Re: Support for Dell PERC H700 RAID controller

2010-03-26 Thread Steve Polyack
On 03/26/10 09:00, Peter Steele wrote: Does FreeBSD 8 support the Dell H700 RAID controller? We've been using a 3Ware controller but may need to switch to this controller. What we'd like to have is a command line interface similar to the tw_cli command so we can create RAID sets on a booted sy

Re: Flash sometimes freezes firefox, also many npviewer.bin processes left running around

2010-03-23 Thread Steve Franks
ound yet, and it bites, just like flash bites, and gnash bites, all in their own extra special way. Steve ___ 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: Fwd: Re: FreeBSD NFS client goes into infinite retry loop

2010-03-23 Thread Steve Polyack
a patch that simply translates all VFS_FHTOVP() errors to ESTALE in the NFS server. (It seems simpler than chasing down cases in all the underlying file systems?) rick, chiming in:-) Makes sense to me. I'll continue to bang on NFS with your initial patc

Re: Flash sometimes freezes firefox, also many npviewer.bin processes left running around

2010-03-22 Thread Steve Franks
/usr/ports/www/xpi-noscript is another option, not without caveats... Steve On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Yuri wrote: > Sometimes after some flash object is displayed firefox gets frozen for many > few seconds,maybe ~20sec. > Do you see the same? Is there anyfix for this? > >

Re: FreeBSD NFS client goes into infinite retry loop

2010-03-22 Thread Steve Polyack
On 03/22/10 13:39, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 12:44:04 pm Steve Polyack wrote: On 03/22/10 12:00, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 11:47:43 am Steve Polyack wrote: On 03/22/10 10:52, Steve Polyack wrote: On 3/19/2010 11:27 PM, Rick

Re: FreeBSD NFS client goes into infinite retry loop

2010-03-22 Thread Steve Polyack
On 03/22/10 12:00, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 11:47:43 am Steve Polyack wrote: On 03/22/10 10:52, Steve Polyack wrote: On 3/19/2010 11:27 PM, Rick Macklem wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Steve Polyack wrote: [good stuff snipped] This makes sense

Re: FreeBSD NFS client goes into infinite retry loop

2010-03-22 Thread Steve Polyack
On 03/22/10 10:52, Steve Polyack wrote: On 3/19/2010 11:27 PM, Rick Macklem wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Steve Polyack wrote: [good stuff snipped] This makes sense. According to wireshark, the server is indeed transmitting "Status: NFS3ERR_IO (5)". Perhaps this should be STALE i

Re: FreeBSD NFS client goes into infinite retry loop

2010-03-22 Thread Steve Polyack
On 3/19/2010 11:27 PM, Rick Macklem wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Steve Polyack wrote: [good stuff snipped] This makes sense. According to wireshark, the server is indeed transmitting "Status: NFS3ERR_IO (5)". Perhaps this should be STALE instead; it sounds more correct than ma

Re: FreeBSD NFS client goes into infinite retry loop

2010-03-19 Thread Steve Polyack
On 3/19/2010 9:32 PM, Rick Macklem wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Steve Polyack wrote: To anyone who is interested: I did some poking around with DTrace, which led me to the nfsiod client code. In src/sys/nfsclient/nfs_nfsiod.c: } else { if (bp->b_iocmd == BIO_R

Re: FreeBSD NFS client goes into infinite retry loop

2010-03-19 Thread Steve Polyack
On 03/19/10 11:05, Steve Polyack wrote: On 03/19/10 09:23, Steve Polyack wrote: On 03/19/10 08:31, John Baldwin wrote: On Friday 19 March 2010 7:34:23 am Steve Polyack wrote: Hi, we use a FreeBSD 8-STABLE (from shortly after release) system as an NFS server to provide user home directories

Re: tunefs -L issue

2010-03-19 Thread Steve Franks
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 08:02:10AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: >> Wait a second.  What do I have to do, mount single user to find the >> darn things?  They have completely disappeared, not even a >> 'GEOM_LABEL: La

Re: FreeBSD NFS client goes into infinite retry loop

2010-03-19 Thread Steve Polyack
On 03/19/10 09:23, Steve Polyack wrote: On 03/19/10 08:31, John Baldwin wrote: On Friday 19 March 2010 7:34:23 am Steve Polyack wrote: Hi, we use a FreeBSD 8-STABLE (from shortly after release) system as an NFS server to provide user home directories which get mounted across a few machines

Re: tunefs -L issue

2010-03-19 Thread Steve Franks
916 N/A ad4s1d ufsid/486b6fc16926168e N/A ad4s1f Local: [st...@fyre /usr/home/steve]$ glabel status Name Status Components iso9660/WALL_E N/A acd0 [st...@fyre /usr/home/steve]$ ??? Steve [st...@fyre /usr/home/steve]$ glabel status Name Status Components iso9660

Re: FreeBSD NFS client goes into infinite retry loop

2010-03-19 Thread Steve Polyack
On 03/19/10 08:31, John Baldwin wrote: On Friday 19 March 2010 7:34:23 am Steve Polyack wrote: Hi, we use a FreeBSD 8-STABLE (from shortly after release) system as an NFS server to provide user home directories which get mounted across a few machines (all 6.3-RELEASE). For the past few

FreeBSD NFS client goes into infinite retry loop

2010-03-19 Thread Steve Polyack
ite operation and causing itself so much grief. Thanks for any suggestions anyone can provide, Steve Polyack ___ 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: FreeBSD and vmware

2010-03-17 Thread Steve Polyack
On 03/17/10 16:34, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the installed FreeBSD. This works except for three problems: - The disk device is renamed, I suppose I can j

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.03.16 15:25, alexus wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, andrew clarke wrote: >> On Fri 2010-03-12 00:16:35 UTC-0500, Steve Bertrand (st...@ibctech.ca) wrote: >> >>>> The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III >>>> processo

tunefs -L issue

2010-03-14 Thread Steve Franks
things that should "just work"? I mean, the disk is pretty fundamental. I swap disks in and out alot, and I've got one of those motherboards that likes to reorder them, making booting reliably under 8-RELEASE a real pain in the neck... Best, Steve

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
ner the benefits of security patches, code efficiencies, ability to follow current standards/practices etc. Again... so long as the system won't change its overall process objectives, go to the recent production release, but instead of assigning 256M for /, throw 2G at it to be safe. Steve _

Re: Silicon Image SiI 3124 and 3132 RAID controllers

2010-03-10 Thread Steve Polyack
On 03/10/10 15:56, Leslie Jensen wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD 8-RELEASE on a machine with an Abit aw8-max MB. This MB has a built in SiI 3132 RAID controller. I also have an addon card with a SiI 3124 RAID controller. The problem is that I can see the 2 disks and the RAID1 set that I

ZFS hot spares

2010-03-08 Thread Steve Polyack
h polls 'zpool status' looking for failed drives and performing hot-spare replacements automatically. Thanks, Steve Polyack ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

Re: Mailing lists link in handbook redirects to......

2010-02-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
freebsd.org > lists.freebsd.org is an alias for wwwdyn.freebsd.org. > wwwdyn.freebsd.org has address 69.147.83.38 > wwwdyn.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:fff6::26 > wwwdyn.freebsd.org mail is handled by 0 > > And then use the url > > http://69.147.83.38/mailman/listi

Re: cvsnt (server) crashes on all operations after portupgrade

2010-02-19 Thread Steve Franks
I can get cvs2svn to dump a git fast-import file (like it supposedly can), I'm gonna have my source trees on bazaar by monday (famous last words). Thanks, Steve ___ 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: cvsnt (server) crashes on all operations after portupgrade

2010-02-19 Thread Steve Franks
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Steve Franks wrote: >> It's all greek to me.  I see alot of file doesn't exist errors on .so >> libs, but I don't see any of them in the cvsnt depen

Re: vi question

2010-02-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.02.19 16:11, gahn wrote: > Hi, all: > > How could I use vi to repeat a word, say, 100 times in the same line, of > course with a space in between? Yes. Using the word 'this' as an example: 100ithis Steve ___ freebsd

Re: freebsd-update - Automatic merge

2010-02-16 Thread Steve Franks
Search the list archives for emails pertaining to mergemaster.rc - it worked wonders for me! Steve On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Peter Kirk wrote: > Updating freebsd 7.2 to 8 and fan the following command > > freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE > > Everything goes through f

Re: Jailcfg - A new tool for creating small(!) jails

2010-02-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
.URL dont work"? Ignore the flames Christer... I've been on this list for ~10 years, and flamers as such generally go elsewhere very quickly. Keep up the good work! Steve ps. I'm a Perl person, so although I did have a look at the code, I'd be more apt to use/modify it if it

cvsnt (server) crashes on all operations after portupgrade

2010-02-12 Thread Steve Franks
redump notification in /var/log/messages. I've got 8-release sources csup'd, I'm going to do an installworld in case something got out of sync. I'm grabbing at straws here, obviously. No cvsnt, I'm out of business until it's fixed. Maybe this will finally get me to

solved: Re: rpm trashed my system with linux so's

2010-02-12 Thread Steve Franks
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:05 PM, Steve Franks wrote: >> Main thing is that portupgrade -f gamin is *not* putting fresh bsd >> copies overtop the bad linux ones I stupidly installed, and anything >> with gtk is now u

rpm trashed my system with linux so's

2010-02-11 Thread Steve Franks
in is *not* putting fresh bsd copies overtop the bad linux ones I stupidly installed, and anything with gtk is now useless (shared object 'libselinux.so.1" not found, required by "libgio-2.0.so.0"), which is pretty much everything. Short of reinstalling everything from CD, do I

Re: xorgconfig missing FBD_8

2010-02-11 Thread Steve Franks
l to build or run like a badly configured linux box, and when it does, portupgrade -Rf blah usually saves me. > AllowEmptyInput bad, AutoAddDevices good. Whatever. Just trying to be helpful. AllowEmptyInput still works on my boxes, so I was passing the secret knowledge

Re: xorgconfig missing FBD_8

2010-02-09 Thread Steve Franks
reebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > HAL & DBUS are evil bloated hogs. mount always worked fine for me. I think if you locate the section in /usr/ports/UPDATING that mentions "AllowEm

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-09 Thread Steve Franks
27;ll have the mount-point that you really want as the > "a" partition. I really should have thought of that! So you create it as "/", and then hit 'M' and change the mount point to, say, /mnt/root... Thanks, Steve ___ 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: documentation about enabling IPFW

2010-02-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
it is correct. You can also load during runtime: # kldload ipfw.ko Steve ___ 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"

which java on 8-release

2010-02-04 Thread Steve Franks
diablo in order to build openjdk, so that's out too...what is the 'magic' port that people use? I just want to run all the apps that need java, I don't plan to write any java on my own. Thanks, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

2010-02-03 Thread Steve Franks
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:35:48 -0700, Steve Franks > wrote: >> Just curious, having read the handbook section talking about freebsd >> going straight to the hardware and skipping the bios for disk >> numbering, why then

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Steve Franks
has 7.2 and has devolved to a 25% chance of a hard freeze every time I unplug a ucom device (seems to have cropped up between 7.2-release and 7.2-stable#3). 8 likes usb, so I like 8. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

2010-02-03 Thread Steve Franks
ystem at work, I tend to format alot of funky drives for people, and it gets anoying having to swap fstab's every time... Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Steve Franks
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:59:15PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > >> On a running system.  I mean, I know I should quit being a &%^#& and >> read the manpage for bsdlabel, but sysintall really does have a nice >

can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-02 Thread Steve Franks
ntermediate level between begginer and expert (bsdlabel just strikes me as way too easy to trash the disk I'm running off of while trying to make a backup), would be nice...512M just won't fit the kernel+symbols. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: How can I copy the data of buf in kernel space to the uio structhre in user space.

2010-02-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jun Furukawa wrote: > Hi, > For my research, I am now hooking the function vn_write(). [ big snip ] > How can I solve this problem? Subscribe to freebsd-hackers@, and post your message there. Hopefully they can help. Steve ___ freebsd-

Re: How far to go with jailing?

2010-02-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
ld pay for collocation anyway ;) It comes down to what you can consider as your risk assessment. If you are just playing along at home, set up as many as you can, and test for yourself. Performance hit is dependent on the hardware that you are running. I don't notice any difference on a st

Re: SNMP of FreeBSD

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
of a different story. With that said, I may be able to provide configs for that, too. Steve ___ 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: SNMP of FreeBSD

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steven Friedrich wrote: > On Tuesday 26 January 2010 08:23:16 pm Steve Bertrand wrote: >> Steven Friedrich wrote: >>> I have three ports installed: >>> bsnmptools-0.0.20060818_2 Snmp client tools >>> mbrowse-0.3.1_8 An SNMP MIB Browser for X >&g

Re: SNMP of FreeBSD

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
s should I look at? What is it exactly that you need/want SNMP for? If for client only, what do you need to poll? Steve ___ 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: Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
weeks back), how does one move a bootable pool into another physical server in order to be able to see the pool as a 'data' set without exporting/importing, and then moving the pool back to the hardware that it normally boots from? Perhaps I was lucky when copying the cache back onto

Re: ssh to root

2010-01-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
is already working), and then use sudo(8) to escalate yourself. If you can already "ssh [host]" as a normal user, then you already have the concept of keys. You can automate the escalation after you've authenticated, and then do what you want to do. Seriously... ...don't do it.

High availability SQL server setup

2010-01-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
tion in many spots, but that's only one write master and read-only slaves. Can you provide any details or new ideas that I'm missing in order to have the holy grail of SQL redundancy? Cheers, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Automatic Network Settings at New Location

2010-01-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
n different networks, without a cold start? fwiw, other than a couple of lab boxes, I don't have any FBSD boxes that are on DHCP... Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question

Re: Automatic Network Settings at New Location

2010-01-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Diego Montalvo wrote: >> I am temporarily at a different location for the next day or so, and >> need to connect to the internet via FreeBSD. My initial Network >> settings where detected during setup using DCHP. How do can I have >> FreeBSD a

Re: Automatic Network Settings at New Location

2010-01-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
ngs via DCHP? # dhclient Steve ___ 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't mountroot from ZFS pool

2010-01-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
krad wrote: > > > 2010/1/11 Steve Bertrand mailto:st...@ibctech.ca>> > > All, > > I've successfully upgraded the disks in my ZFS backup server, and can > import/mount the pool properly. > > However, I designed this box originally s

Re: 7.2 equiv for usbconfig on 8.0?

2010-01-12 Thread Steve Franks
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 04:53 PM 1/5/2010, Steve Franks wrote: >> >> How do I reset my usb on 7.2 when I insert a card in the internal >> flash reader?  usbconfig works great on 8, but I have systems I cannot >> upgrade at the moment...

Can't mountroot from ZFS pool

2010-01-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
the system functions as designed (ie. cron works etc)? Steve ___ 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"

buildkernel w/o symbols?

2010-01-10 Thread Steve Franks
ight way out of this mess? Thanks, Steve ___ 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: sshfs, nfs, etc. on FreeBSD

2010-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Nerius Landys wrote: >> I'm looking for a lightweight, secure, and non-intrusive file sharing >> system for 2 servers in a data center. For example I'd like to [as an >> ordinary user] temporarily mount the home directory (/usr/home/) of >

Re: sshfs, nfs, etc. on FreeBSD

2010-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
e it easier to understand if you stated *why* you are not a fan of NFS... > I don't really want to scp > copy files between the 2 servers. What is/would be your preferred method of transferring files? dragging and dropping like in Windows, or will this be CLI-only access/usa

Re: Replacing disks in a ZFS pool

2010-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > krad wrote: > >>>> the idea of using this type of label instead of the disk names >>> themselves. >>> >>> I personally haven't run into any bad problems using the full device, but >>> I suppose it could be a p

Re: Replacing disks in a ZFS pool

2010-01-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
device. I then add the glabels to the > zpool. Makes it very easy to identify the drives. Ok. Unfortunately, the box only has four SATA ports. Can I: - shut down - replace a single existing drive with a new one (breaking the RAID) - boot back up - gpt label the new disk - import the new gp

Re: FreeBSD ipv6 rc.conf settings issue

2010-01-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthew Seaman wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: > >> Hmmm. This config does not work: >> >> ifconfig_re0="inet 208.70.104.210 netmask 255.255.255.192" >> ifconfig_re0_alias0="inet 208.70.104.211 netmask 255.255.255.255" >&g

Re: FreeBSD ipv6 rc.conf settings issue

2010-01-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthew Seaman wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: > >> Hmmm. This config does not work: >> >> ifconfig_re0="inet 208.70.104.210 netmask 255.255.255.192" >> ifconfig_re0_alias0="inet 208.70.104.211 netmask 255.255.255.255" >&g

Re: FreeBSD ipv6 rc.conf settings issue

2010-01-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthew Seaman wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: > Funny. My IPv6 config works like a charm, on both 7.2-STABLE and > 8.0-STABLE. Related config settings look like this: > > gif_interfaces="gif0" > gifconfig_gif0="81.187.76.162 81.187.81.6" > > i

Re: FreeBSD ipv6 rc.conf settings issue

2010-01-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
g this issue out today, if nobody else has a solution for you. Let me know. If you're interested, I'll fire up a couple of hosts that we can use and just continuously reboot if necessary :) Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Replacing disks in a ZFS pool

2010-01-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
are in place, I don't have to worry about the fact that the device name has been changed (eg ad8 to ad4), the system doesn't care anymore about that. Is this correct? Any other advice/tips that those experienced can share with me? Steve ___ fr

7.2 equiv for usbconfig on 8.0?

2010-01-05 Thread Steve Franks
How do I reset my usb on 7.2 when I insert a card in the internal flash reader? usbconfig works great on 8, but I have systems I cannot upgrade at the moment... Thanks, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Adding an alias to .cshrc

2009-12-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
Glen Barber wrote: > Hi Steve > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> Hi all, happy holidays! >> >> I want to add an alias to my .cshrc file: >> >> alias srm find . -name "*~" | xargs rm >> > > Try enc

Adding an alias to .cshrc

2009-12-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
nd with full paths, to no avail. Is this a problem with the pipe in the alias directive? The command works on the CLI, as I literally copy/pasted it into the .cshrc file. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Starting sshd, ssh connections

2009-12-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
entries for all IPs in use. Or, in the case of an internal-only IP scheme, where configuring rDNS entries is not possible/not feasible, you can disable DNS lookups in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file by uncommenting and setting: UseDNS no Restart the sshd daemon for the change to take effect. Steve _

Re: I have mail, but where?

2009-12-22 Thread Steve Randall
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:50:54 +0100 Andrea Venturoli wrote: > APseudoUtopia ha scritto: > > Type "mail" > > You have 10 mail messages in /var/mail/. > %mail > No mail for andrea Are there really two spaces in a row there? That's a vital clue. For some reason your 'USER' environment variable is

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-21 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/18/09 12:39, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Dec 18, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: I haven't used Xen, but for ESX: I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the vmtools available for FreeBSD do not support synchronizing the host time to the guest OS. I know it is

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-21 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/21/09 09:49, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On 12/17/2009 4:01 PM, Steve Polyack wrote: On 12/16/09 12:53, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I run multiple FreeBSD servers inside VMWare and I don't have this problem. Are you running VMWare workstation? Or ESX/ESXi? I am running VMware Serve

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-18 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/17/09 16:40, Steve Polyack wrote: On 12/17/09 16:23, Chuck Swiger wrote: The "kern.hz=100" recommendation I can certainly agree with, but there is mostly no point in running ntpd or variants anywhere except on the host machine ("host ESX" for VMware, or Dom0 for Xen

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-17 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/17/09 16:23, Chuck Swiger wrote: The "kern.hz=100" recommendation I can certainly agree with, but there is mostly no point in running ntpd or variants anywhere except on the host machine ("host ESX" for VMware, or Dom0 for Xen). For VMware, the vmtools stuff should provide a mechanism to

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-17 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/16/09 12:53, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I run multiple FreeBSD servers inside VMWare and I don't have this problem. Are you running VMWare workstation? Or ESX/ESXi? I am running VMware Server 2.0...thanks again. I would really recommend switching to VMware ESXi if at all possible. I h

Re: is this getting out?

2009-12-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
ly problems I see are that a) you don't have an a record for the domain name itself b) both of your name servers are located on a single IP Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
ob. I love my job, I love my work. I am underpaid, but I do what I *LOVE*. I direct our company through innovation, ingenuity, integrity and risk. If I had to sit at a desk and do the same thing every day because my company told me to, I'd rather. never mind... it'll be archived. Stev

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
have running within their own network, and furthermore, gather his comparative analysis from somewhere other than the dept-of-some-guys-blog. Perhaps these are not the job requirements of a security person. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 not detecting hot swap drive insertion

2009-12-04 Thread Steve Polyack
Rob wrote: I'm running a 10 hot-swap SATA disk ZFS pool and recently upgraded from 7.2 to 8. Since I upgraded, freebsd isn't spinning up or recognizing a new drive that is inserted. In freebsd 7.[0,2], I could remove a drive and insert a new one and freebsd would recognize it, spin it up, an

Re: ZFS pools gone?

2009-11-25 Thread Steve Polyack
Ed Jobs wrote: On Wednesday 25 November 2009 18:14, cali clarke wrote: I just did a clean install of 8.0-RELEASE. I am _CERTAIN_ that the drives with ZFS on them were not touched by the installer. Having booted the system (with zfs enabled in rc.conf): did you try zpool import ?

Re: Apache22 + Subversion 1.6.6 = No go.

2009-11-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
2 Nov 20 08:46 format* > drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 512 Nov 20 08:46 hooks/ > drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 512 Nov 20 08:46 locks/ > drwxrwxrwx 3 www www 512 Nov 20 08:48 tags/ > drwxrwxrwx 3 www www 512 Nov 20 08:48 trunk/ You do not have a 'default' directory. &#

Re: Measuring disk I/O

2009-11-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
ationsbandwidth pool used avail read write read write -- - - - - - - storage 1.39T 440G 0771 0 96.4M storage 1.39T 440G 0 1.05K 4.42K 126M Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: flashplugin

2009-11-18 Thread Steve Polyack
David Collins wrote: I have periodically tested with getting flash working, and everytime I try it fails and I go back to undoing everything I have done and re-installing gnash. Gnash works but it does have a few niggles. I tried the following: This is what I did for a 7.2 box. Note that

x input method question

2009-11-10 Thread Steve Franks
w pages are a little hard to look at for help ;) Thanks, Steve ___ 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"

mfi(4) lockups and the adapter event log

2009-11-09 Thread Steve Polyack
r's event log? Does it just fill up after a while and start to cause trouble? I seem to remember a similar post recommending a cleaning of the event logs every so often. Thanks, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: ZFS disk replacement questions

2009-11-03 Thread Steve Polyack
Derrick Ryalls wrote: 1) In the event of a disk failure, how do I trace back the name such as adX to a physical drive in the enclosure? Is there a way to take the drive offline then use atacontrol to spin it down or something so it is easy to identify? In my opinion you are best off using gla

Re: ZFS disk replacement questions

2009-11-03 Thread Steve Polyack
Derrick Ryalls wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: Derrick Ryalls wrote: 1) In the event of a disk failure, how do I trace back the name such as adX to a physical drive in the enclosure? Is there a way to take the drive offline then use atacontrol to spin it

Re: korean & english on same box?

2009-11-01 Thread Steve Franks
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Steve Franks wrote: > My Korean mother-in-law is visiting USA for the first time.  I don't > know the first thing about what it will take to make it so she can > email home, so I'm hoping someone on the list is familiar with this? > I can sta

korean & english on same box?

2009-11-01 Thread Steve Franks
ish, but I have a spare drive I could install korean fbsd on if needed, although I don't know if it's been translated well enough to understand sysinstall or bootup in Korean? Thanks, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

dvdauthor can't find fribidi headers?

2009-11-01 Thread Steve Franks
Seems as dvdauthor is broken on 8-rc1...anything I might have done? Steve [st...@fyre /usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor]$ sudo make install clean ===> Building for dvdauthor-0.6.14_4 Making all in doc gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor/work/dvdauthor-0.6.14/doc'

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
this... much like Mac OS or Windows can't do this. Most applications such as Firefox can't even do this (inherently). If you are trying to enforce this as a personal/company policy, you will need to write a 'wrapper' around your application (lynx/firefox) to do this. Note that yo

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
t seem to support this syntax. It doesn't work that way. The 'hosts' file resolves a name to an IP address. I can see what you want to do here, but to get there, you must provide in your own words what it is you want exactly... Steve __

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
etch things in ways people may not have expected. You never know what you may stumble across one day. Cheers, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
IP, and the rest of the 'net 'should' be able to see those changes within five minutes (again, if they obey your ttl). Steve ___ 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 is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Yuri wrote: > It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. > > How many people actually use it? Very few. Are you sure about that? AFAIK, all system reports are sent with the sendmail binary. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

ad0 mountable after sysinstall, but invalid from boot mgr / mbr (7.2-R)

2009-10-22 Thread Steve Franks
s1d) just fine, and see the contents of /mnt/boot/kernel and see /mnt/boot/loader* (never seen a file with a * in the name, but the one on /boot has a * after loader too). Best, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
e benefits are that it shows to newcomers that no matter what, you'll always receive a respectable and educated response. It also shows that it doesn't matter what the poster's name is, or what language they speak in, that those who love FreeBSD for wh

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
PJ wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: >> PJ wrote: >> >>> Polytropon wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:54:23 -0400, PJ wrote: >>>> >> >>>>> but from man tunefs: >>>>> BUGS >>>

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
e. > It's very clear to me that since the statement is in the BUGS section, > it means that the utility should, but doesn't. Since it follows a > statement that the utility doesn't, the meaning is unambiguous. fwiw, upon first reading, I got the exact same impression about the writing under its context as Bob did. Steve ___ 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: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
verbiage, and an explanation of what your words mean compared to theirs (remember, english may not be their first language). Also, take a look at RFC 2119 for the keyword 'SHOULD' and 'SHOULD NOT'. RFC 2119 is highly regarded as the authority for many keywords, and a quick refe

Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

2009-10-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
e, and files will > be in the progress of changing. ...quick hack, tested example ( recommended for a quick fix only. do a proper archive ) %pwd /home/steve %mkdir arch && ls | grep arch arch %echo "blah, blah" >> arch/file.txt %cat !$ cat arch/file.txt blah, blah

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