Hashes in scp usernames (OpenSSH bug 472)

2008-11-09 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I've come upon OpenSSH bug 472, whereby scp refuses usernames containing a '#' character, dieing with 'invalid user name'. Both rsync and ssh accept such usernames, and after looking at /usr/src/crypto/openssh/scp.c, it would appear that scp also allows such usernames for the source,

SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-05 Thread Christopher Key
currently looking at a RocketRAID 2314 and SiI3726 based port multipliers. Has any had any experience with this combination? Regards, Christopher Key ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-06 Thread Christopher Key
Graeme Dargie wrote: -Original Message- From: Elliot Finley [mailto:efinleyw...@efinley.com] Why not just upgrade to 7-Stable and then use these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009 they cost less than port multipliers. They don't do RAID, but then if

Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-06 Thread Christopher Key
Daan Vreeken wrote: Hi Christopher, On Thursday 05 March 2009 15:25:35 Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm looking to substantially expand the storage on my FreeBSD 6.3 home media server. With regards hardware, the simplest way to attach large numbers of drives seem to be to use SATA port

Bizarre behaviour of Linux binary under 7.1

2009-03-14 Thread Christopher Key
as a result of going to amd64 or to 7.1, and that affects both linux executables, and any processes that they create, but I'm not really sure beyond that. Can anyone shed any light on what might be going on? Kind Regards, Christopher Key ___ freebsd

Re: Bizarre behaviour of Linux binary under 7.1

2009-03-14 Thread Christopher Key
On Mar 14 2009, Michael Powell wrote: Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded from 6.3 (i386) to 7.1p3 (amd64) with a view to experimenting with zfs. Mostly, everything went smoothly, but I am getting some very odd behaviour from a linux utility. The program is very simple

Re: Bizarre behaviour of Linux binary under 7.1

2009-03-14 Thread Christopher Key
On Mar 14 2009, Boris Samorodov wrote: Please, compare /compat/linux/ directory structures between an old and new installation. It seems to me that you have /compat/linux/tmp directory at the new one. It shouldn't exist. WBR Thanks Boris, On the new installation, I do have a

RR2314 Problems

2009-04-01 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I'm trying to get a HighPoint RocketRAID 2314 card working under FreeBSD and am having problems. #uname -a FreeBSD chacal.wzl33 7.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 #3: Wed Apr 1 15:00:07 BST 2009 r...@chacal.wzl33:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CHACAL amd64 I've compiled the kernel with:

Re: RR2314 Problems

2009-04-01 Thread Christopher Key
Christopher Key wrote: I've compiled the kernel with: device htprr device scbus device da Sorry, meant 'hptrr'. It is correct in my kernel configuration file. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-04-14 Thread Christopher Key
Christopher Key wrote: I'm looking to substantially expand the storage on my FreeBSD 6.3 home media server. With regards hardware, the simplest way to attach large numbers of drives seem to be to use SATA port multipliers, but I've been unable to find any consensus on their level of support

Re: ZFS: Strange performance issues

2009-12-22 Thread Christopher Key
Before I restart this system, can anyone suggest anything to further diagnose whats going on here? What exactly do arcstats.(p|c) mean, and would increasing arcstats.c_min perhaps help? Kind Regards, Christopher Key * The stats before the reboot in my previous post were incorrect. I still

Unable to boot FreeBSD 8.0

2010-03-22 Thread Christopher Key
this. Any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated. Kind regards, Christopher Key # pciconf -lv hos...@pci0:0:0:0: class=0x06 card=0x4f438086 chip=0x29908086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Q963/Q965 Memory Controller Hub

Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD 8.0

2010-03-24 Thread Christopher Key
Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm using FreeBSD 7.2, and am attempting to update to 8.0. I've been through the standard, make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel but cannot get the newly installed kernel to boot. The system freezes as soon as the loader tries to boot

Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD 8.0

2010-03-24 Thread Christopher Key
Christopher Key wrote: Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm using FreeBSD 7.2, and am attempting to update to 8.0. I've been through the standard, make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel but cannot get the newly installed kernel to boot. The system freezes as soon

sysinstall: You need to assign disk labels before you can proceed with the installation

2010-03-24 Thread Christopher Key
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Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-01 Thread Christopher Key
partitions on the disk. Kind regards, Christopher Key ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-02 Thread Christopher Key
Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: 2010/5/1 Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: Hi I'm running 8.0-Release on an external usb hard drive. and have dual-boot with FreeBSD on da0s2 and Windows XP on da0s1. I made a setup via Sysinstall with 7 partitions

Install doxygen on a non X11 machine

2007-10-03 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I'm trying to install doxygen on a non X11 machine from the ports collection. I've added 'devel/doxygen*: WITHOUT_DOXYWIZARD=yes' to my ports.conf, which is being recognised: # cd /usr/ports/devel/doxygen # make -V WITHOUT_DOXYWIZRD yes From my reading of the doxygen Makefile, this

fsck and memory filesytems (fsck_mfs: No such file or directory)

2007-11-05 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I recently had a powercut to my FreeBSD home server, and I'm now getting the following messages at startup: Starting file system checks: /dev/ad8s1a: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/ad8s1a: clean, 466797 free (2837 frags, 57995 blocks, 0.6% fragmentation) fsck: exec fsck_mfs

Re: fsck and memory filesytems (fsck_mfs: No such file or directory)

2007-11-05 Thread Christopher Key
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:00:06 + Christopher Key wrote: I recently had a powercut to my FreeBSD home server, and I'm now getting the following messages at startup: Starting file system checks: /dev/ad8s1a: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/ad8s1a

OT: Looking for some inpiration with UPS setup

2007-11-09 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, Apolgies for the slightly OT post, but I'm hoping that some of the ammased expertise might be able to suggest a solution. I've a FreeBSD fileserver, a solid state router (Linksys box running OpenWRT) and a couple of gigabit switches that I'd like to move onto a UPS (I'm primarily

Re: OT: Looking for some inpiration with UPS setup

2007-11-10 Thread Christopher Key
NetOpsCenter wrote: Christopher Key wrote: I've a FreeBSD fileserver, a solid state router (Linksys box running OpenWRT) and a couple of gigabit switches that I'd like to move onto a UPS (I'm primarily looking at the APC Smart-UPS line). I have a similar setup in my noc shed. I got 2 old

PATA on DQ965GF

2007-12-17 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I'm trying to add a PATA drive to a machine based upon a DQ965FG motherboard. The BIOS sees the drive quite happily, but FreeBSD sees nothing. I vaguely seem to remember some discussion about trying to set up PATA CD-ROM drive with this board, and I think a kernel patch was

Adaptec AAR-1220SA / AAR-1430SA

2007-07-26 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I'm trying to establish whether I can expect the Adaptec AAR-1220SA or AAR-1430SA SATA cards to work with 6.2. They're not on the list of supported hardware, which does include a lot of the other Adaptec cards. However, the Adaptec cards that are listed all seem to be hardware RAID

FreeBSD Installation Suggestion

2007-08-06 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I'm about to install FreeBSD for the first time on a new machine and have a few questions: 1) The motherboard is an Intel DQ964GF, which uses the ICH8 chipset. Is it better to use this in IDE or AHCI mode? (The system will be booting from a S-ATA disk) 2) Are there any good

Remove ports dependencies

2007-08-10 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I recently tried to install vim from the ports collections, however I didn't do it with 'WITHOUT_X11', and accordingly it went off and installed X + presumably a whole load of dependencies which I really don't want. Is there any way to get a list of exactly what it added so that I can go

Re: Remove ports dependencies

2007-08-10 Thread Christopher Key
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:53:39PM +0100, Christopher Key typed: Hello, I recently tried to install vim from the ports collections, however I didn't do it with 'WITHOUT_X11', and accordingly it went off and installed X + presumably a whole load of dependencies which I

portupgrade question

2007-08-14 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I've just CVSupped my ports collection and run 'portupgrade -ra'. One of the ports that was updated was vim, which had originally been installed without X11: # cd /usr/ports/editors/vim # NO_GUI=1 make install clean Now, this option appears to have been lost as I've ended up with a

Re: portupgrade question

2007-08-15 Thread Christopher Key
Nikola Lecic wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:36:53 +0400 (GST) Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikola Lecic wrote: Yes, options are not saved that way and Vim's default is with X11. Please make sure that the following lines exist in your /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:

fsck strangeness

2007-08-18 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck. When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clean, but subsequently running an fsck on /dev/ad8s1e (mounted as /var) detects errors. Even if this first check is run whilst the file system is mounted, and is

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-18 Thread Christopher Key
Bill Moran wrote: Christopher Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck. When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clean, but subsequently running an fsck on /dev/ad8s1e (mounted as /var) detects errors. Even

FreeBSD MBRs

2007-08-22 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I've a machine with 3 SATA drives. The first (ad8) with a standard FreeBSD install in a single slice with /boot/boot0 MBR. The remaining two drives (ad10, ad12) are in a RAID1 mirror with 3 slices, and used for storing data. They have the /boot/mbr MBR. After booting off various USB

Re: FreeBSD MBRs

2007-08-23 Thread Christopher Key
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: You only need an MBR on disks that will be booted. I don't know as it will actually hurt anything to write an MBR on non-boot, data only disks, but it can garbage up you menu with non-functional choices. What you need is an MBR on every disk

Re: FreeBSD MBRs

2007-08-26 Thread Christopher Key
Ivan Voras wrote: Christopher Key wrote: I've a machine with 3 SATA drives. The first (ad8) with a standard FreeBSD install in a single slice with /boot/boot0 MBR. The remaining two drives (ad10, ad12) are in a RAID1 mirror with 3 slices, and used for storing data. They have the /boot/mbr

Writing userspace device drivers

2008-05-06 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I'm wanting to write a driver for lirc to allow me to transmit IR signals via a Global Caché GC-100. In essence, this requires me to communicate with the GC-100 via TCP in response to ioctls (received?) via /dev/lircX. Can anyone point me in right direction towards achieving this?

Re: Writing userspace device drivers

2008-05-06 Thread Christopher Key
Pollywog wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008 19:14:37 Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm wanting to write a driver for lirc to allow me to transmit IR signals via a Global Caché GC-100. In essence, this requires me to communicate with the GC-100 via TCP in response to ioctls (received?) via /dev

Underscores in host names

2008-05-07 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I've a host on the network called GC100_000C1E00AC3F_GlobalCache, and I'm getting interesting behaviour when I try to do DNS lookups on it. Under FreeBSD, ping fails with 'Unknown server error'(distinct from the standard 'Unknown host'), and nslookup succeeds. OSX and Windows

FreeBSD 6.3 Panic

2008-05-16 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I've recently started getting kernel panics with a FreeBSD 6.3 machine, using a minimal i386 custom kernel. I don't believe it's a hardware issue as they always seem to coincide with a crash on SqueezeCenter, apparently during heavy usage of the MySQL backend. I'm unable to get a

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 Panic

2008-05-16 Thread Christopher Key
Kris Kennaway wrote: Christopher Key wrote: Can anyone suggest what I should be doing to try to get a crash dump successfully to further diagnose this? Is there anything else relevant I should post? Configure DDB and obtain the traceback from that instead (see the developers handbook

ZFS: Strange performance issues

2009-10-19 Thread Christopher Key
make any sense? Kind regards, Christopher Key ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: ZFS: Strange performance issues

2009-10-20 Thread Christopher Key
Carl Chave wrote: relatively idle. You can request a more accurate view of current bandwidth usage by specifying an interval. Thanks Carl, I was aware of the option, the posted stats were from: # zpool iostat -v 10 with the 10s period wholly within the ~40s transfer time. King regards,

Re: ZFS: Strange performance issues

2009-10-22 Thread Christopher Key
Christopher Key wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 on a system with 2GB RAM. I've a zfs pool using raidz1 over five 2Tb SATA drives connected via a port multiplier and a RR2314 card. I can write to a filesystem on this pool at approx 20MB/s: # dd if=/dev/urandom of=$FS/testdump bs=1m