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Software engineer at Sun Oracle working on the X Window System for Solaris, OpenSolaris, and Linux. Active member of the X.Org community.


May
9
answered How can I re-install removed packages on Solaris-10?
May
5
revised Where is the central ZFS website now?
website & mailing list have now moved
Apr
25
revised OpenSolaris 10: Unable to open /usr/local/etc/sudoers: Permission Denied as root
mark command output as preformatted text for better readability
Apr
25
suggested suggested edit on OpenSolaris 10: Unable to open /usr/local/etc/sudoers: Permission Denied as root
Apr
14
comment Compiling libgcrypt in Solaris 10: libgpg-error is needed (but already have it)
Have you tried putting /opt/libgpg-error-1.11/bin in your $PATH instead of the .../lib directory?
Feb
27
revised How to identify a Solaris machine as either virtual or physical?
edited tags
Feb
19
comment Solaris: information on sparc hardware
echo $LOCALE should be echo $LANG or /usr/bin/locale - but that reports the locale/language settings you use, which aren't necessarily the system defaults (users can choose their own language). locale -a lists all the locales installed on the system.
Jan
17
comment Solaris 11: image packaging repository svc:/application/pkg/server remains in state “maintenance” (mounted as iso)
Your pkg publisher shows a path of /mnt/repo - but the error message complains about just /mnt - did you forget the /repo when configuring the server?
Jan
15
comment How do I sleep for a millisecond in bash or ksh
Support for decimal arguments in Solaris sleep was added in Solaris 11. For older OS'es try installing GNU coreutils.
Jan
12
revised The steps to install service-network-ssh
edited tags
Dec
21
awarded  Custodian
Dec
21
reviewed Reviewed CentOS Directory Server - Changing Password via LDAP Modify, passing in old password
Dec
18
answered Does CPIO produce platform dependant archives?
Dec
17
comment Does CPIO produce platform dependant archives?
Is your copy & paste correct in that you didn't create the archive with the "-c" option (use ASCII portable format) but you are telling it to expect that format for reading the archive?
Nov
12
awarded  Archaeologist
Oct
21
revised x11 wiki excerpt
added 220 characters in body
Oct
21
revised x11 wiki description
added 765 characters in body
Oct
21
revised smartos wiki excerpt
remove markdown from excerpt since it's plain-text only
Oct
21
wiki created x11 description
Oct
21
wiki created x11 excerpt