Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-04 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 20:55 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Da Rock writes: Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions. 1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk? Yes. Can't remember the last time I used anything else. So you've never booted from a disk that

FreeBSD 7.0 problems

2008-12-04 Thread Da Rock
I have just installed FreeBSD 7.0 on a laptop I just cleaned up. It used to run Fedora linux (I have a tv card which used to work on it, but now I can't get the drivers to work again), and it got very cluttered and started getting issues. The hardware is fine though- it just returned from

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 problems

2008-12-04 Thread Mel
On Thursday 04 December 2008 03:06:34 Da Rock wrote: I have just installed FreeBSD 7.0 on a laptop I just cleaned up. It used to run Fedora linux (I have a tv card which used to work on it, but now I can't get the drivers to work again), and it got very cluttered and started getting issues.

Re: loader.conf issues

2008-12-04 Thread Valentin Bud
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Weldon S Godfrey 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a quick search for this and didn't see anyone seeing this. I am running 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64 This is my loader.conf: vm.kmem_size_max=16106127360 vm.kmem_size=1073741824 kern.maxvnodes=80 However,

Downgrading Ports

2008-12-04 Thread Marcel Grandemange
Good Day Guys. Im wondering how can one downgrade ports? And I don't mean installed ports (portdowngrade) , I mean the actual ports system. I have found the freeradius2 port to be broken and can't install it therefore I would like to downgrade ports to try install an older version. Any advise?

newinstall and GPT

2008-12-04 Thread Pieter Donche
If one would use GPT (GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) Partition Table right from the start of an installation of a new system, how must one proceed ? During install from a DVD, first you are asked to do a DOS-style (fdisk) partitioning (slice making in FreeBSD parlance), which would be

Re: Downgrading Ports

2008-12-04 Thread Benjamin Lee
On 12/04/08 01:25, Marcel Grandemange wrote: Good Day Guys. Im wondering how can one downgrade ports? And I don't mean installed ports (portdowngrade) , I mean the actual ports system. I have found the freeradius2 port to be broken and can't install it therefore I would like to downgrade

Re: Returning User With Filesystem/Memory Tuning Questions

2008-12-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 22:44:29 -0600 (CST), Kevin Monceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: For what it's worth, I've been reading newsgroups with more than 5000 messages in Gnus, a newsreader that runs inside GNU Emacs, and its memory usage has *never*

RE: Downgrading Ports

2008-12-04 Thread Marcel Grandemange
Good Day Guys. Im wondering how can one downgrade ports? And I don't mean installed ports (portdowngrade) , I mean the actual ports system. I have found the freeradius2 port to be broken and can't install it therefore I would like to downgrade ports to try install an older version.

Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, To gain an understanding on the performance of iSCSI vs. local disk IO I'm looking for a tool. My first thought was about iozone... Any other ideas? Thanks much in advance for your help, -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
To gain an understanding on the performance of iSCSI vs. local disk IO I'm looking for a tool. My first thought was about iozone... Any other ideas? for linear transfer:dd of course iSCSI disk will always be slower ___

Re: FreeBSD cannot power down

2008-12-04 Thread Unga
--- On Tue, 12/2/08, Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD cannot power down To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 11:22 PM Hi all After a kernel recompilation on i386 RELENG_7 (not the latest), I cannot power down the

Re: freebsd-update through proxy with auth

2008-12-04 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-12-03 10:36:29 UTC+0200, DA Forsyth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: How do I get freebsd-update to fetch through a proxy that requires authentication? I cannot find any options in the man pages. freebsd-update is a /bin/sh shell script. Looking at the source I can see it uses

Re: Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, To gain an understanding on the performance of iSCSI vs. local disk IO I'm looking for a tool. My first thought was about iozone... iozone is ok, but a little complex to run. Any disk benchmark will be ok - bonnie++, blogbench, etc. but each has an emphasis on a

Re: Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, To gain an understanding on the performance of iSCSI vs. local disk IO I'm looking for a tool. My first thought was about iozone... bonnie++ is ok too. Any other ideas? Thanks much in advance for your help, -ewald

Re: what script is whacking root's files

2008-12-04 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:11 AM 12/4/2008, Tim Judd wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: I have a freshly installed 7.0 release server. The configuration files (all dot files including .ssh etc.) in /root keep getting deleted. I assume this is

Mass find/replace...

2008-12-04 Thread Marc Coyles
Never had to do this so not sure where to start. Have googled and found some solutions but they don't particularly work (see below)... Someone has managed to inject php code into a PILE of php pages on my webserver... ? /**/eval(base64_decode('aWYoZnVuY3Rpb25fZXhpc3RzKCdvYl9zdGFydCcpJiYhaXNz

Re: Mass find/replace...

2008-12-04 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Marc Coyles wrote: Never had to do this so not sure where to start. Have googled and found some solutions but they don't particularly work (see below)... Someone has managed to inject php code into a PILE of php pages on my webserver... ?

Re: hp dv2225nr laptop optical drive random ejects

2008-12-04 Thread michael
I had assumed something like that, but my drive is san cable. It uses a solid connection via a hard plastic port, similar to an sata port, but no cables. That lead me to believe that the port itself could be ill-aligned or something. I can press on the case above the optical drive and it will

Re: Mass find/replace...

2008-12-04 Thread Julien Cigar
the following should work : $ find /home/horbury -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep 'base64_decode' or : $ find /home/horbury -type f -exec grep 'base64_decode' {} \; On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 12:14 +, Marc Coyles wrote: Never had to do this so not sure where to start. Have googled and found

Re: cvs stupid question

2008-12-04 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2008-12-03 16:31:29 UTC+0100, Wojciech Puchar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: export [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs cvs checkout -rRELENG_7 src waited over an hour, no files got fetched what i'm doing wrong? Looks like the server is down: $ export [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs $ cvs

Re: Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My first thought was about iozone... iozone is ok, but a little complex to run. Any disk benchmark will be ok - bonnie++, blogbench, etc. but each has an emphasis on a different aspect of the system. I think bonnie++ will be the simplest in your case. can bonnie++ operate on raw device not

Re: Mass find/replace...

2008-12-04 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:52:02PM +, Vincent Hoffman typed: Marc Coyles wrote: I need to do a find / replace throughout the entire of the /home/horbury/public_html directory... I've tried 'find /home/Horbury/ -type f | xargs grep -l base64_decode' to get a list of the files that

Re: Tool for benchmark local disk vs. iSCSI

2008-12-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: My first thought was about iozone... iozone is ok, but a little complex to run. Any disk benchmark will be ok - bonnie++, blogbench, etc. but each has an emphasis on a different aspect of the system. I think bonnie++ will be the simplest in your case. can bonnie++

Re: Mass find/replace...

2008-12-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Or just: grep -r base64_decode /home/Horbury rm -rf /home/Horbury and then - write the webpage code properly :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Downgrading Ports

2008-12-04 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Marcel Grandemange wrote: I have used portdowngrade successfully on ports already installed, but doesn't work on a port not installed yet. Am I doing something wrong? Yes - you not read the man. portupgrade -N newport or sometimes better: portupgrade -N portclass/newport For example

Re: Downgrading Ports

2008-12-04 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Proskurin Kirill wrote: Marcel Grandemange wrote: I have used portdowngrade successfully on ports already installed, but doesn't work on a port not installed yet. Am I doing something wrong? Yes - you not read the man. portupgrade -N newport or sometimes better: portupgrade -N

Re: loader.conf issues

2008-12-04 Thread Weldon S Godfrey 3
Thanks, I meant to update this earlier, it appears that the kmem tunables need a larger cast in 7.x (to use beyond 4GB kernel memory map), I opened a ticket yesterday. If memory serves me right, sometime around Yesterday, [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Weldon S Godfrey 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:

Re: Is there anything weird I should know about using ipfw on alias addresses?

2008-12-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Brett Davidson wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Brett Davidson wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:52:12 +1300 Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ifconfig shows the alias addresses correctly bound. Creating an

Re: what script is whacking root's files

2008-12-04 Thread Tim Judd
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:30 AM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:11 AM 12/4/2008, Tim Judd wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: I have a freshly installed 7.0 release server. The configuration files (all dot

Re: what script is whacking root's files

2008-12-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Derek Ragona wrote: This particular server is running in a VM on a vmware esx 3.5 server. The server runs fine, but every so often the dot files disappear for root. I have not found the behavior to follow a reboot, but some period of time. Hence my suspicions it was a periodic script.

Re: open multiple xterms with script

2008-12-04 Thread Aggelidis Nikos
Thank you George and Polytropon that seems to do the trick... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-04 Thread Robert Huff
Da Rock writes: Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions. 1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk? Yes. Can't remember the last time I used anything else. So you've never booted from a disk that has been partitioned as a file system?

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:47:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 11:39 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:17:40AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:56:44 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If FreeBSD is to put

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:57:45PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 20:55 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Da Rock writes: Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions. 1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk? Yes. Can't remember the last

Re: Installation on a Dell Poweredge R805

2008-12-04 Thread Chris Boyd
On Dec 4, 2008, at 1:29 AM, Tim Judd wrote: 1: PERC6 is not listed as supported, last time I checked. 2: Dells are notorious for not working very well with !Windows, ! Linux (haven't tried something like Open Solaris) I have a new PE2950's at the office, FreeBSD sees everything, including

Re: what script is whacking root's files

2008-12-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:30:13 -0600, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /root is on /dev/da0s1a This particular server is running in a VM on a vmware esx 3.5 server. The server runs fine, but every so often the dot files disappear for root. I have not found the behavior to follow a reboot,

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have never booted a FreeBSD system from a disk which contained any other operating system. I have only used dangerously dadicated mode for FreeBSD, except when sysinstall made selecting/implementing that too much work. almost like me except i don't use sysinstall, and manually

Gnome slow at start up

2008-12-04 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA 2 and I have some problems with Gnome at start up. When I type startx, I get the gnome desktop and the nice border-less window in which I can see components loading. However, after the gnome-panel icon, it seems to stall. some time later (around a minute or

RE: mail server

2008-12-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Karlos Linale Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:20 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: mail server Hello, I was wondering if you could help me. For some reason I keep getting hundreds

G4U inquiry

2008-12-04 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I have a bsd box with a 12 gig drive- I'm going to get a new drive (larger) to replace it as it is quite old and slow - My question is when I clone it with g4u where will the extra space go The drive is currently sliced like this Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted

Re: G4U inquiry

2008-12-04 Thread Tyson Boellstorff
On Thursday 04 December 2008 14:44:40 Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I have a bsd box with a 12 gig drive- I'm going to get a new drive (larger) to replace it as it is quite old and slow - My question is when I clone it with g4u where will the extra space go it's in the faq.

Re: G4U inquiry

2008-12-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have a bsd box with a 12 gig drive- I'm going to get a new drive (larger) to replace it as it is quite old and slow - My question is when I clone it with g4u where will the extra space go why not simply partition new drive and copy everything? or use dd and then correct partiiton table

Re: G4U inquiry

2008-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:00:09PM -0600, Tyson Boellstorff wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2008 14:44:40 Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I have a bsd box with a 12 gig drive- I'm going to get a new drive (larger) to replace it as it is quite old and slow - My question is when I clone it with

Dell poweredge 2970 (AMD)

2008-12-04 Thread gahn
Hello, all: has anyone here ever installed freebsd on dell poweredge 2970 (amd)? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Dell poweredge 2970 (AMD)

2008-12-04 Thread michael
yes, but the components of yours will matter. perc5i/perc6i etc. i think 7.1 works on the perc6 unless you don't even have the perc crap anyway. gahn wrote: Hello, all: has anyone here ever installed freebsd on dell poweredge 2970 (amd)? Thanks

Re: To swap or not to swap

2008-12-04 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 04:56:52PM +, Anthony M. Rasat wrote: Fellas, I need opinions. Asus Eee PC, SSD storage, 512MB RAM, with GNOME and other desktop thingy (testing out of curiousity). Question is, swap or no swap? Remember, this is SSD, it is reasonable to have no swap. However,

IPFW Firewall Question

2008-12-04 Thread G magicman
1.  I need help to reconfigure my firewall on the server using BSD's ipfw here is part of the configuration file so far that the Co-lo people put in. 2. short of a reboot how do you start stop and restart the  firewall #!/usr/local/bin/bash export IPF=ipfw -q add ports=11 21 22 23 25 37 42

Re: To swap or not to swap

2008-12-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 23:16:23 + Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The alternative to not having swap is a machine that on occasion could run out of memory. I don't know what happens in those circumstances but I doubt if it's pretty. FreeBSD behaves fairly nicely when it runs out of

Image Programs

2008-12-04 Thread G magicman
Hello  does anyone know the following 1.  Does Freebsd have a program like Photoshop avail to use a copy-left GNU license type ? and a form of Thumbsplus which allows me to do rudimentary picture manipulations changing file type, cropping etc.  i have all the 3d programs but not these 2 basic

Re: Image Programs

2008-12-04 Thread michael
G magicman wrote: Hello does anyone know the following 1. Does Freebsd have a program like Photoshop avail to use a copy-left GNU license type ? and a form of Thumbsplus which allows me to do rudimentary picture manipulations changing file type, cropping etc. i have all the 3d programs

Re: Image Programs

2008-12-04 Thread Chris Hill
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, G magicman wrote: 1.  Does Freebsd have a program like Photoshop avail to use a copy-left GNU license type ? and a form of Thumbsplus which allows me to do rudimentary picture manipulations changing file type, cropping etc.  i have all the 3d programs but not these 2 basic

Re: Is there anything weird I should know about using ipfw on alias addresses?

2008-12-04 Thread Brett Davidson
Found the problem. Incorrect arp entry. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Brett. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-04 Thread af300wsm
Hi, I don't even know if this has been done before, nor do I know for sure if it's a sound comparison. Never the less, someone posted, in response to someone else here just a few days ago, some very nice benchmarks provided by Kris ?Kenneway? I could be wrong on the last name, it just

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-04 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 10:49 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:57:45PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 20:55 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Da Rock writes: Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions. 1) It IS possible to

Re: Mass find/replace...

2008-12-04 Thread Mel
On Thursday 04 December 2008 13:58:20 Julien Cigar wrote: the following should work : $ find /home/horbury -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep 'base64_decode' or : $ find /home/horbury -type f -exec grep 'base64_decode' {} \; + not \; or you will fork on every result. Additionally, is this

Re: Gnome slow at start up

2008-12-04 Thread Mel
On Thursday 04 December 2008 19:51:32 Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA 2 and I have some problems with Gnome at start up. When I type startx, I get the gnome desktop and the nice border-less window in which I can see components loading. However, after the

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 problems

2008-12-04 Thread Mel
On Thursday 04 December 2008 19:51:59 Da Rock wrote: snip provided info Why would I install a beta when I'm mainly interested in stable releases? That's why I asked. You're not in a position to troubleshoot this problem, since the usual suspects (wrong driver, signs of significant acpi

Re: Image Programs

2008-12-04 Thread Frank Bonnet
G magicman wrote: Hello does anyone know the following 1. Does Freebsd have a program like Photoshop avail to use a copy-left GNU license type ? and a form of Thumbsplus which allows me to do rudimentary picture manipulations changing file type, cropping etc. i have all the 3d

No /boot/kernel/kernel

2008-12-04 Thread FuLLBLaSTstorm
Hey all, Recently I've been given the task to make the FreeBSD 6.0-release server to run NAT. I've done everything as described in handbook: copied the /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC to /sys/i386/conf/NATKERNEL, added options IPFIREWALL, options IPDIVERT. Then I typed # make bulidkernel KERNCONF=NATKERNEL