upgrade from 6.1-RELEASE to 6.3-RELEASE

2008-09-23 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Hello list. I'm about to upgrade from 6.1-RELEASE to 6.3-RELEASE from source and I'd like to ask a couple of questions. 1) Do the system interface change? That is, will I have to recompile all ports after upgrading? 2) Any gotcha, hints or things to be aware of? Of course, as usual I'll take

Re: using /dev/random

2008-09-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
What is the canonical way to get data from /dev/random? Specifically: having opened the file, how do I read the stream? I'm currently using union { float f; char c[4]; } foo; foo.f = 0.0; fscanf(rand_fp,%4c,foo.c); simply read 4 bytes into foo

Re: Run script as root from WebServer

2008-09-23 Thread Saša Stupar
Hi, I'm using mod_python3 and apache22 to create some scripts and access them through a web interface. The problem is that some of these scripts deal with configuration files and some other tasks that require root privileges. In the past, I've solved this issue by using sudo and

Re: upgrade from 6.1-RELEASE to 6.3-RELEASE

2008-09-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
1) Do the system interface change? That is, will I have to recompile all ports after upgrading? no 2) Any gotcha, hints or things to be aware of? i don't think so Of course, as usual I'll take full backups before beginning the upgrade.. Best regards. Robi

Re: upgrade from 6.1-RELEASE to 6.3-RELEASE

2008-09-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Roberto Nunnari wrote: | Hello list. | | I'm about to upgrade from 6.1-RELEASE to 6.3-RELEASE | from source and I'd like to ask a couple of questions. | | 1) Do the system interface change? That is, will I have to | recompile all ports after

semget: no space left on freebsd 6.2

2008-09-23 Thread Jordi Moles Blanco
hello everyone, i'm having some trouble with a freebsd 6.2 box and apache-2.0.59. When i try to install some apache_mods, i get this: For example with mod_cband: * apache2_mod_cband: cannot create shared memory segment for remote hosts * when i debug

Re: upgrade from 6.1-RELEASE to 6.3-RELEASE

2008-09-23 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Good! Thank you guys for your quick answer. Best regards. Robi Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Roberto Nunnari wrote: | Hello list. | | I'm about to upgrade from 6.1-RELEASE to 6.3-RELEASE | from source and I'd like to ask a couple of questions. | |

Re: semget: no space left on freebsd 6.2

2008-09-23 Thread Artis Caune
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Jordi Moles Blanco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also try adding this options on FreeBSD kernel config: options SEMMNI=20 options SEMMNS=120 And set the kern.maxfiles sysctl option higher than 1000. * it didn't work either.

Moving to freebsd firewall for a small DataCenter network

2008-09-23 Thread bsd
Hello, I have been using FreeBSD for many years as a server and have based most of my hosting services on this fantastic OS. Since three years I have been using SonicWall firewall as a firewall device. As my hosting services are growing, It seems that the SonicWall device is quite light

RE: using /dev/random

2008-09-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Huff Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 9:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: using /dev/random What is the canonical way to get data from /dev/random? Specifically: having opened the

Re: Moving to freebsd firewall for a small DataCenter network

2008-09-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
I was wondering if there is a good if possible integrated firewall device running on FreeBSD. I think monowall is what you are looking for. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Moving to freebsd firewall for a small DataCenter network

2008-09-23 Thread Nejc Škoberne
I think monowall is what you are looking for. Or his more advanced brother - pfSense. Bye, Nejc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

RE: Moving to freebsd firewall for a small DataCenter network

2008-09-23 Thread Johan Hendriks
Also have a look at pfsense www.pfsense.org regards, Johan Hendriks No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.7.0/1685 - Release Date: 22-9-2008 16:08 ___

Re: Moving to freebsd firewall for a small DataCenter network

2008-09-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
quite light for what I am doing. I have now 10 servers hosted on one uniq /28 network with direct connexion to the Net. I was wondering if there is a good if possible integrated firewall device running on FreeBSD. just read manual. ipfw is excellent.

Re: semget: no space left on freebsd 6.2

2008-09-23 Thread Jordi Moles Blanco
hi, thanks a lot for the info. i'll give it a try and report back. En/na Artis Caune ha escrit: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Jordi Moles Blanco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also try adding this options on FreeBSD kernel config: options SEMMNI=20 options SEMMNS=120 And

Re: Run script as root from WebServer

2008-09-23 Thread Matias Surdi
Bill Campbell escribió: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008, Mel wrote: On Monday 22 September 2008 22:51:26 Matias Surdi wrote: The problem is that some of these scripts deal with configuration files and some other tasks that require root privileges. There's 2 alternatives I have used: 1) If the

A strange compiling issue

2008-09-23 Thread Unga
Hi I'm trying to compile Perl on FreeBSD. It get cleanly compiled on FreeBSD 7.0. But on another test system running RELENG_7 where I do weired things, it develops errors. There must be something wrong with my test system, I would like to understand what cause this error. cc -c -DPERL_CORE

freeBSD Egypt Support Center

2008-09-23 Thread islam soliman
Dear Sir kindly is there any freeBSD Support Center at Egypt ?? i am waiting your swift reply Thank you -- Regards Islam Soliman System and Network Administrator Mobile: +20 10 73 96 5 36 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

freeBSD Egypt Support Center

2008-09-23 Thread islam soliman
Dear Sir kindly is there any freeBSD Support Center at Egypt ?? i am waiting your swift reply Thank you -- Regards Islam Soliman System and Network Administrator Mobile: +20 10 73 96 5 36 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

MySQL Error: Can't create a new thread (errno 35); if you are not out of available memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS-dependent bug

2008-09-23 Thread Sam Nilsson
Hello, The error message: Can't create a new thread (errno 35); if you are not out of available memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS-dependent bug Our website started getting this error several weeks ago (when we increased the number of application server machines connecting

Re: Moving to freebsd firewall for a small DataCenter network

2008-09-23 Thread Charles Trevor
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Nejc Škoberne wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* I think monowall is what you are looking for. Or his more advanced brother - pfSense. Bye, Nejc Either m0n0wall or

Re: MySQL Error: Can't create a new thread (errno 35); if you are not out of available memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS-dependent bug

2008-09-23 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Sam Nilsson wrote: Hello, The error message: Can't create a new thread (errno 35); if you are not out of available memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS-dependent bug Our website started getting this error several weeks ago (when we increased the number of application server

(no subject)

2008-09-23 Thread dhaneshk k
Hi all ; I installed eclipse(3.2.2) from ports , in my FreeBSD-7.0 RELEASE box , where diablo-jdk-15.0 installed but when I start eclipsegetting a splash message as follows ... #eclipse JVM terminated. Exit code=1 /usr/local/bin/java -Xms40m -Xmx256m -jar

Re: Postfix, maildir's, and writing filters

2008-09-23 Thread George Fazio
Da Rock wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 20:53 -0400, George Fazio wrote: Da Rock wrote: Howdy. This may seem simple, but I'm completely green on this: I have a postfix server with a courier-imap client frontend using maildir's. I'm using imap for an internal mta, but I need to setup a

eclipse-3.2.2 issue with diablo-jdk-1.5.0 in FreeBSD-7.0

2008-09-23 Thread dhaneshk k
Hi ; I installed eclipse(3.2.2) from ports , in my FreeBSD-7.0 RELEASE box , where diablo-jdk-15.0 installed but when I start eclipsegetting a splash message as follows ... #eclipse JVM terminated. Exit code=1 /usr/local/bin/java -Xms40m -Xmx256m -jar

Re: using /dev/random

2008-09-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:51:02 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The canonical way is to use the functions random(), or srandom() or srandomdev() or arc4random() depending on what you need the random data for. /dev/random is really only useful for seeding these functions (some

Re: A strange compiling issue

2008-09-23 Thread v
hi you may install perl from ports? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using /dev/random

2008-09-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:39:35 +0100 RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:51:02 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you really want to roll-your-own and not use these functions then you could read blocks from /dev/random and run a Chi-square and Monte Carlo

Re: FreeBSD Port of mrtg Not Happy when Trying to Start

2008-09-23 Thread Martin McCormick
Jerry writes: On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:54:04 -0500 Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are moving a mrtg system to FreeBSD so I installed the port from /usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg and the installation went flawlessly along with perl5.88 which it needs. Then, I posted that I had

Re: A strange compiling issue

2008-09-23 Thread Unga
--- On Tue, 9/23/08, v [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: v [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A strange compiling issue To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 8:38 PM hi you may install perl from ports? Hi, thanks for the reply. What if I'm

Re: Postfix, maildir's, and writing filters

2008-09-23 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 08:24 -0400, George Fazio wrote: Da Rock wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 20:53 -0400, George Fazio wrote: Da Rock wrote: Howdy. This may seem simple, but I'm completely green on this: I have a postfix server with a courier-imap client frontend using

ext3 copy kernel freeze

2008-09-23 Thread Didi
Hey I just found an old linux hard drive with some movies on. This is formated as ext3. I can mount this with mount_ext2fs command. But if I try to cp the movies over to my normal freebsd disk the kernel just freezes up. I checked all the log files but nothing is logged. Further the disk I want

mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-09-23 Thread John Almberg
I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a database server running mysql. These machines are in two different locations. I'd like to allow the application server to access mysql through an SSH tunnel. Being a newbie admin, I've never set up an SSH tunnel. I've

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-09-23 Thread Vincent Hoffman
John Almberg wrote: I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a database server running mysql. These machines are in two different locations. I'd like to allow the application server to access mysql through an SSH tunnel. Being a newbie admin, I've never set up an

Re: Error building editors/openoffice.org-2

2008-09-23 Thread Michal Petrucha
I just tried building OpenOffice.org 2.4.1_2 from ports. All dependencies are already installed. After some minutes of compilation the build crashed with ~~ Disabling crypto support Enabling debugger checking for libxml libraries =3D 2.6.17... test: 1:

Re: using /dev/random

2008-09-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the canonical way to get data from /dev/random? Specifically: having opened the file, how do I read the stream? I'm currently using union { float f; char c[4]; } foo; foo.f = 0.0; fscanf(rand_fp,%4c,foo.c);

Re: FreeBSD Port of mrtg Not Happy when Trying to Start

2008-09-23 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:30:03 -0500 Martin McCormick wrote: Jerry writes: On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:54:04 -0500 Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are moving a mrtg system to FreeBSD so I installed the port from /usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg and the installation went

Re: FreeBSD Port of mrtg Not Happy when Trying to Start

2008-09-23 Thread Martin McCormick
Boris Samorodov writes: If you install ports at default paths then net-mgmt/p5-SNMP-Util should install SNMP_util.pm to /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/SNMP . Do you have this file? I appear to. $ pwd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/SNMP $ ls -l total 68 -r-xr-xr-x 1

blocksize when using dd to copy disks? bigger = better?

2008-09-23 Thread Joachim Rosenfeld
When mirroring a disk with dd, I notice that a blocksize of 512 runs awfully slow, but with bs=1MB (2^10bytes), it runs fairly quickly. Can someone explain the implications of this? Did all the data not copy properly with the larger blocksize? thanks Joe

Re: blocksize when using dd to copy disks? bigger = better?

2008-09-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:04:13AM -0400, Joachim Rosenfeld wrote: When mirroring a disk with dd, I notice that a blocksize of 512 runs awfully slow, but with bs=1MB (2^10bytes), it runs fairly quickly. Can someone explain the implications of this? Did all the data not copy properly with

Re: using /dev/random

2008-09-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the canonical way to get data from /dev/random? Specifically: having opened the file, how do I read the stream? I'm currently using union { float f; char c[4]; } foo; foo.f = 0.0; fscanf(rand_fp,%4c,foo.c);

Re: Uplading file via Lighttpd - system hangs

2008-09-23 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello guys, I have noticed today that I have another problem possibly related to this issue. I am running lighttpd+php-cgi in a jail on a 7.0-STABLE system as of Thu Aug 21 10:59:02 CEST 2008. The problem seems to be that lighttpd stops serving the pages, however I haven't had time to dig into

shipping

2008-09-23 Thread Helen.Reddy
Hello, I am the college professor in charge The Friends Across Borders club here on our campus at the State University of New York at Fredonia. I have 18 students that are going to Belize City, Belize in January to volunteer in the schools. We have been going there for the past few years. We

Re: Uplading file via Lighttpd - system hangs

2008-09-23 Thread Chris
If you check top command, do you see lighttpd using 99% CPU ? Also does both php and static content hang ? If you have these symptoms the problem is the same. I use strace and found that lighttpd doesn't accept more connections when this thing happens. Hello guys, I have noticed today

Recompile kernel or module for ipfw+nat?

2008-09-23 Thread n j
Hello everyone, I have a quick question regarding the setup of nat with ipfw. According to the handbook: The following options must be in the kernel configuration file: options IPFIREWALL options IPDIVERT however, there is a kernel module called ipdivert.ko similar to ipfw.ko for the firewall.

Re: package info is corrupt

2008-09-23 Thread Dino Vliet
--- On Mon, 9/22/08, Greg Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Greg Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: package info is corrupt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 9:55 PM -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dino Vliet wrote:

Re: FreeBSD Port of mrtg Not Happy when Trying to Start

2008-09-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 23), Martin McCormick said: When installing mrtg, I left the ipv6 box unchecked as we have none, and turned on the snmpV3 support which made no difference. Still the same error: Can't locate SNMP_util.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/bin/../lib/mrtg2

Re: package info is corrupt

2008-09-23 Thread (-K JohnNy
What now? I tried to deinstall one of them, but no luck: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/db/pkg/gtkmm-2.12.7]# pkg_deinstall gtkmm ** No matching package found. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/db/pkg/gtkmm-2.12.7]# cat +COMMENT C++ wrapper for Gtk+, Pango, Atk [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Virtual machines hosted on FreeBSD 7

2008-09-23 Thread Jeff Wheelhouse
On Sep 10, 2008, at 12:41 AM, Uwe Laverenz wrote: So the only restrictions for ESXi are: - you have to register to get a serial number - you have to buy ESX(i)-compatible hardware - the free license has some major restrictions about what you can do with it. Thanks, Jeff

Re: shipping

2008-09-23 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 11:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am the college professor in charge The Friends Across Borders club here on our campus at the State University of New York at Fredonia. I have 18 students that are going to Belize City, Belize in January to volunteer in

Re: ccache on amd64

2008-09-23 Thread Brian
Brian wrote: I found a previous post with /etc/make.conf containing, I am trying this now. # Special ccache for buildworld .if exists(/usr/local/libexec/ccache/world-cc) !defined(NOCCACHE) \ (!empty(.CURDIR:M/usr/src*) || !empty(.CURDIR:M/usr/obj*)) CC :=

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-09-23 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 15:54:10 John Almberg wrote: I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a database server running mysql. These machines are in two different locations. I'd like to allow the application server to access mysql through an SSH tunnel. Any

Re: MySQL Error: Can't create a new thread (errno 35); if you are not out of available memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS-dependent bug

2008-09-23 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 12:13:58 Sam Nilsson wrote: DB Servers: One Master, Two Read Only (replication) 4 GB of Memory on each server FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p3 MySQL 5.0.1 Here are some relevent items from my.cnf: - set-variable = max_connections=1000

Re: A strange compiling issue

2008-09-23 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 11:45:40 Unga wrote: Hi I'm trying to compile Perl on FreeBSD. It get cleanly compiled on FreeBSD 7.0. But on another test system running RELENG_7 where I do weired things, it develops errors. There must be something wrong with my test system, I would like to

Re: FreeBSD Port of mrtg Not Happy when Trying to Start

2008-09-23 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:32:11 -0500 Martin McCormick wrote: Boris Samorodov writes: If you install ports at default paths then net-mgmt/p5-SNMP-Util should install SNMP_util.pm to /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/SNMP . Do you have this file? I appear to. $ pwd

Re: ccache on amd64

2008-09-23 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 18:35:22 Brian wrote: /usr/local/libexec/ccache/world-cc -m32 -march=i686 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfancy-math-387 -DCOMPAT_32BIT -iprefix /usr/obj/usr/src/lib32/usr/ -L/usr/obj/usr/src/lib32/usr/lib32 -B/usr/obj/usr/src/lib32/usr/lib32 -fpic -DPIC -O2

My unqualified host name

2008-09-23 Thread Dánielisz László
Hello! I got the following error message on boot: nyana sm-mta[803]: My unqualified host name (nyana) unknown; sleeping for retry Do you have any idea? thx. Laci ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Upgrade to rel 7.0 broke SSH

2008-09-23 Thread Olaf Courtney
Hello and greetings from Newbyville, I recently upgraded from FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE to 7.0-RELEASE-p4, and now SSH is broken. Other important services (chiefly SAMBA) are working properly. From the FreeBSD server I can successfull SSH and SFTP to the localhost (127.0.0.1). I can also SSH and

Re: eclipse-3.2.2 issue with diablo-jdk-1.5.0 in FreeBSD-7.0

2008-09-23 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:57:21AM +, dhaneshk k wrote: Hi ; I installed eclipse(3.2.2) from ports , in my FreeBSD-7.0 RELEASE box , where diablo-jdk-15.0 installed but when I start eclipsegetting a splash message as follows ... #eclipse JVM terminated.

Re: My unqualified host name

2008-09-23 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:13:52AM -0700, Dánielisz László wrote: Hello! I got the following error message on boot: nyana sm-mta[803]: My unqualified host name (nyana) unknown; sleeping for retry Do you have any idea? Is the name nyana the DNS or in /etc/hosts? -- Jonathan Chen

Re: My unqualified host name

2008-09-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Dánielisz László wrote: I got the following error message on boot: nyana sm-mta[803]: My unqualified host name (nyana) unknown; sleeping for retry Do you have any idea? Yes, sendmail expects your machine to have working DNS and for the machine to have a

quick slice question..

2008-09-23 Thread B . Cook
I have slices a, d, e, f, g, and h.. I wouldn't be able to get one more would I? using gmirror and RELENG_7_0.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: eclipse-3.2.2 issue with diablo-jdk-1.5.0 in FreeBSD-7.0

2008-09-23 Thread Frank Staals
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:57:21AM +, dhaneshk k wrote: Hi ; I installed eclipse(3.2.2) from ports , in my FreeBSD-7.0 RELEASE box , where diablo-jdk-15.0 installed but when I start eclipsegetting a splash message as follows ... #eclipse JVM

Re: quick slice question..

2008-09-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:33 PM, B. Cook wrote: I have slices a, d, e, f, g, and h.. I wouldn't be able to get one more would I? Not safely, no-- you should leave b for swap and c for the whole partition. Speaking of which, if you've got unallocated disk space available, you can create

Re: Any way to play www.last.fm on FreeBSD?

2008-09-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:39:25PM +0200, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Monday 22 September 2008, Gary Kline wrote: I can't listen to last.fm with firefox2 or firefox3--and parts of ff3 don't get loaded. With the KDE3 browser, same thing; it won't recognize last.fm. Nutshell: what

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-09-23 17:17:21 UTC+0200, Andreas Davour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've bought a usb connected disk to use as backup, and I've been thinking about trying to make the data as available as possible. Do anyone here have any suggestion about what kind of filesystem would be best

Re: quick slice question..

2008-09-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 03:33:41PM -0400, B. Cook wrote: I have slices a, d, e, f, g, and h.. I wouldn't be able to get one more would I? using gmirror and RELENG_7_0.. First I guess you actually mean partition, not slice. (Partitions are usually labeled a, d, e, ..., while slices are

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread Mike Jeays
I have an EXT2 USB flash drive on a FreeBSD system, and it works perfectly. I have also used EXT2 filesystems on IDE drives in a USB caddy, and they work fine as well. On September 23, 2008 04:19:06 pm andrew clarke wrote: On Tue 2008-09-23 17:17:21 UTC+0200, Andreas Davour ([EMAIL

Re: shipping

2008-09-23 Thread Nash Nipples
I have 18 students that are going to Belize City, Belize in January to volunteer in the schools. We have been going there for the past few years. We have collected 24 computers and a few printers that we want to ship from western New York to Belize in order to set up computer labs in the

Re: blocksize when using dd to copy disks? bigger = better?

2008-09-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:37:00 -0400 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:04:13AM -0400, Joachim Rosenfeld wrote: When mirroring a disk with dd, I notice that a blocksize of 512 runs awfully slow, but with bs=1MB (2^10bytes), it runs fairly quickly. Can

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:17:21 +0200 (CEST) Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've bought a usb connected disk to use as backup, and I've been thinking about trying to make the data as available as possible. Do anyone here have any suggestion about what kind of filesystem would be

dovecot, maildir, UFS 2 performance

2008-09-23 Thread Laszlo Nagy
I need to install a new server. Primarily it will run apache + PHP + PostgreSQL. Its main task is to serve several websites, and provide web based admin interface for OLTP. The server will have 2xSAS disks in RAID 1 for the base system and 10xSATA2 disks in RAID 1+0 for the rest. The SAS pair

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread Laszlo Nagy
For making backups I would probably just use FAT32 and tar, because practically anything (not just FreeBSD Linux) will mount FAT32 file systems, and tar should respect your file attributes (owner, group, creation timestamp, last modified timestamp, etc). Except that you cannot create files

Server - Linux Compat

2008-09-23 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, When I was young, many many moons ago, and I installed FreeBSD 4.4 for the first time, I enabled linux compatability ... Each build since, I have enabled it ... So not I am at the point of asking myself why? All I run is webservers and namesrvers, you know, Bind, Apache, Mysql,

Re: using /dev/random

2008-09-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:52:07 -0400 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the canonical way to get data from /dev/random? Specifically: having opened the file, how do I read the stream? I'm currently using union { float f;

Re: Server - Linux Compat

2008-09-23 Thread Nash Nipples
When I was young, many many moons ago, and I installed FreeBSD 4.4 for the first time, I enabled linux compatability ... Each build since, I have enabled it ... So not I am at the point of asking myself why? All I run is webservers and namesrvers, you know, Bind, Apache, Mysql,

Re: Server - Linux Compat

2008-09-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
first time, I enabled linux compatability ... Each build since, I have enabled it ... So not I am at the point of asking myself why? All I run is webservers and namesrvers, you know, Bind, Apache, Mysql, vmpop3d, PHP, Exim and shh...not to mention a few utils, ipa, ipfw etc. Does anyone

Re: Server - Linux Compat

2008-09-23 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-09-23 17:38:57 UTC-0400, Grant Peel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When I was young, many many moons ago, and I installed FreeBSD 4.4 for the first time, I enabled linux compatability ... Each build since, I have enabled it ... So not I am at the point of asking myself why? You

Re: dovecot, maildir, UFS 2 performance

2008-09-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
dir goes to SATA. The secondary task for this server is to be an IMAP and mail server. We will be using dovecot, and shared maildir folders with ten thousands of messages. I'm not sure where to put the maildir folders, and what options to use for unless you have tens of thousands of mail

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
mount_ext2fs is available in FreeBSD but I can't speak for its reliability. i can. it simply works. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Except that you cannot create files with 4GB size on FAT32. You might be able to use an archiver that is able to split archives into smaller parts. or simply split(1) This has always been a problem. FreeBSD is open source. So Linux is, but they do not have a common filesystem that could

Re: Server - Linux Compat

2008-09-23 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-09-23 14:54:30 UTC-0700, Nash Nipples ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: if there is no warning in the comments i think its harmless nobody knows when you are going to need a linux binary to run lsof maybe? I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, but lsof builds from Ports as a

Re: Server - Linux Compat

2008-09-23 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 17:38 -0400, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, When I was young, many many moons ago, and I installed FreeBSD 4.4 for the first time, I enabled linux compatability ... Each build since, I have enabled it ... So not I am at the point of asking myself why? All I run is

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-09-23 23:13:32 UTC+0200, Laszlo Nagy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: For making backups I would probably just use FAT32 and tar, because practically anything (not just FreeBSD Linux) will mount FAT32 file systems, and tar should respect your file attributes (owner, group, creation

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
about trying to make the data as available as possible. Do anyone here have any suggestion about what kind of filesystem would be best to use? Can ufs2 be read by linux? It looks like it from my short persual of google hits, but it also looks kind of complicated. IS ext2 a safer bet? Anything

Re: quick slice question..

2008-09-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:33:41 -0400 B. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have slices a, d, e, f, g, and h.. I wouldn't be able to get one more would I? I've never tried it myself, but I've heard that it's possible to nest FreeBSD partitions indefinitely - leading to an unlimited number of

Fix corrupted terminal output

2008-09-23 Thread Chris St Denis
Occasionally, I accidentially cat a binary file or a directory casing the terminal output to be corrupted with text looking like (don't know if this will make it through the mail cleanly) E ??? ?? ?. 2# To fix this normally I just close the window and open a new ssh

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread Gary Newcombe
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:48:48 +0200 (CEST), Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: about trying to make the data as available as possible. Do anyone here have any suggestion about what kind of filesystem would be best to use? Can ufs2

Re: Fix corrupted terminal output

2008-09-23 Thread Stephen Hurd
Try this one: perl -e 'print \x0f' - Original Message - From: Chris St Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:09 pm Subject: Fix corrupted terminal output Occasionally, I accidentially cat a binary file or a directory casing the terminal output to be corrupted

Re: Fix corrupted terminal output

2008-09-23 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 17:09 -0700, Chris St Denis wrote: Occasionally, I accidentially cat a binary file or a directory casing the terminal output to be corrupted with text looking like (don't know if this will make it through the mail cleanly) E ??? ?? ?. 2#

Re: ccache on amd64

2008-09-23 Thread Brian
Mel wrote: On Tuesday 23 September 2008 18:35:22 Brian wrote: /usr/local/libexec/ccache/world-cc -m32 -march=i686 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfancy-math-387 -DCOMPAT_32BIT -iprefix /usr/obj/usr/src/lib32/usr/ -L/usr/obj/usr/src/lib32/usr/lib32 -B/usr/obj/usr/src/lib32/usr/lib32 -fpic -DPIC -O2

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread Gary Newcombe
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:02:11 +0200 (CEST), Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Gary Newcombe wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:48:48 +0200 (CEST), Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: about trying to make the data

Re: geli and soft-updates

2008-09-23 Thread Vinny
Fabian Keil wrote: Oliver Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 09:45:29PM -0400, Vinny wrote: ... [...] I'm using ZFS on geli on my production server with 2 SATA2 disks. Just create and attach the geli devices in /dev and then create a zpool i.e. with # zpool create

Re: ccache on amd64

2008-09-23 Thread Brian
Brian wrote: Mel wrote: On Tuesday 23 September 2008 18:35:22 Brian wrote: /usr/local/libexec/ccache/world-cc -m32 -march=i686 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfancy-math-387 -DCOMPAT_32BIT -iprefix /usr/obj/usr/src/lib32/usr/ -L/usr/obj/usr/src/lib32/usr/lib32 -B/usr/obj/usr/src/lib32/usr/lib32 -fpic

nat and firewall

2008-09-23 Thread fire jotawski
hi sirs, i am confused now that what is the difference between nat and firewall_nat in /etc/rc file natd_enable=YES firewall_nat_enable=YES just one question per asking. there will be another more questions about this but for this moment only this one first. thanks in advance for any helps

Re: MySQL Error: Can't create a new thread (errno 35); if you are not out of available memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS-dependent bug

2008-09-23 Thread Sam Nilsson
Vincent Hoffman wrote: If you havent already, you could try increasing the per process memory limit as per examples in http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/hackers/2008-05/msg00258.html (man tuning also says a bit about these tuneables but doesnt have the examples that post does)

Re: My unqualified host name

2008-09-23 Thread perryh
nyana sm-mta[803]: My unqualified host name (nyana) unknown; sleeping for retry ... sendmail expects your machine to have working DNS and for the machine to have a valid FQDN. Either set that up, or add sendmail_enable=NONE to /etc/rc.conf to disable sendmail ... There is another