Re: question on vinum

2004-10-26 Thread secmgr
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 18:27, Mikhail P. wrote: > I haven't worked with Vinum previously, but hear a lot about it. My question > is how to implement the above (unite four drives into single volume) using > Vinum, and what will happen if let's say one drive fails in volume? Am I > loosing the who

Re: Postgres

2004-10-26 Thread stable
if the perms really need to be 600 i would do this (anyway i dont see a reason why other users should access /root) chmod 700 /root chmod 600 /root/.pgpass also check the ownership of these files -- > > > I'm trying to write a backup script for postgres and us a crontab on it. > > In the manual

RE: Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x)

2004-10-26 Thread Steve
I have both of them and will say this much 3ware 9xxx series is much better than adaptec, Adaptec will not work with dbsd without some tweaking, 3ware will work flawlessly. -- Steve Rieger -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Sprick

RE: Plan for 5.3-RELEASE

2004-10-26 Thread Martin Chikilian
Hi Scott and lists. With all of this, i expect to keep testing RC1, and RC2 should come before 5.3 to be completely released. If 5.3 is scheduled to be released in 7-10 days, you could release -RC2 in next 3-5 days so we've the posibility to test fixed things that might not be in current -RC1. Just

RE: Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x)

2004-10-26 Thread Vinod Kashyap
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charles > Sprickman > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 6:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x) > > > Hi, > > I'm looking for some feedback on the following two SATA

Best jail howto/FAQ

2004-10-26 Thread Charles Sprickman
I know this is something of a frequent question, but jail seems to be evolving and many a google hit is no longer quite as relevant as I'd hoped. I'm leaning towards using 5.3 on a new project, so I'm mainly interested in any faqs/howtos beyond the manpage that address changes in jail from 4.x->5.

Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x)

2004-10-26 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I'm looking for some feedback on the following two SATA RAID controllers: http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata8000.asp (4 port) http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&prodkey=AAR-2410SA&cat=%2fTechnology%2fRAID%2fSerial+ATA+RAID I'd love to h

question on vinum

2004-10-26 Thread Mikhail P.
Hello, On our next file server, I want to make one large FTP area out of 4 drives (so that system sees them as one volume). Vinum appears to be exactly what I need. I haven't worked with Vinum previously, but hear a lot about it. My question is how to implement the above (unite four drives int

Re: 3ware raid

2004-10-26 Thread Carroll Kong
Well, in the normal cases (where the disk is legimately dying) you can usually replace it and be okay. (recalling one instance from the massive thread regarding a 3ware 7506 with maxtor disks that had issues but once they replaced bad disks they were a-ok). You can use smartmontools to help you r

Re: 3ware raid

2004-10-26 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Carroll Kong wrote: 4) Monitor the system carefully. Apparently in DEGRADED mode, the system has a high chance of complete lockups if left unattended. It is important to note that the 3Ware controller is very sensitive. People have gone into DEGRADED mode randomly becaus

Re: 3ware raid

2004-10-26 Thread Matt Douhan
On Tue October 26 2004 23.10, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > We also use most of the other cards, except for the 9xxx series which we > have no experience with yet. We use the 9xxx series SATA on our CVS/FTP servers and they are extremely nice to work with, and dead fast, surprisingly fast actually, and

Re: 3ware raid

2004-10-26 Thread Carroll Kong
Interesting. I have 3 3Ware 7xxxs. (2 7500-4LP, 1 7450) The 7450 one on a busy server is experiencing some pretty nasty problems. You can google for the thread with this subject. 3ware 7506, FreeBSD 4.x, Maxtor Disks & SMART Problem So far, once we backed off on the I/O load and as a result

Re: 3ware raid

2004-10-26 Thread clarence
Thank you all for your comments. I have used Promise controllers in the past TX4000 without incidence, so I assumed this SX6000 would work flawlessly. You guys have convinced me that 3ware is the way to go. Thank you for your quick responses Mike Tancsa wrote: At 04:30 PM 26/10/2004, Darren Pilg

Re: 3ware raid

2004-10-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:30 PM 26/10/2004, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > Hello > > I was wandering if anybody out there has had any success using 3ware > 7506-8 cards with Freebsd 4.10. I was previously using a Promise > controller SX6000, and was having problems with this card. This is something of a FAQ. There's a long

Re: ffs_alloc panic patch

2004-10-26 Thread Don Lewis
On 27 Aug, Pavel Merdine wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to propose the following patch: > > -- > --- ffs_alloc.c.origFri May 14 19:03:50 2004 > +++ ffs_alloc.c Sat Aug 7 03:36:32 2004 > @@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ > minbfr

Re: 3ware raid

2004-10-26 Thread Darren Pilgrim
> Hello > > I was wandering if anybody out there has had any success using 3ware > 7506-8 cards with Freebsd 4.10. I was previously using a Promise > controller SX6000, and was having problems with this card. This is something of a FAQ. There's a long list of people using 3ware 6/7/8xxx series c

RE: ppp -nat broken???

2004-10-26 Thread Samuel Trommel
Just set named="NO" instead of "YES" reboot you server and(rc.conf). Change the DNS-Server of you clients in: Primary nameserver 195.62.99.42 Secundary nameserver 195.62.97.177 greets, Samuel Trommel -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Peter Ulrich Kruppa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden:

Plan for 5.3-RELEASE

2004-10-26 Thread Scott Long
All, Today was supposed to be the release day for 5.3, but some serious show-stoppers came to light yesterday. Since the purpose of 5.3 is to have a functionally stable release that is suitable for migrating to, we decided to hold up 5.3 until these issues are fixed. The first issue deals with T

Re: Dell CERC SATA RAID controller

2004-10-26 Thread Øyvin Halfdan Thuv
> hi all > > A client is buying some Dell Power Edge 700 servers. > Looking at the caratteristics of the producer, > it has a CERC SATA RAID 6 channel. > > From the Freebsd compatibility list i can see > that the driver i could use is aac(4) for > CERC SATA RAID 2 > > Can i use aac driver for the

Re: Change IP address

2004-10-26 Thread Xin LI
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:18:22AM -0400, Willie Winslow wrote: > I need to change the IP address of my FreeBSD box, it is also our Name > Server. > > I am aware that I need to change the following; > /etc/rc.conf > /etc/resolv.conf > /etc/namedb/mydomain.com Maybe /etc/hosts, which contains yo

RE: ppp -nat broken???

2004-10-26 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Samuel Trommel wrote: Oke.. are you using DHCP or static. No, I am using static. If i'm not right. Give us some more information about your setup.. i'm just guessing around now.. Really sorry about this, I set this up long ago and never thought about it again. Uli. greets, S

RE: ppp -nat broken???

2004-10-26 Thread Samuel Trommel
Oke.. are you using DHCP or static. I suppose you are using dhcp?? So i will give you a example of my dhcpd.conf: option domain-name "sam.intern"; option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.1; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.240; option broadcast-address 192.168.0.15

3ware raid

2004-10-26 Thread clarence
Hello I was wandering if anybody out there has had any success using 3ware 7506-8 cards with Freebsd 4.10. I was previously using a Promise controller SX6000, and was having problems with this card. Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lis

Re: Change IP address

2004-10-26 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Willie Winslow wrote: I need to change the IP address of my FreeBSD box, it is also our Name Server. I am aware that I need to change the following; /etc/rc.conf /etc/resolv.conf /etc/namedb/mydomain.com Is there anything else that needs to be changed? Perhaps /etc/hosts, but that depends on

Re: freebsd-stable Digest, Vol 84, Issue 2

2004-10-26 Thread Oren Baum
> Subject: Dell CERC SATA RAID controller Hi, We just finished configuring 2 Dell PowerEdge 700 series with the DELL CERC SATA controller. No problems on 4.10, used aac, recognized automatically. Ended up being the easiest part of the whole installation. Good Luck! Oren Baum UpOnline eMarketing

RE: ppp -nat broken???

2004-10-26 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Samuel Trommel wrote: Hello Peter, Oke, if you are using windows clients show me ipconfig /all. Windows-IP-Konfiguration Hostname: tiny Primäres DNS-Suffix : Knotentyp : H

Change IP address

2004-10-26 Thread Willie Winslow
I need to change the IP address of my FreeBSD box, it is also our Name Server. I am aware that I need to change the following; /etc/rc.conf /etc/resolv.conf /etc/namedb/mydomain.com Is there anything else that needs to be changed? Thanks, Willie Winslow Senior Systems Engineer Maine Mutual Gr

Future support for PERC 4e/XX cards

2004-10-26 Thread Gareth Hopkins
Howdie, Was wondering if the following cards would be supported in the near future by BSD 4.10. PERC 4e/Si and PERC 4e/Di. These are from the new Dell poweredge 1850 and 2850 servers. --- Gareth Hopkins System Operations UUNET ZA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Atheros Wireless Card

2004-10-26 Thread Talbot Neil
yep that fixed it thanks.. Stupid me Talbot - Original Message - From: "Simon Dick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Talbot Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 11:41 PM Subject: Re: Atheros Wireless Card > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 14:04, Talbot Neil

Re: Atheros Wireless Card

2004-10-26 Thread Simon Dick
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 14:04, Talbot Neil wrote: > Hi All, > > I am having troubles compiling the atheros card into the kernel. > I am getting compilation errors as follows: Try adding: device ath_hal to your kernel config file ___ [EMAIL

RE: ppp -nat broken???

2004-10-26 Thread Samuel Trommel
Hello Peter, Oke, if you are using windows clients show me ipconfig /all. And in the case of linux/unix /etc/resolv.conf. So if you don't using named(!?:) turn it off? You really need to give us some more information.. Samuel Trommel -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Peter Ulrich Kruppa [

Re: ppp -nat broken???

2004-10-26 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Samuel Trommel wrote: Hello, It has something to do with your DNS. Do the following: - show us your /etc/resolv.conf domain pukruppa.de nameserver 195.62.99.42 nameserver 195.62.97.177 - are you really sure named is configured correctly? No, until now I never had to configure

Atheros Wireless Card

2004-10-26 Thread Talbot Neil
Hi All, I am having troubles compiling the atheros card into the kernel. I am getting compilation errors as follows: -SNIP-- linking kernel if_ath.o(.text+0x6c): In function `ath_attach': : undefined reference to `ath_hal_attach' if_ath.o(.text+0x3073): In function `ath_tx_start': : un

Re: ppp -nat broken???

2004-10-26 Thread Samuel Trommel
Hello, It has something to do with your DNS. Do the following: - show us your /etc/resolv.conf - are you really sure named is configured correctly? greets, Samuel Trommel > > Hi! > > I wonder if userland ppp's nat option is broken or if I missed > something new. > > I am using my freebsd (5.3

ppp -nat broken???

2004-10-26 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hi! I wonder if userland ppp's nat option is broken or if I missed something new. I am using my freebsd (5.3-STABLE) machine as internet gateway. Everything works all-right from the gateway itself. From my workstations I can ping any IP in the internet, but domain names won't be resolved ("unkno