Re: Booting from an aribrary disk in ZFS RAIDZ on 8.x

2013-03-07 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 03:11:29PM +1030, Shane Ambler wrote: On 06/03/2013 14:54, Doug Poland wrote: On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 01:26:07PM +1030, Shane Ambler wrote: On 06/03/2013 05:14, Doug Poland wrote: I have 6 disks in a RAIDZ configuration. All disks were sliced the same with gpart (da

Booting from an aribrary disk in ZFS RAIDZ on 8.x

2013-03-05 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm running ZFS filesystem ver 3, storage pool ver 14, on 8-STABLE amd64. The kernel build is rather dated from around Feb 2010. I have 6 disks in a RAIDZ configuration. All disks were sliced the same with gpart (da(n)p1,p2,p3) with bootcode written to index 1, swap on index 2 and

Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes

2012-01-25 Thread Doug Poland
On Jan 25, 2012, at 18:04 , Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 25, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Doug Poland wrote: The issue I'm having is the shebang line of the scripts in OS X is #!/bin/sh, and it turns out that is really an instance of bash, and the code contains some bashisms. On FreeBSD I have bash

Re: UFS journal size

2011-09-21 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:48:25PM +0300, Ross wrote: Quoting the manpage: -s jsize Specifies size of the journal if only one provider is used for both data and journal. The default is one gigabyte. Size should be chosen based on

Re: OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy

2010-10-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 02:32:11AM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Oct 5, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote: On Oct 5, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Nowadays there is also the possibility of

OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy

2010-10-04 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I realize this is not a specific FreeBSD question, but a lot of knowledgeable apache admins hang around here. I am tasked with creating a reverse SSL proxy in a DMZ. A reverse proxy for http is simple, but I'm finding it challenging understanding all that needs to take place for apache

Re: OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy

2010-10-04 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:19:52PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Doug Poland d...@polands.org wrote: Hello, I realize this is not a specific FreeBSD question, but a lot of knowledgeable apache admins hang around here. I am tasked

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

2010-10-02 Thread Doug Poland
On Oct 2, 2010, at 9:49, Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote: How can one do a massive portupgrade, as with -r or -R, without being interrupted by options configuration screens for many individual

Interpretting 3Ware error messages

2010-05-18 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I have a 7.2-R i386 system running a 3ware 9500S-4LP SATA 150 controller with 4 SATA drives. I recently starting seeing the following in my logs smartd[906]: Device: /dev/twa0 [3ware_disk_00], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors smartd[906]: Device: /dev/twa0 [3ware_disk_00], 1

Re: Interpretting 3Ware error messages

2010-05-18 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, May 18, 2010 09:55, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 18/05/2010 15:43:25, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I have a 7.2-R i386 system running a 3ware 9500S-4LP SATA 150 controller with 4 SATA drives. I recently starting seeing the following in my logs I suspect a disk problem, but cannot

Re: restore via netcat not ending

2010-04-24 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 08:30:28PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've got a restore process running now that doesn't seem to want to end. The dump (level 0) was made this morning and sent to another host on the network. I reformatted the partition and am restoring the 43GB dump

Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist

2010-04-23 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:36:39PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 4/22/10, Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at wrote: Hi, I'm having a hard time trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on an HP Proliant server. To be specific I try to instal the amd64 variant of FreeBSD 8.0 on a ProLiant DL385 G1. Since

restore via netcat not ending

2010-04-23 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've got a restore process running now that doesn't seem to want to end. The dump (level 0) was made this morning and sent to another host on the network. I reformatted the partition and am restoring the 43GB dump as such... restore# cd /data nc -l 1234 | restore -rf- backup% nc

Re: Trouble getting a core dump from clamd

2010-01-20 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, January 19, 2010 12:35, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Jan 19, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Doug Poland wrote: No joy. # sysctl kern.corefile=/var/crash/clamd.core # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd start Starting clamav_clamd. Segmentation fault # ll /var/crash total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: Trouble getting a core dump from clamd

2010-01-20 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, January 20, 2010 15:05, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Jan 20, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Doug Poland wrote: Thanks for the suggestion and the pointer to man 5 core. I implemented your suggestions but still get no core dump. Very strange... Check your default resource limits (shell startup

Re: Trouble getting a core dump from clamd

2010-01-20 Thread Doug Poland
On 2010-01-20 17:11, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:24:51 -0600 Doug Poland wrote: % sysctl -a | grep core kern.corefile: /var/coredumps/%U/%N.core As CORE(5) says %U is a UID... % touch /var/coredumps/file % ll !$ ll /var/coredumps/file -rw-r--r-- 1 doug wheel 0 Jan 20

Trouble getting a core dump from clamd

2010-01-19 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm running 7.2-RELEASE-p3 i386 and am having an issue getting a core dump from a program that is seg faulting. Last night, inexplicably, clamd started to seg fault. I was trying to obtain a core dump for further analysis but no .core file can be found. I've tried the following in a

Re: Trouble getting a core dump from clamd

2010-01-19 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, January 19, 2010 11:10, krad wrote: 2010/1/19 Doug Poland d...@polands.org Hello, I'm running 7.2-RELEASE-p3 i386 and am having an issue getting a core dump from a program that is seg faulting. set a path in the sysctl variable kern.corefile. WIll make the core file easier

Re: 8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic

2010-01-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, January 14, 2010 03:17, Ivan Voras wrote: Doug Poland wrote: Ok, I re-ran with same config, but this time monitoring the sysctls you requested* ( and the rest I was watching ): I failed to mention that kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.size seemed to fluctuate between about 164,000,00

Re: 8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic

2010-01-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, January 14, 2010 08:50, Ivan Voras wrote: 2010/1/14 Doug Poland d...@polands.org: kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.size seemed to fluctuate between about 164,000,00 and 180,000,000 bytes during this last run Is that with or without panicking? with a panic If the system did panic

8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic

2010-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm trying to get an 8.0-RELEASE-p2 amd64 box to not crash when running benchmarks/unixbench. The box in question has 4GB RAM running 6 SCSI disks in a RAID1Z. dmesg | grep memory real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB) avail memory = 3961372672 (3777 MB) zpool status pool: bethesda

Re: 8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic

2010-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, January 13, 2010 11:55, Ivan Voras wrote: Doug Poland wrote: So the question is, can ZFS be tuned to not panic or hang no matter what I throw at it? Apparently not. I began with a system with no tunables in /boot/loader.conf (vm.kmem_size and vm.kmem_size_max). Then I tried

Re: 8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic

2010-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, January 13, 2010 12:35, Ivan Voras wrote: Try adding vfs.zfs.arc_max=512M to /boot/loader.conf. Would you suggest tweaking the vm.kmem_size tunables in addition to arc_max? No, unless they auto-tune to something lesser than approximately arc_max*3. I try to set arc_max to be a

Re: 8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic

2010-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, January 13, 2010 13:57, Ivan Voras wrote: 2010/1/13 Doug Poland d...@polands.org: This is the state of the machine when it panicked this time: panic: kmem_malloc(131072): kmem_map too small: 1296957440 total allocated cpuid = 1 /boot/loader.conf: vfs.zfs.arc_max=512M

Re: 8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic

2010-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, January 13, 2010 13:57, Ivan Voras wrote: 2010/1/13 Doug Poland d...@polands.org: Can you monitor and record kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.size sysctl while the test is running (and crashing)? This looks curious - your kmem_max is ~~ 1.2 GB, arc_max is 0.5 GB and you are still having

Re: 8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic

2010-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
Ok, I re-ran with same config, but this time monitoring the sysctls you requested* ( and the rest I was watching ): I failed to mention that kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.size seemed to fluctuate between about 164,000,00 and 180,000,000 bytes during this last run -- Regards, Doug

Advanced printing/layout tools

2010-01-01 Thread Doug Poland
like this? I'm very comfortable in a CLI and do not require/desire a GUI. Thank you and Happy New Year! Doug Poland ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

2010-01-01 Thread Doug Poland
On 2010-01-01 11:42, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:30:09 -0600, Doug Polandd...@polands.org wrote: Hello, I've been tasked to print a phonebook style directory for an organization. The data will be coming out of a MySQL database and can be easily saved as comma-delimited, or

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

2010-01-01 Thread Doug Poland
On 2010-01-01 14:18, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 07:36:25PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:24:21 +0100, Roland Smithrsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: If the material is more than one page (which I suspect is the case her), a tabular environment for the complete list

Re: hp 10-in mini?

2009-11-23 Thread Doug Poland
On Nov 23, 2009, at 16:54, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: gang, I rarely glance at any come-on advertisement, but I just got one by amazon that has a $380 HP Mini 10 computer for $200. I want to use something about this size for my type-and-speech computer. I'm thinking

VirtualBox build failure on 7.2-stable (amd64)

2009-10-10 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm trying to build VirtualBox 3.0.51.r22902_2 on 7.2-stable amd64 and I keep getting the following failure: kBuild: Compiling RuntimeR0Drv - /usr/tmp/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox/work/virtualbox-3.0.51r22902/src/VBox/Runtime/r0drv/freebsd/assert-r0drv-freebsd.c In file included from

Re: Show bandwidth usage by IP address (through pf)

2009-10-07 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:22:33PM -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote: Hello all, I have pf filtering traffic to our network. Is there any easy way to see the current bandwidth usage sorted by ip? Someone is using up almost 100% of total bandwidth and parsing pfctl -ss -v isn't getting me anywhere.

Re: panic: Journal overflow

2009-09-24 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, September 23, 2009 21:07, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Doug Poland d...@polands.org wrote: Hello, I've got a 7.2-RELEASE (i386) box that has recently experienced several panics when writing to a gjournaled partition. On this particular partition

panic: Journal overflow

2009-09-23 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've got a 7.2-RELEASE (i386) box that has recently experienced several panics when writing to a gjournaled partition. On this particular partition, the journal device is mixed in with the data provider. In both cases, I was trying to copy a 19GB file from an external USB device

NFS issues on 8.0-BETA4

2009-09-11 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I have a 7.2-RELEASE(i386) server hosting NFSv3. I've installed 8.0-BETA4(amd64) in a VMware 6.5 workstation virtual machine. I cannot sucessfully mount exports from the NFSv3 server on the 8.0-BETA4 client. All works well with 7.2 clients. The strange thing is, the directory in which

Boot from RAIDZ in 8.0-BETA3?

2009-08-29 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm experimenting with trying to boot from a RAIDZ on 8.0-BETA3 (amd64). The environment is VMware. I've been googling and reading what I can on this procedure, which sounds possible, but I have been unable to successfully get a system up and running with my technique. So far, this

Re: Partions per slice limitation removed?

2009-08-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, August 14, 2009 05:47, Vincent Hoffman wrote: Mak Kolybabi wrote: On 2009-08-13 13:41, Doug Poland wrote: I thought I recalled reading, within the last few months, that there is no longer a 8 partition/slice limitation in FreeBSD. I've been googling and reading man pages to verify

Partions per slice limitation removed?

2009-08-13 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I thought I recalled reading, within the last few months, that there is no longer a 8 partition/slice limitation in FreeBSD. I've been googling and reading man pages to verify that but cannot find any documentation to support it. Was I dreaming? -- Regards, Doug

Re: Moxa 8-port serial multiplexor, how-to

2009-08-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 05:54:30PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 7/29/09, Doug Poland d...@polands.org wrote: On Wed, July 29, 2009 12:04, WATANABE Kazuhiro wrote: At Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:32:52 -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get a Moxa Technologies C168H/PCI 8-port mux

Re: Moxa 8-port serial multiplexor, how-to

2009-08-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 06:34:45PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 8/5/09, Doug Poland d...@polands.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 05:54:30PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 7/29/09, Doug Poland d...@polands.org wrote: On Wed, July 29, 2009 12:04, WATANABE Kazuhiro wrote: At Fri, 24 Jul 2009

Re: Moxa 8-port serial multiplexor, how-to

2009-07-29 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, July 29, 2009 12:04, WATANABE Kazuhiro wrote: At Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:32:52 -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get a Moxa Technologies C168H/PCI 8-port mux card working in 7.2-RELEASE(i386). I've recompiled a GENERIC kernel with options COM_MULTIPORT and loaded

Re: Moxa 8-port serial multiplexor, how-to

2009-07-28 Thread Doug Poland
On Sat, July 25, 2009 01:46, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:32:52 -0500, Doug Poland d...@polands.org wrote: After reading the handbook(26.2) and man puc(4), sio(4). man sio(4) talks about adding /boot/device.hints but not for my particular hardware. I'm at a loss on how

Re: mutt with muttprofile and GnuPG-Support

2009-07-28 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, July 28, 2009 11:49, Christian Grube wrote: Hi, I was wondering, why there is no IMAP/SMTP-Support in mutt or mutt-devel. I have had mutt-ng and muttprofile on my debianbox and it works like a charm. Is there a small hint for me to provide the same functionality under FreeBSD 8?

Moxa 8-port serial multiplexor, how-to

2009-07-24 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm trying to get a Moxa Technologies C168H/PCI 8-port mux card working in 7.2-RELEASE(i386). I've recompiled a GENERIC kernel with options COM_MULTIPORT and loaded the puc(4) module. I don't have any new ttyd? or cuad? devices in /dev. After reading the handbook(26.2) and man

Re: OT: where to buy Atheros mini pci-exress?

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, July 19, 2009 00:22, Espartano wrote: Hi folk, someone know where can I buy an Atheros mini pci-express card I want to get one of this card (Atheros mini pci-express card) for my laptop to use with freebsd of course but I can't to find out where or in what web page I could buy one.

Bridge network device for VirtualBox

2009-07-05 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm experimenting with the new VirtualBox port and wand to implement a bridged network interface on the FreeBSD host. Could someone point me to some docs that may assist me? BTW, the handbook advanced networking section,

Re: Bridge network device for VirtualBox

2009-07-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 10:39:57PM +0200, Beat Gaetzi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm experimenting with the new VirtualBox port and wand to implement a bridged network interface on the FreeBSD host. Could someone point me

Re: Bridge network device for VirtualBox

2009-07-05 Thread Doug Poland
Martin Wilke wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 03:10:07PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm experimenting with the new VirtualBox port and wand to implement a bridged network interface on the FreeBSD host. Could someone point me to some docs that may

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Doug Poland
Daniel Underwood wrote: QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you prefer? and why? I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux distributions from FreeBSD fans. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.1 and I implement and support FreeBSD whenever I can.

Re: restoring a dump file across the network

2009-06-30 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 03:40:07PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 6/30/09, Dave dave.meh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've got a dumpfile taken of one machine and placed on another. Now i want to push it to a third, i was wondering if this were doable? Machine 3 does not have dump/restore on it

Bootable GPT USB device

2009-06-14 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm trying to create a bootable USB drive using the new GEOM_PART_ partitioning technology. Following gpart(8), I've done this... gpart create -s GPT da0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr da0 gpart add -b 34 -s 128 -t freebsd-boot da0 gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 da0 gpart add -b

Re: Advices for a jailed MySQL server

2009-05-11 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, May 11, 2009 14:19, Martin Turgeon wrote: Bill Moran a écrit : In response to Martin Turgeon free...@optiksecurite.com: Hi everyone, I'm starting to build a new dedicated MySQL server. I will be using FreeBSD 7.2-REL. My plan is to jail the latest version of MySQL 5.0 and to put

Re: Advices for a jailed MySQL server

2009-05-11 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, May 11, 2009 14:19, Martin Turgeon wrote: Bill Moran a écrit : In response to Martin Turgeon free...@optiksecurite.com: Hi everyone, I'm starting to build a new dedicated MySQL server. I will be using FreeBSD 7.2-REL. My plan is to jail the latest version of MySQL 5.0 and to put

Source update tag RELENG_7_2 != 7.2-RELEASE ?

2009-05-06 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, Yesterday I did a source update on an i386 box to 7.2. My supfile uses RELENG_7_2 host# more /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/supfile *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default delete use-rel-suffix compress *default host=cvsup8.us.freebsd.org *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-04 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 04:30:53PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Monday 04 May 2009 15:59:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:31:16AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: If you have kept the right information beforehand, you can actually restore your dumps onto ``bare

To file a PR, or not to file a PR. That is the question.

2009-05-04 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, A server running 7.1-RELEASE(i386) recently starting deadlocking when multiple UFS2 snaphosts are being manipulated (via sysutil/freebsd-snapshot). Upon searching the PR database, I found a problem repart that appears similar (kern/94769) but with my level of expertise, I'm not certain.

portupgrade fu... AKA there has to be a better way

2009-04-04 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm upgrading a server from 6.4 to 7.1 and am going through the relative pain of re-compiling all the ports. It's not as easy portupgrade -af because of all the special handling instructions of many ports. I have not found an easy way to keep track of the ports that need to be forcibly

Re: portupgrade fu... AKA there has to be a better way

2009-04-04 Thread Doug Poland
On Sat, April 4, 2009 14:06, Matthew Seaman wrote: Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm upgrading a server from 6.4 to 7.1 and am going through the relative pain of re-compiling all the ports. It's not as easy portupgrade -af because of all the special handling instructions of many ports. I

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Doug Poland
Chris Whitehouse wrote: Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced members would like to recommend wherein . the WiFi

Issue with drive or host adapter in Sun Netra

2009-02-27 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've got a Netra t1 105 running 7.1-RELEASE/sparc64. The box has a pair of 9GB SCSI drives that I've configured into a geom mirror. Recently, I saw in my log: Feb 20 03:40:25 host kernel: sym0: unexpected disconnect Feb 20 03:40:43 host kernel: (da1:sym0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 0 3b

Re: vi set comment #

2009-02-20 Thread Doug Poland
Johan Hendriks wrote: How can i in vi set a # on multiple Lines to comment out some text. I know it must be a simple thing but i can not seem to get it right. Like in a config file i have the following define service{ use generic-service host_name

Re: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.

2009-01-27 Thread Doug Poland
Mel wrote: On Monday 26 January 2009 16:39:35 Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:21:55AM -0900, Mel wrote: On Monday 26 January 2009 08:23:13 Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:25:37AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I've got a network running

Re: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.

2009-01-26 Thread Doug Poland
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD (6.3, 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64). What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all machines, but preserving ports/packages for each version/architecture. I also want to make

Re: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.

2009-01-26 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:25:37AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD (6.3, 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64). What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all machines, but preserving ports

Re: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.

2009-01-26 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:21:55AM -0900, Mel wrote: On Monday 26 January 2009 08:23:13 Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:25:37AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD (6.3, 7.0) on different

Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.

2009-01-24 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD (6.3, 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64). What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all machines, but preserving ports/packages for each version/architecture. I also want to make rebuilding indexes run as

Backup complete gmirror/gstripe/gjournal drives, how-to?

2008-12-06 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've got a 7.1-PRERELEASE i386 box with 4 SATA drives configured in a RAID-10 using gmirror, gstripe, and gjournal. Normally, I use dump and rsync for periodic backups on this machine, but I suspect that the gmirror/gstripe/gjournal information is not being backed up. If my

Re: Backup complete gmirror/gstripe/gjournal drives, how-to?

2008-12-06 Thread Doug Poland
Wojciech Puchar wrote: periodic backups on this machine, but I suspect that the gmirror/gstripe/gjournal information is not being backed up. If my assumption is correct, how can I perform a one-time backup such that I could do a bare-metal restore? The essence of the question being I want

Re: LVM2 under FreeBSD ?

2008-09-07 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 02:09:42PM +, nicodache wrote: Hello all, I'd like to use something like LVM under FreeBSD, as I have a server running FBSD 7 and I don't know what space to give to what partition, and as I plan on installing postfix+courier-imap soon, I'd like to have some way

Supported External SATA to USB Hard Drive Enclosures

2008-08-22 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, Can anyone recommend a manufacturer and/or model of external SATA to USB external hard drive enclosures? I've not had luck with the devices I pick up off-the-shelf at my local big-box consumer electronics stores. BTW, I'm running FreeBSD i386 7.x. -- Regards, Doug

Re: Locate command

2008-07-09 Thread Doug Poland
Rem P Roberti wrote: Whenever I do a locate command on a new installation I get this message: locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database Can someone give me a heads up on how to fix this? create the locate database via: man locate.updatedb(8) man locate(1) -- Regards, Doug

Problems upgrading GNUTLS 2.2.2 to 2.4.0

2008-06-26 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm having issues upgrading GNUTLS 2.2.2 to 2.4.0. The box in questions is running 7.0-STABLE i386. The error message I'm receiving is... === Configuring for gnutls-2.4.0 aclocal.m4:16: warning: this file was generated for autoconf 2.62. You have another version of autoconf. It

Re: Problems upgrading GNUTLS 2.2.2 to 2.4.0

2008-06-26 Thread Doug Poland
Schiz0 wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having issues upgrading GNUTLS 2.2.2 to 2.4.0. The box in questions is running 7.0-STABLE i386. The error message I'm receiving is... === Configuring for gnutls-2.4.0 aclocal.m4:16: warning

Re: Problems upgrading GNUTLS 2.2.2 to 2.4.0 (SOLVED)

2008-06-26 Thread Doug Poland
Sean Cavanaugh wrote: Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:55:08 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems upgrading GNUTLS 2.2.2 to 2.4.0 Schiz0 wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello

Re: Best practice: sendmail and SMTP auth

2008-03-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:43:11AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 02:19 PM 3/12/2008, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, Not sure if this is the most appropriate place for this question, but since all my servers are FreeBSD 6.x/7.x, I'll give it a go... I am considering

Best practice: sendmail and SMTP auth

2008-03-12 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, Not sure if this is the most appropriate place for this question, but since all my servers are FreeBSD 6.x/7.x, I'll give it a go... I am considering setting up SMTP auth on a number of sendmail instances that I control. After much googling and reading, it is not clear to me that a

Re: Recommended jet printer

2008-02-27 Thread Doug Poland
Ghirai wrote: Hello list, Can anyone recommend a jet color printer that works with CUPS on FreeBSD, somewhere in the low - mid range. Thanks. not sure if it's still being made but HP 6122 works nicely -- Regards, Doug ___

Re: ionCube PHP Encoder / Loader on FreeBSD 6 / 7

2008-02-22 Thread Doug Poland
patrick wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having problems getting ionCube's PHP loader working on either 6.3-RELEASE or 7.0-RC2 (both i386). I've followed the install instructions, edited php.ini, installed compat5x and compat6x

ionCube PHP Encoder / Loader on FreeBSD 6 / 7

2008-02-21 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm having problems getting ionCube's PHP loader working on either 6.3-RELEASE or 7.0-RC2 (both i386). I've followed the install instructions, edited php.ini, installed compat5x and compat6x libraries, but just cannot get the loader to work. Both boxes are running PHP 5.2.5. Have

apache 2.2.8 authdbm woes

2008-02-17 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, For the past few days, I've been migrating a bunch of apache-1.3.41 vhosts to apache-2.2.8 (on the same machine, 6.3-RELEASE i386). Many of directories are protected with AuthType directives and I want to reuse the existing .dat files. After working successfully for more than a day

Re: apache 2.2.8 authdbm woes

2008-02-17 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, February 17, 2008 08:19, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 07:23:17AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, You're likely suffering from this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=119711 There were some recent changes to www/apache22 which specifically addressed

buildkernel error going from 6.2-STABLE to 6.3-STABLE i386

2008-02-13 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm attempting to build a GENERIC kernel for 6.3-STABLE and am getting the following error message: cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -std=c99 -g -nostdinc -I-

Re: 915resolution on HP Compaq

2008-02-01 Thread Doug Poland
Mike Barnard wrote: Thanks Doug, I have always been a sceptic when it comes to running the CURRENT branch, but i guess there is a first time for everything... Ill load up the CURRENT branch and see how it works. Suprisingly, even the wireless card does not work. I'll post the updates after

Re: 915resolution on HP Compaq

2008-01-31 Thread Doug Poland
Mike Barnard wrote: Hi, I have an HP Compaq 6720s laptop. I am trying to get X to display at 1280x800 screen reolution. I first set it up using xorgconfig, but i failed to start X. I got an error saying intel: No matching device section for instance (BUS ID PCI:0:2:1) found GARTInt Unable to

Re: 915resolution on HP Compaq

2008-01-31 Thread Doug Poland
Mike Barnard wrote: On 1/31/08, Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Barnard wrote: Hi, I have an HP Compaq 6720s laptop. I am trying to get X to display at 1280x800 screen reolution. I first set it up using xorgconfig, but i failed to start X. I got an error saying intel: No matching

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?

2007-12-08 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:38:31PM +, Michael Doyle wrote: On 6 Dec 2007, at 15:47, Doug Poland wrote: Michael Doyle wrote: Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of VMWare Fusion

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?

2007-12-08 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:38:31PM +, Michael Doyle wrote: On 6 Dec 2007, at 15:47, Doug Poland wrote: Michael Doyle wrote: Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of VMWare

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 inside VMWare Fusion ?

2007-12-06 Thread Doug Poland
Michael Doyle wrote: Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.2 to load as a guest OS in VMWare Fusion on a new MacBook Pro ? I have been running 6.2 on an iMac since early betas of VMWare Fusion If so, could they give me pointers on what I need to do, since I have tried this and failed. Could you give

Re: Major filesystem problems after crash on 7.0-BETA3 (SOLVED)

2007-11-28 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, November 27, 2007 15:22, Kris Kennaway wrote: Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, November 26, 2007 15:03, Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, November 26, 2007 14:26, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, This morning my 7.0-BETA3 i386 system (Compaq nx7400) reset shortly after starting X11. I didn't think

Firefox 2.0.0.9 issues on 7.0-BETA3

2007-11-28 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I have a freshly installed 7.0-BETA3 i386 system and am having issues with firefox 2.0.0.9. Upon launching /usr/local/bin/firefox from a command line I am immediately returned a cursor with an error code of 1. % /usr/local/bin/firefox % echo $? 1 I debugged both /usr/local/bin/firefox

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.9 issues on 7.0-BETA3

2007-11-28 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:58:48PM -0500, Jeremy Gransden wrote: I did some googling but nothing interesting turned up. I find it curious that the latest build of Thunderbird works, but linux-firefox fails like it's native sibling. All help is appreciated... what are the

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.9 issues on 7.0-BETA3

2007-11-28 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:29:38PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I have a freshly installed 7.0-BETA3 i386 system and am having issues with firefox 2.0.0.9. Upon launching /usr/local/bin/firefox from a command line I am immediately returned a cursor with an error code of 1. % /usr

Re: Major filesystem problems after crash on 7.0-BETA3

2007-11-27 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, November 26, 2007 15:03, Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, November 26, 2007 14:26, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, This morning my 7.0-BETA3 i386 system (Compaq nx7400) reset shortly after starting X11. I didn't think much of it and went to get a cup of coffee while the background fsck took

Major filesystem problems after crash on 7.0-BETA3

2007-11-26 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, This morning my 7.0-BETA3 i386 system (Compaq nx7400) reset shortly after starting X11. I didn't think much of it and went to get a cup of coffee while the background fsck took care of the file systems. Unforunately, something's still broke. At first, when I tried to access the /var or

Re: Major filesystem problems after crash on 7.0-BETA3

2007-11-26 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, November 26, 2007 14:26, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, This morning my 7.0-BETA3 i386 system (Compaq nx7400) reset shortly after starting X11. I didn't think much of it and went to get a cup of coffee while the background fsck took care of the file systems. Unforunately, something's

Re: cups openoffice...bad mojo?

2007-11-20 Thread Doug Poland
Steve Franks wrote: On Nov 20, 2007 8:15 AM, Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Franks wrote: Save me! The wife can't print, so I've been spooled to the couch! Originally installed OO around 2.0. Wouldn't print. Finally found some esoteric blog somewhere that said link /usr/local

Re: selfbuild packages repository

2007-11-15 Thread Doug Poland
Jonathan Horne wrote: lately, ive been exclusively doing 'make package-recursive' and 'portupgrade -apP', and have thus collected quite a lot of packages over the past 6 months (which use to keep multiple systems updated). on my NFS server, my /usr/ports/packages/All directory has built up

Can anyone recommend an external firewire-based drive?

2007-11-14 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm looking for an external, firewire-based, hard-drive from which to run FreeBSD 7.0 (i386). Ideally, I'd boot from this device as well, but I'm not sure if FreeBSD (or my BIOS) supports booting from firewire. Can anyone recommend a manufacturer and/or model? -- Regards, Doug

Re: Changing console size, vidcontrol only lists 80x25

2007-10-30 Thread Doug Poland
Joshua Isom wrote: I recently bought a new LCD monitor for my computer. It handles 1440x900 and seems to automatically do some scaling(although buggy) to utilize the entire screen, resulting in a stretched, blurry, and cropped screen for the console. After some time and playing around, I was

if_bridge, if_tap and wireless NICs

2007-10-24 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've finally gotten emulators/qemu to work with bridge/tap networking on FreeBSD-7.0-BETA1 i386 using bfe0: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Fast Ethernet For reference, I used the tutorial listed at: http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=1563 My issue is, however, that QEMU/bridge/tap

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