Repeated PXE jumpstart
Hi! I'm trying to set up a system to continually and automatically run benchmarks on the most recent CURRENT. The idea is to PXE-boot the server, do an automated jumpstart installation, reboot and run a few benchmarks. Lather, rinse, repeat. My problem is when the jumpstart installation finishes. I set PXE-boot as the first option in the BIOS to start the installation. To complete the installation I need to reboot the server from the hard-disk, but I don't want to enter the BIOS on each reboot to change the boot sequence. What are my options? Can I simply set the hard-disk as the first option in the boot sequence (with PXE second) and then wipe the MBR when the system comes up after an install, so the BIOS will continue to PXE? How would i do that? Thanks, Erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.2 Headless Installs Don't Seem to Work.
Hi Martin I often use the serial console for installs just to save digging out a screen and keyboard - especially on servers which are going to run headless anyway. What I do whenever I download release ISOs is unpack the disc-1 image to disk (tar now does this, I believe), add the line console=comconsole to boot/loader.conf in the directory which is the root of the CD, and then make a new ISO and burn a new serial install CD. Booting from this CD switches to the serial console sometime after the boot loader but before the boot menu, from which you can drop back down to the boot loader if needed. I've used this method to do a successful remote install: a technician on site linked the serial ports of two boxes with a null-modem cable, put the serial boot CD in one of them, and I logged into the other over ssh and used tip to see the serial port. He powered up the spare box with the CD in it and I did the rest from 1000 miles away - which for some reason impresses the heck out of a Windows technician. HTH Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard drive RPM
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:41:24 pm Norberto Meijome wrote:
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:35:28 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
but we are talking about disk capacity. filesystem is just kind of data
on disk, you may access disk without it like my video stream server.
actually only 1GB of each disk is allocated for filesystem (mirror+stripe
on 8 disks, giving 4GB for / partition), everything else simply contains
movies, with catalog as file on / partition.
OP was complaining he/she could only access a smaller % of his disk after
formatting it. so i think the effect of formatting also goes to answering
the OP.
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When you format a disk a percentage of the disk is reserved for a map so your
file can be found.
On a UFS it is called the SUPER BLOCKS a master and at least one slave.
Typically these blocks will take up to 8% or there abouts of the disk.
BTW I am not shouting when SUPER BLOCKS' that's how it's written.
In a root shell type fsck and watch the screen.
For more info dig into you docs usually /share/doc or usr/doc there where some
really good docs on the UFS.
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Cheaper backup mechnism for a server
Hi ; A general question pls excuse me can any body suggest a backup mechanism for a server machine , which has a web portal , email server ,PgSQL database 4GB size , DNS server, Mailman , and a mediawiki applications running in a single machine . Can you suggest good solutions , for the server Backup mechanismso that I can restore all the data just before the crashing moment . pls share your expertise , it will help me lot to secure my data in the server machine .. Thanks in Advance KK _ Live the life in style with MSN Lifestyle. Check out! http://content.msn.co.in/Lifestyle/Default ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, dhaneshk k sat at his 'pewter and typed on 09/21/07 13:55: Hi ; A general question pls excuse me can any body suggest a backup mechanism for a server machine , which has a web portal , email server ,PgSQL database 4GB size , DNS server, Mailman , and a mediawiki applications running in a single machine . Can you suggest good solutions , for the server Backup mechanismso that I can restore all the data just before the crashing moment . pls share your expertise , it will help me lot to secure my data in the server machine .. If you wish to have 0 downtime then the only option is a separate failover server. However much you try, if you do not have a separate box to failover to, it is not possible to do a 0 downtime switchover. Regarding the backup solution, you can either buy an external Hard Disk and back up to it. Alternatively you can back up to tape drives or to NFS mounted volumes. Thanks Subhro - -- __ / The nice thing about Windows is - It \ | does not just crash, it displays a | | dialog box and lets you press 'OK' | \ first. (Arno Schaefer's .sig)/ -- \ ^__^ \ (@@)\___ (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG84dXDA+HioTWbkQRAu2RAKDJMztsQAu2oLuMaKt/vFEvf3YdewCgupn/ eozM9rJAJzKmkTSPSBA4oQc= =8sWc -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server
dhaneshk k wrote: Hi ; A general question pls excuse me can any body suggest a backup mechanism for a server machine , which has a web portal , email server ,PgSQL database 4GB size , DNS server, Mailman , and a mediawiki applications running in a single machine . Can you suggest good solutions , for the server Backup mechanismso that I can restore all the data just before the crashing moment . pls share your expertise , it will help me lot to secure my data in the server machine .. Thanks in Advance KK Check out BackupPC - it will do rsync backups and store them very intelligently on a remote box - you can set it to backup as often as you like ... It saved my ass when my FreeBSD co-lo server disk died - I had a backup up to date as of midnight that let me restore the machine (I back it up over a DSL line without problems) John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello DharneshK, You can try to create a Mirror using RAID. You can either create a software or a hardware (recommended) managed Mirror. In case of a disk crash you still have a copy of the updated data on the disk. BTW, please make sure you hit Reply all instead of Reply. this also keeps the freebsd-questions@ updated which will allow others to look into this mail and provide a better answer as well as help future users. Thanks Subhro dhaneshk k sat at his 'pewter and typed on 09/21/07 14:39: Hi , subhro, i agree with you , I need a clarification The backup should be the uptodate one , so in case of a disk crash (permanent crash) I need the backup upto the last moment , so is ther any cheap tools , to do it , so i can save the backups to another desktop pc synchronously (I mean any mechanism for backup through online ie ; ssh OR VPN or like that ) (not manual backing up at each moment) can you tell the exact solution . If I am using rsync , I can only do it by a crontab , even though at a specfic time only the cron run , if crash occurs after this time then the data after the cron will lose , so which is the right cheaper solution ? From: Subhro Kar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dhaneshk k [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:26:55 +0530 Hello, dhaneshk k sat at his 'pewter and typed on 09/21/07 13:55: Hi ; A general question pls excuse me can any body suggest a backup mechanism for a server machine , which has a web portal , email server ,PgSQL database 4GB size , DNS server, Mailman , and a mediawiki applications running in a single machine . Can you suggest good solutions , for the server Backup mechanismso that I can restore all the data just before the crashing moment . pls share your expertise , it will help me lot to secure my data in the server machine .. If you wish to have 0 downtime then the only option is a separate failover server. However much you try, if you do not have a separate box to failover to, it is not possible to do a 0 downtime switchover. Regarding the backup solution, you can either buy an external Hard Disk and back up to it. Alternatively you can back up to tape drives or to NFS mounted volumes. Thanks Subhro ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Single,planning to marry? Find the right match @ shaadi.com http://ss1.richmedia.in/recurl.asp?pid=202 __ / The nice thing about Windows is - It \ | does not just crash, it displays a | | dialog box and lets you press 'OK' | \ first. (Arno Schaefer's .sig)/ -- \ ^__^ \ (@@)\___ (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG85AFDA+HioTWbkQRAgp1AJ4xZP+I9nblPoI53DTnSDtn+eBq/wCeMxY9 rx1uuX8ycwi3ETlB2hFqTIc= =e3cq -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?
Ivan Voras wrote: NetOpsCenter wrote: I have been using FreeBSD 7.0 since Jan 8 2007 CURRENT on this box which is a desktop for browsing and email with a Dual core AMD CPU setup. It rocks. I use FreeBSD 7.0 Current on 2 small mailservers using 3 year old hardware and it is rock solid. I believe the FreeBSD team has really got their act together on this one. Are you using any of the new features in 7.x? SCHED_ULE, ZFS? Because my only 7.x production server that does crashes daily (luckily it's not a critical machine) and non-server machines are not far behind. If you're not using the new features, you could just as well run 6.x :) I'm actively trying to solve some of these problems, but from my experience (I do a lot of things that may be considered experimental, but mostly userland-side, I run vanilla kernels) 7 simply isn't stable yet. It might be in 7.0, but it's not yet. I use 7.0 on about 70 machines that are extremely heavily loaded, all running ULE, ranging from single through to 8 CPUs, some using ZFS, etc. I don't see these problems you are claiming, so you'll have to do some more detective work. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Repeated PXE jumpstart
Found the answer elsewhere, so this is just for the records... Erik Cederstrand wrote: Hi! I'm trying to set up a system to continually and automatically run benchmarks on the most recent CURRENT. The idea is to PXE-boot the server, do an automated jumpstart installation, reboot and run a few benchmarks. Lather, rinse, repeat. My problem is when the jumpstart installation finishes. I set PXE-boot as the first option in the BIOS to start the installation. To complete the installation I need to reboot the server from the hard-disk, but I don't want to enter the BIOS on each reboot to change the boot sequence. What are my options? Can I simply set the hard-disk as the first option in the boot sequence (with PXE second) and then wipe the MBR when the system comes up after an install, so the BIOS will continue to PXE? How would i do that? # sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=1 wipes the MBR and solves my problem. Erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deleted /var/db/pkg
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:46:03 +0400 Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:01:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, Suppose you deleted /var/db/pkg by accident :( What would you do to get it back?? I'd go one of these ways: - rm -rf /usr/local ... - rebuild all the packages I need in a chroot, then pkg_add them I have started portinstalling gnome2 with dependencies and no matter if I manually build cdrtools or cdrtools-cjk the machine always wants to build the other one :( As they can't coexist, what can I do to make the portinstall -R gnome2 work?? I have (ab)used pkgdb in every conceivable way and done portupgrades -o back and forth, but nothing helps. I'm currently out of ideas. There must be a way - right?? br Nikolaj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deleted /var/db/pkg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:46:03 +0400
Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:01:27PM +0200,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list,
Suppose you deleted /var/db/pkg by accident :( What would you
do to get it back??
I'd go one of these ways:
- rm -rf /usr/local ...
- rebuild all the packages I need in a chroot, then pkg_add them
I have started portinstalling gnome2 with dependencies and no matter if I
manually build cdrtools or cdrtools-cjk the machine always wants to build
the other one :( As they can't coexist, what can I do to make the
portinstall -R gnome2 work?? I have (ab)used pkgdb in every conceivable
way and done portupgrades -o back and forth, but nothing helps. I'm
currently out of ideas. There must be a way - right??
Does the ALT_PKGDEP section of /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf help ?
(from UPDATING)
Example of ALT_PKGDEP section:
ALT_PKGDEP = {
'www/apache13' = 'www/apache13-modssl',
'print/ghostscript-afpl' = 'print/ghostscript-gnu',
}
This should let you specify in pkgtools.conf
ALT_PKGDEP = {
'sysutils/cdrtools' = 'sysutils/cdrtools-cjk',
}
so any dependancies on cdrtools will be rewritten to use cdrtools-cjk
Vince
br Nikolaj
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Re: Deleted /var/db/pkg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:46:03 +0400
Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:01:27PM +0200,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list,
Suppose you deleted /var/db/pkg by accident :( What would you
do to get it back??
I'd go one of these ways:
- rm -rf /usr/local ...
- rebuild all the packages I need in a chroot, then pkg_add them
I have started portinstalling gnome2 with dependencies and no matter if
I
manually build cdrtools or cdrtools-cjk the machine always wants to
build
the other one :( As they can't coexist, what can I do to make the
portinstall -R gnome2 work?? I have (ab)used pkgdb in every
conceivable
way and done portupgrades -o back and forth, but nothing helps. I'm
currently out of ideas. There must be a way - right??
Does the ALT_PKGDEP section of /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf help ?
(from UPDATING)
Example of ALT_PKGDEP section:
ALT_PKGDEP = {
'www/apache13' = 'www/apache13-modssl',
'print/ghostscript-afpl' = 'print/ghostscript-gnu',
}
This should let you specify in pkgtools.conf
ALT_PKGDEP = {
'sysutils/cdrtools' = 'sysutils/cdrtools-cjk',
The above entry is already there. Do I need to do anything in particular
to reinforce it??
}
so any dependancies on cdrtools will be rewritten to use cdrtools-cjk
Vince
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Re: Deleted /var/db/pkg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:46:03 +0400
Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:01:27PM +0200,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list,
Suppose you deleted /var/db/pkg by accident :( What would you
do to get it back??
I'd go one of these ways:
- rm -rf /usr/local ...
- rebuild all the packages I need in a chroot, then pkg_add them
I have started portinstalling gnome2 with dependencies and no matter if
I
manually build cdrtools or cdrtools-cjk the machine always wants to
build
the other one :( As they can't coexist, what can I do to make the
portinstall -R gnome2 work?? I have (ab)used pkgdb in every
conceivable
way and done portupgrades -o back and forth, but nothing helps. I'm
currently out of ideas. There must be a way - right??
Does the ALT_PKGDEP section of /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf help ?
(from UPDATING)
Example of ALT_PKGDEP section:
ALT_PKGDEP = {
'www/apache13' = 'www/apache13-modssl',
'print/ghostscript-afpl' = 'print/ghostscript-gnu',
}
This should let you specify in pkgtools.conf
ALT_PKGDEP = {
'sysutils/cdrtools' = 'sysutils/cdrtools-cjk',
The above entry is already there. Do I need to do anything in particular
to reinforce it??
Not as far as i know, (the only substitution i have in there works fine.)
If your syntax is ok, and you dont have sysutils/cdrtools installed
already which would probably confuse it, it should just work. If not
then you might have to ask someone with more portupgrade-fu than me.
Vince
}
so any dependancies on cdrtools will be rewritten to use cdrtools-cjk
Vince
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Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?
On 21/09/2007, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use 7.0 on about 70 machines that are extremely heavily loaded, all running ULE, ranging from single through to 8 CPUs, some using ZFS, etc. I don't see these problems you are claiming, so you'll have to do some more detective work. I'm working on it. Specifically, the newest crash is in net/route.c, where locking is insufficient on SMP machines (the machine is not a router but a normal network server, the problem doesn't affect only routers). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server
A general question pls excuse me can any body suggest a backup mechanism for a server machine , which has a web portal , email server ,PgSQL database 4GB size , DNS server, Mailman , and a mediawiki applications running in a single machine . Can you suggest good solutions , for the server Backup mechanismso that I can restore all the data just before the crashing moment . just before is too much. but try rsync ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server
Hello DharneshK, You can try to create a Mirror using RAID. You can either create a software or a hardware (recommended) managed Mirror. In case of a disk both are software. while the software one you talking about is gmirror - very portable and easy to use contrary to BIOS-based hardware one. and with gmirror is very easy to take whole disk snapshot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:14:25 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can try to create a Mirror using RAID. You can either create a
software or a hardware (recommended) managed Mirror. In case of a disk
both are software. while the software one you talking about is gmirror -
very portable and easy to use contrary to BIOS-based hardware one.
and with gmirror is very easy to take whole disk snapshot
raid is a good solution for avoiding data loss due to hard disk failure (at
different rates depending on the raid type ). But it wont help you if someone
accidentally or on purpose delete files. Raid will happily replicate the
deletion across all your disks :)
Raid , fail-over solutions and the like go hand in hand with backups, each
case needing it's own analysis : server/s setup, data, frequency of change of
the data, how fast do you want to recover it , budget will (well, should :D )
all affect your final decision.
Whatever path you go down by, make sure you test the getting the data back and
the server back online step ;) it's too late by then to realise you should've
backed up /etc and /var/ , for example.
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Re: QEMU and tap problems
On Thu, September 20, 2007 20:47, RW wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:21:20 -0500 Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been following the various instructions I've found on the web in an attempt to get tap networking with qemu-devel-0.9.0s.20070802 Are you actually sure that you actually need tap? Good question. My reason for running Win2K server under QEMU is I'm working on a java app that speaks to SQLServer. Initially, all I need is to communicate with the host/guest on the same machine. After that, I'll need the QEMU guest to be on the network so I can connect to the java app from other computers. A lot of the how-tos are out of date I've noticed that :( - recent versions of Qemu can give a guest network access without it. When I started QEMU with the -net nic -net user switches, then Windows gets a 10. address and the guest can see the network. However, I cannot see open ports I'm interested in, 1433 and 3389, from the host. Windows thinks it has connectivity, but I cannot ping the default gateway from the guest and I cannot ping the IP of the guest from the host. This suggest you are accessing the net without tap, ping is a setuid binary so pings generated in the guest can't be passed on by qemu. The guest definitely could not see the hosts network with tap set up the way I described. I was using ping as a basic diagnostic tool and did not know the limitation you described. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server
raid is a good solution for avoiding data loss due to hard disk failure (at different rates depending on the raid type ). But it wont help you if someone accidentally or on purpose delete files. Raid will happily replicate the deletion across all your disks :) of course, that's why i use rsync, and use cp -lpR to make multiple generations on backup server every day. i delete the oldest when there are out of space. but gmirror+ggated/c is a good idea for those having more than 1 server and gigabit interfaces - do mirrorring spanning different machines (like mirror of first on second, mirror of second - on first). PLUS BACKUPS. the server back online step ;) it's too late by then to realise you should've backed up /etc and /var/ , for example. best to do exclude - instead of include - backup list ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: QEMU and tap problems
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:08:41 -0500 (CDT) Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, September 20, 2007 20:47, RW wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:21:20 -0500 Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been following the various instructions I've found on the web in an attempt to get tap networking with qemu-devel-0.9.0s.20070802 Are you actually sure that you actually need tap? Good question. My reason for running Win2K server under QEMU is I'm working on a java app that speaks to SQLServer. Initially, all I need is to communicate with the host/guest on the same machine. After that, I'll need the QEMU guest to be on the network so I can connect to the java app from other computers. A lot of the how-tos are out of date I've noticed that :( - recent versions of Qemu can give a guest network access without it. When I started QEMU with the -net nic -net user switches, then Windows gets a 10. address and the guest can see the network. However, I cannot see open ports I'm interested in, 1433 and 3389, from the host. I understand it when you run a guest without any networking switches, it sees an emulated ethernet interface that behaves as if it's connected to a basic NAT router. This emulation is running as an ordinary user in the host, so it can't do anything that requires root access - which is why you can't ping out. And because of the NAT you can't make incoming connections to the guest (which prevents incoming pings). IIRC there is some kind of redirection switch that will allow you to connect to guest ports via ports on the host (analogous to the port forwarding on a NAT router). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: QEMU and tap problems
Have a look at this article: http://sysnotes.hia.no/2007/09/21/how-to-fix-network-bridging-for-qemu/ It may give you some ideas although it is for Linux. The basic premise is to make qemu emulate the guest host so it appears as any other physical host on the network. It may work better. Regards Oz RW wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:08:41 -0500 (CDT) Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, September 20, 2007 20:47, RW wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:21:20 -0500 Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been following the various instructions I've found on the web in an attempt to get tap networking with qemu-devel-0.9.0s.20070802 Are you actually sure that you actually need tap? Good question. My reason for running Win2K server under QEMU is I'm working on a java app that speaks to SQLServer. Initially, all I need is to communicate with the host/guest on the same machine. After that, I'll need the QEMU guest to be on the network so I can connect to the java app from other computers. A lot of the how-tos are out of date I've noticed that :( - recent versions of Qemu can give a guest network access without it. When I started QEMU with the -net nic -net user switches, then Windows gets a 10. address and the guest can see the network. However, I cannot see open ports I'm interested in, 1433 and 3389, from the host. I understand it when you run a guest without any networking switches, it sees an emulated ethernet interface that behaves as if it's connected to a basic NAT router. This emulation is running as an ordinary user in the host, so it can't do anything that requires root access - which is why you can't ping out. And because of the NAT you can't make incoming connections to the guest (which prevents incoming pings). IIRC there is some kind of redirection switch that will allow you to connect to guest ports via ports on the host (analogous to the port forwarding on a NAT router). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hardware issues?
I run a Freebsd 6.2 server. Lately I've been getting a lot of the following type errors: Sep 20 20:01:54 rogue kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 165918, size: 12288 The system has a raid 0 setup. I thought the normal cause of this was a hard drive issue so I did some checking over the past couple of weeks. I did a bios based scan of both drives, checked the raid reports and it thinks they are fine. I also installed smartctl and do daily testing and it reports the drives are both fine. It seems like I start getting those messages after the system has been up for a week or two. If i reboot they go away for several more days. Any thoughts on what could case this? The hardware is only 2 years old so the system isn't be overwhelmed. Showing 1% or less of processing via top at any given time. Is the hard disk the only likely cause? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache22 Port can't find Berkeley DB.
Hi! When I ran an upgrade to the Ports tree using the portsnap tool portsnap fetch update I saw an available update available to /usr/ports/www/apache22, but it was immediately followed with an error, IGNORED Unknown Berkeley DB version in the console output. Other ports eventually get updated, but apache22 seems to get skipped as a result. It took me a bit to figure out that the IGNORE is coming from the Port's Makefile.modules, IGNORE= Unknown Berkeley DB version I've read online about use of /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.database.mk /etc/make.conf for build configuration, and have added USE_BDB WITH_BDB_HIGHEST=true WITH_BDB_VER=46 BDB_LIB_DIR=/usr/local/lib/db46 BDB_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include/db46 to make.conf. If I grok this stuff correctly, Ports should now find use BDB, version 46. Good news! This seems to make all other Ports generally happy. They seem to find/use BDB like I intend. But the apache22 Port still doesn't update, because of the Unknown BDB version. Is there some additional Ports-magic that I'm missing here? Ali ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X11 keyboard
I'm using a Mac mini, and the keyboard is wrong in various ways under X (apart from the usual unwanted caps lock, keys like tilde are wrong). What is the right way to fix this? I'm using Xorg 7.2. Have you gotten other mac keyboards working under FreeBSD? If not, you probably want, try man setxkbmap. Ah, that's probably what I was looking for. I did something similar years ago, but couldn't remember what it was. -- Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
reboot on problem
Hi ! I am running FreeBSD as server. Thing is working great, there is only one problem. Sometimes machine looses connection to internet... Which is quite a problem, since this computer is on remote location, which I only access once a week or less. I would need application (or something), which would check if computer can connect to gateway, in case that it can it would do nothing, but in case it can't it would make soft reboot... Is there anything that I could achive this with? Any idea is welcome... Please cc: message to my private address (reply all should do this) Thanks in advance Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reboot on problem
On Sep 21, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Aleksander Rozman - Andy wrote: Hi ! I am running FreeBSD as server. Thing is working great, there is only one problem. Sometimes machine looses connection to internet... Which is quite a problem, since this computer is on remote location, which I only access once a week or less. I would need application (or something), which would check if computer can connect to gateway, in case that it can it would do nothing, but in case it can't it would make soft reboot... Is there anything that I could achive this with? Any idea is welcome... Please cc: message to my private address (reply all should do this) Thanks in advance Andy You could write a shell script to check the connection at a set interval and take corrective action should it encounter a problem. Cheers, Mikel King CITO, Tech Alliance, INC Senior Editor, Daemon News 39 West Fourteenth Street Second Floor New York, NY 10011 http://www.techally.com http://www.daemonnews.org t: 212.727.2100x132 +--+ How do you spell cooperation? Pessimists use each other, but optimists help each other. Collaboration feeds your spirit, while competition only stokes your ego. You'll find the best way to get along. +--+ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: My experiment which FreeBSD, stuck with wireless card.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:29:03PM -0230, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a solution to this issue for PCBDS 1.3? I am using the WN825G on an old IBM TP 600. According to the user guide, this card uses a Broadcom 4306 2050. AFAIK, these chips are not supported under freebsd. Broadcom doesn't specs and programming information to the open source community. They only support their customers if they want to make a driver. For everyone looking for a working wireless card, the following advice; - look through the manual pages for the networking device drivers to locate supported chipsets. - locate a card with a supported chipset. Yes, this takes some effort, but until open source drivers are commonplace, that's the way it is. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpTK04BTYR8C.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wojciech Puchar a écrit : of course, that's why i use rsync, and use cp -lpR to make multiple generations on backup server every day. i delete the oldest when there are out of space. but gmirror+ggated/c is a good idea for those having more than 1 server and gigabit interfaces - do mirrorring spanning different machines (like mirror of first on second, mirror of second - on first). rdiff-backup do all of this and you can also restore a backup of 2 days ago because it also store an history of the backup. Michel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG898ftdSucJnea0gRAnA4AKCqXBHxWUs3o+kHUvLNX7W5EthsQgCfe+WH 8LW1Ju1oHtfGt4F2jpcPKUk= =qDKk -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netcraft do not display uptime graph, why?
Hi there, My machine is FreeBSD 6.x currently. But Netcraft do not display of my machine's uptime graph. When I used FreeBSD 4.x, actually I could see the uptime graph in Netcraft. What happened? And what can I do to solve the problem? Here is my machine's uname: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ uname -v FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 #4: Thu Aug 30 23:44:27 KST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ Byung-Hee ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?
Ivan Voras wrote: On 21/09/2007, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use 7.0 on about 70 machines that are extremely heavily loaded, all running ULE, ranging from single through to 8 CPUs, some using ZFS, etc. I don't see these problems you are claiming, so you'll have to do some more detective work. I'm working on it. Specifically, the newest crash is in net/route.c, where locking is insufficient on SMP machines (the machine is not a router but a normal network server, the problem doesn't affect only routers). OK, feel free to provide some details on the relevant mailing list if you need help tracking it down. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server
Hi ; A general question pls excuse me can any body suggest a backup mechanism for a server machine , which has a web portal , email server ,PgSQL database 4GB size , DNS server, Mailman , and a mediawiki applications running in a single machine . Sounds like a fairly small server. Should be no problem backing it up. Can you suggest good solutions , for the server Backup mechanismso that I can restore all the data just before the crashing moment . Well, if you want just before the crash, you need some kind of mirroring or raid that makes a recoverable copy or stripe of your data. Backups will only restore from the point of the backup. I would suggest mirroring combined with frequent backups - daily. As for the medium, it depends on how much backup you need. Do you need long term archive copies - then use tape. If you only need to restore a recent backup after some catastrophic failure, then probably backing up to a large USB disk would be fine. Use dump/restore to do the backups. Organize your file systems so that stuff that never or rarely changes does not go in to your daily backup and by size so that if possible, one file system can fit on a single recording media - eg tape or disk or whatever. It is possible to have continuation media, but it is nice if you don't have to. jerry pls share your expertise , it will help me lot to secure my data in the server machine .. Thanks in Advance KK _ Live the life in style with MSN Lifestyle. Check out! http://content.msn.co.in/Lifestyle/Default ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are you guys using xcdroast?
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:17:24 -0400 Lisandro Grullon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Erich and thank youf rot the reply, I do understand that this is an X aplication, I am trying to run it in 6.2_release using Xorg 7.2 and Gnome2, still giving me that strange error when I try to execute from the shell as root, I try google at it and nothing shows up for it. Any ideas what might be happening? Try changing the Gnome menu entry to run it as root (it works on KDE, so it'll probably work on Gnome). What you shouldn't do is allow root to run gui programs by default. Looking at the xcdroast port it looks like it can only be run as root, which is bad, or setuid, which is worse. The K3B port has a set of instruction for making it work as an ordinary user (make showinfo), perhaps it would work with xcdroast. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netcraft do not display uptime graph, why?
In response to Byung-Hee HWANG [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there, My machine is FreeBSD 6.x currently. But Netcraft do not display of my machine's uptime graph. When I used FreeBSD 4.x, actually I could see the uptime graph in Netcraft. What happened? http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#hz1000 -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can not connect to external modem
I Am having troubles to set up an external serial modem on FreeBSD 6.2. Here is my dmesg: sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A When I run the following command, the console freezes and I can not type anything: ironman# tip -v com1 Stale lock on cuad0 PID=70824... overriding. connected Any sugestions ? Thanks in advance ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one of the following things was wrong with your message: - You left out a subject line, or the subject line was not appropriate. - You formatted it in such a way that it was difficult to read. - You asked more than one unrelated question in one message. - You sent out a message with an incorrect date, time or time zone. - You sent out the same message more than once. - You sent an 'unsubscribe' message to FreeBSD-questions. If you have done any of these things, there is a good chance that you will get more than one copy of this message from different people. Read on, and your next message will be more successful. This document is also available on the web at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. = Contents: I:Introduction II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions III: Should I ask -questions or -hackers? IV: How to submit a question to FreeBSD-questions V:How to answer a question to FreeBSD-questions I: Introduction === This is a regular posting aimed to help both those seeking advice from FreeBSD-questions (the newcomers), and also those who answer the questions (the hackers). Note that the term hacker has nothing to do with breaking into other people's computers. The correct term for the latter activity is cracker, but the popular press hasn't found out yet. The FreeBSD hackers disapprove strongly of cracking security, and have nothing to do with it. In the past, there has been some friction which stems from the different viewpoints of the two groups. The newcomers accused the hackers of being arrogant, stuck-up, and unhelpful, while the hackers accused the newcomers of being stupid, unable to read plain English, and expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Of course, there's an element of truth in both these claims, but for the most part these viewpoints come from a sense of frustration. In this document, I'd like to do something to relieve this frustration and help everybody get better results from FreeBSD-questions. In the following section, I recommend how to submit a question; after that, we'll look at how to answer one. II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions == When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this message, amongst other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here's a typical message: Welcome to the freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list! If you ever want to unsubscribe or change your options (eg, switch to or from digest mode, change your password, etc.), visit your subscription page at: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (obviously, substitute your mail address for [EMAIL PROTECTED]). You can also make such adjustments via email by sending a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. You must know your password to change your options (including changing the password, itself) or to unsubscribe. Normally, Mailman will remind you of your freebsd.org mailing list passwords once every month, although you can disable this if you prefer. This reminder will also include instructions on how to unsubscribe or change your account options. There is also a button on your options page that will email your current password to you. Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send how to questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests: you don't need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the one which you specified when you subscribed. If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you're not on the list, this may mean one of two things: 1. You have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. That's where keeping the original message from majordomo comes in handy. For example, the sample message above shows my mail ID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since then, I have changed it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I were to try to remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the list, it would fail: I would have to specify the name with which I joined. 2. You're subscribed to a mailing list which is subscribed to
The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inevitably, a number of bugs and changes have surfaced. The Complete FreeBSD has been through a total of five editions, including its predecessor Installing and Running FreeBSD. Two of these have been reprinted with corrections. I maintain a series of errata pages. Start at http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata information. Note also that the book has now been released for free download in PDF form. Instead of downloading the changed pages, you may prefer to download the entire book. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ for more information. Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing? Please let me know: I'm no longer constantly updating it, but I may be able to help Greg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to know who use NFS.
With some info student it also happen some times in here, and the way i find is to launch a tcpdum or ethereal on the server and look at which ip appear the more often Michel Albert Shih a écrit : Hi all Sometime I've a user (or some users but not lot of users) make a very huge transfert through NFS. I don't want that. How can I known at un precise moment who charge my NFS server (I'm root in both side : client and server). Regards. -- Albert SHIH Observatoire de Paris Meudon SIO batiment 15 Heure local/Local time: Jeu 20 sep 2007 19:23:03 CEST ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can not connect to external modem
On 2007-09-21 13:35, Marcos Vinicius Buzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I Am having troubles to set up an external serial modem on FreeBSD 6.2. Here is my dmesg: sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A When I run the following command, the console freezes and I can not type anything: ironman# tip -v com1 Stale lock on cuad0 PID=70824... overriding. connected Any sugestions ? Try hitting RETURN a couple of times and typing ``~.'' (without the surrounding ``double quotes''). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Intel D975XBX2 BTX Halted error
After experiencing overheating problems, I purchased a new CPU and motherboard Intel D975XBX2 which has a built in Raid controller Marvell 88SE61xx I installed my existing FreeBSD-STABLE drive I have tried disabling the secondary SATA Controller, but it says no boot devices available. My drive is connected to SATA port 0 I have tried configuring my ATA/IDE Mode as Native (the default) and Legacy. I have tried configuring SATA as IDE, AHCI, and RAID I have tried S.M.A.R.T both enabled and disabled. int=000d err= efl=00030086 eip=1526 eax=0110 ebx= ecx= edx=95200110 esi=3684 edi=36ac ebp=4eac esp=4e9a cs=cf00 ds=9b00 es=cf00 fs=9941 gs=9ac0 ss=9b00 sc:eip=2e 0f 01 16 8d 07 0f 20-c0 40 0f 22 c0 b8 08 00 8e e8 67 66 65 89 0a 0f-20 c0 48 0f 22 c0 66 58 ss:esp=10 01 00 00 c0 9a 20 95-00 00 ff ff 00 00 ac 36 84 36 d4 4e 6c 32 00 01-00 00 00 40 25 00 00 00 BTX halted Similar Posts: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-March/146146.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-March/146252.html Thanks in advance, Kirby ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can not connect to external modem
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Marcos Vinicius Buzo wrote: I Am having troubles to set up an external serial modem on FreeBSD 6.2. Here is my dmesg: sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A When I run the following command, the console freezes and I can not type anything: ironman# tip -v com1 Stale lock on cuad0 PID=70824... overriding. connected Any sugestions ? please ls /dev if you do not find sio0: moving to sio4 in dmesg, it probably is not identifying the device as a modem. If it did, the device is on cuad4. com1 is being interpreted as cuad0, which is the keyboard, and it is no wonder you are freezing up. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel D975XBX2 BTX Halted error
On 9/21/07, Kirby Kuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After experiencing overheating problems, I purchased a new CPU and motherboard Intel D975XBX2 which has a built in Raid controller Marvell 88SE61xx I installed my existing FreeBSD-STABLE drive I've just installed FreeBSD-CURRENT on this motherboard yesterday without any problem, but I'm using one areca ARC-1231 not the onboard serial ata controller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to know who use NFS.
In the last episode (Sep 21), Le Cocq Michel said: Albert Shih a écrit : Sometime I've a user (or some users but not lot of users) make a very huge transfert through NFS. I don't want that. How can I known at un precise moment who charge my NFS server (I'm root in both side : client and server). With some info student it also happen some times in here, and the way i find is to launch a tcpdum or ethereal on the server and look at which ip appear the more often I think ethereal/wireshark is your best bet too. At least with it you can filter on the userid making an NFS request (it's rpc.auth.uid). Unfortunately it doesn't look like there's a summary or analysis option for NFS, so you'll have to count packets maually... -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenOffice Java downloads
Aloha, I would like to know where the download files for OpenOffice 1.1 are located now. I downloaded OpenOffice from FreeBSD site and it gives error 1 when finished saying you have to install 3 or 4 files from outside. But the files listed on the screen are not listed on the sites given as their location. I checked the archive java files at Sun and they are not there either. I'd even go for switching to different office program which runs under FerrBSD with out all this hassle if it was able to open .doc and .swx files. Thanks for the help. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice Java downloads
In response to NetOpsCenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Aloha, I would like to know where the download files for OpenOffice 1.1 are located now. I downloaded OpenOffice from FreeBSD site and it gives error 1 when finished saying you have to install 3 or 4 files from outside. But the files listed on the screen are not listed on the sites given as their location. I checked the archive java files at Sun and they are not there either. I'd even go for switching to different office program which runs under FerrBSD with out all this hassle if it was able to open .doc and .swx files. I expect you're going to have a difficult time rounding up all those versions of those files, as OOo 1.1 is gotten rather old. Is there any reason you can't use OOo 2.X? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with Pear-Auth
On FreeBSD 6.2 php-5.2.4 make install clean === Installing for pear-Auth-1.5.4 === pear-Auth-1.5.4 depends on file: /usr/local/share/pear/PEAR.php - found === pear-Auth-1.5.4 depends on executable: pear - found === Generating packing list === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if security/pear-Auth already installed === Installing documentation in /usr/local/share/doc/pear/Auth. === Installing tests in /usr/local/share/pear/tests/Auth. === Installing examples in /usr/local/share/examples/pear/Auth. pear/Auth can optionally use package pear/Log (version = 1.9.10) pear/Auth can optionally use package pear/File_Passwd (version = 1.1.0) pear/Auth can optionally use package pear/Net_POP3 (version = 1.3.0) pear/Auth can optionally use package pear/DB (version = 1.6.0) pear/Auth can optionally use package pear/MDB pear/Auth can optionally use package pear/MDB2 (version = 2.0.0RC1) pear/Auth can optionally use package pear/Auth_RADIUS pear/Auth can optionally use package pear/Crypt_CHAP (version = 1.0.0) pear/Auth can optionally use package pear/File_SMBPasswd (version = 1.0.0) pear/Auth can optionally use package pear/HTTP_Client (version = 1.1.0) pear/Auth can optionally use package pear/SOAP (version = 0.9.0) pear/Auth can optionally use package pecl/vpopmail (version = 0.2) pear/Auth can optionally use package pecl/kadm5 (version = 0.2.3) pear/Auth can optionally use PHP extension saprfc pear/Auth can optionally use PHP extension soap install ok: channel://pear.php.net/Auth-1.5.4 Segmentation fault (core dumped) *** Error code 139 It seems to be less with Pear-Auth, but I'm not sure where to go with this. Derrick MacPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice Java downloads
Bill Moran wrote: In response to NetOpsCenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Aloha, I would like to know where the download files for OpenOffice 1.1 are located now. I downloaded OpenOffice from FreeBSD site and it gives error 1 when finished saying you have to install 3 or 4 files from outside. But the files listed on the screen are not listed on the sites given as their location. I checked the archive java files at Sun and they are not there either. I'd even go for switching to different office program which runs under FerrBSD with out all this hassle if it was able to open .doc and .swx files. I expect you're going to have a difficult time rounding up all those versions of those files, as OOo 1.1 is gotten rather old. Is there any reason you can't use OOo 2.X? I have 1.1 in use now on an elderly 4.11 box that works just fine. I tried to load 2.x last Jan on a 7.0 box and could.t get the files to download from Sun/Java then. I just set up a new FreeBSD 7.0 box to eventually replace the 4.11 desktop This is where I want to install the Open Office. So I really dont care what the version is so long as the file names reflect what the freebsd install error 1 gives when it finishes its part. I just happened to start this ritual of installing with 1.1 to see if it worked. Which it did not. I also see that IBM is releasing their version of OpenOffice as FreeWare for all OS'es. Is this available as a straight install on FreeBSD oe linux/FreeBSD as a port? I have clients who insist using .doc files since they have M$ stuff. That is why I need a system that can run them on FreeBSD. I dont do Windows. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Repeated PXE jumpstart
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Erik Cederstrand wrote: Found the answer elsewhere, so this is just for the records... # sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=1 wipes the MBR and solves my problem. The alternative is to put PXE ahead of the HD in the boot order, and call back to the deployment host at the end of installation (prior to reboot) to signal a DHCP reconfiguration. It adds a PXE timeout to each boot; the upside is that replacing a wedging or otherwise broken install is just a matter of reconfiguring a DHCP server. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Random act of violence against bread: whole pint. -- extract from the Hawk the Slayer drinking game ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to know who use NFS.
Le 21/09/2007 à 13:59:35-0500, Dan Nelson a écrit In the last episode (Sep 21), Le Cocq Michel said: Albert Shih a écrit : Sometime I've a user (or some users but not lot of users) make a very huge transfert through NFS. I don't want that. How can I known at un precise moment who charge my NFS server (I'm root in both side : client and server). With some info student it also happen some times in here, and the way i find is to launch a tcpdum or ethereal on the server and look at which ip appear the more often I think ethereal/wireshark is your best bet too. At least with it you can filter on the userid making an NFS request (it's rpc.auth.uid). Unfortunately it doesn't look like there's a summary or analysis option for NFS, so you'll have to count packets maually... Thanks for that. But my problem is the NFS traffic is heavy in standard time, and wireshark or tcpdump give my lot of lot of data. But I'm going to try again. Regards. -- Albert SHIH Observatoire de Paris Meudon SIO batiment 15 Heure local/Local time: Ven 21 sep 2007 22:16:34 CEST ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Data corruption with Tyan Thunder amd64 and 3ware 9550
Hello, I'm hoping that someone has a good answer for the strange behavior I'm seeing. I have a problem with a Tyan Thunder K8SE motherboard with dual Opteron 250 2.4GHz CPUs and a 3Ware 9550 PCI Express four port RAID controller running in RAID 5. 4GB Memory. Running 6.2, with source downloaded yesterday morning and a complete buildworld/buildkernel When we rsync a file to the system and then checksum it, we get really bogus results like these: files# md5 junk MD5 (junk) = 30d02079596353437f372a99697fb1bc files# md5 junk MD5 (junk) = d05e159aecf780678b0f8ef785252498 files# md5 junk MD5 (junk) = 25c1ec066f4ed37cd9268bdafa0a0639 files# md5 junk MD5 (junk) = 477a6bb6fc9ccba12bf4e167b39679f8 Yes, that's the same file each time. We've tried various ACPI settings in the BIOS, moving the memory around, running single CPU, changing the APIC BIOS setting to PIC (system boots faster then, but only runs one CPU), but we're still getting corrupted data reads. Any pointers welcomed. --Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is there any way of turning muttrc list into an evolution or other mail alias database?
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 04:49:48PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:13:55PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:31:53PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Google says something about evo being able to import ldif files. Abook can convert mutt's aliases into ldif. I'll google for it; thanks for the tip. Thanks to Andrew's posting I did find a few references on how to use abook to create the basics of email addresses for evol. Not enough, tho to let me get very far, tho, so if anybody has a sed script that can put the 'alias', Name, [EMAIL PROTECTED] into evolution format, that would be a help. Or if any one of you has actually used mutt|elm and abook to do this, I'd be very much in your debt for an example. I will post on my BSD website. OK, I had to install evolution to try this, but it works flawlessly: % abook --convert --infile ./.mutt/aliases --informat mutt \ --outformat ldif --outfile /tmp/try.ldif Then go to evo, File-Import-Single file-/tmp/try.ldif And I'm looking at my address book in evo. What you figured out does indeed work. Thanks very much indeed. As abook grows, maybe it will be able to put things into different formats. Altho maybe Evolution will serve well. (I finally learned that to save mail you can click and mouse the icon to the left and unclick atop whatever directory... .) I still like mutt best; fingers only. No mousing necessary:-) gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
m4 macro error
Hi, I installed freeBSD 6.2 but when I was to rebuild the sendmail.cf with m4, I got this error: # m4 /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 freebsd.mc sendmail.cf m4: unexpected end of input, unclosed parenthesis: /usr/share/sendmail/cf/feature/accept_unresolvable_domains.m4 at line 14 File: accept_unresolvable_domains.m4 Line 14: define(`_ACCEPT_UNRESOLVABLE_DOMAINS_', 1): -- divert(-1) # # Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 Sendmail, Inc. and its suppliers. # All rights reserved. # # By using this file, you agree to the terms and conditions set # forth in the LICENSE file which can be found at the top level of # the sendmail distribution. # # divert(0) VERSIONID(`$Id: accept_unresolvable_domains.m4,v 8.10 1999/02/07 07:26:07 gshapi divert(-1) define(`_ACCEPT_UNRESOLVABLE_DOMAINS_', 1) Does m4 have errors? How can I solve this? thanks in advance... Sé un Mejor Amante del Cine ¿Quieres saber cómo? ¡Deja que otras personas te ayuden! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/reto/entretenimiento.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice Java downloads
NetOpsCenter writes: Bill Moran wrote: Is there any reason you can't use OOo 2.X? So I really dont care what the version is so long as the file names reflect what the freebsd install error 1 gives when it finishes its part. 1) Have you asked on the openoffice@ mailing list? 2) I'm with Bill - about the only reason to prefer 1.1 to 2.2.1 is lack of disk space. 3) I know from experience a suitable jdk is required (at least during compilation) for the 2.x series to handle OpenDocument formats. But the last I heard, it handles other formats natively. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
top columns VCSW and IVCSW
I couldn't find it in the man page and Google turned up with nothing of value so I ask here. What does the top (in IO mode) columns VCSW and IVCSW mean? -- Andreas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
top columns VCSW and IVCSW
I couldn't find it in the man page and Google turned up with nothing of value so I ask here. What does the top (in IO mode) columns VCSW and IVCSW mean? -- Andreas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: top columns VCSW and IVCSW
On 2007-09-21 21:44, Andreas Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I couldn't find it in the man page and Google turned up with nothing of value so I ask here. What does the top (in IO mode) columns VCSW and IVCSW mean? VCSW = 'Voluntary context switches' IVCSW = 'Involuntary context switches' The first type of context switch happens when a process yields before it has used its allotted time-quantum (i.e. because of an I/O request). The second type of context switch happens when a process eats up all of its quantum, and it is forcibly context-switched out of a CPU core by the scheduler, to let other processes run. The manpage doesn't document all the ``-m io'' columns, so we should try to fix it :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: top columns VCSW and IVCSW
In the last episode (Sep 21), Andreas Pettersson said: I couldn't find it in the man page and Google turned up with nothing of value so I ask here. What does the top (in IO mode) columns VCSW and IVCSW mean? Voluntary and Involuntary context switches. Voluntary ones are usually due to syscalls that end up blocking (sleep, read, write, select etc). Involuntary ones are done by the scheduler when the process has used up its time slice or an interrupt fires. Grep the kernel for mi_switch to see places that switches can happen. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard drive RPM
John Andrewartha wrote: When you format a disk a percentage of the disk is reserved for a map so your file can be found. On a UFS it is called the SUPER BLOCKS a master and at least one slave. Typically these blocks will take up to 8% or there abouts of the disk. BTW I am not shouting when SUPER BLOCKS' that's how it's written. In a root shell type fsck and watch the screen. For more info dig into you docs usually /share/doc or usr/doc there where some really good docs on the UFS By default 8% of the disk is also reserved for use by the superuser: this extra space isn't displayed in the Avail column of df, so when the disk is really full (i.e the root user has filled the disk) it will show negative values. The amount of space reserved can be changed using tunefs(8). -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Software RAID5
Hi all Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the internet seem to be few and far between, and official documentation is a little too technical. Basically I have 3 x 500GB hard drives which I'd like to have in a raid5 configuration, using software, root partition on their too would be a bonus. I'd be grateful for assistance. Best regards Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel Panics in 6.1 and 6.2 always Exim 4
Well after a year we still haven't tracked down the kernel panic problems that are occuring on both our 6.1 and 6.2 machines for those we have had time to upgrade. It occurs on 6.1-RC, 6.1-RELEASE 6.1-STABLE, 6.2, you name it. We are noticing that all of the dumps are during Exim 4.6x runtime. I am suspicious of PR-97095 but would like others insights into the possibility. References http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2006-06/msg00011.html http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2006-06/msg00621.html http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2006-06/msg00636.html Here is my ditty: uname -a FreeBSD machine1.ourdomain.net 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #1: Tue Apr 11 23:19:28 PDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM-KERNEL i386 dmesg Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x5c fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc06ab64c stack pointer = 0x28:0xf7ab1b10 frame pointer = 0x28:0xf7ab1b2c code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 17074 (exim) trap number = 12 panic: page fault Uptime: 4d5h40m36s Dumping 1015 MB (2 chunks) chunk 0: 1MB (160 pages) ... ok chunk 1: 1015MB (259840 pages) 1000 984 968 952 936 920 904 888 872 856 840 824 808 792 776 760 744 728 712 696 680 664 648 632 616 600 584 568 552 536 520 504 488 472 456 440 424 408 392 376 360 344 328 312 296 280 264 248 232 216 200 184 168 152 136 120 104 88 72 56 40 24 8Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.1-RC #1: Tue Apr 11 23:19:28 PDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM-KERNEL Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz (2000.03-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf24 Stepping = 4 Features=0x3febfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,M CA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM real memory = 1065353216 (1016 MB) avail memory = 1032658944 (984 MB) MPTable: OEM0 PROD ioapic0: Assuming intbase of 0 ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 npx0: [FAST] npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface cpu0 on motherboard pcib0: MPTable Host-PCI bridge pcibus 0 on motherboard pci0: PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Intel 82845G (845G GMCH) SVGA controller mem 0xd000-0xd7ff,0xdc10-0xdc17 irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 agp0: detected 8060k stolen memory agp0: aperture size is 128M pci0: serial bus, USB at device 29.0 (no driver attached) pci0: serial bus, USB at device 29.1 (no driver attached) pci0: serial bus, USB at device 29.2 (no driver attached) pci0: serial bus, USB at device 29.7 (no driver attached) pcib1: MPTable PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0 pci1: PCI bus on pcib1 fxp0: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) Pro/100 Ethernet port 0xa000-0xa03f mem 0xdc00-0xdc000fff irq 20 at device 8.0 on pci1 miibus0: MII bus on fxp0 inphy0: i82562ET 10/100 media interface on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:10:dc:52:d4:3d isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci0: Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xcc00-0xcc0f mem 0xdc181000-0xdc1813ff irq 16 at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 pci0: serial bus, SMBus at device 31.3 (no driver attached) pci0: multimedia, audio at device 31.5 (no driver attached) pmtimer0 on isa0 atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: [FAST] ppc0: Parallel port at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0 plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 sc0: System console at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 unknown: PNP0303 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0c01 can't assign resources (memory) unknown: PNP0c02 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0501 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0700 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0401 can't assign resources (port)
IBM Lotus freesoftware
Aloha, Anybody know if the IBM LOTUS office package ( Free Software) that is for Redhat 5 Enterprise Server will run under FreeBSD /Linux ? We are looking to use an editor/office suite for a client. They heard about this new offering a couple of days ago. Thanks, ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID5
On 9/21/07, Gabriel Dragffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the internet seem to be few and far between, and official documentation is a little too technical. Basically I have 3 x 500GB hard drives which I'd like to have in a raid5 configuration, using software, root partition on their too would be a bonus. I'd be grateful for assistance. Best regards Gabriel From what I know, you're not going to be able to boot from them. However, a simple solution to that is to get a 64+ MB USB flash drive and put the kernel on that. Just use fdisk and bsdlabel to write the boot blocks. As long as the kernel has all needed drivers and you specify which root device to use (either via kernel configuration or /etc/fstab), that should allow you to put everything else on the RAID array. This is how I currently do full-disk encryption on my laptop using GELI. Kernel is outside, everything else is encrypted, same idea for RAID. I haven't ever done software RAID in FreeBSD, so can't help you with the practical aspects of it. But I will say that technical or not, man pages are still the best way to learn about these things. From what I can see, RAID 5 is done through vinum, and GEOM offers RAID 3. Someone else here may be able to tell you which one is better to use. It's also worth noting that with software, the performance of RAID 5 is not going to be very good. I generally advise against software RAID 5. If you want good performance and reliability using software RAID, the best bet is RAID 10, but there the utilization is 50%. I think that if you can afford another 500GB drive and performance is important to you, a software RAID 10 using GEOM will perform much better. It is also easier to recover, and you can lose two drives (not any two, but still) without completely losing all the data. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel Panics in 6.1 and 6.2 always Exim 4
On Sep 21, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Wil Hatfield wrote: IP Filter: v4.1.8 initialized. Default = block all, Logging = enabled ipfw2 (+ipv6) initialized, divert loadable, rule-based forwarding disabled, default to deny, logging unlimited Do you really need to run both IPFW and IP Filter at the same time? Can you nix one of 'em? ad0: 76319MB WDC WD800BB-00CAA1 17.07W17 at ata0-master UDMA100 acd0: CDROM HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8480B/1.02 at ata1-master UDMA33 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a WARNING: / was not properly dismounted g_vfs_done():md0[WRITE(offset=23527424, length=131072)]error = 28 g_vfs_done():md0[WRITE(offset=23805952, length=32768)]error = 28 errno 28 means: #define ENOSPC 28 /* No space left on device */ ...are you using a RAMDISK (md0 implies yes)? Is Exim filling it up? Are you using a malloc(9) based md, or a swap-based md? -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel Panics in 6.1 and 6.2 always Exim 4
Wil Hatfield wrote: Well after a year we still haven't tracked down the kernel panic problems that are occuring on both our 6.1 and 6.2 machines for those we have had time to upgrade. It occurs on 6.1-RC, 6.1-RELEASE 6.1-STABLE, 6.2, you name it. We are noticing that all of the dumps are during Exim 4.6x runtime. I am suspicious of PR-97095 but would like others insights into the possibility. Well, as that PR says, the patch was committed after 6.1-RELEASE, therefore it is expected that older systems will have the problem. You only provided a trace from a 6.1 machine, so if you are saying that it still persists on an up-to-date RELENG_6 kernel, please file a new PR with the details. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
migrate from postfix to qmail
hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently i have setup one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would like to migrate it to Qmail server. but i didn't know how to do it. Someone can give help me? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
Lotfi kecir wrote: hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently i have setup one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would like to migrate it to Qmail server. but i didn't know how to do it. Someone can give help me? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] why would you want to do that? qmail is a massive step backwards and requires a stupid amount of patches to do things properly. Read this for more: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/qmail-bugs.html its just not worth it imo. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pre-geom vinum compatibility
I have a 4.11-R box that I'm planning on reinstalling a fresh 6.2-R on. Not an upgrade, but a fresh binary install after newfsing the system partitions. A remaining planning issue is that I have a pre-GEOM vinum data volume on other disks. The handbook mentions gvinum retaining the same disk metadata. Does this mean that I should be able to mount that 4.11 vinum volume after 6.2 and gvinum is installed on the system disk? Anything I should watch out for? Thanks, -Jed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
Hi, I would agree with the below. I've got a fair amount of experience and i tried on a test box to get qmail working, i did, but it was weird, it didn't conform to FreeBSD's filesystem layout, files were in unusual places, daemons started up nonstandard, and it felt like an email server from the twilight zone, it gave me a really weird feeling and i realized that i wasn't going to be running it in production period. I would recommend postfix. Hth Dave. ___ why would you want to do that? qmail is a massive step backwards and requires a stupid amount of patches to do things properly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
HI, thank's for your post. to give answer to your answer: i rent a dedicated server (Fedora 6) witch has qmail installed on. and in my old Server witch is in our office turn has Postfix. The new sever has as Admin panel Plesk. I already create all email acounts and now i'm looking to transfert all my user acount mailboxes. and i don't have any idea to do it. Thanks for your help ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: top columns VCSW and IVCSW
Andreas Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I couldn't find it in the man page and Google turned up with nothing of value so I ask here. What does the top (in IO mode) columns VCSW and IVCSW mean? Voluntary Context Switches/second Involuntary Context Switches/second -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
