disklabel does not write disklabel

2007-09-17 Thread Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Hello guys! I tried to recover my partitions, which I remeved by accident. I used scan_ffs to create a new disklabel, which found all partitions, but when I use disklabel with -e or -R it does not write the table down. I think there's something I forgot or did wrong perhaps, but I'm not getting

Raid Monitoring: a summary

2007-08-04 Thread Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Hello guys! As we've some Freebsd servers at work and we need to control the status of the raid-systems I started to write a page describing how to monitor the different raid-systems. It cat be found at http://nico.schottelius.org/documentations/freebsd/freebsd-raid-monitoring/ I know that

Re: USB Keyboard / Dell Optiplex 745 / FreeBSD 6.2

2007-07-24 Thread Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Reid Linnemann [Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 10:32:48AM -0500]: I've never know what causes this, but in single user mode some USB keyboards on some systems refuse to work. I myself work on an Optiplex GX270 that exhibits the same behavior. You can get around it easily enough though; at the loader,

USB Keyboard / Dell Optiplex 745 / FreeBSD 6.2

2007-07-20 Thread Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Hello! Just wanted to confirm that the usb-keyboard is not working in the installer with Dell Optiplex 745 and FreeBSD 6.2. Though it works in the boot loader, but stops working (num lock light is set to off) when usb support is enabled by FreeBSD. I also tried booting with verbose logging on,

bonnie++ aborts on NFS volume

2007-07-17 Thread Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Hello! I am trying to do some NFS-benchmarking (to test whether we can use a mail server storage on a NFS-volume) with bonnie++. But it aborts, when it tries to delete the contents of the directory. Manual deletion is no problem. Anyone an idea why it aborts and how to fix? Full log can be

Recommened U320 SCSI controller (pci-x)?

2007-06-06 Thread Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Hello! Which scsi u320 controller on the pci-x bus would you recommened? I read some drivers (amr,cis,mpt,iir), but I'm still not sure which card would do best with freebsd. Any hints fro me? Sincerly Nico -- Think about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).

Re: isc-dhcp3-server in a jail?

2007-06-04 Thread Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Paul Fraser [Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:47:18PM +1000]: [...] Here's what's happening: [...] Starting dhcpd. Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.5 Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ Wrote 0

Server rebooting after some minutes

2007-05-22 Thread Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Since today a server is rebooting after some minutes of uptime with the following error: mode = 0100600, inum=566528, fs=/hsphere panic: ffs_valloc: dup_alloc cpuid=1 boot() called on cpu#1 Cannot dump: No dump device defined. iir0: Flushing [...] Anyone an idea what causes that reboot? Nico

Outage on FreeBSD 6.1 / dell sc 1425

2007-05-21 Thread Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Hello list, I've some problems with two dell sc1425, using two u320 scsi hardisks, freebsd 6.1, gmirror raid1 mounted at /, a dual core xeon 3.2ghz: - the production server started to get really really slow last week and started to print those [0] messages to dmesg - after I rebooted that

Re: ACL: Default and other problems

2006-10-25 Thread Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Chuck Swiger [Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 09:21:51AM -0700]: [...] Now I am interested on how you would solve this problem with standard Unix-Ids without using external tools (like callin chown/chgrp/chmod each update). This constraint makes the problem impossible to solve. Either you are

Re: ACL: Default and other problems

2006-10-24 Thread Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Wow, sombody even reads this thread! Wojciech Puchar [Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:43:47PM +0200]: posted a question about ACLs because I'm having difficulties setting up default ACLs. My question was posted 11/10 but I haven't got an answer yet. Looks like noone is really using ACLs (and

Re: ACL: Default and other problems

2006-10-23 Thread Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Patrik Jansson [Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:38:36AM +0200]: I would also like to know if there's a in-depth ACL documentation. I posted a question about ACLs because I'm having difficulties setting up default ACLs. My question was posted 11/10 but I haven't got an answer yet. Looks like noone is

ACL: Default and other problems

2006-10-18 Thread Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Hello! I experiemented with the ACls under fbsd 5.3 and got some problems with how freebsd calculates the permissions. I followed the instructions on [0]. My aim is to install default ACLs, so a group of users (with possible broken umask) can work together on git-repositories. The idea is that