Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:35:06AM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:16:59PM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: [snip] Real hardware RAID chips/cards tend to be expensive, proprietary, don't require an OS driver and include a battery backup system for data in the RAID

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:16:59PM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:33:47AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I'm tired of win2k crashing, and we won't even go into my opinion of vista's strongarm marketing tactics (read: changing my hardware means I have to pay again? they

Re: rc.conf

2007-01-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:22:44PM +, eoghan wrote: Hi Just a general question: should all values in rc.conf be in quotes... like: network_enable=rl0 It is a good idea. I think, if there is no white space in the value, then you can get away without it, but maybe I have my shells

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:54:40AM -0900, Jeff Mohler wrote: Ive never understood why we still partition drives so much..its one spindle..sure, a hige filesystem might cause an edge performance issue..but..its one spindle. Primarily for management and backup/restore convenience. You can break

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 08:57:27AM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, Is there a FBSD command to manage virtual memory? I think my swap size is now a bit too much used: last pid: 19824; load averages: 0.06, 0.05, 0.02 up 50+10:00:17 08:54:00 230 processes: 1 running, 227

Re: partition labeler and 6.2-powerpc

2007-01-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:11:52AM -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote: i realize this is not the powerpc list, but before i go and register for yet one more email-list... last night i was attempting to install 6.2 on a G4 cube i have. (6.0 would not install, it would only panic when loading the

Re: Put /usr on a different drive

2007-01-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 10:46:48AM +0100, Daniel A. wrote: On 1/14/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 12:08:13AM +0100, Daniel A. wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if someone could point me in the right direction of moving the entire /usr partition to a second

Re: Put /usr on a different drive

2007-01-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 12:08:13AM +0100, Daniel A. wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if someone could point me in the right direction of moving the entire /usr partition to a second hard disk, given that I am on an existing (newly installed) install of FreeBSD. Also, is it possible to specify

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:52:29PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/10/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/01/07, Josef Grosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:51AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote

Re: Porting Acrobat 9 to FBSD Mozilla / Opera and OT: installer promotion (was Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?)

2007-01-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:07:04PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: I think it is about time that FREEBSD OS gets the act together by integrating all the plugins for firefox. I have been trying to make these plugins work, Really, isnt't that a Firefox/Mozilla thing, plus possibly the

Re: Laptop speaker vs earphone

2007-01-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:29:45AM -0500, Lion G. wrote: Hi all, I have a weird question. In my previous many laptops, whenever I plug in the earphone, the laptop speaker would stop (and I would only hear music through the earphone) With my newest laptop (Acer Aspire 5050), the laptop

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:51AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/9/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD is created and supported by volunteers. Seems like you just posted a nice list of things for you to get busy and contribute. I don't have time to contribute

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:59:20PM -0800, Jeff Mohler wrote: Not all of us can program..but let me ask this question. Linux is all volunteer, how did it get so far ahead? It isn't. People in the know like FreeBSD as a server which is where it is mostly targeted - to the professional

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:12:46AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/10/07, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:01:51 -0600 Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD is created and supported by volunteers. Seems like you just posted a nice list of things

Re: Release info

2007-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:40:07PM -0800, Dale Johnston wrote: Hey, so where's the release notes. what's been done/fixed/added in 6.2 vs 6.1, what was done from 6.1RC to 6.1R, etc I don't think it has been released yet, so the release notes are probably not completely available yet. There

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 04:35:12AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/10/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [irrelevant cruft removed] On Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 23:54:02 -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/9/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday,

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:17:21AM -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:51AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/9/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD is created and supported

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:08:45PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:33:18AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/08/a-shadow-lies-upon-all-bsd-distributions

Re: Mail being sent from my domain...

2007-01-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:47:56PM -0600, Rob W. wrote: I hope I'm in the right area and someone could possibly help me with this. I am running FreeBSD 5.4. I installed qmail from www.qmailrocks.org Everything is working correctly and I do have spamassassin and clamav installed and

Re: FreeBSD Installer vs RedHat Linux Fedora Core Installer?

2007-01-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 10:56:01AM -0800, Peter aka SweetPete wrote: Re the FreeBSD Installer-- I think that more specifically, I would like and lots of users in the *nix community probably would not mind, if sysinstall could handle installing to a partially used HDD. Can sysinstall do

Re: FreeBSD Installer vs RedHat Linux Fedora Core Installer?

2007-01-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:42:35AM -0800, Peter aka SweetPete wrote: Hello, I used to be on this mailing list several years ago, and have recently rejoined. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-sysinstall.html

Re: OT: stupid sh scripting question

2007-01-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:07:43PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: This is probably staring me in the face: if [ ! -d foo] then mkdir foo fi gives me: [: missing ] It is probably not telling you ':' missing but ';' missing. It goes after the ']', plus I think the space

Re: fixit floppy contents?

2006-12-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 02:57:21PM -0500, Andy Dills wrote: Is there a standard way of installing complete filesystem images onto existing machines via the network, for example using dump, restore, nfs, and boot floppies? I want to upgrade our mail server cluster from 4-STABLE to

Re: change password without shell access

2006-12-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:42:44AM +0200, Perttu Laine wrote: Hello! I'm looking tool for freebsd that allows user to change their password without access to server. If there are any? We're running mail server with nologin account and would like to let users change their password. From www

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
- a few nic cards! HAHAHAHAHAHA From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Terabyte Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:04:09 -0500 On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:38:30AM -0800, Terabyte Pete wrote: 7

Re: STABLE and CURRENT

2006-12-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 10:51:59AM -0800, Fareed Rizkalla wrote: Hello, I think the FreeBSD team should have a special page containing a table of all releases and beside these releases is marked STABLE or CURRENT. Instead of having to refer which is STABLE and which from the CURRENT and

Re: var out of space

2006-12-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 06:22:45PM -0800, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: Thanks for all help. uname says FreeBSD 4.10-SECURITY Looks like I should do a fresh install. What's a bugger is this server does dns (bind 8) and web hosting (Apache 1.3) for a few hundred domains. I can backup

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:38:30AM -0800, Terabyte Pete wrote: 7:04 AM, Wednesday, December 20, 2006 Goes to show you that not all Epiphanies are about revealing reality. Some are merely false lights leading one down a darkened path. jerry In Winblow$, the release bundling of IE was

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:28:27AM -0500, stas khromoy wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hey folks we are working on building a failover server. now everything is going along pretty nicely. (knock on wood) so the question of the day. is there a way to replicate the

Re: var out of space

2006-12-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
Howdy, Hello, I inherited a freebsd installation with a var slice/mount that is to small and filling up all the time. What type of info should I provide to allow someone to help me with a solution? I would very much prefer to not install another drive just for /var. /usr has

Re: Dealing with bad blocks on a hard disc

2006-12-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Hi, my notebook's hard drive seems to be damaged: Dec 18 15:49:13 hokage kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=9919567 Dec 18 15:49:13 hokage kernel: g_vfs_done():ad0s1f[READ(offset=1360723968, length=32768)]error = 5 Dec 18 15:49:13

Re: Need explaination for `date` command !

2006-12-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Hi lists, I am currently using FreeBSD-6.1 for a while. I am in Thailand so my time zone is GMT+7. Let say the time is 3:00 PM in Thailand. What I would like to know is 1. What is the output of `date` command I should get ? 2. What is the output of `date -u` command I should get ?

Re: stand/sysinstall

2006-12-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:18:54PM -0500, Chad Gross wrote: On 12/15/06, warren schreiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have just installed 6.1 and need to setup the network connection i isually use /stand/sysinstall but i get command not found. So I down loaded the documentation and it says

Re: stand/sysinstall

2006-12-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 02:15:39PM -0500, warren schreiner wrote: have just installed 6.1 and need to setup the network connection i isually use /stand/sysinstall but i get command not found. So I down loaded the documentation and it says to use the sysinstall. So, sysinstall has

Re: how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail?

2006-12-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 10:51:36PM -0600, Lane wrote: Tuareg, I can't find the name of the quy who straightened me out on the fuction of squid, but kudo's to him. Clearly squid is not the culprit. But I've done some eyeballing on /usr/sbin/periodic, and I think maybe it is the

Re: how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail?

2006-12-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:08:23AM -0800, James Long wrote: Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:33:32 -0600 From: Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: List Protocol (was: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x)

2006-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 08:36:14PM -0500, Bob Hall wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:49:39PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: a young girl in a tank top and boobs out front Isn't that where the boobs are usually installed? Until then STFU you ungrateful bastards. All you once were

Re: Install via ports...

2006-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 07:00:20PM -0500, Ne'Bahn wrote: Hi list, I've read the handbook for ports, basically (if I understand) ports are files that brings information (location, dependencies) to the system to compile a series of files (sources) to have the final piece of software. Very

Re: disklabel and usb device

2006-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:26:31PM -0500, Peter Matulis wrote: I am having trouble viewing my USB compact flash reader with my FBSD 5.5 system. I have done so in the past. For some reason I can no longer do so. This is what I'm getting: # disklabel /dev/da0s1 disklabel: /dev/da0s1: no

Re: Backing up FREEBSD

2006-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:30:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi This is Arun from Singapore. I basically want to know how to back up files if a computer is already running on FREEBSD. Please help me with this as it is urgent. It depends a little on what media you have available

Re: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x

2006-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:26:02PM -0500, listvj wrote: Lane wrote: On Monday 11 December 2006 01:18, Matthew Seaman wrote: listvj wrote: I'm interested in upgrading from 4.11 to 5.x. I currently track 4.x stable using cvsup, but I've never done a major version upgrade. First,

Re: Questions re: disklabel for external USB drives

2006-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:05:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got an external USB drive that I want to use for disk-based backups. It is important that this drive be useable on different FreeBSD servers that we have. I got it working on a test server ok, but I noticed that

Re: Questions re: disklabel for external USB drives

2006-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:26:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:05:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got an external USB drive that I want to use for disk-based backups. It is important

Re: Questions re: disklabel for external USB drives

2006-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:34:59PM +0100, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:17:29 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easy way to force the device to work as something like: /dev/da1s1d on all of the servers, including ones that do

Re: error ouput of fsck

2006-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:19:48PM +, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello Jerry, I'm not responding no, the fsck -y asuming no ! in fact i do fsck -y then all goes auto.. Hmmm. I don't know what is happening then. jerry regards. - Marwan CLEAR? no Hmmm. RECONNECT?

Re: error ouput of fsck

2006-12-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 09:55:06PM +, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello Daniel, The problem, is why its happening ? Also the other server had this sudden diffrent output 192# fsck ** /dev/ad8s1a (NO WRITE) ** Last Mounted on / ** Root file system ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes

Re: Extending a slice

2006-12-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello, I have and existing FreeBSD 5.4 box with 2 6GB hard drives in a RAID 1 mirror using gmirror. Due to physical space restrictions I cannot put more drives into this box and yet I need more physical drive space. I have 2 blank 40GB drives to replace my 2 current 6GB drives. I broke

Re: Extending a slice

2006-12-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:56:41PM +, Vince wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello, I have and existing FreeBSD 5.4 box with 2 6GB hard drives in a RAID 1 mirror using gmirror. Due to physical space restrictions I cannot put more drives into this box and yet I need more physical drive

Re: installing from a harddisk prepared in a functional system

2006-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:03:56PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: How does one make a 'boot' disk - be it cdrom, harddrive or flash (presuming your bios will boot from all those devices, of course)? 1.The handbook specifies you need to minimally copy the /bin folder to the destination. 2.

Re: custom rc.d script not working

2006-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
scripts to start up at boot time. jerry I think I see a 0.99.5 version in freshports.org. I'll just use that instead. Thanks ye all for the help... Rgrds On 12/5/06, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:30:41AM +, Tom Judge wrote

Re: ** SICK SERVER **

2006-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 03:44:30PM +, ~ Evaldo wrote: Hello there! How did you solved this trouble? I?m experiencing this right now, since two days ago. Any help will welcome. Please What problem? You haven't given any information about any problem. jerry Sincerely.

Re: SICK SERVER

2006-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 03:17:51PM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: Evaldo Silva wrote: Hello there! How did you solved this trouble? I?m experiencing this right now, since two days ago. Any help will welcome. Please Sincerely. Evaldo at fcm.unicamp.br or tio_evaldo at

Re: Booting a Freebsd HD on a windows box?

2006-12-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 12:08:20AM -0500, Steve Lake wrote: Hi all. I'm looking to merge two of my machines in my home office into one to free up the second one for other uses, but one is a windows machine, the second is my freebsd 5.3x machine. Can I just move the HD from the

Re: How can I repartition my drive?

2006-12-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:33:54AM +0300, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: Hello, How can I repartition my drive? I already have the hd dedicated for FreeBSD and 6.2-RC1 is installed. Is there away to make /var ..etc without reinstalling the OS? Well, I don't know what you mean by making /var

Re: custom rc.d script not working

2006-12-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:30:41AM +, Tom Judge wrote: Gobbledegeek wrote: I compiled quagga 0.99.5 from source (not freebsd port) and wrote this little script in the /etc/rc.d/zebra file. --- #!/bin/sh # PROVIDE: zebra # REQUIRE: NETWORKING .

Re: Moving to a new disk..

2006-12-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:48:18AM -0500, B. Cook wrote: Hello all, I've got a dying drive on my hands.. and I know I found a doc/guide on the handbook before regarding this.. something like.. # tar cf - --one-file-system -C /var . | tar xpvf - -C /mnt/var where the new drive is

Re: SYMLINK

2006-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:30:51PM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Please excuse my ignorance but I believe my symlink is not working, how can I verify a symlink? Just use it and see what happens. If it is a symlink to a directory, then do a cd to it. If it is to a text file, do a vi or

Re: SYMLINK

2006-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 09:35:23AM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Please excuse my ignorance but I believe my symlink is not working, how can I verify a symlink? Most people use ls -l to see where the link is pointing; software generally

Re: Moving /var/mail

2006-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:20:42PM -0500, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to /usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of course, I wish to maintain file permissions, ownerships, etc. I decided to try a

Re: Moving /var/mail

2006-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:22:01PM -0600, Philip Hallstrom wrote: I want to move /var/mail to /usr/var/mail, then symlink /var/mail to /usr/var/mail to free up space on my (too small on this machine) /var. Of course, I wish to maintain file permissions, ownerships, etc. I decided to try a

Re: Data Recovery

2006-11-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:29:39AM -0800, Rachel Florentine wrote: Hi; Is there a data recovery utility anywhere available? Not one that loads into Windoze, but straight into FBSD. I tried the following command to back up my working HD to my new 1/2 teraflop HD: cp -R /* /ad2 and I

Re: Data Recovery

2006-11-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:47:53PM +0100, Christian Walther wrote: I don't think that rsync can cope with hardlinks. Best way to do a backup like this is: tar -clf - / | ( cd /ad2 ; tar -xf - ) The -l flag will stay on the specified filesystem. If you forget this option tar (and any

Re: question on batch email sending

2006-11-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:05:12PM -0500, David Banning wrote: I have a standard mailbox with around 40 messages. I want to be able to just send them all to someone, the same person, not as an attachment but as individual emails. I want to do something like; cat /var/mail/frank |

Re: DUMP + RESTORE

2006-11-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:33:07AM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I know that if I dump a filesystem (lets say a full dump), that everything says the restore filesystem needs to be at least as big as the one the dump was made from. But I dare ask this question anyway ... If I have

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 setup doesn't see my HDD

2006-11-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:48:44PM +0200, Dima wrote: Well, this is something I have not seen, so I hope someone else can weigh in on it. jerry On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 06:58:32PM +0200, Dima wrote: Hmmm. I am presuming you are booted from an install CD. Yes, I'm booting from

Re: secondary ide drive setup

2006-11-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:24:30PM -0500, David Banning wrote: I am attempting to setup a secondary ide drive. I have configured the entire 305MB drive for storage. I used /stand/sysinstall and -it- issued the command ; /bin/sh -c newfs -b 16384 -f 2048 /dev/ad2s1e which seems very disk

Re: ssh over http

2006-11-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:54:27PM -0500, Ansar Mohammed wrote: Hello All, Is there any ssh over http implementation available for freebsd? I guess I would expect that to read http over ssh. Is that what you mean. jerry ___

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 setup doesn't see my HDD

2006-11-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 01:10:16PM +0200, Dima wrote: Hi all. I have Red Hat Linux 9 running on my server with HDD Western Digital WD2500JB (250 GB IDE). I'd like to move to FreeBSD 6.1. During install from CD setup doesn't recognize geometry of my HDD (it says 484521/16/63 is wrong

Re: Getting SHTML to work

2006-11-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:52:10AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: I am truing to get SSI working on a site I am building. I thought I had the 'httpd.conf' file properly configured. Following some directions I got off of a web site, I created a basic 'index.shtml' file and placed this in it:

Re: freebsd doesm't see my script on boot

2006-11-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 06:30:43PM +0200, Gregory Edigarov wrote: Hello, Everybody Well, here is what I am doing: ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d total 30 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4744 Nov 13 11:38 apache22 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 673 Nov 13 14:27 clamav-clamd -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 setup doesn't see my HDD

2006-11-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 06:58:32PM +0200, Dima wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 01:10:16PM +0200, Dima wrote: Usually, with FreeBSD, you just ignore those geometry messages. This should be especially true if you plan to use the whole disk for FreeBSD.The geometry that is reported is

Re: Password Security

2006-11-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
to fixit mode - where you are running from the CD and not the installed OS and then rewrite any file that limits your access and then reboot again. jerry On 11/22/06, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 04:41:37AM +0100, VeeJay wrote: Hi I need

Re: Password Security

2006-11-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 10:45:19AM +0100, VeeJay wrote: On 11/23/06, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And how can one into the System by booting from a CD if it still requires the Password even in Single User mode? Booting from CD, floppy or hard disk is slected at BIOS level.

Re: I don't see anything to answer my question

2006-11-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 07:05:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/21/06, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 09:38:26PM -0500, rickie lyman wrote: I am a newbee and sometimes Dizzy too. My question is I have a computer that has a rather large drive

Re: Upgrade Question

2006-11-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 01:34:23AM +, Robert Davison wrote: If my cvs-upfile reads, and specfically im looking at the default release line *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all ports-all tag=. doc-all tag=.

Re: Password Security

2006-11-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 04:41:37AM +0100, VeeJay wrote: Hi I need to secure my data and server. Any advice will be highly appreciated. I am going to place my FreeBSD server at a shared place? I am just afraid that any unauthorized person might boot machine in single user mode and steal

Re: Ezmlm Port Okay Or Junk?

2006-11-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:30:58AM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 11/22/06, Rachel Florentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 105Hi; Okay, I learned from sad experience and you all that the qmail port is junk. What about ezmlm? Same thing? Or good to go? Didn't you know that /usr/ports is a

Re: Upgrade Question

2006-11-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 09:05:13PM -, Graham Bentley wrote: You've confused STABLE with RELEASE. 6.2 has not reached RELEASE. 6-STABLE is the latest these changes worked fine in CURRENT (right now, aka 7) and have been MFCed (merged from current) so that more people can try them out,

Re: License issue

2006-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:00:07PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD Project team, We would like to ask you about the license issue of FreeBSD when we redistribute FreeBSD in binary and we implement our software on the FreeBSD in the MRI system of TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS

Re: desktop for bsd

2006-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:28:58AM -0800, Marshall wrote: hi, I was on the freesbie site and it is a live cd version, but i'd like to have a full version, with XFCE, is this already in freebsd? I'd like to have it as the default desktop. I did see a BSD based OS with XFCE as the only

Re: [OT]two networks, one nic

2006-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hmmm, On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:22:30PM -0800, jekillen wrote: On Nov 14, 2006, at 7:43 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:52:32PM -0800, jekillen wrote: Hello FreeBSD users, I have been operating under the assumption that the same network interface card cannot

Re: xfce4 repair, how to recompile everything?

2006-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:42:01PM +0100, Armin Arh wrote: I would like to recompile all of the xfce4 stuff. Is the ports system offering a solution here? maybe something like: just do make make install jerry make reinstall IF CATEGORIES IS xfce4 Armin -- PUBBOX Postmaster +

Re: [OT]two networks, one nic

2006-11-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:52:32PM -0800, jekillen wrote: Hello FreeBSD users, I have been operating under the assumption that the same network interface card cannot handle two different networks. But then I seem to have seen an example in one of the OReill? books on networking that had one

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 02:31:26PM -0500, Jay Gordon wrote: That's the way I would go about it. Jay Gordon Unix Systems Administrator DataPipe Managed Hosting Services - What It Means To Be Sure - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.datapipe.com Tel: 201.792.1918 x2402 | Fax: 201-792-3090

Re: question

2006-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 07:40:15PM +0100, Sebastian Herrmann wrote: Hallo, could you tell me how to download FreeBSD from your site? Probably, before you do that, you should read the FreeBSD Handbook - especially the parts about preparing for and installing FreeBSD - which includes

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:03:28AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Hi everyone. I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown as user. I get a permission denied error message. I know that this is probably some simple permission's thing, as I don't have that problem on

Re: Questions on first-time installation

2006-11-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:12:43AM -0500, Bob Schwartz wrote: Sorry for top posting, but I think, given the conditions you specify, probably the best thing for you to do is buy another drive - and replace one of the others to experiment with FreeBSD for a while. Kindly see my post of this

Re: Questions on first-time installation

2006-11-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 08:42:04AM +, Jan Grant wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Bob Schwartz wrote: ... at least as it is desribed in the DELL docs and bios... Be really careful. The windows boot loader should be able to boot a freebsd install for you. I have never had a Windows MBR

Re: Questions on first-time installation

2006-11-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:30:33AM -0500, Bob Schwartz wrote: Be really careful. The windows boot loader should be able to boot a freebsd install for you., Thank you. Either one works for me as long as I get full choice. If the windows loader simply picks up bsd and offers it in

Re: HELP! Installation Questions

2006-11-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 06:39:50AM +0100, VeeJay wrote: Hello There, I wonder if someone from you could spare few minutes and share your knowledge with me. I love FreeBSD and use it time to time but I think I am still novice. I have got an assignment to build a Multi-Task web server.

Re: freebsd help

2006-11-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:24:45AM +0800, mark wrote: Hello, First,thank you for your job.I think FreeBsd is very perfect OS. Now,I will introduce myself. I am a student from china. You can call me Mark. Nihau. When I setup it,,I have some questions. Can this OS support Dual-CORE

Re: HELP! Installation Questions

2006-11-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 05:26:38PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 06:39:50AM +0100, VeeJay wrote: .Ideal Space required for MySQL DBs: 140GB. (Contents: Many MySQL databases backing name based virtual websites) .Ideal Space required

Re: freebsd mount windows or vise versa

2006-11-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:27:55PM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi people, does anyone know how to mount and read/write freebsd/windows disk from windows/freebsd? mount_ntfs command can only read, it there some app that can write as well? thanks!! The last I heard, FreeBSD only reads NTFS.

Re: Hard Drive Issues

2006-11-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 04:49:08PM -0500, Richard McIntyre wrote: Tom Judge wrote: Richard McIntyre wrote: I'm having a similar problem, Oct 13 03:01:31 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=181778119 Oct 13 07:11:15 tco1 kernel: ad2:

Re: Questions on first-time installation

2006-11-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 09:41:19AM -0500, Bob Schwartz wrote: Good am, OK, I think I am getting closer. The system returns this upon install: Name: da0 Geometry: 17849 cyls/255 heads/63 286744185 sectors (140011MB) The SCSI drive, non-raid, that I want to install on is 146 gigs,

Re: Questions on first-time installation

2006-11-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:33:30AM -0500, Bob Schwartz wrote: First, to all who answered...many thanks! I can see I found the right places. Sorry for top posting, but I think, given the conditions you specify, probably the best thing for you to do is buy another drive - and replace one of the

Re: i need to upgrade a disk

2006-11-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:59:59AM -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote: i have a system that is FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE, that i need to upgrade its single disk. id like to keep all its existing slices the same size, and then use the unused space to create a new /opt slice. would dd be the way to

Re: free memory keeps going down on 5.4-release

2006-11-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:08:04AM -0800, Roselyn Lee wrote: Hi, We're running freebsd 5-4 release and notice that an idle system's free memroy keeps decreasing. The system has 1 GB memory and the free mem starts at ~700M and goes down steadily until it hits 2M and stays there.

Re: Ports maintainer

2006-11-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi there! I am interesting to be a ports maintainer for FreeBSD project. What need I do? How about adopting /usr/ports/net/arla. It no longer works in FreeBSD 6.xxx because of changes in the way locks work. The process is simple - make it work and identify yourself as being willing and

Re: fsck with freebsd-6.1

2006-10-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello list Looking at the man page for fsck, I couldn't find an option to tell fsck when it finds an unreadable sector, to mark it as bad so it doesn't get written to another time. If fsck can't do it, is there a program in the system or in ports that can? That generally gets handled

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