tor browser?
Anybody is using the Tor Browser? I started using security/tor. In addition to this, the tor folk insist on using the tor browser: https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning which is a part of the tor bundle: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser-details.html.en#build Now, this tor browser seems to be a patched firefox. There is no port for it, and my previous experience of building firefox outside ports was not good. So I was wondering if anybody has built or used hte tor browser? Thanks Anton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: to gmirror or to ZFS
On 16/07/2013 14:41, aurfalien wrote: On Jul 15, 2013, at 9:23 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote: ... thats the question :) At any rate, I'm building a rather large 100+TB NAS using ZFS. However for my OS, should I also ZFS or simply gmirror as I've a dedicated pair of 256GB SSD drives for it. I didn't ask for SSD sys drives, this system just came with em. This is more of a best practices q. ZFS has data integrity checking, gmirror has low RAM overhead. gmirror is, at present, restricted to MBR partitioning due to metadata conflicts with GPT, so 2TB is the maximum size. Best practices... depends on your use. gmirror for the system leaves more RAM for ZFS. Perfect, thanks Warren. Just what I was looking for. I doubt that you would save any ram having the os on a non-zfs drive as you will already be using zfs chances are that non-zfs drives would only increase ram usage by adding a second cache. zfs uses it's own cache system and isn't going to share it's cache with other system managed drives. I'm not actually certain if the system cache still sits above zfs cache or not, I think I read it bypasses the traditional drive cache. For zfs cache you can set the max usage by adjusting vfs.zfs.arc_max that is a system wide setting and isn't going to increase if you have two zpools. Tip: set the arc_max value - by default zfs will use all physical ram for cache, set it to be sure you have enough ram left for any services you want running. Have you considered using one or both SSD drives with zfs? They can be added as cache or log devices to help performance. See man zpool under Intent Log and Cache Devices. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: to gmirror or to ZFS
On 16/07/2013 10:41, Shane Ambler wrote: On 16/07/2013 14:41, aurfalien wrote: On Jul 15, 2013, at 9:23 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote: ... thats the question :) At any rate, I'm building a rather large 100+TB NAS using ZFS. However for my OS, should I also ZFS or simply gmirror as I've a dedicated pair of 256GB SSD drives for it. I didn't ask for SSD sys drives, this system just came with em. This is more of a best practices q. ZFS has data integrity checking, gmirror has low RAM overhead. gmirror is, at present, restricted to MBR partitioning due to metadata conflicts with GPT, so 2TB is the maximum size. Best practices... depends on your use. gmirror for the system leaves more RAM for ZFS. Perfect, thanks Warren. Just what I was looking for. I doubt that you would save any ram having the os on a non-zfs drive as you will already be using zfs chances are that non-zfs drives would only increase ram usage by adding a second cache. zfs uses it's own cache system and isn't going to share it's cache with other system managed drives. I'm not actually certain if the system cache still sits above zfs cache or not, I think I read it bypasses the traditional drive cache. For zfs cache you can set the max usage by adjusting vfs.zfs.arc_max that is a system wide setting and isn't going to increase if you have two zpools. Tip: set the arc_max value - by default zfs will use all physical ram for cache, set it to be sure you have enough ram left for any services you want running. Have you considered using one or both SSD drives with zfs? They can be added as cache or log devices to help performance. See man zpool under Intent Log and Cache Devices. I agree with the sentiment of using the SSD as ZFS cache - it's possibly the only logical use for them. I guess that with 100Tb worth of Winchesters you're not on a very tight budget, and not too tight on RAM for the OS either. If I was going to do this I'd stick with the OS on UFS and a gmirror because I simply don't trust ZFS. This is based on pure prejudice and inexperience. I know how to arrange disks on a UNIX file system for performance - what to use for swap, where tmp files should go and so on. I also know where every file will be, physically, in the event of trouble. And here's the clincher: If the machine blows up I can simply take one of the mirrored drives, slap it in to some new hardware and I've got a very reasonable chance that it'll boot. Can I do this with ZFS? I get the feeling that the answer is an emphatic maybe. So all things considered, I'd need a good reason not to stick with what I know works reliably and can be recovered in the event of a disaster (UFS), but I'm happy to watch and learn from everyone else's experience! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Exim has stopped using SpamAssassin
I've just noticed that for the last month Exim does not appear to have been using SpamAssassin to check incoming emails. Previously all my incoming emails contained the following headers: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: X-Spam-Checker-Version: X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: But I'm not seeing any of them now. I've compared things with a ZFS snapshot from a time when it was working and both Exim and SpamAssassin are the same versions as before and there has been no changes in /usr/local/etc/exim/configure or /usr/local/etc/exim/sa-exim.conf. Current versions are: FreeBSD curlew.lan 9.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p4 #0: Mon Jun 17 11:42:37 UTC 2013 root@amd64 builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 exim-sa-exim-4.80.1+4.2_2 p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.2_8 perl-5.14.4 (was 5.14.2_3 when SpamAssassin was working) I've re-installed Exim and SpamAssassin using the same make options as before to see if that had any effect but still no joy. I've set SAEximDebug to 1 in sa-exim.conf but there's still nothing in the logs to help. Any suggestions where I should look next? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
linux-f10-hal-libs
I've discovered a fix for certain videos using flashplayer on websites. Apparently they require hal to access the DRM (?!), so I've just whipped up a port to fix this. It has been done in a real hurry; unfortunately I don't have any further time to spend on this as I'm way over my head at the moment, but I hope this helps fix some issues for some. If there are any problems with the way I've set this up, can you let me know via this address and advice on the error would be very appreciated. HTH :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: linux-f10-hal-libs
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013, at 6:26, R Skinner wrote: I've discovered a fix for certain videos using flashplayer on websites. Apparently they require hal to access the DRM (?!), so I've just whipped up a port to fix this. It has been done in a real hurry; unfortunately I don't have any further time to spend on this as I'm way over my head at the moment, but I hope this helps fix some issues for some. If there are any problems with the way I've set this up, can you let me know via this address and advice on the error would be very appreciated. Can you provide a link to a video that is broken and requires this so we have a test case? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Purpose of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg?
What is the purpose of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg? As far as I can see, in a properly organised system, all the shared libraries in there should be redundant. If this is correct, is there an easy way to clear them out, or should I just rm? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD software installation problems
questi...@freebsd.org Iknowvery littleEnglish, and Iwant to learnfreebsd,I was underftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/zh_CN.GB2312/books/handbook/above tutorialto installand preparation, andmeta lot of problems,Imade athreehttp://bbs.chinaunix.net/forum-5-1.htmlforumpostingsentitled:novicestep by stepinstallFreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE,not many peopleto helpMymainproblemis the softwareinstalled,I hopeto get your help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: to gmirror or to ZFS
Op dinsdag 16 juli 2013 schreef Frank Leonhardt (fra...@fjl.co.uk) het volgende: On 16/07/2013 10:41, Shane Ambler wrote: On 16/07/2013 14:41, aurfalien wrote: On Jul 15, 2013, at 9:23 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote: ... thats the question :) At any rate, I'm building a rather large 100+TB NAS using ZFS. However for my OS, should I also ZFS or simply gmirror as I've a dedicated pair of 256GB SSD drives for it. I didn't ask for SSD sys drives, this system just came with em. This is more of a best practices q. ZFS has data integrity checking, gmirror has low RAM overhead. gmirror is, at present, restricted to MBR partitioning due to metadata conflicts with GPT, so 2TB is the maximum size. Best practices... depends on your use. gmirror for the system leaves more RAM for ZFS. Perfect, thanks Warren. Just what I was looking for. I doubt that you would save any ram having the os on a non-zfs drive as you will already be using zfs chances are that non-zfs drives would only increase ram usage by adding a second cache. zfs uses it's own cache system and isn't going to share it's cache with other system managed drives. I'm not actually certain if the system cache still sits above zfs cache or not, I think I read it bypasses the traditional drive cache. For zfs cache you can set the max usage by adjusting vfs.zfs.arc_max that is a system wide setting and isn't going to increase if you have two zpools. Tip: set the arc_max value - by default zfs will use all physical ram for cache, set it to be sure you have enough ram left for any services you want running. Have you considered using one or both SSD drives with zfs? They can be added as cache or log devices to help performance. See man zpool under Intent Log and Cache Devices. I agree with the sentiment of using the SSD as ZFS cache - it's possibly the only logical use for them. I guess that with 100Tb worth of Winchesters you're not on a very tight budget, and not too tight on RAM for the OS either. If I was going to do this I'd stick with the OS on UFS and a gmirror because I simply don't trust ZFS. This is based on pure prejudice and inexperience. I know how to arrange disks on a UNIX file system for performance - what to use for swap, where tmp files should go and so on. I also know where every file will be, physically, in the event of trouble. And here's the clincher: If the machine blows up I can simply take one of the mirrored drives, slap it in to some new hardware and I've got a very reasonable chance that it'll boot. Can I do this with ZFS? I get the feeling that the answer is an emphatic maybe. So all things considered, I'd need a good reason not to stick with what I know works reliably and can be recovered in the event of a disaster (UFS), but I'm happy to watch and learn from everyone else's experience! I would us a zfs for the os. I have a couple of servers that did not survive a power failure with gmirror. The problems i had was when the power failed one disk was in a rebuilding state and then when the background fsck started or was busy for some time it would crash the whole server. Removing the disk that was rebuilding resolved the issue. This happened to me more than once. Most of the times it worked as advertised but not always. Before people tell me to use an UPS, i used a UPS but the damn thing gave way itself. Then after it came back from the warranty repair it gave way again. Some times it came back right away, leaving some servers survive and some in the state they where. It was hard to find the cause in the beginning because of the fact some servers did survive the power failure. We did not suspect the UPS at first. Anyway, gmirror did not work for me in all cases. I am now running a few servers with a zfs root. I did not have any problems with them till now (knock on wood). Since reading that swap on zfs root can cause trouble i have a separate freebsd-swap partition for the swap. Gr Johan __**_ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questionshttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: to gmirror or to ZFS
On Jul 16, 2013, at 2:41 AM, Shane Ambler wrote: On 16/07/2013 14:41, aurfalien wrote: On Jul 15, 2013, at 9:23 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote: ... thats the question :) At any rate, I'm building a rather large 100+TB NAS using ZFS. However for my OS, should I also ZFS or simply gmirror as I've a dedicated pair of 256GB SSD drives for it. I didn't ask for SSD sys drives, this system just came with em. This is more of a best practices q. ZFS has data integrity checking, gmirror has low RAM overhead. gmirror is, at present, restricted to MBR partitioning due to metadata conflicts with GPT, so 2TB is the maximum size. Best practices... depends on your use. gmirror for the system leaves more RAM for ZFS. Perfect, thanks Warren. Just what I was looking for. I doubt that you would save any ram having the os on a non-zfs drive as you will already be using zfs chances are that non-zfs drives would only increase ram usage by adding a second cache. zfs uses it's own cache system and isn't going to share it's cache with other system managed drives. I'm not actually certain if the system cache still sits above zfs cache or not, I think I read it bypasses the traditional drive cache. For zfs cache you can set the max usage by adjusting vfs.zfs.arc_max that is a system wide setting and isn't going to increase if you have two zpools. Tip: set the arc_max value - by default zfs will use all physical ram for cache, set it to be sure you have enough ram left for any services you want running. Have you considered using one or both SSD drives with zfs? They can be added as cache or log devices to help performance. See man zpool under Intent Log and Cache Devices. This is a very interesting point. In terms if SSDs for cache, I was planning on using a pair of Samsung Pro 512GB SSDs for this purpose (which I haven't bought yet). But I tire of buying stuff, so I have a pair of 40GB Intel SSDs for use as sys disks and several Intel 160GB SSDs lying around that I can combine with the existing 256GB SSDs for a cache. Then use my 36x3TB for the beasty NAS. - aurf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Purpose of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg?
Hi-- On Jul 16, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: What is the purpose of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg? It holds old versions of shared libraries which were once used by installed ports. As far as I can see, in a properly organised system, all the shared libraries in there should be redundant. True, assuming you've recompiled all of your ports to use the latest versions. However, if you ever have to roll something back, it will continue to work if these old shared libs are available. If this is correct, is there an easy way to clear them out, or should I just rm? If you're low on space, sure, you can just rm them. Don't bother otherwise... Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Purpose of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg?
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:05:19 -0700, Charles Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Jul 16, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: What is the purpose of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg? It holds old versions of shared libraries which were once used by installed ports. As far as I can see, in a properly organised system, all the shared libraries in there should be redundant. True, assuming you've recompiled all of your ports to use the latest versions. However, if you ever have to roll something back, it will continue to work if these old shared libs are available. If this is correct, is there an easy way to clear them out, or should I just rm? If you're low on space, sure, you can just rm them. Don't bother otherwise... Thanks. No, I'm not desperately low on space; I just like to keep things tidy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
openvpn routing
Hi all :-) This freebsd server in an internal lan server, IP 192.168.1.254. 192.168.1.212 is gateway on internet. I've an easy config: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire default192.168.1.212 UGS 031807em0 10.20.10.0/24 10.20.10.2 UGS 00 tun0 10.20.10.1 link#5 UHS 00lo0 10.20.10.2 link#5 UH 00 tun0 127.0.0.1 link#4 UH 0 3478lo0 192.168.1.0/24 link#2 U 046116em0 192.168.1.254 link#2 UHS 00lo0 ifconfig em0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.254 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 16384 [...] tun0: flags=8051UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 inet 10.20.10.1 -- 10.20.10.2 netmask 0x Problem is: 10.20.10.2 is a gateway? why? On clients I've this error: OpenVPN ROUTE: OpenVPN needs a gateway parameter for a --route option and no default was specified by either --route-gateway or --ifconfig options Tue Jul 16 19:28:30 2013 us=860975 OpenVPN ROUTE: failed to parse/resolve route for host/network: 10.20.10.0 Tue Jul 16 19:28:30 2013 us=861091 OpenVPN ROUTE: OpenVPN needs a gateway parameter for a --route option and no default was specified by either --route-gateway or --ifconfig options openvpn server config: port XXX proto udp dev tun ;dev-node tap0 ca /usr/local/etc/openvpn/XX.crt cert /usr/local/etc/openvpn/XX.crt key /usr/local/etc/openvpn/XX.key dh /usr/local/etc/openvpn/dh2048.pem server 10.20.10.0 255.255.255.0 push route 10.20.10.0 255.255.255.0 ifconfig-pool-persist /usr/local/etc/openvpn/ipp.txt 0 ;duplicate-cn keepalive 10 120 ;cipher BF-CBC# Blowfish (default) ;cipher AES-256-CBC # AES cipher DES-EDE3-CBC # Triple-DES comp-lzo user nobody group nobody persist-key persist-tun ;status /var/log/openvpn-status.log ;log-append /var/log/openvpn.log verb 10 mute 20 client-to-client client-config-dir ccd route 10.20.10.1 255.255.255.0 ping-restart 0 tls-auth /usr/local/etc/openvpn/ta.key 0 plugin /usr/local/lib/openvpn/plugins/openvpn-plugin-auth-pam.so login #tmp-dir /dev/shm Almost same config on linux openvpn server runs. It's the server that create correct route. But on freebsd I've 10.20.10.2 like automatic gw. Any idea? thanks! Pol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: to gmirror or to ZFS
Op dinsdag 16 juli 2013 schreef Charles Swiger (cswi...@mac.com) het volgende: Hi-- On Jul 16, 2013, at 10:33 AM, Johan Hendriks joh.hendr...@gmail.comjavascript:; wrote: [ ... ] I would us a zfs for the os. I have a couple of servers that did not survive a power failure with gmirror. The problems i had was when the power failed one disk was in a rebuilding state and then when the background fsck started or was busy for some time it would crash the whole server. Well, don't do that. :-) When the server reboots because of a powerfailure at night, then it boots. Then it starts to rebuild the mirror on its own, and later the fsck kicks in. Not much i can do about it. Maybe i should have done it without the automatic attachment for a new device. Seriously, bring up the box on one disk, force a foreground fsck if needed to get the filesystem to known clean state, and then rebuild the mirror. Mixing the mirror rebuild with something like an fsck will just thrash the disks. [ ... ] Before people tell me to use an UPS, i used a UPS but the damn thing gave way itself. Then after it came back from the warranty repair it gave way again. Grr. That's when you want find another UPS vendor. Is apc not the right choice? I think i got a monday morning model. Some times things fail! Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: to gmirror or to ZFS
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote: On Jul 16, 2013, at 2:41 AM, Shane Ambler wrote: I doubt that you would save any ram having the os on a non-zfs drive as you will already be using zfs chances are that non-zfs drives would only increase ram usage by adding a second cache. zfs uses it's own cache system and isn't going to share it's cache with other system managed drives. I'm not actually certain if the system cache still sits above zfs cache or not, I think I read it bypasses the traditional drive cache. For zfs cache you can set the max usage by adjusting vfs.zfs.arc_max that is a system wide setting and isn't going to increase if you have two zpools. Tip: set the arc_max value - by default zfs will use all physical ram for cache, set it to be sure you have enough ram left for any services you want running. Have you considered using one or both SSD drives with zfs? They can be added as cache or log devices to help performance. See man zpool under Intent Log and Cache Devices. This is a very interesting point. In terms if SSDs for cache, I was planning on using a pair of Samsung Pro 512GB SSDs for this purpose (which I haven't bought yet). But I tire of buying stuff, so I have a pair of 40GB Intel SSDs for use as sys disks and several Intel 160GB SSDs lying around that I can combine with the existing 256GB SSDs for a cache. Then use my 36x3TB for the beasty NAS. Agreed that 256G mirrored SSDs are kind of wasted as system drives. The 40G mirror sounds ideal. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: openvpn routing
This freebsd server in an internal lan server, IP 192.168.1.254. 192.168.1.212 is gateway on internet. [...] tap -- tun solved :-) Pol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Purpose of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg?
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:05:19 -0700, Charles Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Jul 16, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: What is the purpose of /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg? It holds old versions of shared libraries which were once used by installed ports. As far as I can see, in a properly organised system, all the shared libraries in there should be redundant. True, assuming you've recompiled all of your ports to use the latest versions. However, if you ever have to roll something back, it will continue to work if these old shared libs are available. If this is correct, is there an easy way to clear them out, or should I just rm? If you're low on space, sure, you can just rm them. Don't bother otherwise... Thanks. No, I'm not desperately low on space; I just like to keep things tidy. Install the excellent sysutils/bsdadminscripts and run pkg_libchk to check for packages still depending on those libraries or missing ones. If it doesn't complain, it's safe to delete them. Otherwise, rebuild everything it complains about first. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: to gmirror or to ZFS
Hi-- On Jul 16, 2013, at 10:33 AM, Johan Hendriks joh.hendr...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] I would us a zfs for the os. I have a couple of servers that did not survive a power failure with gmirror. The problems i had was when the power failed one disk was in a rebuilding state and then when the background fsck started or was busy for some time it would crash the whole server. Well, don't do that. :-) Seriously, bring up the box on one disk, force a foreground fsck if needed to get the filesystem to known clean state, and then rebuild the mirror. Mixing the mirror rebuild with something like an fsck will just thrash the disks. [ ... ] Before people tell me to use an UPS, i used a UPS but the damn thing gave way itself. Then after it came back from the warranty repair it gave way again. Grr. That's when you want find another UPS vendor. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Automake won't build.
Hello all, I am configuring a new system to run FreeBSD. I was in the middle of installing lxde-meta which depends on automake. This is where the install bails, and I'll include my uname -ar. Any help is greatly appreciated. FreeBSD something.com 9.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-PRERELEASE #0 r253377: Tue Jul 16 02:21:15 CDT 2013 r...@something.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 install-info --quiet /usr/local/info/automake.info /usr/local/info/dir install-info: /usr/local/info/dir: empty file *** [add-plist-info] Error code 1 TIA, Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Automake won't build.
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am configuring a new system to run FreeBSD. I was in the middle of installing lxde-meta which depends on automake. This is where the install bails, and I'll include my uname -ar. Any help is greatly appreciated. FreeBSD something.com 9.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-PRERELEASE #0 r253377: Tue Jul 16 02:21:15 CDT 2013 r...@something.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 install-info --quiet /usr/local/info/automake.info /usr/local/info/dir install-info: /usr/local/info/dir: empty file *** [add-plist-info] Error code 1 TIA, Jason The solution for this was to remove /usr/local/info/dir and the port installed fine. Any ideas on why this happens? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: to gmirror or to ZFS
Hi-- On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Johan Hendriks joh.hendr...@gmail.com wrote: Well, don't do that. :-) When the server reboots because of a powerfailure at night, then it boots. Then it starts to rebuild the mirror on its own, and later the fsck kicks in. Not much i can do about it. Maybe i should have done it without the automatic attachment for a new device. It's normally the case that getting a hot spare automatically attached should be fine, but not if you also have the box go down entirely and need to fsck. I'm more used to needing to explicitly physically swap out a failed mirror component, in which case one can make sure the system is OK before the replacement drive goes in. [ ... ] Before people tell me to use an UPS, i used a UPS but the damn thing gave way itself. Then after it came back from the warranty repair it gave way again. Grr. That's when you want find another UPS vendor. Is apc not the right choice? I think i got a monday morning model. Some times things fail! APC is decent for desktops, but I'm dubious about them when it comes to entire racks or a DC. I like Leviton's PDUs/MDUs and TVSS; for a medium-sized UPS (10-40 kVA) Liebert and PowerWare (now Eaton) were good. Liebert's PDUs are also pretty good. Regards, -- -Chuck PS: I ran a small DC in NYC with a 20kVA PowerWare 9330 behind a Leviton 57000 TVSS; the Cupertino locals have ~650kVA worth of Bloom boxes and a Cummins diesel genset as a backup just for this building. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
rsyslog
Hi all :-) I just installed rsyslog7 but there isn't any /usr/local/etc/rsyslog.conf Where I found a standard rsyslog.conf config file to put it to /usr/local/etc? thanks for help Pol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Odd behavior while booting off Install media for 9.1...
... sometimes I get a normal boot procedure were I can proceed to install. Other times I get the mountroot prompt and upon pressing enter, the system reboots. This seems random with the same hardware setup. I literally have to stare at the screen for it to finally push through to the install procedure. I'm clearly new to freeBSD and was wondering what is going on here? I'm happily installing now as I managed to find time and stare at the screen long enough but would like some insight n this if possible. - aurf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: rsyslog
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 22:04:05 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: Where I found a standard rsyslog.conf config file to put it to /usr/local/etc? I think you can find a rsyslog-example.conf file in the directory for examples, probably /usr/local/share/examples or in a rsyslog/ or rsyslog7/ subdirectory thereof. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
gpart: table 'da0' is corrupt; operation not permitted
Hello again, Not happy to be posting so much lately especially being so new. I grabbed a few disks from a Mac and am using them for sys disks. Upon booting from an install CD into a shell, I type; gpart show and see several partitions; 34 78165293da0 GPT (37G) [CORRUPT] 34 6 - free - (3.0k) 40 409600 1 efi (200M) 409640 774935362 !52414944--11aa-aa11-00306543eacac (37G) 77903176262144 3 apple-boot (128M) 781653207 - free- (3.5k) Upon doing; gpart destroy da0 I get; gpart: Device busy Upon doing; gpart delete -i 1 da0 I get; gpart: table da0 is corrupt: Operation not permitted Any insight would be huge, thanks in advance, - aurf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: gpart: table 'da0' is corrupt; operation not permitted
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:
Upon doing;
gpart destroy da0
I get;
gpart: Device busy
crude but effective:
DISK=da0
offset=`diskinfo $DISK | awk '{ print $4 - 131072 }'`
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DISK bs=64k count=1
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DISK bs=64k seek=$offset
gpart create -s gpt ${DISK}
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Re: gpart: table 'da0' is corrupt; operation not permitted
On Jul 16, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:
Upon doing;
gpart destroy da0
I get;
gpart: Device busy
crude but effective:
DISK=da0
offset=`diskinfo $DISK | awk '{ print $4 - 131072 }'`
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DISK bs=64k count=1
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DISK bs=64k seek=$offset
gpart create -s gpt ${DISK}
This is what I ended up doing.
I unplugged it, waited a few, re plugged and then I was able to delete/destroy.
I will keep your method on hand though as I prefer not doing a hot plug.
- aurf
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Re: gpart: table 'da0' is corrupt; operation not permitted
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote:
On Jul 16, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:
Upon doing;
gpart destroy da0
I get;
gpart: Device busy
crude but effective:
DISK=da0
offset=`diskinfo $DISK | awk '{ print $4 - 131072 }'`
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DISK bs=64k count=1
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DISK bs=64k seek=$offset
gpart create -s gpt ${DISK}
This is what I ended up doing.
I unplugged it, waited a few, re plugged and then I was able to delete/destroy.
I will keep your method on hand though as I prefer not doing a hot plug.
Hot plug? That just wipes the beginning and end of the disk. I would
erase 1M just to be sure.
The more elegant version is
gpart destroy -F da0
If it gives an error when doing that, disabling the safety may be
necessary: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
Do that only when necessary. It usually is not.
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Re: gpart: table 'da0' is corrupt; operation not permitted
On Jul 16, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Warren Block wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote:
On Jul 16, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:44 PM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:
Upon doing;
gpart destroy da0
I get;
gpart: Device busy
crude but effective:
DISK=da0
offset=`diskinfo $DISK | awk '{ print $4 - 131072 }'`
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DISK bs=64k count=1
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DISK bs=64k seek=$offset
gpart create -s gpt ${DISK}
This is what I ended up doing.
I unplugged it, waited a few, re plugged and then I was able to
delete/destroy.
I will keep your method on hand though as I prefer not doing a hot plug.
Hot plug? That just wipes the beginning and end of the disk. I would erase
1M just to be sure.
The more elegant version is
gpart destroy -F da0
Oh for sure, I did that after the hotplug which finally allowed me to f do it.
I had to hot plug a few times though.
If it gives an error when doing that, disabling the safety may be necessary:
sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
Do that only when necessary. It usually is not.
Funny, I did that based on some googling but no dice.
I booted in both regular shel and Live CD.
- aurf
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Re: to gmirror or to ZFS
On 07/16/13 21:27, Johan Hendriks wrote: Op dinsdag 16 juli 2013 schreef Charles Swiger (cswi...@mac.com) het volgende: Hi-- On Jul 16, 2013, at 10:33 AM, Johan Hendriks joh.hendr...@gmail.comjavascript:; wrote: [ ... ] I would us a zfs for the os. I have a couple of servers that did not survive a power failure with gmirror. The problems i had was when the power failed one disk was in a rebuilding state and then when the background fsck started or was busy for some time it would crash the whole server. Well, don't do that. :-) When the server reboots because of a powerfailure at night, then it boots. Then it starts to rebuild the mirror on its own, and later the fsck kicks in. Not much i can do about it. You could add geom_journal which will minimize the time of fsck to a second or something like that. Then you don't have to use background fsck anymore. Actually geom_journal's manual page mentions an interesting side-effect of geom_journal over a geom_mirror: you can turn off component synchronization. Geom_journal will re-play last writes so whatever was changed just before the crash will be re-written to both disks. I haven't used this but it makes sense in theory. Maybe i should have done it without the automatic attachment for a new device. I always turn off automatic synchronization or stale components as well. It seems to me that people don't really use geom_journal or maybe they just don't talk about it like it's some sort of secret:) just my two cents, Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
