Re: Dell workstation / server Freebsd's compatibility

2010-06-27 Thread Steve Polyack
On 6/26/2010 6:07 PM, Tim Judd wrote: On 6/26/10, Olivier GARNIERap1...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Hi, I've got an old workstation wich i use to have FreeBSD server on it (http/samba/ 4 disk on RAID) It's summer time and the old workstation will not work at the end the summer time (too warm for

Re: .sh check for numeric content

2010-06-27 Thread Anonymous
Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr writes: On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:19:53 +0200, Thomas Keusch f...@bsd-solutions-duesseldorf.de wrote: t...@eternity:~$ b=5 t...@eternity:~$ case $b in [0-9] ) echo numeric ;; * ) echo alpha ;; esac numeric

Re: Dell workstation / server Freebsd's compatibility

2010-06-27 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:16:26 -0400 Steve Polyack kor...@comcast.net articulated: On 6/26/2010 6:07 PM, Tim Judd wrote: On 6/26/10, Olivier GARNIERap1...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Hi, I've got an old workstation wich i use to have FreeBSD server on it (http/samba/ 4 disk on RAID) It's

Updating

2010-06-27 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, What would be the prefered method of upgrading servers from freebsd 6.x to 8.x ? Fresh install and reload users data, rebuild ports etc? Upgrade direct from 6.x to 8.x? Upgrade sequentially from 6.x to 7.x to 8.x? -Grant ___

Re: Dell workstation / server Freebsd's compatibility

2010-06-27 Thread doug
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:16:26 -0400 Steve Polyack kor...@comcast.net articulated: On 6/26/2010 6:07 PM, Tim Judd wrote: On 6/26/10, Olivier GARNIERap1...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Hi, I've got an old workstation wich i use to have FreeBSD server on it

Updating

2010-06-27 Thread Robert Huff
Grant Peel writes: What would be the prefered method of upgrading servers from freebsd 6.x to 8.x ? Fresh install and reload users data, rebuild ports etc? This. Safer, expecially if you install to a clean disk. Possibly less time. Definitely less hassle

Re: Updating

2010-06-27 Thread Grant Peel
Thanks Robert. This is what I have done in the past, and all went well. Just thought there might be some progress in Major version to major version upgrades that I have not read about. I need to reask this question though: I have a build of 8.0 ready to deploy. Does anyone know of any big

Re: Virtualization with USB on Freebsd 8

2010-06-27 Thread fluffd
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Jorge Medina jo...@bsdchile.cl wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 6:58 AM, step...@theched.org wrote: Good morning/afternoon/evening, Do you know of any virtualisation solution that would allow USB devices when using Freebsd-8 as host ? We do indeed

FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, When I ran CVSUp last time I seemed to have lost all ports accept the newest ones. i.e. almost all the port dirs are empty. What is the best way to get them back? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread Balázs Mátéffy
Hi, Maybe portsnap fetch extract ? Maybe the tag in your supfile was wrong for the ports. MB. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Icelandic FTP server doesn't work? I don't think it's been up for a while?

2010-06-27 Thread arved
On Jun 25, 2010, at 13:51 , andrew clarke wrote: On Thu 2010-06-24 23:28:27 UTC+, Svavar Ingi Hermannsson (sva...@security.is) wrote: I just wanted to notify you that the Icelandic ftp mirror site doesn't seam to be working. ftp.is.freebsd.org 21:48 ozzmo...@blizzard [~]host

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/06/2010 19:38:43, Grant Peel wrote: When I ran CVSUp last time I seemed to have lost all ports accept the newest ones. i.e. almost all the port dirs are empty. What is the best way to get them back? Fix your ports supfile: for ports you

RE: sshd / tcp packet corruption ? ZFS Samba?

2010-06-27 Thread Martin Minkus
Hey all, It was suggested I do a memtest, but that checked out fine. (I wish it was as simple as just the ram!) I’ve realised the issue manifests itself almost immediately when accessing an underlying ZFS filesystem using Samba. But if it is UFS, it is fine. Does this mean anything to

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread krad
On 27 June 2010 22:14, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.ukwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/06/2010 19:38:43, Grant Peel wrote: When I ran CVSUp last time I seemed to have lost all ports accept the newest ones. i.e. almost all the port dirs are empty.

Decoding the ifconfig verbose output and determining the strength of a wireless connection

2010-06-27 Thread Eitan Adler
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Re: size suffix w x

2010-06-27 Thread Eitan Adler
I have a script I am hacking. The code has a check for a size suffix. I know what m|mb|g|gb|k|kb| and the upper case version of the same letters mean. But the code also has an w|x size options. Is this a valid size type and what does it mean? Are you looking at the expand_number(3) function?

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread perryh
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Fix your ports supfile: for ports you /always/ want HEAD ... s/always/almost / If one wanted to download a copy of the ports tree as it existed when, say, 6.1 was released, specifying the corresponding tag would be the way to get it.