RE: Cloning
I clone Thinkpads all the time with G4L. I haven't used G4U but from what I gather it's what G4L is based on (either the code or the concept - not sure). You can clone everything including the recovery partition no problem. The only snag I've run into doing this is with some of the older systems that shipped with a 15 head hard disk. You can clone them all you want but it has to be to another 15 head disk. Same limitation applies regardless of the cloning software. I usually use an ftp server to store and retrieve the images but I've done it direct to the new drive via a USB enclosure also. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Rice Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 11:09 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cloning Any ideas on cloning an IBM T60 Thinkpad with G4U (Ghost for You)? The T60 comes with a recovery partition. First I killdisk the drive, re-install Windows XP. Then I want to capture an image with G4U so that I can clone other T60 machines. Is this possible with G4U? My present imaging software, Imagecaster, fails. Richard ___ 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: Apache log rotation question...
I am using cronolog to handle the logging end of apache. Cronolog basically takes care of the logging for apache, allowing you much more flexibility with the logging options. Assuming.. 1. You have cronolog installed 2. /path/to/your/logs/vhost1/ is a valid path A sample Apache config line would read (main or virtual host context): ErrorLog |cronolog /path/to/your/logs/vhost1/%Y%m%d_error.log CustomLog |cronolog /path/to/your/logs/vhost1/%Y%m%d_access.log combined I this example, you will generate logs with the names 20061108_error.log and 20061108_access.log respectively and each day (midnight server time) cronolog will auto-gen new ones as soon as apache sends it something to log. Using this method, cronolog is doing the logging for Apache specifically the way when where and how you want it negating the need for further scripting and manipulating of the logs afterward. Hope that helps. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philip Hallstrom Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 3:21 PM To: Curtis Jewell Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Apache log rotation question... I'm wondering if I can safely use newsyslog with a newsyslog.conf with these lines in it: I don't know the answer to your question, but you might look at cronolog... http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/cronolog/pkg-descr /var/log/httpd/access_log/*644 1 *$W0D0 G /var/log/httpd/error_log/* 644 1 *$W0D0 G /var/log/httpd/ssl_request.log 644 1 *$W0D0 /var/log/httpd/error.log 644 1 *$W0D0 # After this point should be one line... /var/log/httpd/access.log 644 1 *$W0D0 - /var/run/httpd.pid 30 or if not, what should I do instead? (I have 4 separate vhosts that keep their access logs in the first 2 directories) For the record, I want weekly rotation on Sundays at midnight (I assume JST, since I have my time set to local time, which is JST [GMT+9, no DST]), keeping 1 log, (the way I read the fine manuals, I'll have to have a cron job bzip2 it up later and move it aside if I want to keep more and/or compress them) permissions 644 with the owner being root:wheel, no size check, and the last part of the last line should send a SIGUSR1 (30) signal to Apache, which should do the equivalent of a 'apachectl -k graceful' per http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/stopping.html. My question really is, does newsyslog send the signal at the right time [after the rotation is done, per http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/logs.html#rotation] and does it do the lines in order???) - --Curtis - -- Curtis Jewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Killed enough? ... Yes, Your Highness, I think we all have. --John Patrick Ryan (from 'The Sum Of All Fears', Tom Clancy) [I use Pine, which deliberately does not display colors and pictures in HTML mail] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFS6ByvCi+150VKIMRAs6PAKDOOvnARxXKUTY5dvNrob3gl9+aZACdG+P+ Uz0GrVe1p5MNuRPwiTbBXxY= =lTB2 -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] ___ 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: accessing BIOS and RAID info on old Compaqs
dn, 1. You probably already know this but technically, you should have started with the Compaq Smart Start CDs. There's a Unix option on there too but I've never used it so I'm not sure what the difference is specifically (never loaded BSD or Linux on those). This would have taken you through the process of setting the system clock, configuring the RAID array(s), etc. 2. If there are BSD/Linux tools available, you should be able to d/l them from HP or they may be on the Compaq CDs. BTW, you say you don't have the CDs for *all* the machines in question. In my experience with our since retired ProLiant 5500s, 1850s, ML330s, and ML350s, I've found that they can all use (and work the best with) the newer CD I have which is Compaq SmartStart for Servers - Release 5.0. These systems are a couple years different in age and I think the older ones shipped with Compaq SmartStart for Servers - Release 4.60 at the earliest. If you want to try the CD and need one, I can ftp the .iso to you. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Newman Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 11:56 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: accessing BIOS and RAID info on old Compaqs -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings. For FBSD 6.1 on old Compaq DL320 and 1850R machines: 1. Is there a way to access the system BIOS, either at boot time or (preferably) from within FBSD? I'm specifically interested in seeing what the system's hardware clock is set to. 2. Is there a way to monitor the Compaq Smart Array RAID controllers and disks attached to them from within FBSD? Smartmontools is great for monitoring disk health, but no good with RAID. I don't have Compaq RAID CDs for all the machines in question, and in any event would prefer to monitor disks from within FBSD if possible. thanks dn -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFRYXZyPxGVjntI4IRAj/rAKDIL+4dEO5boLCyyaSVRjrjiTaHlgCgxz5V 3Tdj/TWe0id1B0MLwwUEITI= =2zec -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] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Partitions???
You need to check out the gparted-livecd. This will allow you to grow or shrink partitions, just like Partition Magic. It should work with all the filesystems in question here. I have recently used it and will never go back to Partition Magic. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php Once you have performed a shrink, you will have additional unpartitioned space where you can load another OS if you want. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of xnow xsnow Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 1:54 AM To: Jerry McAllister Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitions??? Now, some people sometimes leave a chunk of disk that is not allocated in any of the primary slices with the thought of adding another bootable OS at some later time. But that is a different story. And even then, if what you are doing unexpectedly uses up your space, you would just create another FreeBSD slice in that held out space and put a nice large single partition in and move some things there and make a link. It is so much easier than resizing and risking losing stuff as in other unnamed systems. Yea, more like that...I have many machines in my work, they have linux reiserfs partitions, ext3...some FAT32, ntfs, and they are in full disk, and i want to install fbsd there without any lose of any data. When you said you should create another fbsd slice(...) then make a link but these machines have no fbsd partition and never had, nor any other partition besides the only one used by this other system, like a 60GB disk with full with only only partition, like fat32. I think growfs wouldn't help then. the other part I understood that 'boot0cfg -B ad0' would try to detect all of it automatic, and yes in my situation it is ad0. But since we have many different systems here, I am afraid some of them don't get detected, is there any possibility?like windows xp, windows 98, solaris, linux, I don't even know all of them, and if so, any of them don't get detected automatic after boot0cfg -B ad0 i would not have any idea of what to do. On linux we have /etc/lilo.conf which i have manually full acess and makes me be able to add anything, on fbsd i don't know... But if you tell me it is able to detect anything automatic, I'd leave this fear away and have fun tomorrow. Thanks for your reply. - Yahoo! Search Música para ver e ouvir: You're Beautiful, do James Blunt ___ 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: Ongoing Saga Dell PE1850 - FreeBSD 6.0 Release Freezups.
Does your system in question use a SATA hard drive(s)? I've had similar issues with no logs or any errors whatsoever and when I switched from SATA to IDE drives on the same system (it had both SATA and IDE connections) the problem disappeared completely. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Grant Peel Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 5:43 AM To: Riemer Palstra Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ongoing Saga Dell PE1850 - FreeBSD 6.0 Release Freezups. It is a single processor, duel core Xenon. Hyperthreading has been turned off in the BIOS after about the thrird crash. APCI has been disabled in FBSD as well. - Original Message - From: Riemer Palstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 6:25 AM Subject: Re: Ongoing Saga Dell PE1850 - FreeBSD 6.0 Release Freezups. On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 05:12:33PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: I have been having freezups of my PE 1850 and FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE. since about Feb 23. 1 about every three days. Sometimes twice a day. I was having these on a 1850 whilst running 5.4 with SMP, but not 6.0. So I am just wondering (before I start the task of movinf this client to a new machine) if anyone has seen complete software freezes, again, with no errors whatsoever in any log, no panics, no coredumps, of FreeBSD 6.0 freezing with the only recovery method being a machine reset, if so what was done to correct it. Is this a dual proc machine running SMP? If so, is HyperThreading enabled in the BIOS? -- Riemer PalstraAmsterdam, The Netherlands [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.palstra.com/ ___ 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: 6.0 STABLE install locks up within a few minutes
By the way, the issue was gone when I installed to one of the IDE drives. FreeBSD 6 must not like my SATA controller. At least it tries though. Red Hat 9 and Solaris 10 would not recongnize it at all during installation. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brown, Steve Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:25 PM To: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) Subject: 6.0 STABLE install locks up within a few minutes Hello everyone, I'm trying to get v6.0-STABLE installed on a PC that is running Windows (XP Pro) now. The hardware is very stable with Windows, it's just bogged down with all the updates and third-party apps you need to keep it that way. I'm running FreeBSD in other systems but haven't tried this newer version yet. However, the system locks up at a different place everytime I attempt the install. It seems completely random. Sometimes I get to where it's mostly configured and I'm adding ported apps and sometimes it doesn't run long enough to get to that point. Once it locks up, it will not respond to any input. More often than not, the lock up happens when I'm adding ported apps so I tried the obvious - not loading any. After getting it booted up that way (which I'm able to do argueably because of the short amount of uptime) it will still lock up after 5-10 miutes of messing around with it. I have also tried skipping over configuring and bringing up the Ethernet interface but it will still lock up. It seems like no matter what it doing, when it locks up is determined by the amount of uptime which varies from 5 to 10 minutes or so. I have tried booting the without ACPI option and it won't even boot up that way due to some IRQ 19 error. Normally I see no real problems on the screen during bootup. I'm running the Gigabyte 7N400-L motherboard with NForce2 chipset + Corsair XMS DDR + AMD XP+ 3200 cpu + ATi RADEON 9600 Pro 256MB + SATA PCI add-on card w/ (2) SATA HDDs + (2) ATA HDDs Shouldn't this system be fully supported? I'm going to try this again tonight without the SATA drives to see if that's the issue. Any other ideas would be appreciated. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6.0 STABLE install locks up within a few minutes
Hello everyone, I'm trying to get v6.0-STABLE installed on a PC that is running Windows (XP Pro) now. The hardware is very stable with Windows, it's just bogged down with all the updates and third-party apps you need to keep it that way. I'm running FreeBSD in other systems but haven't tried this newer version yet. However, the system locks up at a different place everytime I attempt the install. It seems completely random. Sometimes I get to where it's mostly configured and I'm adding ported apps and sometimes it doesn't run long enough to get to that point. Once it locks up, it will not respond to any input. More often than not, the lock up happens when I'm adding ported apps so I tried the obvious - not loading any. After getting it booted up that way (which I'm able to do argueably because of the short amount of uptime) it will still lock up after 5-10 miutes of messing around with it. I have also tried skipping over configuring and bringing up the Ethernet interface but it will still lock up. It seems like no matter what it doing, when it locks up is determined by the amount of uptime which varies from 5 to 10 minutes or so. I have tried booting the without ACPI option and it won't even boot up that way due to some IRQ 19 error. Normally I see no real problems on the screen during bootup. I'm running the Gigabyte 7N400-L motherboard with NForce2 chipset + Corsair XMS DDR + AMD XP+ 3200 cpu + ATi RADEON 9600 Pro 256MB + SATA PCI add-on card w/ (2) SATA HDDs + (2) ATA HDDs Shouldn't this system be fully supported? I'm going to try this again tonight without the SATA drives to see if that's the issue. Any other ideas would be appreciated. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
