Re: 9.0 bsdinstall usage

2011-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 23/09/2011, at 23:03, Fbsd8 wrote: The binary is installed by default, but there it isn't run at startup. If it is being run then I would expect you are booting off your install media again by accident. -- Daniel O'Connor You did not read my post correctly. I dont say bsdinstall

Re: 9.0 bsdinstall usage

2011-09-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
and guarantees no one can exec it by accident and kill there running system. The binary is installed by default, but there it isn't run at startup. If it is being run then I would expect you are booting off your install media again by accident. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
in mine. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
tonight.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc

Re: Installer: missing GEOM/gpart capabilities slicing disk?

2009-11-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. BTW gpart does many partition types not just MBR and GPT. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94

Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!

2009-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, O. Hartmann wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Erik Norgaard wrote: This sounds like the correct solution, AFAIK it's the same concept as for NIS, first check local files, then ldap. You don't want your root credentials possibly be leaked accross

Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!

2009-09-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
: cache files ldap group: cache files ldap and I can login as root locally without any delay. That said my LDAP server is on the same machine so perhaps it fails faster. I am using uri ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fopenldap%2fldapi/ to connect to. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!

2009-09-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
!) it won't say _anything_. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: LDAP server gone - impossible to login locally!

2009-09-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
all.log :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc

Re: Making bootable USB keys

2009-09-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a USB stick for booting. I imagine you could munge it into your setup without too much trouble. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: Making bootable USB keys

2009-09-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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Re: good morning to all

2009-06-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, malathi selvaraj wrote: how to install samba in freebsd Redirected to freebsd-questions@ You need to use the ports tree (check the handbook for how to install/update it) Then do cd /usr/ports/net/samba33 make install -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 325, Issue 4

2009-06-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
one. 3) You need to create a config file and enable it in /etc/rc.conf before it will start on boot. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
you're wasting your time :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 03:45:03PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? i'm using FreeBSD 8.0

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Obviously this causes pain, please stop. If you want to try FreeBSD, start with a release, if that works then you can update to HEAD and install that way. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the legendary handbook, that is not very helpful. FreeBSD doesn't work this way, you

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit ?binaries?

2008-10-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 01:31:16 M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Daniel O'Connor wrote: : On Friday 24 October 2008 23:20:59 Peter Jeremy wrote: : this will make system trying to bind 32-bit libs to 64-bit

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit binaries?

2008-10-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
libraries to Linux binaries with predictable results.. One trick I use for that is to put a symlink in /compat/linux in the place the problematic FreeBSD library is.. That said it would be really nice if it ignored incompatible libraries :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: [Samba] Samba and LDAP install on FreeBSD

2008-07-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
relies on it. I am kind of stuck here. Does samba 3.0.30 not work with openldap 2.4? Do I have to have openldap 2.3? Put this in /etc/make.conf WANT_OPENLDAP_VER=24 It tells the ports tree that you want OpenLDAP 2.4 if a port doesn't specify a particular version. -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: swap file vs swap partition

2007-02-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
easier to get away with a small amount of swap. That said it's not like disk is expensive either! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: libjpeg

2006-01-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
installed libjeg from ports (which you really really should have) it will be in /usr/local. So you need to add -I/usr/local/include to CFLAGS and -L/usr/local/lib to LDFLAGS in a Makefile. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing

Re: cpufreq and changing driver

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
(or even 50) syscalls a second is a big CPU load unless there is a specific problem with sysctls or the cpufreq infrastructure. I run powerd like this - /usr/sbin/powerd -i 90 -r 30 -a adaptive -b adaptive -n adaptive -p 200 -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: Is rcorder working under /usr/local/etc/rc.d?

2005-10-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to be ignored. Services like SERVERS, NETWORKING, LOGIN, etc, are all provided within /etc/rc.d. rcorder /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* I believe rcorder is not used to start stuff in /usr/local/etc/rc.d (unfortunately). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
tree? Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20

Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the kernel source installed? I think you may need that to build the xfree86-dri port (I don't know why it doesn't check) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: can't cd to /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BIGD

2005-04-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
.. - Rebooted to single user fsck -p Why run fsck? mount -u / mount -a -t ufs mount -a is fine here (unless you have NFS in fstab) swapon -a make installkernel KERNCONF=BIGD error code don't know how to make bsd.README You aren't in /usr/src? Did you read the handbook on this stuff? -- Daniel

Re: copying from DVD drive causes crash: vm_fault: pager read error, pid 13421 (cp) on FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE

2005-01-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
read it.. Obviously the OS crashing when presented with bad media is not a good thing :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: finding and mounting a fat partition

2004-12-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
installed on? ad0? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: [BUGA] Installing FBSD 5.3 and 5.4

2004-12-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
hassle. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpR32YvOOsot.pgp

Re: Audio board [HELP]

2004-09-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpeBw1x0xAZz.pgp Description

Re: [BUGA] df(1) vnconfig(8) hanging ....

2004-08-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
not sure what has hung here, nor am I sure how to 'un-hang' my shell. Any thoughts anyone ? Press ctrl-t or use the -l option to ps to find the wait channel (that will tell you where in the kernel it's blocked) - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: [BUGA] df(1) vnconfig(8) hanging ....

2004-08-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
filesystem ? I think it depends how you mount it as to how long the kernel will wait before unmounting it. - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: make package-recursive

2004-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
port is dependent on. What should it do instead? - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E

Re: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
) - - Suspend doesn't go below S1 - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F

Re: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
suggest not getting an AMD64. For raw performance it's pretty nice though :) - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596

Re: can not make ltmdm ports

2004-06-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
failed ? Recent changes to the kernel broke it, I have a patch, but as I said above it won't help you anyway. PS if you'd asked me (as the port maintainer) directly I could have answered it faster. - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: File system error

2004-04-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
an open file descriptor on the data you deleted. PS you spelt freebsd-questions@ wrong. Also, I've dropped -stable as this is probably a -questions thing first and foremost. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: PPP in -direct mode does not execute any chat scripts

2003-02-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
have to change my ppp.conf and that would suck :) Perhaps have 'enable usechatindirect' or some such.. (You might want to forward the email to the PPP maintainer BTW) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: PPP in -direct mode does not execute any chat scripts

2003-02-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to 'steer' PPP from the RFCOMM end? eg 'when you get a connection from this device connect via PPP on stdin/stdout' Still I guess you could just run 'ppp rfcomm' instead.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

RE: PPP in -direct mode does not execute any chat scripts

2003-02-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
you could just run 'ppp rfcomm' instead.. it will only work for in RFCOMM client case. i do not know how to build server applications with tty interface (pty's do not count :) Heh, I use birda for IRDA, it's strictly userland and uses pty's.. Works really well :) -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: Radui card with FM tuner PV-BT878P +FM

2002-10-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a 878 based card and it works fine with bktr. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Radui card with FM tuner PV-BT878P +FM

2002-10-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
is OK. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send