Re: Moving master.passwd file between servers... is this correct?

2010-03-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/2010 05:41:10, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 10), Modulok said: I need to migrate a passwd file from an old 6.2 server to a newer 8.0 server (different box). This is what I did: copied the '/etc/master.passwd' from old

Re: Silicon Image SiI 3124 and 3132 RAID controllers

2010-03-11 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: On 2010-03-10 23:12, Steve Polyack wrote: On 03/10/10 15:56, Leslie Jensen wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD 8-RELEASE on a machine with an Abit aw8-max MB. This MB has a built in SiI 3132 RAID controller. I also have

Re: Re : Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-11 Thread Matthew Law
+1 for psSense and if you need a quick to setup home NAS box, you could do worse than FreeNAS, which is also derived from FreeBSD -although I don't think it supports ZFS currently. When it does it will be even better. Best, Matt On Thu, March 11, 2010 7:59 am, Alexandre L. wrote: You can use

Full Unicode Support for FreeBSD

2010-03-11 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Isn`t it time for FreeBSD to fully support Unicode/UTF-8 by now? It is considered to be standard charset by now. XML uses it by default. If you are working with texts in different languages there is no alternative to UTF-8. If you chat with a Linux machine you can easily run into charset troubles

Re: Full Unicode Support for FreeBSD

2010-03-11 Thread Ivan Voras
On 03/11/10 06:57, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: Isn`t it time for FreeBSD to fully support Unicode/UTF-8 by now? Yes! Good of you to say so! Your code and other patches will be integrated as soon as you send them. It is considered to be standard charset by now. XML uses it by default. If you

Advice request: DSL modem

2010-03-11 Thread Michael Doyle
I am looking for advice regarding DSL Modems: I need to add a computer to our VPN which is implemented using the FreeBSD IPSEC protocols. So far, all our sites are connected using a wireless point-to-point link provided by our ISP that gives us fixed IP addresses with no NAT issues. Now I

Does compression on zfs pool affect performance? .......WAS, Re: Silicon Image SiI 3124 and 3132 RAID controllers

2010-03-11 Thread Leslie Jensen
The solution for me was to create a raidz which gave me the same amount of space. Now I wonder, should I enable compression? Will it affect performance? Later I want to share this pool with SAMBA. Will SAMBA see the pool as a filesystem? Thanks /Leslie

aoe - with freenas, openfiler

2010-03-11 Thread Vadkan Jozsef
Does anybody has a link to a distro, that supports ata over ethernet, and it's like: freenas, openfiler sorry for the interesting question :D:S thank you! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ACLs, umask and shared directories

2010-03-11 Thread Rob
Hi Gary, Directory group inheritance is the default in FreeBSD - see open(2): When a new file is created it is given the group of the directory which contains it. In SysV, this behaviour is controlled by the setgid bit. So the file has the correct group, but it's not writeable

Re: can't ping localhost

2010-03-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 02:47:35AM +, Anton Shterenlikht typed: I believe -current has a issue where you can not ping localhost atm all my machines are current, but some are more current than others.. Why exactly are you running -current? People that do are supposed to do some

Continued use of HAL in FreeBSD

2010-03-11 Thread Gerard
I have read that 'HAL' is now considered depreciated and that it is no longer being actively maintained. I have read many articles describing its short comings, etc. I even came across this URL: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy, while not directly connected to FreeBSD, it is interesting. I was

Re: Advice request: DSL modem

2010-03-11 Thread Matthew Law
Mike, I use a Draytek Vigor 120 (I'm in the UK, but it most certainly will work for you aswell). This is a self-contained ADSL modem that presents a PPPoE interface to your PC or server via a conventional RJ45 connector. It is painless and past firmware hiccups accepted, performs very well

NIS passwd file is never updated with new users

2010-03-11 Thread Thomas
Hi I've configured a NIS master server as descriped in the freebsd handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-nis.html). I removed all super and system users from master.passwd in /var/yp, chmod 600 master.passwd and initialized my NIS master server without any errors. ypcat passwd

Re: aoe - with freenas, openfiler

2010-03-11 Thread Alexei Volkov
I am in business as well and looking for FreeBSD AoE support. So far no luck. I found CORAID AoE port at http://support.coraid.com/support/freebsd/ but was not able to get it run properly on FreeBSD 8. 11.03.2010 13:54, Vadkan Jozsef пишет: Does anybody has a link to a distro, that

Re: Continued use of HAL in FreeBSD

2010-03-11 Thread Ivan Voras
On 03/11/10 12:36, Gerard wrote: I have read that 'HAL' is now considered depreciated and that it is no longer being actively maintained. I have read many articles describing its short comings, etc. I even came across this URL: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy, while not directly connected to

Re: Advice request: DSL modem

2010-03-11 Thread Michael Doyle
Thanks, that looks like EXACTLY what I need And one of my normal vendors had it in stock too. On 11 Mar 2010, at 11:52, Matthew Law wrote: Mike, I use a Draytek Vigor 120 (I'm in the UK, but it most certainly will work for you aswell). This is a self-contained ADSL modem that presents a

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
mailinglist mailingl...@ucwv.edu writes: I've got an old Linksys router hanging off of my cable modem that is several years old and is about to die (very poor wireless throughput should be 54 mb and is 2, runs hot, and buzzes while turned on). I've got an older PC that would great as a

multimon.cgi

2010-03-11 Thread Dánielisz László
hi, I'm planning to buy an APC UPS becasue FreeBSD have a nice apcupsd daemon so I can control my system. Okay, but the thing is that apcupsd have a web interface for it, the main file is called multinom.cig, I read the manual (http://www.apcupsd.com/manual/manual.html) but I seen no reference

multimon.cgi

2010-03-11 Thread Robert Huff
=?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E1nielisz_L=E1szl=F3?= writes: I'm planning to buy an APC UPS becasue FreeBSD have a nice apcupsd daemon so I can control my system. Okay, but the thing is that apcupsd have a web interface for it, the main file is called multinom.cgi, I read the manual

Re: multimon.cgi

2010-03-11 Thread Dánielisz László
Great, you done that before! It helps but I still don't know where can I found the *.cgi files so I can copy them to the proper apache directory, do you know? From: Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com To: Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com Cc:

sysinstall: download via pure http

2010-03-11 Thread Eitan Adler
instead of ftp through an http proxy is it possible to get a pure http mirror? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

avahi-libdns and mDNSResponder

2010-03-11 Thread Programmer In Training
Why oh why are there projects that provide the same functionality and files in the same locations? These two ports, avahi-libdns and mDNSresponder, have given me nothing but PROBLEMS when using portmaster to upgrade (or any other tool to install something else, such as KDE4). Those two ports,

Upgrade to 8.0 STABLE and KDE 4 - minor problems

2010-03-11 Thread Paul Schmehl
I just upgraded my workstation from 7.2 STABLE to 8.0 STABLE. I decided to make the leap and upgrade to KDE 4 as well. After sorting out some issues, everything is working except for a couple of weird things. I'm using two 19 montiors and a virtual display of 3360x1050. That's working fine,

problems w/ touching all files?

2010-03-11 Thread Richard DeLaurell
I made a big mistake the upshot of which is that many of my files (including many port/makefiles) have the wrong date. As a result, I get a lot of failures when trying to install from ports. I can get around it by temporarily setting the date, building the port, then resetting the date, but it

Re: sysinstall: download via pure http

2010-03-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/2010 15:07:07, Eitan Adler wrote: instead of ftp through an http proxy is it possible to get a pure http mirror? Yes happy-idiot-talk:~:% HEAD -uSe http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ HEAD http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ HEAD

Re: Does compression on zfs pool affect performance? .......WAS, Re: Silicon Image SiI 3124 and 3132 RAID controllers

2010-03-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 11), Leslie Jensen said: The solution for me was to create a raidz which gave me the same amount of space. Now I wonder, should I enable compression? Will it affect performance? The default lzjb compression is very fast and won't consume much CPU. If you have lots

Re: problems w/ touching all files?

2010-03-11 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Richard DeLaurell wrote: I made a big mistake the upshot of which is that many of my files (including many port/makefiles) have the wrong date. Which date, where? Modification date? What is the wrong value they have now? As a result, I get a lot of failures when

Re: Does compression on zfs pool affect performance? .......WAS, Re: Silicon Image SiI 3124 and 3132 RAID controllers

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
- Original Message From: Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com In the last episode (Mar 11), Leslie Jensen said: The solution for me was to create a raidz which gave me the same amount of space. Now I wonder, should I enable compression? Will it affect performance? The default lzjb

Re: problems w/ touching all files?

2010-03-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Richard DeLaurell richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote: I made a big mistake the upshot of which is that many of my files (including many port/makefiles) have the wrong date. As a result, I get a lot of failures when trying to install from ports. I can get

RE: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-11 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: mailinglist [mailto:mailingl...@ucwv.edu] Sent: 11 March 2010 01:36 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Replacing Home Router With PC I've got an old Linksys router hanging off of my cable modem that is several years old and is about to die (very poor

About Which Version I'll Use?

2010-03-11 Thread Vishal Kashyap
Respected Sir, I am a MCA student. and i'd like to install FreeBSD for development purpose on my system. But, I've no more information about hardware portion. So, Please guide me about that. Here, I am sending you my System's hardware profile; which is, AMD Athlon Dual Core 7750 Kingston 2 Gb

Training Courses.

2010-03-11 Thread Ameed Imad
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Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-11 Thread David Jackson
David Jackson wrote: I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk. Also, when accessing the USB disk, the entire system

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 11, 2010, at 3:05 PM, David Jackson wrote: [ ... ] I seem to have also discovered that the lockup problems are not entirely due to USB issues. Many of them were being caused by an apparent problem with the swap system. I have two swaps, a file backed swap and a partition swap on the

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 5:05 PM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.comwrote: David Jackson wrote: I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they

Re: can't ping localhost

2010-03-11 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Mar 10 20:24:31 2010 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:23:44 + From: Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: can't ping localhost I misconfigured my system somehow, so now I can't ping localhost: # ping

Re: Moving master.passwd file between servers... is this correct?

2010-03-11 Thread Modulok
Thanks guys, it worked! -Modulok- On 3/11/10, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/2010 05:41:10, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 10), Modulok said: I need to migrate a passwd file from an old 6.2 server to a

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-11 Thread Al Plant
David Jackson wrote: David Jackson wrote: I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk. Also, when accessing the USB disk,

Re: (Update) Re: Objective-C 2.0 on FreeBSD; garbage collection, anyone?

2010-03-11 Thread Nerius Landys
Sorry for the delay. Medical problem. Here's what I know. 1) Under FreeBSD 8.x OBJC APPEARS NOT to use garbage collection. I looked at the source and the GC routines aren't defined anywhere and I stepped through the assembly language and the allocation routing call malloc(). There is a

FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-11 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello all. I have an old machine that has been running 4.11-Stable for some years. This week something weird happened when I tried to update to latest version on 4.x. Anyway, I thought that was a good idea to update to 5.x and after doing all the process finally I can not have it running

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.03.11 23:29, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. I have an old machine that has been running 4.11-Stable for some years. This week something weird happened when I tried to update to latest version on 4.x. Anyway, I thought that was a good idea to update to 5.x and after doing all the

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Shroyer
On 3/11/2010 11:29 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: I have an old machine that has been running 4.11-Stable for some years. This week something weird happened when I tried to update to latest version on 4.x. Anyway, I thought that was a good idea to update to 5.x and after doing all the process finally

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Shroyer
On 3/10/2010 8:50 PM, Ed Jobs wrote: On Thursday 11 of March 2010 03:36, mailinglist wrote: The question is, can it use that wireless card to act as a access point instead of a client (how the card is intended to be used)? you can run the hostapd daemon to configure a card as an access point.

Re: Replacing Home Router With PC

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Shroyer
On 3/11/2010 9:32 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: mailinglist mailingl...@ucwv.edu writes: I've got an old Linksys router hanging off of my cable modem that is several years old and is about to die (very poor wireless throughput should be 54 mb and is 2, runs hot, and buzzes while turned on).

Re: Objective-C 2.0 on FreeBSD; garbage collection, anyone?

2010-03-11 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:14:25 -0800 Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: I am compiling this program and running it, and without the release calls there, it certainly is using up more and more memory every second.  Definitely no garbage collection happening.  I then modified the

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-11 Thread Erich
On 12 March 2010 pm 12:29:13 Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. I have an old machine that has been running 4.11-Stable for some years. This week something weird happened when I tried to update to latest version on 4.x. Anyway, I thought that was a good idea to update to 5.x and after doing