Re: Corrupted OS
/etc/fstab says ufs. Is there a better way to check if its ufs2? Drew2 Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 16, 2007, at 7:34 PM, Drew Jenkins wrote: How large is large? Why filesystem are you using with what options?The MySQL database was just under a gigabyte, and the Zope Data.fs file/database was somewhere under 2 gigabytes. Options? No options. I had symlinks from where these dbases were supposed to live on the SCSI drives to the 500 GB drive. Then suddenly, poof! They were gone. Drew Well, I was curious because I thought it could be something to deal with the 2GB file limit. You still haven't answered my question about the filesystem though: are you using UFS2 or something else? Thanks, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hi ;
Halil Guven wrote: Dear Sırs I want to open in FreeBSD program 21,443,11905,11907,12341 15501 ports.How can i do these. Please inform me and thanks in advance of your help. If you would like to work out what program is listening on a given port, or is connected on a given port, (you might have run netstat -an | grep LISTEN and you'd like to work out what is listening on a particular port), you can use 'sockstat', which will tell you the user, process ID, and program associated with every network connection. I'm not sure if I've answered your question, though! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't see ATA drives with new install
I've just installed 6.2/amd64 on a system with standard IDE as well as SATA; I've got three drives: an old linux IDE hard drive (that I can't modify), a CD/DVD drive on the IDE bus, and a new SATA drive where I've just installed/am installing FreeBSD. I can boot from any of the drives: the linux install doesn't have the right drivers so it's not usable, but the MB definitely sees the drive. I can boot from the FreeBSD boot CD, as well, and that's what I used to install onto the SATA drive. The trouble is that when I boot from the SATA drive I can't see either of the other two drives. /dev contains the entries for the main SATA drive, but nothing for anything else: no /dev/acd or /dev/cd; no other hard drives; nothing. Looked through dmesg but didn't see anything related to the cd drive, although I really don't know what I'm looking for. I wondered whether the stock kernel maybe just didn't include the right drivers, so added device atapicam device scbus device cd device pass to GENERIC, but I still can't see the dvd drive. What should I be looking for? Is there more robust documentation on dealing with ATA devices somewhere? Any help much appreciated. -mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi, I will be away from the office from March 19 to March 23. Please direct your requests and concerns to Raj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and Jay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks, Roth. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
clamav-milteClamAv: accept() returned invalid socket (Result too large)
What is causing this ? The full message appears in /var/log/messages and looks like this: mail clamav-milter: ClamAv: accept() returned invalid socket (Result too large), try again I get long series of this message on average twice a day at which time the server gradually stops to process mail until I restart clamAV. sendmail.cf ... Xclmilter, S=local:/var/run/clamav/clmilter.sock, F=T, T=S:4m;R:4m;E:5m ... ps -axww|grep clam 787 ?? Is 0:11.53 /usr/local/sbin/clamd 815 ?? Is 0:00.09 /usr/local/bin/freshclam --daemon -p /var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid 89956 ?? Ss 3:02.57 /usr/local/sbin/clamav-milter --pidfile /var/run/clamav/clamav-milter.pid --postmaster-only --local --outgoing --timeout=10 --max-children=100 /var/run/clamav/clmilter.sock ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should I Upgrade 5.4 - 6.2?
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:14:45AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:46:45PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 05:09:57PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 04:47:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off, I want to thank the people who responded to my thread Stability Issues on a 5.4-RELEASE box a couple of weeks ago; after disabling hyperthreading, getting a clean run of Memtest back, and doing some serious fsck'ing of the disks, the box appears to now be completely stable. I'm still not sure which of the above fixed the problem...but I'll take a stable system at this point. :-) That said, in that thread I had asked about the advisability of upgrading to 6.2, and it was intelligently pointed out that doing so in pursuit of stability was a bad idea. Now that the box is stable, though, I'm back to the same question: should I make the upgrade, and if so, how should I do it? My primary driver for doing so would be to keep current enough that I'm still getting security and other patches on a regular basis, and that I can upgrade my applications from ports as necessary. If this is not an issue, then my only remaining concern would be that it's usually easier to get support on lists like this if you're running a modern version of the OS (that's certainly the case with the OpenBSD folks). My primary concern with upgrading is that the box is in Portland, OR, and I'm in Arlington, VA...and while the ISP is friendly, I doubt that I could count on them for major system recovery if I botch something during the upgrade. My other worry is that I don't want to break existing apps if possible (the main one I'm concerned about is Zope/Plone). This is a production box with moderate traffic, and it would be a problem if there was extensive downtime. Is it worth upgrading? If so, what's the best way to do so -- CVSup, or some other way? Are there any major caveats if I do choose to upgrade (or choose to stay with the existing OS)? You should if you can reasonably do it, for the reasons you give plus improvements in performance and in some utilities. My sentiment is usually to do a clean install over major version numbers. It tends to leave less dross laying around. but I do not have to worry about down times very much, a couple of hours at night is not terribly noticable in my stuff. It does require more time down to do a clean from scratch install. But, I think you can get away with a cvsup upgrade from 5.4 to 6.2. Then your downtime is just the reboot and stuff at single user (mergemaster), plus probably some for upgrading various ports. Yes, a source upgrade from 5.x to 6.x (followed by portupgrade -fa) isn't too bad. As with any upgrade you do need a recovery strategy though. Kris I agree with both Kris and Jerry. Besides, if you run 6.2 you're running a supported version of FreeBSD whereas 5.4 isn't supported anymore (5.5 is the last supported version in the legacy 5.x branch). Plus there are slight improvements from 5.x to 6.x. s/slight/major/ ;) Well sed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Corrupted OS
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 01:39:17AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: 23Hi; Is it possible to rebuild an OS without reformatting the hard drive? I have FBSD6.2, so I can't upgrade. upgrade to what? of course it's is possible to do this with any version. Probably he means he is at the currently highest RELEASE level. Maybe he doesn't want to go to CURRENT. Anyway, that won't change file size restraints. 6.2 is already there. jerry ___ 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]
esddsp
Dear List, I would like to use esddsp to forward sounds from a server to several diskless clients. All clients have sound cards, and the esd daemon started with esd -promiscuous -tcp -pubic -port 1500 On the server side, I can play an mp3 file with esddsp -v -s earth.msnet:1500 mpg123 something.mp3 My problem is that esddsp creates the pseudo device for the given process only. In other words, /dev/dsp is not inherited by child processes. For example doing esddsp -v -s earth.msnet:1500 x11amp will not work, because x11amp uses a different process for decoding. What I would like to do is to have all gnome2 system sounds, x11amp, firefox/flash sounds etc. working. But of course, it is not a good idea to start everything with esddsp, and in many cases it is not possible at all. Question is, is there a way to tell esddsp that the created pseudo dsp device should be used for all applications? Thanks, Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NFS Mount error
My guess is a typo in /etc/fstab the line(s) should read something like ip.add.re.ss:/mount/point /mountednfs rw 0 0 thats itrealised a little late. thanks Vince. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question about freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src link
Hi, I want to know if there's any tool to search for a source file inside http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/ or there's a map or a tree that shows me the structure of the files there. Thanx, Robe. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade and replacing apache 1.3.37 with apache 2.2.4
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:17:48PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE on an i386 test box with apache 1.3.37/PHP-5/MySQL-5. As the subject says, I'd like to replace apache 1.3 with apache 2.2. I understand httpd.conf will change and that I'll have to edit that by hand, but is there a portupgrade command that will remove 1.3.37, install 2.2.4, and rebuild all apache dependent programs? I'm thinking something like: # portupgrade -R -f -o www/apache22 www/apache13-modssl portupgrade -o www/apache22 -rf apache13\* will install apache22 in place of apache13-modssl and force a rebuild of everything that depends on apache13-modssl Putting APACHE_PORT= www/apache22 WITH_APACHE2=yes into /etc/make.conf before trying that is generally a good idea too. Note that this sort of command is not going to cover all of the edge cases. apache13-modssl has a different dependency tree to apache22 -- for example, libmm (devel/mm) is not needed by apache22. Having libmm floating around unused shouldn't break anything though. Not relevant to the OP, but if you were a mod_perl user, you would need to do a bit more work and install the www/mod_perl2 port in place of www/mod_perl when upgrading to apache22. Thank you very much. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PowerApp 120/1550 Install problems
Hey list, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on a Dell PowerApp 120 (1550) I just purchased. The system claims to have an AIC 7899 SCSI host adapter. I've currently got a known-good 9GB Fujitsu hard disk in the system, as ID 0. During installation, the disk comes up as da0. After going through all the options for install, etc, I get an error when it tries to write the file systems: Unable to find device node for /dev/da0s1b in /dev! and mentions that installation is aborting. At first I thought it was a problem with the SCSI backplane, but RHEL and Window 2000 Server both install and operate without problems. Thanks for your advice! Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Logrotating and running a command
On 2007-03-16 19:22, Jos? Pablo Fern?ndez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I need to rotate some logs, but instead of getting the PID out of a file and sending a SIGHUP to that process, like newsyslog does, I need to run a command. Is that possible with newsyslog? how should I do it? Not directly, but you can easily hack around this by running a daemon which blocks waiting for a signal and runs the command when newsyslog signals your daemon ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
On 2007-03-16 14:37, Ewald Jenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:07:17AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The process is long and complex. You don't want to do it if you can help it. If people beg me on this list I'll post the step by step I use but trust me you really really don't want to do this unless absolutely necessary. Hi Ted, I suppose this might be of interest to others too, so maybe you could post your receipe here? Here is the easy way to fix this. 1) Burn a CD with the new driver 2) Boot off a regular install ISO and install your system plus kernel sources 3) Mount the burned CD and copy the new driver to the kernel source location it is supposed to be at 4) Recompile kernel and your in business. Nice shortcut-tip! :-) Guess copying the complete /usr/src via CD to the target machine would even be better given the lot of mods that went into the system and kernel since 6.2 has been released. Ted is right that the process can take quite a while, and you have to be careful not to miss steps along the way. Please note, however, that thanks to the help of past members of the RE team, large pargs of the release engineering process of FreeBSD are documented in manpages like release(7), build(7) and in articles like ``FreeBSD Release Engineering''[1] and ``FreeBSD Release Engineering for Third Party Software Packages''[2]. [1] http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/ [2] http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/ Before you embark on a mission to make your own CD-ROM or DVD of installable FreeBSD snapshots, it is a good idea to check out these references. They may be of help :-) Regards, Giorgos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Corrupted OS
Drew Jenkins wrote: /etc/fstab says ufs. Is there a better way to check if its ufs2? Drew2 Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 16, 2007, at 7:34 PM, Drew Jenkins wrote: How large is large? Why filesystem are you using with what options?The MySQL database was just under a gigabyte, and the Zope Data.fs file/database was somewhere under 2 gigabytes. Options? No options. I had symlinks from where these dbases were supposed to live on the SCSI drives to the 500 GB drive. Then suddenly, poof! They were gone. Drew Well, I was curious because I thought it could be something to deal with the 2GB file limit. You still haven't answered my question about the filesystem though: are you using UFS2 or something else? Thanks, -Garrett The easiest way to figure out if you're running UFS2 is to go to the disk label feature within sysinstall, and define a mount point for the slice. Make sure _not_ to make any changes though as you'll be thrusting yourself in the middle of a system upgrade (CTRL-C is your friend). If it's ufs1, it should definitely be converted to ufs2. There were some serious limitations in ufs1, in particular dealing with file size (2GB limit I believe) and features. Someone else on the list might be able to advise you or point you in the right direction if you want more details.. Also, you should be running softupdates. If not you're playing a risky game of russian roulette with your data, where if corrupted things can disappear between reboots if you didn't power down the machine properly (power down via ATX dead man power switch, power loss, etc). If all else fails and you're not running ufs1 on the disk, try upgrade your bios or firmware controller that the disk is operating on, and get back to us with more details. Cheers, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrading ports/packages
Is there a set of switches that portupgrade will use to upgrade (from src) _only_ the ports that need rebuilding? I'm guessing not because it's either -arp or else portupgrade exits without doing anything! My aim is to build every package just once here (700+Mhz) and scp and pkg_add the pacakges to my slower boxen? But even after using pkgdb -F, the pkg_version -vIL'= results are unchanged. thanks for any clues! gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrading ports/packages
On Saturday 17 March 2007 13:55, Gary Kline wrote: Is there a set of switches that portupgrade will use to upgrade (from src) _only_ the ports that need rebuilding? I'm guessing not because it's either -arp or else portupgrade exits without doing anything! My aim is to build every package just once here (700+Mhz) and scp and pkg_add the pacakges to my slower boxen? But even after using pkgdb -F, the pkg_version -vIL'= results are unchanged. thanks for any clues! My experience is that -arp will build all of the ports from source that needs building but it will (re)build all of the packages. The price for using the generic a. On the slow machine, I wouldn't use pkg_add but portupgrade -Pa. There are some ports that you can't build packages and have to build from the source. So, if you have a package in /usr/ports/packages/All, portupgrade will use it but if you need to build it from source, it will also do that. Kent gary -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://www.soyandina.com/ I am Andean project. http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Corrupted OS
I go to run /usr/sbin/sysinstall. It brings up a little GUI and asks me to select. I selected post-installation configuration, and it sent me back to a prompt! So I tried again, selecting the recommended configuration to start over again, and it again sent me back to a prompt! Besides, this is kinda dangerous. Got another, perhaps more complex but *safer* way to determine if it's ufs1 or 2? 2Also, what are softupdates and why do I need them? TIA, Drew Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Drew Jenkins wrote: /etc/fstab says ufs. Is there a better way to check if its ufs2? Drew2 Garrett Cooper wrote: On Mar 16, 2007, at 7:34 PM, Drew Jenkins wrote: How large is large? Why filesystem are you using with what options?The MySQL database was just under a gigabyte, and the Zope Data.fs file/database was somewhere under 2 gigabytes. Options? No options. I had symlinks from where these dbases were supposed to live on the SCSI drives to the 500 GB drive. Then suddenly, poof! They were gone. Drew Well, I was curious because I thought it could be something to deal with the 2GB file limit. You still haven't answered my question about the filesystem though: are you using UFS2 or something else? Thanks, -Garrett The easiest way to figure out if you're running UFS2 is to go to the disk label feature within sysinstall, and define a mount point for the slice. Make sure _not_ to make any changes though as you'll be thrusting yourself in the middle of a system upgrade (CTRL-C is your friend). If it's ufs1, it should definitely be converted to ufs2. There were some serious limitations in ufs1, in particular dealing with file size (2GB limit I believe) and features. Someone else on the list might be able to advise you or point you in the right direction if you want more details.. Also, you should be running softupdates. If not you're playing a risky game of russian roulette with your data, where if corrupted things can disappear between reboots if you didn't power down the machine properly (power down via ATX dead man power switch, power loss, etc). If all else fails and you're not running ufs1 on the disk, try upgrade your bios or firmware controller that the disk is operating on, and get back to us with more details. Cheers, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Corrupted OS
On Saturday 17 March 2007 4:14 pm, Drew Jenkins wrote: I go to run /usr/sbin/sysinstall. It brings up a little GUI and asks me to select. I selected post-installation configuration, and it sent me back to a prompt! So I tried again, selecting the recommended configuration to start over again, and it again sent me back to a prompt! Besides, this is kinda dangerous. Got another, perhaps more complex but *safer* way to determine if it's ufs1 or 2? 2Also, what are softupdates and why do I need them? Soft updates Soft updates change the way the file system performs I/O. They enable metadata to be written less frequently. This can give rise to dramatic performance improvements under certain circumstances, such as file deletion. Specify soft updates with the -U option when creating the file system. (pg 191 The complete FreeBSD) TIA, Drew Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Drew Jenkins wrote: /etc/fstab says ufs. Is there a better way to check if its ufs2? Drew2 Garrett Cooper wrote: On Mar 16, 2007, at 7:34 PM, Drew Jenkins wrote: How large is large? Why filesystem are you using with what options?The MySQL database was just under a gigabyte, and the Zope Data.fs file/database was somewhere under 2 gigabytes. Options? No options. I had symlinks from where these dbases were supposed to live on the SCSI drives to the 500 GB drive. Then suddenly, poof! They were gone. Drew Well, I was curious because I thought it could be something to deal with the 2GB file limit. You still haven't answered my question about the filesystem though: are you using UFS2 or something else? Thanks, -Garrett The easiest way to figure out if you're running UFS2 is to go to the disk label feature within sysinstall, and define a mount point for the slice. Make sure _not_ to make any changes though as you'll be thrusting yourself in the middle of a system upgrade (CTRL-C is your friend). If it's ufs1, it should definitely be converted to ufs2. There were some serious limitations in ufs1, in particular dealing with file size (2GB limit I believe) and features. Someone else on the list might be able to advise you or point you in the right direction if you want more details.. Also, you should be running softupdates. If not you're playing a risky game of russian roulette with your data, where if corrupted things can disappear between reboots if you didn't power down the machine properly (power down via ATX dead man power switch, power loss, etc). If all else fails and you're not running ufs1 on the disk, try upgrade your bios or firmware controller that the disk is operating on, and get back to us with more details. Cheers, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. ___ 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: Corrupted OS
Drew Jenkins wrote:
I go to run /usr/sbin/sysinstall. It brings up a little GUI and asks
me to select. I selected post-installation configuration, and it sent
me back to a prompt! So I tried again, selecting the recommended
configuration to start over again, and it again sent me back to a
prompt! Besides, this is kinda dangerous. Got another, perhaps more
complex but *safer* way to determine if it's ufs1 or 2?
2Also, what are softupdates and why do I need them?
TIA,
Drew
Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Drew Jenkins wrote:
/etc/fstab says ufs. Is there a better way to check if its ufs2?
Drew2
Garrett Cooper wrote: On Mar 16, 2007, at 7:34 PM, Drew Jenkins wrote:
How large is large? Why filesystem are you using with what
options?The MySQL database was just under a gigabyte, and the Zope
Data.fs file/database was somewhere under 2 gigabytes. Options? No
options. I had symlinks from where these dbases were supposed to
live on the SCSI drives to the 500 GB drive. Then suddenly, poof!
They were gone.
Drew
Well, I was curious because I thought it could be something to deal
with the 2GB file limit. You still haven't answered my question about
the filesystem though: are you using UFS2 or something else?
Thanks,
-Garrett
The easiest way to figure out if you're running UFS2 is to go to the
disk label feature within sysinstall, and define a mount point for the
slice. Make sure _not_ to make any changes though as you'll be thrusting
yourself in the middle of a system upgrade (CTRL-C is your friend).
If it's ufs1, it should definitely be converted to ufs2. There were some
serious limitations in ufs1, in particular dealing with file size (2GB
limit I believe) and features. Someone else on the list might be able to
advise you or point you in the right direction if you want more details..
Also, you should be running softupdates. If not you're playing a risky
game of russian roulette with your data, where if corrupted things can
disappear between reboots if you didn't power down the machine properly
(power down via ATX dead man power switch, power loss, etc).
If all else fails and you're not running ufs1 on the disk, try upgrade
your bios or firmware controller that the disk is operating on, and get
back to us with more details.
Cheers,
-Garrett
In order to get to disk label without installing from scratch, go to
Configure - Label. Then select your Disk, press Ok. Once the next
window comes up, press M and select a mount point for the slice. Then
look off to the right and see what version of UFS the slice is using.
Another (maybe safer?) way to do this is to run /sbin/tunefs -p
/dev/{disk+slicename}. See if something like...
tunefs: soft updates: (-n) disabled
... pops up. I used my / slice as an example, so soft updates are
automatically disabled for it (I think this has to deal with single user
mode and fsck?).
A short description of softupdates is available here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softupdates, and you should read the 2nd
reference if you want more detailed info about them.
Also, could you please bottom post. Top posting is hard to read and
bottom-posting is the defacto standard on the FreeBSD lists.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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Can't see ATA drives with new install
I've just installed 6.2/amd64 on a system with standard IDE as well as SATA; I've got three drives: an old linux IDE hard drive (that I can't modify), a CD/DVD drive on the IDE bus, and a new SATA drive where I've just installed/am installing FreeBSD. I can boot from any of the drives: the linux install doesn't have the right drivers so it's not usable, but the MB definitely sees the drive. I can boot from the FreeBSD boot CD, as well, and that's what I used to install onto the SATA drive. The trouble is that when I boot from the SATA drive I can't see either of the other two drives. /dev contains the entries for the main SATA drive, but nothing for anything else: no /dev/acd or /dev/cd; no other hard drives; nothing. Looked through dmesg but didn't see anything related to the cd drive, although I really don't know what I'm looking for. I wondered whether the stock kernel maybe just didn't include the right drivers, so added device atapicam device scbus device cd device pass to GENERIC, but I still can't see the dvd drive. What should I be looking for? Is there more robust documentation on dealing with ATA devices somewhere? Any help much appreciated. -mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't see ATA drives with new install
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed 6.2/amd64 on a system with standard IDE as well as SATA; I've got three drives: an old linux IDE hard drive (that I can't modify), a CD/DVD drive on the IDE bus, and a new SATA drive where I've just installed/am installing FreeBSD. I can boot from any of the drives: the linux install doesn't have the right drivers so it's not usable, but the MB definitely sees the drive. I can boot from the FreeBSD boot CD, as well, and that's what I used to install onto the SATA drive. The trouble is that when I boot from the SATA drive I can't see either of the other two drives. /dev contains the entries for the main SATA drive, but nothing for anything else: no /dev/acd or /dev/cd; no other hard drives; nothing. Looked through dmesg but didn't see anything related to the cd drive, although I really don't know what I'm looking for. I wondered whether the stock kernel maybe just didn't include the right drivers, so added device atapicam device scbus device cd device pass to GENERIC, but I still can't see the dvd drive. What should I be looking for? Is there more robust documentation on dealing with ATA devices somewhere? Any help much appreciated. -mike Mike, What's your motherboard maker? -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't see ATA drives with new install
It's an Intel DG965WH; Core 2 Duo CPU. On 3/17/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed 6.2/amd64 on a system with standard IDE as well as SATA; I've got three drives: an old linux IDE hard drive (that I can't modify), a CD/DVD drive on the IDE bus, and a new SATA drive where I've just installed/am installing FreeBSD. I can boot from any of the drives: the linux install doesn't have the right drivers so it's not usable, but the MB definitely sees the drive. I can boot from the FreeBSD boot CD, as well, and that's what I used to install onto the SATA drive. The trouble is that when I boot from the SATA drive I can't see either of the other two drives. /dev contains the entries for the main SATA drive, but nothing for anything else: no /dev/acd or /dev/cd; no other hard drives; nothing. Looked through dmesg but didn't see anything related to the cd drive, although I really don't know what I'm looking for. I wondered whether the stock kernel maybe just didn't include the right drivers, so added device atapicam device scbus device cd device pass to GENERIC, but I still can't see the dvd drive. What should I be looking for? Is there more robust documentation on dealing with ATA devices somewhere? Any help much appreciated. -mike Mike, What's your motherboard maker? -Garrett ___ 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: Problem with X11 and S3 Savage video card
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Lubomir Toshev wrote: I am trying to run X11 on a machine with FreeBSD 6.2 and S3 Savage video card. The installation of X11 was successful. The initial test is ok, everything seems to function normally. The problem occures when I try to exit the test with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. At that moment it looks like an attempt is made to switch the video mode and the screen remains black. After some time the monitor goes to power down mode as if there is no video signal. I've seen the same thing with a ProSavage DDR-K integrated on an MSI motherboard. It appears that the video card doesn't reset correctly when quitting X. If X is left running, Ctrl-Alt-F1 works to switch back to console mode. Other than the reset issue, the Savage video seems to work fine. There's a UseBIOS option documented in the savage manpage, although UseBIOS No didn't help with this particular system. Other options like DmaMode are probably worth trying (I would, but that system is a long way away). Hmm. A search just now turned up this: http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-46981.html (Link suggests disabling the Load dri option in the xorg.conf Module section may solve the problem.) Please respond on whether that works or not. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
strange kde installation
Hello again. I installed the kde3 port but something strange happened to keyboard layout. It has only english layout, but I need other languages too. In control center only US English appears. How do I add more languages? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
new server setup questions
Hello, I'm trying to setup a new server, and I'm having some problems mostly with the network card. (machine specs follow) I can't get a driver to work for the integrated network card. I've spent a number of hours on google / the complete freeBSD / the freeBSD handbook. the handbook (section 11.8 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html) outlines using ndis (project evil) drivers. I tried using this. I went through ndisgen, and everything seemed to work. I then tried to use kldload and got the error message: kldload: can't load file.ko :operation not permitted of course I did all of this as root. I am using the amd64 version of freeBSD (is this my first mistake?) and the 64 bit version of the drivers. as a side note, the supplied driver disk includes a source version of the linux driver. is there any way to use this? Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. Ray machine specs ASUS M2N-SLI DELUXE mobo 2GB ram AMD 5200 x2 processor (sorry, the box isn't in front of me) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't see ATA drives with new install
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's an Intel DG965WH; Core 2 Duo CPU. On 3/17/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed 6.2/amd64 on a system with standard IDE as well as SATA; I've got three drives: an old linux IDE hard drive (that I can't modify), a CD/DVD drive on the IDE bus, and a new SATA drive where I've just installed/am installing FreeBSD. I can boot from any of the drives: the linux install doesn't have the right drivers so it's not usable, but the MB definitely sees the drive. I can boot from the FreeBSD boot CD, as well, and that's what I used to install onto the SATA drive. The trouble is that when I boot from the SATA drive I can't see either of the other two drives. /dev contains the entries for the main SATA drive, but nothing for anything else: no /dev/acd or /dev/cd; no other hard drives; nothing. Looked through dmesg but didn't see anything related to the cd drive, although I really don't know what I'm looking for. I wondered whether the stock kernel maybe just didn't include the right drivers, so added device atapicam device scbus device cd device pass to GENERIC, but I still can't see the dvd drive. What should I be looking for? Is there more robust documentation on dealing with ATA devices somewhere? Any help much appreciated. -mike Mike, What's your motherboard maker? -Garrett Your motherboard (and most importantly the chipset it uses) are recent, so 6.2 might not have hardware support quite yet.. 7-CURRENT might be your next best bet if the following doesn't work. Here's what I have for my kernel config though for the device drivers section, related to PATA/CD/DVD stuff: # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives device ataraid # ATA RAID drives device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives device atapicam options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering # SCSI peripherals device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI) device ch # SCSI media changers device da # Direct Access (disks) device cd # CD device pass# Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) Cheers, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new server setup questions
Ray wrote: Hello, I'm trying to setup a new server, and I'm having some problems mostly with the network card. (machine specs follow) I can't get a driver to work for the integrated network card. I've spent a number of hours on google / the complete freeBSD / the freeBSD handbook. the handbook (section 11.8 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html) outlines using ndis (project evil) drivers. I tried using this. I went through ndisgen, and everything seemed to work. I then tried to use kldload and got the error message: kldload: can't load file.ko :operation not permitted of course I did all of this as root. I am using the amd64 version of freeBSD (is this my first mistake?) and the 64 bit version of the drivers. as a side note, the supplied driver disk includes a source version of the linux driver. is there any way to use this? Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. Ray machine specs ASUS M2N-SLI DELUXE mobo 2GB ram AMD 5200 x2 processor (sorry, the box isn't in front of me) Not sure if nForce drivers are supported on the 6.2 install CD. You might want to give one of the 7-CURRENT driver CDs a go. Grab a snapshot iso from ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200703, or the directory above it in one of the other snapshot directories if that doesn't work for you. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new server setup questions
On Saturday 17 March 2007 6:27 pm, Garrett Cooper wrote: Ray wrote: Hello, I'm trying to setup a new server, and I'm having some problems mostly with the network card. (machine specs follow) I can't get a driver to work for the integrated network card. I've spent a number of hours on google / the complete freeBSD / the freeBSD handbook. the handbook (section 11.8 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network- setup.html) outlines using ndis (project evil) drivers. I tried using this. I went through ndisgen, and everything seemed to work. I then tried to use kldload and got the error message: kldload: can't load file.ko :operation not permitted of course I did all of this as root. I am using the amd64 version of freeBSD (is this my first mistake?) and the 64 bit version of the drivers. as a side note, the supplied driver disk includes a source version of the linux driver. is there any way to use this? Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. Ray machine specs ASUS M2N-SLI DELUXE mobo 2GB ram AMD 5200 x2 processor (sorry, the box isn't in front of me) Not sure if nForce drivers are supported on the 6.2 install CD. You might want to give one of the 7-CURRENT driver CDs a go. Grab a snapshot iso from ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200703, or the directory above it in one of the other snapshot directories if that doesn't work for you. Thanks for the response. just 2 questions: 1) is 7-CURRENT ready for a production environment? 2) should I stick with amd64 or should I go back to i386? Thanks, Ray -Garrett ___ 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: new server setup questions
Ray wrote: On Saturday 17 March 2007 6:27 pm, Garrett Cooper wrote: Ray wrote: Hello, I'm trying to setup a new server, and I'm having some problems mostly with the network card. (machine specs follow) I can't get a driver to work for the integrated network card. I've spent a number of hours on google / the complete freeBSD / the freeBSD handbook. the handbook (section 11.8 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network- setup.html) outlines using ndis (project evil) drivers. I tried using this. I went through ndisgen, and everything seemed to work. I then tried to use kldload and got the error message: kldload: can't load file.ko :operation not permitted of course I did all of this as root. I am using the amd64 version of freeBSD (is this my first mistake?) and the 64 bit version of the drivers. as a side note, the supplied driver disk includes a source version of the linux driver. is there any way to use this? Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. Ray machine specs ASUS M2N-SLI DELUXE mobo 2GB ram AMD 5200 x2 processor (sorry, the box isn't in front of me) Not sure if nForce drivers are supported on the 6.2 install CD. You might want to give one of the 7-CURRENT driver CDs a go. Grab a snapshot iso from ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200703, or the directory above it in one of the other snapshot directories if that doesn't work for you. Thanks for the response. just 2 questions: 1) is 7-CURRENT ready for a production environment? By no means yet. 2) should I stick with amd64 or should I go back to i386? I don't think that will solve the problem. I think it has to do with driver availability. If you can get the 7-CURRENT snapshot to install and upgrade the source tree with amd64, you might be able to update the sources for your system and get on track with 6.2-RELEASE. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new server setup questions
On Saturday 17 March 2007 6:49 pm, Garrett Cooper wrote: Ray wrote: On Saturday 17 March 2007 6:27 pm, Garrett Cooper wrote: Ray wrote: Hello, I'm trying to setup a new server, and I'm having some problems mostly with the network card. (machine specs follow) I can't get a driver to work for the integrated network card. I've spent a number of hours on google / the complete freeBSD / the freeBSD handbook. the handbook (section 11.8 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-networ k- setup.html) outlines using ndis (project evil) drivers. I tried using this. I went through ndisgen, and everything seemed to work. I then tried to use kldload and got the error message: kldload: can't load file.ko :operation not permitted of course I did all of this as root. I am using the amd64 version of freeBSD (is this my first mistake?) and the 64 bit version of the drivers. as a side note, the supplied driver disk includes a source version of the linux driver. is there any way to use this? Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. Ray machine specs ASUS M2N-SLI DELUXE mobo 2GB ram AMD 5200 x2 processor (sorry, the box isn't in front of me) Not sure if nForce drivers are supported on the 6.2 install CD. You might want to give one of the 7-CURRENT driver CDs a go. Grab a snapshot iso from ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200703, or the directory above it in one of the other snapshot directories if that doesn't work for you. Thanks for the response. just 2 questions: 1) is 7-CURRENT ready for a production environment? By no means yet. 2) should I stick with amd64 or should I go back to i386? I don't think that will solve the problem. I think it has to do with driver availability. If you can get the 7-CURRENT snapshot to install and upgrade the source tree with amd64, you might be able to update the sources for your system and get on track with 6.2-RELEASE. I'll see what 7 does, but I'm sure I'll be back for help on that second part. Thanks, Ray -Garrett ___ 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: PowerApp 120/1550 Install problems
On 3/17/07, Minnesota Slinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey list, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on a Dell PowerApp 120 (1550) I just purchased. The system claims to have an AIC 7899 SCSI host adapter. I've currently got a known-good 9GB Fujitsu hard disk in the system, as ID 0. During installation, the disk comes up as da0. After going through all the options for install, etc, I get an error when it tries to write the file systems: Unable to find device node for /dev/da0s1b in /dev! and mentions that installation is aborting. At first I thought it was a problem with the SCSI backplane, but RHEL and Window 2000 Server both install and operate without problems. Thanks for your advice! Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't know the answer, but have a suggestion. How about getting a live cd to boot from and then query /var/log for hardware spec's Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new server setup questions
On Saturday 17 March 2007 6:56 pm, Ray wrote: On Saturday 17 March 2007 6:49 pm, Garrett Cooper wrote: Ray wrote: On Saturday 17 March 2007 6:27 pm, Garrett Cooper wrote: Ray wrote: Hello, I'm trying to setup a new server, and I'm having some problems mostly with the network card. (machine specs follow) I can't get a driver to work for the integrated network card. I've spent a number of hours on google / the complete freeBSD / the freeBSD handbook. the handbook (section 11.8 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-netw or k- setup.html) outlines using ndis (project evil) drivers. I tried using this. I went through ndisgen, and everything seemed to work. I then tried to use kldload and got the error message: kldload: can't load file.ko :operation not permitted of course I did all of this as root. I am using the amd64 version of freeBSD (is this my first mistake?) and the 64 bit version of the drivers. as a side note, the supplied driver disk includes a source version of the linux driver. is there any way to use this? Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. Ray machine specs ASUS M2N-SLI DELUXE mobo 2GB ram AMD 5200 x2 processor (sorry, the box isn't in front of me) Not sure if nForce drivers are supported on the 6.2 install CD. You might want to give one of the 7-CURRENT driver CDs a go. Grab a snapshot iso from ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200703, or the directory above it in one of the other snapshot directories if that doesn't work for you. Thanks for the response. just 2 questions: 1) is 7-CURRENT ready for a production environment? By no means yet. 2) should I stick with amd64 or should I go back to i386? I don't think that will solve the problem. I think it has to do with driver availability. If you can get the 7-CURRENT snapshot to install and upgrade the source tree with amd64, you might be able to update the sources for your system and get on track with 6.2-RELEASE. -Garrett I'll see what 7 does, but I'm sure I'll be back for help on that second part. Thanks, Ray well, for whatever it proves, 7-current, bootonly can't see my network card. I'm still waiting for the full disk 1 to download. Ray ___ 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] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new server setup questions
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:21:48 -0600 Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to setup a new server, and I'm having some problems mostly with the network card. (machine specs follow) I can't get a driver to work for the integrated network card. I've spent a number of hours on google / the complete freeBSD / the freeBSD handbook. the handbook (section 11.8 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html) outlines using ndis (project evil) drivers. I tried using this. I went through ndisgen, and everything seemed to work. I then tried to use kldload and got the error message: kldload: can't load file.ko :operation not permitted of course I did all of this as root. I am using the amd64 version of freeBSD (is this my first mistake?) and the 64 bit version of the drivers. as a side note, the supplied driver disk includes a source version of the linux driver. is there any way to use this? Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. Ray machine specs ASUS M2N-SLI DELUXE mobo 2GB ram AMD 5200 x2 processor (sorry, the box isn't in front of me) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] a friend of mine installed a 6.2-RELEASE system with an nforce network card in it a few weeks ago. upon intial install, the nve adapter would not fire up. he put in another card that was supported (a linksys), did his cvsup and buildworld, and the nve driver worked after that. however, the nve thru our freebsd router has had trouble several times, locking the system up over frames with larger than 1500 mtu (or something to that effect). my friend had to dump the nve and just settle for the linksys, in the name of system system stability. cheers, jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi, I will be away from the office from March 19 to March 23. Please direct your requests and concerns to Raj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and Jay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks, Roth. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dock Question?
Hi, I use xfce4, and am really enjoying it, but I would like an OS X like dock. I'm not generally in for much eyecandy, but I really did like the feel of that dock, so I'm looking for something that approximates its style. Are there any suggestions? Things I've considred are the Engage dock, but that doesn't seem to work on Xfce, as well as the akamaru dock, which relies on xcompmgr, which I'd rather not run. Thanks in advance! Sincerely, -- Ned Ruggeri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-02-25 - 2007-03-17
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list archives http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists and/or The FreeBSD Diary http://www.freebsddiary.org/. These are the articles posted during this period: 8-Mar : Jails under FreeBSD 6 Jails are great. Here's my recipie http://freebsddiary.org/jail-6.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dock Question?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use xfce4, and am really enjoying it, but I would like an OS X like dock. I'm not generally in for much eyecandy, but I really did like the feel of that dock, so I'm looking for something that approximates its style. Are there any suggestions? Things I've considred are the Engage dock, but that doesn't seem to work on Xfce, as well as the akamaru dock, which relies on xcompmgr, which I'd rather not run. Thanks in advance! Sincerely, -- Ned Ruggeri Check out enlightment. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
puc and uart as modules with FreeBSD6.2-REL
I have a two-port PCI serial card. I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on i386 and trying to get the card working using kernel modules puc and uart (after much Googling this seems like a viable option). With the GENERIC kernel, the boot process recognises my card as simple comms, UART but can't find the driver for it. When I kldload puc, the card is recognised as NetMos NM9835: puc0: NetMos NM9835 Dual UART and 1284 Printer port port 0x6c00-0x6c07,0x7000-0x7007,0x7400-0x7407,0x7800-0x7807,0x7c00-0x7c07,0x8000-0x800f irq 12 at device 11.0 on pci0 but when I kldload uart, whether before or after puc, I don't see any new devices appear, nor do I get any dev.uart.* sysctls. Am I missing something obvious, or do I need to compile yet another custom kernel to get this card working? Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mirror without destroying existing contents
On Friday 16 March 2007 21:48, Steve Franks wrote: On 3/16/07, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 16 March 2007 11:18, Steve Franks wrote: I get the following: #gmirror label -v -b split -s 1024 data ad0 can't store metadata on ad0: operation not permitted. That most likely means that you currently have a filesystem on ad0 mounted. If that's the case you should be glad that the OS was smarter than you. What steps had you taken prior to this? It appears to say in the manpage that you can do this on a disk with an existing filesys - would you expect it to work if the disk is unmounted first, then? The way to do this is potentially a little risky but I haven't had a problem with it yet after setting up several mirrors on live fileservers. There is a sysctl called kern.geom.debugflags: if you set this to 16 it will allow you to change the mounted filesystem. Bear in mind that since the metadata for the mirror is written to the last sector of the disk, there is a small risk of data loss: if that sector contains data it will be overwritten. There's a thorough howto by Ralph Engelschall, and an OnLamp article by Dru Lavigne, with more details: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: puc and uart as modules with FreeBSD6.2-REL
The man page I see says that you need sio(4) as well. iso* at puc? port ? Or in the fbsd case, the iso module or option in the kernel. ~BAS Am I missing something obvious, or do I need to compile yet another custom kernel to get this card working? Jonathan ___ 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: Corrupted OS
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:09:12 -0700 Garrett Cooper wrote: Drew Jenkins wrote: /etc/fstab says ufs. Is there a better way to check if its ufs2? Drew2 Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 16, 2007, at 7:34 PM, Drew Jenkins wrote: How large is large? Why filesystem are you using with what options?The MySQL database was just under a gigabyte, and the Zope Data.fs file/database was somewhere under 2 gigabytes. Options? No options. I had symlinks from where these dbases were supposed to live on the SCSI drives to the 500 GB drive. Then suddenly, poof! They were gone. Drew Well, I was curious because I thought it could be something to deal with the 2GB file limit. You still haven't answered my question about the filesystem though: are you using UFS2 or something else? Thanks, -Garrett The easiest way to figure out if you're running UFS2 is to go to the disk label feature within sysinstall, and define a mount point for the slice. Make sure _not_ to make any changes though as you'll be thrusting yourself in the middle of a system upgrade (CTRL-C is your friend). Perhaps even a bit easier: paqi% dumpfs /dev/ad0s2a | head -1 magic 19540119 (UFS2) timeSun Mar 18 15:48:35 2007 Also, 'dumpfs device | head -20' provides far more than anyone wants to know but including maxfilesize, flags (eg none or soft-updates) and fsmnt (last mounted on). Works on unmounted or mounted drives. Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
