On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 06:05:16PM +0100, Aitor San Juan wrote:
Hi List,
I am trying to install a secondary hard disk in a Intel-based PC
with FreeBSD 5.4
This secondary disk's capacity is 250 Gb. When I enter sysintall
to try to format it and create a slice, FreeBSD says that the
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:58:22PM -0500, Adam Gerety wrote:
What are the rules, in terms of using the FreeBSD Devil image to make
some stickers? I am huge fan/supporter of FreeBSD and want a sticker
that is just the Devil to put on my computers. Not planning to sell
them, though it
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 10:03:38AM +0530, Susanth K wrote:
Dear Friends,
Am a beginner to *BSD OS.
Am interested in setting up intel / AMD based Free and Open Source Server (
No GUI required )
Prime area is Webserver With PHP/MySQL Support and Ruby On Rails. +
PostgreSQL
Which os
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 02:07:04PM +0530, Susanth K wrote:
Wikipedia says,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebsd
FreeBSD 7.0 is on Improved scheduler and locking scalability for 32+ CPU
systems (prototyping)
Does Any One know How Many CPU Does FreeBSD 6.2 Supports ?
People on the
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 08:12:54PM -, Andy Kendall wrote:
As a newb to FreeBSD I find that the manual/handbook is not great in detail,
(understatement), and I seem to be relying on this questions list for a lot
of help.
In my opinion it relies on far too high a plateau of knowledge by
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:52:28AM -0700, Drew Jenkins wrote:
I built a home server to prepare to build a new production server. Well, the
latter is built out, but when I went back to the former, it said there was a
problem with my last shutdown (which I don't remember) and went into single
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:36:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi i am doing a project for school:
find an alternative operating system - one that will run my computer
without Windows being installed. The cheaper the better (Hint start your
search with the word free). Find out what
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 05:55:54PM +0200, Dima Sorkin wrote:
Hi.
It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh.
I can miss something, but if I right, how
do I allow it ?
You can change the config file to allow it, but that is considered
poor security. The thing to
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 06:43:43PM +0200, Dima Sorkin wrote:
Hi.
Actually I would prefer to do it via su.
Here a really newbie question:
1) How do I join regular user to 'wheel' group ?
2) How do I join a user to some group 'some_group' ?.
Which manpage to read ?
Just edit the /etc/group
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:30:44AM -0500, David Robillard wrote:
I have a remote machine running 4.8-p21. The system has two disks in
it, but only one is used on a daily basis (the other is filled via dd
every now and then).
I want to get this remote machine running 6.2, so I figured I'ld
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:46:49PM +0100, Thomas H. Bellus wrote:
I have not been able to see the screens for configuring X for my monitor or
video card. I have ver 5.4, I have used both the standard install and the
custom install. I have used the most recent install documents on the
internet
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:39:31AM -0500, David Robillard wrote:
OK. First, it was someone else who posted. I was one of the responders.
My mistake! Sorry about this.
That can be a good way of doing it. I have posted a list of steps
for doing essentially that (slightly different
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:55:12PM -, Andy Kendall wrote:
Where should I put any scripts I write or use for the use of all system
users please? For example in the FreeBSD Manual in section 9.4.3.2 there's a
script for Network Printing; where should this reside please?
Do you mean that you
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:30:43AM -0600, s.moyzis wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD from
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2
I downloaded all the files to a folder on my 2nd HD (Primary is C: 80 Gb
Windows XP SP2, 2nd external 250 Gb HD has 2 partitons, G: which
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:31:23AM -0800, Drew Jenkins wrote:
- Original Message
From: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2007 11:09:13 AM
Subject: Re: Setting Env
Well, it's going to involve a bit more than that to get an
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:20:40AM -0800, Drew Jenkins wrote:
20I wrote the following script (with your help) to solve the problem I'm
having with setting the MySQL environment and getting Zope up after the fact.
I have saved this in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ If I run this after the machine
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 01:07:10PM -0800, Drew Jenkins wrote:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -n $LD_LIBRARY_PATH ] ; then
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr/local/lib/mysql
echo Exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/lib/mysql because -n
'$LD_LIBRARY_PATH' held true.
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 01:50:27PM -0800, Mark Messier wrote:
I have a remote machine running 4.8-p21. The system has two disks in
it, but only one is used on a daily basis (the other is filled via dd
every now and then).
I want to get this remote machine running 6.2, so I figured I'ld
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:19:57PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 01:50:27PM -0800, Mark Messier wrote:
I have a remote machine running 4.8-p21. The system has two disks in
it, but only one is used on a daily basis (the other is filled via dd
every now
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:28:39PM -0800, Drew Jenkins wrote:
- Original Message
From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Drew Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2007 7:46:26 PM
Subject: Re: Setting Env
If you want
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 07:35:33AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 3:50 AM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:08:35AM -0800, Drew Jenkins wrote:
- Original Message
From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Drew Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2007 7:46:26 PM
Subject: Re: Setting Env
If you want
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:24:05AM -0800, Drew Jenkins wrote:
Jerry McAllister wrote:
Ok. Simplest way to solve this is to make your own run script and invoke
it at boot. It's not that bad to do from what I understand..
Will this do?
#!/bin/csh
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:23:43AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
Maybe somebody knows this one: is there a game or educational
app that will popup a small frame with a question and space for
answer? Say: What is the capitol of Kansas? or What is the cube
root of 8?
/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server
script file?
jerry
Jerry McAllister wrote:
What does your rc.conf look like?
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sat Feb 24 04:38:22 2007
# Created: Sat Feb 24 04:38:22 2007
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:58:24AM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Disclaimer: IANAE.
Joshua Kordani wrote:
Hello all!
..libedit.so stuff deleted..
So i figure I might as well reinstall the OS, as
that is why i made separate partitions for user data and system files (so
i think,
this
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:21:19AM -0800, Drew Jenkins wrote:
20Hi;
For some reason, I need to run this:
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib/mysql/
to get my Zope instances up and running. I'm trying to figure out how to
automate that. I wrote a little script:
#!/bin/csh
setenv
The fourth reason to have separate partitions is to make it easier
to isolate things. You may want to make a certain amount of space
available for users to write in, but want to keep them out of other
space. There are various ways to do it. Having things grouped
conveniently in some
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:11:37PM -0800, Drew Jenkins wrote:
Bill Campbell wrote:
that I should edit said line into /etc/ld.so.conf
Unfortunately there is no such file on my system.
- Original Message
From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Drew Jenkins [EMAIL
Message
From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Drew Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2007 6:31:34 PM
Subject: Re: Setting Env
I don't know for sure what you mean That's not an option. Is this
running from cron or at system
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:37:54AM -0500, Jean-Philippe Daigle wrote:
Hello,
I'm attempting to add a new program to the list of services starting at
boot time on FreeBSD 6.1. Unfortunately, although running the script
directly as root starts it up just fine, it's not starting at boot time.
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:45:55PM -0500, frzburn wrote:
Hi!
I have a slow Internet connection at home, and I would like to know if it is
possible to fetch the STABLE sources from somewhere else (ex.: at work).
What I want is to get the latest sources, like described in the handbook (
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:04:06PM -0800, Parker Brown wrote:
Using the FreeBSD booter to manage both Windoz XP and FreeBSD 6.1 on the
same SCSI drive. Under FreeBSD I've got XP mounted, and I've been able to
examine the XP directories, but when I try to copy data or the contents of
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:53:30PM +0100, Christian Baer wrote:
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 17:39:05 -0500 Jerry McAllister wrote:
Well, it would do some, but for the greatest effect, you would need:
dump + rm -rf * + restore
That would get it all.
Of course, I should have re-emphasized
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 02:17:31AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
Jerry McAllister wrote:
Well, it would do some, but for the greatest effect, you would need:
dump + rm -rf * + restore
This is nitpicking so ignore it: deleting all files on UFS2 volume won't
restore it to it's pristine
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:34:10AM +, RW wrote:
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900
Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I should also mention that you need the FreeBSD boot manager on both
disks, or an alternative boot manager such as grub or gag. Read the
handbook.
I recall
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:39:05PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Jerry McAllister wrote:
If you select F5 (maybe F6 or more, I should try that some time) it
will instead cause the MBR from that second (maybe third, etc) disk to
be loaded and passes control to it.
F5 moves to the next disk
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:52:52PM +, RW wrote:
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:37:26 -0500
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:34:10AM +, RW wrote:
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900
Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I should also mention
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:12:55PM -0500, J. W. Ballantine wrote:
I have a two disk system, and I'm trying to install FBSD6.2 on slice 2
of the second disk, a configuration that I've had working in the past.
I'm using the Standard installation, select the second disk (ad1)
and create a
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:14:14PM -0600, Michael G. wrote:
OK, I've scoured the archives for an answer with no results. I'm
sharing a FAT32 partition between XP and 6.2 Release. The problem is I
can mount the drive but only root can write to it (users can just
read). I have the
and then chown
it to root:mydos would seem 'safer' if there are a bunch of users
on the machine.
jerry
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:14:14PM -0600, Michael G. wrote:
OK, I've scoured the archives for an answer with no results. I'm
sharing a FAT32 partition
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 01:13:21AM +0100, Marco Hafke wrote:
Did you read the manpage of mount_ntfs? Have a look to the writing section:
There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident
and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas); compressed files
are
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:12:38AM -0500, Gerry Freymann wrote:
I was doing some maintenance on my FreeBSD 5.4R box, and took it down to
single user mode and ran
fsck -y
I have four partitions on my drive, and the 2nd and 3rd partitions come up
with errors and say run fsck
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:49:09AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find
anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an
issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so?
It's really not an issue.
jerry
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:21:16AM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Steve Franks wrote:
How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find
anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an
issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so?
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:51:00AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote:
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:22:32 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
backup+restore will be defrag
you mean : backup, format, (reinstall if needed, depending on method of
backup)
and restore - or simply
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:36:45PM -0500, Sam Jones wrote:
I'm having a little problem trying to dual boot. I have two SATA hard
drives, the first one with FreeBSD and the second with Windows XP. I
installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the first drive, and when the
computer boots, it
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 05:17:38PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:51:00AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote:
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:22:32 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
backup+restore will be defrag
you mean : backup, format
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:14:37PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote:
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:49:07PM -0900, Peter A. Giessel wrote:
On 2007/02/27 12:24, Jerry seems to have typed:
Am I missing something, or is this now just a standard part
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:27:41PM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote:
I often run commands piped to 'less', to make sure the command is
working OK by looking at the first few lines of output.
Once I'm convinced, though, I'd like to get rid of less, and just
have the rest of stdout spewed to the
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:49:07PM -0900, Peter A. Giessel wrote:
On 2007/02/27 12:24, Jerry seems to have typed:
Am I missing something, or is this now just a standard part of
the base?I rummaged through the Release notes and didn't
see anything mentioned.
Did you try the
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:49:46PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 10:38:01AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
On 2/24/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I think you are past any label problems now
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:53:20AM -0800, Josh Carroll wrote:
My question is: How do I respond to this?
I have seen the word patch used in security update messages - but
didn't follow that path. Is that real? Does it cover kernel
things essentially on the fly or is a 'time consuming'
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 02:11:48PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Feb 26), Jerry said:
I am being forced to use something besides FreeBSD - probably Susie
or Red Hat Linux for the base of a server system. The primary reason
given is that when security issues come along,
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 10:38:01AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
On 2/24/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I think you are past any label problems now and on to the
bad sectors and/or finding superbocks.Although I am not quite clear
from above what resulted
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 06:12:39PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Jerry, just on a couple of points:
Me to Marty:
Does the above result mean that my boot sector is ok?
I think maybe you might be getting some of your terminology shuffled
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 05:13:37PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
On 2/23/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would go back to that bsdlabel ad1s1 and edit the 'a' partition
Also changed the size and offset to match the 'c' partition. Looks like
progress here but still
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:08:29AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
On 2/23/07, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So just show 'fdisk ad1' to see the disk's partition (slice) table (which
may be damaged, but it's the only one you're interested in).
%sudo fdisk ad1
*** Working on device
Dear Team,
This is subburaman from Bangalore, india.I have installed
the FreeBSD6.2.Now i want to create a new User with Administrator
rights.Please give me the guidelines for me.
You can do one of four things.
Create a user as per normal. Then, also add that userid to the
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:38:18PM +, Robin Becker wrote:
I see from the latest announcement that freebsd-update is now in the base
system for 6.2. Following the links I see there's a procedure for 6.0-61.
and another for 6.1-6.2 binary updating.
In the past I have always dumped all
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:33:50PM -0600, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
On Feb 22, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Install and set up sudo (/usr/ports/security/sudo) and create a
configuration for that user so they can run specific commands that
you specify and only those commands
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:34:24PM -0600, Derek Ragona wrote:
You may have lost the partition table. You can try repartitioning the
drive but do NOT do a newfs. You can easily try it in sysinstall.
Yes, that has been mentioned - I wasn't sure if it would work as
desired - without
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:47:23PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From what I have read, I think the Ultrium tape drive is completely
compatible with FreeBSD. If I am understanding the specs correctly, it
uses hardware compression to compress data. And, again if I am
understanding
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:37:12PM -0600, Joe Vender wrote:
I have a 6120MB HDD which will be dedicated to FreeBSD 6.2. I intend to
install the ports collection and also KDE. I will operate from the KDE
environment using FreeBSD as a standalone desktop machine connected to the
net via a
Hi folks,
FreeBSD-6.2-amd64
Just finished installing the captioned OS which is now working. There is no
major desktop running on the OS, such as KDE/Gnome/Xfce, as well as some
other necessary applications. I'll erase the OS soon to make another
installation with new partitions
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 04:50:57AM -0800, Drew Jenkins wrote:
Here is the dialogue:
# mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/win
#mount_ntfs: /mnt No such file or directory
Drew
I haven't followed all of this, but do you have a directoty
named /mnt/win
For my dual booted machine, I create a directory:
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 05:07:37PM +0200, Petre Bandac wrote:
hallo
I have the following problem
I hourly rsync data from another computer to my bsd machine and the
transferred files have different uid that the user I'd like to use them
(preserve their initial uid/gid)
is there a
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:30:24AM +0200, cihan k?me?o?lu wrote:
Hi
I have a problem with creating partition. I have one slice that ad2s1 and I
created four partition on ad2s1
ad2s1a mounted /
ad2s1b swap
ad2s1c
ad2s1d mounted /usr
ad2s1e mounted /mnt
ad2s1f mounted /mnt2
I want to
Howdy,
Hello,
This weekend I purchased a laptop with a core2duo processor. The laptop
came with windows Vista premier. Due to some applications that I require,
removing Vista and installing FreeBSD is not an issue. (Please leave the
Vista/Microsoft flames at the door)
When I install
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:04:57PM -0500, Jeff Palmer wrote:
Do you really need to use Grub to replace the FreeBSD MBR?
I haven't had my hands on Vista yet - in no hurry either -
but I think it should boot Vista OK. I've use it for several
other MS versions from Win-95 - Win 2K - Xp-Pro
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:28:02PM +1300, RawDevelopment wrote:
Hi there,
I just installed screen, very handy. But when I goto use it I have to call
/usr/local/bin/screen
how can I set it so I can just type
screen
?
Make sure /usr/local/bin is in your path. eg set you path in your
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:23:20AM +0300, Mike Barnard wrote:
Ive never installed FreeBSD by myself, its always been installed for me by
someone. But im planning on getting a new laptop soon, thinking of the
ThinkPad T60, which now has a Intel Core 2 Due processor.
nice choice
What do
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:54:10PM -0500, Mark Jacobs wrote:
At work I run 6.2 stable and due to firewall problems I cannot download
packages or port sources using http.
Sysinstall works but I can't figure out the configuration setting to get
the latest packages and not those at the 6.2
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 08:00:11PM -0500, Mark Jacobs wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 19:54 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:54:10PM -0500, Mark Jacobs wrote:
At work I run 6.2 stable and due to firewall problems I cannot download
packages or port sources using
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:04:48AM +, Lloyd Martin wrote:
I have never posted a question before so hopefully this ends up in the
right place.
I downloaded and installed version 6.1. Everything went relatively
smoothly. My system dual boots with WindowsXP.
Today I downloaded and
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 08:14:28PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
On 2/12/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:48:44PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:48:44PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
On 2/9/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:06:20PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:46:10AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
On 2/8/07, Pieter de Goeje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If the slice and partition table are still intact (as they were before the
outage), a normal fsck -F on /dev/ad1s1a will get the pc booting again.
Well I managed to get the
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:50:01PM +0600, ? ??? (ws44) wrote:
Hello!
Are there some utils to release Inact memory, which can be viewed by
top-utility? In time all Free Memory flows to Inact Memory, and we
have real problem with performance of our router. After I reboot
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:47:27AM -0500, Grant Peel wrote:
Hi all,
I have a very good setup on a server that I would like to clone to a
brand new server, and an existing server.
My plan is dependant on two things, feel free to comment on them if I
am missing something:
0. Make
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:06:20PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
On 2/9/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:46:10AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
%sudo fsck -F ad1s1c
fsck: exec fsck_unused for /dev/ad1s1c in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file
or
directory
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:32:53PM -0800, Noah wrote:
From rc.conf(5):
clear_tmp_enable
(bool) Set to ``YES'' to have /tmp cleaned at startup.
Why not setup a parallel (background) task with a wrapper script to
delete some files when upgrading ports? Either
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:34:47PM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote:
Derek Ragona wrote:
FreeBSD runs on most i386 based hardware as long as you have 64 MB ram
or more. So you can recycle an old desktop PC to run FreeBSD and then
have at it. Or buy a cheap new desktop or refurbished.
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:22:26PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Andrew Hammond wrote:
On 2/7/07, Nicole Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I have been building/using servers that were dual CPU
AMD Opteron systems for some time. (usually 246
Opteron cpu's)
Now of course
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:06:05PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
Jerry McAllister wrote:
Well, do as it says - choose a shell and run fsck manually.
Heh, for starters I assumed (always a bad thing) that fsck wasn't available
because I did a 'which fsck' and got 'which not found
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:43:15PM -0800, Noah wrote:
Hi there,
/tmp is filling from portmanager is placing .db information and build
details during its run.
what options to I have to alleviate the troubles this creates?
Well, you could move /tmp to a bigger space.
I think it is
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:51:31PM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote:
Xen?
Xen is an interesting system, but so far as I know, so far, it
requires a Linux host - either Red Hat or Suse. Plus, unless
you have the new Virtualizing chips from Intel or AMD, you have
to make a special version of the OSen you
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:32:03PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:14:40AM -0700, hal wrote:
I have done:
cvsup RELENG_5
make buildkernel
make installkernel
All worked just fine ... but. When I reboot, the boot process
picks up the old 4
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:54:17AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
My fbsd 6.0 box is having filesystem problems on boot since a blackout
yesterday. Here's a synopsis:
/dev/ad0s1a: clean
/dev/ad0s1d: DEFER FOR BACKGROUND CHECKING
...repeats for ad0s1f e
then reports error=40UNCORRECTABLE for
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:58:06PM -0500, Don Munyak wrote:
Hello,
I was tweaking the /etc/rc.conf file and apparently had a typo. Now
the system boots into single user mode. I know what my error is
syslogd_enable=YES {left off the first }
How can I edit rc.conf while in single user
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:24:39PM -0800, Aloha Guy wrote:
What I actually meant was, I know in the old days, if you had 128MB, you
want a 256MB swap but with 2GB RAM, isn't 4GB going to be overkill for a
swap or are you saying that a 2GB swap will work? I'm still lost on the
ratio since
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 06:39:29PM -0500, Peter wrote:
I am installing a new 6.2 STABLE system and I am troubled by the amount
of available disk space I'm getting on one of my IDE devices:
# df -h
Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
...
...
/dev/ad1a 289G
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:36:37AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said:
I use the following command on our CentOS Linux servers to find out
if the system is ready for the daylight savings changes coming up,
but it does not seem to work the same on
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:18:14PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Feb 02), Jerry McAllister said:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:36:37AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said:
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I don't know how to read
First, please use a meaningful subject line of some sort.
I added something for a subject to this post.
In bash or csh I want to start nmap scanning at every 1 hour.how can I do
this?
Check out cron and crontab.
If you set up a crontab - for root probably with your nmap scan
in every hour,
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:44:43PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
Presuming you have a 1 or 2 user system, and haven't done alot of
mods, is there any reason to upgrade to 6.2 as opposed to just
install it? Of the maybe 10 files I've modified, I have backed them
up elsewhere, and it's fresh in
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:46:02PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
Have a friend that swears by them, but ... he's in the Linux camp, so tends
to
have a quasi-inside track ...
What are ppls opinions on them as far as FreeBSD is concerned?
Also, interested in what sort of specs ppl are
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 10:35:32AM +0100, Andreas Wider?e Andersen wrote:
I just finished making and installing world and a new kernel yesterday. I
had cvsup'ed the latest src/ports with releng 6_2.
I thought 6.2 STABLE was out, but a uname-a shows 6.2 RELEASE on my system.
Am I missing
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:59:43AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
... Some excised
We have 4 1950s and 3 2950s in use around here. Only one is actually in
production so far, the rest are still being configured, etc.
We're mostly happy with
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 10:26:51PM +0200, Halid Faith wrote:
I have a machine 6.0-RELEASE. How do I upgrade it to Freebsd6.2 without
any problem?
Could you advise a useful site about that ?
After upgrade, May a problem like cannot login the system be ?
The first thing to do is read the
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