Re: Setting up a VPN

2008-06-09 Thread Steve Quinn
--- On Sun, 6/8/08, Gonzalo Nemmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please _do_ send them to this list or throw a pointer at where they are at ! I'm sure more people than you can think of will find them usefull. I, for once, could really use them :) Hi Gonzalo, all I knew I should have done that

Re: PXE booting 7.0-R

2008-06-09 Thread CZUCZY Gergely
I've tried also specifing the IP for root-path, but as it seems, the hosts defaults to server-name or next-server (these are the same for me), so it's not neccessery to specify the IP in root-path. Also the fileserver and the dhcp server are the same. You should have seen this in the included

Re: Setting up a VPN

2008-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've recently implemented OpenVPN under FreeBSD For our team, it's been rock solid I found the OpenVPN docs were excellent for Windohs/Linux but were lacking a little for BSD while i don't know openvpn i use mpd (for windows interoperability) and vtun (for unix only) both works excellent.

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Wojciech Puchar wrote: 2) ZFS RAID-z turns your X drives to single drive performance both on read and write. every normal RAID-5 implementation will give you random read speed of X-1 times single drive speed, while slow random write speeds (but still at least half of single drive). but this

Re: FreeBSD on a CompactFlash

2008-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
What im trying to figure out is the best way to install the OS on a compact flash, put it as read only, then install a 2nd HDD to store the mysql data,etc. What is the best way to do this? you have to use tmpfs for /tmp, /var/tmp, /var/run and probably /var/log.

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
random write speeds (but still at least half of single drive). but this is advertised as a feature Is this because of checksum verification (the need to read all components) or something else? Any documentation/references? RAID-Z stores a single checksum over the whole stripe, instead of

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-09 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From time to time, I see posts which I can actually answer and contribute to, but

Re: stunnel not running? (check /var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid)

2008-06-09 Thread Adamsonh
noahwallach wrote: Okay I am not understanding something with stunnel. it appears that stunnel cant start because it cant create a pid file. It happens every time I upgrade it. # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/stunnel restart stunnel not running? (check /var/run/stunnel/stunnel.pid). Starting

Re: Setting up a VPN

2008-06-09 Thread Adamsonh
try sslexplorer, http://n3ncy.com/UNIX/FreeBSD/SSLExplorer.htm Schiz0 wrote: Hey, I'm looking for information on how to setup a Virtual Private Network on a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE system. The only VPNs that I've worked with previously is Hamachi on windows and linux, so I have no

Re: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS

2008-06-09 Thread cpghost
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:40:17 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a high pitched whine coming from my motherboard when the EHCI USB 2.0 controller is enabled in the BIOS. The whine only starts once FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is halfway through booting. The whine also goes away when I plugin

Re: stunnel: warning: can't get client address: Bad file descriptor

2008-06-09 Thread Adamsonh
hi, stunnel 4.25 does not kill all stunnel instances after issuing stop; you have to kill all old stunnel jobs before restarting it. noahwallach wrote: Just upgraded stunnel and getting the following error message in the /var/log/messages file. It appears that when I restart stunnel it

FreeBSD and NFSv4

2008-06-09 Thread Konrad Heuer
Hello everyone, are there any experiences with FreeBSD being an NFSv4 client out there? And furthermore, is there any further development of NFSv4 functionality within FreeBSD to come closer to RFC 3530? Thanks for any reply and best regards Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077

Re: csup freezes on updating src to upgrade 6.2 to 6.3 or 7.0

2008-06-09 Thread Iv Ray
Just did some tests and found out the same - csup freezes when the Free memory ends (the virtual machine has 512 MB RAM). Is this a known issue, and is there a workaround? Thank you, Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

csup freezes on updating src to upgrade 6.2 to 6.3 or 7.0

2008-06-09 Thread Iv Ray
Hello all, I have the following configuration - FreeBSD 6.2 (minimal install) Running in VMware 6.x Windows VISTA BUSINESS 64-bit guest (core duo 3 GHz, 4 GB RAM) supfile-stable is edited just with the domain (cvs.at) and the version (6_3 or 7_0). csup with this supfile runs for some time,

Re: csup freezes on updating src to upgrade 6.2 to 6.3 or 7.0

2008-06-09 Thread Iv Ray
Iv Ray wrote: After restarting the 6.2 host guest ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: csup freezes on updating src to upgrade 6.2 to 6.3 or 7.0

2008-06-09 Thread Iv Ray
Iv Ray wrote: Windows VISTA BUSINESS 64-bit guest (core duo 3 GHz, 4 GB RAM) ^ host ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-09 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:22:24 -0500 Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From time to time, I see posts which I can actually answer and contribute to, but

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-09 Thread Tore Lund
Novembre wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From time to time, I see posts which I can actually answer and contribute to, but since I'm not subscribed to the lists, even if I

Re: FreeBSD 7 on Windows 2008 (Hyper-V)

2008-06-09 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hello, I am also (very) interested in running FreeBSD under HyperV since HyperV will liberate itself from Windows Server soon after the final release (it will not depend on an preliminary Windows Server installation but will be standalone and practically free of charge, which makes it (for me)

Re: Networking issues

2008-06-09 Thread RW
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:19:04 -0600 Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have, for some time, been able to ssh into my father's FreeBSD machine in the Road Runner network in Central New York. Last night, I tried so that I could fix a problem for him and ssh timed out. No

Re: FreeBSD 7 on Windows 2008 (Hyper-V)

2008-06-09 Thread Outback Dingo
Ok heres the best solution, Im not even a big linux fan but install Ubuntu Server KVM, then install windows and FreeBSD 6, 7 or 8 Linux KVM just works, ive had 0 issues with FreeBSD under KVM with bridged networking. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Nejc Škoberne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,

RE: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS

2008-06-09 Thread Bob McConnell
On Behalf Of Jason Morgan On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 09:40:17PM -0600, James wrote: I have a high pitched whine coming from my motherboard when the EHCI USB 2.0 controller is enabled in the BIOS. The whine only starts once FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is halfway through booting. The whine also goes

Re: wireless help

2008-06-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
ifconfig This looks ok. Mind you, I'm not all that up on wireless, so I don't know if that could be part of your issue. arp ? (192.168.1.3) at (incomplete) on ath0 [ethernet] ? (192.168.1.254) at (incomplete) on ath0 [ethernet] This is generally telling you that you have recently

Re: size of executable - g95 vs gfortran42 - shared libs?

2008-06-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 04:07:23PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: g95.out: libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x280c5000) libc.so.7 = /lib/libc.so.7 (0x280db000) ^-- this one doesn't link to a dynamic fortran library, so it is presumably statically linked,

Re: OT: forcing thunderbird to download old gmail

2008-06-09 Thread Ross Cameron
In the Gmail web interface: Settings -= Forwarding and POP/IMAP -= Enable POP for all mail This isn't a Thunderbird issue. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just switched machines and want to force thunderbird to download everything in my All

is it possible to install FreeBSD 6.2

2008-06-09 Thread Iv Ray
Hello everybody, I am trying to build a VMware twin of an existing production server running FreeBSD 6.2. I have a 6.2 boot only ISO. The installation from FTP works well, but I have some strange issues - (i. e. csup when pulling the 6.3 sources freezes the OS and completes after two

Re: FreeBSD 7 on Windows 2008 (Hyper-V)

2008-06-09 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Same here. -- Robi Outback Dingo wrote: Ok heres the best solution, Im not even a big linux fan but install Ubuntu Server KVM, then install windows and FreeBSD 6, 7 or 8 Linux KVM just works, ive had 0 issues with FreeBSD under KVM with bridged networking. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:59 PM,

Re: Playing back motion jpeg saved by firefox

2008-06-09 Thread Ross Cameron
video.cgi is not the video you were watching it is a partial code segment from the web server you were browsing. there is no such video encapsulation type as a .cgi file, they are common gateway interface scripts/executables. On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just

Re: Setting up a VPN

2008-06-09 Thread Jason Morgan
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 11:39:06PM -0700, Steve Quinn wrote: --- On Sun, 6/8/08, Gonzalo Nemmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please _do_ send them to this list or throw a pointer at where they are at ! I'm sure more people than you can think of will find them usefull. I, for once, could

FreeBSD way of installing old version from ports tree

2008-06-09 Thread Simon Jolle
Hi FreeBSD users Currently in /usr/ports/sysutils/syslog-ng there is version syslog-ng 1.6.12. I need version syslog-ng 1.6.5 (the same as in production environment) to test configuration changes. Is there an archive of the ports tree? Whats the FreeBSD way to install this old version integrated

Re: FreeBSD way of installing old version from ports tree

2008-06-09 Thread Iv Ray
Simon Jolle wrote: What is the FreeBSD way to install this old version integrated in the rest of the system? If 1.6.12 was already installed, I would use portdowngrade. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD way of installing old version from ports tree

2008-06-09 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Simon Jolle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi FreeBSD users Currently in /usr/ports/sysutils/syslog-ng there is version syslog-ng 1.6.12. I need version syslog-ng 1.6.5 (the same as in production environment) to test configuration changes. Is there an archive of the ports tree? Whats

Re: Grep Guru

2008-06-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:07:12 -0700, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008, Raphael Becker wrote: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:15:50PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: find . -type f -print0|xargs -0 grep grepoptions text to search There's no more need for find | xargs Try:

Not possible to install KDE 3.5.8 and Apache 2.2 together?

2008-06-09 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Hello, when I want to install www/apache22 then following error appears: beastie# make install clean === Installing for apache-2.2.8 === apache-2.2.8 conflicts with installed package(s): apr-db42-1.2.8_2 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with

Re: Grep Guru

2008-06-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:23:19 +0200, Simon Jolle sjolle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/08/2008 10:12 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008, Jos Chrispijn wrote: I tried to make a grep script on find a string in all files on path ./ and down. It does anything exept searching in files

prevent overwriting custom make options in ports

2008-06-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I use ports/lang/gcc42. I set WITHOUT_JAVA=yes in the Makefile. However, with each tree update this option is overwritten, so I have to edit the Makefile each time I update the port. What is the best way to preserve my custom setting, add an environment variable? many thanks anton -- Anton

Memory Limits

2008-06-09 Thread Rahul
Hello, I'm new to FreeBSD and really attracted to it because of the performance and stability it provides. So I am looking to develop a high performance system that may need to process over 100K UDP messages per second and be able to store information quickly. I couldn't find much documentation

Openvpn on FreeBSD 7

2008-06-09 Thread Andrew Berry
Hi, I recently upgraded a machine from FreeBSD 6.3 to 7.0. Everything is working fine except for the OpenVPN server. I had it set up with a bridge configuration, but now even with a basic tunnel I can't get successful ping across the VPN. I can make a connection from both Linux and OS X

Re: How to do regression on libc?

2008-06-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How to do regression on libc to verify the correctness? There are conformance test suites out there. The decent ones all seem to cost money, but you might want to look at the Open POSIX project. ___

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 05:09:08PM -0700, Tobias Hoellrich wrote: [Disclaimer: I work for Adobe Systems. I have nothing to do with the Flash Player. I'm a grunt who works on other stuff. This is my personal opinion as a long-time FreeBSD user and I'm not making any statements for Adobe.]

RE: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS

2008-06-09 Thread Bob McConnell
On Behalf Of cpghost On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:40:17 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a high pitched whine coming from my motherboard when the EHCI USB 2.0 controller is enabled in the BIOS. The whine only starts once FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is halfway through booting. The whine also

Re: vmware timekeeping

2008-06-09 Thread Jeff Dickens
Sean Cavanaugh wrote: Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:48:46 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: vmware timekeeping At 03:23 p.m. 06/06/2008, you wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-release as a guest on VMware ESX

Re: vmware timekeeping

2008-06-09 Thread Jeff Dickens
Uwe Laverenz wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 04:23:41PM -0400, Jeff Dickens wrote: option turned on in ESX's .vmx file, and I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in my FreeBSD guest's /boot/loader.conf. This shouldn't be necessary in FreeBSD = 6.2. hmm. I used to have kern.hz=100 in

Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Huu Daud
Hello, Greetings, Iam new to this forum and to the Unix.My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD or DVD ,it didnt send me to the screen for selection options as it

gmirror and resizing partitions..

2008-06-09 Thread B . Cook
Hello all, I have a FreeBSD 7 machine that I am running gmirror on (ad4 and ad6). there is an /exports and /home that need to be resized. (right now they each are about 55G and /home needed to have been 100G and exports 10G) what do I need to do to fix this. I am assuming break the

Re: Grep Guru

2008-06-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:07:12 -0700 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008, Raphael Becker wrote: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:15:50PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: find . -type f -print0|xargs -0 grep grepoptions text to search There's no more need for find | xargs

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Iv Ray
Huu Daud wrote: Hello, Greetings, Iam new to this forum and to the Unix.My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD or DVD ,it didnt send me to the screen for

Re: prevent overwriting custom make options in ports

2008-06-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:33:01PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I use ports/lang/gcc42. I set WITHOUT_JAVA=yes in the Makefile. However, with each tree update this option is overwritten, so I have to edit the Makefile each time I update the port. What is the best way to preserve my

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:24:13AM -0700, Huu Daud wrote: Hello, Greetings, Iam new to this forum and to the Unix.My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD or DVD

does this work with FreeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
http://www.sataport.com/ i mean port multipliers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gmirror and resizing partitions..

2008-06-09 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by B. Cook on 06/09/08 10:23 Hello all, I have a FreeBSD 7 machine that I am running gmirror on (ad4 and ad6). there is an /exports and /home that need to be resized. (right now they each are about 55G and /home needed to have been 100G and exports 10G) what do I need to do

Re: gmirror and resizing partitions..

2008-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
there is an /exports and /home that need to be resized. (right now they each are about 55G and /home needed to have been 100G and exports 10G) more exact info please. gmirror status mount or cat /etc/fstab ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:24:13AM -0700, Huu Daud wrote: Hello, Greetings, Iam new to this forum and to the Unix. My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD or

Re: does this work with FreeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Vince Hoffman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: http://www.sataport.com/ i mean port multipliers http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/freebsd-current/2008/4/11/1402054 So the answer is there is support in -CURRENT but is still in its early stages. Vince ___

Re: gmirror and resizing partitions..

2008-06-09 Thread B. Cook
On Jun 9, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: there is an /exports and /home that need to be resized. (right now they each are about 55G and /home needed to have been 100G and exports 10G) more exact info please. gmirror status mount or cat /etc/fstab NameStatus

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Filippo Moretti
Jerry McAllister ha scritto: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:24:13AM -0700, Huu Daud wrote: Hello, Greetings, Iam new to this forum and to the Unix. My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread D Hill
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 at 18:33 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Jerry McAllister ha scritto: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:24:13AM -0700, Huu Daud wrote: Hello, Greetings, Iam new to this forum and to the Unix. My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Shelby Cain
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 17:00 +, D Hill wrote: Likely you have burned the iso file on a windows machine? I use both Roxio and Nero and have NEVER had any issues. Both will automatically set up correctly to burn the contents of the ISO just by double-clicking on the ISO image. As will

Re: Networking issues

2008-06-09 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have, for some time, been able to ssh into my father's FreeBSD machine in the Road Runner network in Central New York. Last night, I tried so that I could fix a problem for him and ssh timed out. No

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 06:33:56PM +0200, Filippo Moretti wrote: Jerry McAllister ha scritto: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:24:13AM -0700, Huu Daud wrote: Hello, Greetings, Iam new to this forum and to the Unix. My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I

libcdio upgrade problems

2008-06-09 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi, Im trying to upgrade some ports, and have a problem with libcdio. At least i think i do. When i try to upgrade, say, Nautilus (or a buncha other things), it dies in the end with a libcdio-0.78.2_2 is already installed. You may wish to make deinstall etc. message. But i did go to

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2008-06-09 12:10:01 UTC-0500, Shelby Cain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 17:00 +, D Hill wrote: Likely you have burned the iso file on a windows machine? I use both Roxio and Nero and have NEVER had any issues. Both will automatically set up correctly to burn

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-09 Thread Anders Häggström
Thank you all for discussing this with me. I really like to here your opinions. I wont answer to all of your posts, because half of them is off-topic, but still interesting to read. I haven't heard/read about any huge CPU consumptions from ZFS, not yet at least. If you have links to benchmarks

Re: Grep Guru

2008-06-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:44:36 +1000 (EST), Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:07:12 -0700 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008, Raphael Becker wrote: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:15:50PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: find . -type f -print0|xargs -0 grep

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-09 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:58:10 +0200 Anders Häggström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the memory I've read that ZFS use up to approximately 700MB of ram for caching, which is quite much, but not too much compared to my 4GB that is available. However there doesn't seem to be an upper limit for ZFS,

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Huu Daud wrote: Iam new to this forum and to the Unix.My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD or DVD ,it didnt send me to the screen for selection options as it

Re: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS

2008-06-09 Thread James
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Bob McConnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Behalf Of cpghost On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:40:17 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a high pitched whine coming from my motherboard when the EHCI USB 2.0 controller is enabled in the BIOS. The whine only starts

Re: Openvpn on FreeBSD 7

2008-06-09 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hey, I recently upgraded a machine from FreeBSD 6.3 to 7.0. Everything is working fine except for the OpenVPN server. I had it set up with a bridge configuration, but now even with a basic tunnel I can't get successful ping across the VPN. I can make a connection from both Linux and OS X but

Re: FreeBSD way of installing old version from ports tree

2008-06-09 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Simon Jolle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Currently in /usr/ports/sysutils/syslog-ng there is version syslog-ng 1.6.12. I need version syslog-ng 1.6.5 (the same as in production environment) to test configuration changes. Is there an archive of the

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-09 Thread Anders Häggström
2008/6/9 Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:58:10 +0200 Anders Häggström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the memory I've read that ZFS use up to approximately 700MB of ram for caching, which is quite much, but not too much compared to my 4GB that is available. However

portmaster argument question

2008-06-09 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, just noticed that I need to update a whole bunch of ports due to gettext issue, I am used to portmaster and henceforth exec portmaster -uBdr gettext\* -x avifile to server this need. however, the update is interrupted and needed to restart, I noticed an option (-R) to allow skipping ports

Re: Installing freeBSD

2008-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 09:45:43PM +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: Huu Daud wrote: Iam new to this forum and to the Unix.My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD

what ype of app? port of *free*-service app?

2008-06-09 Thread Gary Kline
People, This is a bit hard to figure out how to phrase, so please bear with me. I want to put-back a BBS/forum type app somewhere on my site so that members of my writing group can continue to help me with their suggestions and edits of my Jottings

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I haven't heard/read about any huge CPU consumptions from ZFS, not yet as i already said. most people today have problems as they have too fast CPU and too much RAM ;) they don't see high CPU load on quad core machine with 16GB RAM having not big load :) For the memory I've read that

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This limit can be tuned. At least on solaris. Also, ZFS definitely prefers a 64 bit kernel. That's good to know, thanks! Do you have any reference/link that describes how to manage that? It's good to know for the future. when i tested it i was able to run it on 256MB machine stable after

Troubleshooting a 3Ware 9550SX under 6.3

2008-06-09 Thread Adam Bayless
I've recently noticed slow performance on a machine that runs amanda and stores backups for our network on a RAID-5. It was running 6.2. I upgraded to 6.3 just today, so it is completely up to date on the 6 branch. Here's hopefully most of the relevant info: 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #0:

Re: Troubleshooting a 3Ware 9550SX under 6.3

2008-06-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 9, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Adam Bayless wrote: [ ... ] Unit UnitType Status %Cmpl Stripe Size(GB) Cache AVerify IgnECC -- u0RAID-5OK - 64K 2095.44 OFF OFF OFF

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-09 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 23:31:35 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UFS use what's unused. works on 16MB and 16GB. It's difficult to tell about consumed memory in ZFS vs UFS since UFS can be quite agressive at caching as well. -(although this caching is often hidden by system

Re: Troubleshooting a 3Ware 9550SX under 6.3

2008-06-09 Thread Adam Bayless
Caching is off; that will kill performance especially for small transactions. If you've got battery backup for this system, consider enabling the onboard cache...? Chuck, that made an immediate and huge difference: # tw_cli set cache c0 u0 on # dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile 5649235+0

Re: Troubleshooting a 3Ware 9550SX under 6.3

2008-06-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 9, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Adam Bayless wrote: Caching is off; that will kill performance especially for small transactions. If you've got battery backup for this system, consider enabling the onboard cache...? Chuck, that made an immediate and huge difference: # tw_cli set cache c0 u0

Re: Troubleshooting a 3Ware 9550SX under 6.3

2008-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile 165760+0 records in 165759+0 records out 84868608 bytes transferred in 25.028232 secs (3390915 bytes/sec) I think I ought to be able to get more than 3.2MB/sec out of this card, with default 512 bytes blocks - not much more

Re: portmaster argument question

2008-06-09 Thread Kitche
Hi, just noticed that I need to update a whole bunch of ports due to gettext issue, I am used to portmaster and henceforth exec portmaster -uBdr gettext\* -x avifile to server this need. however, the update is interrupted and needed to restart, I noticed an option (-R) to allow skipping

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Running 40 sparse zones is hardly noticable. Try that with 40 jails;-) you probably don't have your jails configured right. my 1GB pentium 4 machine runs 20 jails, and it is hardly noticable. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: prevent overwriting custom make options in ports

2008-06-09 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Monday 09 June 2008 16:33:01 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I use ports/lang/gcc42. I set WITHOUT_JAVA=yes in the Makefile. However, with each tree update this option is overwritten, so I have to edit the Makefile each time I update the port. What is the best way to preserve my custom

RE: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS

2008-06-09 Thread Chris Hill
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of cpghost On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:40:17 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a high pitched whine coming from my motherboard when the EHCI USB 2.0 controller is enabled in the BIOS. The whine only starts once FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is

no reverse DNS causing connectivity problems

2008-06-09 Thread Jake Evans
[Please cc in replies, not currently subscribed. Thank you.] I have a quick question that I can't seem to find an answer to via Google so far. I've had a few people complain that when they telnet/ssh/ftp/web to our server, it's slow... I've traced the problem to them having no reverse on

Re: no reverse DNS causing connectivity problems

2008-06-09 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:57 PM 6/9/2008, Jake Evans wrote: [Please cc in replies, not currently subscribed. Thank you.] I have a quick question that I can't seem to find an answer to via Google so far. I've had a few people complain that when they telnet/ssh/ftp/web to our server, it's slow... I've traced the

RE: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS

2008-06-09 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:27 -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of cpghost On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:40:17 -0600 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm no specialist and it may be an urban legend, but from what I gathered, some coils could exhibit the behavior of generating those high-pitched

Re: Openvpn on FreeBSD 7

2008-06-09 Thread Andrew Berry
On 9-Jun-08, at 3:49 PM, Nejc Škoberne wrote: I do. I don't use bridging, though. Do you have a good reason to use it? I was using it because I could then assign my laptop the same IP easily through my router (a separate device with DHCP) and also have hostnames pushed through DHCP. But

Re: what ype of app? port of *free*-service app?

2008-06-09 Thread Andrew Berry
On 9-Jun-08, at 5:31 PM, Gary Kline wrote: This is a bit hard to figure out how to phrase, so please bear with me. I want to put-back a BBS/forum type app somewhere on my site so that members of my writing group can continue to help me with their suggestions

Source directory of libm.so?

2008-06-09 Thread Unga
Hi all Where is the source directory of /lib/libm.so.x in /usr/src/? grep -lr LIB=m /usr/src/ does not show any result. Kind regards Unga ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-09 Thread Novembre
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From

Re: no reverse DNS causing connectivity problems

2008-06-09 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
[mailed and posted] On Jun 9, 2008, at 8:57 PM, Jake Evans wrote: I've had a few people complain that when they telnet/ssh/ftp/web to our server, it's slow... I've traced the problem to them having no reverse on their IPs. You should configure your servers to not do the reverse lookup.

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-09 Thread Novembre
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Randy Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:22:24 -0500 Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From

Re: Source directory of libm.so?

2008-06-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 21:02:52 -0700 (PDT), Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Where is the source directory of /lib/libm.so.x in /usr/src/? grep -lr LIB=m /usr/src/ does not show any result. Try using a few spaces or TABs around '=' :) The directory you want is `/usr/src/lib/msun'.

Re: IPv6 jails for FreeBSD (6.* preferably)

2008-06-09 Thread Edwin Groothuis
well it applied almost clean to FreeBSD 6.3! almost means i have to skip 2 patches to sctp_* files, as sctp doesn't exist in FreeBSD 6.*, everything else patched we will see after compiling. Did it work? Did it work? Did it work? (Or is the absence of a giant WOOOHOOO! the indicator

Re: what ype of app? port of *free*-service app?

2008-06-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:50:45PM -0400, Andrew Berry wrote: On 9-Jun-08, at 5:31 PM, Gary Kline wrote: This is a bit hard to figure out how to phrase, so please bear with me. I want to put-back a BBS/forum type app somewhere on my site so that members of my writing group

Re: Source directory of libm.so?

2008-06-09 Thread Unga
--- On Tue, 6/10/08, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Source directory of libm.so? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 12:19 PM On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 21:02:52 -0700 (PDT), Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: