Re: Corrupt data with vinum in 4.6.2-RELEASE

2002-10-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 9 October 2002 at 17:40:31 -0700, Jack Twilley wrote: Greg == Greg Lehey Greg writes: I had a bad experience this weekend with vinum, SCSI and new disks, and I'm not sure which part's at fault. Well, you're getting mulitple error messages from the SCSI subsystem, and none

Using grep (was: Please help me)

2002-10-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 9 October 2002 at 23:08:52 -0400, Toby Irvine wrote: I have one question for you. I have been looking to find out what the command/utility grep actually means or stands for. I have searched the net and keep finding the same answer, which I have been told is wrong. Could you

Re: Errors in FreeBSD 5

2002-10-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 10 October 2002 at 9:32:57 +0100, G D McKee wrote: Hi Been running 5 fine since DP1 and have done a cvsup and a buildworld every week or so since. Last week the kernel kept panicing so I cvsup and makeworld yesterday and I get the following error when I boot up. I don't see

Re: 802.11a Question (fwd)

2002-10-15 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 15 October 2002 at 9:36:56 +0930, Alex Wilkinson wrote: Hi all, To update a reply I made on this subject in a different mailing list, Can anyone recommend a Wireless Access Point and Wireless Access Cards that will work with FreeBSD ? No. Do all wireless cards these days

Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data?

2002-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 20 October 2002 at 20:47:08 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2002-10-21T01:15:48Z, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have one 80G archive drive and have filled it. I added another and would like to have both drives seen by the system as one 160G drive. You can't do

Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data?

2002-10-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 21 October 2002 at 10:07:46 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: [Missing attribution to Kirk Strauser] At 2002-10-21T01:15:48Z, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have one 80G archive drive and have filled it. I added another and would like to have both drives seen

Re: Super-Server?

2002-10-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 22 October 2002 at 17:42:21 -0700, Tony M. wrote: Running verion 4.6-release. I have installed Pure-FTP, but on boot-up it returns the following: Tony pure-ftpd: (?@?) (ERROR) Please run pure-ftpd within a super-server (like tcpserver) I thought tcpserver was part of the

Re: DLT Backup Questions

2002-10-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 22 October 2002 at 12:26:04 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 22), Chad Morland said: I am looking to create a multi-tape backup of close to 260G of data using a DLT-7000 with compression turned on. Does anyone have any recommendations for what to use to accomplish

Re: STR

2002-10-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 15 October 2002 at 23:29:33 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is STR (suspend to RAM) supported by FreeBSD any verrsion, Yes. if it's supported by my BIOS? That may depend on your BIOS. Seems like 'apm' in -stable doesn't support this function. It's very dependent on the

Re: STR

2002-10-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 17 October 2002 at 19:55:30 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is STR (suspend to RAM) supported by FreeBSD any verrsion, Yes. It's very dependent on the machine. You need to give more details. Hardware: Gigabyte GA-8HXP i850E+ICH4 mainboard, Pent4, RDRAM. BIOS: I can choose to

Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data - SOLVED

2002-10-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] This would be a lot more legible if you hadn't wrapped computer output. Also, your quoted text is broken. On Friday, 25 October 2002 at 1:48:15 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On Monday, October 21, 2002 7:39 AM, Drew

Re: First time Vinum user. Setup problems

2002-10-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 17 October 2002 at 20:53:41 -0400, Tom Parquette wrote: This is the first time I have tried to do anything with Vinum. This is on a 4.7-RELEASE machine. I'm doing a minimal installation over the Internet using the two floppy disk install method. I have several IDE volumes that I

Re: First time Vinum user. Setup problems

2002-10-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
Please remove irrelevant quoted text. On Thursday, 17 October 2002 at 21:43:27 -0400, Tom Parquette wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 17 October 2002 at 20:53:41 -0400, Tom Parquette wrote: I get some other errors when I try to use the simplified method of creating a 3 disk

Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data?

2002-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 20 October 2002 at 17:52:52 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: From what I've read, it appears that if I create a concatenated volume using vinum or ccd, I will destroy whatever data I already have on the disks. Is this correct? Sometimes. Is there anyway to do it without destroying

Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data?

2002-10-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Mutilated quotations. On Monday, 21 October 2002 at 7:39:01 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On Sunday, October 20, 2002 5:52 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: From what I've read, it appears that if I create a concatenated volume

Re: Vinum Error - No space left on drive

2002-10-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Please don't wrap computer output. On Thursday, 24 October 2002 at 17:06:01 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm sure the answer to my question is on the Net somewhere but after a day and a half of searching, I've decided to plea

Re: Corrupt vinum concatenated drive -- Hardware?

2002-10-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 27 October 2002 at 22:21:34 -0500, Tom Parquette wrote: I had something happen to my concatenated vinum drive. Looking at /var/log/messages I think it may be calling out a hardware problem on one of my drives. This configuration has been running for a week or so without

Re: Test

2002-11-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 2 November 2002 at 20:39:02 -0600, Kizer wrote: Testing, thanks. Please don't send test messages to FreeBSD-questions. You inconvenience thousands of people. Use the FreeBSD-test mailing list instead: that's what it's there for. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy

Re: man 1 eject

2002-11-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 3 November 2002 at 13:39:46 -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: A question and a suggestion to improve the eject(1) manpage. Question: Why is there no SEE ALSO section for a command (if one exists) to insert the CD tray using the command line? Suggestion: The manpage could be clearer

Re: Load averages exceed 1 - but all seems well!

2002-11-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 10 November 2002 at 23:30:44 +1030, Brian Astill wrote: Running fvcool -e -i works just fine for me in keeping my Athlon CPU cool, BUT the output from TOP, shows: last pid: 2890; load averages: 1.10, 1.07, 1.00 up 1+02:45:27 23:20:20 66 processes: 2 running, 64 sleeping

Re: Installation of FreeBSD using volume manager

2002-11-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 12 November 2002 at 21:08:56 +0200, Toomas Aas wrote: Hi! I would like to ask you if is possible, and after which version, install FreeBSD using virtual disks (like Veritas Volume Manager or VINUM). Is this possible? It seems that Greg Lehey hasn't got the time to read

Re: lukemftp in inetd.conf

2002-11-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] $Id$ string wrapped over two lines. On Wednesday, 13 November 2002 at 12:36:52 -0800, Dave McCammon wrote: What happened to the lukemftpd option in inetd.conf? (version below) $FreeBSD: src/etc/inetd.conf,v 1.44.2.16

Re: FreeBSD Easy Server

2002-11-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 17 November 2002 at 16:08:14 +0100, Pierrick Brossin wrote: Hi! I 'm currently using SME (www.e-smith.org) as server at home. After reading some docs on the net and having heavy troubles with Linux, I decided to turn this server to a FreeBSD server. I've done a deep search on

Re: FreeBSD Easy Server

2002-11-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 18 November 2002 at 9:44:55 +0100, Pierrick Brossin wrote: I'm aware there is an instant-server port but I'm not really convinced! Why not? 'cos I need more ! Like a qmail mail server and stuff. OK, there's the basic problem: on the one hand, you want something that will

Re: FreeBSD Easy Server

2002-11-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 19 November 2002 at 9:07:25 +0100, Pierrick Brossin wrote: Then don't enable one. A badly configured firewall is arguably worse than no firewall at all. wow no firewall is such a nice idea. just kidding.. your server is then open to anyone. don't you have a firewall `?! I

Re: HELP (or, now I've done it!) Vinum, RAID, and drivefailure...

2002-11-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 19 November 2002 at 9:05:19 -0500, Phillip Smith (3BAGSMEDIA) wrote: Hoping that the gods are with me and that you knowledgeable people can assist me with this _really_ big screw up... FreeBSD4.6-stable I was setting up Vinum (rather successfully I might add) until last when I

Re: Ports base?

2002-11-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 24 November 2002 at 0:12:51 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:03:46AM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: I tried to install just the ports base using sysinstall but it started to download the entire ports collection, and my HD space is limited. I didn't think that

Re: Ports base?

2002-11-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 24 November 2002 at 16:51:07 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:48:31AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 24 November 2002 at 0:12:51 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:03:46AM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: I tried to install just

Re: vinum documentation

2002-11-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 25 November 2002 at 15:42:37 +, Adam Laurie wrote: hi, who is the best person to talk to regarding vinum docco? I suppose I'm as good as any. the reason i ask is because i recently had to recover a crashed system with vinum runinng on it, and i had a recovery scenario which

Re: DUMP to disk over 2GB

2002-11-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 25 November 2002 at 13:41:58 -0500, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: ran into the file size limitation of 2GB when doing a L0 dump of the /usr partition. Is there a workaround to the 2GB limit... can you reliably pipe dump to split or something then reverse the process with restore

Re: vinum documentation

2002-11-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 26 November 2002 at 10:58:15 +, Adam Laurie wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 25 November 2002 at 15:42:37 +, Adam Laurie wrote: hi, who is the best person to talk to regarding vinum docco? I suppose I'm as good as any. the reason i ask is because i

Re: increasing the size of a file system

2002-11-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 22 November 2002 at 18:38:31 -0700, Thomas Connolly wrote: Hello all. I am having a problem installing a very large program. It wants to extract itself to the /tmp directory but there is not enough space. I have a 30 Gb hard drive that is only 20% full so there is plenty of free

Re: vinum documentation

2002-11-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 28 November 2002 at 10:06:24 +, Adam Laurie wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: yep. like all the others i've found, this deals with fixing problems within the raid itself, not moving a working raid onto a new system (which is effectively what i was doing). No, it addresses

Re: El Torito

2002-11-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 29 November 2002 at 10:02:45 -0700, Fixer Corp wrote: I just pruchased FreeBSD 4.7. It requires a CDROM with El Torito support. My computer was purchased in 1998 and the owners manual does not say anything about El Torito. When I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.0, it did not support my

Re: vinum documentation

2002-11-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 29 November 2002 at 10:36:22 +, Adam Laurie wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 28 November 2002 at 10:06:24 +, Adam Laurie wrote: ok, i'm obviously not making myself clear... my problem wasn't replacing a drive in the RAID, it was replacing the root disk

Re: vinum documentation

2002-12-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 30 November 2002 at 8:39:44 +, Adam Laurie wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: describe the procedure for unplugging the external chassis from machine A, and plugging it into machine B, and bringing up the vinum RAID without re-initialising it (i.e. preserving the data

Re: vinum documentation

2002-12-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 4 December 2002 at 9:36:29 +, Adam Laurie wrote: Adam Laurie wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: describe the procedure for unplugging the external chassis from machine A, and plugging it into machine B, and bringing up the vinum RAID without re-initialising it (i.e

Re: vinum documentation

2002-12-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 4 December 2002 at 14:30:10 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Adam Laurie wrote: .. having now digested what youve said so far, and re-read the docco several times, i'm guessing the final step would be: 6. Run 'vinum makedev' in which case our mistake was

Re: vinum and a BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG

2002-12-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 5 December 2002 at 19:36:18 -0500, Jason Morgan wrote: OK, I am installing vinum for the first time and have run into trouble. Setup: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE 2 WD 80GB IDE drives, ad0 and ad2 I used this page to help me through my setup:

Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the fourth edition of The Complete FreeBSD, and I was wondering

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 7 December 2002 at 20:47:29 -0600, Len Conrad wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 8 December 2002 at 17:36:51 -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 12:54 PM -0800 12/8/02, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: I mostly-wasted a bunch of time investigating web sites and articles which had schemes for diskless booting, and then discovered that the picobsd manpage told me

Re: vinum question - Is this possible?

2002-12-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 8 December 2002 at 9:17:53 -0800, Matt Ruby wrote: This is my plan: 1. Set up an empty 40G drive with vinum. 2. Copy what I need from another 40G drive to it. 3. Erase the second drive and set it up with vinum, too, so that I have a mirrored set containing the original data (or

Re: couple of vinum questions from a vinum newbie.

2002-12-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 8 December 2002 at 17:04:28 +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: I have decided to dip my toe into the vinum waters primarily for improved read performance, not redundancy or reliability. I have backups for that ;-). I have two questions, one related to optimal stripe size and one to

Re: HELP: vinum and newfs on 5.0-RC1

2002-12-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 9 December 2002 at 20:23:44 -0500, David Rhodus wrote: I have also been having a few problems with vinum on 5.0-RC1. I've been having a hard time making a striped or raid5 vinum with more than 4 disk's. On the 5th+ disk's vinum will see and says device is not configured. That's a

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 9 December 2002 at 17:48:14 -0800, Lou Katz wrote: On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons

Re: couple of vinum questions from a vinum newbie.

2002-12-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 10 December 2002 at 7:08:15 +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: On Monday 09 December 2002 12:45 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 8 December 2002 at 17:04:28 +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote: I have decided to dip my toe into the vinum waters primarily for improved read performance

Re: Problems with X

2002-12-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 11 December 2002 at 11:04:22 -0500, Tyler Eaves wrote: On Wednesday 11 December 2002 02:03, you wrote: After adding DefaultDepth you can remove all modes you don't need. ___ Mail me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From Applied Math Informatics

Re: vinum question - Is this possible?

2002-12-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long/short syndrome. On Thursday, 12 December 2002 at 18:10:37 -0800, Matt Ruby wrote: --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, 8 December 2002 at 9:17:53 -0800, Matt Ruby wrote: Is this possible

Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition

2002-12-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 17:38:42 -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 11:44:16 +0100, Muller Petr wrote: Is there any tool for cloning FreeBSD partiton with support fot FreeBSD file system, something like Symantec

Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)

2002-12-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 12 December 2002 at 22:07:19 -0800, Gary D Kline wrote: Hi People, Before I (potentially) throw aay some bills, I thought I'd ask the hardware-savvy if there is any appreciable difference between makes of hubs. After 5 years I am getting ready to

Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)

2002-12-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 21:48:50 -0600, Tillman wrote: On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:11:31PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I've seen little difference. But DONT BUY A HUB! Buy a switch instead. They'll give you better performance, and they hardly cost any more. Great advice

Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)

2002-12-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 13 December 2002 at 23:05:57 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:48:50PM -0600, Tillman wrote: On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:11:31PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I've seen little difference. But DONT BUY A HUB! Buy a switch instead. They'll give you better

Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)

2002-12-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 14 December 2002 at 5:43:54 -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote: --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen little difference. But DONT BUY A HUB! Buy a switch instead. They'll give you better performance, and they hardly cost any more. i have to be the voice

Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)

2002-12-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 14 December 2002 at 18:07:33 -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote: --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure you meant to write what you did, but I'm not 100% I understand. But yes, latency isn't an issue. Even if it is, switches still win. My point is that generic

Re: moving 'vinum start' forward

2002-12-15 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 15 December 2002 at 20:48:03 +0100, Joost Bekkers wrote: Hello Does anybody know a way to get vinum to load its configuration before root is mounted? Yes. I've been hacking away at vinum_attach() in sys/dev/vinum/vinum.c but I can't seen to get it to work properly (yet) It

Re: number of network interfaces supported

2002-12-15 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 15 December 2002 at 22:23:09 +0300, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: Hello, Are there any restrictions on the number of network interfaces supported by kernel? I need at least 6. I don't know of any hard limit, but it would be pretty high. There have been more than 6 by default in the

Re: X over ethernet is too much slow...

2002-12-15 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 15 December 2002 at 23:56:18 +0100, Raphal Ding wrote: Hi everyone, I've the following configuration : - an ASUS mini-pc with FreeBSD on it, 900 MHz, 256 MBytes, connected on an ethernet local network. - 2 PC running Windows with X server via cygwin (each with 1,4GHz Athlon CPU,

Re: PCMCIA NIC for use w/ FreeBSD?

2003-02-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 February 2003 at 0:44:36 -0500, Michael Graffam wrote: Can anyone suggest an inexpensive 16-bit PC card NIC (non-Cardbus) for use with FreeBSD, and where I might find one? I _REALLY_ want to get FreeBSD installed on my laptop, and I'm willing to bite the bullet and just buy

Re: PCMCIA NIC for use w/ FreeBSD?

2003-02-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 February 2003 at 21:35:32 -0500, Michael Graffam wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 5 February 2003 at 0:44:36 -0500, Michael Graffam wrote: I _REALLY_ want to get FreeBSD installed on my laptop, and I'm willing to bite the bullet and just

Re: PCMCIA NIC for use w/ FreeBSD?

2003-02-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 February 2003 at 22:18:50 -0500, Michael Graffam wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I wish it were so. I have an NE2K compatible NIC Heh. I was going to suggest exactly that. :) Yeah, NE2K compatible NICs have always done right by me. But this one

Re: PCMCIA NIC for use w/ FreeBSD?

2003-02-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 February 2003 at 22:56:27 -0500, Michael Graffam wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Hmm, this could be a simple problem to solve. What version of FreeBSD are you using? None yet :( That makes it difficult to get the card to work. I'm trying to install

Re: PCMCIA NIC for use w/ FreeBSD?

2003-02-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 February 2003 at 23:23:59 -0500, Michael Graffam wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: You might possibly find 4.7 easier in this case. 5.0 has completely rewritten PC Card drivers, and it may be more difficult to get it to work there. Hmm, ok -- I'll try

Re: Panic out of dqget() (was: What caused this Panic)

2003-02-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 6 February 2003 at 19:21:18 -0500, Simon wrote: On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:16:39 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 27 January 2003 at 22:29:15 -0500, Simon wrote: Hi, I just had a server panic due to something wrong with disk quotas, I guess. panic: dqget: free dquot

Appropriate use of FreeBSD mailing lists (was: Wireless(if_wi): supported card attachment problems)

2003-02-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 8 February 2003 at 14:01:17 +0100, Andrea Franceschini wrote: Hi All! I bought a card that, according to the man page of wi driver, should have been supported. The card is a Sohoware/NCP 130 and this is the output of 'man wi': On Saturday, 8 February 2003 at 14:01:34 +0100,

Re: Automatically include debug symbols?

2003-02-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 9 February 2003 at 16:12:44 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: Daniela wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 19:15, Mike Meyer wrote: You can get everything to build with debug symbols by adding CFLAGS=-g to /etc/make.conf. However, the system will strip the binaries when it installs them. You

Re: Automatically include debug symbols?

2003-02-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 9 February 2003 at 18:42:15 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 9 February 2003 at 16:12:44 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: I guess if you don't mind them eating up RAM, then go ahead. Keep in mind that it can easily be 5x the amount of RAM a stripped binary

Re: Automatically include debug symbols?

2003-02-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 10 February 2003 at 0:14:04 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:32:14AM +1030 I heard the voice of Greg 'groggy' Lehey, and lo! it spake thus: On Sunday, 9 February 2003 at 18:42:15 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: It's just a disk space issue then? Because

Re: PDP-11 (with RSTS/E) emulator for FreeBSD

2003-02-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 10 February 2003 at 16:24:15 -0500, Dan Delaney wrote: Since we're on the subject of archaic software, does anyone know of a good PDP-11 emulator that will run on FreeBSD? I'd like one that can run the RSTS/E operating system. This is strictly for nostalgic purposes :-) I learned

Re: amnesiac is disklabel?

2003-02-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 10 February 2003 at 23:11:02 -0500, Pete wrote: On Mon, 03 Feb 2003, Pete wrote: On Mon, 03 Feb 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 2 February 2003 at 13:50:20 -0500, Pete wrote: What does this mean? Whichever drive is last, that's the one I cannot disklabel -e to set

Re: Wireless install

2003-02-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 12 February 2003 at 7:43:15 -0800, Mable wrote: HELP! I'm VERY new to freebsd. I just got an IBM Thinkpad 755ce (not my first choice for computers, but hopefully better than nothing), and I have a Lucent Tehnologies Orinoco Silver wireless card. I've read things that say people

Re: SMP on Proliant 5500

2003-02-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 14 February 2003 at 19:53:51 -0800, vizion communication wrote: Hi Here is the system: Compaq Proliant 5500 Quad Xeon 500Mhz Booting from Compaq Smart Raid configured to give 3 virtual drives JBOD on seperate adaptec SCSI 2 PCI card Fibre Channel Array 1.2T Adaptec AHA

Re: Problems with VINUM config

2003-02-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 18 February 2003 at 23:35:42 +, Elvar Bjarki Bvarsson wrote: I'm having a bit of a problem with my VINUM configuration, I'm setting up a concated drive with 4 plexes and getting an error 22. vinum concat -n serv -v /dev/ad2s1g /dev/ad3s1h /dev/ad4s1e /dev/ad6s1h That's not

Re: Vinum, concantination and filesystems

2003-02-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 22 February 2003 at 23:20:00 -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote: On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 01:28:46AM -0300, David Feig wrote: Also, I can't seem to get dns resolution for the Vinum website. Have these guys not been paying their bills? (www.vinumvm.org) Shh. Don't say vinum too loudly...it

Re: Panic under load? 3 volumes in mirroring

2003-02-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 24 February 2003 at 0:16:48 +0100, Luca Pizzinato wrote: Hi Gurus. I was setting up this box with FreeBSD 4.8 PRERELEASE. I cvsup'd and recompiled everything, no problems, then I was configuring volumes with vinum. The goal was to have 3 volumes mirrored 0+1. Well, I attached

Re: kernel panic question

2003-02-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraph. On Friday, 28 February 2003 at 16:07:55 -0600, kitsune wrote: Would this be a problem with the hardware, kernel, or what? What is happening is I mount /dev/ad2s1e and them move files to it from

Re: kernel panic question

2003-02-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 28 February 2003 at 18:00:31 -0600, kitsune wrote: Don't count on a dump being enough. Check your log files for any messages which might help. And remember, the more work you do to help people help you, the more likely you are to get help. Where would I find those log files at?

Re: kernel panic question

2003-02-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraphs. On Friday, 28 February 2003 at 19:03:03 -0600, kitsune wrote: Where would I find those log files at? /var/log. Cool, I see there where no other dirs I was forget about then for logs. But after

Re: kernel panic question

2003-02-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 28 February 2003 at 22:11:15 -0800, nate wrote: kitsune said: Any ways since ye wanted proof, why I would care to fake it I do not know, I am inserting the out put from dmesg... and after looking into kernel dumps, afaik that would be useless to me since from what little info I

Re: kernel panic question

2003-03-01 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Friday, 28 February 2003 at 20:02:50 -0600, kitsune wrote: On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:04:00 +1030 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 28 February 2003 at 19:03:03 -0600, kitsune wrote: Any ways since ye wanted proof, why I

Re: [notspam] Re: getting images off a digital camera...

2003-03-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 3 March 2003 at 17:55:51 -0500, Alex(ander Sendzimir) wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 17:21, Chad Albert wrote: All I have to do is mount it as if it were a regular drive on the system. I think the generic kernel has support for USB mass storage devices, so plug your camera in and

Re: Disk failure (hardware or config problem?) Vinum

2003-03-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Log output wrapped. On Tuesday, 25 February 2003 at 0:24:27 -0300, David Feig wrote: I have been playing with Vinum and my first serious experiment resulted in a serious failure. I am not sure if my hard drive just chose

Re: cd *

2003-03-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 3 March 2003 at 10:57:01 -0800, Rus Foster wrote: On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FBSD-4.7R on other BSD's, and with ftp(1), 'cd x*' will cd to the 1st match. FBSD used to work this way as well a few minor versions ago. these days it crashes with 'too many

Re: ad-hoc wireless mode and ticks (fwd)

2003-03-03 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[bcc-ing -mobile; this really belongs on -questions] On Monday, 3 March 2003 at 13:10:26 -0800, Kan Cai wrote: I sent the question in freebsd-question list, but it seems a wrong list to ask. No, -questions is the correct list. Did somebody complain? Maybe because you sent your message as

Re: vinum: low level access to subdisks / drives

2003-03-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 March 2003 at 19:33:04 +0100, Alexander Haderer wrote: Hello, Here is a vinum question. It was sent as a followup of a question about installation problems. That causes problems with threading. Assume this setup: Two partitions ad0s1e and ad2s1e of type vinum with the same

Re: Major upgrades and vinum (was Re: Make installworld problem (4.7))

2003-03-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 March 2003 at 13:40:50 -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-03-05T18:04:14Z, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since kernels have to support old binaries, but not vice versa, you can usually reboot with the new kernel and old world and have it work. Sometimes, though you

Re: Not understanding VINUM docs

2003-03-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 9 March 2003 at 2:55:43 -0500, Jorge Mario G. wrote: Hi I have FreeBSD installed in a 2G HD (swap, /, /var, /usr) Also I have 3 Hard Drives (/misc1 /misc2 /misc3) Those are presumably file systems. now I would like to build a concadenated volume with those 3 harddrives to make

Re: ad-hoc wireless mode and ticks (fwd)

2003-03-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 4 March 2003 at 7:18:02 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, this is very confusing. I've been asking the maintainer to change the terminology, but he points out that the other BSDs do

Re: The Complete FreeBSD, second edition: errata and addenda

2003-03-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 8 March 2003 at 12:43:18 -0600, W. D. wrote: Hi Greg, I try these links: ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/cfbsd/errata-1 ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/cfbsd/errata-2.ps ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/cfbsd/errata-2.txt ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/cfbsd/errata-2.ascii

Vinum root file systems (was: Difference between Vinum and atacontrol RAID?)

2003-03-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 9 March 2003 at 20:15:32 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: Pete wrote: Generally, one cannot boot from a vinum based-device, unless you are only doing RAID-1 mirroring. You can have a Vinum root file system as long as at least one plex is concatenated from a single subdisk. I'm familar

Printing the handbook (was: The Complete FreeBSD, second edition: errata and addenda)

2003-03-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 9 March 2003 at 19:46:00 -0600, harsha godavari wrote: Hi Greg: If I want to rpint out my own copy of the BSD handbook using a HP540 printer (or i may take it Kinkos) which(version ps/pdf etc) is the best file to download. Thanks for your help. To print things locally,

Re: The Complete FreeBSD, second edition: errata and addenda

2003-03-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 9 March 2003 at 23:49:21 -0600, W. D. wrote: Just bought your 3rd edition. Hey Greg, what's the deal with these .ems files? I'm not sure which ones you're talking about. You mean this? 544aff.jpg Re The Complete FreeBSD, sec1.emsfile://D:\Programs\Eudora\attach\Re The Complete

Re: Force core, then reload

2003-03-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 14 March 2003 at 17:34:59 -0800, Daxbert wrote: I'm looking to force a FreeBSD process to core, write it's core dump to disk, then at a later date, reload the image, and resume from where it left off. I know it's possible to force an application to core, but I'm not so certain

Re: vinum based system

2003-03-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 15 March 2003 at 16:23:03 +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: I am planning to put up a FreeBSD system, probably 4.8-RELEASE when it appears, to manage backups from a number of Unix and unix-like systems on a LAN. Backups will be written nightly over the LAN to a local disk system and

Re: Openoffice build error

2003-03-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 16 March 2003 at 21:28:42 +0200, Ian Barnes wrote: Hi, I am trying to build the latest version of openoffice (cvsupped earlier). I get this error bellow, i am runing a 5.0 Rel system with X4, and KDE 3.1 snip === Extracting for mozilla-1.0.2_1 Checksum mismatch for

Re: Dirty shutdown and I'm now stuck

2003-03-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 16 March 2003 at 19:58:25 -0500, Brian McCann wrote: Ok...I just had a system crash that I was working on. When coming back up, I got an error that says it cannot read a block on the disk, and to run fsck manually. When I run fsck -f /dev/adwhatever it just says the same thing,

Re: vinum based system

2003-03-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 16 March 2003 at 20:20:19 +0200, Toomas Aas wrote: 2)To what extent can the system be fully mirrored? Without RAID hardware it seems to me that a conventional disk partition outside the mirrored volume is probably necessary for mounting / ; is this true? Yes. No, for some

Re: Dirty shutdown and I'm now stuck

2003-03-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 16 March 2003 at 22:04:05 -0600, charles pelletier wrote: On Sunday, March 16, 2003 7:34 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 16 March 2003 at 19:58:25 -0500, Brian McCann wrote: Ok...I just had a system crash that I was working on. When coming back up, I got an error

Re: Migrating vinum plexes to a new volume

2003-03-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 17 March 2003 at 15:00:55 -0600, Tillman wrote: Howdy, I want to migrate some existing plexes to a different volume than the one that they are currently a member of. Here's the existing configuration: V iso State: up Plexes: 2 Size: 4096 MB V iso2

Re: Strange crash, possibly vinum-related

2003-03-17 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 17 March 2003 at 10:58:28 +, Scott Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:15:32PM +, Scott Mitchell wrote: Hi all, I wonder if anyone out there can shed any light on this: A drive failed on one of our Vinum-powered RAID-5 arrays over the weekend. This morning, we

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