Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files?

2006-05-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ben Paley wrote: On Friday 28 April 2006 10:25, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Try sysutils/smartmontools or a disk checker from the disk manufacturer. Most provide one. smartmontools seems to confirm there's nothing wrong with the disk: smartctl

Re: apache not starting: FreeBSd 5.4

2006-05-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
--- Chad Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mon May 1 00:48:28 2006] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is your hostname really [EMAIL PROTECTED]? type hostname in a shell. dharam paul wrote: Yes, it is. But the machine is meant only for

Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files?

2006-04-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ben Paley wrote: so I'm provisionally eliminating memory failure as the cause of my file corruption. Any idea where I go from here? That file really does change. Could it be a hard disk problem on the exact spot where this file is? is fsck my friend in this instance? I'll go and rtfm right

Re: How do I swap tape drives (sa0) without rebooting?

2006-04-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list. I have a freebsd 6.1-RC1 machine that I am using to test bacula and various tape drives. If the machine boots up while the tape drive is attached and powered up, the tape drive is recognized. If I turn off the tape drive and attach a different drive, I

Re: scripting languages...

2006-04-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gary Kline wrote: I am NOT trying to start any kind of flame debate, but would like to know what real advantage perl has over the newer so-called all-in-one language, ch. (Other than the obvious fact that there are literally billions of lines of perl existant.) I don't

Re: Changing Default Shell

2006-04-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
John Cruz wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Something is wrong with the entry already in the password file. Use vipw to (a) look at it, (b) fix it, and (c) rebuild the database. Thanks, that did it! I tried manually editing /etc/passwd before and I guess there's other ways that have to be

Re: question on ftp - drag and drop

2006-04-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Kevin Kinsey wrote: David Banning wrote: I am interested in setting up my ftp server so that users can login to their directories and drag files from one sub-directory into another. I am now using ProFTPd. Users are permitted to login to their directories using the ftp built into IE, and

Re: USB 2 support in 4.11-STABLE

2006-04-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Odhiambo Washington wrote: I am looking around for information on whether 4.11-STABLE supports USB 2.0 I'll appreciate any pointers. man ehci on 5.4 says The ehci device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.1. So I guess that would be a no. Also, if you look in CVS

Re: How to link CPAN to FreeBSD ports perl modules?

2006-04-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
David Robillard wrote: Hello everyone, I'm looking for a way to link perl modules found in CPAN and the ones found in the FreeBSD ports repository. For example, let's say I need to install the following CPAN module: http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/lib/HTTP/Request/Common.pm A search

Re: Curious behavior today

2006-04-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jonathan Horne wrote: Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ive been working on a pair of test boxes today, and 2 daemons in a row, have installed from ports without the .sh on the end of their startup script. ive done tons of installs on these test boxes, what am i all of a sudden

Re: Curious behavior today

2006-04-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jonathan Horne wrote: well if its an official change in procedure, i have no problem with adapting. the reason it raised my eyebrow today, aside from happening on 2 boxes at the same time, same daemons, but vsftpd did the same thing last weekend when i compiled the port after latest cvsup.

Re: DMA TIMEOUT

2006-04-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Anish Mistry wrote: On Thursday 13 April 2006 07:47, Wil Hatfield wrote: I had a similar situation under 6.0. My secondary drive would throw DMA read errors at bootup, adding several minutes to the boot process, so I ran it in PIO mode. The upgrade to 6.1 solved it, both drives work fine as

Re: Problem regarding Samaba-automonts.

2006-04-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jostein Kjønigsen wrote: Hi! I got a question regarding samba automounting in FreeBSD. I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 and have Samba3 installed. Manual mounting works fine, but I do need to enter a password. This is regardless if its a specific mount or mounting a /etc/fstab entry. As far as I've

[Fwd: Re: Problem regarding Samaba-automonts.]

2006-04-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[Reply from Jostein forwarded with permission]. On 4/14/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jostein Kjønigsen wrote: Hi! I got a question regarding samba automounting in FreeBSD. I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 and have Samba3 installed. Manual mounting works fine, but I do need to enter

Re: Proper Method of Time Sync?

2006-04-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jonathan Horne wrote: i have read about 2 methods to sync the time on a freebsd box. 1) add these entries to /etc/rc.conf: ntpdate_enable=YES ntpdate_flags=us.pool.ntp.org ... and let the system do a one-time sync at bootup, and rely on this single method for timesync. 2) add this entry to

Re: [Fwd: Re: Noise On Screen]

2006-04-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jeff Molofee wrote: I have not had problems until a few months back, unfortunately, I am not able to say if it was an upgrade to xorg, the nvidia driver or some other port that caused the issue. From you PR note I see that your are running an Nvidia card, so 1) try upgrading Xorg as it

Re: upcoming release 6.1: old version of some core components

2006-04-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Alex, you would lose that bet, zlib 1.2.2 has a hole in it, it should have been replaced with 1.2.3 See the zlib website for more info. Nospam, good catch, if none of the hip-shooters here file a PR I'll get around to it the next time I get a running build off the cvs.

Re: Noise On Screen

2006-04-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jeff Molofee wrote: I hope I'm not driving everyone crazy by posting the same problem over and over, but I have yet to receive a reply, suggestion, thought, etc. I am running RELENG_6. I have been using FreeBSD since 4.x. I have had a lot of weird issues through the years, but this is one I

Re: SIGCHLD and sockets HELP!

2006-04-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Keith Bottner wrote: I am having a problem with SIGCHLD signals and their interaction with sockets. I have an application that forks modules in separate processes and use UNIX domain sockets for communication. The main application handles the SIGCHLD signal so that it can detect when/if a

Re: upcoming release 6.1: old version of some core components

2006-04-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net wrote: during testing the 6.1-BETA4 i found only one major thing i really like to discuss on the list for my understanding. why are some major parts of the os are not updated to the current versions (see examples beyond)? code-improvements and

Re: upcoming release 6.1: old version of some core components

2006-04-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net wrote: I can't answer you main question, but I would say that you can bet your shirt on the fact that there will be no known security issues in the older packages. At least for openssl and openssh you can get latest versions through the ports. Not

Re: /etc/resolv.conf with 3 nameservers

2006-04-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El día Monday, April 10, 2006 a las 10:44:52AM -0400, Ken Stevenson escribió: I think the problem is that once your first server responds with a domain not found, that's considered an answer to your query. It doesn't try another DNS server just to see if it gets a

Re: /etc/resolv.conf with 3 nameservers

2006-04-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El día Monday, April 10, 2006 a las 04:07:34PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw escribió: There's nothing to stop you configuring that local nameserver to use your two backups for names that it cannot resolve. You could then leave the two backups in /etc/resolv.conf

Re: BST instead of GMT

2006-04-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Philip Radford wrote: Hi all, I am looking for a way to get my FreeBSD 5.3 box to show my local time as BST (British Summer Time) as apposed to GMT. I have checked and double-checked the timezone and have set this to Europe/London. However I think I need to do something with the locale.

Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?

2006-04-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, that's fine, but how can I have a port on my system that isn't in the ports tree available to the world? I mean, won't anything I add to my local tree be deleted by cvsup'ing? cvsup won't delete things you add, but I believe portsnap does. I have a whole new

Re: C Program to execute programs in same console

2006-04-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jonathan Herriott wrote: What I am trying to do is execute the command in the calling shell. So, if I were to execute my program, which changes the directory, it would do the following: pwd /usr/home/username/ ./myprog .. pwd /usr/home/ That's basically what I'm looking for.

Re: Award BIOS Upgrade Fees - Slightly Offtopic

2006-04-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Thompson, Jimi wrote: I just encountered what I consider to be a totally outrageous problem. I've got a system with a BIOS issue. The motherboard maker has decided to use Award's BIOS and they want a minimum of $39.95 to email me the BIOS update that I need to fix the system. So why

Re: FreeBSD stickers

2006-04-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ashley Moran wrote: and 10 Linux Inside badges for our less-enlightened network admin :) For superior enlightenment, attach with a nail to the forehead :-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Keyboard Issue on Dell 1850/FreeBSD

2006-04-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
mike s. cojocea wrote: Hello, folks, I am working to install a FreeBSD 6.0 on a Dell 1850, with Dell Remote Access Card. After the install is complete the keyboard no longer works. I can access the machine over SSH to do debugging. The /var/log/messages did not show any error: %Apr 4

Re: Keyboard Issue on Dell 1850/FreeBSD

2006-04-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Anish Mistry wrote: The DRAC keyboard (USB) takes precedence over any other keyboard you attach. I believe work is in progress to make FreeBSD recognise multiple simultaneous keyboards. The RELENG_6 and CURRENT have kbdmux support for multiple keyboards. Cool. Will those changes

Re: SiI3112 Controller Question

2006-03-31 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Richard P. Koett wrote: Thanks Alex. I did check Google before posting but nothing I read was very recent. I was curious if things had improved since newer firmware and newer versions of FreeBSD had come along. I'll go with the HPT controller. Everything I read on the mailing lists said

No auto reboot after panic

2006-03-31 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Setup: Dell 2850 running i386 FreeBSD 5.4-p5 (or so), ACPI enabled and apparently working (shutdown -p or -r work fine). After a kernel panic, the console showed Automatic reboot in 60 seconds or press any key to interrupt, (or words to that effect), but actually the machine just sat there

Samba related panic

2006-03-31 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Setup: Dell 2850 running FreeBSD i386 5.4-p5 (or so). Last night, two such servers panic'ed last night in smbiod when the share they were mounting disappeared (or so it seems at the moment - I don't control or have easy access to the Windows servers they were mounting from; but there is good

Re: SiI3112 Controller Question

2006-03-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Richard P. Koett wrote: 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? I have the option of using a HighPoint HPT372 instead but was planning to use that elsewhere. A simple google for sil3112 freebsd will return you plenty of responses which will provide an answer to your question - which is,

Re: Incorrect inline documentation in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf

2006-03-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Spil Oss wrote: Dear all, Spent a lot of time trying to get portupgrade to install phpbb in the directory I want. Tried a lot of things, but only when I found out that ports_glob does NOT return anything on 'www/phpbb-*' I could fix it. The inline documentation in pkgtools.conf lead me to

Re: Incorrect inline documentation in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf

2006-03-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Spil Oss wrote: Thanks a lot, that makes it very clear for me. Would it be a good idea to make that specific in the pkgtools.conf file? There must be more FreeBSD newbies that can run into the same trouble. It seems like a good idea to me but you'd want to get the idea to the author of

Re: help with libpthread

2006-03-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robert Huff wrote: Who is the correct person to talk to about possible issues with libpthread? In case you don't get a more specific answer, there are threads on hackers@ at the moment talking about various thread libraries so it would seem to be *a* place where you can find

Re: smb_maperror unmapped error 1:158

2006-03-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Steel City Phantom wrote: im using bsd 6. i write a script that fires on startup and shutdown that mounts the drives. i mount several, but here is one of the mount commands mount_smbfs -f 0777 -d 0777 //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/MP3 /usr/local/drive_h/MP3 it seems like anything that

Re: smb_maperror unmapped error 1:158

2006-03-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Steel City Phantom wrote: i mount with the script because when i tried it with fstab, it would only mount read only. even when i specified rw in the options. i tried everything i could think of to get write access to it and doing the script like this was the only thing that worked. and

Re: favorite ATA/SATA hard disk brand?

2006-03-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Steve Camp wrote: What brand / make / model ATA / SATA hard disks do you prefer? I am looking to purchase some SATA disks in the 160 - 300GB size. I got a good deal (I think) on a Samsung OEM 250GB disk for $95 at my local MicroCenter, but read on the web a few days later one gamer / system

Re: Continuing Server Crash Saga!

2006-03-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Grant Peel wrote: I am hoping someone here will tell me upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1 would be a trivial task, posing minimal danger, and perhaps point me to a decent tutorial or how to ... Upgrading within a major release, while not trivial, is really not hard either as long as *you follow the

Re: favorite ATA/SATA hard disk brand?

2006-03-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robert Huff wrote: Alex Zbyslaw writes: IBM discovered this to their cost when one of their Deskstar models turned out to be scrap disguised as a disk, and got a Class action lawsuit in return. Then they sold the Deskstar line to Hitachi :-) Did they only sell the Deskstar

Re: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer?

2006-03-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris Hill wrote: On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Yance Kowara wrote: In Linux, shutdown -h now will power off the machine. *That* makes no sense to me, and I would find it to be unexpected behavior... but I guess it's a matter of what you're used to. Where FreeBSD aims for a Principle of Least

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paolo Tealdi wrote: Hurra ! I resolved! Excellent! Obviously newfs did not resolve. :-( But... i studied the problem from another point of view reading dump sources, as you suggested. dump thinks that file has changed if : a) modification date has changed b) cdate has changed : cdate is

Re: rsync script not excluding dirs

2006-03-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Pat Maddox thusly... I have a backup script that runs nightly, and I want it to exclude certain dirs (ports, obj, etc). However when I run the script it doesn't exclude anything, leaving me with pretty massive backups. ... /, /var,

Re: /home is symlinked to /usr/home - question about backups

2006-03-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Pat Maddox wrote: I got a dedicated server a while ago, and it came with /home symlinked to /usr/home. I'm not entirely sure why, to tell you the truth, but it's never posed a problem. However if I run rsync -avz to back up my server, it creates something like this: /backup/march/19/home -

Re: /home is symlinked to /usr/home - question about backups

2006-03-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Pat Maddox wrote: However if I run rsync -avz to back up my server, it creates something like this: /backup/march/19/home - /usr/home So if I were to go to /backup/march/19 and rm -rf * wouldn't it go and delete everything in /usr/home? Should add: In you shell, alias rm to rm -i which

Re: Firewall log unlimited - How to?

2006-03-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Rodrigo G. Tavares de Souza wrote: Hi, I was configuring the Firewall when I got this message: Mar 20 11:16:08 bsd-net kernel: ipfw: limit 100 reached on entry 835 And the firewall stoped to create log messages after this message. What I do need to do to IPFW do not stop writing the

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Peter wrote: You could check and see what sysutils/healthd reports. It doesn't get all the volatges correct, but gets temps that, for me, reasonably match the BIOS and seem believable. Is it a science project or fairly simple? Trivial. From memory but it should

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paolo Tealdi wrote: At 15.35 15/03/2006 +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Paolo Tealdi wrote: /dev/da0s1g 91399912 57543202 3202871264%/home Well, that does look like the whole disk, and the dates and levels of the dumps look right... What happens if you leave off the -L

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paolo Tealdi wrote: I will do a newfs on saturday afternoon, after doing some backups (also on tape). After this, if the problem persists, i'll do the pass 2, 3 and 4. In my opinion something gets damaged at filesystem level after an energy block (date are similar). I did an fsck (more

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Peter wrote: The values I'm getting fluctuate wildly. Sometimes with a difference of 30 degrees after waiting just a couple of seconds. That really doesn't sound good to me, but I don't really have enough experience of system building to do more than guess at the cause. I would strongly

Re: Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite

2006-03-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Duane Whitty wrote: (Aside: I thought the mozilla-suite built in email program was essentially thunderbird? I hope I was correct when I assumed you were using mozilla and not firefox?) A bit OT, but you asked :-) AFAIK, Mozilla's email and Thunderbird share some kind of underlying

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris wrote: [K8V-X SE] Sounds harsh, a low end board may have performance problems and less capability but it shouldnt justify an operating system not working, or are only high end boards supported? I have this board, and it works for what I do with it (single SATA 200Gb disk + built-in

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paolo Tealdi wrote: i've a problem with a dump on level 9 for a filesystem. Scenario : a) System with 2 filesystem ( /home and /backup ). b) every night a batch process makes a dump of /home on a file living on /backup. On saturday it makes a dump on level 0 and the other nights it makes a

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: But, I wonder why you chose level 9 for your change dumps. It sort of defeats the system. It would be more normal to use level 1. I know that [some much] earlier versions of BSD dump only took levels up to 5, but I presume that since they include up to 9 in the

Re: dump level 9

2006-03-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paolo Tealdi wrote: At 14.16 15/03/2006 +, you wrote: Paolo Tealdi wrote: Anybody has any idea ? Show us the output of the dump command which didn't work as you expected. Right when it starts it tells you what level of dump it is doing and when it thinks the last relevant dump

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Peter wrote: Right now I am running the 40 GB and the 200 GB IDE drives as master and slave on the primary controller and the CDROM as master on the secondary. The USB and serial ports are working. I concluded that the 300 GB disk was bad so I am returning it. Currently I can say the only

Re: how does a system come up if you disable background fsck ?

2006-03-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Tamouh H. wrote: Micah, Kris: You guys are hilarious, where can I find ppl like you ? Of course I'm using a backup power, but there are 101 reasons for FreeBSD to reboot by itself and when that happens, 30 minutes downtime is 30 minutes of wasted time. Since you're *so* smart, perhaps

Re: two slices, copy one slice to another?

2006-03-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Steve P. wrote: Is there a trick to copying one working system from a slice to another slice? What I envision is two slices: /dev/ad0s1 - one complete install /dev/ad0s2 - copy of first install, via dump restore. (Is this where I screwed up?) Then edit /etc/fstab on /dev/ad0s2 to

Re: coming back up after power failure (UPS)

2006-03-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bob Johnson wrote: - When the UPS believes it is about to run out of battery power and shut down, the OS shuts down to single user mode and starts a script that will reboot the system in five minutes (or long enough to be sure the batteries will run down first). - If the UPS does shut down,

Re: connection reset by peer from one location but not another

2006-03-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2006, Brian Ross wrote: I'm getting a connection reset by peer disconnect after about 10 minutes (or less) when I SSH to my 5.4-STABLE server from my home connection (cable DHCP), but I can stay connected all day long from work (DSL DHCP). I

Re: sending large amount of data securely

2006-03-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nathan Vidican wrote: Dave wrote: Hello, I've got two freebsd6 boxes on one i have a large collection of files, like about 3.5 gb worth, that i want to send securely to the other box. I've tried: scp -24Cpr to do it, it transfered 1gb of data then quit. I'm suspecting it didn't get

Re: Can't get nForce4 SATA RAID working

2006-03-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Fluffles wrote: Anyone can help me please? If you don't get any replies on questions, try the hardware mailing list (you might have to subscribe first) and if *that* fails, try submitting a PR. I assume you've tried google? hth, --Alex ___

Re: Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1

2006-03-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I am new on RAID, I googled a bit on how to install freebsd with RAID-1. But I found mostly references to software raid, and I have a CERC SATA RAID controler (6 channel). Is this because hardware RAID-1 Just Works (TM)? or how do I make sure that my raid is

Re: Installing FreeBSD with hw SATA RAID-1

2006-03-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Erik Norgaard wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: If the controller is supported, then it should just work, but unless there is a CLI which works for FreeBSD then you won't be able to do things like rebuild the RAID from within FreeBSD, only from its BIOS. It looks like the controller is supported

Re: awk question

2006-03-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Mar 6, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Noel Jones wrote: On 3/6/06, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm totally drawing a blank on where to start out on this. If I have a list of URLs like http://www.happymountain.com/archive/digest.gif How could I use Awk or Sed

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nikolas Britton wrote: Please can you be careful when you attribute your comments. You've sent this email to me, and left only my name in the attributions as if I were someone suggesting either dd or diskinfo as accurate benchmarks, when in fact my contribution was to suggest unixbench and

Re: rebooting and crashes on dell server

2006-03-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: You need to load an OS supported by Dell - ie: Windows - on this system first and run some stress-testers on it and see if it locks up. If it does not then try Linux and if that works, you either use Linux or call Dell and tell them to make it work with FreeBSD or your

Re: Locked out remotely

2006-03-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Angelo Christou wrote: Hello list. I have a regular user account on a remote box running FreeBSD 6 and I need to reboot it. The user account is not part of the wheel group. I have the root password for local login but I cant su (su: Sorry). Is there anything at all I can do or am I totally

Re: SSHD working in a funky fashion

2006-03-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Kurt Buff wrote: On 2/28/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: sshd: fatal: timeout before authentication from 192.168.11.63 Can you ssh from one of your other FreeBSD boxes to this box? If not then try ssh -v -v -v which may point you in the right

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Beastie wrote: second tools is diskinfo, but i'm not quite happy with the result. #diskinfo -t /dev/amrd0s1d /dev/amrd0s1d 512 # sectorsize 96609024# mediasize in bytes (931G) 1953118377 # mediasize in sectors 121575 # Cylinders

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nikolas Britton wrote: This and all the other benchmarks you've run are useless. Run a real benchmark like iozone. It's in ports under benchmarks/iozone. http://www.iozone.org/ Please can you be careful when you attribute your comments. You've sent this email to me, and left only my name

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-03-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Mayfield wrote: Next, Use Load Fail-Safe Defaults and try FreeBSD. This worked. It booted fine, I got FreeBSD set up, X set up, some programs set up and sound working after going back into the BIOS and turning sound and USB and other vital stuff back on. I'm only running into a few

Re: SATA Raid (stress test..)

2006-03-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Beastie wrote: I try to test with dd simple command dd if=/dev/amrd0s1d of=/dev/null ^C31297+0 records in 31297+0 records out 16024064 bytes transferred in 7.970548 secs (2010409 bytes/sec) the result is very slow performance (-+ 2 Mbytes/sec), with write cache enable on drive. :( Your

Re: SSHD working in a funky fashion

2006-02-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Kurt Buff wrote: I have set up a desktop box with 3 dual port Intel NICs as a router, which function it seems to be performing just fine. I used to be able to ssh into the box from my Windows machines with no problem, but now it hangs after I enter the user name - it won't come back with the

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: At 18:26 24.02.2006, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Welcome to the select few on my kill list. On 2/28/06, Kristian Vaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you threatening me man? No, he's ignoring you. (You might interpret it as a threat to ignore you

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Mayfield wrote: I have tried both the 6.1 and 5.4 CD's, both of them bombing at the exact same point the 6.0 boot failed. I'll try 5.5 sometime tomorrow, though I kinda doubt it would make a difference. Is there anything else I can try? If 6.1 and 5.4 fail then it seems really likely

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Kristian Vaaf wrote: The point is I've been having this problem for so long, and none of the developers are willing to help me. This is one of the reason I think, why most people these days seem to go (back) to DragonflyBSD. I certainly am going to. Did you even try the suggestions I

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nikolas Britton wrote: Your not using the right install CDs. You have an AMD 64-Bit chip so you can't (AFAIK) use the I386 Release. Maybe there is a setting in the BIOS for I386 compat, I have no experience with AMD's 64-Bit chips so this is just a guess. Or try disabling ACPI and everything

Re: CVSUP ?

2006-02-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris Maness wrote: I have a question in regards to CVSUP. Does it sometimes not delete old files. I did a sync on my ports. I built CUPS and the install scripts were putting files in the wrong place. I fixed it by manually deleting the cups directory and getting the fresh tarballs from

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nikolas Britton wrote: I see, do the Intel EMT-64 chips use the amd64 release too? And what did he mean by certain programs being unavalable for amd64, what are the major ones? There seems to be an IA-64 which I guess is Intel. Only buy AMD chips myself, so I'm a bit hazy on that. I'm

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-02-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Kristian Vaaf wrote: I don't know what's wrong. But all my makes error out. I've tried over and over again. And sent about a dozen e-mails to this list. http://www.home.no/hedhnta/result.txt This is my supposition. There have been many messages to this list which clearly say that

Re: ftp problem

2006-02-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Sean wrote: Igor Robul wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:37:41AM -0500, Sean wrote: I have my bsd system setup to allow ftp. However when I try to ftp a directory and the contents from another system it basically uses the directory as a file name and all contents in that directory are

Re: Download

2006-02-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Luis Thillet wrote: Dear Developers: I have been trying (FOR A LONGTIME) to download a FreeBSD Unix OS (i.e. 5.4, 6.0-RELEASE iso.i386). But it has never worked. I was wondering if your company/team/crew have disabled it. If no then how can I go about doing that. You can buy a CD from

Re: NVidia GeForce 6600 problems

2006-02-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alejandro Pulver wrote: On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:05:14 + Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 6600 with FreeBSD 5.4 XOrg 6.8.2 but still nvidia-driver-1.0.7676_1. I have an occasional problem where the whole screen is shifted left on startup, but exiting and restarting X

Re: mail port 8025 conundrum

2006-02-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
David Banning wrote: Look under /etc for hosts.conf or nsswitch.conf: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/keramida$ ls -l /etc/hosts* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 655 Feb 15 15:00 /etc/hosts -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 1484 Feb 15 15:00 /etc/hosts.allow -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 111 Feb

Re: What about this solution

2006-02-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-02-17 11:59, David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just put 209.161.205.12banning.ca in my /etc/hosts and it solved the problem. Can I have multiple lines, each line with the same IP number in /etc/hosts, with different virtual hosts on the

Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Xn Nooby wrote: I dont particularly trust the online lists of laptops that work with FreeBSD, since my other laptop is on one of them. No specific laptop advice but I would have thought of that laptop list as a starting point. I wouldn't trust any single occurrence of this laptop works

Re: Acoustic management for ATA Harddisks?

2006-02-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Is there a way to turn on acoustic management for ATA harddisks? Hitachi Feature Tool comes as a bootable floppy as has done this for every hard disk I've owned (which is only a handful, but includes, Hitachi, Samsung, IBM and Maxtor). Google will find it for

Re: showdown transfering files with scp

2006-02-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using scp to copy several large (300-800mb) each files between two Freebsd machines. Both are on the same hub, 100MB Ethernet connection. The source box is FreeBSD 5.4 stable at a late October build date. The target is running 6.0 stable at a current build date.

Re: Getting a new server

2006-02-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [...] But, seriously think about chucking all that and just run greylist-milter. [...] There's a few IP numbers and mailservers that need to be defined in the exclusion list for greylist milter that aren't in the stock exclusion list, but other than that, it is the best

Re: NVidia GeForce 6600 problems

2006-02-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alejandro Pulver wrote: On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:06:21 -0300 Alejandro Pulver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have recently bought a GeForce 6600 video card, and sometimes (not very often) I experience the following problem: A little after starting X11 (for example when I start

Re: Compaq Proliant DL360 Quantum DLT4000 Tape Drive

2006-02-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
RA Cohen wrote: Hi All, I'm re-posting and re-framing this problem somewhat... I'm running several Compaq Proliant DL360 servers, all with FBSD 6.0-RELEASE. One of these has an internal Quantum DLT 4000 (that's how the BIOS identifies it -- I am seeing the drive ID'd by the BIOS as the

Re: Building a FreeBSD system.

2006-01-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Anthony Dematteo wrote: I am interested in building a new computer, with the intention of running FreeBSD AMD/64. I am, however haveing trouble finding a mother board with support listed in the hardware database. (Mostly for onboard audio) Is it reasonable to belive that these audio devices

Re: cannot find -ldl

2006-01-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm fiddling with an app that was probably written for/on Linux. It configures fine, but when I make, I get the error cannot find -ldl. Is there a FreeBSD equivalent for libldl? A workaround? A library that I'm missing? No direct answer for you, but the library you

Re: make index

2006-01-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Donald J. O'Neill wrote: What version of FreeBSD are you using. It can make a difference as to which way want to you go. If you are using 6.0, you can use portsnap, which is so much faster than anything else, it's laughable. I only use cvsup for updating src. My understanding was that

Dell DRAC Questions

2006-01-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
David Dean wrote: As I understand it, the DRAC has a seperate IP, which you can connect to and issue commands through some kind of web interface - is that entirely wrong? I'm wondering if you can shed some light on what you actually GET out of a DRAC card in terms of functionality on FreeBSD?

Re: NIC ON FREEBSD 6.0

2006-01-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
michael paquette wrote: HOW DO i GET MY NIC CARD TO WORK ON MY LAPTOP USING FREEBSD ? Why don't you tell us what the NIC actually is? And please STOP SHOUTING. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Dell DRAC Questions

2006-01-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ken Stevenson wrote: What software did you have to install (if any) on the 2850's in order to use the serial console? I have a couple 2650's with DRAC's, and I can connect to the Web interface on the DRAC port, but the serial console never connects. None. For me they just worked out of the

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