Re: argument list too long

2008-02-27 Thread Dan Nelson
program blah starts slowly, and it's better to give it 2000 params at once. but i've asked to be sure what is actual limit, and used xargs -n 2000 to do the rest. That's less than xargs's default of 5000 :) The xargs manpage explains it all. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: argument list too long

2008-02-27 Thread Dan Nelson
xargs also reads kern.argmax and limits the total argument size to 4096 bytes less than that. If you can reproduce this with a simple testcase, it should be easy to fix. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Using ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-27 Thread Dan Nelson
, and enhancements in ZFS on FreeBSD 7.0 or will I gain? Going from S10U4 (zfs pool version 4) to FreeBSD 7 (v6) you will actually gain gzip compression support. Opensolaris is up to v10. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd

Re: Fwd: mysqlclient upgrade

2008-02-14 Thread Dan Nelson
at the same version. Why not upgrade mysql-server, too? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-06 Thread Dan Nelson
headache. I ran into this with posix_memalign in some software. posix_memalign is in 7.0, actually. If there are any posix functions still missing, you can send a mail to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, or file a PR with the category set to standards. Patches welcome, too :) -- Dan Nelson

Re: Oops

2008-01-31 Thread Dan Nelson
mountpoint. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How manu swap ?

2008-01-16 Thread Dan Nelson
you allocated enough processes to require that much swap, you were pretty much thrashing your system anyway. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Missing /dev entries on SCSI drive

2008-01-13 Thread Dan Nelson
be damaged or missing. If you remember the layout, you can run disklabel and recreate it. Another option is to use the sysutils/scan_ffs or sysutils/ffs2recov ports to determine the original disklabel settings. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lsof: can't determine device random seed

2008-01-08 Thread Dan Nelson
of a device random seed anywhere in the kernel source, so I just patched lsof to always return OK and a seed of zero from dev2udev, and everything seems to work okay. Try putting the attached patch in the files subdirectory of the lsof port and rebuild. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: batch rename

2008-01-05 Thread Dan Nelson
mv $i ${i[1]:l}${i[2,-1]} done -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc documentation

2007-12-20 Thread Dan Nelson
using the man command. Run man 3 printf, for example. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Redirecting output

2007-12-18 Thread Dan Nelson
to verify what was going on: #! /bin/sh echo I am stdout echo I am stderr 12 -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: loading modules not in /boot/kernel from loader.conf

2007-12-10 Thread Dan Nelson
checks /boot/modules/ , so copy your stuff there. That's where the kqemu-kmod port puts kqemu.ko, for example. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Character 208 acts strangs in console, when moving mouse

2007-12-05 Thread Dan Nelson
. That and a unicode VGA font (like at http://www.inp.nsk.su/~bolkhov/files/fonts/univga/ ) would allow a utf-8 console to display the 256 most common characters on the screen (252 if the mouse is onscreen) whatever they happen to be. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FreeBSD NFS server Linux clients

2007-12-05 Thread Dan Nelson
check dmesg or /var/log/messages on the client to see if it's reporting something there. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: cron pile up! Lot's of cron: running job (cron)

2007-12-03 Thread Dan Nelson
: /* child */ i = 2; execl(/usr/bin/true, true, NULL); _exit(0); break; default: break; } printf(in parent, i is %d\n, i); return 0; } -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: running port as non-root

2007-11-30 Thread Dan Nelson
-- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mbuf allocation on FreeBSD 6.x

2007-11-21 Thread Dan Nelson
are just regular kernel-malloced memory and have no hard limit apart from available memory. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: How to know PID responsible for network connection/listen?

2007-11-15 Thread Dan Nelson
or the sysutils/lsof port. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 7.0, make buildworld without contrib. old top binary in contrib.

2007-11-14 Thread Dan Nelson
. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't think of program

2007-11-11 Thread Dan Nelson
be expect, but that's not right. Trust your mind :) It's expect. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: ps options

2007-11-10 Thread Dan Nelson
can see at a glance what's running more easily. It's a standard thing on many OSes, and I was sorta hoping it'd be available on FreeBSD. Maybe under a different name? It's usually a separate command (ptree on Solaris for example). Try the sysutils/pstree port. -- Dan Nelson

Re: Determine FreeBSD version of binary

2007-11-08 Thread Dan Nelson
building with -O2, apply the patch in PR 101590. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Determine FreeBSD version of binary

2007-11-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 08), Erik Osterholm said: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 03:47:54PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 08), John Smith said: On Nov 8, 2007 6:59 PM, Yuri Pankov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May be not entirely correct, but close: ldd binary | grep

Re: problems using ls with for_in (SH)

2007-11-08 Thread Dan Nelson
multiple filenames on its commandline and prints the filename in its output: md5 * will suffice. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Best way to measure disk bandwidth usage

2007-11-07 Thread Dan Nelson
will be different for each model; diskinfo -t can help here). For SCSI, FC, or drives hung off a raid controller, your bottleneck may be the speed of the shared interface or your pci bus, depending on how many drives you have connected. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sh script difficulties (running parallel functions)

2007-11-01 Thread Dan Nelson
builtin , but catching it and then doing a kill -INT $$ after all your workers have completed is more complicated since the wait command will exit when a signal is received, and I don't think it will tell you why it exited (all children done, or got a signal). -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL

Re: how many IPFW rules?

2007-10-31 Thread Dan Nelson
not seeing any slowdown, then you must have a fast machine :) Using an ipfw table should be even better, though. That lets you load any number of ip/netmask pairs into a tree-based lookup table and match all addresses using one ipfw rule. The ipfw manpage has examples. -- Dan Nelson

Re: ipfw -- why need to let icmp out that I already let in?

2007-10-31 Thread Dan Nelson
into a single communication. I use allow icmp from any to any icmptypes 0,3,11,12 in those types being echo reply, destination unreachable, time-to-live exceeded, and IP header bad. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions

Re: 7.0 BETA1 and cvsup

2007-10-31 Thread Dan Nelson
? *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7 There is no bug-fix-only 7.0 branch, since 7.0 hasn't been released yet. When it has, you will be able to use the RELENG_7_0 tag. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Fetching sources for 6.2-Release including changes from Security Advisories

2007-10-30 Thread Dan Nelson
-PRERELEASE You want RELENG_6_2 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: ncftpput ncftpget

2007-10-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 30), Bill Banks said: What port should I make to get ncftpput? ftp/ncftp3 -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: oflag option in GNU dd - equivalent in FreeBSD dd ?

2007-10-23 Thread Dan Nelson
is in blocks. Even if you divide by 512 (or whatever you decide to set bs=), if the file you're appending do isn't a multiple of the blocksize, you'll end up chopping part of the end off. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions

Re: oflag option in GNU dd - equivalent in FreeBSD dd ?

2007-10-22 Thread Dan Nelson
use, or am I forced to install GNU utils ? Why not cat /blah /bleh ? dd is usually used on raw device nodes, and appending doesn't make sense there. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: url encoding a string with base system tools

2007-09-29 Thread Dan Nelson
/cf_through_a_commandline_interface_part_2_programm.html although I see there are two entries for tab, one just having a space, so you'll definitely want to test it out. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Compilation error libpcre.so.0: ELF file OS ABI invalid

2007-09-28 Thread Dan Nelson
build might help too. Another possibility is that the freebsd-port version of /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 has gotten damaged somehow. FreeBSD's grep doesn't link with pcre so it's sort of unlikely that that would be the cause, though. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: File size discrepancies

2007-09-28 Thread Dan Nelson
. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Booting to Sysinstall

2007-09-24 Thread Dan Nelson
any host-specific config, or fetch the raw distribution files and extract them onto the new drive. That way you get a working system immediately when you put the drive back in the old system. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd

Re: IBM Lotus freesoftware

2007-09-24 Thread Dan Nelson
ago. You're probably better off using a natively-built OpenOffice; IBM just rebadged it. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: stdout -determining size of??

2007-09-22 Thread Dan Nelson
you think that stdout has a limit? stdout could be anything: tty, socket, pipe, file, etc. If you have redirected stdout from a script to a file, like ls ls.txt, then it's possible that you filled up a filesystem. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to know who use NFS.

2007-09-21 Thread Dan Nelson
(it's rpc.auth.uid). Unfortunately it doesn't look like there's a summary or analysis option for NFS, so you'll have to count packets maually... -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: top columns VCSW and IVCSW

2007-09-21 Thread Dan Nelson
to syscalls that end up blocking (sleep, read, write, select etc). Involuntary ones are done by the scheduler when the process has used up its time slice or an interrupt fires. Grep the kernel for mi_switch to see places that switches can happen. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Which knobs do I use to control BDB use in MySQL-server port?

2007-09-19 Thread Dan Nelson
5.1, so you should think about moving any bdb tables you might already have to innodb. Development on the bdb engine pretty much stopped once innodb was available. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Which knobs do I use to control BDB use in MySQL-server port?

2007-09-19 Thread Dan Nelson
the BDB-engine removal, too. Funny that this Port doesn't give you that option. Thanks a lot! Ali -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: CPU utilization

2007-09-13 Thread Dan Nelson
available from the kernel currently. All you get is the aggregate total from things like top and vmstat. It'd be interesting to see Solaris-style mpstat output from a FreeBSD kernel. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Philosophy of default pkg_add -r PACKAGESITE?

2007-09-04 Thread Dan Nelson
directory. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem mounting I-Stick2 USB flash drive

2007-09-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 01), L Goodwin said: --- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Aug 31), L Goodwin said: Under FreeBDS 6.2, the following command works for a 256MBMemorex Mini TravelDrive, but not for a 256MB Intelligent Stick (I-Stick): mount_msdosfs

Re: Problem mounting I-Stick2 USB flash drive

2007-08-31 Thread Dan Nelson
Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da3: 1.000MB/s transfers da3: 249MB (511488 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 249C) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: How to block 200K ip addresses?

2007-08-27 Thread Dan Nelson
was set or not. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to block 200K ip addresses?

2007-08-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 26), Aminuddin said: From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In the last episode (Aug 26), Aminuddin said: From: Dan Nelson In the last episode (Aug 26), Aminuddin said: How do you block this large range of ip addresses from different subnet? IPFW

Re: time issue

2007-08-26 Thread Dan Nelson
talking to change regularly defeats this. ntpd does a single DNS lookup for each server at startup and doesn't shift from them even if the DNS changes, so that's not an issue. Good enough to keep time on my server though, I suppose, since I'm not running a cellular network. :) -- Dan

Re: How to block 200K ip addresses?

2007-08-25 Thread Dan Nelson
uses the same radix tree lookup format as the kernel's routing tables, so it scales well to large amounts of sparse addresses. man ipfw, search for lookup tables. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: How to block 200K ip addresses?

2007-08-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 26), Aminuddin said: From: Dan Nelson In the last episode (Aug 26), Aminuddin said: How do you block this large range of ip addresses from different subnet? IPFW only allows 65536 rules while this will probably use up a few hundred thousands of lines

Re: freebsd 7 release date :)

2007-08-19 Thread Dan Nelson
, not gdb?) Those are warnings, not errors, due to the installkernel running a 6.x kldxref on a 7.x kernel. Your boot problem is unrelated, and could be due to missing drivers for whatever your boot device is. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Dan Nelson
. If they don't compile on your system, have you submitted a PR? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: how to use an upgraded gcc compiler

2007-08-14 Thread Dan Nelson
? Is libxml-ruby different from the textproc/ruby-libxml port? That makefile says it doesn't compile with gcc 4.2, but says nothing about lower versions. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Bizzare routing table entry.

2007-08-08 Thread Dan Nelson
: writing to routing socket: No such process delete net 0: not in table 0xc0a80132: Command not found. [1] + Exit 1route delete 0 is a shell metacharacter; try this: route delete 00xc0a80132 -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How does Sendmail know how it was invoked?

2007-08-04 Thread Dan Nelson
/src/main.c?annotate=HEAD -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using Smart-Fail HD

2007-08-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 04), Damian Vicino said: Im Having FBSD running in a P3 with 4.3GB HD, and got 2 extra 80GBs HD that fails the SMART check. If those drives fail a SMART check and they are under warranty, send them back for replacement. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: attaching a terminal to 'join' another?

2007-08-02 Thread Dan Nelson
commands/man page, but they are rather long, and I'd miss what I was looking for without having a clue in advance. I'm guessing something like /dev/?tty?? might work, but how do I figure out which tty to use? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: LAN failover redundandcy?

2007-08-01 Thread Dan Nelson
RELENG_6_2, you are just getting critical security patches. You would need to track RELENG_6. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: __sys_fcntl() definition ?

2007-08-01 Thread Dan Nelson
* functions ? Those are stub functions that invoke the equivalent syscall in the kernel. The ${SASM}: rule in /usr/src/lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc is what generates the stubs themselves. The actual code for most syscalls in the kernel is in /usr/src/sys/kern/ . -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL

Re: problems with mysql database

2007-07-29 Thread Dan Nelson
to MyISAM, then copy them back. If you have made a mysqldump of your tables recently, you can also delete your existing database files and reload from the dump; 5.0 will ignore the ENGINE=ISAM option and create MyISAM tables. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: p5 in ports

2007-07-29 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 29), Aton A said: Hi, I have just run portsnap extract on a new system and I noticed a large number of ports begin with p5- what exactly does the p5 stand for or represent? perl 5 -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Portupgrade and mysql5-server

2007-07-25 Thread Dan Nelson
of downtime. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SATA 300 Drive Being Run At 150

2007-07-21 Thread Dan Nelson
from its 8MB buffer :) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using FreeBSD iconv on Linux

2007-07-14 Thread Dan Nelson
ports depend on GNU iconv. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using FreeBSD iconv on Linux

2007-07-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 14), Manjunath Warad said: From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In the last episode (Jul 13), Manjunath Warad said: Can someone direct me as how to use FreeBSD iconv on linux? I know there exists a GNU iconv on linux; however, I am interested in using

Re: non-interactive dump

2007-07-08 Thread Dan Nelson
? If it automatically continued it would just overwrite the previous segment. I'm assuming you're dumping to some removable media, like multiple USB hard drives or something, that you plug in one at a time? -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: can't build /graphics/poppler-qt after recent cvsup

2007-07-03 Thread Dan Nelson
== xyes; then == is not a valid comparison operator for the test command. It must be =. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Bondbind like for FreeBSD ?

2007-06-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 27), Frank Bonnet said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 26), Frank Bonnet said: Is there a FreeBSD tool that is equivalent of bondbind for Linux ( ethernet load balancing or trunking that use the Cisco's etherchannel ) ? You can use the lagg

Re: Bondbind like for FreeBSD ?

2007-06-26 Thread Dan Nelson
can use ng_fec or ng_one2many, but they both use static configuration and aren't as nice. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=laggmanpath=FreeBSD+7-current -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: rerecording a cdrw?

2007-06-26 Thread Dan Nelson
at the cdrecord manpage, blank=fast or one of the other blanking options should do what you need. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Bondbind like for FreeBSD ?

2007-06-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 26), Brian A. Seklecki said: On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 10:36 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: ethernet load balancing or trunking that use the Cisco's etherchannel ) ? lagg Very cool. Two questions: 1) fec and lacp must be used against the same physical switch

Re: Questions about shell scripts in /etc/periodic/daily

2007-06-25 Thread Dan Nelson
that each script ends with an exit $rc command. See the periodic(8) manpage for a description of what the different numbers represent. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: freebsd version of 'data' for getting epoch time ... ?

2007-06-20 Thread Dan Nelson
to GMT and used %Z instead. %z is actually easier to parse, so I'm not sure why it's not handled. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Force Memory Dump

2007-06-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 04), Sean Murphy said: How do you force a memory dump from a specific PID? /usr/bin/gcore -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Force Memory Dump

2007-06-04 Thread Dan Nelson
wheel 512 Apr 3 17:03 .. Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 04), Sean Murphy said: How do you force a memory dump from a specific PID? /usr/bin/gcore gcore is one of the few programs left that still requires procfs. You'll need to mount it: mount -t procfs /proc /proc

Re: what is pkg_create doing?

2007-05-31 Thread Dan Nelson
became an issue after the xorg port update introduced an extra 100 dependencies to every X-using port. Took my pkg_create times down from 5 minutes to 5 seconds :) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: grub

2007-05-29 Thread Dan Nelson
won't work, and you'll have to chainload to the FreeBSD slice's bootblock instead of using the kernel command. If you really want booteasy back, boot into FreeBSD and run boot0cfg -B /dev/ad0 (or whatever your 1st hardrive's device is) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: how many data can i write to my tape, how to tested?

2007-05-28 Thread Dan Nelson
/storageworks/ultrium232/specs.html If you can only put 181GB of data on the tape, that just means you have some files that don't compress very well (gif/jpg images, gzipped files, etc). You should only get worried if your tape fills up after less than 100GB :) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL

Re: working on -CURRENT from -STABLE?

2007-05-26 Thread Dan Nelson
for me; you can NFS-mount host to guest and vice versa to manipulate files. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Server Move - Quotas

2007-05-24 Thread Dan Nelson
space. Can I directly copy the user.quota file in the /home directory from the old server to the new one, or will I need to redo all the quotas manually? If the uids are staying the same, you should be able to just copy the files and run quotacheck to update the accounting info. -- Dan

Re: Belkin omiview KVM

2007-05-24 Thread Dan Nelson
labels. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Security Run Output Questions

2007-05-23 Thread Dan Nelson
messages: +++ /tmp/security.ioLB2PiJWed May 23 03:01:42 2007 +pid 30865 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 4 It's crashing :) 4 SIGILL create core imageillegal instruction -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Tape Capacity Used?

2007-05-19 Thread Dan Nelson
not translate to a sequential 0-max range. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Piping across machines? - a suggestion

2007-05-16 Thread Dan Nelson
passwordless logins (either via .shosts or key-based authentication), this works as you would expect: ssh machine1 programX | ssh machine2 programY | ssh machine3 programZ Just remember to quote any file redirection or wildcard characters that you want the remote systems to process. -- Dan

Re: Inverse ARP query

2007-05-12 Thread Dan Nelson
are. ports/net/arping should do what you want. arping aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff prints the remote system's IP address as part of its response string. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Problem with RRDTool reinstallation

2007-05-08 Thread Dan Nelson
://portsmon.droso.net/portoverview.py?category=netportname=rrdtool My suggestion is to remove the USE_GMAKE line from the port Makefile. The port doesn't require gnumake at all, and our make builds the port to completion. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SCSI + camcontrol

2007-05-04 Thread Dan Nelson
before and after will also tell you how many ECC recoveries and rereads were done. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite?

2007-05-03 Thread Dan Nelson
delivery. If the load isn't being caused by mail delivery, it's better to bump it wayy up. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: List of UPCs that can auto-shutdown FreeBSD

2007-05-02 Thread Dan Nelson
is supported. I use nut on a similar USB-monitored APC UPS at home. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers

2007-05-02 Thread Dan Nelson
time. If you also point one of the machines to some pool.ntp.org servers, you will also be in synch with the rest of the world :) http://www.pool.ntp.org/ -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: [freebsd-questions] Mount an iso image?

2007-04-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 25), Howard Jones said: Dan Nelson wrote: If that's all you need, there's an even easier way: tar tvf mycd.iso, since libarchive understands the iso9660 filesystem format :) That's a useful trick! Is there an equivalent for ufs filesystems? I'd like to be able

Re: Mount an iso image?

2007-04-23 Thread Dan Nelson
perfectly. If that's all you need, there's an even easier way: tar tvf mycd.iso, since libarchive understands the iso9660 filesystem format :) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Why is dmidecode failing?

2007-04-18 Thread Dan Nelson
on you. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Dan Nelson
/ports/postfix/options and run make. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the #-number from uname -a?

2007-04-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 15), Pieter de Goeje said: On Sunday 15 April 2007, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Apr 15), Roger Olofsson said: Yesterday I csup:ed 2 machines to latest using same cvsup-server for both. After the standard procedure of doing: make buildworld

Re: What's the #-number from uname -a?

2007-04-15 Thread Dan Nelson
'FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2' and the other says 'FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #6'. What does the number after the #-sign mean? It's the number of times you have rebuilt your kernel. The value is stored in /usr/src/sys/arch/kernelname/version. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Mysql Hogging all system resources

2007-04-14 Thread Dan Nelson
, and to run 'cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf' to rebuild login.conf.db. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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