OpenOffice.org-1.1 build failure on NFS client

2004-11-30 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm running 5.3-STABLE on a laptop connecting to an NFS mounted volume on a 5.3-STABLE server. I've exported /usr/ports from the server and mounted it to /usr/ports on the laptop NFS client. Here's my mount options from fstab: fs:/usr/ports /usr/ports nfs

Re: OpenOffice.org-1.1 build failure on NFS client

2004-11-30 Thread Doug Poland
In the last episode (Nov 30), Doug Poland said: Here's the error I get from portinstall editors/openoffice-1.1 (with some context): === Configuring for openoffice-1.1.3_1 autom4te259: cannot lock autom4te.cache/requests with mode 2 (perhaps you are running make -j on a lame NFS client

compile errors on kdelibs-3.3.1 on 4.10-STABLE

2004-12-07 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've got a 4.10-STABLE box on which I'm trying to install KDE-3.3.1. I performed a fresh cvsup of ports yesterday (06 Dec 04). Leading up to this build, I deinstalled all ports, then added: perl5.8, xorg This is where the kdelibs comile fails: c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../..

Re: Find Replace string

2004-12-09 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:48:06AM -0600, antenneX wrote: Help on commands/script needed. In a website of 1.GB+ with several hundred thousand files, I need to interrogate all files to replace a single string like oldone.010 with newone.011 What's the best way to do this? find, xargs,

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 07:54:53AM -0600, Bomgardner,Jon wrote: As a followup to my last message, I found this in one of the readmes. Partial or complete DDC support is available in most of the video drivers. DDC is enabled by default, but can be disabled with a Device section entry:

Re: Copying a directory hierarchy

2004-12-21 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:02:32PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: How does on copy a complete directory hierarchy, including any hidden files? My personal favorite, from gtar (formerly tar) man page: To move file hierarchies, use a command line like this: tar -cf - -C srcdir . | tar xpf

Re: migrating from mysql 4.0 to 4.1 best practice?

2005-01-04 Thread Doug Poland
Hi All, What is the best practice to upgrade from Mysql 4.0.X to 4.1.X, using the ports system naturally? I have searched, but not come up with any definitive solutions. Is the solution to backup, un-install, then install the other? I've followed this documentation with success:

Ultra Speed CD-RW media and cdrecord

2005-01-04 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, My son gave me a package of Memorex Ultra Speed CD-RW blanks for Christmas. I was going to burn an ISO on my 5.3-STABLE system but ran into a brick wall. cdrecord tells me that it's Trying to use ultra high speed medium on improper writer. I've used MultiSpeed 1x2x4x media and 1x-4x

Re: Ultra Speed CD-RW media and cdrecord

2005-01-04 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:17:12PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 04), Doug Poland said: My son gave me a package of Memorex Ultra Speed CD-RW blanks for Christmas. I was going to burn an ISO on my 5.3-STABLE system but ran into a brick wall. cdrecord tells me

Re: atheros (ath) wifi driver problem

2005-01-06 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:18:38PM -0800, Mo Po wrote: Hello, I installed FreeBSD 5.3 today (coming from linux/debian). I need to use the atheros wifi driver (man page ATH(4)), which is included in 5.3. (I have an atheros based PCI card in an athlon xp based system). I get the following

Backup complete gmirror/gstripe/gjournal drives, how-to?

2008-12-06 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've got a 7.1-PRERELEASE i386 box with 4 SATA drives configured in a RAID-10 using gmirror, gstripe, and gjournal. Normally, I use dump and rsync for periodic backups on this machine, but I suspect that the gmirror/gstripe/gjournal information is not being backed up. If my

Re: Backup complete gmirror/gstripe/gjournal drives, how-to?

2008-12-06 Thread Doug Poland
Wojciech Puchar wrote: periodic backups on this machine, but I suspect that the gmirror/gstripe/gjournal information is not being backed up. If my assumption is correct, how can I perform a one-time backup such that I could do a bare-metal restore? The essence of the question being I want

Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.

2009-01-24 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD (6.3, 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64). What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all machines, but preserving ports/packages for each version/architecture. I also want to make rebuilding indexes run as

Re: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.

2009-01-26 Thread Doug Poland
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD (6.3, 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64). What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all machines, but preserving ports/packages for each version/architecture. I also want to make

Re: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.

2009-01-26 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:25:37AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD (6.3, 7.0) on different architectures (i386, SPARC64). What I'd like to do is export the ports hierarchy to all machines, but preserving ports

Re: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.

2009-01-26 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:21:55AM -0900, Mel wrote: On Monday 26 January 2009 08:23:13 Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:25:37AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I've got a network running different versions of FreeBSD (6.3, 7.0) on different

Re: Sharing ports hierarchy via NFS to different arch/versions.

2009-01-27 Thread Doug Poland
Mel wrote: On Monday 26 January 2009 16:39:35 Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:21:55AM -0900, Mel wrote: On Monday 26 January 2009 08:23:13 Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:25:37AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I've got a network running

Re: vi set comment #

2009-02-20 Thread Doug Poland
Johan Hendriks wrote: How can i in vi set a # on multiple Lines to comment out some text. I know it must be a simple thing but i can not seem to get it right. Like in a config file i have the following define service{ use generic-service host_name

Issue with drive or host adapter in Sun Netra

2009-02-27 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've got a Netra t1 105 running 7.1-RELEASE/sparc64. The box has a pair of 9GB SCSI drives that I've configured into a geom mirror. Recently, I saw in my log: Feb 20 03:40:25 host kernel: sym0: unexpected disconnect Feb 20 03:40:43 host kernel: (da1:sym0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 0 3b

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Doug Poland
Chris Whitehouse wrote: Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced members would like to recommend wherein . the WiFi

portupgrade fu... AKA there has to be a better way

2009-04-04 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm upgrading a server from 6.4 to 7.1 and am going through the relative pain of re-compiling all the ports. It's not as easy portupgrade -af because of all the special handling instructions of many ports. I have not found an easy way to keep track of the ports that need to be forcibly

Re: portupgrade fu... AKA there has to be a better way

2009-04-04 Thread Doug Poland
On Sat, April 4, 2009 14:06, Matthew Seaman wrote: Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm upgrading a server from 6.4 to 7.1 and am going through the relative pain of re-compiling all the ports. It's not as easy portupgrade -af because of all the special handling instructions of many ports. I

Advanced printing/layout tools

2010-01-01 Thread Doug Poland
like this? I'm very comfortable in a CLI and do not require/desire a GUI. Thank you and Happy New Year! Doug Poland ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

2010-01-01 Thread Doug Poland
On 2010-01-01 11:42, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:30:09 -0600, Doug Polandd...@polands.org wrote: Hello, I've been tasked to print a phonebook style directory for an organization. The data will be coming out of a MySQL database and can be easily saved as comma-delimited, or

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

2010-01-01 Thread Doug Poland
On 2010-01-01 14:18, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 07:36:25PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:24:21 +0100, Roland Smithrsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: If the material is more than one page (which I suspect is the case her), a tabular environment for the complete list

8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic

2010-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm trying to get an 8.0-RELEASE-p2 amd64 box to not crash when running benchmarks/unixbench. The box in question has 4GB RAM running 6 SCSI disks in a RAID1Z. dmesg | grep memory real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB) avail memory = 3961372672 (3777 MB) zpool status pool: bethesda

Re: 8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic

2010-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, January 13, 2010 11:55, Ivan Voras wrote: Doug Poland wrote: So the question is, can ZFS be tuned to not panic or hang no matter what I throw at it? Apparently not. I began with a system with no tunables in /boot/loader.conf (vm.kmem_size and vm.kmem_size_max). Then I tried

Re: 8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic

2010-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, January 13, 2010 12:35, Ivan Voras wrote: Try adding vfs.zfs.arc_max=512M to /boot/loader.conf. Would you suggest tweaking the vm.kmem_size tunables in addition to arc_max? No, unless they auto-tune to something lesser than approximately arc_max*3. I try to set arc_max to be a

Re: 8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic

2010-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, January 13, 2010 13:57, Ivan Voras wrote: 2010/1/13 Doug Poland d...@polands.org: This is the state of the machine when it panicked this time: panic: kmem_malloc(131072): kmem_map too small: 1296957440 total allocated cpuid = 1 /boot/loader.conf: vfs.zfs.arc_max=512M

Re: 8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic

2010-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, January 13, 2010 13:57, Ivan Voras wrote: 2010/1/13 Doug Poland d...@polands.org: Can you monitor and record kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.size sysctl while the test is running (and crashing)? This looks curious - your kmem_max is ~~ 1.2 GB, arc_max is 0.5 GB and you are still having

Re: 8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic

2010-01-13 Thread Doug Poland
Ok, I re-ran with same config, but this time monitoring the sysctls you requested* ( and the rest I was watching ): I failed to mention that kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.size seemed to fluctuate between about 164,000,00 and 180,000,000 bytes during this last run -- Regards, Doug

Re: 8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic

2010-01-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, January 14, 2010 03:17, Ivan Voras wrote: Doug Poland wrote: Ok, I re-ran with same config, but this time monitoring the sysctls you requested* ( and the rest I was watching ): I failed to mention that kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.size seemed to fluctuate between about 164,000,00

Re: 8.0-R-p2 ZFS: unixbench causing kmem exhaustion panic

2010-01-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, January 14, 2010 08:50, Ivan Voras wrote: 2010/1/14 Doug Poland d...@polands.org: kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.size seemed to fluctuate between about 164,000,00 and 180,000,000 bytes during this last run Is that with or without panicking? with a panic If the system did panic

Trouble getting a core dump from clamd

2010-01-19 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm running 7.2-RELEASE-p3 i386 and am having an issue getting a core dump from a program that is seg faulting. Last night, inexplicably, clamd started to seg fault. I was trying to obtain a core dump for further analysis but no .core file can be found. I've tried the following in a

Re: Trouble getting a core dump from clamd

2010-01-19 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, January 19, 2010 11:10, krad wrote: 2010/1/19 Doug Poland d...@polands.org Hello, I'm running 7.2-RELEASE-p3 i386 and am having an issue getting a core dump from a program that is seg faulting. set a path in the sysctl variable kern.corefile. WIll make the core file easier

Re: Trouble getting a core dump from clamd

2010-01-20 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, January 19, 2010 12:35, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Jan 19, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Doug Poland wrote: No joy. # sysctl kern.corefile=/var/crash/clamd.core # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd start Starting clamav_clamd. Segmentation fault # ll /var/crash total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: Trouble getting a core dump from clamd

2010-01-20 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, January 20, 2010 15:05, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Jan 20, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Doug Poland wrote: Thanks for the suggestion and the pointer to man 5 core. I implemented your suggestions but still get no core dump. Very strange... Check your default resource limits (shell startup

Re: Trouble getting a core dump from clamd

2010-01-20 Thread Doug Poland
On 2010-01-20 17:11, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:24:51 -0600 Doug Poland wrote: % sysctl -a | grep core kern.corefile: /var/coredumps/%U/%N.core As CORE(5) says %U is a UID... % touch /var/coredumps/file % ll !$ ll /var/coredumps/file -rw-r--r-- 1 doug wheel 0 Jan 20

Re: Installation on HP Proliant via iLO - Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist

2010-04-23 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:36:39PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 4/22/10, Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at wrote: Hi, I'm having a hard time trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on an HP Proliant server. To be specific I try to instal the amd64 variant of FreeBSD 8.0 on a ProLiant DL385 G1. Since

restore via netcat not ending

2010-04-23 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've got a restore process running now that doesn't seem to want to end. The dump (level 0) was made this morning and sent to another host on the network. I reformatted the partition and am restoring the 43GB dump as such... restore# cd /data nc -l 1234 | restore -rf- backup% nc

Re: restore via netcat not ending

2010-04-24 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 08:30:28PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've got a restore process running now that doesn't seem to want to end. The dump (level 0) was made this morning and sent to another host on the network. I reformatted the partition and am restoring the 43GB dump

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-04 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 04:30:53PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Monday 04 May 2009 15:59:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:31:16AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: If you have kept the right information beforehand, you can actually restore your dumps onto ``bare

To file a PR, or not to file a PR. That is the question.

2009-05-04 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, A server running 7.1-RELEASE(i386) recently starting deadlocking when multiple UFS2 snaphosts are being manipulated (via sysutil/freebsd-snapshot). Upon searching the PR database, I found a problem repart that appears similar (kern/94769) but with my level of expertise, I'm not certain.

Source update tag RELENG_7_2 != 7.2-RELEASE ?

2009-05-06 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, Yesterday I did a source update on an i386 box to 7.2. My supfile uses RELENG_7_2 host# more /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/supfile *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default delete use-rel-suffix compress *default host=cvsup8.us.freebsd.org *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs

Re: Advices for a jailed MySQL server

2009-05-11 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, May 11, 2009 14:19, Martin Turgeon wrote: Bill Moran a écrit : In response to Martin Turgeon free...@optiksecurite.com: Hi everyone, I'm starting to build a new dedicated MySQL server. I will be using FreeBSD 7.2-REL. My plan is to jail the latest version of MySQL 5.0 and to put

Re: Advices for a jailed MySQL server

2009-05-11 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, May 11, 2009 14:19, Martin Turgeon wrote: Bill Moran a écrit : In response to Martin Turgeon free...@optiksecurite.com: Hi everyone, I'm starting to build a new dedicated MySQL server. I will be using FreeBSD 7.2-REL. My plan is to jail the latest version of MySQL 5.0 and to put

Bootable GPT USB device

2009-06-14 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm trying to create a bootable USB drive using the new GEOM_PART_ partitioning technology. Following gpart(8), I've done this... gpart create -s GPT da0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr da0 gpart add -b 34 -s 128 -t freebsd-boot da0 gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 da0 gpart add -b

Re: restoring a dump file across the network

2009-06-30 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 03:40:07PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 6/30/09, Dave dave.meh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've got a dumpfile taken of one machine and placed on another. Now i want to push it to a third, i was wondering if this were doable? Machine 3 does not have dump/restore on it

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Doug Poland
Daniel Underwood wrote: QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you prefer? and why? I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux distributions from FreeBSD fans. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.1 and I implement and support FreeBSD whenever I can.

Bridge network device for VirtualBox

2009-07-05 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm experimenting with the new VirtualBox port and wand to implement a bridged network interface on the FreeBSD host. Could someone point me to some docs that may assist me? BTW, the handbook advanced networking section,

Re: Bridge network device for VirtualBox

2009-07-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 10:39:57PM +0200, Beat Gaetzi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm experimenting with the new VirtualBox port and wand to implement a bridged network interface on the FreeBSD host. Could someone point me

Re: Bridge network device for VirtualBox

2009-07-05 Thread Doug Poland
Martin Wilke wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 03:10:07PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm experimenting with the new VirtualBox port and wand to implement a bridged network interface on the FreeBSD host. Could someone point me to some docs that may

Re: OT: where to buy Atheros mini pci-exress?

2009-07-20 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, July 19, 2009 00:22, Espartano wrote: Hi folk, someone know where can I buy an Atheros mini pci-express card I want to get one of this card (Atheros mini pci-express card) for my laptop to use with freebsd of course but I can't to find out where or in what web page I could buy one.

Moxa 8-port serial multiplexor, how-to

2009-07-24 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm trying to get a Moxa Technologies C168H/PCI 8-port mux card working in 7.2-RELEASE(i386). I've recompiled a GENERIC kernel with options COM_MULTIPORT and loaded the puc(4) module. I don't have any new ttyd? or cuad? devices in /dev. After reading the handbook(26.2) and man

Re: Moxa 8-port serial multiplexor, how-to

2009-07-28 Thread Doug Poland
On Sat, July 25, 2009 01:46, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:32:52 -0500, Doug Poland d...@polands.org wrote: After reading the handbook(26.2) and man puc(4), sio(4). man sio(4) talks about adding /boot/device.hints but not for my particular hardware. I'm at a loss on how

Re: mutt with muttprofile and GnuPG-Support

2009-07-28 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, July 28, 2009 11:49, Christian Grube wrote: Hi, I was wondering, why there is no IMAP/SMTP-Support in mutt or mutt-devel. I have had mutt-ng and muttprofile on my debianbox and it works like a charm. Is there a small hint for me to provide the same functionality under FreeBSD 8?

Re: Moxa 8-port serial multiplexor, how-to

2009-07-29 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, July 29, 2009 12:04, WATANABE Kazuhiro wrote: At Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:32:52 -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get a Moxa Technologies C168H/PCI 8-port mux card working in 7.2-RELEASE(i386). I've recompiled a GENERIC kernel with options COM_MULTIPORT and loaded

Re: Moxa 8-port serial multiplexor, how-to

2009-08-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 05:54:30PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 7/29/09, Doug Poland d...@polands.org wrote: On Wed, July 29, 2009 12:04, WATANABE Kazuhiro wrote: At Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:32:52 -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get a Moxa Technologies C168H/PCI 8-port mux

Re: Moxa 8-port serial multiplexor, how-to

2009-08-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 06:34:45PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 8/5/09, Doug Poland d...@polands.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 05:54:30PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 7/29/09, Doug Poland d...@polands.org wrote: On Wed, July 29, 2009 12:04, WATANABE Kazuhiro wrote: At Fri, 24 Jul 2009

Re: UFS journal size

2011-09-21 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:48:25PM +0300, Ross wrote: Quoting the manpage: -s jsize Specifies size of the journal if only one provider is used for both data and journal. The default is one gigabyte. Size should be chosen based on

Re: Portability of shell scripts from other *nixes

2012-01-25 Thread Doug Poland
On Jan 25, 2012, at 18:04 , Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 25, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Doug Poland wrote: The issue I'm having is the shebang line of the scripts in OS X is #!/bin/sh, and it turns out that is really an instance of bash, and the code contains some bashisms. On FreeBSD I have bash

Re: cmpq dl380 server. ipmi bmc question

2005-04-08 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:00:27PM -0500, Micheal Patterson wrote: From: Aaron Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hello guys and gals, Does system fan control on a Compaq DL380 ,first edition, have any support? Sounds like a jet at idle in the machine room.

Problem installing super smack on 5.4-STABLE

2005-04-12 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm running a freshly built and cvsup'd system: uname -a FreeBSD lebanon.polands.org 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #1: Sat Apr 9 13:24:47 CDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LEBANON i386 and MySQL 4.1.11. I downloaded v1.2 of super-smack from

Need help using ssh/netcat to proxy udp

2006-08-02 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm trying to use ssh and netcat to forward dns queries from a 6.1-STABLE workstation to a remote 6.1-STABLE DNS server. I was inspired by the information supplied at: http://zarb.org/~gc/html/udp-in-ssh-tunneling.html The methodology is elegant and simple, but I'm unable to get it

gmirror on different sized disks

2006-08-18 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, Until just a few moments ago, I thought I had identical sized drives (arrays, really) on my i386 6.1-STABLE box. I was trying to create a gmirror on ar1 from ar0 when gmirror reported to me: Provider ar1 too small. my dmesg reports: ar0: 152638MB Promise Fasttrak RAID0 (stripe 128 KB)

Re: gmirror on different sized disks

2006-08-19 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:58:22PM +, Jason Morgan wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 03:47:57PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Until just a few moments ago, I thought I had identical sized drives (arrays, really) on my i386 6.1-STABLE box. I was trying to create a gmirror on ar1 from ar0

BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Doug Poland
I just glanced at the latest statistics on www.bsdstats.org. In the last week or so OpenBSD has overtaken FreeBSD in the USA. Should one conclude that OpenBSD admins have enthusiastically embraced this project and FreeBSD admins have not; or, is OpenBSD really more widely deployed than FreeBSD?

Re: printer recommendation

2006-09-29 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, September 29, 2006 14:03, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: Could anyone recommend a good desktop laser jet printer that is known to work under FreeBSD. I don't mind if it's an older model. I'd like to go cheap with it. I've got an HP-4050 LaserJet (addin JetDirect) at home that works

Re: requesting help to make sound work on thin/diskless client

2006-10-09 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:00:23PM -0500, Raymond Gibson wrote: Hello, I'm looking for help. I built a thin/diskless client that I boot via etherboot. After power up the client boots and gives me a login prompt. At that time I enter 'root' and I am presented with a command prompt. I then

Re: requesting help to make sound work on thin/diskless client

2006-10-12 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 05:28:36PM -0500, Raymond Gibson wrote: On Monday 09 October 2006 19:43, Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:00:23PM -0500, Raymond Gibson wrote: I'm looking for help. I built a thin/diskless client that I boot via etherboot. After power up the client

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

2010-10-02 Thread Doug Poland
On Oct 2, 2010, at 9:49, Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote: How can one do a massive portupgrade, as with -r or -R, without being interrupted by options configuration screens for many individual

OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy

2010-10-04 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I realize this is not a specific FreeBSD question, but a lot of knowledgeable apache admins hang around here. I am tasked with creating a reverse SSL proxy in a DMZ. A reverse proxy for http is simple, but I'm finding it challenging understanding all that needs to take place for apache

Re: OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy

2010-10-04 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:19:52PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Doug Poland d...@polands.org wrote: Hello, I realize this is not a specific FreeBSD question, but a lot of knowledgeable apache admins hang around here. I am tasked

Re: OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy

2010-10-05 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 02:32:11AM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Oct 5, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote: On Oct 5, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Nowadays there is also the possibility of

Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive

2007-01-22 Thread Doug Poland
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:07:49PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Garrett Cooper writes: One good reason I can think of is to partition (not the tech definition but the traditional definition, to divide) filesystems such that if one person fills up /, it won't cause a program that

Re: BSDstats report for Mar 1st, 2006

2007-03-02 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, March 2, 2007 13:24, Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Well, I skip'd reporting last month, like anyone missed it, right? I did :) Well, last month, and this month, have been seen ~10% increases in first of month numbers, so its still growing ... The

PRISM3(PCMCIA) and/or wi(4) driver unable to do WPA?

2007-03-07 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I just acquired a Linksys Instant Wireless Network PC Card 802.11b wireless NIC. When plugged into a 6.2 i386 laptop, dmesg reports: wi0: The Linksys Group, Inc. Instant Wireless Network PC Card at port 0x100-0x13f irq 11 function 0 config 1 on pccard1 wi0: using RF:PRISM3(PCMCIA) wi0:

PRISM3(PCMCIA) and/or wi(4) driver unable to do WPA?

2007-03-07 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I have just acquired a Linksys Instant Wireless Network PC Card 802.11b wireless NIC. When plugged into a 6.2 i386 laptop, dmesg reports: wi0: The Linksys Group, Inc. Instant Wireless Network PC Card at port 0x100-0x13f irq 11 function 0 config 1 on pccard1 wi0: using RF:PRISM3(PCMCIA)

Re: PRISM3(PCMCIA) and/or wi(4) driver unable to do WPA?

2007-03-07 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, March 7, 2007 17:57, Patrick Bowen wrote: Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I have just acquired a Linksys Instant Wireless Network PC Card 802.11b wireless NIC. When plugged into a 6.2 i386 laptop, dmesg reports: wi0: The Linksys Group, Inc. Instant Wireless Network PC Card at port

Re: PRISM3(PCMCIA) and/or wi(4) driver unable to do WPA?

2007-03-08 Thread Doug Poland
The driver sadly, see http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-wi Its possible someones working on it but not that i know of. Thanks for the info. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

UFS2 Snapshot limitiations

2007-03-13 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I seem to recall, but cannot find, the limitation on the number of snapshots allowed on UFS2. Could someone point me in the right direction please? -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: UFS2 Snapshot limitiations

2007-03-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, March 13, 2007 10:10, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I seem to recall, but cannot find, the limitation on the number of snapshots allowed on UFS2. Could someone point me in the right direction please? The handbook has it: http

Portupgrade and replacing apache 1.3.37 with apache 2.2.4

2007-03-16 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE on an i386 test box with apache 1.3.37/PHP-5/MySQL-5. As the subject says, I'd like to replace apache 1.3 with apache 2.2. I understand httpd.conf will change and that I'll have to edit that by hand, but is there a portupgrade command that will remove

Re: Portupgrade and replacing apache 1.3.37 with apache 2.2.4

2007-03-17 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:17:48PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE on an i386 test box with apache 1.3.37/PHP-5/MySQL-5. As the subject says, I'd like to replace apache 1.3 with apache 2.2. I understand httpd.conf will change

OT: how to read BIND's debug file (named.run)

2007-03-21 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I realize this is not FreeBSD specific, other than the fact that I'm running BIND on 1/2 dozen FreeBSD 6.2 servers. But I'd like to know if someone knows of a resource to help me interpret what I'm seeing in BIND's debug output file. For example: # rndc trace # rndc querylog # tail

Re: OT: how to read BIND's debug file (named.run)

2007-03-21 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:23:39PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi, Doug-- On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Doug Poland wrote: [ ...named logs... ] I trimmed out date/time stamp and it's obvious what the client, IP#port, query: name are for. Also, I get what the: IN A MX SOA PTR flags

Can iostat(8) report on gmirror devices?

2007-03-28 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've grown quite fond of iostat(8) for monitoring various i386 6.x servers and have several boxes using gmirror(8). It appears that iostat will not accept things like gm0 as a drive argument. Is that a feature or am I missing something. -- Regards, Doug

Ports and updating 6.2-STABLE to 7.0-PRERELEASE

2007-10-19 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've just updated my system to 7.0-PRERELEASE from 6.2-STABLE on i386 and I was wondering what the recommendation is for ports. Specifically, is it necessary to rebuild all ports? So far, I haven't rebuilt any ports and haven't had any problems... -- Regards, Doug

Re: Ports and updating 6.2-STABLE to 7.0-PRERELEASE

2007-10-19 Thread Doug Poland
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:57:08PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've just updated my system to 7.0-PRERELEASE from 6.2-STABLE on i386 and I was wondering what the recommendation is for ports. Specifically, is it necessary to rebuild all ports? So far, I haven't

if_bridge, if_tap and wireless NICs

2007-10-24 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've finally gotten emulators/qemu to work with bridge/tap networking on FreeBSD-7.0-BETA1 i386 using bfe0: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Fast Ethernet For reference, I used the tutorial listed at: http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=1563 My issue is, however, that QEMU/bridge/tap

First panic in 7.0-BETA1 on i386

2007-10-24 Thread Doug Poland
I'd like to report the details but I'm unfamiliar with the process. Should I post here on -questions or on -current mailing list? Looks like the issue is: kernel: current process = 46 (ath0 taskq) -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: First panic in 7.0-BETA1 on i386

2007-10-24 Thread Doug Poland
Kris Kennaway wrote: Doug Poland wrote: I'd like to report the details but I'm unfamiliar with the process. Should I post here on -questions or on -current mailing list? -stable. Looks like the issue is: kernel: current process = 46 (ath0 taskq) Well, unfortunately that doesn't really

Re: Changing console size, vidcontrol only lists 80x25

2007-10-30 Thread Doug Poland
Joshua Isom wrote: I recently bought a new LCD monitor for my computer. It handles 1440x900 and seems to automatically do some scaling(although buggy) to utilize the entire screen, resulting in a stretched, blurry, and cropped screen for the console. After some time and playing around, I was

Can anyone recommend an external firewire-based drive?

2007-11-14 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm looking for an external, firewire-based, hard-drive from which to run FreeBSD 7.0 (i386). Ideally, I'd boot from this device as well, but I'm not sure if FreeBSD (or my BIOS) supports booting from firewire. Can anyone recommend a manufacturer and/or model? -- Regards, Doug

Re: selfbuild packages repository

2007-11-15 Thread Doug Poland
Jonathan Horne wrote: lately, ive been exclusively doing 'make package-recursive' and 'portupgrade -apP', and have thus collected quite a lot of packages over the past 6 months (which use to keep multiple systems updated). on my NFS server, my /usr/ports/packages/All directory has built up

Re: cups openoffice...bad mojo?

2007-11-20 Thread Doug Poland
Steve Franks wrote: On Nov 20, 2007 8:15 AM, Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Franks wrote: Save me! The wife can't print, so I've been spooled to the couch! Originally installed OO around 2.0. Wouldn't print. Finally found some esoteric blog somewhere that said link /usr/local

Major filesystem problems after crash on 7.0-BETA3

2007-11-26 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, This morning my 7.0-BETA3 i386 system (Compaq nx7400) reset shortly after starting X11. I didn't think much of it and went to get a cup of coffee while the background fsck took care of the file systems. Unforunately, something's still broke. At first, when I tried to access the /var or

Re: Major filesystem problems after crash on 7.0-BETA3

2007-11-26 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, November 26, 2007 14:26, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, This morning my 7.0-BETA3 i386 system (Compaq nx7400) reset shortly after starting X11. I didn't think much of it and went to get a cup of coffee while the background fsck took care of the file systems. Unforunately, something's

Re: Major filesystem problems after crash on 7.0-BETA3

2007-11-27 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, November 26, 2007 15:03, Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, November 26, 2007 14:26, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, This morning my 7.0-BETA3 i386 system (Compaq nx7400) reset shortly after starting X11. I didn't think much of it and went to get a cup of coffee while the background fsck took

Re: Major filesystem problems after crash on 7.0-BETA3 (SOLVED)

2007-11-28 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, November 27, 2007 15:22, Kris Kennaway wrote: Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, November 26, 2007 15:03, Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, November 26, 2007 14:26, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, This morning my 7.0-BETA3 i386 system (Compaq nx7400) reset shortly after starting X11. I didn't think

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