address of the zone to 192.168.0.10, the netmask to 255.255.255.0, assign it to interface hme0, and assign it a host name of m2host.
5. Read only mount /ds/bits from the global zone to /bits in the non-global zone.
6. Read write mount /data/ds from the global zone to /ds in the non-global zone.
7. Disable all un-necessary services in the non-global zone.
8. Copy the /etc/ssh/sshd_config, /etc/resolv.conf, and /etc/nsswitch.conf files from the global zone to the non-global zone.
9. Restart the ssh service.

Example #3
The following command will add a zone named m1, download and install mysql5 and all requisite bits from Blastwave.org, and install all those bits in the proper order in the m1 zone.

# zonemgr -a add -n m1 -z "/zones" -P "abc123" \
-I "192.168.0.10|hme0|24|m1" -G "mysql5"

Example #4
The following command will halt all non-global zones but those specified by the -n parameter and will boot any of the specified zones that are not currently running.

# zonemgr -a only -n "m1 m2"

There is much more that you can do with the Zone Manager.

See the documentation for more examples.

Version 1.7 is available for download now. And hopefully version 1.8 will be out soon.

Please come an join us at: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/zonemgr/ and on the zones-discuss mail alias on opensolaris.org.

Brad

I've regenerated the onnv-gate Mercurial build bundles at: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/hg-build-snapshots/

It's been rebased off the new repository, and the new repository has the proper onnv_# tags, so you should be able to follow the instructions a the above URL to generate a proper build-synchronised source base.

cheers,
steve

Below are links to the latest batch of overview reports (rollups).

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opensolaris-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-November/021808.html

zones-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zones-discuss/2006-November/001433.html

zfs-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2006-November/006662.html

tools-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-November/001224.html

storage-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/storage-discuss/2006-November/000536.html

security-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/security-discuss/2006-November/000730.html

opensolaris-code 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-code/2006-November/001685.html

networking-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/networking-discuss/2006-November/002740.html

ksh93-integration-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2006-November/001865.html

install-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/2006-November/001236.html

i18n-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/i18n-discuss/2006-November/000675.html

dtrace-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/dtrace-discuss/2006-November/002820.html

docs-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/docs-discuss/2006-November/000649.html

crossbow-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/crossbow-discuss/2006-November/000283.html

clearview-discuss 11/01 – 11/15

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/clearview-discuss/2006-November/000395.html