Hardwire drive0 to ad0 on hw raid.

2009-04-25 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, i'm having a problem with the disk numbering of RAID arrays (3ware 9650SE). When i boot, the array with my system is always the last numbered drive (ATM its ad16). This array is on its own controller. lsdev in the loader shows the array as drive0 (first BIOS drive i assume). Is there a way

Re: Hardwire drive0 to ad0 on hw raid.

2009-04-26 Thread Leon Meßner
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 08:39:09PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Leon Meßner l.mess...@physik.tu-berlin.dewrote: Hi, i'm having a problem with the disk numbering of RAID arrays (3ware 9650SE). When i boot, the array with my system is always the last numbered

Default labeling and space for rebuilding the kernel.

2010-03-31 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, if one uses the default labeling with current installer it is not possible to rebuild the kernel (GENERIC). It fails on installing the wlan.ko. Isn't that wrong somehow ? === wi (install) install -o root -g wheel -m 555 if_wi.ko /boot/kernel install -o root -g wheel -m 555

Re: Default labeling and space for rebuilding the kernel.

2010-04-01 Thread Leon Meßner
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:34:59AM -0400, Michael Powell wrote: Leon Meßner wrote: Hi, if one uses the default labeling with current installer it is not possible to rebuild the kernel (GENERIC). It fails on installing the wlan.ko. snip /: write failed, filesystem is full install

Mentioning of geom in the handbook's RAID chapter.

2011-04-05 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, I recently searched google for FreeBSD software raid because i wanted to compare the advice google gives me for creating a software raid in linux and freebsd. First hit here was the link to the handbook page (18.4). This page still is only talking about ccd and vinum. I know there is a whole

Kernel loading very slowly with specific (wrong?) loader.conf

2011-04-12 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, when you use the following loader.conf: # cat /boot/loader.conf hint.sio.1.flags=0x20 comconsole_speed=115200 boot_multicons=yes and have no /boot.config, then booting the kernel is extremely slow. It writes about one character per second on the screen. Also i dont actually have a serial

dnssec with freebsd's resolver(3)

2011-06-19 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, does the freebsd resolver(3) support sending the DO bit in queries and thus do DNSSEC validation ? I tried using ssh with SSHFP RR's in a signed zone but i still get the insecure Key message from ssh on FreeBSD (works on some other OS). cherio, Leon

Re: dnssec with freebsd's resolver(3)

2011-06-22 Thread Leon Meßner
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 06:17:23AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 20/06/2011 01:37, Leon Meßner wrote: does the freebsd resolver(3) support sending the DO bit in queries and thus do DNSSEC validation ? I tried using ssh with SSHFP RR's in a signed zone but i still get the insecure Key

Re: dnssec with freebsd's resolver(3)

2011-06-23 Thread Leon Meßner
This mail got only send to Matthew because of bad time of day ;) On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:58:00PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 22/06/2011 20:02, Osterweil, Eric wrote: On 6/22/11 2:56 PM, Leon Meßner l.mess...@physik.tu-berlin.de wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 06:17:23AM

Re: SAS controller for FreeBSD

2011-06-25 Thread Leon Meßner
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:51:37PM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote: We have been using ZFS under FreeBSD for a while, and are very pleased, but are considering building a system with SAS drives, in the hope that they will be faster (any truth to that?). I am assuming that I should look for a

Re: SAS controller for FreeBSD

2011-06-27 Thread Leon Meßner
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 04:47:19PM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Leon Meßner wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:51:37PM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote: ... There are some SAS RAID controllers that claim to support FreeBSD but I can't tell if their JBOD mode

8.3Release status?

2011-07-04 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, is there already any information regarding the release process of 8.3 available ? On http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html 8.2 is still listed under the Upcoming release schedule section. I'm too curious to see which work/project made the release (like

NFSv4 directory listing issues.

2011-08-22 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, i'm just testing a kerberized NFSv4 export of a ZFS-Filesystem. Both client and server are FreeBSD at the moment. I tried Linux clients, but could not mount with sec=krb5. If i mount an exported directory with -o sec=krb5(i|p)i, directory listings with ls do sometimes take a very long time

Re: NFSv4 directory listing issues.

2011-08-27 Thread Leon Meßner
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 01:11:52AM +0200, Leon Meßner wrote: Hi, i'm just testing a kerberized NFSv4 export of a ZFS-Filesystem. Both client and server are FreeBSD at the moment. I tried Linux clients, but could not mount with sec=krb5. If i mount an exported directory with -o sec=krb5(i|p

Re: FreeBSD in a cloud

2009-05-28 Thread Leon Meßner
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:35:05PM +0200, Iv Ray wrote: Does anyone know a place to host FreeBSD in a cloud? Nope, but i heard amazon and some FreeBSD people are working on this. AFAIK it's dependent on the used Hypervisor and works with latest version of Xen (the freebsd wiki says so at

NFSv4 and file locking

2012-01-12 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, Does anyone know what you have to do to get locking working under NFSv4? I tried the following: # mount_nfs -o nfsv4,sec=sys ip.nfsv4:/nfstest /mnt/test # mount | grep ip.nfsv4 ip.nfsv4:/nfstest on /mnt/test (newnfs) # kldstat | grep nfs 62 0x8103f000 1015fnfscommon.ko 91

Re: NFSv4 and file locking

2012-01-13 Thread Leon Meßner
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 05:37:57PM +0100, Leon Meßner wrote: Hi, Does anyone know what you have to do to get locking working under NFSv4? I tried the following: # mount_nfs -o nfsv4,sec=sys ip.nfsv4:/nfstest /mnt/test # mount | grep ip.nfsv4 ip.nfsv4:/nfstest on /mnt/test (newnfs

Re: SSD for ZIL suggestions?

2012-01-15 Thread Leon Meßner
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 09:40:58PM -0600, Rob wrote: I'm looking at getting a couple of SSDs to act as ZIL drives on FreeBSD 8/9 systems. Are there any recommended drives? We recently bought the Intel 311 for that purpose. This drive is quite cheap and should perform ok. If you want something

Does this look reasonable (y/n)?

2010-09-23 Thread Leon Meßner
Hello, i have quite a common question i think but my google skills didn't bring up anything decent. If you use binary freebsd-update to upgrade between major releases it starts comparing config files at some point. After the manual merges it start's automerge and asks you: Does this look

Downgrade from 8.1 to 8.0 possible ?

2010-10-19 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, because of the broken heimdal (gssapi) in 8.1-RELEASE i'm thinking of going back to 8.0-p2 because i suppose the patch mentioned in kern/147454 works there (opposed to 8.1). Can i just csup RELENG_8_0_0_RELEASE and make a new world/kernel plus eventually freebsd-update to -p2 then ? TIA,

How do we like our base kerberos? Will it flee soon?

2010-11-10 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, I'm looking for workarounds for this crappy situation which currently prevents FreeBSD8 from working together with libgssapi (see kern/147454) and multiple threads on -questions. What i tried: - Use old RELENG_8 and RELENG_8_1 sources where Benjamin's patch still applied. (Can't build

mergemaster comparing everything.

2010-11-12 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, is there a trick besides using the rcs funktion of mergemaster to get around having to look at every file in /etc for comparison? I know there once was a bug in mergemaster but it's closed for a long time now. Example: *** Displaying differences between ./etc/periodic/daily/300.calendar

Re: How do we like our base kerberos? Will it flee soon?

2010-11-12 Thread Leon Meßner
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 04:22:57PM +0100, Joerg Pulz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Leon Meßner wrote: Hi, What i didn't try: - Use the port. please take a look at ports/152030 and the patches i mentioned in the PR. With applied

Re: mergemaster comparing everything.

2010-11-12 Thread Leon Meßner
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:40:01AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Leon Me?ner wrote: is there a trick besides using the rcs funktion of mergemaster to get around having to look at every file in /etc for comparison? I know there once was a bug in mergemaster but it's

Re: How do we like our base kerberos? Will it flee soon?

2010-11-12 Thread Leon Meßner
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 06:03:33PM +0100, Joerg Pulz wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Leon Meßner wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 04:22:57PM +0100, Joerg Pulz wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Leon Meßner wrote: Did exactly as told and everything worked fine. Im currently in the process

Heimdal 1.4 can't open old 0.6.3 database

2010-11-13 Thread Leon Meßner
Hello, because of the unusable base gssapi i switched to using the security/heimdal port. But now my heimdal tools (ipropd-slave, kdc) can't open my old database the error i get is: kdc[5156]: Failed to open database: opening /var/heimdal/heimdal.db: Invalid argument # /usr/local/libexec/kdc

Re: Mutt Port broken ?

2010-11-17 Thread Leon Meßner
Salut, On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 04:11:35PM +0100, t...@diogunix.com wrote: Hello everybody, just tried to build /usr/ports/mail/mutt but surprisingly got stuck with an Error 1 though the ports collectionis updated and well maintained: m_err -lcrypto -lasn1 -lroken -lcrypt -lssl -lcrypto

Re: Stale NFS file handles on 8.x amd64

2010-11-29 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 08:06:54PM -0500, Adam McDougall wrote: I've been running dovecot 1.1 on FreeBSD 7.x for a while with a bare minimum of NFS problems, but it got worse with 8.x. I have 2-4 servers (usually just 2) accessing mail on a Netapp over NFSv3 via imapd. delivery is via

Re: Stale NFS file handles on 8.x amd64

2010-11-30 Thread Leon Meßner
I set a wrong cc . Please look over to -stable. Sorry for that, Leon On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 03:10:18PM +, krad wrote: On 30 November 2010 01:48, Leon Meßner l.mess...@physik.tu-berlin.dewrote: Hi, On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 08:06:54PM -0500, Adam McDougall wrote: I've been running

Re: A jail with a dash in its name

2010-12-22 Thread Leon Meßner
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:31:42PM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Of course, there's no problem with using the form 'forest-friend' on the RHS of any assignments, so long as it's properly quoted, of

Re: SAS HBA card for freebsd?

2010-12-25 Thread Leon Meßner
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:32:24PM -0500, Robert Boyer wrote: I need a SAS controller that has preferably 8 ports (two four channel) connections per card. I don't mind decent buying a RAID card but really really desire it to be configurable in HBA mode vs. RAID or JBOD with RAID signatures.

security/libassuan's distinfo missing something ?

2010-05-12 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, as a dependency to gnupg i tried to install security/libassuan and noticed that Makefile's verify section contains a reference to a .sig file which isn't in the distinfo. There are ongoing pr's about this port (ports/144186). Though i don't think this is related this pr would perhaps fix this

freeBSD nullfs together nfs and silly rename

2010-05-25 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, when you try to do the following inside a nullfs mounted directory, where the nullfs origin is itself mounted with nfs you get an error: # foo # tail -f foo # rm -f foo tail: foo: Stale NFS file handle # fg This is really a problem when running services inside jails and using NFS as

freeBSD nullfs together nfs and silly rename

2010-06-02 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, I hope this is not the wrong list to ask. Didn't get any answers on -questions. When you try to do the following inside a nullfs mounted directory, where the nullfs origin is itself mounted via nfs you get an error: # foo # tail -f foo # rm -f foo tail: foo: Stale NFS file handle # fg

Re: freeBSD nullfs together nfs and silly rename

2010-06-02 Thread Leon Meßner
nevermind.. resend and forgot to change the addressee. If anyone has an idea i would of course still be grateful. Regards, leon On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 01:50:33PM +0200, Leon Meßner wrote: Hi, I hope this is not the wrong list to ask. Didn't get any answers on -questions. When you try

openldap-sasl fails after 8.1 upgrade

2010-08-25 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, after binary upgrading to freebsd8.1 from 7.2 i encounter an error with openldap24, cyrus-sasl2 and kerberos: # ldapsearch uid=whatever SASL/GSSAPI authentication started ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Other (e.g., implementation specific) error (80) additional info: SASL(-1): generic

Re: openldap-sasl fails after 8.1 upgrade

2010-08-25 Thread Leon Meßner
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:34:27PM +0300, Reko Turja wrote: Sadly the GSSAPI/Kerberos has been broken in 8.x for a good while now. You can either install the heimdal or MIT port, although getting that to work in stead of the base can be messy. kern/147454 PR actually has a working fix,