Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade HS21

2007-03-28 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi, Nejc Škoberne wrote: Hello, today I tried to migrate a FreeBSD 6.1 installation from an ordinary PC machine to an IBM Blade HS21 server. The server is a brand new machine with two Dual Core Xeon 5130 processors, two 72GB SAS drives. i installed FreeBSD 6.1-Beta2 on an IBM HS20 Blade. Take

Re: Backup sollutions

2006-06-23 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Am Freitag, den 23.06.2006, 08:33 +0200 schrieb Andreas Wideroe Andersen: > Hi, > I'm looking for a free (ports?) backup sollutions for FreeBSD > servers. I would like to have something similare to IBM's Tivoli > where you install a client on each server and administer the backup > from another

Re: Backup sollutions

2006-06-23 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Am Freitag, den 23.06.2006, 08:33 +0200 schrieb Andreas Wideroe Andersen: > Hi, > I'm looking for a free (ports?) backup sollutions for FreeBSD > servers. I would like to have something similare to IBM's Tivoli > where you install a client on each server and administer the backup > from another

RE: New FreeBSD Logo

2006-05-10 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Am Mittwoch, den 10.05.2006, 02:05 -0700 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: > My guess is it will be a long, long time before you see CDROMs > from anybody that have deleted Beastie and have the sex toy. At LinuxTag 2006 in Wiesbaden we had prepared a lot of CDs with the new Logo (what you call a "sex toy"

FreeBSD 5.x or 6.0 on IBM Blade

2006-02-27 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi, i tried to install FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0 (x86 and amd64) on an IBM Blade Center (Intel based). USB keyboard works, ACPI does not (but i do not care about that one), but the bootprocess takes about 5-10 minutes. We hava a Qlogic 2312 which is supported by the "isp" driver. But, well, not rea

Re: Load at 1.00 on SMP machine

2005-11-21 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi, Am 21.11.2005 um 16:17 schrieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: i got a Problem on my dual XEON 3.06 GhZ machine, 2GB of >RAM, FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE. I got "option SMP" in the kernel config and >"machdep.hlt_logical_cpus=1" in /boot/loader.conf. There are just 20 processes running

Problem with nsmb.conf and automount smb share

2005-01-19 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi, i have a problem using nsmb.conf for automomounting smb shares. So, my /etc/nsmb.conf: [default] workgroup=QSUEDFAC #[SERVER] addr=10.4.1.1 #[SERVER:qsecadm] password=xxx My /etc/fstab entry: //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sfimages /mnt1 smbfs rw,noauto 0 0 So, if i do a "mount /mnt1" i will

Jails and fstab/mount

2004-12-17 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi. I saw a new "feature" for Jails an wonder how to use them. /etc/default/rc.conf: jail_example_mount_enable="NO" jail_example_fstab="" Ok, any jail can have an own fstab (/etc/fstab.myjail) and mount und unmount the fs in the jail fstab inside the jail? Where can i get some information ho

Limit RAM for Jails

2004-11-29 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi. Is there a way to limit the usage of RAM (maybe also CPU) for jails? asg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Kernel with PAE does not build

2004-11-28 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi, we have in our IBM x345 Server 4GB of RAM. So we need the option PAE in our kernel. But a buildkernel gave me: /usr/src/sys/dev/amd/amd.c: In function `amd_action': /usr/src/sys/dev/amd/amd.c:466: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/

Problem with INDEX

2004-11-23 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi. I ran into some problems with "portsdb -uU" since the INDEX file has been removed from the CVS. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. In my understanding, after a cvsup of the ports tree, i have to do a "make fetchindex". Works fine. But what about a "portsd -uU"? Is this one obsolet (but portup

FreeBSD 5.3 with 4GB RAM - memory ignored

2004-11-18 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi. Our new x345 Server with 1 XEON 2.8GHz CPU (second one will be built in next week) has 4GB RAM. I see the following message while the system is booting: "131072 of memory aboce 4GB ignored" Well, i will use all the memory i paid for ;-), so what will do the trick to use all of the memory on

device polling on SMP box

2004-11-15 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi. I am just wondering why "options DEVICE_POLLING" is not possible with a SMP-Kernel. Well, i know that there is a workaround with "/usr/src/sys/kern/kern_poll.c" which works perfectly building a SMP Kernel with polling. My question is, are there any known problems with SMP+polling or why is it

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 = FreeBSD stable

2004-11-11 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Florian Hengstberger schrieb am Thursday, den 11. November 2004: > The subject is the question: > Is the 5.3 release the stable release? Yes it is. -- Systemadministrator SuedFactoring GmbH Heilbronnerstrasse 86 70191 Stuttgart [EMAIL PROTECTED] (+49)711/127-3865 __

Re: Problem making jail in 5.3-STABLE

2004-11-08 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Use this patch: Index: Makefile.inc1 === RCS file: /data/ncvs/freebsd/src/Makefile.inc1,v retrieving revision 1.438.2.4 diff -u -r1.438.2.4 Makefile.inc1 --- Makefile.inc1 30 Sep 2004 23:36:06 - 1.438.2.4 +++ Makefile.i

Re: Problem with mount_smbfs (not working for me)

2004-11-03 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi Nelis! On Wed, 03 Nov 2004, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > You have to use the netbios name of your samba server. Change > 10.4.1.222 to the netbios name. > > mount_smbfs -I 10.4.1.222 //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sfimages /mnt > or > mount_smbfs -I suedzwo.suedfac.com //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sfimages /mnt Tha

Problem with mount_smbfs (not working for me)

2004-11-02 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi. I run into a problem with "mount_smbfs". Trying to mount a SMB-share on a AS/400 from a FreeBSD 4.10 or FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 gives me the error: mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Connection reset by peer Well, i dont like Mr. Peer, and, trying to reach the SMB-share via "smbclient

Re: Kernel size 5.2.1

2004-10-19 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Moin Florian! Florian Hengstberger schrieb am Tuesday, den 19. October 2004: > Is there anything similar to lspci in FreeBSD? pciconf -l > What about lsmod, is there a tool which lists the loaded > kernel modules? kldstat > How can I find out which driver modules are used for my > network car

Re: IBM x-series 335 keyboard problem

2004-08-07 Thread Axel S . Gruner
Hi. Am 06.08.2004 um 15:23 schrieb Iain Sutcliffe: I am trying to install v5.2.1 onto an IBM x-series 335 server. It has a single cable with which to attach the monitor/keyboard/mouse that enables daisy chaining of servers. When I install I get to a point where I have to enter information and the

Re: Using xorg instead of XFree86

2004-06-30 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi Matthew, On Wednesday 30 June 2004 13:06, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Probably. It seems that most of the Linux distros have switched or > are switching to it, and the Unix vendors like Sun always were behind > X.Org anyway. > There is has been a discussion on the x11 and docs mailing lists > cove

Using xorg instead of XFree86

2004-06-30 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi, i have written a howto for people willing to switch from XFree86 to xorg. Ok, at this time it is only available in german: http://www.bsdforen.de/showthread.php?p=39983#post39983 But i also have some questions about switching to xorg. (1) Will xorg be the default X in future FreeBSD Relea

Re: CURRENT does not build (annotate.texi) CONFIRMED

2004-06-21 Thread Axel S . Gruner
Hi, Am 21.06.2004 um 15:51 schrieb Jorn Argelo: Umm, guys, I don't want to be rude, but why don't mail it to the CURRENT folks? I mean, that's what the mailing list is for :) Hehe, ok, you are right, my fault. asg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:

CURRENT does not build (annotate.texi)

2004-06-21 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi, i got some problems building CURRENT maybe someone can tell me what the problem is: echo "@set VERSION "2.15 [FreeBSD] 2004-05-23"" > ldver.texi ln -sf /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/doc/../../../../contrib/binutils/ld/gen-doc.texi configdoc.texi makeinfo --no-validate -I /usr/src/gnu/usr

Tape

2004-05-14 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi. I am looking for a good Tape drive (ok, Ultrium 2 LTO is just a little bit to expensive ;-)). The Tape Drive should be a DLT Drive with 40/80 GB per tape. Also i want to use FreeBSD 5.x and the Server will be a IBM x345 machine. Backup Software is "bacula". So, do you have any suggestions a

vinum crashed

2004-02-26 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi. I setup a disk stripping with two disks and vinum. I was impressed about the quick and easy setup. The configuration is, that i installed FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 on /, a little bit of swap, and the gave the rest for vinum. So the two disks have both a bootable / and /usr and /var is on vinum. All

Re: RAID (ccd/vinum) with 2 harddisks

2004-02-22 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi. Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 23 February 2004 at 8:27:33 +0100, Axel S. Gruner wrote: Hi. I want to use RAID on a IBM xSeries 345 with two harddisks. So the problem is, i can not setup a RAID System via Installation of FreeBSD (it will be 4.9 or maybe 5.2) and i do

RAID (ccd/vinum) with 2 harddisks

2004-02-22 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi. I want to use RAID on a IBM xSeries 345 with two harddisks. So the problem is, i can not setup a RAID System via Installation of FreeBSD (it will be 4.9 or maybe 5.2) and i do not have a System harddisk so that i can use the other ones as a RAID System. Is there a way to setup RAID (CCD otr

Re: named (bind) in jail does not start

2003-12-01 Thread Axel S. Gruner
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:39:50 + Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote something special: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 03:23:48PM +0100, Axel S. Gruner wrote: > > /usr/sbin/named > > > > i get this error message: > > > > opensocket_f: bind([0.0.0.0].

named (bind) in jail does not start

2003-11-29 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi. I have configured named in jail (FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p10). If i want to start named in the jail /usr/sbin/named i get this error message: opensocket_f: bind([0.0.0.0].53): Address already in use Ok, Port 53 is not in use in the jail nor the hostsystem. I think the problem is 0.0.0.0, an

Re: mp3 -> wav

2003-10-09 Thread Axel S. Gruner
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 17:46:46 +0100 "geek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote something special: > > I have a problem, i have a bunch of .mp3's files and i want to pass > them to .wav to put it on my cdplayer, anyone knows, how i can put > them in .wav ?! http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ha

Re: Jails

2003-08-14 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi. On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 11:44:01 -0400 "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote something special: > Q1, If I do another completely fresh installation of 5.1 and then > install a bunch of ports, (Apache, Exim, named etc etc) when its time > to build the jail, will ALL of the things that were insta

sysctl -a on FreeBSD 5.1 CURRENT == reboot

2003-07-03 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi. Yesterday, 03.07.03 i did a cvsup and make world on my machine to FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT. The strange thing is, when i type "sysctl -a" now, the system will freeze. After a few second, it will automatically reboot. No logs for that. Is this a know problem? asg __

Question about new rc.d/ bootprocess

2003-03-22 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi. In FreeBSD 5.0-Release there is a new rc.d system. So, there are a lot of rc.* scripts still under /etc/, are these scripts now obsolete? Are just the ones under /etc/rc.d/ in use? And, how about /usr/local/etc/rc.d/? Will third party software like Apache also started from /etc/rc.d/? So, ca