Re: pkg_delete delete files even if md5 check fails

2008-11-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:25:30PM +0100, Johan Hendriks wrote: > How can i tell pkg_delete to delete all files of a package even if the md5 > checks fail? Does the -f flag do this? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Netw

Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk

2008-11-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e a end-user NAS, which allows you to remove/add disks as you please, and the filesystem shrinks/grows with it, then you need to be looking at a product from Data Robotics called Drobo. Note that Drobo does not work under FreeBSD, as far as I know (it probably shows up as a umass/da device, b

Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
that the drive does not support the commands FreeBSD expects available to read a CD in this particular fashion. But it could also be a badly burned CD, or a CD burned with buggy software. If at all possible, try another CD drive of some kind. Get one from a friend, borrow one, or buy

Re: Apache environment variables - logical AND

2008-11-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:24:16PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:33:45PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > > I know this isn't FreeBSD specific - but I am, so crave your indulgence. > > > >

Re: Apache environment variables - logical AND

2008-11-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
gent to show up as Internet Explorer, essentially defeating the checks. If you're that concerned about bandwidth (which is why a lot of people do the above), consider rate-limiting. It's really, quite honestly, the only method that is fail-safe. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Re: Authentication with SSH using public keys

2008-11-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
eally matter (sans the execute bit, which as I said is needed for directories). You don't want 750 unless you ***really*** intend for members of the same group to have read access to your ~/.ssh/ directory. Based on the OP's description of the setup, he does not need this. -

Re: Watching /var/log/pflog grow

2008-11-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ce to read them out. > > Is there a way to watch /var/log/pflog grow, while > still making sure that pflogd logs EVERY packet that appears > on the pflog0 interface? How? Please post this to freebsd-pf, where you can get better help. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:46:43PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:13:34AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: >>> Julien Cigar wrote: >>>> I've this problem too on almost all my machines. The only solution I've >>&g

Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR

2008-11-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
loader hint to disable xpt. > The error that comes up when you burn a CD seems to be bogus as I have > used the CD's with out error for installing on other boxes. The "READ BIG MEDIUM ERROR" often indicates that the CD/DVD drive does not support a specific read o

Re: Slow swith between console (ALT - Fx) proliant DL160

2008-11-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
sysctl.conf? > > >Chances are you're using a USB keyboard. Place the following in > >/boot/loader.conf and reboot the machine: > > > >hint.kbdmux.0.disabled="1" > > > No i have a normal ps/2 keyboard connected to it. Try the above anyway. There are

Re: Slow swith between console (ALT - Fx) proliant DL160

2008-11-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
- F2 > > Do I need to set something in my loader.conf or sysctl.conf? Chances are you're using a USB keyboard. Place the following in /boot/loader.conf and reboot the machine: hint.kbdmux.0.disabled="1" -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at

Re: how much memory can be support in FreeBSD system?

2008-11-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
n FreeBSD which do not work in PAE mode. If at all possible, make sure your processor works in 64-bit mode and go with amd64. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: Problems with FreeBSD

2008-11-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
o set this value on this sysctl (sysctl net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0) but > not work. Setting the sysctl to 0 disables TCP extesnsions. But by "not work" do you mean "it didn't solve the problem", or "setting the sysctl failed"? I think you mean "it didn't solve

Re: help with MY Book external drive

2008-11-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:06:03PM +, AN wrote: > > > On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:13:21AM +, AN wrote: >>> I just purchased a WD MY Book external USB disk, I reformatted in UFS and >>> created a filesystem

Re: help with MY Book external drive

2008-11-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
FreeBSD kernel output anything? If so, what all does it output? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making l

Re: Default file permissions

2008-11-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ission set, unless specifically changed by some application) > I prefer doing this with the classic permission system, rather then using > ACLs. See umask(2), which is also a command-line utility. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Authentication with SSH using public keys

2008-11-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
gt; > Following onto the e-mail I made before, apparently that little permissions > difference for the directory, .ssh, was the problem. Changing it to 644 has, > apparently, fixed the problem. Which doesn't make sense for two reasons: 1) Directories must have the execute bit set

Re: Problems with FreeBSD

2008-11-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t it's worth disabling for a test case. sysctl net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0 > If I try to access the Linux2, throught FreeBSD (redirect port on natd or > redirect port with rinetd), the same thing happens. > > Is this a problem with FreeBSD? Someone know how I can fix it? Some sysctl? --

Re: raid tool

2008-11-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
lso in the base system. >> >> JN > > Hiya > > Thanks for this. I was looking at ZFS and I am impress with what I read, > unfortunately no AMD 64 and I only have 1Gig Ram. You can use ZFS on i386 and with 1GB RAM. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: fastest raw device copy?

2008-11-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 09:04:47AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> Would there be anything wrong in >> >> cat /dev/ad0 > /dev/da0 >> >> ? > > small block size, IMHO 4kB with cat Not to mention, doesn't cat operate on a character level a

Re: MySQL not restarted after portupgrade

2008-11-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
> wondering if anyone else had seen this? portupgrade seems to work fine > with other daemons such as Apache and Courier IMAP. This is a per-port thing, unless portupgrade provides some form of rc.subr script restarting itself. There is no "standard" fo

Re: FreeBSD on Eeepc 1000h

2008-11-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
limitation not from ate(4) itself." There is absolutely no guarantee that this is the same exact NIC used on the Asus Eee, but there's a chance. This driver isn't publicly available yet, and I do not feel comfortable sending it to people here without Yong-Hyeon's permi

Re: OT: Shell Script using Awk

2008-11-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 08:17:54PM -0800, David Allen wrote: > On 11/1/08, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 06:21:55PM -0700, David Allen wrote: > >> My apologies for asking on this list, but I'm stuck without Perl and need > &g

Re: OT: Shell Script using Awk

2008-11-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ot; $6 " " $7 print $8 " " $9 " " $10 " " $11 " " $12 " " $13 " " $14 } $ cat intput | awk -f output.awk col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6 col7 col8 col9 col10 col11 col12 col13 col14 -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: crons and syslogd not running

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
nced any stability problems with syslogd on FreeBSD (any version; 2.2.8 through 7.1). Otherwise, I'd say the upgrade may have gone awry at one particular stage of your upgrade. If the problem doesn't recur, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Upgrading between major

Re: Firewalls in FreeBSD?

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:27:40PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:35:30PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > >> Okay, I guess I'm a little confused by the line about "ONLY al

Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:36:17AM -0700, mdh wrote: > Right - sorry, my bad on that one. But do substitute -ggdb for your -g, as > that'll give us GDB-specific debugging symbols. Best not to take any chances. Use both: -g3 -ggdb :-) -- | Jere

Re: Firewalls in FreeBSD?

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:35:30PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:05:28PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> >

Re: Firewalls in FreeBSD?

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:05:28PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 06:34:31PM -0500, Jack Barnett wrote: > >> > >> Ok, I had some progress with this last night. Basically what I do is: &g

Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:15:25AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Are you sure this machine does not have hardware problems? Please > download and run memtest86++ from a CD. You shouldn't have to run this > very long (15-20 minutes at tops in this case); errors will be quite &g

Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:39:46PM +0530, Pramod Dematagoda wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 16:00 +0100, Mel wrote: > > On Friday 31 October 2008 15:53:23 Pramod Dematagoda wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 07:09 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oc

Re: fastest raw device copy?

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 03:36:02PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > Ivan Voras schrieb: >> Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:48:16AM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: >>> >> >> >>>> What would be the faste

Re: Cannot login to root account on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
boot into single-user mode. Once there, do: # mount -a # mount -o rw -u / # passwd root And change the password. "reboot" and you should be good to go. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.p

Re: fastest raw device copy?

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On the flip side, your blocksize (bs) there is quite high for no good reason. I'd pick something more like bs=64k or bs=128k. The default (512) is too small for what you want, but 10MBytes is silly. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: Filesystem, RAID Question

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:05:43PM -0500, Rich Winkel wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:33:47PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > One of the main functions of softupdates is to order disk updates in such > > > a way that the fs organizational integrity is maintained at al

Re: Filesystem, RAID Question

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:41:59PM -0500, Rich Winkel wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 04:38:49PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 06:12:07PM -0500, Rich Winkel wrote: > > > Doesn't hw.ata.wc affect only card-level caching? > > > > hw.at

Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ed. > > Thank you for your help, you have saved me much time rebuilding this server. Can either of you outline what exactly happened here? I'm trying to figure out how an "NFS mount was hiding a 17G local dir", when there's no NFS mounts shown in the above df output. Thi

Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
mount of granularity/detail with attributes as ATA/SATA does. I do not consider this a negative against SCSI (in case, I very much like SCSI). SAS might provide these details, but I don't know, as I don't have any SAS disks. -- | Jeremy Chadwickj

Re: Filesystem, RAID Question

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 04:38:49PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > ... > In this scenario, write caching on the disks is usually done by the > controller itself (through a BIOS option), and not by FreeBSD. This should have read: "... usually enabled/disabled by the controller itself

Re: Firewalls in FreeBSD?

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ng else. This is called "port triggering" in the residential router world. I don't know how to do this on FreeBSD. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administr

Re: Filesystem, RAID Question

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
a BBU guarantees data integrity (keyword: guarantees). I'm still trying to understand why people think that. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administra

Re: Marvell 88E8052 PCI-E LAN on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ase an Intel Pro/1000 PT card, which runs for around 30-40 USD. It's good to have a spare NIC on hand anyways -- your 3C509 xl(4) based NIC probably won't cut it, especially if you're complaining about performance. :-) No one uses those cards any more except individuals runnin

Re: Setting a different default source address

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
oing something similar for an IPv6 tunnel by not > assigning an IP address to gif0 and configuring the routing as follows > in rc.conf: > > ipv6_defaultrouter="-interface gif0" > > But I'm not clear whether this would work with ppp, and if so, how to do it. Try

Re: Status line for text mode console

2008-10-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
something screen(1) offers. See sysutils/screen. In general, this is really not something the *operating system* offers, or the shell. This is often the responsibility of a third-party program that manipulates the pty. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com |

Re: gmirror + subset of partitions gjournal'd, autosync setting?

2008-10-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
question? Are you aware of the freebsd-fs list? freebsd-questions is mainly for generic "How do I use ls(1)?" questions. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Admini

Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 02:04:36PM +1030, Brendan Hart wrote: > On Thu 30/10/2008 12:25 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> Could the "missing" space be an indication of hardware disk issues i.e. > >> physical blocks marked as bad? > > >The simple answer is no

Re: Firewalls in FreeBSD?

2008-10-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
192.168.x.x:a sends packet to gameserver:xyz - NAT gateway translates packet (where "natgw" is a public WAN IP) 192.168.x.x:a <--> natgw:b <--> gameserver:xyz - gameserver sees packet to port xyz, and initiates new connection to natgw

Re: Building an inode

2008-10-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:35:04AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > Hi again, > This is really a question for -fs or -hackers. -questions is for generic stuff -- what you're doing is fairly low-level. Try re-posting your question to -fs, wait a week, then try -hackers. -- | Jere

Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ot; as superuser) That's exactly what the above tunefs parameter describes. > Similarly, is it possible on UFS2 for disk space to be allocated in "lost > cluster chains" ? I don't know what this means. Someone more clueful will have to answer. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Large discrepancy in reported disk usage on USR partition

2008-10-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ty Mounted on /dev/ad4s1f32494668 1608458 28286638 5% /usr horus# du -sx /usr 1608458 /usr -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain

Re: gmirror slice insertion, "FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51"

2008-10-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 08:41:31PM -0700, Carl wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick said: >>> ad6: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 >>> error=40 LBA=134802751 >> >> Are you sure you don't have a bad hard disk? This looks to be like a >> classic block/sector fai

Re: build ImageMagick 6.4.4.1_1 from ports failed...

2008-10-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Your "NO_OPENSSH = YES" line is broken, by the way. You have a space between the "H" and the "=". -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Admi

Re: gmirror slice insertion, "FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51"

2008-10-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:00:21AM -0700, Carl wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> Seagate chooses to encode some raw data for some SMART attributes in a >> custom format. The format is not publicly documented. This is why you >> have to go off of the adjusted values shown

Re: Newbie question about pkg_add

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
be > install from ports while not able to be added from package system? > Am I right? Correct -- not every port has a package. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Admin

Re: Security | Kernel message

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
h will contain timestamps. Also, are you seeing any "watchdog timeout" events on em0 as well? If so, please read the "Network devices" section of my Wiki regarding what this problem could be (specific to certain models of Intel 82573 NIC): http://wiki.freebsd.org/J

Re: Looking for the right "FreeBSD.iso"

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:01:28PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:16:04PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:56:56PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: > > > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >>> Maybe I

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:44:49AM -0400, Francis Dubé wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick a écrit : >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:56:30PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> >>> On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:38 PM, FreeBSD wrote: >>> >>>>> You need to k

Re: Zero-Fill format before installation

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ONGLY recommend you add "bs=64k" to that dd statement, or else it's going to take a million years. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: gmirror slice insertion, "FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51"

2008-10-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
DMA timeout" problem, especially if this is the only error >> you're getting. > > he can temporarity boot with hw.ata.ata_dma=0 They're SATA disks, so this won't do anything sadly. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: Looking for the right "FreeBSD.iso"

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
the netinstall cds for some reason, and > installing the distribution from the cd goes faster anyway. Just make sure that if you choose "src" or "ports", that you properly "adopt" your src and ports trees. (This is why I often advocate not installing src/p

Re: almost OT os x

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
in common" concept is a horrible one -- they do have some pieces in common, but OS X really *is* quite a different beast in numerous respects. Apple, sincerely and honestly, has tinkered with all sorts of pieces. Please keep that in mind. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: gmirror slice insertion, "FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51"

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
n individual basis. > FWIW, I'm using gjournal on 3 partitions in mirror/gm0. > > Here's my server's parts list: > - Seagate ST31000340AS Barracuda 7200.11, 1TB, SATA (x2). Can you please provide the output from the following commands? dmesg vmstat -i atacontrol list ata

Re: reviving games/freebsd-games

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
046245.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-March/047244.html I think the bottom line here is that until someone steps up and actually volunteers to fix the code, it will remain broken. (I don't normally tote this attitude, but in this case it&#

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ly take the time to explain to the user the fact that shared pages per process != amount of RAM that's been touched/used at one point but is currently unused. Without someone explaining how the VM works in this regard, he's going to continue to be confused and correlate things which aren&#

Re: SSH Port forwarding when "PermitRootLogin"==no ?

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
he > terminal: > > channel 3: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed No idea what the "channel 3: open failed" part means, but the latter likely implies firewalling rules of some kind on the local machine. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjd

Re: DHCP and MAC addresses

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
thing one can do is remain close-minded about operating systems; one-sided advocacy (pro-BSD or pro-Linux) does nothing but hurt the open-source concept. (I'll remind folks that ZFS came from Solaris) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | P

Re: Looking for the right "FreeBSD.iso"

2008-10-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ve a high-speed permanent Internet connection. You should try sending this note to most of the Linux distributions, many of which *require* a DVD drive (what makes you think everyone has one?), or require you to download 2 or 3 CDs. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at p

Re: MTA on non-standard port

2008-10-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 06:55:53PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Hello, > > Quick thanks to Andrew Clark, Jeremy Chadwick, Tim Kellers, > Jeff Goldberg, and anyone whose reply I've not seen re: > this issue. > > Isn't hard, as several pointed out. Now I've sen

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) firefox3 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgio-2.0

2008-10-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:10:48AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > freebsd-questions: Try freebsd-ports for this question, as your issue is with a port. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking h

Re: Drive Disconnection

2008-10-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ing this, but -- be aware you can't "hot-swap" disks via eSATA without having a hot-swap-capable controller that fully supports hot-swapping. Meaning: you can't yank that d2 Quadra enclosure off the eSATA port whenever you feel like it. You'll need to use "atacontrol

Re: Drive Disconnection

2008-10-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ith them as well. There's not enough evidence in this thread so far to blame the SiI controller, but when I see them, I become immediately suspicious. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking h

Re: root | su

2008-10-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
tuation, and he said "At the previous job? His root access was eventually removed, as it was the only way. At this job? Well, let's just say the Email conversation is quite heated and will soon be involving the guys who financially back us". Food for thought. Cheers! -- | Jer

Re: duplicate a drive

2008-10-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
way if either drive dies > I'll, hopefully at worst, just have to switch which drive I boot from. > > Can anyone with experience doing something this make suggestions? ports/sysutils/cpdup? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius N

Re: MTA on non-standard port

2008-10-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
macro in your /etc/mail/hostname.mc file. (Remember: DO NOT edit sendmail.cf directly). Here's a hint: http://www.sendmail.org/~gshapiro/8.10.Training/DaemonPortOptions.html -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: FreeBSD-7.1, BETA2 or PRERELEASE

2008-10-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
s. And I am also of the opinion that this should stop, and we should simply name the releases PRERELEASE-MMDD to signify the build date. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: Upgrading 7.1-PRERELEASE

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 07:52:11AM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > > Jeremy Chadwick skrev: >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:41:05AM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: >>> Jeremy Chadwick skrev: >>>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:24:56AM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: >>&

Re: Upgrading 7.1-PRERELEASE

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:41:05AM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick skrev: >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:24:56AM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: >>> I'm running 7.1-PRERELEASE. Yesterday I csup'ed and upgraded as I've >>> done several times in o

Re: Printing to a Lanier LD160c does not work

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 09:42:41PM -0700, Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote: > El Jue 16 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick escribió: > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:36:42PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I am trying to setup a Lanier LD160c (admincolor) that has a network &

Re: Upgrading 7.1-PRERELEASE

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
table-supfile I > have "*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7". > > Can anyone tell me where I can make sure that my system upgrades to BETA-2? You are essentially running BETA2, with even newer fixes since the BETA2 release. You should stay with the RELENG_7 tag. -- | Jeremy Cha

Re: Boot device question

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
at/target/unit are hint commands only available to da(4), at least that's what I see from the source code. I see no such support for ad(4), so I do not think this will work for him. Also, I'll remind people once more: stop modifying device.hints! The file can/will be overwritten in some

Re: Boot device question

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ne. Our co-lo provider offers this for free, as long as the duration of the incident does not take more than 10-15 minutes; otherwise, it's expensive (hundreds of dollars). If you're with a co-lo provider who doesn't offer this capability, consider switching to one who does. There i

Re: Can't upgrade or deinstall phpMyAdmin

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
h is causing you grief is the PDF feature, but it's up to you to decide what you need/do not need. As I said in my other mail, be aware that disabling some of the features will cause phpmyadmin to complain to the visitor that said feature is missing; mbstring is a good example. -- | J

Re: Can't upgrade or deinstall phpMyAdmin

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
d features are enabled by default. I do not advocate downloading software and just "dumping it" into some directory on a machine; if you really want to go that route, then why use ports at all? Heck, why use FreeBSD, just use Slackware Linux. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: what else is needed to make ftp passive work

2008-10-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ipfw add 120 allow tcp from any to ftp.server.ip 21 in ipfw add 121 allow tcp from any to ftp.server.ip 49152-65536 in ipfw add 122 allow tcp from ftp.server.ip 20 to any out Finally, I recommend if this machine is RELENG_6 or later, that you look in to using pf(4) instead. You'll thank me

Re: Extract Songs from DVD

2008-10-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
depends on if the CD audio tracks are truly available on the DVD or not, and if the softwares can detect them. Both can do MP3, Ogg, or other conversions on-the-fly. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: UFS2 or ZFS for 3TB disk?

2008-10-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
FS2 entirely). That's really all I'm going to say on the matter. (Sorry if that sounds rude, I'm just incredibly scared that my above comments will induce some pedantic flame war or battle of sort, which is not my intention.) > [1] http://freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk > [2] htt

Re: mirror site

2008-10-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
cles/hubs/ should have all of the necessary details, including who you should contact (not -questions). :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Moun

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
etc... from your config as well. You do not need to disable USB support in the BIOS; the kernel will simply state that it sees devices on the PCI bus but lacks a driver to attach to them. This will not harm anything. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Par

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
need to take the "nodevice" lines from /sys/i386/conf/PAE and put them into your kernel config file. (There are alternative methods such as using "include" directives and so on, but I'm trying to keep this explanation simple.) Make sense now? :-) --

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
's going to great lengths to use SSH to accomplish something MySQL has support for natively. Please clue me in. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimatebounce messages

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
They simply do not get the mail. They're left in the dark, wondering "Did send the mail? Are they lying to me? What's going on???". It's a very sensitive thing when you're a hosting provider. In the case of my users, they would much rather get the mail a

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:07:17PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 13:16 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 03:50:01PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > I took a working 5.4-i386 server and trying to convert its RAID 5 to >

Re: mounting an MP3 player?

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
de) might be required to get this device to work. It's a common problem, and exists in many operating systems. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Adminis

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
w available)? There have been fixes/improvements to BTX since 7.0-RELEASE which could fix your problem. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mo

Re: Bind BIND 9.3.5 configuration

2008-10-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Please give me some > suggestions. Thanks! You should put "nameserver 127.0.0.1" in /etc/resolv.conf, that way your own local machine as a resolver (e.g. will rely on the BIND/named daemon). /etc/rc.conf is used to enable BIND/named on startup. You should place the following

Re: pfSense

2008-10-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
his, and for good reasons (you can read the docs if you want the answer). Instead, you should give your wire and daughter's machines IPs outside of the "dynamic pool" range, e.g. 10.47.0.121 and upwards. This will work fine. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc a

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ns.kbd_reboot' >> >> >> Peter >> > It seems you are right. Just checked on 6.3 and 7.0 and it does not > exist. It does exist in 6.2, however. Hmm... # sysctl hw.syscons.kbd_reboot=0 hw.syscons.kbd_reboot: 1 -> 0 # sysctl hw.syscons.kbd_reboot=1 hw.

Re: Problem with www/mod_cband

2008-10-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rmitting XXX Kbyte/sec across *all visitors*. It's the only "safe" way to deal with 95th-percentile billing in co-locations. Also, don't forget that Apache only writes an entry to the log file *after* the transfer is finished, not when the request is submit. :-) -- | Jere

Re: Problem with www/mod_cband

2008-10-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 08:31:29PM +0200, Mel wrote: > On Friday 17 October 2008 19:53:59 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > Regarding alternatives: there aren't. Bandwidth limiting is a > > long-standing feature of Apache that's missing, which is a huge > > disappoin

Re: Problem with www/mod_cband

2008-10-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
s a huge disappointment. The best solution I've found on FreeBSD is to use pf(4) with ALTQ, and give each VirtualHost its own IP address, then rate-limit the IP address using pf(4). Yes, I realise this is impractical for sites which have many vhosts and use name-based virtualhosts. Welcom

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