Re: /stand/sysconfig does't work

2007-08-03 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Thursday 02 August 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I just purchased Freebsd-6.1 RELEASE and /stand/sysinstall doesn't work. I have been using freebsd since the version 2.1. When installing, I always use /stand/sysinstall. Now I have freebsd's 6.1 version. /stand/sysinstall no longer

/stand/sysconfig does't work

2007-08-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just purchased Freebsd-6.1 RELEASE and /stand/sysinstall doesn't work. I have been using freebsd since the version 2.1. When installing, I always use /stand/sysinstall. Now I have freebsd's 6.1 version. /stand/sysinstall no longer works. Now I think /someword/sysinstall works. I have

Re: LAN failover redundandcy?

2007-08-03 Thread Roger Olofsson
Ewald Jenisch skrev: Hi, I'm looking for a way to configure failover redundancy for one of my servers. To be specific: The server in question has one IP-address but two LAN interfaces each of them connecting to a different switch. Traffic normally runs only through one of the two

Re: /stand/sysconfig does't work

2007-08-03 Thread John Clement
If you run the find command you'll find what you're looking for ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# find / -name sysinstall -print /usr/sbin/sysinstall cheers On 03/08/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just purchased Freebsd-6.1 RELEASE and /stand/sysinstall doesn't work. I have been

FreeBSD Iconv Thread Safety

2007-08-03 Thread Manjunath Warad
Hi All, Please let me know whether the FreeBSD Iconv is thread safety. Do I need to take care before I use it with multithread applications. Thanks, Manjunath *** This e-mail and attachments contain

Re: Firewall rules / Proper directory

2007-08-03 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
I've made a /etc/rc.firewall.local I may rename it in the future to stand out more, but we'll see how it goes for now. Neat. Have fun with the new firewall ruleset then. Thanks. I wish it wasn't necessary, but the server runs MySQL and if I turn TCPwrappers on, someone just

Re: CRT value Absurd

2007-08-03 Thread Andrew Greenwood
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Thursday 02 August 2007 13:13:46 Subhro wrote: Hello Folks, Recently I got a HP nc6400 notebook for myself and decided to install FreeBSD on this. My system boots up fine but I am repeatedly getting Errors from ACPI. I am repeatedly getting acpi_tz0: _CRT value is

Re: Firewall rules / Proper directory

2007-08-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-02 14:49, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-08-02 12:36, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm developing firewall rules for a machine, and I'm wondering what the standard is for putting my version of an ipfw firewall_script?

Re: FreeBSD 6.2. Can I get 128x48 (or similar) console screens?

2007-08-03 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 04:46:49PM +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: [ ] That's not a very nice comment to do. Please, keep your feelings about continents/countries/Linux distributions out of here. Sorry for causing offence. It wasn't intended. I'll be more careful about what I write in

Re: Nano issue

2007-08-03 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by RW on 08/02/07 15:02 On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:11:04 -0500 Reid Linnemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Written by RW on 08/02/07 11:27 On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:15:35 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:25 AM 8/2/2007, Roberth Sjonøy wrote: Hello, Ive just installed my prefered text

parformance patch?

2007-08-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is anything wrong in this? --- vm_fault.c.orig Fri Aug 3 15:01:27 2007 +++ vm_fault.c Thu Aug 2 15:56:17 2007 @@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ static int vm_fault_additional_pages(vm_page_t, int, int, vm_page_t *, int *); static void vm_fault_prefault(pmap_t, vm_offset_t, vm_map_entry_t); -#define

USB keyboard not recognized at bootup

2007-08-03 Thread Oscar Chavarria
I have a GENERIC kernel. The /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC file contains the following under the USB Support section (among other devices): device usb #USB Bus (required) device uhid#Human Interface Devices device ukbd #Keyboard

is the rtw (ral81xx) driver coming to freebsd?

2007-08-03 Thread Steve Franks
Looks like the open/net bsd guys have the rtw for the realtec 8185 wireless card, which is not supported by ral or ural - I presume it's not that hard to port to freebsd. Not that I have any spare time, but if someone's willing to jumpstart me, and it's not already being worked on, I'd be

Re: /stand/sysconfig does't work

2007-08-03 Thread John Clement
as long as /usr/sbin hasn't been removed from PATH ;-) On 03/08/07, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Friday, August 03, 2007 08:51:48 +0100 John Clement [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you run the find command you'll find what you're looking for ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# find /

Re: /stand/sysconfig does't work

2007-08-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, August 03, 2007 08:51:48 +0100 John Clement [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you run the find command you'll find what you're looking for ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# find / -name sysinstall -print /usr/sbin/sysinstall Or which. [EMAIL PROTECTED] which sysinstall /usr/sbin/sysinstall

UFS and spreading data

2007-08-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
AFAIK UFS try to spread data quite evenly on disk to different cylinder group - for large files, so small files can get it's space near inodes etc.. but i would like to clear things up: i will set up say 3 disks with gconcat and make one partition for all data on it. then i will populate it

Re: /stand/sysconfig does't work

2007-08-03 Thread Tom Grove
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just purchased Freebsd-6.1 RELEASE and /stand/sysinstall doesn't work. I have been using freebsd since the version 2.1. When installing, I always use /stand/sysinstall. Now I have freebsd's 6.1 version. /stand/sysinstall no longer works. Now I think

if_bridge and link-local IPv6 eui64 address problem

2007-08-03 Thread Alexandros Kosiaris
Hello, I am having a question about if_bridge and IPv6 link-local addresses I am using FreeBSD 6.2-p7 and after setting rc.conf like the following and rebooting, I get no link-local address for bridge0 ipv6_enable=YES cloned_interfaces=bridge0 ifconfig_bridge0=addm sis0 addm sis1 192.168.2.1

Re: UFS and spreading data

2007-08-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Wojciech Puchar wrote: AFAIK UFS try to spread data quite evenly on disk to different cylinder group - for large files, so small files can get it's space near inodes etc.. Yes, UFS leaves some free space in each cylinder group if it can so that it can grow (especially small) files locally;

Setting up a domain

2007-08-03 Thread Ananias Uushona
Does anyone know where I can find nice tutorial materials for setting up domains is just that I got this task setting up new domains on freebsd and I need a rreview on hoe to go about it mybe u guys can help man please am new to thise work and my boss said I need to do it coz the other guy who use

Re: CRT value Absurd

2007-08-03 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Andrew Greenwood wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: On Thursday 02 August 2007 13:13:46 Subhro wrote: Hello Folks, Recently I got a HP nc6400 notebook for myself and decided to install FreeBSD on this. My system boots up fine but I am repeatedly getting Errors from ACPI. I am repeatedly getting

Re: parformance patch?

2007-08-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:26:49PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: is anything wrong in this? --- vm_fault.c.orig Fri Aug 3 15:01:27 2007 +++ vm_fault.c Thu Aug 2 15:56:17 2007 @@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ static int vm_fault_additional_pages(vm_page_t, int, int, vm_page_t *, int *);

no buffer space

2007-08-03 Thread Mark Busby
I have a firewall for my pppoe dsl connection that is giving me fits. After a few hours of surfing it runs out of buffer space. I have run memtest on the memory, checked fine. Changed out memory, still locking up. top while out of buffer on ping last pid: 3697; load averages: 0.00, 0.03,

Re: CRT value Absurd

2007-08-03 Thread Subhro
Hello, On 8/3/07, Andrew Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: On Thursday 02 August 2007 13:13:46 Subhro wrote: FreeBSD on this. My system boots up fine but I am repeatedly getting Errors from ACPI. I am repeatedly getting acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored

Re: Setting up a domain

2007-08-03 Thread Hakan K
Is this for web site domain setting ? DNS, Web server etc etc ... Thanks Troy http://dominor.com On 8/3/07, Ananias Uushona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where I can find nice tutorial materials for setting up domains is just that I got this task setting up new domains on

Re: /stand/sysconfig does't work

2007-08-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:34:27 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What word do I use for someword? /someword/sysinstall Hi Bruce, try /usr/sbin/sysinstall B _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome Said Hamlet to Ophelia,I'll do a sketch of thee. What

Re: how sys_select, sys_fork, ... are defined for thread libraries?

2007-08-03 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:00:05PM -0700, Jin Guojun wrote: I am trying to understand how these __sys_xxx functions are defined for thread libraries. Following string search tells that all thread libraries are using these __sys_xxx functions, for example, __sys_select(). However, the search

Re: attaching a terminal to 'join' another?

2007-08-03 Thread Andrew Greenwood
Jeremy Gransden wrote: On 8/2/07, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if my question is a bit confusing - I'm not even sure the proper terminology, so I don't know what the best way to start looking is. I'm rebuilding a system at home, and I'd like to check how the build is going

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2007-08-03 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2007-08-03 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Mystery of increasing disk usage

2007-08-03 Thread Jamie Penman-Smithson
I'm having big problems trying to pin down the cause of spiralling disk usage on a partition. du -sh shows that /usr is using 5.9 GB: $ du -shL /usr 5.9G/usr However, df shows: Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1f 47G 43G131M 100%/usr [...]

Re: Mystery of increasing disk usage

2007-08-03 Thread Bill Moran
Jamie Penman-Smithson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having big problems trying to pin down the cause of spiralling disk usage on a partition. du -sh shows that /usr is using 5.9 GB: $ du -shL /usr 5.9G/usr However, df shows: Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on

Re: Compiling xorg 7.2 issue

2007-08-03 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:43:26 +0200 Roberth Sjonøy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have just installed FreeBSD for the first time, and I prefer to just install the kernel and the base system under the installation, now I'm compiling xorg, but I got an issue, === Installing for xorg-7.2

Re: USB keyboard not recognized at bootup

2007-08-03 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Oscar Chavarria wrote: On 8/3/07, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oscar Chavarria wrote: I have a GENERIC kernel. The /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC file contains the following under the USB Support section (among other devices): device usb #USB Bus (required)

Re: attaching a terminal to 'join' another?

2007-08-03 Thread Momchil Ivanov
На Friday 03 August 2007 00:02:51 Tim Judd написа: Forgot to CC the questions ML. --- Tim Judd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Tim Judd Thu Aug 2 15:01:18 2007 Received: from [68.35.175.118] by web62407.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:01:18 PDT Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007

Re: Creating an ext2 file system on FreeBSD?

2007-08-03 Thread Tom Grove
Paul Hoffman wrote: Hi again. Is there a FreeBSD equivalent of Linux's 'mke2fs'? I want to create a disk image that is in ext2 format. On Linux, I would do: dd if=/dev/zero of=some.img bs=1M count=1 seek=1024 /sbin/mke2fs -F -j some.img Can I do something similar on FreeBSD? --Paul Hoffman

Creating an ext2 file system on FreeBSD?

2007-08-03 Thread Paul Hoffman
Hi again. Is there a FreeBSD equivalent of Linux's 'mke2fs'? I want to create a disk image that is in ext2 format. On Linux, I would do: dd if=/dev/zero of=some.img bs=1M count=1 seek=1024 /sbin/mke2fs -F -j some.img Can I do something similar on FreeBSD? --Paul Hoffman

Re: Mystery of increasing disk usage

2007-08-03 Thread Peter Boosten
Bill Moran wrote: If I remember correctly, the most common reason for this is files that have been deleted, but have not had all references to them closed (i.e. file descriptors). You remember correctly: I've seen this happening with Apache logfiles that had been deleted but Apache didn't

Re: Mystery of increasing disk usage

2007-08-03 Thread Peter Boosten
Peter Boosten wrote: Bill Moran wrote: If I remember correctly, the most common reason for this is files that have been deleted, but have not had all references to them closed (i.e. file descriptors). You remember correctly: I've seen this happening with Apache logfiles that had been

Re: FreeBSD vs mysql50-server

2007-08-03 Thread Eric Crist
It should be in /var/db/mysql/my.cnf. HTH Eric Crist On Aug 1, 2007, at 11:04 PMAug 1, 2007, Hartleigh Burton wrote: Hi Guys, I have installed MySQL 5.0.45 server on a new FreeBSD 6.2 boxen, and having some problems restoring a 10GB database backup to the new server. The error I receive

Re: parformance patch?

2007-08-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
-#define MAXPHYS(128 * 1024)/* max raw I/O transfer size */ +#define MAXPHYS(512 * 1024)/* max raw I/O transfer size */ both works for me and gives noticable speedup, when operating on big files and when starting big apps or swapping. There are

Re: parformance patch?

2007-08-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:04:18PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: -#define MAXPHYS(128 * 1024)/* max raw I/O transfer size */ +#define MAXPHYS(512 * 1024)/* max raw I/O transfer size */ both works for me and gives noticable speedup, when operating on big

Re: FreeBSD vs mysql50-server

2007-08-03 Thread Kurt Buff
On 8/1/07, Hartleigh Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, snip Is the my.cnf file in the right location (/etc/mysql/)??? How can I check where MySQL is reading the configuration from if there is a possibility it is not coming from this location??? Not sure if this additional information

Re: attaching a terminal to 'join' another?

2007-08-03 Thread Tim Judd
--- Momchil Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: На Friday 03 August 2007 00:02:51 Tim Judd написа: Forgot to CC the questions ML. --- Tim Judd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Tim Judd Thu Aug 2 15:01:18 2007 Received: from [68.35.175.118] by web62407.mail.re1.yahoo.com via

Re: no buffer space

2007-08-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-03 08:31, Mark Busby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a firewall for my pppoe dsl connection that is giving me fits. After a few hours of surfing it runs out of buffer space. I have run memtest on the memory, checked fine. Changed out memory, still locking up. top while out of

RE: FreeBSD 6.2. Can I get 128x48 (or similar) console screens?

2007-08-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikos Vassiliadis I'm not sure I prefer the alternative, something like Ubuntu or PCLinux, where you just shut your eyes, lie back and think of South Africa, not knowing quite what's getting