tar fails on FreeBSD 7 and passes on FreeBSD 6 for the same input

2009-01-20 Thread chandra reddy
Hi, I am getting the following error when i run tar on a directory. [chan...@home]$ tar zcf config-xsl.tar config-xsl/9.6 tar: Cannot open directory config-xsl/9.6/configuration/protocols/mpls/label-switched-path/oam/bfd-liveness-detection/detection-time: No such file or directory tar: Cannot

Re: tar fails on FreeBSD 7 and passes on FreeBSD 6 for the same input

2009-01-20 Thread chandra reddy
Hi Doug, I have checked the files permission. It is fine. It passes on FreeBSD6 but fails on FreeBSD 7. It passes on a local file system but fails on NFS file system. Thanks -Chandra On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: On Jan 19, 2009, at 23:54, chandra

unable to logon after updating ports collection - Freebsd 7.1 stable

2009-01-20 Thread Roy Stuivenberg
Hello, After I completed my Freebsd 7.1 stable, and updated all the ports, I got prompted with another logonscreen. Whatever I try, I can't login with my useraccount and even not logon as root. This happened severall times now, the only way was to reinstall everything, and I was hoping to resolve

Intel 5100 AGN WiFi

2009-01-20 Thread Ghirai
Hello, After a quick search it appears that Intel 5100 AGN wifi card is not supported (at least not in RELEASE?). If so, are there plans, dev. in progress, etc? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Recommendations on reliable home fileserver hardware?

2009-01-20 Thread perryh
there is also the droboshare. great little fileserver. Last I knew Drobo supported only Samba, not NFS -- but that was some time ago. Have they come out with an upgrade? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

init: can't exec getty after power failure

2009-01-20 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello list, I have FreeBSD 7.0-p5 installed on 2 USB drives mirroring with gmirror. I use the following partition scheme: / - on USB /var, /usr, /tmp, /home - on internal HDD using ZFS. Last night after a power failure the system failed to boot with the following error: ... can't find

FreeBSD 7.1, skype not work

2009-01-20 Thread Горбатовский Дмитрий
Hi people. Im'm use skype-2.0.0.72,1 on my FreeBSD FreeBSD user 7.0 FreeBSD 7.0 r...@user:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/user i386 with linux linux_base-fc6 /compat/linux/bin/uname -a Linux user 2.6.16 FreeBSD 7.0 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 just because skype2

Re: FreeBSD 7.1, skype not work

2009-01-20 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Tuesday 20 January 2009 01:21:43 Горбатовский Дмитрий wrote: Hi people. Im'm use skype-2.0.0.72,1 on my FreeBSD FreeBSD user 7.0 FreeBSD 7.0 r...@user:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/user i386 with linux linux_base-fc6 /compat/linux/bin/uname -a Linux user 2.6.16 FreeBSD 7.0 i686 i686 i386

FreeBSD 7.1, skype not work

2009-01-20 Thread Горбатовский Дмитрий
Hi people. Im'm use skype-2.0.0.72,1 on my FreeBSD FreeBSD user 7.0 FreeBSD 7.0 r...@user:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/user i386 with linux linux_base-fc6 /compat/linux/bin/uname -a Linux user 2.6.16 FreeBSD 7.0 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 just because skype2 not

Large raid arrays

2009-01-20 Thread Matias Surdi
Hi, I've a host with two large (2Tb and 4 Tb) hardware raid5 arrays. For the backup system we are using, I need to join them to make 1 logical device. What would you recomment? ccd or vinum? Thanks a lot for your suggestions. ___

Re: Large raid arrays

2009-01-20 Thread Matias Surdi
Matias Surdi escribió: Hi, I've a host with two large (2Tb and 4 Tb) hardware raid5 arrays. For the backup system we are using, I need to join them to make 1 logical device. What would you recomment? ccd or vinum? Thanks a lot for your suggestions.

Re: Large raid arrays

2009-01-20 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Matias Surdi wrote: Matias Surdi escribió: Hi, I've a host with two large (2Tb and 4 Tb) hardware raid5 arrays. For the backup system we are using, I need to join them to make 1 logical device. What would you recomment? ccd or vinum? Some comments that may help in the decision: -

Re: Large raid arrays

2009-01-20 Thread Matias Surdi
Frederique Rijsdijk escribió: Matias Surdi wrote: Matias Surdi escribió: Hi, I've a host with two large (2Tb and 4 Tb) hardware raid5 arrays. For the backup system we are using, I need to join them to make 1 logical device. What would you recomment? ccd or vinum? Some comments that may

Re: unable to logon after updating ports collection - Freebsd 7.1 stable

2009-01-20 Thread Boris Samorodov
Roy Stuivenberg roys1...@gmail.com writes: After I completed my Freebsd 7.1 stable, and updated all the ports, I got prompted with another logonscreen. Whatever I try, I can't login with my useraccount and even not logon as root. This happened severall times now, the only way was to

Re: unable to logon after updating ports collection - Freebsd 7.1 stable

2009-01-20 Thread Bert-Jan
Roy Stuivenberg roys1...@gmail.com writes: After I completed my Freebsd 7.1 stable, and updated all the ports, I got prompted with another logonscreen. Whatever I try, I can't login with my useraccount and even not logon as root. This happened severall times now, the only way was to

Re: tar fails on FreeBSD 7 and passes on FreeBSD 6 for the same input

2009-01-20 Thread David Wolfskill
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:24:41PM +0530, chandra reddy wrote: Hi, I am getting the following error when i run tar on a directory. [chan...@home]$ tar zcf config-xsl.tar config-xsl/9.6 tar: Cannot open directory

Portupgrade thru SSH session

2009-01-20 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Can someone tell me what I should attend for when I am disconnected in the middle of a portupgrade and the terminal session is aborted? The portupgrade was halted by a [yes/no] prompt, on which I had to react. Unfortunately being not present and I having not set my Putty keepalive session

Re: kvm switch

2009-01-20 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 20 January 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: I have been using Aten KVM switches for years and been very happy with them. [snip] To my knowledge it works with 3 button mouses (all mouses nowdays have 3 buttons). I have an Aten CS64A PS/2 4 port KVM http://preview.tinyurl.com/yte4et

Re: Portupgrade thru SSH session

2009-01-20 Thread Josh Carroll
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net wrote: Can someone tell me what I should attend for when I am disconnected in the middle of a portupgrade and the terminal session is aborted? The portupgrade was halted by a [yes/no] prompt, on which I had to react. Unfortunately

Re: Portupgrade thru SSH session

2009-01-20 Thread Ron Wilhoite
On 01/20/2009 09:10 AM Jos Chrispijn wrote: Can someone tell me what I should attend for when I am disconnected in the middle of a portupgrade and the terminal session is aborted? The portupgrade was halted by a [yes/no] prompt, on which I had to react. Unfortunately being not present and I

stable-supfile -- freebsd-update

2009-01-20 Thread Roy Stuivenberg
Hello, I wanted to send a follow up on my message, because I did not provide much info ... ** Hello, After I completed my Freebsd 7.1 stable, and updated all the ports, I got prompted with another logonscreen. Whatever I try, I can't login with my useraccount and even not logon as root.

How to auto-logout after XXX idle?

2009-01-20 Thread lhmwzy
When ssh to a sever,how to auto-logout after XXX idle? in tcsh,I know to set autologout=X How in the default /bin/sh shell to autologut? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

telnet to mbmon

2009-01-20 Thread DA Forsyth
Hiya I am using mbmon in telnet mode to monitor some print servers remotely. REvcently I moved the monitoring form one server to another, but now the telnet probe only works from the command line. Any probe originating from a cron job gets no data in the reply (normally via mrtg, but I

Re: Large raid arrays

2009-01-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
gconcat On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Matias Surdi wrote: Hi, I've a host with two large (2Tb and 4 Tb) hardware raid5 arrays. For the backup system we are using, I need to join them to make 1 logical device. What would you recomment? ccd or vinum? Thanks a lot for your suggestions.

Re: Large raid arrays

2009-01-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ZFS was a disaster. That is what we were using until today, when the power went off and the zfs pool ended up corrupted and irrecoverable. normal. Three other times we had power failures, the zpool ended with some errors. But, all the times, the UFS partitions remained intact.

switching bsdlabel's label

2009-01-20 Thread Eduardo Meyer
Hello, I have a certain disk where da0s1a and da0s1d are inverted. By some reason someone labelled root as 'd' and home as 'a'. Can I just bsdlabel -n da0s1 savedabel.txt Edit savedlabel.txt, switch and restore? (bsdlabel -R da0s1 savedlabel) -- === Eduardo Meyer pessoal:

Re: Large raid arrays

2009-01-20 Thread Matias Surdi
Wojciech Puchar escribió: gconcat On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Matias Surdi wrote: Hi, I've a host with two large (2Tb and 4 Tb) hardware raid5 arrays. For the backup system we are using, I need to join them to make 1 logical device. What would you recomment? ccd or vinum? Thanks a lot for

NetBSD networking question

2009-01-20 Thread Shawn Hoffman
Hello, my name is Shawn Hoffman, and I am the Staffing Manager for Logikos Inc. Logikos is a product software development firm located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I am contacting you in hopes that you might be able to offer suggestions as to where we might find a contract NetBSD Administrator. We

Re: switching bsdlabel's label

2009-01-20 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hello, On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:24:27PM -0200, Eduardo Meyer wrote: I have a certain disk where da0s1a and da0s1d are inverted. By some reason someone labelled root as 'd' and home as 'a'. Can I just bsdlabel -n da0s1 savedabel.txt Edit savedlabel.txt, switch and restore? (bsdlabel

Strange nvidia GeForce 9800GT--harddrive conflict?

2009-01-20 Thread Jakub T
Hi, I'm trying to start X on FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE (i386) with up-to-date ports tree with this graphics card: nvidia0: GeForce 9800 GT on vgapci0 vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_busmaster vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_io nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED] nvidia0: [ITHREAD] When I

Permanent Delivery Failure

2009-01-20 Thread MDaemon at mail.mcitsh.com
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Re: switching bsdlabel's label

2009-01-20 Thread Eduardo Meyer
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Patrick M. Hausen hau...@punkt.de wrote: Hello, On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:24:27PM -0200, Eduardo Meyer wrote: I have a certain disk where da0s1a and da0s1d are inverted. By some reason someone labelled root as 'd' and home as 'a'. Can I just bsdlabel -n

ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base

2009-01-20 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Is Apache Software License (ASL) 2.0 based software contributions accepted in FreeBSD code base ? Specific case to consider would be: a. device driver code released under ASL 2.0 b. code contributed to kernel (eg. scheduler implementation) under ASL 2.0 c. code contributed to userland

Re: switching bsdlabel's label

2009-01-20 Thread David Wolfskill
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:36:34PM -0200, Eduardo Meyer wrote: ... Why not simply use bsdlabel -e da0s1? Because I didnt know about that? ;-) Thank you for the hint. However I still have the same doubt. Since basically its the same task, Is it safe do relabel this way? I have done it

Re: switching bsdlabel's label

2009-01-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:36:34PM -0200, Eduardo Meyer wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Patrick M. Hausen hau...@punkt.de wrote: Hello, On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:24:27PM -0200, Eduardo Meyer wrote: I have a certain disk where da0s1a and da0s1d are inverted. By some reason

Re: Cannot perform user mounts after upgrade

2009-01-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ramiro Caso misha...@hotmail.com writes: I can't perform user mounts for my pendrive, and I used to be able to, before making an upgrade. Moreover, user mounts for both /dev/cd0 and /dev/fd0 are still operational. Root mounts are possible, but it's doesn't strike me as good practice, and it

Re: DUMP: read error: Bad address

2009-01-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris Jones ch...@cjones.org writes: I have an amd64 machine with two drives. I've got my system set up on ad8, and I'm building a RAID0 array using gvinum that will span ad8 and ad10. So for now, I have partitions on ad8 plus a set of volumes on ad10 that I want to move all my data to.

Re: Port 7070

2009-01-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org writes: I just ran a netcat (nc -z) on my production servers and found an unusual response: Connection to 7070 port [tcp/arcp] succeeded! I checked on all my production and test servers (7.0 stable as of quite some time ago) and got the same response. I

Re: NetBSD networking question

2009-01-20 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Shawn Hoffman shoff...@logikos.comwrote: Hello, my name is Shawn Hoffman, and I am the Staffing Manager for Logikos Inc. Logikos is a product software development firm located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I am contacting you in hopes that you might be able to

Re: Cannot perform user mounts after upgrade

2009-01-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:44:48PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: The mount point still has the same ownership (me) and permissions (755) as before. Both /etc/devfs.rules, /etc/rc.conf and /etc/sysctl.conf have the relevant lines for allowing user mounts, namely: /etc/sysctl.conf==

Re: DUMP: read error: Bad address

2009-01-20 Thread Chris Jones
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chris Jones ch...@cjones.org writes: # dump -0aL -f - /var | ( cd /mnt/var restore -rf - ) I got about a dozen messages like this: DUMP: read error from /dev/ad8s1d: Bad address: [block 10992192]: count=5120 It could be a serious problem, but is not

slices to dangerously dedicated

2009-01-20 Thread Robert Huff
Suppose I have a disk which was - for various reasons - lebeled using slices. Is it possible to change it to dangerously dedicated without backup-wipe-relabel-restore cycle? Robert Huff ___

Re: slices to dangerously dedicated

2009-01-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 20, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Robert Huff wrote: Suppose I have a disk which was - for various reasons - lebeled using slices. Is it possible to change it to dangerously dedicated without backup-wipe-relabel-restore cycle? Nope. Since you'd only gain a megabyte of disk space

Edit user groups

2009-01-20 Thread Akenner
Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and I have multiple user accounts set up. I made about 4 for myself to use and do various testing with, and made some for my Wife as well because She knows UNIX better than I do anyway heh. Anyway, one of the things I forgot about, was that FreeBSD by

Permanent Delivery Failure

2009-01-20 Thread MDaemon at mail.mcitsh.com
The attached message had PERMANENT fatal delivery errors! After one or more unsuccessful delivery attempts the attached message has been removed from the mail queue on this server. The number and frequency of delivery attempts are determined by local configuration parameters. YOUR MESSAGE WAS

Permanent Delivery Failure

2009-01-20 Thread MDaemon at mail.mcitsh.com
The attached message had PERMANENT fatal delivery errors! After one or more unsuccessful delivery attempts the attached message has been removed from the mail queue on this server. The number and frequency of delivery attempts are determined by local configuration parameters. YOUR MESSAGE WAS

Permanent Delivery Failure

2009-01-20 Thread MDaemon at mail.mcitsh.com
The attached message had PERMANENT fatal delivery errors! After one or more unsuccessful delivery attempts the attached message has been removed from the mail queue on this server. The number and frequency of delivery attempts are determined by local configuration parameters. YOUR MESSAGE WAS

Permanent Delivery Failure

2009-01-20 Thread MDaemon at mail.mcitsh.com
The attached message had PERMANENT fatal delivery errors! After one or more unsuccessful delivery attempts the attached message has been removed from the mail queue on this server. The number and frequency of delivery attempts are determined by local configuration parameters. YOUR MESSAGE WAS

Re: slices to dangerously dedicated

2009-01-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 02:47:24PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Suppose I have a disk which was - for various reasons - lebeled using slices. Is it possible to change it to dangerously dedicated without backup-wipe-relabel-restore cycle? Not really.And why would you want to?

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:09:16PM -0500, Akenner wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and I have multiple user accounts set up. I made about 4 for myself to use and do various testing with, and made some for my Wife as well because She knows UNIX better than I do anyway heh.

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
Akenner wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and I have multiple user accounts set up. I made about 4 for myself to use and do various testing with, and made some for my Wife as well because She knows UNIX better than I do anyway heh. Anyway, one of the things I forgot about, was

fdisk -B

2009-01-20 Thread Robert
I have a server that has five drives in it. Two drives ad4 and ad6 are arranged with gmirror as the operating system (7.1 Stable). The FreeBSD boot manager is installed for this mirror and I would like to remove it and use the standard FreeBSD MBR ...without messing anything up. Can I perform

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-20 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Akenner slackwarew...@comcast.net: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and I have multiple user accounts set up. I made about 4 for myself to use and do various testing with, and made some for my Wife as well because She knows UNIX better than I do anyway heh. Anyway, one

[Trouble Ticket #190137] AutoReply: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 246, Issue 23

2009-01-20 Thread AEBC Support via RT
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Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-20 Thread Akenner
Thanks everyone for the replies, much appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: slices to dangerously dedicated

2009-01-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
using live CD/DVD make your new disklabel that mirrors existing but is in /dev/disk not /dev/diskslice, check it (try mount -r your partitions from /dev/disk[a-h]), clean MBR with fdisk, install bootrecord with bsdlabel -B /dev/disk then mount your / partition and fix etc/fstab it's not just

Re: fdisk -B

2009-01-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and use the standard FreeBSD MBR ...without messing anything up. Can I perform the fdisk -B /dev/ad4 followed by fdisk -B /dev/ad6 from a livefs disk? Maybe fdisk -B /dev/mirror/gm0? definitely /dev/mirror/gm0 not /dev/ad6 I have backups but everything is running very nice right now. I

Re: slices to dangerously dedicated

2009-01-20 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Suppose I have a disk which was - for various reasons - lebeled using slices. Is it possible to change it to dangerously dedicated without backup-wipe-relabel-restore cycle?

Re: switching bsdlabel's label

2009-01-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
yes On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Eduardo Meyer wrote: Hello, I have a certain disk where da0s1a and da0s1d are inverted. By some reason someone labelled root as 'd' and home as 'a'. Can I just bsdlabel -n da0s1 savedabel.txt Edit savedlabel.txt, switch and restore? (bsdlabel -R da0s1 savedlabel)

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-20 Thread Clifton Royston
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:09:16PM -0500, Akenner wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and I have multiple user accounts set up. I made about 4 for myself to use and do various testing with, and made some for my Wife as well because She knows UNIX better than I do anyway heh.

Newbie: offline package use / XFCE.

2009-01-20 Thread Thomas W. Holloway
Greetings from newbie land. I have what I hope is a simple question about using packages offline, with particular reference to XFCE if that matters. I am not so much asking how do I do this? as I am Do I understand this correctly? I have read the appropriate sections of the Handbook,

Re: Newbie: offline package use / XFCE.

2009-01-20 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Thomas W. Holloway wrote: Greetings from newbie land. I have what I hope is a simple question about using packages offline, with particular reference to XFCE if that matters. I am not so much asking how do I do this? as I am Do I understand this correctly? I have read the appropriate

Motherboard support

2009-01-20 Thread Graeme Dargie
Hello, I have built a machine with a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2, running Freebsd 7.1. For the most part it is fine but I do have two problems 1) The NIC a realtek 8111C keeps giving watchdog timeout messages and the link state changes from up to down and back to up again. 2) The

Re: fdisk -B

2009-01-20 Thread Robert Marella
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:48:52 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: and use the standard FreeBSD MBR ...without messing anything up. Can I perform the fdisk -B /dev/ad4 followed by fdisk -B /dev/ad6 from a livefs disk? Maybe fdisk -B /dev/mirror/gm0?

Way to prune/limit the ZFS zpool history?

2009-01-20 Thread Geoff Fritz
Hello. I've been experimenting with a series scripts that takes ZFS snapshots every minute, eventually destroying the oldest so that only so many remain available for a given window of time. This may seem a trivial concern with hard drive sizes being what they are these days, but after running a

Re: Newbie: offline package use / XFCE.

2009-01-20 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:16:45 +0200, Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com wrote: In short, yes. And this will be quite difficult to get right. *Unless* the machine you actually use to get the packages is also running FreeBSD. You could then pkg_add -r xfce4 on it and then recreate all

Re: Newbie: offline package use / XFCE.

2009-01-20 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Thomas W. Holloway schrieb: I would like to install XFCE on a FreeBSD 7.1 box that is and will remain (for now) offline. No network connection at all. If I have read correctly, this means downloading the appropriate package(s) and using pkg_add. So far, so good (I haven't done it, but it

Re: Way to prune/limit the ZFS zpool history?

2009-01-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 20), Geoff Fritz said: I've been experimenting with a series scripts that takes ZFS snapshots every minute, eventually destroying the oldest so that only so many remain available for a given window of time. This may seem a trivial concern with hard drive sizes being

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-20 Thread Tim Judd
Clifton Royston wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:09:16PM -0500, Akenner wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and I have multiple user accounts set up. I made about 4 for myself to use and do various testing with, and made some for my Wife as well because She knows UNIX better than I

Re: unable to logon after updating ports collection - Freebsd 7.1 stable

2009-01-20 Thread Tim Judd
Bert-Jan wrote: Roy Stuivenberg roys1...@gmail.com writes: After I completed my Freebsd 7.1 stable, and updated all the ports, I got prompted with another logonscreen. Whatever I try, I can't login with my useraccount and even not logon as root. This happened severall times now, the only

Re: Way to prune/limit the ZFS zpool history?

2009-01-20 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:17:47PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 20), Geoff Fritz said: I've been experimenting with a series scripts that takes ZFS snapshots every minute, eventually destroying the oldest so that only so many remain available for a given window of time.

Problem with libperl

2009-01-20 Thread Warren Liddell
im trying to start a few programs, on eof them being ntop, but it keeps saying the below msg .. how do i register it when i have libperl .. what has happend for it to be unregisterd ? enterprise# ntop /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libperl.so not found, required by ntop

how do you boot freebsd-ia64 from disk?

2009-01-20 Thread Kendall Shaw
I got no answer on the ia64 list after several weeks, so I'm asking here. I seem to have successfully installed freebsd on my itanium hp-i2000 machine, but I don't know how to cause it to boot from disk. In the boot options menu I tried adding loader.efi to the boot menu, but when I select it it

8 current mount of glabel root failed

2009-01-20 Thread michael
i have an 8 current machine that i labeled the slices and partitions with glabel, it boots with generic but not with custom. i didn't touch anything in generic other than removing network devices and scsi/raid. this is an ide only system. any ideas? mike

source of uname information

2009-01-20 Thread Robert Huff
Am I correct in believing uname gets its information from the kern.version sysctl? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: kvm switch

2009-01-20 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:16:28PM -0800, Kendall Shaw wrote: Do you have a kvm switch that does mouse and keyboard emulation and know that it works with freebsd? I have an iogear kvm switch from around the last time I asked this question here years back, that has usually worked with linux,

Re: Problem with libperl

2009-01-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
Warren Liddell wrote: im trying to start a few programs, on eof them being ntop, but it keeps saying the below msg .. how do i register it when i have libperl .. what has happend for it to be unregisterd ? enterprise# ntop /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libperl.so not found, required by

Re: / mounted read-only after error in /etc/rc.conf

2009-01-20 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Try using: umount -o rw / Regards, Ivailo Tanusheff Deputy Head of IT Department ProCredit Bank (Bulgaria) AD Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be Sent by: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org 19.01.2009 16:47 Please respond to Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be To mail.list