Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 05:22:06PM -0800, David Newman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd welcome suggestions on how (or whether) to try to revive a SCSI drive that's failing. to answer 'whether': don't. Get your stuff off from it as soon as possible and nuke it if

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 07:56:52AM -0800, David Newman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/10/07 9:09 PM, Modulok wrote: I'd welcome suggestions on how (or whether) to try to revive a SCSI drive that's failing. It depends on how valuable the data on the array

Re: OT: Beastie 3D-rendered

2007-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 08:55:18PM +, Tino Engel wrote: Look what happened to Beastie: http://www.tilolit.de/images/tb/wallpapers/teufel.jpg Cute, but the eyes seem a little out of sync with the rest of the attention/address of the figure. Also legs are missing. Or, am I not viewing

Re: disk drive serial number

2007-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 06:38:08PM -0500, Josh Carroll wrote: is there a way to get the serial number from a drive from within the OS? im trying to audit the drives in my file server, but without pulling the thing from the rack and cracking it open. they are just standard sata drives, not

Re: FreeBSD questions

2007-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:37:06PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Andy Greenwood wrote: If you want the newer versions of software from the ports tree, don't limit your results by the tag. Basically, you're saying (IIRC) I want the version of the port that was included with this release

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 09:26:38AM -0800, David Newman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/12/07 8:14 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: An update: After doing what you suggest (leaving in the good disk, adding a new disk, RAID rebuilding) I still got soft write errors

Re: www.freebsd.org

2007-11-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 01:02:22AM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 16:59 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. We are developers. If you want , we can help to you for Turkish language support.You can rely on us. We worked some projects. That's not true, you cannot help

Re: nanobsd, picobsd, tinybsd

2007-11-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:45:30PM -0600, John Smith wrote: I'd expected a more level headed reply from this FreeBSD list. How is a newbie supposed to know the differenced and how can I test this if I don't have a spare machine? My question was more out of interest. This mailing list is

Re: nanobsd, picobsd, tinybsd

2007-11-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 06:05:35PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:45:30PM -0600, John Smith wrote: I'd expected a more level headed reply from this FreeBSD list. How is a newbie supposed to know the differenced and how can I test this if I don't have a spare

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac

2007-11-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:03:30AM +, James Jeffery wrote: Was wondering. Can i put FreeBSD on a Quicksilver G4? I know it already has Tiger on it, which is BSD based, but i have no use for Tiger at the moment. At college were using Windows, and my old BSD box now has windows on it

Re: How can I use the Windows loader to boot FreeBSD

2007-11-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 03:19:38PM -0800, Alou Dialy wrote: I read this FAQ but I am still confused. How does it work if you have windows on ad0 and freebsd on ad1. You put a copy of the FreeBSD MBR on both disks. The BIOS will start the first one it sees. Then, if it is the FreeBSD MBR, it

Re: install

2007-11-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:15:11PM -0500, Rob wrote: Leonard Lilla wrote: Talk about a horrible install. Install this CD, now that now this now that now this now that!!! It goes on and on. Please do think about people that are trying your install and are less knowledgeable and

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 06:36:03PM +, Ashley Moran wrote: On Nov 07, 2007, at 5:59 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: If you compare for example the daemon on the CD cover of the version 1.1 release, pictured here: http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/shirts/bsd4_3.html Note the fine shading

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:14:10PM +, Ashley Moran wrote: On Nov 07, 2007, at 6:54 pm, Jerry McAllister wrote: So, I still put BSDie stickers on things and don't worry about it. Is that what it's called? I've always called it Beastie. I can't even tell you why. Prounced

Re: portupgrade questions

2007-11-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:15:54AM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I really should rephrase what I said, because you're both right and I knew you were right. *I* can't mix packages and ports, because *I* can't be bothered keeping track of things. Like everything in UNIX

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 and PERC 5i controller

2007-11-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:46:30AM -0500, Jay Aikat wrote: I am trying to install an Endace DAG card for traffic capture on a new machine with 8 drives installed using a PERC 5i controller. Due to support limitations for the DAG software, I have to install FreeBSD 5.4 on this machine.

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 and PERC 5i controller

2007-11-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 12:43:34PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: On Tuesday 06 November 2007 11:17:24 am Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:46:30AM -0500, Jay Aikat wrote: I am trying to install an Endace DAG card for traffic capture on a new machine with 8 drives installed

Re: DNS and IP

2007-11-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 06:00:27PM -0500, Brian Finniff wrote: My question is, if you are running a website for 2 different people on the Internet and they both wanted to acquire a domain but you only have one IP address, would it be possible to forward each domain to the same IP address

Re: Is there a way to compare what is in the ports tree with what is installed?

2007-11-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:36:00AM +, Pollywog wrote: On Monday 05 November 2007 02:04:39 Robert Huff wrote: Brett Davidson writes: ie. If I had a particular version of the ports tree on a server, how could I check to see if any of the programs in that tree were actually

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:53:13AM -0800, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data and the FreeBSD OS on a hard disk that is failing. I need advice on the best way to clone the entire disk (or at least the data) onto a larger ide disk drive,

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:40:36PM -0800, FX Charpentier wrote: Roland, The mention of dump '-L' in your email below has caught my attention. Pardon my ignorance, but what is the '-L' option? I looked it up in the man pages but wasn't able to find any mention of it. Can you point me in

Re: vim doesn't preserve the terminal content

2007-11-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 02:29:47PM -0700, Yuri wrote: I use vim both on Linux and FreeBSD. On Linux after I exit vim original screen content is restored. On FreeBSD vim leaves the last content viewed in vim. How do I make vim preserve the screen? I don't know how to do that, but it is one

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD

2007-10-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:05:04PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote: On Oct 29, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 01:36 +, Andrew Wasilczuk wrote: [...] HP ProLiant servers are generally decent. The onboard RAID is usually supported by the ciss driver.

Re: evil idea

2007-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 10:16:50PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: mv wrote: Hello, Would installing Freebsd i386 within a jail on an amd64 host solve his problem? I have been running amd64 since it was first released and am quite pleased with its performance and stability.

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD

2007-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:03:47AM +, Andrew Wasilczuk wrote: Hi, I'm interested to see what servers people use for FreeBSD. I used to buy the IBM xSeries x306 for firewalls and web servers and the x206 for low budget file servers, but both aren't being sold anymore. I recently got a

Re: slight emergency here...

2007-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:54:54PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes. Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair the damage. At any rate, how do i as root, single user, cp -rp all

Re: DVD distribution

2007-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 09:25:40PM -0500, Chris wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:19:01 -0700 Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 01:47:20AM +0200, Michel Ali wrote: Hi, I???m an IT manager. I am just wondering

Re: DVD distribution

2007-10-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 01:47:20AM +0200, Michel Ali wrote: Hi, I’m an IT manager. I am just wondering why you do not have a DVD distribution. [I know about workarounds] Could you do something about that, it would be really helpful and handy? FreeBSD per se does not have any

Re: hidden disk geometry on Compaq Presario V2000

2007-10-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 12:19:27AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lorin Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Compaq Presario Notebook in the V2000 series. I just replaced the hard drive because the original was getting disk errors. I have a WD Scorpio 120 GB. When I try to load

Re: 7.0 and 6.3

2007-10-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 11:00:37AM +0100, Vince wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: David J Brooks wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered the standard upgrade

Re: resizing partitions

2007-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:15:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I have need to alter some partition sizes on a (laptop) system I use daily, with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE installed. Are there tools you'd recommend for this, that should be stable and not prone to hosing up my filesystems? In

Re: the right next step?

2007-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:43:37AM -0700, Aliya Harbouri wrote: Hi Bill! Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. During the freeze, you'll have difficulty getting any ports changes through. That's what I figured -- and why I've been trying to

Re: rename file based on file's timestamp

2007-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:45:08PM +1000, andrew clarke wrote: Hi, Hopefully, a simple request... I have a series of files in a directory: -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Jul 28 2006 209.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 ozzmosis ozzmosis 115201253 Jul 31 2006 212.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: the right next step?

2007-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 03:15:17PM -0700, Aliya Harbouri wrote: Hi Jerry! I am not sure I understand all of what is being said or implied here. Hm. Now *I'm* confused by your confusion ;-) Let me summarize -- The www/apache22 port ignores (or more correctly, is not yet aware of ...)

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:13:21PM +0100, Adam J Richardson wrote: Donovan R. Palmer wrote: I have saved many of your emails for future reference. Hi Donovan, Welcome to the list. There's no need for you to store the emails, since they're all archived at http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:03:44AM +0100, Donovan R. Palmer wrote: Friends... thank you for all of your responses. Last night I read a big chunk of the handbook and read articles such as http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php Very helpful. I was impressed with

Re: Cloning a Windows Xp single hard drive to RAID 0 array

2007-10-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 04:30:38PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Sunday 21 October 2007 08:55:31 Frank Gaenger wrote: I have a system built on a Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 motherboard. At present it has only one 250GB SATA hard drive. I would like to modify the system by installing two (2)

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:21:04AM -0500, W. D. wrote: Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. That is normal. The default is to disallow remote login as root. The normal procedure is to ssh in on a normal id and then do su. You have to put that normal user in the wheel

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:38:35PM +0330, Bahman M. wrote: On 2007-10-22 W. D. wrote: Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. Remote PuTTY: Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. At computer terminal: PAM authentication error for root from

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 07:33:57PM +0100, Donovan R. Palmer wrote: Hi, I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to make

Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

2007-10-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 03:39:19PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: James writes: Add yourself to wheel (which is the root group on FreeBSD, a name I believe it inherited from earlier BSDs, but I've no idea what the justification for choosing 'wheel' is; any BSD historians here - you'd

Re: Why 7.0 is so late ?

2007-10-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:26:28PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-10-17 18:20, Gueven Bay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/10/17, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: while companies like Microsoft must publish in time to make the share holders not to mention that microsoft

Re: Why 7.0 is so late ?

2007-10-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 12:09:02PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:26:28PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Traditionally, BSD has released stuff when it was ready and not when some marketting team decided that they wanted to release. The FreeBSD team has made

Re: Two questions about UNIX(r) certification.

2007-10-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:56:05PM -0400, Rob wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I recently noticed that Apple's new OS, Leopard, is Unix certified. I'd imagine that the big reason that FreeBSD hasn't done this yet is: It costs a lot of money. There was a thread on this a month or 3

Re: Install FreeBSD 6.2 and Windows XP prof in the same computer

2007-10-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:49:57AM +0800, williamkow wrote: Please provide me more advices on installing multi operating system in a computer. Which one to install first? use which boot loader ? tips and guidelines, and things to causion. Thank you. Have you read the FreeBSD Handbook? It

Re: Strange perl script

2007-10-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:14:07AM +0200, Jack Raats wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 HI Can anyone explain this after ps -ax | grep perl 21893 ?? I 1:02.37 sploger (perl5.8.8) 29536 ?? R184:14.94 sploger (perl5.8.8) 29538 ?? R184:36.44 sploger

Re: Why 7.0 is so late ?

2007-10-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:28:35PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Gueven Bay wrote: So, but the original question was : What is not working _now_ at this moment so that 7 cannot be released _now_ ? I can think of several issues of the top of my head: - rt_check bug in network routing

Re: Why 7.0 is so late ?

2007-10-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:39:44PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: On 17/10/2007, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are just many of us who would like a little more ongoing information on how it is going - such as what you give above, plus maybe an occasional guess update. You

Re: help: the Input problem

2007-10-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:19:31PM +0800, ronggui wrote: Thanks. Finally, I set all the env variables in ¬/.tcshrc, It works. Far out!! jerry 2007/10/8, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:23:01AM +0800, ronggui wrote: I use scim as my input

Re: ntfs-3g problem

2007-10-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:43:48AM -0400, Monah Baki wrote: Hi all, We're in the process of copying 600GB to a ntfs volume on freebsd 6.2. I rebooted the server and now all 200GB of data that I copied are no longer visible. If I issue the command df -h, I see 200GB used. How can I

Re: Hello sir

2007-10-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:07:33AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello sir i would like to run freebsd.sd to supoort freebsd on Sudan .. do i need to follow any steps before i run it and join freebsd.org as mirror ? Mohammed Tayeb SysAdmin. There is documentation somewhere on setting

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:11:56AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:34:54PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: FreeBSD is not Windows. True statement - thank heaven. You cannot have another root in the system. Unless I misunderstand

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:47:17AM -0400, Connie Webb wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. I forgot one more important thing. Subscribe to this list -- FreeBSD-questions and probably at least FreeBSD-announce and maybe FreeBSD-newbies and read through all the discussions. Some

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:47:17AM -0400, Connie Webb wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. Presuming what you want to begin is learning and using FreeBSD, the first thing is to start studying the extensive documentation that is available. See:

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:34:54PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, FreeBSD is not Windows. True statement - thank heaven. You cannot have another root in the system. Unless I misunderstand what you are saying, this is NOT a true statement. You can create as many ids with a '0' UID as

Re: Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition

2007-10-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:35:54PM +0800, nodje wrote: I couldn't find any answer to the question.The problem is that the installer shows up all the disks instead of proposing to install somewhere on the RAID5 partition, in other words, it just doesn't recognize the RAID5. Is it possible at

Re: Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition

2007-10-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 04:19:02PM -0400, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:35:54PM +0800, nodje wrote: I couldn't find any answer to the question.The problem is that the installer shows up all the disks instead of proposing to install

Re: Upgrade of PHP4

2007-10-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:16:03AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I noticed that PHP4 port has been having some vulnerabilities for some time now. Will there be a correction relased any soon? I think the PHP4 upgrade is to move to PHP5. jerry Best regards, Olivier

Re: help: the Input problem

2007-10-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:23:01AM +0800, ronggui wrote: I use scim as my input. When I use bash as my login shell, I add these lines to ~/.profile export LANG=zh_CN.eucCN export LC_ALL=zh_CN.eucCN export G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 export G_FILENAME_ENCODING=GBK export XMODIFIERS='@im=SCIM'

Re: BASH as root shell (static linking)

2007-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 01:55:28AM +0100, RW wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:09:46 -0400 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:32:22AM +0100, RW wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:29:36 -0700 (PDT) Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/10

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:34:41AM -0500, icantthinkofone wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, do you really want the world to know what you are writing? icantthinkofone wrote: Frank Jahnke wrote: Why not use Google Docs? And ask NSA in case you need a backup? Erich

Re: Strange df

2007-10-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 04:24:33PM +0200, Albert Shih wrote: Le 05/10/2007 à 12:12:26+0200, Albert Shih a écrit Hi all What's that mean ? Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a50763069050 39797015%/ devfs 1

Re: Strange df

2007-10-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:12:26PM +0200, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all What's that mean ? What does it look like? It looks to me like the output of a df(1) command - specifically 'df -k' The first line contains labels that explain what is in each column. The file system or partition device

Re: BASH as root shell (static linking)

2007-10-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:32:22AM +0100, RW wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:29:36 -0700 (PDT) Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/10/2007, at 5:45 AM, RW wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 04:54:26 +1000 Jerahmy Pocott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm wanting to

Re: Managing very large files

2007-10-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 04:51:08PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:25:18PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Donnerstag 04 Oktober 2007 22:16:29 schrieb Steve Bertrand: This is what I am afraid of. Just out of curiosity, if I did try to

Re: determining the space used in / partition

2007-10-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:23:30AM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello again, Through df I realized my / partiotion is out of space: Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a198126 196070 -13794 108%/ devfs 11

Re: determining the space used in / partition

2007-10-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 06:13:11AM +, Duane Hill wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 08:03 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: 2007/10/2, Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 07:36 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: 2007/10/2, Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2

Re: HP Server compatability

2007-10-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
might be a different key. All else should be just the same.If you got SCSI (or SAS) disk, about the only different driver might be the NIC and possibly a RAID card driver and they work, just have different names. jerry Tim Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 04:21:26PM

Re: determining the space used in / partition

2007-10-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 05:24:43PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I dump to /mnt/usbck/backup. Since backup dir was not present, the script created it under / Naughty script. It should check against doing something like that, eg [ ! -d $backupdir ] echo no $backupdir - not

Re: HP Server compatability

2007-10-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 04:21:26PM -0400, Tim Kellers wrote: I thought e would be purchasing a Dell 2950 to use as part of our FreeBSD 6.2 server farm, (and thanks to everyone for their informed replies), but due to other circumstances, our client wants to purchase a HP ProLiant ML350 G5

Re: want to install free bsd

2007-09-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 01:20:14AM -0700, Brian Guest wrote: Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to install freebsd 6.2 or 6.0 on my pentium three PC computer. At this moment my pentium three computer has XP installed on it i do not know which files from the freebsd website to

Re: Can't connecto to www.freebsd.org

2007-09-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:46:46PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: On Thursday 27 September 2007, Beech Rintoul said: On Thursday 27 September 2007, Jeff Mohler said: On 9/27/07, icantthinkofone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found I am having this problem, too. I can access every

Re: Backup Solution

2007-09-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 06:11:14AM +, dhaneshk k wrote: Hi everybody , I like to know the different backup techniques that is very cheaper (I cant go for a SAN, mirror .. even if I can purchase those,please excuse me because I believe more productivity @ less resources )for my

Re: Adding CR/LF

2007-09-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 06:34:22PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this should be easy, but I cannot get it to work right. Basically, I have a list of items, and I need to place each one on a separate line. Here is the script I am using. #!/bin/sh FILENAMES=test1 test2 test3

Re: Any advice for a Partition Plan for a multi-jailed Server?

2007-09-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:02:09PM -0700, Aliya Harbouri wrote: drive 2: / 2GB A bit big, but fine I though so, but with drives this big cheap ... :-) /boot 2GB Nope, FreeBSD doesn't need / want a /boot I didn't realize :-/

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:24:55PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: I have installed FreeBSd on IBM/Lenova and Dell with little problem. But, I wonder if anyone here has had any dealings with a nice little notebook from a Japanese company called 'Kojinsha'. I saw them the last time I was in Japan, of

Re: Software Lojack

2007-09-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:12:56PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: I know all about various precautions to be taken. I also know I could write something. I just wanted to know if something like that is already written. jerry On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 06:33:30PM -0400, Jerry wrote: Hi

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:18:49PM -0400, Tim Kellers wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production environment? My old Dell 2400 hardware is quickly expiring and I need to replace it

Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server

2007-09-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi ; A general question pls excuse me can any body suggest a backup mechanism for a server machine , which has a web portal , email server ,PgSQL database 4GB size , DNS server, Mailman , and a mediawiki applications running in a single machine . Sounds like a fairly small server.

Re: Cron not working till 28/08/07

2007-09-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:36:07PM -, DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all !! I had several crontab jobs in order to make backups. All worked fine till the 28-Aug-2007 when it seems to be stopped for some reason, I don't know why. I had a reporting in my mail box (external) also with daily,

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:16:40AM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: I'm trying to do some text file manipulation, and it's driving me nuts. I've got a sorted file of SMTP addresses, and want to eliminate the lines that are the same up to a space character within the line. Example: [EMAIL

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
-0700, Kurt Buff wrote: On 9/13/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:16:40AM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: I'm trying to do some text file manipulation, and it's driving me nuts. I've got a sorted file of SMTP addresses, and want to eliminate

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I can't answer all your questions, but will take a shot at a couple. You should check out the handbook at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html and http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ For more complete information. On Fri,

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 06:43:33AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tamouh wrote: Robin Becker wrote: My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root user to have shutdown rights without

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:53:09AM -0500, cothrige wrote: On 9/7/07, Erich Dollansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Howdy, and thanks for the help. [snip] I have downloaded the FreeBSD 6.2 install discs and have finished the Just stick with 6.2 for the moment. Wait, you do

Re: Newbie questions about updating

2007-09-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:26:40PM -0500, cothrige wrote: On 9/7/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:53:09AM -0500, cothrige wrote: Sorry. What I really had in mind was the ports tree itself, which I had an option during install to add. BTW, I

Re: Hello

2007-09-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:33:42PM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Dear list members. I just wanted to say hi to all of you. My name is Gabriel, and I have just been setting up a FreeBSD server at work, having moved from Linux. There are just a couple of things that aren't working quite

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:10:50PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Them's fighting words - don't you realize an entire subgroup of the FreeBSD developers spent untold amounts of time and effort setting up a rigged contest to attempt to convince the userbase that

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:51:18AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eray Aslan Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:05 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server setup

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:21:56PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Andrey Shuvikov wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up a home mailserver with imap/web access. But I was going to use exim. Several people mentioned postfix here, but nobody named exim. Is it a matter of personal preference or is

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:53:50PM -0300, Nélio Mesquita wrote: Hello to all! Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is there a history around it? There is so much history it would take you several days to read it all. Just look for stuff on 'Beastie' or 'Bsd' or other

Re: doubts about the freebsd devil

2007-08-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 03:50:27PM +, Pollywog wrote: On Friday 31 August 2007 15:32:26 Jerry McAllister wrote: There will also probably be loads of people replying to tell you that it is not a devil but a character representing a daemon that is a helpful sprite

Re: /var or /usr for data?

2007-08-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:20:16PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Wojciech Puchar wrote: It would appear that the proper allocation of filesystems on FreeBSD is to put all data in /usr. I'm used to this and have been doing it for years. my favourite proper

Re: /var or /usr for data?

2007-08-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:19:43AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: It would appear that the proper allocation of filesystems on FreeBSD is to put all data in /usr. I'm used to this and have been doing it for years. my favourite proper allocation is to make ONE partition (/) and nothing

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:28:54PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: At 12:49 PM 8/24/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4

Re: FreeBSD MBRs

2007-08-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:33:02AM +0100, Christopher Key wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: You only need an MBR on disks that will be booted. I don't know as it will actually hurt anything to write an MBR on non-boot, data only disks, but it can garbage up you menu

Re: /var or /usr for data?

2007-08-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:51:35PM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: On 8/22/07, Brad Waite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would appear that the proper allocation of filesystems on FreeBSD is to put all data in /usr. I'm used to this and have been doing it for years. However, there's a few

Re: wildcard usage in fetch

2007-08-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 04:04:47PM -0700, Philip Hallstrom wrote: fetch -avrpAFU ftp://loginid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/IDX/ActivePhotos/*/*.* The /*/ directory is 2 positions in size and contains 00 through 99 as directory names. The *.* means all files in this directory. When I execute this I

Re: FreeBSD MBRs

2007-08-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:27:51PM +0100, Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I've a machine with 3 SATA drives. The first (ad8) with a standard FreeBSD install in a single slice with /boot/boot0 MBR. The remaining two drives (ad10, ad12) are in a RAID1 mirror with 3 slices, and used for

Re: Minimal gateway hardware configuration

2007-08-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:07:42PM +0330, Bahman M. wrote: One other question -a bit silly: If I use that configuration as the gateway, can it be left on and working 24x7? I mean, regarding the _hardware_, how often does it need to be powered off: once a day, once a week, ... to prevent

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