Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

2008-07-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Tapan Chaudhari wrote: >Thanks Deniel for the reply. I am aware of the fact you mentioned > and will keep in mind. > Well what i am trying to achieve is a simple thing to write an > interception driver to catch all the i/os going to a particular > device, do some manipulati

Re: list blocklist from inode

2008-07-14 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 06:51:28AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Is there a way (without using fsdb(8)) to list the block list from a > given inode? thx ffsinfo -i -l 0x230 -- Rick C. Petty ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

list blocklist from inode

2008-07-14 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Is there a way (without using fsdb(8)) to list the block list from a given inode? thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

2008-07-14 Thread Tapan Chaudhari
Hey, Thanks Deniel for the reply. I am aware of the fact you mentioned and will keep in mind. Well what i am trying to achieve is a simple thing to write an interception driver to catch all the i/os going to a particular device, do some manipulations on it and than let it through to the original

Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

2008-07-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Tapan Chaudhari wrote: > Thank You Mateusz and Mike. I guess I am clear with my doubt now. I > will also go through the man pages to go into depth of it. The critical thing is that the loader must read the kernel (and modules, config etc..) from a disk the BIOS knows about.

Re: SCHED_4BSD bad interactivity on 7.0 vs 6.3

2008-07-14 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Nate Eldredge wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: Nate Eldredge wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: Nate Eldredge wrote: Hi folks, Hopefully this is a good list for this topic. It seems like there has been a regression in interactivity from

Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

2008-07-14 Thread Tapan Chaudhari
Thank You Mateusz and Mike. I guess I am clear with my doubt now. I will also go through the man pages to go into depth of it. Thanks, --Tapan. On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:40:24 +0530 > "Tapan Chaudhari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

RE: massive interrupt storm

2008-07-14 Thread Murray Taylor
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 05:21:34PM +1000, Murray Taylor wrote: > We have variously shutdown all USB in the bios, pulled the Raid > daughter board, and still cant solve this storm. Have you tried disabling MSI and MSI-X in FreeBSD to see if it makes a difference? Set hw.pci.enable_msi="0" and hw

Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

2008-07-14 Thread Mateusz Guzik
2008/7/14 Tapan Chaudhari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > Thanks a lot Mike. But the problem is the device I am talking about is > not the physical device. I am writing a driver which will create a virtual > device and all the i/os done on this virtual device will be ultimately > redirected to the

Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

2008-07-14 Thread Mike Meyer
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:40:24 +0530 "Tapan Chaudhari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >Thanks a lot Mike. But the problem is the device I am talking about is > not the physical device. I am writing a driver which will create a virtual > device and all the i/os done on this virtual device will

Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

2008-07-14 Thread Tapan Chaudhari
Hi, Thanks a lot Mike. But the problem is the device I am talking about is not the physical device. I am writing a driver which will create a virtual device and all the i/os done on this virtual device will be ultimately redirected to the original device. Correct me if I am wrong, but I guess th

Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

2008-07-14 Thread Mike Meyer
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:48:42 +0530 "Tapan Chaudhari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not exactly what I wanted. I will try to elaborate myself. > I am creating my own device which will act as a new boot slice which must be > mounted as '/'. New device will process i/o calls and then redirect

Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

2008-07-14 Thread Tapan Chaudhari
This is not exactly what I wanted. I will try to elaborate myself. I am creating my own device which will act as a new boot slice which must be mounted as '/'. New device will process i/o calls and then redirect the i/o calls to original device of '/'. Now since I cannot unmount '/' and mount it ag

Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

2008-07-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:36:52PM +0530, Tapan Chaudhari wrote: > Hi All, > I am new to FreeBSD and this mailing list as well. > What I want to achieve is change the device of my mount point '/'(or any > other mount point) after I reboot the machine. I have some knowledge about > initrd in Lin

Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

2008-07-14 Thread Tapan Chaudhari
Hi All, I am new to FreeBSD and this mailing list as well. What I want to achieve is change the device of my mount point '/'(or any other mount point) after I reboot the machine. I have some knowledge about initrd in Linux in which I can change the device for '/' and than reboot the machine so

RE: FreeBSD Best Practice

2008-07-14 Thread Tom Norris
Absolute FreeBSD by Michael W. Lucas is also a good book for getting a FreeBSD system up and running. When I first started running BSD that book and the handbook were my bibles. (sorry for the top reply -- limitation of my wintendo phone) -Original Message- From: Karl Fischer <[EMAIL P

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-07-14 Thread ancelgray
OK, After doing a little more reading, I see that a DOS test program is impossible because the MSR registers for the audio controller are accessed in protected mode only. There actually are opcoded assembler instructions to access the MSR's: RDMSR WRMSR This is a show stopper in DOS. This i

Re: FreeBSD Best Practice

2008-07-14 Thread dfeustel
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 04:55:32PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > Karl Fischer wrote: > > Hello > > I'm a SysAdmin, I'm wondering whether this is the correct list to ask? > > I'm looking for FreeBSD Best Practice information, (or a FreeBSD > > Mailing List, I can join) > > I want to make sure that all

Re: GPG encryption of binary sample requested.

2008-07-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 04:39:20PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Julian Stacey wrote: > > [...] > > I'll have to install some other POP3 (or IMAP) server, Big choice: > > cd /usr/ports/mail; echo *pop* > > akpop3d cucipop freepops mdpop3d nullpop p5-vpopmail pecl-pop3 > > pop-before-smtp

Re: FreeBSD Best Practice

2008-07-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Karl Fischer wrote: > Hello > I'm a SysAdmin, I'm wondering whether this is the correct list to ask? > I'm looking for FreeBSD Best Practice information, (or a FreeBSD > Mailing List, I can join) > I want to make sure that all my servers comply to at least some widely > accepted standards, > so in

Re: Announcement: PmcTools callchain capture for RELENG_7

2008-07-14 Thread Joseph Koshy
> Does it mean that hwpmc from now will work "out of the box" with new Intel > core2 duo/quad processors (like T7500) ? No, someone needs to write the appropriate CPU-dependent module for that. For those who are interested in doing so, there is a HowTo document at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/PmcT

Re: Postfix problem.

2008-07-14 Thread Duane Hill
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Tim Clewlow wrote: Can you please cc: the mailinglist? Thanks. -On [20080714 15:36], Andres Chavez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by group maildrop: /usr/sbin/ postdrop postfix/postfix-script: warning: not set-gid or not owner

Re: GPG encryption of binary sample requested.

2008-07-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Julian Stacey wrote: > [...] > I'll have to install some other POP3 (or IMAP) server, Big choice: > cd /usr/ports/mail; echo *pop* > akpop3d cucipop freepops mdpop3d nullpop p5-vpopmail pecl-pop3 > pop-before-smtp pop3gwd pop3lite pop3proxy pop3vscan popa3d > popa3d-before-sendmail po

Re: Postfix problem.

2008-07-14 Thread Tim Clewlow
> Can you please cc: the mailinglist? Thanks. > > -On [20080714 15:36], Andres Chavez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: >>postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by group maildrop: >> /usr/sbin/ >>postdrop >> >>postfix/postfix-script: warning: not set-gi

Re: Postfix problem.

2008-07-14 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
Can you please cc: the mailinglist? Thanks. -On [20080714 15:36], Andres Chavez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by group maildrop: /usr/sbin/ >postdrop > >postfix/postfix-script: warning: not set-gid or not owner+group+world >executable: /us

Re: Postfix problem.

2008-07-14 Thread Karl Fischer
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Andres Chavez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey guys i am having problems with postfix on freebsd. > > Postfix its listening on port smtps (465) but not on smtp (25) > and all of the services are up and running, even i can use the postfixadmin > to add mailboxes etc.

Re: Postfix problem.

2008-07-14 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20080714 14:59], Andres Chavez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Postfix its listening on port smtps (465) but not on smtp (25) >and all of the services are up and running, even i can use the postfixadmin >to add mailboxes etc. The obvious: 1) check your logfiles 2) sockstat | grep 25

Postfix problem.

2008-07-14 Thread Andres Chavez
hey guys i am having problems with postfix on freebsd. Postfix its listening on port smtps (465) but not on smtp (25) and all of the services are up and running, even i can use the postfixadmin to add mailboxes etc. what can be happening? i am following this how-to http://www.purplehat.org/?page_

Re: Kernel API docs ('make doxygen')

2008-07-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:17:54 +0200): I was wondering if this project is considered obsolete, finished or work in progress. I would say it's in the "it has to prove it's usefulness"-stage. This means not all people are convinced it is useful to have such s

Re: Announcement: PmcTools callchain capture for RELENG_7

2008-07-14 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Hi, Does it mean that hwpmc from now will work "out of the box" with new Intel core2 duo/quad processors (like T7500) ? Joseph Koshy wrote: Hello List(s), I am very pleased to announce a patch, by Fabien Thomas, that brings PmcTools' callchain capture features to 7-STABLE. Thank you, Fabien

FreeBSD Best Practice

2008-07-14 Thread Karl Fischer
Hello I'm a SysAdmin, I'm wondering whether this is the correct list to ask? I'm looking for FreeBSD Best Practice information, (or a FreeBSD Mailing List, I can join) I want to make sure that all my servers comply to at least some widely accepted standards, so in the event of me getting hit by a b