Re: kernel panic

2009-01-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Jan-09 00:05:47 -0800, Kamlesh Patel shilp.ka...@yahoo.com wrote: How do i recover the system from this error. I can't reload the loader.old If you press any key during the first spinner, you should get a prompt similar to the following: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader

Linux binary execution performance hit

2009-01-11 Thread Mikel Lindsaar
Hi list, Question, what sort of performance hit does FreeBSD 7.0 have on running linux binaries? The program in question is Ruby, I'm looking at putting ruby compiled on a linux box over onto a FreeBSD system so I can take advantage of the Oracle Instant client. But will look at other options

Re: Linux binary execution performance hit

2009-01-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Question, what sort of performance hit does FreeBSD 7.0 have on running linux binaries? The program in question is Ruby, I'm looking at putting ruby compiled on a linux box over onto a FreeBSD system so I can take advantage of the Oracle Instant client. But will look at other options if this

Re: does IPI_PREEMPTION in the kernel config do anything

2009-01-11 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 1/11/09, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: For the last year I have been using IPI_PREEMPTION in my kernel config and I know back then it helped quite a bit on the performence of my dual core... now I am setting a 4 core machine using 7.1pl1 (i386) [on the dual core I {and

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 08:11:00PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: I have to use paper-sneakernet because - no network connectivity yet - tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up with the 'mount' command It won't mount automatically, unless you have the

Re: freebsd-update install

2009-01-11 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
At Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:16:25 +0100, Franck Royer wrote: Thanks for all this infos. I have another question about the zfs kernel module : is it still in the GENERIC kernel in the release 7.1 ? Or do I need to include it and recompile the kernel before the first reboot ? the module is included

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-11 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
Is there an easy way to tell whether the new 7.1 release will officially support my hardware? I looked at this url: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/relnotes.html#PROC and cannot easily tell from there. There must be something in the boot code (or drivers) that looks at the signature

Re: FIXED: vpnc connects, but does not work

2009-01-11 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi perryh! Glad to hear that you managed to get your problem fixed.., I also have this problem, the difference being that mine **USED to** work, but now it suddenly stoped working. I tried adding the line to my conf file as you did, but for me, the problem remains: Appears to connect and

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 07:39:05AM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: Is there an easy way to tell whether the new 7.1 release will officially support my hardware? I looked at this url: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/relnotes.html#PROC Look at this manual page for the re(4)

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-11 Thread stan
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:22:36AM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 08:03:32PM -0500, stan wrote: I am trying to get the ampcache port working on a 7.1 machine. Just wondering if you've resolved the problems you had with this. I installed amapche on an Ubuntu

Re: 7.1 : watchdog bge0 timeout ?

2009-01-11 Thread Jos Chrispijn
[Lowell Gilbert] Uit een eerder bericht van 10-1-2009 15:51 :: Could be hardware trouble, I suppose. I know FreeBSD can detect hardware probs better than other OS'es; but why didn't 6.x detect this malfunction then? I believe Murphy and his law, but for mee it seems a little bit too

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 08:11:00PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: I have to use paper-sneakernet because - no network connectivity yet - tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up with the 'mount' command Here are the last two entries from the 'pciconf -lv'

Re: gname

2009-01-11 Thread Frank Staals
Grant Peel wrote: Wow, After a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.4, (with Xorg) I tried installing Gnome, and I get a stop during build, Filesystem Full! Is Gname really that big? or did I miss doing something? Well it is big, but since you are installing from a clean system all the gnome

Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-11 Thread mojo fms
I was working on an upgrade to 6.3 from 6.2 and I lost power during the install which hosed most of my system. Instead of trying to really recover it I decided to just rebuild. I have a backup of my /etc and /usr/local/etc on a different drive that should be fine, it was just mounted under /mnt

creating own CVSup server

2009-01-11 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
Hi all, I decided to set up my own CVSup server just for my local network. After reading all related stuff I should find, I have solid knowledge about this issue but one thing disturbed my mind. My pc, server which I will mirroring from, is also downloading source tree from another server

Re: creating own CVSup server

2009-01-11 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
Hi, me again, I also havent noticed, that there is a choice among -current or -stable. If I want to mirror just -stable (this is possible with cvsup stable-supfile), can I? thank you again On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Stefan Miklosovic miklosovic.free...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I

Re: setfib+pf

2009-01-11 Thread Dimitar Vasilev
2009/1/7 Dimitar Vasilev dimitar.vassi...@gmail.com Hello, I'd like to ask on the best options for using setfib and pf in a non-BGP environment. I will run 2 uplinks, with VLANs for internal networks and want to fail over external links if one of them fails. Currently pf supports to the

RE: issue with extra top level domain appened to mail

2009-01-11 Thread Matthew Davidson [DATACOM]
Yes it does have the feel of a wayward '.' but... get this... If I rename my box to 'matdav.datacom.com', email comes thru from r...@matdav.datacom.com If I rename my box to 'matdav.datacom.nz', email comes thru from r...@matdav.datacom.nz If I rename my box to 'matdav.datacom.com.au', email

Re: gname

2009-01-11 Thread RW
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:49:37 -0500 Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: Wow, After a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.4, (with Xorg) I tried installing Gnome, and I get a stop during build, Filesystem Full! Is Gname really that big? or did I miss doing something? Doing a du -h -d1 on /usr

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-11 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
Well isn't that just great. I'm using the amd64 version, don't know if this makes a difference. The link says the poster expects it will be fixed before 7.1-RELEASE is out. (Posting date was in late December.) I just tried the FreeBSD 7.1 bootonly and the configure window at least listed

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 06:17:35PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: Well isn't that just great. I'm using the amd64 version, don't know if this makes a difference. It shouldn't really. AFAIK the code for the network interface drivers is architecture independant. On amd64 I also had

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-11 Thread stan
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:22:36AM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 08:03:32PM -0500, stan wrote: I am trying to get the ampcache port working on a 7.1 machine. Just wondering if you've resolved the problems you had with this. I played witht his a bit more this

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-11 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
I'm afraid it's gone from bad to worse. The 7.1 system may have recognised the ethernet adapter, but it seemed to fail writing to the hard drive. I got this during installation: Progress Extracting GENERIC into /boot directory... Message Write failure on

bash versus sh test builtin

2009-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
The -ne operator for [ in /bin/sh doesn't seem to work as in bash. Also the bash behavior here is what matches /bin/[ most closely. $ /bin/sh $ if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then echo not root fi [: -ne: unexpected operator $ exit $ echo $SHELL /usr/local/bin/bash [jeff...@dobby ~/src/mount-rsnap]$

Re: bash versus sh test builtin

2009-01-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 11), Jeffrey Goldberg said: The -ne operator for [ in /bin/sh doesn't seem to work as in bash. Also the bash behavior here is what matches /bin/[ most closely. $ /bin/sh $ if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then echo not root fi [: -ne: unexpected operator $ exit $ echo

Re: FIXED: vpnc connects, but does not work

2009-01-11 Thread perryh
I also have this problem, the difference being that mine **USED to** work, but now it suddenly stoped working. I tried adding the line to my conf file as you did, but for me, the problem remains: Appears to connect and authenticate successfully to my office's VPN concentrator Once

Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-11 Thread perryh
mojo fms fbsdli...@gmail.com wrote: I was working on an upgrade to 6.3 from 6.2 and I lost power during the install which hosed most of my system. Instead of trying to really recover it I decided to just rebuild. I have a backup of my /etc and /usr/local/etc on a different drive that

How to grow partition size on RAID volume?

2009-01-11 Thread Darren David
Hi all- I need some help figuring out how to expand the existing partition on my RAID volume to take advantage of a new disk I just added -- without newfs'ing the volume and starting from scratch. I added a 4th 750GB disk to my existing 1.5TB 3ware RAID5 volume, in an attempt to bring my

Re: bash versus sh test builtin

2009-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:07 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: UID=$(id -u) if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then echo not root fi UID is not a variable set by /bin/sh, which is why the test fails. Ah. Thank you. I was, as you see, barking up the wrong tree. Thank you for setting me strait on this. Cheers, -j

Re: bash versus sh test builtin

2009-01-11 Thread George Davidovich
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:08:18PM -0600, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: The -ne operator for [ in /bin/sh doesn't seem to work as in bash. Also the bash behavior here is what matches /bin/[ most closely. $ /bin/sh $ if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then echo not root fi [: -ne: unexpected operator $

In Brief: idea summary

2009-01-11 Thread Gary Kline
hEy guys, Here's my idea, And since I'm publishing on the most open of the open-source list, it'll be hard for anybody to ``steal'', assuming it is _worth_ stealing. People seem to be reading less; fact. Listening more. I'm sure there

Re: FIXED: vpnc connects, but does not work

2009-01-11 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi perryh! Thanks for the reply.., On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I also have this problem, the difference being that mine **USED to** work, but now it suddenly stoped working. I tried adding the line to my conf file as you did, but for me, the problem remains: