Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Please keep this on list. Forwarded from: Julian Stacey j...@berklix.com http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/ --- Forwarded Message From travelin...@cox.net Thu Nov 24 05:15:33 2011 From: Robert travelin...@cox.net To: Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com Subject: Re: Invalid fdisk partition table

Re: Do you run OSSEC on 9.0?

2011-11-24 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Since /dev contains a special filesystem which cannot be used for simple files and directories, I would say that the IDS needs some knowledge about it and generic file-checking rules don't apply there. This sounds like a false alert, something must have changed from 8 to 9 and/or the ossec port

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/11/2011 10:07, Kees Jan Koster wrote: This seems to be local to my machine. Here is another reason why I say that: I can reliably transmit data when I bind to the aliased IP address: If I use mtr to measure packet loss from saffron (the stricken machine) to cumin (another machine in a

Re: LAGG and Jails?

2011-11-24 Thread Snoop
Sorry about my late reply, I was away for a while. I've fixed that. It was quite trivial but sometimes trivial issues make you get stuck for a while. :-/ ifconfig_bge0=up ifconfig_bge1=up cloned_interfaces=lagg0 ifconfig_lagg0=laggproto failover laggport bge0 laggport bge1 10.0.0.56/26

kvm_getenw

2011-11-24 Thread ajtiM
Hi! I had the same problem on FreeBSD 8.2 Release as I have now on 9.0-RC2 FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 #0: Sat Nov 12 18:09:11 UTC 2011 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386: console-kit-daemon[1800]: WARNING: kvm_getenvv failed: cannot open /proc /84597/mem In /etc/fstab I

Re: Rsync and Preservation of Ownership and Permissions

2011-11-24 Thread Martin McCormick
Michael Sierchio writes: Does the same user exist on the remote system, with the same uid, etc.? Yes. If you're using rsync with ssh as the transport, and connecting to the remote machine as the backups user, that's who will own the files on its local filesystem... I thought rsync had some

Quick build of stripped-down kernel

2011-11-24 Thread Brett Glass
Everyone: Happy Thanksgiving! This week, I've been building FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 kernels for various machines, and on some of the older and slower ones it's been taking quite a long time. One of the reasons for this is that even if you strip 98% of the drivers out of the kernel, they are all

Re: Quick build of stripped-down kernel

2011-11-24 Thread Michael Powell
Brett Glass wrote: Everyone: Happy Thanksgiving! This week, I've been building FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 kernels for various machines, and on some of the older and slower ones it's been taking quite a long time. One of the reasons for this is that even if you strip 98% of the drivers out of the

Re: Quick build of stripped-down kernel

2011-11-24 Thread b. f.
Happy Thanksgiving! This week, I've been building FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 And to you, too. kernels for various machines, and on some of the older and slower ones it's been taking quite a long time. One of the reasons for this is that even if you strip 98% of the drivers out of the kernel, they are

7.4 - 8.2

2011-11-24 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all Almost classic question about updating from 7.4 to 8.2. Anyone known if I can temporally run a 7.4 userland+service with 8.2 kernel ? I've ask this because I've ~ 15 jail on one server. I can update the «host» pretty fast but with the 15 jail I need some time. And I would like to known

7.4 - 8.2

2011-11-24 Thread Robert Huff
Albert Shih writes: Anyone known if I can temporally run a 7.4 userland+service with 8.2 kernel? My gut reaction was Are you familiar with the game of Russian Roulette?. Robert Huff ___

Re: Setting up ZFS - Filesystem Properties and Installing on Root

2011-11-24 Thread APseudoUtopia
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 22/11/2011 02:09, APseudoUtopia wrote: Another quick question about swap: If I have 4 drives, with 512MB swap, the system uses all 4 swap partitions, correct? So it's not like it'd be going to waste? I'd

Re: Setting up ZFS - Filesystem Properties and Installing on Root

2011-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 24/11/2011 19:19, APseudoUtopia wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 22/11/2011 02:09, APseudoUtopia wrote: Another quick question about swap: If I have 4 drives, with 512MB swap, the system uses all 4 swap partitions, correct? So

Re: Setting up ZFS - Filesystem Properties and Installing on Root

2011-11-24 Thread APseudoUtopia
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 24/11/2011 19:19, APseudoUtopia wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 22/11/2011 02:09, APseudoUtopia wrote: Another quick question about swap:

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-24 Thread Robert
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:16:17 +0100 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Hi, Please keep this on list. Hi Julian, I noticed soon after my response that I must have hit reply instead of all so I resent my information to questions@. This morning I didn't see my email to questions@ so I

Re: 7.4 - 8.2

2011-11-24 Thread TonyMc
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:44:00 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: My gut reaction was Are you familiar with the game of Russian Roulette?. Robert Huff I have played a variant of this game using six cans of Guinness. Shake one can vigorously, then shuffle them

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-24 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Robert wrote: [robert@dell64] ~ sudo gpart destroy -F da1 da1 destroyed [robert@dell64] ~ fdisk /dev/da1 *** Working on device /dev/da1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=29 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) parameters to be

Re: Quick build of stripped-down kernel

2011-11-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com: If you are going to build most of the modules, but only want to exclude a few, then add the directories of the modules to be excluded (relative to /usr/src/sys/modules) to WITHOUT_MODULES, for example in /etc/make.conf. If you are only going to build a few