Quota Questions 5.3 Release
Hi, ~ Theres a high probablility this is a stupid question, but I must ask it Heres the situation: I am leasing a server from a relatively well known ISP in the DC area... It is installed w/ FreeBSD 5.3 Release (Generic) These geniuses gave me the box without the ports tree or the kernel sources... This wouldnt be a problem, except that, among other things, they didnt compile in the quota support. I desperately need it. Questions: 1. Is there a kernel module to implement quota support (I have googled incessantly trying to find it w/o much luck) 2. Is there a trivial way to get the kernel sources and ports tree (and more importantly, how safe (in terms of the box coming back) is it to recompile the kernel if I can get the sources) - they pretty much killed about 50% of my reason for getting FBSD by leaving out the ports WTF??. 3. Finally, out of curiousity, does anyone know why quota support is left our of the stock FreeBSD Kernel, I am assuming there must be a compelling reason for this... and are there any alternatives (short of me writing lots of ugly code - which I have lacking time and motivation for) -- ... Jon Adams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graduate Student, SCIS, Nova Southeastern University http://www.scis.nova.edu/~jonaadam/ Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu (202) 494-2469 .:cell:. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quota Questions 5.3 Release
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:57:20 -0500, Jon Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, ~ Theres a high probablility this is a stupid question, but I must ask it Heres the situation: I am leasing a server from a relatively well known ISP in the DC area... It is installed w/ FreeBSD 5.3 Release (Generic) These geniuses gave me the box without the ports tree or the kernel sources... This wouldnt be a problem, except that, among other things, they didnt compile in the quota support. I desperately need it. Questions: 1. Is there a kernel module to implement quota support (I have googled incessantly trying to find it w/o much luck) Take a look at this section of the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/quotas.html 2. Is there a trivial way to get the kernel sources and ports tree (and more importantly, how safe (in terms of the box coming back) is it to recompile the kernel if I can get the sources) - they pretty much killed about 50% of my reason for getting FBSD by leaving out the ports WTF??. I would use sysinstall to install the ports tree. if your not familiar with it type man sysinstall 3. Finally, out of curiousity, does anyone know why quota support is left our of the stock FreeBSD Kernel, I am assuming there must be a compelling reason for this... and are there any alternatives (short of me writing lots of ugly code - which I have lacking time and motivation for) Its not left out its just not an standard option. Compiling a kernel is not a difficult task. It sounds more difficult than it really is. -- ... Jon Adams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graduate Student, SCIS, Nova Southeastern University http://www.scis.nova.edu/~jonaadam/ Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu (202) 494-2469 .:cell:. ___ 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: Quota Questions 5.3 Release
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:57:20 -0500 Jon Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip 2. Is there a trivial way to get the kernel sources and ports tree (and more importantly, how safe (in terms of the box coming back) is it to recompile the kernel if I can get the sources) - they pretty much killed about 50% of my reason for getting FBSD by leaving out the ports WTF??. /stand/sysinstall is your friend. I just got done doing the same thing on three remote 1U Dell machines without any problems. The first time I recompiled the kernel was to get smp support for the Xeon with hyperthreading and the second time was to enable quota support. Here are the two urls that helped me with ports and compiling the kernel. As long as you are careful to follow the instructions for compiling the kernel, you should not have any problems. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html Sorry I don't have the answers to any of your other questions. HTH, Jacob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quota Questions 5.3 Release
Benjamin Dover wrote: Take a look at this section of the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/quotas.html Yes, I've read this and am aware of the process of recompiling the kernel to implement quotas (done it before). What I am looking for is an alternative to recompiling the kernel due to the cripppled box I have. Its not left out its just not an standard option. Compiling a kernel is not a difficult task. It sounds more difficult than it really is. I agree... I have FreeBSD 5.3 and a 5.1 box I have lazily not yet updated on a pair of poweredges in my apt, I rebuilt the 5.3 kernel a couple of time when I was experimenting with trying to install Oracle 8i on it (before giving up in frustration due to the Oracle make files exiting emulation) Thanks for the tip on sysinstall... D'oh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quota Questions 5.3 Release
On Feb 15, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Jon Adams wrote: Benjamin Dover wrote: Take a look at this section of the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/quotas.html Yes, I've read this and am aware of the process of recompiling the kernel to implement quotas (done it before). What I am looking for is an alternative to recompiling the kernel due to the cripppled box I have. Its not left out its just not an standard option. Compiling a kernel is not a difficult task. It sounds more difficult than it really is. I agree... I have FreeBSD 5.3 and a 5.1 box I have lazily not yet updated on a pair of poweredges in my apt, I rebuilt the 5.3 kernel a couple of time when I was experimenting with trying to install Oracle 8i on it (before giving up in frustration due to the Oracle make files exiting emulation) Thanks for the tip on sysinstall... D'oh I replied to Jon off list but wanted to stick it in here for the archives You should be able to just install cvsup and then make an appropriate cvsupfile. This will get you the sources and ports etc if you do it right. One easy thing :-) best Chad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
