Re: Delete /var/db/pkg.bak?
On 30/01/2013 04:47, Walter Hurry wrote: > Admittedly disk space is cheap, but old habits die hard and I just don't > like keeping stuff I no longer need. > > I converted to pkgng just under a couple of months ago, and have had no > serious problems (even the minor issues have been promptly resolved with > the kind and able assistance of Matthew Seaman). > > I have no intention of trying to 'go back', so my question is this: Is it > safe now to clear out the pkg.bak file which was created by pkg2ng at the > time of conversion? I'm almost sure it is, but just want to make certain. Um... it's probably OK, but you're really the only person in a position to know, given it's your system. Given that you have been actively maintaining your systems using pkgng for several months, the pkg.bak file will not contain any record of the changes made in that time. That makes it increasingly irrelevant. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Delete /var/db/pkg.bak?
Admittedly disk space is cheap, but old habits die hard and I just don't like keeping stuff I no longer need. I converted to pkgng just under a couple of months ago, and have had no serious problems (even the minor issues have been promptly resolved with the kind and able assistance of Matthew Seaman). I have no intention of trying to 'go back', so my question is this: Is it safe now to clear out the pkg.bak file which was created by pkg2ng at the time of conversion? I'm almost sure it is, but just want to make certain. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Booting Problem
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie wrote: I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. It starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader message with revision 1.1. Then it puts out the machine, date, time the CD was created and starts the spinner. It spins around about 2 times and stops. The system continues to read from the drive for another couple minutes. Then everything stops. Nothing more happens. The CD is good. I can boot it just fine using the same external drive on another machine. While I could remove the drive and temporarily mount in in the working machine and build it there, I would like to find a way to successfully boot from CD. This will become a remote machine and taking it apart later is not a viable option. What is the system you are using? What external devices does it have built-in support for? In the absence of any data - how about trying an external hard drive? Why not remove the hard drive, use another system to put FreeBSD on the drive, and put it back. From that point on you should be able to use the network to upgrade. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
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Re: Booting Problem
On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 > Doug Hardie wrote: > >> I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The >> bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. >> It starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader >> message with revision 1.1. Then it puts out the machine, date, time >> the CD was created and starts the spinner. It spins around about 2 >> times and stops. The system continues to read from the drive for >> another couple minutes. Then everything stops. Nothing more happens. >> >> The CD is good. I can boot it just fine using the same external >> drive on another machine. While I could remove the drive and >> temporarily mount in in the working machine and build it there, I >> would like to find a way to successfully boot from CD. This will >> become a remote machine and taking it apart later is not a viable >> option. ___ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To >> unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > Can you boot a different OS (Win, Ububtu, gparted, etc ...) from the > same drive on the same machine? Not so far. The drive works fine on other systems. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: /etc/rc.d/jail script
Fbsd8 wrote: I have noticed that the /etc/rc.d/jail script will not start a jail that has the same ip address as a jail that is already running. But if I define 2 jails the manual way in rc.conf that have the same ip address they will start. So is this a bug in the "jail" script or is there some reason for this restriction? On deeper inspection of the /etc/rc.d/jail script, it seems the above only occurs if one or more jails are assigned the same ip address and one or more of the jails bound the shared ip address to a NIC device name. IE the auto creation and deletion of ip address aliases. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Detail in section 25.2.3.3 of the Handbook
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Alejandro Imass wrote: > >> Maybe it's intentional but in section >> >> 25.2.3.3 Rebuilding Ports After a Major Version Upgrade >> >> The step that says: >> >> portupgrade -f ruby18-bdb >> >> Shouldn't it be ruby-bdb without the 18? >> >> Is there a reason why it has to be ruby18-bdb > > > That's a good point. It should probably be the origin, databases/ruby-bdb. > I don't have a way to test that right now. > > But really, it ought to be rewritten to use ports-mgmt/portmaster to remove > the dependency issue entirely. In fact, that could just refer to the > upgrade process at the end of the portmaster(8) man page. I had *a lot* of issues with this procedure using portupgrade. I assumed it was because the system was very old and I was upgrading from 7.0 to 9.1, although I tried in every step to upgrade the ports and failed (i.e. 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1). I wound up pkg_delete -a -f . I was going to re-install everything in Jails anyway so I was happy to delete all ports from the base sys. I can say however that the upgrade from 7.0-RELEASE to 9.1-RELEASE went very smoothly with freebsd-update, but as I mentioned above, I did it in steps. Thanks for your prompt reply! -- Alejandro Imass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Detail in section 25.2.3.3 of the Handbook
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Alejandro Imass wrote: Maybe it's intentional but in section 25.2.3.3 Rebuilding Ports After a Major Version Upgrade The step that says: portupgrade -f ruby18-bdb Shouldn't it be ruby-bdb without the 18? Is there a reason why it has to be ruby18-bdb That's a good point. It should probably be the origin, databases/ruby-bdb. I don't have a way to test that right now. But really, it ought to be rewritten to use ports-mgmt/portmaster to remove the dependency issue entirely. In fact, that could just refer to the upgrade process at the end of the portmaster(8) man page. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Viewing processes hierarchically
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:31 PM, wrote: > pstree? (in sysutils from ports) > -- > Devin > > > -Original Message- > > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Patrick > > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 1:53 PM > > To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List > > Subject: Viewing processes hierarchically > > > > Is there any way in FreeBSD to view all running processes hierarchically, > > like Activity Monitor in Mac OS X can do? > > > > e.g. > > > http://f.cl.ly/items/37310J17273X3F1E1l0G/Image%202013.01.29%2013:50:36%20 > . > > png > > > > I believe I have a masked process spawned from an Apache process, but I'm > > having a hard time tracking it down. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Patrick > > ___ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > _ > The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or > confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the > message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message > in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please > be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving > and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > ps auxwwd man ps: -d Arrange processes into descendancy order and prefix each > command > with indentation text showing sibling and parent/child > relation‐ > ships. If either of the -m and -r options are also used, they > control how sibling processes are sorted relative to each > other. > Note that this option has no effect if the “command” column is > not the last column displayed. > > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Viewing processes hierarchically
On 1/29/2013 3:52 PM, Patrick wrote: Is there any way in FreeBSD to view all running processes hierarchically, like Activity Monitor in Mac OS X can do? e.g. http://f.cl.ly/items/37310J17273X3F1E1l0G/Image%202013.01.29%2013:50:36%20.png I believe I have a masked process spawned from an Apache process, but I'm having a hard time tracking it down. Thanks, Patrick What about `ps dax`? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Detail in section 25.2.3.3 of the Handbook
Maybe it's intentional but in section 25.2.3.3 Rebuilding Ports After a Major Version Upgrade The step that says: portupgrade -f ruby18-bdb Shouldn't it be ruby-bdb without the 18? Is there a reason why it has to be ruby18-bdb Thanks, -- Alejandro Imass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
RE: Viewing processes hierarchically
pstree? (in sysutils from ports) -- Devin > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Patrick > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 1:53 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List > Subject: Viewing processes hierarchically > > Is there any way in FreeBSD to view all running processes hierarchically, > like Activity Monitor in Mac OS X can do? > > e.g. > http://f.cl.ly/items/37310J17273X3F1E1l0G/Image%202013.01.29%2013:50:36%20. > png > > I believe I have a masked process spawned from an Apache process, but I'm > having a hard time tracking it down. > > Thanks, > > Patrick > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Viewing processes hierarchically
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:52:47 -0800, Patrick wrote: > Is there any way in FreeBSD to view all running processes hierarchically, > like Activity Monitor in Mac OS X can do? > > e.g. > http://f.cl.ly/items/37310J17273X3F1E1l0G/Image%202013.01.29%2013:50:36%20.png > > I believe I have a masked process spawned from an Apache process, but I'm > having a hard time tracking it down. You can do this with htop, then press PF5. Or use pstree. Both are in ports. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Software raid VS hardware raid
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: 29.01.2013 18:57, Warren Block: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: The Handbook chapter on gmirror talks about the problems with GPT and GEOM metadata. In short: right now, they conflict. It's possible to mirror GPT partitions, but be aware that if you mirror more than one partition on a drive, a rebuild after replacing a drive could thrash the heads as mirrors are rebuilt simultaneously. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html So, gmirror+GPT=conflict on last sector GPT+gmirror = hardrive head kill nice... So, for no more than 2TB disks the best way to go is GMIRROR of the drive +PARTITION on top of it? GPT partitions should work, just limit it to one mirrored partition per drive. Or maybe there is a way to instruct gmirror do rebuild only what i say (manual rebuild) ? 'gmirror configure -n' ? Have not tried it. The trick would be to do that before multiple mirrors start rebuilding, which they will as soon as geom_mirror.ko is loaded. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?
I don't use space in filenames, I just wanted to ensure, that file names with spaces will be handled partly correctly. At the moment I'm not working intensively. Every once in a while I take a look at a directory and compare it with the backups. If there's something wrong, I manually run chown. I copy each step I'm doing to a file. Overcautious, without haste and without a script ;), I fix it step by step. Regards, Ralf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:23:09 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 10:08 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > This is a mayor damage and can only be repaired by a new installation. > > Perhaps true, but if such a simple mistake can't be fixed, [...] Excuse me, it's not a _simple_ mistake. It may have initially been even a typo, but anything executed with root privileges is not simple; root has the power to do anything, even to completely destroy the system, and that can also be as simple as calling rm or dd with "carefully carelessly crafted options", and there is no simple fix for this. > [...] what happens > when somebody makes a big mistake? The size of the mistake doesn't even matter. :-) > Perhaps more people stay with Linux > than other *NIX, regarding to the policy, that issues should be fixed > instead of always starting from the beginning. ;)? The fix to your issue is, in pseudocode: for part in ( OS , ports ) do: determine owner rocketmouse:* for all files compare with list with correct owner for each deviating file do: if owner != correct owner then: chown file to correct user fi od od Of course OS and ports have to be treated seperately. As you have mentioned to own a backup where the permissions (owners) are correct, obtaining the required reference data from that backup would be the easiest part. The alternative: reinstall world, reinstall ports. To avoid this task, you need to activate your admin skills. :-) > Of course, if I simply would restore from a dump, it will be less time > consuming and it wouldn't annoy you, but I would have the bad feeling, > that if ever needed, thinks can't be fixed, I always would have to > restore from backups. And what happens, if for what reason ever a backup > shouldn't be available? In that case, you would need other references to get the correct file owners. Files are usually installed to the system by the "install" command, and it is employed in the Makefiles for the OS and also for ports. As you correctly recognized, not simply all files belong to root, so everything "non-standard" could be derived from such "control files". Of course, the more files you have to treat (see wc -l of your result list), the harder the task can become, and maybe installing the port again is faster than finding out where permissions are set for the install program call. If you only have 10 files or so, do it manually, but if there are 100 and more files, coming from several different ports, reinstalling them sounds easier, and it's not a big deal to do that with portmaster. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:54:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:41:34 +0100, Joshua Isom wrote: > > On 1/28/2013 7:56 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Still not perfect, I guess I need something similar to ls -RAl for some > >> directories :S and I didn't test what awk will do with names including a > >> space. > > > > Try `find /dir -ls`. You can pipe it into sed like this `find /dir -ls| > > sed -e 's%/dir%%g'` and then get something easily comparable. > > Cool, it does display the path, but there's still the other issue: > > $ touch test\ test > $ find * -ls| sed -e 's%/dir%%g'| awk '{print $5" "$11}' > rocketmouse test > > Perhaps awk isn't that important, but it e.g. will filter different file > sizes, for e.g. configurations I edited in the meantime. A thing regarding awk: For extended formatting, use the printf() command which works the same as in sh and C, os if you need, you can do things like printf "%s '%s'", $1, $2; Also note that you can have a custom delimiter for parsing the input, e. g. -F ":" (if you would generate input lists in :-separated CSV format). Additionally, it seems you're running into the fun of spaces in file names. Even though you can put them there, it doesn't imply it's good to do it. Spaces are separators (for commands and options), and everytime they're _not_ (e. g. when they appear in file names), you need to care for this fact, by escaping or quoting them. Maybe those articles by David A. Wheeler are interesting to you to learn about this annoyance for people writing short shell scripts to automate tasks: Filenames and Pathnames in Shell: How to do it correctly http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames: Control Characters (such as Newline), Leading Dashes, and Other Problems http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Software raid VS hardware raid
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:57:31 -0600, Warren Block wrote: As far a gmirror is concerned, yes, drives can be removed and new drives inserted while the mirror is running. Hot swap is more of an issue with the hardware. I have not tried it with SATA drives, although I think it should work. The Handbook chapter on gmirror talks about the problems with GPT and GEOM metadata. In short: right now, they conflict. It's possible to mirror GPT partitions, but be aware that if you mirror more than one partition on a drive, a rebuild after replacing a drive could thrash the heads as mirrors are rebuilt simultaneously. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html Why isn't gmirror more intelligent? I hate to use Linux as an example, but mdadm won't simultaneously rebuild multiple RAID sets if they use the same physical providers to prevent this. Could this be added as a feature? Even a sysctl toggle? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Software raid VS hardware raid
29.01.2013 18:57, Warren Block: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: The Handbook chapter on gmirror talks about the problems with GPT and GEOM metadata. In short: right now, they conflict. It's possible to mirror GPT partitions, but be aware that if you mirror more than one partition on a drive, a rebuild after replacing a drive could thrash the heads as mirrors are rebuilt simultaneously. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html So, gmirror+GPT=conflict on last sector GPT+gmirror = hardrive head kill nice... So, for no more than 2TB disks the best way to go is GMIRROR of the drive +PARTITION on top of it? Or maybe there is a way to instruct gmirror do rebuild only what i say (manual rebuild) ? Artem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice?
On Jan 29, 2013, at 6:59 AM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: >> >> Is GPT compatible with Solaris, can Solaris access a GPT disk? > > Yes. I'm not sure if it can boot off GPT disk but on Solaris zpool > automatically creates boundary GPT partition to protect ZFS vdev. Under the Solaris-based OSes I have used*, ZFS creates an EFI-like disk label, NOT a GPT label. FreeBSD (9.0) will read and use the EFI-like disk label that ZFS creates (or perhaps it is the ZFS code that is parsing the disk label). So if you want to move a zpool between FreeBSD and a Solaris-derived OS, then the safe bet is to give ZFS the entire disk and let it create the disk label. *Solaris-based OSes that I have used: Solaris 10 OpenSolaris NCP (Nexenta Core Platform) -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice?
On Jan 28, 2013, at 9:37 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> Presumably the disks are currently FreeBSD-specific. If I used raw >> disks instead of slices, could I read them from a Solaris system too? > > ^ I'm mostly sure you would be able to read disks from Solaris/x86. > ^ However Solaris/Sparc uses another labeling scheme. If you want to be > ^ fully compatible with other system GPT is a better choice. > > Is GPT compatible with Solaris, can Solaris access a GPT disk? AFAIK, none of the Solaris derived OSes can read a GPT disk label. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Booting Problem
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie wrote: > I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The > bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. > It starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader > message with revision 1.1. Then it puts out the machine, date, time > the CD was created and starts the spinner. It spins around about 2 > times and stops. The system continues to read from the drive for > another couple minutes. Then everything stops. Nothing more happens. > > The CD is good. I can boot it just fine using the same external > drive on another machine. While I could remove the drive and > temporarily mount in in the working machine and build it there, I > would like to find a way to successfully boot from CD. This will > become a remote machine and taking it apart later is not a viable > option. ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To > unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Can you boot a different OS (Win, Ububtu, gparted, etc ...) from the same drive on the same machine? -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99% winblows FREE) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Software raid VS hardware raid
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: My other concern is what happens when one drive goes down if we use gmirror? Is it completelly transparent and bad drive can be hot swapped while server is running and rebuild started? I am thinking now about gpt+gmirror (including boot and swap) As far a gmirror is concerned, yes, drives can be removed and new drives inserted while the mirror is running. Hot swap is more of an issue with the hardware. I have not tried it with SATA drives, although I think it should work. The Handbook chapter on gmirror talks about the problems with GPT and GEOM metadata. In short: right now, they conflict. It's possible to mirror GPT partitions, but be aware that if you mirror more than one partition on a drive, a rebuild after replacing a drive could thrash the heads as mirrors are rebuilt simultaneously. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?
I'm surprised, there's no /bin/sh for the backup: # ls -ld /bin/sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse wheel 142952 Dec 23 18:38 /bin/sh # ls -ld /usr/TMP4DIFF/bin/sh ls: /usr/TMP4DIFF/bin/sh: No such file or directory This is an error in reasoning :D. I compared the original /bin, with a restore from /usr, so it seems to be /bin, but it is /usr/bin ;). I have to keep the system as it is for at least a day, need to do something different and than I can continue, when I'm refreshed. root@freebsd:/usr/TMP4DIFF/ROOT # ls -l bin/sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 142952 Dec 23 18:38 bin/sh :D There definitively is need for a real rest, to avoid mistakes. -- Sent from my PC while wearing my Relox watch and Iccug handback. If you pay me, product placement for your lemon could be placed here too, just mailto:/dev/null. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:58:18 +0100, wrote: mtree I was confused, since the existing files only provide directories. Ok, I guess I understand, I can let mtree generate new files using the backup. I anyway need to take care about files that are missing by the backup. Thank you. -- Sent from my PC while wearing my Relox watch and Iccug handback. If you pay me, product placement for your lemon could be placed here too, just mailto:/dev/null. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?
I suspect it's less effort to use Thunar and instead of scrolling, as I did before (when I missed some wrong owners), to switch sorting by owner between ascending and descending, to ensure not to miss a bad owner again. I'm surprised, there's no /bin/sh for the backup: /bin # find /usr/TMP4DIFF/bin -ls | sed -e 's%/dir%%g' | awk '{print $5" "$11" "$12" "$13}' > bin.TMP.txt # find /bin -ls | sed -e 's%/dir%%g' | awk '{print $5" "$11" "$12" "$13}' bin.BSD.txt # diff bin.TMP.txt bin.BSD.txt > bin.DIF.txt # grep rocketmouse bin.DIF.txt rocketmouse /bin/sh # ls -ld /bin/sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse wheel 142952 Dec 23 18:38 /bin/sh # ls -ld /usr/TMP4DIFF/bin/sh ls: /usr/TMP4DIFF/bin/sh: No such file or directory /lib [snip ... no differences] I anyway will unpack /usr too and take a look at the directories from the backup. I won't bother you with each detail, but report a list of differences, if there should be something very strange. Regards, Ralf -- Sent from my PC while wearing my Relox watch and Iccug handback. If you pay me, product placement for your lemon could be placed here too, just mailto:/dev/nul. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:44:55 +0100, Erich Dollansky > wrote: >> It cannot get worse. His experience will show also others how robust >> FreeBSD is in case of failures. > > Indeed. Linux users ask me why I play with FreeBSD. I already could make a > list with drawbacks and advantages of both OS. Some of my guesses might be > wrong, since I'm a FreeBSD novice, so this list wouldn't be absolutely > correct. >From what I've followed since you've come on the list my impression is you are just experiencing a learning curve with a new OS. There may be many similarities and much carry over from other *Nixes but you still have to work it to learn it. In the past when I've headed into something completely new I mess a lot of things up (foot shooting) for a while. Once it gets past a certain point I give up and reinstall. Then I refer to all the notes I took whilst messing things up so as to not make the same mistakes again. Usually it was a new list and the cycle repeats. Eventually things 'click', you stop making mistakes as well as understand the OS enough now to fix things should they need. After this sysadmin break-in period clears things get much better very fast. You are well on your way. I've been using FreeBSD for 12 years now, but I remember my initial learning curve (it was quite ugly there for a while). But now things are easy, the machines are very stable and reliable. If I don't break them and no hardware fails they just sit there and do their thing. Stick with it for a while and I bet you find your way. [snip] -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Software raid VS hardware raid
Artem Kuchin wrote: [snip] > The server is going to be a web server with many sites and with mysql > running on it. Nothing really really > heavy. Currently with run all this on our own server with 8 cores and > 16GB ram and 3ware raid1 > and cpu load is about 5% :) Everything is quick and responsive. I hope > to see the same on a software raid. The controller would be a slight concern. But for what you've described doing I doubt it will be a big deal. The 3Ware may have a faster processor on it than say a generic onboard built-in. But since all we're talking here is a RAID 1 mirror my guess is it may not be a big enough difference to see. Writes will be just as if you are writing to 1 drive, reads will be faster. Maybe that 5% cpu load turns into 6% or 7%. > I really don't want to deploy ZFS on a new server where all these site > need to migrate because i am kind of > "don't fix it if it is not broken" kind of guy. > UFS+journaling+softupdates served us well for years and snapshots > are available on ufs too. I understand; I've only played around with ZFS some on Solaris. I may move in that direction some day, but for now > My other concern is what happens when one drive goes down if we use > gmirror? Is it completelly transparent > and bad drive can be hot swapped while server is running and rebuild > started? > I am thinking now about gpt+gmirror (including boot and swap) I've never actually hot-swapped one but I can't see any reason why not. You can't use the gmirror remove directive when a drive has failed, but you do a gmirror forget , swap it, then just do gmirror insert to insert the replaced drive into the mirror. When everything is working as it should gmirror is mostly 'automatic', e.g. after the insert the rebuild just starts. Main thing I appreciated about this is the server stayed up and online after one drive died. My two servers at home are my testbeds to test out things first before doing stuff to the ones at work. I just installed both to 9.1. The difference now is I've used GPT (gpart) and this is new to me. Previously everything was always fdisk and disklabel. Both these machines are setup on one drive at this point and I haven't yet gotten into the mirroring yet. With the old fdisk/disklabel it was simple to just mirror the entire drive itself (slice). The other approach is to mirror partitions. I think I may need to do this as I think this is the way you have to proceed in order to avoid having gpt and gmirror both trying to claim the last sector on the drive (metadata storage). -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?
Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:57:30 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:44:55 +0100, Erich Dollansky > wrote: > > It cannot get worse. His experience will show also others how robust > > FreeBSD is in case of failures. > > Indeed. Linux users ask me why I play with FreeBSD. I already could > make a list with drawbacks and advantages of both OS. Some of my > guesses might be wrong, since I'm a FreeBSD novice, so this list > wouldn't be absolutely correct. > > Regarding to the annoyance, I won't switch the thread regarding to > this issue anymore. I'll continue with this thread "Re: How to fix a > broken owner for files from world & build from ports?" if this should > be ok for the list, if not I can be quiet, no hard feelings. The > thread could easily be filtered by most MUAs. > just continue. erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice?
29.01.2013 04:37, Thomas Mueller: 28.01.2013 01:57, james: I have a 9.1 system with some SATA disks in RAIDZ, upgraded from 9.0. The disks are all the same type, and I formatted them for FreeBSD and put ZFS in a slice covering most of them. I have seen suggestions for OpenIndiana etc that it is better to let ZFS have the whole raw disk and that this can control the way it manages the disk writeback mode. Responses from Vladimir Kostyrko ^ : ^ My home computer is set up in the dedicated mode. No grave difference. ^ Not even a scratch. Does this apply to FreeBSD and ZFS too? ^ No. Presumably the disks are currently FreeBSD-specific. If I used raw disks instead of slices, could I read them from a Solaris system too? ^ I'm mostly sure you would be able to read disks from Solaris/x86. ^ However Solaris/Sparc uses another labeling scheme. If you want to be ^ fully compatible with other system GPT is a better choice. Is GPT compatible with Solaris, can Solaris access a GPT disk? Yes. I'm not sure if it can boot off GPT disk but on Solaris zpool automatically creates boundary GPT partition to protect ZFS vdev. I tried OpenIndiana installable live USB stick, and my Western Digital Caviar Green 3 TB hard disk, partitioned with GPT, was not recognized or readable; same was true for Western Digital My Book Essential 3 TB USB 3.0 hard disk, also partitioned GPT. This was on amd64 system. Except OI. https://www.illumos.org/issues/208 -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:44:55 +0100, Erich Dollansky wrote: It cannot get worse. His experience will show also others how robust FreeBSD is in case of failures. Indeed. Linux users ask me why I play with FreeBSD. I already could make a list with drawbacks and advantages of both OS. Some of my guesses might be wrong, since I'm a FreeBSD novice, so this list wouldn't be absolutely correct. Regarding to the annoyance, I won't switch the thread regarding to this issue anymore. I'll continue with this thread "Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?" if this should be ok for the list, if not I can be quiet, no hard feelings. The thread could easily be filtered by most MUAs. Regards, Ralf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?
Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:08:20 +0100 Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Monday, January 28, 2013 a las 10:28:06PM -1000, parv escribió: > > > In general, I find all this thread (wrong file owner) a bit boring. I find it very interesting. > This is a mayor damage and can only be repaired by a new > installation. A lot of files and directories in the systems This is what I am doubting. Shouldn't an installation of the world solve this problem? Or are the current owners of a directory ignored when the world is reinstalled? > filesystem, in / /var /usr, have dedicated owner to allow certain > processes which does not run as 'root' to do their correct work > there, for exmample 'mail'; i.e. you can not do just a complete > "chown -R root " and expect that the system still works; It cannot get worse. His experience will show also others how robust FreeBSD is in case of failures. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?
El día Tuesday, January 29, 2013 a las 12:23:09PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf escribió: > On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 10:08 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > This is a mayor damage and can only be repaired by a new installation. > > Perhaps true, but if such a simple mistake can't be fixed, what happens > when somebody makes a big mistake? Perhaps more people stay with Linux > than other *NIX, regarding to the policy, that issues should be fixed > instead of always starting from the beginning. ;)? > > Of course, if I simply would restore from a dump, it will be less time > consuming and it wouldn't annoy you, but I would have the bad feeling, > that if ever needed, thinks can't be fixed, I always would have to > restore from backups. And what happens, if for what reason ever a backup > shouldn't be available? A damage like this can only be done with root privs and if you are root you should be careful and think twice before; this is true for any UNIX and Linux type system. matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz | - No system with backdoors like Apple/Android E-mail: g...@unixarea.de | - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | - Respect for open standards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?
On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 10:08 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > This is a mayor damage and can only be repaired by a new installation. Perhaps true, but if such a simple mistake can't be fixed, what happens when somebody makes a big mistake? Perhaps more people stay with Linux than other *NIX, regarding to the policy, that issues should be fixed instead of always starting from the beginning. ;)? Of course, if I simply would restore from a dump, it will be less time consuming and it wouldn't annoy you, but I would have the bad feeling, that if ever needed, thinks can't be fixed, I always would have to restore from backups. And what happens, if for what reason ever a backup shouldn't be available? 2 Cents, Ralf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 22:28 -1000, parv wrote: > in message , > wrote Ralf Mardorf thusly... > > > > Hi :) > > > > I hope it's ok, when I open a new thread for this issue. > > First I need to know what files have a bad owner. > > > > I'm running > > # freebsd-update IDS >> outfile_28Jan2013.ids > > perhaps this will give some useful output, regarding to a wrong owner for > > files from world. > > > > It's still running. > > > > I still have no idea how to check this for the files build from ports. > > If I understand your problem correctly, it is of incorrect owner & > group. If so, are there any problems with just running "chown -R" on > the parent directory (say /usr/local, where ports are installed by > default)? > > > - parv It's only the owner and yes, the problem is, that the owner not always is root for important directories. I had to switch the uid for the owner from 1001 to 1000, when I changed the owner for all files from 1001 to 1000, some owners in */bin and */lib directories were accidentally changed too, for what reason ever. Regards, Ralf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?
El día Monday, January 28, 2013 a las 10:28:06PM -1000, parv escribió: > in message , > wrote Ralf Mardorf thusly... > > > > Hi :) > > > > I hope it's ok, when I open a new thread for this issue. > > First I need to know what files have a bad owner. > > > > I'm running > > # freebsd-update IDS >> outfile_28Jan2013.ids > > perhaps this will give some useful output, regarding to a wrong owner for > > files from world. > > > > It's still running. > > > > I still have no idea how to check this for the files build from ports. > > If I understand your problem correctly, it is of incorrect owner & > group. If so, are there any problems with just running "chown -R" on > the parent directory (say /usr/local, where ports are installed by > default)? In general, I find all this thread (wrong file owner) a bit boring. This is a mayor damage and can only be repaired by a new installation. A lot of files and directories in the systems filesystem, in / /var /usr, have dedicated owner to allow certain processes which does not run as 'root' to do their correct work there, for exmample 'mail'; i.e. you can not do just a complete "chown -R root " and expect that the system still works; the same is true for the ports below /usr/local; just run on a correct system something like: # find /usr/local -exec ls -ld {} \; | fgrep -v root to get a list about what I am talking. HIH matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz | - No system with backdoors like Apple/Android E-mail: g...@unixarea.de | - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | - Respect for open standards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Software raid VS hardware raid
29.01.2013 11:54, Michael Powell: Artem Kuchin wrote: I guess what I'm trying to point out is that low performance wrt software RAID will stem from other things besides just simply consuming a few CPU cycles. Today's CPUs have the cycles to spare. I've been using gmirror for RAID 1 mirrors for a few years now and am happy with this. I have had a few old drives die and the servers stayed up and online. This allowed me to defer the actual drive replacement and not have to drop everything and fight fire. Thank you everyone for replying. I realize that many other things affect the performance, not only the CPU power. For example, disk IO kernel multithreading is one of the things. But i guess in FBSD 9 it is more or less solved. The server is going to be a web server with many sites and with mysql running on it. Nothing really really heavy. Currently with run all this on our own server with 8 cores and 16GB ram and 3ware raid1 and cpu load is about 5% :) Everything is quick and responsive. I hope to see the same on a software raid. I really don't want to deploy ZFS on a new server where all these site need to migrate because i am kind of "don't fix it if it is not broken" kind of guy. UFS+journaling+softupdates served us well for years and snapshots are available on ufs too. My other concern is what happens when one drive goes down if we use gmirror? Is it completelly transparent and bad drive can be hot swapped while server is running and rebuild started? I am thinking now about gpt+gmirror (including boot and swap) Artem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: dhclient and random disconnects
A follow-up: > third, > I would test with IPv6 disabled (entirely for the system), regardless of > connectivity type; > that also means to explicitly disable that failover setup line in your config > ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="**YES" > jb W/r to IPv6 (disable, enable, etc): read man pages for rc.conf(5) and search for ipv6; then set up whatever neccessary in /etc/rc.conf after considering what is in some preset variables in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. Btw, where did you get that "**YES" from in your config line for failover ? ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="**YES" The flag is "YES" or "NO". Also, are you running any firewall on your machine ? jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: dhclient and random disconnects
There are few things you should do. First, w/r to you complaint about first-kill-then restart, this will do it for you /etc/rc.d/dhclient lagg0 restart second, I remember you wrote that you have a trouble with disconnects even in wireless-only setup (no failover setup). If so, you should run and debug wireless only for the time being. Note: remember what wpa_supplicant does: It handles passing the login and encryption credentials to the authentication server. It also handles roaming from one wireless access point to another, in order to maintain connectivity. Here are some hints on setup: http://hostap.epitest.fi/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=hostap.git;a=blob_plain;f=wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wpa_supplicant&sektion=8 and debugging: http://www.examplenow.com/wpa_supplicant/ third, I would test with IPv6 disabled (entirely for the system), regardless of connectivity type; that also means to explicitly disable that failover setup line in your config ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="**YES" jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Old FreeBSD server, raid issues.
Good day I have an old machine that has lost its raid (0/ stripe). Im trying to fix this. If I go [root@torry /usr/home/bclark]# gstripe list Geom name: st0 State: UP Status: Total=3, Online=3 Type: AUTOMATIC Stripesize: 65536 ID: 1006591079 Providers: 1. Name: stripe/st0 Mediasize: 360102297600 (335G) Sectorsize: 512 Stripesize: 65536 Stripeoffset: 0 Mode: r0w0e0 Consumers: 1. Name: ada0 Mediasize: 120034123776 (111G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r0w0e0 Number: 0 2. Name: ada1 Mediasize: 120034123776 (111G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r0w0e0 Number: 2 3. Name: ada4 Mediasize: 120034123776 (111G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r0w0e0 Number: 1 I see 'State: UP' if i: [root@torry /usr/home/bclark]# mount -t ufs /dev/stripe/st0a /mnt/ mount: /dev/stripe/st0a: Invalid argument [root@torry /usr/home/bclark]# fsck /dev/stripe/st0a fsck: Could not determine filesystem type [root@torry /usr/home/bclark]# fsck_ufs /dev/stripe/st0a ** /dev/stripe/st0a Cannot find file system superblock ioctl (GCINFO): Inappropriate ioctl for device fsck_ufs: /dev/stripe/st0a: can't read disk label If someone could help, it would be appreciated, of what the next step is, it would be appreciated. Kind Regards Brent Clark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports?
in message , wrote Ralf Mardorf thusly... > > Hi :) > > I hope it's ok, when I open a new thread for this issue. > First I need to know what files have a bad owner. > > I'm running > # freebsd-update IDS >> outfile_28Jan2013.ids > perhaps this will give some useful output, regarding to a wrong owner for > files from world. > > It's still running. > > I still have no idea how to check this for the files build from ports. If I understand your problem correctly, it is of incorrect owner & group. If so, are there any problems with just running "chown -R" on the parent directory (say /usr/local, where ports are installed by default)? - parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"