Re: FreeBSD 6.1 kernel panic

2007-03-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
>From a troubleshooting standpoint, I would check the following: 1) A Quick Memtest86 2) The management interface to the RAID (functional CLI in FBSD? otherwise BIOS menu); sector scan on logical volume. 3) Backup and newfs the file system UFS2 (it's just backups?) 4) The changelog for the driv

Re: net-snmp: portupgrade or clean instalation from ports through NFS failed again and again

2007-03-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
I've worked around this before with "-L" to mount_nfs. The whole conundrum of compiling/updating something as huge as Net-SNMP on a compact flash hardware platform is one of goals that my bsd-appliance project hopes to provide convenient work-around for. ~BAS On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 08:09 -0500, J

Re: Router with 2 internet connections

2007-03-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Right. Since you can only have one default route, you'd to use static routes out of the second interface make the decision based on "destination IP address" (layer 3 decision making here). To make it based on source address or some layer-4 decision, you'd need a layer4 switch and/or BGP. BGP i

Re: No buffer space available

2007-03-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Show us netstat -m on the broken kernel? Show us your dmesg(8) for em(4). TIA, ~BAS On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 11:13 -0300, Thiago Esteves de Oliveira wrote: > Hello, > > I've had a problem with one of my FreeBSD servers, the machine has stopped > its network services > and then sent these messages

Re: Kernel crash on boot from CD (6.2)

2007-03-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
The usual fair for bleeding edge hardware. Try: acpi_load Unset this to disable automatic loading of the ACPI module. See also hint.acpi.0.disabled in device.hints(5). Break out of the boot screen and set that value ~BAS On Fri, 2007-03-30 at

Re: megacli and PERC5 (PowerEdge 1950) on 6.2

2007-04-09 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
/linux/sys/class/scsi_host/host0/proc_name > megaraid_sas > > From what I have been able to dig up from past posts to the > mailing lists: others have been able to get this working fine, but > I'm not sure if any have been specifically with 6.2 and the PERC5/i > co

Re: Is FTP install broken?

2007-04-17 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
703 snapshot i386 bootdisk-only ISO image. -- Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the i

Re: error in find on daily output disk clean

2007-04-17 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
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Re: LSI MegaRAID 1068 mfi(4) 6.1-RELEASE

2007-01-10 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
ebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ "...from back in the heady days when "helpdesk" meant nothing, "diskquota" meant e

Re: Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE

2007-01-10 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
u/ir/security/ l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ "...from back in the heady days when "helpdesk" meant nothing, "diskquota" meant everything, and lives could be bought and sold for a couple of

Re: BIND 9.3.2 on FreeBSD 6.1-release-p2

2007-01-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ "...from back in the heady days when "helpdesk&

Re: which options/files/chunks of the kernel source define xpt_done and xpt_release?

2007-01-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
eebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ "...from back in the heady days when "helpde

Re: Constant segmentation faults with freebsd 6.1-release and -stable

2007-01-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
ith most port installations? I'm trying to narrow it down to a hardware fault or a 6x fault. I get signal 4's and segmentation faults on nearly every compilation any ideas? Yep, hardware. Kris l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://

Re: Can I Make my own CD ROM bootable from this ftp server: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE ?

2007-01-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
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release(7) subtargets and custom internal releng

2007-01-30 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
om.3 iso.1 Before I spend a day getting all of these targets to play nice together, just curious if anyone else is doing this? l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ ___ freebsd

Re: CVSup question

2007-01-30 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ "...from back in the heady

Re: SSH woes

2007-02-02 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Don't login as root... It's not good practise, SSH on BSD by default does also not allow for it. Add your normal user to the wheel group, use that to login The top Linux distros screw up a bunch of the ssh_config(5) and sshd_config(5) defaults. ~BAS __

FreeBSD php{4,5} w/ LDAP + SSL/TLS ldap_start_tls()

2005-09-02 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
e ldap_modify ldap_mod_add ldap_mod_replace ldap_mod_del ldap_errno ldap_err2str ldap_error ldap_compare ldap_sort ldap_get_option ldap_set_option ldap_parse_result ldap_first_reference ldap_next_reference ldap_rename ldap_set_rebind_proc -- ~ TIA, Brian A. Seklecki Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL

Re: [PHP] FreeBSD php{4,5} w/ LDAP + SSL/TLS ldap_start_tls()

2005-09-03 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
((rc = ldap_start_tls_s(ld->link, NULL, NULL)) != LDAP_SUCCESS) ) { php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING,"Unable to start TLS: %s", ldap_err2string(rc)); RETURN_FALSE; } else { RETURN_TRUE; } } /* }}} */ #endi

Re: [PHP] FreeBSD php{4,5} w/ LDAP + SSL/TLS ldap_start_tls()

2005-09-03 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
#endif | | int | main () | { | return f != ldap_start_tls_s; | ; | return 0; | } ~BAS On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Rasmus / all: I'll revert to that as path of last resort. The FreeBSD port mechanism for installing php extensions is administratively superior to

Re: mgsql periodic script? running vacuumdb?

2005-09-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Lane wrote: Hello, I recently installed postgresql 8.0 on FreeBSD 5.4 and I've noticed the following message in the "daily run output": vacuuming... Password: vacuumdb: could not connect to database template1: fe_sendauth: no password I'm assuming you found /usr/local/etc

periodic(8) / daily bsdlabel / fdisk / softraid*

2005-09-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
All: I just realized that the stock perdiodic scripts dont backup fdisk/disklabel output. I'm taken back a bit; NetBSD and OpenBSD have always done this (archive to /var/backup). We backup the password and group files, but not system info. Obviously, RAID can mitigate the need for this, b

220.backup-bsdlabels (WAS: Re: periodic(8) / daily bsdlabel / fdisk / softraid*)

2005-09-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
l for ${j}" disklabel /dev/${j} > "$bak/disklabel.${j}.bak" 2>/dev/null || rc=3 done done fi;; *) rc=0;; esac On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: All: I just realized that the stock perdiodic scripts dont

Dell PowerEdge w/ Intel AFT / Broadcom BASP

2005-10-05 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
All: This may be better for freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org, but that list is kind of ghost town, and this question is more a standards-based: Does anyone deploy Dell Poweredge in a HA configuration utilizing these features? http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/resources/technologies/load_

Re: fxp0 problem with 6Beta?

2005-10-05 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
What do the outputs of "ifconfig fpx0", "arp -an", "tcpdump -i fxp0 -n" and "netstat -s" look like? ~BAS On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Bdrawyah wrote: I have a small LAN at home consisting of 192.168.0.5 (a single PIII) which runs 5.4 stable and 192.168. 0.7 (a dual PIII) which runs 6Beta4 connecte

Re: fxp0 problem with 6Beta?

2005-10-05 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Bdrawyah wrote: What do the outputs of "ifconfig fpx0", "arp -an", "tcpdump -i fxp0 -n" and "netstat -s" look like? ~BAS arp -an ? (192.168.0.1) at 00:0f:b5:16:dd:b6 on fxp0 [ethernet] You should see an ARP entry for .07 from .05 and vice versa when you ping each ot

Re: fxp0 problem with 6Beta?

2005-10-05 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
-- Should have read man tcpdump prior to running it! As root: tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on fxp0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes 23:10:40.704329 802.1d config 8000.00:0f:b5:16:dd:b6.8001 root 8000.00:0f:b5:16: What yo

Re: Dell PowerEdge w/ Intel AFT / Broadcom BASP

2005-10-06 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
For the record on this, Dell claims that AFT/ALB is entirely software based. On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: All: This may be better for freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org, but that list is kind of ghost town, and this question is more a standards-based: Does anyone deploy Dell

LDAP + PAM + pam_groupdn (revisited)

2005-10-06 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Did anyone every get this combination working? Is 'pam_member_attribute' supposed to be uniqueMember or memberUid? When you look at a postGroup entity, the multi-value attribute is memberUid! Is there *any* way at all get debugging information out of PAM libraries, or is it just so insanely

Re: LDAP + PAM + pam_groupdn / pam_member_attribute (revisited)

2005-10-06 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
idely used as PAM make it into the wild without hooks for debugging? ~BAS On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Did anyone every get this combination working? Is 'pam_member_attribute' supposed to be uniqueMember or memberUid? When you look at a postGroup entity, the multi-val

Re: [ldap] Re: LDAP + PAM + pam_groupdn / pam_member_attribute (revisited)

2005-10-06 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
ld be passwd toe the module upon invocation. debug Enables generation of debugtging information either to standard output or via the syslogd daemon" Good luck Brian A. Seklecki wrote: This should be so insanely easy. I'm relatively certain this a FreeBSD PAM specific iss

Re: LDAP + PAM + pam_groupdn / pam_member_attribute (revisited)

2005-10-06 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
d times. And now to go submit a send-pr(1) to the FreeBSD port maintainer with a patch to pam_ldap.5, pray it gets commited back upstream, and then drink myself blind in the left eye so I can never read another LDAP man page. ~BAS On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: This should be

Re: Acroread7 with Firefox

2005-10-07 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:56, Beecher Rintoul wrote: > Has anyone gotten acroread to work with Firefox? I have linuxpluginwrapper > and > acroread7 installed. In addition both Java and Flash are installed and work. Did you configure libmap? Once you install linuxpluginwrapper, you have to cp(1)

Re: Stale dependency problem

2005-10-07 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
[EMAIL PROTECTED] pkgdb -F ---> Checking the package registry database Stale dependency: php4-overload-4.3.10_2 -> php4-4.3.10_2 (lang/php4): cannot convert nil into String New dependency? (? to help): Backup your /var/db/pkg if you wish. tar(1) it up. Blow away the dependency wih contro

Re: Security risk associated with a NIC's promiscuous mode?

2005-10-07 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, John Conover wrote: Is there any security risk associated with a NIC's promiscuous mode IF you're on a switched LAN, you'll only see traffic destined for MACs that the switched has learned on your port (your NICs), plus multi/broadcast. Unless you configure switch "mir

pam_rootok(8) + pam.d/sudo symlink to pam.d/su

2005-10-07 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Every reference(1) to configuring PAM and sudo(8) (in my case, for LDAP), suggests just symlinking [/usr/local/]etc/pam.d/sudo to /etc/pam.d/su However, when I do that, all wheel-group users are automatically passing auth requirements due to: authsufficient pam_rootok.so

Re: pam_rootok(8) + pam.d/sudo symlink to pam.d/su

2005-10-07 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
sudo-1.6.8.9 via Ports. Is there any way to set PAM to trace/debug it's decision making process? ~BAS On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: "Brian A. Seklecki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: However, when I do that, all wheel-group users are automatically pass

Re: pam_rootok(8) + pam.d/sudo symlink to pam.d/su

2005-10-07 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: No, unless sudo is broken. What sudo implementation are you using? PAM doesn't cache authentication information does it? This "use_first_pass" argument to modulesn't couldn't be getting in the way? You know, this would be solved by including

Re: fxp0 problem with 6Beta?

2005-10-09 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
h wrote: > On Thu Oct 6 1:22 , 'Brian A. Seklecki' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > > >Something strange going on in your network if your clients aren't ARP'ing > >each other. > > > > Sorry to trouble you again but I have been experimenting with ar

Re: openssl vulnerability

2005-10-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
And more importantly, does anyone care to start an informal list of quote "any statically linked applications that are not part of the base system (i.e. from the Ports Collection or other 3rd-party sources) must be recompiled." ~BAS On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, DW wrote: Hi, Does anybody know a c

ng_one2many v.s. AFT (NIC Fault Tolerance/Fail Over/Redundancy Revisited)

2005-10-15 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Re: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-October/100623.html First: This is all very preliminary from some testing over the weekend. Dell's reponse was that Intel's AFT/ALB was entirely software based. That left me with few options: 1) Try userland layer 3 failover (ugly)

Re: customized strip down freebsd OS (less than 50MB)

2007-05-18 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
l/link how to customize freebsd OS. > > Thanks, > Senthilkumar. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" --

Re: Static Routes Questions

2007-05-18 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
. ~BAS On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 10:56 -0700, georgedonnelly wrote: > HP 2650 -- Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message

Re: megacli and PERC5 (PowerEdge 1950) on 6.2

2007-06-01 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
merate VDs : No Restore Hot Spare On Insertion : No Expose Enclosure Devices : No Maintain PD Fail History : No On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 16:23 -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: I confirm this behavior on PE1950 and PE2950. ~~BAS On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 15:12 -0400, Jonathan Delgado

Re: megacli and PERC5 (PowerEdge 1950) on 6.2

2007-06-01 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
nsertion : No Expose Enclosure Devices : No Maintain PD Fail History : No -- Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message

Re: megacli and PERC5 (PowerEdge 1950) on 6.2

2007-06-01 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
amd64/113232 opened http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=113232 ~BAS On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: I'm buying free beer in unsound quantities for the commiter of this patch. And for the author, well... that's best discussed offline >:} [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: megacli and PERC5 (PowerEdge 1950) on 6.2

2007-06-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
t with my Linux > systems so far, but look forwarding to being able to slap it on our > new FreeBSD boxes now. > > -Jonathan > > On Jun 1, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > > > > > amd64/113232 opened > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-p

Re: Upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE from 6.2-STABLE

2007-06-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
syntax error > >> controller wdc0at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 > >> > >> > > > > Most of the above looks like old, deprecated > > stuff from 5.x and earlier (the "controller wdc0" > > line reminds me of 3.x o

Re: periodic.conf quieter

2007-06-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
y > output messages I need to know, *except* for this one: > > Security check: > (output mailed separately) > > I've looked through /et/defaults/periodic.conf, Google a fair amount, > and am still coming up empty with a setting to suppress that one... > > I'

Re: Filesystem Full

2007-06-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
4 7381944 -455214 107%/usr > /dev/da0s1d 14526318 9898206 346600874%/var > > Any ideas! Thanks, > VJ > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions &g

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Repeating Crash - Sleeping thread; Fatal trap 12: page fault; warning: 'T2' might be used uninitialized

2007-06-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
t; THIRD ERROR EVENT > > [snip] > inline-unit-growth=100 --param > arge-function-growth=1000 -mno-align-long-strings > -mpreferred-stack-bounda -- Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Repeating Crash - Sleeping thread; Fatal trap 12: page fault; warning: 'T2' might be used uninitialized

2007-06-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
n > > I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. > Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been > Warned. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://li

Re: Free Bsd 6.2

2007-06-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
amp;Ubunto > > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Collaborative Fusio

RE: Upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE from 6.2-STABLE

2007-06-21 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
uot; prompt to load the old > kernel. > > Does anyone know what causes one to load into a mountroot prompt? > > > > > -----Original Message- > > From: Brian A. Seklecki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:52 AM > > To: Mark

Re: Which Version?

2007-06-26 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
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Re: Installing 6.2 from a 5.3 mini install CD...

2007-06-26 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 19:02 +0100, Peter Wood wrote: > Good Afternoon, > > Does anyone have any knowledge, good or bad, about installing > 6.2-RELEASE from a 5.3-RELEASE mini install CD? > The only forseeable issue is that: fdisk -vIB / bsdlabel -w -B ...may write a 5.3 MBR/Boot Loader fro

Re: syslog.conf questions..

2007-06-26 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
> > cvthname(10.20.0.10) > logmsg: pri 277, flags 0, from 10.20.0.10, msg Jun 14 14:21:03 bcook: > Thu Jun 14 14:21:03 EDT 2007 > Logging to FILE /var/log/router/tcentral.log > > I get what I think I should.. > > Why do the previous entries not act the same as the last o

Re: Bondbind like for FreeBSD ?

2007-06-26 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
is the deterministic logic behind active/standby for "failover"? A heartbeat on the segment or physical interface state change? TIA, ~BAS > You can use the lagg device in 6-stable and -current; if you're > running > 6.2 or older you can use ng_fec or ng_one2many, but they

Re: Booting from a large RAID

2007-06-26 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
ons. ~BAS On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 00:39 +0100, Dominic Bishop wrote: > Ideally I would like this to be configured as a single large RAID5 or > RAID6 > array, -- Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential informa

Re: software raid 1 and recovery

2008-01-04 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
> understand -- Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible fo

Re: software raid 1 and recovery

2008-01-05 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 10:56 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > Google: nagios + seklecki + check_raid_gmirror > > Also check out sysutils/smartmontools/ Also, I recently updated the plugin code to r270 with some patches from Scott Swanson. You can see a small screenshot of it in ac

Re: dell Power Edge 2950

2008-01-09 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hello, This is just to confirm that Dell Power Edge 2950, with Quad Core Xeon E5420 is OK with FreeBSD 6.2/6.3. Make sure that you get a Revision 2 (R2). We had some serious stability issues with two R1s. Yay for beta testing $6k servers. You'l

PowerEdge 860 (Resend)

2008-01-09 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
[Sorry if this is a resend to some -- I do not see that it made it through the first time --- possibly spam filtered due to a DNS problem with my personal domain.] -- Hi all: There are scattered reports in late 2006 / early 2007 of success using the PE 860 w/ the SAS RAID, but not w/o the RAID (

Re: dell Power Edge 2950

2008-01-10 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Dennis Glatting wrote: As stupid as this is going to sound, I solved my dump problem on one of my 2950s running amd64 7.0 with two dual core processors. The problem was when I did a level 0 dump, regardless of partition. At random times the dump would halt, never to resume

Re: dell Power Edge 2950

2008-01-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
No idea. The systems are remote to me, so I can't check. BTW it's called "patrol read". I was just having a particularly cynical day. The PR confirms that manually initiating one with megacli causes a hard lock. It could be a linux32 compat issue sending the command or it could be the d

gmirror(8) on 6.3 mfsroot / fixit

2008-01-19 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
All: I see that gmirror(8) is available on the 6.3 fixit file system, but still not a part of the mfsroot. Is this a crunchgen problem? The install kernel has had boot/kernel/geom_mirror.ko since the 5x days. so it seems only appropriate to include the binary. I guess its a moot point since the

Re: Latest Stable FreeBSD version and its Dell 2950 Compatiblity

2008-01-22 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 10:11 +0530, navneet Upadhyay wrote: > Hi, > I need to know which is the latest stable FreeBSD release(6.2 ?) and > does it goes well with Dell 2950 ? Did you check the list archives? With 6.2: - Make sure you get revision 2 of the unit - bce(4) onboard is not reco

Re: Latest Stable FreeBSD version and its Dell 2950 Compatiblity

2008-01-22 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
> And yes about the 2950, with the bellow remarks (I asked the same > question one month ago, check fro the tread about "dell Power Edge > 2950"). Time for a FreeBSD-PowerEdge Wiki. ~BAS > Olivier > > > Make sure that you get a Revision 2 (R2). We had some serious stability __

Re: Server unreachable after quagga install from ports

2008-01-23 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 23:50 -0600, Nomad wrote: > I just setup a server running FreeBSD 6.3. After the install I made some Ugh... show us: $ netstat -rn -f inet $ arp -an Any pf.conf(5) or rc.conf(5). Likely $defaultroute in rc.conf(5) is a short-lived value. ~BAS > Any information woul

Re: VM Options

2008-01-23 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 13:11 -0600, Jack Barnett wrote: > Are there any good VM Options for FreeBSD? > > There is VMWare in ports; which I really like - but it's a few years old Jails and as a Xen guest --- probably with a NetBSD or GNU/Linux host. There's always Solaris domain. >:} ~BAS

RELENG_6_3 build fail -- signal 13 consistently

2008-01-24 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
This is 6.3/amd64 release as a guest inside a vmware server (free) host: ===> gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ar (install) install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 ar /opt/relchroot/usr/bin *** Signal 13 Make.conf has some sparing NO_ knobs set and: COPTS=-pipe CFLAG=-pipe Other than that, its a vanill

Re: freebsd dead after attempt on upgrade from 6.2 to 6.3

2008-02-15 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
us your original dmesg(8), your new dmesg(8), and original fstab(5). -- Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not

Re: disk error

2008-02-16 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 17:59 +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: > Hi all, > > Just found these messages in my logfile. Is it something to worry about? > I've never seen them before upgrading to 6.3. > > ra kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=281550271 > ra kernel: ad0: FAILURE

Re: disk error

2008-02-16 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count0x000a 200 200 000Old_age Always - 0 ~BAS not use it anymore)? -- http://www.boosten.org l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ "Guilty? Yeah. But he knows it. I mean, you

Re: PowerEdge 860 (Resend)

2008-02-19 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
un at 150 :~{ Broadcom ethernet has not changed -- is a "Broadcom BCM5750 B1, ASIC rev. 0x4101" (same as 850) The 860 is an 850 in just about every measurable aspect. At least they're shipping WDC instead of Maxtor. ~BAS On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 12:42 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrot

Re: diskLabelCommit fails within a sysinstall script?

2008-02-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
damn shame that this is still the case. defeats / undermines the whole purpose of /dev/[as][d##][s#][a-z] /dev/[as][d##][s#] alone can represent entire BIOS partitions /dev/[as][d##] alone can represent entire disk Not sure why we still need a 'c' slice for legacy ?! -- B

_devname in src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/devices.c

2008-02-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
All: Does anyone know the relationship between this structure (major, minor, delta, etc.) and real device IDs? Obviously devd(8) isn't running in the MFS install kernel, but I assume the magic still happens. Also, I don't see that major/minors indexed here actually matching a booted SMP kernel?

Re: diskLabelCommit fails within a sysinstall script?

2008-02-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
but the system > still seems to expect it somewhere. That kind of uncertainly is likely why the other projects haven't adopted the new model, which is a shame, but pragmatically speaking... I'll be happy when they do, either way. > > jerry > > &

Re: RELENG_6_3 build fail -- signal 13 consistently

2008-02-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 09:17 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > This is 6.3/amd64 release as a guest inside a vmware server (free) host: > It happens randomly. First time I've seen it. amd64 and i386 under vmware 1.x "server" (Free Version). I guess I'll use physica

Re: RELENG_6_3 build fail -- signal 13 consistently

2008-02-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 14:33 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 09:17 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > > This is 6.3/amd64 release as a guest inside a vmware server (free) > host: > > > > It happens randomly. First time I've seen it. amd6

Re: automatic fsck on gmirror failure

2008-02-22 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 23:39 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > it failed while rebuilding with badly written data on the disk that was > used, while other rebuild. > > now it can't read it. > > if you are sure that it doesn't pass through fsck before second reboot, do > the following. > > 1) tur

Re: automatic fsck on gmirror failure

2008-02-22 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: $ grep -i fsck /etc/defaults/rc.conf fsck_y_enable="NO" # Set to YES to do fsck -y if the initial preen fails. gmirror(8) / geom(8) should automatically remove (degrade) components with bad I/O operations after a certain threshold, but I'm pr

Re: automatic fsck on gmirror failure

2008-02-22 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: gmirror(8) / geom(8) should automatically remove (degrade) components with bad I/O operations after a certain threshold, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't. but i'm absolutely sure it does because it did several times for me Finally I had some time to

libdisk(3), geom(4), gmirror(8), sysinstall(8)

2008-02-24 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
All: There was a patch to libdisk in late 2005 that added geom(4) support to libdisk. I'm noticing that Disk_Names() doesn't grab contact/ or mirror/ volumes, though. It still depends on kern.disks. Should I add my gmirror/gconcat probing code to /usr.sbin/ sysinstall/devices.c directly, o

Re: Legato Client for freeBSD 7

2009-06-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 10:29 +0200, Gian Paolo Buono wrote: > Hi, > I have a server running freeBSD7 that needs the legato backup client Legato is no more. Legato and RSA are now EMC. Time to upgrade to Bacula! ~BAS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: fsck

2009-06-16 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
you an set your ACPI settings to default to power on state when power is restored. You can get a APC Backups 350 for ~ $50 retail. -- Brian A. Seklecki Collaborative Fusion, Inc. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: SSO solution in ports?

2009-07-17 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 10:52 -0400, John Almberg wrote: > I am trying to build a set of web applications that are accessed > through a web portal that uses a Single Sign On (SSO) solution. Combine your SSO (LDAP mostly, Kerberos is a waking nightmare) with a 2FA/TFA (Second Factor Authenticatio

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 09:48 -0700, Tim Gustafson wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support > ZFS boot partitions in the installer. No one has gone near that stuff in years. We don't even have gmirror(8) creation support in there. Best not to use sysi

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 08:58 -0700, Tim Gustafson wrote: > then there's no reason that the functionality couldn't or shouldn't be > built into the installer. With a few machines, yes. Once you get to 5 or 6, start building your own custom internal ISOs, and maintain your configuration templates in

Re: bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 12:41 +, Eitan Adler wrote: > I have a Lenovo G530 laptop with a broadcom wireless card. > I downloaded the drivers referenced here: If the driver didn't attach because IBM chose some exotic OEM PCI ID, then the grep wont find it. You really should post the full pciconf(

Re: Trying to make a mirror for a disconnected lab

2009-08-28 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 22:20 -0400, Duncan Hutty wrote: > > Q. ports/distfiles contains tarballs of multiple versions of each > software; I assume that I only need one version of each tarball. And > since this mirror as described comes to ~100GiB, how can I modify my For this you want portsclea

PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950

2006-06-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
All: Does anyone have details about the new PERC 5/E SAS RAID controller Dell is (or will soon be) shipping in the 1950/2950? This replaces the long standing PERC4 (which was an OEM LSI / AMI MegaRAID U320) in the [1,2]850 series. Obviously this is an OEM chipset as well. I see it listed in mfi

Re: gmirror problem

2006-06-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
> plenty of simply things. Anyway, is a mis-configuration a likely or > possible cause of this behavior. It's hard to even speculate without seeing an error message. Paste here or pastebin.com? Thanks, ~BAS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: No /boot/kernel/kernel

2008-12-05 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
> FreeBSD/i386 boot > Default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel > boot: > No /boot/kernel/kernel > > the same reappeared after i typed /boot/kernel.old/kernel. > WHAT DID WENT WRONG??? Any ideas? > _ Ugh 2nd stage boot loader should be given: Default: 0:ad(0

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 11:15 -0800, Casey Scott wrote: > Obviously downgrade to 6.0 on snow affected servers. Or rebuild all of your ports and melt the snow away. ~BAS -- Brian A. Seklecki Collaborative Fusion, Inc. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-22 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 22:46 +0300, Jeff Laine wrote: > Just mv teh snowflakes to /dev/null ^_- $ sudo pkill -9 xsnow ~BAS -- Brian A. Seklecki Collaborative Fusion, Inc. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-24 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Redhat people are maintaining lots of SRPM patches to Bash _and_ PHP, I'm prepared to isolate the problem to FreeBSD and sh(1)/login(1) Thoughts? (Happy holidays all!) ~BAS -- Brian A. Seklecki Collaborative Fusion, Inc. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-29 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
nment that executes when rc(8) is first run at boot time. I may be better off using getenv() in PHP directly. ~BAS > in /usr/share/skel on FreeBSD does not set them. Neither > does /etc/login.conf. > I would set it in /etc/profile. > -- Brian A. Seklecki Collaborative Fusion, Inc. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-29 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
03.1-2001 gethostname(2). I'll ask on the lists. -- Brian A. Seklecki Collaborative Fusion, Inc. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
> mail# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/megarc > mail# make install clean > ===> megarc-1.51 is marked as broken: Running megarc seems to cause > memory corruption. We have a PR open on that - ports/130326: http://groups.google.com/group/lucky.freebsd.ports.bugs/browse_thread/thread/14c7c3b8261e8be7

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