[Fwd: about vbox and freebsd]

2009-08-22 Thread John Francis Lee
I got an answer to my question, posted here, from ... but I've been instructed not to post to individuals but to the list so I copy the Mak's response here : snip Your CPU is 64-bit from what I can see. From a bit of Googling, others have encountered this problem, and it seems to have to do

Re: Suspend/Resume on Thinkpad x40

2009-08-22 Thread Joe Snikeris
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Ian Smithsmi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Joe Snikeris wrote:   On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Ian Smithsmi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote:   On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:03:29 -0500 Joe Snikeris j...@snikeris.com wrote:       First off, I apologize

RAID10 setup

2009-08-22 Thread Phil Lewis
This question was asked a few weeks ago, but the original poster must have had their questions amswered. As follow-ups offered further assistance given more detail, I wonder if I could be so bold as to provide that detail for my own circumstances. I have six disks: ad4 - 500MB ad5 - 500MB ad6

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:37:09PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote: I am trying to figure out why DNS lookups are not possible right after the named process has been launched (during bootup). At start, named sends a couple of queries to e.g. root servers. All this requires the network connection to

Re: [Fwd: about vbox and freebsd]

2009-08-22 Thread Michael Powell
John Francis Lee wrote: I got an answer to my question, posted here, from ... but I've been instructed not to post to individuals but to the list so I copy the Mak's response here : snip Your CPU is 64-bit from what I can see. From a bit of Googling, others have encountered this problem,

Re: Suspend/Resume on Thinkpad x40

2009-08-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Joe Snikeris wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Ian Smithsmi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Joe Snikeris wrote:   On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Ian Smithsmi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: [..]   At any rate, I gave up on ACPI.  I've got

Re: What should be backed up?

2009-08-22 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:33 PM, John Almberg wrote: I am currently using rsnapshot to back up these directories on a FreeBSD 7.2 webserver: /etc /usr/home /usr/local /var/cron Here is my exclude list from my rsnapshot.conf exclude /var/log exclude

How to install ien-firmware on Freebsd 7.2 Stable?

2009-08-22 Thread Ovi
Hello Anybody knows how to install iwn-firmware on Freebsd 7.2 Stable? (I need it for: Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN) I do not have /usr/ports/net/iwn-firmware dir since it is only in 8.0. Is a way to install it and use that firmware? I've searched alot on Google, but I did not find a

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread RW
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:37:09 -0700 Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: Then why can't I do a lookup right after named starts? Possibly it's a delay in bind being ready or maybe you don't have any network access - the latter is common with ppp. By the way, the underlying issue that I'm

Crash dump freebsd 7.2

2009-08-22 Thread Zetinja Tresor
I have several jails running on my freebesd machine and lately it started to crash when it gets a bit loaded. I followed the freebsd kernel debugging manual, and got some output, but I have no idea what to do with it. The only thing I think I understand of it that the bit that matters are just the

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Nerius Landys
Thanks for the script. I found the underlying problem on my system. My server is at a data center and I don't know what kind of equipment the server is connected to. It appears that it takes 30 seconds for the networking to start. I added this script as /etc/rc.d/waitfornetwork, and enabled it

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Nerius Landys
One last question. I'm getting interesting [kernel?] messages during bootup. You know, the kind that are highlighted white in the console. The relevant lines of rc.conf look like this right now: defaultrouter=64.156.192.1 hostname=daffy.nerius.com ifconfig_em0=inet 64.156.192.169 netmask

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Nerius Landys
highlightedcalcru: runtime went backwards from 37332 usec to 16577 usec for pid 47 (sh).../highlighted Not to seem like I'm talking to myself, but I fixed this problem: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#CALCRU-NEGATIVE-RUNTIME (Turn off Intel® Enhanced

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Robert Huff
Nerius Landys wrote: I am still bambuzzled by the network taking 30 seconds to come up. I don't remember the original description, but any time I hear about a 30 second gap during startup, I think of the well-known DNS reverse look-up issue. Are you sure this is not the case here?

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Nerius Landys
       I don't remember the original description, but any time I hear about a 30 second gap during startup, I think of the well-known DNS reverse look-up issue.  Are you sure this is not the case here? Indeed, I have forgotten to have the PTR record set up for my new IP address. However the

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Mario Lobo
On Saturday 22 August 2009 21:11:01 Nerius Landys wrote:        I don't remember the original description, but any time I hear about a 30 second gap during startup, I think of the well-known DNS reverse look-up issue.  Are you sure this is not the case here? Indeed, I have forgotten to

RE: No Device Node assigned for HD?

2009-08-22 Thread Daniel Eriksson
Rob wrote: The only difference I've found is that in the RocketRAID BIOS, the 3 500GB drives are recognized with a Legacy Status, whereas the 1TB is recognized as New Status. Not sure what that means or how to change it. Your problem is that the old drives you have hooked up to the