Re: slow down dd - how?

2010-07-09 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 02:32:18 +0200 From: Thomas f...@gothschlampen.com Cc: FreeBSD Mailing list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slow down dd - how? On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:50:52PM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote: Hi, How can I slow down dd? you could use some creative

Re: sort: write error with portsnap

2010-07-09 Thread Julien Cigar
On 07/08/2010 19:01, Jakub Lach wrote: Julien Cigar-2 wrote: Am I the only one to have sort: write errors since a few days with portsnap ? : Same here. FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #0 r209773 - Jakub Lach good to know I'm not the only one ... I thought my disks/RAID was silently dying (no

shrinking swap space

2010-07-09 Thread John Almberg
Since my server locked me out last week because it was out of swap space, I've been monitoring the swap space every 4 hours. It started off with 3% used and little by little it has crept up to 17% this morning. I've been reading up on the subject in my two FreeBSD books (Absolute and

Re: slow down dd - how?

2010-07-09 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 01:44:00AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: How can I slow down dd? you could use some creative shellscripting (probably in addition to idprio): dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k | ( dd bs=1024k count=10; sleep 3 ) | dd bs=1024k of=/dev/somewhere This pauses for 3

Re: VPN IPsec Help

2010-07-09 Thread Matheus Weber da Conceição
% route add 192.168.10.24/32 200.x.x.x % route add 192.168.201.196/32 200.x.x.x % route add 10.115.90.236/32 200.x.x.x add net 192.168.10.24: gateway 200.x.x.x: Network is unreachable -- The kernel will not create routes automatically? -- Matheus Weber da

ezjail -vs- Do it yourself jail?

2010-07-09 Thread Ed Flecko
I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD 8.0 server to run Apache that will be facing the nasty and unforgiving WWW. I have several good books on Apache that describe how to set up the jail, when I came across several websites that reference the ezjail package. Are there some caveats or downsides to using

Re: Global backup solution for FBSD Ubuntu

2010-07-09 Thread Francisco Reyes
krad writes: In my experience dedup requires a fairly large amount of juice so if your backups are large I hope you machines are big on ram The way tarsnap does it is not that intensive. I have used in an old 900Mhz machine with less than 640MB of RAM and it worked well. I think the program

Last day to submit your Surge 2010 CFP!

2010-07-09 Thread Jason Dixon
Today is your last chance to submit a CFP abstract for the 2010 Surge Scalability Conference. The event is taking place on Sept 30 and Oct 1, 2010 in Baltimore, MD. Surge focuses on case studies that address production failures and the re-engineering efforts that led to victory in Web

Re: ezjail -vs- Do it yourself jail?

2010-07-09 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD 8.0 server to run Apache that will be facing the nasty and unforgiving WWW. I have several good books on Apache that describe how to set up the jail, when I came across several websites that

Re: ezjail -vs- Do it yourself jail?

2010-07-09 Thread Peter Boosten
On 9-7-2010 17:13, Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD 8.0 server to run Apache that will be facing the nasty and unforgiving WWW. I have several good books on Apache that describe how to set up the jail,

Re: slow down dd - how?

2010-07-09 Thread Thomas
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 01:44:00AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: Hi, How can I slow down dd? you could use some creative shellscripting (probably in addition to idprio): dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k | ( dd bs=1024k count=10; sleep 3 ) | dd bs=1024k of=/dev/somewhere This pauses for 3

Re: what to do when FreeBSD cannot do something?

2010-07-09 Thread Iv Ray
On 07.07.2010, at 23:24, Henrik Hudson wrote: One caveat is that ESX / ESXi are very picky about their hardware and pretty much won't run on anything but server class devices (mobo, NICs and CPU are the big ones). Yes, I'm aware of that. We have entry level, but ESXi compatible, HP and IBM

Re: what to do when FreeBSD cannot do something?

2010-07-09 Thread Iv Ray
On 08.07.2010, at 03:04, Olivier Nicole wrote: That's the idea: bare metal and free, proxmox has something based on... I don't remember. I opted for vmware becuase it seems to be more wide spread. Yes, that's what I think, too. You will have to make your fingers dirty, because once you are

Re: ezjail -vs- Do it yourself jail?

2010-07-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 07:50:26AM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote: I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD 8.0 server to run Apache that will be facing the nasty and unforgiving WWW. I have several good books on Apache that describe how to set up the jail, when I came across several websites that reference

Re: shrinking swap space

2010-07-09 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Jul 9 08:18:56 2010 Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:18:01 -0400 From: John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: shrinking swap space Since my server locked me out last week because it was out of swap space, I've

Re: shrinking swap space

2010-07-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jul 9, 2010, at 6:18 AM, John Almberg wrote: Is there a utility that shows which programs are using swap space? Or that can help debug this problem? Try: top -o size Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

ipfw nat and jails on loopback - is it possible?

2010-07-09 Thread Michael
Hello. Does anybody has a working configuration with ipfw nated jails on loopback interface? It simply doesn't work on my system. I can not get any connections to outside world from within a jail. FreeBSD 8.0-p3 amd64 laptop connected to internet via wlan0 (ath0) with 192.168.1.111 address.

RE:debugfsFreeBSD

2010-07-09 Thread Dmitry Lunts
Thanks for your responses! fsdb really works. The event sequence was as follows: $sudo smartctl -t long /dev/ad6 $sudo smartctl -l selftest /dev/ad6 Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining ... LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure90%7376

Re: ipfw nat and jails on loopback - is it possible?

2010-07-09 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Michael == Michael mlmichae...@gmail.com writes: Michael Does anybody has a working configuration with ipfw nated jails Michael on loopback interface? I noticed in my pf.conf that I had set skip on lo. I changed that to set skip on lo0 (still advisable), and then created an lo1 using

Re: troubles with my optical drive on old thinkpad....

2010-07-09 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 11:23:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: guys, i only have a couple more black cd-r discs left; have wasted many since i WAS ABLE to install PC-BSD. the optical [dvd/cd] drive =does= read my ancient 5.3 CD set, but it reads nothing i burn. i have tried

how to setenv using Bourne .sh

2010-07-09 Thread Aiza
Trying the set the pkg_add environment variable PKGDIR using this setenv PKGDIR=/usr/packages and get this error message setenv: Syntax Error. man setenv is useless. The question is how do I set a environment variable using the default freebsd shell?

Disk very slow in FreeBSD

2010-07-09 Thread Depo Catcher
I've tried everything here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15747 and here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15722 Also followed this: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.p...8postcount=38 http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=76148postcount=38 I have a 2TB WD drives

Re: how to setenv using Bourne .sh

2010-07-09 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:53:17 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Trying the set the pkg_add environment variable PKGDIR using this setenv PKGDIR=/usr/packages and get this error message setenv: Syntax Error. Of course. The sh shell doesn't have setenv. man setenv is useless. The

Reconstruct meaningful data from tcpdumps?

2010-07-09 Thread Modulok
Is there a way to reconstruct network traffic from a tcpdump file? Or something similar? As in: analyze the dump file and attempt to re-construct files transfered though http, ftp, known messenger protocols, instant message conversations, http requests, web pages, and so forth? There's a bunch of