Re: 3ware array access lock up on 7.1-RC

2008-12-29 Thread Artem Kuchin
Mel пишет: On Friday 26 December 2008 08:12:49 Artem Kuchin wrote: I am not even sure that it is related to freebsd, but maybe someone could point out the problem. We wanted to upgrade our hosting server from FreeBSD 6.2, 3ware 8506-4LP SATA RAID, raid 5 to FreeBSD 7.1 (RC for now),

vpnc connects, but does not work

2008-12-29 Thread perryh
I have installed vpnc to connect to an employer's Cisco VPN system, and it seems to make the connection, but after connecting I can't ping the tun0 interface nor anything beyond it. The symptom seems to resemble what is described in the Routing section of

Re: Unable to modify sysid with Fdisk

2008-12-29 Thread David Scialom
Hello Tim, Thanks for your suggestion. The probleme after the section 3 does not exist. It is actually a wrong copy paste done by me. Nothing changed after your suggestion : Zurich# dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=128 of=/dev/da0 128+0 records in 128+0 records out 65536 bytes transferred in

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread RW
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install them ? also csup didn't help here is my csup file *default tag=RELENG_7 *default host=ftp2.tw.freebsd.org *default prefix=/usr *default

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install them ? also csup didn't help here is my csup file *default tag=RELENG_7 *default

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:39:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install them ? also

RE: Netstat command output

2008-12-29 Thread Karrj
I have continued to research the issue of receiving errors on the Broadcom and from all the information I have found it appears Broadcom in general may be problematic. I have verified all hardware and hard coded switch and cards at 100Mbps and full duplex and still recieve a small percentage of

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-29 Thread Bernard Dugas
Hello, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i already did such things but with NetBSD 1.5 for my Xterminal distro. it's simple: mount / readonly, put everything here. in /etc put /etc/rc consisting only #!/bin/sh exec /systemrc in /systemrc put something like that: #!/bin/sh echo -n Mounting workstation

Re: Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-29 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
SSH_CONNECTION FTP_PASSIVE_MODE EDITOR I suspect linux to set them from .profile files (even /etc/profile) and not hardcoded in a shell or login program. The default skeletons Mel: You were right to some extent. However, the problem is more complicated (or less complicated,

Optimising NFS for system files

2008-12-29 Thread Bernard Dugas
Hi, I'm working on a project to have many diskless clients PXEbooting on 1 nfs server. With some help :-) i could manage to share almost all system files (/, /usr,..) through NFS. i can see a reading speed difference 4 time slower on client than on server (time tar -cf - /usr /dev/null).

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 08:39:42PM +0530, Masoom Shaikh wrote: On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install them ? also csup didn't help

Re: Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-29 Thread Mel
On Monday 29 December 2008 11:12:33 Brian A. Seklecki wrote: SSH_CONNECTION FTP_PASSIVE_MODE EDITOR I suspect linux to set them from .profile files (even /etc/profile) and not hardcoded in a shell or login program. The default skeletons Mel: You were right to some extent.

Re: Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-29 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 12:05 -0900, Mel wrote: I may be better off using getenv() in PHP directly. For portability yes, since it doesn't rely on EGPCS, but otherwise they give the same results. Another option would be to pay the PHP people to add POSIX 1003.1-2001 gethostname(2). I'll ask

Re: Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box

2008-12-29 Thread af300wsm
On Dec 28, 2008 5:42am, Marco Beishuizen mb...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:14:38 + Did you install the latest Nvidia driver? Perhaps your card isn't supported anymore. Nvidia dropped some older chipsets in their latest driver. You can try nvidia-driver-96xx or

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command after you have csup'd. The process is described within this page I just put up:

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command after you have csup'd. The process is described within this page I just put up:

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thank you very much, it is now running well after some hardware adventure. I couldn't find the hostname sent by dhcp, but found a way to find the ip address. just use hostname command. The only problem i have is that the echo done and other standard outputs are not visible in

Re: Optimising NFS for system files

2008-12-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i can see a reading speed difference 4 time slower on client than on server (time tar -cf - /usr /dev/null). I will play with jumbo MTU for network performance, but would anybody know if i can ask system files NFS exports to stay in server memory ? I have less than 2Go to share and 2GO

help with sed and tick marks

2008-12-29 Thread Len Conrad
A string in a file contains ('n...@domain.net'', ... where and we want to remove the extra tick mark, to have: ('n...@domain.net', iow, replace net'' with net' We've tried many combinations with sed, but failed. Suggestions? thanks, Len

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:43:19 +, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: Are the docs branched? I tried running a csup with tag=RELENG_7 and nothing got created; changing the line doc-all to doc-all tag=. fixed it and fetched all the docs. Hi Bruce, No, there are no release-specific

Re: help with sed and tick marks

2008-12-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:31:17 +0100, Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com wrote: A string in a file contains ('n...@domain.net'', ... where and we want to remove the extra tick mark, to have: ('n...@domain.net', iow, replace net'' with net' We've tried many combinations with sed, but

restart rsync process via shell script

2008-12-29 Thread Noah
Hi there, I am trying to figure out the most accurate way to assess if an rsync process is running and is established to the remote rsync server and is transferring data. I am writing a bourne shell script to restart rsync if the connection to the remote rsync server is lost. The command ps ax

Re: restart rsync process via shell script

2008-12-29 Thread Mel
On Monday 29 December 2008 13:35:06 Noah wrote: Hi there, I am trying to figure out the most accurate way to assess if an rsync process is running and is established to the remote rsync server and is transferring data. I am writing a bourne shell script to restart rsync if the connection to

running asfiles on windowmaker...

2008-12-29 Thread luizbcampos
Does anyone know how to run asfiles on windowmaker? Whereis its executable? (path) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: strange fsck results

2008-12-29 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:08 AM 12/28/2008, re...@adeptscience.com wrote: I am running VMware Server 2.0 but see the same results with VMware Server 1.0. The virtual machines are copies that I made by transferring the vmware files for it from another server. As far as I know it did not have any fsck problems on

Re: Unable to modify sysid with Fdisk

2008-12-29 Thread Tim Judd
David Scialom wrote: Hello Tim, Thanks for your suggestion. The probleme after the section 3 does not exist. It is actually a wrong copy paste done by me. Nothing changed after your suggestion : Zurich# dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=128 of=/dev/da0 128+0 records in 128+0 records out 65536

Re: restart rsync process via shell script

2008-12-29 Thread Noah
Mel wrote: On Monday 29 December 2008 13:35:06 Noah wrote: Hi there, I am trying to figure out the most accurate way to assess if an rsync process is running and is established to the remote rsync server and is transferring data. I am writing a bourne shell script to restart rsync if the

Re: running asfiles on windowmaker...

2008-12-29 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:13 PM, luizbcampos luizbcam...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to run asfiles on windowmaker? Whereis its executable? (path) I have no idea what asfiles is, but I would assume `which asfiles' would tell you where it is located. -- Glen Barber Tell me and I

Re: running asfiles on windowmaker...

2008-12-29 Thread perryh
Does anyone know how to run asfiles on windowmaker? Whereis its executable? (path) I have no idea what asfiles is, but I would assume `which asfiles' would tell you where it is located. ... unless it's not in PATH, and the OP is asking which directory needs to be added. asfiles is a

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:43:19PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You can keep a local copy of the docs update the sources for the docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command after you have

Re: running asfiles on windowmaker...

2008-12-29 Thread Peter Boosten
On 30 dec 2008, at 07:02, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Does anyone know how to run asfiles on windowmaker? Whereis its executable? (path) I have no idea what asfiles is, but I would assume `which asfiles' would tell you where it is located. ... unless it's not in PATH, and the OP is

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:12:51 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: As Giorgios points out, the docs aren't branched. I'll try make it clearer on that page that it's only for SUPFILE(source) that there is a branch you have to follow. PORTSSUPFILE(ports) DOCSUPFILE(docs) are just