Re: FreeBSD commands... refcard

2009-09-11 Thread James Seward
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: In some Linux mailing list of Cuba I'm subscribed to, I just stumbled over this Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card: http://xinocat.com/refcard/ which is available in many languages. This would be very helpfull for my wife

Re: single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'

2009-05-11 Thread James Seward
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: Your BIOS is reporting two IDE interfaces, each of which could have a master and slave disk drive, so ad0-3 are reserved for those four drives, meaning SATA starts at ad4. Some BIOSes let you change this. Or you can

Surprisingly high interrupt rate on idle machine's uhci controller on 7.1

2009-01-30 Thread James Seward
Hello, While checking out the -P option for top in 7.1 I noticed that my desktop at home (which is currently idle) was spending nearly 100% of one core on interrupt: last pid: 5678; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 59 processes: 1 running, 58 sleeping CPU 0: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0%

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread James Seward
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: For those who are running FreeBSD inside VMWare, I have a FreeBSD-7.1 on a hard disk. I also run VMware Wkstn 6.5 running on a Windows XP PC. Is there an easy way to import from the hard disk to a guest OS? Suppose I

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread James Seward
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:10 PM, DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: While I have not tried it, it claims it can make a vmdk from a physical server. I have used it to move virtualized FreeBSD installs from one vmware server to another. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/overview.html

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread James Seward
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:41 PM, DAve dave.l...@pixelhammer.com wrote: Nope, the starter edition is free. Believe me, if we had to pay for it, my boss wouldn't let me use it 8^( What are the restrictions on the starter version? Maybe one of those is why I ended up not using it. If it will do

Re: Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

2009-01-16 Thread James Seward
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: Could you kindly share the steps you followed? It looks like that's what I have to do, as this app is commercial and I don't have that money now:-) Here's a page that describes the process:

Re: Script works fine from CLI, but not when Cron'd

2008-10-07 Thread James Seward
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Marc Coyles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a script to backup my MySQL databases, which works absolutely fine from the command line, but when I add it in to root's cronjobs it always fails with mysqldump: not found - what am I doing wrong? Things started

Re: pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-06 Thread James Seward
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never gotten a definite answer as to what happens if you use flags S/SA on a rule that is for UDP, since UDP is a non-negotiated protocol. That's why I split them up per protocol on RELENG_6 boxes. It intelligently

Re: Is this safe? Copying a complete install from one HD to another

2008-03-25 Thread James Seward
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tar or dump | restore , etc... as long as the different file types (normal, links, sockets,etc) are transferred correctly. the same for user permissions. I actually did this the other week for similar reasons - smartd

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-03-05 Thread James Seward
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Timer problems can be lessened (never solved, even with vmware tools) by reducing kern.hz to something like 50 or 100 Hz (in loader.conf), and installing ntpd. Installing the VMware Tools is a very good idea for timer

Re: VPN server software ?

2007-05-23 Thread James Seward
On 5/23/07, Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to setup a VPN server and I wonder which free software running on FreeBSD to choose as my knowledge in such softwares is very limited for now. OpenVPN is in ports and is working very well for me (including having Windows clients

Re: Find out startup programs execution order..

2007-05-16 Thread James Seward
On 5/16/07, Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes..thats the way i found that the error was from mysql-server... but i thought that there might be a way to see the order programs boot...and maybe change it... man 8 rcorder /JMS ___

Re: var/log/messages umass da0 6 how to stop?

2007-04-27 Thread James Seward
On 4/27/07, David Southwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that although messages stop for da0 I cannot stop da1 AND I would really like to be able to control this without having to have memory cards et al in the devices at all times. I get this when I have my USB card reader plugged

Re: pf and keep/modulate state on 6.2

2007-02-26 Thread James Seward
On 2/25/07, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was noticing sporadic FTP transfers DOWN to my fbsd 6.2 machine over my DSL line...it would go/pause/go/pause - just a bit, but overall slowed the transfers down quite a bit. I looked at my pf.conf file and changed MODULATE state to KEEP state

Re: FreeBSD as VM host OS?

2006-12-18 Thread James Seward
On 12/18/06, David Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You really need some other OS as the host OS is a perfectly valid response too. I run VMware Server on Ubuntu (one of the supported Linux host flavours, and the only one I'm prepared to put up with), hosting currently two Windows Server 2003

Re: image based stock spam

2006-11-13 Thread James Seward
On 11/13/06, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ugh, I'm running a 6.2 prerelease. The package doesn't exist, so I build the port, or try to. The tiff port wont build, so I pkg_add that. It gets a lil further along, the pkgconfig port won't build, I pkg_add that. Then, a little further here

Re: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-18 Thread James Seward
On 9/18/06, Ashley Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Winbind is [not?] fully functional on FreeBSD so it doesn't work authenticating with windows, ive tried compiling the Solaris version which is supposedly meant to work but I cant get it to compile. I don't know anything about Samba, so I

Re: Still can't boot on 6.0-STABLE Nov 2005 or 6.1-BETA

2006-03-15 Thread James Seward
On 3/15/06, James Seward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, [booting problems with newer kernels] Replying to myself in case this is of use to anyone else. After some tinkering this evening, I had determined that unplugging all my PATA devices (leaving just the SATA ones, where FreeBSD

Still can't boot on 6.0-STABLE Nov 2005 or 6.1-BETA

2006-03-14 Thread James Seward
Hello folks, A while back (January) I posted to the list about a problem I had booting 6.0-STABLE built with sources after about November 2005 on my workstation. Since that point, and including (I have now discovered) 6.1-PRERELEASE (as my freshly built kernel identified itself just now), I

Re: OT-EXIM

2006-03-04 Thread James Seward
On 3/3/06, Jean-Paul Natola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is not an EXIM forum but I'm desperate at the moment I ran portupgrade on BSD and afterwards exim is failing to start, What does /var/log/exim/paniclog say? -- /JMS ___

Re: 6-STABLE/amd64 recent kernel can't see any ata disks

2006-01-12 Thread James Seward
With apologies for the delay (due to external influences and problems like finding my serial cable), here is the output of boot -v on a newer kernel (compiled Monday morning from a cvsup on Sunday if memory serves). http://sakaki.jamesoff.net/~james/dmesg-broken.txt If anyone has any suggestions

6-STABLE/amd64 recent kernel can't see any ata disks

2006-01-09 Thread James Seward
Hello list :) I am having some issues with recent kernels since about the 6th Nov. All kernels I have build since then have failed to boot, stopped at the point they should mount root, and offering me a mountroot prompt to give the root device. Entering ? at this prompt returns something along

Re: Mounting an iPod

2005-11-05 Thread James Seward
On 11/4/05, edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assistance welcome, James. I finally gave up trying to mount the iPod as an HFS+ device and reformated it in FAT32. Now I can mount it and access its content (I use mount -t msdos /dev/da0s2 /mnt/ipod). However, I can unmount it using umount

Re: Mounting an iPod

2005-10-29 Thread James Seward
On 10/29/05, edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The iPod uses an HFS+ file system. It's been loaded from a Mac. I would like to mount it to /mnt/ipod A quick Google suggests you can try http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ to add HFS support to FreeBSD, otherwise you're going to have to reformat