Re: Copying system/ports configuration?

2008-12-17 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 16:16:27 Andrew Gould wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.comwrote: I have a FreeBSD 7.0 system that im using in production. I want to create a FreeBSD virtual machine, to use as a testbed for this production box. The

Re: PHP5 as apache module using packages

2008-12-17 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 15:36:01 Gary Hartl wrote: Hi all; Ok so i've reinstalled fBSD-7 and i'm running apache 2.2 installed using pkg_add I need to also run php as a module for apache (the web software i'm using requires php as module no cgi). Curious: what software and why? The only

Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot

2008-12-17 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 15:18:19 Bernard Dugas wrote: I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. Just use dump(8)? And what snapshots do you mean? As in mksnap_ffs? Cause that's described in /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_snapshot.c:

Re: Startup scipt

2008-12-17 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 01:54:57 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: The second invocation uses another set of options from `rc.conf': moused_ums0_enable moused_ums0_port moused_ums0_type moused_ums0_flags The support for these non-default options is implemented using a small

Re: power management

2008-12-17 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 00:23:17 prad wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:20:51 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: IMHO it depends on hardware ya that makes sense at least from reading about different cpu state descriptions here: Everything You Need to Know

Re: Running rsnapshot via cron reboots the machine

2008-12-17 Thread Mel
On Monday 15 December 2008 18:56:46 David N wrote: Hi, I have a machine AMD Sepron LE-1150 ASUS M2A-VM 1GB RAM ECC 2x SATA 300GB in a RAID 1 (gmirror). 7.0-RELEASE-p2 AMD64 generic kernel it was doing backups via bacula to an external disk USB 2.0 SATA disk, and it was working well.

Re: Centralized DB of system users

2008-12-17 Thread Valentin Bud
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: LDAP is the way to go. the right tool for the task is the way to go. 100% agree. generally speaking now. a great day, v ___

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-17 Thread ThinkDifferently
michael-439 wrote: disable dma specifically by escaping to the loader prompt and type hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 Tried it. Didn't work. michael-439 wrote: you can also try loading the device as a scsi device with atapicam. you could make this static on your iso by editing the loader.conf

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-17 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:25:02 -0500 Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote: If you're maintaining your own workstation, that might be an educational experience. If you're maintaining servers, that could cause an outage while you try to remember what your edits were. one has to

Re: Publishing information via DNS

2008-12-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
Kelly Jones wrote: Has anyone tried publishing non-DNS information via DNS? Advantages: % Automatic distributed caching on various nameservers. % UDP, so no TCP overhead I know SPF uses this, and clamav publishes their current version number this way, but has anyone done this on a large

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2008-12-17 Thread Mats Lindberg
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Re: How to find files that are eating up disk space

2008-12-17 Thread Cliff Addy
Use df to report disk usage. Sitting in /, for example, df -sm bin will tell you the disk usage in megs in the bin directory, df -sm * will do the same for each file/dir in / man df for the whole story Cliff John Almberg wrote: Here is another newbie question that is driving me crazy, but is

Re: How to find files that are eating up disk space

2008-12-17 Thread Cliff Addy
Uh, that should be du not df :) -- Use df to report disk usage. Sitting in /, for example, df -sm bin will tell you the disk usage in megs in the bin directory, df -sm * will do the same for each file/dir in / man df for the whole story Cliff

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-17 Thread ThinkDifferently
michael-439 wrote: if he would try it along with the atapicam, he would probably get further. i had a similar issue and that was the solution. well, the errors were the same, so it was the same issue. he. Are you not talking to me any more? Anyway, what is this atapicam option. How

How to find files that are eating up disk space

2008-12-17 Thread John Almberg
Here is another newbie question that is driving me crazy, but is probably a laughable situation to an experienced admin... I've got a smallish server that is suddenly out of disk space in the '/' partition. Probably some log files have gotten out of hand. I am going to start looking for

Re: Publishing information via DNS

2008-12-17 Thread DAve
Kelly Jones wrote: Has anyone tried publishing non-DNS information via DNS? Advantages: % Automatic distributed caching on various nameservers. % UDP, so no TCP overhead I know SPF uses this, and clamav publishes their current version number this way, but has anyone done this on a large

Re: unsubcribe

2008-12-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
Tom Worster wrote: i'm certainly not smart enough to know what might be a better way to design ports like php. but one thing seems odd to me. i ended up with dozens of ports installed that appeared to use nothing but the same php-5.2.8.tar.bz2 distfile. relative to what i'm used to with php

Re: How to find files that are eating up disk space

2008-12-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
why not du|sort -r|head -20 and you get 20 largest I should probably have mentioned that what I currently do is run du -h -d0 / and gradually work my way down the tree, until I find the directory that is hogging disk space. This works, but is not exactly efficient. -- John

Re: Publishing information via DNS

2008-12-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Someone needs to invent and promote a TextualDatagramPublicationProtocol or TDPP because DNS has been abused for publishing non DNS data for too long. Continuing to use DNS for things it was never intended to do will only cloud the issue and delay implementation when the internet decides to

Re: looking for a secondary.

2008-12-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:33:21PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:20:59PM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: On Tuesday, December 16, 2008, at 02:42PM, Gary Kline well, i've certainly asked more ignorant q's, so hrer goes:

Re: Copying system/ports configuration?

2008-12-17 Thread Peter Schuller
The last time i did this it took a lot of time to get the VM set up--installing all the right ports, getting the database configuration right, etc. Are there any shortcuts for this, e.g. a way i can automatically install the same ports on the new machine? I didnt see anything in the

Re: How to find files that are eating up disk space

2008-12-17 Thread John Almberg
Is there a command line tool that will help me figure out where the problem is? I should probably have mentioned that what I currently do is run du -h -d0 / and gradually work my way down the tree, until I find the directory that is hogging disk space. This works, but is not

Newb help setting up printer

2008-12-17 Thread Warren Liddell
Im trying to setup my Printer a Cannong Pixma Ip1000 which is detected aok soon as i plug it in ... I have looked through a few sites an tryed ot follow some, but im afraid i need a basic HOW TO for dummies type style of setting up an configuring my printer to work on FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE

Re: can not start SVNserve

2008-12-17 Thread Mel
On Sunday 14 December 2008 16:11:17 KES wrote: Здравствуйте, Polytropon. Вы писали 14 декабря 2008 г., 15:11:35: P On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:58:55 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar P woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: su: Sorry kes# pw user mod svn -s /bin/bash kes# pw user show

dump and soft-updates question

2008-12-17 Thread Gema niskazhu
Hi! I-ve got a question about dump | restore on soft-updates managed slice. When we dump smth on soft updates slice where it actualy(mechanicaly) dump it? Because I-ve forgot to turn of soft-updates off on my backup hdd and dump img on it =) After that i vas quet surprised because it ate 16

socket: too many open file descriptors (Re: Python with many threads)

2008-12-17 Thread Ott Köstner
Hello, Answering my own mail ;) Ott Köstner wrote: Still, something locks up in the system, when I increase the number Python threads with http://grub.org/?q=en/node/204 [...] The frequency of these messages increases with 70 threads. And with 200 threads the system locks up totally --

Re: Upgrade from FreeBsd 6.3 to 6.4 freebsd-update

2008-12-17 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Renat wrote: Yes. I try . But not worked!! - webarchive# freebsd-update -r 6.4-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update1.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found. Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata files...

Re: Running rsnapshot via cron reboots the machine

2008-12-17 Thread David N
2008/12/17 Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net: On Monday 15 December 2008 18:56:46 David N wrote: Hi, I have a machine AMD Sepron LE-1150 ASUS M2A-VM 1GB RAM ECC 2x SATA 300GB in a RAID 1 (gmirror). 7.0-RELEASE-p2 AMD64 generic kernel it was doing backups via bacula to an

Problem with extracting from md

2008-12-17 Thread Gema niskazhu
Hi! First of all sorry for my bad english =) I am using 8-0 CURRENT amd64. I've tried to install Free BSD dist from md device. but faced a problem with extracting data from it..so # mkdir -p /dist # mdconfig -a -f /a/FreeBSD/7.0-amd64-disc1.iso # mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /dist #cd

Re: How to find files that are eating up disk space

2008-12-17 Thread Karl Vogel
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:16:57 -0500, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com said: J Is there a command line tool that will help me figure out where the [disk J space] problem is? I run a script every night to handle this. We have a few business divisions, and each division has several groups

Re: Publishing information via DNS

2008-12-17 Thread DAve
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Someone needs to invent and promote a TextualDatagramPublicationProtocol or TDPP because DNS has been abused for publishing non DNS data for too long. Continuing to use DNS for things it was never intended to do will only cloud the issue and delay implementation when

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-17 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/17/08 10:34 AM, Paul Schmehl pa...@utdallas.edu wrote: --On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 08:18:47 +0100 Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net wrote: ... Though a lot of things can be handled by: 1) environment variables (temporary) 2) /etc/make.conf (permanent) 3) Makefile.local

Re: looking for a secondary.

2008-12-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gary Kline wrote: well, i've certainly asked more ignorant q's, so hrer goes: what is a ``zone''? i do my own dns and have since 04/2001. A zone is a group of related DNS records all under the same administrative control. 'Related' meaning they all end in the same sequence

Re: socket: too many open file descriptors (Re: Python with many threads)

2008-12-17 Thread Ott Köstner
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 4:17:46 pm Michel Talon wrote: Ott Köstner wrote: In /var/log/messages: named[63198]: socket: too many open file descriptors See the sysctl variables: kern.maxfiles kern.maxfilesperproc kern.maxfiles: 12328 kern.maxfilesperproc: 11095 Note that

Re: i686 CPU Compatibility

2008-12-17 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:29:02PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: 7.0 is perfectly stable and is recommended for production use. It's not bleeding edge code. That's 8.0-CURRENT which is NOT for production use. Unless you have a particular reason for using 6.x I would go with 7.0 It's fully

Re: Uptime logging with (maybe) ppp's log functionality

2008-12-17 Thread Mel
On Monday 15 December 2008 15:09:31 Polytropon wrote: Hi! I'm going to setup a system with a dial-up modem for sporadic Internet access; a provider that charges per second online time is used. Is there a way ppp (which is used for dialing) can log the online time (or at least the

Re: PHP5 as apache module using packages

2008-12-17 Thread Ott Köstner
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 4:02:05 pm Gary Hartl wrote: The software is elgg.org, it is social software, i'm working on a project for a world of warcraft guild (yes this is a money deal), they are looking for a facebookish type site with some custom world of warcraft stuff done. Just

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-17 Thread ThinkDifferently
Steve Bertrand-2 wrote: ThinkDifferently wrote: ...some more interesting errors from bootup... hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Feb 24 2008 10:34:18) :confused: acpi0: 052008 RSDT1050 on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of

Re: Publishing information via DNS

2008-12-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
% UDP, so no TCP overhead I know SPF uses this, and clamav publishes their current version number this way, but has anyone done this on a large scale basis? no idea what large scale is, but it WILL work if done properly. on any scale. ___

Publishing information via DNS

2008-12-17 Thread Kelly Jones
Has anyone tried publishing non-DNS information via DNS? Advantages: % Automatic distributed caching on various nameservers. % UDP, so no TCP overhead I know SPF uses this, and clamav publishes their current version number this way, but has anyone done this on a large scale basis? -- We're

can not view which fib process is using

2008-12-17 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, Questions. How to view which FIB process if use? I cat setfib N programm but I can not view later which fib use my program FEATURE REEQUEST: implement option to 'ps' to view which FIB process is using Actually problem is next. I use 'torrentflux' I change index.php line 88

Re: How to find files that are eating up disk space

2008-12-17 Thread John Almberg
Is there a command line tool that will help me figure out where the problem is? I should probably have mentioned that what I currently do is run du -h -d0 / and gradually work my way down the tree, until I find the directory that is hogging disk space. This works, but is not

Re[2]: can not start SVNserve

2008-12-17 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, Mel. Вы писали 17 декабря 2008 г., 9:11:19: M On Sunday 14 December 2008 16:11:17 KES wrote: Здравствуйте, Polytropon. Вы писали 14 декабря 2008 г., 15:11:35: P On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:58:55 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar P woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: su: Sorry

Re: Problem with extracting from md

2008-12-17 Thread Polytropon
First thing that comes to my mind: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:42:29 +0300, Gema niskazhu gemoc...@gmail.com wrote: # mdconfig -a -f /a/FreeBSD/7.0-amd64-disc1.iso Isn't the -t vnode needed anymore, or is it implicitly used? But if you can cd (and maybe ls) on the mounted ISO, it seems that it would

Re: How to find files that are eating up disk space

2008-12-17 Thread John Almberg
On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:16:57 -0500, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com said: J Is there a command line tool that will help me figure out where the [disk J space] problem is? I run a script every night to handle this. snip exit 0

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-17 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:24:17 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently jer...@futurecis.com wrote: Anyway, what is this atapicam option. How is it implemented, from the loader prompt, editing the iso, or what? BTW, how would one edit the iso? The atapicam facility can either be loaded as a module via

Re: How to find files that are eating up disk space

2008-12-17 Thread Robert Huff
John Almberg writes: Is there a command line tool that will help me figure out where the problem is? I should probably have mentioned that what I currently do is run du -h -d0 / and gradually work my way down the tree, until I find the directory that is hogging disk

su qeustion

2008-12-17 Thread Jonathan Moore
I just installed FreeBSD with Gnome. And I changed the shell when I was logged ito the terminal as su root. Now when I try to log in to su it asks for a password and I get su: /usr/bin/csh: No such file or directory how can I change it back. Thanks Jonathan Moore

Re: socket: too many open file descriptors (Re: Python with many threads)

2008-12-17 Thread Michel Talon
Ott Köstner wrote: In /var/log/messages: named[63198]: socket: too many open file descriptors See the sysctl variables: kern.maxfiles kern.maxfilesperproc Note that Google leads immediately to this: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/net/2008-07/msg00251.html -- Michel

RE: How to find files that are eating up disk space

2008-12-17 Thread Barry Byrne
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of John Almberg Sent: 17 December 2008 17:17 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to find files that are eating up disk space Here is another newbie

Re: Newb help setting up printer

2008-12-17 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:25:20 +1000, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com wrote: Im trying to setup my Printer a Cannong Pixma Ip1000 which is detected aok soon as i plug it in ... I have looked through a few sites an tryed ot follow some, but im afraid i need a basic HOW TO for dummies type

RE: PHP5 as apache module using packages

2008-12-17 Thread Gary Hartl
Hi all; Ok so i've reinstalled fBSD-7 and i'm running apache 2.2 installed using pkg_add I need to also run php as a module for apache (the web software i'm using requires php as module no cgi). Curious: what software and why? The only valid reason is that the sofware writes

Re: How to find files that are eating up disk space

2008-12-17 Thread Andy Greenwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Almberg wrote: Here is another newbie question that is driving me crazy, but is probably a laughable situation to an experienced admin... I've got a smallish server that is suddenly out of disk space in the '/' partition. Probably some log

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-17 Thread michael
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:24:17 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently jer...@futurecis.com wrote: Anyway, what is this atapicam option. How is it implemented, from the loader prompt, editing the iso, or what? BTW, how would one edit the iso? The atapicam facility can

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-17 Thread ThinkDifferently
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Did you try the 'safe-mode' option from the loader menu? Yes, to reiterate... ThinkDifferently wrote: I have tried booting from Boot-only, Disc1, LiveFS. Additionally, I've tried the default boot, with ACPI disabled, Safe Mode, single user mode, and verbose

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-17 Thread michael
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:36:05 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently jer...@futurecis.com wrote: ThinkDifferently wrote: Another item of curiosity... I just now tried booting from a CentOS 5.2 DVD. It also hangs with a little window titled Loading SCSI driver that

Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot

2008-12-17 Thread Bernard Dugas
Mel wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2008 15:18:19 Bernard Dugas wrote: I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. Just use dump(8)? Yes in first step, may be. But for fast replication of changes ? Imagine i have a 1TB drive with 1

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-17 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 08:18:47 +0100 Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net wrote: On Wednesday 17 December 2008 04:33:51 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On December 16, 2008 7:33:31 PM -0600 Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: One of the reasons I've had to edit Makefile manually was

Re: Startup scipt

2008-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:05:05 +0100, Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2008 01:54:57 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: The second invocation uses another set of options from `rc.conf': moused_ums0_enable moused_ums0_port moused_ums0_type

Re: su qeustion

2008-12-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 17, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Jonathan Moore wrote: I just installed FreeBSD with Gnome. And I changed the shell when I was logged ito the terminal as su root. Now when I try to log in to su it asks for a password and I get su: /usr/bin/csh: No such file or directory how can I change it

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-17 Thread michael
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:24:17 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently jer...@futurecis.com wrote: Anyway, what is this atapicam option. How is it implemented, from the loader prompt, editing the iso, or what? BTW, how would one edit the iso? The atapicam facility can

Re: Publishing information via DNS

2008-12-17 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 19:07 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Someone needs to invent and promote a TextualDatagramPublicationProtocol or TDPP because DNS has been abused for publishing non DNS data for too long. Continuing to use DNS for things it was never intended to do will only cloud

Nagios Jail

2008-12-17 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all. I'm trying to install a nagios server in a jail. I've a problem with check_ping. [r...@]# /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ping -H some_host -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5 CRITICAL - You need more args!!! Could not open pipe: So I think it's become the «ping problem». So I put

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-17 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/17/08 1:05 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Tom Worster wrote: i'm certainly not smart enough to know what might be a better way to design ports like php. but one thing seems odd to me. i ended up with dozens of ports installed that appeared to use nothing but

Re: Copying system/ports configuration?

2008-12-17 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.netwrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2008 16:16:27 Andrew Gould wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.comwrote: I have a FreeBSD 7.0 system that im using in production. I want to

Re: su qeustion

2008-12-17 Thread Steven Kreuzer
On Dec 17, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Jonathan Moore wrote: I just installed FreeBSD with Gnome. And I changed the shell when I was logged ito the terminal as su root. Now when I try to log in to su it asks for a password and I get su: /usr/bin/csh: No such file or directory how can I change it

Re: Nagios Jail

2008-12-17 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Albert Shih wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install a nagios server in a jail. I've a problem with check_ping. [r...@]# /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ping -H some_host -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5 CRITICAL - You need more args!!! Could not open pipe: So I think it's

Re: Nagios Jail

2008-12-17 Thread Michael Scheidell
hmm we have it working, let me see how. Albert Shih wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to install a nagios server in a jail. -- Michael Scheidell, CTO Phone: 561-999-5000, x 1259 *| *SECNAP Network Security Corporation * Certified SNORT Integrator * King of Spam Filters, SC Magazine 2008

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:16:00 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently jer...@futurecis.com wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Did you try the 'safe-mode' option from the loader menu? Yes, to reiterate... Ok, just making sure that you didn't miss that one. Sorry for the noise :)

Re: freebsd-update killed my /var

2008-12-17 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Mel wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2008 15:28:16 FuLLBLaSTstorm wrote: Hey all, Recently I've run freebsd-update on my desktop machine, but it failed saying that it cannot save its files anymore to /var because the filesystem is full. now df shows something like this: # df /dev/ad0s1d253678

PHP and PHP-Extensions

2008-12-17 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have a somewhat broken installation of php 4.4.7 and the extensions and want to completely remove them and reinstall them. How does one conpletely remove php4 (from ports) and the extensions to ensure a clean install? -Grant ___

Re: Publishing information via DNS

2008-12-17 Thread Dan
DAve(dave.l...@pixelhammer.com)@2008.12.17 10:13:09 -0500: Kelly Jones wrote: Has anyone tried publishing non-DNS information via DNS? Advantages: % Automatic distributed caching on various nameservers. % UDP, so no TCP overhead I know SPF uses this, and clamav publishes their current

Re: PHP and PHP-Extensions

2008-12-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
Grant Peel wrote: I have a somewhat broken installation of php 4.4.7 and the extensions and want to completely remove them and reinstall them. How does one conpletely remove php4 (from ports) and the extensions to ensure a clean install? Make sure you have good backups. Also make sure you

Re: PHP and PHP-Extensions

2008-12-17 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:22:55 -0500, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: Hi all, I have a somewhat broken installation of php 4.4.7 and the extensions and want to completely remove them and reinstall them. How does one conpletely remove php4 (from ports) and the extensions to ensure a

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-17 Thread ThinkDifferently
Polytropon wrote: ThinkDifferently wrote: hptrr: no controller detected. It looks like there's a proble with the hptrr driver? Have you tried loading the HighPoint RocketRAID device drive by putting hptrr_load=YES into /boot/loader.conf? Further information can be

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-17 Thread ThinkDifferently
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:24:17 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently jer...@futurecis.com wrote: Anyway, what is this atapicam option. How is it implemented, from the loader prompt, editing the iso, or what? BTW, how would one edit the iso? The atapicam facility can either be

Re: Publishing information via DNS

2008-12-17 Thread Kelly Jones
On 12/17/08, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Kelly Jones wrote: Has anyone tried publishing non-DNS information via DNS? Advantages: % Automatic distributed caching on various nameservers. % UDP, so no TCP overhead I know SPF uses this, and clamav publishes their

Re: Publishing information via DNS

2008-12-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hesiod is interesting, but the Wikipedia article suggests its used for small local networks. I'm thinking of globally DNS-casting data. is IS ok to do this. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

linux_base question

2008-12-17 Thread Chris
I'm trying to keep all FreeBSD servers in my net as I have since the late 90s. I have a requirement to get a quickbooks enterprise server running so I was going to attempt to use compat_linux. It struck me that if I knew the following list of supported linux implementations, I should be able to

Re: Nagios Jail

2008-12-17 Thread Mars G Miro
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Albert Shih albert.s...@obspm.fr wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to install a nagios server in a jail. I've a problem with check_ping. [r...@]# /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ping -H some_host -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5 CRITICAL - You need more args!!!

Is FreeBSD subject to the EAR ?

2008-12-17 Thread kosuke . okisaka
Is Free BSD 6.3-release subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulation ? If the FreeBSD 6.3-release includes encryption software, it may be subject to the EAR. Following is extract part of the EAR. Part 734.3 : Items subject to the EAR (b) The following items are not subject to the

Re: can not start SVNserve

2008-12-17 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 21:02:07 KES wrote: Здравствуйте, Mel. Вы писали 17 декабря 2008 г., 9:11:19: M On Sunday 14 December 2008 16:11:17 KES wrote: Здравствуйте, Polytropon. Вы писали 14 декабря 2008 г., 15:11:35: P On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:58:55 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar

Re: PHP5 as apache module using packages

2008-12-17 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 16:08:43 Ott Köstner wrote: Nothing special needed. Just a regular Apache, MySQL, and PHP. 5...10 minute install from FreBSD ports. Port: elgg-0.9.1 Path: /usr/ports/www/elgg Info: Blogging and social networking platform make make install create

Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot

2008-12-17 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 11:37:04 Bernard Dugas wrote: Mel wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2008 15:18:19 Bernard Dugas wrote: I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. snip And what snapshots do you mean? As in mksnap_ffs?