Re: 9.0 bsdinstall usage

2011-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 23/09/2011, at 23:03, Fbsd8 wrote: >> The binary is installed by default, but there it isn't run at startup. >> If it is being run then I would expect you are booting off your install >> media again by accident. >> -- >> Daniel O'Connor > >

Re: 9.0 bsdinstall usage

2011-09-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ulfills > the original design goals and guarantees no one can exec it by accident and > kill there running system. The binary is installed by default, but there it isn't run at startup. If it is being run then I would expect you are booting off your install media again by accident. -

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
sn't great (Realtek) but I put an em card in mine. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerpri

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
am planning to try this out tonight.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 43

Re: Installer: missing GEOM/gpart capabilities slicing disk?

2009-11-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
d to 8 partitions, however I'm not certain. BTW gpart does many partition types not just MBR and GPT. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.&

Re: LDAP server gone -> impossible to login locally!

2009-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, O. Hartmann wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Erik Norgaard wrote: > >> This sounds like the correct solution, AFAIK it's the same concept > >> as for NIS, first check local files, then ldap. You don't want >

Re: LDAP server gone -> impossible to login locally!

2009-09-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
nd, is then recorded in syslog. > > Why they picked 4, of 1 through 7, I'm not sure. Thanks, I've enabled it, normally I just fish through all.log :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about

Re: LDAP server gone -> impossible to login locally!

2009-09-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
e and if you have logging disabled (which is recommended for performance!) it won't say _anything_. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -

Re: LDAP server gone -> impossible to login locally!

2009-09-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
uccess=return notfound=return] I just have passwd: cache files ldap group: cache files ldap and I can login as root locally without any delay. That said my LDAP server is on the same machine so perhaps it fails faster. I am using "uri ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fopenldap%2fldapi/" to conne

Re: Making bootable USB keys

2009-09-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > WARNING: This e-mail has been altered by MIMEDefang. Following this > paragraph are indications of the actual changes made. For more > information about your site's MIMEDefang policy, contact > Postmaster . For more informat

Re: Making bootable USB keys

2009-09-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
> understandable) I use the attached script (on FreeBSD :) to prep a USB stick for booting. I imagine you could munge it into your setup without too much trouble. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing

Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 325, Issue 4

2009-06-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
your other one. 3) You need to create a config file and enable it in /etc/rc.conf before it will start on boot. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choo

Re: good morning to all

2009-06-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, malathi selvaraj wrote: > how to install samba in freebsd Redirected to freebsd-questions@ You need to use the ports tree (check the handbook for how to install/update it) Then do cd /usr/ports/net/samba33 make install -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are > > > going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the > > > legendary handbook, that is n

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ndary handbook, that is not very helpful. FreeBSD doesn't work this way, you are trying to fit FreeBSD into your Gentoo way of thinking. Obviously this causes pain, please stop. If you want to try FreeBSD, start with a release, if that works then you can update to HEAD and install tha

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 03:45:03PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: > > > Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the > > > installation process, beyond selecting the &#

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
could do it from a livefs disk however. As for observations.. I think you're wasting your time :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from."

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit ?binaries?

2008-10-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 01:31:16 M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : Daniel O'Connor wrote: > : > On Friday 24 October 2008 23:20:59 Peter Jeremy wrote: > : > > > t

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit binaries?

2008-10-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
- it merrily tries to link FreeBSD libraries to Linux binaries with predictable results.. One trick I use for that is to put a symlink in /compat/linux in the place the problematic FreeBSD library is.. That said it would be really nice if it ignored incompatible libraries :) -- Daniel O'Con

Re: [Samba] Samba and LDAP install on FreeBSD

2008-07-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ent, it tells me that samba > 3.0.30 relies on it. I am kind of stuck here. Does samba 3.0.30 not > work with openldap 2.4? Do I have to have openldap 2.3? Put this in /etc/make.conf WANT_OPENLDAP_VER=24 It tells the ports tree that you want OpenLDAP 2.4 if a port doesn't specify a pa

Re: swap file vs swap partition

2007-02-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
s. Mini-dumps have made it a lot easier to get away with a small amount of swap. That said it's not like disk is expensive either! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are

Re: libjpeg

2006-01-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
path? Assuming you installed libjeg from ports (which you really really should have) it will be in /usr/local. So you need to add -I/usr/local/include to CFLAGS and -L/usr/local/lib to LDFLAGS in a Makefile. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://ww

Re: cpufreq and changing driver

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Unless your ACPI has a problem that means the transition is slow. I can't imagine that doing 5 (or even 50) syscalls a second is a big CPU load unless there is a specific problem with sysctls or the cpufreq infrastructure. I run powerd like this -> /usr/sbin/powerd -i 90 -r 30 -a adaptive

Re: Is rcorder working under /usr/local/etc/rc.d?

2005-10-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
DE, BEFORE and KEYWORD seem to be ignored. Services > like SERVERS, NETWORKING, LOGIN, etc, are all provided within > /etc/rc.d. > > rcorder /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* I believe rcorder is not used to start stuff in /usr/local/etc/rc.d (unfortunately). -- Daniel O'Connor softwa

Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to.. Do you have the kernel source installed? I think you may need that to build the xfree86-dri port (I don't know why it doesn't check) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that th

Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
version of FreeBSD are you running? When did you last cvsup your ports tree? Did you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose fro

Re: can't cd to /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BIGD

2005-04-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
't in /usr/src? Did you read the handbook on this stuff? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerp

Re: copying from DVD drive causes crash: vm_fault: pager read error, pid 13421 (cp) on FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE

2005-01-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
freezes immediately. Does it panic or hang? The DVD has errors on it which is why you can't read it.. Obviously the OS crashing when presented with bad media is not a good thing :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The

Re: finding and mounting a fat partition

2004-12-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the device is called. What is the device that you installed on? ad0? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Finger

Re: [BUGA] Installing FBSD 5.3 and 5.4

2004-12-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
entire 5.x series after 5.3 without _too_ much hassle. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint

Re: Audio board [HELP]

2004-09-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/dev/sndstat -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B

Re: [BUGA] df(1) && vnconfig(8) hanging ....

2004-08-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
an force an un-mount of an NFS filesystem ? I think it depends how you mount it as to how long the kernel will wait before unmounting it. - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there a

Re: [BUGA] df(1) && vnconfig(8) hanging ....

2004-08-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
212 96 p2 D+9:04AM 0:00.00 df -h > username 3332 0.0 0.0 212 96 p1 D+9:04AM 0:00.00 df -h > > No change. > > I'm not sure what has hung here, nor am I sure how to 'un-hang' my shell. > > Any thoughts anyone ? Press ctrl-t or use the -l op

Re: make package-recursive

2004-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the packages a given port is dependent on. What should it do instead? - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fin

Re: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
;t work (no suprise) - - Suspend doesn't go below S1 - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B76

Re: can not make ltmdm ports

2004-06-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
me or explains > me why do make failed ? Recent changes to the kernel broke it, I have a patch, but as I said above it won't help you anyway. PS if you'd asked me (as the port maintainer) directly I could have answered it faster. - -- Daniel O'Connor software and net

Re: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
4 too ;) If battery life is important to you I'd suggest not getting an AMD64. For raw performance it's "pretty nice" though :) - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is th

Re: File system error

2004-04-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
etion. Also another possibility is that a process has an open file descriptor on the data you deleted. PS you spelt freebsd-questions@ wrong. Also, I've dropped -stable as this is probably a -questions thing first and foremost. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for

RE: PPP in -direct mode does not execute any chat scripts

2003-02-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
iables when invoking PPP I guess :) > > Still I guess you could just run 'ppp rfcomm' instead.. > > it will only work for in RFCOMM client case. i do not know > how to build server applications with tty interface (pty's > do not count :) Heh, I use birda for IRDA, it'

Re: PPP in -direct mode does not execute any chat scripts

2003-02-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
necessary/useful to 'steer' PPP from the RFCOMM end? eg 'when you get a connection from this device connect via PPP on stdin/stdout' Still I guess you could just run 'ppp rfcomm' instead.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - h

Re: PPP in -direct mode does not execute any chat scripts

2003-02-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
calls). If -direct *by default* used chat then I would have to change my ppp.conf and that would suck :) Perhaps have 'enable usechatindirect' or some such.. (You might want to forward the email to the PPP maintainer BTW) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for G

Re: Radui card with FM tuner PV-BT878P +FM

2002-10-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
chipset. Yes.. I have a 878 based card and it works fine with bktr. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To

Re: Radui card with FM tuner PV-BT878P +FM

2002-10-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
radio then xmradio is OK. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4