Re: general question about setting up gateway

2008-12-19 Thread Fbsd1
Richard Yang wrote: hi, i am trying to use freebsd as my home network gateway to the internet. any good reference i should know besides what's in the handbook? thanks rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Yang
i ran a tcpdump.bsd box is responding to arp. i guess this is fundamental, and should not be disabled thanx guys rich On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Richard Yang wrote: > hi, > when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect "the remote host is > up". > i don't understand how nessus ca

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:57:09PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: > i havent tried nmap yet, but you said it also detected the remote, though no > port is open? ICMP doesn't require any open ports. -- Jonathan Chen --

Re: Why no dvd isos?

2008-12-19 Thread Alan Batie
m...@sentex.net wrote: There are DVD versions available ftp://ftp.freebsd.org//pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.1/7.1-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso.gz That's the only version that seems to, but thanks! It looks like they're coming... smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Yang
i havent tried nmap yet, but you said it also detected the remote, though no port is open? On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Jeff Laine wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:32:51PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: > > hi, > > when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect "the remote host > is

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Yang
i just used tcpdump.it doesn't capture anything package On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Jeff Laine wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:41:46PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: > > yes,but i dpn't know how... > > it looks to me that all ports are closed > > > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:38 PM, michael

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:41:46PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: > yes,but i dpn't know how... > it looks to me that all ports are closed > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:38 PM, michael wrote: > > > > > > > Richard Yang wrote: > > > >> hi, > >> when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect "

general question about setting up gateway

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Yang
hi, i am trying to use freebsd as my home network gateway to the internet. any good reference i should know besides what's in the handbook? thanks rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:32:51PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote: > hi, > when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect "the remote host is > up". > i don't understand how nessus can detect it... > does anyone know how it is done? > thanx > > rich I can't tell about nessus but nmap does so

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Yang
yes,but i dpn't know how... it looks to me that all ports are closed On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:38 PM, michael wrote: > > > Richard Yang wrote: > >> hi, >> when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect "the remote host >> is >> up". >> i don't understand how nessus can detect it... >> d

Re: nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread michael
Richard Yang wrote: hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect "the remote host is up". i don't understand how nessus can detect it... does anyone know how it is done? thanx rich uh, maybe because it responded? ___ freebsd-quest

nessus report

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Yang
hi, when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect "the remote host is up". i don't understand how nessus can detect it... does anyone know how it is done? thanx rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: Why no dvd isos?

2008-12-19 Thread mike
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:22:54 -0800, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Why is freebsd still only available on cdrom images? There are DVD versions available eg ftp://ftp.freebsd.org//pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.1/7.1-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso.gz ---Mike ___

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Al Plant
Michael Lednev wrote: Gary Hartl пишет: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Please, send some snow to Russia as we have none :( __

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Michael Lednev
Gary Hartl пишет: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Please, send some snow to Russia as we have none :( _

Re: Vetting motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE

2008-12-19 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:15:33AM -0800, ThinkDifferently wrote: > > > I'm currently looking for an ATX motherboard that supports the AM2+ socket, > Phenom Quad-Core processor, 4 DDR2 RAM slots (800 MHz is fine), 6 SATA ports > with RAID, and Gigabit LAN. Onboard VGA would be nice. > > It needs

Why no dvd isos?

2008-12-19 Thread Alan Batie
Why is freebsd still only available on cdrom images? Particularly with the way the packages make wear your arm out swapping them back and forth, it would be really nice to have the entire distribution in one image. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread freebsd
Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. You probably can't use a standard 7-release. You have to build a custom kernel with "LATITUDE" set. It causes igloo to

USB hard drive problem...

2008-12-19 Thread Peter Harrison
I need some help with a USB connected hard drive. It's the old drive from my 6.3-RELEASE desktop (now de-commissioned), placed into a IDE-USB enclosure. It has 4 slices - a FAT32 one, a UFS2 1, a Linux (ext3 I think - was Ubuntu) and a Linux swap. 7.1 can see all the partitions: *** Workin

Re: Copying system/ports configuration?

2008-12-19 Thread Doug Barton
Bernard Dugas wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:26:05 -0800 (PST), "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" > wrote: >> I dont quickly see a free tool to do this. Maybe its easier >> to do this from scratch > > I just found last week ports-mngnt/portmaster that can help you to do > that, and i have suggested po

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Thomas Abthorpe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On December 19, 2008 01:59:56 pm Gary Hartl wrote: > Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd > 7-release server. > > IT seems to be causeing some http outages. > > My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. > > > Any sug

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:59:56 -0500, "Gary Hartl" wrote: > Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd > 7-release server. Didn't you install the NOSNOW.SYS driver properly? :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa,

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Corey Chandler
Gary Hartl wrote: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Any suggestions, Cheers, Gary Hi, Gary! Have you tried 'pkill xsnow'? _

usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-19 Thread clemens fischer
Hi, My USB-stick (trekstore, identifies as "USB DISK SMI Corporation") is sliced using sade(8), labelled using bsdlabel, accessible using "mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/usb", it has kernel and world, but doesn't boot. The kernel has the following USB modules: # USB core support device usb2_cor

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread prad
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:59:56 -0500 "Gary Hartl" wrote: > Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd > 7-release server. > > IT seems to be causeing some http outages. > > My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. > > > Any suggestions, > > > Cheers, > > Gary

Re: Is FreeBSD subject to the EAR ?

2008-12-19 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:55:28PM +0900, kosuke.okis...@toshiba.co.jp wrote: > Is Free BSD 6.3-release subject to the U.S. Export Administration > Regulation ? > > If the FreeBSD 6.3-release includes encryption software, it may be subject > to the EAR. > > Following is extract part of the EAR.

Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?

2008-12-19 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/19/08 2:51 PM, "Wojciech Puchar" wrote: > which means that in 2 cases of 3 you ARE warned. yes. but what do i do with a smart warning? the google paper indicates that even they haven't figured it out yet, although they express some hope. "Despite those strong correlations, we Þnd that fai

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Eitan Adler
> Build a bike shed over the server? :) make sure its green... -- Eitan Adler GNU Key fingerprint: 2E13 BC16 5F54 0FBD 62ED 42B6 B65F 24AB E9C2 CCD1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Josh Tolbert
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:10:51PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: > > > Gary Hartl skrev: > >Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd > >7-release server. > > > >IT seems to be causeing some http outages. > > > >My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. > > > > > >An

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Eitan Adler
Jeff Laine wrote: > Just mv teh snowflakes to /dev/null ^_- You can't mv things to /dev/null Operation not supported -- Eitan Adler GNU Key fingerprint: 2E13 BC16 5F54 0FBD 62ED 42B6 B65F 24AB E9C2 CCD1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?

2008-12-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
failures had no warning from smart. http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/19/googles-disk-failure-experience/ which means that in 2 cases of 3 you ARE warned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:59:56PM -0500, Gary Hartl wrote: > Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd > 7-release server. > > IT seems to be causeing some http outages. > > My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. > > > Any suggestions, > > > Cheers, > > Gar

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:07:23PM +0200, Ott Köstner wrote: > On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:25:51 pm Patrick Baldwin wrote: > > > I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really > > locked-down, high security > > box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the We

Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?

2008-12-19 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/19/08 12:38 PM, "Kirk Strauser" wrote: > > I beg to differ. "smartctl -H /dev/ad8" says that it passes its self- > assessment and doesn't expect the drive to flat-out die any day soon. > I'd still like to know if the error count increased, or if it started > to detect imminent failure. t

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 11:15 -0800, Casey Scott wrote: > Obviously downgrade to 6.0 on snow affected servers. Or rebuild all of your ports and melt the snow away. ~BAS -- Brian A. Seklecki Collaborative Fusion, Inc. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Casey Scott
- "Gary Hartl" wrote: > Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd > 7-release server. > > IT seems to be causeing some http outages. > > My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. > > > Any suggestions, Obviously downgrade to 6.0 on snow affected servers.

Re: Secondary DNS or BSD Server space

2008-12-19 Thread Chris Cowart
[dropping -questions as a Cc] Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:23:55AM +0700, Outback Dingo wrote: >> i have space on a freebsd system in the states, i could do secondary for >> anybody, and we could create a new service, with a web based management >> facility >> its plainly a dns b

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Roger Olofsson wrote: > Gary Hartl skrev: >> Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd >> 7-release server. >> >> IT seems to be causeing some http outages. >> >> My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. > Locate roof in ports and build roof! Better yet, do what t

Re: Secondary DNS or BSD Server space

2008-12-19 Thread Outback Dingo
sounds like we should come up with a replicable secondary zones system based on bind and setup a few locations for redundency we could create a global redundent BSDDNSSEC.com if we pitched in and created something to replicate data between a few hosts value added BSD services, ill have a minimal

Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question

2008-12-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Dec 19, 2008, at 12:04 PM, FreeBSD wrote: This server is very lightly used, so most of the time if the swap is getting used it shows that something is going wrong. No it doesn't. Get that wrong idea out of your head. -- Kirk Strauser ___ f

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Roger Olofsson
Gary Hartl skrev: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Any suggestions, Cheers, Gary ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Outback Dingo
ask santa for a shovel ?? :) On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Gary Hartl wrote: > Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd > 7-release server. > > IT seems to be causeing some http outages. > > My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. > > > Any suggestions, >

Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question

2008-12-19 Thread RW
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:04:26 -0500 FreeBSD wrote: > This server is very lightly used, so most of the time if the swap is > getting used it shows that something is going wrong. This warning > already proved usefull once, so I don't think I'm going to change it. > I don't want to mess with the

Re: Secondary DNS or BSD Server space

2008-12-19 Thread Nikola Lečić
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:15:33 -0800 "pete wright" wrote: [...] > > There was a thread on this just the other day here. Not sure if > > they are BSD-based, but both dyndns.org and zoneedit.com offser > > secondary service for practically nothing

Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Gary Hartl
Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Any suggestions, Cheers, Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

RE: Netstat command output

2008-12-19 Thread john.karr
Thanks for the response. I will heed your suggestions. -Original Message- From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 12:08 PM To: Karr,JE,John,JGU8 R Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netstat command output Karrj wrote: > H

Re: Secondary DNS or BSD Server space

2008-12-19 Thread pete wright
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Matt Emmerton wrote: >> Everyone: >> >> We just got word that Neustar, which bought DNS service provider >> Nominum a few years ago, is shutting down Nominum's >> "secondary.com" service. The service used to provide secondary DNS >> for users' zones at no charge.

Re: Backing Up ZFS

2008-12-19 Thread Valentin Bud
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > prohibitive) >>> you don't require your backup target to have ZFS. >>> >> >> >> Quite wrong. If you want to use the zfs send | zfs receive along with zfs >> > quite right. i was NOT answering to z

Re: Netstat command output

2008-12-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
Karrj wrote: Hello - Warning - I am new to FreeBSD. I am not sure this is the correct forum for this post - forgive me if it is not and please direct me to the correct area. I have installed FreeBSD on a HP Proliant DL380 G3 server with (2) NICs. I have also installed Dummynet and NetSNMP as my

Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question

2008-12-19 Thread FreeBSD
Tom Worster a écrit : On 12/19/08 10:37 AM, "FreeBSD" wrote: Because this server is monitored by Nagios and it emails me every hour a warning because the swap is not 100% free (I know it's pretty extreme, but I want to know if the system is swapping). if a swap space is available and

Linking libraries for compat_linux

2008-12-19 Thread Chris
I've bumped into a library I can't resolve and I must have a disconnect in how the linux_compat works because I can't see how it could be solved. I have the following: * compat_linux enabled in the kernel, * /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base_fc7 * sysctl kern.fallback_elf_brand=3 * rpm2cpio to al

Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?

2008-12-19 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi, > i'm not convinced that smart monitoring is of much value even on disks with > important data. It is if taken seriously. A smartd error was once ignored, the rest (including data) is history. Thank you for FreeBSD! -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.fairtrade.net.pl www.slowo.pl

Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?

2008-12-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Dec 19, 2008, at 11:10 AM, James Tanis wrote: To answer your question, I don't believe smartd is sophisticated enough to filter out specific errors. It's meant to warn you at the first sign of drive failure so you will have time to replace the drive. It doesn't exactly provide a meter of

Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?

2008-12-19 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/19/08 11:46 AM, "Kirk Strauser" wrote: > I just don't want to hear about them any more. :-) reconfigure smartd? i'm not convinced that smart monitoring is of much value even on disks with important data. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question

2008-12-19 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/19/08 10:37 AM, "FreeBSD" wrote: > Because this server is monitored by Nagios and it emails me every hour a > warning because the swap is not 100% free (I know it's pretty extreme, > but I want to know if the system is swapping). if a swap space is available and swapping not turned off, it

Netstat command output

2008-12-19 Thread Karrj
Hello - Warning - I am new to FreeBSD. I am not sure this is the correct forum for this post - forgive me if it is not and please direct me to the correct area. I have installed FreeBSD on a HP Proliant DL380 G3 server with (2) NICs. I have also installed Dummynet and NetSNMP as my ultimate goal

Crunchgen & Init

2008-12-19 Thread Bryce Simonds
Hi, I've been attempting to build a very minimal FreeBSD memdisk image to boot to and I've been having some difficulties with a few things, particularly it seems that when I attempt to use a custom made crunchgen binary (Based off of the rescue config) init crashes with signal 6 and an exit code o

Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?

2008-12-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Dec 19, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: by rewriting whole drive you should be able to remove them I tried running "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad8 bs=1m" a while back but I'm still getting them. At this point, I imagine that I really do have bad sectors. I'm fine with that. I

Re: boot-only?which cds?reprobing network devices during setup? (my minor experience/complaints today..)

2008-12-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
AMD64/7.1RC1 I couldn't find documentation as to what the "boot only" CDs are. So I tried it. Now I know. They boot, start setup, and then must get the "setup source" from the network (or perhaps swap CDs). My machine's onboard ethernet controller is apparently not supported,or not quite wor

Re: Backing Up ZFS

2008-12-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
prohibitive) you don't require your backup target to have ZFS. Quite wrong. If you want to use the zfs send | zfs receive along with zfs quite right. i was NOT answering to zfs send/receive case! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?

2008-12-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
smartd to watch the status of my drives and get regular output like: smartd[1409]: Device: /dev/ad8, 4 Offline uncorrectable sectors I've been seeing that exact message for a couple of years now and don't particularly care. I'd like to know if the drive's about to roll over and die, but I rea

Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question

2008-12-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
but it's still played around with 3MB of swap. This is not hurting anything, and absolutely is *not* an indication that anything is wrong or sub-optimal. Seriously, get over your obsession with keeping swap utterly empty before it drives you nuts. FreeBSD isn't designed to work that way and y

Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question

2008-12-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
jerry Because this server is monitored by Nagios and it emails me every hour a warning because the swap is not 100% free (I know it's pretty extreme, but I want to know if the system is swapping). I just tried swapoff -a ; swapon -a and it worked great. under completely normal operati

Re: Is FreeBSD subject to the EAR ?

2008-12-19 Thread Norbert Papke
On December 17, 2008, kosuke.okis...@toshiba.co.jp wrote: > Is Free BSD 6.3-release subject to the U.S. Export Administration > Regulation ? > > If the FreeBSD 6.3-release includes encryption software, it may be subject > to the EAR. > > Following is extract part of the EAR. > > Part 734.3 : Item

Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question

2008-12-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Dec 19, 2008, at 9:37 AM, FreeBSD wrote: Because this server is monitored by Nagios and it emails me every hour a warning because the swap is not 100% free (I know it's pretty extreme, but I want to know if the system is swapping). Martin, I'm not trying to be harsh, honestly, but stop

SOLVED: Simple swap question

2008-12-19 Thread FreeBSD
Jerry McAllister a écrit : On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:02:06PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: Daniel Bye a écrit : On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:28:18AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:16:10 FreeBSD wrote: Hi everyone, I have a FreeBSD 7.0-Release serv

Re: Simple swap question

2008-12-19 Thread FreeBSD
RW a écrit : On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:13:12 -0500 FreeBSD wrote: I can't see any process within parentheses in top... I also looked at the -f option of ps but the process that caused the swapping are not listed. FreeBSD only swaps in extreme cases - most of the time it's paging inst

Clearing SMART errors I don't care about?

2008-12-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
I have a 250GB drive that I use exclusively for unimportant data. I run smartd to watch the status of my drives and get regular output like: smartd[1409]: Device: /dev/ad8, 4 Offline uncorrectable sectors I've been seeing that exact message for a couple of years now and don't particularly c

boot-only?which cds?reprobing network devices during setup? (my minor experience/complaints today..)

2008-12-19 Thread Jay
AMD64/7.1RC1 I couldn't find documentation as to what the "boot only" CDs are. So I tried it. Now I know. They boot, start setup, and then must get the "setup source" from the network (or perhaps swap CDs). My machine's onboard ethernet controller is apparently not supported,or not quite wo

Re: bridge ipfw also protect set

2008-12-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:19:31 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole wrote: [kho...@singnet.com.sg wrote:] > > I want to give internet connectivity to a pc behind my Freebsd, which is > > connected to an aDSL. I know I can add another card to my set and use > > bridge+IPFW so that the behind pc is fir

Re: 6.2->6.4 network oddities

2008-12-19 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Hepworth wrote: > Hi all > > Just tried to do a 6.2->6.4 upgrade using the freebsd-update.sh script > from http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz. > > However i got really odd network things going on, main one seems to

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-19 Thread eculp
Quoting Ott Köstner : On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:25:51 pm Patrick Baldwin wrote: I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really locked-down, high security box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web, and a little light word processing. What do peop

6.2->6.4 network oddities

2008-12-19 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi all Just tried to do a 6.2->6.4 upgrade using the freebsd-update.sh script from http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz. However i got really odd network things going on, main one seems to be lo0 doesn't get it's ip-address. Other things like syslogd don't start or indee

Re: Backing Up ZFS

2008-12-19 Thread Valentin Bud
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > As ZFS is becoming more stable and approaching production ready, how >> would one "Backup" ZFS? In terms of backing up to an external media or >> storage rather than doing snapshots. In case the the server

Re: Backing Up ZFS

2008-12-19 Thread Julien Cigar
I would suggest Bacula, a bit hard to config but very flexible On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 12:52 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > As ZFS is becoming more stable and approaching production ready, how > > would one "Backup" ZFS? In terms of backing up to an external media or > > storage rather than doing

Re: Backing Up ZFS

2008-12-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
As ZFS is becoming more stable and approaching production ready, how would one "Backup" ZFS? In terms of backing up to an external media or storage rather than doing snapshots. In case the the server spontaneously bursts into flames. use tar it's filesystem independent if you have tape drives.

Re: Simple swap question

2008-12-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
To others: There is one reason I can think of for doing this, if an irregularly used program (that is rather big) has been swapped out but requires a low latency when used (i.e. must not wait to be swapped back so change this program if it requires low latency to do mlockall _

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-19 Thread Ott Köstner
On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:25:51 pm Patrick Baldwin wrote: > I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really > locked-down, high security > box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web, > and a little > light word processing. > > What do people think o

Zope 2.10, MySQL and Python 2.5

2008-12-19 Thread Kristjan Sander
Dear All, I am having trouble with using Zope 2.10 together with MySQL. I have _mysql Python support library for Python 2.5 from some previous port but Zope came with Python 2.4 and I do not have _mysql support for that. I guess that there will not be a Zope 2.10 port with Python 2.5 support in th

Re: SIS191 Ethernet Controller Support

2008-12-19 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 12/19/08, Abd Hamid Shamsi wrote: > Hi Admin, > I just want to know does FreeBSD support SIS191 Ethernet controller. Because > recently i just install PCBSD in my laptop, and there is no connection for > internet. and of course my network card seem doesn't appear in networking > configuration.

Fwd: Re: Re[4]: can not start SVNserve

2008-12-19 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, . -- Пересылаемое письмо -- От: David Weintraub К: KES А также к: us...@subversion.tigris.org Время создания: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:30:51 -0500 Тема:can not start SVNserve Прикрепленные файлы: The p

Re: Simple swap question

2008-12-19 Thread David Naylor
On Thursday 18 December 2008 17:16:10 FreeBSD wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a FreeBSD 7.0-Release server that started to swap after an error > in a shell script (process spawning competition ;-) ). I killed the > shell and the RAM is now OK. The problem is that the swap is still used. > How can

Re: Secondary DNS or BSD Server space

2008-12-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:23:55AM +0700, Outback Dingo wrote: > i have space on a freebsd system in the states, i could do secondary for > anybody, and we could create a new service, with a web based management > facility > its plainly a dns backup for us and a backup secondary failover web site f

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-19 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Patrick Baldwin < patrick.bald...@studsvik.com> wrote: > Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more > personal. > My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses the > Internet > much. Computers are basically ma

Re: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.

2008-12-19 Thread perryh
> As svn, when I try to delete the folder (/home/my_repos), > I get the error "Permission denied". > > Why do I get this error when I (svn) am the owner of that > directory? To remove anything that is located in /home, including a directory such as /home/my_repos, user svn would need write permiss