Re: Jail question

2010-10-14 Thread krad
), if that makes any difference Sorry for the rambling question and I hope this makes sense! Matt. Starting with FreeBSD 8 jails may have multiple IPs and can use sockets. AFAIK this makes a jail pretty much like a separate physical system in a functional sense. Between man jail

Re: Little question about device driver name

2010-10-03 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/9/24 Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:04:06PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Hi folks, I just wonder why if_bridge(4) is prefixed by if_ for device name. Every other device name like lagg(4), gif(4) are not prefixed with this same one. if_bridge was based on bridge.

Little question about device driver name

2010-09-24 Thread David DEMELIER
Hi folks, I just wonder why if_bridge(4) is prefixed by if_ for device name. Every other device name like lagg(4), gif(4) are not prefixed with this same one. Is there any reason that bridge is prefixed with it ? (I don't know if there is other device like that, but what I saw in conf/NOTES

Re: Little question about device driver name

2010-09-24 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:04:06PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Hi folks, I just wonder why if_bridge(4) is prefixed by if_ for device name. Every other device name like lagg(4), gif(4) are not prefixed with this same one. if_bridge was based on bridge. I assume that when the updated

How to fix the keyboard dead question ?

2010-09-16 Thread zaxis
(20100331/tbfadt-655) Sincerely! - e^(π⋅i) + 1 = 0 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/How-to-fix-the-%22keyboard-dead%22-question---tp29734114p29734114.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: How to fix the keyboard dead question ?

2010-09-16 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:51:31 -0700 (PDT), zaxis z_a...@163.com wrote: Sometimes after booting freebsd and reaching the slim login screen, i cannot input anything: the keyboard seems to be dead. Then i have to reboot freebsd and the problem disappear ! Is this an AT or USB keyboard? If it

Re: How to fix the keyboard dead question ?

2010-09-16 Thread Ryan Coleman
I've had similar results on my USB to PS/2 keyboard adapter. If I reconnect the bridge device (not necc. have the KB attached to it) it will work. On Sep 16, 2010, at 8:08 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:51:31 -0700 (PDT), zaxis z_a...@163.com wrote: Sometimes after booting

question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread Joanne McClintock
I'm helping a new writer use tech pubs lab routers. In trying to use the res utility, he gets the following: -bash-2.05b$ res show tp5 -bash: res: command not found In giving the uname -a command he gets: -bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD bigpink.juniper.net 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2

Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread mikel king
Joanne, I did a quick which and search of the ports that yielded nothing concrete regarding this command. I believe that this a proprietary Juniper utility. I found similar reference to this at this url: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?23,124019,124019 As much as I hate

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

Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread Ross Cameron
It's not the first time that almost word for word the same question has been asked by someone from that domain. 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

Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread Alessandro Dellavedova
On Sep 10, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Ross Cameron wrote: 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,

Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Ross Cameron ross.came...@unix.net wrote: It's not the first time that almost word for word the same question has been asked by someone from that domain. True but juniper has given a great of IP to BSD. Gracefully handling some runoff seems appropriate

Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:58:46PM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: It's not the first time that almost word for word the same question has been asked by someone from that domain. And not the first time some idiot rude reply caused much more harm than good. jerry Opportunity is most

Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread mikel king
/mikelking On Sep 10, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Ross Cameron ross.came...@unix.net wrote: It's not the first time that almost word for word the same question has been asked by someone from that domain. True but juniper has given a great

Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread Ross Cameron
2seconds spent Googling the phrase pulls up my much more polite answer to exactly the same question from a month ago. Absolutely no effort was made, that much is OBVIOUS. In my defense when I realised the the OP thought that this was a Juniper support list I did offer to try help

freebsd-update question

2010-09-09 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
Hi, I'm reading http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html in preparation for an update of a 6.2-RELEASE machine in a colocation faciilty. However, that page says 6.3 or later is needed to do it via the freebsd-update(8) mechanism. Are

Re: freebsd-update question

2010-09-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 09/09/2010 19:40:19, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: I'm reading http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html in preparation for an update of a 6.2-RELEASE machine in a colocation faciilty. However, that page says 6.3 or later is needed to do

Re: freebsd-update question

2010-09-09 Thread Mark
--- On Thu, 9/9/10, Murray S. Kucherawy m...@blackops.org wrote: From: Murray S. Kucherawy m...@blackops.org Subject: freebsd-update question To: questi...@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, September 9, 2010, 1:40 PM Hi, I'm reading http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook

Re: sendmail rdns question

2010-08-28 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 325, Issue 5, Message: 4 On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:06:33 +0100 Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for posting on a bsd list but i figure there's more than a few sendmail experts here. I would like to run reverse dns checks on one of my

Re: Routing Question

2010-08-27 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:17:19 -0700, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org a écrit : PF's route_to will return the packets to the proper router, but I have not been able to figure out which ones those would be. The source IP address can be any on either network and its highly likely that we will see

Re: Routing Question

2010-08-27 Thread Doug Hardie
On 27 August 2010, at 05:07, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:17:19 -0700, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org a écrit : PF's route_to will return the packets to the proper router, but I have not been able to figure out which ones those would be. The source IP address can be any

NATD Question

2010-08-27 Thread Michael J. Kearney
Will natd forward rtmp:// ??? freebsd# cat /etc/natd.conf use_sockets redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.3:3389 10.1.10.172:3389 redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.2:1935 10.1.10.172:1935 redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.2:8790 10.1.10.172:8790 redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.2:6000-6100 10.1.10.172:6000-6100

Re: Routing Question

2010-08-27 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 8/27/2010 9:09 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: On 27 August 2010, at 05:07, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:17:19 -0700, Doug Hardiebc...@lafn.org a écrit : PF's route_to will return the packets to the proper router, but I have not been able to figure out which ones those would

Re: NATD Question

2010-08-27 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 8/27/2010 9:14 PM, Michael J. Kearney wrote: Will natd forward rtmp:// ??? I am sure libalias and natd know nothing about rtmp. freebsd# cat /etc/natd.conf use_sockets redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.3:3389 10.1.10.172:3389 redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.2:1935 10.1.10.172:1935 redirect_port

Routing Question

2010-08-26 Thread Doug Hardie
I have several servers with one ethernet interface. Currently it is connected via a WAN to the internet. We are in the midst of switching to a different provider. I would like to be able to operate with both temporarily until all the users/services get switched. The new circuit is in and

sendmail rdns question

2010-08-24 Thread Paul Macdonald
Hi, Sorry for posting on a bsd list but i figure there's more than a few sendmail experts here. I would like to run reverse dns checks on one of my boxes but the check_rnds macro looks a bit overkill to me. I want to reject the mail if there's no reverse dns, but not if there is rdns but

Re: ZFS Question

2010-08-16 Thread Elias Chrysocheris
a RaidZ but have a question on how to do this: Basically, I need to setup a mirror with the two empty drives, copy the data over and then add the third. Is that even possible? Do you want to add the third drive as another mirror of the other two or you just want to add it, lets say

ZFS Question

2010-08-15 Thread Depo Catcher
Hi, I'm building a new file server. Right now I'm on FreeBSD 6.4/UFS2 and going to go to 8.1 with ZFS. Right now I have 3 disks, but one of them has data on it. I'd like to setup a RaidZ but have a question on how to do this: Basically, I need to setup a mirror with the two empty drives

Re: ZFS Question

2010-08-15 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Depo Catcher depocatc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm building a new file server.  Right now I'm on FreeBSD 6.4/UFS2 and going to go to 8.1 with ZFS. in a few weeks, ZFS v15 will be MFC'd to RELENG_8 this is a much more mature and stable ZFS I would suggest that

Re: ZFS Question

2010-08-15 Thread David Rawling
On 16/08/2010 8:56 AM, Depo Catcher wrote: Hi, I'm building a new file server. Right now I'm on FreeBSD 6.4/UFS2 and going to go to 8.1 with ZFS. Right now I have 3 disks, but one of them has data on it. I'd like to setup a RaidZ but have a question on how to do this: Basically, I need

Re: UPS question

2010-08-14 Thread Ian Smith
). In fact, one of those power fluxes occurred last night. I love storms for the light shows, but hate them for the toll they take on my servers. Indeed. Ryan, I'm coming in late but I've read the whole thread, after many people have added useful insights. However I must question your initial

Pop3 Error Question?

2010-08-14 Thread Chris Maness
What would cause this error? einstein:~ chris$ telnet ns1 110 Trying *... Connected to ns1.**.org. Escape character is '^]'. +OK QPOP (version 2.53) at ns1.*.org starting. 30383.1281808...@ns1.**.org user luis +OK Password required for luis. pass ** -ERR Unable to process

Re: Pop3 Error Question?

2010-08-14 Thread Mikhail
On 14.08.2010 21:58, Chris Maness wrote: Unable to process From lines (envelopes), change recognition modes Here[1] you can find pretty good explanation. Be well. [1] - http://marc.info/?l=pine-infom=96822028906940w=2 ___

Re: Pop3 Error Question?

2010-08-14 Thread Chris Maness
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Mikhail hidden.n...@gmail.com wrote: On 14.08.2010 21:58, Chris Maness wrote: Unable to process From lines (envelopes), change recognition modes Here[1] you can find pretty good explanation. Be well. [1] - http://marc.info/?l=pine-infom=96822028906940w=2

Re: Pop3 Error Question?

2010-08-14 Thread Mikhail
On 14.08.2010 22:16, Chris Maness wrote: On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Mikhailhidden.n...@gmail.com wrote: On 14.08.2010 21:58, Chris Maness wrote: Unable to process From lines (envelopes), change recognition modes Here[1] you can find pretty good explanation. Be well. [1] -

Re: UPS question

2010-08-14 Thread Ryan Coleman
Just going to reply to this one bit for now: The computer used to be a gaming computer, converted this past fall into a file server when I lacked time to play any games in a year. Additionally I spent $34 on a video card today that reduces my power consumption by 150Watts, resulting in a $13

Re: UPS question

2010-08-13 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, August 12, 2010 8:14 pm, Al Plant wrote: #3. Thats why setting the bios not to self boot would work. (Stopping the bios from turning the server on after an outage.) Someone would have to check the power status manually before throwing the switch manually to make it come up after power

Re: UPS question

2010-08-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a 1400VA. My consideration is, then, give the server 2 minutes on

Re: UPS question

2010-08-12 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Aug 11, 2010, at 6:01 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a 1400VA. My

Re: UPS question

2010-08-12 Thread Michael Powell
Oliver Fromme wrote: Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote: He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a 1400VA. That W and VA numbers of the UPS are pretty much irrelevant, because they tell nothing about the capacity of the battery. Those numbers only give

X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Fred Boatwright
Hello, Where would I find startx? I assume it is part one of the ports under X11 but I don't want to install all of them to find it. Also, is p5-Tk the same as Perl/Tk? Best regards, Fred ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
Fred Boatwright f...@blakemfg.com wrote: Where would I find startx? I assume it is part one of the ports under X11 but I don't want to install all of them to find it. It's in x11/xinit. You can use porgle to find out: http://www.secnetix.de/tools/porgle/porgle.py?w=pq=startx It has four

Re: UPS question

2010-08-12 Thread Al Plant
David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a 1400VA. My consideration is, then, give the

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Tim Kellers
/usr/ports/x11/xinit On my system (with X, obviously, already installed): beta# whereis startx startx: /usr/local/bin/startx /usr/local/man/man1/startx.1.gz beta# pkg_which /usr/local/bin/startx xinit-1.2.0 beta# whereis xinit xinit: /usr/local/bin/xinit /usr/local/man/man1/xinit.1.gz

Re: UPS question

2010-08-12 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Al Plant wrote: David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes

Re: UPS question

2010-08-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: Yes. The downside comes from when the BIOS is told to turn on the server at, say, 10pm and the power is still out... it starts the process and runs out of battery mid-way through the boot before it gets the chance to load the UPS

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Fred Boatwright
Hi Oliver and Tim, I installed xinit but startx still doesn't exist. whereis returns nothing and man startx returns nothing. Fred Tim Kellers wrote: /usr/ports/x11/xinit On my system (with X, obviously, already installed): beta# whereis startx startx: /usr/local/bin/startx

Re: UPS question

2010-08-12 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Aug 12, 2010, at 2:49 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: Yes. The downside comes from when the BIOS is told to turn on the server at, say, 10pm and the power is still out... it starts the process and runs out of battery mid-way through the boot

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
pkg_info | grep xinit rehash (if using some *csh) which startx ? Samuel Martín Moro {EPITECH.} tek4 CamTrace S.A.S (+033) 1 41 38 37 60 1 Allée de la Venelle 92150 Suresnes FRANCE Nobody wants to say how this works. Maybe nobody knows ... Xorg.conf(5) On Thu,

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Tim Kellers
Fred, From man startx(1): SEE ALSO xinit(1), X(7), Xserver(1), Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5) Try: # whereis X If X is installed, it should return: # X: /usr/local/bin/X pkg_which if X is installed should return: # pkg_which /usr/local/bin/X xorg-server-1.7.5,1 If it doesn't, then the

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Fred Boatwright
pkg_info | grep xinit doesn't return anything rehash which startx startx: Command not found whereis X X: /usr/local/bin/X pkg_which /usr/local/bin/X pkg_which: Command not found Oliver: I used your porgle tool to find pkg_which and will install it later. Porgle appears to be a very useful

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Fred Boatwright f...@blakemfg.com wrote: pkg_info | grep xinit doesn't return anything then, you doesn't have installed xinit, and startx can't be here pkg_add -rv xinit and then, if it doesn't fail, try again: rehash which startx rehash which startx

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Chris Hill
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Fred Boatwright wrote: [snip] I installed x11-servers/xorg-server but maybe should have installed Xorg instead. However, from looking at the pkg-descr for xorg it looks like it will install a huge amount of software that will not get used. I am reluctant to do this. I

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Chris Hill wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Fred Boatwright wrote: [snip] I installed x11-servers/xorg-server but maybe should have installed Xorg instead. However, from looking at the pkg-descr for xorg it looks like it will install a huge amount of software that will not

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Fred Boatwright
Indeed you are right. I installed xinit from ports but something didn't happen as it should have. I tried again using pkg_add as you suggested and startx does exist now. I installed olvwm several days ago and it did not pull in the xorg stuff also. Thanks for the help! Best regards, Fred

Re: UPS question

2010-08-12 Thread Al Plant
Ryan Coleman wrote: On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Al Plant wrote: David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: He thinks that at 500W needed it would give

UPS question

2010-08-11 Thread Ryan Coleman
I know that APC's website states this load on this unit results in this runtime. However I do not trust these figures, typically, when coming from smaller manufacturers than APC. I am looking at a 1400VA / 980W UPS to run a single server with a usually not on monitor, a DSL modem and a simple

Re: UPS question

2010-08-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Ryan-- On Aug 11, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote: Total: 495W According to a calculator if I enter all that information: http://www.csgnetwork.com/upssizecalc.html It says that it will use 693VA. That sounds reasonable. The better PSUs have 80 Plus certification for efficiency,

Re: UPS question

2010-08-11 Thread Ryan Coleman
Thanks, Chuck. I talked with a former colleague that has a lot of experience in specing out UPS requirements (between battery-ready and generator-ready backups at the office they have up to 5 minutes of battery backup before the gas generator is needed with a 128-hour recharge time just to

Re: UPS question

2010-08-11 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a 1400VA. My consideration is, then, give the server 2 minutes on battery. If full power has not been returned, shut down the server but leave the modem (w/ wireless) and

Re: UPS question

2010-08-11 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a 1400VA. My consideration is, then, give the server 2 minutes on battery. If full power has not been returned, shut down

Re: UPS question

2010-08-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote: He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a 1400VA. That W and VA numbers of the UPS are pretty much irrelevant, because they tell nothing about the capacity of the battery. Those numbers only give an upper limit on the power

Re: zfs question

2010-08-10 Thread David Rawling
On 9/08/2010 2:52 AM, krad wrote: On 8 August 2010 16:51, Adam Vande Moreamvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijkd...@nagual.nl wrote: On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out

Re: zfs question

2010-08-10 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
to troubleshoot? ZFS. No question about it. Thank you for this eye opener. ;-) ___ 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

zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple of years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. However, considering the troubles after Oracle took over I have rebuild my server system under FreeBSD-8.1 (now running as a virtual machine under

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
in sysinstall, I can't see any good reasons to avoid it. However, it's your system, and booting from UFS also works very well, so do whatever pleases you. There's more of a question over whether it's a good idea to put swap onto zfs -- I think the recommendation is still to prefer using a raw partition

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread krad
. Hmmm... well, booting FreeBSD off ZFS works perfectly well. Apart from the lack of support in sysinstall, I can't see any good reasons to avoid it. However, it's your system, and booting from UFS also works very well, so do whatever pleases you. There's more of a question over whether it's

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Elias Chrysocheris
On Sunday 08 of August 2010 14:43:48 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple of years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. However, considering the troubles after Oracle took over I have rebuild my server system

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak) which will work fine for most purposes. Of course, if your system has particularly demanding IO patterns, then you may have to tweak some loader.conf or

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak) which will work fine for most purposes. One other thing comes to mind. I want a very robus, fast rockl solid *server* It will be a file- email and

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak) which will work fine for most purposes. One other thing comes to mind. I want

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread krad
On 8 August 2010 16:51, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak)

Question on Swapping

2010-08-01 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a question about what I am seeing on several servers. These are 4 core machines with more than the needed memory. Load is never above .5 and memory usually shows over half free. I have never seen it even close to the limit (including buffers). Basically these are lightly used servers

Re: Question on Swapping

2010-08-01 Thread RW
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 01:12:27 -0700 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a question about what I am seeing on several servers. These are 4 core machines with more than the needed memory. Load is never above .5 and memory usually shows over half free. I have never seen it even close

Re: Question on Swapping

2010-08-01 Thread Doug Hardie
On 1 August 2010, at 03:42, RW wrote: On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 01:12:27 -0700 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a question about what I am seeing on several servers. These are 4 core machines with more than the needed memory. Load is never above .5 and memory usually shows over half

remote syslog program specification question

2010-07-21 Thread Dave Berg
Hi, I've set up remote syslog, and want to have a program specification that will send some messages to the remote server. Right now, I've got the usual 'send everything to the loghost' in syslog.conf: *.*@loghost and what I want to do is: send everything from any facility.level

Re: remote syslog program specification question

2010-07-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
send everything from any facility.level to the loghost EXCEPT things from $program that's level .info or lower. (so anything that's from $program.notice *.notice @loghost If your program logs to a give facility, for example your program logs to local7: local7.notice @loghost anything

pf behavior question

2010-07-16 Thread Mario Lobo
Hi; System: 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri Jun 11 09:41:37 BRT 2010 i386 The question is about how pf acts on an specific situation. Supose I have the following rules: pass in log inet proto tcp from $int_if to any port 8021 flags S/SA keep state tag test rule 2 rule 3

pf behavior question (addendum)

2010-07-16 Thread Mario Lobo
Sorry. Forgot to ask: Will the packet be actually tagged on the first rule, even though rule parsing continues? will it reach the last rule already tagged? Thanks again. Hi; System: 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri Jun 11 09:41:37 BRT 2010 i386 The question is about how pf acts

pf behavior question (addendum)

2010-07-16 Thread Mario Lobo
Sorry. Forgot to ask: Will the packet be actually tagged on the first rule, even though rule parsing continues? will it reach the last rule already tagged? Thanks again. Hi; System: 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri Jun 11 09:41:37 BRT 2010 i386 The question is about how pf acts

Re: pf behavior question

2010-07-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 16/07/2010 18:22:04, Mario Lobo wrote: Hi; System: 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri Jun 11 09:41:37 BRT 2010 i386 The question is about how pf acts on an specific situation. Supose I have the following rules: pass in log inet proto tcp from $int_if to any port

Re: pf behavior question

2010-07-16 Thread Mario Lobo
On Friday 16 July 2010 20:58:31 Matthew Seaman wrote: On 16/07/2010 18:22:04, Mario Lobo wrote: Hi; System: 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri Jun 11 09:41:37 BRT 2010 i386 The question is about how pf acts on an specific situation. Supose I have the following rules

Re: ZFS snapshot question - can I separate out some area later?

2010-06-30 Thread krad
On 29 June 2010 19:33, Martin Cracauer craca...@cons.org wrote: I created a raidz ZFS that is mounted on /mnt/backup It has subdirectories (not ZFS filesystems or volumes) like: /mnt/backup/wavehh /mnt/backup/joker [etc] I started taking snapshots long ago, and the snapshots are of

Re: Question RE: Linux Mode

2010-06-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/06/2010 04:34:10, Richards, Toby wrote: So as far as I can tell, turning Linux Mode on exposes another threat vector. Can I turn on Linux Mode ONLY for a single binary (the Flash plugin)? Unfortunately no. Enabling the linuxulator loads a

ZFS snapshot question - can I separate out some area later?

2010-06-29 Thread Martin Cracauer
I created a raidz ZFS that is mounted on /mnt/backup It has subdirectories (not ZFS filesystems or volumes) like: /mnt/backup/wavehh /mnt/backup/joker [etc] I started taking snapshots long ago, and the snapshots are of backup@date, that means top level. NAME USED AVAIL REFER

Question RE: Linux Mode

2010-06-28 Thread Richards, Toby
I have to say that I really feel the FreeBSD development model and Ports system to be superior to Linux. I want to use it; however, Adobe Flash is important to me. I understand that I can run Linux Flash with FreeBSD's Linux Mode. My question is this: If I turn on Linux mode, don't I sacrifice

Re: Question RE: Linux Mode

2010-06-28 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:57:33 -0700, Richards, Toby toby.richa...@slo.courts.ca.gov wrote: My question is this: If I turn on Linux mode, don't I sacrifice the security, performance, and other benefits of the FreeBSD kernel vice Linux? No. FreeBSD's Linux mode is nothing more or less than

RE: Question RE: Linux Mode

2010-06-28 Thread Richards, Toby
@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question RE: Linux Mode On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:57:33 -0700, Richards, Toby toby.richa...@slo.courts.ca.gov wrote: My question is this: If I turn on Linux mode, don't I sacrifice the security, performance, and other benefits of the FreeBSD kernel vice Linux? No. FreeBSD's Linux

Optimal RAID10 config on PERC6 (cache question)

2010-06-17 Thread Martin Turgeon
mfid0 cache settings: I/O caching: disabled write caching: write-back read ahead: none drive write cache: default I read in the man page of mfiutil that drive write cache is the cache on the physical drive which should be disable for data integrity. My first question

Re: Question on packages and ports (and versions)

2010-06-11 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi, Ah, I see. So if I need a more advanced version of some software, that has been installed as a package, I can use portupgrade (or other port management tools) to upgrade the package to a port. Am I right? Thanks, Antonio (As a newbie I'm somewhat concerned about keeping consistency between

Re: Question on packages and ports (and versions)

2010-06-11 Thread Eitan Adler
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Antonio Vieiro anto...@antonioshome.net wrote: Hi, Ah, I see. So if I need a more advanced version of some software, that has been installed as a package, I can use portupgrade (or other port management tools) to upgrade the package to a port. Am I right?

Re: Question on gvinum

2010-06-10 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Vinay vinay.par...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am new to FreeBSD. I have installed FreeBSD 6.3 and was playing with gvinum. snip Can you let me know what am i missing? You should use a current release of FreeBSD, if 6.3 is still supported it won't be for much

Question on packages and ports (and versions)

2010-06-10 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, I can't find an answer to this question, so I decided to post here. Since I'm not very good at english let me ask this with an example. I assume that packages and ports may have different versions of the same software (am I right?) so, for instance, if you install gnome with packages you

Re: Question on packages and ports (and versions)

2010-06-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 04:58:56PM +0200, Antonio Vieiro wrote: Hi all, I can't find an answer to this question, so I decided to post here. Since I'm not very good at english let me ask this with an example. I assume that packages and ports may have different versions of the same software

Question on gvinum

2010-06-09 Thread Vinay
Hi, I am new to FreeBSD. I have installed FreeBSD 6.3 and was playing with gvinum. I do not see /dev/gvinum tree. I have these modules loaded. freebsd63# kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 23 0xc040 7b2d2c kernel 21 0xc0bb3000 cd44 geom_bde.ko 31 0xc0bc 3a48

SMBFS Question

2010-06-02 Thread Tim Daneliuk
I have DAGS and cannot find a good explanation for this, so if some kind soul could help it would be appreciated... I use FreeBSD (various versions/flavors) to connect to a USB drive shared off a WinXP machine to write large backup files. I mount this using the SMBFS capabilities. On a pretty

Re: top memory usage question

2010-05-31 Thread Eitan Adler
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Hello all, Just a question, on Linux the output of top's memory usage looks like this: Mem:   2075424k total,  1760848k used,   314576k free,   151872k buffers Swap:  4192924k total,        0k used,  4192924k free

Re: linux cp -u question

2010-05-31 Thread Mark Stapper
On 28/05/2010 08:47, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2010 18:41:21 +0200, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Hello all, Is there a FreeBSD equivalent for the linux cp -u ? http://linux.die.net/man/1/cp (-u, --update) Check out cpdup (available via ports or packages).

Re: linux cp -u question

2010-05-31 Thread Anh Ky Huynh
On Mon, 31 May 2010 11:20:11 +0200 Mark Stapper st...@mapper.nl wrote: On 28/05/2010 08:47, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2010 18:41:21 +0200, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Hello all, Is there a FreeBSD equivalent for the linux cp -u ? http://linux.die.net/man/1/cp

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