Re: 4.10 stable release info
On Thu, 6 May 2004 10:36 pm, JJB wrote: The official 4.10 schedule says 4.10 stable release was scheduled for May 5. The FTP sites still have RC2 and the 4.10 to-do list talks about RC3. Anybody from the release team care to comment on what is the holdup and when 4.10 going to be updated to the mirror FTP sites? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/schedule.html Whenever I see a release put back I think Thank goodness for the FreeBSD team that they make sure that it is working before they release it rather than adhering to any artificial release dates. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APC Back-UPS XS1500VA
On Sun, 2 May 2004 6:08 am, dave wrote: Hello, I'm trying to determine if this UPS will work wih FreeBSD, i want to use it to control two computers, a switch, and a cable modem. I have not been able to find any information on it pertaning to nut or apcupsd. Does anyone know if this is a upported model and what an apcupsd.conf might be? Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you refered to the apcupsd web page. Look here for the full info http://www2.apcupsd.com/3.10.x-manual/supported.html Here are 2 excerpts Supported Operating Systems, UPSes and Cables Please note that due to the lack of Unix USB API standards, the USB code in apcupsd works only on Linux. Drivers for other OSes can be written, but it requires someone with a knowledge of the OS and the USB to do so. (This lack of a Unix USB API interface is one of the big failings of Unix. It occurs in other areas such as the GUI. Many people tout the diversity as an advantage, but it is in fact a weakness.) and BackUPS CS USB, Pro USB, ES USB, RS/XS 1000, RS/XS 1500, and probably other USB models-USB From this I would infer that your ups is a USB driven ups only and you may have problems with connecting to it. I guess it would depend on the port and whether it has been suficiently modified to work with usb on freebsd. Maybe give it a go. I am not familiar with the backUPS model. I have the smartUPS'. With them you can buy a serial expansion card. If you can buy one of these it may be a solution. last time I set up apcupsd I found it to be easy if you look at the above site. Just give it a go. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Data Storage Plan?
Does any one have Company-wide (LAN) Data Storage Plan? My requirement are PC Users: 50 Users OS: Win 3.1, Win 9x, Win Pro2000, Win XP, Lindows, FreeBSD My plan is to take weekly backup of 15 PCs as well as company data store/file such as Finance/Accounts spreadsheets, Administrator/HR documents, Engineering's drawings, machinist's programs etc. I know only one thing that .. Data Storage Server OS: FreeBSD Security Issues: How to Authenticate different users? (Need Ideas) Please give suggestion which application to use. like, shell I install/set FTP server, HTTP server, SAMBA, etc. What kind of hardware to use? RAID: ??? IDE HDD: ??? (Is 200 GB enough) Backup Tape: ??? (Tape / ZIP drive) Motherboard: ??? CPU: ??? CD RW: ??? (Needed) Help me in visualizing my data storage server. Thanks in Advance. With Regards Ajitesh K One of the main thing you need to do here is ask the right questions from the start. The most important one is What is my budget? Everything hinges on that. Secondary to that is What kind of redundancy do I want and how much downtime am I allowed? Thirdly How am I going to back it up and recover from problems? Fourthly How much expansion do I want?. You can buy new or second hand to save some $$. If money is tight look at the computer auctions. We bought an old compaq dual 450 with a dlt tape drive and scsi raid for about $1000US a year ago. The best thing about old hardware and freebsd is that it us usually very well supported and still runs fast enough. They are cheap enough to buy 2 and use one for parts. Compare this to the new gear we bought. $4US for an IBM server and 500GBsan. The tape backup solution for this was going to be$1. If you are looking for some kind of spec on a homebrew system Start off using good quality brand name parts. You do want raid. Make sure it is hardware raid and preferably scsi. Use a seperate scsi card for the tape drive if you get one, dont use the raid card. Get a server quality network card not a $10 realtek. Get a decent board like an intel or an asus or a tyan. Processor wise doling out files doesnt cause much load. Get what you can afford. Min 256MB ram get 512. It will all depend on your budget. Think of the warranty too. Building it yourself can be cool but some manufacturers warranties are not so good. They want to have the part, test it then send a replacement or repair yours. This takes a minimum of 2 weeks from experience. We have a video card in at the moment for warranty and it is 6 weeks and counting. Get someone to build it that will forward RA parts or sit by and wait. We are a similarly sized company about 60 users. Something that has worked for us is to make everyone use the server for data file storage. This simplifies the backup of critical data greatly. Looking at your clients above they will all work happily with a freebsd fileserver running SAMBA. You will want to look at the samba documentation to make an informed decision on user security. For a start you could set up freebsd accounts that would authenticate the workstation users. For a fancier approach you could use open ldap. It all depends on your skills, money and how much redundany etc that you want. Size of the file server is going to depend on how much data that you want to hold. We have lots of cad data and the usuall kind of word docs etc. We survived for ages on 50GB but now we are up to about 100GB. Your size will depend on how much data will be held live and how much can be archived off. Useage will double every 18 months. So leave room for expansion. Backup will depend on money and how many gigs you want to backup. The more you want to backup the more it will cost. I priced a tape unit to backup 100+GB. It was going to cost about $2AUD. Instead we went to removeable ide drives. Dont just back up onto the same one over and over. Rotate them so you will need a dozen or more. Still cost us $5000 AUD. The backup software will be determined by the method you use. Look at rsync, tar, dump, AMANDA, BACKULA... For archiving of data I have found cds and dvd to be good. We make 2 copies, on for the offfice and one for the offsite. Number them and list the contents. Users can search the lists and then get the data back themselves. Archiving is something that you should spend a lot of time on. The more you can strip from the server the less size you need in storage and the smaller backup you need. Costs for your server go down dramatically. I never backup workstations so I can thelp you there. Ours are fairly static and if one is going bad it usually needs a reinstall of windas anyway. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Harddrive Failure
On Tue, 4 May 2004 12:36 am, Reuben A. Popp wrote: Morning all, snip busted drive story Could be the board if both drives appear busted. It could be the o/s. My 5.2.1 system has been getting similar errors and halting. See if maxtor has a drive checking utility. Some manufacturers like seagate have a utility you burn on cd and boot off it. It allows you to check the drives on the system independantly of the host os. It may not be a final solution but is a step in the direction of diagnosing the fault. If the info on the drives was not backed up it obviously was not important . ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel Pro 1000 MT Dual port comptability under 5.1
On Tue, 4 May 2004 3:01 pm, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: Is the referenced NIC comptable under 5.1? My understanding was yes from reading the hardware notes (datasheet is here: http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/resources/doc_library/dat a_sheets/pro1000mt_sa_dual.pdf) but it seems my system is not detecting the card. Should I be trying it with 4.9 instead? (the datasheet says 4.x and later, but its unclear whether that includes 5.x as well). Regards. If you are adventurous try 5.2.1 it looks to be supported under the em driver Or try 4.9 if you want the recommended stable version. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk Usage
On Wed, 5 May 2004 10:38 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Michael Conlen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any ideas what would cause the df -k and du -k discrepancy? FAQ entry: The du and df commands show different amounts of disk space available. What is going on? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU- VS-DF ___ Ahh the all encompasing Freebsd documentation. Im sure the meaning of life is hidden in there somewhere... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrw PIO4
On Sun, 9 May 2004 3:17 am, w sx wrote: Thank you! I used atacontrol to set it until I rebooted... and after a reboot.. its detected correctly. --- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: w sx wrote: Does anyone have any tips on getting the CDRW drive set to UDMA mode? Add the following to your /boot/loader.conf: hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 ...and reboot. You might also be able to use atacontrol. -- -Chuck __ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have a look at man ata. Here is the important part ATAPI devices are set to PIO mode by default because severe DMA problems are common even if the device capabilities indicate support. You can always try to set DMA mode on an ATAPI device using atacontrol(8), but be aware that your hardware might not support it and can potentially hang the entire system causing data loss. Just incase you start having problems. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Third IDE hard disk
On Sat, 15 May 2004 8:26 am, Mark wrote: I installed my new FreeBSD 4.9R on my new ASUS KV8 Deluxe board. Everything work fine... except, FreeBSD cannot find the third harddisk! (the third IDE, as master on the third IDE port). How do I enable it? Or make FreeBSD see it? (please, please, let me not have to recompile the kernel). Thank you, - Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did some reading and found this. The third ata channel has to be turned on in the bios and configured to be raid or ata. Did you do this? It has a Promise R20378 controller on it on raid mode and may not be bsd compatible. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: c and freebsd
On Fri, 21 May 2004 2:15 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: After seeing the results you got, I'm going to adopt that as my new .sig. Thanks for the tip! -- Kirk Strauser i'm 16 by the way - sexy brittany spears LOL Love it! my new sig Im 37 by the way - Sexy Aria Giovanni Will only make people think im some kind of devo and that my favorite port is pornview ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dump to a samba mounted FAT32 disk can't handle bigfiles?
On Tue, 25 May 2004 9:56 am, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 24 May 2004, Joachim Dagerot wrote: The man page for dump states this: [] -B records The number of kilobytes per output volume, except that if it is not an integer multiple of the output block size, the command uses the next smaller such multiple. This option overrides the calculation of tape size based on length and density. [] So I thougth this line should create a bunch of 35mb files. But it did not. Any thouts on this? dump -0 -L -a -B 35000 -f /HEMMET2/External_HD/freebsd_usr.dump /dev/ad0s1f A little farther down, the -f option says: Multiple file names may be given as a single argument separated by commas. Each file will be used for one dump volume in the order listed; if the dump requires more volumes than the number of names given, the last file name will used for all remaining volumes after prompting for media changes. I don't know if there's a way to make dump automatically name or number a bunch of output files, but you can give it a list of filenames if you have an idea of how many it will need. And once again from the fabulous man page -S option Display an estimate of the backup size and the number of tapes required, and exit without actually performing the dump. There seems to be a limitation in mount_smbfs that will not allow you to transfer files greater than 4GB ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fstab
Joshua Lewis wrote: The last time I edited this file my system ceased to boot. I have made what looks to me like a valid entry. This is the same thing I entered in last time. I am not going to save this but does it look valid to anyone out there? # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/ad0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1f /tmpufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1g /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1e /varufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/acd1c /cdrom1 cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 This is the line I added /dev/ad1s1 /disk2 ufs rw 2 2 proc/proc procfs rw 0 0 /dev/ad1s1 what? a, d, e, f,g ?? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fstab
Joshua Lewis wrote: /dev/ad1s1 what? a, d, e, f,g ?? Do I specify? I am using the whole drive. should I change it to /dev/ad1s1a? Thank you, Joshua Lewis Anubis Joshua Lewis wrote: The last time I edited this file my system ceased to boot. I have made what looks to me like a valid entry. This is the same thing I entered in last time. I am not going to save this but does it look valid to anyone out there? # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1f /tmpufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1g /usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1e /varufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/acd1c /cdrom1 cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 This is the line I added /dev/ad1s1 /disk2 ufs rw 2 2 proc/proc procfs rw 0 0 /dev/ad1s1 what? a, d, e, f,g ?? asuming that you have done the whole fdisk/disklabel/newfs you can list the contents of /dev thus, ls /dev to find out. It will be ad1s1d or something like that ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fstab
It would be whatever you used in the disklabel run (or the one done for you if you use sysinstall). 'd' is unlikely and so is 'c' d is highly likely and is what you get if you use sysinstall in 5.x. I have about 25 drives with a d partition. d certainly is unlikely in 4.x c will appear in the list but shouldnt be used to mount ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Devil Mascot
Thompson, Jimi wrote: SNIP From a marketing perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD because they have religious objections to a product that is promoted by a devil. Why should The FreeBSD project be interested in users ? It is not a commerial project. I think the FreeBSD folks are interested in making a cool unix-like operating system, not much else. /SNIP SOAPBOX My personal view is that the daemon logo performs as pre-filter to help us locate reasonable users. You are either a sufficiently advanced as a person to deal using a product that has a daemon for a logo, in which case we welcome you as a user of one of the finest operating systems around. If you are not sufficiently advanced to handle this concept then you won't use our product in which case the only thing we miss out on dealing with yet another religious bigot. Where's the downside? /SOAPBOX 2 cents, Jimi ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] My thoughts exactly. It is a kind of intelligence test and filter. Like the rest of freebsd, you either get it or you dont. Freebsd is not for everyone. Im kind of turning into a freebsd zealot though. Its almost good enough to worship. If beastie could be considered a god he is not a jealous god like the jewish one. Although there are plenty of people who have given their hearts and souls to the project, but it is not compulsory. There are plenty more that sleep well of a night knowing that beastie is looking out for them. Prayers to beastie via freebsd-questions seem to be answered quite promptly. I dont know of any other god that has as good a track record. I dont like being blown off with that he works in mysterious ways crap. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Verifying integrity of Backup Tapes
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 02:31 pm, Rick Duvall wrote: I have some backup tapes that I have been using each once per week for about 8 months. I am getting errors when running amverify on a couple of them. To be sure that my tapes are still good and not just the system giving me fits, it would be nice if I could run a program that would write bits to the tape in question and try to read them back, telling me which blocks on the tape are bad. Is there such a tool that does this? I guess it would be kind of like a scandisk is to a DOS Floppy as what I am talking about is to a Unix Tape. Sincerely, Rick Duvall Online Highways System Administrator (541) 997-8401 x 111 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I get errors on tapes I bin them immediately. Tapes wear and they do have a life span which varies from tape to tape. If you are backing up something it is obviously important so take no chances in loosing it. On my windows system I have the o/s backup set to verify to make sure the data is ok. When it crashed and had to be restored from tape I found that 2 of the tapes that were verified couldnt be read. The tapes were about a year old. The amount of money the company lost from having an old tape could have paid for a new server, several tape drives and media. The lesson I learnt was tapes are cheap, turn over frequently. Remember with dds technology they are a helical scan head. Tapes backed up on one dds drive are not necessarily readable by any other dds drive as I found out the hard way. Look at DLT as an alternative. Whatever you get make sure you add in a 3 year warranty. Get one from hp or ibm. We had our hp fail at 4pm. Had a new one on site 10am next day. They only fail when you really need them. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Via EPIA 800Mhz
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 07:39 am, Pranav A. Desai wrote: I have the same options in the kernel config ... it still does the same thing :( ... now I am certain I am doing something wrong ... I think I will the GENERIC kernel config and see if that works ... Thanks for your help -Pranav *** Pranav A. Desai On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, J. Seth Henry wrote: Hi! Does anyone know if the Via EPIA 800MHz is supported in any version of freebsd. I tried it with 4.6.2 and it reboots as soon as kernel loads. Or do I need to enable any specific options in the kernel config. It has the following CPU- VIA C3 800 E-Series processor, 800 MHz I would appreciate any kind of help. Thanks *** Pranav A. Desai Yes, it does. My ipfilter/NAT machine is running 4.8-REL on a 933MHz EPIA board, and I have an X terminal running 4.8-REL on a 800MHz EPIA board. I use the following kernel configuration (for the X terminal): # Kernel configuration for gearbox (4/25/2003) working copy machine i386 cpu I686_CPU ident gearbox maxusers0 options INET#InterNETworking #optionsINET6 #IPv6 Communications Protocols options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem options FFS_ROOT#FFS usable as root device [keep this!] options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support options MFS #Memory Filesystem options MD_ROOT #MD is a potential root device options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem options CD9660 #ISO 9660 Filesystem options CD9660_ROOT #CD-ROM usable as root, CD9660 required options PROCFS #Process filesystem options COMPAT_43 #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options SCSI_DELAY=1000 #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI options UCONSOLE#Allow users to grab the console options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor options KTRACE #ktrace(1) support options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores options P1003_1B#Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options ICMP_BANDLIM#Rate limit bad replies options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV# install a CDEV entry in /dev options QUOTA options SUIDDIR options NO_F00F_HACK options DDB_UNATTENDED device isa device eisa device pci # Floppy drives #device fdc0at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2 #device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 #device fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives #device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives #device atapist # ATAPI tape drives options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering # SCSI Controllers #device ahc # AHA2940 and onboard AIC7xxx devices #device sym # NCR/Symbios Logic device # SCSI peripherals device scbus # SCSI bus (required) device da # Direct Access (disks) #device sa # Sequential Access (tape etc) device cd # CD device pass# Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse device atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1 device psm0at atkbdc? irq 12 device vga0at isa? # splash screen/screen saver pseudo-device splash # syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console device sc0 at isa? flags 0x100 # Floating point support - do not disable. device npx0at nexus? port IO_NPX irq 13 # Power management support (see LINT for more options) #device apm0at nexus? disable flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management # Serial (COM) ports device sio0at isa? port IO_COM1 irq 4 device sio1at isa? port IO_COM2 flags 0x10 irq 3 # Parallel port device ppc0at isa? irq 7 device
Re: Real Time FreeBSD?!!!
Dude, could you rephrase that? Its a bit hard to understand On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 04:09 pm, sam Long wrote: I have a system FreeBSD 5.1-p11. How will develop further FreeBSD? How real time is possible to make from FreeBSD operational system? I know, that in FreeBSD there are expansions real time of standard POSIX. I have a small kernel of system due to modules, but on how many stably such kernel? What problems can be?I have born all modules for limits of a kernel. Thank you for the help Den. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Big troubles running FreeBSD on a Shuttle nForce2
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 02:26 am, Raphael Dinge wrote: Hi, I've installed a long ago FreeBSD 5.1 on my mother's computer which is a shuttle with nvidia nforce2 motherboard. The computer crashes for reasons I can't explain. Since 5.2 was out, I installed it, and the problems are still consistent. The problem is that the computer is crashing (freezing or suddenly rebooting). The problem occurs on both 5.1 and 5.2. - In console vga text mode, the computer did not ever crash, and I was available to 'make install' via ssh from my home a big variety of different programs, - When I launch X, the problems comes, what ever window manager I used, namely WindowMaker and KDE 3. - Crash can occurs when moving a window, launching an application, clicking on a link in a web browser, - The computer is stable running with X if I don't do anything with the GUI. I can still use ssh to administrate from my home flawlessly. - Crashes are very likely to freeze the computer or to make it reboot suddenly. Sometimes it will just crash X, - Sometimes when X crash, I can see that KDE did catch a Bad drawable error (this is all the local machine, no distributed X), - Sometimes when moving windows, I can see small horizontal lines as if the screen was not refreshed well, - I was thinking that it did come from the kernel modules, so I tried : - with or without acpi.ko (in 5.1 since acpi won't run on 5.2 on this computer now) didn't change, - with various X card driver, namely 'vesa', 'nv' and 'nvidia' from the ports, didn't change - I didn't enable sound kernel module for now - Enabling nvidia.ko in loader.conf always stall computer startup after keyboard probe (did not try on 5.2) - I don't use the onchip network controller (not supported in 5.1), and did bought a network controller running with sis, flawlessly. I must admit I'm completely lost with that problem, since I have the same computer at home, but my mother's computer was bought 1 year later after mine. I don't know from where to start, (hardware test, bios params, bios revision, nforce2 motherboard support) since it seems I can't find panic log (and I don't know if they exist anyway). Googling and searching list archive did not give me more informations. Any advice will be greatly apreciated. Many thanks, There are a number of issues with this kind of machine and they arent limited to freebsd. We have a number of these machines running windas at work. 1 works perfectly and the others are a bit flakey. We had a long look at this problem and what it comes down to is these machines have shared memory for the video. They are very fussy about what kind of ram they use. This is why when you start using the video heavily there is problems. Our good machine used good ram and the other funky ones use unsupported ram. There are 2 possible solutions. One solution is to look at the nvidia site and only use the ram they suggest for igp boards. Second solution is put in a seperate video card. Note that there have been revisions on these boards so the one bought 1 year later may have significant changes to the bios and the chips such as the on board nics. The nforce 2 boards are great feature wise but they are a bit temperamental. I want to beat them like a red headed step child sometimes. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: If you would like to comment on the death penalty go to www.newsc hat.org
I think it is perfectly justified for people who post crap to this list. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 8:36 am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Hi all, I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very much since I got my desktop system with a flatscreen. I'm trying to think of something interesting to do with it now. I don't really need a separate firewall, and it doesn't make sense to use it as a fileserver. With a ppp connection, it couldn't easily be a webserver either. Any ideas on something interesting to use it for? Maybe some kind of learning experience? NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. jm We have an old laptop and are going to turn it into a music on hold service for our pabx. Will be uploading files to it via ftp and running a cron job to list all files in the ftp directory and start playing them. People can listen while on hold or we can listen in on the loudspeaker on the phone. There are plenty of command line driven players out there I am sure. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:54 pm, Geert Hendrickx wrote: Hello, I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and then I get the following error message: /dev/dsp: Device busy but lsof | grep dsp yields nothing. Can anyone help me with this mystery? :-) Thanks in advance, GH I dont know if this is the problem but it sounds similar to one I had recently. Sound was working then I portupgraded some things. Sound was a bit iffy for a while until I updated a bunch of other stuff, actually everything. It worked ok after that. Now running 5.2. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 5:39 am, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:23:52PM +1000, anubis wrote: : We have an old laptop and are going to turn it into a music on hold : service for our pabx. : : Will be uploading files to it via ftp and running a cron job to list all : files in the ftp directory and start playing them. People can listen : while on hold or we can listen in on the loudspeaker on the phone. : : There are plenty of command line driven players out there I am sure. Why a cron job to play them? Why not just ssh in and run it that way? jm Well the idea was for me to not have to touch it after I started it. Admin staff can update it by sending files to it while I peacefully download windows critical updates and porno. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why BSD?
SNIP --DUN DUNH-- Dude, that is the worst sound for an admin to hear. Never heard it while working on any of my bsd boxes. Heard it twice this weekend. Upgrading a windas 2000 sbs to windas 2003 sbs box. Then I went Aiee. I like the fact that freebsd just works with no problems or stupid crap. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why BSD?
I have to ask: Why FreeBSD rather than Linux? Honest question. It makes you smarter. I learnt more about computing and networking setting up freebsd boxes for 1 month than years of being a gui jockey for the other systems, including linux. Now the tables have been turned. I am in control of them they are no longer in control of me. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup question
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:52 am, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Darryl Hoar wrote: I have a Freebsd 5.1-release box with samba installed, configured and working. On my network I have an NT 4 server (can't change this right now). It has a share on it called publications. I would like to synchronize (in one direction) the files from the publication share to the Freebsd box. So, when I synchronized, any changes on the publications share are copied to the freebsd box, but NEVER the other way. Use mount_smbfs to mount the publications share read-only on the FreeBSD system. Then use rsync -a to copy it to your backup location. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And the CRON ring to rule them all ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rip a datacd
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 5:30 am, Brian H wrote: Greetings: is there an x app out there that can be used to rip a data cd. Thanks, Brian _ Get some great ideas here for your sweetheart on Valentine's Day - and beyond. http://special.msn.com/network/celebrateromance.armx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] While not an x app something to look at is cdrdao. It is a port that allows you to create cds and copy them. You will need scsi cam compiled in if you only have ata reader/burner. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how do I remove Apache installs?
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:45 am, Marty Landman wrote: I don't see where this is covered in the FreeBSD Handbook. I have a couple of Apache installs (1.3 2) and would like to remove them from my system. And then start over again. How is this sort of thing normally done? Really depends on how you installed them. Portupgrade, package, port, or native source? I assure you that there is lots written in the handbook about software. See section 4.4-4.7 In addition to this start reading here. man portupgrade have a look at the see also section at the end and keep on reading. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMBFS VFS.USEROMUNT BUG OR MY STUPIDITY?
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:00 pm, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi there. I think i may have discovered a bug in free bsd 5.2-RELEASE, it may be in earlier versions too, but I have not tried it (maybe someone running 4.x could try it) I have made an fstab entry and nsmbrc file for a smb share. vfs.usermount is set to 1. A normal user (me in this case (edd)) can mount a cdrom drive (on a dir owned by him): mount /home/edd/cdrom umount /home/edd/cdrom this returns no errors and proves that vfs.usermount is working for cd9660 fs. mount /home/edd/rhome works fine... but umount /home/edd/rhome does NOT work. (permission denied) Is this a bug or am I being dumb? Thanks! Let me ask the obvious. Are you seeing anything in the logs? You dont happen to have /home/edd/home as your current directory when you try and dismount? Have you tried umount -v or umount -f? I had a similar problem but i cant quite recall how i solved it. Ill look at that machine in the next few days and see. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 1:46 pm, Robert Storey wrote: I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD client machine for a school. They have never used FBSD or even Linux, they are 100% Windows. They are interested in letting their students gain experience with non-Windows software. So I need to prove to them that FBSD can work, but I've run into a major obstacle. snip I have a similar setup. We make each client authenticate to the ms isa firewall so that we can stop bludgers checking their share portfolio durting work. This is probably a similar situation. Try this. With MS ISA server which is probably running on the win2k firewall box there is an option called something like authenticate outgoing requests Untick this, It will ask to save settings and restart services. Say yes. Wait 1 minute. Try the bsd box again. You should be able to get out via nat ot via proxy then. To find the setting start clicking on I think the server object and then properties. If you cant find it let me know and I will make a step by step. I have a second freebsd firewall box for all the bsd machines to connect through and as a backup for when the windows machine breaks down. You may want to dig out an old relic and so the same. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with SCSI disk
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 1:56 am, RJ45 wrote: Hello FreeBSD 5.2/alpha I have 3 scsi disk, one of the disks I don;t know why is not working. it is not seen by sysinstall and when I try to do sauron# disklabel -e da2 disklabel: /dev/da2: no valid label found GEOM: create disk da2 dp=0xfccfe068 da2 at isp0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 da2: MAXTOR ATLAS10K4_36WLS DFL0 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da2: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da2: 35074MB (71833096 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4471C) the disk isseen by the kernel. how come I am not able to label it ? if you go ls /dev/da* do you see it there? Did you fdisk before disklabel? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with tape units
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 11:52 am, David Bear wrote: I recently replace an ait tape drive with another one of the same model,, a sony sdx 300. Now, when I try to do anything with /dev/sa0 like get status or erase, I get a ton of errors. Below is the output of dmesg from it. Do I need to remake the sa device? Don't know why things would be timing out. I have an active terminator on the unit.. it is an external tape unit, connected to an adaptec 29160 card (wide). It is the ONLY device on the scsi card and set at ID 10. I am using freebsd4.9. I dont know but have you done what you can to eliminate hardware problems? Why did you replace the old one? Did the new one ever work? Will the new one work on another machine? Will another tape drive work on this machine? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 9:32 am, Richard Beyer wrote: We're currently doing a back up of a FreeBSD 4.9 (2) server by plugging a USB external drive in and then doing cp /dev/ad0 /dev/da0 This takes about 30 hours, (USB 1). Is this the best way to do it, or can someone suggest a better way. We'd rather not have the server offline while we do it. Cheers, Richard Why not use removeable drive trays with straight pata drives? You could then use rsync to only update the changes since the last backup. This would solve the time problem. We use rsync to hourly backup about 100GB of data used by about 50 people. It only takes about 10-20 minutes to update all the changes. Of course time depends on the amount of data changed. For the os it shouldnt be much at all. With removeable drives you just need to unmount the drive then atacontrol detatch and you can pull it out while the machine is going. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firewall blocking natd redirect
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 3:47 am, Derrick Ryalls wrote: I have a port redirect, public port 5001 to an internal machine port 3389, for Remote Desktop that works well in natd as long as I don't fire up my custom firewall: 0005023427286 divert 8668 ip from any to any via sis0 00100 24 6080 allow ip from any to any via lo0 00200 00 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 00300 00 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any 00400 00 check-state 00500 2 186 allow ip from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.0/24 00600 4 266 allow ip from 192.168.1.0/24 to 192.168.1.1 00700 34 3399 allow ip from any to any keep-state in recv dc0 00800 18 2093 allow ip from any to any keep-state out xmit sis0 00900 00 allow ip from any to any keep-state out xmit dc0 01000 00 allow ip from any to 0.0.0.255:0.0.0.255 in recv dc0 01100 00 allow ip from 192.168.1.1 to any keep-state 01200 00 allow udp from any to any 53 keep-state 01300 00 allow tcp from any to any 53 keep-state 01400 00 allow udp from any to any 25 keep-state 01500 00 allow tcp from any to any 25 keep-state 01600 00 allow tcp from any to any 993 keep-state 0170018818936 allow tcp from any to any 22 keep-state 01800 00 allow tcp from any to any 80 keep-state 01900 00 allow tcp from any to any 5001 keep-state 65535 173082 56255563 deny ip from any to any sis0 is the public interface and dc0 is the internal. Right now I don't might so much having reduntant rules, but I would like my functionality back without doing an allow from any to any. Any ideas on what I am missing? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have similar problem. I came accross this thread that may be of assistance in understanding your problem. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-January/032694.html It appears there may be a problem with stateful rules and port forwarding. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup
Toomas Aas wrote: Hi! On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 9:32 am, Richard Beyer wrote: We're currently doing a back up of a FreeBSD 4.9 (2) server by plugging a USB external drive in and then doing cp /dev/ad0 /dev/da0 This takes about 30 hours, (USB 1). To which anubis answered: Why not use removeable drive trays with straight pata drives? Few months ago I did some research on this and found that not every removable IDE drive bay supports hot-swapping - the ones that do are somewhat more expensive. I myself ended up using external FireWire drives, which have worked out quite well (and the speed is much better than USB with FreeBSD 4.9): Toomas Aas wrote: To which anubis answered: Why not use removeable drive trays with straight pata drives? Few months ago I did some research on this and found that not every removable IDE drive bay supports hot-swapping - the ones that do are somewhat more expensive. I myself ended up using external FireWire drives, which have worked out quite well (and the speed is much better than USB with FreeBSD 4.9): I am using removeable drives and trays. I am using the plain jane vipower ones as seen here. http://www.vipower.com/product/MobileRack/3fan_mobile_rack/vp_70/vp_7010ls3fu.htm They are connected to a promise 2 channel ide card as seen here http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=11familyId=3 The drives are 200GB seagates. Neither of these is rated as hot swappable as far as I know. We are using them as hot swappable. To us this means that we unmount the drive, atacontrol detatch, power off then yank out without powering down the server. We have been using this as a backup method successfully for over a month now in production and before that for a couple of months in testing. We havent noticed any problems so far. I hesitate in calling it a success at this stage. Ask me in 2 months time when I see how the drives handle being lugged off site daily. When I looked at it I took the hot swapping features to be needed only for windows. If you are worried about burning out something use an ide card like we are so if smoke comes out you can bin it and not the motherboard. The cost wasnt that great. In Aussie dollars the trays were $30, the card about $60. The machine is currently running 5.1. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Users Learning FreeBSD
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 6:16 pm, Loren M. Lang wrote: I am curious what some newbies experiences were with FreeBSD who have have no unix experience before. I have someone that I might be setting up a unix workstation of some kind for and I'm debating whether I should use FreeBSD or some Linux distro like mandrake or debian. I will be there most of the time to help if needed as this is for work and will not be his home desktop, at least not yet. He only have some experience with using dos and windoze, but he does have some technical background with computers. This is my opinion. Your opinion and mileage may vary. I dont think that something like mandrake is easier to use than freebsd. They use the same applications and share the same window managers so if you do a good enough job of setting up freebsd it should be functionally the same or better than any linux distro. As far as maintaining the system what could be easier than the freebsd upgrade process? For adding software the ports system is dead simple. As far as using unix, with both of them he is going to be on a learning curve if all he has known is windows. I would say that the freebsd documentation is going to be of great help here. You may wish to give him a book on freebsd to help. I found Absolute BSD an excellent book that really helped me get to know the basics of freebsd. If freebsd is what you know and are using on your machine it will be easier for you management wise as you are only worrying about 1 os not 2. Your friend will also recieve better support from you if it is something that you are comfortable with and are using yourself. After using both I have personally found freebsd easier to use than linux. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burncd and cdrecord
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 11:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I backed some files up using burncd and cdrecord. The files burned fine. But the problem that I am having. Is that I am unabel to see the files. The command I used for burn cd was: burncd -f /dev/asc1c -s max -e data *.* fixate. And the command I used for cdrecord i baleve was: cdrecord dev=1,1,0 *.*. I am not sure the exact command I did for cdrecord. Because I only have 1,1,0 written down. I am using FreeBSD 4.9 and have a Hewlett Packard Cd-Writer Plus 9100 series. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dude, you need to create an iso first. Look at man 8 mkisofs Also take some time and look here at the handbook Section 12.5 http://www.au.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate system to new HD question
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 2:11 pm, Terrac Skiens wrote: Hello All, I have been running a FreeBSD system for fun semi-pro uses for about 4 years. In all that time I only upgraded the Hard Disk once. That upgrade came at the same time as an OS upgrade, and at that time the server was used for much less. Now the applications, configuration, and data are all very important to me. So now it's time to upgrade again. and I want to migrate all the data from one disk (20gb) to another (80gb). Does anyone know of a way of imaging one drive onto the other? Idealy I would like to increase some of the slices as well, but that may not be possible. If anyone knows of a way, please let me know. There is the ever popular dump and restore method also. This allows you to modify the slice and partition sizes. Do something like this. drop in new disk format up with the sysinstall tools mount the new partitions somewhere restore the data to them edit files like fstab to change the disk names in there or just swap the drives around in the box so the new one is logically where the old one was. reboot look at man dump and man restore If you really want to do it this way I can supply a better dummy sheet. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RM 1U server for FreeBSD
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 5:19 pm, stepan wrote: hello all! Advise Rack Mount a server 1U for installation FreeBSD. Stepan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You dont say what it is for so it is a little difficult to answer definitivly. However I know that the ibm x305 does a good job as a firewall. What do you want it to do? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrom mount problem
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 1:35 am, Chris wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* In summary: the only way to mount my cdrom after burning an ISO is to reboot first. Prior to 5.2.1-RC1, I was able to burn ISO imaged onto a CDRW using burncd, then later mount /cdrom to access the files I burned. With RC1 and now with 5.2.1-RELEASE, a strange thing happens: After a reboot, I can mount /cdrom and access files on the disc. But if I re-burn the ISO file, then try to mount /cdrom, I get this: cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/output error BUT... if I reboot THEN try to access that same disk, it works fine. I had a problem with burncd where I couldnt access the disk after burning. I couldnt eject or mount it. It required a reboot to get it. I couldnt solve it but I was able to work around it by using cdcontrol. See the man page for all options but breifly you can eject and then close the disk by cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 eject cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 close I cant remember exactly what I did but I am sure I just ejected by software then put back in and it worked fine. It was as if somehow something was holding onto the disk. I thought it was maybe my windows partition getting lonely. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best *nix OS for a laptop?
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 9:42 am, Eric F Crist wrote: Hello list, I've been using freebsd 4.x on a laptop for 6 months or so now, and I'm not entirely happy with it. Mostly, it lacks multimedia support and power management. I don't want to start some flame war here, but here goes. Could some of you please send me an email telling me what OS you utilize on your laptop, and why? I'm not looking for anyone bashing any other OS, just why you use what you do. TIA Ive got 5.2 on my ibm r40 notebook. I originally had mandrake on it but whenever I went to do anything I was frustrated by not knowing linux. Im using freebsd now because the comfort I have from just being able to make things work without having to think oh this works differently when I want to do anything. It has the comforting sameness of my servers and home machine. I can also rip down the latest sources from my cvsup mirror at work easily. Being the same as my servers I can trial stuff first on it before unleashing it on my unsuspecting users. Being always near power I have never thought about the power business so I cant say about it, likewise the modem. I never use it. With regards to the multimedia, what exactly doesnt work? Have you looked at the 5.x branch? If I was going to try linux again I would try suse. Its full of german goodness. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Probelms and Inconsistencies with Portupgrade
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 1:00 pm, Aeefyu wrote: Deal All, My problems surfaced when I updated Portupgrade with reference to item 20040226 in /usr/ports/UPDATING (though I suspect this is just a catalyst -- actual problem lies elsewhere) I had a similar problem. I saw another thread where they suggested getting rid of your refuse file, cvsup the ports tree again then portsdb -uU Worked for me. No more errors. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Repairing XFree86
2) use of fixit mode I have found other questions on this list about this topic. As suggested, I used the live CD and the CDROM/DVD option and then: mount -t ufs /mnt2/dev/ad0s1a /mnt ... but I get: mount: /mnt2/dev/ad01sa: Operation not permitted I dont know about the rest but the above has a typo try mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KVM Switches
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 10:19 am, Ron wrote: Need information on how to get a KVM switch to work with the FreeBSD mouse driver. The Monitor and keyboard work fine but I have to hook a mouse directly to the box for it to work. Does it work with another machine or O/S? I have had kvm switches DOA before. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6 out performs FreeBSD?!
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 5:10 pm, paul wrote: I know this benchmark is a little outdated and has probably been discussed before http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/ but I was like wtf when I saw this, is this a legit benchmark? Anyone out there in the FBSD community wanna benchmark 5.2.1 or 4.x vs Kernel 2.6. I would be interested in seeing what a properly tuned system would look like in this benchmark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Benchmarks dont mean dick to me. Performance is an overall package not just a single number. I want the ease of use, support and stability that you can only get from bsd ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.3 current from cvs
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 5:01 am, Feczak Szabolcs wrote: How can I get the latest bugs ? :) Can I ? I can cough on you that out to do it... Sorry couldnt resist ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dump restore
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 3:51 pm, Oliver Breuninger wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a way to split and concat dump files afterwards. This should possible, butg I've been see a solution for this until yet. regards You know that you can split dump files during the dump See man dump for the -B option. When you restore, restore will ask for the next volume if you have split it using -B. No need to join up again. Note dont use -B and -a together in a dump. -a will override -B What are you trying to do? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installed freebsd on ibm thinkpad a21e
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 2:51 pm, Joe Shmoe wrote: After i installed freebsd on my machine it would no longer boot. I found out after about the critical error and all the posts about freebsd not working on a2 thinkpads. If i hit f1 or f12 it gives me the loading screen and nothing happens and boot diskettes i put in my floppy drive dont load prolly cause the os wont boot. How can i get rid of freebsd if the os wont boot and the screen doesnt get past the big ibm with the f1 and f12 at the bottom.Ive already tried putting in the cd for the fix cd-cvs and boot loader downloads you have on the site they didnt get recognized or prolly couldnt run cause the machine wouldnt boot. Im stumped on this one and havent gotten much help from forums so figured id directly email u. Id appreciate(and desperately need) your help. If the machine doesnt boot from the boot floppies and doesnt boot off the recovery cd it is not the fault of freebsd. Have you told the machine to boot off the floppy/cd first and not the hard drive? There will be a setting in the bios that allows you to select which one to boot from. Try the ibm button, f1, f12 or enter while booting to get the menu. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installed freebsd on ibm thinkpad a21e
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 2:51 pm, Joe Shmoe wrote: After i installed freebsd on my machine it would no longer boot. I found out after about the critical error and all the posts about freebsd not working on a2 thinkpads. If i hit f1 or f12 it gives me the loading screen and nothing happens and boot diskettes i put in my floppy drive dont load prolly cause the os wont boot. How can i get rid of freebsd if the os wont boot and the screen doesnt get past the big ibm with the f1 and f12 at the bottom.Ive already tried putting in the cd for the fix cd-cvs and boot loader downloads you have on the site they didnt get recognized or prolly couldnt run cause the machine wouldnt boot. Im stumped on this one and havent gotten much help from forums so figured id directly email u. Id appreciate(and desperately need) your help. If you pull out the hdd can you then boot from floppy? If you can you can probably flash the bios and make it recoverable. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serial ATA questions
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:32 am, mark wrote: Hi Big question, I need to set up a FreeBSD server with serial ATA hardware raid. What serial raid controller, or what motherboard with a supported serial raid controller is recommended? I was thinking of staying with 4.9-STABLE or should I rather move to 5.2.1-RELEASE ? To see what is supported look at man 4 ata. Also look at the hardware notes for each version http://www.au.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware-i386.html#AEN65 and http://www.au.freebsd.org/releases/4.9R/hardware-i386.html#AEN33 When you pick a controller or board search the mail archives to see if anyone has had a problem with it. http://www.au.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists and of course google ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMP problems - hardware?
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Argh, I almost forgot this part of dmesg: SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! This is the second cpu firing up I dont know about the rest. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need BSD
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 7:20 am, wrote: Hello I need BSD news questions Sloan Moscow Russia ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well you have found the questions list, post away. Here is a link to some other bsd websites you might find helpful http://www.bsdsearch.com/dir/bsdsites/ Some kind of russian site http://www.freebsd.org.ua/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backing up my system
You can use dump/tar to back up the actual data. You can use disklabel and fdisk to dump the current partition scheme to a text file prior to backing up. Then, if you needed to restore/rebuild from scratch, you could boot a CD (such as FreeSBIE) partition the new disk based on the disklabel/ fdisk dumps you made prior, then use restore/tar to restore the actual data. These things above are essential. I suggest for extra paranoia that you keep a statically linked copy of the matching restore to the dump you used to create the backup handy. Sometimes Ill bzip up the dumps so Ill keep a bzcat handy too. I had a situation when trying to restore a dump made with a 5.1 dump with a 5.0 restore. There were multiple errors until I used the right one. Note that this could be coincidence or the malice of inanimate objects and could never happen to you. I prefer belts and braces. I also suggest that you do a practice run dumping a machine, destroying it, then restoring it. There is nothing worse when the panic button has been pushed than realising that you dont know what you are doing. Remember your job and maybe the company is riding on that restore working. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: automatically adjusting time
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 03:09 am, Dragoncrest wrote: Hi all. I've got a server that keeps advancing it's local time by about a minute every 3-4 days and I'm curious what steps I need to do to syncronize the time with a given server so that it doesn't keep advancing like this? I know I saw it mentioned at one time but now I can't remember. Many thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See this site also http://www.ntp.org/ This is something that trapped me for a while. Might save some time for you when it goes south The only other thing worth mentioning is that the restrict declarations apply to packets from all hosts, including those that are configured elsewhere in the configuration file and even including your clock pseudopeer(s), if any. Hence, if you specify a default set of restrictions which you don't wish to be applied to your configured peers, you must remove those restrictions for the configured peers with additional restrict declarations mentioning each peer separately. Remember to allow ntp packets throught your firewall. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Integrating windows and freebsd
I have 4 freebsd boxes and 1 windows 2000 server box acting as servers for about 50 windows clients. The boxes are used for file serving, printing, intranet, database, firewall etc. In the future all files will be served by samba and all web pages will be served by apache but are now served by those and windows/iis. We want to implement vpn and dialup access to our bsd router for our windows laptops also. Bearing in mind that the windows server is the current logon box for the windows workstations, what is the best way to integrate the user information for the freebsd boxes and the windows box. I am looking at openldap. Is this going to be a viable solution or is there other options? Has anyone tried the Novell stuff? I would prefer something that will be able to be replicated to at least 2 machines for reliability, so basing a solution soley on the windows machine is something that I want to avoid. Is there a BSD solution centre where people have examples of how their lans are configured and what services they are running to solve their problems? I seem to be able to find lots of infromation on seting up individual boxes but not whole heterogeneous networks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make depend fails, cc1: no such file
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:12 am, Stephen G Smith wrote: I am running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, and I want to add firewall support to my kernel. So, I carefully read and followed the instructions in section 9.3 of the FreeBSD Handbook. But when I run make depend i get this error: cc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1': no such file or directory *** Error code 1 I know I have a file /usr/bin/cc, but obviously no 'cc1' anywhere. Any hints? Thanks, Stephen ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had a similar problem it resolved when I read the next bit in the manual Procedure 2. Building a kernel the ``new'' way Change to the /usr/src directory. # cd /usr/src Compile the kernel. # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL Install the new kernel. # make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie...
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:45 am, Robert wrote: I've been messing around with the installion of Freebsd and think I've got it after a few tries (I think). I'm at the username # command line. It also says I got mail. But now I'm so lost. I've downloaded Doc's, handbooks and other information but I don't know where to go next. If anyone could give me a few pointers, it's would be greatly appreciated! Thank You, Robert Colon Network Administrator http://www.lakeluregolf.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are several excellent books around that will give you a helping hand. It is well worth going and paying the cash and making your life a bit easier. There is Absoulte BSD by Michael Lucas which I can personally vouch for and there is The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey which I am told is also and excellent book. Absolute BSD covers version 4 and the latest version of Complete FreeBSD covers verison 5. Either will be suitable for your needs. You cant go wrong. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nforce2 audio?
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 06:33 am, Daniel Nielsen wrote: Hi. It seems my nforce2 onboard audio is not detected by freebsd 5.1 plain install... dmesg says: uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered pci0: serial bus, USB at device 2.2 (no driver attached) pci0: network, ethernet at device 4.0 (no driver attached) pci0: multimedia, audio at device 5.0 (no driver attached) pci0: multimedia, audio at device 6.0 (no driver attached) pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 8.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 sis0: NatSemi DP83815 10/100BaseTX port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xee01-0xee010fff irq 11 at device 7.0 on pci1 using google, i've learned that it might be snd_pcm.ko module I should use... but no, I have snd_pcm_load=yes in /boot/loader.conf , and it is loaded... FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 5 02:55:42 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Preloaded elf kernel /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xc06f2000. Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/snd_pcm.ko at 0xc06f221c. Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/acpi.ko at 0xc06f22c8. So, what can I possibly do to make my onboard sound work? /Daniel Recompile the kernel in FBSD 5.1 with device pcm in the KERNCONF file device xl will pick up the 3com onboard nic for the deluxe model Dont know about the other onboard nic yet ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: adding user and group on redhat.
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 03:14 pm, Anil Garg wrote: hi, On red hat ..commands 'adduser' and '/stand/sysinstall' doesnt work. Can someone help me by telling how to add user and group in redhat. Thanks and Regards Anil. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seek psychiatric help. You are crazy downgrading to linux. ;) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (Semi)hot swap IDE
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 06:31 am, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! I'm looking for a cheap solution to back up a FreeBSD 4.8 machine. Cheap meaning that tape drives are out of question. Even external FireWire drives are deemed a bit too expensive by the folks for whom I'm doing this research. This leaves one option I can think of - standard IDE drive in one of those removable HDD trays. We'd probably use two drives, one being active in the machine and the other being kept somewhere out of the house for safety. The machine has an integrated Promise TX2 controller and two 80 GB drives are currently configured as RAID1 attached to this controller. There are two additional (non-RAID) IDE channels on the motherboard, one of them has CD-ROM attached to it and the other is free - I could attach the backup HD to that. I've done some web searching and I'm getting controversial results. Most of the info I find seems to indicate that IDE devices cannot be hot-swapped. At the same time some vendors are trying to sell stuff on their web pages which they advertise as hot swap IDE drive bays. I remain skeptical. If the majority is right and IDE drives cannot be hot swapped, this would indicate that we would need to power down the machine every time we want to change the backup HDs. This would be less than perfect, but since we are cheap we could live with it. OTOH I read 'man atacontrol' and saw that there are commands like 'atacontrol detach' and 'atacontrol attach' which seem to be meant for detaching/attaching IDE devices while the machine is running. Does this mean that I could actually run 'atacontrol detach channel', swap the drive and then run 'atacontrol attach channel' and be able to use the second HD after that? Is anyone doing something like that? -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * I don't know whether to kill myself or go bowling ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are currently using those removable drive trays for such a purpose. We have the standard vipower racks that have 3 fans and the sliding on/off switch. The drives are hosted off a standard promise 2 channel ata card, non-raid. We have a script that dismounts the drive then atacontol disconnects it. We then turn off the power via the switch on the rack and yank the drive out. No need to power down. Putting it in is just the opposite. Put in, turn on and run a script that atacontrol turns it on and then mounts it. We have been using it for about a month without a problem. We are testing it in preparation to use it as a replacement for our nightly backup to tape drives. We will still archive to tape or optical for long term data storage. It looks like as with many other things in the freebsd world it just works. The only potential problem with the whole setup is that we will be rotating the disks every day off site and we are not sure about how the drive trays and the disks will handle the constant moving around and plugging in and out. If you are interested send me an e-mail in say march and I can tell you how the first couple of months have been. Hopefully it will work, or at least we can make it work with a few mods. We stand to save about $2AUD as opposed to a tape drive and media. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS A7N8X's 3Com chip / Sil 3112
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 08:25 pm, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: Hi, Will FreeBSD 5.2 (RC1, 2 or RELEASE) support the 3Com 3C90x based n/w controller (Broadcom PHY) present on the A7N8X Deluxe motherboard? Also, will there be a driver for the Sil 3112 SATA driver? Thanx and Regards Gautham ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have that board and have the 3com nic working under 5.1 so i assume that it will work under 5.2 The sound also works Dont know about the sata though. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM xseries 305
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 05:46 am, J.D. Bronson wrote: Does anyone have 4.9 running on the above platform and if so could you kindly post a dmesg output? I have just bought 2 of these units (IDE) and pondering which flavor of *bsd to run on them. thanks! I have one happily running 5.1 The onboard nic wasnt supported under 4.8 which was around when I bought it so I went to 5.1. Oh I had to turn off ACPI to make it function though. Otherwise its working fine. I was talking to the local IBM guys and they told me that lately there has been a lot of people asking about FreeBSD and IBM. They look like they will be taking FreeBSD seriously at least locally. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing 5.1 on a Proliant 3000
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 04:04 am, Michael L. Hostbaek wrote: Hola, I am trying to install 5.1-RELEASE on an old Compaq Proliant 3000. When I boot on the cd, and choose 'default' in the bootloader - I get the following error message - followed by a panic: acpi: bad RSDP checksum (182) NMI ISA D0, EISA ff RAM parity error, likely hardware failure. and the panic. The server has been running fine for a long time with linux. I have tried re-seating the RAM blocks - and I have also succeeded in starting a linux installation. Any ideas ? (Besides getting some new hardware) /mich ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I dont have the answer to your problem but I have the same machine working fine under 4.9 and did have it going under 5.1 From memory I might have installed it from the 5.0 install disk and upgraded. I cant remember. The machine will work with freebsd. Have you another install disk of another version you can try? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: multiple dumps to single tape
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:55 am, David Bear wrote: if I am writing multiple dumps to a single tape, is it wise to have mt write a setmark after dumping each file system? There is no real need to do this. If you want to write dump after dump onto a tape in the one session use the /dev/nsa0 device. This device is the same as /dev/sa0 but doesnt rewind between sessions. So the tape will be ready for the next dump automatically. If you are using the tape to archive data and want to write multiple dumps to tape over different sessions then you can position the tape drive to the end of the tape by using the mt eom command. Make sure that you note what sessions are on the tape so that you can use the mt fsf command to get the data off later. Remember that mt fsf x goes forward x files, it doesnt go to x file. As with everything important try it out first. Nothing is worse than being bitten on the glaven by your own laziness with the hurting and the embarassment and the oy. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anybody Use 2 or More CPU at Production Env. ( SMP )
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 05:32 am, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: Hi Everybody , I watching freebsd-stable list I saw that somebody have a problem with SMP support which they are using 4.9 . I know that some improvement are coming with 5.x But this problem are very important for example somebody when enable SMP support system start to reset itself or under high load crashed ?! I wonder Does anybody use SMP Support without Problem . Because SMP is very important things ... I wonder too What about HyperThreading ?! Second How can I learn What is 1:1 and M:N thread libraries ? ! How it's work ?! How SMP work on FreeBSD ?! Because I'm using Redhat for a long time and I don't have any problem with it of course under high load ... Thanks Vahric MUHTARYAN ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem with looking at mailing lists is that you only hear about problems. The thousands of happy BSDers with working hardware dont post to these lists saying every thing is working ok so you get a biased view. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard drive stress test
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 07:28 am, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Could somebody please recommend a utility or script suitable for stressing a hard disk to check for possible errors? Thanks, ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is something I found today but havent had a chance to try. Its in ports diskcheckd is a daemon which runs in the background, reading entire disks to find any read errors on those disks. The disks which should be scanned, and the rates at which they should be scanned, must be specified in the configuration file. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's the purpose of the 2nd CD?
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 03:27 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: I burned the 2 iso images for 5.2 RC1, but during the install (even when choosing to install everything), I'm never prompted for the CD. What is it used for? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Saving your arse when you are asleep at the wheel while making changes to the o/s. The live filesystem cd is most useful for this. It is also good for restoring backups when you have been stupid. Dont loose this disk. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 4.9 Can't find second CPU ...
Dec 25 20:30:33 freebsdcgp /kernel: SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! The second cpu is going as stated above as opposed to the first cpu #0 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can't install FreeBSD5.0 or FreeBSD5.1R on Dual Computer ....
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 12:45 am, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: Hi Everybody , I can't install FreeBSD on my Dual Computer .. When I boot the computer for install FreeBSD from 5.0 CD it stopped on TimeCounter ACPI-SAFE frequency 3579545 line ... After That I try to install from 5.1 CD it stopped on same line ... But I can install FreeBSD 4.9 without problem I'm using DUAL PIII 933 CPU and INTEL Server BOARD I tested it with DUAL INTEL 1.0B too Thanks ... Vahric MUHTARYAN ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have a look at the release notes for 5.x. Here are the english ones http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/hardware-i386.html Here is the bit I think may be of use to you. It may not be the answer but it may help. Most modern laptops (as well as many desktops) use the Advanced Configuration and Power Management (ACPI) standard. FreeBSD supports ACPI via the ACPI Component Architecture reference implementation from Intel, as described in the acpi(4) manual page. The use of ACPI causes instabilities on some machines and it may be necessary to disable the ACPI driver, which is normally loaded via a kernel module. This may be accomplished by adding the following line to /boot/device.hints: hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 Users debugging ACPI-related problems may find it useful to disable portions of the ACPI functionality. The acpi(4) manual page has more information on how to do this via loader tunables. ACPI depends on a Differentiated System Descriptor Table (DSDT) provided by each machine's BIOS. Some machines have bad or incomplete DSDTs, which prevents ACPI from functioning correctly. Replacement DSDTs for some machines can be found at the DSDT section of the ACPI4Linux project Web site. FreeBSD can use these DSDTs to override the DSDT provided by the BIOS; see the acpi(4) manual page for more information. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does it possible VPS with FreeBSD ?!
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 07:00 pm, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: Hi Everybody , Maybe you know Ensim , Vmware have a software ( Virtul Private Server ) which you can divide computer into seperate portions and everybody can manage their portions like his server ... One main computer and several virtual server on this computer ?! Does any body know amy software or build in function on (Free)BSD ?! Thanks , Vahri , ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Look at freebsd jails man 8 jail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4.9, 5.1 boot failure after install
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 02:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I had 4.9 release working and did a clean install of 5.1 release over the 4.9 and ended up with boot failure after install. Using allBSD partition and standard MBR I get a missing operating system error. If I use the FreeBSD boot I just get default F1 and a beep. Now trying to install the 4.9 gives the same results. I'm using a Mylex DAC960ptl (accelraid 250) with the primary disk setup as JBOD. I set the bootable disk as active but everytime I go back to config fdisk the flag is not set. I then upgraded and flashed the RAID card, reformatted the disks and tried a 4.9 install, again with the same results. Is there an issue with the DAC card geometry or BIOS? Or a subtle quirk that isn't documented yet? thanks, Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have had a similar problem. I also couldnt get it to make the system bootable using the install cd. I got around it by using the live filesystem cd. I dont know how that they are different but it seemed to write out the changes when I asked not like as in the install disk. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.2 where is /kernel.GENERIC
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:31 am, fbsd_user wrote: snip Are you telling me that the kernel binary is moved from an easy uncluttered location in 4.9 of / to a location 2 directory levels deep and surrounded with a bunch of clutter? What king of stupid system design decision is that? Is it possible this is an mistake? Should an problem report be make to point this error out the 5.2 release team? This is no mistake and IMHO is an excellent idea. 5.x has a number of changes and this is but a small one. I suspect you will be on the floor foaming at the mouth after you see the new rc scripts. You will need to carfully read the release notes and UPDATING ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.2-RC Status
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:04 am, Chris wrote: Hi everyone, Ok, I see that 5.2-RC2 has made it to the site. Is there a time frame on RC3 (if there is indeed going to be one)? See here http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=17238 and here http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=17255 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup Server
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 03:30 am, samy lancher wrote: Hello all, I have a 4.5 FreeBSD server. It is our Email, web and database server. I would like to setup a backup server so that when the main server goes down the backup server takes over its job. Could some one please tell me the best way to setup a backup server and also suggest some good documentation. Thanks in advance, Naveen. - Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have had a bit of a look into this myself and this is my take on it. I would like to hear of other people experiences too. There are a number of things that you have to decide on first before you go any further. These are: budget how critical the system is to downtime how much data you are willing to lose how long are you willing to wait for the second system to kick in. These will determine how you are going to build your system. You will have to keep the answers in mind when you are looking at any solution. What you seem to be looking for is a failover system. There is a fair bit written about failover systems. Googling will find you lots. Make sure that you look up linux high availability and failover as well to get a broader view. I have added some links below. There is really 2 things that you are trying to do here. Provide redundancy for the services and redundancy for the data. The services are a bit easier and cheaper than the data. The big problem is the data, especially databases. Due to their nature they cant easily be copied while live. A solution to this is a SAN. With lots of money it is easier as you can buy yourself a SAN and hook the two machines to it and host the data on the SAN. With some clever scripts from those HA sites when one machine goes down the other can take over and use the same data. There are other solutions using a fancy Y shaped SCSI cable to a external drive array. Others my be able to help here as I dont know about them. The other alternative is 2 identical machines. When you have 2 machines with the master storing data on its local drives it gets tricker. This is where you have to decide on how much data you are willing to lose. As an example we have a bsd box that rsyncs our windows fileserver ever hour. Should windas go down we run a script on the workstations remapping our drives to the bsd box. In this case we are prepared to lose up to an hours work. We are also prepared to lose say 15-30 minutes of time mucking around. In your situation perhaps what you could do is upgrade to 5.1 and rsync snapshots of your data to the secondary machine. You could use the failover setup as described on HA sites to fire up the services on the secondary machine and take over. This should work as snapshots are supposed to capture an instant in time but I couldnt guarantee it until I tested it. You would still be losing data as you could only snapshot data and transfer it in discrete intervals. A handy thing that linux has that I dont think that freebsd has is drbd. This is a block device that can mirror data across a network. If freebsd had this it would be easy to make the second machine a true mirror of the first. I wonder if they are looking at a thing similar to this in the future. Look here for some intersting reading http://linux-ha.org/ http://www.drbd.org/ http://sporner.dnsalias.org/ http://failover.othello.ch/getting_started.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
drbd
Linux has a thing called drbd which is a block device that allows the duplication of data across a network. The system writes to the local disk first then the remote disk keeping them in sync. Is there an equivalent in FreeBSD or is there one planned or is there another way of going about things that gives similar results. See here for more info http://www.drbd.org/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.2-RC Status
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:31 pm, Chris wrote: On Monday 29 December 2003 08:33 pm, anubis wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:04 am, Chris wrote: Hi everyone, Ok, I see that 5.2-RC2 has made it to the site. Is there a time frame on RC3 (if there is indeed going to be one)? See here http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=17238 and here http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=17255 Perfect! Thank you muchly. Now if you would indulge me - I'll hold off a spell till 5.2-RELEASE. Question - I have 5.1 installed somewhere *chuckle* and I am hoping someone might point me to docs for a smooth upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2 When it is released it will have doco with it called release notes. They will be available on the freebsd site and your favorite mirror. See also UPDATING in /usr/src Remember to make a backup first. I tried 5.2 rc2 and came back to 5.1 with my tail between my legs. My board has iffy support for acpi. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mplayer gui?
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 02:13 pm, chip wrote: Now I installed mplayer. The man pages shows gmplayer as a gui version of mplayer. When I enter gmplayer I get command not found. Mplayer works otherwise. I see a port for skins for the gui, but no port for the gui itself. Am I missing something here? thanks Chip ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I installed mplayer via another port called pornview. It give you all the media viewing and playing equipment you need including a fully functioning mplayer. You may want to try it for the simple fix. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
