Re: Proper way to share ZFS via NFS

2013-09-11 Thread krad
point taken brain not properly booted up this morning it seems On 11 September 2013 07:59, Matthias Gamsjager wrote: > > Offtopic but since when is it ok the behave like this in the freebsd > mailing list. Really no need to get personal... > > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:

Re: Proper way to share ZFS via NFS

2013-09-10 Thread krad
If you cant cope with multiple operating systems and their differences you are probably in the wrong job. On 10 September 2013 19:39, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:10:13 +0100 > krad wrote: > > > which is why you shouldnt use /etc/exports for zfs da

Re: Proper way to share ZFS via NFS

2013-09-10 Thread krad
which is why you shouldnt use /etc/exports for zfs datasets. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should eg dancing down the motorway at night in dark clothing is never a good idea, no matter how confident you are in your skills. On 9 September 2013 15:22, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:

Re: Proper way to share ZFS via NFS

2013-09-09 Thread krad
always the zfs commands for zfs filesystems, otherwise why else would they be there? Do it manually and you could get conflicts later down the line On 6 September 2013 19:43, aurfalien wrote: > Hi, > > Wondering whats the correct way to share ZFS, /etc/exports or via zfs > commands which alter

Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-08-20 Thread krad
whops that should have been ls /tmp/scripts/| while read f echo sh /tmp/scripts/$f done | xjobs -j 20 On 20 August 2013 08:32, krad wrote: > When i migrated a large mailspool in maildir format from the old nfs > server to the new one in a previous job, I 1st generated a list of t

Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-08-20 Thread krad
When i migrated a large mailspool in maildir format from the old nfs server to the new one in a previous job, I 1st generated a list of the top level maildirs. I then generated the rsync commands + plus a few other bits and pieces for each maildir to make a single transaction like function. I then

Re: pkgng problem

2013-08-20 Thread krad
must be code unrot On 19 August 2013 16:13, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > For the archives: > > I left the problem alone for a few days, with no changes on my side. > > Came back Monday. Tried again. Everything worked on the affected > machines. > > ==ml > > -- > Michael W. Lucas - mwlu...@michae

Vbox shared folders and freebsd guests

2013-08-16 Thread krad
grep -iA 2 share Shared folders: Name: 'new', Host path: '/videos/new' (machine mapping), writable vbox@radical:~$ uname -a SunOS radical.intranet 5.11 11.1 i86pc i386 i86pc bsd guest [root@carrera /home/krad]# kldstat -v | grep -i vb 201 0x81c12000 22c77

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-22 Thread krad
But then zfs doesn't access every block on the disk does it, only the allocated ones On 20 July 2013 21:07, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Jul 2013, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:14:20 +0100 >> Frank Leonhardt wrote: >> >> It's worth noting, as a warning for a

Re: Same MAC address in 2 different VLANs

2013-07-19 Thread krad
I think you maybe ok. Ive just looked at my esx config and the esx management interfaces use their own generated macs, not the physical interfaces ones. All the vms obviously use generated macs as well. However I only looked over it at a superficial level. Have you considered using a tap or spare

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-17 Thread krad
not recommended anymore you should run SU+J if your version supports it On 17 July 2013 00:08, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On 07/16/13 21:27, Johan Hendriks wrote: > >> Op dinsdag 16 juli 2013 schreef Charles Swiger (cswi...@mac.com) het >> volgende: >> >> Hi-- >>> >>> On Jul 16, 2013, at 10:33

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-17 Thread krad
You would in theory as from what i remember every zfs filesystem takes up 64 kb of ram, so the savings could be massive 8) On 16 July 2013 10:41, Shane Ambler wrote: > On 16/07/2013 14:41, aurfalien wrote: > >> >> On Jul 15, 2013, at 9:23 PM, Warren Block wrote: >> >> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, aurf

Re: Adding another mirror to existing ZFS-root mirror?

2013-07-17 Thread krad
It should boot, although i havent run that configuration myself so cant say for certain have a look at gpart backup and restore for the labels, as you might as well make them the same and expand any swap space across all four drives. DOnt forget to install the bootloader as well Alternatively you

Re: prevent ip conflict in dhcp client

2013-07-11 Thread krad
I think it > normally works. > > Regards, Frank. > > > On 11/07/2013 12:43, krad wrote: > >> ops %s/rand/range/ >> >> >> On 11 July 2013 12:42, krad wrote: >> >> alter the pool rand on the network to use say, x.x.x.1-199 on a /24, and &

Re: prevent ip conflict in dhcp client

2013-07-11 Thread krad
ops %s/rand/range/ On 11 July 2013 12:42, krad wrote: > alter the pool rand on the network to use say, x.x.x.1-199 on a /24, and > then allocate your statics >200 but <= 254 or add something similar to your > isc-dhcp config > > host host.intranet { > hardware et

Re: prevent ip conflict in dhcp client

2013-07-11 Thread krad
alter the pool rand on the network to use say, x.x.x.1-199 on a /24, and then allocate your statics >200 but <= 254 or add something similar to your isc-dhcp config host host.intranet { hardware ethernet c8:60:33:1d:f3:57; fixed-address 192.168.210.81; option host-name "host.intranet"; } A

Re: filesystem advice

2013-05-24 Thread krad
There isnt really a thing as better, just different. WHich is best for you depends on your requirements and resources. A zfs based solution would work on that system as its just serving a few clients, and on the assumption that they arent to demanding it should run fine. Bunging in more memory if

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-25 Thread krad
type id from your user account and paste the results back here On 24 April 2013 14:55, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > > 2013-04-24 15:40, Lowell Gilbert skrev: > > Arthur Chance writes: >> >> On 04/24/13 14:07, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >>> >>> No, that's from /etc/passwd which never shows any real p

IPTV multicast setup

2012-10-10 Thread krad
Hi, I currently have an iptv multicast setup at home. I want to replace the isp supplied router with a freebsd box. I'm fine on the normal routing setup however I'm having difficulty finding uptodate info on howto setup a freebsd multicast router. Can anyone give me any pointers? I think they use

synproxy definition in pfctl -si

2012-05-08 Thread krad
Hi, I am looking to track the number of syn packets coming into a system, as the box in question has pf running and using the synproxy attribute on tcp services, I hope to be able to use the synproxy field in pfctl -si. However I cant find a definitive definition of the variable, Ive looking in th

Re: recommendation(s) for new computer

2012-04-30 Thread krad
On 20 April 2012 16:19, Christian Baer wrote: > Mellow greetings, y'all! :-) > > After several years, I think it's about time for a new computer, since > my current one is slowly aging to a meltdown. Well, that and I currently > have the dough for a new one. So before I spend it uselessly on women

Re: Intel turbo mode support

2012-04-13 Thread krad
On 13 April 2012 14:17, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Christer Solskogen wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Florian Unglaub >> wrote: >>> >>> I tried it with your powerd flags and the performance_cpu_freq setting >>> on HIGH, but still the maximum freq_levels entry is 2800.

Re: Upgrade to 9.0 - Mount to root failed..

2012-04-08 Thread krad
On 8 April 2012 09:53, Airosoβicz fb. wrote: > Greetings all, > > It's my 1st time on any of the FreeBSD lists & I'm fairly new to FreeBSD to > please bear with me.. > > So I've upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0 & now the system can't mount in single > user mode to go through the final step of installing t

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread krad
On 19 March 2012 17:46, David Demelier wrote: > On 19/03/2012 17:53, Leslie Jensen wrote: >> >> >> >> 2012-03-19 08:53, Da Rock skrev: >>> >>> On 03/19/12 17:49, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:29:22 +0100, David Demelier wrote: > > On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote:

Re: Is it worthy upgrading to 9.0 ?

2012-03-06 Thread krad
On 6 March 2012 09:49, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > On 3/6/12 7:01 AM, Allen wrote: > > On 2/28/2012 3:03 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > >> This is an entirely subjective question and one that only you can > answer. > >> > >> For example, given the number of problem reports I'm seeing on the > >> l

Re: Current way of downloading sources

2012-02-27 Thread krad
csup -h cvsup.your_country.freebsd.org/usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile works for ports as well 2012/2/21 Fernando Apesteguía > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at -h10:33 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:18:41 +0100, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Before 9.

Re: Processor question

2012-02-16 Thread krad
On 14 February 2012 20:28, Frank Shute wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 02:47:08PM -0500, Mike Dockery wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > Aloha, > > > > > I have been a user of Linux since 1994, but most of the linux distros > > seem to be getting away from freedom... which is why I chose it in the >

Re: corrupted tar.gz archive - I lost my backups :)/:(

2012-02-14 Thread krad
Just another silly thought try the tar j flag rather than the z flag, as you might have got your compression algorithms confused. Try the xz one as well just in case On Feb 14, 2012 3:37 PM, "Mike Kelly" wrote: > > > > I don't have the script anymore. It is among the files lost, but it was > > pr

Re: Processor question

2012-02-14 Thread krad
AMD As this just means 64 bit On Feb 14, 2012 8:02 PM, "Mike Dockery" wrote: > Greetings, > > I have been a user of Linux since 1994, but most of the linux distros seem > to be getting away from freedom... which is why I chose it in the first > place. They seem intent on forcing things that do n

Re: Can clang compile RELENG_9?

2012-02-14 Thread krad
On 11 February 2012 21:45, Michael Powell wrote: > Dennis Glatting wrote: > > > I get errors when trying to compile RELENG_9 with clang. Is clag suppose > > to work when it comes to compiling the OS or am I missing something: > [snip] > > I can't speak to RELENG_9, but I have successfully rebuilt

Re: Mergemaster

2012-02-07 Thread krad
On 5 February 2012 23:59, Net Warrior wrote: > Hi there. > > I found very tedious when , after a makeworld the mergemaster process to > say (i) to install/upgrade/replace/ with the new file, specially when > there are a lot of files I was reading the documentation but it's not > clear to me whi

Re: ZFS Root Won't Mount - Unknown Filesystem -- SOLVED

2012-01-09 Thread krad
On 9 January 2012 01:31, Matt Mullins wrote: > Whoops, I missed this message before posting my reply a few minutes ago. > > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Drew Tomlinson > wrote: > > Yes, although I've read that 'zfs set mountpoint=/ zroot' is acceptable > as > > well. I set mine to "/" after

Re: 7.4 -> 8.2

2011-12-23 Thread krad
CCache is your friend when updating ports On Dec 22, 2011 12:48 PM, "Albert Shih" wrote: > Le 24/11/2011 à 16:09:01+0100, Albert Shih a écrit > > Hi all > > > > Almost classic question about updating from 7.4 to 8.2. > > > > Anyone known if I can temporally run a 7.4 userland+service with 8.2 >

Re: Setting up ZFS - Filesystem Properties and Installing on Root

2011-11-22 Thread krad
> It seems to me that you would only need disk > 1 to have boot, swap, and zfs, and the other 3 disks only have one > partition (using the entire drive) for zfs's pool. As other have mentioned redundancy, but also you will nver see the befit as the zfs vdev (like any other raid system) size will

Re: sed vs gnu sed

2011-11-10 Thread krad
On 10 November 2011 10:33, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > On 10/11/2011 07:00, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > >> Vincent Hoffman wrote: >> >> bsd sed (correctly according to SUS at least, I believe[1]) >>> appends a newline when writing to standard out, gnu sed doesnt. >>> >> The wonderful thing abou

Freebsd 6 and nfsstats counters

2011-11-10 Thread krad
Hi, I have a bunch of old freebsd servers I want to collect nfs stats from. The problem is a lots of the counters have wrapped around. On other Freebsd 7+ machines I take care of this be a weekly cron of "nfsstat -c -z". The z option isnt available in freebsd 6, and I cant see a direct sysctl OID

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-07 Thread krad
On 6 November 2011 02:51, Robert Simmons wrote: > On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Warren Block wrote: > > netwait_enable="YES" > > netwait_ip="192.168.1.1" # IP address to ping to verify network is up > > netwait_if="em0" # interface to use > > > > > > Also there's netwait_timeout, which default

Re: FreeBSD on EC2

2011-10-31 Thread krad
On 31 October 2011 13:08, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > I've been experimenting with FreeBSD on EC2, in the hopes that I can > move some systems there. I'm pleased with the possibilities, but have a > two initial questions: > > First, the t1.micro instance, which I'm starting with, is supposed to >

Re: two networks in one server?

2011-10-10 Thread krad
On 9 October 2011 12:38, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 09/10/2011 10:36, pepe wrote: > > I'm just asking before trying if it possible to use two network uplinks > in > > one server so other would be just backup way in? > > I have currently connection from two ISPs and server is up with one > > connec

Re: Parallel fscks on large filesystems ... wondering about maxdsiz setting...

2011-10-06 Thread krad
On 5 October 2011 19:25, Jason Usher wrote: > Old 6.4-RELEASE system. > > Two filesystems exist, each of which is on its own raid controller. > > (Background fsck is not workable for various reasons that are tl;dr.) > > So, theoretically, doing both fscks at the same time is workable, since > eac

Re: updating 8.1 release

2011-10-05 Thread krad
On 3 October 2011 10:28, Michael Powell wrote: > wayne mitchell wrote: > > > hey > > just tried to update a system using 'csup' > > current system is: 8.1 RELEASE on a amd machine (amd64 GENERIC kernel) > > tried downloading the CURRENT branch ( tag=. ) > > when running "make buildworld" > > get

Re: How to find out which version of PF a given box is using...

2011-09-21 Thread krad
On 21 September 2011 09:05, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 21/09/2011 08:34, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 21/09/2011 07:34, Modulok wrote: > >> Is there an easy way to find out what version of PF a given FreeBSD > version is > >> using? Currently I'm doing this: > >> > >> grep -iE '\bpf\b' /usr/sr

Re: Help Finding ZFS snapshots

2011-09-06 Thread krad
On 5 September 2011 16:58, Gene wrote: > On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:35:34 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote > > --As of September 5, 2011 10:23:32 AM -0500, Gene is alleged to have > > said: > > > > > On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:48:22 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote > > >> --As of September 5, 2011 8:13:52 AM -0500, Ge

Re: vpn using pptpclient in FreeBSD

2011-08-31 Thread krad
On 30 August 2011 22:51, Marco Beishuizen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up a vpn connection to the university library by using > pptpclient. In other OS's this takes around 10 seconds, but in FreeBSD this > seems very difficult to do, and I've no idea why. It looks like there is a > connecti

Re: zfs clone, nfs and pxeboot

2011-07-28 Thread krad
On 28 July 2011 11:41, wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to experiment a bit with pxeboot. Therefore I created a zfs clone > of a jail filesystem. The clone was shared as via nfs. Pxeboot complained > that it can't load the kernel. The pxeboot ls command gave some correct > and some really messed up file

Re: best way to replicate system

2011-07-24 Thread krad
make sure you use the --numeric-ids option as well On 24 July 2011 01:58, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > On 23 July 2011 04:54, krad wrote: > > On 21 July 2011 09:13, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > > >> I have set up a machine that is 100% configred and now needs to be > &g

Re: best way to replicate system

2011-07-23 Thread krad
On 21 July 2011 09:13, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > I have set up a machine that is 100% configred and now needs to be > duplicated to an arbitrary number of other machines (23 currently)... > none of the machines have optical drives (or floppies) so it has to be > a USB install... what is the best wa

Re: Tools to find "unlegal" files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-20 Thread krad
> > >> > You cannot generate a hash without at a certain automated level opening the > file. If you can do that, couldn't you generate a hash of the first four > bytes to match with hashes of known magic numbers? If you can "look" at the > whole file, surely you can "look" at just the first four b

Re: Why not add ZFS support on bsdinstaller? (FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/RELEASE)

2011-07-20 Thread krad
use pcbsd installer or mfsbsd On 20 July 2011 18:55, Alvaro Castillo wrote: > The question... or maybe I'm wrong and will be included. > > Greets! > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: Upgrading very old installation

2011-07-16 Thread krad
On 15 July 2011 22:12, Balázs Mátéffy wrote: > On 15 July 2011 22:46, Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 08:20:52AM -0400, Jaime Kikpole wrote: > > > I'm running a FreeBSD 6.x server that hasn't been updated in about 1.5 > > years. > > > > > > atlas:~>uname -mprs > > > FreeBSD 6.4

Re: Upgrading very old installation

2011-07-15 Thread krad
On 15 July 2011 16:25, Steven Friedrich wrote: > On 7/15/2011 9:38 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> On 15/07/2011 13:20, Jaime Kikpole wrote: >> >>> I'm running a FreeBSD 6.x server that hasn't been updated in about 1.5 >>> years. >>> >>> atlas:~>uname -mprs >>> FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p8 i386 i386 >>>

Re: buildworld from FreeBSD 8.1 to FreeBSD 8.2

2011-07-11 Thread krad
On 11 July 2011 14:07, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: > Em Seg, 2011-07-11 às 11:48 +0400, hasanhasanli Hasan escreveu: > > > > > I had problem with upgrating FreeBSD 8.1 to FreeBSD 8.2 > > after that I typed > > make buildworld > > It gives error. > > /usr/lib/libthr.a(thr_syscalls.o)(.text+0x87a

Re: Boot Environments

2011-06-30 Thread krad
On 30 June 2011 08:43, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > On solaris you can have different BE's (boot environments) using ZFS. > Is this possible with FreeBSD ZFS? I can't recall ever have seen a tool > like BEadm (solaris). > But maybe using ZFS manually I can get more BE's? > ___

Re: FreeBSD 64 Bit Applications

2011-06-30 Thread krad
On 30 June 2011 09:06, John Dakos wrote: > > > > > > > Hello all. > > > > I have a question about FreeBSD 64Bit Applications > > > > I want to install FreeBSD 64 Bit to have most memory10 GB ram or up , > and to make more stable. > > > > My questions is .is FreeBSD 64 Bit stable and Rock

Re: FreeBSD ZFS system

2011-06-23 Thread krad
On 23 June 2011 02:38, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > On 22 Jun 2011, at 22:22, krad wrote: > > > On 21 June 2011 21:23, Matthew Seaman >wrote: > > > >> On 21/06/2011 20:01, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > >>> I'd like to install FreeBSD (pcbsd) o

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-06-22 Thread krad
On 22 June 2011 21:31, krad wrote: > > > On 22 June 2011 01:47, Chris Brennan wrote: > >> * Peter Toth [2011-06-22 12:16:11 +1200]: >> >> > Did you set the "bootfs" property on your root pool? Example: "zpool set >> > bootfs=tank/r

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-06-22 Thread krad
On 22 June 2011 01:47, Chris Brennan wrote: > * Peter Toth [2011-06-22 12:16:11 +1200]: > > > Did you set the "bootfs" property on your root pool? Example: "zpool set > > bootfs=tank/root tank" > > OK, I booted back to the livefs memostick, imported my zpool (tank) and > zpool promptly tells me

Re: FreeBSD ZFS system

2011-06-22 Thread krad
ps you dont need the ufs file system just go zfs root. For recovery have a full install of bsd on a pen drive. On 22 June 2011 21:22, krad wrote: > > > On 21 June 2011 21:23, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> On 21/06/2011 20:01, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >> > I'd like

Re: FreeBSD ZFS system

2011-06-22 Thread krad
On 21 June 2011 21:23, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 21/06/2011 20:01, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > I'd like to install FreeBSD (pcbsd) on a (zfs) mirror > > In OpenSolaris you can install directly to the zfs mirror, but how's > > this in this situation> After all, an UFS partitin is also created. How

Re: failure to create zfs storage pool

2011-06-04 Thread krad
On 4 June 2011 11:44, Darrel wrote: > > After getting a couple of Hitachi 1T 7200 rpm drives, it seemed >>> like time for ZFS on FreeBSD82, having not had Z file system >>> subsequent to retiring whatever OpenSolaris was around. >>> >>> Basically, I followed this article: >>> >>> /doc/en_US.ISO8

Re: failure to create zfs storage pool

2011-06-04 Thread krad
On 3 June 2011 21:41, wrote: > Hello, > > After getting a couple of Hitachi 1T 7200 rpm drives, it seemed > like time for ZFS on FreeBSD82, having not had Z file system > subsequent to retiring whatever OpenSolaris was around. > > Basically, I followed this article: > > /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/artic

Re: FreeBSD upgrade from 7.4 Stable to 8.2

2011-05-22 Thread krad
On 22 May 2011 10:30, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > Just read that a save upgrade from my current 7.4 version would be easy by > performing: > > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.2-RELEASE > # freebsd-update install > # shutdown -r now > # freebsd-update install > > Are there any pitfalls to this? > > regar

Re: Buildworld Benchmarks

2011-05-18 Thread krad
On 18 May 2011 01:50, Devin Teske wrote: > Hi List, > > What's the fastest anyone has every completed buildworld on a single > machine? > > The reason I ask is because we just got some new hardware in and decided to > benchmark it using buildworld. > > Just as a quick test, we decided to perform

Re: adding new disk >2TB, gpt?

2011-05-17 Thread krad
On 17 May 2011 14:40, Maciej Milewski wrote: > On Tuesday 17 of May 2011 15:19:40, n dhert wrote: > > Thanks for your answer! > > I am trying out gpart. > > On an old PC with 38 GB disk, I have triple boot Windows, OpenSuSE and > > FreeBSD-8.2. > > I created an unalloated space of 973 MB at the e

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-15 Thread krad
On 15 May 2011 15:30, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Chris" == Chris Telting writes: > > Chris> I honestly tried when I posted the question to avoid the question > Chris> of right or wrong. I simply have one opinion for my own need and > Chris> preference and don't want to go into rigid deta

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-13 Thread krad
C On Friday, 13 May 2011, Pan Tsu wrote: > Chris Telting writes: > >> On 05/13/2011 01:32, krad wrote: >>> what i cant understand is the complete aversion to sudo. Could you >>> shed any light on why you are trying to avoid a tried and tested >>> meth

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-13 Thread krad
On 13 May 2011 11:07, Chris Telting wrote: > On 05/13/2011 01:32, krad wrote: > >> what i cant understand is the complete aversion to sudo. Could you shed >> any light on why you are trying to avoid a tried and tested method. >> > > That I freely admit is for

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-13 Thread krad
On 13 May 2011 08:32, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Thursday 12 May 2011 17:26:49 Chris Telting wrote: > > On 05/12/2011 07:57, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > > > > > I'll say that again. It is inherently insecure to run an interpreted > > > program set-uid, because the filename is opened twice and t

Re: Maximum partition size

2011-05-13 Thread krad
On 11 May 2011 08:37, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Hello. > Sorry for the stupid questions, but Google only turns out very old answers > which might be outdated (at least I hope so). > > What is the maximum partition size I can use on 7.3? > I've used a 3TB gstripe on amd64, but now I'd like to gstr

Re: Laptop Multi-HD partitioning advice (ZFS)

2011-05-05 Thread krad
On 5 May 2011 00:17, Daniel Staal wrote: > > I just got notified my new Thinkpad X220 is on it's way, and I'm thinking > about the best way to use it. ;) Obviously, FreeBSD with ZFS is on top of > the list. (De-dup and compression on my space-limited laptop? Yes, > please.) > > Some relevant

Re: Limitting SSH access

2011-05-04 Thread krad
On 4 May 2011 12:47, Balázs Mátéffy wrote: > On 4 May 2011 13:35, Matthew Seaman > wrote: > > > On 04/05/2011 10:08, Jack Raats wrote: > > > I have a question concerning SSH op a FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE server. > > > > > > Is it possible to limit the SSH access? > > > I want t o restrict a user to hi

Re: Can I bridge the same subnet across a VPN?

2011-05-04 Thread krad
On 3 May 2011 20:44, Kevin Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 15:19, Geoff Roberts wrote: > > > Is it possible to join two sites with the same subnet across a VPN? > > Yes. > > > I have two sites that have the same subnet/mask. > > > > I need these two separated networks to behave as one acr

Re: easy Firewall setup

2011-04-26 Thread krad
On 26 April 2011 08:52, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:34:41 -0500, Antonio Olivares < > olivares14...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for sharing this. I have a base FreeBSD 8.2 system on one > > machine and I would like to setup a firewall that allows me to visit > > websites and not

Re: ZFS performance strangeness

2011-04-25 Thread krad
On 24 April 2011 17:21, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: > Em Ter, 2011-04-12 às 13:33 +0200, Lars Wilke escreveu: > > > Hi, > > > > There are quite a few threads about ZFS and performance difficulties, > > but i did not find anything that really helped :) > > Therefor any advice would be highly app

Re: zfs partition for /etc?

2011-04-25 Thread krad
On 23 April 2011 23:48, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 3:36 PM, krad wrote: > >> not sure about that as the auto mounts are done when /etc/rc.d/zfs runs so >> there might be a dependency >> > > Hum yeah you are right. I don't think it woul

Re: zfs partition for /etc?

2011-04-23 Thread krad
On 23 April 2011 19:44, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Chris Telting > wrote: > > > So so on to my question. I'm sure others have thought about this. I > kind > > of want /etc to be it's own zfs partition so that I can snapshot it > separate > > from everything else

Re: pkg_add problem

2011-04-19 Thread krad
On 19 April 2011 09:35, H.Erkin ATAK wrote: > I am running freebsd 8.2 on virtualbox on an ubuntu machine. > > I am running gnome and have network access no problem. > > But I can not add any packages via pkg_add. > > It gives can not fetch ftp address. > > I tried different mirrors but it did no

Re: PAE: Cannot fork

2011-04-14 Thread krad
On 14 April 2011 11:14, Dennis Nikiforov wrote: > There is a legacy piece of custom software that runs only on 32 bit > systems, so going to 64 bit is not possible. > > On Apr 14, 2011, at 12:08 PM, krad wrote: > > > > On 14 April 2011 08:05, Dennis Nikiforov wrote: &g

Re: PAE: Cannot fork

2011-04-14 Thread krad
On 14 April 2011 08:05, Dennis Nikiforov wrote: > Hello, > >I have a problem with FreeBSD 7.x 32bit running the standard PAE > kernel on a dell R210 server with 16GB of RAM. All servers spec'ed like this > have the same identical problem and it is not a hardware issue because all > memory

Re: DNS Administrator - Kenya

2011-04-03 Thread krad
On 3 April 2011 18:10, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 18:57, Kenneth Parit > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I look forward to becoming the DNS Administrator for my country Kenya. > > > > It is impossible to download FreeBSD 8.2 from any of the mirror sites > > due to disconnect

Re: Can't rebuild kernel with ZFS v15

2011-04-01 Thread krad
ething similar to: > > "storage pool version does not match" > > I can only get my system working again by manually moving /boot/kernel to > /boot/kernel.bad (or whatever) and replacing it with the previous kernel. > > :( > > > > On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:

Re: Can't rebuild kernel with ZFS v15

2011-03-29 Thread krad
On 28 March 2011 10:37, Andre Goree wrote: > Hello, > > Ever since I upgraded to 8.2 a few weeks ago, I can't seem to rebuild my > kernel without it being built with ZFS v14 rather than v15. This is a > problem because I'm using root on ZFS and my box won't boot after the kernel > rebuild and re

Re: MySQL 3 needed but how?

2011-03-26 Thread krad
On 26 March 2011 21:40, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > > There is nothing in /var/log/messages. >>> >>> It was working with 4.1 server, but I just uninstalled that (because >>> the upgrading faq told me to install 4.0 instead.) >>> >> Do you have the following in your "/etc/rc.conf" file: >> >>mys

Re: Updating OpenSSH

2011-03-18 Thread krad
On 17 March 2011 11:52, Robert Huff wrote: > > Carmel writes: > > > It is part of the base system. I don't know if it has a true > > maintainer. In any case, I would need commit privileges which I > > don't and never expect to have and have no desire to acquire.. > > I do not believe t

Re: Updating OpenSSH

2011-03-17 Thread krad
On 16 March 2011 19:47, Carmel wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:32:48 -0700 > Chuck Swiger articulated: > > > On Mar 16, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Carmel wrote: > > > OK, then does that mean that the latest version will be used in the > > > still not released 9 version of FreeBSD? > > > > Currently, no-

Re: Upgrading FreeBSd when using a zfs-only installation?

2011-03-14 Thread krad
On 14 March 2011 00:10, Andrew Moran wrote: > I have successfully upgraded form FreeBSD 8.1 to FreeBSD 8.2. Here were my > steps: > > cvsup /root/stable-supfile > cd /usr/src > make buildworld > make buildkernel > make installkernel > shutdown -r now > > *select single user mode* > > mount -u /

Re: Simplest way to deny access to a class C

2011-03-04 Thread krad
On 4 March 2011 02:43, Jorge Biquez wrote: > Thank you all for your time and comments. > > I guess that I will install a firewall, that way I can also block those > Class C's from sending tons of emails to non existing accounts > I will read the website to see the best options. Any suggestio

Re: Problem upgrading from 8.1->8.2, ZFS as root filesystem

2011-02-28 Thread krad
On 27 February 2011 21:29, Scott Ballantyne wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Scott Ballantyne wrote: >> >>> >>> ===>sys/boot/i386/zfsloader (install) >>> >>> cp zfsloader.sym zfsloader.bin >>> cp:No such file or directory >>> **

Re: pam ssh authentication via ldap

2011-02-28 Thread krad
On 28 February 2011 01:06, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Hello Krad and thank you for your reply! > > > Well it seems that I am still unable to login to this machine using an > LDAP account. I have tried applying the configurations you have > provided and the result doesn't seem t

Re: pam ssh authentication via ldap

2011-02-27 Thread krad
On 27 February 2011 11:05, krad wrote: > On 26 February 2011 20:01, Tim Dunphy wrote: >> Hey list, >> >> I just wanted to follow up with my /usr/local/etc/ldap.conf file and >> nsswitch file because I thought they might be helpful in dispensing >> advice as to

Re: pam ssh authentication via ldap

2011-02-27 Thread krad
>> lost) >> >> >> But logins fail every time. Could someone offer an opinion as to what >> may be going on to prevent logging in via pam/sshd and LDAP? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> Tim >> >> -- >> GPG me!! >> >> gpg --keyse

Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

2011-02-19 Thread krad
On 19 February 2011 15:35, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of February 19, 2011 2:44:38 PM +, Matthew Seaman is alleged to > have said: > >> Umm... a sufficiently forgetful sysadmin can break *anything*.  This >> isn't really a fair test: forgetting to write the boot blocks onto a >> disk could sim

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-15 Thread krad
On 14 February 2011 23:55, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:32:30PM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> >> >From what I understand (a quick review of wikipedia helps :), modern >> >flash cards are now typically rated for 100K writes, include ECC bits >> >to actually correct or at least de

Re: how to add a few hundred ip on one interface?

2011-02-14 Thread krad
On 11 February 2011 13:25, Guillermo Fernando Cotone wrote: > On 02/11/2011 09:55 AM, Vladislav V. Prodan wrote: >> And this construction work? >> >>       ipv4_addrs_ed0="192.0.2.129/27 192.0.2.1-2/28 192.0.2.4-5/28" >> > It would work only if all the IPs were on the same subnet. If you want > to

Re: 4k drives and zfs

2011-02-05 Thread krad
On 2 February 2011 15:20, krad wrote: > On 2 February 2011 12:18, Ivan Voras wrote: >> On 02/02/2011 05:52, krad wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> A quick question. Im upgrading my filer at home to have 2x 2tb samsung >>> F4EG drives. I believe

Re: ZFS and switching from ad to ada disks.

2011-02-02 Thread krad
On 2 February 2011 16:29, Arthur Chance wrote: > I'm currently running 8.1-R without AHCI enabled, with a raidz zpool based > on /dev/ad* disks, plus one system disk that's UFS2, mounted using partition > labels. I need to enable AHCI in order to get hot pluggable eSata > capability, and that's go

Re: 4k drives and zfs

2011-02-02 Thread krad
On 2 February 2011 12:18, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 02/02/2011 05:52, krad wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> A quick question. Im upgrading my filer at home to have 2x 2tb samsung >> F4EG drives. I believe these are 4k drives. I'm intending to use the >> gnop t

4k drives and zfs

2011-02-01 Thread krad
Hi All, A quick question. Im upgrading my filer at home to have 2x 2tb samsung F4EG drives. I believe these are 4k drives. I'm intending to use the gnop trick to get zfs ashift to 12. Will this make my pool unbootable. I have read a few threads aluding to this.

Re: FreeBSD 9/ZFS: Striped Pool (2 disks) migrating to mirror (onto additional disk)

2011-01-26 Thread krad
On 26 January 2011 09:21, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:42 AM, O. Hartmann > wrote: > >> My question is: is it possible to migrate the two-disk pool without data >> loss into a mirrored pool by adding the one 2TB-disk? >> > > No, you cant create a two-way mirror of three d

Re: Managing ESXi from FreeBSD...

2011-01-24 Thread krad
On 23 January 2011 22:41, Peter Harrison wrote: > Hello list, > > I've just started messing around with my new Proliant. I've installed ESXi > 4.1 and have a VM up and running with 8.2-RC2 using the (Windows only) > vSphere client. > > I don't want to be stuck using Windows to manage this machin

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