Re: portmaster question

2010-11-08 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 22:11:50 -0700 (MST) Warren Block articulated: > On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Jerry wrote: > > > When using 'portupgrade', I commonly use the '-r' flag in > > conjunction with the previously discussed '-a' flag. While not as > > through as the "-u -p" flags with 'portmanger', it does a

Re: portmaster question

2010-11-08 Thread RW
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 22:11:50 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Jerry wrote: > > > When using 'portupgrade', I commonly use the '-r' flag in > > conjunction with the previously discussed '-a' flag. While not as > > through as the "-u -p" flags with 'portmanger', it does accompl

Re: portmaster question

2010-11-07 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Jerry wrote: When using 'portupgrade', I commonly use the '-r' flag in conjunction with the previously discussed '-a' flag. While not as through as the "-u -p" flags with 'portmanger', it does accomplish its goal. Isn't portupgrade -a equivalent to -arR? I hope so, or I ha

Re: portmaster question

2010-11-07 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 12:21:59 -0700, Fred wrote: Hello, According to man portmaster the -a option will "Update all ports that need updating". Does this apply to only installed ports or to everything in /usr/ports? It applies to installed ports. A common

Re: portmaster question

2010-11-07 Thread Jerry
s or to > > everything in /usr/ports? > > It applies to installed ports. A commonly used command to > upgrade them is "portupgrad -af". ^^^ Using the 'f' flag can be expensive if there are a large number of ports installed and th

Re: portmaster question

2010-11-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 12:21:59 -0700, Fred wrote: > Hello, > > According to man portmaster the -a option will "Update all ports that > need updating". Does this apply to only installed ports or to > everything in /usr/ports? It applies to installed ports. A commonly used command to upgrade them

portmaster question

2010-11-07 Thread Fred
Hello, According to man portmaster the -a option will "Update all ports that need updating". Does this apply to only installed ports or to everything in /usr/ports? Best regards, Fred ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

OT: apache+ssl question _off-list_

2010-11-03 Thread Robert Huff
Would any folks with experience in Apache/SSL be willing to help with a (probably novice) problem off-list? (My search-fu is inferior: I've found the problem mentioned, but no solutions.) Robert Huff ___ freebsd-

Re: Sendmail Question: Smart Host Round-Robin In Mailertable?

2010-10-27 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 10/27/2010 3:26 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:51:59 -0500, Tim Daneliuk > wrote: >> A bit OT, but I'm hoping one of you resident geniuses can point me to >> an answer >> >> I have a situation where I need to set up round-robin across several >> smart hosts in the se

Re: Sendmail Question: Smart Host Round-Robin In Mailertable?

2010-10-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:51:59 -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > A bit OT, but I'm hoping one of you resident geniuses can point me to > an answer > > I have a situation where I need to set up round-robin across several > smart hosts in the sendmail mailertable for all traffic. (For a > variety of re

Sendmail Question: Smart Host Round-Robin In Mailertable?

2010-10-27 Thread Tim Daneliuk
A bit OT, but I'm hoping one of you resident geniuses can point me to an answer I have a situation where I need to set up round-robin across several smart hosts in the sendmail mailertable for all traffic. (For a variety of reasons, the client does not want this done in either the .mc file or

struct fileops question

2010-10-19 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
Hi, I'm trying to understand some pieces of the FreeBSD kernel. Having a look at struct fileops in file.h I was wondering why other file related functions don't have an entry in the vector. I was thinking in mmap, fsync or sendfile. Can anyone tell me the reason? Thanks in advance.

Re: Jail question

2010-10-18 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 333, Issue 2, Message: 1 On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:38:17 -0400 bdsf...@att.net wrote: > On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:32:44 -0400, Jerry > wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:35:39 -0400 > > Fbsd8 articulated: > > > >> Check out qjail. It has been submitted for ad

Re: Jail question

2010-10-18 Thread Matthew Law
.py which I've used to create a > thousand very light-weight jails which are started and managed using > only standard FreeBSD tools. > > In any case, read rc.conf(5) man page for the jail_* settings. snip > This is the more complex question; I think that everything which needs

Re: Jail question

2010-10-18 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:38:17 -0400 bdsf...@att.net articulated: > On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:32:44 -0400, Jerry > wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:35:39 -0400 > > Fbsd8 articulated: > > > >> Check out qjail. It has been submitted for addition to the ports > >> collection, but the ports dept is

Re: Jail question

2010-10-18 Thread bdsfbsd
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:32:44 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:35:39 -0400 Fbsd8 articulated: Check out qjail. It has been submitted for addition to the ports collection, but the ports dept is very slow in performing their task of adding new ports to the system. So in the mean tim

Re: Jail question

2010-10-18 Thread Ivan Voras
terfaces in failover mode (one public, one private), if that makes any difference This is the more complex question; I think that everything which needs direct access to the NIC (i.e. BPF, DHCP, IPFW, etc.) will need to be run on the host system. TCP services will work inside jails without

Re: Jail question

2010-10-15 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:35:39 -0400 Fbsd8 articulated: > Check out qjail. It has been submitted for addition to the ports > collection, but the ports dept is very slow in performing their task > of adding new ports to the system. So in the mean time you can get > qjail from here. http://sourcefo

Re: Jail question

2010-10-15 Thread Fbsd8
s for openvpn and the services jail or is it possible to use a single IP or some NAT/PAT scheme? -this box currently has 4 x NICs split into 2x lagg interfaces in failover mode (one public, one private), if that makes any difference Sorry for the rambling question and I hope this makes sense!

Re: Jail question

2010-10-14 Thread krad
e a single IP or some NAT/PAT scheme? >> -this box currently has 4 x NICs split into 2x lagg interfaces in failover >> mode (one public, one private), if that makes any difference >> >> Sorry for the rambling question and I hope this makes sense! >> >&g

Re: Jail question

2010-10-14 Thread doug
I use separate public IPs for openvpn and the services jail or is it possible to use a single IP or some NAT/PAT scheme? -this box currently has 4 x NICs split into 2x lagg interfaces in failover mode (one public, one private), if that makes any difference Sorry for the rambling question and I hope

Jail question

2010-10-14 Thread Matthew Law
d the services jail or is it possible to use a single IP or some NAT/PAT scheme? -this box currently has 4 x NICs split into 2x lagg interfaces in failover mode (one public, one private), if that makes any difference Sorry for the rambling question and I hope this makes sense!

Re: Little question about device driver name

2010-10-03 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/9/24 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 a

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 if

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 seems

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 wrote: >> >> Sometimes after booting freebsd and re

Re: How to fix the "keyboard dead" question ?

2010-09-16 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:51:31 -0700 (PDT), zaxis 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 is a USB key

How to fix the "keyboard dead" question ?

2010-09-16 Thread zaxis
0 0/0x1 (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 N

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

Re: question on access to res utility

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

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 >

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 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 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 > p

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, includi

Re: question on access to res utility

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

Re: question on access to res utility

2010-09-10 Thread 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 p

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: freebsd-update question

2010-09-09 Thread Mark
--- On Thu, 9/9/10, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > From: Murray S. Kucherawy > 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/book

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

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 t

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 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 boxes but the

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 tc

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 Hardie 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

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 interfac

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 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 eith

Re: Routing Question

2010-08-27 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:17:19 -0700, Doug Hardie 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 packets from

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 wor

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
ight 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, copy the >>> data over and then add the third. Is that even possible

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: Basic

Re: ZFS Question

2010-08-15 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 5:56 PM, 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. > 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 you run RELENG_8 af

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 t

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

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, Mikhail 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-

Re: Pop3 Error Question?

2010-08-14 Thread Chris Maness
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Mikhail 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-info&m=96822028906940&w=2 > ___

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-info&m=96822028906940&w=2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

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: UPS question

2010-08-14 Thread Ian Smith
ower outages here are usually spikes that > kill my current web server (but amazingly *not* my file server). 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

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 aft

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

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 Samu

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 ge

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 Samuel Martín Moro
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Fred Boatwright 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 > startx: Command no

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 too

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 full

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, A

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 t

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 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 controller.

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

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 /us

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 Oliver Fromme
Fred Boatwright 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=p&q=startx It has four hits, but it's

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 http://lists.fr

Re: UPS question

2010-08-12 Thread Michael Powell
Oliver Fromme wrote: > Ryan Coleman 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 lim

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 >

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 minu

Re: UPS question

2010-08-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ryan Coleman 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 that the UPS can han

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, shu

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
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 supp

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 effic

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 s

Re: zfs question

2010-08-10 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
ry 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"

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 More wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijk 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

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread krad
On 8 August 2010 16:51, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijk 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

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijk 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 a v

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 webser

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 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 u

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread krad
ack 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 a good idea to put swap > onto zfs --

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
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 whet

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 VirtualB

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 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 u

Re: Question on Swapping

2010-08-01 Thread RW
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 01:12:27 -0700 Doug Hardie 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

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: 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 u

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 t

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 specifi

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