Re: portupgrade -R problems

Pieter Donche escribió: FreeBSD7. I wanted to upgrade print/cups-base and print/hplip From a portsnap run: cups-base-1.3.9_3 needs updating (index has 1.3.10_1) hplip-2.8.2_3 needs updating (index has 2.8.2_4) # cd /usr/ports/print/cups #

Re: Installing Unix

Ese Oronsaye escribió: Hi I am a newbie to Unix with no experience in installing unix operating system. Have been through Download Freebsd but not quite sure what I should download. What is ISO and Distribution not quite sure which I should download. Can anyone help me with this. Regards Ese

Replace console login prompt

Hi, Please, could somebody give me a pointer to some documentation or an idea of how to replace the default console login prompt with a custom script? Thank you very much. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Replace console login prompt

Thanks for your help Ivan. Finally, I found here the solution: http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/13126-freebsd-auto-login-user-boot-im-stuck.html I set up getty to autologin and then a .login runs my script. Thanks. Ivan Voras escribió: Matias Surdi wrote: Hi, Please

Re: FreeBSD, quota

Have you looked at the official documentation? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/book.html#QUOTAS Pieter Donche wrote: to be able to impose file and disk quotas on individual users the kernel had to support it. Is this supported in FreeBSD7 ? How can one check if which options

Re: NanoBSD :: smallest image size

Anybody knows if NanoBSD can be installed on a hard disk and use it to store data, logs, etc? for example, for a tiny mail server? Paul Procacci wrote: Hello list, I have an old machine I just acquired that I was thinking of replacing my current FreeBSD firewall/router with. It's a Celeron

sysinstall

I'm automating a freebsd 7 installation with an install.cfg file for sysinstall. I would like to know if there is any possibility to let the user choose the device where he wants to install, and then automatically create the partitions an the labels without asking for it to the user. The

Re: zfs raid and/or hardware raid..

If your are just going to play with it, the play as much as you want with ZFS. But, if you are going to setup something that will have to go on production some day, at least at this moment i wouldn't recommend you ZFS. I've used it for a backup server, and due to power failures in the

Custom build fails

Hi, I'm building a custom freeBSD release and I'm getting the following error: -- Building an up-to-date make(1) -- /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/usr/src/usr.bin/make created

Re: Custom build fails

: On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Matias Surdi matiassu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm building a custom freeBSD release and I'm getting the following error: -- Building an up-to-date make(1

Generating packages from ports without docs

Hi, When I build a package with make package for a port, the resulting package contains also the docs (which upon installatin are located in /usr/local/share/doc/[package] Which is the best way to not include those files in the generated package? Thanks a lot.

Filesystem tunning

Hi, Is there any way to avoid the system going to single user mode when a secondary storage device cannot be mounted?. I mean, if all system filesystems are OK, how can set up a device with a custom mount point so that when it's tried to mount at boot time and fails doesn't cause the system

Re: Filesystem tunning

This should work. I'll try it. Thanks for the idea 2009/1/21 Clifton Royston clift...@lava.net: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:01:04PM +0100, Matias Surdi wrote: Hi, Is there any way to avoid the system going to single user mode when a secondary storage device cannot be mounted?. I mean

Large raid arrays

Hi, I've a host with two large (2Tb and 4 Tb) hardware raid5 arrays. For the backup system we are using, I need to join them to make 1 logical device. What would you recomment? ccd or vinum? Thanks a lot for your suggestions. ___

Re: Large raid arrays

Matias Surdi escribió: Hi, I've a host with two large (2Tb and 4 Tb) hardware raid5 arrays. For the backup system we are using, I need to join them to make 1 logical device. What would you recomment? ccd or vinum? Thanks a lot for your suggestions

Re: Large raid arrays

Frederique Rijsdijk escribió: Matias Surdi wrote: Matias Surdi escribió: Hi, I've a host with two large (2Tb and 4 Tb) hardware raid5 arrays. For the backup system we are using, I need to join them to make 1 logical device. What would you recomment? ccd or vinum? Some comments that may

Re: Large raid arrays

Wojciech Puchar escribió: gconcat On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Matias Surdi wrote: Hi, I've a host with two large (2Tb and 4 Tb) hardware raid5 arrays. For the backup system we are using, I need to join them to make 1 logical device. What would you recomment? ccd or vinum? Thanks a lot

Re: custom freebsd cd

Maybe you find usefull some of the scripts I'm using in my project, check under the development link: http://openmailserver.org Also, you will find very usefull the manpages for: ports, release and sysinstall. Regards. Valentin Bud escribió: Hello list, I have a FBSD box that runs as a

Re: PF Failover

We use pfSense for this. Works like a charm. Regards. Diego F. Arias R. escribió: Hi: Does someone have a document where explain how to use PF with two link failover? (I want to have redundancy if one internet conection fails use the other). i use FreeBSD 7 Release i386. I have looked at

Re: Run script as root from WebServer

Bill Campbell escribió: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008, Mel wrote: On Monday 22 September 2008 22:51:26 Matias Surdi wrote: The problem is that some of these scripts deal with configuration files and some other tasks that require root privileges. There's 2 alternatives I have used: 1

Run script as root from WebServer

Hi, I'm using mod_python3 and apache22 to create some scripts and access them through a web interface. The problem is that some of these scripts deal with configuration files and some other tasks that require root privileges. In the past, I've solved this issue by using sudo and allowing

mod_python core dumped

Hi, I've installed mod_python from the ports on a recently installed FreeBSD 7 box and, despite all the build process goes well, when I try to start apache I get a core dump. If I disable the Loadmodule directive for mod_python in httpd.conf, then apache starts perfectly. The versions I'm

pkg_create

I've a directory tree structure in /usr/local from wich I'd like to create a package. How are pkg_create arguments supposed to be? Where can I find an example? I've read the manpage, but an example would be really usefull. Thanks for your help again.

Re: pkg_create

Ivan Voras escribió: Matias Surdi wrote: I've a directory tree structure in /usr/local from wich I'd like to create a package. How are pkg_create arguments supposed to be? Where can I find an example? I've read the manpage, but an example would be really usefull. Thanks for your help again

make release, src.conf and WITHOUT_SENDMAIL on freebsd 7

Hi, I've set up a src.conf so that when I do a make buildworld sendmail is not built. That works great. The problem arises when I do a make release as, as far as I can see, /etc/src.conf is completly ignored. I think it's an issue with the chroot environment that make release uses. Wich is

sysinstall install.cfg question

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how could I tell sysinstall to let the user choose the disk he want to install into and then, based on that response, create automatically without any other question the partitions/labels that are required. I've seen several examples but I can't find the way to

Re: [OT] Evaluate strings in bash

Oliver Fromme escribió: Matias Surdi wrote: Oliver Fromme escribió: Matias Surdi wrote: Oliver Fromme escribió: Matias Surdi wrote: # echo $BINMAKE `if [ -x /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make ]; then echo /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make; else echo make; fi` -m /usr

[OT] Evaluate strings in bash

Hi, sorry for the offtopic, but maybe somebody can help me here. I've the following variable: [code] # echo $BINMAKE `if [ -x /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make ]; then echo /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make; else echo make; fi` -m /usr/src/share/mk # [/code] It's a string wich includes a

Re: [OT] Evaluate strings in bash

Oliver Fromme escribió: Matias Surdi wrote: # echo $BINMAKE `if [ -x /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make ]; then echo /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make; else echo make; fi` -m /usr/src/share/mk I'd like to have a second variable like: [code] # echo $newvariable make -m /usr/src

Re: [OT] Evaluate strings in bash

Matias Surdi escribió: Hi, sorry for the offtopic, but maybe somebody can help me here. I've the following variable: [code] # echo $BINMAKE `if [ -x /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make ]; then echo /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make; else echo make; fi` -m /usr/src/share/mk # [/code] It's a string

Re: [OT] Evaluate strings in bash

Oliver Fromme escribió: Matias Surdi wrote: Oliver Fromme escribió: Matias Surdi wrote: # echo $BINMAKE `if [ -x /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make ]; then echo /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make; else echo make; fi` -m /usr/src/share/mk I'd like to have a second variable

Re: make release and sysinstall

does. I think they use a different approach. I have heard sysinstall should have been killed a long time ago but it still works well for us. Riaan On 8/13/08, Matias Surdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, Suppose I build my own FreeBSD based distro, as described in release(7). How can I script

make release and sysinstall

Hi again, Suppose I build my own FreeBSD based distro, as described in release(7). How can I script sysinstall or replace it with another installer to customize the installation process? Thanks a lot. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

freebsd custom distribution

Hi everyone, I'm starting a new project where I would like to distribute the software as a distribution, something as pfSense guys do (but mine is not targeted to be a firewall). It would be very appreciated any pointer to some documentation or starting point for creating such a custom

Monitoring raid status

Hi list, I have a new FreeBSD 7.0 installation with a HighPoint RocketRAID 2310 with 4 Disks. is there a way to check the raidstatus for the raid and/or is there a way to let smartmontools check the disks? Thanks. ___

Large filesystems help/ideas

Hi, I'm implementing a backup solution at work.We've bought a x86 server with two hardware raid 5 with for a total storage capacity of about 7Tb. For the software we are using for backups, the ideal scenario would be to have just one big disk so that no space problems would appear. I've

Re: Large filesystems help/ideas

for your time and help. Julien Cigar escribió: You cannot use fdisk slices/partitions with disks over 2TB. For those GPT should be used. More info is available from here : http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:57 +0200, Matias Surdi wrote: Hi, I'm implementing a backup

Re: Large filesystems help/ideas

David Robillard escribió: Hi, I'm implementing a backup solution at work.We've bought a x86 server with two hardware raid 5 with for a total storage capacity of about 7Tb. For the software we are using for backups, the ideal scenario would be to have just one big disk so that no space problems

possible bug in mysql-server.sh

Hi. I've installed from ports mysql-server-5.0.45_1 on FreeBSD 7.0 and see what happens: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start Starting mysql. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ #I will hit now CTRL+D [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ exit [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# So, a shell from the user mysql is started, and

Re: Kde freeze after keypress

Well, replying to myself for the archives: With cygwin/x everything works well. Matias Surdi escribió: Sory if this isn't the correct place to put this question. I've also posted it to kde.freebsd list. I'm using Xming to connect to a remote FreeBSD box, everything works perfect wen using

Kde freeze after keypress

Sory if this isn't the correct place to put this question. I've also posted it to kde.freebsd list. I'm using Xming to connect to a remote FreeBSD box, everything works perfect wen using Gnome, TWM, etc... When I run a KDE session, there is no problem till I press any key... after that,

omniback

Hi, Could someone tellme if there is client support for omniback backup system for FreeBSD? Where can I get it? Any tutorial or documentation? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Problem installing port

Hi, Could someone tell me why I get this error? su-2.05b# portinstall es-kde-i18n ** Port marked as IGNORE: misc/kde3-i18n-es: is marked as broken: Incorrect pkg-plist su-2.05b# Thaks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Problem installing port

Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, March 24, 2006 18:11:59 +0100 Matias Surdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Could someone tell me why I get this error? su-2.05b# portinstall es-kde-i18n ** Port marked as IGNORE: misc/kde3-i18n-es: is marked as broken: Incorrect pkg-plist su-2.05b

shutdown not shutting down :-(

Hi, Linux-user, FreeBSD-newbie posting here. I've a recent installation of FreeBSD, and when I do # shutdown now It starts the shutdown process but it hangs promting for the shell path. I think that this could be something related to the order in which partitions are unmounted. Any idea?

Re: shutdown not shutting down :-(

Matias Surdi escribió: Hi, Linux-user, FreeBSD-newbie posting here. I've a recent installation of FreeBSD, and when I do # shutdown now It starts the shutdown process but it hangs promting for the shell path. I think that this could be something related to the order in which partitions

equivalent to linux cp -al

Hi, I've a script on a linux box wich makes backups, it uses the cp -al command to make hard links and preserve atributes. Is there an equivalent on FreeBSD? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: equivalent to linux cp -al

Matias Surdi escribió: Hi, I've a script on a linux box wich makes backups, it uses the cp -al command to make hard links and preserve atributes. Is there an equivalent on FreeBSD? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Problem installing 6.0 - Help

yes, it's good I've burned it again and the problem still exists.. :-( 10 Feb 2006 13:56:55 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matias Surdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a new pc. After creating the partitions and choosing the packages

Problem installing 6.0 - Help

Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a new pc. After creating the partitions and choosing the packages to install, when te transfer of the base system from the DVD-drive (with a standard CD inside) to the hard disk starts, an error message appears saying: Write failure on transger! (wrote