Re: What's the best way to destroy a geom mirror?

2009-03-05 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:35:31AM -0800, Peter Steele wrote: > > I've created a USB boot disk that is used to clone itself onto the systems > hard drives, setting up mirrored file systems in the process. The main > difficulty I'm having is reimaging a system with an existing OS whose drives >

Re: Monitoring geom

2009-03-05 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Mister Olli wrote: Hi hi... What is the best way to monitor geom software raids (gmirror & gvinum raid5)??? The solution I'm searching for should be a kind of script which checks the status, and drops me an email if something is wrong. I found a nagios plugin, but currently I'm unable to inves

Re: the "yes" comand

2009-03-05 Thread Tim Judd
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > if you have program that do too much questions like (are you sure), and you > are sure then you do > > yes|program yes Continue | Vista -uac Bit o' humor in an otherwise too-serious world. Laugh. It'l

Re: [OT] Server hosting with FreeBSD

2009-03-05 Thread Paul Procacci
Jack L. wrote: I provide that hosting and sharktech does as well. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Nerius Landys wrote: We´re looking for good hosting services that offer instalations of FreeBSD in dedicated servers. Any one could point some? Most of the companies offer Li

Re: [OT] Server hosting with FreeBSD

2009-03-05 Thread Paul Procacci
DataPipe also provides (optional: managed) hosting as well. They are a bit pricey, but you get what you pay for. Jack L. wrote: I provide that hosting and sharktech does as well. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Nerius Landys wrote: We´re looking for good hosting services that offer i

Any BSDians hands on with apache-2.2 webserver,

2009-03-05 Thread dhaneshk k
.htpasswd Failure .. htpasswd recreation also not working I added afor restricting access to my web site URL. I used Basic Authentication module.. I created #htpasswd -c .htpasswd test password : test and restarted apache . The p

Re: SpamAssassin/Perl eating enormous amounts of memory?

2009-03-05 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:21:53 -0800, >> Andrew Moran said: A> Thank you for your suggestion. I'll try compiling Perl and it's A> dependencies without using PERL_MALLOC. I've had similar memory problems using Hyperestraier to index collections exceeding 1,000,000 documents. The indexer

Re: [OT] Server hosting with FreeBSD

2009-03-05 Thread Jack L.
I provide that hosting and sharktech does as well. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Nerius Landys wrote: >>We´re looking for good hosting services that offer instalations of >> FreeBSD in dedicated servers. >>Any one could point some? >>Most of the companies offer Linux and

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 06:11:18PM -0800, Peter Steele wrote: > > >I first wondered why none of my commands in "/etc/profile" and > >"~/.profile" got executed. Finally, I modified > >"/usr/src/bin/sh/main.c" to trace what files are read, recompiled > >the "sh" command and: the only file that is

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:11:18 -0800 (PST), Peter Steele wrote: > I have a similar problem, but with bash. I have both my personal > account and root set to use bash instead of sh and when I login > the .bashrc file is not read. My system does not have an X > environment, it's plain old BSD. How can

Re: Monitoring geom

2009-03-05 Thread Carl Chave
>From Michael Lucas' Absolute FreeBSD book page 550: FreeBSD can include a status check of your mirrored disks in its daily periodic(8) run. Just add the line daily_status_gmirror_enable="YES" to /etc/periodic.conf. Not sure about other raid types beyond mirrors. On 3/5/09, Mister Olli wrote: >

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Peter Steele
>I first wondered why none of my commands in "/etc/profile" and >"~/.profile" got executed. Finally, I modified >"/usr/src/bin/sh/main.c" to trace what files are read, recompiled >the "sh" command and: the only file that is executed is "~/.shrc". > >I just cannot believe that FreeBSD has such

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread J65nko
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hi, > > from "man sh": > > Invocation > [...] When first starting, the shell inspects > argument 0, and if it begins with a dash (`-'), the shell is also consid- > ered a login shell. This is normally done automatically by th

Re: [OT] Server hosting with FreeBSD

2009-03-05 Thread Nerius Landys
>We´re looking for good hosting services that offer instalations of > FreeBSD in dedicated servers. >Any one could point some? >Most of the companies offer Linux and Windows, but only few with > FreeBSD. >The one thar we use today, only install a fixed image. Just a

Re: [OT] Server hosting with FreeBSD

2009-03-05 Thread Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
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Re: 7.1-release and KDE4

2009-03-05 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:43:42 -0600, Andrew Gould wrote: > I thought lame was one of the packages that couldn't be distributed in > binary form due to license restrictions. In the past, it really was. But I think it was possible to add it via pkg_add. It's some time ago, but memory serves me right

Re: [OT] Server hosting with FreeBSD

2009-03-05 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:59 PM, wrote: > Hi all, > >        We´re looking for good hosting services that offer instalations of > FreeBSD in dedicated servers. >        Any one could point some? >        Most of the companies offer Linux and Windows, but only few with > FreeBSD. >        The one t

[OT] Server hosting with FreeBSD

2009-03-05 Thread scuba
Hi all, We´re looking for good hosting services that offer instalations of FreeBSD in dedicated servers. Any one could point some? Most of the companies offer Linux and Windows, but only few with FreeBSD. The one thar we use today, only install a fixed image. Just a simple custom p

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Re: 7.1-release and KDE4

2009-03-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:08 PM, joel perry wrote: > Attempting to pkg_add kde4 fails because the lame3.97_1.tgz is not located > in the latest ftp location. I and many others would appreciate it if you > would add lame to latest folder so that this package will install. It was > previously avai

Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-05 Thread Daan Vreeken
Hi Christopher, On Thursday 05 March 2009 15:25:35 Christopher Key wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking to substantially expand the storage on my FreeBSD 6.3 home > media server. With regards hardware, the simplest way to attach large > numbers of drives seem to be to use SATA port multipliers, but I'

Re: php5 changes in release 8.0

2009-03-05 Thread Michael Powell
Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Fbsd1 : > >> Having problems installing php5 in 7.1 so tried 8.0 and see that in >> release 8.0 php5 in defaulting to apache 22 when apache interface is >> selected from the make config menu. The config menu should give option >> to select apache 13 or apache 22

RE: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-05 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Elliot Finley [mailto:efinleyw...@efinley.com] Sent: 05 March 2009 17:57 To: Christopher Key Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3) Christopher Key wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking to substantially expand the storage on my

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Polytropon
Good evening Betram et al. I've read the discussion thread as far as it went and would like to share my own solution to a similar problem, mapped onto the sh topic. Maybe it works. A little background: First of all, because my standard dialog shell is the system's C shell, the files important ar

Re: Monitoring geom

2009-03-05 Thread Modulok
I'm not sure what the 'best' way to monitor a geom is but this should, in theory, work. I wrote it while eating lunch, so obviously it hasn't been tested much and probably contains bugs. If someone, perhaps here on the list, could offer suggested changes (or a better way), that'd be great! Hopefull

7.1-release and KDE4

2009-03-05 Thread joel perry
Attempting to pkg_add kde4 fails because the lame3.97_1.tgz is not located in the latest ftp location. I and many others would appreciate it if you would add lame to latest folder so that this package will install. It was previously available in the 7.0 release. -- Joel Perry SBSC Registered Mi

Re: Quirk with latex-suite]

2009-03-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 5, 2009, at 2:28 AM, David Karapetyan wrote: Hello; I am having a funny little problem with latex-suite. Is that the name of the port? I don't see anything by that name in my ports tree. Googling around, I see that latex-suite is a plug-in for vim. When I press , and am prompte

Re: Free Pascal

2009-03-05 Thread prad
On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:41:49 +1100 Ian Fitzgerald wrote: > Can anyone point me to a method of installing Free Pascal Compiler? > /usr/ports/lang/fpc or pkg_add -r fpc we use gpc (gnu pascal compiler): /usr/ports/lang/gpc or pkg_add -r gpc -- In friendship, prad

Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Why not just upgrade to 7-Stable and then use these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009 they cost less than port multipliers. They don't do RAID, but then if you're on 7-Stable, you can use ZFS zraid. or use geom based RAIDs and UFS thanks for URL, anyway new m

Free Pascal

2009-03-05 Thread Ian Fitzgerald
Can anyone point me to a method of installing Free Pascal Compiler? I am running FBSD 7.1, with KDE4. The last attempt deleted a file used by X-windows (and perhaps others), but I had no specific instructions as a guide. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-05 Thread Elliot Finley
Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm looking to substantially expand the storage on my FreeBSD 6.3 home media server. With regards hardware, the simplest way to attach large numbers of drives seem to be to use SATA port multipliers, but I've been unable to find any consensus on their level of s

Monitoring geom

2009-03-05 Thread Mister Olli
Hi hi... What is the best way to monitor geom software raids (gmirror & gvinum raid5)??? The solution I'm searching for should be a kind of script which checks the status, and drops me an email if something is wrong. I found a nagios plugin, but currently I'm unable to invest enough time to get

Double Post

2009-03-05 Thread Mark A. Maupin
Sorry for the double posting there guys My session timed out and i didnt think the 1st message sent. I don't remember re-sending it, but i was in the middle of my morning coffee at the time, so not sure what happened there. ___ freebsd-questions@free

What's the best way to destroy a geom mirror?

2009-03-05 Thread Peter Steele
I've created a USB boot disk that is used to clone itself onto the systems hard drives, setting up mirrored file systems in the process. The main difficulty I'm having is reimaging a system with an existing OS whose drives are already configured in a mirror. I want of course to destroy the mirr

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Matthias Apitz wrote: to end this threat, I did: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=64k count=1 # newfs_msdos /dev/da0 # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt # time cat file file file > /mnt/big cat: stdout: File too large 0.276u 19.421s 14:36.63 2.2%11+1180k 33887+65536io 0pf+0w # df -kh /mnt Fil

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 02:23:52PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > Hi Frank, Hi Bertram, > > Am Donnerstag, 05. Mär 2009, 04:15:05 + schrieb Frank Shute: > > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:08:03PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > > from "man sh": > > > > > >Invocation > > > [...] t

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Norbert Papke
On March 5, 2009, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Thursday, March 05, 2009 a las 10:48:52AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar > to end this threat, I did: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=64k count=1 > # newfs_msdos /dev/da0 > # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt > # time cat file file file > /mnt/big > cat:

USB thumbdrive keeps automatically remounting

2009-03-05 Thread Mark A. Maupin
I am running freebsd 7.1, with Gnome. I have gnome_enable="yes" and dbus_enable="yes" in my rc.conf and my usb key gets auto-mounted when i plug it in. My problem is, when i unmount the drive (either by right clicking the icon on the desktop, or by umount command) the drive immediately remounts

USB thumbdrive keeps automatically remounting

2009-03-05 Thread Mark A. Maupin
I am running freebsd 7.1, with Gnome. I have gnome_enable="yes" and dbus_enable="yes" in my rc.conf and my usb key gets auto-mounted when i plug it in. My problem is, when i unmount the drive (either by right clicking the icon on the desktop, or by umount command) the drive immediately remounts

Re: Battery powered, SBC that can run BSD

2009-03-05 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 14:53 05/03/2009, you wrote: Hope this isn't too off topic... And I'm not sure of my terminology... I'm looking for a small, single board computer that can run for a week or two on batteries (so very low power drain), topped up by solar cells when the sun is out, and that can run some sort of

Re: Battery powered, SBC that can run BSD

2009-03-05 Thread John Almberg
On Mar 5, 2009, at 9:12 AM, George Davidovich wrote: soekris.com Nice. Thanks. -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-u

SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-05 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I'm looking to substantially expand the storage on my FreeBSD 6.3 home media server. With regards hardware, the simplest way to attach large numbers of drives seem to be to use SATA port multipliers, but I've been unable to find any consensus on their level of support in FreeBSD. I'm

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, March 05, 2009 a las 03:26:12PM +0100, Paul B. Mahol escribió: > On 3/5/09, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > El dia Thursday, March 05, 2009 a las 10:48:52AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar > > escribio: > > > >> >>formatted properly? > >> > > >> >I did a 'ls -l /dev/da*' after key insert and th

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 3/5/09, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El dia Thursday, March 05, 2009 a las 10:48:52AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar > escribio: > >> >>formatted properly? >> > >> >I did a 'ls -l /dev/da*' after key insert and there was only /dev/da0; >> >maybe I should do >> > >> ># newfs_msdos /dev/da0 >> > >> >??? >> >>

Re: Battery powered, SBC that can run BSD

2009-03-05 Thread George Davidovich
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:53:45AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: > I'm looking for a small, single board computer that can run for a > week or two on batteries (so very low power drain), topped up by > solar cells when the sun is out, and that can run some sort of > unix... preferably one of the BSDs.

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, March 05, 2009 a las 10:48:52AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar escribió: > >>formatted properly? > > > >I did a 'ls -l /dev/da*' after key insert and there was only /dev/da0; > >maybe I should do > > > ># newfs_msdos /dev/da0 > > > >??? > > to be sure do > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0

RE: ClamAV execusion died without error messages

2009-03-05 Thread Ming Tang
I did not find any other error messages in log files. The following lines appeared in the section for "kernel log messages" in daily email message for Security Run Output. > pid 840 (freshclam), uid 1#: exited on signal 11 > pid 875 (clamd), uid 1#: exited on signal 10 I am not sure what they mea

Re: ClamAV execusion died without error messages

2009-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Ming Tang" : > I did not find any other error messages in log files. The following lines > appeared in the section for "kernel log messages" in daily email message for > Security Run Output. > > > pid 840 (freshclam), uid 1#: exited on signal 11 This is a "segmentation violation"

Battery powered, SBC that can run BSD

2009-03-05 Thread John Almberg
Hope this isn't too off topic... And I'm not sure of my terminology... I'm looking for a small, single board computer that can run for a week or two on batteries (so very low power drain), topped up by solar cells when the sun is out, and that can run some sort of unix... preferably one of

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi Frank, Am Donnerstag, 05. Mär 2009, 04:15:05 + schrieb Frank Shute: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:08:03PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > from "man sh": > > > >Invocation > > [...] the shell inspects > > argument 0, and if it begins with a dash (`-'), the shell is also > >

Re: php5 changes in release 8.0

2009-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Fbsd1 : > Having problems installing php5 in 7.1 so tried 8.0 and see that in > release 8.0 php5 in defaulting to apache 22 when apache interface is > selected from the make config menu. The config menu should give option > to select apache 13 or apache 22 not force apache 22 on

Re: backup files from editor

2009-03-05 Thread Grünewald Michaël
Hi prad, Le 5 mars 09 à 09:15, prad a écrit : editors can produce backup files - eg emacs adds a ~ to the backup file. the backup file keeps getting changed as you make changes to the original so you i'm wondering what the point of them is. Please refer to the Emacs manual (info m Emacs) to l

FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE/amd64: pkg_delete core dumps

2009-03-05 Thread O. Hartmann
Since several weeks now /usr/sbin/pkg_delete core dumps whenever I try to delete an obsolete package or portupgrade tries to do so. The box is a Quad Core most recent FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE box as built world of today's sources. Regards, Oliver ___ free

password protection for RewriteRule

2009-03-05 Thread dhaneshk k
List; I am using apache2.2 I need to do a password protected access toa website eg www.mydomain.com I have this Vhost configuration in my httpd-Vhost.conf ServerName mydomain.com RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://127.0.0.1:8081/VirtualHostBase/http/www.mydom

php5 changes in release 8.0

2009-03-05 Thread Fbsd1
Having problems installing php5 in 7.1 so tried 8.0 and see that in release 8.0 php5 in defaulting to apache 22 when apache interface is selected from the make config menu. The config menu should give option to select apache 13 or apache 22 not force apache 22 on the user community. Is the main

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
formatted properly? I did a 'ls -l /dev/da*' after key insert and there was only /dev/da0; maybe I should do # newfs_msdos /dev/da0 ??? to be sure do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=64k count=1 before to clean anything from beginning, if any mess is there. __

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
formatted properly? I did a 'ls -l /dev/da*' after key insert and there was only /dev/da0; maybe I should do # newfs_msdos /dev/da0 yes. anyway - windoze at least XP no more needs partitions on such devices. ??? Thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC Gm

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, March 05, 2009 a las 01:09:27AM -0800, Charles Oppermann escribió: > > > > 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Mar 5 > > > 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0: Removable > > > Direct Access SCSI-2 device Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0: > > > 40.000

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Charles Oppermann
> > 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Mar 5 > > 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0: Removable > > Direct Access SCSI-2 device Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0: > > 40.000MB/s transfers > > Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0: 7712MB (15794176 512 byte sectors: > >

Re: Quirk with latex-suite]

2009-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello; I am having a funny little problem with latex-suite. When I press , and am prompted with a list of environments to insert, no matter which I choose, it is inserted with a superfluous " that appears right before the cursor. So, for example, \begin{equation} "cursor_is_here \end{equation} D

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: umass0: on uhub4 Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0: 40.000MB/s transfers Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0:

Quirk with latex-suite]

2009-03-05 Thread David Karapetyan
Hello; I am having a funny little problem with latex-suite. When I press , and am prompted with a list of environments to insert, no matter which I choose, it is inserted with a superfluous " that appears right before the cursor. So, for example, \begin{equation} "cursor_is_here \end{equation}

backup files from editor

2009-03-05 Thread prad
editors can produce backup files - eg emacs adds a ~ to the backup file. the backup file keeps getting changed as you make changes to the original so you i'm wondering what the point of them is. i turn off backups (so my directory doesn't fill up with ~ files), but then i also don't space things p

USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I've just bought a new USB key. The label claims "8 GByte" which is the first lying; it shows up as only ~7.5 GByte in /var/log/messages, but there seems to be another bigger problem: Mar 5 08:48:32 rebelion root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x1307 product 0x0165 bus uhub4 Mar 5 08:48:3