Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD

2011-03-30 Thread Marian Hettwer
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:15:27 +0200, Marko Lerota mler...@claresco.hr wrote: Pete French petefre...@ingresso.co.uk writes: Am impressed - I didnt realise it was possible at all under amd64! I ended up using 'gnash' which doesnt really do the job to be honest, but it better than nothing. These

Re: MFC of ZFSv15

2010-09-16 Thread Marian Hettwer
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:42:40 +0200, Guido Falsi m...@madpilot.net wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 07:44:31AM +0200, Martin Matuska wrote: I have fixed the missing bits in r212688. Thanks for the notice. Just a thank you message for the v15 development, MFS and this fast fix. Maybe this is

Re: MFC of ZFSv15

2010-09-16 Thread Marian Hettwer
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:42:36 +0200, Guido Falsi m...@madpilot.net wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:53:02AM +0100, Marian Hettwer wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:42:40 +0200, Guido Falsi m...@madpilot.net wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 07:44:31AM +0200, Martin Matuska wrote: I have fixed

Re: net-booting the install disks (Re: 8.x grudges)

2010-07-12 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Adam, Am 12.07.10 19:11, schrieb Adam Vande More: Automated installations have existed on FreeBSD for a long time. You can do this either via netboot or CD based media. Also rolling your own FreeBSD media with custom changes is trivial compared the linux distro's I'm familar with. I

Re: net-booting the install disks (Re: 8.x grudges)

2010-07-12 Thread Marian Hettwer
Am 12.07.10 19:37, schrieb Mikhail T.: 12.07.2010 13:11, Adam Vande More wrote: Roll it into your media You lost me right here... Rolling one's own media (for every release and release-candidate) may be Ok for someone in charge of making, at least, several installations per week. For

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-08 Thread Marian Hettwer
Am 07.07.10 22:52, schrieb Mikhail T.: 07.07.2010 16:34, Randi Harper ???(??): Attached is the kernel config-file (i386), that worked fine under 7.x. The kernel-compile will break (some *freebsd7* structs undefined), without the COMPAT_FREEBSD7 option. Try it for yourself... Don't

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-08 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi jhell, ehm... Am 08.07.10 14:46, wrote jhell: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/08/2010 06:54, for whatever Marian Hettwer wrote: I certainly not wrote the text below. That's what, I guess, you wrote. Your MUA is defect. And honestly, I don't know why that's a reply

Re: 8.0-RELEASE - -STABLE and size of /

2010-01-22 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi All, On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:21:56 +0100, Oliver Brandmueller o...@e-gitt.net wrote: Hi, I just noticed somthing: I setup an 8.0-RELEASE amd64 box, / is default 512M. First step after setup was to csup to RELENG_8 and buildkernel and buildworld (no custom kernel, no make.conf).

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-16 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hej Marcel, On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:46:27 -0800, Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com wrote: Yes, if you have ad2a and not ad2s1a, then you have a proper dangerously dedicated disk and FreeBSD 8.x will work correctly with your disk. If you installed dangerously dedicated and ended up with

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-16 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hej Ho, On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:55:38 +0200, Andriy Gapon a...@icyb.net.ua wrote: on 16/12/2009 11:28 Marian Hettwer said the following: Hej Marcel, On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:46:27 -0800, Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com wrote: Yes, if you have ad2a and not ad2s1a, then you have a proper

update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-15 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Folks, today I did an update from 7.2-RELEASE-p4 to 8.0-RELEASE using freebsd-update. Everything went smooth, apart from the fact that I can't mount my second disk. It's all a bit puzzling... Here are the facts: [r...@talisker ~]# cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpointFStype

Re: Vulnerability question

2009-06-30 Thread Marian Hettwer
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:08:32 +0200, Harald Weis ha...@free.fr wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:40:52PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:56:54PM +0200, Harald Weis wrote: Building lxdvdrip stops because linux-pango has known vulnerabilities. You can ignore

nvidia quadro fx 1300 doesn't work

2008-11-25 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Folks, I'm having trouble getting the nvidia.ko recognizing my nvidia card. As far as I understood the nvidia website, the card itself should be supported. To the facts: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x023810de chip=0x00fe10de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia

Re: du and df don't agree

2008-11-11 Thread Marian Hettwer
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:55:30 +0100, Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:22:42AM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen typed: Ruben de Groot wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:21:11PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein typed: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:01:00AM -0500, Stephen Clark

Re: Script-friendly (parseble) ps(1) output?

2008-10-30 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi, On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:45:12 +0200, Aragon Gouveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | By Eduardo Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [ 2008-10-30 00:04 +0200 ] Hello, I need to write a cgi script which will print the output from ps(1) in a table (html), so the

RELENG_7 nvidia xorg hard lock

2008-09-12 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi All, I'm testing 7.1 Prerelease right now and am having difficulties to get my xorg with nvidia up and running. I updated from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~uname -a FreeBSD motor.mobile.rz 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Mon Aug 4 16:54:32 CEST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

Re: RELENG_7 nvidia xorg hard lock

2008-09-12 Thread Marian Hettwer
nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED] nvidia0: [ITHREAD] Something is odd here... On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:00:32 +0200, Marian Hettwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm testing 7.1 Prerelease right now and am having difficulties to get my xorg with nvidia up and running. I updated from: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-04 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Dan, On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:45:00 -0600, Dan Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may be interested to know, however, that some people ALSO use it as a desktop system. ;-) I second that! :) I for one really love FreeBSD on a server, 'cause it has a (to me) perfect setup of tools to use on a

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-04 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hej Guido, On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:07:36 +0200, Guido Falsi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:58:27AM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: I hope everyone realizes that I am not trying to de-server FreeBSD. I just remember how daunting it was for me to get X setup when all I wanted to

Re: ssh-keygen between SuSE and FreeBSD

2008-08-14 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Gavin, On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:30:47 -0700, Gavin Spomer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh, not sure. Head spinning now. ;) 1. I have a Mac, SuSE server and a FreeBSD server. 2. I can ssh from my Mac to SuSE server without having to type in my password. 3. I can ssh from my Mac to FreeBSD

lagg(4) and failover

2008-08-12 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Folks, I'm using lagg(4) on some of our servers and I'm just wondering how the failover is implemented. The manpage isn't quite clear: failover Sends and receives traffic only through the master port. If the master port becomes unavailable, the next active port is

Re: lagg(4) and failover

2008-08-12 Thread Marian Hettwer
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:55:52 +0800, Eugene Grosbein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:37:15PM +0200, Marian Hettwer wrote: I'm using lagg(4) on some of our servers and I'm just wondering how the failover is implemented. The manpage isn't quite clear: failover

Re: lagg(4) and failover

2008-08-12 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Pete, On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:30:12 +0100, Pete French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, IMO lacp doesn't solve that problem. lacp is used for link aggregation, not failover. It does both - if one of the links becomes unavailable then it will stop using it. We use this for failover and it

Re: lagg(4) and failover

2008-08-12 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Max, On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:00:18 +0200, Max Laier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats unfortunate... bonding in Linux is capable of doing this and solaris too. Well then. At least everythings clear now. And in the end, clarifing things was the reason for that mail thread :) You are looking

Re: lagg(4) and failover

2008-08-12 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Peter, On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:03:07 +1000, Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-Aug-12 13:43:29 +0200, Marian Hettwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lagg is to handle failover at the physical layer for when one of your ether ports fails, or someone unplugs a cable. If I understand you

Re: should looking at an interface with 'ifconfig' trigger a?change ?

2008-08-08 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Oliver, On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:18:36 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Thompson wrote: Pete French wrote: The bce driver is not properly generating link state events. OK, that explains why it doesnt failover - but why does looking at it with

Re: no serial console for ttyd0 HP Blade

2008-07-02 Thread Marian Hettwer
.1.irq=4 hint.sio.0.at=isa hint.sio.0.port=0x2F8 hint.sio.0.irq=3 Looks reasonable to me. I'll give it a shot. Thank you :) best regards, Marian On Jul 1, 2008, at 8:23 AM, Marian Hettwer wrote: I installed a recent (as of today) RELENG_7 on one of our HP Blades. Unluckily my serial output

Re: no serial console for ttyd0 HP Blade

2008-07-02 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi there, On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 23:36:51 -0700, Ulf Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also remember that the blades have 2 serial ports, one can be accessed via a dongle in the front of the blade and I believe that is what usual would be called COM1 by default. The virtual serial via ilo takes

Re: no serial console for ttyd0 HP Blade

2008-07-02 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Jeremy, On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:27:41 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:16:41AM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: I'll bet you that sio is deciding that com1 or not, it's sio1 (not sio0) which can be fixed with the changes I mention below. On Jul 1, 2008, at

Re: no serial console for ttyd0 HP Blade

2008-07-02 Thread Marian Hettwer
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:16:41 -0700, Jo Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll bet you that sio is deciding that com1 or not, it's sio1 (not sio0) which can be fixed with the changes I mention below. puuuh, well, with your suggested change, I do get a login prompt now (at ttyd1 it says), but I

no serial console for ttyd0 HP Blade

2008-07-01 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi All, I installed a recent (as of today) RELENG_7 on one of our HP Blades. Unluckily my serial output stops right when a getty at ttyd0 should kick in. So I'm blind for the rest of the startup. Very unfortunate. The boot menu, as the bootup itself is printed out on serial console until: da0:

Re: CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature withbuggy 6.3

2008-06-11 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi there, some thoughts to your problem in regards to Debian administration time needed vs. FreeBSD administration time needed. I believe I can make a point there, since I have 600 debian boxes under my hood but still am a FreeBSD advocate ;-) On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:53:02 +0300, Anton - Valqk

Re: CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is prematurewithbuggy 6.3

2008-06-11 Thread Marian Hettwer
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:50:57 +0300, Anton - Valqk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the answer! I'm glad someone answered me a human way, because two times before, I wasn't answered that way (well... my posts were angry and incomplete but...that's why i didn't continued to post...my bad).

Re: CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature withbuggy6.3

2008-06-11 Thread Marian Hettwer
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:54:02 +0100 (BST), Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The place for volunteers to come in is where they see an obvious niche for improvement -- for example, a few years ago this guy named Colin Percival turned up with a binary update system. After a couple of

Re: FreeBSD freezing at random

2008-03-31 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi there, On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:35:51 +0200, Mikkel Skærris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My system is a IBM T40 laptop, and i has been running FreeBSD for more than two years without ANY problems at all. But a couple of days ago The most obvious one would be bad hardware. my 7.0 intallation

Re: Question about file system checks

2008-03-27 Thread Marian Hettwer
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:39:55 +, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jared Carlson wrote: Hi I have a question about startup scripts for BSD distributions. Can you turn off the file system check that occurs every 30 boots, etc? I

Re: Question about file system checks

2008-03-27 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Jared, On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:01:38 -0700 (PDT), Jared Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a question about startup scripts for BSD distributions. Can you turn off the file system check that occurs every 30 boots, etc? I recall At least in FreeBSD there is no file system checks

Re: Manual/Wiki or other documentation for PXE install mainlyinstall.cfg?

2008-01-21 Thread Marian Hettwer
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:38:32 +, Kimi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/01/2008, Drew Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would have been, or would be nice if they could make an alias to 'the first Ethernet controller' (i.e. eth0). So that you could reference it in such a way when there

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 BETA4 no serial console

2007-12-17 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Jeremy, Jeremy Chadwick schrieb: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:12:15PM +0100, Marian Hettwer wrote: here's a snipped of a verbose boot: sio0: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled This is somewhat normal (depends on the system), and can

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 BETA4 no serial console

2007-12-17 Thread Marian Hettwer
Jeremy Chadwick schrieb: On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:42:33AM +0100, Marian Hettwer wrote: Change this to -S9600 -Dh, and remove the lines from /boot/loader.conf. did that. Still no login prompt via serial console. Although my getty is running: More hints on what's going

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 BETA4 no serial console

2007-12-17 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Ho, Jeremy Chadwick schrieb: On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 12:50:07PM +0100, Marian Hettwer wrote: marian46-23# stty -a -f /dev/ttyd0 speed 9600 baud; 0 rows; 0 columns; lflags: icanon isig iexten echo echoe -echok echoke -echonl echoctl -echoprt -altwerase -noflsh -tostop -flusho

FreeBSD 7.0 BETA4 no serial console

2007-12-13 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi All, I thought of helping out beta testing FreeBSD 7.0, so I gave it a shot on one of our HP BL465c G1 blades. Problem is, serial output stops right before the login prompt should kick in. Thats sad... I need serial output (don't wanna go with the crappy Java applet for VGA output). So

Re: Closed Port, Need to Reopen

2007-10-22 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Squirrel (odd name that is...), On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:54:53 -0500, Squirrel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason, my port 1645 is closed on FreeBSD 6.2. I have all the firewall disabled, but it's not allowing me access the port 1645. How do you manually open this port? I can't seem

Re: top for IO stats

2007-08-30 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi there, On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:31:00 -0500, Scott Oertel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Decibel! wrote: Is there anything like top, but for filesystem activity? Google hasn't turned up anything... check out gstat I like that one a lot :) I missed it always when I'm administrating linux boxes.

Re: Stable on Blade server

2007-02-23 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi there, On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:06:54 +0100, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I work for a little web agency/isp and we are going to buy new hw to sustain the growinng demand of our customers. We're 100% FreeBSD-only and i was looking to buy IBM blade servers: can anyone reccomend

Panic on 6.1 (panic: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry, addr: d6f3c0000:32)

2006-07-19 Thread Marian Hettwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hej Ho, for quite a while my server (root server / dedicated server) goes completely dead - sometimes after several weeks, sometimes after 24h hours. I always thought it's the hosting company and not FreeBSD, but today I could see the panic. Looks

Re: vmstat 'b' (disk busy?) field keeps climbing ...

2006-06-26 Thread Marian Hettwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hej there, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I think I might have found *at least* one of the problems, and that being the excessively high blocked states while ps isn't finding anything ... MySQL We just recently started allowing clients to run a

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-22 Thread Marian Hettwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, Scott Long wrote: Brent Casavant wrote: While I find ports to be the single most useful feature of the FreeBSD experience, and can't thank contributors enough for the efforts, I on the other hand find updating my installed ports

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-22 Thread Marian Hettwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ion, Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote: I have to agree on that statement. I would love to see branched ports. This can get very important on servers, were you don't want to have major upgrades, but only security updates. I guess it's a question of

Re: watchdog network card

2006-03-27 Thread Marian Hettwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Albert Shih wrote: Le 27/03/2006 à 07:46:04-0300, JoaoBR a écrit is your card in polling mode ? Well I don't known what's that mean. I just look the ifconfig's man...I just use default config, and I don't think I use poling mode.

Re: Temperature monitoring in FreeBSD 4/5/6

2006-03-24 Thread Marian Hettwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, Doug Ambrisko wrote: Stephan Koenig writes: | Does anyone know of an easy way to get temperature information out of | a Dell PowerEdge 1550/1650/1750/1850/2650/2850 running FreeBSD4/5/6? | | Something that has a very simple CLI that

Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes

2006-02-21 Thread Marian Hettwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hej there, Atanas wrote: Dag-Erling Smørgrav said the following on 02/15/06 23:35: David Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Last year I already had to decrease the LoginGraceTime from 120 to 30 seconds on my production boxes, but it didn't help

Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006)

2006-01-12 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hej there, Jo Rhett wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 01:27:18PM +0100, Marian Hettwer wrote: I'm actually wondering how yahoo for instance handles this situation. To my knowledge, they have several thousand of FreeBSD based servers. Either they are all the same in regards to configuration

Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006)

2006-01-06 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi there, Jo Rhett wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 11:20:13AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: So, uhh, how would your magical binary upgrade system handle custom kernels? Why would it be any different? You still haven't explained how this would work.. Versioning of the core package would

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with DRAC4 management card?

2006-01-06 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi there, Scott Mitchell wrote: Hi all, I'm thinking about getting the machine with a DRAC4 remote management card. This looks to be OS-independent (you can configure through the BIOS) so I expect it will just work. I've seen various posts talking about how it tends to take over the

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with DRAC4 management card?

2006-01-06 Thread Marian Hettwer
Vivek Khera wrote: On Jan 6, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Marian Hettwer wrote: I don't know about the DRAC with FreeBSD, but I assume that the BIOS of this Dell still supports BIOS redirection to serial port. If so, you can have Monitor and Keyboard connected locally and use the serial console

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with DRAC4 management card?

2006-01-06 Thread Marian Hettwer
Ralph Hempel wrote: I've never enabled the DRAC card on any dell I have that came with them... Hmmm. The DRAC card can save you a long drive sometimes. You actually get to look at the hardware boot process and can even adjust BIOS settings if needed. To get to a FreeBSD console, I

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with DRAC4 management card?

2006-01-06 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hej there, Ralph Hempel wrote: Yes, you get that too. Full hardware power down. Wait as long as you want, then power the machine up. It's not the same as a remote reboot where you HOPE the server comes up far enough to get a console session. Well, if the BIOS can do console redirection, the

Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes

2005-12-25 Thread Marian Hettwer
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Marian Hettwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: alternativly to check out wether it's dns related, you use set the Option UseDNS no in your sshd_config, so sshd won't try a reverse dns lookup. Give it a shoot. Usually ssh timeouts are related to DNS... That should be a last

Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes

2005-12-23 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hej there, Kobi Shmueli wrote: Try checking /etc/resolv.conf on oboe first, adding a static entry to /etc/hosts of the remote ip/host should speed dns checks as well. You can also run ssh in verbose mode (ssh -v oboe) or/and run sshd in debug mode (sshd -d). alternativly to check out wether

Re: upgrading 5.4 - 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

2005-11-09 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi there, short additional step: Claus Guttesen wrote: The easiest would be to 1. cvsup to RELENG_6 (or RELENG_6_0) 1.1 cd /usr/obj; chflags noschg *; rm -rf * 2. cd /usr/src 3. make buildworld 4. make buildkernel 5. make installkernel 6. mergemaster -p 7. reboot into single-usermode and

Re: What should be in GENERIC? (was Re: Facilitating binary kernel upgrades)

2005-11-08 Thread Marian Hettwer
Colin Percival wrote: Tom Grove wrote: Richard Bejtlich wrote: After speaking with Colin, he mentioned that IPSec, NAT, and disk quotas (enabled via options QUOTA) are the three most popular kernel changes that prevent people from running GENERIC and hence using freebsd-update for binary

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-07 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hej Dave, Dave Fazio wrote: In my opinion, this page will help popularize FreeBSD more than the older (adding graphical installer would help too -- hint hint). a graphical installer may help desktop users, but is totally unusable for server installations where you either want to install

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-07 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hej Dave, Dave Fazio wrote: Totally agree and understand your point -- a graphical install option would mainly appeal to desktop users. But let's be honest; considering the competition install base of Red Hat, Mac OS X, SUN, and (ech!) Windows, the day of GUI deskop'd servers is here now;

Re: 6.0 BETA1 hangs at boot (ahd(4) broken ??)

2005-08-15 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hej Scot, Scot Hetzel wrote: On 8/15/05, Marian Hettwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the SCSI controller (some kind of) worked before, I'd really like to know what had happened and why it doesn't work anymore ... I can help testing, since this machine is a testing machine only :-) Try

Re: IBM x346 and IPMI (BMC)

2005-07-28 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi there, peceka wrote: Hi, has anyone used IPMI (BMC) with x346 and FreeBSD successful? Today i've configured with bmc_cfg.exe all BMC options and when server is in DOS mode i can log in to it and reboot it. But when FBSD stand up connection to BMC is lost. In IBM help desk some technicans

Re: RELENG_6 scroll wheel

2005-07-25 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi, Jonguk Kim wrote: Marian Hettwer wrote: I think 'Option Buttons 5' can help you. nope, didn't do the trick. But thanks for the suggestion anyway :) Strange thing though, same config worked under RELENG_5 without problems. My mouse works under RELENG_6. my ps: imonu@/usr/my# ps ax

Re: RELENG_6 scroll wheel

2005-07-22 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hej jonguk, Jonguk Kim wrote: Marian Hettwer wrote: from /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse I think 'Option Buttons 5' can help you. nope, didn't do

RELENG_6 scroll wheel

2005-07-21 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hej All, I upgraded to RELENG_6 to help testing. Everything went smooth so far, but my scroll wheel in X isn't working anymore. I didn't changed anything regarding the configuration from FreeBSD RELENG_5 to RELENG_6 ... some details: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ uname -a FreeBSD beastie.mobile.rz

Re: SCHED_ULE with SMP broke libpthread/libthr on 5.4-RELEASE

2005-05-11 Thread Marian Hettwer
On Mi, 11.05.2005, 14:34, Steven Jurczyk sagte: **Using SCHED_ULE on SMP/HT machine broke applications which use libpthread/libthr, probably at context switching between threads... The applications simply hang and they aren't killable (kill -9 pid don't work).. Usually this also break kernel

Re: 5.3 STABLE to 5.4-PRERELEASE

2005-04-01 Thread Marian Hettwer
On Fr, 1.04.2005, 16:59, Irina sagte: Hello everybody, Hi there, I had 5.3 STABLE. Did cvsup as I always do with *default tag=RELENG_5 After rebooting and telneting to the server I saw FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE (INET) #4: Thu Mar 31 20:41:59 EST 2005 Where is it coming from? Does

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-26 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hej there, Rob wrote: Hi, I thought 386 support had been removed since 5.X. But http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/installation-i386.html says: 1.2 Hardware Requirements FreeBSD for the i386 requires a 486 or better processor to install and run (although FreeBSD can run on 386 processors

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-26 Thread Marian Hettwer
top post: forget it. It's Friday, and I'm not tired. I just oversaw that you asked how to get FreeBSD running on a 386 then... sorry :) Marian Hettwer wrote: Hej there, Rob wrote: Hi, I thought 386 support had been removed since 5.X. But http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/installation-i386

Re: 4.9 doesn't answer.

2004-02-02 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Zsold, Zsolt Bognar wrote: Hello, I have one FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE server, that recently started to behave strangely. It is respones all ping request and I can change between consoles and the ftp and mysql server response (but I can't login). In the last week, it happened three-times. So, the

Re: sshd: fatal: monitor_read: unsupported request: 24

2003-12-29 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Paolo, just a short guess, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, i've problem trying to login on a freebsd-stable box using ssh and pub key authentication. If i try to login from a linux box i got this msg in my log: fatal: monitor_read: unsupported request: 24 this only happen if i try to