zfs can't mount /usr after 9.1-release upgrade

2013-07-10 Thread Tom Worster
to make that not happen again? tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: zfs can't mount /usr after 9.1-release upgrade

2013-07-10 Thread Tom Worster
On 7/10/13 1:50 PM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote: # mount -p /etc/fstab thanks for answering, michael. i have now spotted the problem. the zfs_enable line in rc.conf was fubar. i must have done some bad vi

Re: Why is pkg_glob no longer working for me?

2013-04-28 Thread Tom Russo
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 12:00:02PM +, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the free...@chthonixia.net flavor, containing: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:54:59PM -0600, Tom Russo wrote: Anyone else have this issue? Or am I the only one left still using portupgrade and its associated

Why is pkg_glob no longer working for me?

2013-04-26 Thread Tom Russo
the only one left still using portupgrade and its associated tools? -- Tom RussoKM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM echo prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m

Re: OT: gEDA, SPICE, electronic cad/simulation

2012-10-28 Thread Tom Russo
+9v. It then gets confused about the remaining parameters on the line. Point remains the same, you can't specify an IC named U1 in a spice netlist by calling the device U1. You need to use an X subcircuit instantiation line and an associated .subckt subcircuit definition. -- Tom Russo

Re: OT: gEDA, SPICE, electronic cad/simulation

2012-10-28 Thread Tom Russo
. -- Tom RussoKM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh

Re: doom, quake, hexen

2012-08-20 Thread Tom Russo
it on BSD (and the HRP web site has only Windows and Linux-specific installers). Just looked, and it appears that this reference to the HRP is now removed from the FreeBSD port. -- Tom RussoKM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-20 Thread Tom Carpenter
' and 'freebsd-update install' to update the source, then compiled a new kernel using the GENERIC config file, rebooted, and now 'uname -a' output shows the '-p4' version number, but I was trying to avoid compiling kernels. -Tom Carpenter On 11/20/2011 02:37 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 19/11/2011 23:26

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-18 Thread Tom Carpenter
Is it not possible/not intended for kernels to be updated via freebsd-update? If kernels can be updated via freebsd-update will there be a release of an fix/update that will allow systems to be patched/updated to -p4 or later? -Tom Carpenter On 11/14/2011 05:25 AM, Evalyn wrote: It touches

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-18 Thread Tom Carpenter
/2011 03:50 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 18/11/2011 20:12, Tom Carpenter wrote: Is it not possible/not intended for kernels to be updated via freebsd-update? If kernels can be updated via freebsd-update will there be a release of an fix/update that will allow systems to be patched/updated to -p4

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-14 Thread Tom Carpenter
Do you anticipate the release of an fix/update that will allow systems to be patched to -p4 or later via freebsd-update? -Tom Carpenter On 11/14/2011 05:25 AM, Evalyn wrote: It touches the kernel but you need to do make builkernel/make installkernel before uname -a shows 8.2-RELEASE-p4

8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-11 Thread Tom Carpenter
like to select another FTP server? = That message will go away if I edit `8.2-RELEASE-p3' to read `8.2-RELEASE' but I'm not sure if that's the appropriate solution...would I get the current versions of packages if I did that? -Tom Carpenter

Can net.inet.tcp.msl be set per interface?

2011-05-26 Thread Tom Worster
on the private LAN. The average number of MySQL client connections in TIME_WAIT will be proportional to MSL. And, while the circumstances under which a long MSL would help anything are unimaginable on the LAN, they are not on the Internet. So can net.inet.tcp.msl be set per interface? Tom

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-31 Thread Tom Worster
On 3/31/11 1:10 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:33:09 +0100, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 03/31/11 17:06, Arthur Chance wrote: On 03/30/11 23:00, Polytropon wrote: There is a project called VirtualBSD that developed a FreeBSD system image that can

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Tom Worster
I only know FreeBSD so I can't recommend any other BSD as being easier. And I don't use a windowing system on it. But I've an answer to a question you didn't ask: FreeBSD in VirtualBox a convenient way of learning. It saves a lot of uninteresting messing around. And it allows me to save my

DTrace in RELEASE?

2011-03-14 Thread Tom Worster
Does anyone know if it's likely DTrace will ever make it into the generic RELEASEs? Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

lost network during freebsd-update install

2011-03-10 Thread Tom Worster
session didn't recover. i don't know if the freebsd-update command completed or not. or how to find out. and if it did not, what to do next. i'd be most grateful for any help. tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: lost network during freebsd-update install

2011-03-10 Thread Tom Worster
On 3/10/11 8:01 AM, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote: On 03/10/2011 01:52 PM, Tom Worster wrote: i was upgrading a remote machine from 7.1 to 8.1 with freebsd-update. the freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade phase was complete and i had given: # freebsd-update install Installing updates

Re: Apple FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-10 Thread Tom Worster
On 3/9/11 8:57 PM, mikel king mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: In recent years their marketing as gone to some lengths to scrub the references to BSD UNIX from the brochures. It's like they are ashamed of their roots, again personally I think they hired some new anti-geeks that just don't get it.

Re: lost network during freebsd-update install

2011-03-10 Thread Tom Worster
at this stage, i have no remote access. even if i could gain access, i wouldn't know what state it's in or how to proceed. it's probably best now to pay for the hosting company to install 8.1 from cd. On 3/10/11 8:54 AM, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote: On 03/10/2011 02:37 PM, Tom Worster

Re: lost network during freebsd-update install

2011-03-10 Thread Tom Worster
On 3/10/11 9:13 AM, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote: On 03/10/2011 03:03 PM, Tom Worster wrote: at this stage, i have no remote access. even if i could gain access, i wouldn't know what state it's in or how to proceed. it's probably best now to pay for the hosting company to install 8.1 from

Re: lost network during freebsd-update install

2011-03-10 Thread Tom Worster
On 3/10/11 12:48 PM, Jason Helfman jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: Good idea. Rollback does work, and has worked for me in a very similar situation, and hopefully will work for you as well. After the rollback, reboot, and start again from your initial upgrade command. I would highly recommend using tmux,

determining freebsd-update status

2011-03-04 Thread Tom Worster
referenced in the tag file? tia tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: determining freebsd-update status

2011-03-04 Thread Tom Worster
thanks for the answers, jason. two more questions below. On 3/4/11 1:09 PM, Jason Helfman jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:32:11AM -0500, Tom Worster thus spake: to determine roughly where a server is in its updates (we're running only RELEASE) i do: 1 - check the 1st 4

Re: portmaster -a command fails - *** Error code 1

2011-03-04 Thread Tom Worster
these situations arise quite often where you have to delete a port before portmaster will continue. sometimes you can predict it by reading /usr/ports/UPDATING not that this is the only reason to read UPDATING. On 3/4/11 1:37 PM, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 03/04/11 17:36, Ed

Re: libsphinxclient (for the pecl sphinx api)

2011-03-03 Thread Tom Worster
On 3/2/11 5:35 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 02/03/2011 21:46, Tom Worster wrote: does anyone have advice on getting libsphinxclient up an running? the sphinxsearch port seems not to do it and i'm completely failing to build the client from source. Well

libsphinxclient (for the pecl sphinx api)

2011-03-02 Thread Tom Worster
does anyone have advice on getting libsphinxclient up an running? the sphinxsearch port seems not to do it and i'm completely failing to build the client from source. tia tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Running two daemon instances -- rc.d or not?

2011-01-24 Thread Tom Worster
I need to set up a server with two instances of SphinxSearch searchd (listening on different ports, of course). What's a good way to do it? Copying /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sphinxsearch to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sphinxsearch2 and editing that doesn't feel very attractive. tnx tom

Re: awk question: replacing %d%s by %d %s

2011-01-12 Thread Tom Limoncelli
(lets)) { print num lets } else { print num } }' ; diff control.txt experiment.txt $ Tom -- http://EverythingSysadmin.comĀ  -- my blog (new posts Mon and Wed) http://www.TomOnTime.com -- my advice (more videos coming soon) ___ freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-15 Thread Tom Worster
On 11/13/10 6:32 PM, dalesc...@shaw.ca dalesc...@shaw.ca wrote: but dedicated/vps does not offer what cloud computing does. What do feel are the advantages of the cloud? i haven't used one yet but, as far as i can tell, the interesting differences derive from how the could platform implements

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Tom Worster
On 11/12/10 7:18 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:57:46 -0800, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 15:44:01 PST Chris Brennan wrote: Must we continue to beat this already dead horse? Apparently the answer is yes, when we're not beating

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Tom Worster
On 11/12/10 6:44 PM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: I think it's safe to say that either a) Mr. Silveira has unsubscribed from the list or b) learned to keep his mouth shut and scampered off into the dark to learn the proper netiquette of this list. Must we continue to beat this

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Tom Worster
in philosophy and implementation) and since i have been a big FB user for years I have already told them we would like to switch if they offered the option On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote: I got a somewhat encouraging response from Rackspace when I asked if they were

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Tom Worster
On 11/13/10 8:57 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: different Windowses they offer. But ultimately their decision will depend on market interest. Here's the contact info if you want to voice your interest: http://www.rackspacecloud.com/aboutus/contact A Xen expert says

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Tom Worster
i am very happy with the service i get from my provider of freebsd dedicated hosts. and there's no shortage of offerings for vps as well. but dedicated/vps does not offer what cloud computing does. On 11/13/10 4:05 PM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm a 3 year customer of M5

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Tom Worster
On 11/12/10 2:29 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Lots of people see FreeBSD and the web site and the mascott, etc for the first time probably each day.Some of them will have the same mistaken idea since the misunderstanding of it is implanted in people's heads from an early age.

FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-11 Thread Tom Worster
I got a somewhat encouraging response from Rackspace when I asked if they were going to offer FreeBSD in addition to the 17 different Linuxes and 5 different Windowses they offer. But ultimately their decision will depend on market interest. Here's the contact info if you want to voice your

Why does apache22 port want python?

2010-11-04 Thread Tom Worster
I don't need python for anything, afaik. What does apache want it for? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Why does apache22 port want python?

2010-11-04 Thread Tom Worster
on python at all, but maybe some apache plugin does. I'd try with make config install clean Cheers, Antonio On 04/11/2010 19:30, Tom Worster wrote: I don't need python for anything, afaik. What does apache want it for? ___ freebsd-questions

Re: problems installing php (php5-spl) with portmaster

2010-11-02 Thread Tom Worster
On 11/1/10 9:14 PM, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: portupgrade. However, I just unregistered php5-spl, because its no longer necessary. I believe php5-spl and php5-pcre are now integrated into PHP-5.3 by default. Yes and no. pcre depends on the separate pcre package, and php will

Re: problems installing php (php5-spl) with portmaster

2010-11-02 Thread Tom Worster
. http://www.unixnews.net/2010/10/error-with-apr-parameter-is-incorrect.html http://www.unixnews.net/2010/10/pcre-error-with-php5-filter-and-php5.html -Lystic On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote: portmaster is looping on devel/php5-spl. it seems as though

problems installing php (php5-spl) with portmaster

2010-11-01 Thread Tom Worster
portmaster is looping on devel/php5-spl. it seems as though php5-spl depends on itself. the excerpt below shows two cycles of the recursion. the list php5-spl-5.2.11_1 php5-spl-5.2.11_1 gets one longer on each interation. any ideas how to fix this? thanks tom === Port directory: /usr/ports

Writing to MBR

2010-09-24 Thread tom oakes
in advance for any help you can give me Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Tom Worster
On 7/24/10 5:59 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:05:14AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: I'm reminded that the SATAN network scanner project used to ship a utility with the source code that would patch it to rename it SANTA. I suppose someone could fork a

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Tom Worster
On 7/23/10 10:01 PM, Victor Skovorodnikov vic...@mail.ru wrote: I have always been thinking of trying FreeBSD but as a Christian I get deterred by its un-Christian logo. to me, devils, daemons and demons are mythological critters like elves, pixies and bogey men. Have you considered

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Tom Worster
On 7/26/10 12:35 PM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft k...@mthelicon.com wrote: By the way . . . while I think a BelssedBSD fork is a ridiculous idea, the name BlessedBSD is *brilliant*. Pronouncing it aloud makes the high-quality pun buried in the name more obvious, for those who didn't quite catch it on

Newbie Issues With Crashing 8.0 Image

2010-07-01 Thread Tom Purl
see any error messages. I checked the following files: * debug.log * dmesg.today * lastlog * messages * pf.today None of these files contain any error messages at all. Where can I go next to troubleshoot this issue? Thanks in advance! Tom Purl

Re: upgrading form 7.1-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE?

2010-06-17 Thread Tom Worster
On 6/16/10 1:06 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 16/06/2010 17:48:03, Tom Worster wrote: as usual i let things slip until the servers are a couple of versions behind and then i face the worries of upgrading. will freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade work

upgrading form 7.1-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE?

2010-06-16 Thread Tom Worster
as usual i let things slip until the servers are a couple of versions behind and then i face the worries of upgrading. will freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade work on a 7.1-RELEASE system or do i need to take intermediate steps? does anyone have experience or advice they'd be willing to

RootBSD?

2010-04-06 Thread Tom Ierna
Hi, Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? I'm looking to move an office-hosted machine's services to the cloud, and they seem to be one of the only VPS companies centered around BSD support instead of Linux. Thanks, -Tom___

Re: RootBSD?

2010-04-06 Thread Tom Ierna
On Apr 6, 2010, at 9:31 AM, Glen Barber wrote: Hi Tom, Tom Ierna wrote: Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? I've been using RootBSD for a few months now, and would give you nothing but positive feedback - however, your question isn't exactly specific. Is there anything

Re: Trouble Installing JKD15 On A Vanilla 8.0 Installation

2010-03-20 Thread Tom Purl
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Tom Purl wrote: First, after the port had compiled on my system for many hours, it crashed with an error message stating that I was out of swap space. I had only devoted 128 MB of RAM to the VM

Trouble Installing JKD15 On A Vanilla 8.0 Installation

2010-03-19 Thread Tom Purl
/049686.html 2. I think there's a possibility that this error is due to the earlier segfault of the package manager. Would it therefore make sense to re-install it using the make deinstall make install clean command? Thanks in advance! Tom Purl

use DD mode or not? and how to set up?

2009-12-11 Thread Tom Worster
options for setting up gmirror include DD or standard mode. i don't know about others. i'm about to install 8.0-RELEASE on a system with two 750g sata disks that i want to run as a mirrored pair. what are the pros/cons of the different options? and what about the installation process? set up

Re: fixit and gmirror

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/8/09 5:00 PM, Joey Mingrone j...@mingrone.org wrote: Hello: I was upgrading a system from 7.2 to 8.0 and all was going well until the make installkernel step. The / partition filled up when the new kernel was installing. Since /boot was taking up most of the space I moved /boot to

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/8/09 5:21 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:09:16 -0800 (PST), Ivo Karabojkov i...@kit-bg.com wrote: So I'd like to know how to distinguish mode of my current filesystems - is it standard or dangerously dedicated? If you've first created a slice on the

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-07 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/6/09 1:06 PM, Ivo Karabojkov i...@kit-bg.com wrote: Since I have some servers to manage I am very interested how should I upgrade to 8.0 Rel? this is a big question. for my production servers i like to keep things simple and use the generic binary distribution. and i've been trying to

recovering data from this disk

2009-12-04 Thread Tom Worster
any suggestions how to recover data from either of the mirrored disks that i can't get to boot? the situation is described below. (i'm assuming, given the silence on this, that making the system work after the freebsd-update is a lost cause.) On 12/3/09 11:14 AM, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org

Re: recovering data from this disk

2009-12-04 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/4/09 1:51 PM, Henrik Hudson li...@rhavenn.net wrote: On Fri, 04 Dec 2009, Tom Worster wrote: any suggestions how to recover data from either of the mirrored disks that i can't get to boot? the situation is described below. If they were indeed mirrored then try a FreeBSD live distro

port math/mpfr update failure www.mpfr.org site seems to be down

2009-12-04 Thread Tom Mende
to find mpfr-2.4.2.tar.bz2 on any of the half dozen or so mirrors I manually checked nor is it mentioned in UPDATING or MOVED to try anything out of the ordinary. Shouldn't it be in the ports/distfiles on the mirror sites by now? Cheers, Tom

won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-03 Thread Tom Worster
ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a ufs:/dev/disk0s1a ufs:/dev/disk1s1a does anyone know the magic word? i'd be very grateful. tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-03 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/3/09 11:14 AM, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote: after running freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade my system won't boot. it gets stuck on mountroot and i can't find the magic word it wants. the system used to have two sata drives /dev/ad4 and ad6. they were partitioned and sliced

my slices are gone

2009-12-03 Thread Tom Worster
boundary chunk 'ad6p2' [409640..1464784583] does not start on a track boundary which seems pretty bad in two different ways. would anyone disagree that freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade has left this system unusable and the only next step is reformat at reinstall (that old windows routine)? tom

Re: my slices are gone

2009-12-03 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/3/09 4:34 PM, David Rawling d...@pdconsec.net wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org on behalf of Tom Worster Sent: Fri 4/12/2009 8:19 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: my slices are gone using sysinstall on the 8.0-RELEASE ISO Disk 1

Dtrace

2009-11-29 Thread Tom Worster
is it likely that Dtrace will be coming to standard RELEASE kernels in future? i prefer not compile custom kernels for production servers but i do find the system monitoring Dtrace affords rather handy. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Dtrace-tp26562798p26562798.html Sent

Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned

2009-10-22 Thread Tom Worster
Karl Vogel-3 wrote: Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org said: T if only it had a way to truncate fields in a column that has a few T really long strings in it. thanks for pointing me to it. i'll see if i T can't figure out the script and how to modify it to add this trick. It would be lots

Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned

2009-10-21 Thread Tom Worster
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 20), Tom Worster said: is there a cli command that lays out tsv files for display with a fixed width font? that is, it figures how wide each column needs to be and pads each field in the file with a suitable about of space? The rs command

Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned

2009-10-21 Thread Tom Worster
Karl Vogel-3 wrote: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:55:07 -0700 (PDT), Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org said: T is there a cli command that lays out tsv files for display with a fixed T width font? that is, it figures how wide each column needs to be and T pads each field in the file

Display TSV files with columns aligned

2009-10-20 Thread Tom Worster
is there a cli command that lays out tsv files for display with a fixed width font? that is, it figures how wide each column needs to be and pads each field in the file with a suitable about of space? tom -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Display-TSV-files-with-columns

passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Worster
is there a general shell syntax that can be used to pass arguments to a daemon that you're starting with the /etc/rc.d/foo start command? for example, how does one start sshd using /etc/rc.d/sshd and pass it '-o X11Forwarding=no' without touching a config file? tom

Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Worster
On 9/16/09 1:35 PM, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 16 September 2009 18:45:29 Tom Worster wrote: is there a general shell syntax that can be used to pass arguments to a daemon that you're starting with the /etc/rc.d/foo start command? for example

Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Worster
On 9/16/09 2:37 PM, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 16 September 2009 20:21:40 Chris Cowart wrote: Tom Worster wrote: thanks, Mel, that's good to know. i think your suggestion of modifying rc.conf will turn out to be a tidy solution for me

Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Worster
On 9/16/09 3:19 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Tom Worster wrote: is there a general shell syntax that can be used to pass arguments to a daemon that you're starting with the /etc/rc.d/foo start command? If you're starting service foo, then you should be able

FreeBSD-8 Release Type?

2009-09-13 Thread Tom Smith
Hey guys, we've googled and searched the FreeBSD website... cannot find the answer. Will FreeBSD-8 be a 'normal' or 'extended' support release? If it's normal, we'll probably just stick with 7.1, but if it is extended, we'll go with 8. Thanks! Tom

Re: me in ipfw rules - does it include aliases?

2009-09-08 Thread Tom Worster
On 9/8/09 2:58 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis nvass9...@gmx.com wrote: Tom Worster wrote: the ipfw man page says: me matches any IP address configured on an interface in the system. which suggests that if i code my rules using me then when i add an alias ip address to an interface

GEOM: the secondary GPT table is corrupt

2009-09-08 Thread Tom Worster
msdosfs/EFI removed. the array seems to be fine, according to gmirror status. googling around, it seems these warnings indicate shoddy initial setup of the disks and there's no clear answer how to sort these matters out. any advice? -tom ___ freebsd

Opera 10.00 (native) flash

2009-09-07 Thread Tom Mende
Running on 7.2-RELEASE, Opera 10.00 build 4585 (native) and would like to view flash enabled websites. Anyone with a howto? Have googled extensively and followed a variety of methods all unsuccessful to date. Like to here from someone who has it running? Cheers, -- Tom Mende tme

me in ipfw rules - does it include aliases?

2009-09-07 Thread Tom Worster
addresses. is that correct? - tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

freebsd-update userland sources

2009-08-02 Thread Tom Mende
, Tom Mende ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-20 Thread Tom Worster
On 7/16/09 6:12 PM, Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com wrote: I'd love to hear about any test results you may get comparing software with hardware raid. I received the hardware yesterday. There was a last minute change due to cost. Instead of getting 4x 2TB drives I opted for 6x 1TB. This

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-13 Thread Tom Worster
On 7/13/09 3:23 PM, Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Richard Mahlerweinmahle...@yahoo.com wrote: I guess the last question I'll ask (as any more may uncover my ignorance) is if you need to use hardware RAID at all? It seems both UFS2 and ZFS can do

How to add a slice and partition to a mirror

2009-07-09 Thread Tom Munro Glass
of the new drive is being used. I've now removed the 37GB drive and run gmirror forget gm0 again and the system is running on the new half used 74GB drive. How do I define a new slice and partition to fill the second half of this drive? Regards Tom Munro Glass

Re: How to add a slice and partition to a mirror

2009-07-09 Thread Tom Munro Glass
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:52:46 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:12:56AM +1200, Tom Munro Glass wrote: I have a FreeBSD 7.2 system that had two 37GB mirrored SCSI drives. These contained a single slice filling the disk with separate partitions for swap, /, /var, /usr

Re: character sets for file names on ufs?

2009-05-29 Thread Tom Worster
On 5/28/09 3:01 PM, Pieter de Goeje pie...@degoeje.nl wrote: If you set your locale to UTF-8, you can use unicode characters in filenames. works like a charm. thanks for the tip! tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

character sets for file names on ufs?

2009-05-28 Thread Tom Worster
what character set/encoding is used for file names in freebsd when i have a default ufs fs? tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Running Apache with as few modules as possible

2009-04-30 Thread Tom Worster
On 4/29/09 4:59 PM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: I recall Bill Gates saying, 640k is enough for anybody. I agree, it's not much of a savings, and there's always the possibility that the webmaster may add something later that needs a module that's commented, and run around in

Re: Running Apache with as few modules as possible

2009-04-29 Thread Tom Worster
On 4/28/09 6:45 PM, Adam Vandemore amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: OK, here we go: With Apache running on the development machine, modules commented as in my first post -- CPU: 0.8% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.8% interrupt, 98.1% idle Mem: 27M Active, 139M Inact, 64M Wired, 11M Cache,

Re: Running Apache with as few modules as possible

2009-04-28 Thread Tom Worster
On 4/28/09 3:14 PM, Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Can anyone see anything that I've commented that I'll be sorry for? Can anyone suggest any more testing I should do? unfortunately i can't but i'd like to ask you to tell us, once you're done with removing modules, how much memory you

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-25 Thread Tom Worster
On 4/23/09 12:54 AM, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 22 April 2009 17:37:06 Tom Worster wrote: by the by, on my test machine i ended up with python installed. seems to be because i needed php5-gd which now depends on python. all for some simple

Re: i had a tought

2009-04-22 Thread Tom Worster
On 4/22/09 12:10 PM, Arjen Simon Scheer a.s.sch...@casema.nl wrote: why there is not a lunix operatingsystem consortium, for the kernel end the commercial userinterface isn't that OSDL? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-20 Thread Tom Worster
as daemons. instead of doing portmaster -a, is there any advantage to: portmaster -a -x mysql\-server -x apache portmaster mysql\-server apache reboot in order to minimize the time that the old servers are running while the new images are on the disk? tom

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-20 Thread Tom Worster
On 4/20/09 3:06 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Many ports will shut down a running instance of themselves when upgraded like this specifically to avoid the sort of complications that can occur when the running image does not match what is on disk. mysql does,

use BUNDLED_PCRE in updating to php 5.2.9 with ports and apache 2.2.x?

2009-04-14 Thread Tom Worster
the port configuration dialog comes up while updating from 5.2.8. to 5.2.9 with the php5 meta port. it asks if i want to use BUNDLED_PCRE, suggesting Select if you use apache 2.0.x. what about apache 2.2.x? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

ULI M526x NIC on *BSD

2009-04-05 Thread Tom
heard about linux compatibility layer, but I suspect its not meant for linux kernel modules... Thanks for any pointers! Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: mac arp moved from-to DOS?

2009-04-03 Thread Tom Ierna
client fight. I've also seen this (harmlessly) manifest with certain FreeBSD firewalls in bridged mode. -Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Heimdal vs MIT KerberosV

2009-02-27 Thread Tom McLaughlin
will cause you to lose pam_{krb5,ksu} and GSSAPI support in ssh. Depending on your environment, those might be useful. Other than the kadmin protocol differences why change from Heimdal to MIT? tom -- | tmclaugh at sdf.lonestar.org tmclaugh at FreeBSD.org | | FreeBSD

Autolearn=fail SpamAssassin

2009-01-31 Thread Tom Stuart
Hello, I just installed SpamAssassin on FreeBSD 7.1 and am encountering an error with autolearn. It always says failed when attempting to learn. I followed the documentation for setting it up but I'm wondering if I missed something. Possibly the Bayes DB was not created? Or is this something I

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 SMP on IBM x330 Dual Processor server

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Everett
How does the kernel I would build from that link differ from the stock 7.1 kernel? Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:57:50PM -0700, Tom Everett wrote: I'm running the stock FreeBSD 7.1 kernel on an IBM x330 machine. The machine has two physical processors but it seems

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 SMP on IBM x330 Dual Processor server

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Everett
Am I correct in my understanding that the stock kernel is GENERIC? Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:57:50PM -0700, Tom Everett wrote: I'm running the stock FreeBSD 7.1 kernel on an IBM x330 machine. The machine has two physical processors but it seems that FreeBSD 7.1

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 SMP on IBM x330 Dual Processor server

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Everett
Thanks! Mel wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2009 06:57:32 Tom Everett wrote: How does the kernel I would build from that link differ from the stock 7.1 kernel? It doesn't. It's the generic upgrading fixes all advice. I don't see anything since 7.1-RELEASE in 7.1-STABLE even, that would

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