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: 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: [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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Problem with Vinum RAID-5 configuration

2003-08-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[moved to -questions; this isn't a file system issue] On Thursday, 28 August 2003 at 11:52:44 +0800, Francis A. Vidal wrote: Hi all, I'm configuring a RAID-5 filesystem on a Pentium III 1Ghz machine (FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE). The disks are dangerously dedidcated. I created the filesystem

Re: Hard drive devices (WAS Need Vinum help)

2003-08-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 26 August 2003 at 17:54:07 -0700, Thomas Smith wrote: Thanks to those of you who replied to my previous question. However, I don't think the problem was Vinum entirely. - Is there a way to tell whether a device is aleady configured? That is, if I'm not sure ad1s1e is configured

Re: Need Vinum help

2003-08-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 25 August 2003 at 18:19:25 -0700, Thomas Smith wrote: I think I have the process of creating a Vinum volume but I'm missing something. My config file (config1) contains: drive a device /dev/ad0 volume root plex org concat sd length 36g drive a When I run /vinum create

Re: FreeBSD licence and 'the advertisement clause'

2003-08-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 20 August 2003 at 15:25:24 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:33:38PM +0100, Theo Markettos wrote: I'm looking to incorporate some source from FreeBSD into a project of mine under the GPL. I see that Berkeley dropped their requirement on the advertising

Re: Calendar program dates

2003-08-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Mutilated quotations. On Thursday, 21 August 2003 at 10:43:17 -0500, Charles Howse wrote: OK, I jumped the gun here. After browsing through some of the calendar.* files, I realize that it sends an event for tomorrow if no

Re: problem adding subdisk to vinum

2003-08-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 20 August 2003 at 15:37:27 -0700, Shawn Ostapuk wrote: Hmm. This is very strange. Try this: # vinum debug 8 # fsck ... # vinum info -V I'd like to see the output of the info command. Nothing :( su-2.03# vinum debug 8 su-2.03# fsck /dev/vinum/pr0n **

Re: Vinum performance

2003-08-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 19 August 2003 at 9:56:13 +0200, Niklas Saers Mailinglistaccount wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if anyone can tell me about their experience of Vinum and its performance on RAID5 systems? I've built a vinum-raid of 4 160Gb disks that each do a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adNd of about

Re: problem adding subdisk to vinum

2003-08-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 13 August 2003 at 19:03:21 -0700, Shawn Ostapuk wrote: su-2.03# vinum lv -r V pr0n State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 1172 GB ... Either method results in an umountable and unaccessable filesystem. su-2.03# mount /dev/vinum/pr0n /data mount:

Re: panic on heavy read/writes (5.1 + vinum)

2003-08-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 17 August 2003 at 15:01:41 -0500, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: Hi, I recently installed 5.1 RELEASE on a PII (old!) machine. I am using vinum on everything except '/' ( I am not using the new vinum-root setup possible with 5.1 ) (Versions are straight out of the 5.1 RELEASE, no cvsup)

Re: vinum config info stays intact during reinstall?

2003-08-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 16 August 2003 at 17:51:14 -0500, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: Hi, I reinstalled one of my machines that had vinum running (wiped installed 5.1) and vinum was able to pickup the drives/plexes etc right after I started vinum. Can I rely on this feature? You should be able to. Having

Re: vinum: need help with crash recovery please

2003-08-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 12 August 2003 at 0:53:06 +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Have production server harddisk problem, initially one disk (da5) was down, then replaced. When trying to add a new (hotswap) drive according to http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/replacing-drive.html , the system stopped and

Re: ThinkPad T21: sio0 detected as 8250 UART

2003-08-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 6 August 2003 at 21:44:01 -0700, James Long wrote: Is this correct? I can't find any specs on the IBM website which specify what UART the serial port uses/emulates, but FreeBSD thinks its an 8250: sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 This suggests that it

Re: problem adding subdisk to vinum

2003-08-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 12 August 2003 at 9:40:49 -0700, Shawn Ostapuk wrote: Vinum configs are additive. You shouldn't redefine things that Vinum already knows about. As far as I can see with a superficial look, all you need is: drive vinumdrive10 device /dev/ad7e sd name vinum0.p0.s10 drive

Re: problem adding subdisk to vinum

2003-08-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 12 August 2003 at 23:52:09 -0700, Shawn Ostapuk wrote: (Sorry for being so long, thought it would be less confusing and save additional questions to show complete vinum lists) At this point lv -r shows everything as up. same as above but with total size as 1172 GB. vinum list

Loading keymaps (was: two KEYBOARD LAYOUTS....)

2003-08-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 14 August 2003 at 19:56:48 +0400, Denis wrote: Hi All! Does anybody know how can use two keyboard layouts? I want to change between russian and english keyboard. Now I do it by click in the tray menu... And how i can change by... ctrl+shift I do this in X with the

Re: test

2003-08-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 14 August 2003 at 16:35:22 -0600, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: Just a test I have been having a bit of trouble posting to this list. Please accept my apologies for sending a test message to the list. This list is an invaluable resource for me and i do not want to cause any

Re: I want to Join

2003-08-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 8 August 2003 at 9:54:02 +0100, Morgoth wrote: I love your system, FreeBSD 5.1 It rocks, It kills, It rulezzz How can I join USER_GROUPS, developers etc... ?? Start by looking at the web site. http://www.FreeBSD.org/ Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the

Re: Vinum on an existing system

2003-08-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 7 August 2003 at 11:12:02 -0700, Hank Wethington wrote: Greetings! I have recently taken over a machine (FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE 7/31/03) that is a mail server (qmail, imap, apache2, pop3, etc) and due to the companies relience upon the machine, want to use vinum to mirror the

Re: X won't start

2003-08-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 5 August 2003 at 14:21:38 +0200, mess-mate wrote: Hi, X no more start after a crash with root. Error Knotify, kdeinit, etc.. pid... If you get that far, X is running. Those error messages are there for a purpose. Read them. As user all goes well. So you're saying that root

Re: your mail

2003-08-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 4 August 2003 at 15:06:38 +0800, Nasharuddin Zainal wrote: On Monday, 4 August 2003 at 15:14:11 +0800, Nasharuddin Zainal wrote: Once is enough. pls give me info how to configure my pc for connecting to internet. i've my own ip, gateway and dns address. pls reply as soon as

Re: Load Modules at boot time (just checking)

2003-08-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 3 August 2003 at 13:20:12 -0700, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Just want a sanity check. I want to load the jailfsstat module at boot time so I've done vi /boot/loader.conf added jailfsstat_load=YES Is that right? I don't know a module jailfsstat. Why don't you try it? Greg --

Re: HDDs dividing rules

2003-08-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 2 August 2003 at 13:06:52 +0200, Peter Rosa wrote: Hi all, please, could you explain for those of us, who are new to Unix, are there some rules for partitioning of HDDs in accordance to security needs ? I know, I can set nosuid+noexec on whole partition (slice ?), I can mount

Re: How to debug fatal trap? running on vinum

2003-08-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 1 August 2003 at 12:41:15 -0700, Richard Johannesson wrote: Had FreeBSD5.1 on a box that had a physical hard-drive failure last week. So, this time setup the box using mirrored 200GB drives using vinum sub-disks. Setup multiple vinum partitions to help limit any file system

Re: Vinum on Root

2003-07-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] I wish you'd get a functional MUA. On Tuesday, 29 July 2003 at 23:29:46 -0700, Richard Johannesson wrote: I went back to the original root install method as per the book, and I got vinum working. Now, needed to change the

Re: Mirroring Vinum Volumes - importance of subdisk sequence onmirrordevice

2003-07-30 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Mutilated quotes, known broken MUA. On Wednesday, 30 July 2003 at 14:11:28 -0700, Richard Johannesson wrote: On Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:52 PM, Richard Johannesson wrote: Question: Is it important that the sequence

Ignoring SIGSEGV (was: no subject line)

2003-07-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 29 July 2003 at 9:16:29 +, cool46 cool46 wrote: how can ignore SEGV signal on Freebsd? You can't. I am not mean setting SEGV's handler to SIG_IGN,this way can prevent program to exit,but can't restore environment to continue this program,so the program will hang and can't

Re: Vinum on Root

2003-07-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Mutilated quotation, known broken MUA: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 On Tuesday, 29 July 2003 at 18:54:53 -0700, Richard Johannesson wrote: On Tuesday, July 29, 2003 6:25 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote

Re: Floppy Disk Formatting

2003-07-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 28 July 2003 at 13:31:10 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have received a file on a floppy disk from a client. When we put it into the drive it says that disk has not been formatted. We already read from the disk and transferred the file to another system earlier. Why, after we

Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 19:15:57 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: At 11:10 AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote: On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should I post the question here or on the mobile list? Start here,

Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Quoted text inappropriately wrapped. On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 20:49:55 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: At 12:53 PM 7/28/2003 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 19:15:57 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: At 11:10

Re: more Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output wrapped. On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 21:06:04 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: Ok, I just made a change to the monitor setting.and it froze up like before. Here is the log message: (II) Silicon Motion(0):

Re: New Laptop

2003-07-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long/short syndrome. On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 15:13:41 -0800, Thanjee Neefam wrote: I am considering buying a new laptop (my current one is a Dell Inspiron PII-233 without a CD Drive (it broke :( )) I just simply want

Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

2003-07-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should I post the question here or on the mobile list? Start here, but give some details. If this is a Dell Inspiron 5100, I'm working on it. Greg -- See complete headers

Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

2003-07-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 23 July 2003 at 14:11:31 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-07-23T18:21:42Z, Eivind Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Out of curiosity, what offsets have you had to calculate? I've read a bit of a chapter from the 4th edition of The Complete FreeBSD:

Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

2003-07-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 23 July 2003 at 9:19:16 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-07-23T13:51:28Z, Eivind Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's no data on the disks that I want/have to keep. Is it at all possible to configure Vinum and then install FreeBSD or will I have to install FreeBSD first

Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

2003-07-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 23 July 2003 at 14:11:31 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-07-23T18:21:42Z, Eivind Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you able to have a mirrored root-device (/) with this approach? Or will you end up with having a single copy of / on one drive? I end up with a single copy

Re: Time on Mail wrong...

2003-07-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 14:00:21 -0400, Lucas Holt wrote: I've been having problems with the time recorded on messages passing through my Sendmail server on freebsd. I've noticed that it always happens using Squirrelmail or when someone using Outlook sends me email. Is there any way to

Re: help with ide cd burner

2003-07-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 22 July 2003 at 3:04:55 -0500, sweetleaf wrote: I am trying to use xcdroast with my ide burner but it cat see it. I think i need to enable scsi emulation ...well according to some links on google but anyway i cant find how to do this in the handbook. Would someone please inform

Re: Seting the hardware clock

2003-07-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 14 July 2003 at 19:16:04 -0400, stan wrote: ;m struggling with getting the hardware clock (BIOS clock) equal to the kernels time. On my Linux boxes a utility called hwclock is run on the way down to synchronize the 2. The problem I'm running into is that if the time on the system

Re: ATI-Radeon-9000

2003-07-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[spurious line spacing removed] On Monday, 14 July 2003 at 8:40:53 -0700, cloper wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 9 July 2003 at 17:55:07 -0700, cloper wrote: lewiz wrote: On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:03:46PM -0700, cloper wrote: I have a Dell Latitude D600 Laptop

Re: vinum and hot-swapping

2003-07-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at 14:14:53 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 13), Andrea Venturoli said: ** Reply to note from Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:13:29 +0930 The real performance penalty for RAID-5 is simply that writes require so much I/O

Re: vinum and hot-swapping

2003-07-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at 20:57:46 -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 10:02:58AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I don't believe vinum can optimize full-stripe writes, though, since FreeBSD can only do I/O in 64k max chunks, 128 kB. I thought physio was limited to 64 KB

Re: vinum and hot-swapping

2003-07-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at 22:01:37 -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 11:49:14AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at 20:57:46 -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 10:02:58AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I don't believe vinum can optimize

Re: Post about BSD's alleged demise on /.

2003-07-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 10 July 2003 at 18:12:14 -0500, Chris wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2003 06:06 pm, John Mills wrote: Snippage... Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The

Re: Expanding a Vinum RAID-5 array

2003-07-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 12 July 2003 at 8:42:17 +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote: Is it possible to just 'plug-in' another disk to a vinum RAID-5 array and let vinum start building a new index based on the new volume-size? No, sorry. You can (forcibly) add another plex (I think), but it will involve

Re: vinum and hot-swapping

2003-07-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 11 July 2003 at 22:21:19 -0700, Mike Maltese wrote: Depends on what you mean. Vinum isn't a hardware device driver, so it doesn't need to understand hot swapping. If you hot swap a drive, Vinum handles the resulting events correctly. So if I have a drive fail, say in a RAID 5

Re: Expanding a Vinum RAID-5 array

2003-07-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at 0:07:04 +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 09:02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Is it possible to just 'plug-in' another disk to a vinum RAID-5 array and let vinum start building a new index based on the new volume-size? No, sorry. You can (forcibly

Re: Expanding a Vinum RAID-5 array

2003-07-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 12 July 2003 at 20:46:14 -0600, Tillman wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 06:29:25PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 09:36:29AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at 0:07:04 +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote: Do anyone know other (read

Re: vinum and hot-swapping

2003-07-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at 4:45:08 -0500, Andrea Venturoli wrote: ** Reply to note from Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:13:29 +0930 The real performance penalty for RAID-5 is simply that writes require so much I/O. Expect 25% of the write performance of RAID-0

Re: ATI-Radeon-9000

2003-07-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 9 July 2003 at 17:55:07 -0700, cloper wrote: lewiz wrote: On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:03:46PM -0700, cloper wrote: I have a Dell Latitude D600 Laptop with the ATI Radeon 9000 video chipset, with FreeBSD-4.8 w/ XFree86-4.3, yet I still can not get X to I've had it working with

Re: vinum and hot-swapping

2003-07-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraphs. On Friday, 11 July 2003 at 21:45:34 -0700, Mike Maltese wrote: Does vinum support hot-swapping? I've skimmed through the handbook and it isn't immediately clear. Depends on what you mean. Vinum isn't

Reviewers required for simplified Chinese translations of FreeBSDbooks

2003-07-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
I've been approached by a group in China who want to translate The Complete FreeBSD into Chinese. They've translated two sample chapters, and we now need reviewers who can assess the quality of the translation. If you're a native Chinese speaker and are interested in reviewing these chapters,

Re: netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 205.238.xx.7

2003-07-07 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 8 July 2003 at 2:55:34 +, DanB wrote: inet 205.238.xx.1 netmask 0xfff8 broadcast 205.238.xx.7. Need a netmask convertor to change 0xfffc to 255.255.xxx.xxx. Anybody know of a good one? Aaah. The other answers explained the question, which wasn't immediately

Re: How do you load a program like gated from gated.gz file

2003-07-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 7 July 2003 at 1:44:07 +, DanB wrote: How do you load a program like gated from gated.gz file. Depends on what you mean by load. .gz is an extension normally put on gzipped files, so the answer would be with gzip. But that probably doesn't answer the question you wanted to

Re: Can the FreeBSD handbook be sold?

2003-06-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 26 June 2003 at 12:50:04 +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:53:28AM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: Hi, I came across this: http://store.fultus.com/product_info.php?cPath=5_10products_id=1 These guys are selling a pdf version of the handbook for 35 bucks a

Re: Setup of a software RAID-1 to an existing system?

2003-06-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 23 June 2003 at 5:00:23 +0300, Johan Paul wrote: Hi all! This is repost from freebsd-newbies mailing list since this might be a more suitable mailing list for my question. I am pretty new to FreeBSD but thought it might be a nice idea to migrate from a Linux server to a FreeBSD

Re: access symlink in ftpd??

2003-06-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Overlong lines. On Friday, 20 June 2003 at 12:44:13 +0200, Andre wrote: On Friday, 20 June 2003 at 12:45:27 +0200, Andre wrote: On Friday, 20 June 2003 at 12:46:56 +0200, Andre wrote: On Friday, 20 June 2003 at 12:46:59 +0200,

Re: VINUM disk types

2003-06-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 13 June 2003 at 15:40:58 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am building a db server which has 1 IDE (40GB) and 2 SCSI (18GB each) HDD each disk has 1/2 phys ram swap the rest of the scsi's is in RAID 1 and holds the data (/data) the sytem is on the 40 GB IDE my question now is:

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