Re: newfs_msdos -B

2007-08-16 Thread Victor Sudakov
Nikola Lecic wrote: I need to create a bootable MS-DOS slice on a HDD. Where can I obtain a DOS VBR for newfs_msdos -B ? Hello Victor, On your place I'll just create msdos partition and install FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org/) there. (Actually I did use FreeDOS once to run some

Re: Local domain with Bind

2007-08-16 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
,--[ On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 12:19:34AM +0200, Nicholas Wieland wrote: | Il giorno 15/ago/07, alle ore 15:23, Derek Ragona ha scritto: | | I don't see anything in the bind configuration file either, AND it | all works on the DNS server and your mac so we know that the BIND | configuration is

Re: newfs_msdos -B

2007-08-16 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:05:11 +0700 Victor Sudakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikola Lecic wrote: [...] However, if you need exactly m$'s dos, it's logical that you must borrow from there (from existing m$-dos or window$-9*). A quick googling shows that on

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-16 Thread David Southwell
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 12:39:17 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: One of the best emails I've seen as a reply to a user coming from the Windows world. Many thanks for taking the time to write all this :-) - Giorgos On 2007-08-15 03:14, David Southwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see where

Re: newfs_msdos -B

2007-08-16 Thread Victor Sudakov
Nikola Lecic wrote: [dd] Apart from install CDs, the only bootable image that FreeDOS-1.0 actually offers for download is 1.4M fdboot.img: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/ Otherwise, I don't see any other way to obtain sectors of the full

Re: qemu and usb

2007-08-16 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 15/08/2007 20:06 Juergen Lock said the following: On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:57:36PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: Is it possible on FreeBSD to provide access to host USB devices for qemu guests ? I tried playing with -usb and -usbdevice and to follow some linux how-to's but with no luck.

Re: gmirror woes on 6.2-S, Aug 1

2007-08-16 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 02:57:19PM -0700, Kelsey Cummings wrote: FreeBSD meno 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #3: Wed Aug 1 08:21:29 PDT 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 I just swapped a gmirror pair of disks into a new box and have run into a problem that I can't seem to figure

Dump + GZIP

2007-08-16 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Can I safely pump a filesystem dump through gzip during the dumping process?, or di I need to create the dump first then gzip it after? Does zipping the dumps cause any headaches at restore time? (I currently dump 5 servers worth of data to a raid 5 array, and am about 20% away from

Re: Dump + GZIP

2007-08-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 16 August 2007, Grant Peel wrote: Can I safely pump a filesystem dump through gzip during the dumping process?, or di I need to create the dump first then gzip it after? I do it all the time: dump -f - ... | gzip date_filesystem.dump.gz or with bzip2: dump -f - ... | bzip2

Re: Dump + GZIP

2007-08-16 Thread Federico Lorenzi
On 8/16/07, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 August 2007, Grant Peel wrote: Can I safely pump a filesystem dump through gzip during the dumping process?, or di I need to create the dump first then gzip it after? I do it all the time: dump -f - ... | gzip

beryl on freebsd

2007-08-16 Thread Dan Sikorsky
Is this guide OK? even if i dont have an nvidia chipset? http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-47986.html -- Dan Sikorsky *Systems Admin/GoldMine Admin* RegionalHelpWanted.com,Inc. Cupid.com, Inc. 845-471-5200 x220 One Civic Center Plaza, Suite 506 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

Re: beryl on freebsd

2007-08-16 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Dan Sikorsky on 08/16/07 09:40 Is this guide OK? even if i dont have an nvidia chipset? http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-47986.html Well, you don't need to use git to fetch the xorg code, xorg 7.2 is now in ports. Since you won't be using the nvidia driver, you

Re: OT:: anybody on-list use PC-BSD? or bSD-PC?

2007-08-16 Thread beni
On Friday 10 August 2007 01:16:48 Gary Kline wrote: Guys, A couple years ago I got a hold of Ubuntu and until recent months thought it was the best thing since [[ fill-in ]]. Long-story-shot, I am wedged at 6.06 (a Long Term Support) version, and because the

mysqldump/gzip shell scripting question...

2007-08-16 Thread Eric Crist
Hey all, First off, I don't care if you send example in perl, php, or sh, but we're not a python shop here, so those recommendation will not be useful... I'm trying to write a shell script that scans our databases for tables starting with archive_ which are created by other scripts/

Re: mysqldump/gzip shell scripting question...

2007-08-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Eric Crist wrote: Hey all, First off, I don't care if you send example in perl, php, or sh, but we're not a python shop here, so those recommendation will not be useful... I'm trying to write a shell script that scans our databases for tables starting with archive_ which are created by

Re: Dump + GZIP

2007-08-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:10:12AM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 16 August 2007, Grant Peel wrote: Can I safely pump a filesystem dump through gzip during the dumping process?, or di I need to create the dump first then gzip it after? I do it all the time: dump -f - ... | gzip

apache problems

2007-08-16 Thread Reinhold
Hi I am having some problems with apache22 on my box. What happens is, when I'm viewing loads and loads of pages, apache will stop responding untill I restart it again. This normally happens when the free memory shown by top gets to about +- 100MB. Here is my dmesg output: Copyright (c)

Re: apache problems

2007-08-16 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
options SCHED_ULE I would stick with 4BSD in 6.x series until 7.0-r then use SCHED_SMP Thats not your problem though. -- Philip M. Gollucci ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 323.219.4708 Senior System Admin - Riderway, Inc.

Real-Time traffic monitor?

2007-08-16 Thread Eric F Crist
Hey all, I've got a fairly heavy-duty machine doing firewalling for my network, and the VAST majority of it's processing power is going unused. As such, I'd like to put X on this box, attach a monitor, and display a series of real-time traffic graphs. Does anyone know what the best

Re: apache problems

2007-08-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 02:02:09PM -0400, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: options SCHED_ULE I would stick with 4BSD in 6.x series until 7.0-r then use SCHED_SMP You mean SCHED_ULE. Thats not your problem though. It could be, it's too broken to use in 6.x and only fixed in 7.0. Kris

Re: apache problems

2007-08-16 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 02:02:09PM -0400, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: options SCHED_ULE I would stick with 4BSD in 6.x series until 7.0-r then use SCHED_SMP You mean SCHED_ULE. Thats not your problem though. Right, I forgot the name changed back. --

Re: Real-Time traffic monitor?

2007-08-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 01:03:54PM -0500, Eric F Crist wrote: Hey all, I've got a fairly heavy-duty machine doing firewalling for my network, and the VAST majority of it's processing power is going unused. As such, I'd like to put X on this box, attach a monitor, and display a series of

Re: apache problems

2007-08-16 Thread Hugo Silva
Reinhold wrote: Hi I am having some problems with apache22 on my box. What happens is, when I'm viewing loads and loads of pages, apache will stop responding untill I restart it again. This normally happens when the free memory shown by top gets to about +- 100MB. Here is my dmesg output:

Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Hi All, Here is a problem that I cannot solve. I have two offices with two file servers (FreeBSD 6.1). Clients are accessing files over samba and nfs (on the local server). I would like to share some directory structures between the two offices. Originally I was thinking about sshfs

Re: Real-Time traffic monitor?

2007-08-16 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey all, I've got a fairly heavy-duty machine doing firewalling for my network, and the VAST majority of it's processing power is going unused. As such, I'd like to put X on this box, attach a monitor, and display a series of real-time

Re: apache problems

2007-08-16 Thread Reinhold
Thanks I'll switch back to 4BSD and see what happens On Thu, August 16, 2007 20:09, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 02:02:09PM -0400, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: options SCHED_ULE I would stick with 4BSD in 6.x series until 7.0-r then use SCHED_SMP

Re: cheap (supported) wifi card

2007-08-16 Thread Don Hinton
Hi Adam: Adam J Richardson writes: Don Hinton wrote: Could someone recommend a good (and cheap) one that's includes a/b/g*/n and is supported, either natively or via ndis? Hi Don, I can heartily recommend any card based on the TNET1130 chipset. They work very well with

Re: apache problems

2007-08-16 Thread Reinhold
On Thu, August 16, 2007 20:16, Hugo Silva wrote: Reinhold wrote: Hi I am having some problems with apache22 on my box. What happens is, when I'm viewing loads and loads of pages, apache will stop responding untill I restart it again. This normally happens when the free memory shown by top

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:58 PM 8/16/2007, Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi All, Here is a problem that I cannot solve. I have two offices with two file servers (FreeBSD 6.1). Clients are accessing files over samba and nfs (on the local server). I would like to share some directory structures between the two offices.

Re: apache problems

2007-08-16 Thread Hugo Silva
Reinhold wrote: On Thu, August 16, 2007 20:16, Hugo Silva wrote: Reinhold wrote: Hi I am having some problems with apache22 on my box. What happens is, when I'm viewing loads and loads of pages, apache will stop responding untill I restart it again. This normally happens when the

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Laszlo Nagy
You need to create a VPN connection between your two offices. You can do this in a variety of ways, but probably the best solution would be to have static IP's for both offices and a router that has hardware support for VPNs at each office. You can connect the two offices via a VPN

RE: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello Laszlo: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laszlo Nagy Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:37 PM To: Derek Ragona; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Share folder over internet You need to create a VPN

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 16, 2007, at 2:37 PMAug 16, 2007, Laszlo Nagy wrote: You need to create a VPN connection between your two offices. You can do this in a variety of ways, but probably the best solution would be to have static IP's for both offices and a router that has hardware support for VPNs at

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 16, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Laszlo Nagy wrote: You need to create a VPN connection between your two offices. You can do this in a variety of ways, but probably the best solution would be to have static IP's for both offices and a router that has hardware support for VPNs at each office.

Re: Real-Time traffic monitor?

2007-08-16 Thread Kurt Buff
On 8/16/07, Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've got a fairly heavy-duty machine doing firewalling for my network, and the VAST majority of it's processing power is going unused. As such, I'd like to put X on this box, attach a monitor, and display a series of real-time

The Elephant file system

2007-08-16 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I was doing some research for file systems at work and came across some semi-technical papers on a file system called elephant. Since this paper mentions that the designers first tried their implementation on FreeBSD 2.2.7, I thought I'd ask here if anyone has ever heard of this file system.

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Peter Svec wrote: Hello Laszlo, you don't need static IP address if you use hamachi. It is zero configuration VPN tool, which creates peer-to-peer tunnel between two host (with static or dynamic addresses). The problem is, that hamachi isn't in the ports yet. Take a look at

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Laszlo Nagy wrote: Peter Svec wrote: Hello Laszlo, you don't need static IP address if you use hamachi. It is zero configuration VPN tool, which creates peer-to-peer tunnel between two host (with static or dynamic addresses). The problem is, that hamachi isn't in the ports yet. Take a look

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Peter Svec
Hello Laszlo, you don't need static IP address if you use hamachi. It is zero configuration VPN tool, which creates peer-to-peer tunnel between two host (with static or dynamic addresses). The problem is, that hamachi isn't in the ports yet. Take a look at

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Unless I'm very confused, BSD NFS can export directories and directory trees in addition to filesystems. See export(5). Internet security should be attainable with an appropriate firewall configuration that allows the servers to only talk to each other. IMHO you can export directory trees

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/16/07, Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Here is a problem that I cannot solve. I have two offices with two file servers (FreeBSD 6.1). Clients are accessing files over samba and nfs (on the local server). I would like to share some directory structures between the two

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Laszlo Nagy
I often suggest Coda (ports/net/coda6_server coda6_client) for this sort of situation, but it has been so many years since I've used it myself that I don't know what state it is in these days. I hope the documentation has improved. Note the client runs on the local file server, so you don't

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Laszlo Nagy wrote: - sshfs works for Linux, but not for FreeBSD, although ssh is open source and well documented. The guy who developed it says that he could not implement fuse very well because the source code of the FreeBSD kernel is a mess, can this be true? No idea.

Re: questions@ vs. freebsd-questions@

2007-08-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 09:20:15PM -0500, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Wednesday 15 August 2007 08:15:46 pm Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:14:43AM -0400, Gerard wrote: Is there a reason that you cannot just use the address specified in the email headers of messages

console redirection during

2007-08-16 Thread Vallard Benincosa
Does anybody know how to enable console redirection through the serial port during a FreeBSD 6.2 jumpstart install? I searched documentation but didn't come up with anything. Thanks for any help. Vallard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Mapping Oregon Communities: Intro GIS Workshop

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Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/16/07, Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I often suggest Coda (ports/net/coda6_server coda6_client) for this sort of situation, but it has been so many years since I've used it myself that I don't know what state it is in these days. I hope the documentation has improved. Note

Re: console redirection during

2007-08-16 Thread Josef Grosch
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 03:16:22PM -0700, Vallard Benincosa wrote: Does anybody know how to enable console redirection through the serial port during a FreeBSD 6.2 jumpstart install? I searched documentation but didn't come up with anything. Thanks for any help. First, make sure the bios is

Swap size

2007-08-16 Thread Nicholas Wieland
I was reading tuning(7), and I found that I should size my swap double the size of my physical memory. AFAIK that was true some years ago, when memory was not as cheap as now, and following that guideline I should set my swap to 2GB, which seems far too much for swap (at least to me ...). I

Re: Swap size

2007-08-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 02:05:57AM +0200, Nicholas Wieland wrote: I was reading tuning(7), and I found that I should size my swap double the size of my physical memory. AFAIK that was true some years ago, when memory was not as cheap as now, and following that guideline I should set my

deinstall all apps installed from ports

2007-08-16 Thread vuthecuong
Just for reference only: I wonder how can I remove all apps, yes, all apps installed from ports so that only freebsd 6.2 OS remains just by one command. I use portupgrade. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: deinstall all apps installed from ports

2007-08-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 16, 2007, at 5:22 PM, vuthecuong wrote: I wonder how can I remove all apps, yes, all apps installed from ports so that only freebsd 6.2 OS remains just by one command. I use portupgrade. man pkg_delete suggests the -a flag: -a Unconditionally delete all currently installed

Mapping Oregon Communities: Intro GIS Workshop

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Re: Swap size

2007-08-16 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 16, 2007, at 7:05 PMAug 16, 2007, Nicholas Wieland wrote: I was reading tuning(7), and I found that I should size my swap double the size of my physical memory. AFAIK that was true some years ago, when memory was not as cheap as now, and following that guideline I should set my swap

vlc won't play region encoded DVDs

2007-08-16 Thread Chandhee Thala
Hello, I'm running VLC 0.8.5 on FreeBSD 6.2. I was under the impression that VLC ignored region-encoding when playing DVDs, but this is apparently not the case on my BSD box. Most of the American DVDs I try to play gets a region encoding error and quits. I have no problems with foreign DVDs

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 16 August 2007 21:39:25 Laszlo Nagy wrote: Now I'm starting to loose my enthusiasm about FreeBSD! - sshfs works for Linux, but not for FreeBSD, although ssh is open source and well documented. The guy who developed it says that he could not implement fuse very well because the

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:39:25 +0200 Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I also had trouble with mozilla flashplugin. It simply does not work, except with linux-firefox, but then Java stops working. Unfortuntely, I need to use both of them together. hi Laszlo, search the archives of

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 17), Pollywog said: On Thursday 16 August 2007 21:39:25 Laszlo Nagy wrote: Now I'm starting to loose my enthusiasm about FreeBSD! - sshfs works for Linux, but not for FreeBSD, although ssh is open source and well documented. The guy who developed it says that he

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 17 August 2007 04:11:17 Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 17), Pollywog said: On Thursday 16 August 2007 21:39:25 Laszlo Nagy wrote: Now I'm starting to loose my enthusiasm about FreeBSD! - sshfs works for Linux, but not for FreeBSD, although ssh is open source