backticks in rc.conf

2009-07-21 Thread chris scott
can i use backticks in rc.conf? Basically i want a standard rc.conf and want to bind rsync to a specific ip hence i want this in my rc.conf rsyncd_flags=--config=/etc/rsyncd.conf --address=` ifconfig bce1 | grep inet | awk '{print $2}'` it works fine from the shell, however on reboot the

Re: Sendmail to duplicate messages

2009-07-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:58:55AM +0700, Olivier Nicole typed: Hi, What rule, in what file should I set-up to have my mail sendmail mail server duplicate all messages to another mail server? I am in the proces sof setting-up a new mail server; in the meantime I want all messages arriving

Re: backticks in rc.conf

2009-07-21 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:46:47 +0100, chris scott kra...@googlemail.com wrote: can i use backticks in rc.conf? Basically, yes. The /etc/rc.conf file is run through sh, it is a shell script that assigns values to variables, but can (ab)use it to execute programs.

Re: devel/ccache broken in BETA2?

2009-07-21 Thread Hashimoto
Is anyone able to compile just about anything with ccache on BETA2?  I'm experiencing a lot of breakage here. I had similar problem on 8.0-BETA2. And the patch solved the problem. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-July/202658.html

Disk cache tuning

2009-07-21 Thread Eugene L. Vorokov
Hello guys, I have an amd64 server with 8 cpu cores and 16Gb of memory, with FreeBSD 7.2. It is used as a corporate CVS server with several huge repositories (about 2Gb each), which consist of thousands of rather small files. I need to tune the system so that it caches as much files as possible

Re: Sendmail to duplicate messages

2009-07-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, What rule, in what file should I set-up to have my mail sendmail mail server duplicate all messages to another mail server? I am in the proces sof setting-up a new mail server; in the meantime I want all messages arriving to my current mail server under sendmail to be

Re: Disk cache tuning

2009-07-21 Thread Ivan Voras
Eugene L. Vorokov wrote: Hello guys, I have an amd64 server with 8 cpu cores and 16Gb of memory, with FreeBSD 7.2. It is used as a corporate CVS server with several huge repositories (about 2Gb each), which consist of thousands of rather small files. I need With lots of files you need to

Re: backticks in rc.conf

2009-07-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:29:20 +0200, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:46:47 +0100, chris scott kra...@googlemail.com wrote: can i use backticks in rc.conf? Basically, yes. The /etc/rc.conf file is run through sh, it is a shell script that assigns values to variables,

Re: backticks in rc.conf

2009-07-21 Thread chris scott
2009/7/21 Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:29:20 +0200, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:46:47 +0100, chris scott kra...@googlemail.com wrote: can i use backticks in rc.conf? Basically, yes. The /etc/rc.conf file is run through

Re: backticks in rc.conf

2009-07-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:24:09 +0100, chris scott kra...@googlemail.com wrote: a=`echo $ifconfig_bge0 | /usr/bin/awk '{ for ( i=1 ; i = NF; i++) { if ( $i ~ /[iI][nN][eE][tT]/ ) { sub(/\/.*/,, $(i+1)); print $(i+1) } } }'` rsyncd_flags=--config=/etc/rsyncd.conf --address=$a This is far too

Re: backticks in rc.conf

2009-07-21 Thread RW
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:18:37 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: There's a catch here that may go unnoticed for a while... rc.conf may be sourced by /etc/rc *long* before filesystems are mounted. As a result grep or awk may be not be available and stop rc.conf from

First Traffic not graphing, Now nothing graphs anymore.

2009-07-21 Thread Leandro Quibem Magnabosco
Hello guys, I have a running cacti on a mid to large environment running on a FreeBSD 7.1. Cacti's version is 0.8.7e and rrdtool is 1.2.23. First I was using 0.8.7d version of cacti but traffic was not graphing and I read somewhere on the net that this was corrected on 0.7.8e. Then I decided to

zpool import on FreeBSD 8 failing, zdb/FreeBSD claiming corrupt GPT labels, zdb/Solaris b117 reports everything's fine

2009-07-21 Thread Rich
Hi questioners, I wanted to test ZFS support for a 10-disk RAID-Z2 pool I have under FreeBSD 8, as I found Solaris 11 too unstable for my needs. One disk in the pool is faulted, and is physically not connected to the machine at the moment. The remaining 9 (plus one slog device) are attached, and

Re: FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose?

2009-07-21 Thread David Davis
Hi Guys, I just wanted to mention that George's changes should be incorporated into the official FreeNAS build of 0.7 (it's RC1 right now) when it comes out, so using our custom image should only be a temporary thing should you choose to go the A2000 route. Regards, David Davis Software

Purple photos on firefox..

2009-07-21 Thread herbert langhans
Hi Daemons, I wonder if the same happens on your computers too. Freebsd 7.2 Firefox 3.5 - sometimes the photos, mostly the JPG I guess, appear visible but in a deep purple shade. Is it just on my comp? If not I will file a bug report the the Firefox-developers. Thank you herb langhans

Re: K3b-DVD

2009-07-21 Thread Mark Moellering
On Monday 20 July 2009 08:39:45 pm ajtiM wrote: Hi! My system: FreeBSD 7.2, KDE 3.5.10 I did try to burn data DVD with my NEC DVD ND-1300A but I got an error: :-( Media is not formatted or unsupported Write error Debugging output: System --- K3b Version: 1.0.5

Re: First Traffic not graphing, Now nothing graphs anymore.

2009-07-21 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
--- On Tue, 7/21/09, Leandro Quibem Magnabosco leandr...@gmail.com wrote: From: Leandro Quibem Magnabosco leandr...@gmail.com Subject: First Traffic not graphing, Now nothing graphs anymore. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 7:56 AM Hello guys, I have a

FreeBSD + HP Pavilion DV7-1299EF, Pre-install questions.

2009-07-21 Thread Wael Nasreddine (a.k.a eMxyzptlk)
Hello, I recently bought an HP Pavilion DV7-1299EF, it's 2.4Ghz Core 2 DUO, 4G RAM, 2x250 Gb Hard Disk --- lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics

custom amd64 kernel

2009-07-21 Thread PJ
Frankly, I have no idea how to configure the kernel from GENERIC... I have installed, in the past and recently, Intel i386 kernels without problem but this amd64 thingy is incomprehensible for me... the default GENERIC example holds HAMMER as the cpu; mine is Turion with some other name for the

Re: backticks in rc.conf

2009-07-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:24:09PM +0100, chris scott wrote: 2009/7/21 Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:29:20 +0200, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:46:47 +0100, chris scott kra...@googlemail.com wrote: can i use backticks in

Re: custom amd64 kernel

2009-07-21 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/7/21 PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca: Frankly, I have no idea how to configure the kernel from GENERIC... I have installed, in the past and recently, Intel i386 kernels without problem but this amd64 thingy is incomprehensible for me... the default GENERIC example holds HAMMER as the cpu; mine

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Re: custom amd64 kernel

2009-07-21 Thread PJ
ill...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/21 PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca: Frankly, I have no idea how to configure the kernel from GENERIC... I have installed, in the past and recently, Intel i386 kernels without problem but this amd64 thingy is incomprehensible for me... the default GENERIC example

Re: First Traffic not graphing, Now nothing graphs anymore.

2009-07-21 Thread Leandro Quibem Magnabosco
My main problem will always be getting traffic to graph. I was able to solve the problem of the other ones not graphing by re-indexing everything, but it is still not graphing the traffic on some interfaces. The other graphics of the same machines are working pretty good, but those two interfaces

Re: First Traffic not graphing, Now nothing graphs anymore.

2009-07-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Leandro Quibem Magnabosco leandr...@gmail.com wrote: My main problem will always be getting traffic to graph. I was able to solve the problem of the other ones not graphing by re-indexing everything, but it is still not graphing the traffic on some

Re: FreeBSD + HP Pavilion DV7-1299EF, Pre-install questions.

2009-07-21 Thread Wael Nasreddine (a.k.a eMxyzptlk)
I have a problem booting the DVD on this laptop, with ACPI enabled, it crashes after the usb part, check the screenshot http://omploader.org/vMjBqbA I tried with ACPI disabled, the whole system stops responding even before the USB part. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Wael Nasreddine (a.k.a

Re: NFS- SAN - FreeBSD

2009-07-21 Thread Christopher J. Umina
Grant, I mean to say that often times external SCSI solutions (direct attached) are cheaper and perform better (in terms of I/O) than iSCSI SANs. Especially if you're using many disks. SANs are generally chosen for the ability to be split into LUNs for different servers. Think of it as a

Re: K3b-DVD

2009-07-21 Thread ajtiM
On Tuesday 21 July 2009 08:47:35 Mark Moellering wrote: On Monday 20 July 2009 08:39:45 pm ajtiM wrote: Hi! My system: FreeBSD 7.2, KDE 3.5.10 I did try to burn data DVD with my NEC DVD ND-1300A but I got an error: :-( Media is not formatted or unsupported Write error

Re: custom amd64 kernel

2009-07-21 Thread b. f.
Frankly, I have no idea how to configure the kernel from GENERIC... I have installed, in the past and recently, Intel i386 kernels without problem but this amd64 thingy is incomprehensible for me... the default GENERIC example holds HAMMER as the cpu; mine is Turion with some other name for the

amarok

2009-07-21 Thread ajtiM
Problem after problem. I try to rebuild Amarok on my FreeBSD 7.2 and I got: deps/ktrm.Tpo -c -o ktrm.lo ktrm.cpp ktrm.cpp:47:27: error: tunepimp/tp_c.h: No such file or directory ktrm.cpp:57: error: variable or field 'TRMNotifyCallback' declared void ktrm.cpp:57: error: 'tunepimp_t' was not

openldap24-client

2009-07-21 Thread ajtiM
I di as instructions says but I got: portmaster -r net/openldap24-client === No valid installed port, or port directory given === Try portmaster --help If I use portupgrade nothing happened. Thanks. -- Mitja - http://starikarp.redbubble.com ___

Re: openldap24-client

2009-07-21 Thread Christopher J. Umina
What does: pkg_info | grep openldap say? ajtiM wrote: I di as instructions says but I got: portmaster -r net/openldap24-client === No valid installed port, or port directory given === Try portmaster --help If I use portupgrade nothing happened. Thanks.

Re: NFS- SAN - FreeBSD

2009-07-21 Thread Christopher J. Umina
Grant, DAS = Direct-Attached Storage, sorry to be confusing. I cannot personally speak to the performance of FreeBSD's NFS, but I wouldn't expect it to be the bottleneck in the situation described. Maybe others with more experience could chime in on this topic. The way to use a DAS is to

Re: NFS- SAN - FreeBSD

2009-07-21 Thread Grant Peel
Chris, Thanks for the insight! I will defineately investigate that DAS ... although I am not (yet) sure what the acronym means, I am sure it is something akin to Direct Access SCSI. You are quite right, I would like to use NFS to connect the device to the 6 servers I have, again, it would

Re: openldap24-client

2009-07-21 Thread ajtiM
On Tuesday 21 July 2009 18:20:26 Christopher J. Umina wrote: pkg_info | grep openldap Thanks. It works now: portmaster -r openldap-client-2.4.17 -- Mitja - http://starikarp.redbubble.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Purple photos on firefox..

2009-07-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
herbert langhans wrote: - sometimes the photos, mostly the JPG I guess, appear visible but in a deep purple shade. I can't resist... was it about 1620 hrs when you witnessed this? ;) Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: NFS- SAN - FreeBSD

2009-07-21 Thread Grant Peel
Chris, Again, thanks for the info. I only have one server with a PERC (raid) card installed, and I beleive it is an older PERC 3 DCI, and doubt it would do the job. I would not be able to add more PERC cards to the other machines. I am looking to have the connections all done via Ethernet.

Re: K3b-DVD

2009-07-21 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:18:14 -0500, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: in /etc/devfs.conf: Commonly used by many ports linkacd0cdrom linkacd0dvd linkcd0 cdrom linkcd0 dvd All four lines? Where do /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom actually point to? The devices should be

Re: Support of UDF ISO-13346 on 7.1-RELEASE-p2 [SOLVED]

2009-07-21 Thread Bryant Eadon
b. f. wrote: #How can I mount this disc ? Does udf.ko support this format ? I don't often use memory disks, so I'm not quite sure what is going wrong here. You could try configuring it and mounting it as read-only, to see if that helps. But you should be aware that FreeBSD does not support

Re: Purple photos on firefox..

2009-07-21 Thread Bryant Eadon
herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, I wonder if the same happens on your computers too. Freebsd 7.2 Firefox 3.5 - sometimes the photos, mostly the JPG I guess, appear visible but in a deep purple shade. Is it just on my comp? If not I will file a bug report the the Firefox-developers.

Re: Purple photos on firefox..

2009-07-21 Thread herbert langhans
It seems to be some firefox bug. When I save the certain purple JPG and display it with another program on my comp it appears normal. Screenshot would look ok on any computer.. And it just happens occasionally. Maybe some screen engine bug in ff35? Or my graphic card driver (sis-card) is

Re: Support of UDF ISO-13346 on 7.1-RELEASE-p2 [SOLVED]

2009-07-21 Thread b. f.
On 7/22/09, Bryant Eadon bryant.ea...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm disappointed that FreeBSD mount_udf doesn't support this disc. Disappointed enough to port the latest NetBSD UDF improvements to FreeBSD? Or to analyze the udfclient sources and make some improvements to the kernel module? ;)