pkg_delete core dumping on 7.1

2009-02-10 Thread Ross Penner
hey list, I've recently upgraded my machine (FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE) and pkg_delete is segfaulting and dumping it's core when trying to deinstall packages. What makes it more bizzare is that it had worked right after the upgrade and now it doesn't. I know there's probably more information I could giv

Re: Please, recommend CPU and RAM burn test

2009-02-24 Thread Ross Cameron
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > >> I need to really heavily test a box with 8 cores and 16GB FBDIM RAM. >> > make -j > generic kernel why not make -j <4x # of CPUs> ??? that should over saturate the CPU and memory ___

TCP congestion avoidance

2009-02-26 Thread Ross Cameron
gards,... Ross Cameron -- "Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Alva Edison Inventor of 1093 patents, including: The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures. ___ fr

Fwd: TCP congestion avoidance

2009-02-26 Thread Ross Cameron
Bump,... Sorry guys (semi-urgent question and I really need the help im not a fBSD guru) -- Forwarded message -- From: Ross Cameron Date: Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:13 AM Subject: TCP congestion avoidance To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hi there all I spend most of my time

Re: TCP congestion avoidance

2009-02-26 Thread Ross Cameron
Chuck Swiger wrote: > From: Ross Cameron >> Date: Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:13 AM >> Subject: TCP congestion avoidance >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >> Hi there all >> >> I spend most of my time maintaining an embedded Linux appliance for a >>

Re: THE HACKINTOSH

2009-02-28 Thread Ross Cameron
Uhm not quite Sergio please see some correction's below On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: > So, please if you to to the site of hackintosh, you will > see that it is a Darwin, Macos is based on Darwin, and because > of the copyright (the famous GPL...) apple must giv

Re: MT4

2009-03-07 Thread Ross Cameron
As a general rule of thumb you can't run software designed for a proprietary operating system on another operating system. The proprietary vendor's tend to make sure developers only develop only for their platform, or as few other platforms as possible. Through the use of highly platform integr

Re: roundcube security bug

2009-03-09 Thread Ross Cameron
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 08:43, Brent Clark > wrote: > > Hiya > > > > Have you notified and / or checked with the upstream authour (maybe the > > mailinglist too) > > Not really. It requires subscribing to a mailing list which I don't > hav

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Ross Cameron
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Gilles wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:42:53 +0100, Andreas Rudisch <"cyb."@gmx.net> > wrote: > >/usr/ports/security/tor/ > > Thanks Andeas. Up to now, I only used the Tor client for Windows that > comes with Privoxy, so never used Tor as-is, and never on the com

Re: 7.1 64 bit

2009-03-18 Thread Ross Cameron
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Gal Lis wrote: > Sorry to ask these mundane questions, but I'm a linux novice. Linux != FreeBSD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Receive email from Exchange 2003

2010-01-21 Thread Ross Cameron
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Truong Thu Bac wrote: > Dear Mr/Ms, > > > > I want to build a Internal Email System between a PC with FreeBSD OS and > Exchange 2003 (Email Server) > > > > Current, I got  a Proxy Server (IP:10.20.1.10) within FreeBSD OS. I > installed Sendemail Software and Qpoppe

Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem

2010-01-25 Thread Ross Penner
I'm trying to set up a system using ZFS as the root filesystem. I followed this guide: (http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot). Everything went swimmingly until I rebooted and the system failed to load. output: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@, Mon Jan 25 13:03:11 UTC 201

Re: Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem

2010-01-26 Thread Ross Penner
That seems to have been the problem. Thanks for the help. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:29 PM, George Liaskos wrote: > I had the same issue because i forgot to copy the zpool.cache under > /zroot/boot/zfs. > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Ross Penner wrote: >> I'm tr

Re: Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem

2010-01-27 Thread Ross Penner
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>> "Ross" == Ross Penner writes: > > Ross> That seems to have been the problem. > > Yes, what I learned the hard way is that every single step there needs to be > precisely followed, with

Re: Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem

2010-01-27 Thread Ross Penner
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:59 PM, krad wrote: > > > 2010/1/27 Ross Penner >> >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Randal L. Schwartz >> wrote: >> >>>>>> "Ross" == Ross Penner writes: >> > >> > Ross> That seems

The first file loaded is?

2010-02-08 Thread Decker, Ross
I'm just starting my adventure into BSD along with C++. I know that this OS gives you all the source files that are used in the OS. What I'm asking, is what is the name of the first file that is loaded and where is the source file for it? I want to start with the very first line of code and see if

Re: PASSWORD LOST!!

2010-02-12 Thread Ross Cameron
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:05 AM, John wrote: > >> People, people - be careful that we are not creating a formula to >> break into FreeBSD servers around the world... >> >> The only acceptable solution is for someone in Eric's organization

Re: freebsd

2010-02-15 Thread Ross Cameron
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:12 PM, tristan wrote: > i recently installed freebsd on my system. when i sign in to the root > account, i get a prompt telling me about the documentation, then a # sign. > how do i acess an interactive desktop like the one in windows/mac? Not quite that easy to answer

Re: iso license

2010-02-16 Thread Ross Cameron
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:43 PM, tristan wrote: > the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz  is under some compilation copyright. what > does this mean, and can i freely edit the iso, rename it, and sell it? > can i get a copy of the license for the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz? i want > to do what Appl

Re: earlier FBSD distributions...

2010-02-21 Thread Ross Cameron
Ure looking for the 386BSD patch sets then I suspect. http://www.oldlinux.org/Linux.old/distributions/386BSD/ On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:17 PM, aavum meza wrote: > > How can I get ahold of the earlier versions of FBSOD, up to the initial > release? I have tried looking for an archive on the

Re: earlier FBSD distributions...

2010-02-21 Thread Ross Cameron
Oh and u'll probably want a copy of the NET/2 and NET/2-lite tapes. Ive got them somewhere, will have to go dig in the garage sometime to find them though. Must be available on the net somewhere. On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:17 PM, aavum meza wrote: > > How can I get ahold of the earlier ve

Re: sysinstall on fedora?

2010-02-22 Thread Ross Cameron
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:36 PM, kalin m wrote: > > hi all...  realizing this is a bit OT but i have to deal with this old > fedora core 2 machine - making file system, slices, etc...  what would be > the equivalent utility of sysinstall on fedora? To be honest considering its sooo OLD you're bes

Netgraph VLan support

2010-02-23 Thread Ross Cameron
Hi there all I've trying to setup nested VLans using netgraph and most of my googling suggests that this can be done. But alas it is not working on this side. I'm running a standard FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 AMD64. The below works just fine and creates a perfectly functional Vlan interface ngeth

Re: Netgraph VLan support

2010-02-24 Thread Ross Cameron
Bump On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Ross Cameron wrote: > Hi there all > > I've trying to setup nested VLans using netgraph and most of my > googling suggests that this can be done. >    But alas it is not working on this side. I'm running a standard > FreeBSD 8

Re: Netgraph VLan support

2010-03-02 Thread Ross Cameron
bump On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Ross Cameron wrote: > Hi there all > > I've trying to setup nested VLans using netgraph and most of my > googling suggests that this can be done. >    But alas it is not working on this side. I'm running a standard > FreeBSD 8

Re: 802.11QinQ support

2010-03-03 Thread Ross Cameron
ce. But this doesn't seem to work :( Regards,... Ross Cameron -- "Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Alva Edison Inventor of 1093 patents, including: The light

Re: 802.11QinQ support

2010-03-04 Thread Ross Cameron
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Ross Cameron > wrote: >> Hi there all >> >> Does anyone know off hand if FreeBSD 8.0 or -CURRENT supports >> 802.1QinQ aka netsted VLans? > > > I don't b

Re: amd64 won't install on Core Duo

2010-03-06 Thread Ross Cameron
What system board revision does you're Thinkpad have? You can use CPU-Z (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) to check on this. The revision 3 and above system boards can run 64bit OS's. Also if you're CPU is one of the following a a BIOS upgrade/setting may enable the full set of processor feature

Re: Training Courses.

2010-03-12 Thread Ross Cameron
I would suggest contacting various IT training facilities in you're area and inquiring there. Unfortunately FreeBSD isn't a corporation like Microsoft so "certified training facilities" don't exist. However the FreeBSD Handbook is a VERY good example of how a manual should look: http://www

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Ross Cameron
The easiest way to check if its the power switch is detach the "PWR" switch connector from the mobo and briefly short the two pins. If the machine turns on its ure switch, however that is probably unlikely - Ive never seen it before at least. Check ure mobo for popped caps,... remove ure ram a

Re: Freebsd, postfix and push email

2010-03-28 Thread Ross Cameron
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Ron (Lists) wrote: > Is there a way to get my freebsd/postfix setup to send push notifications to > an iPhone (I assume other smart phones work the same way).  I've searched > the web and I can't find any information about how to make this work.  I > know it can be

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 on esx3.5 network issue

2010-04-07 Thread Ross Cameron
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:47 AM, josemel esleta wrote: > Hi, > > I currently have installed FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE in esx, I do have problem with > download file from the box using ftp/scp service. It seems to be slow having > a Gigabit lan. it just seems to have going about 100Kbps-500Kpbs on downlo

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-08 Thread Ross Cameron
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Fbsd1 wrote: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> >> Fbsd1 writes: >> >>> But that is not true. The postfix port populates /usr/bin. >> >> By default, it does not.  You have to enable the "Install into /usr and >> /etc/postfix" configuration option for it to do so.  I don't

Re: Extended VLAN?

2010-04-13 Thread Ross Cameron
Look into OpenVPN's bridge mode. www.openvpn.net I use it to bridge networks like what you have in mind quite regularly. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Dan D Niles wrote: > I have two FreeBSD routers.  I would like both locations to share the > 10.10.0.0/16 network.  If I were using Cis

Re: IT Support And services

2010-04-20 Thread Ross Cameron
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Streamlyn Technologies > wrote: >> Since its establishment in 2005 Streamlyn Technologies has actively and >> successfully been helping small to medium companies deal with: >> >> Computer hardware and soft

Re: question about FreeBSD installing

2010-04-21 Thread Ross Cameron
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Michael Powell wrote: > 王跃辉 wrote: > >> hi >>     I have a problem when I try to install FreeBSD as client OS on a Linux >> OS. > > Sorry, but this does not make any sense to me. How are you trying to install > FreeBSD on Linux? FreeBSD is an operating system, not

Re: -Stable periodic updates

2011-11-05 Thread Michael Ross
Am 05.11.2011, 07:23 Uhr, schrieb Conrad J. Sabatier : Again, go back and read the Handbook sections on using csup, updating your src and ports trees, etc. No one is interested in repeating information that is already available in a complete and detailed form. Available if you are proficient

Re: -Stable periodic updates

2011-11-05 Thread Michael Ross
Am 05.11.2011, 15:36 Uhr, schrieb Zantgo : I will say my question clear. If I have FreeBSD-8.2-stable, updated 2011/05/18, what I want to do is update the current, as for example 2011/11/01. I am willing to read me a manual that tells me how to do this._

Get list of ethernet devices

2011-11-06 Thread Michael Ross
Moin, I'm setting up a system on an external USB drive, serving as fallback in case of a server failure: Customer takes USB drive, plugs it into any of his PCs and boots of it. Now I am looking for a good method to configure the network: I could just start dhclient on any NIC which could possi

Re: Get list of ethernet devices

2011-11-07 Thread Michael Ross
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! __

Re: Get list of ethernet devices

2011-11-07 Thread Michael Ross
Am 07.11.2011, 02:24 Uhr, schrieb Marco Steinbach : I'd be interested in testing the results (or possible steps thereto) of your efforts in creating a customized, bootable FreeBSD USB stick image, if that's feasible. I am not creating an image at all. What I did is: - Download memstic

Re: Burning CD

2011-11-07 Thread Michael Ross
Am 07.11.2011, 22:47 Uhr, schrieb Polytropon : On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 12:59:23 -0800 (PST), C Horman wrote: Do you have any free software suggestions for burning a CD in Windows XP if this is the issue? Sorry, I'm not a "Windows" person and I don't use 10 years old software, so I can't give you a

Re: "Unprintable" 8-bit characters

2011-11-08 Thread Michael Ross
Am 09.11.2011, 01:42 Uhr, schrieb Conrad J. Sabatier : Pardon me if this may seem like a stupid question, but this is something that's been bugging me for a long time, and none of my research has turned up anything useful yet. I've been trying to understand what the deal is with regards to the

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

2011-11-26 Thread Michael Ross
Am 26.11.2011, 16:44 Uhr, schrieb Moritz Wilhelmy : Hello, my 9.0-RC2 installation on furnace.wzff.de keeps connecting to wzff.de if a hostname cannot be resolved. E.g. telnet foobar 25 connects me to the SMTP server on wzff.de, same thing for another jail that uses a subdomain of barfooze.de a

Certain users can't start python

2011-12-11 Thread 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 a problem with apache. Situation now: Users "michael" and "root" can run python. All others ca

Re: Certain users can't start python

2011-12-12 Thread Michael Ross
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

Re: Certain users can't start python

2011-12-12 Thread Michael Ross
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: Legacy releases of freeBSD

2011-12-18 Thread Michael Ross
Am 16.12.2011, 21:00 Uhr, schrieb Vong Bui : Hello, I am trying to learn Unix by using freeBSD and wanted to obtain an "older" version of freeBSD, such as version 3.5, to accompany a book about freeBSD published around 1999. Can you point me to where the iso images can be found, if they ar

Re: freebsd server limits question

2012-01-03 Thread Ross Cameron
tem load like at the heaviest transaction points (vmstat and iostat can help you out there) ? If this is a branded name server set what is the exact model and hardware configuration? Are you running 32bit or 64bit instances of MongoDB on 32bit or 64bit CentOS 6.x ? Regards,... Ross Camer

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Ross
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: How To Enable ls Color?

2012-01-08 Thread Michael Ross
Am 09.01.2012, 01:14 Uhr, schrieb Polytropon : On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:04:17 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I've installed 9.0-RC3 amd64. I'm trying to enable color output for ls. I've issued the basic 'ls -Gla' but output is not colored. Yet if I can get colorized output by providing color cod

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

2012-01-09 Thread 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 run ppp on one of these lines as the endpoint address for b

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

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Ross
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: allBSD Japan servers ?

2011-04-04 Thread Ross Cameron
works just fine here (im in south africa) so maybe a routing issue ??? "Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Alva Edison Inventor of 1093 patents, including: The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures. 20

Re: Jails: How do i limit what ifconfig shows?

2011-04-22 Thread Michael Ross
Am 22.04.2011, 22:21 Uhr, schrieb xor : Hullo First off, thanks for a lovely operating system <3 I decided to go for FreeBSD perhaps 3 days ago. Before, ive been an Debian/OpenBSD guy, and ive only used my obsd box for redundant firewalls and networking. Ive not been running any services off th

Re: Help with Booting

2011-04-22 Thread Michael Ross
Am 23.04.2011, 00:38 Uhr, schrieb Doug Hardie : I have an AMD based system that is driving me nuts. I am trying to install 8.2 on it but can't get past the first boot. I had a system up and running on it before, but I had to remove a drive and do the install on another computer. That wor

Re: error in installation of uwsgi

2011-07-08 Thread Michael Ross
Am 08.07.2011, 17:23 Uhr, schrieb Zhong Yubin : Hi, I'm going to setup machine for developing web application in python. But some errors appear when I install uwsgi using ports. The following is the first I met: *cc -c -O2 -Wall -Werror -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -pipe -fno

Re: Droid fonts

2011-07-13 Thread Michael Ross
Am 13.07.2011, 17:21 Uhr, schrieb Arthur Barlow : It appears that the port "droid-fonts-ttf" has a few *.ttf files with bad checksum numbers. Anyone know about that? Not true for a right-now-updated ports tree: => SHA256 Checksum OK for DroidSans-Bold.ttf. => SHA256 Checksum OK for DroidSan

Re: virtualbox 4.0

2011-07-21 Thread Ross Cameron
Hi there Gregg You have more than likely configured a 32bit virtual machine and not a 64bit one. Make that change to you're VM config and you will more than likely come right. Is you're host operating system also 64bit? Regards,... Ross Cameron eMail : ross.came...@unix.net P

Re: semi-OT: Looking for a hosting provider w/ FreeBSD root-servers

2011-08-04 Thread Michael Ross
Am 04.08.2011, 08:56 Uhr, schrieb Matthias Apitz : Hello, I have to change my hosting provider, because the actual one does not want to fullfill my needs. I'm looking for a provider offering FreeBSD root-servers, best in Europe. Any pointers are wellcome. Thanks matthias http://www

Re: ISO images

2011-08-17 Thread Michael Ross
Am 17.08.2011, 14:55 Uhr, schrieb Julian H. Stacey : Lars Eighner wrote: ftp protocol does not support command du, so one can't see size of ftp://ftp.freebsd.orgpub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.2-release/All/ My FTP client shows it at about 32GB total. Michael ___

Re: ISO images

2011-08-17 Thread Michael Ross
Am 17.08.2011, 15:59 Uhr, schrieb Julian H. Stacey : Hi, Reference: From: "Michael Ross" Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:28:41 +0200 Message-id: "Michael Ross" wrote: Am 17.08.2011, 14:55 Uhr, schrieb Julian H. Stacey : > Lars Eighner wrote:

Re: eliminate character with sed

2012-05-20 Thread Michael Ross
Am 20.05.2012, 18:08 Uhr, schrieb Tim Dunphy : Hello list, I have a few php config files that have the windows delimiter character in them ('^M') that I would like to get rid of. I'm trying to use sed to do it, and for some reason I am not having any luck. Here's the line that I'm trying to

Re: Updating /src from command line

2012-05-22 Thread 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 available or these are not available for FreeBSD 9. Is the

Re: Updating /src from command line

2012-05-22 Thread Michael Ross
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: How to indicate source directory in other than /usr/src?

2012-05-29 Thread Michael Ross
Am 29.05.2012, 12:10 Uhr, schrieb Thomas Mueller : How does one indicate a system source directory location when in other than /usr/src? That could be necessary when in another directory, for instance running ndiscvt. Or one could be building FreeBSD for a USB stick and want to do the h

Trigger action on link state change

2012-06-15 Thread Michael Ross
Hi all, i was wondering if there is any ready-made method to trigger an action as soon as a link changes state. Along the lines of onifdown_em0="/run/this/script" in rc.conf Background: Discussing physical data security with a client yesterday: The machine has to run 24/7. The file

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

2012-06-24 Thread Ross Cameron
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > One interesting feature of ZFS if it's block checksum: all reads and >> writes include block checksum, so it can easily detect situations where, >> for example, data is quietly corrupted by RAM. >> > > you

Question about gmirror priorities

2012-07-06 Thread Michael Ross
Hi, the manpage says for ``gmirror label'': The order of components is important, because a component's priority is based on its position (starting from 0 to 255). so I would expect to have different priorities for the components, yet both are listed with a priority of

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 & LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-09 Thread Michael Ross
Am 09.07.2012, 16:31 Uhr, schrieb Bosko Radivojevic : Hi all! I have a problem installing FreeBSD 9.0 on Fujitsu Primergy RX200 S5 server with LSI MegaRAID SATA controller (two SATA HDDs in RAID1 array). When booted from a CD, FreeBSD doesn't recognize RAID Array, it recognizes HDDs only (ad4

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-19 Thread Michael Ross
Am 19.07.2012, 13:27 Uhr, schrieb Jakub Lach : This topic went totally off, but anyway there are interesting bits, do you say that e.g. Gutmann method is totally unneeded? You may be interested in the epilogue to Gutmann's paper: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html#Epi

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-22 Thread Michael Ross
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:08:56 +0200, Bruce Cran wrote: On 22/07/2012 16:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M' works under Cygwin - or you can just write a load of zeros to \\.\PhysicalDrive0 . who prevents you to bood live CD or pendrive with FreeBSD (or openbsd,ne

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-22 Thread Michael Ross
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:01:41 +0200, Robert Bonomi wrote: I haven't had occasion to dissect a copy of format in years, I don't know if it still defaults to one write attemptto every sector on the disk. "By default in Windows Vista, the format command writes zeros to the whole disk when

Locally modifying ports

2012-07-23 Thread Chris Ross
So, I've been a NetBSD user for many years, and am looking more at FreeBSD now. Trying to build myself a system, I find that I have a long-held delta to a package on my NetBSD system, and I keep it in a patch-local-* file in NetBSD pkgsrc. I can't figure out if FreeBSD ports has a way to kee

Re: /tmp filesystem full

2012-08-22 Thread Michael Ross
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:59:13 +0200, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, I have about 500MB in my /tmp and it seems to be too small when the periodic LOCATE script runs every week. What's the best way to increase the size of /tmp ? Could I simply remove it and create a symbolic link ln -s to say /usr/tmp

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 with LSI MegaRAID 9265-8i

2012-10-05 Thread Michael Ross
On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 04:26:01 +0200, Joe Mays wrote: Well, this is a real problem. I have nothing where I am to build and burn an ISO, and I am trying to work with someone several states away through an IKVM switch. The server-to-be is on a port on the switch and I need them to download the

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Ross Cameron
Personally I would install FreeBSD as the primary operating system and install Windows in a VirtualBox VM. That way you can get the best of both worlds and no need to reboot to access a particular application. "Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and l

Re: Anybody know apt-get ?

2010-11-07 Thread Ross Cameron
Ronald what EXACTLY are you trying to accomplish here? The bsdutils are a collection of commands from the 4.4BSD era that are now included in the util-linux package which is available from Kernel.org http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/ "Opportunity is most often missed by people

Re: Anybody know apt-get ?

2010-11-07 Thread Ross Cameron
The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures. On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Ross Cameron wrote: > Ronald what EXACTLY are you trying to accomplish here? > > The bsdutils are a collection of commands from the 4.4BSD era that are now > included in the util-linux package w

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-09 Thread Michael Ross
Am 10.11.2010, 01:09 Uhr, schrieb Robert Bonomi : With a GUI there is no way to describe the series of mouse 'motions'/'clicks'/ 'double-clicks'/'drags' and keypresses required to perform an operation. 'screen coordinates' are meaningless when a window, or icon, or button, may be 'repositio

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Ross Cameron
2010/11/12 José Silveira > Why do you use a devil as a mascot? > > For me it is nonsense... It makes Christians, Jwishes and Muslins run away! Because we don't want narrow minded, religious bigots clogging up the mailing lists like this one. ___ freeb

Re: Manage Bind9 through the web, PowerDNS crash my system at startup

2011-01-06 Thread Ross Cameron
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Sayed Nimer wrote: > Hello, > I was looking for a solution to manage Bind9 DNS server through a web so I > can add/edit zone. > I thought PowerDNS/PowerAdmin would be a good solution for my requirements. > I successfully installed both PowerDNS/PowerAdmin and teste

Re: documentation OF FreeBSD

2011-01-18 Thread Ross Cameron
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:57 AM, gs_stol...@juno.com wrote: > I remember that there was a documentation project going on for > FreeBSD and > I'd like know its status and URL . Hopefully there is a good index (I > consider this an > essential tool in books). On the FRONT PAGE of the

Re: documentation OF FreeBSD

2011-01-18 Thread Ross Cameron
looks like work." Thomas Alva Edison Inventor of 1093 patents, including: The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:04:58 +0200 > Ross Cameron wrote: > > > All of the above is

Re: no apache22, php5 cores

2011-01-21 Thread Michael Ross
Am 22.01.2011, 00:28 Uhr, schrieb Da Rock : Run ps ax | grep httpd. If it doesn't show up then its not working. If it says NO_HTTP_ACCEPT or similar its not working either. Like -DNO_HTTP_ACCEPT in the ps output? That doesn't mean "not accepting http" but "http accept filter disabled", i.e

Re: Nonsensical Web Log Entries

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Ross
Am 09.03.2011, 21:40 Uhr, schrieb : Does this entry change your conclusion: 188.134.62.20 - - [09/Mar/2011:12:15:04 -0500] "GET http://images.google.com/ HTTP/1.1" 200 13134 "-" "-" If I do: %telnet localhost 80 and enter: GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: images.google

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?

2010-05-10 Thread Ross Cameron
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Chip Camden wrote: > On May 10 2010 08:04, Andrew Gould wrote: >> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: >> > Hello >> > >> > Is there a simple software to share files between a FreeBSD server and a >> > windows client other than Samba which is a bit

Re: rookie question about PACKAGESITE

2010-05-11 Thread Ross Cameron
Hey hey Coert Nice to see another GLUG member on here. The link below will answer you're question. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html In general give the FreeBSD Handbook a read, in my concerted little opinion it is the gold standard in how any

Alternate method for fetching source

2010-06-04 Thread Ross Penner
I'm trying to update my system and when I run cvsup, the connection repeatedly has problems (TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connection closed). I'm wondering if anybody can suggest any other method to grab the current source files? Thanks for any ideas

Re: Need Res Utility

2010-08-27 Thread Ross Cameron
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Tamara Ferris wrote: > Hi, > > I got this error message. I also need the Res utility. > > % show res tp5 > show: Command not found. > Uhm are you at the right privilege level perhaps? > % uname -a > JUNOS sugar 10.4B2 JUNOS 10.4B2 #0: 2010-08-20 07:55:25 UTC >

Re: FreeBSD vendors

2010-09-07 Thread Ross Cameron
Exactly what make/model/firmware revision of RAID card are we talking about here? Can you also include a dmesg dump for the list's perusal? "Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Alva Edison Inventor of 1093 patents, i

Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread Ross Cameron
As an !!! employee !!! of Juniper I would expect that you would know that the "res" command is part of the JunOS shell and NOT part of the underlying FreeBSD OS. Most especially since you're "helping" what sounds like a member of the press, therefore you SHOULD have / SOME / idea of what you are d

Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread Ross Cameron
ng: The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures. On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Alessandro Dellavedova < alessandro.dellaved...@ifom-ieo-campus.it> wrote: > > On Sep 10, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Ross Cameron wrote: > > > As an !!! employee !!! of Juniper I would expect t

Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread Ross Cameron
nkedin.com/in/mikelking > http://twitter.com/mikelking > > On Sep 10, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Ross Cameron >> wrote: >> >> It's not the first time that almost word for word the same question has >>>

Re: Support for AIX

2010-09-16 Thread Ross Cameron
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:53 AM, wrote: > Hi > Is BSD compatible with AIX unix system?( AIX version 6). > We require the make utility of BSD to compile few source programs? > Are you SURE you need BSD Make? If so why? Secondly, it is available from http://www.crufty.net/help/sjg/bma

Re: Support for AIX

2010-09-16 Thread Ross Cameron
__ > Experience certainty.IT Services >Business Solutions >Outsourcing > > > > From: Ross Cameron To: srividy...@tcs.com Cc: > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: 09/17/2010 12:16 AM

Re: Zip file making issues

2010-09-20 Thread Michael Ross
Am 21.09.2010, 05:53 Uhr, schrieb Ryan Coleman : As I said in my OP: I could just run a "cd" to the directory parent and do it there - that would solve the problem - but that's simply too dangerous if the script generator throws an error on the next set of commands (a risk I do not want

Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-23 Thread Ross Penner
t my performance has been lackluster so I suspect it's running at the lower clock speed. Thanks for any help any of you can give me, Ross -- sig ho! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Ross Penner
On 10/24/07, Erik Cederstrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ross Penner wrote: > > Hi all, I have a few questions about my Via C7 processor. In > > examples/make.conf there is an option for the CPUTYPE. It indicates > > that only the C3 and the C3-2 chips are suppor

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-10-24 Thread Ross Penner
On 10/24/07, Ross Penner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/24/07, Erik Cederstrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ross Penner wrote: > > > Hi all, I have a few questions about my Via C7 processor. In > > > examples/make.conf there is an option

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