Re: vinum requirements

2004-04-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 23 April 2004 at 14:47:30 -0400, synrat wrote: On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 22 April 2004 at 11:32:22 -0400, synrat wrote: does vinum configuration need to be located in the beginning of the drive after bootstrap or is it possible to store

Re: spam spoofers

2004-05-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 11 May 2004 at 9:34:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting hundreds of spam with return addresses on it from MY server.. the ip addresses are different and they didn't originate from my server . now I am getting notices from AOL and other they are going to stop excepting

Re: vinum State Down Help?

2004-05-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 13 May 2004 at 13:10:35 -0500, Chris Collins wrote: Hello I am trying to setup vinum but I am having a config problem I hope sombody can answer... I cannot get my /usr/ and /var and for some reason my swap is showing at 18G... What am I doing wrong? volume root plex org

Re: vinum State Down Help?

2004-05-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Quoted text unevenly wrapped. On Thursday, 13 May 2004 at 15:00:22 -0400, Lee Dilkie wrote: On Thursday, May 13, 2004 2:11 PM, Chris Collins wrote: I am trying to setup vinum but I am having a config problem I hope sombody

Re: Source code of ln command

2004-05-07 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 7 May 2004 at 10:00:50 -0400, Thuan Truong wrote: Greg, Thanks for the info. Could you tell me what is the best way to copy the whole source codes to my machine, so it's easy for me to find and understand in details some system functions? This is a FAQ. The source code is

Re: Source code of ln command

2004-05-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 May 2004 at 9:10:27 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Thuan Truong wrote: I would like to have the source code of 'ln' (make hard or symbolic links to files) command from Free-BSD ftp site. Please let me know how and where to unload it. If you installed source on your FreeBSD

Re: vinum striped volume has corrupt plex, help needed

2004-05-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 8 May 2004 at 13:37:42 -0400, Lee Dilkie wrote: Hi there, I've been running a 5 disk vinum array (sripted, no redundancy) for a few months now. It's composed of 5 scsi drives of 4G each. I bought a new 120G ide drive, with the intention of copying over all the files from the

Re: Vinum striped volume has corrupt plex, please help

2004-05-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 14 May 2004 at 20:22:37 -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've been running a striped vinum configuration on 7 2.1GB SCSI drives for almost three years. I recently returned from a vacation to find my vinum fileserver had crashed. The logs indicated some type of problem with my

Re: vinum primary master drive inconsistencies

2004-05-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 27 May 2004 at 13:12:34 -0400, dave wrote: Hello, I've got vinum running on 5.2.1 doing raid1 on two ide drives. I was doing a installworld in single user mode when it crashed. I was unable to use any commands because of missing libraries not installed. I unplugged the master

Re: Vinum Problem(?)

2004-06-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 2 June 2004 at 11:55:37 +0200, Erik Mossberg wrote: Hello, I have a really weird problem, I don't know if it is software or hardware related. When I am in the process of extracting a multivolume archive (rar) it goes on for a while, then stops, then continues and then all of

Re: Need Help on Win98

2004-06-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 3 June 2004 at 0:52:26 -0400, Ho, Guan hui wrote: I need help on how to make the routing persistent in Win98. I have my PC connected to a network that has two separate routers connected to the same network. One of the routers is for surfing the internet and the other is for

Re: vinum setup

2004-06-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Output wrapped. On Thursday, 17 June 2004 at 12:04:01 -0400, synrat wrote: 4.8 I'm trying to setup partitions for vinum. I am in single user mode, but every time I try to modify swap size to accomodate for vinum

Questions about Hauppauge WinTV 350

2004-06-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
A number of software products use the Hauppauge WinTV 350 Personal Video Recorder (what a stupid name!). I've been planning to get one for some time, but here in Australia the prices are ridiculous (more than double what they are nearly anywhere else). So I've decided to have one sent from

Re: LVM ? (not vinum!)

2004-07-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 4 July 2004 at 21:06:20 +0200, Stephan van Beerschoten wrote: Is there an implementation of an LVM in FreeBSD ? Vinum is not sufficient. I am looking for a true LVM where creating and resizing volumes is a must. And what's missing in Vinum? Something like Solaris Disksuite with

Re: Debugging kernel panics

2003-09-15 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 9 September 2003 at 3:46:07 -0400, Michael Reynolds wrote: I've recently cvsup'd from 4.8-STABLE to 4.9-PRERELEASE. After a reboot, my machine's kernel panics at the initialization of the xl1 device (a 3com nic). I've checked out the FAQ on the site, under advanced topics,

Re: How to remove a vinum volume?

2003-09-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 16 September 2003 at 17:06:17 +1000, Ekrem wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 04:36, Greg Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 7 September 2003 at 0:39:57 -0600, Samuel Chow wrote: Hi there, I have the following vinum volume that I want to remove. The disks will be reassigned to other

Re: why

2003-09-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at 0:33:56 +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: why is it i can't connect? Because something's wrong. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more

Re: 802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ...

2003-09-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Tuesday, 16 September 2003 at 14:10:29 +0200, Hans Vledder wrote: On Saturday, September 13, 2003 9:18 PM, Greg Lehey wrote: Last weekend I bought a couple of 802.11b/g wireless routers (AirLink, I think). These boxes

Re: why

2003-09-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 16 September 2003 at 23:27:05 -0700, Dragoncrest wrote: At 08:23 AM 9/17/03 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at 0:33:56 +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: why is it i can't connect? Because something's wrong. LOL. You're mean. ;) Heh. Yes

Re: Large vinum volume -- only showing as the size of one subdisk.

2003-09-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at 18:53:55 +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up a large concatenated vinum volume. I want a volume called ``data'' that is ~200GB in size. Each subdisk is ~100GB (the same size). However, when I mount it it only shows up as ~100GB. Here

Re: why

2003-09-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at 11:24:31 +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 17 Sep Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 16 September 2003 at 23:27:05 -0700, Dragoncrest wrote: At 08:23 AM 9/17/03 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at 0:33:56 +0200, dick

Re: [OT] replacing fan with mismatched specs

2003-09-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at 20:27:27 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: This is terribly OT, but I'm asking here for two reasons: 1) I have no idea where else to ask 2) I know that someone on this list will know the answer Here's the problem. I have a switch that has a fan in it that failed. I

Re: vinum question

2003-09-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at 10:16:20 -0400, synrat wrote: I created an additional mirrored volume in my system, but screwed up with disklabel, so now the new volume shows up as stale, actually after I did the second time with the right labels, I got a duplicate stale and crashed. The

Re: Vinum and SoftUpdates

2003-09-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 16 September 2003 at 17:15:35 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks. I have a few boxes which have recently begun to behave rather badly - frequent panics and lots of errors being spewed out during fsck on reboot. I note that these particular boxes have one thing in common -

Re: 802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ...

2003-09-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Broken quoting. On Wednesday, 17 September 2003 at 12:30:15 +0200, Hans Vledder wrote: On Wednesday, September 17, 2003 4:49 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 16 September 2003 at 14:10:29 +0200, Hans Vledder wrote

Re: May be forged?

2003-09-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 19 September 2003 at 0:56:04 +, Mark wrote: - Original Message - From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 2:44 AM Subject: May be forged? Thanks to Kris I found the new sendmail. :) But a slight anomaly occurs in 8.12.10:

Re: May be forged?

2003-09-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 19 September 2003 at 3:20:21 +, Mark wrote: On Friday, September 19, 2003 2:44 AM, Mark wrote: Thanks to Kris I found the new sendmail. :) But a slight anomaly occurs in 8.12.10: AUTH=server, relay=my-xp-machine.net [192.168.1.3] (may be forged), authid=admin That is odd;

Re: Question about freebsd.org

2003-09-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 19 September 2003 at 20:13:15 -0700, Dan wrote: I emailed you some time ago regarding our site and am wondering if you had time to get to it. This is a mailing list, not an individual. See http://www.lemis.com/questions.html for more details. I saw that you mention alldomains.com

Re: Disklabe oddity

2003-09-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Output wrapped. On Saturday, 20 September 2003 at 10:44:28 +0200, Guy Van Sanden wrote: I get a strange message from disklabel: Warning, partition c doesn't start at 0! Warning, partition c doesn't cover the whole unit!

Re: Disklabe oddity

2003-09-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
, 2003-09-20 at 10:59, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] The disk was formatted by the FreeBSD install procedure. If you haven't changed anything here, it would be interesting to know in more detail just what you did. To judge

Re: SCO Group

2003-09-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 20 September 2003 at 17:16:59 -0400, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:07:53 -0700, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 10:15:01AM -0400, Ryck wrote: Hi I've heard that SCO Group has an issue with Linux and is planning to sue everyone who

Re: Postfix against spam

2003-09-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 19 September 2003 at 22:44:13 -0700, Mark wrote: I just posted a short tutorial on Postfix on my website that deals with today's MS virus outbreak, take a look here: http://samba.netfirms.com/postfix/postfixrules.pdf Interesting stuff, once I found a magnifying glass to read it

Re: vinum crashed disk error -- addendum

2003-09-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 23 September 2003 at 11:29:44 -0700, John Fox wrote: Maybe it'll help if I give some more comprehensive information: vinum - l 3 drives: D ide0e State: up Device /dev/ad0s1e Avail: 0/8063 MB (0%) D ide2e State: up Device

Re: vinum crashed disk error

2003-09-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 23 September 2003 at 11:21:49 -0700, John Fox wrote: Hello, Three IDE drives multiplexed together to make one large partition (for mounting as /usr/local). We were messing with hardware in the box and when we rebooted vinum spat out errors about defective objects and the boot

Re: Disklabe oddity

2003-09-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 23 September 2003 at 10:29:17 +0200, Guy Van Sanden wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 02:46, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: You can clear the error by running disklabel -e /dev/ad0s1a in single user mode, and changing the length and offset of partition c (offset 0, add 63 to the size). I

Re: NIC card not showing up during 5.1 install

2003-09-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Overlong lines. On Wednesday, 24 September 2003 at 18:45:47 +1000, Anthony Carmody wrote: i am building a new server for a client and my hardware vendor changed my usual hardware profile to use an 800fsb ASUS Mainboard, it

Re: Vinum - plex larger than volume

2003-09-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 September 2003 at 14:38:06 +0200, Ingeborg Hellemo wrote: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p6 I am trying to stripe two large (1.3 TB) disks into one vinum volume. vinum - stripe -v /dev/twed0a /dev/twed1a drive vinumdrive0 device /dev/twed0a drive vinumdrive1 device /dev/twed1a

Re: Tape Conversion

2003-09-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 25 September 2003 at 15:03:05 -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote: I have an old 9 track tape that, as luck would have it, contains a substantial amount of code that is now of interest to me. Does anyone have a recommendation for someone who might either to transfer it to a CD, or to make

Re: RealTek Nic Chip

2003-09-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 25 September 2003 at 15:07:43 -0700, Tony A, Fields wrote: Howdy, Great OS! Smooth as silk! Extremely fast and responsive. Have question though. I had to put a D-Link DFE-530TX PCI card in one of the PCI slots in the system that the OS was installed on because the motherboard

Re: Tape Conversion

2003-09-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 25 September 2003 at 20:44:48 -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 19:16, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 25 September 2003 at 15:03:05 -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote: I have an old 9 track tape that, as luck would have it, contains a substantial amount of code

Re: Follow-up: Tape conversion

2003-09-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 26 September 2003 at 17:58:45 -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote: Finally, I received a gentle admonishment to follow up to this list. My experience with mailing lists (mostly on Usenet over the last 15 years) has been that my public inquiries have given rise to a mixture of public and

Message format *again* (was: Why mplayer in FreeBSD 5.1 behave not so good as Debian in my computer?)

2003-09-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Friday, 26 September 2003 at 14:26:38 -0500, Eugene Lee wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 04:48:49AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 04:11:55PM +0800, zch wrote: I have installed mplayer through cvsup

Re: Vinum RAID5 speed question

2003-09-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 26 September 2003 at 13:22:09 +0200, Martin Brecher wrote: Hi, - I plan on setting up a vinum RAID5 array of three 120GB IDE disks. The disks will be attached to two Promise 100 TX2 controllers, on which two other disks are residing, too. The following questions have come to my

Re: RealTek Nic Chip

2003-09-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Horrible reply mangling. I won't reply to any more messages mangled this badly. On Friday, 26 September 2003 at 13:08:46 -0700, Tony A. Fields wrote: At 02:44 PM 9/26/03 -0400, you wrote: Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003

Re: Question on Postfix and FreeBSD

2003-09-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 26 September 2003 at 10:08:42 -0700, Tony Jones wrote: I just did the following: a) upgraded Postfix to postfix-2.0.16 (built from source, didn't use port) ... Anyone care to clue me in on what I'm missing. Or is it a manual process? You seem to be missing the point of the

Re: Message format *again* (was: Why mplayer in FreeBSD 5.1 behave not so good as Debian in my computer?)

2003-09-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 27 September 2003 at 0:32:22 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 27), Greg 'groggy' Lehey said: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Friday, 26 September 2003 at 14:26:38 -0500, Eugene Lee wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 04:48:49AM

Re: how to get system information

2003-09-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 28 September 2003 at 9:02:05 -0700, Mikko Tyljrvi wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: I am wondering how to find out system hardware information from a running system, I know for instance pciconf(8) but what are the corresponding ones for memory, cpu etc?

Re: RealTek Nic Chip

2003-09-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 29 September 2003 at 9:38:00 -0700, Tony A, Fields wrote: Greg, Sorry for the mangling?? Sorry that you don't seem to understand my problem or I just am not making myself clear? Please let me restate. I forget. The explanation is below, and I just can't be bothered to

Re: Laptop and DHCP

2003-09-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 29 September 2003 at 14:38:38 -0500, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: Greetings! I suppose this is a newbie question, but I figured I'd give these lists a shot. I just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on my laptop, and I have a 3COM Megahertz PCMCIA card (Model 3CCE589ET to be exact). I have a

Re: Comprehensive list of error codes?

2003-09-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 30 September 2003 at 2:45:10 -0500, Dr. Smoke wrote: Is there a comprehensive list of error codes for FreeBSD? I can find nothing related to this in the Handbook or other online documentation. Error codes are (barely) documented in /usr/include/sys/errno.h. intro(2) describes a

Re: [OT] C question (typedef structs)

2003-10-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 2 October 2003 at 12:37:01 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Chris Pressey wrote: See also http://www.phim.unibe.ch/comp_doc/c_manual/C/SYNTAX/typedef.html Thanks, Chris. That reference is fantastic. It's exactly what I've been looking for. I kept coming across over-simplified

Re: Raid 5 - Vinum or Raidframe?

2003-10-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 3 October 2003 at 10:49:30 -0700, billn wrote: Plus some other questions. I'm currently unable to get vinum to work in FreeBSD 4.8, even after careful reading of the docs. 4.8 is giving me Operation Not Permitted when I attempt to start vinum. I've read the 4.8 specific section in

Re: growing vinum raid 1+0

2003-10-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 2 October 2003 at 14:16:19 -0600, Matthew Emmett wrote: Hello all, I have a question about vinum. I'd like to end up with a setup like this: disk1 mirrored with disk2 = mirror1 Vinum calls this a volume. disk3 mirrored with disk4 = mirror2 This is another volume.

Re: Issues mirroring drives with Vinum in FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE

2003-10-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output unwrapped. On Saturday, 4 October 2003 at 0:17:44 -0700, aarong wrote: I've successfully installed and converted a FreeBSD 4.8 install into a bootable Vinum volume many times; however mirroring that volume

Re: FW: Too much swap space...best way to take some of it away

2003-10-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 4 October 2003 at 0:14:03 -0400, Keith Baumgart wrote: Ok, I'm not totally a newbie but, I'm definitely no expert in FBSD. When I was doing my original install, it was on a p100 w/ 32 megs of ram, so I gave myself a 1 gig swap partition to help alleviate some of the server load.

Mail format problems (was: Issues mirroring drives with Vinum in FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE)

2003-10-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 4 October 2003 at 10:36:15 -0700, aarong wrote: On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 01:30 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output unwrapped. Having seen that message in many of your replies on the lists

Re: Issues mirroring drives with Vinum in FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE

2003-10-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 4 October 2003 at 10:36:15 -0700, aarong wrote: On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 01:30 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I'd like to see the complaints. This is why I ask for the information in the man page or at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html. This is when

Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?

2003-10-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 5 October 2003 at 1:23:50 +0100, Rus Foster wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. How about saving it as HTML then

Re: uucp + email...

2003-10-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 7 October 2003 at 20:31:07 -0700, Chris P wrote: On Wednesday, 8 October 2003 at 10:25:52 -0700, Chris P wrote: On Wednesday, 8 October 2003 at 12:51:23 -0700, Chris P wrote: Once is enough. Sending multiple messages is a good way to be ignored or removed from the mailing list.

Re: Crash under disk writes (vinum?)

2003-10-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 9 October 2003 at 13:28:48 +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote: Hi, I'm running 5.1-RELEASE (latest patch version) on a machine with a couple of disks set up in a concatenated vinum-type config. Periodically if I do some ``heavy'' writes to the concatenated disk it causes the system

Re: writing pdfs

2003-10-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 10 October 2003 at 8:31:41 -0400, William O'Higgins wrote: I have grown tired of using MS Word as my standard document output format. I haven't gotten OpenOffice to work under FreeBSD (and it isn't my favourite tool by a long shot) and I am most happy generating text in vi. PDF

Re: Restoring vinum root from dump (was: Problems Installing NetBSD)

2003-10-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 12 October 2003 at 12:51:31 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please don't reply to different threads when you want to ask a new question. See http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html for more details. What's the

Re: Restoring vinum root from dump

2003-10-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 12 October 2003 at 16:26:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Oops, didn't realize that the thread id was captured in email. Should have known, sorry.] My terminology is all wrong. Just want to do a system restore. Have two 200GB disks using vinum mirroring for vinum volumes: /,

Re: big vinum problem

2003-10-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 13 October 2003 at 23:46:12 -0700, Octavian Hornoiu wrote: After a power loss last night i restarted my server with a 425 gig or so RAID-5 array and expected to go through a length fsck after which the system would come up. However, one of the vinum subdisks was down. So, i

Re: clearing Vinum configurations

2003-10-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 11 October 2003 at 11:23:03 -0700, aarong wrote: I've been toying with Vinum extensively these past few weeks, on 4.8, and I've yet to come across a way to effectively and *completely* clear a Vinum configuration. After creating a configuration, Vinum stores the configuration on

Re: clearing Vinum configurations

2003-10-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 14 October 2003 at 22:45:02 -0700, aarong wrote: On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 10:04 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I'm going to need more information on this. It doesn't correspond at all with my experience. Here's an example: ... I found my problem, I would obliterate

Re: volumes crash on reboot [was Re: clearing Vinum configurations]

2003-10-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 15 October 2003 at 23:14:18 -0700, aarong wrote: After some extensive testing, I've come to the conclusion that Vinum refuses to create any type of volume on the drive I'm having trouble with. I'll create any number of volumes and/or additional plexes on the second drive in the

Setting time zones (was: How to get out of Africa?)

2003-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 October 2003 at 18:24:51 +, Wayne M Barnes wrote: Dear FreeBSD, During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my timezone. I have looked all over the documentation, and I cannot find out to reset my time zone. Does anybody else know? I installed 5.1 from

Re: Vinum Offset for Swap: 265 or 281?

2003-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 19 October 2003 at 0:42:38 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sanity check whether the mirrored vinum root drive is setup correctly. Going to setup two more machines the same way, so wanted to make sure the reference machine was setup correctly. Was surprised to see that the

Re: Monitor's picture position

2003-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 20 October 2003 at 0:30:13 +0400, CBuH wrote: I have two Os-es on one PC: Win FreeBSD, in Win picture at resolution 1280x1024 is placed (by my hand's configure) in proper position (I mean each corner on my CRT monitor). Then -- in FreeBSD I see that in such resolution (and this

Re: Hacking calendar(1)

2003-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 19 October 2003 at 16:13:09 -0500, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, When I get my daily calendar email, there is no explanation of which entries come from which calendars. Other than hacking the source code, is there a way to get some headers like this? Music History: Oct 20

Re: Vinum Offset for Swap: 265 or 281?

2003-10-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 October 2003 at 18:16:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 19 October 2003 at 0:42:38 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sanity check whether the mirrored vinum root drive is setup correctly. Going to setup two more machines the same way, so

Re: Vinum Offset for Swap: 265 or 281?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 22 October 2003 at 0:52:35 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my understanding of the bsdlabel process seemed correct: 1) modify swap partition size to be 281 less than what sysinstall created the partition as 2) have the swap offset at 281 instead of 0 3) add vinum partition

Re: What is a unit number of a device

2003-10-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 October 2003 at 13:25:20 +0200, rk47 wrote: What is a unit number of a device That depends a lot on the device. For SCSI disks, you select the unit number on the drive itself. and how does it relate to the minor number of the device. Typically the last few bits of the minor

Re: vinum concatenated raid setup problems

2003-10-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 24 October 2003 at 0:27:03 -0700, Mike Maltese wrote: it doesn't look like the vinum kld is being loaded, since even with the vinum config gone, it should say something like no vinum drives found, vinum not loaded in dmesg (i think, please correct me if im wrong) i will investigate

Re: vinum concatenated raid setup problems

2003-10-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output wrapped. On Thursday, 23 October 2003 at 23:10:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have been trying without success to implement a simple vinum concatenated RAID system made up of 2 IDE drives.

Re: vinum concatenated raid setup problems - SOLVED

2003-10-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 24 October 2003 at 12:47:52 -0400, Alvin Gunkel wrote: Mike, Thanks for the pointers on the fstab file, they solved that part of the puzzle. (and trying to help with the other issues) Greg, Thanks for pointing me to the right part of the vinum manpage...it was indeed the simple

Creating devices under FreeBSD 5.x (was: /dev/oncore.serial.%d for Motorola oncore GPS under FREEBSD 5.1)

2003-11-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 4 November 2003 at 8:52:43 +, Chris Stenton wrote: Can someone point me in the right direction on how to make /dev/oncore.serial.1 and /dev/oncore.pps.1 under FREEBSD 5.1 now that MAKEDEV has gone. The driver should create them for you. What are these devices? Greg -- When

Re: Creating devices under FreeBSD 5.x (was: /dev/oncore.serial.%d for Motorola oncore GPS under FREEBSD 5.1)

2003-11-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 November 2003 at 13:53:08 +0100, Simon Barner wrote: However, /dev gets regenerated after each reboot so losing the soft links. Is there a way to stop this? Coincidentally, I struggled with the same problem only 5 minutes ago. There is a configuration file /etc/devfs.conf

Re: Periodic Daily Crash

2003-11-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 November 2003 at 10:18:33 -0800, Jason Watkins wrote: Hi guys, I've got a machine that's crashed now twice in a row around 3 am. I'm assuming this is being triggered by something periodic daily is running. I'm only remote access to it, so right now I'm waiting for someone to

Re: Would like to volunteer my time......

2003-11-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 7 November 2003 at 18:17:03 +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 06:20:29PM -0800, Chad McCullough wrote: I'm hoping that I'm sending this email to the correct address. I visit the FreeBSD Personal Pages section of the FreeBSD website located at

Re: Instant-workstation is missing

2003-11-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 10 November 2003 at 1:17:20 +1030, Andrew wrote: Hi, I have been trying to get FreeBSD 5.2 installed but i am unable to find all the packages that are required on the official cd-rom set i brought. i have tryed installing by FTP and i am still unable to find them This gouies for

Re: Instant-workstation is missing

2003-11-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 10 November 2003 at 9:56:06 +1030, Andrew wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:48:19AM +1030, Andrew wrote: Sorry your correct it is version 5.1 1) Please don't top-post..see how this message has lost context from your original posting? 2) Which packages

Re: Instant-workstation is missing

2003-11-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 9 November 2003 at 17:35:43 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:59:52AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 10 November 2003 at 9:56:06 +1030, Andrew wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:48:19AM +1030, Andrew wrote: Sorry your

Re: Instant-workstation is missing

2003-11-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 9 November 2003 at 17:17:22 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:12:56AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:07:21PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:49:59AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at

Re: 3-4MB/s vinum performance with two Promise PDC20268 UDMA100 controllers

2004-01-15 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 15 January 2004 at 10:44:20 +0100, Bjorn Eikeland wrote: Hi I had four 160G IDE drives in raid5 on a single controller and it worked just fine, never benchmarked it since it was faster than the network anyway. But when adding a second controller card and two more drives the new

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 19 January 2004 at 8:25:28 -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: Content-Description: signed data What do people here use to edit HTML documents? I usually use Dreamweaver, but I haven't gotten the time to try to get wine working so I can run Dreamweaver on FreeBSD. Is Dreamweaver output

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 20 January 2004 at 10:35:14 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2004-01-19T22:59:05Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think Macromedia have soughted that all out by now in MX. Frankly i havent found an editor for Unix that is as good as either Quanta or Zend Studio or even Eclipse.

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 21 January 2004 at 2:39:58 +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: That's your call. A number of us have good reasons, and that's why many of us use bollox. i'm presuming this is an editor of sorts ? :) It appears to be a combination of vi

Re: The Complete FreeBSD

2004-01-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 21 January 2004 at 18:28:40 -0600, Jamie wrote: I am looking into a personal copy of The Complete FreeBSD, but I'd like to get an edition which focuses on the 4.x series. From what I've read, the fourth edition focuses primarily on 5.x. Is there a version of The Complete

Re: 5.2 and Dell Inspiron 5100

2004-01-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 29 January 2004 at 17:01:44 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 16:53, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: Hello - recently purchased a dell inspiron 5100. Out of the box, 5.2 installed wonderfully. More than wonderfully. The only issue I ran into was with X. I am unable

Re: Grave vinum problem (at least for me)

2004-02-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 5 February 2004 at 6:48:18 +0100, Ole Voss wrote: Last night I reinstalled freebsd and obviously somewhere along the way my 400GB concat vinum volume wasn't unmounted (at least that's what freebsd told me). Now, when I run 'fsck -t ufs /dev/vinum/abyss' I get this: titan#

Re: Fixing vinum after removing a HDD

2004-02-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 4 February 2004 at 19:52:03 +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:41:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 on a system with 5 HDD's. ad0 is to be removed from the system. ad1, ad2 and ad3 contain my vinum drives. FreeBSD resides on the last

Re: documentation on FreeBSD kernel

2004-02-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long/short syndrome On Friday, 6 February 2004 at 10:13:46 +0100, Uwe Doering wrote: LACOSTE Thierry wrote: Are there books equivalent to e.g. Understanding the Linux kernel concerning FreeBSD ? More precisely, books (or

Re: Vinum or HD error?

2004-02-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 1 February 2004 at 12:42:31 -0600, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: Hi, here is a transcript of vinum reporting an HD failure. I just want to confirm this is really a HD error before the throw the HD out the window vinum volume fs5 is really not mirrored (~ 29G of only 1 120g disk mapped

Re: Stack Backtraces -- disk related?

2004-02-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 5 February 2004 at 15:40:06 -0800, David Benfell wrote: Hello all, I've been getting these messages on my console and in my kernel log. I'm noticing stuff in there that looks like it has to do with the filesystem. Both the disks on this system are IDE disks, so yes, this kind

Re: slice editor in sysinstall

2004-02-15 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 15 February 2004 at 23:25:19 -0500, Aaron Peterson wrote: after the install, can i run a curses based slice/partition editor like those used in sysinstall without actually running sysinstall? No. But you can run sysinstall for only this function. There's a special 'w' command to

Re: vinum raid5 subdisks keep changing length?

2004-02-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 16 February 2004 at 22:04:44 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: Hi all, Running vinum on RELENG_4. No changes to source, vinum loaded as a KLD as per instructions in handbook man pages. As per the subject I am having what appears to be strange behaviour with vinum. After a number of

Re: vinum raid5 subdisks keep changing length?

2004-02-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 17 February 2004 at 11:39:26 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:51:30AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 16 February 2004 at 22:04:44 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: The original config looked as so: volume data plex name data.p0 org raid5 984s vol data sd

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

2004-02-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Log output wrapped. On Tuesday, 17 February 2004 at 14:27:51 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: Hello, About 6 weeks ago one of the disks in my Vinum array crashed. However, the major problem is now that the file system is

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