Re: OpenBSD changes virtual nic driver in vmware workstation?

2012-08-13 Thread Brian McKerr
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Guido Tschakert guido.tschak...@src-gmbh.de wrote: Am 13.08.2012 09:42, schrieb C. L. Martinez: Hi all, I am trying to do some tests with OpenBSD 5.1 and FreeBSD 9.1 beta in my laptop virtual lab based on vmware workstation 8. But I have found a

[CentOS] VMware tools not installing init.d script

2011-12-26 Thread Brian McKerr
Has anyone else seen this on Centos 6.x x64? Running vSphere 5.0 and I install tools from the VMware tar.gz file with ' vmware-install-tools.pl -d' it seems to do all the usual/right things. Once completed there is no 'vmware-tools' listed in 'chkconfig --list'. A reboot of the box leaves vmware

Re: [CentOS] VMware tools not installing init.d script

2011-12-26 Thread Brian McKerr
Hi, nothing in there I had checked. Cheers. On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 10:25 PM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Brian McKerr bmck...@gmail.com Running vSphere 5.0 and I install tools from the VMware tar.gz file with ' vmware-install-tools.pl -d' it seems to do all the usual

Re: [CentOS] Hard I/O lockup with EL6

2011-09-26 Thread Brian McKerr
Have you checked the cables you are using ? On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Benjamin Smith li...@benjamindsmith.comwrote: On Monday, September 26, 2011 12:36:19 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: a) have you checked /var/log/message for memory or drive errors? Looked through the logs, there's

Re: [CentOS] How to remove Microsoft soft raid?

2011-07-21 Thread Brian McKerr
I usually boot from the installer CD and go to a virtual terminal (Alt-F1). In the shell; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk-i-want-to-destroy bs=512 count=1 I'd guess that the partition table has some microsoft funkiness in it that needs to be wiped. Take, care with this, it can and does eat

Re: [CentOS] 1U firewall hardware

2011-05-15 Thread Brian McKerr
Does it have to be 1RU ? These are excellent; http://routerboard.com/index.php?showProduct=90 5 GIGABIT etc On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fiwrote: Hi List, I am looking for 1U firewall hardware, any ideas? Something like that (

Re: [CentOS] 1U firewall hardware

2011-05-15 Thread Brian McKerr
Sorry wrong URL; I was trying to point you to the RB750G model in particular. http://routerboard.com/pricelist.php?showProduct=90 Cheers. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Brian McKerr bmck...@gmail.com wrote: Does it have to be 1RU ? These are excellent; http://routerboard.com/index.php

Re: [CentOS] mail server best practices question

2010-05-10 Thread Brian McKerr
I use Mailscanner with postfix and Mailwatch to manage quarantine etc; http://mailscanner.info/ On the backup MX, I just use postfix and some basic anti-spam stuff. Very little gets through and even less gets through to the primary. I am aware that some spam techniques go straight to the backup

Re: [CentOS] Total Threads used in a system

2010-04-28 Thread Brian McKerr
I am aware that 'top' can be asked to show threads by pressing 'H'. The count of tasks then changes to include all threads. On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com wrote: Hi I know we can get the total number of processes running in the system using the 'ps -A'

Re: [storage-discuss] Disk Issues

2010-02-20 Thread Brian McKerr
Thanks everyone who has tried to help. this has gotten a bit crazier, I removed the 'faulty' drive and let the pool run in degraded mode. It would appear that now another drive has decided to play up; de-bash-4.0# zpool status pool: data state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices has

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] Disk Issues

2010-02-20 Thread Brian McKerr
Thanks everyone who has tried to help. this has gotten a bit crazier, I removed the 'faulty' drive and let the pool run in degraded mode. It would appear that now another drive has decided to play up; de-bash-4.0# zpool status pool: data state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices has

Re: [storage-discuss] Disk Issues

2010-02-11 Thread Brian McKerr
Further update... I have booted into system rescue cd again and ran 'badblocks -vws' on the suspect drive. The strange thing is that it passed the test without one single error ! Now I am stumped. Am I right in expecting there to be some kernel DMA messages/errors if the drive is having

Re: [storage-discuss] Disk Issues

2010-02-08 Thread Brian McKerr
Hello Brian Thanks for this interesting post to the forum. It's strange that you are not seeing the problem hard drive behaving slowly when using Linux. I think it strange also. Maybe I'll run up the system rescue CD again and perform a 'badblocks' on the drive. But then I think the

Re: [storage-discuss] Disk Issues

2010-02-08 Thread Brian McKerr
OK, changed the cable and the issue persists. I think the drive is bad. I'm going to boot into the system rescue CD and run a destructive bad blocks test on that particular drive. It will probably take overnight being a 1TB drive. At least my Raidz2 data should be preserved even although I'll

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk Issues

2010-02-08 Thread Brian McKerr
Ok, I changed the cable and also tried swapping the port on the motherboard. The drive continued to have huge asvc_t and also started to have huge wsvc_t. I unplugged it and the 'pool' is now operating as per expected performance wise. See the 'storage' forum for any further updates as I am now

[storage-discuss] Disk Issues

2010-02-07 Thread Brian McKerr
While not strictly a ZFS issue as such I thought I'd post here as this and the storage forums are my best bet in terms of getting some help. I have a machine that I recently set up with b130, b131 and b132. With each build I have been playing around with ZFS raidz2 and mirroring to do a little

[zfs-discuss] Disk Issues

2010-02-07 Thread Brian McKerr
While not strictly a ZFS issue as such I thought I'd post here as this and the storage forums are my best bet in terms of getting some help. I have a machine that I recently set up with b130, b131 and b132. With each build I have been playing around with ZFS raidz2 and mirroring to do a little

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk Issues

2010-02-07 Thread Brian McKerr
I'd say your easiest two options are swap ports and see if the problem follows the drive. If it does, swap the drive out. --Tim ___ Yep, that sounds like a plan. Thanks for your suggestion. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[install-discuss] H55 Chipset and i3/i5 Clarkdale support ?

2010-01-23 Thread Brian McKerr
I just bought a new clarkdale intel i3 CPU, with recommended H55 chipset motherboard and cannot get it to install either b130 or b131. Does anyone have this combination working ? It hangs after showing the kernel banner. I tried a verbose boot and it seemed to stop at 'ehci'. I tried setting

[osol-help] H55 Chipset and i3/i5 Clarkdale support ?

2010-01-23 Thread Brian McKerr
I just bought a new clarkdale intel i3 CPU, with recommended H55 chipset motherboard and cannot get it to install either b130 or b131. Does anyone have this combination working ? It hangs after showing the kernel banner. I tried a verbose boot and it seemed to stop at 'ehci'. I tried setting

[osol-help] H55 Chipset and i3/i5 Clarkdale support ?

2010-01-23 Thread Brian McKerr
I just bought a new clarkdale intel i3 CPU, with recommended H55 chipset motherboard and cannot get it to install either b130 or b131. Does anyone have this combination working ? It hangs after showing the kernel banner. I tried a verbose boot and it seemed to stop at 'ehci'. I tried setting

[zfs-discuss] Separate Zil on HDD ?

2009-12-02 Thread Brian McKerr
Hi all, I have a home server based on SNV_127 with 8 disks; 2 x 500GB mirrored root pool 6 x 1TB raidz2 data pool This server performs a few functions; NFS : for several 'lab' ESX virtual machines NFS : mythtv storage (videos, music, recordings etc) Samba : for home directories for all

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to compare two files but not in line-by-line basis?

2009-12-02 Thread Brian McKerr
diff -y ? On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Simon Banton cen...@web.org.uk wrote: At 08:54 + 2/12/09, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I compare two files but not in line-by-line basis on my CentOS server ? I mean say row#1 in file1 has the

[zfs-discuss] Backing up ZVOLs

2009-11-14 Thread Brian McKerr
Hello all, Are there any best practices / recommendations for ways of doing this ? In this case the ZVOLs would be iSCSI LUNS containing ESX VMs .I am aware of the of the need for the VMs to be quiesced for the backups to be useful. Cheers. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up ZVOLs

2009-11-14 Thread Brian McKerr
Thanks for the help. I was curious whether the zfs send|receive was considered suitable given a few things I've read which said somethings along the lines of don't count on being able to restore this stuff. Ideally that is what I would use with the 'incremental' option so as to only backup

[xen-discuss] xVM Ready for serious use ?

2009-10-15 Thread Brian McKerr
I currently have 2 x ESXi boxes that have VMs stored on a NFS/iSCSI debian lenny linux box. I had purchased a new whitebox server as an intended replacement for the linux box. I had always planned on installing opensolaris on the new hardware with this config; 2 x 640GB mirrored rpool 6 x

Re: [xen-discuss] xVM Ready for serious use ?

2009-10-15 Thread Brian McKerr
Question 2: Answer - No. You cant run virtualbox in dom0. When you try and install the package; ## Executing postinstall script. ## VirtualBox cannot run under xVM Dom0! Fatal Error, Aborting installation! pkgadd: ERROR: postinstall script did not complete successfully -- This message posted

Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-30 Thread Brian McKerr
Slightly OT... Opensolaris has just had triple parity raid (raidz3) added to ZFS; http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/triple_parity_raid_z Pity we can't get an in kernel version of ZFS for linux. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009

[CentOS] ignore please.

2009-09-30 Thread Brian McKerr
testing email delivery ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to setup a secondary DNS server pulling zones from Win2k3?

2009-03-05 Thread Brian McKerr
I found this useful... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd316373.aspx On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, we have a mixed environment at work: CentOS + Win2003 servers. The Win2k3 part contains: AD, DNS (inlc. dyndns), DHCP,

Re: [CentOS] Can sound be redirected from a remote computer to local computer?

2009-01-10 Thread Brian McKerr
Try NX from nomachine.com. The Free version FreeNX is in the centos extras repo. - partha chowdhury kira.lau...@gmail.com wrote: dcw wrote: I need to redirect the sound from a remote Centos 5.2 computer to my local Centos 5.2 computer. Both are i386 OS. Searching the web and

Re: [CentOS] Creating a Roaming imap account

2008-02-05 Thread Brian McKerr
- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This (CentOS5.1) box is my new imap server. Using system-config-security-level I opened port 143 tcp, and mail is readable throughout the LAN. I want a Roaming account on my laptop so that I can read mail while away from home. I have set up

Re: [CentOS] Creating a Roaming imap account

2008-02-05 Thread Brian McKerr
- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This (CentOS5.1) box is my new imap server. Using system-config-security-level I opened port 143 tcp, and mail is readable throughout the LAN. I want a Roaming account on my laptop so that I can read mail while away from home. I have set up

Re: [CentOS] Creating a Roaming imap account

2008-02-05 Thread Brian McKerr
- Brian McKerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This (CentOS5.1) box is my new imap server. Using system-config-security-level I opened port 143 tcp, and mail is readable throughout the LAN. I want a Roaming account on my laptop so that I

[Bacula-users] Mount/Unmount/Automount

2006-07-17 Thread Brian McKerr
Hello, Am I doing something wrong ? I have a single DLT320 drive and each day when I eject the last backup tape, I have to manually mount the next tape otherwise the next backup will sit waiting for a mount request. Is there a way to tell bacula to automount the tape in the drive ? Reason

[Bacula-users] Command line history...

2006-07-17 Thread Brian McKerr
Hello, Has a feature been requested to have full GNU Readline support embedded in bconsole ? Is it feasible ? It would be nice, If we could get it to ignore blank lines in history ! also, shouldn't the 'autodisplay' command be a toggle that doesn't need a switch ? Cheers, Brian.

Netgear WG311 and ath driver on amd64.

2005-10-01 Thread Brian McKerr
Hello all, I went and bought a netgear WG311 PCI 54g (Wg311GE) card the other day to put in my firewall. I intended to use this is as an access point for a WLAN. This card is listed in the support hardware section on the openbsd website under i386 but not amd64. Anyways, I grabbed the

ath hostap and carp ?

2005-09-29 Thread Brian McKerr
Hello all, can anyone tell me if running 'ath' based cards in hostap mode is reliable and stable ? I'm deciding whether to get a linksys wrt54g or to throw an ath based card in my firewall and run it as the AP. Also, does anyone know if I can run carp on wireless cards ? Specifically, I

Re: ntpq -p equiv with openNTP?

2005-07-24 Thread Brian McKerr
stan wrote: Is there a way to do soemthing like ntpq -p with OpenBSD's OpenNTPD? I really just want a quick way to assure myself that a given machine is in synch. No, but you can send us some code Only joking ;-) I'd like that option also.

Snapshot from 03/June : spamd working ?

2005-06-17 Thread Brian McKerr
Hello all, Not sure if I'm missing something here with spamd so I thought I'd ask the experts. I have it setup with the default config file (snipped) ; [fw1]# cat /etc/spamd.conf all:\ :spamhaus:china:korea: # Mirrored from http://spfilter.openrbl.org/data/sbl/SBL.cidr.bz2

Re: Snapshot from 03/June : spamd working ?

2005-06-17 Thread Brian McKerr
Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Brian McKerr wrote: I also have the relevant pf rule in place; [firewall]# pfctl -vsn rdr inet proto tcp from spamd to any port = smtp - 127.0.0.1 port 8025 [ Evaluations: 104628Packets: 0 Bytes: 0 States: 0 ] [ Inserted: uid

Re: Snapshot from 03/June : spamd working ?

2005-06-17 Thread Brian McKerr
Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Brian McKerr wrote: You mean a basic SMTP pass in ? This has been allowing mail to the mailserver for years, its only this week that I tried the Spamd thingo pfctl -sr | grep -i smtp pass in log quick on fxp0 proto tcp from any to any port

Re: Snapshot from 03/June : spamd working ?

2005-06-17 Thread Brian McKerr
Steve Tornio wrote: FEATURE(`dnsbl',`relays.ordb.org', `Rejected - see http://ordb.org/')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl',`sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org',`Rejected - see http://spamhaus.org/')dnl Jun 17 19:49:29 inetmail sendmail[13126]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=[210.213.176.247], arg2=127.0.0.4,

Re: Snapshot from 03/June : spamd working ?

2005-06-17 Thread Brian McKerr
Steve Tornio wrote: Because those addresses are in the XBL, not the SBL. The XBL is populated by entries from the CBL, which are added when virus-like or worm-like behavior is detected, and entries are removed at the first request. Doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to try to create a

pf and rdr pass nat

2005-06-08 Thread Brian McKerr
The man page says; If the pass modifier is given, packets matching the translation rule are passed without inspecting the filter rules: I like this as it will reduce the size of my rules file, however, how can I rdr pass and have it honour (for want of a better word) altq ? Cheers,

Sun Netra T1 105

2005-06-02 Thread Brian McKerr
I am thinking of getting one (or two) of these for my new firewall, just curious if nayone has any opinions on its suitability in such a role. Spec as follows; 64bit 360mhz CPU (IIi) 128mb RAM 1 x 18gb 10krpm 2 x integrated NIC 1x PCI (which I intend to put a dual port compaq/intel NIC in)

[linux-dvb] Re: Nebula installation and nxt6000 fault

2003-12-10 Thread Brian McKerr
I am installing a Nebula DigiTV board but with a few issues. Have followed the various README's and sailed in the draught of a number of postings in this mailing list but seem stuck. Any help here is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Robert Cook The version of Linux is Mandrake 9.2

[linux-dvb] Re: First attempt with Nebula DigiTV card

2003-12-02 Thread Brian McKerr
Clyde Stubbs wrote: I didn't go through all your message in detail, but two things leapt out; Forget about the insmod script - use make install in the build-2.4 directory, then use this script: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg10969/dvb-nebula to start and stop the card (ignore

[linux-dvb] Nebula PCI - kernel 2.6 or 2.4 ?

2003-10-13 Thread Brian McKerr
G'day all, I've just purchased a Nebula DVB-t PCI card, works a treat under windows but I'm having some difficulty getting it working under linux. I'm using slackware 9.1 which has a 2.4.22 kernel, and have followed the HOWTO here;