Re: zfs can't mount /usr after 9.1-release upgrade

2013-07-10 Thread Tom Worster
On 7/10/13 1:50 PM, "Michael Sierchio" wrote: >On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Tom Worster wrote: > ># mount -p > /etc/fstab thanks for answering, michael. i have now spotted the problem. the zfs_enable line in rc.conf was fubar. i must have done some bad vi on it arou

zfs can't mount /usr after 9.1-release upgrade

2013-07-10 Thread Tom Worster
o i gotta press to make that not happen again? tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Why is "pkg_glob" no longer working for me?

2013-04-28 Thread Tom Russo
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 12:00:02PM +, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:54:59PM -0600, Tom Russo wrote: > > > > Anyone else have this issue? Or am I the only one left still using > > portupgrade and its ass

Why is "pkg_glob" no longer working for me?

2013-04-26 Thread Tom Russo
I started the process). Anyone else have this issue? Or am I the only one left still using portupgrade and its associated tools? -- Tom RussoKM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM echo &quo

Re: OT: gEDA, SPICE, electronic cad/simulation

2012-10-28 Thread Tom Russo
you've prepared the netlist with an understanding of how gnetlist is going to process it, you can get garbage. While gEDA/gschem/gnetlist/ng-spice are cool tools, they are not easy to dive into without a previous knowledge of spice. You can try looking at the internal help in ngspice. J

Re: OT: gEDA, SPICE, electronic cad/simulation

2012-10-28 Thread Tom Russo
ot;U1" in a spice netlist by calling the device U1. You need to use an X subcircuit instantiation line and an associated .subckt subcircuit definition. -- Tom RussoKM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236http://kevan.org/brai

Re: doom, quake, hexen

2012-08-20 Thread Tom Russo
e telling you about the HRP and where to find it, but never explained how to install it or use it on BSD (and the HRP web site has only Windows and Linux-specific installers). Just looked, and it appears that this reference to the HRP is now removed from the FreeBSD port. -- Tom RussoKM5V

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-20 Thread Tom Carpenter
ownload the source, ran 'freebsd-update fetch' and 'freebsd-update install' to update the source, then compiled a new kernel using the GENERIC config file, rebooted, and now 'uname -a' output shows the '-p4' version number, but I was trying to avoid compiling ker

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-18 Thread Tom Carpenter
11/18/2011 03:50 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 18/11/2011 20:12, Tom Carpenter wrote: Is it not possible/not intended for kernels to be updated via freebsd-update? If kernels can be updated via freebsd-update will there be a release of an fix/update that will allow systems to be patched/updated to -

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-18 Thread Tom Carpenter
Is it not possible/not intended for kernels to be updated via freebsd-update? If kernels can be updated via freebsd-update will there be a release of an fix/update that will allow systems to be patched/updated to -p4 or later? -Tom Carpenter On 11/14/2011 05:25 AM, Evalyn wrote: It touches

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-14 Thread Tom Carpenter
Do you anticipate the release of an fix/update that will allow systems to be patched to -p4 or later via freebsd-update? -Tom Carpenter On 11/14/2011 05:25 AM, Evalyn wrote: It touches the kernel but you need to do make builkernel/make installkernel before uname -a shows "8.2-RELEA

8.2-RELEASE-p4

2011-11-11 Thread Tom Carpenter
ease name to explicitly match what's available on ftp.freebsd.org (or set to "any"). Would you like to select another FTP server? = That message will go away if I edit `8.2-RELEASE-p3' to read `8.2-RELEASE' but I'm not sure if that's the appropriate solutio

Can net.inet.tcp.msl be set per interface?

2011-05-26 Thread Tom Worster
ers on the private LAN. The average number of MySQL client connections in TIME_WAIT will be proportional to MSL. And, while the circumstances under which a long MSL would help anything are unimaginable on the LAN, they are not on the Internet. So can net.inet.tcp.msl be set per inter

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-31 Thread Tom Worster
On 3/31/11 1:10 PM, "Polytropon" wrote: >On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:33:09 +0100, Arthur Chance >wrote: >>On 03/31/11 17:06, Arthur Chance wrote: >>> On 03/30/11 23:00, Polytropon wrote: There is a project called VirtualBSD that developed a FreeBSD system image that can be used with Virtual

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Tom Worster
I only know FreeBSD so I can't recommend any other BSD as being "easier". And I don't use a windowing system on it. But I've an answer to a question you didn't ask: FreeBSD in VirtualBox a convenient way of learning. It saves a lot of uninteresting messing around. And it allows me to save my proje

DTrace in RELEASE?

2011-03-14 Thread Tom Worster
Does anyone know if it's likely DTrace will ever make it into the generic RELEASEs? Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd

Re: lost network during freebsd-update install

2011-03-10 Thread Tom Worster
On 3/10/11 12:48 PM, "Jason Helfman" wrote: >Good idea. Rollback does work, and has worked for me in a very similar >situation, and hopefully will work for you as well. After the rollback, >reboot, and start again from your initial upgrade command. I would highly >recommend using tmux, and also i

Re: lost network during freebsd-update install

2011-03-10 Thread Tom Worster
On 3/10/11 9:13 AM, "Bas Smeelen" wrote: >On 03/10/2011 03:03 PM, Tom Worster wrote: >>at this stage, i have no remote access. even if i could gain access, i >>wouldn't know what state it's in or how to proceed. it's probably best >>now >>t

Re: lost network during freebsd-update install

2011-03-10 Thread Tom Worster
at this stage, i have no remote access. even if i could gain access, i wouldn't know what state it's in or how to proceed. it's probably best now to pay for the hosting company to install 8.1 from cd. On 3/10/11 8:54 AM, "Bas Smeelen" wrote: >On 03/10/2011

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-10 Thread Tom Worster
On 3/9/11 8:57 PM, "mikel king" wrote: >In recent years their marketing as gone to some lengths to scrub the >references to BSD & UNIX from the brochures. It's like they are ashamed >of their roots, again personally I think they hired some new anti-geeks >that just don't get it. i think it's dee

Re: lost network during freebsd-update install

2011-03-10 Thread Tom Worster
On 3/10/11 8:01 AM, "Bas Smeelen" wrote: >On 03/10/2011 01:52 PM, Tom Worster wrote: >>i was upgrading a remote machine from 7.1 to 8.1 with freebsd-update. >> >>the "freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade" phase was complete and i had >>given: >

lost network during freebsd-update install

2011-03-10 Thread Tom Worster
ce but the ssh session didn't recover. i don't know if the freebsd-update command completed or not. or how to find out. and if it did not, what to do next. i'd be most grateful for any help. tom ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: "portmaster -a" command fails - *** Error code 1

2011-03-04 Thread Tom Worster
these situations arise quite often where you have to delete a port before portmaster will continue. sometimes you can predict it by reading /usr/ports/UPDATING not that this is the only reason to read UPDATING. On 3/4/11 1:37 PM, "Arthur Chance" wrote: >On 03/04/11 17:36, Ed Flecko wrote: >>

Re: determining freebsd-update status

2011-03-04 Thread Tom Worster
thanks for the answers, jason. two more questions below. On 3/4/11 1:09 PM, "Jason Helfman" wrote: >On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:32:11AM -0500, Tom Worster thus spake: >>to determine roughly where a server is in its updates (we're running only >>RELEASE) i do: >

determining freebsd-update status

2011-03-04 Thread Tom Worster
hat's referenced in the tag file? tia tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: libsphinxclient (for the pecl sphinx api)

2011-03-03 Thread Tom Worster
On 3/2/11 5:35 PM, "Matthew Seaman" wrote: >On 02/03/2011 21:46, Tom Worster wrote: >> does anyone have advice on getting libsphinxclient up an running? >> >> the sphinxsearch port seems not to do it and i'm completely failing to >> build the cli

libsphinxclient (for the pecl sphinx api)

2011-03-02 Thread Tom Worster
does anyone have advice on getting libsphinxclient up an running? the sphinxsearch port seems not to do it and i'm completely failing to build the client from source. tia tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Running two daemon instances -- rc.d or not?

2011-01-24 Thread Tom Worster
I need to set up a server with two instances of SphinxSearch searchd (listening on different ports, of course). What's a good way to do it? Copying /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sphinxsearch to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sphinxsearch2 and editing that doesn't feel very attractive

Re: awk question: replacing "%d%s" by "%d %s"

2011-01-12 Thread Tom Limoncelli
, try: $ awk < data.txt > experiment.txt '{ num = $1 ; sub(/[^0-9]+$/, "", num) ; lets = $1 ; sub(/^[0-9]+/, "", lets); if (length(lets)) { print num " " lets } else { print num } }' ; diff control.txt experiment.txt $ Tom -- http://EverythingSysadmin

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-15 Thread Tom Worster
On 11/13/10 6:32 PM, "dalesc...@shaw.ca" wrote: >> but dedicated/vps does not offer what cloud computing does. > >What do feel are the advantages of the cloud? i haven't used one yet but, as far as i can tell, the interesting differences derive from how the could platform implements network, sto

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Tom Worster
i am very happy with the service i get from my provider of freebsd dedicated hosts. and there's no shortage of offerings for vps as well. but dedicated/vps does not offer what cloud computing does. On 11/13/10 4:05 PM, "Nerius Landys" wrote: >Hi, I'm a 3 year customer of M5 Hosting. >They are

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Tom Worster
On 11/13/10 8:57 AM, "Wojciech Puchar" wrote: >> different Windowses they offer. >> >> But ultimately their decision will depend on market interest. >> >> Here's the contact info if you want to voice your interest: >> >> http://www.rackspacecloud.com/aboutus/contact >> >> >> A Xen expert says yo

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Tom Worster
n philosophy and implementation) >and since i have been a big FB user for years I have already told them >we would like to switch if they offered the option > >On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Tom Worster wrote: >> I got a somewhat encouraging response from Rackspace when I asked if >

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Tom Worster
On 11/12/10 6:44 PM, "Chris Brennan" wrote: >I think it's safe to say that either a) Mr. Silveira has unsubscribed from >the list or b) learned to keep his mouth shut and scampered off into the >dark to learn the proper netiquette of this list. Must we continue to beat >this already dead horse?

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Tom Worster
On 11/12/10 7:18 PM, "Polytropon" wrote: >On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:57:46 -0800, Charlie Kester > wrote: >>On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 15:44:01 PST Chris Brennan wrote: >>>Must we continue to beat this already dead horse? >>Apparently the answer is yes, when we're not beating the equally >>dead horse of

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Tom Worster
On 11/12/10 2:29 PM, "Jerry McAllister" wrote: >Lots of people see FreeBSD and the web site and the mascott, etc for >the first time probably each day.Some of them will have the same >mistaken idea since the misunderstanding of it is implanted in people's >heads from an early age.Although

FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-11 Thread Tom Worster
I got a somewhat encouraging response from Rackspace when I asked if they were going to offer FreeBSD in addition to the 17 different Linuxes and 5 different Windowses they offer. But ultimately their decision will depend on market interest. Here's the contact info if you want to voice your inter

Re: Why does apache22 port want python?

2010-11-04 Thread Tom Worster
ends > on python at all, but maybe some apache plugin does. > > I'd try with make config install clean > > Cheers, > Antonio > > On 04/11/2010 19:30, Tom Worster wrote: >> I don't need python for anything, afaik. What does apache want it for? >> &

Why does apache22 port want python?

2010-11-04 Thread Tom Worster
I don't need python for anything, afaik. What does apache want it for? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: problems installing php (php5-spl) with portmaster

2010-11-02 Thread Tom Worster
may be of some help > later. > > http://www.unixnews.net/2010/10/error-with-apr-parameter-is-incorrect.html > http://www.unixnews.net/2010/10/pcre-error-with-php5-filter-and-php5.html > > -Lystic > > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Tom Worster wrote: > >> portmas

Re: problems installing php (php5-spl) with portmaster

2010-11-02 Thread Tom Worster
On 11/1/10 9:14 PM, "John Levine" wrote: > >> portupgrade. However, I just unregistered php5-spl, because its no longer >> necessary. I believe php5-spl and php5-pcre are now integrated into PHP-5.3 >> by default. > > Yes and no. pcre depends on the separate pcre package, and php will fail >

problems installing php (php5-spl) with portmaster

2010-11-01 Thread Tom Worster
portmaster is looping on devel/php5-spl. it seems as though php5-spl depends on itself. the excerpt below shows two cycles of the recursion. the list ">> php5-spl-5.2.11_1 >> php5-spl-5.2.11_1 >>" gets one longer on each interation. any ideas how to fix this? thanks

Writing to MBR

2010-09-24 Thread tom oakes
of days trying to get grub working, I hate to just give up. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Tom Worster
On 7/26/10 12:35 PM, "Pegasus Mc Cleaft" wrote: >>> By the way . . . while I think a BelssedBSD fork is a ridiculous idea, >>> the name "BlessedBSD" is *brilliant*. Pronouncing it aloud makes the >>> high-quality pun buried in the name more obvious, for those who didn't >>> quite catch it on the

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Tom Worster
On 7/23/10 10:01 PM, "Victor Skovorodnikov" wrote: > I have always been thinking of trying FreeBSD but as a Christian I get > deterred by its un-Christian logo. to me, devils, daemons and demons are mythological critters like elves, pixies and bogey men. > Have you considered changing it to so

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Tom Worster
On 7/24/10 5:59 PM, "Chad Perrin" wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:05:14AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: >> >> I'm reminded that the SATAN network scanner project used to ship a >> utility with the source code that would patch it to rename it >> "SANTA". I suppose someone could fork a new BSD

Newbie Issues With Crashing 8.0 Image

2010-07-01 Thread Tom Purl
ar/log directory, but I didn't see any error messages. I checked the following files: * debug.log * dmesg.today * lastlog * messages * pf.today None of these files contain any error messages at all. Where can I go next to troubleshoot this i

Re: upgrading form 7.1-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE?

2010-06-17 Thread Tom Worster
On 6/16/10 1:06 PM, "Matthew Seaman" wrote: > On 16/06/2010 17:48:03, Tom Worster wrote: >> as usual i let things slip until the servers are a couple of versions behind >> and then i face the worries of upgrading. >> >> will freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE up

upgrading form 7.1-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE?

2010-06-16 Thread Tom Worster
as usual i let things slip until the servers are a couple of versions behind and then i face the worries of upgrading. will freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade work on a 7.1-RELEASE system or do i need to take intermediate steps? does anyone have experience or advice they'd be willing to share?

Re: RootBSD?

2010-04-06 Thread Tom Ierna
On Apr 6, 2010, at 9:31 AM, Glen Barber wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Tom Ierna wrote: >> Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? >> > > I've been using RootBSD for a few months now, and would give you nothing > but positive feedback - however, your question is

RootBSD?

2010-04-06 Thread Tom Ierna
Hi, Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? I'm looking to move an office-hosted machine's services to the cloud, and they seem to be one of the only VPS companies centered around BSD support instead of Linux. Thanks, -Tom___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: Trouble Installing JKD15 On A Vanilla 8.0 Installation

2010-03-20 Thread Tom Purl
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Tom Purl wrote: >> First, after the port had compiled on my system for many hours, it >> crashed with an error message stating that I was "out of swap space". I >> had only devoted 128 MB

Trouble Installing JKD15 On A Vanilla 8.0 Installation

2010-03-19 Thread Tom Purl
FreeBSD? I found the following tip that apparently eliminates this error, but it really seems to be a hack to me. Is there a better way? * http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-July/049686.html 2. I think there's a possibility that this error

use DD mode or not? and how to set up?

2009-12-11 Thread Tom Worster
options for setting up gmirror include DD or standard mode. i don't know about others. i'm about to install 8.0-RELEASE on a system with two 750g sata disks that i want to run as a mirrored pair. what are the pros/cons of the different options? and what about the installation process? set up the

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/8/09 5:21 PM, "Polytropon" wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:09:16 -0800 (PST), Ivo Karabojkov > wrote: >> So I'd like to know how >> to distinguish mode of my current filesystems - is it standard or >> dangerously dedicated? > > If you've first created a slice on the disk, and then > partit

Re: fixit and gmirror

2009-12-08 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/8/09 5:00 PM, "Joey Mingrone" wrote: > Hello: > > I was upgrading a system from 7.2 to 8.0 and all was going well until > the make installkernel step. The / partition filled up when the new > kernel was installing. Since /boot was taking up most of the space I > moved /boot to /usr/ and

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-07 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/6/09 1:06 PM, "Ivo Karabojkov" wrote: > Since I have some servers to manage I am very interested how should I > upgrade to 8.0 Rel? this is a big question. for my production servers i like to keep things simple and use the generic binary distribution. and i've been trying to develop a hab

port math/mpfr update failure && www.mpfr.org site seems to be down

2009-12-04 Thread Tom Mende
own build error) www.mpfr.org site seems to be down. I can't seem to find mpfr-2.4.2.tar.bz2 on any of the half dozen or so mirrors I manually checked nor is it mentioned in UPDATING or MOVED to try anything out of the ordinary. Shouldn't it be

Re: recovering data from this disk

2009-12-04 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/4/09 1:51 PM, "Henrik Hudson" wrote: > On Fri, 04 Dec 2009, Tom Worster wrote: > >> any suggestions how to recover data from either of the mirrored disks that i >> can't get to boot? the situation is described below. > > If they were indeed mirrored

recovering data from this disk

2009-12-04 Thread Tom Worster
any suggestions how to recover data from either of the mirrored disks that i can't get to boot? the situation is described below. (i'm assuming, given the silence on this, that making the system work after the freebsd-update is a lost cause.) On 12/3/09 11:14 AM, "Tom Worster&qu

Re: my slices are gone

2009-12-03 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/3/09 4:34 PM, "David Rawling" wrote: > -Original Message- >> From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org on behalf of Tom Worster >> Sent: Fri 4/12/2009 8:19 AM >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: my slices are gone >> >&g

my slices are gone

2009-12-03 Thread Tom Worster
on a track boundary chunk 'ad6p2' [409640..1464784583] does not start on a track boundary which seems pretty bad in two different ways. would anyone disagree that freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade has left this system unusable and the only next step is reformat at reinstall (that old wi

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-03 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/3/09 11:14 AM, "Tom Worster" wrote: > after running freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade my system won't boot. it > gets stuck on mountroot and i can't find the magic word it wants. > > the system used to have two sata drives /dev/ad4 and ad6. they were &g

won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-03 Thread Tom Worster
7;ve said to mountroot works: ufs:/dev/ad4s1a ufs:/dev/ad6s1a ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a ufs:/dev/disk0s1a ufs:/dev/disk1s1a does anyone know the magic word? i'd be very grateful. tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Dtrace

2009-11-29 Thread Tom Worster
is it likely that Dtrace will be coming to standard RELEASE kernels in future? i prefer not compile custom kernels for production servers but i do find the system monitoring Dtrace affords rather handy. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Dtrace-tp26562798p26562798.html Sent

Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned

2009-10-22 Thread Tom Worster
Karl Vogel-3 wrote: > >>> Tom Worster said: > > T> if only it had a way to truncate fields in a column that has a few > T> really long strings in it. thanks for pointing me to it. i'll see if i > T> can't figure out the script and how to modify it

Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned

2009-10-21 Thread Tom Worster
Karl Vogel-3 wrote: > >>> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:55:07 -0700 (PDT), >>> Tom Worster said: > > T> is there a cli command that lays out tsv files for display with a fixed > T> width font? that is, it figures how wide each column needs to be and > T> p

Re: Display TSV files with columns aligned

2009-10-21 Thread Tom Worster
Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Oct 20), Tom Worster said: >> is there a cli command that lays out tsv files for display with a fixed >> width font? >> >> that is, it figures how wide each column needs to be and pads each field >> in the file with

Display TSV files with columns aligned

2009-10-20 Thread Tom Worster
is there a cli command that lays out tsv files for display with a fixed width font? that is, it figures how wide each column needs to be and pads each field in the file with a suitable about of space? tom -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Display-TSV-files-with-columns

Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Worster
On 9/16/09 3:19 PM, "Matthew Seaman" wrote: > Tom Worster wrote: >> is there a general shell syntax that can be used to pass arguments to a >> daemon that you're starting with the /etc/rc.d/foo start command? > > If you're starting service foo,

Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Worster
On 9/16/09 2:37 PM, "Mel Flynn" wrote: > On Wednesday 16 September 2009 20:21:40 Chris Cowart wrote: >> Tom Worster wrote: >>> thanks, Mel, that's good to know. >>> >>> i think your suggestion of modifying rc.conf will turn out to be a tidy

Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Worster
On 9/16/09 1:35 PM, "Mel Flynn" wrote: > On Wednesday 16 September 2009 18:45:29 Tom Worster wrote: >> is there a general shell syntax that can be used to pass arguments to a >> daemon that you're starting with the /etc/rc.d/foo start command? >> >>

passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Worster
is there a general shell syntax that can be used to pass arguments to a daemon that you're starting with the /etc/rc.d/foo start command? for example, how does one start sshd using /etc/rc.d/sshd and pass it '-o X11Forwarding=no' without touching a co

FreeBSD-8 Release Type?

2009-09-13 Thread Tom Smith
Hey guys, we've googled and searched the FreeBSD website... cannot find the answer. Will FreeBSD-8 be a 'normal' or 'extended' support release? If it's normal, we'll probably just stick with 7.1, but if it is exten

GEOM: the secondary GPT table is corrupt

2009-09-08 Thread Tom Worster
eems to be fine, according to gmirror status. googling around, it seems these warnings indicate shoddy initial setup of the disks and there's no clear answer how to sort these matters out. any advice? -tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: "me" in ipfw rules - does it include aliases?

2009-09-08 Thread Tom Worster
On 9/8/09 2:58 AM, "Nikos Vassiliadis" wrote: > Tom Worster wrote: >> the ipfw man page says: >> >> me matches any IP address configured on an interface in the system. >> >> which suggests that if i code my rules using "me" then w

"me" in ipfw rules - does it include aliases?

2009-09-07 Thread Tom Worster
dress as they do for other addresses. is that correct? - tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Opera 10.00 (native) & flash

2009-09-07 Thread Tom Mende
Running on 7.2-RELEASE, Opera 10.00 build 4585 (native) and would like to view flash enabled websites. Anyone with a howto? Have googled extensively and followed a variety of methods all unsuccessful to date. Like to here from someone who has it running? Cheers, -- Tom Mende

freebsd-update & userland sources

2009-08-02 Thread Tom Mende
this by manually downloading the fusefs- kmod-0.3.9.p1.20080208_6.tbz, pkg_adding it, and then forcing the packages that have this pkg as a dependency to portupgrade with the -f option. Now portupgrade hits this pkg warning message (IGNORE msg) everytime it runs. Ch

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-20 Thread Tom Worster
On 7/16/09 6:12 PM, "Maxim Khitrov" wrote: >> >> I'd love to hear about any test results you may get comparing software with >> hardware raid. > > I received the hardware yesterday. There was a last minute change due > to cost. Instead of getting 4x 2TB drives I opted for 6x 1TB. This > limits

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-13 Thread Tom Worster
On 7/13/09 3:23 PM, "Maxim Khitrov" wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Richard Mahlerwein wrote: > >> I guess the last question I'll ask (as any more may uncover my ignorance) is >> if you need to use hardware RAID at all? It seems both UFS2 and ZFS can do >> software RAID which seems to

Re: How to add a slice and partition to a mirror

2009-07-09 Thread Tom Munro Glass
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:52:46 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:12:56AM +1200, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > > I have a FreeBSD 7.2 system that had two 37GB mirrored SCSI drives. These > > contained a single slice filling the disk with separate partitions for > >

How to add a slice and partition to a mirror

2009-07-09 Thread Tom Munro Glass
of the new drive is being used. I've now removed the 37GB drive and run "gmirror forget gm0" again and the system is running on the new half used 74GB drive. How do I define a new slice and partition to fill the second half of this drive? Regards

Re: character sets for file names on ufs?

2009-05-29 Thread Tom Worster
On 5/28/09 3:01 PM, "Pieter de Goeje" wrote: > If you set your locale to UTF-8, you can use unicode characters in filenames. works like a charm. thanks for the tip! tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

character sets for file names on ufs?

2009-05-28 Thread Tom Worster
what character set/encoding is used for file names in freebsd when i have a default ufs fs? tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fr

Re: Running Apache with as few modules as possible

2009-04-30 Thread Tom Worster
On 4/29/09 4:59 PM, "Charles Howse" wrote: > I recall Bill Gates saying, "640k is enough for anybody." I agree, > it's not much of a savings, and there's always the possibility that > the webmaster may add something later that needs a module that's > commented, and run around in circles before s

Re: Running Apache with as few modules as possible

2009-04-29 Thread Tom Worster
On 4/28/09 6:45 PM, "Adam Vandemore" wrote: >> OK, here we go: >> With Apache running on the development machine, modules commented as >> in my first post -- >> CPU: 0.8% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.8% interrupt, 98.1% idle >> Mem: 27M Active, 139M Inact, 64M Wired, 11M Cache, 34M Buf, 64

Re: Running Apache with as few modules as possible

2009-04-28 Thread Tom Worster
On 4/28/09 3:14 PM, "Charles Howse" wrote: > Can anyone see anything that I've commented that I'll be sorry for? > Can anyone suggest any more testing I should do? unfortunately i can't but i'd like to ask you to tell us, once you're done with removing modules, how much memory you saved relative

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-25 Thread Tom Worster
On 4/23/09 12:54 AM, "Mel Flynn" wrote: > On Wednesday 22 April 2009 17:37:06 Tom Worster wrote: > >> by the by, on my test machine i ended up with python installed. seems to be >> because i needed php5-gd which now depends on python. all for some simple &g

Re: i had a tought

2009-04-22 Thread Tom Worster
On 4/22/09 12:10 PM, "Arjen Simon Scheer" wrote: > why there is not a lunix operatingsystem consortium, for the kernel end > the commercial userinterface isn't that OSDL? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-22 Thread Tom Worster
On 4/20/09 3:06 PM, "Matthew Seaman" wrote: > Many ports will shut down a running instance of themselves when upgraded > like this specifically to avoid the sort of complications that can occur > when the running image does not match what is on disk. > > mysql does, apache doesn't. > > So upgra

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-20 Thread Tom Worster
On 4/20/09 3:06 PM, "Matthew Seaman" wrote: > Many ports will shut down a running instance of themselves when upgraded > like this specifically to avoid the sort of complications that can occur > when the running image does not match what is on disk. > > mysql does, apache doesn't. > > So upgra

portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-20 Thread Tom Worster
ng as daemons. instead of doing portmaster -a, is there any advantage to: portmaster -a -x mysql\-server -x apache portmaster mysql\-server apache reboot in order to minimize the time that the old servers are running while the new images are on the disk?

use BUNDLED_PCRE in updating to php 5.2.9 with ports and apache 2.2.x?

2009-04-14 Thread Tom Worster
the port configuration dialog comes up while updating from 5.2.8. to 5.2.9 with the php5 meta port. it asks if i want to use BUNDLED_PCRE, suggesting " Select if you use apache 2.0.x". what about apache 2.2.x? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

ULI M526x NIC on *BSD

2009-04-05 Thread Tom
7; the linux driver? I've heard about linux compatibility layer, but I suspect its not meant for linux kernel modules... Thanks for any pointers! Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: mac arp moved from-to DOS?

2009-04-03 Thread Tom Ierna
client fight. I've also seen this (harmlessly) manifest with certain FreeBSD firewalls in bridged mode. -Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: Heimdal vs MIT KerberosV

2009-02-27 Thread Tom McLaughlin
will cause you to lose pam_{krb5,ksu} and GSSAPI support in ssh. Depending on your environment, those might be useful. Other than the kadmin protocol differences why change from Heimdal to MIT? tom -- | tmclaugh at sdf.lonestar.org tmclaugh at FreeBSD.org | | FreeBSD

Autolearn=fail SpamAssassin

2009-01-31 Thread Tom Stuart
Hello, I just installed SpamAssassin on FreeBSD 7.1 and am encountering an error with autolearn. It always says failed when attempting to learn. I followed the documentation for setting it up but I'm wondering if I missed something. Possibly the Bayes DB was not created? Or is this something I need

audio/aureal-kmod - patch-au88x0.c failed to apply cleanly

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Mende
k vis-a- vis aureal-kmod. I also did the perl-after-update script as I had problems with ports dependant upon perl after updating to 5.8.9. Everything else pretty much works fine. Any help appreciated. Cheers, Tom >uname -mr 7.1-RELEASE-p2 i386 >cat /etc/make.conf CPUTYPE?=pentium3 WI

comms/qfaxreader - printer recognition issue

2009-01-27 Thread Tom Mende
selection of a printer. Any ideas or help welcomed. Cheers, Tom ...and everything else prints fine, xpdf, Mousepad (gui test editor), Opera (native), and files from the command line using lp (cups version). uname -mr 7.1-RELEASE-p2 i386 cat /etc/make.conf CPUTYPE?=pentium3 WITH_CUPS=YES CUPS_

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