Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and six incremental backups. I have had no problems with reliability. I /do/ have problems with speed. The fast recorded throughput was aroud 3.5 bytes/second; faster than the SCSI-1 DLT it replaces, you must have something wrong. my USB drive gets 27MB/s. yes this 480Mbit/s is

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Do the tapes get taken off-site, or do they sit in the same location that the servers will burn when a fire breaks out? probably sits on place, if not he wouldn't need tape changer, but would change manually :) Once the network backup is complete, cycle this complete backup to tape which

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Do the tapes get taken off-site, or do they sit in the same location that the servers will burn when a fire breaks out? probably sits on place, if not he wouldn't need tape changer, but would change manually :) ...not always. A tape changer in some cases is the

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: - monthly - yearly ...cycle them in that manner. No matter what anyone says, experience states that I will bet on my monthly and yearly tapes as opposed to hard disk every time when the CFO is under pressure to get that directory that was

Re: Unable to reach hosts outside my subnet after initial installation

2008-06-17 Thread Edward Lay
Thank you everyone for the assistance. The problem turned out to be with the gateway rather than a freeBSD problem. I did not have access to the gateway but was able to change the IP address, after which everything worked ed ___

Re: Enforce minimal file/ dir permissions

2008-06-17 Thread Mister Olli
hi Am Montag, den 16.06.2008, 08:51 -0500 schrieb Jeffrey Goldberg: On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:21 AM, Bill Moran wrote: Look at MAC and the bsdextended module (filesystem firewall): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mac.html

ImageMagick 6.4.1.5 tests fail on FBSD-7.0

2008-06-17 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I sent a query to ImageMagick port maintainers about this. I'm getting errors while trying to upgrade to ImageMagick 6.4.1.5 on FreeBSD 7.0-release. Below are the error messages and my ImageMagick configuration. Please advise many thanks anton [skip] PASS: utilities/tests/wave.sh PASS:

What would it take to be mentored here?

2008-06-17 Thread Jonathan Curtis
Hello, I was intrigued by this statement on the FreeBSD News Flash page: The FreeBSD Project is always willing to help mentor students learn more about operating system development through our normal community mailing lists and development forums. Contributing to an open source software project

Re: What would it take to be mentored here?

2008-06-17 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jonathan Curtis wrote: | Hello, Hi Jonathan, great to see you interested in FreeBSD :) While I have no recipe for you, I would like to share my experience, since when I started using FreeBSD I was exactly in the same situation your're finding

Live 4 Soul Newsletter: Events for those in the know!

2008-06-17 Thread Live 4 Soul
LIVE 4 SOUL PARTY INFORMATION FOR THOSE IN THE KNOW! Wednesday 18th June: Atmosphere Kidz In The Hall Wednesday 18th June @ Koko, Camden High St London NW1 £15.50

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Robert Huff
Wojciech Puchar writes: Wojciech Puchar writes: Do the tapes get taken off-site, or do they sit in the same location that the servers will burn when a fire breaks out? probably sits on place, if not he wouldn't need tape changer, but would change manually :) The backup

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Robert Huff
Wojciech Puchar writes: I /do/ have problems with speed. The fast recorded throughput was aroud 3.5 bytes/second; faster than the SCSI-1 DLT it replaces, you must have something wrong. my USB drive gets 27MB/s. yes this 480Mbit/s is USB isn't real, but half of it is. I

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
you must have something wrong. my USB drive gets 27MB/s. yes this 480Mbit/s is USB isn't real, but half of it is. I agree. Want to take this private and help figure out what's wrong? :-) i simply have no idea why it could work so slow.

re0 in HP dx2400 not useable.

2008-06-17 Thread Johan Hendriks
Hello all I have a new HP dx2400 Desktop PC. It has a Realtek network interface but FreeBSD does not get it going. This is what I get with dmesg re0 RealTek 8168/8111B PCIe Gigabit Ethernet port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfebff000-0xfebf,0fdff-0fdff irq18 at device 0.0 on pci2

Re: re0 in HP dx2400 not useable.

2008-06-17 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On 6/17/08, Johan Hendriks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all Hi, I have the same problem with a Compaq computer. Maybe you want to have a look at this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg64307.html Best regards I have a new HP dx2400 Desktop PC. It has a Realtek

Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE

2008-06-17 Thread Alexander Sack
Hello: I have installed FreeBSD-7.0-amd64 stable on my new AMD X2 Turon based notebook, a MSI-1710A (GX710Ax) which has a generic embedded controller. During boot up I notice that ATH complains with: ath_rate: version 1.2 SampleRate bit-rate selection algorithm ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210,

Re: Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE

2008-06-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Alexander Sack wrote: Hello: I have installed FreeBSD-7.0-amd64 stable on my new AMD X2 Turon based notebook, a MSI-1710A (GX710Ax) which has a generic embedded controller. During boot up I notice that ATH complains with: ath_rate: version 1.2 SampleRate bit-rate selection algorithm ath_hal:

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Oliver Fromme
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you must have something wrong. my USB drive gets 27MB/s. yes this 480Mbit/s is USB isn't real, but half of it is. I agree. Want to take this private and help figure out what's wrong? :-) i simply have no idea why

Re: Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE

2008-06-17 Thread Alexander Sack
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Sack wrote: Hello: I have installed FreeBSD-7.0-amd64 stable on my new AMD X2 Turon based notebook, a MSI-1710A (GX710Ax) which has a generic embedded controller. During boot up I notice that ATH complains

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Cheap controller in the USB enclosure. I've used quite a few USB enclosures in the past years, and there are significant performance differences. As a rule of thumb, the cheaper the box, the slower it is. Of course there are exceptions to that rule. actually - firewire enclosures are not

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Robert Huff
Oliver Fromme writes: you must have something wrong. my USB drive gets 27MB/s. yes this 480Mbit/s is USB isn't real, but half of it is. i simply have no idea why it could work so slow. Cheap controller in the USB enclosure. I've used quite a few USB enclosures in

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Oliver Fromme
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheap controller in the USB enclosure. I've used quite a few USB enclosures in the past years, and there are significant performance differences. As a rule of thumb, the cheaper the box, the slower it is. Of course there are exceptions to

Milter-roundhouse

2008-06-17 Thread DAve
Just curious if anyone has built milter-roundhouse on FreeBSD. We have run milter-ahead on 4.10 through 6.2 (we currently have it running on multiple servers) so I know libsnert builds. I started reading the archives at milter.info but the site has gone away. Thanks, DAve -- Don't tell me I

Re: re0 in HP dx2400 not useable.

2008-06-17 Thread Al Plant
Johan Hendriks wrote: Hello all I have a new HP dx2400 Desktop PC. It has a Realtek network interface but FreeBSD does not get it going. This is what I get with dmesg re0 RealTek 8168/8111B PCIe Gigabit Ethernet port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfebff000-0xfebf,0fdff-0fdff

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Jun 17, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote: Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you must have something wrong. my USB drive gets 27MB/s. yes this 480Mbit/s is USB isn't real, but half of it is. I agree. Want to take this private and help figure out what's wrong? :-)

Re: Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE

2008-06-17 Thread Alexander Sack
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Sack wrote: Hello: I have installed FreeBSD-7.0-amd64 stable on my new AMD X2 Turon based notebook, a MSI-1710A (GX710Ax) which has

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I just looked at one of the most popular online shops around here. They have about 50 different USB enclosures; prices start at 10 EUR. But they have only six Firewire enclosures (and none of them is 2.5!), the cheapest one is 34 EUR. i think this 24 EUR it's worth of. However, they do

Re: Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE

2008-06-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Alexander Sack wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Sack wrote: Hello: I have installed FreeBSD-7.0-amd64 stable on my new AMD X2 Turon based

Vsftpd rotate logs with newsyslog...

2008-06-17 Thread Agus
Hi fellows... I am wanting to rotate logs for vsftpd using newsyslog...My question is, does vsftpd needs to get the HUP or any signal after rotation? I run it from inetd so i guess the HUP should be sent to inetd.pid right? Well, i take this opportunity also to ask about Apache toowhich

Re: Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE

2008-06-17 Thread Edwin L. Culp
Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Sack wrote: Hello: I have installed FreeBSD-7.0-amd64 stable on my new AMD X2 Turon based notebook, a MSI-1710A (GX710Ax) which has a generic embedded controller.

Re: Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE

2008-06-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Edwin L. Culp wrote: Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Sack wrote: Hello: I have installed FreeBSD-7.0-amd64 stable on my new AMD X2 Turon based notebook, a MSI-1710A (GX710Ax) which has a generic

Re: Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE

2008-06-17 Thread Edwin L. Culp
Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Edwin L. Culp wrote: Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Sack wrote: Hello: I have installed FreeBSD-7.0-amd64 stable on my new AMD X2 Turon based

Dual NIC routing (?) problem

2008-06-17 Thread The MadDaemon
List, I'm having a problem with a dual-homed host running 7.0-RELEASE with regards to traffic on one of the interfaces that I'm hoping someone knows something about. The goal of this box is to run Nessus on bge0 only (which is plugged into a trunk port on a switch), keeping fxp0 free as the

Re: Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE

2008-06-17 Thread Alexander Sack
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Edwin L. Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Edwin L. Culp wrote: Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Sack wrote: Hello:

Re: Dual NIC routing (?) problem

2008-06-17 Thread Yuri Pankov
The MadDaemon wrote: List, I'm having a problem with a dual-homed host running 7.0-RELEASE with regards to traffic on one of the interfaces that I'm hoping someone knows something about. The goal of this box is to run Nessus on bge0 only (which is plugged into a trunk port on a switch),

Keyboard repetition under X11

2008-06-17 Thread Chris
Hi all, this is probably a silly question, but I can't find what I'm doing wrong, so I need help. I just re-installed my FreeBSD box from 6.0 to 7.0 and suddenly I can't get my keyboard to repeat when keeping a key pressed, which has always worked immediately on all my previous installs. This is

Using gjournal + gmirror on 7.0-RELEASE-p1 (amd64) server

2008-06-17 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Hi list, I've two Intel Xeon dual core-based servers running 7.0-RELEASE-p1 (amd64). Those servers are running a software raid-1 using geom_gmirror. Today, when I rebooted them twice with 'reboot' command, raid-1 running on both servers got degraded to 0% + filesystem check resulted in 4-5 lost

Kismet Intel 3945abg

2008-06-17 Thread David Alanis
Good Day, I have an HP dv9347cl with a built-in Intel 3945abg card. I am utilizing the wpi/wpifw module/driver to run my wireless card. I would like to run kismet without having to use the NDIS wrapper/ipw3945 and have not found any documentation on google/bsdforums for this. Has anyone

Re: Using gjournal + gmirror on 7.0-RELEASE-p1 (amd64) server

2008-06-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: Hi list, I've two Intel Xeon dual core-based servers running 7.0-RELEASE-p1 (amd64). Those servers are running a software raid-1 using geom_gmirror. Today, when I rebooted them twice with 'reboot' command, raid-1 running on both servers got degraded to 0% +

Re: Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE

2008-06-17 Thread Alexander Sack
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Edwin L. Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Edwin L. Culp wrote: Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:31 AM,

Re: Openvpn on FreeBSD 7

2008-06-17 Thread Novembre
Steve Quinn letter2steve at yahoo.com writes: I forgot to stress how important the sysctl setting is for net.inet.ip.forwarding The default is disabled (0) and I to could not connect beyond the OpenVPN server I'm editing the page now to include something like this Make sure IP

6.3 SMP but only one CPU detected

2008-06-17 Thread rdmurray
We have some systems we are upgrading from FreeBSD 6.1 to FreeBSD 6.3. These are Dell PowerEdge servers. The one I'm working on now is a 1950. Under 6.1 it booted into SMP mode no problem. Under 6.3, with no changes made in the BIOS settings, it does not. Here is the start of the dmesg: Jun

Re: Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE

2008-06-17 Thread Alexander Sack
Final update, I got everything working! I came home and connected by new notebook using the latest PCIe Atheros chipset to a WPA2 network using wpa_supplicant! Yippie! Hope this thread helps someone else, -aps On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue,

Re: Wireless net work set up

2008-06-17 Thread Luis Trimiÿfffff1o
Hello Jeff Thanks for your repply yes I noticed that and I tried what you suggested as well before but nada I tried a couple of things that may give somebody clues of what is going on 1. I use the sysintall utility and went to configure-networking-interfaces and noted the following regarding

Hylafax config and Windows clients

2008-06-17 Thread Ivaylo Bonev
Hi, I'm configuring new Hylafax fax server on FreeBSD 7 with Conexant chip modem. Something not working right on server, because I can't send any faxes, no matter what client I use. Modem is working in Windows, but I want to use it in a networked environment with Sane backend to replace

Re: Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE

2008-06-17 Thread Edwin L. Culp
Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Final update, I got everything working! I came home and connected by new notebook using the latest PCIe Atheros chipset to a WPA2 network using wpa_supplicant! Yippie! Hope this thread helps someone else, -aps On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:17 PM,

Re: Using gjournal + gmirror on 7.0-RELEASE-p1 (amd64) server

2008-06-17 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Manolis == Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Manolis Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: [snip] And, if I go for gjournal, since I've an existing filesystem, I've to create a separate gjournal slice, so is it okay to create that gjournal slice on a non-gmirror backed

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-17 Thread prad
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:23:32 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the console responsive when this happens? when it bogs it takes ages to even ssh into the server. It doesn't sound like a CPU issue to me -- ICMP messages are low enough CPU overhead that the system would have to be