Re: Can't find kernel, finds slices but no files on them

2012-09-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/09/2012 23:59, Polytropon wrote: The terminology is simple and as follows: A disk is a disk, e. g. /dev/ad0. A slice is a DOS primary partition on the disk, e. g. /dev/ad0s1. A partition is a subdivision of a slice, e. g. /dev/ad0s1a. Partitions can be used without a slice that

Re: fsck not working on messed-up file system

2012-09-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
* PLEASE RERUN FSCK * Script done on Wed Sep 19 04:17:27 2012 Would this indicate a software bug, or is my Western Digital Caviar Green 3 TB hard drive failing? Either something was referencing sectors off the end of the disc, or the drive is failing. I'd be inclined

Re: Re: bash Shell Scripting Question

2012-09-20 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
On 09/20/2012 04:29, Polytropon wrote: Correct. You could use different approaches which may or may not fail due to the directory names you will encounter (like directories with spaces or special characters). #!/bin/sh for DIR in `ls -LF | grep \/`; do cd ${DIR}

Re: have desktop on freebsd

2012-09-20 Thread saeedeh motlagh
thank you every body for your answers. i understand that my garphic card is NVIDIA not intel therefore i installed nvidia driver from port. now it seems that everything is ok. there is no error in Xorg.log file and when i run startx command, no errors occurred. but when i restart my system,i don't

RE: have desktop on freebsd

2012-09-20 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of saeedeh motlagh Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 5:49 AM To: Bernt Hansson Cc: Stephan Schindel; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: have desktop on freebsd

Re: bash Shell Scripting Question

2012-09-20 Thread Martin McCormick
Many thanks! The for loop was what was needed. Polytropon writes: Just a sidenote: If you're not using bash-specific functionality and intend to make your script portable, use #!/bin/sh instead. I always start out that way for that very reason. I needed some random number functions and

Re: have desktop on freebsd

2012-09-20 Thread Brian W.
Pcbsd is always an option. On Sep 20, 2012 2:50 AM, saeedeh motlagh saeedeh.motl...@gmail.com wrote: thank you every body for your answers. i understand that my garphic card is NVIDIA not intel therefore i installed nvidia driver from port. now it seems that everything is ok. there is no error

Re: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI?

2012-09-20 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 19/09/2012 06:53, dweimer wrote: I was just trying some proof of concept testing to see if I could get a system booting with no local disk using iSCSI running from my FreeNAS box. I got started, by first booting a 9.1-RC1 CD, into live CD, created a /tmp/iscsi.conf used kldload to load

Re: bash Shell Scripting Question

2012-09-20 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:16:40 +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: On 09/20/2012 04:29, Polytropon wrote: Correct. You could use different approaches which may or may not fail due to the directory names you will encounter (like directories with spaces or special characters). #!/bin/sh

Replacing mirrored swap

2012-09-20 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Hi, I'm using a ZFS mirror, and had a disc fail. I had a spare unused disc in the case, and just switched over to that, after partitioning it with gpart. ZFS is great, just have to say that. But I'm not sure about the correct way to bring the new swap partition online. Do I use gmirror label, as

Re: Replacing mirrored swap

2012-09-20 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Scott Ballantyne s...@ssr.com wrote: Hi, I'm using a ZFS mirror, and had a disc fail. I had a spare unused disc in the case, and just switched over to that, after partitioning it with gpart. ZFS is great, just have to say that. But I'm not sure about the

[solved] Re: 9.0 release not dead but barely breathing after idling

2012-09-20 Thread Gary Aitken
Finally. Turns out I had done something really dumb; the problem had nothing to do with screen blanking or X. Because I send and receive mail via another server, I had disabled sending mail in rc.conf. don't do dat. I wasn't getting the system messages targeted at root, and eventually

Re: Can't find kernel, finds slices but no files on them

2012-09-20 Thread Fritiof Hedman
On 20 September 2012 00:59, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:22:20 +0200, Fritiof Hedman wrote: On 19 September 2012 23:37, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:28:30 +0200, Fritiof Hedman wrote: Hi list! I must warn you, I'm quite new to

Re: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI?

2012-09-20 Thread dweimer
On 2012-09-20 09:42, Vincent Hoffman wrote: On 19/09/2012 06:53, dweimer wrote: I was just trying some proof of concept testing to see if I could get a system booting with no local disk using iSCSI running from my FreeNAS box. I got started, by first booting a 9.1-RC1 CD, into live CD,

RE: What replaces csup?

2012-09-20 Thread Doug Sampson
I also find portsnap slower than either csup or svn. That surprises me. Once the initial download and extract is done, I find portsnap fetch update to be miles faster than csup. However, each to his own, I suppose. +1 ___

recompiling pf module, pfctl

2012-09-20 Thread Darrel
Hello, If I need to recompile pfctl and snmp_pf, would I run 'make clean', 'make', and 'make install' in /usr/src/usr.sbin/bsnmpd/modules/snmp_pf and /usr/src/sbin/pfctl? Is either of the directories incorrect or some other combination of make calls required there? Thank you, Darrel

Re: recompiling pf module, pfctl

2012-09-20 Thread Darrel
Hello, If I need to recompile pfctl and snmp_pf, would I run 'make clean', 'make', and 'make install' in /usr/src/usr.sbin/bsnmpd/modules/snmp_pf and /usr/src/sbin/pfctl? Is either of the directories incorrect or some other combination of make calls required there? Oh, forgot to mention.

Tape drive recommendations

2012-09-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, I know this is a bit off-topic, but I'm looking for suggestions. In one of my corporate sites, I've got a Tandberg Magnum 2x24 dual 10-slot tape backup device that I feel is on its way out. The storage amount for this site is adequate with the existing device and so is the

Re: Tape drive recommendations

2012-09-20 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Steve Bertrand steve.bertr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I know this is a bit off-topic, but I'm looking for suggestions. In one of my corporate sites, I've got a Tandberg Magnum 2x24 dual 10-slot tape backup device that I feel is on its way out. The storage

Re: How do I set number of retries in Firefox?

2012-09-20 Thread Dieter BSD
I have a problem with various parts of web pages stopping before getting completely downloaded. Links has a useful retries setting (setup-network options-retries) which seems to fix this. I need a similar fix for firefox 3.6.2 Firefox 15 URL: about:config search: retry

Re: How do I set number of retries in Firefox?

2012-09-20 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:52:27 -0400, Dieter BSD wrote: I would have never guessed to type about:config as a URL. Very useful to know.  Thank you. Allow me a sidenote: This also works in Opera and provides access to configuration and functionality that has no usable GUI equivalent. --