Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 03), Gary Kline said: On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 12:55:28AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 02), Gary Kline said: On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:44:37AM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wednesday 03 November 2010 01:17:00 Gary Kline wrote: The Bps Down

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-02 Thread Dan Nelson
for each interface, but they're little :) -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: IP aliasing and Postfix

2010-10-26 Thread Dan Nelson
netmask, which seems to be a hint to the kernel that outgoing packets shouldn't use that IP. I then put the correct netmask on the primary ip. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: /usr/local/lib/compat and /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg

2010-10-21 Thread Dan Nelson
then to avoid problems. 32-bit apps shouldn't look for their shlibs in /usr/local/lib on a 64-bit system. You can manually move any remaining ones by using the file command to identify 32-bit files, then moving them (or removing them if you have no 32-bit apps anymore). -- Dan Nelson

Re: migrating to openldap

2010-10-13 Thread Dan Nelson
you have exported that variable. By default variables are shell-local and child processes won't see them. Try running export LDAP_BASE and see if that helps. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Boot loader/kernel error

2010-10-09 Thread Dan Nelson
parsing loader.conf. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: LDAP Authentication from console

2010-10-06 Thread Dan Nelson
include system session include system passwordinclude system , so I know everything uses the same configuration. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 64-bit PGP isn't Decrypting.

2010-10-04 Thread Dan Nelson
be mistyping the pass phrase every time on the 64-bit system and then getting it right on the 32-bit system. Does gnupg (ports/security/gnupg) work? I think you'll have a hard time trying to get people to fix bugs in pgp; the source tree that the pgp port uses is 14 years old. -- Dan

Re: [fbsd_questions] i386 vs amd64, on intel_64

2010-10-04 Thread Dan Nelson
/include/machine/* are all amd64 headers and you end up with things like struct FILE with wrong-size elements. There was a thread a few weeks ago discussing this. If you need to generate 32-bit executables, you'll need to do it inside an all-32-bit chroot or a virtual machine. -- Dan

Re: [fbsd_questions] i386 vs amd64, on intel_64

2010-10-04 Thread Dan Nelson
, or int32_t and int64_t for when you know you need a particular word size) instead of assuming that a pointer will fit in an int, your code should compile on either 32- or 64-bit machines with no conditional code. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/stdint.h.html -- Dan

Re: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

2010-10-02 Thread Dan Nelson
: all: @echo MAKE_VERSION='$(MAKE_VERSION)' make MAKE_VERSION='5200408120' Nice. Even nicer: make -V MAKE_VERSION Not that the version really helps; there have been many additions to make since 2004. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: How to check version of Make in FreeBSD

2010-10-02 Thread Dan Nelson
someone will help. http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

2010-10-02 Thread Dan Nelson
correctly. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Dan Nelson
.bzip2.asc ; patches for 6, 7, and 8 are available there, and freebsd-update has fixed binaries if you use that. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: pkg_config Version Numbers

2010-09-29 Thread Dan Nelson
versions, though. That'll cause runtime linker errors when you try and run affected commands. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Exporting ZFS Pool

2010-09-08 Thread Dan Nelson
these files as disk devices. mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /tmp/zp/d1 and -f /tmp/zp/d2 (you'll get two md# devices), then see if the zpool import command is any happier. It may be looking for disk devices and not files. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading

2010-08-31 Thread Dan Nelson
statically and bypass the dynamic linker completely. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: change file creation time on msdosfs

2010-08-27 Thread Dan Nelson
added birthtime to ufs didn't bother updating the msdosfs code. If one of the other BSD's has implemented it, it should be relatively easy to import the changes. Otherwise you'll probably have to look at how birthtime is currently handled in ufs, and make it work in msdosfs. -- Dan Nelson

Re: Telnet Secure login SRA?

2010-08-24 Thread Dan Nelson
then immediately dropped it. You'll have to look at your qmail logs to find out why. If it's not generating logs, try running truss or ktrace on the listening process to see if it's crashing on you before it has a change to log anything. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: sendmail, queue intervals and ETRN

2010-08-18 Thread Dan Nelson
. as a result of the mailhub host being unavailable. Easiest way would be to raise the warning timeout on your smarthost to be longer than your expected poweroff duration. define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN', `1d')dnl -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: Documentation on how to build 32bit applications on amd64?

2010-08-13 Thread Dan Nelson
/usr/lib32 to your first gcc line. The specs file should be modified to add this automatically when you pass -m32, imho. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Documentation on how to build 32bit applications on amd64?

2010-08-13 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 13), Yuri said: On 08/13/2010 09:24, Dan Nelson wrote: Try adding -B/usr/lib32 to your first gcc line. The specs file should be modified to add this automatically when you pass -m32, imho. Thank you Dan, this flag worked. But I found a strange discrepancy

Re: ZFS data from snv_b134 to fbsd

2010-08-12 Thread Dan Nelson
' t be a problem. You can also explicitly create lower-version pools with zpool create -o version=14 ..., if you need to create one from a machine with a newer kernel. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Telnet = servname ai_socktype error

2010-08-12 Thread Dan Nelson
crashed or otherwise uncleanly closed the socket. Does a tcpdump on lo0 show any interesting activity when you try that command? -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Spontaneous Reboots with Virtualbox Kernel Modules

2010-08-11 Thread Dan Nelson
. Has this behavior already been documented anywhere? I run 3 VirtualBox vms at home on an 8.1-stable host and haven't had it panic or reboot on me. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: zfs data on disk

2010-08-11 Thread Dan Nelson
://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Community+Group+zfs/docs/ondiskformat0822.pdf -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: nscd perform-actual-lookups not working

2010-08-09 Thread Dan Nelson
in nsswitch.conf or disabling perform-actual-lookups everything works fine. I don't think it's ever worked for me, either. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Text mode screen size max. compatibility

2010-07-23 Thread Dan Nelson
a virtual KEY_RESIZE keypress that you can check for in your input loop. You can then redraw your display to fit the new window size. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: getpwent bug?

2010-07-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 21), Jens Rehsack said: On 07/16/10 18:13, Dan Nelson wrote: Hi Dan, In the last episode (Jul 16), Jens Rehsack said: On 07/16/10 15:07, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 16), Jens Rehsack said: Could you please take a look to my other mail (getgrent

Re: Samba gives invalid PT_PHDR after upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE to 7.3-RELEASE

2010-07-19 Thread Dan Nelson
to a backup location, then either use mv or install to install the new version. Also, the programs in /rescue/ are statically linked so they can be used to recover if you end up losing ld-elf.so.1 or other critical shared libs. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: Is there a script to upgrade i386 system to amd64 ?

2010-07-18 Thread Dan Nelson
snapshot came in handy (so I had access to the 32-bit binaries after my port upgrades finished and could dump using old binaries then reload using the new ones as I discovered problems). -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd

Re: getpwent bug?

2010-07-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 16), Jens Rehsack said: 2010/7/16 Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com: In the last episode (Jul 16), Ashish SHUKLA said: Well, OP is also invoking 'endpwent()' after every 'getpwent()' invocation which according to GNU/Linux's glibc and NetBSD's libc (as OP

Re: getpwent bug?

2010-07-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 16), Jens Rehsack said: On 07/16/10 15:07, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 16), Jens Rehsack said: Could you please take a look to my other mail (getgrent related) - there seems another bug ... Do you have another one-liner that will reproduce

Re: getpwent bug?

2010-07-15 Thread Dan Nelson
but ran 12 -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Sata Tape Drives

2010-07-15 Thread Dan Nelson
# ATAPI tape drives , which might work. The atapicam or ahci device may also make sata tapes show up as if they were scsi devices. Try ahci first. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ahci http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atapicam -- Dan Nelson dnel

Re: getpwent bug?

2010-07-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 16), Ashish SHUKLA said: Dan Nelson writes: In the last episode (Jul 15), Jens Rehsack said: Hi all, I detected an issue with getpwent on my FreeBSD test box: perl -MData::Dumper -e 'my @e = getpwent(); print Dumper(\...@e); endpwent(); @e = getpwent

Re: jail date and time

2010-07-13 Thread Dan Nelson
don't just need to set the timezone in your jail (run tzsetup, or copy the hosts's /etc/localtime into the jail)? -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: livefs hard links

2010-07-08 Thread Dan Nelson
, everything should work. Either the ISOs aren't built with mkisofs, or the driver doesn't use the LBA number for the inode number. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: fetchmail certificate verification messages

2010-07-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 07), Marco Beishuizen said: On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, Dan Nelson wrote: CA Roots are also self-signed, btw :) Addtrust is a valid CA Root, and is the root for some certificates signed by Network Solutions and Comodo (and probably others). Marco, the fetchmail manpage

Re: fetchmail certificate verification messages

2010-07-05 Thread Dan Nelson
the ca_root_nss file you installed previously. IMHO openssl should automatically consult that file, but apparently it doesn't. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: fetchmail certificate verification messages

2010-07-03 Thread Dan Nelson
(make sure you enable the ETCSYMLINK option) will probably silence it. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: 'file' Command Giving False Positives

2010-07-02 Thread Dan Nelson
print any errors, so technically it is an MS-DOS executable :) Does anyone happen to know the proper changes to 'magic' that would fix this? Easiest fix would be to remove line 377 from /usr/src/contrib/file/Magdir/msdos and rebuild reinstall /usr/src/lib/libmagic/ . -- Dan Nelson

Re: rc.conf: gnome_enable=YES - which instructions executed?

2010-06-30 Thread Dan Nelson
has been uninstalled since then? -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: which /etc/src.conf options prevent moused rebuilding?

2010-06-23 Thread Dan Nelson
unconditionally, since yes, moused is useful with usb :) -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: which /etc/src.conf options prevent moused rebuilding?

2010-06-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 23), Anton Shterenlikht said: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 09:47:25AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 23), Anton Shterenlikht said: I've an old slow i386 running -current r209398 Because it's slow I don't build everything. Here's my /etc

Re: X11 problem

2010-06-22 Thread Dan Nelson
-server, uncheck hal support, and reinstall. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared boject libpng.so.5 not found

2010-06-20 Thread Dan Nelson
to /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg, so you won't get errors like that. Portupgrade will make a backup automatically, and so will portmaster if you add -w to the commandline. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Problems with textproc/iso8879 port?

2010-06-11 Thread Dan Nelson
of the comamndline, after everything else). Safer to use cd ${INSTDIR} ${UNZIP_CMD} -q -o ${DISTDIR}/${DISTFILES} -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: threads and malloc/free on freebsd 8.0

2010-06-11 Thread Dan Nelson
accidentally later. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: threads and malloc/free on freebsd 8.0

2010-06-11 Thread Dan Nelson
of mmap(), don't cache any free pages), but you still may not see any change according to top. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: sh ++/-- operators

2010-06-10 Thread Dan Nelson
to check: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_04 * The sizeof() operator and the prefix and postfix ++ and -- operators are not required. Patches welcome to implement them if you want them :) -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: Switched to Bash and Comparison of Shells

2010-06-10 Thread Dan Nelson
system, too. It also supports more csh features/syntax than bash (good for people used to csh/tcsh). (d...@dan.13) /home/dan which ls ls: aliased to ls -Fa -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: .sh getopts

2010-06-05 Thread Dan Nelson
: not found when I run it this way. You could use: flag_count=`expr $flag_count + 1` /bin/sh can do math on its own: flag_count=$((flag_count+1)) -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FireFox problem ?

2010-05-29 Thread Dan Nelson
tab after recent cairo update - Bump PORTREVISION -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: sh script writing help

2010-05-29 Thread Dan Nelson
tried \ with no luck. \ should work just fine: $ echo long line \ split onto two long line split onto two $ -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: NanoBSD weird startup messages

2010-05-25 Thread Dan Nelson
/rc.conf and see if you can pinpoint which startup script is causing you problems. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: threads and malloc/free on freebsd 8.0

2010-05-21 Thread Dan Nelson
here by calling malloc_usable_size on a free'd pointer. The function is free to crash, return useful data, or return useless data, at its discretion :) As long as you only call it on pointers that are still valid you will be okay. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: threads and malloc/free on freebsd 8.0

2010-05-21 Thread Dan Nelson
doesn't use glibc, so that doesn't apply here :) -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Finding out when a child process forks or calls exec

2010-05-03 Thread Dan Nelson
syscall entry/exit so it's easy to track; it then calls the find_thread() function which allocates a new helper struct every time a new lwp appears. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Need info about FreeBSD and interrupted system calls for MySQL code

2010-04-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 30), Joerg Bruehe said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 29), Joerg Bruehe said: For some long, unknown time, the MySQL code contains a variable net_retry_count which is by default set to 10 (ten) for all platforms, but to 100 (1 million) for FreeBSD

Re: Need info about FreeBSD and interrupted system calls for MySQL code

2010-04-29 Thread Dan Nelson
in a loop that retries when EINTR is received. Only mysql actually counts the number of times through the loop. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Unknown IPFW log message

2010-04-28 Thread Dan Nelson
protocol I don't know what igmp is used for, though. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: That elusive mysqlclient.16

2010-04-17 Thread Dan Nelson
sure it installs successfully. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: That elusive mysqlclient.16

2010-04-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 17), Gene said: On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:17:37 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote In the last episode (Apr 17), Gene said: Attempts to build databases/mysql55-server or php5-mysql, or php5-mysqli all stop with the following error: Error: shared library mysqlclient.16

Re: That elusive mysqlclient.16

2010-04-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 17), Gene said: On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:11:16 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote In the last episode (Apr 17), Gene said: On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:17:37 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote In the last episode (Apr 17), Gene said: Attempts to build databases/mysql55-server or php5

Re: /boot.config

2010-03-30 Thread Dan Nelson
filesystem. If it does, then 1:da(0,a)/boot/loader should let you boot FreeBSD. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Freebsd, postfix and push email

2010-03-28 Thread Dan Nelson
a similar notify on new mail option, but for some reason Apple doesn't use it in their client. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Question about expr

2010-03-27 Thread Dan Nelson
scripts in the base system. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: tuning vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending and solving the issue of ZFS writes choking read IO

2010-03-24 Thread Dan Nelson
in X sessions. I had to throttle back to a 256MB write limit size to make the stuttering go away completely. It didn't affect write throughput much at all. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: freenas-like solution for aoe?

2010-03-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 20), Vadkan Jozsef said: Does anybody know a FreeNAS-like solution, that supports AoE? - Ata over Ethernet? You can get iSCSI with the net/istgt port, which should perform better than AoE. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: How to set LD_PATH elegant?

2010-03-19 Thread Dan Nelson
may already have a couple files in there. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: I want to instal a secure ftp server

2010-03-12 Thread Dan Nelson
that prefer a CLI environment (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) Other excellent sftp clients are: FileZilla - http://www.filezilla-project.org/ muCommander - http://www.mucommander.com/ -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: Does compression on zfs pool affect performance? .......WAS, Re: Silicon Image SiI 3124 and 3132 RAID controllers

2010-03-11 Thread Dan Nelson
of easily-compressabe data it should improve performance. Later I want to share this pool with SAMBA. Will SAMBA see the pool as a filesystem? I don't think Samba cares about the filesystem layout, since it's a userland daemon. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: Moving master.passwd file between servers... is this correct?

2010-03-10 Thread Dan Nelson
pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd It seems to work, but is this correct? I'd hate to miss somethign before it goes online. Yep, that should work. Don't forget to update /etc/groups too. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd

Re: mailing list archive as mbox

2010-03-06 Thread Dan Nelson
gzipped archives of all the mailing lists since their creation. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Calculating kernel/user/idle time

2010-03-05 Thread Dan Nelson
). If you want to calculate per-cpu usage, use the kern.cp_times sysctl instead. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: IBM DS4800 Storage

2010-03-01 Thread Dan Nelson
RAID array. If that's the case, FreeBSD should have found another disk (da1 possibly?) that you should be able to use. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: OOo.3.20 vs OOo.3.11

2010-02-25 Thread Dan Nelson
older version already installed pkg_add: 1 package addition(s) failed r...@tao:/usr/local# package 'openoffice.org-3.2.0' or its older version already installed Try uninstalling any previous versions of openoffice. -- Dan Nelson

Re: if this is a stupid q...

2010-02-21 Thread Dan Nelson
* ports possibly), but none should launch more processes than you have CPUs. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: strange disk activity

2010-02-20 Thread Dan Nelson
may also have to trace writev and pwrite, since FreeBSD's dtrace doesn't include the sysinfo provider that would let you count them all at once. Data written to swap or mmap'ped files won't register here, but most heavy writes aren't done with mmap. -- Dan Nelson dnel

Re: strange disk activity

2010-02-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 20), Boris Samorodov said: On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:26:15 -0600 Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 20), Boris Samorodov said: Hello List, I've got a very strange disk activity: - % iostat -xw60 da0 extended device

Re: strange disk activity

2010-02-20 Thread Dan Nelson
forgot about it :) -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-20 Thread Dan Nelson
filesystem, so their size is determined by how much data is modified since the snapshot was created. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 21), Aiza said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 21), Aiza said: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. Does this mean that a complete copy of the file system is written to .snap directory? No; that would

Re: libswt on amd64 freebsd 8.0

2010-02-17 Thread Dan Nelson
it. x11-toolkits/swt, or x11-toolkits/swt-devel -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Why lsof shows the file as open and fstat doesn't ?

2010-02-15 Thread Dan Nelson
0xc9589670 0t0 /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 But when I run fstat /tmp/dbus-iQmkLjgxD6 it doesn't return anything, like this file isn't open at all. Why there is such discrepancy? It looks like fstat doesn't work on unix sockets at all; I tried on /tmp/mysql.sock and some X11 sockets. -- Dan

Re: curl question - not exactly on-topic

2010-02-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 10), Kurt Buff said: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 21:05, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Feb 09), Kurt Buff said: Actually, it's not merely a curl question, it's a curl and squid question. I'm trying to determine the cause of a major

Re: curl question - not exactly on-topic

2010-02-09 Thread Dan Nelson
this. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: FBSD 8.0 littering the filesystem with *.gmon files

2010-02-09 Thread Dan Nelson
or you shell's startup scripts. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: kmem_size / arc_max ratio

2010-02-03 Thread Dan Nelson
and use these settings: vm.kmem_size=6G vfs.zfs.arc_max=5G -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: ATT substitute available on freebsd?

2010-02-01 Thread Dan Nelson
versions supported). You will probably be better off running a small Windows XP vm inside VirtualBox and using the Windows client from that. http://www.attnetclient.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12t=894#p3036 http://www.attnetclient.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12t=951#p3239 -- Dan Nelson

Re: /root permission reset on boot

2010-02-01 Thread Dan Nelson
/root without forcing a mode value. You could probably use either dtrace or the audit system to log exactly when the permissions get changed. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: mysql silently failing to start - suggestions?

2010-01-31 Thread Dan Nelson
. The rc.d/mysql-server script was recently changed to wait up to 15 seconds for the server to become ready, which is the cause of the long delay. It doesn't check to see if the pid file has disappeared (which indicates the server has exited). -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: Is their Automatic command to send a JPG file using FTP

2010-01-28 Thread Dan Nelson
for '/COPYRIGHT' (6191 bytes). 100% |*| 6191 4.42 MB/s00:00 ETA 226 Transfer complete. 6191 bytes received in 00:00 (2.52 MB/s) 221 Goodbye. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd

Re: MRTG vs. character of traffic

2010-01-27 Thread Dan Nelson
for a tool to tell me what KIND of traffic, not just the gross bit rate? I want to find that idiot that's causing all the bandwidth. tcpdump or wireshark would be a good start, if you're around when it happens. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: Is their Automatic command to send a JPG file using FTP

2010-01-27 Thread Dan Nelson
://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ftp#THE_.netrc_FILE -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Determine usb-storage capacity

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Nelson
| grep lba... Works for all disk devices: diskinfo /dev/da0 Works for devices attached via CAM: camcontrol readcap da0 See the respective manpages for more info. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-17 Thread Dan Nelson
/pipermail/freebsd-gecko/2009-December/000577.html I agree that we need a new pre-fetch hook in bsd.port.mk if a conflict present is. But that need a bit work and it is on my todo list... Maybe CONFLICTS could be treated like DEPENDS, with separate BUILD and RUN checks. -- Dan Nelson

Re: Errors on UFS Partitions

2010-01-16 Thread Dan Nelson
fs'es that you can't dismount in multi-user mode. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: any port use /dev/dsp directly?

2010-01-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 14), Gary Kline said: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 05:08:25PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 14), Gary Kline said: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 03:19:47PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: The sox port comes with its own play command that can parse many

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