Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 20:24, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables. I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick... Check if you can download FreeSBIE somewhere.

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-06-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh bugrepor...@haakh.de wrote: Polytropon schrieb: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables. I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick... Check if you

RE: Apache 2.2 + PHP5 + SuExec + (fast-cgi or mod_fcgid)

2011-06-29 Thread Van Der Meulen, Mark
I am under the impression that suPHP is the better/more secure way of running PHP with Apache. In addition you don't need suEXEC to do so. Am I incorrect in these assumptions? What are the benefits of running PHP as a CGI(if you don't mind me asking) ? Mark -Original Message- From:

Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive 2TB

2011-06-29 Thread O. Hartmann
On a Dell PowerEdge 1950, BIOS from 2007, a freshly installed WD 3 TB SATA 6GB harddrive doesn't get recognized as 3 TB disk, it is reported as 2TB disk only. The box is running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (see below the dmesg excerpt). The drive is configured as ZFS pool on top of a GPT partition.

Re: Apache 2.2 + PHP5 + SuExec + (fast-cgi or mod_fcgid)

2011-06-29 Thread Damien Fleuriot
*fast* cgi , which as the name implies, is erm, fast ;) See, only apache has PHP as a module. Other web servers such as nginx or lighttpd use a fastcgi process. This has several advantages: - you'll no longer see apache exit with (quote) a signal 11, core dumped because of lousy php code /

clean up compat/pkg

2011-06-29 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all After some time with portupgrade I've got 1.5 Go files in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg how can I clean up this directory (and not making my BSD broken...;-) ). Regards. JAS -- Albert SHIH DIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive 2TB

2011-06-29 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/29/11 9:58 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: On a Dell PowerEdge 1950, BIOS from 2007, a freshly installed WD 3 TB SATA 6GB harddrive doesn't get recognized as 3 TB disk, it is reported as 2TB disk only. I almost stopped reading at BIOS from 2007. You should definitely upgrade the BIOS before

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive 2TB

2011-06-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:58:02AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: On a Dell PowerEdge 1950, BIOS from 2007, a freshly installed WD 3 TB SATA 6GB harddrive doesn't get recognized as 3 TB disk, it is reported as 2TB disk only. The box is running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (see below the dmesg excerpt).

Re: monitoring changes in SVN branches

2011-06-29 Thread Simon Olofsson
On 06/28/2011 09:13 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: Is there some tool (in the ports) to watch if changes done in one of SVN branches are also incorporated into other branches? Since version 1.5 SVN records this information in the mergeinfo property, see [1] and [2]. Writing a script that reads

Re: clean up compat/pkg

2011-06-29 Thread kron24
Dne 29.6.2011 10:31, Albert Shih napsal(a): Hi all After some time with portupgrade I've got 1.5 Go files in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg how can I clean up this directory (and not making my BSD broken...;-) ). Regards. JAS see man portslean - it mentions sysutils/libchk BR Oli

Re: I have a error in freebsd 8.2, an internal system error has ocurred

2011-06-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:33:06AM -0500, Edgar Rodolfo wrote: Hi guys!, i am new on freebsd, but i had installed freebsd 8.2 with graphical interface (gnome), i was very happy, but suddendly i saw a message, exactly the message said: we were not expecting has ocurred ..., look the photo, i

Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread eculp
I just saw this box that is being promoted as a gaming machine at a great price and am considering it as a web-server. In addition to having no information on the CPU as a server lack of comfort with 6 cores and memory 8GB of memory that I am having a problem with. I am not a gamer but I

Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:31:05 -0500, ec...@encontacto.net wrote: In addition to having no information on the CPU as a server lack of comfort with 6 cores and memory 8GB of memory that I am having a problem with. I am not a gamer but I have always assumed that a gaming machine needs the

Dell PowerEdge 1950 with LSI SAS1068E/aka DeLL SAS-6 HBA: howto update firmware with FreeBSD?

2011-06-29 Thread O. Hartmann
We run a Dell PowerEdge 1950 Server which is equipted with a LSI Logic LSISAS1068E SAS HBA, branded as a Dell SAS-6 HBA (MPT). The firmware is dated to 2007 and is not capable of handling hard disks larger than 2 TB. We got now a 3 TB SATA harddrive (WD WD30EZRX) which doesn't get recognized

Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread Edwin L. Culp W.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:31:05 -0500, ec...@encontacto.net wrote: In addition to having no information on the CPU as a server lack of comfort with 6 cores and memory 8GB of memory that I am having a problem with.  I am not a gamer

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1950: MPT0 doesn't recogniz hard drive 2TB

2011-06-29 Thread Joshua Boyd
2011/6/29 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de Questions: a) Is this an issue of FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE or is it a firmware/BIOS issue which can be solved? Hi Oliver, Neither, unfortunately. The 1068E based cards do not support drives over 2TB. See here:

RE: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread Gary Gatten
Of course it depends on your apps, but unless you're doing some HUGE number of connections, or your apps are not good, this will be MORE than enough RAM and CPU. Yes, generally speaking more of something is always better, in fact our government seems to think more debt is better than

Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread Edwin L. Culp W.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Of course it depends on your apps, but unless you're doing some HUGE number of connections, or your apps are not good, this will be MORE than enough RAM and CPU. Yes, generally speaking more of something is always

RE: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread Robert Huff
Gary Gatten writes: Yes, generally speaking more of something is always better, in fact our government seems to think more debt is better than less. However, if you're web apps only need xGB of RAM and y MIPS; what benefit is it to have n * x RAM and n * y MIPS? It is my

Re: Apache 2.2 + PHP5 + SuExec + (fast-cgi or mod_fcgid)

2011-06-29 Thread Grant Peel
Should I be using suPHP then instead of the formentioned suexec/mod_fcgid ? -Grant -Original Message- From: Damien Fleuriot Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:25 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apache 2.2 + PHP5 + SuExec + (fast-cgi or mod_fcgid) *fast* cgi , which as

Re: Apache 2.2 + PHP5 + SuExec + (fast-cgi or mod_fcgid)

2011-06-29 Thread Damien Fleuriot
I would guess so, however I have no experience with fcgi on apache, I only run it with nginx and lighttpd servers. On 6/29/11 6:04 PM, Grant Peel wrote: Should I be using suPHP then instead of the formentioned suexec/mod_fcgid ? -Grant -Original Message- From: Damien Fleuriot

Question about NIC link state initialization

2011-06-29 Thread Steve Polyack
I have a handful of systems running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. An occaisional fat-finger in /etc/fstab may cause one to end up in single-user mode from time to time. This would normally not be a problem, but some of these systems have a LOM (lights-out management) controller which shares the

OpenNMS under FreeBSD?

2011-06-29 Thread Dennis Glatting
I am looking at OpenNMS under FreeBSD but it isn't in the ports tree although there are various discussions of OpenNMS under FreeBSD. Is there a reason why OpenNMS isn't in the ports tree, such as it doesn't port, no one is willing to step up as a maintainer, or there are licensing issues?

mountroot

2011-06-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I'm a little desperade. I installed a mirrored ZFS freebsd system in a VM the other day and all went well. Now I did the same procedure on a real systrem with two drives and I can't get the system to boot properly. Everytime it halts at the mountroot prompt. If I manually put zfs:zroot at the

Re: mountroot

2011-06-29 Thread Trond Endrestøl
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I'm a little desperade. I installed a mirrored ZFS freebsd system in a VM the other day and all went well. Now I did the same procedure on a real systrem with two drives and I can't get the system to boot properly. Everytime it halts

Re: mountroot

2011-06-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 29-6-2011 21:15, Trond Endrestøl schreef: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I'm a little desperade. I installed a mirrored ZFS freebsd system in a VM the other day and all went well. Now I did the same procedure on a real systrem with two drives and I can't get the

Re: mountroot

2011-06-29 Thread Trond Endrestøl
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:18+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Op 29-6-2011 21:15, Trond Endrestøl schreef: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I'm a little desperade. I installed a mirrored ZFS freebsd system in a VM the other day and all went well. Now I did the same

Re: mountroot

2011-06-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 29-6-2011 21:19, Trond Endrestøl schreef: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:18+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Op 29-6-2011 21:15, Trond Endrestøl schreef: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I'm a little desperade. I installed a mirrored ZFS freebsd system in a VM the other day and

Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.3.23 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD)

2011-06-29 Thread David Naylor
Hi, Packages for wine-fbsd64-1.3.23 have been uploaded to mediafire [1]. The package now contains support for XInput2, fixing mouse warp, and is based on PR ports/158406. This release fixes installation of MS Office 2007 compared to 1.3.21 (previous package available). nVidia uses

zfs tuning

2011-06-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I would welcome some advise on zfs tuning. Coming from solaris I need this info. The system only has 2MB of ram. No problems running solaris11 in it so far so FreeBSD should do just fine too, but who can suggest some settings for: vm.kmem_size vm.kmem_size_max vfs.zfs.arc_max

RE: zfs tuning

2011-06-29 Thread Gary Gatten
2 Mega Bytes? Surely that's a typo, but is it 200MB? 2GB? Those that know ZFS will want to know the primary use / load of this system. G -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Dick Hoogendijk Sent:

Re: mountroot

2011-06-29 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Op 29-6-2011 21:19, Trond Endrestøl schreef: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:18+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Op 29-6-2011 21:15, Trond Endrestøl schreef: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I'm a little desperade. I installed a

Attempting to get an X11 server running

2011-06-29 Thread Dieter BSD
FreeBSD 8.2 packages: packages-8.2-release amd64 ATI Rage XL Dell ST2220T (1920x1080) Xorg -configure generates an xorg.conf file that somehow puts it into 1280x1024 mode and the monitor refuses to use it. I haven't found a way to get the full modeline info for whatever it is actually putting

Re: Attempting to get an X11 server running

2011-06-29 Thread Bernt Hansson
2011-06-30 02:12, Dieter BSD skrev: FreeBSD 8.2 packages: packages-8.2-release amd64 ATI Rage XL Dell ST2220T (1920x1080) Xorg -configure generates an xorg.conf file that somehow puts it into 1280x1024 mode and the monitor refuses to use it. I haven't found a way to get the full modeline info

Re: mountroot

2011-06-29 Thread Carl Chave
2011/6/29 Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Op 29-6-2011 21:19, Trond Endrestøl schreef: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:18+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Op 29-6-2011 21:15, Trond Endrestøl schreef: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:

Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:47:09 -0500, Edwin L. Culp W. wrote: The price difference between a minimal design and something like this usually not significant. So this is sounding more and more like a go. Allow me a short addition: Gaming machines usually put no emphasize on energy efficiency.

Re: OpenNMS under FreeBSD?

2011-06-29 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Dennis Glatting free...@penx.com wrote: I am looking at OpenNMS under FreeBSD but it isn't in the ports tree although there are various discussions of OpenNMS under FreeBSD. Is there a reason why OpenNMS isn't in the ports tree, such as it doesn't port, no

PID 11 using 400% CPU

2011-06-29 Thread Manish Jain
Hello All, I have a strange problem with my 8.1 box. After booting, the hard disk goes into a full-speed never-ending spin. 'ps waux' always shows pid 11 as taking 400% CPU utilization : /root # ps -up 11 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND

Re: Attempting to get an X11 server running

2011-06-29 Thread Dieter BSD
Q1: how do you start X? Xorg (no config file) result: display works (1400x1050), but no keyboard or mouse Xorg -configure (creates /root/xorg.conf.new) Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new result: 1280x1024 which monitor doesn't like I also tried Xorg -keyboard Keyboard0 -pointer Mouse0 with and

Re: PID 11 using 400% CPU

2011-06-29 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jun 29 23:07:59 2011 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:37:11 +0530 From: Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PID 11 using 400% CPU Hello All, I have a strange problem with my 8.1 box. After booting,

Re: PID 11 using 400% CPU

2011-06-29 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 30), Manish Jain said: Hello All, I have a strange problem with my 8.1 box. After booting, the hard disk goes into a full-speed never-ending spin. To see what disk I/O is being done, try running ktrace -dip 0 ; sleep 10 ; ktrace -C, to capture all syscalls

Re: Question about NIC link state initialization

2011-06-29 Thread perryh
Steve Polyack kor...@comcast.net wrote: ... An occaisional fat-finger in /etc/fstab may cause one to end up in single-user mode ... some of these systems have a LOM (lights-out management) controller which shares the system's on-board NICs ... when the system drops out of init(8) and into