Re: FS of choice for max random iops ( Maildir )

On 16.09.2011 15:57, free...@top-consulting.net wrote: > Quoting Terje Elde : > >> On 16. sep. 2011, at 12:31, free...@top-consulting.net wrote: >>> Right now I defined an entire array of 8TB ( all 16 disks ) separated >>> in two pieces. 50 GB for FreeBSD to boot and the rest available to >>> conf

Re: legal notices at the end of emails

On 27.07.2011 13:01, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 7/27/11 5:11 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: >> Ryan Coleman wrote: >> >>> A heads up about your footer: This email goes onto a mailing >>> list that is available via an online archive... your "terms" >>> are violated just by sending an email to th

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

On 17.07.2011 13:10, Jerry wrote: > While I usually consider Slashdot nothing more than a bunch of > juveniles ranting against Microsoft; however, I did find this rather > interesting post this morning. > > "Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore" > >

Re: OCI support in PHP is dead

On 14.07.2011 11:43, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 14/07/2011 07:16, Victor Sudakov wrote: >> The databases/php5-oci8 port exists no more, and databases/php52-oci8 >> is marked as vulnerable. >> > > Oracle 8 is pretty obsolete now. Now, the only options for getting more > up to date support are > >

Re: OT: printer, our cups port, and is-there-a-generic-laser?

On 16.06.2011 08:28, Gary Kline wrote: > > we had a power out here this morning and besides it costing most of > my day, it blew out my Brother laser printer. i just got it working > FINALLY with our cups stuff. don't asked me how; other than i was > using our olden lpr/lpd and had /etc/printca

Re: (no subject)

On 10.03.2011 18:38, 6412037...@email.uscc.net wrote: > Does OpenBSD use the same kernel as FreeBSD? No. OpenBSD uses the OpenBSD kernel. //Svein -- +---+--- /"\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9| PGP

Re: HAL must die!

On 08.03.2011 04:36, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 7 March 2011 19:44, Lars Eighner wrote: >> On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Ivan Voras wrote: >> >>> On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote: Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in ports that I install or upgra

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

On 13.02.2011 19:50, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Frank Shute wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:05:51PM -0500, Maxim Khitrov wrote: >>> >>> >>> Can you guys please take Microsoft bashing elsewhere? This thread is >>> about FreeBSD and SSDs - a topic I'd like to

Re: vm ware

On 19.01.2011 09:41, rafay awan wrote: > Hi, > I want to inquire if its possible to install freeBSD on vm ware? > is there any live cd iso available? I suspect you are talking about VMWare ESXi (the hypervisor). If so, I'm running a dozen or so FreeBSD VMs here. Absolutely un-problematic

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

On 06.01.2011 15:19, c0re wrote: >> why not to restart your httpd and mysqld? >> This may release your unused filehandles. > As I said I've restarted whole server, so nothing there to release at all. > >> Another place to look for wasted space is filesystem snapshots, if any. They >> can be create

Re: Spam with fake address from the list?

On 16.12.2010 19:56, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2010-12-16 12:40, Michelle Konzack: >> Hello *, >> >> does someone get this kind of spam too? > > No, nothing from the ip-range 69.170.128.0/24 is getting thru. I actually have a very specific route, just for them, in my border gateway: ip route 64.38.

Re: foo; no such thing as a "dual-nic" atom firewall

On 24.11.2010 02:43, Gary Kline wrote: > Maybe someone on-list can help me; after 5+ hours of clicking and > typing, I can't find an atom cpu computer with dual NICs. I > _thought_ I'd found a computer to replace to Kayak firewall > [pfSense], but nada. > > Any wizards on this list have a clue?

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

On 13.11.2010 21:29, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:18:03 +0100 >> From: Polytropon >> Subject: Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? >> >> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:57:46 -0800, Charlie Kester >> wrote: >>> On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 15:44:01 PST Chris Brennan wrote: Must we c

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

On 13.11.2010 15:59, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2010 23:27:42 Mubeesh ali wrote: >> i guess it is high time this list bans the word devil in subject ;-) >> > > Let's hack the term and use lucifer instead! Can we add this once-a-month question about Beastie to either the FAQ or th

Re: You complain about my exceeded question but got an outstanding volume of answers!!! Why?

On 12.11.2010 13:24, José Silveira wrote: > You guys complain cause I asked why do use a demon as a mascot of freeeBSD. > Some says... oh no this crap again, others desrespected me but what is > incredible is that even a simple question like I did caused so many rage and > movement of answers!!! I

Re: Per core frequency control

On 09.11.2010 11:56, David Naylor wrote: > Hi, > > I was reading through cpufreq(4) and in the bugs section it mentions that per > core (or CPU) frequency control is not supported. That all cores/CPUs have > to > be at the same speed. > > What is the reason for that? > > Is it an infrast

Re: ZFS License and Future

On 08.11.2010 21:44, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Roland Smith wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 05:08:33PM +0100, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) >> wrote: >>> But it's still not capable of true forward-error-correction. If we are >

Re: ZFS License and Future

On 08.11.2010 18:47, Arthur Chance wrote: *snip* > > Presuming you're talking about ZFS, the hash isn't intended to correct > hardware errors, it's only there to detect them. Correction comes from > mirroring or the use of RAIDZ{1,2,3}. (I have personal experience of how > well that works, as I ha

Re: ZFS License and Future

On 08.11.2010 16:37, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 11/08/10 13:52, krad wrote: >> On 6 November 2010 21:38, Roland Smith wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 02:30:16PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > Having said all that it really depends on whether you need the extra > features of zfs. Personal

Re: zfs performance issues with iscsi (istgt)

On 08.11.2010 09:13, DJ wrote: > > After scratching my head for a few weeks, I've decided to ask for some help. > > First, I've got two machines connected by gigabit ethernet, network > performance is not a problem as I am able to substantially saturate the wire > when not using iscsi [say iper

Re: ZFS License and Future

On 06.11.2010 19:52, krad wrote: > On 5 November 2010 19:11, Alejandro Imass wrote: > >> Hey folks, >> >> A while back I started the thread "Troubles on SATA drives ZFS". I >> decided to bring the zpool down check each disk and re-construct the >> pool. Nevertheless, I was revising one of the ZFS

Re: ZFS License and Future

On 06.11.2010 17:44, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 11:25:13PM -0500, Steven Susbauer wrote: >>> On 11/5/10 4:34 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: Will Oracle start using patent suits to try to stop people who aren't paying

Re: ZFS License and Future

On 05.11.2010 20:14, Alejandro Imass wrote: > Hey folks, > > A while back I started the thread "Troubles on SATA drives ZFS". I > decided to bring the zpool down check each disk and re-construct the > pool. Nevertheless, I was revising one of the ZFS error message links > and Oracle made me create

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

On 20.10.2010 09:47, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Matthias Apitz wrote: >> El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline escribi?: >>> PS: I really _was_ current on hardware stuff. Back in the VAX >>> 780 days :-) >> I booted my first UNIX V7 tape on a PDP-11 aro

Re: OT: fdisk

On 02.10.2010 21:08, Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:36:40 -0700 > Robert articulated: > >> I am in deep with the wife. Her computer went belly up. It was running >> XP pro and I had backups going to a second drive. I can no longer >> access that drive. > > If the disk is the problem, I wou

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

On 21.09.2010 13:37, Jerry wrote: > The bottom line is that installing and running a printer on a Window's > machine is usually far easier than on a *nix variation. Even sharing a > printer on a network in a Windows environment is simpler. Actually ... no. Unless you are talking about the "keep HP

Re: WANTED: Camera Neck Strap (92313)

On 16.09.2010 18:30, Chris Maness wrote: > oops. I meant freecycler ;o) sorry guys. Not to worry, I'm sure there are a few hobby photographers on this list as well. ;) //Svein -- +---+--- /"\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \

Re: fan control

On 27.08.2010 20:52, Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:02:18PM +0200, Matias wrote: >> Thanks for replying! >> >> I've tried everything you mention here with no success: >> >> The BIOS is pretty basic, just allows to select boot order, set the >> date, and not much more than that. N

Re: Parklogic making a mess

On 22.08.2010 00:48, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:35:57 +0200 > Svein Skogen wrote: > >> Anybody else seem to get these header-falsified messages lately: > > I think anyone who posts to freebsd-questions is probably getting them. > I contacted parklogic and got a response telling m

Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

On 21.08.2010 11:01, "C. Bergström" wrote: *snip* > (Hope I don't come across negative... I'm just trying to give real > feedback based on our experience) No coming-across-as-negative interpreted. ;) As I said, my two 5970s sit in a windows box... //Svein -- +---+--

Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

On 18.08.2010 18:20, "C. Bergström" wrote: > Hi Oliver, > >> The problem behind the subject is a little bit frustrating, so I do >> not know were to start. > Yeah it's a pretty big problem, but I can say others are looking at it > and taking small steps in the right direction. >> First, and this h

Re: test

On 14.08.2010 05:23, PR wrote: > > epic fail. ;) //Svein -- +---+--- /"\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9| PGP Key: 0xE5E76831 X|2020 Skedsmokorset | sv...@jernhuset.no / \ |Norway

Re: 5900 RPM drives

On 14.08.2010 03:52, Ryan Coleman wrote: > Can anyone give me any reasons to buy these over 7200RPMs for a RAID? I may > need to pinch pennies if I have to finance my next servers out of pocket. > Stupid idea, I know, but I really want to know if there's a reason to skimp. They're a little slowe

Re: releases, branches,..

On 12.08.2010 22:46, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > My years of OpenSolaris made me forget the use of releases and branches. > I'm not into too much compiling anymore. I want a stable, but also safe > server. > I'm running 8.1-RELEASE now, but what about security issues found? > What do I need to run if

Re: copyright for man pages

On 05.08.2010 13:16, r...@mlg3.com wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry of this is the wrong list but what is the copyright situation for > things like man pages? If I want to host a copy of one on the web or > something, is there some additional disclaimer I need to add? I may be wrong, but aren't those ..

Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on FreeBSD 8.0

On 02.07.2010 09:33, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 01/07/2010 22:29:54, Ed Flecko wrote: >> Henrik, >> When I FIRST installed 8.0, I did create a separate /home partition. >> When I installed the kernel and starting running out of space in / , I >> thought "O.K...I'll let FreeBSD make the partition si

Re: PDF storage software recommendations?

On 17.06.2010 20:55, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > We get orders for services via PDF. We need to keep them, and call > them up months or years later. We'd need to find things like "all of > the PDFs for Customer X" or "all of the PDFs for circuit ID > such-and-such." Surely other people have had th

Re: * wildcard in.sh script

On 15.06.2010 10:25, Aiza wrote: > I have a directory with files in it. The first 3 letters of the file > names is the group prefix. I'm trying to write a script to accept the 3 > letter of the group followed by a * to mean its a prefix lookup. But > when I run it I get a message "NO match" that is

Re: Midphase Hosting

On 10.06.2010 18:12, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:12:48 +0200 > Jonathan McKeown articulated: > >> On Thursday 10 June 2010 15:04:53 Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> >>> The only other mechanism might be to tag each list e-mail with a >>> unique value for each recipient in such a way that it is

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

On 28.05.2010 13:38, Bruce Cran wrote: *snip!* > > This is possibly the wrong place to be saying this, but isn't OpenBSD > usually recommended for > routers? I believe the version of pf, for example, is normally kept more > up-to-date than than > in FreeBSD. The major downside I know of is that i

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

On 27.05.2010 17:00, Kevin Wilcox wrote: > Hello everyone. > > We're in the very early stages of considering [Free|Open]BSD on > commodity hardware to handle NAT *and* firewall duties for (what I > consider to be) a sizable deployment. Overall bandwidth is low, only a > gigabit connection, but we

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

On 04.04.2010 11:22, Stacey Roberts wrote: > The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its > compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that it > supports windows 7. > > Or, am I missing something? BCD was the boot mechanism introduced with Vista and

Re: Enough Is Enough

On 27.03.2010 20:10, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:28:26PM -0500, Programmer In Training wrote: >> On 03/27/10 13:06, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> >>> In /usr/ports/UPDATING look for the 20100205 entry for "users of Qt 3 >>> and KDE 3". >> >> Pointless in as far as that does not ad

Re: Support for Dell PERC H700 RAID controller

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26.03.2010 17:22, Peter Steele wrote: > I see that these PERC controllers are all SAS instead of SATA. What kind of > cost differential is there between SAS and SATA disks? If it's a megaraid sas controller, you can still use SATA disks. I know I

Re: Support for Dell PERC H700 RAID controller

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26.03.2010 15:00, Steve Polyack wrote: > On 03/26/10 09:00, Peter Steele wrote: >> Does FreeBSD 8 support the Dell H700 RAID controller? We've been using >> a 3Ware controller but may need to switch to this controller. What >> we'd like to have is a

Re: Creating multiple directories simultaneously

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26.03.2010 12:12, Jerry wrote: > I could have sworn that I saw a method of creating several directories, > actually a parent direct and several sub-directories simultaneously; > however, I cannot fine the documentation any longer. > > Assume I want

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18.03.2010 10:35, Andy Wodfer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Law wrote: > > >> Is ZFS not an option? >> > > I'm afraid ZFS is not an option for this customer. I use ZFS on other system > and it works great, but here the requir

Re: Which version of FreeBSD is it?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.03.2010 18:03, Bas v.d. Wiel wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:36:38 +0100, Mikolaj Rydzewski wrote: >> Антон Клесс wrote: >>> That is what I suspected for. >>> >>> What is the most safe way to upgrade it, remembering that this is >>> productio

Re: Amanda, FreeBSD8, amtype, hairpulling, etc.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12.03.2010 15:20, Svein Skogen wrote: > I'm having trouble getting Amanda (2.6.1p2 from ports) to play nicely > with my hardware. > > Devices are: >at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (sa0,pass0) >at scbus0 target 1 lun 1 (pass1,ch0) >

Re: locale settings and displaying file names in multiple languages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.03.2010 10:24, Dan Naumov wrote: > Hello > > I have a 8.0/amd64 system serving a few Samba shares. Windows clients > write files to some of these shares using multiple languages: english, > finnish and russian. When accessed from any given Windo

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.02.2010 17:57, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 04/02/2010 15:35, Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) wrote: > >> On a monthly rotation the tapes are placed in a firetolerant safe. Since >> the most critical thing here is the terabyte

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.02.2010 10:39, krad wrote: > If you combine snapshoting with a redundant array, and maybe a secondary > pool that you zfs send your files ystems to (perhaps on a different box) its > questionable whether having stuff on tape has any advantage. If

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.02.2010 17:41, Goran Lowkrantz wrote: > I have been using Amanda straight from the port, it supports both tar > from snapshots if you need to be able to retrieve individual files from > the backup and zfs send if recovery at filesystem level is O

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.02.2010 19:14, LoH wrote: > If my memory serves, you're looking at something similar to taking a > snapshot and then sending it to the tape device, so zfs send > | (tape device access). This, IIRC, is functionally identical to > dump/restore. E

Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm currently considering switching my Backend (Running WSS2008 Enterprise) to FreeBSD RELENG_8+zfs, however my last melee with ZFS and backups to Autoloader (HP 1/8 G2 LTO-3 job) didn't quite turn out in my favour. Seems FreeBSD has a decent backup s

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Svein Skogen" writes: >> The easiest way of brute-forcing access to a FreeBSD server includes >> locating the sysadmin and applying the common desk drawer. It's that >> simple. > > *laugh* > > I thought you were more of

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > $witch writes: >> but i look in syslogs of some FreeBSD internet server and there is a >> great evidence that some "botnets" are (again) tryng simple >> combination of uid/pwd. >> >> starting from Dec 8 01:00:34 (CET) hu

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chargen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Anton Shterenlikht > wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:51:22AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: >>> In response to Anton Shterenlikht : > >> I had to fight a long battle, well.. I had >> some support from