HyperThreading

2009-05-06 Thread APseudoUtopia
Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE on a dual-core Xeon. It has a custom compiled SMP kernel, ACPI enabled, with the ULE scheduler. I've been looking into HyperThreading, and I've come to the conclusion that I should not use it. I've been told that HTT is disabled by default, however sysctl

Re: What is the highest hard drive read/write speed you were able to achieve by entire disk mirroring or striping?

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am seeing 85MB/s as a speed of a single Hitachi 1TB HD. How high can you go by mirroring or striping 2, 3, 4 harddrives? mirroring - the same, just with 2 processes reading both can get the bandwidth. make sure you use -s high enough (like 1048576) doing gmirror label stripping - the

move to other subnet

2009-05-06 Thread Pieter Donche
Just want to check: If a freebsd7 system is to move to a different subnet (from ip XXX.YYY.AAA.BBB to XXX.YYY.CCC.DDD) same netmask 255.255.255.0 same hostname myhost.mydomain.mycountry same DNS servers then /etc/rc.conf is the only file that needs changes? defaultrouter=XXX.YYY.CCC.254

make - reassign variable using if-then ?

2009-05-06 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I've this simple makefile: VAR=one all : main main: @echo ${.CURDIR} .if ${.CURDIR} @echo ${VAR} VAR=two @echo ${VAR} .endif When I output VAR second time, the value is still one, and not the new value two. Why? % make /usr/home/mexas one VAR=two

Re: move to other subnet

2009-05-06 Thread on
Hi, then /etc/rc.conf is the only file that needs changes? defaultrouter=XXX.YYY.CCC.254 --- hostname=myhost.mydomain.mycountry ifconfig_em0=inet XXX.YYY.CCC.DDD netmask 255.255.255.0 --- and reboot ? or is there any other file(s) to change? In theory, yes, that changes the IP address of

Re: move to other subnet

2009-05-06 Thread Julien Cigar
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 10:18 +0200, Pieter Donche wrote: Just want to check: If a freebsd7 system is to move to a different subnet (from ip XXX.YYY.AAA.BBB to XXX.YYY.CCC.DDD) same netmask 255.255.255.0 same hostname myhost.mydomain.mycountry same DNS servers then /etc/rc.conf is

RE: Dump snapshot issue...

2009-05-06 Thread Marc Coyles
One thing you should try is to remove the dump_snapshot files, because they are supposed to be unlinked when the dump starts anyway, so they shouldn't be sticking around. Also, look for file flags on the directories, or ACLs, etc. And consider the permissions you're running dump with.

reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-06 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Maybe a bit off-topic (sorry for this). I've got a fresh Dell M4400 laptop with 250 GByte, pre-installed Vista on it. Is there a way to reduce the Vista to let's say 50 GByte and install FreeBSD -CURRENT in the remaining 200 GByte, just to have the Vista later for some investigations, or

Re: make - reassign variable using if-then ?

2009-05-06 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 10:31:53 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I've this simple makefile: VAR=one all : main main : @echo ${.CURDIR} .if ${.CURDIR} @echo ${VAR} VAR=two @echo ${VAR} .endif When I output VAR second time, the value is still one, and not

Re: make - reassign variable using if-then ?

2009-05-06 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:15:07AM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 06 May 2009 10:31:53 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I've this simple makefile: VAR=one all : main main: @echo ${.CURDIR} .if ${.CURDIR} @echo ${VAR} VAR=two @echo ${VAR}

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-06 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Maybe a bit off-topic (sorry for this). I've got a fresh Dell M4400 laptop with 250 GByte, pre-installed Vista on it. Is there a way to reduce the Vista to let's say 50 GByte and install FreeBSD -CURRENT in the remaining 200 GByte, just to have the Vista later for

Re: carefull confirm on using linux_base-fc8

2009-05-06 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Tue, 05 May 2009 22:07:48 -0500 Adam Vande More wrote: If you intend on using f8, you'll want entries like this in /etc/make.conf USE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8 USE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f8 OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8 OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f8 Actually, only the last two hav to be defined.

FreeBSD on VMware ESXi

2009-05-06 Thread Daniels Vanags
We moved Hard Disk Drives from HP ProLiant DL 385 G2 with 4GB RAM, AMD Opteron processor to HP ProLiant DL 380 G5, 4GB RAM, Intel Xeon processor. Disks contain FreeBSD Virtual Machines running in VMware ESXi Server. When trying to boot, getting error: BTX halted. Please explain, how to start

Do I need both gcc-4.2 and gcc-4.3?

2009-05-06 Thread Mike Clarke
Somehow I've ended up with 2 copies of gcc from ports in addition to gcc-3.4 in the base system. pkg_info suggests that only gcc-4.3 is needed: curlew:/home/mike% pkg_info -Rx gcc-4 Information for gcc-4.2.5_20081126: Information for gcc-4.3.4_20090419: Required by: fftw-2.1.5_5

Re: Do I need both gcc-4.2 and gcc-4.3?

2009-05-06 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:51:16PM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote: Somehow I've ended up with 2 copies of gcc from ports in addition to gcc-3.4 in the base system. pkg_info suggests that only gcc-4.3 is needed: curlew:/home/mike% pkg_info -Rx gcc-4 Information for gcc-4.2.5_20081126:

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-06 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 01:26:50PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: Sure, You can even reduce Vista's partition from Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Disk Management. Right click on the partition and select to shrink. The amount that it will allow

filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Olivier Mueller
Hello, $ df -m ; date ; rm -r templates_c ; df -m ; date Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 989 45 864 5%/ /dev/da0s1f128631 102179 1616086%/usr [...] Wed May 6 00:23:01 CEST 2009 Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Olivier Mueller om-lists-...@omx.ch: Hello, $ df -m ; date ; rm -r templates_c ; df -m ; date Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 989 45 864 5%/ /dev/da0s1f128631 102179 1616086%/usr [...] Wed May 6 00:23:01

Re: xorg error with xfce3 wm install

2009-05-06 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Sun, 03 May 2009 16:12:16 -1000 Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: [ snip ] xlib extension error Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. [ snip ] Hi Al, i am running fluxbox 1.1.1, i receive the same error msgs with every X app i start, since i did some updating on the installed xorg

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-06 Thread Anders Troback
On Wed, 6 May 2009 14:08:27 +0200 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 01:26:50PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: Sure, You can even reduce Vista's partition from Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Disk Management. Right

basic

2009-05-06 Thread giorgio novello
Do you want obtain new market share? Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best seller Regards Giorgio Novello Vb developer Italy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/6 giorgio novello gio@vodafone.it: Do you want obtain new market share? Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and  your OS will be a best seller Regards Giorgio Novello Vb developer Italy But VB only works on one platform! Chris -- A: Because it messes

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data (4 million files)

2009-05-06 Thread Olivier Mueller
Thanks for your answer Bill! (and to Will as well), Some more infos I gathered a few minutes ago: [~/templates_c]$ date; du -s -m ; date Wed May 6 13:35:15 CEST 2009 2652 . Wed May 6 13:52:36 CEST 2009 [~/templates_c]$ date ; find . | wc -l ; date Wed May 6 13:52:56 CEST 2009

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-06 Thread n j
... What is the best way to restore the full system? Can I use the FreeBSD installation disk in rescue mode? I experienced such a situation just 2 weeks ago. My primary problem was that I had to do restore over the network (no attached tape drives, no external HDDs). I wanted to use ssh to grab

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-06 Thread Leslie Jensen
Anders Troback skrev: On Wed, 6 May 2009 14:08:27 +0200 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 01:26:50PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: Sure, You can even reduce Vista's partition from Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Disk

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Outback Dingo
comne on now, its not even april first. On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:32 PM, giorgio novello gio@vodafone.it wrote: Do you want obtain new market share? Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best seller Regards Giorgio Novello Vb developer Italy

Configuring an IPv6 router to assign addresses

2009-05-06 Thread af300wsm
Hi, I've found in the handbook how to start up a v6 router and some other helpful links on this topic at the FreeBSD diary. However, I'm wondering, how do I configure the router to assign addresses to hosts. Thanks, Andy ___

Re: Configuring an IPv6 router to assign addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Odhiambo ワシントン
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:30 PM, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've found in the handbook how to start up a v6 router and some other helpful links on this topic at the FreeBSD diary. However, I'm wondering, how do I configure the router to assign addresses to hosts. Nice question. I wonder

Preferred client for DynDNS

2009-05-06 Thread Daniel Underwood
There appear to be several clients capable of working with DynDNS.com services here: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/dns.html E.g., dns/inadyn, dns/ipcheck Can anyone make recommendations? My goal in using DynDNS is to allow remote SSH logins to a machine behind a router at my house (using a

Re: Preferred client for DynDNS

2009-05-06 Thread Leslie Jensen
Daniel Underwood skrev: There appear to be several clients capable of working with DynDNS.com services here: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/dns.html E.g., dns/inadyn, dns/ipcheck Can anyone make recommendations? My goal in using DynDNS is to allow remote SSH logins to a machine behind a

Re: ReturnCode Checking for FTP

2009-05-06 Thread Eddie Chen
Lowell, On my AIX and Linux system we don't have fetch installed. I Googled fetch, can't found the download URL for fetch. It seems fetch(1) will get file(s)... We mostly push the file(s) to the clients. Thanks.

Re: Configuring an IPv6 router to assign addresses

2009-05-06 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 10:39:24 am Odhiambo ワシントン wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:30 PM, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've found in the handbook how to start up a v6 router and some other helpful links on this topic at the FreeBSD diary. However, I'm wondering, how do I configure

RE: ReturnCode Checking for FTP

2009-05-06 Thread Gary Gatten
Can I assume you want return codes to know if the file was transferred correctly? Several years ago I was involved in architecting a middleware app for file/data exchange. For ftp delivery (and others) we'd check the file size locally, put the file, then check the file size on the remote side.

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data (4 million files)

2009-05-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Olivier Mueller om-lists-...@omx.ch: Yes, it is one of the best options. My initial goal was to delete all files older than N days by cron (find | xargs | rm, etc.), but if each cronjob takes 2 hours (and takes so much cpu time), it's probably not the best way. I'll make

Re: Re: Configuring an IPv6 router to assign addresses

2009-05-06 Thread af300wsm
On May 6, 2009 8:56am, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: On Wednesday 06 May 2009 10:39:24 am Odhiambo ワシントン wrote: Is there a reason you need to control the addresses used by your clients (other than the prefix)? I set up IPv6 on my LAN and while I have DHCPd running on the

Assign IP address and hostname via kernel parameter

2009-05-06 Thread Mister Olli
Hi, is there a way to configure IP address and hostname on freebsd systems via kernel command line parameters? I have some freebsd systems in as xen domU's and it would be really great to be able to set the ip address hostname within the configuration file for the domU. I'm aware that I could

Re: Configuring an IPv6 router to assign addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
af300...@gmail.com wrote: On May 6, 2009 8:56am, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: On Wednesday 06 May 2009 10:39:24 am Odhiambo $B%o%7%s%H%s(B wrote: Is there a reason you need to control the addresses used by your clients (other than the prefix)? I set up IPv6 on my LAN and

Re: Preferred client for DynDNS

2009-05-06 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.comwrote: There appear to be several clients capable of working with DynDNS.com services here: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/dns.html E.g., dns/inadyn, dns/ipcheck Can anyone make recommendations? My goal in using DynDNS is

Re: Configuring an IPv6 router to assign addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Eric Masson
Odhiambo ワシントン odhia...@gmail.com writes: Hi, Nice question. I wonder if isc-dhcp-server can already handle IPv6 addresses. Seems it can since 4.x branch. But, is there any reason to use dhcp on ipv6 nets as the protocol has been designed with autoconfiguration in mind ? Regards --

Re: make - reassign variable using if-then ?

2009-05-06 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 11:31:17 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm trying to build gcc43 on alpha 6.4. In /usr/ports/lang/gcc43/Makefile I have: # grep NOT_FOR_ARCHS /usr/ports/lang/gcc43/Makefile NOT_FOR_ARCHS= alpha ia64 powerpc # In /etc/make.conf I have: .if ${.CURDIR:M*/lang/gcc43*}

Re: Xdvi with amd64

2009-05-06 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Exactly which fonts are you having trouble with? I can tell you whether I can reproduce the issue under 7.1. Nothing exotic at all: cmr10.300.pk The error message is: $ xdvi memo Note: overstrike characters may be incorrect. xdvi: Wrong

RE: ReturnCode Checking for FTP

2009-05-06 Thread Eddie Chen
Gary, Yes I am look a retrunCode from put/get/reanme. We run and transmit very large amount of data and jobs thru out the evening. These jobs runs under Linux and AIX. - This was not an issue on the mainframe, the mainframe ftp client support return code. Currently,

Re: ReturnCode Checking for FTP

2009-05-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eddie Chen ec...@nyx.com writes: On my AIX and Linux system we don't have fetch installed. I Googled fetch, can't found the download URL for fetch. If you need the same behaviour from your ftp clients on all platforms, you will need to install a different ftp client on at least some

Re: Assign IP address and hostname via kernel parameter

2009-05-06 Thread jt
Hi, I would take a look at sysctl this system takes care of kernel parameters. There are a few man pages that delineate what is read only. I'm sure you are aware of setting the hostname at boot time. It seemed like you were more curious about on the fly. I'm not familiar with xen domU's

RE: ReturnCode Checking for FTP

2009-05-06 Thread Gary Gatten
Yep - or at least make sure the client is in debug mode - it may spew out the messages/codes you're wanting in debug mode. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Re: Configuring an IPv6 router to assign addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
start rtadvd on interface On Wed, 6 May 2009, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've found in the handbook how to start up a v6 router and some other helpful links on this topic at the FreeBSD diary. However, I'm wondering, how do I configure the router to assign addresses to hosts. Thanks,

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
- it took about 12 hours to delete these 30GB of files and sub-directories (smarty cache files: many small files in many dirs). It's a little bit surprising, as it's on a recent HP proliant DL360 g5 with SAS disks (Raid1) running freebsd 6.x ( /dev/da0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) ) if

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
means you had 6 million files. df -i would have been more useful in the output above. This brings a number of questions up: * Are you _sure_ softupdates is enabled on that partition? That's he showed mount output - he has softdeps on. * Are these 7200RPM disks or 15,000? Again, going

Re: Repeatable X lockups

2009-05-06 Thread William Bulley
According to Jimmie James jimmie...@gmail.com on Sat, 05/02/09 at 15:46: When using the xv output driver for vlc or mplayer, X will lockup, crash instantly, trashing the screen and forcing a reboot Image of screen corruption: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/jimmiejaz/xcrash.jpg

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Polytropon
10 GOTO 10 On Wed, 6 May 2009 14:32:47 +0200, giorgio novello gio@vodafone.it wrote: Do you want obtain new market share? Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best seller FreeBSD isn't for beginners, it's for professionals. There wouldn't be Visual

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread cpghost
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 05:34:24PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: - it took about 12 hours to delete these 30GB of files and sub-directories (smarty cache files: many small files in many dirs). It's a little bit surprising, as it's on a recent HP proliant DL360 g5 with SAS disks (Raid1)

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread cpghost
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:00:32PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 6 May 2009 14:32:47 +0200, giorgio novello gio@vodafone.it wrote: Do you want obtain new market share? Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best seller FreeBSD isn't for

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread J Sisson
That's a great idea...let's take a wonderful open source project and flood it with Windows programmers who couldn't find the shell even if they booted without a GUI. And while we're at it, let's re-write the shell in .NET...you know...for performance reasons. On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:32 AM,

Re: Assign IP address and hostname via kernel parameter

2009-05-06 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, On 6 May 2009, at 16:20, Mister Olli wrote: is there a way to configure IP address and hostname on freebsd systems via kernel command line parameters? [etc] When running diskless, the loader sets kernel variables like: boot.netif.gateway=192.168.198.1 boot.netif.hwaddr=00:15:17:47:14:fc

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Benjamin Krueger
Wojciech Puchar wrote: means you had 6 million files. df -i would have been more useful in the output above. This brings a number of questions up: * Are you _sure_ softupdates is enabled on that partition? That's he showed mount output - he has softdeps on. * Are these 7200RPM disks

Source update tag RELENG_7_2 != 7.2-RELEASE ?

2009-05-06 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, Yesterday I did a source update on an i386 box to 7.2. My supfile uses RELENG_7_2 host# more /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/supfile *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default delete use-rel-suffix compress *default host=cvsup8.us.freebsd.org *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs

Re: Source update tag RELENG_7_2 != 7.2-RELEASE ?

2009-05-06 Thread Eric
Doug Poland wrote: Hello, Yesterday I did a source update on an i386 box to 7.2. My supfile uses RELENG_7_2 So, I'm pretty sure I'm running 7.2-RELEASE. But my kernel still says 7.2-RC2. Did I do something wrong here? my guess is cvsup8.us.freebsd.org doesnt have the RELEASE code on it

RE: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Gary Gatten
It could just be me, but I swear Hardware RAID has been faster for many many years, especially with RAID5 arrays - or anything that requires parity calcs. Most of my benchmarking was done on SCO OpenServer and Novell UnixWare and Netware, but hardware RAID controllers were always faster and of

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
config, or gmirror/gstripe config. usually it's far much slower Sorry, but my experience with that very server using a P400 controller with 256MB write cache is very different. My benchmarks showed that controller using Raid5 (with only 4 disks) is significantly faster than software

Autofs howto

2009-05-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
I'm going to take another stab at this. I'm wondering if I can use autofs on FreeBSD. Last time I asked the question someone said I need amd, which I found rather cryptic. I later discovered that there is a amd-utils in ports and an amd directory in contrib under source. So, is amd a

Advices for a jailed MySQL server

2009-05-06 Thread Martin Turgeon
Hi everyone, I'm starting to build a new dedicated MySQL server. I will be using FreeBSD 7.2-REL. My plan is to jail the latest version of MySQL 5.0 and to put the MySQL data outside the jail. My objective is to be able to update MySQL without down time. My objective would be to create

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Gary Gatten
OT now, but in high i/o envs with high concurrency needs, RAID5 is still the way to go, esp if 90% of i/o is reads. Of course it depends on file size / type as well... Anyway, let's sum it up with a storage subsystem is only as fast as its slowest link - Original Message - From:

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com: It could just be me, but I swear Hardware RAID has been faster for many many years, especially with RAID5 arrays - or anything that requires parity calcs. Most of my benchmarking was done on SCO OpenServer and Novell UnixWare and Netware, but

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Gary Gatten
Sorry, drive in last sentence should be driver! - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: Benjamin Krueger benja...@seattlefenix.net; Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl Cc: freebsd-performa...@freebsd.org

RE: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It could just be me, but I swear Hardware RAID has been faster for many many years, especially with RAID5 arrays - or anything that requires maybe with RAID5, but using RAID5 today (huge disk sizes, little sense to save on disk space) instead of RAID1/10 doesn't make much sense, as RAID5 is

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
yes, some of them suck royally. you should rather say some of them doesn't suck. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Dump snapshot issue...

2009-05-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:01:36AM +0100, Marc Coyles wrote: One thing you should try is to remove the dump_snapshot files, because they are supposed to be unlinked when the dump starts anyway, so they shouldn't be sticking around. Also, look for file flags on the directories, or

Re: Advices for a jailed MySQL server

2009-05-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Martin Turgeon free...@optiksecurite.com: Hi everyone, I'm starting to build a new dedicated MySQL server. I will be using FreeBSD 7.2-REL. My plan is to jail the latest version of MySQL 5.0 and to put the MySQL data outside the jail. My objective is to be able to update

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:00:32PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: 10 GOTO 10 On Wed, 6 May 2009 14:32:47 +0200, giorgio novello gio@vodafone.it wrote: Do you want obtain new market share? Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best seller FreeBSD

Re: Autofs howto

2009-05-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:17:29PM +, Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm going to take another stab at this. I'm wondering if I can use autofs on FreeBSD. There is a libautofs library and a mount_autofs program in my 7.2 source tree, but I'm not sure what it is, since it's not installed or built on

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gary Gatten wrote: OT now, but in high i/o envs with high concurrency needs, RAID5 is still the way to go, esp if 90% of i/o is reads. Of course it depends on file size / type as well... Anyway, let's sum it up with a storage subsystem is only as fast as its slowest link It's not just the

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Fred C
That project already exist it is called linux... -fred- On May 6, 2009, at 9:08 AM, J Sisson wrote: That's a great idea...let's take a wonderful open source project and flood it with Windows programmers who couldn't find the shell even if they booted without a GUI. And while we're at it,

RE: ReturnCode Checking for FTP

2009-05-06 Thread Eddie Chen
Hi Gary and Lowell, I just download and complied the ncftp and run some ftp, it looks nice. Going to check it out more later on... I like the diagnostics exit return value on the ncftpput/get. Anyway, I have aready modify the tnftp(lukemftp) and started testing some of the batch

RE: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Gary Gatten
LMAO! Touché! Seriously though, can't we all just get along? :) -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Fred C Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 1:52 PM To: J Sisson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:

Myths about Power Over Ethernet

2009-05-06 Thread Midspan Manager
Myths about Power Over Ethernet May 5, 2008 Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) technology integrates power and data across standard Cat5/5e/6 network cabling and provides more flexibility in today’s workplace. PoE enables power to be supplied to network devices, such as IP phones, network cameras, and

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Fred C
On May 6, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Gary Gatten wrote: LMAO! Touché! Seriously though, can't we all just get along? :) I have no problem with linux I am using it every day at work it is installed on more than 2000 servers. But with all the incoherences in the tools and the os, I feel

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Gary Gatten wrote: OT now, but in high i/o envs with high concurrency needs, RAID5 is still the way to go, esp if 90% of i/o is reads. Of course it depends on file size / type as well... Anyway, let's sum it

Safe to 'make installkernel' in multi-user mode?

2009-05-06 Thread Modulok
Just making sure I'm not brewing a disaster... Is it 'safe' to install a kernel (i.e. 'make installkernel') on a system while in multi-user mode? Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: NIC

2009-05-06 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Dear all, Thanks for your advise and suggestions; I have bought the Intel Pro/1000GT. regards, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

php4 + php5

2009-05-06 Thread Mark
Using a single Apache 1.3.x install, is there a way to install both mod_php4 + mod_php5 together? I can't just upgrade to php5: not every webboard and such accepts php5 yet. On some dirs (or per vhost) I like the Apache server to use php5, though. Thanks, - Mark

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 06 May 2009 at 13:15:34 PDT Fred C wrote: On May 6, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Gary Gatten wrote: LMAO! Touché! Seriously though, can't we all just get along? :) I have no problem with linux I am using it every day at work it is installed on more than 2000 servers. But with all the

Re: Safe to 'make installkernel' in multi-user mode?

2009-05-06 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Modulok wrote: Just making sure I'm not brewing a disaster... Is it 'safe' to install a kernel (i.e. 'make installkernel') on a system while in multi-user mode? Thanks! -Modulok- Yes. But you should schedule a reboot shortly afterwards. ___

What make is in 7.1?

2009-05-06 Thread Lars Eighner
When I do man make I get a man page and it includes references to the pmake tutorial which seems to be basis of an HTMLize pmake tutorial in one of the books. But clearly the installed make is not the pmake described in the tutorial. The tutorial frequently suggest using Pmake -h for more

forcing traffic into leaving from not first ip

2009-05-06 Thread alexus
i have many IPs assigned to my interface is there a way to force traffic to leave from specific IP vs another (default) first one? -- http://alexus.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: forcing traffic into leaving from not first ip

2009-05-06 Thread Gary Gatten
Change your local routing table. Also maybe NAT, IP Tables, PF, etc. Policy Based Routing is the general term, but unless you want to do tricky stuff, basic routing manipulation should work. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org

Re: Safe to 'make installkernel' in multi-user mode?

2009-05-06 Thread Eric
Modulok wrote: Just making sure I'm not brewing a disaster... Is it 'safe' to install a kernel (i.e. 'make installkernel') on a system while in multi-user mode? Thanks! -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: forcing traffic into leaving from not first ip

2009-05-06 Thread alexus
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Change your local routing table.  Also maybe NAT, IP Tables, PF, etc. Policy Based Routing is the general term, but unless you want to do tricky stuff, basic routing manipulation should work. -Original Message-

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:59:41PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote: On Wed 06 May 2009 at 13:15:34 PDT Fred C wrote: On May 6, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Gary Gatten wrote: LMAO! Touché! Seriously though, can't we all just get along? :) I have no problem with linux I am using it every day at

RE: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Gary Gatten
You're sick! If it's not some killer RAD tool with OO everything and a pretty GUI to type in, who would write code in such a thing? Yes - I'm being sarcastic! Can we kill this thread now? Pretty soon it will be like the PC-BSD thread and the I must have a pretty GUI installer thread!

Maintaining a FreeBSD system - Workcycle

2009-05-06 Thread Kalle Møller
Hi I'm looking for a generel guide / howto for maintaining a FreeBSD system - not all the ports, just the base system. One that describe how often you should update your port-tree, which basic ports like audit you should have. Its a server I have that runs different services, so I'm also looking

Re: Maintaining a FreeBSD system - Workcycle

2009-05-06 Thread Gary Gatten
Freebsd.org - docs; several docs there - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed May 06 19:43:07 2009 Subject: Maintaining a FreeBSD system - Workcycle Hi

unable to boot with Nvidia AGP graphics card

2009-05-06 Thread Scott Parrish
Hi all, Recently my PCI graphics card failed on my Dell Dimension 4100. I replaced it with a known good card I had lying around: an Nvidia GeForce 3 TI200 with an AGP interface. My FreeBSD installation will not boot with this graphics card. The boot loader hangs at the twirling baton as

Java without CUPS

2009-05-06 Thread Chris Hill
Hello list, I know that, since my printer speaks Postscript, I don't need CUPS. But some of the ports I'm installing want to install CUPS as a dependency. The first one I happened across was java/jdk16, but I'd be surprised if there weren't more. Could it be as simple as # make

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-06 Thread Paul Patterson
Sorry. This statement is incorrect. If you aren't using ZFS, or even a GEOM volume with mirror/RAID5/softup/etc, you cannot make the statement that hardware RAID is faster. I learned that 3 years ago. It takes about 30 minutes to mirror 1.5TB on ZFS. Try that on hardware RAID. I did the

Re: Java without CUPS

2009-05-06 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 6 May 2009 22:34:52 -0400 (EDT), Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: I know that, since my printer speaks Postscript, I don't need CUPS. But some of the ports I'm installing want to install CUPS as a dependency. The first one I happened across was java/jdk16, but I'd be surprised

How to get the user time of another running process on FreeBSD?

2009-05-06 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I would like to know how I can get the user time of another running process on FreeBSD? Ideally I would like to find a solution that would work as well on other *nix systems. So far the solutions I have found are specific to a given OS (format of proc filesystem, lock_getcpuclockid)...

Re: Maintaining a FreeBSD system - Workcycle

2009-05-06 Thread Tim Judd
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Kalle Møller kalle.mol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm looking for a generel guide / howto for maintaining a FreeBSD system - not all the ports, just the base system. One that describe how often you should update your port-tree, which basic ports like audit you

Re: Autofs howto

2009-05-06 Thread Michel Talon
Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm wondering if I can use autofs on FreeBSD. Last time I asked the question someone said I need amd, which I found rather cryptic. Indeed it is cryptic, let me gave an example which works: niobe% cat /etc/amd.conf [global] auto_dir= /.amd log_file=

Re: unable to boot with Nvidia AGP graphics card

2009-05-06 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 07 May 2009 04:35:30 Scott Parrish wrote: Hi all, Recently my PCI graphics card failed on my Dell Dimension 4100. I replaced it with a known good card I had lying around: an Nvidia GeForce 3 TI200 with an AGP interface. My FreeBSD installation will not boot with this graphics

Developing and maintaining a rapidly deployable image of an installed system

2009-05-06 Thread Warren Guy
Hi everyone, I'm just wondering if there is an established best practice for developing and maintaining a rapidly deployable image of an installed FreeBSD system? If anyone can point me towards documentation or any other resources that might be of use I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks,

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