Re: How about a Start-Up Script that execute every 30 minutes for resolv.conf???

2007-01-16 Thread Jay Chandler
George Vanev wrote: If you really want to copy resolv.conf from /root to /etc every 30 min you don't need a startup script. Just add the following line in /etc/crontab: */30 * * * * rootcp /root/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf I don't know what exactly are you

Re: How about a Start-Up Script that execute every 30 minutes for resolv.conf???

2007-01-16 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
linux quest wrote: Since, I desperately needed to connect to the Internet at this point of time, I create a file called resolv.conf in /root ... I am thinking how can I create a script so that it can copy resolv.conf from /root to /etc/resolv.conf every 30 minutes at start up - This is

Re: if_nfe on nVidia chipset

2007-01-16 Thread Palle Girgensohn
Hello, Is there any way I can help to try and fix this? Regards, Palle --On torsdag, december 21, 2006 19.04.17 +0100 Palle Girgensohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On torsdag, december 21, 2006 00.29.10 +0900 Shigeaki Tagashira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Palle Girgensohn wrote: --On

Re: DNS Resolver Problem

2007-01-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Bob McIsaac wrote: linux quest wrote: Dear Jay The FreeBSD Communities, Thanks for putting your time and patience to help me out. Anyway, I tried it out, both changing the rc.conf and the dhclient.conf (one at a time). After that (for both of the ways), I

Re: How about a Start-Up Script that execute every 30 minutes for resolv.conf???

2007-01-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 16, 2007, at 12:36 AM, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: linux quest wrote: Since, I desperately needed to connect to the Internet at this point of time, I create a file called resolv.conf in /root ... I am thinking how can I create a script so that it can copy resolv.conf from /root to

Re: how do I tell if my sio0 port is broken?

2007-01-16 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Monday 15 January 2007 11:43, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello List. I guess my sio0 port is broken on my Thinkpad, OS is FreeBSD-6.1. Reason: 1) I have tested a null-modem serial cable is working by using it on a dumb-terminal and a headless server. With the same cable and same headless server,

Re: Install from CVS?

2007-01-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 15, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Jay Chandler wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 15, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Jay Chandler wrote: Is it possible to install (instead of upgrading) FreeBSD from my local CVS repository? Looking to find a good way to automate installations, and figured I'd start there.

Using fn-Key of IBM Thinkpads in X?

2007-01-16 Thread Christian Walther
Hi, I'm currently using the latest FreeBSD 6.1 patchlevel on an IBM Thinkpad T23, and so far I'm quite happy with it. (I'll have an issue with my ath-based WLAN-NIC, but I've to address this later.) One thing I'm wondering about is if it is possible to use the fn-Key as another special key in X,

Re: Compiling mtr without GUI

2007-01-16 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Saturday 13 January 2007 15:03, Christian Baer wrote: Hi there Peeps! Somehow the mtr-port is bugging me a little. I want to install mtr on a machine with no keyboard and no monitor and thus no X - and I'd like to keep it that way. Since I couldn't find a package of mtr without the GUI, I

Re: Documenting a ports depedency tree?

2007-01-16 Thread stan
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 08:32:13PM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote: stan wrote: Is there a way to document the entire depedency tree for a given port? EG, if a dpends on b which depends on d e, which in turn depend on z, I'd like to print out this dependency list. A good question, which

Re: Documenting a ports depedency tree?

2007-01-16 Thread stan
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 10:36:59PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 15), stan said: Is there a way to document the entire depedency tree for a given port? EG, if a dpends on b which depends on d e, which in turn depend on z, I'd like to print out this dependency list.

Command Execution Using Script - Similar to Windows Batch File-Like Script (Coding Help)

2007-01-16 Thread linux quest
Dear FreeBSD Communities, Lets say, I wanted to create a Perl script to execute a very simple nmap command as listed below, may I know how do I do it? unix# nmap 192.168.1.2 I know we need to save it in .pl extension. May I know what else I need to do? I have researched and google this for

Re: Compiling mtr without GUI

2007-01-16 Thread Niclas Zeising
On 1/13/07, Christian Baer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there Peeps! Somehow the mtr-port is bugging me a little. I want to install mtr on a machine with no keyboard and no monitor and thus no X - and I'd like to keep it that way. Since I couldn't find a package of mtr without the GUI, I guess,

Re: Documenting a ports depedency tree?

2007-01-16 Thread Niclas Zeising
On 1/16/07, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 08:32:13PM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote: stan wrote: Is there a way to document the entire depedency tree for a given port? EG, if a dpends on b which depends on d e, which in turn depend on z, I'd like to print out this

Re: Command Execution Using Script - Similar to Windows Batch File-Like Script (Coding Help)

2007-01-16 Thread George Vanev
I'm sorry I have to tell you this, but your questions are pretty silly for this mailing list. I suspect I am not the first that have told you this. Anyway... I think I saw someone answer you this question - how to make the perl script. Obviously you have to install perl. The easiest way is to

Re: Command Execution Using Script - Similar to Windows Batch File-Like Script (Coding Help)

2007-01-16 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 1/16/07, linux quest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD Communities, Lets say, I wanted to create a Perl script to execute a very simple nmap command as listed below, may I know how do I do it? unix# nmap 192.168.1.2 I know we need to save it in .pl extension. May I know what else I

Re: Sysinstall: No Floppy Devices Found

2007-01-16 Thread Kevin Kobb
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all, I'm getting the message when I try to load a KLD in Sysinstall, even though I KNOW my floppy drive works. In fact, I can load the KLD from the loader prompt just fine. Is there a difference/advantage to one way of doing this over the other? -Dan

Re: Command Execution Using Script - Similar to Windows Batch File-Like Script (Coding Help)

2007-01-16 Thread Niclas Zeising
On 1/16/07, linux quest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD Communities, Lets say, I wanted to create a Perl script to execute a very simple nmap command as listed below, may I know how do I do it? unix# nmap 192.168.1.2 I know we need to save it in .pl extension. May I know what else I

Ethernet not recognized

2007-01-16 Thread Juan Marrero
Hi, I recently download FreeBSD 6.1, and I've installed in a new computer a couple of times and in none of the installation recognize the integrated Ethernet card. In the instructions that I follow in one link on your website, it says that is recognized automatically. What am I missing here?

Re: Ethernet not recognized

2007-01-16 Thread George Vanev
If I'm not wrong your lan card must be VIA VT6103L. In this case FreeBSD must support it. Post your dmesg please. Did you make any changes to the kernel? On 1/16/07, Juan Marrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently download FreeBSD 6.1, and I've installed in a new computer a couple of

'/usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid stop' problem

2007-01-16 Thread applecom
It seems something strange with squid-2.6.6 on my FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE box. After running 'usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid stop' (and therefore during system shutdown on 'Ctrl+Alt+Delete' or ACPI power button pushing) I see the following: Stopping squid. Waiting for PIDS: 553 564, 553 564, 553

Re: Ethernet not recognized

2007-01-16 Thread Eric
George Vanev wrote: If I'm not wrong your lan card must be VIA VT6103L. In this case FreeBSD must support it. Post your dmesg please. Did you make any changes to the kernel? On 1/16/07, Juan Marrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently download FreeBSD 6.1, and I've installed in a new

Ethernet not recognized

2007-01-16 Thread Robert Huff
Juan Marrero writes: Can someone help me with this??? Can we see the hardware boot probe? You'll find it in /var/log/messages, it looks like: Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz (2266.7 6-MHz 686-class CPU) Jan 15 23:41:51 jerusalem kernel:

Re: Documenting a ports depedency tree?

2007-01-16 Thread RW
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:32:13 -0800 Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: stan wrote: Is there a way to document the entire depedency tree for a given port? EG, if a dpends on b which depends on d e, which in turn depend on z, I'd like to print out this dependency list. A good

Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-16 Thread Christian Baer
Greetings fellow computer haters! :-) As I have already written on the STABLE mailing list, I can't seem to get Firefox to start on my Sun U60. Thunderbird works fine (as far as I can tell after two days), but Firefox just exits instantly with a segfault. I didn't get any replies from the STABLE

Re: if_nfe on nVidia chipset

2007-01-16 Thread Shigeaki Tagashira
Hi, I don't know why it doesn't detect the link media type. I have the same motherboard(M2N-SLI deluxe) and it works fine. Could you try to directly connect nfe0 to nfe1? If the link media type cannot be detected correctly in the case, thia seems to be the problem of cable or network hub.

Re: FreeBSD challenged by Internet

2007-01-16 Thread RW
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:32:58 -0500 Bob McIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: This is not exactly a question rather it is wrapup for a series of questions. I had a tricky, confusing problem getting FreeBSD on the net but I was able to solve it with help from this list.. Ian Smith in

dhcpd update doesn't restart service

2007-01-16 Thread Dave
Hello, I ran portupgrade on a 6.1 box. One of the ports needing updating was isc-dhcpd it was v3.0.4 now at 3.0.5. I ran this update on two boxes, one went fine, but on the other the service was not restarted. In my pkgtools.conf file i do have the line needed to restart services after an

Re: Confused with jails (ezjail) and mergemaster

2007-01-16 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:08:07AM -0500, Dave wrote: - Original Message - From: Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:37 PM Subject: Confused with jails (ezjail) and mergemaster I have just built and installed world on a

Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Steven Lowry
Hello, I have been very impressed with my FreeBSD 6.2 install, I have nearly everything working but there are a few things which I need help with. The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x slower than in windows XP, hopefully there is a solution. I have an LSI Megaraid 8x with four

Re: '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid stop' problem

2007-01-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 16), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It seems something strange with squid-2.6.6 on my FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE box. After running 'usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid stop' (and therefore during system shutdown on 'Ctrl+Alt+Delete' or ACPI power button pushing) I see the following:

Re: '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid stop' problem

2007-01-16 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems something strange with squid-2.6.6 on my FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE box. After running 'usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid stop' (and therefore during system shutdown on 'Ctrl+Alt+Delete' or ACPI power button pushing) I see the following: Stopping squid. Waiting for

Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 07:56, Christian Baer wrote: Greetings fellow computer haters! :-) As I have already written on the STABLE mailing list, I can't seem to get Firefox to start on my Sun U60. Thunderbird works fine (as far as I can tell after two days), but Firefox just exits

Re: advice on compiling a new kernel upgrading to the latest sources

2007-01-16 Thread RW
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:24:56 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-01-14 15:35, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [copious snippage] 2. Cd /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf which contains the file MYKERNEL No it doesn't. CVSup

Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-16 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi Freebsd My Firefox is crashing all the time since I setup the flash plugins, I first plugged in the mplayer and after which it was working well. Because several other news websites were expecting flash or shockwave plugins I went ahead and did everything per the instructions in

Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Steven Lowry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have been very impressed with my FreeBSD 6.2 install, I have nearly everything working but there are a few things which I need help with. The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x slower than in windows XP, hopefully there is a

hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-16 Thread Steve Franks
I'm tired of win2k crashing, and we won't even go into my opinion of vista's strongarm marketing tactics (read: changing my hardware means I have to pay again? they can keep their OS). Problem is, I've got 320GB of accumulated detrius on ntfs volumes to migrate. I see there is some good r/w

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-16 Thread Steve Franks
I suppose a couple of other details are in order: 1. FreeBSD is installed on a completely different disk. 2. I checked, and the motherboard still thinks they are mirrored. Steve On 1/16/07, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm tired of win2k crashing, and we won't even go into my

What have you done for me lately !!!

2007-01-16 Thread Joe Arcaro
Hi, Maybe this is just a rant, But I'll vent anyway. I've been watching with some skepticism, the whole apple circus freak fanboy show ... I was just curious, does it not bother any of the BSD developers that Apple inc (TM) has based its entire business model on open source software,

Re: What have you done for me lately !!!

2007-01-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:06:58AM +1100, Joe Arcaro wrote: Hi, Maybe this is just a rant, But I'll vent anyway. I've been watching with some skepticism, the whole apple circus freak fanboy show ... I was just curious, does it not bother any of the BSD developers that Apple inc

Re: What have you done for me lately !!!

2007-01-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 16, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:06:58AM +1100, Joe Arcaro wrote: Hi, Maybe this is just a rant, But I'll vent anyway. I've been watching with some skepticism, the whole apple circus freak fanboy show ... I was just curious, does it not bother

Re: What have you done for me lately !!!

2007-01-16 Thread Peter Giessel
On Tuesday, January 16, 2007, at 09:55AM, Joe Arcaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have on occasion looked at the apple web site, and never has apple even given credit to any form of BSD ! You must have missed it: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/ *** QUOTE *** With its open-source core

Re: Command Execution Using Script - Similar to Windows Batch File-Like Script (Coding Help)

2007-01-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 16, 2007, at 1:00 AM, linux quest wrote: Dear FreeBSD Communities, Lets say, I wanted to create a Perl script to execute a very simple nmap command as listed below, may I know how do I do it? unix# nmap 192.168.1.2 I know we need to save it in .pl extension. May I know what else I

Re: Ethernet not recognized

2007-01-16 Thread Derek Ragona
Check the motherboard documentation for the ethernet chipset, then look in the kernel config file for your kernel. It is likely simply not enabled in your kernel, or may require a second driver as do many of the ethernet drivers. -Derek At 07:43 AM 1/16/2007, Juan Marrero wrote:

Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Derek Ragona
With FreeBSD you can manage RAID in the OS or in your hardware (assuming hardware RAID support.) If you setup the RAID in the hardware, FreeBSD just sees the array as a large disk you can then partition. The advantage of doing the RAID in hardware is usually performance, but also you can

Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Steven Lowry
On Tue, January 16, 2007 18:13, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Steven Lowry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have been very impressed with my FreeBSD 6.2 install, I have nearly everything working but there are a few things which I need help with. The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x

Re: Sysinstall: No Floppy Devices Found

2007-01-16 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Kevin Kobb wrote: I have found that when I do an install with an install.cfg file on a floppy, I must insert the floppy right after the system begins to boot from CD. If I don't when I tell sysinstall to read the floppy I get an error. I've found the floppy works okay

Re: Ethernet not recognized

2007-01-16 Thread Bob McIsaac
Derek Ragona wrote: Check the motherboard documentation for the ethernet chipset, then look in the kernel config file for your kernel. It is likely simply not enabled in your kernel, or may require a second driver as do many of the ethernet drivers. -Derek At 07:43 AM 1/16/2007,

Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Steven Lowry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, January 16, 2007 18:13, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Steven Lowry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have been very impressed with my FreeBSD 6.2 install, I have nearly everything working but there are a few things which I need help with.

Re: '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid stop' problem

2007-01-16 Thread applecom
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:51:08 +0500, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try shutting squid down manually from a shell prompt, then switch to another window/vty and take a look at /usr/local/squid/logs/cache.log . My guess is it's waiting for an active client connection to exit. The default

Re: What have you done for me lately !!!

2007-01-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 15, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Joe Arcaro wrote: Maybe this is just a rant, But I'll vent anyway. Actually, I think you've graduated beyond just ranting to full- fledged trolling. I've been watching with some skepticism, the whole apple circus freak fanboy show ... Enjoy yourself. If you

Re: What have you done for me lately !!!

2007-01-16 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
It really amazes me how this FreeBSD is turning out tide in the Chinese market , which shuns W and L. The major OS that Chinese market is based on is Freebsd based. there is going to be 1.3 billion population out there going to be in FreeBSD On 1/16/07, Peter Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-16 Thread hal
This came down from above?! Beginning in 2007, Daylight Savings Time will be lengthened one month by starting three weeks earlier (2AM on the second Sunday in March) and ending one week later (2AM on the first Sunday in November). What patch levels do I need to be at for my 4.7 and 6.1

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-16 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: My Firefox is crashing all the time since I setup the flash plugins, I first plugged in the mplayer and after which it was working well. Because several other news websites were expecting flash or shockwave plugins I went ahead and did everything

Re: Ethernet not recognized

2007-01-16 Thread Robert Huff
Derek Ragona writes: Check the motherboard documentation for the ethernet chipset, then look in the kernel config file for your kernel. It is likely simply not enabled in your kernel, or may require a second driver as do many of the ethernet drivers. Also check whether the

Dummynet with vlans

2007-01-16 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, Note: I'm cc'ing Luigi Rizzo because, well, he's authoritative. This is NOT the same issue I asked about a couple years ago (which related to vlans, and bridging -- there is no bridge in play here). Anyway... We have a machine playing vlan aggregator. Gigabit nics (intels). em0

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 16), hal said: Beginning in 2007, Daylight Savings Time will be lengthened one month by starting three weeks earlier (2AM on the second Sunday in March) and ending one week later (2AM on the first Sunday in November). What patch levels do I need to be at for my 4.7

READ_DMA48 error interpretation

2007-01-16 Thread Richard Lynch
I know the messages below mean the hard drive or IDE cards are having problems. But is this like RED ALERT or more like YELLOW or what? And what do I do about it? umount and fsck everything a lot? swap cards/drives around until it stops? Ignore it and pray? All the content is already copied

Re: Ethernet not recognized

2007-01-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Robert Huff wrote: Derek Ragona writes: Check the motherboard documentation for the ethernet chipset, then look in the kernel config file for your kernel. It is likely simply not enabled in your kernel, or may require a second driver as do many of the ethernet drivers.

Re: READ_DMA48 error interpretation

2007-01-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 16, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Richard Lynch wrote: I know the messages below mean the hard drive or IDE cards are having problems. But is this like RED ALERT or more like YELLOW or what? If you have current backups, it's a yellow alert. Otherwise... And what do I do about it? umount and

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-16 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
On 1/16/07, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: My Firefox is crashing all the time since I setup the flash plugins, I first plugged in the mplayer and after which it was working well. Because several other news websites were expecting flash

Re: What have you done for me lately !!!

2007-01-16 Thread Joe Arcaro
Thanks For the reply Chuck, I didn't imagine I'd get such an emotive response, But nonetheless you're right, I haven't checked the developer website, As for trolling, I am not intentionally trying to start a heated debate. I was just curious as to how much credit people think should be given

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Steve Franks wrote: I want two 160GB mirrored volumes, not 4 unmirrored ones. The RAID is an ASUS P5DR1-VM motherboard with a ULI raid chipset onboard. Very nice setup for the money. I don't know about the chipset or the controller, but judging from the symptoms it's highly likely you

Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Steven Lowry wrote: The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x slower than in windows XP, hopefully there is a solution. I have an LSI Megaraid 8x with four drives in a raid 5 configuration, in windows I was getting upto 60MB/s transfer rates but in FBSD I am getting upto 9MB/s. I

FreeBSD 6.2 stable crasches when running dump on mounted snapshot.

2007-01-16 Thread Mattias Björk
Hi there, When I run dump on a mounted snapshot, my machine panics with the error that says the following: Fatal double fault Panic: double fault I can run games in Windows fine and I run setiathome/boinc most of the time in Windows when my computer is locked and I'm at work. No problem

Re: Contributing to FreeBSD documentation (was: Re: no ath0 on new system with good card)

2007-01-16 Thread Steve Franks
On 1/7/07, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-01-07 08:54, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies on not hitting the list. Alyays forget to reply-all. No problem. I just didn't copy the list because I wasn't sure I should. So, I figured I'd try to fix the

Re: NEED HELP

2007-01-16 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 1/16/07, Ata ur Rehman Alvi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HELLO I AM A NEWBIE FOR UNIX PLATEFORM, AND I DONT KNOW ABOUT FTP DOWNLOADING IDEA. WOULD U TELL ME HOW TO DOWNLOAD FREE BSD UNIX AND HOW TO INSTALL, I AM HAVING NO RESPONSE WHEN I TRY TO DOWNLOAD. AND IN DOCUMENTATION I CANT FIND MUCH

RE: Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Wood, Russell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivan Voras Sent: Wednesday, 17 January 2007 7:04 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance Steven Lowry wrote: The main problem is my HD

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-16 Thread hal
On Jan 16, 2007, at Tuesday, Jan16, 2007 1:59 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: Since it's not a security issue, I doubt the new zone files will go into any -p# branch. If you were tracking the main branches (RELENG_4 or RELENG_6) instead of a -RELEASE branch (RELENG_4_11 or RELENG_6_1), you would have

how much space does freebsd-update need for the workdir?

2007-01-16 Thread lveax
hi list i have upgraded to 6.2. i notice there is a new tool freebsd-update. where i can find the freebsd-update mirror server list? and how much space does it need? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-16 Thread Matt Emmerton
On Jan 16, 2007, at Tuesday, Jan16, 2007 1:59 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: Since it's not a security issue, I doubt the new zone files will go into any -p# branch. If you were tracking the main branches (RELENG_4 or RELENG_6) instead of a -RELEASE branch (RELENG_4_11 or RELENG_6_1), you would

Re: how much space does freebsd-update need for the workdir?

2007-01-16 Thread Jay Chandler
lveax wrote: hi list i have upgraded to 6.2. i notice there is a new tool freebsd-update. where i can find the freebsd-update mirror server list? and how much space does it need? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 stable crasches when running dump on mounted snapshot.

2007-01-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:47:47PM +0100, Mattias Bj?rk wrote: Hi there, When I run dump on a mounted snapshot, my machine panics with the error that says the following: Fatal double fault Panic: double fault You forgot to mention/obtain the important bits of the error ;) See the

Re: how much space does freebsd-update need for the workdir?

2007-01-16 Thread Colin Percival
Jay Chandler wrote: lveax wrote: i have upgraded to 6.2. i notice there is a new tool freebsd-update. where i can find the freebsd-update mirror server list? The FreeBSD Update client does that automatically, using DNS SRV magic. and how much space does it need? That depends upon how many

Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Wood, Russell wrote: I have an LSI MegaRaid with three drives at RAID 5: works a god-damn-treat. I don't know what my throughput is on RAID 5 but RAID 0 was fast (70MB/s+). Mine was RAID5. Hmm, oops, it wasn't LSI but HP/Compaq CISS, battery backed, SATA on SAS. da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0

Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 1/17/07, Wood, Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an LSI MegaRaid with three drives at RAID 5: works a god-damn-treat. I don't know what my throughput is on RAID 5 but RAID 0 was fast (70MB/s+). Interesting. On my single SATA drive box I see: $ sudo dd if=/dev/ad8s1d of=/dev/zero

Re: Using fn-Key of IBM Thinkpads in X?

2007-01-16 Thread Timothy Bourke
On Jan 16 at 11:28 +0100, Christian Walther wrote: I'm currently using the latest FreeBSD 6.1 patchlevel on an IBM Thinkpad T23, and so far I'm quite happy with it. (I'll have an issue with my ath-based WLAN-NIC, but I've to address this later.) One thing I'm wondering about is if it is

regexp [. .]

2007-01-16 Thread applecom
I need to use regular expressions with a sequence of characters as a collating element. From re_format(7): Within a bracket expression, a collating element (a character, a multi- character sequence that collates as if it were a single character, or a collating-sequence name for either) enclosed

Help with mail Forwarding

2007-01-16 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi All, I was hoping someone might throw me a few pointers on the following ; I have FreeBSD 6.1 setup, running Apache / PHP / MySQL etc In aliases I specify my most used ISP pop address and all mail for root gets sent there from Charlie - this works great. I am testing an osc cart and the two

Adjusting NGROUPS_MAX constant

2007-01-16 Thread Dan Casey
I am running into trouble with users who are in more then 16 groups. I fail to ssh in with the following message: sshd[96785]: initgroups(username,1002): Invalid argument sysctl -a kern.ngroups kern.ngroups: 16 Is there any reason why I should not raise NGROUPS_MAX in the following two files?

duo core question

2007-01-16 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, just chat here... how much faster will a duo core CPU gives me when running freebsd, nothing optimised.. thans!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: duo core question

2007-01-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi, just chat here... how much faster will a duo core CPU gives me when running freebsd, nothing optimised.. thans!! TFC Answer: depends on what you're doing. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: dhcpd update doesn't restart service

2007-01-16 Thread Jason Morgan
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:02:54AM -0500, Dave wrote: Hello, I ran portupgrade on a 6.1 box. One of the ports needing updating was isc-dhcpd it was v3.0.4 now at 3.0.5. I ran this update on two boxes, one went fine, but on the other the service was not restarted. In my pkgtools.conf

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-16 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1 I have these files in $ pwd /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins $ ls -lrt total 2132 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2158864 Oct 27 16:42 libflashplayer.so -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 856 Oct 27 16:42 flashplayer.xpt drwxr-xr-x 2 500 100512 Dec 4 19:09

Re: regexp [. .]

2007-01-16 Thread Parker Anderson
On 1/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to use regular expressions with a sequence of characters as a collating element. From re_format(7): Within a bracket expression, a collating element (a character, a multi- character sequence that collates as if it were a single

Re: Adjusting NGROUPS_MAX constant

2007-01-16 Thread Parker Anderson
Hello Dan, On 1/16/07, Dan Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running into trouble with users who are in more then 16 groups. I fail to ssh in with the following message: sshd[96785]: initgroups(username,1002): Invalid argument sysctl -a kern.ngroups kern.ngroups: 16 Is there any reason why

Re: duo core question

2007-01-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/16/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, just chat here... how much faster will a duo core CPU gives me when running freebsd, nothing optimised.. 1. You need to rebuild the kernel with SMP support. 2. The correct names are; Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, Core Solo, and Core 2 Solo. 3.

Re: duo core question

2007-01-16 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:11:20 -0500 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how much faster will a duo core CPU gives me when running freebsd, nothing optimised.. How much faster than what :) ok, without being a smart-arse anymore. :) Not sure how much faster a duo core version of the

Re: duo core question

2007-01-16 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
thank you guys for reply... very useful... :-) so for you guys who have experiecen with this cpu, do you really feel it?? TFC On 1/16/07, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:11:20 -0500 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how much faster will a duo core CPU

CRON Script not working right.

2007-01-16 Thread Don O'Neil
Anybody have any clues why a shell script run from root's CRON would act differently then when run directly from the command line? Specifically, I have a script that looks for files on a NFS mount point and copies them across and changes the ownership/perms. Here's the gist of the script:

Origin of LINT?

2007-01-16 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
I know it's probably off-topic, but I've searched google for a bit with no results, and because I'm curious: Does anyone (maybe one of the old guard) know the origin of the term lint for the all-inclusive feature set. I know SpamAssassin uses it as well (it's the command line argument to

Re: CRON Script not working right.

2007-01-16 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007, Don O'Neil wrote: Anybody have any clues why a shell script run from root's CRON would act differently then when run directly from the command line? Most often this is because the environment in the cron job is different, either missing variables or having variables that

Re: Origin of LINT?

2007-01-16 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I know it's probably off-topic, but I've searched google for a bit with no results, and because I'm curious: Does anyone (maybe one of the old guard) know the origin of the term lint for the all-inclusive feature set. I know SpamAssassin

Re: Origin of LINT?

2007-01-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 16 January 2007 at 23:28:51 -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I know it's probably off-topic, but I've searched google for a bit with no results, and because I'm curious: Does anyone (maybe one of the old guard) know the origin of the term lint for the all-inclusive feature

Re: duo core question

2007-01-16 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:35:45 -0500 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so for you guys who have experiecen with this cpu, do you really feel it?? np - you are assuming i have experience with them ;) you need to understand, it's like a dual CPU , NOT like HT (you can , I think , have HT as

(6.2 install) Offering both install ISO's via nfs?

2007-01-16 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
Hello Family, Hmm, in doing installs with more than one install iso (disk-1 and disk-2) via NFS I'm not clear on the instructions where it states to simply copy the FreeBSD distribution files... (question) (A) Would that mean to copy the files from both install disks into one common directory

md5sum is missing, but not entirely

2007-01-16 Thread perryh
Both the executable and the manpage for md5sum seem to be missing from this 6.1-RELEASE system, making it difficult to check the downloaded 6.2-RELEASE and FreeSBIE ISOs. Isn't md5sum supposed to be part of the base? Meanwhile, apropos md5 yields this line, among others gmd5sum(1), md5sum(1)

FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386 + CPUTYPE?=nocona broke my kernel

2007-01-16 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
Hello, I recompiled my kernel with make.conf has CPUTYPE?=nocona with the latest src via cvsup. But that broke my kernel while I have Dual xeon EMT64. So I think it's not safe to use nocona or prescott with kernel, and I should stick to cpu i686 instead. -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad