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 Tom Munro Glass

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 swap, /, /var, /usr

Re: RAID on HP ML110 G5

2008-03-25 Thread Tom Munro Glass
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Nejc Škoberne wrote: Hey Tom, I would like to run FreeBSD 7 on a HP ML110 G5. I understand from past posts to this list that the ML110 series is FreeBSD friendly, but what about RAID 1 using the on-board SATA controller? Will this work and how do you set this up? I

RAID on HP ML110 G5

2008-03-24 Thread Tom Munro Glass
I would like to run FreeBSD 7 on a HP ML110 G5. I understand from past posts to this list that the ML110 series is FreeBSD friendly, but what about RAID 1 using the on-board SATA controller? Will this work and how do you set this up? Regards Tom Munro Glass

MailScanner broken

2007-04-12 Thread Tom Munro Glass
/mailscanner line 79. I have rebuilt MailScanner plus all perl libraries but still get the same message. Any ideas please? Tom Munro Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: MailScanner broken

2007-04-12 Thread Tom Munro Glass
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Gerard wrote: On Thursday April 12, 2007 at 04:17:25 (PM) Tom Munro Glass wrote: Yesterday I updated with portmaster and now MailScanner is broken. When I try to start it I get the following messages: Starting mailscanner. IO::Compress::Base::Common version 2.004

How to install gnucash?

2006-03-08 Thread Tom Munro Glass
I'm trying to install gnucash, but this depends on g-wrap which in turn depends on slib-guile, and slib-guile-3a1 is marked as broken: Does not install. Is there a solution to this problem? Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to install gnucash?

2006-03-08 Thread Tom Munro Glass
On Thursday 09 March 2006 13:43, Erik Greenwald wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 06:40:51PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:28:14PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: I'm trying to install gnucash, but this depends on g-wrap which in turn depends on slib-guile, and slib

Re: portupgrade freezing

2006-01-04 Thread Tom Munro Glass
As reported on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, running portupgrade with the --ignore-moved option seems to solve the problem. It works for me anyway. Tom On Thursday 05 January 2006 15:13, Dave wrote: Hi, I don't have to kill the system, just portupgrade. When i run portversion -l

Re: Problem installing devel/pear

2005-12-14 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Uwe, I've seen the thread on the ports@ mailing list but there doesn't seem to be any mention of a solution there yet. Have you managed to fix the problem on your machines yet? Tom On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 02:47, Uwe Laverenz wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:12:24PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote

Problem installing devel/pear

2005-12-12 Thread Tom Munro Glass
I had pear-PEAR installed until a couple of days ago, but I removed it while upgrading various ports and am now trying to install devel/pear but it keeps failing with Signal 11. Here's the output: # make install === Installing for pear-1.4.5_1 === pear-1.4.5_1 depends on file:

Build options for ghostscript-gnu

2005-04-04 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Whenever portmanager decides to rebuild ghostscript-gnu, there is a huge list of printers/devices that I have to deselect. Is there any way of saving the build configuration for ghostscript-gnu so I don't have to do this every time? Tom Munro Glass

Managing ports on ViaVerio VPS v2 server

2004-08-12 Thread Tom Munro Glass
portupgrade to upgrade to 2.64, but it won't work. My questions are: 1) how should I manage ports in this environment? 2) should I use cpan instead of portinstall/portupgrade to manage perl modules? Regards, Tom Munro Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Updating local copy of documentation

2004-08-06 Thread Tom Munro Glass
, etc, but apparently not? I realise that I can download the latest version with FTP, but it would be nice if this could be done as part of the normal maintenance tasks. Regards, Tom Munro Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Updating local copy of documentation

2004-08-06 Thread Tom Munro Glass
On Saturday 07 August 2004 07:44, Lowell Gilbert wrote: You can build it from source (see the Documentation Project Handbook), but it would be a lot less work to just download the prebuilt ones. It should be a pretty simple matter to do that in a script that you can add to your normal

NIS - FreeBSD server and Linux clients

2004-05-29 Thread Tom Munro Glass
I want to use my FreeBSD 4.9 server for authenticating logons to my Gentoo clients. I've set up NIS server as described in the handbook, and if I run ypcat on the Linux client, it is obtaining information from the server. However, it is faiing to authenticate users defined on the FreeBSD

Re: NIS - FreeBSD server and Linux clients

2004-05-29 Thread Tom Munro Glass
This should work; I've got a Linux machine at work succesfully authenticating NIS accounts against a FreeBSD server. I believe that the differences in passwd files are strictly in the master.passwd (FreeBSD) and shadow (Linux) files; the files /etc/passwd have the same format in both OS'.

amavisd-new not using clamd

2004-03-21 Thread Tom Munro Glass
understand why amavisd isn't using clamd. Any ideas? Regards Tom Munro Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS sharing /usr/ports and /usr/src

2004-02-29 Thread Tom Munro Glass
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 23:47, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 05:45:33PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: I want to NFS share /usr/ports and /usr/src from a master machine for use by other machines. snip What am I doing wrong? You've probably got /usr/ports and /usr/src

NFS sharing /usr/ports and /usr/src

2004-02-28 Thread Tom Munro Glass
have any options, the share works OK? What am I doing wrong? Tom Munro Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cp options

2004-02-26 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Linux cp has a --link option that makes hard links instead of copies of non-directories. The FreeBSD cp doesn't appear to have that option. Is there a way of achieving this? Tom Munro Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Dependencies of installed ports

2004-01-22 Thread Tom Munro Glass
portinstall to install ports, but if I want to delete a port, is the only way to use make deinstall? It would be nice if there was something like portdeinstall that would remove the specified port and any ports it depends on (providing they are not used elsewhere). Regards, Tom Munro Glass

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-12 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Thanks Chris and Scott for your input on this subject - I've found it most helpful. The freedom to tweak the system to your own way of working is great, and I now feel I am better informed on how to do this without doing anything radical that I will regret in years to come. Thanks again to

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Depends on what philosophy you subscribe to- if it's on a local system only, then create a group for members that will need access to it, and create a directory in the /home tree, like /home/'project_foo If it's going to be NFS mounted by other systems, then create an /export directory and

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Hi Tom- /usr doesn't _have_ to be mounted read-only, but it's not uncommon to do it on systems connected to the net/susceptible to hacking/just for security. Default Sun for home is /export home, primarily b/c Solaris thinks it's always the NFS server ;-) Most Linux distros use /home, and

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Tom Munro Glass
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:47, Chris Howells wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 11 November 2003 19:38, Tom Munro Glass wrote: filesystem for /home, should I mount this at /home and make /usr/home a link to /home, or do I just mount it at /usr/home? The latter is probably preferable. Thanks Chris. Please

Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-10 Thread Tom Munro Glass
On an intranet file server, the users' private files are obviously stored in /usr/home/username but where is the correct place to store files that are common to many users? Would this be something like /usr/home/public or /usr/local/public or even /var/public? Thanks, Tom Munro Glass

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-10 Thread Tom Munro Glass
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:31, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:53:20PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: On an intranet file server, the users' private files are obviously stored in /usr/home/username but where is the correct place to store files that are common to many users

FreeBSD on GigaByte GA-8EGXDR-E?

2003-09-22 Thread Tom Munro Glass
I shall be setting up my first FreeBSD server in the very near future. Can anyone please tell me if FreeBSD 4.8 (preferably) or 5.1 will run on this motherboard? Thanks, Tom Munro Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Newbie needs advice for software raid

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Munro Glass
suggestions for how to set up the disk partitions and Vinum for this type of server. Also, should I be looking at FreeBSD 5.1 or would 4.8 be a safer bet at this stage? Thanks in advance, Tom Munro Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http