SATA RAID support on VIA VT8237?

Hi, I'm wondering if SATA RAID 1 is suppored on the VT8237. The hardware notes for 4.10 say the chipset it supported but nothing about the RAID capabilities. So now I'm wondering if I need to stick in a Highpoint expansion card (cause those sure as hell do work) or if I can use the onboard

Re: Sil680 RAID Support while installing 5.1-Release

Hi Travis Troyer, you wrote. TT I just purchased a Sil680 IDE RAID controller, and have setup TT a striped RAID array. When I boot from the 5.1 installation TT CD-ROM, FreeBSD does not recognize them as one disk. I TT checked the hardware notes, and Sil680 UDMA6 is listed. TT Seeing Sil680

openssl ASN bug?

There was a security advisory about openssl 0.9.7b having a bug in the ASN encoding code on 30th Sept 03 and now I'm wondering what to do about it? Install the port? Wait some more and do another cvsup (currently, nothing shows up in UPDATING)? ___

Samba drives me nuts XP is slow to crawl with it

I have a two IBM Thinkpads running XP Pro who should access a Samba machine (3.0.0 on STABLE), one of them can do that perfectly, the other gets about 100kb/s connection. Between each other, the work at full speed and if I have the server mount shares from the Thinkpad, it's fast as well. People

atacontrol weirdness: RAID 1 array is shown to be degraded but both disks are up

The 4.9 box has got onboard Promise RAID which so far has worked just fine. However, today I got a report about a degraded disk array so I went to check and found something rather odd: $ atacontrol list ATA channel 0: Master: no device present Slave: no device present ATA

Re: Questions about 3Ware 7506 controller

Hi Alvin Gunkel, you wrote. AG -Raid 10 or 5? Compared to the 0+1 I have now, 10 would be a nice AG improvement as loss of the one drive effectively took out two of my AG drives. I'm not so sure whether this is entirely true. The RAID 10 thing always seemed to be more of a marketing scam than

Re: Clarification needed on Handbook: Tracking for Multiple Machines

Hi D J Hawkey Jr, you wrote. DJHJ So, two machines use the same world, except that a laptop doesn't want DJHJ profiled libraries or games. Since the install is separate from the build, DJHJ the build machine's make.conf must _not_ define NOPROFILE nor NOGAMES, If that machine itself wants those,

Re: MySQL error 2013

Hi Derrick Ryalls, you wrote. DR I have even tried firing up mysqld with --skip-grant-tables to no avail. DR Googling around, I see lots of reference to glibc issues, but I thought DR that only applied to Linux. I have tried mysql41-server port (fresh DR cvsup), mysql40, and a package mysql323,

Re: CURRENT: RAID1: use vinum(8) or motherboard support (VIA VT8237)?

Hi Burkard Meyendriesch, you wrote. BM Hi all, BM for my new -CURRENT box I have to decide wether to use BM vinum(8) or the on-board capabilities of my Asus K8V Deluxe BM motherboard for RAID1 mirroring. Which solution would you BM recommend? Personally, I've always found vinum to be a rather

Re[2]: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

Hi Heinrich Rebehn, you wrote. Make sure you've disabled write caching on the drive firmware itself... HR Does this also apply for RAID disks (twe)? Also, there is no word about HR this in man tuning(7). Is this more of a guess or is softupdates HR definately dangerous with wite cache

Re[2]: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

Hello Heinrich, Sunday, February 22, 2004, 6:49:46 PM, you wrote: what you write does make sense, although i really can't understand why this important info is not in the FreeBSD documentation. I have disabled write cache, but i will keep softupdates disabled as well for now, and see how the

Re[2]: UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

Hello Heinrich, Sunday, February 22, 2004, 5:00:27 PM, you wrote: Why that? I can imagine that i lose data in case of a power failure, but why in case of a crash? Well I guess the card COULD still commit the data, however, who knows if it actually does it? And why is write cache only

Re[2]: 5.2(x)-RELEASE panic booting

Hi Guy Harrison, you wrote. Do you get the same result if booting without ACPI? GH Yes. I'm assuming here that the [default] boot option does not have ACPI GH enabled (if so, how to disable it?). The boot results are identical to GH when I select option 2 to boot with ACPI enabled. I too get a

Fixing degraded atacontrol based software RAID?

Hello, I have a machine running atacontrol based software RAID in which one of the disks recently failed (Maxtor, not IBM for those who want to know). Now I'm wondering how I should go about fixing this. atacontrol seems to lack a command to fix broken software only arrays. I suppose I could use

Maximum value for possible group memberships

Hi, I'm in dire need to have one user belong in much more than 16 users. So I tried upping NGROUP_MAX to 2048 (which is well above what I need, 512 would be about right I suppose) but the system would crash somewhere at about the point it should switch from single user to multi user (of course I

portable coproccesses, openpty, forkpty?

Hi, ok maybe I'm offtopic here, if so please excuse me ;-). I need to implement a coprocess feature (a.stdin gets fed to b.stdin and b.stdout becomes a.stdin, so basically replacing stdin with a processed version thereof). Now the most obvious approach would be to use pipes to redirect

Using standard I/O on pipes?

Hi, I'm running into trouble using stdio on pipes. Basically, my app redirects the stdout to a pipe and then execs a filter which should be able to printf() and all other means that write to stdout but when I run the code, it will only transmit data that I write directly with write() systemcalls.

Re: Using standard I/O on pipes?

Hi Gabriel Ambuehl, you wrote. GA use printf() on stdout pipes in a shell neither) but maybe I'm GA overlooking something. Actually, I was. My code didn't flush the buffers. I suppose I'll have to use pty to get around that sort of trouble with other people's code. Mpf. Regards, Gabriel

Open Source virus scanning engine

Hi, I was wondering whether there is any, preferably good ;-), open source virus scanning engine for FreeBSD I could use on my mailserver. I don't particularly mind buying a commercial one but I'd prefer an open source one of course... Any pointers would greatly be appreciated, Gabriel

(Re)building a RAID 1 array on the fly

Hi, I was wondering about the correct procedure to (re)build a Highpoint 370 (i.e. using ata(4) based RAID array while the server is running. I obviously can't take a production machine down for the 2hours it takes to initialize the RAID in the BIOS and I don't want to risk losing any data there,

dhclient going mad?!?

After having some trouble with the hardware in my usual NAT gateway, I decided to use another box I had laying around running 4.6.1p10 and two interfaces, rl0 and rl1. I had linked dhclient to rl1 and wanted to use ipnat as usual but then the following happened: Sep 23 13:30:49 local dhclient:

Maximum number of group memberships? How to change?

Hi, I need to add user www to about 300 groups (i.e. all WWW users) so that Apache is able to read the files when they have o-r-w-x for safety reasons but it seems that a user can belong to no more than about 20 groups. Is there any possibility to change this? Any help would be greatly

Re[2]: Maximum number of group memberships? How to change?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Andy, Tuesday, October 15, 2002, 5:46:21 PM, you wrote: The only work around I came up with in my research on this issue, was to change the group of each www user home directory to www or whatever apache is run as. This permits you to set the

Building Java without X11?

Hellom I'm trying to get native JDK13 to build but it insists on installing open-motif and the whole slew of X11 libraries which I don't want to have running on servers as there's simply no use at all for them on headless machine standing in a datacenter some 25km from here. So is there a way to

Re[2]: softupdates on /?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Matthew, Saturday, October 19, 2002, 1:29:47 PM, you wrote: For general use, softupdates on the root partition is not a problem. If your root partition is big enough to let you do whatever you need to by way of updating your system despite enabling

mount_smbfs broken?

Hello, I'm trying to use mount_smbfs -N to get it to read the password from /root/.nsmbrc: # A simple configuration example: # First, define a workgroup. [default] workgroup=datasvr # The 'FSERVER' is an NT server. [datasvr] addr=IP [datasvr:mailbackup:mail_backup] # use persistent password

XML to PDF parser, preferably FOP, for FreeBSD?

Hello, I'm looking for an XML to PDF Parser (preferably FOP like the charming http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html project) that actually works under FreeBSD without first going through the hoops of installing Java (never managed to get it running anyway), meaning it must be in some other language

Re[4]: XML to PDF parser, preferably FOP, for FreeBSD?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Simon, Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 5:27:41 PM, you wrote: So the next question would probably be: has anyone successfully ran Apache's FOP under either sablevm oder kaffe? I've not tried, but is there any reason you couldn't run it under the FreeBSD

Re[6]: XML to PDF parser, preferably FOP, for FreeBSD?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Simon, Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 4:46:54 PM, you wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 18:26, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Simon, Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 5:27:41 PM, you wrote: So the next question would probably

How to enable ACL support in 5.0?

Hello, I might appear stupid or not having read the manual, but whatever I try, I can't get setfacl to work (keeps failing: setfacl: acl_get_file() failed: Operation not supported). I read the manual and it says I should add acls as option to fstab which I did: /dev/ad7s1g /home

How to configure PHP build?

Hi, after the last PHP commits, I can't seem to be able to configure my PHP builds anymore. It keeps on telling me === Found saved configuration for mod_php4-4.3.8_1,1 and subsequently starts to build right away. Is there any way to get it to behave like in the past, specifically asking me what

Re[2]: How to configure PHP build?

Hello Andrew, Tuesday, July 20, 2004, 3:36:53 PM, you wrote: On Tuesday 20 July 2004 08:17 am, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: Hi, after the last PHP commits, I can't seem to be able to configure my PHP builds anymore. It keeps on telling me === Found saved configuration for mod_php4-4.3.8_1,1

Re[3]: How to configure PHP build?

Hello Svein, Tuesday, July 20, 2004, 3:50:57 PM, you wrote: Try doing a 'make clean' under the /usr/ports/lang/php4 directory. I had tried that as well with the same results: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15:55:57 /usr/ports/lang/php4 # make clean === Cleaning for libiconv-1.9.2 === Cleaning for

Re[2]: How to configure PHP build?

Hello Matthew, Tuesday, July 20, 2004, 3:46:42 PM, you wrote: Note that with the new PHP setup, most of the configurable bits are now in the lang/php4-extensions or land/php5-extensions ports -- not that you need to install either one of those. They're just meta-ports where you can select

Re[2]: How to configure PHP build?

Hello Andrew, Tuesday, July 20, 2004, 3:55:21 PM, you wrote: Is there a reason you need mod_php4 instead of php4? I switched from mod_php4 to php4 about a year ago; and found installation to go much more smoothly, particularly where the ports have multiple versions of certain applications

fsck'ing dirty unmounted file system in multi user?

Hi, after a crash of a server (running 4.10) we wanted to bring it up ASAP and skipped fsck'ing some backup partitions as they weren't essential for it to work. However, I'd now like to fsck them while the machine is in multi user but I always end up with. fsck -fp /dev/ar0s1g /dev/ar0s1g: NO

Re[2]: fsck'ing dirty unmounted file system in multi user?

Hello Bill, Thursday, September 23, 2004, 1:49:18 PM, you wrote: You can't/shouldn't fsck them if they're mounted. Make sure they're not mounted first. They aren't. I can't mount them because they aren't clean ;-) Additionally, if your securelevel is high, you can't fsck them no matter

Read only access to ALL files? Or: how do I safely backup the complete system to an offsite machine?

Hi, I'm wondering if there is any way to have read only access to the whole system for an user on STABLE (I have some ideas how to achieve it on CURRENT but I don't consider that ready for production use just now)? Specifically, I want to be able to ssh in from the backup server and fetch all

Re[2]: Read only access to ALL files? Or: how do I safely backup the complete system to an offsite machine?

Hello Ruben, Friday, October 29, 2004, 4:20:42 PM, you wrote: Or maybe someone knows of a rsync version that is safe to be run a suid root as it won't ever change anything on the filesystem? Users in the group operators have read-only access to the raw disk-devices in /dev. These devices