mergemaster -U overwriting modified files

2009-04-25 Thread Peter Schuller
named.conf (!!!) on another machine. Is this a bug or intended? What is the intended functionality of -U? -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller ' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgp...@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schul...@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: Backing Up ZFS

2008-12-20 Thread Peter Schuller
iles (e.g. collections of Maildir mailboxes). I mention rdiff-backup but of course there are plenty of others. I just happen to prefer rdiff-backup, mostly because of it's "rsync mirror + history" semantics and completely trivial setup. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or

Re: Copying system/ports configuration?

2008-12-17 Thread Peter Schuller
o remove all packages, and then re-installing all the built binaries. I have some tools to help me do this that are semi-public, but not really in a nice state at this time. Let me know off-list if you would be interested. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller &#

xorg gfx card: amd64+xvideo+decent 2d performance

2008-09-19 Thread Peter Schuller
Intel chipsets, but then I cannot find any cards that have them (only integrated on motherboards, which puts too much of a constraint on the choice of motherboard). Anyone got any recommendations? -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' K

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-09-02 Thread Peter Schuller
ul. FWIW, for doing stuff like moving the root fs (which I have done more often than I would like) I recommend using tar -cp or rsync -a. I preserves everything I care about preserving, and it has well-known and well-tested semantics that I feel comfortable with. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9

Re: ZFS-Pool is lost after reboot ( amd64 )

2008-04-11 Thread Peter Schuller
ZFS is loaded at boot due to loader variable.) -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: I'd like some help

2008-03-22 Thread Peter Schuller
book/ I don't know if this made any more sense than what you have already read. If things are unclear, please clarify what part you are having trouble will! -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to

Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

2008-03-10 Thread Peter Schuller
sts right down to the constituent drives... I did, and eventually got a response after 1-2 weeks. But the response was such that I could not feel confident that the question was accurately forwarded to the right individual. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller &

Re: How backup huge pgsql ?

2008-01-12 Thread Peter Schuller
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/continuous-archiving.html Also the very long transaction used for the backup will prevent vacuuming from freeing tuples for the duration of the backup. If you have tables that rely on very frequent vacuuming for performance, those may be affected. -- / Pete

Re: Howcome mail deletion time varies?

2008-01-02 Thread Peter Schuller
have a vague sense thunderbird does this; I could be wrong. Assuming the server is using Maildir I don't see why this should happen on the serverside, nor have I had that experience even with large folders (large enough that no mail client can handle them properly)). -- / Peter Schuller PGP userI

Re: dovecot questions

2007-12-26 Thread Peter Schuller
is up to you. dovecot does not provide and user interfaces for managing accounts (that I am aware of). Typically a reason to have the user database in a relational database would be to enable the construction of such interfaces, or perhaps use of existing tools. But unless I am missing somethi

Re: Updating ports

2007-12-24 Thread Peter Schuller
to do with upgrading? I have my own private little vision of what I want to see from ports/pkgsrc itself to enable package managers to support seamless upgrading. If there could be some cooperation going in terms fo enabling upgrading tools to work better, I might be more motivated to finally res

Re: Updating ports

2007-12-22 Thread Peter Schuller
ding approach (e.g., files moving between packages can cause problems). In the end I tend to either build binary packages from scratch and use portupgrade -afPP to upgrade, or do in-place upgrading with portmanager. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL

Re: csh programing book

2007-12-17 Thread Peter Schuller
sh has some issues (e.g., freebsd port is marked as broken om amd64 right now), so I dunno about counting on it being available everywhere. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Jail question

2007-12-17 Thread Peter Schuller
stricted access to certain system calls, which creates the sandbox. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Descr

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-17 Thread Peter Schuller
section 12.3.3. Can anyone claim that it is sensible for it to be this fricking difficult *to print the value of a variable*? Although that last bit has to do with more than the choice of a shell, it highlights perfectly the type of trouble you run into when you try to be portable with the

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-08 Thread Peter Schuller
ching is still enabled, synchronous writes won't help except perhaps to lower the statistical probability of running into problems (that's just a guess). -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-07 Thread Peter Schuller
fs; not sure). It is enough that the system does not break the file system's ability to guarantee ordering of certain critical operations, which is why write caching causes a problem (the drive re-orders writes for performance and you end up with B happening before A, but consistency depende

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-07 Thread Peter Schuller
> If you are running without write caching turned on (which is the default), That should be, "if you are running WITH write caching turned on". -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EM

Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )

2007-12-06 Thread Peter Schuller
questions on boot for all cases of expected inconsistencies. If you are getting prompts as a result of unexpected inconsistencies, that indicates *something* is wrong. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an

Re: sysutils/etcmerge vs mergemaster

2007-11-18 Thread Peter Schuller
t investigate. Perhaps I screwed up. But even so, three-way merging is nice, so etcmerge remains interesting. Thanks, -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W

sysutils/etcmerge vs mergemaster

2007-11-17 Thread Peter Schuller
to be more wide spread in use. Are there problems with it that I don't know about? How many people use it in production? Are there advantages to mergemaster that causes mergemaster to even be preferred over etcmerge as the default tool in base? -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7

Re: cp --verify?

2007-10-28 Thread Peter Schuller
the second time to verify that rsync does not want to update any files there (if it did it would be an indication of corruption). -c makes it checksum regardless of whether the file size/ctime matches, but it will not make it re-do the checksumming after an update. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID:

Re: Forcing buffer cache to use available memory

2007-09-30 Thread Peter Schuller
> You want to adjust the vfs.read_max sysctl, I believe, or the > vfs.maxbufspace for your second question. "sysctl -d vfs" is likely to be > informative Thanks! That looks like what I'm after. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schu

Forcing buffer cache to use available memory

2007-09-30 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, Is there a way to force the buffer cache to be more aggressive when caching reads? Or even just plain force a certain number of megabytes to be dedicated to the buffer cache? -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval

Re: Unable to delete a package

2007-09-17 Thread Peter Schuller
ounces me > back into the graphical login screen. Ctrl-Alt-F1, f2, f3 etc will switch to the respective virtual console while X is still running. You can then switch back to X (probably at virtual console 7, 8 or something). If you want gdm to die you have to actually kill gdm; otherwise it

Re: Unable to delete a package

2007-09-17 Thread Peter Schuller
t run stuff you are actively upgrading, while upgrading. In practice though it "tends to work".) -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org pgpqO0EpOXXKW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: increasing maximum connections in PGSQL

2007-09-17 Thread Peter Schuller
> Can anyone point me to some How-to documentation on raising this value to > increase postgresql connections? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/kernel-resources.html -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrie

Re: Forcing GEOM to re-taste a device

2007-08-31 Thread Peter Schuller
for it to attach to the USB bus, wait a few seconds, and insert it all the way - it will get properly detected. Similarly if connected on boot there is no problem. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to

Forcing GEOM to re-taste a device

2007-08-31 Thread Peter Schuller
ggestions as to how to make the retries continue for a longer period (other than patching the source), it would be welcome, since during boot I need the kernel to be able to taste it on the initial attempt, since failure will cause a panic immediately. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID:

Re: Dell 2950: 4GB not seen (amd64; works on other 2950:s)

2007-08-26 Thread Peter Schuller
ast, I think I remember seeing an option like that in a BIOS ... Now that you mention it I do think I recognize that. It would fit with the ~ 2 GB visible memory, but on the other hand the kernel does print the full 4 GB during boot. But will definitely have to look into that. Thanks! -- / Peter

Re: Dell 2950: 4GB not seen (amd64; works on other 2950:s)

2007-08-26 Thread Peter Schuller
chipset and that these > also have the same BIOS version. I'll have a closer look and inquire with Dell what the intended functionality is (hopefully it doesn't turn out to be something that requires Windows/Linux to work around). Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758

Dell 2950: 4GB not seen (amd64; works on other 2950:s)

2007-08-24 Thread Peter Schuller
visibility issues were a thing of the past on amd64. Any insight? Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http

Re: Custom builds from ports

2007-07-28 Thread Peter Schuller
ation and upgrades. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: FreeBSD-6.1 bootup hangs after power failure

2007-07-16 Thread Peter Schuller
hit associated with disabling write caching. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org __

Re: Starting again from Scratch

2007-06-25 Thread Peter Schuller
packages not getting rebuilt even though they should and/or stale dependencies and whatnot in the pkgtools package database. If someone has magic information here I'd love to hear it. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrie

mfi RAID monitoring

2007-06-09 Thread Peter Schuller
o work? (I could not get the latter to work.) -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Raid Controller

2007-05-25 Thread Peter Schuller
;) etc). I have had trouble with at least the 3112 and the 3114. I recommend some Googling on the specific situation with the 3124. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Schuller
significantly. Aside from the above mentioned problem that happened way in the beginning, I have not had a single problem with it. Definitely my new favorite controller... -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send

Re: vidcontrol: getting active vty: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2007-05-20 Thread Peter Schuller
e user in question at the console it should work. But in X it won't. You can make it do what you ask to the system console with: vidcontrol < /dev/console But that will require root privileges. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Best remote backup method?

2007-05-17 Thread Peter Schuller
nd the chflags system provides include by default. That said I do like dump's integration with snapshots and overall coherent feeling. If backup diskspace and bandwidth was not a concern I'd use it. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: In regard to SATA controllers.

2007-05-17 Thread Peter Schuller
ead". So far it's looking good for me, but it has not been that long yet. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

2007-05-16 Thread Peter Schuller
in at least one PCI motherboard. By your name you may be in Sweden; so FYI I purchased these cards from Mullet (www.mullet.se). They're the only supplier I have found that carries this locally. It's a shame really since it's such a good card given the price. -- / Peter Schuller PGP use

Re: Best remote backup method?

2007-05-16 Thread Peter Schuller
nd is thus very simple to get started with, it does just that. If you want things like automatic rotation schemes with hourly/daily/etc you have to script that on top. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail

Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Schuller
#x27;ll try to remember to post an update for interested parties and/or the archives when I have tested it more. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Schuller
rmance critical production system though. And AFAIK NCQ is not yet supported in FreeBSD. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Schuller
axtor desktop drives to my knowledge don't do this. This was Seagate. I have not investigated whether I can trigger it as easily with the Maxtor. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail t

Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

2007-05-10 Thread Peter Schuller
edictable and > flexible (SMART support, software RAID, disks exposed to the actual OS > and not some dodgy half-assed ASIC..). Yes. Given that I do not intend to utilize the hardware RAID support, having to go for a RAID card is to me just a downside, even disregarding the increase in cost.

Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

2007-05-10 Thread Peter Schuller
t because it is priced very well. If the Marvell is out, other main contenders are the 8 port LSI MegaRAID, Highpoint RocketRaid and 3ware cards. But these are all on the expensive side, with the half-exception of the MegaRaid 300-8XLP which is only semi-expensive. Any recommendations? -- / Pete

Re: FreeBSD VPS providers

2006-11-28 Thread Peter Schuller
has been good, though I have not yet had any kind of hardware disaster or similar so I cannot speak to how their tech support works in those cases. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E

Re: Empty directory 60M in size; used to contain 1.7 million files

2006-11-27 Thread Peter Schuller
;touch" and the > directory will shrink down to 1 block. You can then remove the file. Thanks, that explaints it. And it did work. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [E

Empty directory 60M in size; used to contain 1.7 million files

2006-11-26 Thread Peter Schuller
. This is on FreeBSD 6.1 with UFS2 + softupdates. No snapshots exist of the filesystem. 1.7 million files may be extreme, but I don't see why an empty directory would ever consume more than one inode? -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schull

Re: pf + ipv6 + keep state - any known issues?

2006-09-26 Thread Peter Schuller
l firewall/gateway case). Except in this case that does not apply, even if you agree with the sentiment to begin with. Can anyone confirm or deny whether "double" traversal *IS* supposed to work without difficulties/special cases on current versions of pf/FreeBSD? Thanks! --

pf + ipv6 + keep state - any known issues?

2006-09-23 Thread Peter Schuller
sign. Thank you, -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org ___ f

geom_eli and Safenet/hifn crypto accelerators

2006-07-21 Thread Peter Schuller
(Actually 50% system utilization on a dual-core 3800+, which I take to be one core saturated unless geli is able to use both CPU:s for the same userland I/O operation.) Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTE

pfsync broadcasts without explicitly enabling it

2006-07-02 Thread Peter Schuller
ces with ifconfig. The second machine I saw this on has only been running for a few days, so I am even more sure I haven't done so on this one than on the other one. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>&#x

Re: background fsck

2005-11-23 Thread Peter Schuller
gig or so), a huge /usr and symlinks for /tmp and /var - as an alternative to just one huge root partition. Does anyone want to speak up as to whether the behavior *is* intentional, or just an unintentional "bug"? -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or

Re: gmirror, gvinum or ccd to mirror root-filesystem under 6.0R

2005-11-17 Thread Peter Schuller
stem was mounted at the time, so I presume this isn't a problem with geom_mirror per se, but rather has to do with an attempt to access a destroyed geom or similar. (This wasn't the root filesystem btw - if it was the root filesystem then the system has a right to panic :)) -- / Pet

Re: Necessary code or trash?

2005-10-28 Thread Peter Schuller
I believe 5.0 falls before the switch to a dynamically linked /bin by default. (See eg http://kerneltrap.org/node/1628) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL

Re: Install FreeBSD, and put the disk in a other computer...

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Schuller
t to back up). > afterwards its just > hard to find the deleted mail cause the names in Maildir are odd. I > havent found any good answers to this on google What do you mean by deleted mail? I do not understand how deleted mails are related to backing up the Maildir. -- / Peter Schuller,

Re: 3c905C: very high system/interrupt CPU usage

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Schuller
I should add that this is currently on RELENG_6_0, but the situations has been the same for a long time. At least as far back as 5.3, but I believe "forever" (meaning probably 5.1 or so for this machine, I am not sure). -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE

3c905C: very high system/interrupt CPU usage

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Schuller
the kernel log). Also: The CPU usage problem occurrs on both outgoing and incoming traffic, and on both NIC:s. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [

Re: gbde - destroying master key without lockfile

2005-03-28 Thread Peter Schuller
> Instead of "destroy" I use "nuke". Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMA

gbde - destroying master key without lockfile

2005-03-26 Thread Peter Schuller
volume was self-contained; no need to backup anything else or keep it in synch.) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: gmirror rebuilds on every reboot

2005-03-14 Thread Peter Schuller
be that there is some problem preventing buffers from being flushed properly and/or the gmirror to shutdown correctly. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mai

Re: reload rc.conf without rebooting

2005-03-05 Thread Peter Schuller
ed-script reload (or the equivalent in /usr/local/etc/rc.d). -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org __

Re: glabel - refuses to label >= g partitions

2005-03-01 Thread Peter Schuller
ck (or close to it - at the end of the device, I don't remember). My last partition ended at exactly the last block of the device. Presumably /dev/ad1 is tasted by geom_label before /dev/ad1s1{g,h,whatever}, which means that geom_label will find the label on /dev/ad1... -- / Peter Schulle

Re: Blocking on multiple threads with timeout

2005-03-01 Thread Peter Schuller
question is another matter though... -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org _

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Raid

2005-02-27 Thread Peter Schuller
xamples. Creating a mirror takes only one command. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

glabel - refuses to label >= g partitions

2005-02-27 Thread Peter Schuller
what you would expect after a "glabel somename /dev/ad1", and the kernel log contains: GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad1 is label/somelabel -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retriev

Re: POP3 & IMAP

2004-12-28 Thread Peter Schuller
tup that works well. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org _

Re: Migrate from Qmail to Postfix..

2004-12-28 Thread Peter Schuller
ng all the logic you may have encoded in all those .qmail files (if any). -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-25 Thread Peter Schuller
honest I have never understood why the dependencies seem to randombly break, requiring a lot of fiddling with pkgdb. I tried portmanager in the past but missed the fact of 'proper' upgrading of entire dependency chains. I will have another go now though. Thanks for the clarifications! -

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-24 Thread Peter Schuller
If so I would, as a user, very much value being able to upgrade all ports without disabling the machine in question. As it stands now, I much prefer portupgrade to NetBSD's pkg_chk for exactly this reason, even if portupgrade requires manual tweaking sometimes. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiD

Re: darcs and ghc building

2004-12-23 Thread Peter Schuller
ave you tried updating your ports tree? Perhaps the issue, whatever it is, is fixed in 6.2.2. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: traffic volume monitoring - what program

2004-12-23 Thread Peter Schuller
rdtool). It's much easier and cleaner to configure than mrtg (in my experience). If you're interested I have a few scripts that do what you want in a basic bandwidth graphing situation for a few hosts; generating relatively sane graphs. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP

Re: migrating from thunderbird to mutt?

2004-12-19 Thread Peter Schuller
-fly spell checking as you write. > How do I set the thing up, config file help? www.mutt.org, and/or read through the example muttrc that comes with the freebsd port. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key

Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Peter Schuller
w what's going on. I haven't been following this thread so I don't know how much you already know or whether this helps. If this doesn't clear things up let me know and I can provide some URLs that are suitable for reading on this issue, and/or more details. At the moment I&

vinum + powerfailure -> one volume corrupt, others unaffected

2004-11-22 Thread Peter Schuller
st it was at the least a pretty random set of files from the filesystem. [4] http://www.scode.org/vinum-printconfig-postcrash.txt [5] http://www.scode.org/vinum-printconfig-precrash.txt [6] http://www.scode.org/vinum-dumpconfig-postcrash.txt -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-19 Thread Peter Schuller
makes any > difference. It doesn't have that particular feature you mentioned, but the one news reader that is closest to being perfect for me is slrn - very nice. As someone mentioned; leafnode can be used as a suitable "proxy" NNTP server that can pull news from multiple

Re: vinum

2004-10-03 Thread Peter Schuller
he name of your vinum labled partition. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org _

Root fs full -> free space always below 0

2004-07-17 Thread Peter Schuller
have the same problem (on both CURRENT and 5.2.1-RELEASE kernels). What to do? -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http

Re: startx kde

2004-05-14 Thread Peter Schuller
t;startkde" in ~/.xinitrc should do the trick. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org ___

Re: USB Storage devices (Cigar/Pen) in FreeBSD?

2004-05-14 Thread Peter Schuller
ou what works and what doesn't, since I was unable to find that out myself. > if you want to boot from the device. Otherwise I've not > found anything interesting. Perhaps this is just because > they work 'out of the box' and there are no quirks or issues > that

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Schuller
his mostly in light of all the 'next generation' features of ReiserFS 4, rather than because of any actual or fictional advantages in performance of ReiserFS 3.x as compared to the alternatives. The idea of ACID transactions at the filesystem level is just too attractive to resist. :)

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Schuller
ails such as this about soft updates, all in one place. What I know I have mostly gathered by reading papers and random mailinglist postings about certain specifics. Is there such a thing in existence? If not I may try to put one together, for other people like me. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDy

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Schuller
reSQL - but it would also unnecessarily decrease performance. > Is anyone remotely interested in this? Yes, for the reasons mentioned below, and strictly for practical personal use because I'd love to be able to share data between FreeBSD and Linux ;) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne

Is there any hardware RAID (SCSI) that is fully supported?

2004-05-07 Thread Peter Schuller
x27;s MegaRAIDs I'm not sure about. Anything else out there? -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL

Mylex RAID management on FreeBSD?

2004-05-06 Thread Peter Schuller
e not used one on FreeBSD - only Linux. Are Mylex cards stable under FreeBSD? Any opinions would be welcome. Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-M

Re: Vinum: How to safely remove a volume/drive from the configuration

2004-04-14 Thread Peter Schuller
MB S backup_a.p0.s0 State: up D: backup_a_1 Size: 19 GB S backup_a.p1.s0 State: up D: backup_a_2 Size: 19 GB -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an

Re: Nvidia Drivers

2004-04-14 Thread Peter Schuller
e install should do the trick; and follow the instructions in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/pkg-message -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EM

Vinum: How to safely remove a volume/drive from the configuration

2004-04-14 Thread Peter Schuller
e. Btw, after 'vinum stop', the volumes state show as 'down'. But after an attempted rm -r, they go back to state 'up' (both test and test3, even though I only try to remove test). -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'P

Re: spam in an inbox.

2004-04-11 Thread Peter Schuller
t way you don't have to do the parsing. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org ___

Re: Internet 2

2004-04-11 Thread Peter Schuller
dc0 > kitty.my.domain00:06:5b:b4:41:1c UHLW 0 0 > dc0 I don't see a default route anywhere in there. Add one with 'route add default IP_OF_THE_GATEWAY". Without a default gateway you won't be able to reach anything for which there is

Re: Recommended USB 2.0 controller fr. 5.2+

2004-04-06 Thread Peter Schuller
rs reading the archives.) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-23 Thread Peter Schuller
ad practice at all, since I have never heard of a failure, nor seen any concrete evidence why it would actually be bad. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E

Re: disconnecting keyboard: big trouble !?!

2004-03-23 Thread Peter Schuller
lead to serious problems both at home and in colocation environments. I'm very surprised FreeBSD doesn't handle this by default out of the box. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: S

Re: Java runtime?

2004-03-23 Thread Peter Schuller
Linux JVM, running under emulation, which is failing, given that it is compiling the standard library for the native JVM.) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-

Re: Java runtime?

2004-03-23 Thread Peter Schuller
.4.2. It will need to first install the linux-JDK though for bootstrapping purposes. Choose the JDK you would like to install and do 'make install'. It's going to ask you to download files from Sun manually due to licensing restrictions. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technolo

Re: Recommended USB 2.0 controller fr. 5.2+

2004-03-22 Thread Peter Schuller
> So - if I want a USB 2 controller that works fine with FreeBSD, which one > shojuld I get / which chipset should it be using? To be more specific I found a controllre by Q-Tec (425U) wtih a Via VT6202 chipset. Anyone know if this will work? -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies H

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