Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Dan Naumov
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: I've checked with the manufacturer and it seems that the Sil3124 in this NAS is indeed a PCI

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Dan Naumov
Motin Alexander, since you seem to be experienced in the area, what do you think of these 2 for use in a FreeBSD8 ZFS NAS: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=HIPMI=Y - Sincerely, Dan Naumov

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Dan Naumov
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: Alexander, since you seem to be experienced in the area, what do you think of these 2 for use in a FreeBSD8 ZFS NAS: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H http

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:29 PM, John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:02:53AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. f...@gothschlampen.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010

8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
Server and NTFS. So what would be the cause of these very low Bonnie result numbers in my case? Should I try some other benchmark and if so, with what parameters? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Jason Edwards sub.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dan, I read on FreeBSD mailinglist you had some performance issues with ZFS. Perhaps i can help you with that. You seem to be running a single mirror, which means you won't have any speed benefit regarding writes

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Jason Edwards sub.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dan, I read on FreeBSD mailinglist you had some performance issues with ZFS. Perhaps i can help you with that. You seem to be running a single

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: This works out to 1GB in 36,2 seconds / 28,2mb/s in the first test and 4GB in 143.8 seconds / 28,4mb/s and somewhat consistent with the bonnie results. It also sadly

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
speed. - Dan ___ 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: Determine usb-storage capacity

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Nelson
| grep lba... Works for all disk devices: diskinfo /dev/da0 Works for devices attached via CAM: camcontrol readcap da0 See the respective manpages for more info. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: This works out to 1GB in 36,2 seconds / 28,2mb/s in the first test and 4GB in 143.8 seconds / 28,4mb/s and somewhat consistent with the bonnie results. It also sadly seems to confirm the very slow speed

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Naumov
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: This works out to 1GB in 36,2 seconds / 28,2mb/s in the first test and 4GB in 143.8 seconds / 28,4mb/s and somewhat consistent

posting coding bounties, appropriate money amounts?

2010-01-22 Thread Dan Naumov
or through the FreeBSD Foundation? And how would one go about calculating the appropriate amount of money for such a thing? Thanks. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

RE: Drive errors in raidz array

2010-01-22 Thread Dan Naumov
I have a system with 24 drives in raidz2. Congrats, you answered your own question within the first sentance :) ANSWER: As per the ZFS documentation, don't do raidz/raidz2 vdev groups bigger than 9 vdevs per group or bad things (tm) will happen. Google will tell you more. - Sincerely, Dan

Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-21 Thread Dan Naumov
partitioning and that I had swap as my first partition inside the slice and that it all worked dandy. Has this changed at some point? Oh, and for the curious the installation script is here: http://jago.pp.fi/zfsmbrv1-works.sh - Sincerely, Dan Naumov

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-21 Thread Dan Naumov
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. f...@gothschlampen.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: Hi, I recently found a nifty FreeBSD ZFS root installation script and been reworking it a bit to suit my needs better, including changing it from GPT to MBR

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010-01-21 Thread Dan Naumov
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. f...@gothschlampen.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: Hi, I recently found a nifty FreeBSD ZFS root installation script and been reworking

8.0-RELEASE / gpart / GPT / marking a partition as active

2010-01-19 Thread Dan Naumov
will be marked as active during the installation of the bootcode. Is there anything I can do to archieve the same result in 8.0-RELEASE or is installing from a snapshop of 8-STABLE my only option? Thanks. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: 8.0-RELEASE / gpart / GPT / marking a partition as active

2010-01-19 Thread Dan Naumov
On 1/19/2010 12:11 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: It seems that quite a few BIOSes have serious issues booting off disks using GPT partitioning when no partition present is marked as active. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115406cat=bin for a prime example. In 8.0-RELEASE, using gpart

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-17 Thread Dan Nelson
/pipermail/freebsd-gecko/2009-December/000577.html I agree that we need a new pre-fetch hook in bsd.port.mk if a conflict present is. But that need a bit work and it is on my todo list... Maybe CONFLICTS could be treated like DEPENDS, with separate BUILD and RUN checks. -- Dan Nelson

Re: Errors on UFS Partitions

2010-01-16 Thread Dan Nelson
fs'es that you can't dismount in multi-user mode. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

(SOLVED) Re: installing FreeBSD 8 on SSDs and UFS2 - partition alignment, block sizes, what does one need to know?

2010-01-15 Thread Dan Naumov
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: For my upcoming storage system, the OS install is going to be on a 80gb Intel SSD disk and for various reasons, I am now pretty convinced to stick with UFS2 for the root

Re: any port use /dev/dsp directly?

2010-01-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 14), Gary Kline said: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 05:08:25PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 14), Gary Kline said: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 03:19:47PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: The sox port comes with its own play command that can parse many

Re: any port use /dev/dsp directly?

2010-01-14 Thread Dan Nelson
; } -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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: any port use /dev/dsp directly?

2010-01-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 14), Gary Kline said: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:57:17AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 13), Gary Kline said: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 08:37:46PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: Gary Kline wrote: I have a couple short programs where I mess

Re: Regular Expression Editor

2010-01-14 Thread Dan Nelson
work pretty well. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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: any port use /dev/dsp directly?

2010-01-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 14), Gary Kline said: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 03:19:47PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: The sox port comes with its own play command that can parse many containers and encodings, including wav files. I did see that. I'm wondering of theses is some sox translation

installing FreeBSD 8 on SSDs and UFS2 - partition alignment, block sizes, what does one need to know?

2010-01-12 Thread Dan Naumov
the SSD host the swap, boot, root and a few other partitions. What do I need to know in regards to partition alignment and filesystem block sizes to get the best performance out of the Intel SSDs? Thanks. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-questions

Re: ZFS on top of GELI

2010-01-12 Thread Dan Naumov
2010/1/12 Rafał Jackiewicz free...@o2.pl: Thanks, could you do the same, but using 2 .eli vdevs mirrorred together in a zfs mirror? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov Hi, Proc: Intell Atom 330 (2x1.6Ghz) - 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) x 2 HTT threads Chipset: Intel 82945G Sys: 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0

a question on ZFS boot/root in 8.0-RELEASE

2010-01-11 Thread Dan Naumov
having to compile anything manually with the existing binaries provided on the 8.0 install DVD? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

bin/115406: [patch] gpt(8) GPT MBR hangs award BIOS on boot

2010-01-11 Thread Dan Naumov
with nothing? Also, does this mean that GPT is _NOT_ in fact fixed regarding this bug? Thanks. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file

2009-12-29 Thread Dan Nelson
cover the base source tree. The ports tree and web pages are still CVS-only, so you would need to keep using cvsup for them. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: mplayer / bash question

2009-12-29 Thread Dan Nelson
are expanding to as the script runs. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: After installing a ZFS only build, machine won't complete POST

2009-12-29 Thread Dan Nelson
installation). Could this just be a crappy BIOS issue? Possibly. Unless your BIOS is very new it's unlikely to support GPT. I'd hate to have to scrap GPT/ZFS and go back to MBR/UFS. ZFS works just fine inside an MBR partition, as long as your disks fit the 2TB limit (yours do). -- Dan

Re: Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file

2009-12-28 Thread Dan Nelson
; one end has them as 99, and the other has 1999, which causes the checksum to change. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Supressing dd output

2009-12-24 Thread Dan Nelson
unless of= is used) -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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: Interesting hostid

2009-12-20 Thread Dan Nelson
like this. If you only have one, then you don't need to bother. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Can display be shared through VNC using xorg vnc module?

2009-12-17 Thread Dan Nelson
that connects to xorg server and serves as it's vnc server. Does this meant that vnc module isn't supported on FreeBSD? Or it was replaced by x11vnc? Try the net/vnc port instead. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions

Re: malformed man pages [SOLVED]

2009-12-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 05), Sagara Wijetunga said: Dan Nelson wrote: Since your output differs from mine, the manpages are getting damaged before they reach /usr/bin/less. Have you maybe installed your own copy of GNU groff? The original source enables ANSI escapes in manpages

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Dan Nelson
, then we know that the manpage is fine, and your problem is in /usr/bin/less or your terminal type is incorrect. If you see ANSI escape codes in the hd output, then we know the problem is with the manpage tools. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 05), Sagara Wijetunga said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 04), Sagara Wijetunga said: We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) that all man pages malformed. Eg. man tar shows as follows: 1mNAME0m 1mtar 22m

Re: How known?

2009-12-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 01), Gary Kline said: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 10:39:03PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 01), Gary Kline said: Be nice to suggest to the mutt folks to let this be turned on only for certain email. I *have* tried to sub to the mutt mailinglist

Re: ZFS pools of consisting of several mirrors

2009-12-01 Thread Dan Nelson
). -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: How known?

2009-12-01 Thread Dan Nelson
, but even if your recipient's mailer understands that header, most let the user turn it off if they want. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

PL_sv_undef and PL_stack_max undefined - FreBSD 8.0, Perl 5.8.9 or 5.10, FreeRADIUS 2.1.6

2009-11-30 Thread Meyers, Dan
. -- Dan Meyers Network Specialist, Lancaster University E-Mail: d.mey...@lancaster.ac.uk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

RE: PL_sv_undef and PL_stack_max undefined - FreBSD 8.0, Perl 5.8.9 or 5.10, FreeRADIUS 2.1.6

2009-11-30 Thread Meyers, Dan
- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Meyers, Dan Sent: 30 November 2009 15:00 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PL_sv_undef and PL_stack_max undefined - FreBSD 8.0,Perl 5.8.9 or 5.10, FreeRADIUS 2.1.6 We've had a setup for a while where we have a FreeBSD server running FreeRADIUS

RE: PL_sv_undef and PL_stack_max undefined - FreBSD 8.0, Perl 5.8.9 or 5.10, FreeRADIUS 2.1.6

2009-11-30 Thread Meyers, Dan
respectively. For now, it looks like we'll stick with 7.2 and install from packages instead of ports. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Meyers, Dan Sent: 30 November 2009 16:18 To: freebsd-questions

Re: Restricting tar or pax to a single file system

2009-11-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 21), jaymax said: How does one restrict tar or fax to a single file system when tarring or paxing from root (/) ? For tar: --one-file-system (-W one-file-system) (c, r, and u modes) Do not cross mount points. -- Dan Nelson dnel

Re: Do permissions take time to take effect?

2009-11-18 Thread Dan Nelson
need to log out and back in for the system to assign your new group membership to your session. Filesystem permissions take effect immediately, but group memberships are assigned once, at login. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: get accounting info for running process

2009-11-18 Thread Dan Nelson
still need to file that PR...) -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Measuring disk I/O

2009-11-18 Thread Dan Nelson
-- - - - - - - storage 1.39T 440G 0771 0 96.4M storage 1.39T 440G 0 1.05K 4.42K 126M -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: FFTW + jna + java

2009-11-11 Thread Dan Nelson
to add a link dependency to fftw (if you run ldd /usr/local/lib/librfftw.so, you can see there are dependencies on libc and libm, but not fftw). Depending on how jna access shared libraries, you might be able to work around it by having jna load the fftw library before rfftw. -- Dan Nelson

Re: FreeBSD remote MS ACCESS database

2009-11-10 Thread Dan Nelson
, and use linked tables in your .mdb file so Access itself will still work. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: please help me make sense of top's CPU output

2009-11-02 Thread Dan Nelson
by subtracting successive ki_runtime values) to the list of things top calculates and toggle it and weighted-CPU when pressing C. The toggling code is already there; it just toggles between two different weighted-cpu values at the moment. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: Get the cwd of a process?

2009-10-29 Thread Dan Nelson
into the kernel and try and fetch the name itself: (d...@dan.21) /home/dan fstat -p $$ | grep wd dan zsh77611 wd /474264 drwxr-xr-x 533 r (d...@dan.21) /home/dan lsof -p $$ -a -d cwd COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME zsh 77611 dan cwd

Re: I REPEAT: maxima can not be built, because gnuplot fails on download

2009-10-21 Thread Dan Nelson
saw any other OS as a good choice. These two problems are all I have; So you see, I'm not unhappy. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: undo make deinstall

2009-10-21 Thread Dan Nelson
of deinstalling something that actually worked. So . . . assume for argument's sake that I haven't gone out of my way to create a package in advance, for a sort of worst case scenario. pkg_create -b portupgrade uses this when upgrading, so it can roll back failed installs. -- Dan Nelson

Re: undo make deinstall

2009-10-21 Thread Dan Nelson
less space. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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: Display TSV files with columns aligned

2009-10-20 Thread Dan Nelson
, if you can figure out the correct commandline options. It's not easy, though... -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: maxima can not be built, because gnuplot fails on download

2009-10-20 Thread Dan Nelson
? Portsmon says that gnuplot builds fine on all three branches: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=portname=gnuplot If you have a patch, send a PR: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/problem-reports/article.html -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: Accessing LDAP via web

2009-10-18 Thread Dan Nelson
on it. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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: tar --unlink ?

2009-10-09 Thread Dan Nelson
What does '--unlink' do exactly? I can't see it in the man page of tar(1). Thanks in advance man 2 unlink I know the unlink(2) sys call, but what does this --unlink flag in tar(1) on restore (-x)? It's the same as the -U option, provided for gnutar compatibility. -- Dan

Re: tar --unlink ?

2009-10-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 09), Matthias Apitz said: El día Friday, October 09, 2009 a las 01:52:45AM -0500, Dan Nelson escribió: I know the unlink(2) sys call, but what does this --unlink flag in tar(1) on restore (-x)? It's the same as the -U option, provided for gnutar compatibility

Re: Swap and memory optimization

2009-10-01 Thread Dan Nelson
daemons (getty, idle webserver, etc). More memory can never hurt, but it doesn't seem like it's urgently needed here. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: lacie external hard drive supported?

2009-09-27 Thread Dan Nelson
be able to acess the data though). -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Device naming on scbus using isp

2009-09-22 Thread Dan Nelson
and mount them by label (see the tunefs and glabel manpages for more info). ZFS should find its pool devices automatically, but you can always manually label devices with glabel and refer to the label instead of the da## name. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory (pkgdb -F)

2009-09-17 Thread Dan Nelson
installed other files into. Regardless, it's just a warning and the package was deleted. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Traffic Shaping Bridge with Dummynet

2009-09-14 Thread Dan D Niles
-bridging.html) says The bridge can be used as a traffic shaper with altq(4) or dummynet(4). So what am I doing wrong? What else do I need to do to limit the bandwidth over a bridge? Thanks, Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-14 Thread Dan Goodin
Hello, Dan Goodin, a reporter at technology news website The Register. Security researcher Przemyslaw Frasunek says versions 6.x through 6.4 of FreeBSD has a security bug. He says he notified the FreeBSD Foundation on August 29 and never got a response. We'll be writing a brief article about

Re: FreeBSD-8 Release Type?

2009-09-13 Thread Dan Nelson
, no .0 releases have been marked extended. http://security.freebsd.org/#sup -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: ports: how to handle 'alternate' dependencies

2009-09-12 Thread Dan Nelson
+=playmusic:${PORTSDIR}/audio/playmusic .endif You can also get fancy and use OPTIONS to allow the user to pick their preferred alternative ports, using .if exists checks to pre-select any already-installed ones. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In on that swap line, you're not actively using the swap space and don't have to worry. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Daily security report oddity...

2009-09-02 Thread Dan Nelson
$M1D0 to the when column it'll rotate it monthly as well. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: 'alias' + sudo

2009-09-02 Thread Dan Nelson
. Workarounds include creating an alias that includes sudo in it (alias rootpicom='sudo pico -m'), or creating a shell script that runs what your alias would have, so you can run sudo picom: /usr/local/bin/picom #! /bin/sh pico -m $@ -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: Why /bin/sh doesn't like the line: if test x$my_var == xyes; then

2009-09-02 Thread Dan Nelson
on them as well. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ 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: memory usage displsy

2009-09-01 Thread Dan Nelson
the -m flag. Also check ipcs -a to see if there are any sysv shared memory segments hanging arnound. If you don't see anything using the memory, where are you seeing that something is using it? -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 02), Per olof Ljungmark said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 01), Bill Moran said: In response to Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se: What is a good way to find out how memory is used? Have a 6.4 box where memory is used by something but I fail

Re: Reading raw memory

2009-08-28 Thread Dan Nelson
that one could pass in the address as a parameter? /usr/src/usr.bin/truss/syscalls.c has some examples of how to do this. See the get_struct() function. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Equivilant of 'lsmod'

2009-08-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 24), Jerry said: What is the equivalent of the Linux 'lsmod' command in FreeBSD? Remember to actually describe what you want, rather than just giving the linux command. To list the loaded kernel modules, run kldstat. -- Dan Nelson dnel

Re: shell power in rc.conf

2009-08-18 Thread Dan Nelson
, sometimes very early or late in the startup/shutdown sequence, so just make sure you don't echo anything to stdout/stderr or try to run commands that might be on filesystems that aren't mounted yet, and you should be fine. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: GNU Tar and -T option

2009-08-10 Thread Dan Nelson
you shouldn't even need gnutar. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Backup Size

2009-08-10 Thread Dan Nelson
is 2k. Tar uses 512-byte blocks internally, so a directory with a lot of small files in it (/etc for example) will take up less space as a tar file than on disk. Try running du -ha /etc, to see what du reports for each file under /etc. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: Filezilla doesn't work after libjpeg upgrade

2009-08-01 Thread Dan Nelson
(whatever locate finds), then portupgrade -f (whatever pkg_info finds). -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-08-01

2009-08-01 Thread Dan Langille
-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Don't know how to make /usr/ports/dns/bind96/work/.build....

2009-07-29 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Doug Barton wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 28 July 2009 20:24:27 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: make: don't know how to make /usr/ports/dns/bind96/work/.build_done.bind96._usr_local. Stop *** Error code 2 Someone else had the same problem, and they also chose

Re: Don't know how to make /usr/ports/dns/bind96/work/.build....

2009-07-29 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Doug Barton wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I believe Mel is right here. 'make clean ; make config ; make' worked for me. As does a second make after getting this error, but it's nonintuitive, and probably a ports bug. I'm not sure why 'make clean

Re: Don't know how to make /usr/ports/dns/bind96/work/.build....

2009-07-29 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Doug Barton wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 29 July 2009 10:57:05 Doug Barton wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I believe Mel is right here. 'make clean ; make config ; make' worked for me. As does a second make after getting this error, but it's nonintuitive

Re: Don't know how to make /usr/ports/dns/bind96/work/.build....

2009-07-29 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Doug Barton wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: The fact that the error occurs AT ALL is the bug and what is counterintuitive, and many people would not think to try typing make again, and instead would just assume the thing's broken. Ok, I actually misunderstood

Don't know how to make /usr/ports/dns/bind96/work/.build....

2009-07-28 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
reason is because this problem goes away a second time. -Dan -- Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --- ___ freebsd-questions

Re: What order are options in rc.conf processed?

2009-07-27 Thread Dan Nelson
. The order the variables are set in that file does not matter. If you want your script to run after network interfaces are set up, you'll want to add a REQUIRE: NETWORKING line. See the rc and rcorder manpages for more info, and take a look at the files in /etc/rc.d/ for examples. -- Dan

Re: Syslog date format

2009-07-26 Thread Dan Nelson
format matches RFC 3164, so if you change it, you risk breaking any parsing program that tries to read the logfiles, and if you forward those messages to another machine, they won't recognise your timestamp and will probably add another timestamp to the line. -- Dan Nelson dnel

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-07-25

2009-07-25 Thread Dan Langille
-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

SAMSUNG SCX-4100 - has anyone succesfully installed it ?

2009-07-20 Thread Dan
Hello, I am having some troubles setting up the printer mentioned. I tried to use CUPS. - It is well recognized by the system as a USB device. - I installed the ppd file that I found in the linux driver package delivered from samsung. - I also copied the various filters that I found in the

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-07-18

2009-07-18 Thread Dan Langille
-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Bash and arrays

2009-07-14 Thread Dan Nelson
${COUNTER} + 1` done ./test_file.txt Another alternative would be to use zsh, which makes sure that the last component of a pipeline is run in the current shell process so the original script would have worked. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-07-11

2009-07-11 Thread Dan Langille
-x61s.php?2 17-Mar : Using two monitors with X.org The GeForce 8600 GT with two monitors http://freebsddiary.org/xorg-two-screens.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: FTP Server for individual client spaces

2009-07-10 Thread Dan Nelson
versions) and muCommander (Java so it will run on anything). http://www.winscp.net/ http://www.filezilla-project.org/ http://www.mucommander.com/ -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: portupgrade question

2009-07-09 Thread dan
On Thursday 09 July 2009 01:44:14 Jonathan Chen wrote: On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:20:41PM +0100, RW wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:00:28 +1200 Jonathan Chen j...@chen.org.nz wrote: On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:50:17PM +0200, dan wrote: THat's the point ! isnt that -R implied

portupgrade question

2009-07-08 Thread dan
Hello, yesterday, having to install kdeadmin, I issued the following command portupgrade -vnyNb -l file kdeadmin-3.5.10 Noting that n is negated by y (my mistake), the result of this command was + print/cups-base + print/xdvik + print/cm-super +

Re: portupgrade question

2009-07-08 Thread dan
parameter of portupdate. I.e. portupgrade -vnyNbR Regards, Ivailo Tanusheff Deputy Head of IT Department ProCredit Bank (Bulgaria) AD dan mesli...@yahoo.fr Sent by: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org 08.07.2009 14:05 Please respond to mesli...@yahoo.fr To freebsd-questions

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