Re: packaging a metaport

2008-01-21 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:14:06PM -0500, Dave wrote: > > Hello, > I'd like to compile and install xorg and gnome via metaports on a > machine, making packages out of the entire process, including > dependencies. My goal is to have a tarball that i can take to > other machines, extract it and

Re: Need to re-generate the passwords in /etc/passwd

2008-01-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
> How do I use the above script for my machine which I access remotely by SSH. Yuck. I could email you a list of 1000 random strings? > > I could send it to you as Perl script, so you could generate 500 > > passwords in one run, or you call the web page enough number of times. > > That will be g

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Christian Walther
On 21/01/2008, Erich Dollansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Andreas Davour wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >>> > >>> I have toyed a bit with the dev.cpu.0.freq sysctl setting, and tried > >>> to lower it automatically when the system load goes down. For some > >

Re: packaging a metaport

2008-01-21 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Dave wrote: Hello, I'd like to compile and install xorg and gnome via metaports on a machine, making packages out of the entire process, including dependencies. My goal is to have a tarball that i can take to other machines, extract it and do a pkg_add * and have xorg and gnome installed via

Re: Need to re-generate the passwords in /etc/passwd

2008-01-21 Thread Tek Bahadur Limbu
Hi Oliver, Olivier Nicole wrote: Due to some security purposes, I need to re-generate all the passwords for my users from the file /etc/passwd. I use the following script to generate passwords: http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/cgi-bin/phi-soft/gen-multipasswd How do I use the above script for my

Re: Need to re-generate the passwords in /etc/passwd

2008-01-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
> > Due to some security purposes, I need to re-generate all the passwords > > for my users from the file /etc/passwd. > > I use the following script to generate passwords: > >http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/cgi-bin/phi-soft/gen-multipasswd Or use: http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/cgi-bin/phi-soft/gen-mul

Re: Need to re-generate the passwords in /etc/passwd

2008-01-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Due to some security purposes, I need to re-generate all the passwords > for my users from the file /etc/passwd. I use the following script to generate passwords: http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/cgi-bin/phi-soft/gen-multipasswd I could send it to you as Perl script, so you could generate 500 passw

Need to re-generate the passwords in /etc/passwd

2008-01-21 Thread Tek Bahadur Limbu
Hi all, Due to some security purposes, I need to re-generate all the passwords for my users from the file /etc/passwd. There are about 500 users residing in /etc/passwd. I need a way to quickly generate new random passwords for the users using the /etc/passwd to a text file. The text file

Re: GELI key from a USB disk

2008-01-21 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
If you are using /etc/rc.d/geli or geli2 what about fiddling with it's REQUIRE so that it runs later.like after all your filesystems are mounted? This would seem to be an ok solution provided you aren't using geli on your OS partitions. Yup. That seems like a possible solution. Will have

Re: how to restore /usr/src

2008-01-21 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Nerius Landys wrote: how can i reinstall the original /usr/src If you have the install CD, you can even extract the sources from there. I don't recollect the exact location (am in office, don't have a CD with me) but its in a directory named "src" and has many files in it. These files are

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-21 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:19:54PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Monday 21 January 2008 14:05:04 Mike Bristow wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: It is possible, but n

How do port Makefiles work

2008-01-21 Thread Nerius Landys
I'm trying to figure out how a port makefile configures, makes, makes install from a source tarball. The port I'm interested in in particular is /usr/ports/x11/Terminal; I have it built and installed just fine using the ports system. Now I'm trying to tweak the source code, build, and install loc

Re: how to restore /usr/src

2008-01-21 Thread Nerius Landys
>how can i reinstall the original /usr/src Oh that's really easy. Don't fret. I delete it all the time and get it back in the following way. In the handbook, there's a section about synchronizing your source: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html Use 'cvsup'

ACPI Thermal Zone Error

2008-01-21 Thread Jason C. Wells
I just built a new 6.3 kernel with device acpi. I am now getting this error: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd, ignored (-127.0C) Does FreeBSD ACPI functionality override the system BIOS? I am concerned about overheating my system. How can I fix this error? How can I silence it if it is real

how to restore /usr/src

2008-01-21 Thread ivan dimitrov
Hi guys how can i reinstall the original /usr/src tree? thanks in advance I. - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

packaging a metaport

2008-01-21 Thread Dave
Hello, I'd like to compile and install xorg and gnome via metaports on a machine, making packages out of the entire process, including dependencies. My goal is to have a tarball that i can take to other machines, extract it and do a pkg_add * and have xorg and gnome installed via packages vs

Re: Postfix quota per virtual domain

2008-01-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hello, I am working on a Postfix email server for virtual domain. I was requested to implement quota per domain, not per user: the sum of mailboxes of all the users in the domain must not exceed the quota set for the domain. (All I could find was example where all users of the domain had a same

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:54:44 +0100 Tijl Coosemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 21 January 2008 16:13:36 Andreas Davour wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > >> Throttling still made a huge difference on my systems. On my old two-speed Thinkpad, powerd nearly halves t

Postfix quota per virtual domain

2008-01-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hello, I am working on a Postfix email server for virtual domain. I was requested to implement quota per domain, not per user, have you ever seen something like that? Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: Boot Loader Broken?

2008-01-21 Thread Bob Johnson
On 1/21/08, Schiz0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 9, 2008 1:38 PM, Schiz0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Now, I'm even in a bigger hole. My power died this weekend, and I > guess the / partition has some errors on it, so it is being mounted > read-only. But I'm unable to get into single

Re: compiling kernel with PAE

2008-01-21 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Monday 21 January 2008, David Robillard wrote: > > Getting an error when trying to compile a kernel on 5.4 and 6.2 with the > > PAE option. I've tried NO_MODULES in make.conf as well... > > > > se2 -ffreestanding -Werror /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c > > /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansy

Re: gmirror challenge

2008-01-21 Thread Jason Morgan
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:35:46PM -0800, Jeff Pflueger wrote: > > > Hey Jeff, > > > > Try: > > > > gmirror forget ad6s1 > > > > >From gmirror(8): > > > > remove Remove the given component(s) from the mirror and clear meta- > > data on it. > > > > and futher on: > > > > One disk f

Re: gmirror challenge

2008-01-21 Thread Jason Morgan
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:41:16PM -0800, Jeff Pflueger wrote: > I have a server and am using gmirror to mirror two disks. > > The intent was to double my security...but my experience has been that > it has generally doubled the amount of time that the server goes down! > > gm0s1 is the name of t

gmirror challenge

2008-01-21 Thread Jeff Pflueger
I have a server and am using gmirror to mirror two disks. The intent was to double my security...but my experience has been that it has generally doubled the amount of time that the server goes down! gm0s1 is the name of the mirror. The mirror is Freebsd's boot source. ad4s1 is one provider ad6s1

rsync and the mail spool?

2008-01-21 Thread Chris Maness
If I am cutting over a server, that has been created from a dump image of another server. Can I just rsync the mail spool to sync the mail at the time of cut over? Or will this cause problems? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: xorg-drivers-7.3

2008-01-21 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:15:19PM -0500, Chess Griffin wrote: > Bob Hall wrote: > >I'm trying to update xorg-drivers-7.3 on an old machine. I didn't know > >that the i810 drivers do the job of the i740 drivers, so I selected i740 > >in the config screen when I ran portmanager. Unfortunately, this

Re: Mail server questions

2008-01-21 Thread Gerard
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:42:21 -0500 "Zachary Welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BSD newbie here, running 6.2 on a core 2 quad system I built. > > I'm Trying to get a secure mail server going and running into some > snags: > > First things first - After installing postfix (which seems to work >

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-21 Thread RW
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:05:04 + Mike Bristow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note that you can use UFS (and other filesystems labeling) too: for > example. 'newfs -L bobs_disk' will cause the device containing it to > appear as /dev/ufs/bobs_disk. For an existing filesystem you'll need to use

Re: License Question

2008-01-21 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > 2008/1/21, Aryeh M. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> Free BSD wrote: >>> Hello, i have a question about licensing FreeBSD: i would be >>> like install freebsd in c

Re: License Question

2008-01-21 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:09:07PM +0300, Free BSD wrote: > Hello, i have a question about licensing FreeBSD: i would be like > install freebsd in corporation on workstation (don't servers). Its > free ? Or FreeBSD free for individual using ? http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html d

Re: Mail server questions

2008-01-21 Thread Chess Griffin
Zachary Welch wrote: Hello to all, BSD newbie here, running 6.2 on a core 2 quad system I built. I'm Trying to get a secure mail server going and running into some snags: First things first - After installing postfix (which seems to work when testing) and cyrus-sasl2, I opted for t

Re: FBSD or PCBSD?

2008-01-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:57:16AM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: > Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I have a basic Acer Aspire with Vista on it but I am very unhappy > >about the speed of work on it. I do not want to wipe out MS system (at > >least not yet) but would like to give FreeBSD or PC

Re: License Question

2008-01-21 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, 2008/1/21, Aryeh M. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Free BSD wrote: > > Hello, i have a question about licensing FreeBSD: i would be like > > install freebsd in corporation on workstation (don't servers). Its > > free ? Or FreeBSD free for

Re: License Question

2008-01-21 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Free BSD wrote: > Hello, i have a question about licensing FreeBSD: i would be like > install freebsd in corporation on workstation (don't servers). Its > free ? Or FreeBSD free for individual using ? Yes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v

Mail server questions

2008-01-21 Thread Zachary Welch
Hello to all, BSD newbie here, running 6.2 on a core 2 quad system I built. I'm Trying to get a secure mail server going and running into some snags: First things first - After installing postfix (which seems to work when testing) and cyrus-sasl2, I opted for the Maildir/ config option

License Question

2008-01-21 Thread Free BSD
Hello, i have a question about licensing FreeBSD: i would be like install freebsd in corporation on workstation (don't servers). Its free ? Or FreeBSD free for individual using ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: RLT8139d drivers?

2008-01-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:08:03PM -0300, Sdävtaker wrote: > It doesnt appear in pciconf (output is pasted below). I removed it and > tryed make it work in a winxp machine and it was successfully working, > so is not hardware problem (at least not in the nic). > Any idea why is not working?, the ca

Re: xorg-drivers-7.3

2008-01-21 Thread Chess Griffin
Bob Hall wrote: I'm trying to update xorg-drivers-7.3 on an old machine. I didn't know that the i810 drivers do the job of the i740 drivers, so I selected i740 in the config screen when I ran portmanager. Unfortunately, this conflicts with i810, and unfortunately, this choice I made is preserved

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:19:54PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Monday 21 January 2008 14:05:04 Mike Bristow wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > > >> It is possible, but not as daX.

bind: Can't assign requested address using ssh (or anything else)

2008-01-21 Thread perlcat
Trying to access a vpn using ssh on 6.2 - STABLE. Haven't found an answer anywhere, and so I must be totally missing the right questions to ask or configurations to look at. This problem is consistent regardless of port chosen or access method. I can duplicate at will with ssh. Here's the comma

Re: xorg-drivers-7.3

2008-01-21 Thread Peter Boosten
Bob Hall wrote: I'm trying to update xorg-drivers-7.3 on an old machine. I didn't know that the i810 drivers do the job of the i740 drivers, so I selected i740 in the config screen when I ran portmanager. Unfortunately, this conflicts with i810, and unfortunately, this choice I made is preserved

xorg-drivers-7.3

2008-01-21 Thread Bob Hall
I'm trying to update xorg-drivers-7.3 on an old machine. I didn't know that the i810 drivers do the job of the i740 drivers, so I selected i740 in the config screen when I ran portmanager. Unfortunately, this conflicts with i810, and unfortunately, this choice I made is preserved in some configurat

Re: make installworld failed

2008-01-21 Thread Paul Procacci
Do you have any partitions mounted with noexec? I just got a very similar problem and it was due to me having /tmp mounted with noexec. On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 01:49:11PM -0500, Joe Demeny wrote: > After building world and kernel, installed kernel, but got an error when I > tried make installwor

Re: compiling kernel with PAE

2008-01-21 Thread David Robillard
> Getting an error when trying to compile a kernel on 5.4 and 6.2 with the > PAE option. I've tried NO_MODULES in make.conf as well... > > se2 -ffreestanding -Werror /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c > /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function `adv_action': > /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/a

make installworld failed

2008-01-21 Thread Joe Demeny
After building world and kernel, installed kernel, but got an error when I tried make installworld: # make installworld mkdir -p /tmp/install.uV1yfKEs for prog in [ awk cap_mkdb cat chflags chmod chown date echo egrep find grep install-info ln lockf make mkdir mtree mv pwd_mkdb rm sed sh sysct

Re: Boot Loader Broken?

2008-01-21 Thread Schiz0
On Jan 9, 2008 1:38 PM, Schiz0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > I recently upgraded from 6.3-PRERELEASE to 7.0-PRERELEASE. I had some > problem with the ports, but I got that taken care of. > > Now I'm having another very odd problem. > > I originally noticed something odd when I tried to shut

Re: RLT8139d drivers?

2008-01-21 Thread Sdävtaker
It doesnt appear in pciconf (output is pasted below). I removed it and tryed make it work in a winxp machine and it was successfully working, so is not hardware problem (at least not in the nic). Any idea why is not working?, the card chip says "8139d", my kernel is release generic. Is it the none0

Re: ipfw(8) doc bug?

2008-01-21 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Ian, Monday, January 21, 2008, 2:42:53 PM, you wrote: > I was just browsing various versions of ipfw(8) such as: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable&format=html > and noticed that (and 6.3-RELEASE) manuals sport 'FreeBSD 7.0' foot

boot loader anomaly

2008-01-21 Thread Steven Friedrich
I'm getting an error message "zpool_cache...failed!" during boot. You have to disable beastie to see it... Here's the output that I wrote down: BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Consoles: internal video/kerboard BIOS drive C: is disk0 BIOS drive D: is disk1 BIOS drive E: is disk2 BIOS 637kB/52

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:16:50PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Monday 21 January 2008 14:05:04 Mike Bristow wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > > >> It is possible, but not as daX. U

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Ghirai
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:41:41 +0100 (CET) Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > H. This actually works, without any hangups. I wonder if I managed > to hit upon a odd bug yesterday? > > /andreas > I've been using it since 6.2 on 4 intel boxes (one of them a notebook) without any pr

Re: How to install KDE4 on FreeBSD?

2008-01-21 Thread uutorok
Thanks a lot. doug-28 wrote: > > Yes its only been ten days. First notice may appear on > http:freebsd.kde.org. > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Rico Secada wrote: > >> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:26:20 -0800 (PST) >> uutorok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> I find that there is no KDE 4 in ports. T

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-21 Thread Mario Lobo
On Monday 21 January 2008 14:19:54 Mario Lobo wrote: > On Monday 21 January 2008 14:05:04 Mike Bristow wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > > >> It is possible, but not as daX. Use the

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-21 Thread Mario Lobo
On Monday 21 January 2008 14:14:56 Mario Lobo wrote: > On Monday 21 January 2008 14:05:04 Mike Bristow wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > > >> It is possible, but not as daX. Use the

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-21 Thread Mario Lobo
On Monday 21 January 2008 14:05:04 Mike Bristow wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > >> It is possible, but not as daX. Use the glabel(8) utility to label > > >> your disks. They will show

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-21 Thread Mario Lobo
On Monday 21 January 2008 14:05:04 Mike Bristow wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > >> It is possible, but not as daX. Use the glabel(8) utility to label > > >> your disks. They will show

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-21 Thread Mario Lobo
On Monday 21 January 2008 14:05:04 Mike Bristow wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > >> It is possible, but not as daX. Use the glabel(8) utility to label > > >> your disks. They will show

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-21 Thread Mario Lobo
On Monday 21 January 2008 14:05:04 Mike Bristow wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > >> It is possible, but not as daX. Use the glabel(8) utility to label > > >> your disks. They will show

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-21 Thread Mike Bristow
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > > >> It is possible, but not as daX. Use the glabel(8) utility to label your > >> disks. They will show up as /dev/label/ > > On 7.0-PRERELEASE, 'options GEOM_LA

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:56:32AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > >>> What I'd like to know is whether there's any way for me to ensure that the >>> da0 disk always appears as da0. I don't want it that tomm I plug in another >>> disk (or change the order of disks, though I'll be more careful w

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Monday 21 January 2008 16:13:36 Andreas Davour wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> Throttling still made a huge difference on my systems. > > Many different opionions here. How did you do it then? In /etc/sysctl.conf: debug.cpufreq.lowest=400 In /etc/rc.conf: economy_cx_low

Re: Fixing a USB disk to a specific device name

2008-01-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:59:30AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > > Colin Brace wrote: > >> I use udev rules to do this. See: >> >> < >> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/make-removable-usb-hdd-mount-at-fixed-mount-point-511917/ >>> > > That doesn't work on FreeBSD, d

Re: How to install KDE4 on FreeBSD?

2008-01-21 Thread doug
Yes its only been ten days. First notice may appear on http:freebsd.kde.org. On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Rico Secada wrote: On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:26:20 -0800 (PST) uutorok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I find that there is no KDE 4 in ports. The only instruction I get is http://techbase.kde.org/inde

Re: ZFS for production.

2008-01-21 Thread Kimi
On 21/01/2008, Albert Shih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > > I would like to known if the ZFS "can" be use in production ? you need to test if it is suitable for your needs with stability, some people are using in production - I am no such a person. > Are there > here anyone to use ZFS in

Re: ZFS for production.

2008-01-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I would like to known if the ZFS "can" be use in production ? Are there of course can - as everything. what about the results... that's other questions. it WILL put a load of load on your machine... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

ZFS for production.

2008-01-21 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all. I would like to known if the ZFS "can" be use in production ? Are there here anyone to use ZFS in production server ? Lots of thanks. Regards. NB: I'm going to use 7.0 in production, but for the FS it's more complexe, if I lost some connexion because the 7.0 freeze is very different if

Re: GELI key from a USB disk

2008-01-21 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Sunday 20 January 2008 09:02:14 pm Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > >> I tried the obvious like mounting the USB disk in /etc/fstab and giving > >> it a lower pass no. than the encrypted partitions. But turns out that > >> doesn't work. > > > > The pass number in /etc/fstab only affects the fsck orde

Re: RLT8139d drivers?

2008-01-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:57:24AM -0300, Sdävtaker wrote: > Hello. > Im running FBSD 6.2release. > I got an old RLT 8139 1/10m working in my ia32 pc, used it for long > time and wanted to buy a second one for routing, couldnt find one of > those, and bought a 10/100/1000 rlt8139d, FBSD is not dete

Re: gnumeric fails to install, 6.3-PRERELEASE

2008-01-21 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Laszlo Nagy wrote: "portupgrade -a" fails to install gnumeric. I tried to do this: cd /usr/ports/math/gnumeric make distclean make make install It starts to install gnumeric and stops with this: ... gmake install-data-hook gmake[5]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/math

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Andreas Davour wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have toyed a bit with the dev.cpu.0.freq sysctl setting, and tried to lower it automatically when the system load goes down. For some reason it don't seem to work, even though the script works for simple debug output.

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Andreas Davour wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, why don't you use powerd? Now I know a reason. It made my whole computer freeze and C-ALT-DEL or C-ALT-BS didn't even work. Maybe it's not that stable yet. I use it with the -v option without any problems. I do no

RLT8139d drivers?

2008-01-21 Thread Sdävtaker
Hello. Im running FBSD 6.2release. I got an old RLT 8139 1/10m working in my ia32 pc, used it for long time and wanted to buy a second one for routing, couldnt find one of those, and bought a 10/100/1000 rlt8139d, FBSD is not detecting it, i was googling and found out that 8139c+ drivers are not c

ipfw(8) doc bug?

2008-01-21 Thread Ian Smith
I was just browsing various versions of ipfw(8) such as: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable&format=html and noticed that (and 6.3-RELEASE) manuals sport 'FreeBSD 7.0' footers, however the proper FreeBSD 7 manual includes the new 'ipfw nat'

Re: check processes started by inetd

2008-01-21 Thread Agus
2008/1/20, Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Jonathan Horne wrote: > > > how can i check to see the processes that have been started by inetd? i > mean > > other than reading the inetd.conf file... but something like top or > something > > that shows me the processes that

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Monday 21 January 2008 09:45:26 Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> I have toyed a bit with the dev.cpu.0.freq sysctl setting, and tried >> to lower it automatically when the system load goes down. For some >> reason it don't seem to work, even though the script works for >> simple debug output. >> >> Any

Re: boot problems / redirection unexpected

2008-01-21 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, 2008/1/21, Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > hello, > > > > Trying to boot 6.3. There seems to be some problem with /etc/rc.subr > > it gives me some message about redirection unexpected. I am trying to > > copy this file form a back-up to /etc but when I do

Re: boot problems / redirection unexpected

2008-01-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: hello, Trying to boot 6.3. There seems to be some problem with /etc/rc.subr it gives me some message about redirection unexpected. I am trying to copy this file form a back-up to /etc but when I do that it says: read-only file system. I should add that I am operating a

boot problems / redirection unexpected

2008-01-21 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
hello, Trying to boot 6.3. There seems to be some problem with /etc/rc.subr it gives me some message about redirection unexpected. I am trying to copy this file form a back-up to /etc but when I do that it says: read-only file system. I should add that I am operating as root (could not go into mu

Re: update /dev files with slices

2008-01-21 Thread Martin Laabs
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:26:42 +0100, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: reason - it is a test for my backup system) This slices are ufs formated and gbde encrypted. However - if I insert the DVD the device nodes acd0a and acd0b are not FreeBSD doesn't know that you inserted DVD until

Re: help

2008-01-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
on re0 i have installing this ip # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Thu Dec 6 15:26:31 2007 ifconfig_re0="inet 10.200.1.37 netmask 255.255.255.0" defaultrouter="10.200.1.1" hostname="zeus.local" i want to install on re1 another ip10.200.1.40 it won't work this way, 2 cards on same su

Re: update /dev files with slices

2008-01-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
reason - it is a test for my backup system) This slices are ufs formated and gbde encrypted. However - if I insert the DVD the device nodes acd0a and acd0b are not FreeBSD doesn't know that you inserted DVD until you will read it ___ freebsd-questions@

update /dev files with slices

2008-01-21 Thread Martin Laabs
Hi, I created a dvd with two slices a and b. (Don't ask for the reason - it is a test for my backup system) This slices are ufs formated and gbde encrypted. However - if I insert the DVD the device nodes acd0a and acd0b are not created automaticly. But if the DVD is inserted *before* boot this tw

Re: help

2008-01-21 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 21. Januar 2008 10:16:40 schrieb Enovation Technologies: > my question is how to configure 2 nics with different ip on same box in > the same subnet. You know that this makes no sense? At least not in 99.99% of the cases? Maybe you can describe a little more clearly _why_ you want to

help

2008-01-21 Thread Enovation Technologies
hello. i am newbie on freebsd and i have a problem with 2 nics i have 2 nics re0 and re1 on re0 i have installing this ip # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Thu Dec 6 15:26:31 2007 ifconfig_re0="inet 10.200.1.37 netmask 255.255.255.0" defaultrouter="10.200.1.1" hostname="zeus.local" i w

Re: gnumeric fails to install, 6.3-PRERELEASE

2008-01-21 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Laszlo Nagy wrote: Enviroment: cassiopeia# uname -a FreeBSD cassiopeia.ronet 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #2: Tue Jan 15 04:41:41 EST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CASSIOPEIA amd64 cassiopeia# portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors foun

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have toyed a bit with the dev.cpu.0.freq sysctl setting, and tried to lower it automatically when the system load goes down. For some reason it don't seem to work, even though the script works for simple debug output. Anyone have tried to do something similar? no but anyway - freebsd halt

can't launch inkscape in freebsd 7.0-rc1

2008-01-21 Thread lveax
$ inkscape [Mon 4:16:03pm] Duplicate large block deallocation of 0x86a1000 Duplicate large block deallocation Emergency save activated! then i must use pkill -9 inkscape to kill it .. ___ freebsd-questions@freeb