Re: web software

2005-02-24 Thread Peter Risdon
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 13:44 -0500, Hilda Jones wrote: Do you have something similar to FrontPage? It might be an idea to flesh out your question a bit. FrontPage runs on MS Windows computers and is used as a graphical development tool for websites. It includes some synchronisation stuff that

Re: web software

2005-02-24 Thread Tom Trelvik
Peter Risdon wrote: If, on the other hand, you want to use a FreeBSD desktop and are looking for a good graphical website development tool, you might try Quanta. This is also in the ports. Or nvu might be worth a try as well, it's also in ports. Tom

Re: web software

2005-02-24 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Hilda Jones writes: Do you have something similar to FrontPage? In what respect? There are server extensions available for FrontPage that will run under FreeBSD with Apache web servers. Both Microsoft itself and Ready-to-Run Software, Inc., produce such extensions. The client portion

need ftp-mirroring software, that pushes, rather than pulls

2005-02-17 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Hello! I need to push a sizable subtree over to another server periodically. The remote, however, only allows ftp... All of the ftp-mirroring software, that I could find (pavuk, mirror, emirror, etc.) seems designed for pulling the data in, rather than pushing it out. The only thing I could

Re: need ftp-mirroring software, that pushes, rather than pulls

2005-02-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mikhail Teterin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to push a sizable subtree over to another server periodically. The remote, however, only allows ftp... All of the ftp-mirroring software, that I could find (pavuk, mirror, emirror, etc.) seems designed for pulling the data in, rather than

RE: need ftp-mirroring software, that pushes, rather than pulls

2005-02-17 Thread Robert Kim, EVDO-Coverage, Verizon Agent
Mikhail, Lemme know if Debian.org/mirror/push_mirroring points you in the right direction... Bob X Robert Kim, Wireless Internet Wifi Hotspot Advisor http://wireless-internet-broadband-service.com https://evdo.sslpowered.com/wifi-hotspot-router.htm 2611 S Pacific Coast

Re: need ftp-mirroring software, that pushes, rather than pulls

2005-02-17 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Mikhail, Lemme know if Debian.org/mirror/push_mirroring points you in the right direction... No. The method described on the page requires ssh-access to the receiving server. If I had that, I would've happily used rdist-over ssh without bothering this list(s). I must use ftp-protocol for

Re: need ftp-mirroring software, that pushes, rather than pulls

2005-02-17 Thread cyb
lftp is what you need. It works just fine for me. lftp :~ help mirror Usage: mirror [OPTS] [remote [local]] -R, --reverse reverse mirror (put files) Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0xD25FCC81 | http://cyb.websimplex.de/pubkey.txt Fingerprint: D182 6F22 7EEC DD4C 0F6E 564C 691B 0372 D25F

The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software

2005-02-05 Thread Timothy Luoma
I stumbled across this somehow today (don't remember where from unfortunately... I opened it in the background while reading another page and by the time I saw it, I forgot where it came from). http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm He does a good job (I think) of explaining the

Re: Disk Copy Software

2005-02-04 Thread Erik Norgaard
Donald L Swoboda wrote: Is there a Disk To Disk copy software available that can be used to copy/backup a disk that has FreeBSD operating system installed. I would like to copy my existing disk to another disk as a backup. The dd utility allows you to make an excact mirror, I think you can

Disk Copy Software

2005-02-03 Thread Donald L Swoboda
Is there a Disk To Disk copy software available that can be used to copy/backup a disk that has FreeBSD operating system installed. I would like to copy my existing disk to another disk as a backup. Thanks Don Swoboda [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd

Re: Disk Copy Software

2005-02-03 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 21:45, Donald L Swoboda wrote: Is there a Disk To Disk copy software available that can be used to copy/backup a disk that has FreeBSD operating system installed. I would like to copy my existing disk to another disk as a backup. Thanks Don Swoboda [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: I only want stable software

2005-01-31 Thread Pat Maddox
ports and docs. Is that correct? On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:33:41 +0300, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pat Maddox wrote: I used CVSUP to keep my system up to date. How do I know that it's not installing unstable software? I want to keep my software stable, but not in the version

Re: I only want stable software

2005-01-30 Thread Tom Huppi
release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all What updates will I be getting with this? I want to be able to keep my system up to date, and I want to have a lot of the new software, but I don't want to be introducing unstable software into my system. I want

Image/Graphic viewer software - need suggestion

2005-01-30 Thread Joachim Dagerot
all viewers I've found, but the fifth demand seems completely unimplemented. The software will be running on an digital frame I build, it has a network connection and auto starts X and a viewer. I want to control the viewer from another workstation because there's no such thing as a keyboard

I only want stable software

2005-01-29 Thread Pat Maddox
I used CVSUP to keep my system up to date. How do I know that it's not installing unstable software? I want to keep my software stable, but not in the version branching sense. I just don't want it crashing my server at all. Is there any way to ensure that I only install high quality stable

Re: I only want stable software

2005-01-29 Thread Andrew P.
Pat Maddox wrote: I used CVSUP to keep my system up to date. How do I know that it's not installing unstable software? I want to keep my software stable, but not in the version branching sense. I just don't want it crashing my server at all. Is there any way to ensure that I only install high

Re: I only want stable software

2005-01-29 Thread Pat Maddox
*default compress ports-all What updates will I be getting with this? I want to be able to keep my system up to date, and I want to have a lot of the new software, but I don't want to be introducing unstable software into my system. I want to be able to keep up with PHP and Apache2 as fixes come out

hardware testing / burn in software

2005-01-28 Thread Dave Carrera
Hi List, Is there any freebsd based p.c hardware / burn in testing software available ? I ask as i am building 3 new servers and want to check all parts ie, mem, hdd, cpu etc before loading on my freebsd. What would be ideal is a micro kernal on a floppy disk or self booting cd

Re: hardware testing / burn in software

2005-01-28 Thread cali
Hi List, Is there any freebsd based p.c hardware / burn in testing software available ? Someone suggested this to me when I had a suspected hardware problem earlier this month: http://www.memtest86.com/ cali ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: hardware testing / burn in software

2005-01-28 Thread O. Hartmann
Dave Carrera schrieb: Hi List, Is there any freebsd based p.c hardware / burn in testing software available ? I ask as i am building 3 new servers and want to check all parts ie, mem, hdd, cpu etc before loading on my freebsd. What would be ideal is a micro kernal on a floppy disk or self

Re: hardware testing / burn in software

2005-01-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:37:32PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: Dave Carrera schrieb: Hi List, Is there any freebsd based p.c hardware / burn in testing software available ? I ask as i am building 3 new servers and want to check all parts ie, mem, hdd, cpu etc before loading on my

FreeBSD HOWTO: Software Mirror System Disk

2005-01-24 Thread Danny Howard
[ From http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/ ] A new feature of FreeBSD 5.3 is the ability to set up a software mirror of your system disk. This allows you to boot off either of a pair of hard disks, which will then function as a RAID1, which will ensure system

Re: FreeBSD HOWTO: Software Mirror System Disk

2005-01-24 Thread Danny Howard
Danny Howard wrote: As the documentation is a bit sketchy, heres a quick cheat sheet for setting this up with gmirror: (This crib sheet assumes you have a pair of identical IDE (in my case, SATA) drives identified as ad4 and ad6.) Let me apologize for Thunderbird formatting my mail goofy. (I

Open source or *BSD/Linux compatible mapping software?

2005-01-24 Thread John
Hey, folks - my one remaining dependency on the Microsoft world seems to be Streets and Trips. Even though the product has gone down hill dramatically in the last three years, I still love it and use it daily. One of the big differentiators for me is that it doesn't require an Internet

upgrade software with no package db

2005-01-23 Thread Sean Ellis
Hello, I'm looking moving to a newer Mysql version on a machine where the database of installed packages has been trashed. I'm expecting that after examining /usr/ports/UPGRADING, whatever READMEs accompany the source, and manually checking for dependencies, that I can extract and patch the

Re: upgrade software with no package db

2005-01-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 23 January 2005 04:36 pm, Sean Ellis wrote: Hello, I'm looking moving to a newer Mysql version on a machine where the database of installed packages has been trashed. I'm expecting that after examining /usr/ports/UPGRADING, whatever READMEs accompany the source, and manually

Re: upgrade software with no package db

2005-01-23 Thread bitHawk
: 1. run make exctract. 2. run make 3. run make install I hope this helps, Regards, bitHawk - Original Message - From: Sean Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 3:36 AM Subject: upgrade software with no package db Hello, I'm

Re: upgrade software with no package db

2005-01-23 Thread Sean Ellis
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 04:52:29PM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Sunday 23 January 2005 04:36 pm, Sean Ellis wrote: I'm looking moving to a newer Mysql version on a machine where the database of installed packages has been trashed. If you can pkg_add -rf to force installation and

Re: upgrade software with no package db

2005-01-23 Thread Sean Ellis
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:50:51AM +0300, bitHawk wrote: Hey, 1. run the cvsup to update your port collection. (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html) The updated port should already contain patching information and will take no problems here care

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-18 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:10:15 -0600, Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:00:25 -0800 Sandy Rutherford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:20:58 -0600, Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Virtual CD is a program to mount iso images if I'm

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-18 Thread Kris Maglione
not sure what vn or md stand for in FreeBSD Virtual Node Memory Disk signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-17 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:20:58 -0600, Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Virtual CD is a program to mount iso images if I'm correct ( just like alcohol or deamontools ) you can just mount .iso files with FreeBSD : man mount_cd9660 Last I checked, it required a bit more... you have to

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-17 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:00:25 -0800 Sandy Rutherford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:20:58 -0600, Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Virtual CD is a program to mount iso images if I'm correct ( just like alcohol or deamontools ) you can just mount .iso files with

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-16 Thread Xian
On Saturday 15 January 2005 21:17, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:58:41 + Xian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 January 2005 03:50, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: snip - WinAMP Xmms (only under FeeSBIE), it even looks and feels like WinAMP I am confused by this

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Xian
On Saturday 15 January 2005 03:50, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: Hi, I need to consider if my friend can migrate from windows. Do you know of a good user friendly alternatives (may be not as powerful)? I might be able to answer most of the items, but I'd like to make sure that I know about the

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
in /usr/ports/archivers. As for GUI: If you're using KDE there's ARK in kdeutils. Gnome should have something similar. - WinAMP XMMS - Virtual CD don't know this software - Some kind of CD Burner burncd with mkisofs works great if you don't mind command line. K3b (/usr/ports/sysutils/k3b

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Frank Staals
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: - Virtual CD don't know this software Virtual CD is a program to mount iso images if I'm correct ( just like alcohol or deamontools ) you can just mount .iso files with FreeBSD : man mount_cd9660 ___ freebsd

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Kris Maglione
be better off with a linux distro. FreeBSD is not newbie friendly and lacks certain hardware/software support that linux has. Not having ALSA precludes certain apps from working/working well. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Dave
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:09:30 +0100, you wrote: - Decoding DVD to AVI (I have no idea why anybody would need this) I cannot comment on this but mplayer is supposed to do that. His friend should try out FreesBie (live, bootable FreeBSD CD, no HDD install required). It has all of the required

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:50:03 -0800 Sergei Gnezdov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to consider if my friend can migrate from windows. Do you know of a good user friendly alternatives (may be not as powerful)? I might be able to answer most of the items, but I'd like to make sure that

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:58:41 + Xian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 January 2005 03:50, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: snip - WinAMP Xmms (only under FeeSBIE), it even looks and feels like WinAMP I am confused by this comment, I thought it looked like winamp and worked a lot like

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:32:00 + Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: - Virtual CD don't know this software Virtual CD is a program to mount iso images if I'm correct ( just like alcohol or deamontools ) you can just mount .iso files

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-15 Thread Kris Maglione
Virtual CD is a program to mount iso images if I'm correct ( just like alcohol or deamontools ) you can just mount .iso files with FreeBSD : man mount_cd9660 You can't directly mount iso files, you need to vn/mdconfig them first. ___

Re: Network monitoring software

2005-01-15 Thread Nagilum
Try: systat -if for a start, regards, Alex. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya folks, I'm looking for some network monitoring software. I've tried zabbix and jffnms but neither of them functioned after being configured or installing. If anybody has any success stories I would like to hear about any

Re: Network monitoring software

2005-01-15 Thread Eric F Crist
On Jan 15, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Nagilum wrote: Try: systat -if for a start, regards, Alex. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya folks, I'm looking for some network monitoring software. I've tried zabbix and jffnms but neither of them functioned after being configured or installing. If anybody has any

Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-14 Thread Sergei Gnezdov
Hi, I need to consider if my friend can migrate from windows. Do you know of a good user friendly alternatives (may be not as powerful)? I might be able to answer most of the items, but I'd like to make sure that I know about the options: Alternatives for: - MS Office XP. I don't think he

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-14 Thread Chris
Sergei Gnezdov wrote: Hi, I need to consider if my friend can migrate from windows. Do you know of a good user friendly alternatives (may be not as powerful)? I might be able to answer most of the items, but I'd like to make sure that I know about the options: Alternatives for: - MS Office XP.

Re: Software mirgration from Windows for my friend

2005-01-14 Thread Sergei Gnezdov
Again, these can be found on the website - http://www.freebsd.org/applications.html... And again, have your friend research it on his own. Right. Not everybody knows English and not everybody has unlimited Internet connection. And by the way, lots of free software is for geeks only. I have

Network monitoring software

2005-01-07 Thread freebsduser
Hiya folks, I'm looking for some network monitoring software. I've tried zabbix and jffnms but neither of them functioned after being configured or installing. If anybody has any success stories I would like to hear about any of them so I can look at other packages in ports net and net-mgmt

New Ad-aware software!

2004-12-30 Thread hee-sub
Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components. With the release of Ad-Aware SE Personal edition, Lavasoft takes the

Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question -- software RAID instead?

2004-12-25 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Jonathan Reeder -- Since the SATA RAID controller in the Dell PE SC420 isn't supported yet, is there anything I can do with atacontrol to run my two drives as a software RAID instead of relying on the controller? I've never used SATA before, so any advice anyone can

RE: Dell CERC SATA 2S question -- software RAID instead?

2004-12-21 Thread Jonathan Reeder
Since the SATA RAID controller in the Dell PE SC420 isn't supported yet, is there anything I can do with atacontrol to run my two drives as a software RAID instead of relying on the controller? I've never used SATA before, so any advice anyone can offer is greatly appreciated

Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question -- software RAID instead?

2004-12-21 Thread Roger. O. Svenning
Jonathan Reeder wrote: Since the SATA RAID controller in the Dell PE SC420 isn't supported yet, is there anything I can do with atacontrol to run my two drives as a software RAID instead of relying on the controller? I've never used SATA before, so any advice anyone can offer is greatly

Re: Dell CERC SATA 2S question -- software RAID instead?

2004-12-21 Thread Peter Giessel
On Tuesday, December 21, 2004, at 07:15AM, Roger. O. Svenning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Reeder wrote: Since the SATA RAID controller in the Dell PE SC420 isn't supported yet, is there anything I can do with atacontrol to run my two drives as a software RAID instead of relying

VPN software

2004-11-28 Thread alexei kozlov
Hello, list. Just learning the FreeBSD and have one question: currently I am behind the firewall, and to go to internet I (my ISP) setup VPN in windowsxp. On one of my low profile machine (450MHz, K6-II) I set up FreeBSD. I setup ethernet adapter and can connect to other machines. But I can

contributed software

2004-11-23 Thread ed
Hello, I am curious about contributing to FreeBSD. I have a command line utility I would like to offer up, but I can't figure out where to send it etc. The site discusses the licensing types etc, but gives no info on where to actually send things:

Re: contributed software

2004-11-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
to actually send things: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/contrib-how.html section 2.4 How would I proceed to contribute? Take a look at the porter's handbook, which describes in detail how to prepare your software as a freebsd port for inclusion

Re: online disk image software

2004-11-20 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Omer Faruk Sen [freebsd] [15-11-04 22:25 +0200]: | Hi, | | I want to ask if there is an online image software for FreeBSD. Just like | Norton ghost or g4u but system should be up. There is one for Linux which | Dan Langille has written an artcile | (http://www.freebsddiary.org/disk

Re: What is preferred method to get new software on 4.10 stable?

2004-11-16 Thread Andy Firman
command. I could not run portsdb as it was not installed yet because the portupgrade port was not installed. #cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade #make install #portsdb -Uu read /usr/ports/UPDATING after you've updated your ports-tree It is over 1,000 lines, but you can skim and look for software

What is preferred method to get new software on 4.10 stable?

2004-11-15 Thread Andy Firman
Let's take Clamav for example. My freshclam logs say this: WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately ! So, I have clamav-0.75.1 installed from ports. What would be the proper way to get clamav .80 installed? pkg_delete clamav-0.75.1 and then install .80 from

Re: What is preferred method to get new software on 4.10 stable?

2004-11-15 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
[Andy Firman, 2004-11-15] Or is there some mechanism to get .80 in from the ports? Update your ports-tree using cvsup to get an up-to-date version. You should then install portupgrade, if you don't allready have it. Updating clamav from 0.75 to 0.80 should then be as easy as: # portupgrade

Re: What is preferred method to get new software on 4.10 stable?

2004-11-15 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 9:33 AM Subject: What is preferred method to get new software on 4.10 stable? Let's take Clamav for example. My freshclam logs say this: WARNING: Your ClamAV installation

Re: What is preferred method to get new software on 4.10 stable?

2004-11-15 Thread Ada Cheng
Also don't forget to do a portsdb -Uu after you have cvsup and before portupgrade. Cheers, Ada On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: [Andy Firman, 2004-11-15] Or is there some mechanism to get .80 in from the ports? Update your ports-tree using cvsup to get an up-to-date version.

online disk image software

2004-11-15 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, I want to ask if there is an online image software for FreeBSD. Just like Norton ghost or g4u but system should be up. There is one for Linux which Dan Langille has written an artcile (http://www.freebsddiary.org/disk-cloning.php) about this software but for Windows version. REGARDS

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-11-03 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Christian Hiris -- If you use the whole disk as provider and your disk has left free 512 bytes after the end of the last slice, gmirror setup works very easy and fast (no need to use dump/restore or dd): - Boot into the live-filesystem. - Do a 'gmirror load' and

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-31 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- Why going outside and searching the internet? You have a complete operating system, and it's one of the best documented out there. Just 'man ata', 'man atacontrol' and 'man gmirror'. Remember that FreeBSD isn't just a hacked kernel with lots of

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-31 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 19:01 schrieb Matthias F. Brandstetter: -- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- Why going outside and searching the internet? You have a complete operating system, and it's one of the best documented out there. Just 'man ata', 'man atacontrol' and 'man

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-31 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- You can use 'atacontrol detach' then powerdown, replace the drive and after booting you can 'atacontrol addspar ar0 ad6' (or what ever drive and array failed) and 'atacontrol rebuild ar0'. Problem is, that man page says atacontrol rebuild is only

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-31 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Matthias F. Brandstetter -- Problem is, that man page says atacontrol rebuild is only valid on RAID capable ATA controllers. But since I have no such controller, I can't use this command. Ahh, would it be possible to dd data to the new disk? And if yes: Is this the

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-31 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 19:42 schrieb Matthias F. Brandstetter: -- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- You can use 'atacontrol detach' then powerdown, replace the drive and after booting you can 'atacontrol addspar ar0 ad6' (or what ever drive and array failed) and 'atacontrol

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-31 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- I don't know why this is in the man page, last time I read it (some years ago) it was not in there. You can use the rebuild command also on non-raid controllers, at least it was possible for me when I did some tests about 3 months ago. As I can see

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-31 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- Problem is, that man page says atacontrol rebuild is only valid on RAID capable ATA controllers. But since I have no such controller, I can't use this command. I don't know why this is in the man page, last time I read it (some years ago) it

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-31 Thread Christian Hiris
On Sunday 31 October 2004 23:33, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Any docs for gmirror except man page out there anywhere? Something like how to use it for root file system, how to convert a non-gmirror system, kernel configuration etc. Short time ago there was a thread on the current list:

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-30 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Subhro -- Buddy, software RAIDs had always been a pain in the neck. they simply are not worth it as the kernel is busy babysitting the RAID and other applications suffer. Also in case of software RAID failures, it is a nightmare. I do not think so. I never ever had

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-30 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- Why not, but you also have gmirror and ataraid, the former only on 5.3. For ataraid you can use 'atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6' for example For gmirror you can use 'gmirror label -v -b split -s 2048 mrr ad4 ad6' And you mentioned vinum and ccd

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-30 Thread Subhro
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:17:05 +0200, Matthias F. Brandstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never ever had any diffuiculties or hatches with software raids on Linux systems. You got me wrongly. The primary reason why I would make a RAID is fault tolerance. In case of hardware RAIDs, rebuilding

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-30 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 30. Oktober 2004 12:18 schrieb Matthias F. Brandstetter: -- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- Why not, but you also have gmirror and ataraid, the former only on 5.3. For ataraid you can use 'atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6' for example For gmirror you can use 'gmirror

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-30 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 30. Oktober 2004 23:52 schrieb Emanuel Strobl: Am Samstag, 30. Oktober 2004 12:18 schrieb Matthias F. Brandstetter: -- quoting Emanuel Strobl -- Why not, but you also have gmirror and ataraid, the former only on 5.3. For ataraid you can use 'atacontrol create

Re: Software or hardware RAID1. (gstripe)

2004-10-29 Thread Subhro
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:39:36 +, Thordur I. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I will go for a hardware raid controler (RAID5 sounds good, but my budget doesn´t really allow me to buy 2x new disks ;). Well, I would say... postpond your RAID for a few weeks and gather the money to buy the

Re: Software or hardware RAID1. (gstripe)

2004-10-29 Thread Thordur I.
Subhro wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:39:36 +, Thordur I. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I will go for a hardware raid controler (RAID5 sounds good, but my budget doesn´t really allow me to buy 2x new disks ;). Well, I would say... postpond your RAID for a few weeks and gather the

Re: Software or hardware RAID1. (gstripe)

2004-10-29 Thread pete wright
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:45:44 +, Thordur I. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subhro wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:39:36 +, Thordur I. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I will go for a hardware raid controler (RAID5 sounds good, but my budget doesn´t really allow me to buy 2x new disks

howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-29 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I want to create a software RAID 1 of two same disks. Coming from Linux I am used to the very simple /etc/raidtab files. Now I looked into vinum docs in FreeBSD handbook, and it seems somewhat difficult to me. So my question is: Is vinum the only way to create a software RAID 1 from

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-29 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 29. Oktober 2004 23:55 schrieb Matthias F. Brandstetter: Hi all, I want to create a software RAID 1 of two same disks. Coming from Linux I am used to the very simple /etc/raidtab files. Now I looked into vinum docs in FreeBSD handbook, and it seems somewhat difficult to me. So

Re: howto software raid under FreeBSD?

2004-10-29 Thread Subhro
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:55:43 +0200, Matthias F. Brandstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I want to create a software RAID 1 of two same disks. Buddy, software RAIDs had always been a pain in the neck. they simply are not worth it as the kernel is busy babysitting the RAID and other

Re: Software or hardware RAID1. (gstripe)

2004-10-28 Thread Thordur I.
First to thank for the replys. They have been very helpful. Second, s/gstripe/gmirror I was reading the gstripe man page just minutes before I wrote the email ;) I think I will go for a hardware raid controler (RAID5 sounds good, but my budget doesn´t really allow me to buy 2x new disks ;).

Software or hardware RAID1. (gstripe)

2004-10-27 Thread Thordur I.
I´m currently trying to decide upon a sultion on how to go about keepin my data safe. Now, a RAID1 setup sounds good in this position. But I can´t seem to find an answer to one question. Let´s say that I have 2x 120Gb (ad1 and ad2) disk. I stripe them wich should give something like

Re: Software or hardware RAID1. (gstripe)

2004-10-27 Thread Subhro
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:40:22 +, Thordur I. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I´m currently trying to decide upon a sultion on how to go about keepin my data safe. RAID 5 is your best bet. RAID 1 Just ensures mirroring. While RAID 5 can actually rebuild volumes. Let´s say that I have 2x 120Gb (ad1

Re: Software or hardware RAID1. (gstripe)

2004-10-27 Thread pete wright
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:40:22 +, Thordur I. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I´m currently trying to decide upon a sultion on how to go about keepin my data safe. Now, a RAID1 setup sounds good in this position. But I can´t seem to find an answer to one question. Let´s say that I have 2x 120Gb

Re: Automatic Firewall software?

2004-10-15 Thread Richard Verwayen
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 04:09, Vulpes Velox wrote: Doesn't Portsentry ignore ports that have a service bound to them like the SSH daemon? In that case, it wouldn't help Brian's problem, since ssh is running, portsentry would ignore any attacks to port 22, right? Move it and the like to a

Re: Automatic Firewall software?

2004-10-14 Thread Peter Pauly
Doesn't Portsentry ignore ports that have a service bound to them like the SSH daemon? In that case, it wouldn't help Brian's problem, since ssh is running, portsentry would ignore any attacks to port 22, right? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Automatic Firewall software?

2004-10-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
Frankly I hadn't thought of that. You can configure portsentry to monitor any port *and* to ignore certain hosts, so I would think it could monitor port 22 although I haven't tested it personally. --On Thursday, October 14, 2004 02:07:24 PM -0500 Peter Pauly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't

Re: Automatic Firewall software?

2004-10-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:07:24 -0500 Peter Pauly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't Portsentry ignore ports that have a service bound to them like the SSH daemon? In that case, it wouldn't help Brian's problem, since ssh is running, portsentry would ignore any attacks to port 22, right? Move it

Automatic Firewall software?

2004-10-13 Thread Brian J. McGovern
to be DHCP'ed, so I expect the hacker will at some point get a new address, and start over. Rather than having to hang over my machine is there any software out there that will monitor logs (e.g. /var/log/messages), parse out failed logins like this, and run an ipfw command to block it? Perhaps

Re: Automatic Firewall software?

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 10:04:24 AM -0400 Brian J. McGovern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather than having to hang over my machine is there any software out there that will monitor logs (e.g. /var/log/messages), parse out failed logins like this, and run an ipfw command to block

Re: Any motherboard (AOpen) fan control software for FreeBSD?

2004-09-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 21. September 2004 20:40 schrieb Peter Olsson: I'm searching for some software that will let me control the speed of my motherboard fan and CPU fan. I have mainly AOpen motherboards and I have become addicted to their SilentTek/SilentTek2 software for windows. They only have

Re: vinum software raid as boot drive

2004-09-21 Thread David Kelly
On Sep 20, 2004, at 8:52 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: We could not find stated exactly anywhere, but we are presuming the description file that you use with vinum create becomes /etc/vinum.conf Well, you need to call it that. The name isn't critical, but it's a good choice. I use vinum only for

Any motherboard (AOpen) fan control software for FreeBSD?

2004-09-21 Thread Peter Olsson
I'm searching for some software that will let me control the speed of my motherboard fan and CPU fan. I have mainly AOpen motherboards and I have become addicted to their SilentTek/SilentTek2 software for windows. They only have this for windows, and I can't find anything like it for FreeBSD

Re: vinum software raid as boot drive

2004-09-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 September 2004 at 8:24:44 -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Sep 20, 2004, at 8:52 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: We could not find stated exactly anywhere, but we are presuming the description file that you use with vinum create becomes /etc/vinum.conf Well, you need to call it

vinum software raid as boot drive

2004-09-20 Thread Bruce Harding
We are currently trying to set up server with software raid using vinum on 5.3. We plan to use it as a Mirrored root filesystem So far we have followed Greg Lehey's instructions from http://www.daemonnews.org/22/vinum.html and the handbook on vinum: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859

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