Which gdb GUI do you use?
I know there is ddd, but it has so many bugs that it makes it barely usable. There is emacs, but I am not used to it and don't like it. It's love it or hate it usually for most people. There is some GUI called Insight, for some reason it's not in ports. I've built it and it looks unstable. Gives me an error message: thread.c:79: internal-error: inferior_thread: Assertion 'tp' failed. ... Which GUI you use? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which gdb GUI do you use?
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I know there is ddd, but it has so many bugs that it makes it barely usable. There is emacs, but I am not used to it and don't like it. It's love it or hate it usually for most people. There is some GUI called Insight, for some reason it's not in ports. I've built it and it looks unstable. Gives me an error message: thread.c:79: internal-error: inferior_thread: Assertion 'tp' failed. ... Which GUI you use? None. I faced the same limitations that you did with ddd. Occasionally I use Ctrl-X a to get a window that shows the source code. Cheers Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which version of FreeBSD is it?
On 3/17/10, Антон Клесс antoniok@gmail.com wrote: That is what I suspected for. What is the most safe way to upgrade it, remembering that this is production server and I have to keep it working properly? 6.2-RC1 - 6.2 RELEASE - 7.2 RELEASE - 8.0 RELEASE, or somehow in this style? snip Honestly, if a system is going to go through that large of a change, here's what I'd recommend. First scenario is the quickest running, then continue with the second to keep it up-to-date Since *ALL* configuration of base and ports is done by /etc and /usr/local/etc, back up those two directories to a tarball. they're all text files so it should compress very well. Note the packages currently on your system with a simple pkg_info. This gets you a prime data set that can restore 99%+ functionality if used. Scenario 1: pkg_info /root/pkg_info.txt tar -cPpzf /root/62rc1-config.tgz /etc /usr/local/etc /root/pkg_info.txt ** keep this /root/62rc1-config.tgz archive in a safe 2 spots. 2 spots. fresh install of 8.0R on the box. extract, at minimum, the /etc entries from the tarball kept safely away from the box for each package listed in pkg_info.txt, install from packages that package (just the QUICK way to bring a box to a usable state) extract the /usr/local/etc from the tarball. **TRY** to restart your services. The reason I state 'try' is that config files may have changed from a package version a.b to x.y, so you may need to tweak your config files to match the current package. Now that you have a live box again, able to serve requests, it's time to keep it maintained. Scenario 2: install portaudit run portaudit, fix any vulnerabilities ** at this time, your system is safe from most vulnerabilities run your favorite port management software to update the rest of the ports who do not have vulnerability advisories. I've used this tactic before, works well and WILL be faster than you updating your system from 6.2 to 6.4 to 7.2 to 8.0 Let me know if you have questions. --TJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Generating a random hostname
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On 17/03/2010 22:06:30, Peter Steele wrote:
Is there any facility in FreeBSD for generating a random hostname? We
have a template with a fixed hostname that has to be changed after
the template is closed. It would be useful to have a hostname
generated randomly.
perl -le '@a=(a..z,0..9); print map {$a[rand @a]} (1..8)'
That gives you 2,821,109,907,456 different possibilities so you should
be able to use it for a while without too much fear of duplicates.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Re: Which version of FreeBSD is it?
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 04:56:20PM +0300, ?? ?? typed: I have the server that's running FreeBSD for the last few years, but I saw it only year ago and know nothing about when and how was installed FreeBSD on it. # uname -a FreeBSD myhost.net 6.2-RC1 FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 #4: Fri Mar 5 01:37:03 MSK 2010 r...@myhost.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERN amd64 Is it RELEASE, STABLE or what? As others have said, it's a RELEASE candidate. But this kernel it's running was compiled earlier this month (March 5). Ruben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Generating a random hostname
Is there any facility in FreeBSD for generating a random hostname? We have a template with a fixed hostname that has to be changed after the template is closed. It would be useful to have a hostname I have somewhere a Perl script that can be used/adapted to generate pseudo English words. You would have to work on the script though, because now it also add numbers and other signs, to generate passwords. Bests, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which gdb GUI do you use?
On Thu 18 Mar 2010 at 00:15:30 PDT Yuri wrote: I know there is ddd, but it has so many bugs that it makes it barely usable. There is emacs, but I am not used to it and don't like it. It's love it or hate it usually for most people. There is some GUI called Insight, for some reason it's not in ports. I've built it and it looks unstable. Gives me an error message: thread.c:79: internal-error: inferior_thread: Assertion 'tp' failed. ... Which GUI you use? cgdb, but it's not a GUI. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which version of FreeBSD is it?
2010/3/18 Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org As others have said, it's a RELEASE candidate. But this kernel it's running was compiled earlier this month (March 5). Ruben It is OK, course I have compiled my own kernel by commenting-out unused devices in GENERIC kernconf-file. Sources was newer updated, I just dont know how to do that =) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which version of FreeBSD is it?
18 марта 2010 г. 10:49 пользователь Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com написал: On 3/17/10, Антон Клесс antoniok@gmail.com wrote: That is what I suspected for. What is the most safe way to upgrade it, remembering that this is production server and I have to keep it working properly? 6.2-RC1 - 6.2 RELEASE - 7.2 RELEASE - 8.0 RELEASE, or somehow in this style? snip Honestly, if a system is going to go through that large of a change, here's what I'd recommend. First scenario is the quickest running, then continue with the second to keep it up-to-date Since *ALL* configuration of base and ports is done by /etc and /usr/local/etc, back up those two directories to a tarball. they're all text files so it should compress very well. Note the packages currently on your system with a simple pkg_info. This gets you a prime data set that can restore 99%+ functionality if used. Scenario 1: pkg_info /root/pkg_info.txt tar -cPpzf /root/62rc1-config.tgz /etc /usr/local/etc /root/pkg_info.txt ** keep this /root/62rc1-config.tgz archive in a safe 2 spots. 2 spots. fresh install of 8.0R on the box. extract, at minimum, the /etc entries from the tarball kept safely away from the box for each package listed in pkg_info.txt, install from packages that package (just the QUICK way to bring a box to a usable state) extract the /usr/local/etc from the tarball. **TRY** to restart your services. The reason I state 'try' is that config files may have changed from a package version a.b to x.y, so you may need to tweak your config files to match the current package. Now that you have a live box again, able to serve requests, it's time to keep it maintained. Scenario 2: install portaudit run portaudit, fix any vulnerabilities ** at this time, your system is safe from most vulnerabilities run your favorite port management software to update the rest of the ports who do not have vulnerability advisories. I've used this tactic before, works well and WILL be faster than you updating your system from 6.2 to 6.4 to 7.2 to 8.0 Let me know if you have questions. --TJ Well, while my skills about FreeBSD is not good enough to let me feel OK to experiment with 6.2 to 6.4 to 7.2 to 8.0 updating, and while server is hard to physically access, I guess that just to do fresh install of RELEASE and re-configuring it in the way that Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com told, would be much more quick and safe for my services running on this server now. So the last question is which version (7.2 or 8.0) to choose. Am I right if I say there would no problems with hardware compatibility on 8.0 if there wasn't on 6.2? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid
Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we couldn't create a larger RAID5 than 1.99TB. We are going to use FreeBSD 8.0 and Bacula, but first we obviously need to create a working RAID. My questions are: - Are HighPoint RocketRaid controllers a good alternative to 3ware controllers? Are RocketRaid controllers true hardware RAID? - What should we look for in a RAID controller spec to see that it has support for larger than 2TB RAIDs? I've been looking at these: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_rr2300.htm http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_rr3500.htm Any FreeBSD recommendations? Or perhaps for another 3ware controller? We're using SATAII drives. Thanks for your help! Best regards, Andreas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Generating a random hostname
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On 18/03/2010 08:32:31, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 17/03/2010 22:06:30, Peter Steele wrote:
Is there any facility in FreeBSD for generating a random hostname? We
have a template with a fixed hostname that has to be changed after
the template is closed. It would be useful to have a hostname
generated randomly.
perl -le '@a=(a..z,0..9); print map {$a[rand @a]} (1..8)'
That gives you 2,821,109,907,456 different possibilities so you should
be able to use it for a while without too much fear of duplicates.
Thinking about this some more, a good trick would be to generate a
hostname from the MAC address of the host, since that is guaranteed to
be unique.
Something like this:
% cat hngen
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
MAIN:
{
use integer;
my @a = ( 'a' .. 'z' );
my $mac = shift;
my $n = '';
$mac =~ tr/://d;
$mac = hex $mac;# Convert to decimal integer
while ( $mac 0 ) {
$n = $a[ $mac % @a ] . $n;
$mac /= @a;
}
print $n\n;
}
% ./hngen 00:40:05:a5:8d:b7
bigdehkkt
It does mean that hosts from the same manufacturer will tend to have
similar names -- this might be construed as a feature...
Cheers,
Matthew
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Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid
On Thu, March 18, 2010 8:37 am, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we couldn't create a larger RAID5 than 1.99TB. We are going to use FreeBSD 8.0 and Bacula, but first we obviously need to create a working RAID. My questions are: - Are HighPoint RocketRaid controllers a good alternative to 3ware controllers? Are RocketRaid controllers true hardware RAID? - What should we look for in a RAID controller spec to see that it has support for larger than 2TB RAIDs? I've been looking at these: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_rr2300.htm http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_rr3500.htm Any FreeBSD recommendations? Or perhaps for another 3ware controller? We're using SATAII drives. Thanks for your help! Is ZFS not an option? - you could save yourself a lot of money and hassle with hardware RAID by moving to ZFS. Either using onboard SATA ports on the motherboard (and accept that you might have to shutdown the box to swap failed disks out) or get a simple 8-port HBA in JBOD mode, e.g: http://www.lsi.com/channel/products/hba/sas_sata_hbas/internal/lsisas3081er/index.html You'll need plenty of RAM too, but IMHO it is worth the trade. HTH, Matt. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Law m...@webcontracts.co.ukwrote: 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 requirement is RAID5, hotswap, hotspare and so on. Cheers, Andreas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
shrink /usr size
/usr is the last partition in the slice. It has 15GB and only 600mb used. I would like to shrink /usr to 7GB leaving me 7GB for another new partition for mysql DB testing. How do I shrink /usr? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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 m...@webcontracts.co.ukwrote: 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 requirement is RAID5, hotswap, hotspare and so on. You should consider the LSI Megaraid SAS as well. The aging 8308elp, performs quite nicely with decent disks. Got one here (at home) handling 8 1T5 Barracudas in RAID50 (with coldspares), that routinely handles 400+mbytes/sec io, even in windows. It's been running in FreeBSD as well, but until I can figure out how to get reliable backups (the MPT issue shared with OpenSolaris) I'm stuck with windows on the box. FreeBSD's mfiutil works works splendidly with the controller allowing you to handle things like patrol-reads from an SSH session without much trouble. As a SAS-controller, it eats both SAS and SATA disks, and plain and simple just works. //Svein - -- - +---+--- /\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9| PGP Key: 0xE5E76831 X|2020 Skedsmokorset | sv...@jernhuset.no / \ |Norway | PGP Key: 0xCE96CE13 | | sv...@stillbilde.net ascii | | PGP Key: 0x58CD33B6 ribbon |System Admin | svein-listm...@stillbilde.net Campaign|stillbilde.net | PGP Key: 0x22D494A4 +---+--- |msn messenger: | Mobile Phone: +47 907 03 575 |sv...@jernhuset.no | RIPE handle:SS16503-RIPE - +---+--- If you really are in a hurry, mail me at svein-mob...@stillbilde.net This mailbox goes directly to my cellphone and is checked even when I'm not in front of my computer. - Picture Gallery: https://gallery.stillbilde.net/v/svein/ - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuh9YAACgkQODUnwSLUlKTZiwCeODrGVYneWFn9nKZDUJ5jhOdt 3boAoIM/HrcfpzKXNOsPic+QQ4ooaL5d =Yya0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: shrink /usr size
2010/3/18 Aiza aiz...@comclark.com /usr is the last partition in the slice. It has 15GB and only 600mb used. I would like to shrink /usr to 7GB leaving me 7GB for another new partition for mysql DB testing. How do I shrink /usr? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org The same question: how to extend existed one? I'm going to change HDD on server to a bigger one and dd from old to new, but in this case the space visible to FreeBSD would be the same, how to make it grow? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: shrink /usr size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/03/2010 09:36:44, Aiza wrote: /usr is the last partition in the slice. It has 15GB and only 600mb used. I would like to shrink /usr to 7GB leaving me 7GB for another new partition for mysql DB testing. How do I shrink /usr? Backup the contents or /usr to a different partition, or preferably to some external media. Unmount /usr and destroy it by using bsdlabel(1) to create two appropriately sized partitions in its place. Create filesystems on the new partitions using newfs(1). Restore the backup of /usr. Edit /etc/fstab as appropriate and mount the new partitions. Everything you really need to do this is on the root partition, but you might find lack of vi(1) and various other utilities somewhat inconvenient. Also editing the label of a disk with mounted partitions is a pretty risky operation and forbidden by default: you will need to know the magic incarnation: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 Also, there's no real reason to keep the mysql data in its own partition - -- if it was on a different disk that would be a different matter -- so if your /var is big enough, you could just swap /var and /usr, which saves you all that mucking around with partitions. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuh+L8ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIzTxwCfWuPe6vDdoQIvbiQFxoLTp/Wu PIAAn1YhLHwzKfcJF4BPssNt6WgvdXTN =2DGA -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:37:32AM +0100, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we couldn't create a larger RAID5 than 1.99TB. That is strange, since all the 3ware 9000-series controllers (including the 9650) are supposed to be able to handle arrays larger than 2TB. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/03/2010 10:09:55, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:37:32AM +0100, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we couldn't create a larger RAID5 than 1.99TB. That is strange, since all the 3ware 9000-series controllers (including the 9650) are supposed to be able to handle arrays larger than 2TB. Is it perhaps not a limitation in the 3ware controller, but rather the 2TB limit for a single slice imposed by the traditional DOS mbr? In which case, simply switching to using gpart(8) should solve the problem and let you have much larger filesystems. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuh/1EACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxwFQCfUsDOes4mAPBFLQUX6QvB/F97 4swAnRnKagfg86IG5gxBlMIBJOmmD7y+ =BGlc -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: shrink /usr size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/03/2010 09:52:50, Антон Клесс wrote: 2010/3/18 Aiza aiz...@comclark.com /usr is the last partition in the slice. It has 15GB and only 600mb used. I would like to shrink /usr to 7GB leaving me 7GB for another new partition The same question: how to extend existed one? If, and only if, you have free space on your HDD following the partition you want to expand, you can use bsdlabel to edit the partition table and then growfs(8) to extend the filesystem into the new space. I'm going to change HDD on server to a bigger one and dd from old to new, but in this case the space visible to FreeBSD would be the same, how to make it grow? However, in this case -- don't do that. dd(1) is not the best choice. Instead, use sade(8) or fdisk(8) and bsdlabel(8) to slice and partition your new hard drive, install any necessary boot blocks etc. Or use the new gpart(8) stuff. Create filesystems using newfs(1). Mount the new partitions temporarily under /mnt: # mount -t ufs -o rw /dev/ad2s1a /mnt # mount -t ufs -o rw /dev/ad2s1e /mnt/usr (etc...) Then use dump(8) and restore(8) to duplicate the contents of your old partitions onto your new HDD: # dump -0a -L -C 32 -f - / | ( cd /mnt ; restore -rf - ) # dump -0a -L -C 32 -f - /usr | ( cd /mnt/usr ; restore -rf - ) (etc...) Edit /mnt/etc/fstab appropriately, then unmount the partitions from your new HDD, shutdown your system and reboot from the new HDD. dump and restore is much more efficient than using dd(1) as it copies the actual files into a new filesystem. It also understands more about the internals of the filesystem than other backup software, so gives the most accurate duplication. The '-L' flag causes it to operate on a snapshot of the source filesystem, which avoids the sort of problems you can get dealing with live filesystems. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuh/icACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwS1wCfc3hdbwoagHNDKA3nY+wDZ9ar f+YAn1J0CJrdkhKVuGInl7TixLsUqQ+7 =BOC0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid
Hi and what about Areca? Natively supported via arcmsr driver. For SATA II http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie.htm (ARC-1230, ARC-1260) or http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie341.htm On one installation I have successfully set up RAID5 with 8x 1TB SATA II drives on ARC-1220, approx 6.5TB filesystem regards Jiri - What should we look for in a RAID controller spec to see that it has support for larger than 2TB RAIDs? I've been looking at these: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_rr2300.htm http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_rr3500.htm Any FreeBSD recommendations? Or perhaps for another 3ware controller? We're using SATAII drives. Thanks for your help! Best regards, Andreas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Generating a random hostname
Thinking about this some more, a good trick would be to generate a hostname from the MAC address of the host, since that is guaranteed to be unique. In fact, this is what we are currently using. Unfortunately I guess I wasn't entirely clear. I was looking for a facility that actually *assigns* a random hostname, similar to what's provided in Windows. Generating the string itself obviously can be done in any number of ways, but once you have the string, there are at least of couple of files where this name needs to be inserted (/etc/hosts, /etc/rc.conf). When you create a master image in Windows, you can have it automatically assign a random hostname the first time the cloned image is booted. That's what I was looking for. My guess is that I'm going to have to update these files manually, running a script for example via rc.conf that disables itself after the first time the system boots. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which gdb GUI do you use?
For what it's worth - Xcode on Mac OS/X, I do probably 75% of my development there, then just compile/build on FreeBSD. Apple's got a similarly capable O/S and their development suite is not only stable, but free and uses GCC. In my situation, the code works fine on both O/S as I'm not writing any kernel level stuff or anything. The Xcode IDE is a wonderful tool though for writing userland stuff. I guess it really depends on your project, but if you're looking for gui debugger/development suite it's worth a try. -- Nathan Vidican nat...@vidican.com On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I know there is ddd, but it has so many bugs that it makes it barely usable. There is emacs, but I am not used to it and don't like it. It's love it or hate it usually for most people. There is some GUI called Insight, for some reason it's not in ports. I've built it and it looks unstable. Gives me an error message: thread.c:79: internal-error: inferior_thread: Assertion 'tp' failed. ... Which GUI you use? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which gdb GUI do you use?
On 03/18/10 08:15, Yuri wrote: I know there is ddd, but it has so many bugs that it makes it barely usable. There is emacs, but I am not used to it and don't like it. It's love it or hate it usually for most people. There is some GUI called Insight, for some reason it's not in ports. I've built it and it looks unstable. Gives me an error message: thread.c:79: internal-error: inferior_thread: Assertion 'tp' failed. ... Which GUI you use? emacs, really, although I found it tends to get a bit more annoying in the latest releases; maybe I should spend some time to upgrade myself, through. However, I agree on your love/hate opinion. bye av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
NAT overflow
Hello everyone, I'm kind of noob in FreeBSD particularily, and in Unix systems at all :-= ). But, I've already mastered an router on freebsd 7.2, which worked fine u= ntil I installed their MySQL with huge database. Now, once a day, I have a problem - users do not have internet on their = computers, and I could not connect to Microsoft Windows server with RDP fro= m outside, but I could login via ssh on router. After rebbot - everything b= ecome fine, everything works good and I have no problems, until next = overflow. So, I would like to ask 2 question: 1) Cow could one monitor NATD daemon (via logs, or smth) 2) How this could be worked around? I beg you pardon for this questions -- -- Best regards, Anton= ;[1]mailto:an...@sng.by Administrator Feel free to contact me via ICQ 363780596 via Skype dobryak47 via phone +375 29 3320987 References 1. 3Dmailto:an...@sng.by; ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Generating a random hostname
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On 18/03/2010 11:57:56, Peter Steele wrote:
Thinking about this some more, a good trick would be to generate a
hostname from the MAC address of the host, since that is guaranteed
to be unique.
In fact, this is what we are currently using. Unfortunately I guess I
wasn't entirely clear. I was looking for a facility that actually
*assigns* a random hostname, similar to what's provided in Windows.
Generating the string itself obviously can be done in any number of
ways, but once you have the string, there are at least of couple of
files where this name needs to be inserted (/etc/hosts,
/etc/rc.conf). When you create a master image in Windows, you can
have it automatically assign a random hostname the first time the
cloned image is booted. That's what I was looking for. My guess is
that I'm going to have to update these files manually, running a
script for example via rc.conf that disables itself after the first
time the system boots.
Ahah! Why didn't you say so?
That's pretty simple really. Once you've generated the hostname, just
use hostname(1) to make it the live name of the machine.
This would have to be done with a small shell script, yes. Probably the
easiest way to do that is a small RC script set to run just before
/etc/rc.d/hostname, and that stole^Wborrowed most of the logic from that
script about kenv and DHCP names, and hostname already being set.
The core actions that script has to do are:
if [ -z ${hostname} ] ; then
hostname=$( generate_hostname )
/bin/hostname ${hostname}.example.com
echo hostname=\${hostname}.example.com\ /etc/rc.conf
fi
Once hostname is set in /etc/rc.conf, this script will do nothing, and
the regular /etc/rc.d/hostname script will operate normally.
Setting the hostname with /bin/hostname is all that is specifically
necessary for the local machine. It doesn't really need to be added to
/etc/hosts, although that's not a bad idea.
An alternative might be to run everything using DHCP and get the DHCP
server to generate names and dish them out to the clients.
Of course, it would be good to add the new hostname to some sort of
networked database, like the DNS or NIS or LDAP so that other hosts can
know how to get to it, but that's a different problem.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Re: Availability of pm-utils
Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com writes: Is 'pm-utils http://pm-utils.freedesktop.org/wiki/ available in the ports system? I am unable to locate it if it does exist. I don't think it is. I suspect it would be a big porting job; it looks thoroughly Linux-centric these days. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid
At 04:37 AM 3/18/2010, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we couldn't create a larger RAID5 than 1.99TB. Are you sure its the controller that was giving that error ? I ran into something similar with my Areca controller on a backup server. I ended up creating 2 raid sets, one for the boot OS and the other for the backup spool and used gpart for the larger than 2TB RS. Perhaps the same needs to be done on the 3ware eg # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a1.9G496M1.3G28%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/da1s1d 29G 10G 16G39%/usr /dev/da1s1e 33G5.0G 26G16%/var /dev/da0s1d 61G 50G6.4G89%/var/db /dev/da2p1 2.6T797G1.6T33%/backup zbackup1 2.7T1.2T1.4T46%/zbackup1 I would go for the 3ware over the RocketRaid. We have used the 3ware cards for some time and they have been very reliable for us. The disk replacement process is well designed and has been reliable for us over the years. We also use some of the Areca cards and they have been good too. Not much experience with the RocketRaid. ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,m...@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Anybody uses VMWare on FreeBSD?
--On Wednesday, March 17, 2010 13:28:45 -0700 Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I can't build it, I am getting the following errors. And message to freebsd-emulation@ from 02/10 was never answered. Don't bother. VirtualBox is eminently better and free. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. *** It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. Thomas Jefferson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD and vmware
--On Wednesday, March 17, 2010 21:34:43 +0100 Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: Hi: I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the installed FreeBSD. This works except for three problems: - The disk device is renamed, I suppose I can just dublicate the entries in the fstab, the devices not found won't be mounted, I'll get an error but problem solved? - I can't see the network devices from vmware - I can't start xwindows, no monitor is found Any clues? Yes. Use VirtualBox. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. *** It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. Thomas Jefferson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Irritating delay in mouse in kde4
--On Wednesday, March 17, 2010 12:49:02 -0600 Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Paul Schmehl wrote: I recently upgraded from FreeBSD 7.2 STABLE to 8.0 STABLE. I also upgraded from KDE3 to KDE4 and rebuilt all my ports. Everything seems to work fine except the mouse. There is an irritating delay that I can't seem to get rid of. For example, if I mouse to the address line in Firefox and begin typing in a url, nothing happens until I move the mouse. Then, suddenly, what I typed will appear in the address bar. If I'm working in a shell, for example running portupgrade, nothing happens until I move the mouse. Then suddenly portupgrade will start working. Has anyone seen this type of behavior? Have any idea what the cause might be or where to look to troubleshoot the issue? Do you have an AllowEmptyInput line in xorg.conf? If so, remove it. If you need to disable HAL input device detection, use Option AutoAddDevices false -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA Perfect! That was the answer. Thanks, Warren. As usual you are quite helpful. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. *** It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. Thomas Jefferson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
gvinum drives extremely slow after upgrade
Hi, After successfully upgrading my system from 6.2 to 8.0-RELEASE I notice that my gvinum drives are extremely slow. Every command I type takes forever to execute. I know this question is way too generic, but does anyone have a clue as to what this problem may be? Or any hints on what and how to test what is going on? Thanks in advance, Alejandro Imass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: shrink /usr size
Hello! ? ? schrieb: 2010/3/18 Aiza aiz...@comclark.com /usr is the last partition in the slice. It has 15GB and only 600mb used. I would like to shrink /usr to 7GB leaving me 7GB for another new partition for mysql DB testing. How do I shrink /usr? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org The same question: how to extend existed one? I'm going to change HDD on server to a bigger one and dd from old to new, but in this case the space visible to FreeBSD would be the same, how to make it grow? Use growfs. But that only works with an empty space after the partition you intend to grow. man growfs will give you some hints. Greetings Frank -- GU d- s:+ a+ C+$ UBS$ P L- !E--- W N+@ !o K--? !w--- O !M- !V- PS+ PE Y? !PGP- t+ 5 X !R tv- b++ DI !D G e h+ r- y? When pack meets pack in the jungle and no one will move from the trail wait till the leaders have spoken it may be fair words shall prevail (Rudyard Kipling) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Generating a random hostname
I've ended up writing a service that runs after netif is complete and sets the hostname based on the MAC address and also updates /etc/hosts. It does what I need... Thanks for all the replies on this... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
API to find the memory usage of a process.
Hi, I need to find the memory usage of a process, from inside the process. Is there any system call do this ? I was trying to find it from 'top' utility source code. I couldn't find the port which it is coming from yet. Thanks, Jayadev. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: NAT overflow
Anton wrote: Hello everyone, I'm kind of noob in FreeBSD particularily, and in Unix systems at all :- ). But, I've already mastered an router on freebsd 7.2, which worked fine u ntil I installed their MySQL with huge database. Now, once a day, I have a problem - users do not have internet on their computers, and I could not connect to Microsoft Windows server with RDP fro m outside, but I could login via ssh on router. After rebbot - everything b ecome fine, everything works good and I have no problems, until next overflow. [snip] It is unclear whether or how MySQL is involved with NAT. If it is somehow being used to store NAT session data it might be a possibility. If such is the case all recent MySQL versions by default time out an idle connection, and unless the client detects this and reconnects automatically it is a problem. You can extend the idle delay window to its maximum by placing wait_timeout = 31536000 after the other contents of the global section (will have [mysqld] at the top) of your my.cnf. Even this will eventually drop a connection if idle for longer than this period, but it is as long as you can configure so you hope something pings the database before this expires. As far as the NAT is concerned itself, an overflow can happen from not enough memory in the pool to contain all the session data for the volume of traffic you experience through the router. This should result in dropped connections which then become automatically reestablished very soon after. It should not necessarily cause all traffic to cease once a day. The NAT pool and memory resources, as well as session time out values are tunable. However, it is not clear which NAT and firewall solution you are using, so it is difficult to provide any insight until we know the solution we are discussing. I have used all three over the years, but have used pf long enough now that what I recall from ipfw and ipfilter days is rusty. Others on this list are more informed than myself as well, so when we know specifically what NAT you are using and more details of the problem maybe more help will pop up. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
natd opening partition
Hey there, I run a test server here at the house that also runs natd to share internet across the network. The past few weeks my free space on /var was running dangerously low. After some investigation, I found out that the used space was actually an open file, and here is what lsof showed me: natd 1736 root4w VREG 0,84 410420438 23670 /var (/dev/ad4s1d) Normally, natd is only supposed to open it's log file: natd 34254 root4w VREG 0,84 218703 23582 /var/log/alias.log I've since disabled logging to alias.log and the problem has not re-occurred, however I would still like to know what I could have done to cause that, or if maybe it's some kind of bug. -Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd
--On Thursday, March 04, 2010 13:15:02 -0600 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: I'm trying to build it from ports right now and running into all sorts of issues with qt4 stuff. After rebuilding all my ports (portupgrade -af) and fixing the problems encountered, VirtualBox is working perfectly. I am now running 64 bit Windows 7 in VirtualBox on my 8 STABLE workstation. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. *** It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. Thomas Jefferson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid
On Thursday 18 March 2010 03:37:32 Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we couldn't create a larger RAID5 than 1.99TB. We are going to use FreeBSD 8.0 and Bacula, but first we obviously need to create a working RAID. My questions are: - Are HighPoint RocketRaid controllers a good alternative to 3ware controllers? Are RocketRaid controllers true hardware RAID? - What should we look for in a RAID controller spec to see that it has support for larger than 2TB RAIDs? I've been looking at these: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_rr2300.htm http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_rr3500.htm Any FreeBSD recommendations? Or perhaps for another 3ware controller? We're using SATAII drives. Thanks for your help! Best regards, Andreas You are hitting an issue with DOS MBR limitations, not the RAID controller itself. Either use GPT or put a filesystem on the raw device with no fdisk at all. The latter strategy is the better one if you intend to ever grow the filesystem. 3ware controllers are the best game in town for FreeBSD. We use them extensively both internally and for our customers at iXsystems. You can flash the controller firmware from in the OS on FreeBSD using tw_cli. You might also consider running ZFS on the hardware RAID instead of UFS. You get the advantages of running a hardware RAID controller, plus the advantages of ZFS (namely no fsck) r...@servant /usr/src -tw_cli /c0 show Unit UnitType Status %RCmpl %V/I/M Stripe Size(GB) Cache AVrfy -- u0RAID-6OK - - 256K5587.88 RiWON r...@servant /usr/src -grep 'da0' /var/run/dmesg.boot da0 at twa0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: AMCC 9690SA-4I4 DISK 4.08 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da0: 100.000MB/s transfers da0: 122879MB (251658239 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 15665C) ** small boot LUN r...@servant /usr/src -grep 'da1' /var/run/dmesg.boot da1 at twa0 bus 0 target 0 lun 1 da1: AMCC 9690SA-4I4 DISK 4.08 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device da1: 100.000MB/s transfers da1: 5599104MB (11466964993 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 713785C) ** The rest of it r...@servant /usr/src -zpool status -v pool: a state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM a ONLINE 0 0 0 da1 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors r...@servant /usr/src -df -h a FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on a 5.2T2.2T3.0T42%/a -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel FreeBSD -- The power to serve signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
VirtualBox from the command line
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RE: VirtualBox from the command line
You need to use 'vboxtool'... http://vboxtool.sourceforge.net/ -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Aiza Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:45 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: VirtualBox from the command line Does VirtualBox launch from the FBSD command line? Is there a package for it in the pkg system? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Xorg xorg-7.4_2 startup
I have FreeBSD 7.2 built after the xorg-7.4_2 package I installed. Hardware is an IBM thinkpad T42p. I am trying to figure out if I have hardware or software issues. I built FreeBSD and installed Xorg 12/30/09. I am choosing not to use hal so: xorg.conf --- Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDevice Mouse0 CorePointer InputDevice Keyboard0 CoreKeyboard #Option DontZap off Option AutoAddDevices false rc.conf --- #hald_enable=YES #dbus_enable=YES For the first month, this all worked. with xorg starting ok (10-15 secs) or slowly (60 secs). Starting in Feburary, Xorg would hang locking the keyboard or take a complete unpredictable time to start. FreeBSD was built w/o IPV6 support which is the only possible software issue I can think of (Packet sniffing suggested an IPV6 call is made during xdm start up). If I do not start xdm, I can find nothing that does not work. When xdm starts everything works until the next power on. On a recent trip I left the system up for 2+ months, using it as my only workstation. I am stumped, flummoxed, and otherwise at a loss :) _ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com d...@safeport.com Voice: 301-217-9220 Fax: 301-217-9277 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: VirtualBox from the command line
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Does VirtualBox launch from the FBSD command line? Is there a package for it in the pkg system? # VirtualBox -h Sun VirtualBox Graphical User Interface 3.1.2_OSE (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Usage: --startvm vmname|UUIDstart a VM by specifying its UUID or name --rmode sdl|image select different render mode (default is sdl) There are other ways too, eg VBoxHeadless -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Flash sometimes freezes firefox, also many npviewer.bin processes left running around
Sometimes after some flash object is displayed firefox gets frozen for many few seconds,maybe ~20sec. Do you see the same? Is there anyfix for this? In additions I have 54 processes like this one 50006 ?? I 0:00.00 /usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin /usr/local/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection hanging around even after firefox process exits. linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r45 nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_5 firefox-3.5.8,1 Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: API to find the memory usage of a process.
On 03/18/10 10:28, Jayadev Kumar wrote: Hi, I need to find the memory usage of a process, from inside the process. Is there any system call do this ? I was trying to find it from 'top' utility source code. I couldn't find the port which it is coming from yet. Thanks, Jayadev. the source for top is located in /usr/src/usr.bin/top ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
greylisting with sendmail recommendations
Hello I'm thinking of implementing a greylisting milter for sendmail. I just wanted to ask here first to see if anyone has any feedback on which one might be the best to go with. I was looking at milter-greylist from ports, which seems quite popular, does anyone use this and have you found it to be effective? Thank you, Jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Flash sometimes freezes firefox, also many npviewer.bin processes left running around
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Sometimes after some flash object is displayed firefox gets frozen for many few seconds,maybe ~20sec. Do you see the same? Is there anyfix for this? In additions I have 54 processes like this one 50006 ?? I 0:00.00 /usr/local/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin /usr/local/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection hanging around even after firefox process exits. linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r45 nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_5 firefox-3.5.8,1 Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I map a key to `killall npviewer.bin` -- crude and hack-ish, but it's all that seems to work. I just refresh the browser page(s) containing any other flash objects that I WANT to use or view (sometimes the refresh happens automagically). -Brandon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: VirtualBox from the command line
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Does VirtualBox launch from the FBSD command line? Is there a package for it in the pkg system? # VirtualBox -h Sun VirtualBox Graphical User Interface 3.1.2_OSE (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Usage: --startvm vmname|UUIDstart a VM by specifying its UUID or name --rmode sdl|image select different render mode (default is sdl) There are other ways too, eg VBoxHeadless And VBoxSDL. And VBoxManage. You can even create VMs from the command line, but it's fairly involved. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: VirtualBox from the command line
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com mailto:aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Does VirtualBox launch from the FBSD command line? Is there a package for it in the pkg system? # VirtualBox -h Sun VirtualBox Graphical User Interface 3.1.2_OSE (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Usage: --startvm vmname|UUIDstart a VM by specifying its UUID or name --rmode sdl|image select different render mode (default is sdl) There are other ways too, eg VBoxHeadless -- Adam Vande More I read the VirtualBox section in the handbook. Not very informative. I also read the VirtualBox manual here http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html#startingvboxonlinux The VirtualBox website http://www.virtualbox.org shows a GUI manager for configuring the host and guest setups. I did pkg_add -r virtualbox During the install got these messages Your SDL library has been built with libvgl support, which means that you can run almost any SDL application straight on your console (VESA 2.0 compatible videocard is required). To do this you have to load the vesa kernel module or enable it in your kernel, and set environment variable SDL_VIDEODRIVER=vgl. Since i Want to run virtualbox under vga I did this set env SDL_VIDEODRIVER=vgl added vesa_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf At the end of the package install it says to Add vboxdrv_load=YES to /boot/loader.conf and reboot which i did. before launching do mount -t procfs proc /proc pw groupmod vboxusers -m root To launch it enter VirtualBox on the command line. [take special note of the capital letters V B in the command name] I get msg Failed to open the X11 display. tried starting VBoxSDL get this error VBoxSDL: Error -1908 in suplibOsInit! VBoxSDL: Kernel driver not installed VBoxSDL: Tip! Make sure the kernel module is loaded. It may also help to reinstall VirtualBox. Tried starting VBoxManager VBoxManager: Command not found. Tried starting VBoxHeadless VBoxHeadless: Error -1908 in suplibOsInit! VBoxHeadless: Kernel driver not installed VBoxHeadless: Tip! Make sure the kernel module is loaded. It may also help to reinstall VirtualBox. Why don't virtual box GUI start in vga mode? Is this telling me that I have to have Xorg and some desktop running before VirtualBox's gui will function? Are the scripts provided by vboxtool the only way to have command line control of VirtualBox? http://vboxtool.sourceforge.net/ See talk about vboxweb as alternate VirtualBox manager. http://vboxweb.blogspot.com/ Does not look like this is out of development yet. Anybody using this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: greylisting with sendmail recommendations
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Jamie Griffin wrote: I'm thinking of implementing a greylisting milter for sendmail. I just wanted to ask here first to see if anyone has any feedback on which one might be the best to go with. I was looking at milter-greylist from ports, which seems quite popular, does anyone use this and have you found it to be effective? It works for me. Article that's a bit old but probably still close: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/greylist.pdf -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: API to find the memory usage of a process.
On Thu 18 Mar 2010 at 18:30:00 PDT J. Johnston wrote: On 03/18/10 10:28, Jayadev Kumar wrote: Hi, I need to find the memory usage of a process, from inside the process. Is there any system call do this ? I was trying to find it from 'top' utility source code. I couldn't find the port which it is coming from yet. Thanks, Jayadev. the source for top is located in /usr/src/usr.bin/top whereis -sq foo will get you the source directory for foo, assuming you installed the system sources, or if foo is also the name of the port. If foo was installed by a port with some other name, you can find it with pkg_info -W foo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
