Can anyone post some good pointers for setting
up ACPI or APM so that I get automatic susepend
afer x mins of inactivity and woken up on LAN
request ?
(in particular shut down disc / slow or shut
down psu fan - its the noise I am concerned
about)
I have looked at posts on rc.suspend/resume
for va
Anyone know of a decent jpg viewer for the console?
I don't want to install X.
Thanks.
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In the last episode (May 13), Graham Bentley said:
> I posted about this a few days ago and its appeared again in my
> security log (the backup routine log appears to be fine)
>
> +(sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
> +(sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
On Fri, 12 May 2006 21:51:02 -0700 (PDT)
Mark Jayson Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It was my second time to download a 6.1 iso from one
> of the regional ftp sites.. Lucky we have a slightly
> fast connection (155Mbps)...
Slightly fast? What do you call fast? :-)
> By the way, is
I posted about this a few days ago and its appeared again
in my security log (the backup routine log appears to be
fine)
+(sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0
+(sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
+(sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
+(sa0:ahc0:
Chris Hill wrote:
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Michael M. wrote:
[snip]
Any thoughts, advice, pointers? Anything I missed, especially any
general UNIX books that might go well with one of the above?
As for general un*x books that are not FreeBSD-specific, the single best
one I've used is _Essentia
David Stanford wrote:
"The Complete FreeBSD, 4th Ed." by Greg Lehey and "Absolute BSD" by
Michael Lucas are fantastic books, but are, unfortunately, a little
outdated. "BSD Hacks" is also an extremely useful book, but aimed more
at administrators looking to learn a few tricks of the trade. My
s
Hi,
It was my second time to download a 6.1 iso from one
of the regional ftp sites.. Lucky we have a slightly
fast connection (155Mbps)... By the way, is it really
dangerous to ignore these checksums that doesn't match
with the published one? What's the reason behind this
bad checksum mismatch??.
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Michael M. wrote:
I've been using various Linux distros and OS X for a while now, and
Windows before those, and am interested in trying out FreeBSD. Call
me old fashioned, but as an engaged-but-non-technical user, I find it
really useful to have at least some accompanying
On 5/12/06, Nick Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Have you looked at SFTP? It's a "subsystem" that operates over
an SSH connection. Whilst it requires that a user be able to
login over SSH to the server, you can use filesystem
permissions (and indeed other system facilities) to enforce
things l
Graham Bentley said:
> Is there a way to create a hdd resore solution with
> set of boot floppies that will support my tape drive
> access the tape and restore the entire hard disc in
> case of disc failure disaster ? ie So I could install
> a new disc and be up and running without doing any
> add
On Sat, 13 May 2006 04:57:25 +0200
Leo Lapousterle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello :)
>
> I'm fed up with FTP servers : FTP is great, but I need some admin stuff
> like privileges (one user can upload but not download, for example)
> unavailable for FTP... at least for those I've tested.
>
>
On 5/12/06, Leo Lapousterle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello :)
I'm fed up with FTP servers : FTP is great, but I need some admin stuff
like privileges (one user can upload but not download, for example)
unavailable for FTP... at least for those I've tested.
WebDAV and sftp are the common alte
Hi,
I'm looking for more information about the entire
shutdown process. I know the rc.shutdown runs, but what/where
does it go from there? I need to run something when the
filesystems are mounted read-only. Does FreeBSD ever get
to this point? Where?
Thanks, Tuc
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Hello :)
I'm fed up with FTP servers : FTP is great, but I need some admin stuff
like privileges (one user can upload but not download, for example)
unavailable for FTP... at least for those I've tested.
Is there an alternative way for FTP, allowing individual privileges?
I found hxd (hotline pro
Robert,
I think I already sent out this link that documents FreeBSD R5
performance:
http://www25.big.or.jp/~jam/filesystem/
I recently saw an article documenting similar benchmarks using geom
and vinum in a Japanese FreeBSD magazine and the handbook section
around vinum does warn about wr
Bob -
I am keeping state with the port 21 rule. I am perplexed because everything
works fine on the local LAN.
On 5/12/06, Bob Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
>Hi my name is Terry Stoner. I just set up a new Firewall, FreeBSD
6.0, and
>am hav
Mark Kane wrote:
Hi everyone. I'm trying to reinstall FreeBSD on a machine that had a
hard drive failure early this week. I bought two brand new 80GB Seagate
SATA drives to do mirroring and started to put things together this
afternoon.
I didn't know initially if the onboard SATA controller w
Hi Graham,
Not sure about the first part, but the device is called a radiometer.
http://radiometer.hobbytron.com/Radiometer.html
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question239.htm
Greg
Graham Bentley said:
> Is there a way to create a hdd resore solution with
> set of boot floppies that wi
I just reinstalled 6.1_RELEASE from ISO cd1 with XFCE4 an Xorg from t
sysinstall downloading from ftp.
After running xorgconfig using 'same as always' settings I run the test.
X -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf
I get this error
FATAL ERROR:
could not open default font 'fixed'
Did I forget to load
At 08:42 PM 5/12/2006, Eric Schuele wrote:
You say tcpwrappers are compiled into ftpd? Are you sure? How can
I "enable" or otherwise use them? If I add things to hosts.allow
they seem to have no influence. This would solve my problem as I
would not need inetd.
My Bad. It seems it does no
Inetd still is there as a legacy part of UNIX. This was the old way of
starting services on demand in the old days BEFORE wans, the internet,
etc. Remember UNIX started as networked on LANS, with LANS interconnected
using UUCP. Ah those good old days before SPAM, www, and viruses.
As more s
Simply reinstall what ever ported apps you are using and look for a sample
startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, or look in /etc/defaults/rc.conf for
the settings to override in /etc/rc.conf to run any standard system
services at boot.
You can search the old security lists or look in SANS arc
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Michael M. wrote:
[snip]
Any thoughts, advice, pointers? Anything I missed, especially any
general UNIX books that might go well with one of the above?
As for general un*x books that are not FreeBSD-specific, the single best
one I've used is _Essential_System_Administra
Daniel Bye wrote:
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:07:22PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
Although I am curious about ftpd and tcpwrappers I am also
interested in whether or not running these daemons under inetd is
preferred or not. If so why? If not, why?
Certainly for anything that has a reason
Derek Ragona wrote:
Yes it is still true today. The default system now has inetd running
nothing. And the ports now install rc scripts for these reasons.
Not arguing here... everything I've found on the web says something similar.
But why do we have inetd? I assume it solved a problem in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 04:25 PM 5/12/2006, you wrote:
inetd running is discouraged. Instead run the daemons on boot using
rc scripts. If you look back in the history, inetd running is a
security risk, and was discouraged in the 5.X releases.
Is that still really true? Waaayyy back whe
Hi everyone. I'm trying to reinstall FreeBSD on a machine that had a
hard drive failure early this week. I bought two brand new 80GB Seagate
SATA drives to do mirroring and started to put things together this
afternoon.
I didn't know initially if the onboard SATA controller would work or
not,
On 5/12/06, Michael M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been using various Linux distros and OS X for a while now, and
Windows before those, and am interested in trying out FreeBSD. Call me
old fashioned, but as an engaged-but-non-technical user, I find it
really useful to have at least some acco
Michael M. wrote:
I've been using various Linux distros and OS X for a while now, and
Windows before those, and am interested in trying out FreeBSD. Call me
old fashioned, but as an engaged-but-non-technical user, I find it
really useful to have at least some accompanying documentation in book
I've been using various Linux distros and OS X for a while now, and
Windows before those, and am interested in trying out FreeBSD. Call me
old fashioned, but as an engaged-but-non-technical user, I find it
really useful to have at least some accompanying documentation in book
form when embarki
Yes it is still true today. The default system now has inetd running
nothing. And the ports now install rc scripts for these reasons.
For network daemons, when they are running in a listen mode there is no
real overhead on the system.
-Derek
At 03:41 PM 5/12/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hash: SHA1
>Hi my name is Terry Stoner. I just set up a new Firewall, FreeBSD
6.0, and
>am having trouble connecting from the internet. Basically I want
to ssh
>from work. I set sshd_config to listen on all interfaces and on
port 21,
>this port is not blocked
--On May 12, 2006 12:36:52 PM -0400 John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 12 May 2006 12:28, bsd wrote:
Hi again,
Most of the files that are "large" seems to be located in /usr/ports/
distfiles/
What will be the effect of deleting some of these files ?
You will have to download
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the input, Eric and Kevin! I guess I'll start the process
this evening and
maybe everything will be through compiling by Monday in time for work! :)
Thanks again!
I've got the process in 2 scripts, and a brief evening is generally
all that's required f
I am trying to require users to put in 8 character passwords but as it
stands it will take 1 just fine. I Tried messing with the login.conf
file but it still looks like it accepts 1 character as an acceptable
password. here is what i did. Also will this restrict other programs
to the set mini
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear FreeBSD:
> Here is my problem description and my question.
>
> I have a bin file for Star office 5.2. (so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin).
> Somehow, a few years ago, I successfully installed it on my Linux
> system.
This is not a direct answer to your question, but is
On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 21:51 +0200, martinko wrote:
> hello list!
>
> i've just upgraded X11 from 6.8.2 to 6.9.0 and run into the following issue:
>
> after starting x11 for the first time the screen went black and console
> was inaccessible (i had to reboot). when i tried the generated xorg.con
Dear FreeBSD:
Here is my problem description and my question.
I have a bin file for Star office 5.2. (so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin).
Somehow, a few years ago, I successfully installed it on my Linux
system.
I recently installed FreeBSD 6.0 and checked my Linux (base 8)
compatibility. Seems to
At 04:25 PM 5/12/2006, you wrote:
inetd running is discouraged. Instead run the daemons on boot using
rc scripts. If you look back in the history, inetd running is a
security risk, and was discouraged in the 5.X releases.
Is that still really true? Waaayyy back when, inetd would have all
k
I have done both the binary upgrade and cvsup'd many times. Which is
better depends on your time and what version you are moving from and
to. If you do a binary upgrade, you will only be at the release of the
version, say 6.1, but with any current security releases. I typically
upgrade a sy
Add the audit group to /etc/group if you have not. you would add:
audit:*:77:
As for /etc/master.passwd, you can usually ignore this. The mergemaster
shows the differences which will be the CVS id in the first line, and any
differences from adding or removing users.
-Derek
At 11:3
Can you ssh to your system from another unit in your home LAN?
Check that you don't have restrictions set in /etc/hosts.allow
One other thing, ssh uses port 22, NOT port 21.
-Derek
At 02:49 PM 5/12/2006, Terry Stoner wrote:
Hi my name is Terry Stoner. I just set up a new Firewall, F
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:07:22PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
>
> Although I am curious about ftpd and tcpwrappers I am also
> interested in whether or not running these daemons under inetd is
> preferred or not. If so why? If not, why?
Certainly for anything that has a reasonably expensi
inetd running is discouraged. Instead run the daemons on boot using rc
scripts. If you look back in the history, inetd running is a security
risk, and was discouraged in the 5.X releases.
-Derek
At 01:07 PM 5/12/2006, Eric Schuele wrote:
Daniel Bye wrote:
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11
Quoting "Zimmerman, Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Freebsd-update works on my box (but theres been no updates as of yet).
As long as you track RELEASE it should work fine
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 2:10 PM
To: Zimmerma
On 5/12/06, Andrea Venturoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cwaeth:
"one big root partition."
Don't do this.
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Hi my name is Terry Stoner. I just set up a new Firewall, FreeBSD 6.0, and
am having trouble connecting from the internet. Basically I want to ssh
from work. I set sshd_config to listen on all interfaces and on port 21,
this port is not blocked outbound from work. I have ipfilter rules allowin
> Reading the man page for kbdmux it isn't clear to me if the keyboards will
> work independently in X but it might be worth a try.
Theoretically it shouldn't be a problem using separate keyboards/mice under
[separate] X [sessions]; simply use a separate xorg.conf configuration files
per display
Jonathan Horne wrote:
>> I `ve got a question about installing the php5 module.
>> I`m installing it from the /usr/ports/www/php5-session port.
>>
>> Everything runs ok and it seems like the module is installed.
>> There is only one problem, in the httpd.conf there is a LoadModule
>> php5_module re
justin wrote:
I `ve got a question about installing the php5 module.
I`m installing it from the /usr/ports/www/php5-session port.
Interesting; that's not the usual place.
Everything runs ok and it seems like the module is installed.
There is only one problem, in the httpd.conf there is a
On 5/12/06, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Derrick Ryalls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 5/12/06, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> There are a lot of ways to do this, but the one I would recommend is
>> to change the main folder to be owned by a group that you, your w
On May 12, 2006, at 11:11 AM, bsd wrote:
Hello,
I have three partitions on my server and would like to reduce the
size of / because I am getting quite full !
Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ar0s1a3.8G2.8G668M81%/
devfs 1.0K1.0K
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This has possibly been discussed a number of times, and if it has, I
apologize. Here is my situation:
Apology accepted ;-) :-D
I would like to upgrade my existing 6.0-SECURITY system to 6.1-RELEASE
and continue using freebsd-update to keep my system on the up an
"Derrick Ryalls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 5/12/06, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> There are a lot of ways to do this, but the one I would recommend is
>> to change the main folder to be owned by a group that you, your wife,
>> and the uid running the thumbnail script all are
On 5/12/06, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Derrick Ryalls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am having issues getting correct permissions set for files in a
> common area on a web/file server. I have webroot shared out via samba
> and under there I have an auto-thumbnail generation sc
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
wrote Barnaby Scott thusly...
>
> Parv wrote:
> ...
> >>and then stops! I have timed it - it stops for between 4 and 5
> >>minutes every time.
> >
> >Does your screen goes blank just after the above message? If so,
> >press [Enter] key, you should see the boot being
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
The first sed expression is missing "//". Correcting that:
sed -i -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' test.txt
sed: lstat: No such file or directory
Yeah, I noticed the missing // in the first regexp, but only
after I had posted the
>
> I `ve got a question about installing the php5 module.
> I`m installing it from the /usr/ports/www/php5-session port.
>
> Everything runs ok and it seems like the module is installed.
> There is only one problem, in the httpd.conf there is a LoadModule
> php5_module refering to libexec/apache/l
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From: Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12-May-2006 18:43
Subject: Re: hello
To: justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Justin
Everything runs ok and it seems like the module is installed.
There is only one problem, in the httpd.conf there is a LoadModule
php
Hi guys.
How do I force the FreeBSD to do a serial port based install?
I'm installing on to a laptop, but want to control the install from a serial
port on another machine because I can not see the screen on the laptop.
I tried modifying the boot.flp image and putting a file called boot.conf
with t
Daniel Bye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 04:21:09PM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote:
> > >The fact that the operating system knows what the machine is called,
> > >does not necessarily mean that the name is in the DNS. You can put an
> > >entry in your /etc/hosts file (take a lo
On Friday 12 May 2006 06:59, Axel Burwitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> well, need some help...
>
>
> I have just upgraded my system from 6.1-PRERELEASE to 6.1-STABLE,
> with cvsup, make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel.
>
> The upgrade for the basic system went through, it shows 6.1-STABLE
> ve
Daniel Bye wrote:
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:35:41AM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
Hello,
I run sshd and ftpd on my laptop. I generally start them via:
sshd_enable="YES"
ftpd_enable="YES"
in my rc.conf.
What are the pros/cons of running them via inetd?
This is in no way a high load or produ
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 04:21:09PM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote:
> >The fact that the operating system knows what the machine is called,
> >does not necessarily mean that the name is in the DNS. You can put an
> >entry in your /etc/hosts file (take a look at the file for the format),
> >which will a
I wrote an rc script for cfengine, but it's not recording the pid. Am
I doing something obviously wrong, or does rc rely on the app to
provide the pid?
--
#!/bin/sh
#
# PROVIDE: cfexecd
# REQUIRE: LOGIN
# BEFORE: securelevel
# KEYWORD: FreeBSD shutdown
. "/etc/rc.subr"
name="cfexecd"
rcvar=`set
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:35:41AM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I run sshd and ftpd on my laptop. I generally start them via:
> sshd_enable="YES"
> ftpd_enable="YES"
> in my rc.conf.
>
> What are the pros/cons of running them via inetd?
>
> This is in no way a high load or produc
This has possibly been discussed a number of times, and if it has, I
apologize. Here is my situation:
I would like to upgrade my existing 6.0-SECURITY system to 6.1-RELEASE
and continue using freebsd-update to keep my system on the up and up.
I read through the upgrade instructions on dis
I `ve got a question about installing the php5 module.
I`m installing it from the /usr/ports/www/php5-session port.
Everything runs ok and it seems like the module is installed.
There is only one problem, in the httpd.conf there is a LoadModule
php5_module refering to libexec/apache/libphp5.so.
Øyvind Skaar wrote:
The drive in question is a Maxtor 6B200M0.
These were Maxtor 6Y080M0 and 6Y160MO drives. Running under onboard
SATA or Highpoint Rocket Raid cards
The Maxtor drives were problematic for us from the start, and not even
heavy enough to make good door stops.
So your no bi
On 2006-05-12 10:41, Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 12 May 2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> There are at least the following ways:
>>
>>sed -i -e 's/^[[:space:]]*' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' file ...
>>perl -pi -e 's/^\s*(\S.*\S)[ \t]*$/$1/' file ...
>>
>> The first one seems
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page
or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge
computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately,
The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions.
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Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $
This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If
you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender
thinks that a
On 2006-05-12 17:56, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> sed -i -e 's/^[[:space:]]*' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' file ...
>
> why not use just (you can change the "-" separator to "/" as above):
> sed -e 's-^ *--g' -e 's- *$--g'
Because this provides no additional help with
bsd writes:
> I have three partitions on my server and would like to reduce the
> size of / because I am getting quite full !
>
> Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/ar0s1a3.8G2.8G668M81%/
> devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/de
At 16:50 12.05.2006, Martin McCormick wrote:
This looks like something sed should be able to do, but I
haven't had any luck at all. I wanted to remove any whitespace
that has accidentally gotten added to the beginning or end of
some lines of text. I made a test file that looks like:
le
the /usr/ports/distfiles dir are the source files you downloaded while
installing ports.
You can safly empty the whole directory
You can delete /boot/kernel.old if the new kernel is working
/usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs can be safly deleted
/usr/ports/INDEX-5 can be deleted,
At 18:36 10.05.2006, N.J. Thomas wrote:
* Kyrre Nygard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-10 18:18:23 +0200]:
> > > Does anybody know where pam_userdb.so has gone?
> >
> > FreeBSD doesn't appear to have ever had it, so it hasn't "gone"
> > anywhere. The thread you linked to below suggests exactly that.
Mike Hunter wrote:
I was able to install 5.3-RELEASE using this as the specified URL:
ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/5.3-RELEASE
Good to know that! This one goes in the "save" folder!
What bothers me is this verbiage from sysinstall:
"Only the Primar
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Barnaby Scott wrote:
Parv wrote:
...
and then stops! I have timed it - it stops for between 4 and 5
minutes every time.
Does your screen goes blank just after the above message? If so,
press [Enter] key, you should see the boot being continued, and
"login:" waiting for i
bsd wrote:
Hi again,
Most of the files that are "large" seems to be located in
/usr/ports/distfiles/
What will be the effect of deleting some of these files ?
If you need/want to rebuild the ports for the distfiles,
they will have to be downloaded again.
Many of them may be for outdated
bsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Most of the files that are "large" seems to be located in /usr/ports/
> distfiles/
>
> What will be the effect of deleting some of these files ?
If you reinstall those ports, you'll have to download the files again.
Unless you have very limited I
Hello ...
When doing makeworld, and this is my exact procedure:
cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile
cd /usr/obj
chflags -R noschg
rm -rf *
cd /usr/src
make clean
make buildworld (this is where it fails)
make buildkernel KERNCONF=NINJA
make installkernel KERNCONF=NINJA
make installworld
mergemaster
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
There are at least the following ways:
sed -i -e 's/^[[:space:]]*' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' file ...
perl -pi -e 's/^\s*(\S.*\S)[ \t]*$/$1/' file ...
The first one seems more straightforward to me most of the time,
but there are times
I've got a few 6.0-RELEASE machines I want to bring up to date. I want to use
etcmerge because mergemaster scares the bejesus out of me.
I can create a copy of the standard 6.0-REL /etc using mergemaster, and
copying /var/tmp/temproot/src to /var/db/src, that's no problem
But I notice /usr/src
On Friday 12 May 2006 12:28, bsd wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Most of the files that are "large" seems to be located in /usr/ports/
> distfiles/
>
> What will be the effect of deleting some of these files ?
You will have to download them again if you rebuild / reinstall the packages
that use them. Of
Andrea Venturoli wrote:
Just to clarify: running "fsck /" (read-only) in multiuser mode
takes less than a minute. fsck at boot takes approx. 50 times that
long!
...and yes, that difference is not reasonable. Are you using bgfsck
or not...?
Hm, what do you mean?
I'd gladly let my system fsc
Hello,
I run sshd and ftpd on my laptop. I generally start them via:
sshd_enable="YES"
ftpd_enable="YES"
in my rc.conf.
What are the pros/cons of running them via inetd?
This is in no way a high load or production machine. Just my laptop
that I need access to from time to time.
The one p
Daniel Bye wrote:
Yeah, I realise that. I'm afraid I don't know why fsck should take so
long on your disk. Chuck suggested some things you might try, though.
Yeah, sorry, my fault. I intended to answer on the ml, but instead I
mailed him privately.
It sounds to me like it might be fail
Hi again,
Most of the files that are "large" seems to be located in /usr/ports/
distfiles/
What will be the effect of deleting some of these files ?
root:abcdef 18:14 ~ # find -x / -size +1 -print
/boot/kernel/kernel
/boot/kernel.old/kernel
/root/tmp/dcc.tgz
/usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/src
Chuck Swiger wrote:
OK, I agree that this doesn't sound like a hardware problem with the
drive now that you've tested it, but it was at least worth looking at.
Ok, thanks for pointing it out, anyway :)
Just to clarify: running "fsck /" (read-only) in multiuser mode takes
less than a minute
bsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have three partitions on my server and would like to reduce the
> size of / because I am getting quite full !
>
> Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/ar0s1a3.8G2.8G668M81%/
> devfs 1.0K1.
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:46:57PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Daniel Bye wrote:
>
> >So, as jerry said, it's a Bad Idea to have just one partition, for many
> >reasons, this being among them.
>
>
> Ok, I know that. Still this wasn't the point of my request. I've been
> answered the first
On Friday, 12 May 2006 at 18:44:01 +0400, Igor Robul wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:35:43AM -0400, Bakki Kudva wrote:
>> How about using x-terminals on a network? I remember seeing them in
>> the surplus market for $15 recently. After all X is designed to be a
>> network gui.
> X-Terminals may
Hello,
I have three partitions on my server and would like to reduce the
size of / because I am getting quite full !
Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ar0s1a3.8G2.8G668M81%/
devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev
/dev/ar0s1d 60G
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2006-05-12 11:27, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It is, and I wish to acknowledge the above are entirely valid solutions
to the problem, but...
python -c 'import sys; print sys.stdin.read().strip()' < file...
...has the advantage of being human readabl
> On May 11 at 17:06, "Andy Reitz" wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 11 May 2006, Johan Nilsson wrote:
> >
> > > But can you do a ftp-install from an archived version? If, how?
> >
> > Johan,
> >
> > While I have never tried this, sysinstall appears to support entering
> > non-standard FTP URLs. After you
Chuck Swiger quotes and writes:
>Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> This fails to remove multiple occurences of the [[:space:]] class.
>>
>> There are at least the following ways:
>>
>> sed -i -e 's/^[[:space:]]*' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' file ...
That did it! As soon as I saw the *, I knew w
Laszlo,
You're making gmirror way too difficult. In short, install FreeBSD with
however many partitions you want, then install gmirror and replicate
your disk to the second disk.
The standard howto documents are:
http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/
http://www
Barnaby Scott wrote:
The fact that the operating system knows what the machine is called,
does not necessarily mean that the name is in the DNS. You can put an
entry in your /etc/hosts file (take a look at the file for the format),
which will allow sendmail and other daemons to start.
OK, I l
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