Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > Better=random read performance of single drive. What an entirely useless performance measure! Maybe you should restrict yourself to using SSDs, which have rather unbeatable random read performance - the spindle speed is really high. ;-) _

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Polytropon wrote: > I do _not_ want to try to claim a "ZFS inferiority due to > missing backups", but there may be occassions where (except > performance), low-level file system aspects of UFS might be > superior to using ZFS. If you have an operational need for o

Re: How to indicate source directory in other than /usr/src?

r/src mount -t nullfs /some/dir/for/objects /usr/obj Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: why I am upset

Fernando Apesteguía wrote: [snip] > > Just serious now. I see you are frustrated, but it woul help if you gave > the list a hint of what the actual problem is. You complained a lot, but > you didn't specify the problem! He didn't because it is so extremely obvious a case of pure PEBKAC. __

Re: foo

Robert Bonomi wrote: >>From bonomi Wed May 23 03:14:43 2012 > Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 03:14:43 -0500 (CDT) > From: Mail Delivery Subsystem > To: r...@mail.r-bonomi.com > Subject: Postmaster notify: see transcript for details > > This is a MIME-encapsulated message > > --q4N8Egh0088941.133776088

Re: Updating /src from command line

Am 22.05.2012, 21:59 Uhr, schrieb Michael Ross : Am 22.05.2012, 21:43 Uhr, schrieb Jos Chrispijn : I want to compile my kernel and I read that for this I need to have the complete /SRC tree installed. If I do this via sysinstall, I get either a display that the chosen server is not

Re: Updating /src from command line

there a way to update /src by CVSUP or otherwise? thanks, Jos Chrispijn I do it like this: Copy, read and modify /usr/src/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile to, e.g. /root/stable-supfile then csup /root/stable-supfile HTH Michael

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

Mark Felder wrote: > OK guys I've been talking with another user who can recreate this crash > and the last bit of information we've learned seems to be leaning towards > interrupts/IRQ issues like someone (bz@ perhaps?) suggested. > > I'm still trying to test this myself, but the other user was

Re: ipfw subnetting

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Paul Macdonald wrote: > this is now resolved, i hadn't realised (embarrassingly) that ipfw list will > show rules if if the fw is disabled. You should consider using tables, which allow you to add ad hoc nets, etc. and you can swap rulesets atomically so you can

Re: ipfw subnetting

Paul Macdonald wrote: [snip] It has been many years since I used IPFW as I moved on to IPFILTER, and then on to PF which is what I use now. I don't even recall exactly why I chose to utilize both setting directionality of flow per specific interface. I suspect that somehow there is some rule o

Re: ipfw subnetting

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Paul Macdonald wrote: > A very open firewall test script is as follows: > > 00010 allow ip from any to any via lo0 > 00081 deny log ip from 180.0.0.0/8 to any > 00100 check-state You don't need the following > 00101 allow tcp from any to any established This may

Re: eliminate character with sed

nix INPUTFILE OUTPUTFILE DosUnix converts files from DOS text format to Unix text format by replacing each carriage return & newline pair with a single newline character. does not do backups, though. Michael ___ freebsd-quest

Re: file permission template

man sh (or man csh) - look for 'umask' On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:37 AM, fake fake wrote: > I need a sort of file permission template. > Under some particular directory (like ~/secret), I need all those > files (including newly creating one) mode 700. > Is there any template-trick? Or "chmod -R 70

Re: User can't login but /etc/(master.)passwd OK

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > "Details are *IMPORTANT*" What's the user's shell in the password file, and does that shell: exist? executable? In the /etc/shells file? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: Adding a Static Route to rc.conf?

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Noel wrote: > > Indeed, I should have mentioned that if you have freebsd-8x or > earlier, this feature isn't built-in but can be easily added: > > http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Re-rc-8-script-waiting-for-the-network-to-become-usable-td4242157.html > Or the

Re: FreeBSD vice OS X memory management

Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:04 AM, jb wrote: > >> If so, should FreeBSD adopt NetBSD's MM subsys, or just improve itself >> surgically ? >> > > You ought first establish there is a problem. What you have cited is > recently reinvigorated trend that has taken on the air

Re: upgrade of portupgrade

n dhert wrote: > Today, my nightly run of portsnap informed me there is un update for: > # pkg_version -vIL= > portupgrade-2.4.9.3.2 < needs updating (index has 2.4.9.3_1,2) > > Since there is no special entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING about the > portupgrade update, > I started my weekly > # por

Re: Re[2]: newfs create to little inodes

Rob Farmer wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Robert Bonomi > wrote: >> >> Something about -your- installation is causing you to run out of inodes. >> > > This is a release engineering issue in 9.0, not just his installation. > The defaults are screwed up. See bin/162659. > Yes - I exp

Re: newfs create to little inodes

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > >> Does newfs always must create sufficient count of inodes? or I must >> supply some addition options when creating FS? >> >> yes > > man newfs > > (-i option) > > There are many use cases for a filesyst

Re: phpmyadmin port files errors

ad in the water until this gets fixed. > > If this is indeed an error with the port then I will submit a bug > report. That looks like the version control colloquially files (RCS, CVS, etc..). -- Michael Hughes Log Home living is the best mich...@thehugheslogcabin.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: booting a CD-ROM

gs_stol...@juno.com wrote: > I have an old FreeBSD system that I haven't used for a long time > and I have forgotten the passwords. This machine has FreeBSD-4.3 > and FreeBSD-4.7 on it, and also MS' Windows98 . I tried getting > onto that system by booting with a

Re: Questions about Jail

James Y Chen wrote: > Hi > > I think Jail on FreeBSD 8.2 can generate 2 jailed machine using the same > version of FreeBSD, for example, on a 8.2 AMD64 Jailer, I can create 2 > or more FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 Jailed machine. > > My question is: can I install other version of FreeBSD on the Jailed > en

Re: shutdown -p doesn't power-off USB

That would be something in the BIOS settings, probably... On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Jens Schweikhardt < schwe...@schweikhardt.net> wrote: > hello world\n > > I'm running 9-STABLE/amd64 and for a few months now, whenever I shut > down with "shutdown -p now", the USB devices still have power

Re: ps, clang and make variables

R Skinner wrote: > Stupid question, but I need to clarify and make sure I'm right here: > what should I see as the running process if clang is compiling? ATM I > see cc1plus. > > I'm trying to set CC and friends make variables to clang for a build, > but it doesn't appear to be 'sticking'. It see

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

Mark Felder wrote: > Alright guys, I'm at the end of my rope here. For those that haven't seen > my previous emails here's the (not so) quick breakdown: > > Overview: > > FreeBSD ?? - 7.4 never crash > FreeBSD 8.0 - 8.2 crashes > FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested (Sorry, not possible i

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

There are two edits to make to ex_shell.c in /usr/src/contrib/nvi/ex that will prevent a shell from being executed. 99,100c return (1); . 48,51c return (1); . On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:59 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Tim Daneliuk > wrote: > > I have a situation

Re: semi OT: correct CIDR block?

ipsc, from packages or ports, is very useful. > ipsc -gch 10.0.0.32/27 Network class:A Network mask: 255.0.0.0 Network mask (hex): FF00 Network address: 10.0.0.32 Subnet bits: 19 Max subnets: 524288 Full subnet mask: 255.

Installing amanda 3.2 from ports

I'm in the process of installing amanda 3.2 (misc/amanda-server) using ports with an Overland AIT-3 library as the storage medium. So far I haven't had a problem with going through the "Build a Basic Configuration" instructions on wiki.zmanda.com. I did have to create a different "amanda" log

Re: Cloning a FreeBSD system

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> ssh-keygen(1) is the typical method. >> > > Or just delete the existing keys and sshd will recreate them at first > boot ;) No, sshd will not create the keys. They are created by /etc/rc.d/sshd, which invokes ssh-keygen if it doesn't f

Re: odd SDcard behaviour in freebsd-9.0-R

Forgive the naive question, but on one of my Nikons, it is possible to present the device itself, or the SD card as a USD drive. Which are you doing? No doubt there is no driver for the D50 in the kernel, but the generic umass driver should handle the device. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Joh

Re: Email issues, relay failure

Jon Radel wrote: > On 2/25/12 10:26 AM, Bender, Chris wrote: > >> >> On telnet w IP it says unable to connect. > ... >> Its weird that the delivery on A says deferred connection timed out but >> on tcpdump I see the port 25 > > > If you can't establish a TCP connection from A to your relay serv

Re: 8.3-BETA1 installation problem

Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Omer Faruk SEN wrote: > >> Already done that but still habe the same issue. I can dd and sysctl but >> after installing without using W at disk label screen still no luck. I >> have also done >> sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 on fixit and restarted insta

Re: 8.3-BETA1 installation problem

Omer Faruk SEN wrote: [edited to relocate top post] [snip] >> >> If you need to clear the old MBR the "old way", use a LiveFS or Fixit >> shell and do this (as root): >> >> sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 and: >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adx oseek=1 bs=512 count=1 >> >> where x equals your drive

Re: DRI for Radeon HD5450 on FreeBSD 9.0

overlooked this many times. Luckily, I also have an ATI Radeon HD 4250, that works like a charm! -- Regards, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: How much space do I need on "/" for a 7.4 to 8 stable upgrade?

Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Joe Moore > wrote: > >> >> I have 65MB of free space on "/". Is that going to be enough? I've >> already moved tftpboot to /usr, cleaned out /root, /boot/kernel.old, and >> /tmp. >> >> What else could I clean out if I need more space? I'm

Re: 8.3-BETA1 installation problem

Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Omer Faruk SEN wrote: > >> I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.3-BETA1 to a system with ssd disk >> recognized as ad6. At fixit mode i can dd device but at installer >> (sysinstall) when I configured disk and using "w" installer is unable to >> format devic

Re: apache22 + php5 (package not ports) ~ spawn-fcgi ?

alexus wrote: > I dont think you really grasping what I was asking.. > I am aware that I can build from source, yet I'm trying to stay away > from that route due to a lot of overhead going forward... > I'm also aware that php5 or actually apache22 doesn't come with > mod_php as well, and as altern

Re: gpart usage during install

Robert Simmons wrote: > I'm just installing a 9.0-RELEASE instance in Virtual Box to check > things out. I ran into something odd. With 8.x I install certain > things into a geli encrypted partition. To do this I have to use a > fixit shell and a manual install. Now, I'm trying to do the same

Re: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of February 18, 2012 2:46:32 PM -0800, Michael Sierchio is alleged to > have said: > >> man hier True, but /usr/... was a typical place to find users' home directories, since /usr is mounted when the system goes t

Re: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)

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DRI for Radeon HD5450 on FreeBSD 9.0

any of these cases, I would say ``thanks!'' -- Best regards, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Can clang compile RELENG_9?

Dennis Glatting wrote: > I get errors when trying to compile RELENG_9 with clang. Is clag suppose > to work when it comes to compiling the OS or am I missing something: [snip] I can't speak to RELENG_9, but I have successfully rebuilt the RELEASE with CLANG (make/install world kernel). My /etc/m

Re: FreeBSD 9, GPT and gmirror

Janos Dohanics , 2012-02-08 19:42 (+0100): > 4. Also, with GPT, one has to be in single user mode to synchronize > disks - correct? I think the guide you linked to: http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1071 meant that you have to be in single user mode until you have edited /etc/fstab to

Re: Dump Restore on ZFS root system

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:18 AM, William Brown wrote: > Why not use the ZFS send / receive command? and how well does that work on UFS filesystems? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question

Re: RIP routing protocol implementation is FreeBSD?

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: > Hi there, > > does anyone know if there's an implementation of the RIP version 2 routing > protocol in FreeBSD??? man routed The routed utility is a daemon invoked at boot time to manage the network routing tables. It uses Routing

Re: When I put up any version of FBSD I usually try to install Maxima. Which fails because the sub-install of gnuplot fails.

I've only installed a few programs from packages at installation time; almost all of my installations and upgrades have been by compiling from ports and then upgrading (with recompilation) using portupgrade. This is a habit I got into a long time ago, and which I continue without any specific

Re: When I put up any version of FBSD I usually try to install Maxima. Which fails because the sub-install of gnuplot fails.

I just compiled maxima from ports using default settings under FreeBSD 8-STABLE (updated 12/24/2011) and had no problems with the compile (i.e., I just su'd to root, did a "cd /usr/ports/math/maxima;make"). This was under the amd64 version of FreeBSD (hardware is a Tyan S4882 quad Opteron).

Re: UPDATING 20120116 -- x11/xcb-util -- instructions not working

Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:53:39 -0600 > Mark Felder wrote: > >> For the life of me I can't work around this xcb-util issue. This is >> a pretty fresh install and I have not made any workaround symlinks. >> >> I ran: >> >> # portmaster -R -r xcb-util-0 >> >> And the pr

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 ICH8M trouble, no HDD found, unable to install.

Jasper Valentijn wrote: > L.S., > > I'm not able to install FreeBSD on a Sony Vaio vgn-cr31s. The problem > seems to be related to PR kern/153440, > . > > The "FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img" was used to try the > install and extract

Re: php5 port seems broken

Tim Kellers wrote: > On 1/22/12 5:35 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I'm attempting to install php5 from my ports tree. I've attempted the >> latest version ( 5.3.9 located in /usr/ports/lang/php5) and the 'latest >> stable' (5.2.17 located in /usr/ports/lang/php52). The result is

Re: * Re: Horrible installer

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > ... On the other hand, bsdinstall does get the job done, at least for my > purposes.  It just does so in a way that feels a bit more > straightjacketed, and it rubs me personally a bit the wrong way.  ... >From my perspective, it replaces so

Re: Horrible installer

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Lyubomir Grigorov wrote: > Just to give thoughts as a younger user... > Also, there was plently of time during RC to discuss this, I don't see why you > all cry right now. To me, it seems you are afraid of change and getting out of > your comfort zone. I don't ha

Re: Horrible installer

I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.1, and IMHO, the 9.0 installer SUX! It blow chunks. It's a POS. It's crap. It is a joke. I hope I made myself clear. ;-) - M ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Shared object "libxcb-aux.so.0" not found, required by "libxfsm-4.6.so.0" FreeBSD

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Jimmie James wrote: > Even after following said instruction in UPDATING, libxcb-aux.so.0 does > not get installed by any of the XCB ports > > It was replaced with libxcb-util.so.0. > #pkg_info |grep -i xcb > libxcb-1.7 The X protocol C-language Binding

Re: Shared object "libxcb-aux.so.0" not found, required by "libxfsm-4.6.so.0" FreeBSD

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > Dear folks, > > > > I had a FreeBSD 9.0 BETA 2 Machine I was happily running since the > > release and only updated ports via portmaster -a, and now since Fedora > > 9 has officially been released, I ran make buildworld, make > > Correc

Re: 2 distinct DSL lines with same endpoint (8-STABLE)

Am 09.01.2012, 21:47 Uhr, schrieb Michael Ross : Am 09.01.2012, 21:20 Uhr, schrieb Christoph Egger : Hi all! I'm having a FreeBSD 8 gateway that is supposed to do NAT/firewall stuff with internet coming through 2 distinct DSL modems from the same carrier. Unfortunately I can only ru

Re: 2 distinct DSL lines with same endpoint (8-STABLE)

Am 09.01.2012, 21:20 Uhr, schrieb Christoph Egger : Hi all! I'm having a FreeBSD 8 gateway that is supposed to do NAT/firewall stuff with internet coming through 2 distinct DSL modems from the same carrier. Unfortunately I can only run ppp on one of these lines as the endpoint address for b

Re: How To Enable ls Color?

It should work with the default terminal emulation (cons25 or cons25l1). setenv TERM vt220-color setenv CLICOLOR for me to work with my ssh client. No LSCOLORS. Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: sour grapes .. was FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

"C. P. Ghost" , 2012-01-01 20:30 (+0100): > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:41 PM, doug wrote: >> That said, FreeBSD has a giant disadvantage in the desktop world. In trying >> to find if there will be any sort for my current laptop I came across a >> comment from Robert Noland saying that Xorg is becom

Re: how to force 'device' sources to not compile?

Коньков Евгений wrote: > I have errors while compile kernel > > ===> et (all) > cc -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Werror -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -nostdinc > -DHAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEADERS -include > /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KES_KERN_v9/opt_global.h -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq > -finline-limit=8000 --par

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

Am 04.01.2012, 23:00 Uhr, schrieb Mario Lobo : On Wednesday 04 January 2012 17:47:52 Lyubomir Grigorov wrote: Mainly to Jerry and Chad, but anyone contributing to the flame and OT fest, How I feel whenever I see people argue on the internet http://i.imgur.com/biopQ.gif -- Lyubomir Grigorov

Re: pf not seeing inbound packets on netgraph interface

man 4 enc On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Edward Carrel wrote: > On Jan 3, 2012, at 12:12 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > >> Thinking -pf@ or -net@ would be a better place to discuss this, more chances >> of getting an answer. > > I was wondering about that. I'll send my question to -net@ to start.

Re: FLAME - security advisories on the 23rd ? uncool idea is uncool

Careful reading, as opposed to blindly applying updates, is often rewarded. If you aren't running telnetd, it follows that you are not vulnerable to the most serious exploit addressed by the patch (remote root). I have had no trouble since applying the patch to 7.4 and 8.2 systems. YMMV. Given th

Re: Legacy releases of freeBSD

d, if they are available for download. Thank you ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/ Regards, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: PF/ALTQ - Stable TSC?

APseudoUtopia wrote: > Hello, > I'm setting up pf with altq support in my kernel on freebsd 9.0-Stable > (soon to switch to the -RELEASE once it's available). > The system is a quad-core Xeon E31220, running amd64. > I've done a bit of googling and found various results. I know the > freebsd handb

Re: PAM confusion

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 03:34:28PM -0600, Reid Linnemann wrote: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Michael W. Lucas > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm attempting to hook security/pam_ssh_agent_auth into sudo, and have > > learned that PAM doesn't work the w

Re: Certain users can't start python

Am 12.12.2011, 13:22 Uhr, schrieb Tomasz Kowalczyk : On Monday 12 of December 2011 06:31:46 Michael Ross wrote: Hello, I am ... stuck. I've been trying to setup mercurials web frontend with apache, but apache won't start python. Not as cgi-script, not with mod_python. Investigatin

Re: Certain users can't start python

Am 12.12.2011, 11:26 Uhr, schrieb David Demelier : 2011/12/12 Michael Ross : Hello, I am ... stuck. I've been trying to setup mercurials web frontend with apache, but apache won't start python. Not as cgi-script, not with mod_python. Investigating, I found this not only to be

Certain users can't start python

Hello, I am ... stuck. I've been trying to setup mercurials web frontend with apache, but apache won't start python. Not as cgi-script, not with mod_python. Investigating, I found this not only to be a problem with apache. Situation now: Users "michael" and "root&qu

Re: difference between cvsup and csup?

Foo JH wrote: > Hello guys, > > I notice FreeBSD is now using (and probably has been for a while) csup > instead of cvsup. The parameters looking identical - at least from the > no-gui perspective. > > Can anyone advise what the difference is, and perhaps educate me on how > this came to be? >

Re: restore(8) to UFS on USB key: terrible slow

Cheap USB drives, and even many CF drives, aren't much good as random read-write devices. On my Soekris boxen I run FreeBSD, and mount the root filesystem rw,noatime. And I don't write to it. ;-) /var is a memory filesystem, there /var/db/... contain symbolic links to /usr/local/db/.. because th

PAM confusion

stem # session # XXX: pam_lastlog (used in system) causes users to appear as though # they are no longer logged in in system logs. session requiredpam_permit.so # password #password include system --- Any suggestions what I'm doing wrong? Th

Re: ipfw And ping

You can rate-limit pings and other icmp with sysctl nodes (sysctl net.inet.icmp ) You can make the rule a little more restrictive: add allow icmp from any to any icmptypes 0,3,8,11 if you want to disallow echo requests, omit 8 - the others are essential for most things to work properly or to dia

Re: Virtualization manager suggestions

My #1 choice is - your web browser and Amazon Web Services (EC2), where you may have Linux, FreeBSD, or Windoze instances. On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > Guys, > > My day job is looking for a good VM lead and I thought of you. Well, ok, I > thought you could get me some g

Re: Disable automatic "Fallback" IP on 9.0-RC2 when a hostname cannot be resolved

and is running 8.2, so I want to disable it. Can anyone give me a hint how to do it? Add e. g. ``search local'' to /etc/resolv.conf. The behaviour is explained in man resolv.conf, "search". Or disable wildcard entries in your dn

Re: Quick build of stripped-down kernel

Brett Glass wrote: > Everyone: > > Happy Thanksgiving! This week, I've been building FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 > kernels for various machines, and on some of the older and slower > ones it's been taking quite a long time. One of the reasons for > this is that even if you strip 98% of the drivers out of the

Re: Rsync and Preservation of Ownership and Permissions

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: >        Rsync is a great utility, but is there a way to preserve > ownership and permissions if rsync remotely logs in to a backup > server as a normal user? Does the same user exist on the remote system, with the same uid, etc.? If you'r

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 390, Issue 3

> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:56:23 -0500 > From: William Bulley > Subject: Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2? > To: Frank Shute > Cc: FreeBSD Questions > Message-ID: <2022185623.ga25...@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Acco

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

Matthew suggests turning off hardware checksums - it won't hurt to give that a try: ifconfig bge0 media 100baseTX mediaopt -txcsum On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Kees Jan Koster wrote: >> >> [kjkoster@saffron ~]$ ifconfig bge0 >> bge0

Re: Diagnosing packet loss

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Kees Jan Koster wrote: > Thank you for your reply. Your comment about dupe IP triggered something that > I failed to mention: the interface is aliased. It has two IP addresses. IP > address a and it has an alias IP address b. I just tested binding mtr to each >

bsdinstall distextract and manual installation

Hello, I prefer manual installations so I was always going to fixit mode and doing something like: cd /dist/8.2-RELEASE/base install.sh Now there is no install.sh script in 9.0-RC2 anymore. Am I right thinking that "bsdinstall distextract" should do the same thing? If yes then what is the

Re: bsdinstall distextract and manual installation

On 22/11/2011 08:38, Michael wrote: If yes then what is the proper way of using it? I'm setting these variables: $DISTRIBUTIONS="base" I've found the problem. It works fine with "base.txz" so I believe the manpage should be corrected (it gives examples witho

Re: Shouldn't GNU tar be ignoring /proc with --one-file-system?

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > I find it quite astonishing that /proc would deliberately behave > differently to *every other* filesystem available.  The mountpoint > should belong to the filesystem mounted on it. I have an idea what you mean by "belong to" in this case

Re: Shouldn't GNU tar be ignoring /proc with --one-file-system?

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Daniel Staal wrote: > /proc is a file on /.  /proc/* are files on /proc.  The former is still on > the root filesystem (if only as a directory stub to be used as a > mountpoint), so reading it isn't leaving that filesystem.  Reading > anything *in* it would be. >

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

Chuck Swiger , 2011-11-10 20:12 (+0100): > Different keycaps means a different product SKU, at least. If they use > the same USB product ID Yes. I think this is a quite common scenario. > FreeBSD's users generally are more technically inclined and might be > willing to deal with this, but even s

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

Polytropon , 2011-11-10 01:30 (+0100): > Now as it (almost?) works on FreeBSD, it's already deprecated by new > Linux concepts such as udev, upower and other us. Maybe > they become available as interfaces on FreeBSD too, but my fear is... > as soon as they are usable, there's already something el

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

Samuel Magnusson , 2011-11-10 00:49 (+0100): > Michael Cardell Widerkrantz wrote 2011-11-09 21:02: >> What new style XML method? > I'm referring to what Polytropon said about all the "new" stuff > required by X. As I understood him he was talking about the XML-fil

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

Samuel Magnusson , 2011-11-09 21:52 (+0100): > Because with HAL and DBUS enabled this InputDevice section is bypassed > unless I also specify Option "AutoAddDevices" "false". Which I > understand gives the same result as not enabling HAL and DBUS in the > first place. If you don't enable HAL and

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

Chuck Swiger , 2011-11-09 22:10 (+0100): >> How would HAL know that the keyboard had a Swedish layout? No such >> information is sent through USB or PS/2 when you attach a keyboard. > > True for PS/2, but not true for USB-- the USB Vendor & Product ID can > identify different keyboard types and le

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

Samuel Magnusson , 2011-11-09 12:06 (+0100): > Which made me remember that I had the exact same > problem with my swedish keyboardmappings the very first time I started > X. I just couldn't get it to work and nearly gave up before I tried > the setxkbmap method and put them into .xinitrc, which sa

Re: "Unprintable" 8-bit characters

#x27;m confused by this charset stuff in general. Assuming you want \0xfc displayed as "ü", cat test.py && python test.py && ls -l #!/usr/local/bin/python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- f=open('\xfc','w') f.close() total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 michael wheel 29

Re: Burning CD

so I can't give you any suggestion here. :-) I am, I do, and I can :-) http://www.imgburn.com/ Regards, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > Indiscriminately instructing a user to delete files isn't good advice no > matter how much butter you put on it. It was with no small amount of discrimination and discernment that I offered that advice. Any files that exist there should

Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > This is terrible advice.  There are proper methods for finding what's using > the space and to recover it.  You should use them. If there are files hidden by a covering mount, you won't find them when those filesystems are mounted. - M _

Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it

You're mistaken. ;-) 495736 / 507630, with some margin for free space, means you're full. Boot in single user mode. for each mount point ( /tmp /usr /var ) chflags -R noschg / rm -rf //* You probably have a lot of hidden files covered by the mounted filesystems. - M On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:39

Re: Get list of ethernet devices

-b copy them over to the external drive and pkg_add them. I guess I could just dd the result to another drive, stick or to an image file. Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: Get list of ethernet devices

Am 07.11.2011, 02:19 Uhr, schrieb Warren Block : ifconfig_DEFAULT="DHCP" It's not well documented. I'd also suggest using SYNCDHCP as more likely to work predictably on unknown equipment. Wow. That's *a lot* easier than what I came up with. Thanks! __

Get list of ethernet devices

olution. So I would step beyond my current area of expertise, grep some source from sysinstall, bsdinstall or somewhere and do it in C. But I'm kind of hoping anybody can point me to a readymade solution yet unknown to me. Regards, Michael ___ fr

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Polytropon wrote: > However, if you _can_, solve the _cause_ of your > problem, i. e. educate those who create that > kind of trouble-carrying file and directory names > _not_ to use spaces! Amen, Brother. Just because you *can*, doesn't mean you should. I blame

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

The keywords in /etc/rc.d/ntpdate have # PROVIDE: ntpdate # REQUIRE: NETWORKING syslogd named # KEYWORD: nojail which means that networking must be up first. The question in your case is why name resolution is failing. See what happens if you pick some public stratum 1 or stratum 2 servers for

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