Re: grappling with users
On 2005-04-15 10:33, Timothy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats the correct method of creating a deamon user account, which you can use to start a deamon process but can't be logged into. so far i have not seen a single good explaination or example of this below is my svn user, who has /sbin/nologin, but can't be used because it runs the no login shell. whats the correct way to do this? %su svn -c svnadmin create /usr/local/svn/PubWare This account is currently not available. I don't know if this is the Correct(TM) way, but you can use the -m option of su(1), and change your id from superuser to the user locked out with /sbin/nologin: : gothmog:/root# grep ^nobody /etc/passwd : nobody:*:65534:65534:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin : gothmog:/root# su -m nobody : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:29am]/root id : uid=65534(nobody) gid=65534(nobody) groups=65534(nobody) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Solution for ATAPI_TIMEOUT on FreeBSD 5.3 on some SuperMicro motherboards
Hi, I know a few people have had ATAPI_TIMEOUT errors when installing 5.3-RELEASE on SuperMicro motherboards. I got it successfully installed on a SuperMicro X6DHE-X8 which has dual Broadcom 5721 which are not supported in 5.3-RELEASE. I wrote up the solution here: http://www.mostlygeek.com/node/22 Hope this helps anybody facing ATAPI_TIMEOUT problems. Ben. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions
On Apr 14, 2005, at 5:28 PM, Benson Wong wrote: So theoretically it should go over 1000TBI've conducted several bastardized installations due to sysinstall not being able to do anything over the 2TB limit by creating the partition ahead of timeI am going to be attacking this tonight and my efforts will be primarily focused on creating one large 5.8TB slice.wish me luck!! PS: Muhaa haa haa! You're probably going to run into boo hoo hoo hoo. Most likely you won't be able to get over the 2TB limit. Also don't use sysinstall, I was never able to get it to work well. Probably because my arrays were mounted over fiber channel and fdisk craps out. This is what I did: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1k count=1 disklabel -rw da0 audo newfs /dev/da0 I have no experience doing any of this. But this has come up before in the lists and someone posted on the magic incantations to use to create these things by hand. So use google or other search engine to search the list archives on tb sized file systems. There is good info there Chad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the Gimp no longer opens jpeg files
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 09:12:26PM +0200, FreeBsdBeni wrote: On Thursday 14 April 2005 09:59, dima wrote: Hi All, I've cvsuped from 5.3-p5 to 5.4-RC2, done portupgrade and now gimp-2.2.6,1 can't open jpeg files with the following message: /usr/X11R6/libexec/gimp/2.2/plug-ins/jpeg: fatal error: Segmentation fault What have I missed? please, help me. I found something in google, but it is in German :-( I don't know this language http://www.bsdforen.de/showthread.php?t=9667 -Dmitry In the last entry there is a link with the answer : http://tinyurl.com/6p6su (an update of libexif should do the trick they say...). Hope this helps, -- Beni. Yes it helped. It is looks like a bit deley between mirrors as I cvsuped on 14th apr in the morning with cvsup4.ru.FreeBSD.org and there was not libexif-0.6.12_1 bugfix port which appeared on 13th. May be it is because of shift of time. Nethermind. Now works fine. Thanks a lot. -Dmitry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lightweight bittorrent client that does queueing
* Brian John [2005-04-14 21:32 -0500] I am looking for a lightweight bittorrent client that does download queueing. I know this is somewhat of a difficult thing to ask for, but I think it is possible. I've tried ctorrent, bittorrent and azureus. Obviously ctorrent and bittorrrent didn't work for me (because they don't do queueing). Azureus was great, except it slows down my entire computer. Actually, a console-based client that would do queueing would be ideal, but I don't think one exists. So what is the most lightweight client that I can get that will do download queueing? See net/rtorrent ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/var/spool/clientmque 185meg
/var/spool/clientmqueue -- 185meg How do i get the messages from the above to the root mail folder of my machine ? im willing to provide any neccessary information to help. -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lightweight bittorrent client that does queueing
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:47 pm, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: * Brian John [2005-04-14 21:32 -0500] I am looking for a lightweight bittorrent client that does download Azureus was great, except it slows down my entire computer. I had the exact same issue with Azureus. The problem is that jdk1.4 has a memory leak in it. Try telling azureus to use jdk 1.5 and all your previous problems will disappear. -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: samhain - starts on boot?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running 5.3. I decided to install samhain through ports... Afterwards I messed around with it running it -D mode for a bit, I killed the process... Never really bothered with it again but I have noticed that it will start on boot without any indication of it in rc.conf or rc.conf.local Why? Did me running it in -D mode that one time make it add some startup script or when it installed it added it's own startup script? Try looking in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for a startup script, or run pkg_info -L 'samhain*' and look through what it installs for likely candidates. Or, if you're not using it, why not uninstall it? --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FastCGI on FreeBSD 5.3
I've read that FastCGI 0.8.5 has a memory leak, which is fixed in 0.8.6. However, 0.8.6 isn't in ports yet, so I can't just upgrade. Someone mentioned a way to patch it to fix the leak, but I haven't been able to find any patch info for FreeBSD. Anyone know how I can patch/upgrade on FreeBSD 5.3? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Understanding differences between releases and ports
Hello list, I have problems understanding a base concept :-( Is that right, when I install 5.2.1-RELEASE and I install the ports-distribution with cvsup and keep them up to date, that the ports I build afterwards with make install are newer than the release-precompiled-packages distributed with 5.2.1-RELEASE? Is that right that this procedure (with cvsup) is NOT ONLY correcting paths for the distfiles of ports in the ports-tree, then also replaces old versions of ports by newer ones? If so, does it mean that I could use 5.2.1-RELEASE and an updated portstree resulting in getting in example gnome 2.8 and kde 3.4 and so on? Have I to see the RELEASE-version abstracted separated from the portstree? And how is compatibility granted between different RELEASE-versions and the up-to-date-ports-tree? With regards Stevan Tiefert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Understanding differences between releases and ports
Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, I have problems understanding a base concept :-( Is that right, when I install 5.2.1-RELEASE and I install the ports-distribution with cvsup and keep them up to date, that the ports I build afterwards with make install are newer than the release-precompiled-packages distributed with 5.2.1-RELEASE? Correct. Is that right that this procedure (with cvsup) is NOT ONLY correcting paths for the distfiles of ports in the ports-tree, then also replaces old versions of ports by newer ones? Yes and no. When you CVSup, you are refreshing your ports tree. If you have a port installed (take mutt for example) and after the CVSup the ports tree has a newer version, then you need to run portupdate OR portmanager. Once that is done, then you have installed the newest mutt. If so, does it mean that I could use 5.2.1-RELEASE and an updated portstree resulting in getting in example gnome 2.8 and kde 3.4 and so on? Have I to see the RELEASE-version abstracted separated from the portstree? And how is compatibility granted between different RELEASE-versions and the up-to-date-ports-tree? This is somewhat complex; You, as the user - need to decide, do I want to use 5.2.1 and cvsup something like KDE, THEN compile it and wait mega hours OR, does installing a new release of FreeBSD make more sence. You need to weigh out what's proper for you. Some of us will not only CVSup the ports tree, but also CVSup the src to keep out systems up to date. While other prefer to do a clean install of a newer release. Then again, if you never CVSup the src tree - there is always FreeBSD-Update (that updates the src bineries). There are a few options for you to go with - but YOU need to consider what's the best way for you to handle it. For me, I CVSup both the src and ports tree - so my system is really never more then a week off when it comes to my ports. I'll CVSup the src tree when 5.4-RELEASE is out, and continue to CVSup my ports. -- Best regards, Chris In case of doubt, make it sound convincing. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
see processes owned by other users
Hi all, I'm using 5.3-STABLE now (FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #5: Mon Dec 6 17:45:08 NOVT 2004). I've setted security.mac.seeotheruids.enabled to 0 in sysctl.conf, so I can see my own processes only... With one exception, if a process was started in jail with the same UID (but not me directly) then I could see this too. Is there a feature or bug? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Understanding differences between releases and ports
Am Freitag, 15. April 2005 14:44 schrieb Chris: Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, I have problems understanding a base concept :-( Is that right, when I install 5.2.1-RELEASE and I install the ports-distribution with cvsup and keep them up to date, that the ports I build afterwards with make install are newer than the release-precompiled-packages distributed with 5.2.1-RELEASE? Correct. Is that right that this procedure (with cvsup) is NOT ONLY correcting paths for the distfiles of ports in the ports-tree, then also replaces old versions of ports by newer ones? Yes and no. When you CVSup, you are refreshing your ports tree. If you have a port installed (take mutt for example) and after the CVSup the ports tree has a newer version, then you need to run portupdate OR portmanager. Once that is done, then you have installed the newest mutt. If so, does it mean that I could use 5.2.1-RELEASE and an updated portstree resulting in getting in example gnome 2.8 and kde 3.4 and so on? Have I to see the RELEASE-version abstracted separated from the portstree? And how is compatibility granted between different RELEASE-versions and the up-to-date-ports-tree? This is somewhat complex; You, as the user - need to decide, do I want to use 5.2.1 and cvsup something like KDE, THEN compile it and wait mega hours OR, does installing a new release of FreeBSD make more sence. You need to weigh out what's proper for you. Some of us will not only CVSup the ports tree, but also CVSup the src to keep out systems up to date. While other prefer to do a clean install of a newer release. Then again, if you never CVSup the src tree - there is always FreeBSD-Update (that updates the src bineries). There are a few options for you to go with - but YOU need to consider what's the best way for you to handle it. For me, I CVSup both the src and ports tree - so my system is really never more then a week off when it comes to my ports. I'll CVSup the src tree when 5.4-RELEASE is out, and continue to CVSup my ports. Hello again, what do you mean with src? The source in /usr/src or the binaries? And a second question: If I update with portupdate, then I am NOT updating the base-system, isn't it (like the shell, kernel and so on...)? How to update the base-system? With regards Stevan Tiefert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Default root password for FreeBSD 4.2-RC2
Hi, May I know the default root password for FreeBSD 5.4-RC2? My system was previously running FreeBSD 5.3-SECURITY. Then I set the option in sysinstall to 5.4-RC2 and upgrade the base distribution. After that I accidentally rebooted the server. Now I could no longer access the server. There is none. When FreeBSD is first installed, you are offered the option, during installation, to specify a root password.If that was done, then that is it. If not, there is no root password. You could log in to root without a password - a dangerous situation which should not be left that way. But, the system is also set up by default to disallow a root log-in from a remote host. So, you would have to be at the console in order to log in as root unless that has been modified. If you are at the console, you will need to do a boot to single user mode, do an fsck and then mount needed file systems. Then you can set the root password and any config stuff to allow logins as needed. jerry Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions
I am going to be attacking this tonight and my efforts will be primarily focused on creating one large 5.8TB slice.wish me luck!! How did this go? Were you able to create the very large slice? --Nick -- *From:* Nick Pavlica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:49 PM *To:* Benson Wong *Cc:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org *Subject:* Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions Is there any limitations that would prevent a single volume that large? (if I remember there is a 2TB limit or something) 2TB is the largest for UFS2. 1TB is the largest for UFS1. Is the 2TB limit that you mention only for x86? This file system comparison lists the maximum size to be much larger ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems). --Nick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:13:48 -0500 Edgar Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benson..GREAT RESPONSE!! I Don't think I could have done any better myself. Although I knew most of the information you provided, it was good to know that my knowledge was not very far off. It's also reassuring that I'm not the only nut job building ludicrous systems.. Nick, I believe that we may have some minor misinformation on our hands.. I refer you both to http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/ which according to the page. When the UFS filesystem was introduced to BSD in 1982, its use of 32 bit offsets and counters to address the storage was considered to be ahead of its time. Since most fixed-disk storage devices use 512 byte sectors, 32 bits allowed for 2 Terabytes of storage. That was an almost un-imaginable quantity for the time. But now that 250 and 400 Gigabyte disks are available at consumer prices, it's trivial to build a hardware or software based storage array that can exceed 2TB for a few thousand dollars. The UFS2 filesystem was introduced in 2003 as a replacement to the original UFS and provides 64 bit counters and offsets. This allows for files and filesystems to grow to 2^73 bytes (2^64 * 512) in size and hopefully be sufficient for quite a long time. UFS2 largely solved the storage size limits imposed by the filesystem. Unfortunately, many tools and storage mechanisms still use or assume 32 bit values, often keeping FreeBSD limited to 2TB. So theoretically it should go over 1000TB.I've conducted several bastardized installations due to sysinstall not being able to do anything over the 2TB limit by creating the partition ahead of time.I am going to be attacking this tonight and my efforts will be primarily focused on creating one large 5.8TB slice..wish me luck!! PS: Muhaa haa haa! You'll need to use GPT to make this work for anything over 2TB. Man gpt Nick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make release
Hello there, I'm about to build a whole FreeBSD system with optimized code for my own purposes. I've read this document: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release-build.html According this I should make a CVS mirror and follow the steps that the documention mentions. It would be awful to make a whole CVS mirror, since I would like to build only a 5-STABLE distribution. There is an example, that is highly determined by this approach with cvs mirroring, thus it isn't entirely useful for me, because I'd like to avoid mucking with cvs. If somebody knows how to make full release isos from a simple cvsupped source tree, please let me know. Cheers, Gábor Kövesdán ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BIND upgrade from ports....
Hello list, First off, please reply directly to me (with CC to list), as I'm no longer a member of the list. (Too much erroneous traffic.) FreeBSD 5.3 uses BIND 9.3.0 and I'm trying to upgrade to 9.3.1. I know with PERL, you can set an option to use-ports-dist or something like that so that system perl is disabled and perl from ports is used instead. Is there a similar option for BIND, or do I need to symlink the execs from /usr/sbin/... to /usr/local/sbin? Thanks. ___ Eric F Crist I am so smart, S.M.R.T! Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BIND upgrade from ports....
On Apr 15, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Eric F Crist wrote: Hello list, First off, please reply directly to me (with CC to list), as I'm no longer a member of the list. (Too much erroneous traffic.) FreeBSD 5.3 uses BIND 9.3.0 and I'm trying to upgrade to 9.3.1. I know with PERL, you can set an option to use-ports-dist or something like that so that system perl is disabled and perl from ports is used instead. Is there a similar option for BIND, or do I need to symlink the execs from /usr/sbin/... to /usr/local/sbin? Thanks. Sorry for the self-reply, but I answered my own question. Doing a little reading, the following command will do what I require: From within /usr/ports/dns/bind9, I executed the following: # make WITH_PORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND9=yes install clean All is updated! Thanks. ___ Eric F Crist I am so smart, S.M.R.T! Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions
Yeah it was pretty much boo hoo hoo...it appears we have either backplane, MI cable issues, or controller problems...I was only getting 11 drives available with improper identification...so I am going thru the tedious task of ripping it all down, and testing backplanes, drives, and cables...one at a time... On a side note...I was able to do my bastardization procedure using a live cd to get it up to 3.8TB...that was as far as I took it as I want to get the other problems fixed first... Unfortunately, due to my determination (aka: sore loser) one of two options exist...this WILL work...or one of us is going to die trying... Is it just me, or does everyone try to plead, reason, and insult their equipment...I swear to god, it derives pleasure from frustration... -Original Message- From: Benson Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions So theoretically it should go over 1000TB.I've conducted several bastardized installations due to sysinstall not being able to do anything over the 2TB limit by creating the partition ahead of time.I am going to be attacking this tonight and my efforts will be primarily focused on creating one large 5.8TB slice..wish me luck!! PS: Muhaa haa haa! You're probably going to run into boo hoo hoo hoo. Most likely you won't be able to get over the 2TB limit. Also don't use sysinstall, I was never able to get it to work well. Probably because my arrays were mounted over fiber channel and fdisk craps out. This is what I did: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1k count=1 disklabel -rw da0 audo newfs /dev/da0 That creates one large slice, UFS2, for FreeBSD. Let know if you get it over 2TB, I was never able to have any luck. Another reason you might want to avoid a super large file system is that UFS2 is not journaling. If the server crashes it will take fschk a LONG time to check all those inodes! Ben. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions
Sorry for the delay in response.I had to go to the IRS today.OMFG.what a model of inefficiency. I am having some minor hardware issues with the build that we are going to be working on to get corrected first.but I will def keep everyone informed on what is going on.. _ From: Nick Pavlica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 9:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Benson Wong; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions I am going to be attacking this tonight and my efforts will be primarily focused on creating one large 5.8TB slice..wish me luck!! How did this go? Were you able to create the very large slice? --Nick _ From: Nick Pavlica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:49 PM To: Benson Wong Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions Is there any limitations that would prevent a single volume that large? (if I remember there is a 2TB limit or something) 2TB is the largest for UFS2. 1TB is the largest for UFS1. Is the 2TB limit that you mention only for x86? This file system comparison lists the maximum size to be much larger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems ). --Nick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions
Interesting... gpt add [-b number] [-i index] [-s count] [-t type] device ... The add command allows the user to add a new partition to an existing table. By default, it will create a UFS partition covering the first available block of an unused disk space. The command-specific options can be used to control this behaviour. I am assuming that the docs were not updated to reflect that its talking about UFS2? Or is it actually correct? -Original Message- From: Nick Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Nick Pavlica'; 'Benson Wong'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:13:48 -0500 Edgar Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benson..GREAT RESPONSE!! I Don't think I could have done any better myself. Although I knew most of the information you provided, it was good to know that my knowledge was not very far off. It's also reassuring that I'm not the only nut job building ludicrous systems.. Nick, I believe that we may have some minor misinformation on our hands.. I refer you both to http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/ which according to the page. When the UFS filesystem was introduced to BSD in 1982, its use of 32 bit offsets and counters to address the storage was considered to be ahead of its time. Since most fixed-disk storage devices use 512 byte sectors, 32 bits allowed for 2 Terabytes of storage. That was an almost un-imaginable quantity for the time. But now that 250 and 400 Gigabyte disks are available at consumer prices, it's trivial to build a hardware or software based storage array that can exceed 2TB for a few thousand dollars. The UFS2 filesystem was introduced in 2003 as a replacement to the original UFS and provides 64 bit counters and offsets. This allows for files and filesystems to grow to 2^73 bytes (2^64 * 512) in size and hopefully be sufficient for quite a long time. UFS2 largely solved the storage size limits imposed by the filesystem. Unfortunately, many tools and storage mechanisms still use or assume 32 bit values, often keeping FreeBSD limited to 2TB. So theoretically it should go over 1000TB.I've conducted several bastardized installations due to sysinstall not being able to do anything over the 2TB limit by creating the partition ahead of time.I am going to be attacking this tonight and my efforts will be primarily focused on creating one large 5.8TB slice..wish me luck!! PS: Muhaa haa haa! You'll need to use GPT to make this work for anything over 2TB. Man gpt Nick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Understanding differences between releases and ports
Stevan Tiefert wrote: Am Freitag, 15. April 2005 14:44 schrieb Chris: Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, I have problems understanding a base concept :-( Is that right, when I install 5.2.1-RELEASE and I install the ports-distribution with cvsup and keep them up to date, that the ports I build afterwards with make install are newer than the release-precompiled-packages distributed with 5.2.1-RELEASE? Correct. Is that right that this procedure (with cvsup) is NOT ONLY correcting paths for the distfiles of ports in the ports-tree, then also replaces old versions of ports by newer ones? Yes and no. When you CVSup, you are refreshing your ports tree. If you have a port installed (take mutt for example) and after the CVSup the ports tree has a newer version, then you need to run portupdate OR portmanager. Once that is done, then you have installed the newest mutt. If so, does it mean that I could use 5.2.1-RELEASE and an updated portstree resulting in getting in example gnome 2.8 and kde 3.4 and so on? Have I to see the RELEASE-version abstracted separated from the portstree? And how is compatibility granted between different RELEASE-versions and the up-to-date-ports-tree? This is somewhat complex; You, as the user - need to decide, do I want to use 5.2.1 and cvsup something like KDE, THEN compile it and wait mega hours OR, does installing a new release of FreeBSD make more sence. You need to weigh out what's proper for you. Some of us will not only CVSup the ports tree, but also CVSup the src to keep out systems up to date. While other prefer to do a clean install of a newer release. Then again, if you never CVSup the src tree - there is always FreeBSD-Update (that updates the src bineries). There are a few options for you to go with - but YOU need to consider what's the best way for you to handle it. For me, I CVSup both the src and ports tree - so my system is really never more then a week off when it comes to my ports. I'll CVSup the src tree when 5.4-RELEASE is out, and continue to CVSup my ports. Hello again, what do you mean with src? The source in /usr/src or the binaries? Like the ports tree (/usr/ports) there is the src tree (/usr/src). The src tree can be updated and compiled to either a new release, or the security patches (however, you can patch it instead of buildworld etc.) This is all covered in the Handbook. And a second question: If I update with portupdate, then I am NOT updating the base-system, isn't it (like the shell, kernel and so on...)? How to update the base-system? Both portupgrade and portmanager (there are others also) only deal with the ports tree (/usr/ports). You can CVSup the src tree upgrade to a new release, and RC, stable, or stay with the sec-branch (IE: 5.3-RELEASE-p9). Again, this is covered in the Handbook. Mind you tho - If you are a newb, building world may not be for you at this time. If however, you are adventureous, don't mind re installing should things go bad, or if you missed some steps when doing this - then by all means, have at it. But - do so at your own risk of course. -- Best regards, Chris When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions
In the last episode (Apr 15), Nick Evans said: You'll need to use GPT to make this work for anything over 2TB. Man gpt Or don't bother with a partition table at all, which makes growing the filesystem later on quite a bit easier. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with SoundBlaster Audigy on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE
On 4/14/05, Alexander Chamandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having problems after a recent upgrade to FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE. RC-1 seemed to work fine, but now my media files (audio and video alike) are not properly playing. And I get this error: pcm0:play:0: play interrupt timeout, channel dead This problem seems to be directly related to ACPI being enabled. Once I disable it sound works fine. Has anyone experienced this and if so, know of a reasonable workaround? dmesg: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #14: Thu Apr 14 16:29:53 EDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/vetra Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ (2009.15-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0xf48 Stepping = 8 Features=0x78bfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2 AMD Features=0xe0500800SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,LM,3DNow+,3DNow real memory = 2147418112 (2047 MB) avail memory = 2064994304 (1969 MB) ACPI APIC Table: Nvidia AWRDACPI ioapic0 Version 1.1 irqs 0-23 on motherboard acpi0: Nvidia AWRDACPI on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf0-0xcf3,0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 pci0: serial bus, SMBus at device 1.1 (no driver attached) ohci0: nVidia nForce3 USB Controller mem 0xfc003000-0xfc003fff irq 22 at device 2.0 on pci0 usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting usb0: nVidia nForce3 USB Controller on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: nVidia OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered ohci1: nVidia nForce3 USB Controller mem 0xfc004000-0xfc004fff irq 21 at device 2.1 on pci0 usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb1: SMM does not respond, resetting usb1: nVidia nForce3 USB Controller on ohci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: nVidia OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered pci0: serial bus, USB at device 2.2 (no driver attached) pci0: network, ethernet at device 5.0 (no driver attached) pci0: multimedia, audio at device 6.0 (no driver attached) atapci0: nVidia nForce3 UDMA133 controller port 0xf000-0xf00f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 8.0 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 10.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pcm0: Creative Audigy (EMU10K2) port 0xa000-0xa01f irq 19 at device 7.0 on pci1 pcm0: TriTech TR28602 AC97 Codec pci1: serial bus, FireWire at device 7.2 (no driver attached) ahc0: Adaptec 2940 Ultra2 SCSI adapter port 0xa800-0xa8ff mem 0xfb004000-0xfb004fff irq 16 at device 8.0 on pci1 aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs atapci1: SiI 3512 SATA150 controller port 0xbc00-0xbc0f,0xb800-0xb803,0xb400-0xb407,0xb000-0xb003,0xac00-0xac07 mem 0xfb006000-0xfb0061ff irq 17 at device 13.0 on pci1 ata2: channel #0 on atapci1 ata3: channel #1 on atapci1 pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 11.0 on pci0 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 pci2: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no driver attached) pci2: display at device 0.1 (no driver attached) atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 orm0: ISA Option ROMs at iomem 0xd8000-0xdd7ff,0xd-0xd7fff,0xc-0xccfff on isa0 sc0: System console at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 uhub2: vendor 0x0543 product 0x1167, class 9/0, rev 2.00/ff.ff, addr 2 uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered ugen0: Saitek Saitek X45, rev 1.00/0.02, addr 3 ums0: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse, rev 2.00/11.00, addr 4, iclass 3/1 ums0: 3 buttons and Z dir. Timecounter TSC frequency 2009148084 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec ad2: 58644MB IC35L060AVVA07-0/VA3OA52A [119150/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA100 acd0: DVDR TEAC DV-W516GA/C4S2 at ata1-slave PIO4 da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: SEAGATE ST118273LW 6246 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit) da0: 17366MB (35566480 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2213C) Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a nv0: NVIDIA nForce MCP3 Networking Adapter port 0xd000-0xd007 mem 0xfc00-0xfc000fff irq 22 at device 5.0 on pci0 nv0: Ethernet address 00:0d:61:14:6f:39 nv0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:61:14:6f:39 miibus0: MII bus on nv0 rlphy0: RTL8201L 10/100 media interface on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto -- Best wishes, Alexander G.
RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions
OK...so now we are going into some new territory...I am curious if you would care to elaborate a bit more...I am intrigued...if anyone wants me to do some experiments or test something, let me know...I for one welcome any attempts at pushing any limits or trying new things... -Original Message- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:18 AM To: Nick Evans Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Benson Wong'; 'Nick Pavlica'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions In the last episode (Apr 15), Nick Evans said: You'll need to use GPT to make this work for anything over 2TB. Man gpt Or don't bother with a partition table at all, which makes growing the filesystem later on quite a bit easier. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2004/09/19 02:40:48 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one of the following things was wrong with your message: - You left out a subject line, or the subject line was not appropriate. - You formatted it in such a way that it was difficult to read. - You asked more than one unrelated question in one message. - You sent out a message with an incorrect date, time or time zone. - You sent out the same message more than once. - You sent an 'unsubscribe' message to FreeBSD-questions. If you have done any of these things, there is a good chance that you will get more than one copy of this message from different people. Read on, and your next message will be more successful. This document is also available on the web at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. = Contents: I:Introduction II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions III: Should I ask -questions, -newbies or -hackers? IV: How to submit a question to FreeBSD-questions V:How to answer a question to FreeBSD-questions I: Introduction === This is a regular posting aimed to help both those seeking advice from FreeBSD-questions (the newcomers), and also those who answer the questions (the hackers). Note that the term hacker has nothing to do with breaking into other people's computers. The correct term for the latter activity is cracker, but the popular press hasn't found out yet. The FreeBSD hackers disapprove strongly of cracking security, and have nothing to do with it. In the past, there has been some friction which stems from the different viewpoints of the two groups. The newcomers accused the hackers of being arrogant, stuck-up, and unhelpful, while the hackers accused the newcomers of being stupid, unable to read plain English, and expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Of course, there's an element of truth in both these claims, but for the most part these viewpoints come from a sense of frustration. In this document, I'd like to do something to relieve this frustration and help everybody get better results from FreeBSD-questions. In the following section, I recommend how to submit a question; after that, we'll look at how to answer one. II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions == When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this message, amongst other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here's a typical message: Welcome to the freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list! If you ever want to unsubscribe or change your options (eg, switch to or from digest mode, change your password, etc.), visit your subscription page at: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (obviously, substitute your mail address for [EMAIL PROTECTED]). You can also make such adjustments via email by sending a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. You must know your password to change your options (including changing the password, itself) or to unsubscribe. Normally, Mailman will remind you of your freebsd.org mailing list passwords once every month, although you can disable this if you prefer. This reminder will also include instructions on how to unsubscribe or change your account options. There is also a button on your options page that will email your current password to you. Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send how to questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests: you don't need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the one which you specified when you subscribed. If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you're not on the list, this may mean one of two things: 1. You have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. That's where keeping the original message from majordomo comes in handy. For example, the sample message above shows my mail ID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since then, I have changed it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I were to try to remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list, it would fail: I would have to specify the name with which I joined. 2. You're subscribed to a mailing list which is subscribed to
The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. The Complete FreeBSD has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor Installing and Running FreeBSD. Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm constantly updating it. Greg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions
In the last episode (Apr 15), Edgar Martinez said: OK...so now we are going into some new territory...I am curious if you would care to elaborate a bit more...I am intrigued...if anyone wants me to do some experiments or test something, let me know...I for one welcome any attempts at pushing any limits or trying new things... If your array is just going to used for one large filesystem, you can skip any partitioning steps and newfs the base device directly. then if you decide to grow the array (and if your controller supports nondestructive resizing), you can use growfs to expand the filesystem without the extra step of manually adjusting a partition table. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions
On 4/15/05, Edgar Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK...so now we are going into some new territory...I am curious if you would care to elaborate a bit more...I am intrigued...if anyone wants me to do some experiments or test something, let me know...I for one welcome any attempts at pushing any limits or trying new things... I would help do some testing but I don't have any storage that large at the moment. I curious how 5.4RC2 or handles very large volumes. Have you already tried fdisk, newfs ? --Nick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions
I don't think I have ever done that...or even considered that was possible...The controller does support growing the array...Guess I'll give it a shot starting with 2TB and then grow it in increments to see how it behaves...any suggestions for newfs'in the device directly?? -Original Message- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 12:15 PM To: Edgar Martinez Cc: 'Nick Evans'; 'Benson Wong'; 'Nick Pavlica'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions In the last episode (Apr 15), Edgar Martinez said: OK...so now we are going into some new territory...I am curious if you would care to elaborate a bit more...I am intrigued...if anyone wants me to do some experiments or test something, let me know...I for one welcome any attempts at pushing any limits or trying new things... If your array is just going to used for one large filesystem, you can skip any partitioning steps and newfs the base device directly. then if you decide to grow the array (and if your controller supports nondestructive resizing), you can use growfs to expand the filesystem without the extra step of manually adjusting a partition table. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions
I was hoping that 5.4 would be out by the time I started this project.I'll give it a shot to see how it behaves. _ From: Nick Pavlica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dan Nelson; Nick Evans; Benson Wong; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions On 4/15/05, Edgar Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK...so now we are going into some new territory...I am curious if you would care to elaborate a bit more...I am intrigued...if anyone wants me to do some experiments or test something, let me know...I for one welcome any attempts at pushing any limits or trying new things... I would help do some testing but I don't have any storage that large at the moment. I curious how 5.4RC2 or handles very large volumes. Have you already tried fdisk, newfs ? --Nick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: samhain - starts on boot?
There is a script there but my understanding is that the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d don't automatically start without first being enabled through rc.conf rc.conf.local? Or did I misunderstand? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UPDATING and security updates.
jimmie james [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Curious why there's no mention of any security issues in /usr/src/UPDATING on 4.11-STABLE systems, but browsing the cvs-src, there's notes in RELENG_4_10, RELENG_4_11, Branch: RELENG_5_3? Wouldn't it make sense to note it in all affected releases? I don't think so. It's already mentioned in a lot of places, and UPDATING is imposing enough as it is; I think that keeping UPDATING just for tracking issues you need to bear in mind for actually *doing* the update of your system. Yes, I'm subscribed to the relevent lists, however, having an offical tracking of these issues, would help in knowing what patch was applied when, and the reason. Absolutely. That place is: http://www.freebsd.org/security/#adv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: samhain - starts on boot?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a script there but my understanding is that the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d don't automatically start without first being enabled through rc.conf rc.conf.local? Or did I misunderstand? Some ports do that, but (from a quick look) I don't think this one does. If you don't want the script to start automatically, remove the execute bits from it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: see processes owned by other users
Alexey Privalov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using 5.3-STABLE now (FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #5: Mon Dec 6 17:45:08 NOVT 2004). I've setted security.mac.seeotheruids.enabled to 0 in sysctl.conf, so I can see my own processes only... With one exception, if a process was started in jail with the same UID (but not me directly) then I could see this too. Is there a feature or bug? Feature. That's exactly what I would expect it to do. If the process has your UID, it belongs to you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
src out of sync or buildworld broken?
Afternoon everyone. I track RELENG_5 using cvsup that runs nightly. Today I've been trying to buildworld and keep running into problems with missing directories and files. First, build world was complaing that the /usr/src/sys/dev/ieee488 dir was missing. Couldn't find anything on google pertaining to the error. I cd'd to the dev dir and it wasn't there so I created it. I then ran again and ran into the same thing with /usr/src/sys/geom/shsec dir missing, so I created that. Now I'm getting an error message: In file included from /usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/crypto/sha/sha_locl.h:133, from /usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/crypto/sha/sha_dgst.c:70: /usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/crypto/md32_common.h:132:26: openssl/fips.h: No such file or directory mkdep: compile failed *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto. *** Error code 1 find can't find fips.h nor fips Any suggestions? How can I resynch my source? I've cvsup'ed twice just to be sure ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lightweight bittorrent client that does queueing
On Fri 15 Apr 05 03:09, Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:47 pm, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: * Brian John [2005-04-14 21:32 -0500] I am looking for a lightweight bittorrent client that does download Azureus was great, except it slows down my entire computer. I had the exact same issue with Azureus. The problem is that jdk1.4 has a memory leak in it. Try telling azureus to use jdk 1.5 and all your previous problems will disappear. This is good information. jdk-1.5 is still alpha, but I'm now trying it with another java app which had a similar problem, and it seems to be much better. Not sure if I can rely on 1.5 yet, but this is definitely an improvement. Not that it matters all that much, but the UI is improved as well. - jt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions
If your array is just going to used for one large filesystem, you can
skip any partitioning steps and newfs the base device directly. then
if you decide to grow the array (and if your controller supports
nondestructive resizing), you can use growfs to expand the filesystem
without the extra step of manually adjusting a partition table.
So you don't actually need to disklabel it?
You can just go newfs {options} /dev/da0 and it will just work?
Hmm.. wish I had something to test that with because I thought I had
to disklabel first and then newfs it.
Ben.
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'make buildworld' from 4.9-STABLE - 4.11-STABLE failed.
Hello, I'm getting this error in the make buildworld phase of the update: building profiled com_err library ranlib libcom_err_p.a cc -fpic -DPIC -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro -I/usr/src/lib/libcom_err/../../contrib/com_err -c /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/../../contrib/com_err/com_err.c -o com_err.So cc -fpic -DPIC -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro -I/usr/src/lib/libcom_err/../../contrib/com_err -c /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/../../contrib/com_err/error.c -o error.So building shared library libcom_err.so.2 /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/libexec/elf/ld:built in linker script:6: syntax error *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/lib/libcom_err. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. Steps done: # cd /usr rm -fr src obj cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile -h cvsup2.freebsd.org # make buildkernel # make buildworld /etc/make.conf CPUTYPE=p3 CFLAGS= -O -pipe COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe ENABLE_SUIDPERL= true INSTALL=install -C WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/tmp SENDMAIL_CF_DIR=/usr/local/share/sendmail/cf # To avoid building various parts of the base system: DOC_LANG= en_US.ISO8859-1 X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg # added by use.perl 2005-03-27 10:14:37 PERL_VER=5.8.6 PERL_VERSION=5.8.6 NOPERL=yes /etc/make.conf Thanks for any help, Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Snapshots in Freebsd 5.x
jlkjlk 64654654ut on 2005-04-14 16:07:18 -0700: I have been able to mount the snapshot and retrieve the data while the system is running as mentioned on the article but ultimately I would like to restore entire partitions (from a system crash, for example). Is it possible? How can it be acomplished? On single-user-mode maybe? I assume you mean by 'system crash' hard drive failure? Snapshots will not do you any good except perhaps as a tool to make backups easier. pgpEemgM5i3PD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re[2]: samhain - starts on boot?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a script there but my understanding is that the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d don't automatically start without first being enabled through rc.conf rc.conf.local? Or did I misunderstand? - asfar as I understand the process: At boot time the scripts in both rc.d dirs are executed with $1=start. It is then the scripts responsibility to decide if it starts unconditionally or if it looks for some variable in /etc/rc.conf to give it a go/no-go decision. So to answer your question: doing rc.d/startupscriptname start should give you a fairly clear idea of what will happen during boot. Hexren ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
call_usermodehelper equivalent?
This is a question about FreeBSD kernel (module) programming. Is there an equivalent in FreeBSD to the Linux function 'call_usermodehelper' which wraps execve to do as its name suggests, call a user mode helper program? If there is, what is it? If not, can some kind person please point me to some code in the kernel--if there is any--which does something similar, so I may see how it's properly done? My searching thus far has been to no avail. Thanks, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Traffic Shapping (IPFW + DUMMYNET) Question
On Thursday 14 April 2005 14:53, Timothy Radigan wrote: Hi all, I'm new to the entire idea of traffic shaping and I came up with some rules for my BSD firewall/router/VoIP gateway ... Does this seem like it will perform as I am thinking it will? I've not tried this kind of thing myself, but I wouldn't be very optimistic about what you are trying to do. AFAIK dummynet works through IP packet queueing. That means that it can do a good job of shaping outgoing traffic, but the only control it has on incoming traffic is through dropping packets that have already been received, which isn't very efficient. To achieve what you want would really need some something that can hook into the tcp/ip stack and affect tcp window sizes. I dont know of anything that would do that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scanning in FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, niash, and a busy signal
Hello all, My HP ScanJet 3300C will not scan due to being busy. I followed the steps of the FreeBSD manual and will show its output below in the event that it may help. I should note that the configuration is as follows: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE // GENERIC KERNEL Pentium III, 450 MHz If I had to guess the problem, I would say that it is possible that the niash driver (that is the sane-backend for this scanner) does not work well with FreeBSD's kernel driver, the kernel driver and libusb do not coexist well, or scanimage is only trying to use libusb and the kernel driver is not allowing it to. I know when I installed sane-backends (make make install make clean with a fully-updated Ports tree), it installed libusb as well, and I know this scanner works with libusb (I have gotten it to work on Mac OS X this way), hence my above conclusion. Does anyone have any other input on this? I should also note that I am root running these commands and that I have rebooted since plugging it in just in case. sane-find-scanner -q found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0205) at /dev/uscanner0 scanimage -L device `niash:/dev/uscanner0' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3300C flatbed scanner scanimage image.pnm scanimage: open of device niash:/dev/uscanner0 failed: Device busy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?
On Thursday 14 April 2005 14:35, Subhro wrote: Good idea Brian. But the saddest part is as I have indicated above, Linux rules :-( and FreeBSD is for the heavy duty software professionals. The astonishing fact is that, my ISP BSNL, which is supposed to be the biggest ISP in India does not know how to set up a PPPoE connection on a FBSD box. After I subscribed to my broadband service, which was one month back, tilldate they have not been able to do my setup. They have visited my place more than 10 times and tried to installed RasPPPoE for Linux That's actually quite impressive. Most UK ISPs wont even touch Linux. If I'd tried to ask my ISP to setup FreeBSD, I'd have to go through an Indian call-centre where I'd get asked which versions of Windows and Internet Explorer I'm using. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?
RW writes: Most UK ISPs wont even touch Linux. If I'd tried to ask my ISP to setup FreeBSD, I'd have to go through an Indian call-centre where I'd get asked which versions of Windows and Internet Explorer I'm using. Why do you need an ISP's help to set up FreeBSD, anyway? -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?
On Saturday 16 April 2005 01:52, Anthony Atkielski wrote: RW writes: Most UK ISPs wont even touch Linux. If I'd tried to ask my ISP to setup FreeBSD, I'd have to go through an Indian call-centre where I'd get asked which versions of Windows and Internet Explorer I'm using. Why do you need an ISP's help to set up FreeBSD, anyway? I don't, hence if I tried, and not when I tried. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Traffic Shapping (IPFW + DUMMYNET) Question
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 09:53 -0400, Timothy Radigan wrote: Hi all, I'm new to the entire idea of traffic shaping and I came up with some rules for my BSD firewall/router/VoIP gateway and I just wanted to make sure that what I am trying to accomplish is actually going to happen with these rules in place. Currently, my broadband connection is a 4Mb down and 384Mb up pipe. My VoIP service requires 90Kb up and down. I have 3 separate internal networks at my house. I have my wired 100Mb switched LAN (192.168.15.0/24), I have my IPSec enabled Wireless LAN (192.168.20.0/24), and I have my VoIP LAN (192.168.10.0/30). What I want to do with these traffic shaping rules, is dedicate 100Kb up and down to the VoIP LAN, and then I want to have equally shared bandwidth (the remaining speeds of my broadband connection) for the wired and wireless LANs. Here are the rules I have come up with so far: Can you post your ifconfig output of your BSD box? How about the output of this: sysctl -a | grep net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass Chris --- (START) /etc/ipfw.rules # flush all rules ipfw -f flush # configure the pipe main pipes - have 4000kbits/s down 384kbits/s up # define 200kbits/s for the voip pipes ipfw pipe 1 config bw 100Kbits/s ipfw pipe 2 config bw 100Kbits/s # wired / wifi lans - get all but 100kbits/s for both up and down ipfw pipe 3 config bw 3900Kbits/s ipfw pipe 4 config bw 284Kbits/s # wired/wifi LAN internal transmission ipfw pipe 5 config bw 100Mbits/s mask dst-ip 0x ipfw pipe 6 config bw 100Mbits/s mask dst-ip 0x ipfw pipe 7 config bw 100Mbits/s mask dst-ip 0x ipfw pipe 8 config bw 100Mbits/s mask dst-ip 0x # make sure the voip gets all of the bandwidth for the pipes ipfw add 1 pipe 1 ip from 192.168.10.2 to any ipfw add 1 pipe 2 ip from any to 192.168.10.2 # make sure the wired and wifi lans get all of the bandwidth for those pipes ipfw add 2 pipe 5 ip from 192.168.15.0/24 to 192.168.0.0/16 ipfw add 2 pipe 6 ip from 192.168.0.0/16 to 192.168.15.0/24 ipfw add 3 pipe 7 ip from 192.168.20.0/24 to 192.168.0.0/16 ipfw add 3 pipe 8 ip from 192.168.0.0/16 to 192.168.20.0/24 # the wired / wifi lans will split the up and down pipes ipfw queue 3 config weight 50 pipe 3 mask dst-ip 0x00ff ipfw queue 4 config weight 50 pipe 3 mask dst-ip 0x00ff ipfw queue 5 config weight 50 pipe 4 mask dst-ip 0x00ff ipfw queue 6 config weight 50 pipe 4 mask dst-ip 0x00ff # add inbound/outbound queues for the wired lan ipfw add 100 queue 3 ip from any to 192.168.15.0/24 ipfw add 105 queue 5 ip from 192.168.15.0/24 to any # add inbound/outbound queues for the wifi lan ipfw add 200 queue 4 ip from any to 192.168.20.0/24 ipfw add 205 queue 6 ip from 192.168.20.0/24 to any (END) /etc/ipfw.rules - Does this seem like it will perform as I am thinking it will? Thanks --Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mount_smbfs issue
I am getting an inconsistency when I try to use perl to access file in a smbfs mounted Win XP directory structure My kernel is at 4.11p3. Any help in resolving this problem would be much appreciated. # smbfs mount command which mounts a WinXP share ShareDir on my FreeBSD # box. The directory ~/ShareDir has rwx permissions for ugo. sudo mount_smbfs -N -I dodo -u me -g ggg //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/SharedDir ~/SharedDir # directory/file structure is correct ls -FCR SharedDir/ DirOne/ DirThree/ DirTwo/ SharedDir/DirOne: DSCN1090.JPG* DSCN1091.JPG* DSCN1092.JPG* SharedDir/DirThree: DSCN0820.JPG* ParkStreet.JPG* VicRooms.JPG* SharedDir/DirTwo: Oeuvre17.JPG* # now look at the directory/file structure with find # looks good find SharedDir -print SharedDir SharedDir/DirOne SharedDir/DirOne/DSCN1090.JPG SharedDir/DirOne/DSCN1091.JPG SharedDir/DirOne/DSCN1092.JPG SharedDir/DirThree SharedDir/DirThree/DSCN0820.JPG SharedDir/DirThree/ParkStreet.JPG SharedDir/DirThree/VicRooms.JPG SharedDir/DirTwo SharedDir/DirTwo/Oeuvre17.JPG # translate the find command to perl and run the perl script # PROBLEM the files no longer appear find2perl SharedDir -print testcase.pl perl testcase.pl SharedDir SharedDir/DirOne SharedDir/DirThree SharedDir/DirTwo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?
Anthony Atkielski wrote: RW writes: Most UK ISPs wont even touch Linux. If I'd tried to ask my ISP to setup FreeBSD, I'd have to go through an Indian call-centre where I'd get asked which versions of Windows and Internet Explorer I'm using. Why do you need an ISP's help to set up FreeBSD, anyway? You got it wrong. *I* being old hands at FreeBSD, don't require their help. But if I install FBSD on my little sisters PC, she would be requiring some help. If I am around, thats not a problem. But if I am not, the first place she would go to is the ISP, which i very much expected. But unfortunately they are completely clueless. Best Regards S. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?
Subhro writes: You got it wrong. *I* being old hands at FreeBSD, don't require their help. But if I install FBSD on my little sisters PC, she would be requiring some help. If I am around, thats not a problem. But if I am not, the first place she would go to is the ISP, which i very much expected. But unfortunately they are completely clueless. One cannot expect ISPs to know about every operating system available. It's hard enough just to support Windows, the most popular desktop OS around. Some companies might have the resources to support Macs, but not many. Hardly anyone can afford to support anything else. On the other hand, if ISPs didn't try so hard to hide the interfaces with their service and didn't try to personalize the connections so much, anyone would be able to connect to any ISP with any OS. But ISPs seem loath to admit that their basic services are highly interchangeable, and so they create an unnecessary support load for themselves by trying to be an exception to every rule. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
