Re: FS of choice for max random iops ( Maildir )

On 16.09.2011 15:57, free...@top-consulting.net wrote: > Quoting Terje Elde : > >> On 16. sep. 2011, at 12:31, free...@top-consulting.net wrote: >>> Right now I defined an entire array of 8TB ( all 16 disks ) separated >>> in two pieces. 50 GB for FreeBSD to boot and the rest available to >>> conf

Re: legal notices at the end of emails

On 27.07.2011 13:01, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 7/27/11 5:11 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: >> Ryan Coleman wrote: >> >>> A heads up about your footer: This email goes onto a mailing >>> list that is available via an online archive... your "terms" >>> are violated just by sending an email to th

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On 17.07.2011 13:10, Jerry wrote: > While I usually consider Slashdot nothing more than a bunch of > juveniles ranting against Microsoft; however, I did find this rather > interesting post this morning. > > "Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore" > >

Re: OCI support in PHP is dead

On 14.07.2011 11:43, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 14/07/2011 07:16, Victor Sudakov wrote: >> The databases/php5-oci8 port exists no more, and databases/php52-oci8 >> is marked as vulnerable. >> > > Oracle 8 is pretty obsolete now. Now, the only options for getting more > up to date support are > >

Re: OT: printer, our cups port, and is-there-a-generic-laser?

On 16.06.2011 08:28, Gary Kline wrote: > > we had a power out here this morning and besides it costing most of > my day, it blew out my Brother laser printer. i just got it working > FINALLY with our cups stuff. don't asked me how; other than i was > using our olden lpr/lpd and had /etc/printca

Re: (no subject)

On 10.03.2011 18:38, 6412037...@email.uscc.net wrote: > Does OpenBSD use the same kernel as FreeBSD? No. OpenBSD uses the OpenBSD kernel. //Svein -- +---+--- /"\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9| PGP

Re: HAL must die!

On 08.03.2011 04:36, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 7 March 2011 19:44, Lars Eighner wrote: >> On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Ivan Voras wrote: >> >>> On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote: Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in ports that I install or upgra

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

On 13.02.2011 19:50, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Frank Shute wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:05:51PM -0500, Maxim Khitrov wrote: >>> >>> >>> Can you guys please take Microsoft bashing elsewhere? This thread is >>> about FreeBSD and SSDs - a topic I'd like to

Re: vm ware

On 19.01.2011 09:41, rafay awan wrote: > Hi, > I want to inquire if its possible to install freeBSD on vm ware? > is there any live cd iso available? I suspect you are talking about VMWare ESXi (the hypervisor). If so, I'm running a dozen or so FreeBSD VMs here. Absolutely un-problematic

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

On 06.01.2011 15:19, c0re wrote: >> why not to restart your httpd and mysqld? >> This may release your unused filehandles. > As I said I've restarted whole server, so nothing there to release at all. > >> Another place to look for wasted space is filesystem snapshots, if any. They >> can be create

Re: Spam with fake address from the list?

On 16.12.2010 19:56, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2010-12-16 12:40, Michelle Konzack: >> Hello *, >> >> does someone get this kind of spam too? > > No, nothing from the ip-range 69.170.128.0/24 is getting thru. I actually have a very specific route, just for them, in my border gateway: ip route 64.38.

Re: foo; no such thing as a "dual-nic" atom firewall

On 24.11.2010 02:43, Gary Kline wrote: > Maybe someone on-list can help me; after 5+ hours of clicking and > typing, I can't find an atom cpu computer with dual NICs. I > _thought_ I'd found a computer to replace to Kayak firewall > [pfSense], but nada. > > Any wizards on this list have a clue?

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

On 13.11.2010 21:29, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:18:03 +0100 >> From: Polytropon >> Subject: Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? >> >> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:57:46 -0800, Charlie Kester >> wrote: >>> On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 15:44:01 PST Chris Brennan wrote: Must we c

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

On 13.11.2010 15:59, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2010 23:27:42 Mubeesh ali wrote: >> i guess it is high time this list bans the word devil in subject ;-) >> > > Let's hack the term and use lucifer instead! Can we add this once-a-month question about Beastie to either the FAQ or th

Re: You complain about my exceeded question but got an outstanding volume of answers!!! Why?

On 12.11.2010 13:24, José Silveira wrote: > You guys complain cause I asked why do use a demon as a mascot of freeeBSD. > Some says... oh no this crap again, others desrespected me but what is > incredible is that even a simple question like I did caused so many rage and > movement of answers!!! I

Re: Per core frequency control

On 09.11.2010 11:56, David Naylor wrote: > Hi, > > I was reading through cpufreq(4) and in the bugs section it mentions that per > core (or CPU) frequency control is not supported. That all cores/CPUs have > to > be at the same speed. > > What is the reason for that? > > Is it an infrast

Re: ZFS License and Future

On 08.11.2010 21:44, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Roland Smith wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 05:08:33PM +0100, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) >> wrote: >>> But it's still not capable of true forward-error-correction. If we are >

Re: ZFS License and Future

On 08.11.2010 18:47, Arthur Chance wrote: *snip* > > Presuming you're talking about ZFS, the hash isn't intended to correct > hardware errors, it's only there to detect them. Correction comes from > mirroring or the use of RAIDZ{1,2,3}. (I have personal experience of how > well that works, as I ha

Re: ZFS License and Future

On 08.11.2010 16:37, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 11/08/10 13:52, krad wrote: >> On 6 November 2010 21:38, Roland Smith wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 02:30:16PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > Having said all that it really depends on whether you need the extra > features of zfs. Personal

Re: zfs performance issues with iscsi (istgt)

On 08.11.2010 09:13, DJ wrote: > > After scratching my head for a few weeks, I've decided to ask for some help. > > First, I've got two machines connected by gigabit ethernet, network > performance is not a problem as I am able to substantially saturate the wire > when not using iscsi [say iper

Re: ZFS License and Future

On 06.11.2010 19:52, krad wrote: > On 5 November 2010 19:11, Alejandro Imass wrote: > >> Hey folks, >> >> A while back I started the thread "Troubles on SATA drives ZFS". I >> decided to bring the zpool down check each disk and re-construct the >> pool. Nevertheless, I was revising one of the ZFS

Re: ZFS License and Future

On 06.11.2010 17:44, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 11:25:13PM -0500, Steven Susbauer wrote: >>> On 11/5/10 4:34 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: Will Oracle start using patent suits to try to stop people who aren't paying

Re: ZFS License and Future

On 05.11.2010 20:14, Alejandro Imass wrote: > Hey folks, > > A while back I started the thread "Troubles on SATA drives ZFS". I > decided to bring the zpool down check each disk and re-construct the > pool. Nevertheless, I was revising one of the ZFS error message links > and Oracle made me create

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

On 20.10.2010 09:47, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Matthias Apitz wrote: >> El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline escribi?: >>> PS: I really _was_ current on hardware stuff. Back in the VAX >>> 780 days :-) >> I booted my first UNIX V7 tape on a PDP-11 aro

Re: OT: fdisk

On 02.10.2010 21:08, Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:36:40 -0700 > Robert articulated: > >> I am in deep with the wife. Her computer went belly up. It was running >> XP pro and I had backups going to a second drive. I can no longer >> access that drive. > > If the disk is the problem, I wou

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

On 21.09.2010 13:37, Jerry wrote: > The bottom line is that installing and running a printer on a Window's > machine is usually far easier than on a *nix variation. Even sharing a > printer on a network in a Windows environment is simpler. Actually ... no. Unless you are talking about the "keep HP

Re: WANTED: Camera Neck Strap (92313)

On 16.09.2010 18:30, Chris Maness wrote: > oops. I meant freecycler ;o) sorry guys. Not to worry, I'm sure there are a few hobby photographers on this list as well. ;) //Svein -- +---+--- /"\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \

Re: fan control

On 27.08.2010 20:52, Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:02:18PM +0200, Matias wrote: >> Thanks for replying! >> >> I've tried everything you mention here with no success: >> >> The BIOS is pretty basic, just allows to select boot order, set the >> date, and not much more than that. N

Re: Parklogic making a mess

On 22.08.2010 00:48, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:35:57 +0200 > Svein Skogen wrote: > >> Anybody else seem to get these header-falsified messages lately: > > I think anyone who posts to freebsd-questions is probably getting them. > I contacted parklogic and got a response telling m

Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

On 21.08.2010 11:01, "C. Bergström" wrote: *snip* > (Hope I don't come across negative... I'm just trying to give real > feedback based on our experience) No coming-across-as-negative interpreted. ;) As I said, my two 5970s sit in a windows box... //Svein -- +---+--

Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

On 18.08.2010 18:20, "C. Bergström" wrote: > Hi Oliver, > >> The problem behind the subject is a little bit frustrating, so I do >> not know were to start. > Yeah it's a pretty big problem, but I can say others are looking at it > and taking small steps in the right direction. >> First, and this h

Re: test

On 14.08.2010 05:23, PR wrote: > > epic fail. ;) //Svein -- +---+--- /"\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9| PGP Key: 0xE5E76831 X|2020 Skedsmokorset | sv...@jernhuset.no / \ |Norway

Re: 5900 RPM drives

On 14.08.2010 03:52, Ryan Coleman wrote: > Can anyone give me any reasons to buy these over 7200RPMs for a RAID? I may > need to pinch pennies if I have to finance my next servers out of pocket. > Stupid idea, I know, but I really want to know if there's a reason to skimp. They're a little slowe

Re: releases, branches,..

On 12.08.2010 22:46, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > My years of OpenSolaris made me forget the use of releases and branches. > I'm not into too much compiling anymore. I want a stable, but also safe > server. > I'm running 8.1-RELEASE now, but what about security issues found? > What do I need to run if

Re: copyright for man pages

On 05.08.2010 13:16, r...@mlg3.com wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry of this is the wrong list but what is the copyright situation for > things like man pages? If I want to host a copy of one on the web or > something, is there some additional disclaimer I need to add? I may be wrong, but aren't those ..

Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on FreeBSD 8.0

On 02.07.2010 09:33, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 01/07/2010 22:29:54, Ed Flecko wrote: >> Henrik, >> When I FIRST installed 8.0, I did create a separate /home partition. >> When I installed the kernel and starting running out of space in / , I >> thought "O.K...I'll let FreeBSD make the partition si

Re: PDF storage software recommendations?

On 17.06.2010 20:55, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > We get orders for services via PDF. We need to keep them, and call > them up months or years later. We'd need to find things like "all of > the PDFs for Customer X" or "all of the PDFs for circuit ID > such-and-such." Surely other people have had th

Re: * wildcard in.sh script

On 15.06.2010 10:25, Aiza wrote: > I have a directory with files in it. The first 3 letters of the file > names is the group prefix. I'm trying to write a script to accept the 3 > letter of the group followed by a * to mean its a prefix lookup. But > when I run it I get a message "NO match" that is

Re: Midphase Hosting

On 10.06.2010 18:12, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:12:48 +0200 > Jonathan McKeown articulated: > >> On Thursday 10 June 2010 15:04:53 Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> >>> The only other mechanism might be to tag each list e-mail with a >>> unique value for each recipient in such a way that it is

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

On 28.05.2010 13:38, Bruce Cran wrote: *snip!* > > This is possibly the wrong place to be saying this, but isn't OpenBSD > usually recommended for > routers? I believe the version of pf, for example, is normally kept more > up-to-date than than > in FreeBSD. The major downside I know of is that i

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

On 27.05.2010 17:00, Kevin Wilcox wrote: > Hello everyone. > > We're in the very early stages of considering [Free|Open]BSD on > commodity hardware to handle NAT *and* firewall duties for (what I > consider to be) a sizable deployment. Overall bandwidth is low, only a > gigabit connection, but we

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

On 04.04.2010 11:22, Stacey Roberts wrote: > The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its > compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that it > supports windows 7. > > Or, am I missing something? BCD was the boot mechanism introduced with Vista and

Re: Enough Is Enough

On 27.03.2010 20:10, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:28:26PM -0500, Programmer In Training wrote: >> On 03/27/10 13:06, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> >>> In /usr/ports/UPDATING look for the 20100205 entry for "users of Qt 3 >>> and KDE 3". >> >> Pointless in as far as that does not ad

Re: Support for Dell PERC H700 RAID controller

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26.03.2010 17:22, Peter Steele wrote: > I see that these PERC controllers are all SAS instead of SATA. What kind of > cost differential is there between SAS and SATA disks? If it's a megaraid sas controller, you can still use SATA disks. I know I

Re: Support for Dell PERC H700 RAID controller

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26.03.2010 15:00, Steve Polyack wrote: > 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

Re: Creating multiple directories simultaneously

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26.03.2010 12:12, Jerry wrote: > I could have sworn that I saw a method of creating several directories, > actually a parent direct and several sub-directories simultaneously; > however, I cannot fine the documentation any longer. > > Assume I want

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18.03.2010 10:35, Andy Wodfer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Law wrote: > > >> Is ZFS not an option? >> > > I'm afraid ZFS is not an option for this customer. I use ZFS on other system > and it works great, but here the requir

Re: Which version of FreeBSD is it?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.03.2010 18:03, Bas v.d. Wiel wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:36:38 +0100, Mikolaj Rydzewski wrote: >> Антон Клесс wrote: >>> That is what I suspected for. >>> >>> What is the most safe way to upgrade it, remembering that this is >>> productio

Re: Amanda, FreeBSD8, amtype, hairpulling, etc.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12.03.2010 15:20, Svein Skogen wrote: > I'm having trouble getting Amanda (2.6.1p2 from ports) to play nicely > with my hardware. > > Devices are: >at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (sa0,pass0) >at scbus0 target 1 lun 1 (pass1,ch0) >

Re: locale settings and displaying file names in multiple languages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.03.2010 10:24, Dan Naumov wrote: > Hello > > I have a 8.0/amd64 system serving a few Samba shares. Windows clients > write files to some of these shares using multiple languages: english, > finnish and russian. When accessed from any given Windo

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.02.2010 17:57, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 04/02/2010 15:35, Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) wrote: > >> On a monthly rotation the tapes are placed in a firetolerant safe. Since >> the most critical thing here is the terabyte

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.02.2010 10:39, krad wrote: > If you combine snapshoting with a redundant array, and maybe a secondary > pool that you zfs send your files ystems to (perhaps on a different box) its > questionable whether having stuff on tape has any advantage. If

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.02.2010 17:41, Goran Lowkrantz wrote: > I have been using Amanda straight from the port, it supports both tar > from snapshots if you need to be able to retrieve individual files from > the backup and zfs send if recovery at filesystem level is O

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.02.2010 19:14, LoH wrote: > If my memory serves, you're looking at something similar to taking a > snapshot and then sending it to the tape device, so zfs send > | (tape device access). This, IIRC, is functionally identical to > dump/restore. E

Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm currently considering switching my Backend (Running WSS2008 Enterprise) to FreeBSD RELENG_8+zfs, however my last melee with ZFS and backups to Autoloader (HP 1/8 G2 LTO-3 job) didn't quite turn out in my favour. Seems FreeBSD has a decent backup s

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Svein Skogen" writes: >> The easiest way of brute-forcing access to a FreeBSD server includes >> locating the sysadmin and applying the common desk drawer. It's that >> simple. > > *laugh* > > I thought you were more of

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > $witch writes: >> but i look in syslogs of some FreeBSD internet server and there is a >> great evidence that some "botnets" are (again) tryng simple >> combination of uid/pwd. >> >> starting from Dec 8 01:00:34 (CET) hu

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chargen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Anton Shterenlikht > wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:51:22AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: >>> In response to Anton Shterenlikht : > >> I had to fight a long battle, well.. I had >> some support from

Re: where is spl_autoload found in PHP

On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:13:06 + af300...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I saw Zend in the ports and so I'm hoping that some here use it and > can help me with this one. I've installed the latest stable Zend, > which is a little newer than what I found in ports, and I'm running > PHP version 5.2.8

Disabled set-id scripts?

Hi all: I've installed openwebmail and I get the following error from perl. YOU HAVEN'T DISABLED SET-ID SCRIPTS IN THE KERNEL YET! FIX YOUR KERNEL, OR PUT A C WRAPPER AROUND THIS SCRIPT! I looked in the archives and found one message that says to enable suidperl when compiling. I've already done

Re: suidperl missing?

Yup - that did it. Thanks Gene > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 10:02:59AM -0600, Gene wrote: > > I'm running 5.3. In /usr/bin is the link suidperl -> /usr/local/bin/suidperl > > > > However, /usr/local/sbin/suidperl doesn't exist. Nor can I find elsewhere. > > > > I've checked faws and the handboo

cvsup 5.3 release gets incomplete release

Hello - Running a current 5.2.1 machine, I attempted to get release 5.3 via cvsup. When it was finished, I found that among other things, the file UPDATING did not exist in /usr/src and "make [ world | buildworld \ ... ]" bombed out with "don't know how to make [world | buildworld | ...]" (miss

sshd STILL not using one time passwords.

Thanks to all who have patiently answered my previous questions. I've got another one. I'm using 5.2.1. My logs show attempts to break into my system via ssh, telnet, and ftp (I use strong passwords, thankfully, and no common user accounts like admin, guest, and so on) and so I'm trying to tighte

ssh refuses to use opie

Hi to all: I'm using 5.2.1. My logs show attempts to break into my system via ssh, telnet, and ftp (I use strong passwords, thankfully) and so I'm tightening security. I have run into a problem, however - I've set things up so only two accounts can connect via ssh (telnet disabled outside the l

Re: Where'd it go?

Christopher Nehren wrote: The file about which you're enquiring is called login.access(5). BINGO !! Thank you Gene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[E

Server connectivity problem (firewall?)

Hardware setup: MSN <--> DSL <--> [ (nic rl0) fbsd (nic dc0) ] <--> lan -- The problem: Any operation initiating within the FBSD box works normally (such as nslookup, web surfing, and so on). Additionally, any operations initated on the LAN side (pings, web surfing, etc.) work j

Re: Access to internal systems

On 18 Jan 2003 at 14:26, Bill Moran wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What I'd like to do is be able to get to the internal machine (named > > winmachine1) from the Internet using a construct such as: > > winmachine.bstar.ath.cx. > > > > Any advice? > > You probably have ipfw running on

Access to internal systems

Hi - Ive got a number of windows machines running behind a Freebsd gateway to the Internet. The gateway is accessible via an entry at Dyndns.org: bstar.ath.cx. What I'd like to do is be able to get to the internal machine (named winmachine1) from the Internet using a construct such as: winma