Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-27 Thread Gary Gatten
I'm trying to ignore this thread, but as an infrequent installer, I think it would be nice for those of us with limited experience to have a context sensitive help to explain the various install options, such as: what it is/does, how much disk space, how many/which dependancies, estimated

PAM/ldap_pam/NFSv4: How let users of a speicific group log into a specific box?

2009-04-27 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I run into a specific problem and for several months of experiments I havn't found a solution, yet. This is what I wish to get and need: A simple capability of selecting users into a specific group. Members of such a group should then log into a set of specific hosts. Infrastructure

Re: mergemaster -U overwriting modified files

2009-04-27 Thread Victor Sudakov
Peter Schuller wrote: I recently began testing mergemaster -U since the perpetual review diff of file I never touched grows annoying real quick. Unfortunately I recently discovered that it does not seem to do what you might expect. For example it nuked my mailer.conf on one machine, and my

acroread run problem

2009-04-27 Thread Pieter Donche
FreeBSD7/amd64 with linux_base-fc-4_14 Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (for i386/amd64) I installed acroread9-9.1.0_2 (no errors) # cd /usr/ports/print/acroread9 # make install clean OK. but at $ acroread I get: (acroread:67581): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-27 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/4/26 Jorg Andersson jorg_anders...@lavabit.com: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:45:33PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: I don't recall FreeBSD supporting extended partitions... at all I remember reading they aren't in /dev/ but still is mountable. Is this still the case? They show up just fine here

RE: NFS slow

2009-04-27 Thread Jan Catrysse
Jan Catrysse wrote: Hello all, I am having some problems with NFS and slow performance. This is the scenario: 2x FreeBSD 7.1. (Raid storage server, MP, the works) GB Lan interface between them. When I transfer 1 big file the speed is never higher than 10MB/s with a peak to 14MB/s.

FreeBSd amd64 bit kernel conf

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, I'm trying to get myself around 64 bit custom kernel configuration for FreeBSD on Intel Xeon L5430. Does any one know what cpu option one should use for this? From my reading, it seems HAMMER is purely for amd64 architectures. What is the Intel architecture option. Regards, Mike -- Mike

Re: FreeBSd amd64 bit kernel conf

2009-04-27 Thread Neo [GC]
HAMMER is the right one for Intel CPUs with EMT64 for running FreeBSD in 64bit mode. In /etc/make.conf chose nocona in your CPUTYPE Regards, Neo [GC] Mike Barnard schrieb: Hi, I'm trying to get myself around 64 bit custom kernel configuration for FreeBSD on Intel Xeon L5430. Does any one

Re: X-Org problem

2009-04-27 Thread Ott Köstner
On Saturday 25 April 2009 11:57:38 am Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 4/24/09, Ott Koestner o...@zzz.ee wrote: Neal Hogan wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Ott Koestner o...@zzz.ee wrote: Dear list, After upgrading Xorg from ports to the latest version xorg-server-1.6.0,1 xorg-7.4_1

Re: FreeBSd amd64 bit kernel conf

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Barnard
Thanks Neo, I will post back if anything bits my fingers :-) Regards, Mike On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Neo [GC] n...@gothic-chat.de wrote: HAMMER is the right one for Intel CPUs with EMT64 for running FreeBSD in 64bit mode. In /etc/make.conf chose nocona in your CPUTYPE Regards,

Re: Unexpected gmirror behavior: Is this a bug?

2009-04-27 Thread Peter Steele
i think it's a bug but only happens with such massive mirror. very few people do more than 2-way mirrors that's probably it wasn't catched. please do report the bug - it's critical. In fact I just confirmed that if we reduce our mirror to just two members the problem does not occur. The

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:28:53AM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: I'm trying to ignore this thread, but as an infrequent installer, I think it would be nice for those of us with limited experience to have a context sensitive help to explain the various install options, such as: what it is/does,

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:45:07AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote: I have a machine I plan to use solely for testing. I have FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT on it right now, and would like to add FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 as well as CentOS 5.3 Linux. Presently I have three Master Boot Record primary

Re: CVS history access?

2009-04-27 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 25 April 2009 09:12:50 pm Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:35:34 -0400, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a resource-friendly way for

[compiling installing FreeBSD]

2009-04-27 Thread alligator424
dear freeBSD's gurus, question is: does make installworld do any backup of the files it touch? is any way to failback that installworld? I think I have read that make installkernel do a backup of the kernel in kernel.old but for the world I would like to know. Regards

Re: [compiling installing FreeBSD]

2009-04-27 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 27 April 2009 11:42:15 am alligator...@free.fr wrote: does make installworld do any backup of the files it touch? is any way to failback that installworld? No. Restore from (your own) backups, installation media, or rebuild the world you need from appropriately-dated sources. I

[compiling installing FreeBSD]

2009-04-27 Thread Robert Huff
alligator...@free.fr writes: does make installworld do any backup of the files it touch? is any way to failback that installworld? Have you read the section of the handbook which explains the accepted procedure for updating the system? Robert Huff

quick vfs tuning

2009-04-27 Thread Ghirai
Hi, I'm running a RAID1 setup with gmirror and geli (AES-128) on top of that. While searching for ways to improve read performance, i found some posts (on kerneltrap i think) about vfs.max_read. The author suggested that increasing the default value of 8 to 16 resulted in increased read speed,

Apache won't start - undefined symbol libintl_bindtextdomain

2009-04-27 Thread Bill Somerson
Hi, I've installed Apache 2.2, but when I try to start it, I get the following error: httpd: Syntax error on line 105 of /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_dnssd.so into server: /usr/local/lib/libavahi-common.so.3: Undefined symbol

bsnmpd vs net-snmp

2009-04-27 Thread Maxim Khitrov
Hello all, I'm setting up a firewall and would like to monitor certain system parameters like network, cpu, and memory usage. SNMP is an obvious choice to do the monitoring and I'm planning to set up rrdtool to generate graphs of captured data. The question is what SNMP agent to use. I found

Re: Apache won't start - undefined symbol libintl_bindtextdomain

2009-04-27 Thread Adam Vande More
Bill Somerson wrote: Hi, I've installed Apache 2.2, but when I try to start it, I get the following error: httpd: Syntax error on line 105 of /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/local/libexec/apache22/mod_dnssd.so into server: /usr/local/lib/libavahi-common.so.3: Undefined

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-27 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
ill...@gmail.com skrev: 2009/4/26 Jorg Andersson jorg_anders...@lavabit.com: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:45:33PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: I don't recall FreeBSD supporting extended partitions... at all I remember reading they aren't in /dev/ but still is mountable. Is this still the case? They

Re: CVS history access?

2009-04-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:23:32 -0400, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: On Saturday 25 April 2009 09:12:50 pm Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:35:34 -0400, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD src

Re: quick vfs tuning

2009-04-27 Thread Steve Polyack
Ghirai wrote: The author suggested that increasing the default value of 8 to 16 resulted in increased read speed, and that increasing it further resulted in no noticeable performance gain. Personally, I've seen changes in vfs.read_max to provide anywhere from a 50-100% improvement in disk

Re: Apache won't start - undefined symbol libintl_bindtextdomain

2009-04-27 Thread Bill Somerson
Thanks, but I'm not sure what you mean by recompiling the mentioned ports with gettext support. I did a make config in avahi-app (which is where libintl.so.8 came from), and it said there were no configuration options. Apache 2.2 has a whole bunch of configuration options, but I didn't see any

Re: Apache won't start - undefined symbol libintl_bindtextdomain

2009-04-27 Thread Bill Somerson
I did a make config in avahi-app (which is where libintl.so.8 came from) Sorry, I meant avahi-app is where libavahi-common.so.3 came from (which is the thing that's complaining about a lack of libintl_bindtextdomain). On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Bill Somerson billsomer...@gmail.comwrote:

mysql hiding from top

2009-04-27 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
hello, Today I have finally upgraded my system to 7.1-RELEASE and just noticing that mysql process is not being shown via the top command. PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 1612 root1 200 9212K 6716K pause 2 0:26 0.00% perl5.8.9 966

Re: mysql hiding from top

2009-04-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Apr 27, 2009, at 9:49 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: However, if you grep processes, you can see it should be displayed in the top entries. $ ps ax |grep mysql 32880 p0- I 0:00.00 /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe... 32906 p0- S 1:33.72 /usr/local/libexec/mysqld... I can

Re: mysql hiding from top

2009-04-27 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Top doesn't show *all* processes. It shows the processes using the most cpu (by default. You can also display by io.) So, if mysqld isn't using a lot of cpu, it's not going to show up in the list. You might be able to force it to show up by giving top a number (of processes you

Re: mysql hiding from top

2009-04-27 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi there, The process is sleeping-- perhaps it isn't using enough CPU to make it into the list using default sort ordering? Try top -o time, perhaps No, this is a different issue. Take a look: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 88268 www 1

Re: mysql hiding from top

2009-04-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 27, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND [ ... ] 32906 mysql 37 40 76636K 41664K sbwait 1 0:00 0.10% mysqld It does appear at times but it is showing 0:00 TIME. But compare it to the

Re: mysql hiding from top

2009-04-27 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Ah-- I've heard rumors that top or something doesn't handle accounting for CPU time used by multithreaded processes very well... OK. Well I have never had any problem with that on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. It started misbehaving today right after an upgrade to 7.1-RELEASE. Like I said, I can really

Re: mysql hiding from top

2009-04-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 27, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Ah-- I've heard rumors that top or something doesn't handle accounting for CPU time used by multithreaded processes very well... OK. Well I have never had any problem with that on FreeBSD 7.0- RELEASE. It started misbehaving today right

Re: mysql hiding from top

2009-04-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, April 27, 2009 11:49:55 -0500 Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com wrote: hello, Today I have finally upgraded my system to 7.1-RELEASE and just noticing that mysql process is not being shown via the top command. PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME

Re: mysql hiding from top

2009-04-27 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
True, although if it's readily reproducible, it would be good to fix. I'd be happy to test but I do not know what to do/where to start. I know it is a permanent issue, because I even restarted the mysql server thinking that something is wrong that it is not being shown in top but the history

netstat doesn't work

2009-04-27 Thread Dsewnr Lu
Hi all, I've used FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT for a month. My kernel is: ( FreeBSD localhost 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #6: Mon Apr 13 23:56:04 CST 2009 r...@localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FB8 i386 ) Most things work fine, but the netstat command shows nothing for me. Could someone help me

Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp

2009-04-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Maxim Khitrov wrote: Hello all, I'm setting up a firewall and would like to monitor certain system parameters like network, cpu, and memory usage. SNMP is an obvious choice to do the monitoring and I'm planning to set up rrdtool to generate graphs of captured data. The question is what SNMP

Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp

2009-04-27 Thread Anton Yuzhaninov
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:28:01 -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote: MK I'm setting up a firewall and would like to monitor certain system MK parameters like network, cpu, and memory usage. SNMP is an obvious MK choice to do the monitoring and I'm planning to set up rrdtool to MK generate graphs of captured

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-27 Thread beni
On Sunday 26 April 2009 19:32:07 Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:06:58 +0200, beni b...@brinckman.info wrote: Why should a graphical installer have less functionality ? hasn't been claimed. GUI installer just requires more resources, more overhead. Why should a GUI need more

Re: netstat doesn't work

2009-04-27 Thread Anton Yuzhaninov
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:24:58 +0800, Dsewnr Lu wrote: DL I've used FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT for a month. DL My kernel is: ( FreeBSD localhost 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #6: DL Mon Apr 13 23:56:04 CST 2009 DL r...@localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FB8 i386 ) DL Most things work fine, but the

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-27 Thread beni
On Sunday 26 April 2009 20:11:36 Neo [GC] wrote: Just my two cents: Why a graphical installer? Shure, it looks nice, easy, modern and more accessable (examples: Mac OS X, Vista), but on the other hand, for me FreeBSD never was intended to be fancy, but to be functional. What is wrong with

Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp

2009-04-27 Thread Steve Polyack
Steve Bertrand wrote: Maxim Khitrov wrote: Hello all, I'm setting up a firewall and would like to monitor certain system parameters like network, cpu, and memory usage. SNMP is an obvious choice to do the monitoring and I'm planning to set up rrdtool to generate graphs of captured data. The

Re: bsnmpd vs net-snmp

2009-04-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Polyack wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Maxim Khitrov wrote: Hello all, I'm setting up a firewall and would like to monitor certain system parameters like network, cpu, and memory usage. SNMP is an obvious choice to do the monitoring and I'm planning to set up rrdtool to generate

Chicken and egg

2009-04-27 Thread Steven Friedrich
I've been having trouble with X11 ports, so I deleted all my packages and tried to install xorg fresh. xorg port failed trying to build cairo, cairo failed because it couldn't build libdrm, libdrm failed because cairo's headers weren't installed. So in summary, I can't install cairo because

Re: CVS history access?

2009-04-27 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 27 April 2009 12:39:53 pm Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:23:32 -0400, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: I'm basically looking for a list of all commits over the past N (2) years with committer, timestamp, affected file(s) and/or subsystems and possibly diff

Re: acroread run problem

2009-04-27 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Am Montag, den 27.04.2009, 11:16 +0200 schrieb Pieter Donche: FreeBSD7/amd64 with linux_base-fc-4_14 Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (for i386/amd64) I installed acroread9-9.1.0_2 (no errors) # cd /usr/ports/print/acroread9 # make install clean OK. but at $ acroread I get:

Re: CVS history access?

2009-04-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:03:30 -0400, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: I installed the subversion-freebsd port and pulled in src from head. This lets me do e.g. svn log -g --xml locally and get an XML list of commits along the main (head/current) development line going back to 1993. For

Re: CVS history access?

2009-04-27 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 27 April 2009 03:29:03 pm Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:03:30 -0400, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: I installed the subversion-freebsd port and pulled in src from head. This lets me do e.g. svn log -g --xml locally and get an XML list of commits along

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-27 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:30:43 -0400, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:45:07AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote: FreeBSD is not happy with MS 'extended partitions'. But, I don't really see your problem. You are not using Microsloth for anything. That's

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-27 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:24:53 +0200, beni b...@brinckman.info wrote: On Sunday 26 April 2009 19:32:07 Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:06:58 +0200, beni b...@brinckman.info wrote: Why should a graphical installer have less functionality ? hasn't been claimed. GUI installer just

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-27 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:33:46 +0200, beni b...@brinckman.info wrote: What is wrong with fancy functional ? The two can go together I think. Show me one example from the PC world. For you it may not be, but I would like it to be for me. And as to now, I don't have any choice : there is no

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-27 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Polytropon wrote: ... There is NO thing that works for everyone, a one size fits all egg-laying wool milk sow; in Germany, we call this eierlegende Wollmilchsau, a device (or system) that does everything under any circumstances, for everyone. People are different, that's why there are many

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-27 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:39:38 -0400, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: I have done hundreds of installations and still find times that I want more information in the middle of things. That is especially true if I try to add some packages at install time. I agree with this. That's why I

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 08:33:46PM +0200, beni wrote: On Sunday 26 April 2009 20:11:36 Neo [GC] wrote: Just my two cents: Why a graphical installer? Shure, it looks nice, easy, modern and more accessable (examples: Mac OS X, Vista), but on the other hand, for me FreeBSD never was

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:17:47PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:30:43 -0400, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:45:07AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote: FreeBSD is not happy with MS 'extended partitions'. But, I don't really see your

switch keyboards

2009-04-27 Thread PJ
Can't find anything on setting up a correct fr_CA keyboard or keymapping or switching from en_US --- fr_CA for FreeBSD 7.1 and xorg. What I have found only set up an incorrect french-someting-or-other keyboard which almost prevented me from logging in because of a missing character in the mapping.

a couple things....

2009-04-27 Thread Gary Kline
hey guys, i just found OOo.Math. since i did all my math in college on an electric typewriter, this new find would've been a serious ++win. but ok, where is the INSERT? also, now that i've got OOo-3.0.1 installed, how do I pkg_delete 2.4.1 safely? i don't want to mess up my old 2.4

among my favorite equations....

2009-04-27 Thread Gary Kline
if anybody had OOO math 3.0.1 installed, they can see one of my favoriite equations. :-) -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a release of

Re: quick vfs tuning

2009-04-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 07:18:24PM +0300, Ghirai wrote: Hi, I'm running a RAID1 setup with gmirror and geli (AES-128) on top of that. While searching for ways to improve read performance, i found some posts (on kerneltrap i think) about vfs.max_read. The author suggested that increasing

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-27 Thread Neo [GC]
Jerry McAllister schrieb: Second, that no one objects to a parallel installer being made available as long as it is not the default and as long as it does not squeeze out the text based installer.The only problem here is finding someone or some group to work on it. Most FreeBSD developers

bind sdb using ldap: load zone creating database failure

2009-04-27 Thread Angela
Hi Richard VENNE, *I have the same problem you describe in the thread bind sdb using ldap: load zone creating database failure. I saw that you replied and said that you got it. Can you post the solution on how you solve this problem. I'm new to the list and don't know how to reply directly to

bind-sdb ldap loading zone: creating database: failure

2009-04-27 Thread Angela
Have anyone been able to successfully setup bind-sdb with ldap backend? I've tried for couple days without luck! I have a fully working ldap server, and a working traditional bind/dns setup. I installed bind-sdb (rpm package); changed my named.conf according to the docs; but I am not able to get

Re: acroread run problem

2009-04-27 Thread Pieter Donche
Hi, yes I do have in my /etc/rc.conf linux_enable=YES 2) Do you get # df [...] linprocfs4 4 0 100%/usr/compat/linux/proc No, this I do not have, but I wonder what that is ... I find nothing about linprocfs in