Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread Chris
Greetings, Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla. Preferably fast, no need to install a base OS, easy to clone and restore. Of course, the key is fast. Clonezilla does a nice job with OS's other than *BSD (It uses dd (iirc)) and that takes forever (at least when cloning -

battery reconditioning

2009-09-28 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
hi list, form time to time, there appears some error / warning messages in console, which say this: Sep 27 23:54:40 dell kernel: aac0: **Monitor** ID(0:02:0); Error Event [command:0x28] Sep 27 23:54:40 dell kernel: aac0: **Monitor** ID(0:02:0); Medium Error [k:0x3,c:0x3,q:0x0] Sep 27 23:54:40

Re: battery reconditioning

2009-09-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, form time to time, there appears some error / warning messages in console, which say this: Sep 28 00:13:40 dell kernel: aac0: **Monitor** Battery needs reconditioning. What is your question? It informs you you should change the battery used on the RAID hardware, so change the battery :)

Re: Whic mail server?

2009-09-28 Thread krad
2009/9/28 Karl Vogel vogelke+u...@pobox.com vogelke%2bu...@pobox.com On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:01:22 -0700 (PDT), Aflatoon Aflatooni aaflato...@yahoo.com said: A I am running a server that is acting as the mail server for only A internal users (about 50 users). Currently we are running

fix remote degraded gmirror

2009-09-28 Thread Robin Becker
I have a freebsd 6.1 system with a gmirror raid 1 which is degraded. Originally I had /dev/ad4 /dev/ad6, but I'm getting a degraded status and log messages reporting dergraded status and uncorrectable block for ad4. Obviously I need to remove the device and get it replaced and then insert

java/jdk16 vulnerability?

2009-09-28 Thread cpghost
[Sorry for resending: I didn't get any replies] Freenet (http://www.freenetproject.org/) on my FreeBSD/amd64 system complains about an old and vulnerable Java version: Your installed version of Java is vulnerable to a severe remote exploit (remote code execution!). You must upgrade to at

Re: Whic mail server?

2009-09-28 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: Hi, I am running a server that is acting as the mail server for only internal users (about 50 users). Currently we are running Sendmail, but reading on other discussions I noticed that qmail and other programs are suggested. I am wondering if

Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

2009-09-28 Thread krad
2009/9/28 Robin Becker ro...@reportlab.com I have a freebsd 6.1 system with a gmirror raid 1 which is degraded. Originally I had /dev/ad4 /dev/ad6, but I'm getting a degraded status and log messages reporting dergraded status and uncorrectable block for ad4. Obviously I need to remove the

Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

2009-09-28 Thread Robin Becker
krad wrote: ... probably not but possibly. What is the server you have is it a custom build one? Does it have a drive cage? Can you make the hd light blink? I've never seen the machinery. Is the remote hands going to go inside the case for you, as I think he might to have to

Re: Whic mail server?

2009-09-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 06:01:22AM -0700, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: Hi, I am running a server that is acting as the mail server for only internal users (about 50 users). Currently we are running Sendmail, but reading on other discussions I noticed that qmail and other programs are

Re: Whic mail server?

2009-09-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:49:37AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 06:01:22AM -0700, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: Hi, I am running a server that is acting as the mail server for only internal users (about 50 users). Currently we are running Sendmail, but reading on

Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

2009-09-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Robin Becker ro...@reportlab.com wrote: I have a freebsd 6.1 system with a gmirror raid 1 which is degraded. Originally I had /dev/ad4 /dev/ad6, but I'm getting a degraded status and log messages reporting dergraded status and uncorrectable block for ad4.

Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

2009-09-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Robin Becker ro...@reportlab.com wrote: krad wrote: ... probably not but possibly. What is the server you have is it a custom build one? Does it have a drive cage? Can you make the hd light blink? I've never seen the machinery. Is the remote

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Chris wrote: Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla. Preferably fast, no need to install a base OS, easy to clone and restore. Of course, the key is fast. Clonezilla uses ntfsclone or partimage, both programs that have built-in knowledge of specific

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:01:18PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition. I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which I subscribe, in Issue 124, comes with FreeBSD 7.2 on the

Re: dbus/hal in freebsd 7.2 hangs X11

2009-09-28 Thread kron24
Dne 25.9.2009 19:55, Warren Block napsal(a): On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, kron24 wrote: Dne 25.9.2009 14:32, William Bulley napsal(a): According to Giuseppe Pagnonigpagn...@gmail.com on Fri, 09/25/09 at 03:32: I am trying to use hal/dbus on a i386 machine with FreeBSD 7.2 (ports updated to the

Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

2009-09-28 Thread Robin Becker
Thanks for the information re reboot; I think I knew it was a sata already. My one remaining question is what preparation does the hd need prior to gmirror insert. I see various people recommending clearing out various chunks of the disk (to make the disk unambiguously not in sync?), but that

Swaping Fs (from ntfs to ufs), or ntfs3g?

2009-09-28 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
Hi folks, Scenario: 3 hds, 1 of them with a NTFS partition and loads of media on it, I was thinking to activate ntfs3g under Freebsd 7.2 STABLE, but since Im having this partition since a while... and i will no need to have it on this FS, what you recommed for moving this partition into ufs

Re: Swaping Fs (from ntfs to ufs), or ntfs3g?

2009-09-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Jeronimo Calvo jeronimocal...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi folks, Scenario: 3 hds, 1 of them with a NTFS partition and loads of media on it, I was thinking to activate ntfs3g under Freebsd 7.2 STABLE, but since Im having this partition since a while... and i

geom not clearing metadata labels

2009-09-28 Thread Ross
I've got a geom based file system that is running under 2 geom modules: multipath and journal. I'm looking to increase the journal size on the disk, but when it comes to re-creating the journal geom metadata, it refuses to do so sighting the errno 1: Operation not permitted. I get the same

Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

2009-09-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Robin Becker ro...@reportlab.com wrote: Thanks for the information re reboot; I think I knew it was a sata already. My one remaining question is what preparation does the hd need prior to gmirror insert. I see various people recommending clearing out various

bridge wlan and tap

2009-09-28 Thread Steve Franks
I know everyone's busy with the release. This is not a showstopper, but it relates to networking, which is pretty central to a working bsd box... I read in some obscure post that I can't bridge from a wlan to tap because the wlan can only handle one MAC? Kindof thought every card has only one

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: Greetings, Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla. Preferably fast, no need to install a base OS, easy to clone and restore. Of course, the key is fast. Clonezilla does a nice job with OS's other than

Re: Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread utisoft
On 28 Sep 2009 15:02, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: Greetings, Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla. Preferably fast, no need to install a base OS, easy to clone and

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla. For FreeBSD, I'd tend to use dump + restore, because that's their main purpose. Clonezilla does a nice job with OS's other than *BSD (It uses dd (iirc)) and that

Re: Swaping Fs (from ntfs to ufs), or ntfs3g?

2009-09-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 05:06:34PM +0100, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: Hi folks, Scenario: 3 hds, 1 of them with a NTFS partition and loads of media on it, I was thinking to activate ntfs3g under Freebsd 7.2 STABLE, but since Im having this partition since a while... and i will no need to have it

Re: battery reconditioning

2009-09-28 Thread RW
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:49:47 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Hi, form time to time, there appears some error / warning messages in console, which say this: Sep 28 00:13:40 dell kernel: aac0: **Monitor** Battery needs reconditioning. What is your

Requesting Service

2009-09-28 Thread don carlos
Hello and Good day, We are looking for a company that provides on-site services on installing FreeBSD mailserver. We currently have a FreeBSD based mailserver running and we need to upgrade it. We need all emails and addressbooks to be transferred into the new server. We will provide the

Re: Requesting Service

2009-09-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:32:52PM -0400, don carlos wrote: Hello and Good day, We are looking for a company that provides on-site services on installing FreeBSD mailserver. We currently have a FreeBSD based mailserver running and we need to upgrade it. We need all emails and addressbooks

Re: dbus/hal in freebsd 7.2 hangs X11

2009-09-28 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, kron24 wrote: It works here. Can we see your xorg.conf? When you built xorg-server, did you enable hal support? Yes, built with default options (including HAL). My xorg.conf is below. The machine is too weak to run my desktop, I use it only to test things: CPU: VIA

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread krad
2009/9/28 Polytropon free...@edvax.de On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:14:44 -0500, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: Please suggest a cloning method comparable to Clonezilla. For FreeBSD, I'd tend to use dump + restore, because that's their main purpose. Clonezilla does a nice job with OS's

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:07:31 +0100, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: If your going to do all the partitoning manually its not to much more work to newfs them as well. Partitioning can be automated, as well as newfs, which does take only seconds on a TB-sized disk. If you want to avoid this,

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread krad
2009/9/29 Polytropon free...@edvax.de On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:07:31 +0100, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: If your going to do all the partitoning manually its not to much more work to newfs them as well. Partitioning can be automated, as well as newfs, which does take only seconds on a

Re: Whic mail server?

2009-09-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Sep 27, 2009, at 8:01 AM, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: Hi, I am running a server that is acting as the mail server for only internal users (about 50 users). Currently we are running Sendmail, but reading on other discussions I noticed that qmail and other programs are suggested. If you

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread RW
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately with bs=512 and count=1 from the /dev/ad{source} device. Why?

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-28 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately with bs=512 and count=1 from the /dev/ad{source} device. Why? Because it

Re: Whic mail server?

2009-09-28 Thread Aflatoon Aflatooni
Thanks, I am running Sendmail on FreeBSD and it is working. I have worked with Sendmail for years and have configured and using it successfully, but with sendmail there is so many things that you could configure you are not sure if you have it configured correctly. I generate my sendmail.cf

Re: java/jdk16 vulnerability?

2009-09-28 Thread Greg Lewis
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:10:48PM +0200, cpghost wrote: Freenet (http://www.freenetproject.org/) on my FreeBSD/amd64 system complains about an old and vulnerable Java version: Your installed version of Java is vulnerable to a severe remote exploit (remote code execution!). You must

Re: java/jdk16 vulnerability?

2009-09-28 Thread Robert Huff
Greg Lewis writes: Your installed version of Java is vulnerable to a severe remote exploit (remote code execution!). You must upgrade to at least Java 5 update 20 or Java 6 update 15 as soon as possible. Freenet has disabled any plugins handling XML for the time being, but

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-28 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq NX5000, 2MB RAM), in a free 20MB partition. I really hope you meant Gb here ;) I noticed that the Linux Format magazine to which I subscribe, in