Re: ZFS Snaphost Hardware RAID

2009-11-17 Thread krad
2009/11/16 Johan Hendriks jo...@double-l.nl Hello all. I plan to set up backup server with 24x1Tb HDD and use ZFS with FreeBSD-8.0 on it. I prefare to have ZFS only system but as I see there is no any easy way to do so. I would like to use ZFS snapshots - is I undestand right what

Re: panic? i386 on dell duo

2009-11-17 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: [snip] my network bud down in dallas is helping me get the dell as my new server. my old hp kayak is from 1998 and on its death-bed. okay: i have 7.2-R, i386. installs fine. jon horne changed the IP that the op sys | DHCP suite chose from 10.47.0.112 to 10.47.0.230.

Re: Partition naming, fstab, and geli

2009-11-17 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:01:26 -0500, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: I tend to use 'a' if the drive will be entirely one slice and one partition used for some special work or scratch space, but stick with 'd..h' if there will be more than one partition and just leave 'a' alone - for no

Re: Partition naming, fstab, and geli

2009-11-17 Thread tk
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 02:45:15PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:01:26 -0500, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: As for 'd' vs 'e', sometime a long time and many generations ago there was a convention of reserving 'd' for something. I don't remember what it was. It

Lockup problems with USB disks

2009-11-17 Thread David Jackson
I have a USB hard drive. Whenever I open two programs which utilise the USB hard drive simultaneously, these programs, i assume when they attempt to write to the hard drive lock up due to what i suspect must be some issue with the USB driver and perhaps a deadlock involving multiple

Re: no sshd on new server...

2009-11-17 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:12:36 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:31:49PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: By the way, it's not a problem if /etc/rc.conf is empty. In this case, defaults are used, but: % grep sshd /etc/defaults/rc.conf sshd_enable=NO

Re: freebsd partitions on a dos/fat slice?

2009-11-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 02:52:57AM -0700, Peter wrote: iH, Pulled an old disk lying around... and started mounting partitions in it. The weird thing is that the first slice [~15GB] is said to be fat, but I do have freebsd partitions on it: denver:#mount|grep ad10 /dev/ad10s1a on

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-17 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 285, Issue 3, Message 28 On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:16:27 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 09:43:31PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:23:58 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Install the

Re: Lockup problems with USB disks

2009-11-17 Thread David Jackson
I apologise if this was posted more than once, for some reason the emails i sent were not reflected back to me, so i assumed they had not gone through , i checked the archive on the web page and they were there. For some reason some messages are not coming through on my gmail account. David

Re: Lockup problems with USB disks

2009-11-17 Thread Maciej Milewski
Dnia wtorek 17 listopad 2009 o 15:18:22 David Jackson napisał(a): I am using FreeBSD 7.1. It is annoying behaviour to say the least and I wonder what can be done about it, and if this issue is being addressed, perhaps in the recent redesign of the USB code. It seems to be a pretty consistent

jail - beginner questions

2009-11-17 Thread Laszlo Nagy
I'm experimenting with jails. I have installed a 7.2 stable FreeBSD inside vmware. Then I have created two jails, using the method written in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-build.html The only thing that didn't work is this: cd /etc make

Re: flashplugin

2009-11-17 Thread David Collins
I have periodically tested with getting flash working, and everytime I try it fails and I go back to undoing everything I have done and re-installing gnash. Gnash works but it does have a few niggles. I tried the following: This is what I did for a 7.2 box. Note that there are compatibility

Re: panic? i386 on dell duo

2009-11-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:23:53AM -0500, Michael Powell wrote: Gary Kline wrote: [snip] my network bud down in dallas is helping me get the dell as my new server. my old hp kayak is from 1998 and on its death-bed. okay: i have 7.2-R, i386. installs fine. jon horne changed the

hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Dánielisz László
Hello, My computer get starts to reboot all the time I do a higher hdd use (like: fsck, copying more GB of data). I was sure that my power supply its not enough so I changed it (300W-450W), now it does the same. I'm looking for a tool to measure the exactly power consumiton (voltage and amper)

Re: no sshd on new server...

2009-11-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:01:17PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:12:36 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:31:49PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: By the way, it's not a problem if /etc/rc.conf is empty. In this case, defaults are used, but:

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:43:04 -0800 (PST), Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm looking for a tool to measure the exactly power consumiton (voltage and amper) of my hdd, cpu and ram on FreeBSD. Do you have any idea? Not exactly every item, but there are tools in the ports,

Re: no sshd on new server...

2009-11-17 Thread Adam Vande More
all right, all right. it might be better to default on the side of security. but it takes s much more to login remote via ssh that it seems fairly secure to me if it were enabled. ... . not if you preseed your auth keys, then it's a passwordless secure

Re: no sshd on new server...

2009-11-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:01:17PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:12:36 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:31:49PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: By the way, it's not a problem if /etc/rc.conf is empty. In this

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Nov 17, 2009, at 7:51 AM, Ian Smith wrote: [ ... ] For instance, I've got two Fujitsu 5400rpm 2.5 drives in two laptops, one MHV2040AH with near 19,000 hours on it, and a much newer MHV2120AH, 40 and 120GB respectively. Nice quiet low-power laptop drives, fwiw. Both show as (more

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Outback Dingo
start looking for a bad memory chip or io controller, any error messages or anything ? to provide ? 2009/11/17 Polytropon free...@edvax.de On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:43:04 -0800 (PST), Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm looking for a tool to measure the exactly power

pf in FreeBSD 8.0-RCx

2009-11-17 Thread Matt S
Hello All, There seems to be an issue with pf (at startup/boot time) where I get an error message about no IP address being associated with an interface. The only way I can get pf to load the rule set is to load it at the command line by using pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf. I have tried changing the

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:57:26 -0500, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote: start looking for a bad memory chip or io controller, any error messages or anything ? to provide ? I would guess into a similar direction. Unexpected reboots... maybe run a memtest CD, followed by a make

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Maciej Milewski
Dnia wtorek 17 listopad 2009 o 18:43:04 Dánielisz László napisał(a): Hello, My computer get starts to reboot all the time I do a higher hdd use (like: fsck, copying more GB of data). I was sure that my power supply its not enough so I changed it (300W-450W), now it does the same. I'm

where to find libintl.so.8

2009-11-17 Thread Len Conrad
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0 portsnap'd today running ver 1.2.8 of rdiff-backup which gets: ImportError: Shared object libintl.so.8 not found, required by librsync.so.1 thanks Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Polytropon free...@edvax.de: On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:43:04 -0800 (PST), Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm looking for a tool to measure the exactly power consumiton (voltage and amper) of my hdd, cpu and ram on FreeBSD. Do you have any idea? Not

Re: where to find libintl.so.8

2009-11-17 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:23:47 +0100, Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com wrote: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0 portsnap'd today running ver 1.2.8 of rdiff-backup which gets: ImportError: Shared object libintl.so.8 not found, required by librsync.so.1 The intl library

Re: where to find libintl.so.8

2009-11-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Len Conrad wrote: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0 portsnap'd today running ver 1.2.8 of rdiff-backup which gets: ImportError: Shared object libintl.so.8 not found, required by librsync.so.1 thanks Len This is installed by the devel/gettext port. It is probably

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:27:20 -0500, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: Not all power supplies are created equal. Unfortunately, there's no government oversight on power supply ratings, thus a cheap 450W power supply might go unstable if it has to supply 200W for very long, whereas a

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 07:37:00PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: Additionally, are you sure your service power is good? Even the best power supply will fail if you're not getting 120V/60H at the outlet (or whatever voltage/freq you're supposed to get in your part of the world). In Germany,

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Dánielisz László
Thank you guys for the interest you bring solving my issue! Actualy I noticed one thing for sure: I have to hdd-s in my PC, an 80GB Seagate ATA (the o.s. boot hdd) and one 1T Seagate SATA (only for storage), there were no problems when I used just the 80GB neither with the 1T, I noticed only

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, all-- On Nov 17, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Bill Moran wrote: [ ... ] Not all power supplies are created equal. Unfortunately, there's no government oversight on power supply ratings, thus a cheap 450W power supply might go unstable if it has to supply 200W for very long, whereas a good quality

Re: Lockup problems with USB disks

2009-11-17 Thread David Jackson
Thank you. I took a look. I was just wondering if this was a known bug, is it normal, etc. Maciej Milewski wrote: Dnia wtorek 17 listopad 2009 o 15:18:22 David Jackson napisał(a): I have a USB hard drive. Whenever I open two programs which utilise the USB hard drive simultaneously, these

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:43:04AM -0800, Dánielisz László wrote: Hello, My computer get starts to reboot all the time I do a higher hdd use (like: fsck, copying more GB of data). I was sure that my power supply its not enough so I changed it (300W-450W), now it does the same. I'm looking

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Dánielisz László
Right now I'm done with almost 20GB download from the BSD machine to my laptop by ftp, and 5GB to the BSD from http, in the mean while I've done almost 40GB of torrentflux's checking existing data and I do a make install to a port, all in the same time and everything is working great. I hope it

Re: Lockup problems on FreeBSD disks

2009-11-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 06:39:15PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: I have a USB hard drive. Whenever I open two programs which utilise the USB hard drive simultaneously, these programs, i assume when they attempt to write to the hard drive lock up due to what i suspect must be snip This

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Dánielisz László
Roland, I installed mbmon, it looks like its a great application, but I have a question, I google it and I found no answers yet. With mbmon -r what values do you get? I figured out some but the rest I have no idea for what stands for. # mbmon -r TEMP0 : 42.0 TEMP1 : 67.0 TEMP2 : 67.0

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:14:10 -0800 (PST), Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com wrote: Roland, I installed mbmon, it looks like its a great application, but I have a question, I google it and I found no answers yet. With mbmon -r what values do you get? I figured out some but the

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:14:10PM -0800, Dánielisz László wrote: Roland, I installed mbmon, it looks like its a great application, but I have a question, I google it and I found no answers yet. With mbmon -r what values do you get? I figured out some but the rest I have no idea for

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Laszlo Nagy gand...@shopzeus.com writes: I'm experimenting with jails. I have installed a 7.2 stable FreeBSD inside vmware. Then I have created two jails, using the method written in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-build.html The only thing

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:58:04 +0100, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: One pure electron a day keeps the plague[1] away... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague Sorry, couldn't resist. ;-) I'm a doctor, not a resistor. So I couldn't resist, too. Electricity is actually

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Nov 17, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Polytropon wrote: V12N : +0.97 - Reference -12.0 Volt V50N : +1.99 - Seems to be reference -5.0 Volt, but looks strange As you can see in relation to your output, your board seems to put other values on the default named output lines, e. g.

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Dánielisz László
Thank you very much! I just got a tip, it's called munin. From: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl To: Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, November 17, 2009 9:34:12 PM Subject: Re: hdd voltage On Tue, Nov 17,

Wester Digital 'deep recovery cycle' and gstripe?

2009-11-17 Thread Modulok
List, Has anyone used 'Wester Digital Caviar Black' disks in a gstripe? I'm building a 2TB gstripe, from 3x 1TB disks. My concern, is the disks are 'consumer grade' disks. Western Digital mention not to use them with a raid controller as they have a potential, 'deep recovery cycle', which an

Re: Wester Digital 'deep recovery cycle' and gstripe?

2009-11-17 Thread Josef Grosch
Modulok wrote: List, Has anyone used 'Wester Digital Caviar Black' disks in a gstripe? I'm building a 2TB gstripe, from 3x 1TB disks. My concern, is the disks are 'consumer grade' disks. Western Digital mention not to use them with a raid controller as they have a potential, 'deep recovery

Re: Wester Digital 'deep recovery cycle' and gstripe?

2009-11-17 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: List, Has anyone used 'Wester Digital Caviar Black' disks in a gstripe? I'm building a 2TB gstripe, from 3x 1TB disks. My concern, is the disks are 'consumer grade' disks. Western Digital mention not to use them with a raid

Re: flashplugin

2009-11-17 Thread David Jackson
I never had tried to install Linux flash. I did install Windows flash under Firefox on Wine and it worked. I found that the freebsd port for Wine would not work but if I downloaded the source from WineHQ and compiled it would work fine, however, i tried a more recent version of Wine which did

Re: Wester Digital 'deep recovery cycle' and gstripe?

2009-11-17 Thread Modulok
Correction, it would be a graid3 setup. Sorry. -Modulok- On 11/17/09, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: List, Has anyone used 'Wester Digital Caviar Black' disks in a gstripe? I'm building a 2TB gstripe, from 3x

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-17 Thread Laszlo Nagy
No, I think you added the '/' before 'etc', which isn't in the web page. Gotcha. Is the problem perhaps in your /etc/rc.d/vm1 script? Normally you would use /etc/rc.d/jail. Yes, I'm. Sorry - it was a typo. I used this: /etc/rc.d/jail start vm1 Are those addresses already assigned

Re: no sshd on new server...

2009-11-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 07:54:14PM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Gary Kline wrote: There is a question during sysinstall: Would you like to enable ssh login? Guess you answered no there? i didn't see this question -- or don't remember seeing it. -- Gary Kline

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread James Phillips
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:01:15 -0800 (PST) From: D?nielisz L?szl? laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: hdd voltage To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 615511.15311...@web30804.mail.mud.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Thank you guys for the interest

State of interface polling in FreeBSD

2009-11-17 Thread Brett Glass
I'm building a FreeBSD router based on a small, Intel Atom-based board and am trying to decide whether or not to configure the kernel for polling. What's the current state of interface polling in FreeBSD? Is it worth doing with a single CPU, or will it actually increase system overhead? What

Re: State of interface polling in FreeBSD

2009-11-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Nov 17, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Brett Glass wrote: I'm building a FreeBSD router based on a small, Intel Atom-based board and am trying to decide whether or not to configure the kernel for polling. What's the current state of interface polling in FreeBSD? Is it worth doing with a single

Re: bash prompt update lagging

2009-11-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 16/11/09 Polytropon said: Your PS1 seems to include ${SHORT_PWD}, a variable. It seems that it is not updated immediately after the cd command. Yeah, looks like it. Works on linux though... By the way, this is bash-3.2.25 on FreeBSD/x86 7. bash-4.0.33_2 on x86 6.3. Is this what you've

Re: Wester Digital 'deep recovery cycle' and gstripe?

2009-11-17 Thread TJ Varghese
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: List, Has anyone used 'Wester Digital Caviar Black' disks in a gstripe? I'm building a 2TB gstripe, from 3x 1TB disks. My concern, is the disks are 'consumer grade' disks. Western Digital mention not to use them with a raid

ELF library not found error

2009-11-17 Thread Peter Steele
I did a search for this error and got numerous hits, none which really seemed to explain my situation. I've installed an 8.0 RC3 system and included Python 2.5, 2.6, and 3.1. The 2.6 version appears to run fine. However, for both 2.5 and 3.1 I get the error: ELF interpreter

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-17 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Nov 17, 2009, at 7:51 AM, Ian Smith wrote: [ ... ] For instance, I've got two Fujitsu 5400rpm 2.5 drives in two laptops, one MHV2040AH with near 19,000 hours on it, and a much newer MHV2120AH, 40 and 120GB respectively. Nice quiet low-power

Do permissions take time to take effect?

2009-11-17 Thread James Phillips
Hello, I wanted to create a shared directory writable by all users. When it initially failed, I assumed there may be a blanket ban on writing to directories owned by root. Today, I was able to write to the root-owned Share directory. However, when I re-created the directory owned by a

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-17 Thread Michael Svobodin
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:41:14PM +0430, Laszlo Nagy wrote: My computer is a windows machine, with address 192.168.0.X Then the FreeBSD host is actually a guest os running in wvmare. It has address 192.168.37.133 And finally, the vm1 jail should have 192.168.0.11 I don't know why

Re: Do permissions take time to take effect?

2009-11-17 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:49 PM, James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.cawrote: Hello, I wanted to create a shared directory writable by all users. When it initially failed, I assumed there may be a blanket ban on writing to directories owned by root. Today, I was able to write to the

RE: ELF library not found error

2009-11-17 Thread Peter Steele
I should have mentioned that this shared library mentioned in the error is in fact present. For some reason though these apps seem to think it's missing... -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Peter Steele

Re: ELF library not found error

2009-11-17 Thread Norbert Papke
On November 17, 2009, Peter Steele wrote: I've installed an 8.0 RC3 system and included Python 2.5, 2.6, and 3.1. The 2.6 version appears to run fine. However, for both 2.5 and 3.1 I get the error: ELF interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found What might cause this error? If you

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread TJ Varghese
2009/11/18 Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com: Hello, My computer get starts to reboot all the time I do a higher hdd use (like: fsck, copying more GB of data). I was sure that my power supply its not enough so I changed it (300W-450W), now it does the same. I'm looking for a

RE: 8.0-RC3 USB lock up on mounting two partitions from one USB drive

2009-11-17 Thread Guojun Jin
Did newfs on those partition and made things worsen -- restore completely fails: (I had experienced another similar problem on an IDE, which works well for 6.4 and 7.2, but 8.0.) This dirve works fine under FreeBSD 6.4. Is something new in 8.0 making disk partition schema changed?

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Dánielisz László
Hello, Indeed, my CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.53GHz (2530.04-MHz 686-class CPU) and 1GB of RAM, the fs used on both of the hard drives is ufs2. Now my machine is up 'till yesterday and everything is working fine. From: TJ Varghese t...@tjvarghese.com To: