gmirror degraded

2012-10-11 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Just looking for some advice, I had a server lock up that uses gmirror for two RAID-1 arrays of the primary drive and a data drive. The data drive was reported as degraded after a reset of the server, but is rebuilding. It is comprised of two TB drives with one reporting ACTIVE with no flags. The

Resetting RAID1 drive as Non-RAID

2012-02-10 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a FreeBSD 9.0 server with an Intel RAID card that has two array mirrors of which one has failed. The remote host was not responding and had it reset to find in the RAID utility one of the drives had failed one of the RAID 1 arrays. Perhaps I shouldn't have, but I told the utility to use

Apache segmentation fault

2012-01-11 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Upgraded php52 to php53 by pkg_delete of php5 and porinstall php52. Then I had to manually resort back to php52 by pkg_delete and then portinstall and now getting a seg fault when restarting apache22 on this FreeBSD 8.1 server. I narrowed it down to not the php module, but the two ldap modules I

Re: Apache segmentation fault

2012-01-11 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 1/11/2012 4:39 PM, Waitman Gobble wrote: sorry, somehow i missed that paragraph about commenting out the other modules... hope i didn't send you on a wild goose chase for nothing. but the behavior you describe sounds like what happens running with a mismatched php.ini... i once tried to

Kernel errors after upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2

2011-05-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
After following the handbook Chapter 24 to upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2, I am getting kernel errors for various postfix commands... May 9 08:54:13 mx3 kernel: pid 57056 (trivial-rewrite), uid 125: exited on signal 11 May 9 08:56:46 mx3 kernel: pid 57086 (smtpd), uid 125: exited on signal 11 I

Re: Kernel errors after upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2

2011-05-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 5/9/2011 12:33 PM, Reko Turja wrote: I updated the ports after the reboot and did a 'portupgrade -af' after the kernel update, restart, etc. I had no issues performing the upgrade according to the handbook and the System State Comparison seems OK... Did you do the whole mergemaster -p

kern.crit messages

2011-02-06 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a server I installed 8.1-RELEASE on and believe I screwed up when rebuilding the kernel to support QUOTA because now that I am troubleshooting these weird messages in the log, I find I am actually running 9.0-CURRENT. I had a ports file as below when I pulled the source to rebuild the

Re: kern.crit messages

2011-02-06 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 2/6/2011 12:20 PM, Vallo Kallaste wrote: By using the line: *default release=cvs tag=. for src-all collection you definitely grabbed -current sources. I'm not sure if downgrading by make world is supported but you could try. Backup first, try later.. Thanks. Can someone confirm these

switching to perl-threaded

2011-01-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I guess I did a stupid thing to 'make deinstall' and then 'make reinstall' to change my perl option for WITH_THREADS. Now it seems all my modules are lost as my LWP::Simple does not work anymore. I then tried to pkg_delete that, successful, and 'perl -MCPAN -e install LWP::Simple' only to fail

Bot?

2011-01-05 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Keep getting calls from our provider at one location that our FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE server is sending bursts of 1000 spam messages to 70K recipients. Since the first call a few weeks ago, I have MRTG and Mail Statistics graphs setup and see no spikes in traffic. Their last sighting was over the

RecursiveDependencyError

2010-12-08 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Stuck on this problem. It is not happening for all ports, but for several pear ports. I tried a 'pkgdb -fF' and it reported no errors, what else can I do to find the cause of this when trying to install the pear-Mail and others on this FreeBSD 8.1 server. This is a new install...thanks for any

mpt error

2010-09-29 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Just want to check here to see if anyone else has experienced the following errors showing up periodically in the logs on a FreeBSD 8.0 VPS on vmware ESXi... Sep 29 05:38:35 db1 kernel: mpt0: attempting to abort req 0xff80002a48c0:60350 function 0 Sep 29 05:38:35 db1 kernel: mpt0:

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 12/17/2009 4:01 PM, Steve Polyack wrote: On 12/16/09 12:53, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I run multiple FreeBSD servers inside VMWare and I don't have this problem. Are you running VMWare workstation? Or ESX/ESXi? I am running VMware Server 2.0...thanks again. I would really recommend

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 12/21/2009 10:22 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: I loaded ESXi and a FreeBSD 8.0 guest last night and this morning it is still keeping time OK without any changes to loader.conf. I'm trying to test this out now without openntpd, but with kern.hz=100 still set. You will definitely want

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-16 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 12/15/2009 9:38 AM, Jacques Manukyan wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:06:18 -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick rob...@webtent.com wrote: I found posts about this and a possible solution is to disable APIC by adding hint.apic.0.disabled=1 to /boot/loader.conf. But after doing so, it booted

slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I found posts about this and a possible solution is to disable APIC by adding hint.apic.0.disabled=1 to /boot/loader.conf. But after doing so, it booted to the mountroot prompt and would not recognize my ufs:/dev/da0s1a partition when tried. I went to FixIt and removed the line from the

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 12/12/2009 12:30 PM, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Robert Fitzpatrickrob...@webtent.com wrote: I found posts about this and a possible solution is to disable APIC by adding hint.apic.0.disabled=1 to /boot/loader.conf. But after doing so, it booted to the

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 12/12/2009 12:59 PM, andrew clarke wrote: On Sat 2009-12-12 12:06:18 UTC-0500, Robert Fitzpatrick (rob...@webtent.com) wrote: pgsql# cat /boot/loader.conf kern.ipc.semmni=32 kern.ipc.semmns=512 hint.apic.0.disabled=1 According to the loader.conf man page these should all

mountroot prompt after hint.apic.0.disabled=1

2009-12-10 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Don't know if that loader.conf change affected this server, I disabled APIC in loader.conf after finding it may be responsible for a slow clock on this VMware guest FreeBSD install. I rebooted for the changes to take affect and it goes now to a mountroot prompt, can't seem to load the root

mountroot prompt after hint.apic.0.disabled=1

2009-12-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Don't know if that loader.conf change affected this server, I disabled APIC in loader.conf after finding it may be responsible for a slow clock on this VMware guest FreeBSD install. I rebooted for the changes to take affect and it goes now to a mountroot prompt, can't seem to load the root

Portinstall insists on rebuilding openldap client

2009-03-14 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I was trying to install samba and it keeps wanting to build the openldap client package that I already have installed. I really don't want to mess with that as it is also supporting other packages for the mail system. Why would it be wanting to build a package that is already installed? mx1# ls

Upgrade 6.1 to 7.1 remotely?

2009-01-29 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a remote system with no access to boot info. I can get someone to reset, look at screen, etc. The server is 6.1-RELEASE-p15 and wondering if there is a path to upgrade to 7.1 remotely. Would it be possible to do something like this for getting the box to 6.4...

openldap24-sasl-client conflicts

2008-12-01 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
It seems this always gets me when setting up a new machine and I've haven't been able to stop it from happening. I install openldap-server WITH_SASL and after that point, if I try to install any package with LDAP support, it tries to install openldap-client when openldap-sasl-client is already

Re: openldap24-sasl-client conflicts

2008-12-01 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 16:34 +0100, Mel wrote: On Monday 01 December 2008 15:48:13 Jerry wrote: failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) ! net/openldap24-client (install error) * net/nss_ldap * security/pam_ldap ^ portupgrade I am assuming that you are

Re: openldap24-sasl-client conflicts

2008-12-01 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 19:06 +0100, Mel wrote: Thanks for the ideas from everyone. I was doing a portinstall of nss_ldap and pam_ldap. I went ahead and used the -k option and all in and working now. I also received the error when installing samba, I'm sure would for every LDAP dependent

Error with kernel PAE option

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Trying to build my own kernel with PAE option and getting the following error... /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function 'adv_action': /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c:259: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size *** Error code 1 I removed the PAE option keeping my

Re: Error with kernel PAE option

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 18:43 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Trying to build my own kernel with PAE option and getting the following error... /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function 'adv_action': /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c:259: warning: cast

Re: Error with kernel PAE option

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 20:30 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Is it a 64bit CPU? The AMD64 version of FreeBSD supports the Intel 64bit (Core2 / Quad / Xeon / Pentium 4 / Pentium D) processors as well, regardless of the AMD in its name. It is an Intel Xeon 2.4GHz processor, but I was told

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:03 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Some drivers don't work with PAE (see all the 'nodevice' lines in /sys/i386/conf/PAE). You'll need to purge those drivers from your config. If you are using the hardware those drivers support, then you can't use PAE. Thanks for the

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 11:47 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The drivers which don't work are listed in the /sys/i386/conf/PAE file. They're prefixed by the word nodevice, which tells the kernel config reader DO NOT build this device, because it won't work. You will need to take the nodevice

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:09 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Alternatively, you could just remove the 'device adv' line from your kernel config rather than adding lots of 'nodevice' lines at the bottom. You can usually do 'man 4 driver name' to see what devices it supports. In this case,

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 13:16 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 03:50:01PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I took a working 5.4-i386 server and trying to convert its RAID 5 to RAID 10 and load 7.0 amd64. I kept getting BTX halted even after flashing the latest bios

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 13:45 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: i386 cannot address more than 4GB unless the kernel is built with PAE mode enabled. This isn't enabled in GENERIC for many (justified) reasons. If you have more than 4GB, you should be using amd64, so you made the right decision

page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-19 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I took a working 5.4-i386 server and trying to convert its RAID 5 to RAID 10 and load 7.0 amd64. I kept getting BTX halted even after flashing the latest bios and firmware for the raid card, Intel SRCZCR, in this dual Xeon 2.4GHz supermicro superserver. I have another server, bit newer, but same

page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-19 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I took a working 5.4-i386 server and trying to convert its RAID 5 to RAID 10 and load 7.0 amd64. I kept getting BTX halted even after flashing the latest bios and firmware for the raid card, Intel SRCZCR, in this dual Xeon 2.4GHz supermicro superserver. I have another server, bit newer, but same

Screwed up upgrade to 7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have screwed up my upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0 following the doc at... http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html I ran the install a second time and it completed before the next to the last step including 'portupgrade -af' was completed. I went back and ran the

Re: Screwed up upgrade to 7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 14:09 +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote: Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have screwed up my upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0 following the doc at... http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html I ran the install a second time and it completed before

PostgreSQL debugging

2008-05-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I installed from the ports system postgresql83-server WITH_DEBUG=true and cannot find any of the associated files after install. The pgsql list said the plugin_debugger.so file should be in my lib directory and the script to setup debugging on a db should be in the share directory. I have

slapd won't start with nss_ldap.conf

2008-05-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On a FreeBSD 6.1 with openldap-server-2.3.39, I have setup nss_ldap and pam_ldap, but cannot get slapd to start as long as I have nss_ldap.conf present, it just hangs and nothing in the messages or debug logs. I just copied ldap.conf to nss_ldap.conf, see contents below. As soon as I rm the

Re: slapd won't start with nss_ldap.conf

2008-05-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 22:44 +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Friday 09 May 2008 14:36, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On a FreeBSD 6.1 with openldap-server-2.3.39, I have setup nss_ldap and pam_ldap, but cannot get slapd to start as long as I have nss_ldap.conf present, it just hangs

compiling kernel with PAE

2008-01-19 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Getting an error when trying to compile a kernel on 5.4 and 6.2 with the PAE option. I've tried NO_MODULES in make.conf as well... se2 -ffreestanding -Werror /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function `adv_action':

Re: db performance

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:53 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I also have assumed in the past that db performance could be better if I get off the system RAID-5 and put it on 1+0? The system has 4 SATA drives. That will speed things up if IO

Re: db performance

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 22:19 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: real memory = 3220635648 (3071 MB) avail memory = 3150565376 (3004 MB) we have 3GB of RAM available with actually 4GB physical RAM installed? If you're using a 32-bit (i386) kernel you need PAE

db performance

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
We have several postfix transport gateways on different networks all working with local amavisd-maia+SA using a remote postgresql backend at one location. I am getting delays in the queues on a gateway server at a remote site since we added more memory to the db server. After seeing the issues of

Re: db performance

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 16:34 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't know anything about amavisd's usage of databases. If it's doing a lot of small writes, then it's likely that getting off RAID 5 will make a marked difference. I believe

Re: db performance

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 22:17 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: After reading tuning, it suggests the SWAP should be double RAM. According to dmesg... installing database on RAID-5 or asking if to add swap (when almost none is used)? what is more stupid? whould we vote? That was my whole point

Re: db performance

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 22:49 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: is used)? what is more stupid? whould we vote? That was my whole point of showing you the low usage. I take that as a yes, RAID 1+0 would provide a dramatic difference in speed, thanks! the only adventage of RAID-5 is less wasted

5.4-RELEASE crashing

2008-01-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I upgraded memory in a 5.4-RELEASE server from 1GB (2x512MB) to 4GB (4x1GB). I'm wondering if that can even be causing my problem since nothing went wrong for an entire week. One week later, the server just stops responding in the middle of the night, I can see the login prompt, but cannot type

Imaging to new system

2007-12-30 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a server running 5.4-RELEASE using RAID-5 on an Intel RAID controller that I need to move to faster RAID. Is it possible to image or some other way to save the current install and restore after setting up the RAID or should I just plan to reinstall everything? -- Robert

Re: Imaging to new system

2007-12-30 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 11:10 -0700, Darren Spruell wrote: On Dec 30, 2007 10:54 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a server running 5.4-RELEASE using RAID-5 on an Intel RAID controller that I need to move to faster RAID. Is it possible to image or some other way to save

4GB memory and more

2007-12-24 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a couple of Supermicro servers and upgraded both with more memory. I upgraded our ESMTP server from 1GB to 4GB and our MX server from 2GB to 5GB. Below are the dmesg memory findings and, yes, I get the memory over 4GB ignored when booting up. The ESMTP even says that about 130MB is ignored.

Determining bus speed/memory

2007-12-06 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a couple of servers (5.5 and 6.2) at a remote location that I need to order additional memory. I need to know bus speed and, if possible, how many chips currently installed to help determine whether I need to replace or match and fill available slots. For instance, I know one server has 1GB

snapshots

2007-09-24 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I was looking into snapshots using the doc below to try and see if delta copies with rsync matched data better if I take a snapshot of a file system, mount it and rsync transfer the data. Right now, dumps don't seem to match much data due to changes in the sequences and a very active mail cache

Re: Loading FreeBSD 6.2

2007-09-24 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:55 -0600, MJ Hewitt wrote: I am running into a problem loading 6.2 on a new Dell Optiplex 320 with an Intel Celeron 1.6GHz with 64-bit. It is completely locking up after the initial boot sequence. The last line is usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support. Try

Concurrency limit warning in Postfix leads to server lock

2007-09-15 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have dilemma with one of our 5.4 server mail gateways. About 2-3 times a month now the server SMTP and related services stop responding. I find myself not able to login, just sits there after entering user name. I have to reset the server and the only thing I can find with an 'egrep

Re: Problem with openldap-sasl-client port?

2007-06-24 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 08:37 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Just tell pkgdb 'no' and then tell it the correct alternate package name. (You can use tab completion there; very handy) After that, things should go smoothly. Thanks. I tried this, but the pkgdb does not see my current

Problem with openldap-sasl-client port?

2007-06-23 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I posted the other day, trying to install SA 3.2, it keeps attempting to install openldap-sasl-client-2.3.36 even though it is already there. I tried 'pkg_delete -f' and then portinstall of the ldap client, I've tried to register FORCE_PKG_REGISTER. Whenever I run 'pkgdb -F', the ldap client deps

Issue portupgrade of SA 3.2.1

2007-06-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Tried doing a portupgrade of p5-Mail-SpamAssassin on one of our test postfix+amavisd+SA+ClamAV 6.2 servers and it failed due to some dependency version missing I can't remember now. I portupgrade'd the dependency and afterward discovered SA had been uninstalled before it failed, no longer on the

Ports system gone

2007-06-05 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
How can I restore my ports system? I have no idea what happened. I have a server I setup over the weekend to start testing Maia Mailguard, installed many packages over the last few days (postfix+amavisd+SA+related). I can't remember the last package installed via the ports system, I updated it to

Boot problem after GEOM setup

2007-04-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Following the doc below, I am trying to mirror an existing disk, ad0, which holds the root and /usr partitions (a second disk holds /var). I have an exact same disk in as ad2 in the system and did everything in this document top section through dumping the data and setting up /etc/fstab and

Re: Boot problem after GEOM setup

2007-04-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 11:39 -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Following the doc below, I am trying to mirror an existing disk, ad0, which holds the root and /usr partitions (a second disk holds /var). I have an exact same disk in as ad2 in the system and did everything in this document top

Connecting to usb serial device

2007-04-05 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a Keyspan usb serial port connected to a FreeBSD 6.1 server and wondering how I can connect to it. Using minicom from a connected Linux box, do I connect to a COM port, and how do I know what COM port? This is what I see in dmesg: ugen0: Keyspan, a division of InnoSys Inc. Keyspan USA-19H,

Kernel source

2007-04-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a 6.1 server that I need to install the source for recompiling quotas support. It is at a remote location without the CD and when I try FTP, it declares 6.1-SECURITY is not available on any ftp server. Is there anywhere to download from? -- Robert

BIND slave records not updating

2007-02-13 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I'm not a member of any bind list, so I was hoping to be able to ask my question here. I have primary DNS with bind 9.2.4 on Linux servers where there are web GUI's for management. I keep slave records on two FreeBSD servers that serve as our ns1 and ns2, one is 6.1 with the bind port bind9-9.3.3

Re: BIND slave records not updating

2007-02-13 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 10:00 -0600, Derek Ragona wrote: I run multiple FreeBSD versions with Bind and have not had a problem with records being updated. Are you properly setting the new serial numbers in the master record files? Thanks. Do you mean the master zone files where the BSD

Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I use the following command on our CentOS Linux servers to find out if the system is ready for the daylight savings changes coming up, but it does not seem to work the same on our FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.1 servers. How can I do this? I see the zdump command and the man page seems to suggest the same

Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:36 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: I use the following command on our CentOS Linux servers to find out if the system is ready for the daylight savings changes coming up, but it does not seem to work the same on our

BIND tool for setting up secondary records?

2007-01-26 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am not a member of a BIND list, so I thought I'd ask here first if anyone knows of a script tool that will query a primary name server and setup secondary records on another BIND server? Or any other solution for doing mass entries of domains to a BIND server to setup secondary records with the

Setting up ucom serial device for tty communications

2007-01-08 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a Keyspan USB serial adapter identified by FreeBSD 6.1 as shown below. I was wondering if it is possible, and how to, set this device up to receive COM communications from another Linux box using minicom. Can someone suggest or point to some helpful docs possibly to setup in /etc/ttys?

Connecting to a USB serial port

2007-01-06 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a Keyspan USB serial port on my FreeBSD 6.1 box and trying to connect from a Linux box to the machine. I'm using minicom and not sure of the settings that should be used. I see the following in dmesg... sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0:

Tar backup on geom mirror drive

2007-01-05 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am backing up a big home partition that results in 46GB tar.gz file directly to another FreeBSD machine via NFS and it is taking from 9:30pm until almost 7am the next morning. The source home partition is on a geom mirrored slice, could this be the reason for such a slow backup? The

Protocol error trying to install ports

2006-12-23 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I walked someone through setup of a FreeBSD 6.1 install over the phone and now when I try to install any ports, I get the same protocol error. I assume something went wrong with the install, is there something I can check or fix remotely? Sorry for the wrapping below, I can't seem to find how

POKED TIMER

2006-12-07 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I get this message in the logs from named on a machine running FreeBSD 5.4 and BIND 9.3.1. From what I have found out, there may be a problem with this mix... http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2005-06/1035.html This post suggests an option to get the ports system to

Best way to upgrade base programs

2006-12-02 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Can someone offer some guidance as to the best way to upgrade packages that were not installed via the ports system? For instance, openssh. Would 'portinstall sshd' work and the system see the new version or should it be uninstalled some way first? I am running 5.3 and 6.1. Thanks, Robert

Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a server with 6.1 and one dual-core processor and the SMP option was built in the kernel according to the doc below, but only zeros show up in the 'C' column of top after I've rebooted with the newly compiled kernel. http://www.freebsddiary.org/smp.php I did not add APIC_IO as the doc

Re: linksys WPC54G | WPA-TKIP | FreeBSD 6.1

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 11:40 -0800, probsd org wrote: Anyone know of a good HOWTO on setting up networking in 6.1-RELEASE using a Linksys WPC54G v2 PCMIA card to connect to a wireless linksys router doing WPA-TKIP encryption? michael I would also take a look at 'man ath' and the

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 15:04 -0800, Josh Carroll wrote: up in the 'C' column of top after I've rebooted with the newly compiled kernel. Run top with the -S argument. You should then see two idle processes, one for each CPU: 11 root 1 171 52 0K 8K CPU0 0 72.1H

Instant Messenger software

2006-11-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Can anyone here recommend an IM client/server software that runs on FreeBSD? I'm looking at DBabble, but I see no port (which would be nice). We like BSD servers and are getting a lot of requests for this type of private service. But if BSD is not recommended, please tell. Thanks in advance! --

Re: Instant Messenger software

2006-11-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 19:28 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Robert Fitzpatrick writes: Can anyone here recommend an IM client/server software that runs on FreeBSD? I'm looking at DBabble, but I see no port (which would be nice). We like BSD servers and are getting a lot of requests

Using FreeBSD as a router

2006-09-20 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
It's time to upgrade my old Cisco 10Mbps router and I am seriously considering using FreeBSD. I have found some solutions and wonder what one would recommend here on the list... Solution 1: http://tomclegg.net/256-router Solution 2: http://m0n0.ch/wall/index.php I want to duplicate my Cisco

Periodic processes

2006-08-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a FreeBSD 6.0 server that the periodic processes don't seem to complete and build up until our monitor complains about the number of processes and I killall. How would I go about figuring out which process is the problem or if there is a cron issue? Can't find any errors in the messages or

Advice on RAID?

2006-05-11 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have looked into and tried FreeBSD 6.0 Vinum and GEOM RAID in our PIII SCSI 80-pin server with the help of several here on the list. I'm pretty much going to use GEOM RAID-1 for the system disks using Ralf's doc. I have room for 3 more disks. Would you recommend using Vinum RAID-5 on three 73GB

Re: Auto mount/unmount USB hard drive

2006-05-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 02:00 +0200, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: On Mon, 08 May 2006 19:40:44 -0400 Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a USB hard drive mounting and working fine. I have the following entry in /etc/fstab that allows it to work on boot. The device loads as /dev/da4

ibsh shell session fails using scp/sftp

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Trying to use WinSCP to connect using the ibsh shell. The logs in the WinSCP program indicate 'Connection failed. Server sent command exit status 0', but I cannot find anything in the FreeBSD logs. I am hoping to find where my FreeBSD 6.0 box is trying to execute a command so I can add it to the

Re: ibsh shell session fails using scp/sftp

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 09:39 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Trying to use WinSCP to connect using the ibsh shell. The logs in the WinSCP program indicate 'Connection failed. Server sent command exit status 0', but I cannot find anything in the FreeBSD logs. I am hoping to find where my FreeBSD

Auto mount/unmount USB hard drive

2006-05-08 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a USB hard drive mounting and working fine. I have the following entry in /etc/fstab that allows it to work on boot. The device loads as /dev/da4. But if I disconnect without unmounting the device, it detaches, but when plugged back in, it receives a new device as /dev/da5, which is not

ibsh

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Anyone using ibsh shell for locking users in to their home directory? I just found out about this googling and installed the port on my FreeBSD 6.0 box, but can't seem to get it working files# grep ibsh /etc/shells /usr/local/bin/ibsh files# grep webtent /etc/passwd

Re: ibsh

2006-05-07 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 12:32 -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Anyone using ibsh shell for locking users in to their home directory? I just found out about this googling and installed the port on my FreeBSD 6.0 box, but can't seem to get it working Sorry for posting to quickly, I found

Problem using geom to mirror system

2006-05-05 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am following the doc at http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ While using Approach 2, the initial dump and reboot using the new gm0 mirror worked fine, but having a problem trying to add my da0 drive to the mirror after the reboot. Can someone suggest what I've done wrong? files# gmirror

removing geom config left over from previous install

2006-05-05 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Trying to mirror the system using geom on a box with 2 pairs of identical SCSI drives (2 IBM 9GB drives and 2 Seagate 35GB drives). The Seagate drives were mirrored with geom under a previous install and I was trying to mirror the system, when all was not working and I decided to start all over

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 00:37 +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives on one of them (2 IBM 9GB and 2 Seagate 35GB). From what I googled, *nix does not support

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 19:59 -0400, Ian Jefferson wrote: I think if you want mirroring only you should consult the geom pages. Great, I believe I have this setup right. I'm not sure what the fdisk issue may be with the message 'fdisk: Geom not found', but all looks to have setup properly. Now,

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:20 +0800, Cheng-Lung Sung wrote: Great, I believe I have this setup right. I'm not sure what the fdisk issue may be with the message 'fdisk: Geom not found', but all looks to have setup properly. Now, just to have a clear understanding, what is the purpose of

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:16 +0800, Cheng-Lung Sung wrote: 1. http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ Great doc, thanks! I was able to get the first part of the 2nd approach booting from the gm0 mirror, but after booting and trying to add my da0 to the mirror, it does not recognize the

Apache 2.2 port with OpenLDAP 2.3.20

2006-04-24 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Trying to install Apache 2.2 via the ports collection and get this make error where the port is trying to install OpenLDAP 2.2 and conflicting with my already installed v2.3... esmtp# make === apache-2.2.0_7 depends on executable: python - found === apache-2.2.0_7 depends on file:

Running custom command via Nagios

2006-02-02 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have the Nagios port installed on my FreeBSD 5.4 server and trying to use a custom command. I can run from the command line with no problem, but when Nagios is configured to use the command, which is a sendmail script, I get this error in /var/log/messages: Feb 2 16:39:03 esmtp kernel: pid

package tools out of date?

2006-01-22 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Trying to 'portupgrade openldap-sasl-server-2.2.29' and get the following errors. Does this mean my FreeBSD 54. package tools? Which ports or how do I upgrade? pkg_create: read_plist: unknown command '@dirrmtry etc/openldap/schema' (package tools out of date?) pkg_create: read_plist: unknown

php port using pear to get PEAR_Frontend_Web

2005-12-20 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Can't seem to get this pear package to install, others install OK. Does anyone know of an issue with the php port that could cause this? Not sure about segmentation fault, I also see this on successfully installed package. According to the PEAR site, there is no 0.5 version. esmtp# pear install

arp messages

2005-12-15 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I get these messages in the log, these are the mac addresses for NICs all on my network, my switch and destination server: esmtp.webtent.net kernel log messages: arp: 208.38.145.35 moved from 00:10:e0:01:86:d9 to 00:b0:64:4d:0b:70 on em0 arp: 208.38.145.42 moved from 00:10:e0:01:86:d9 to

Determining disk latency

2005-12-14 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have been trying to track down an issue where are mail messages are delayed via postfix, amavis, clamav and SA. Seems the messages move right through amavis now in just a second, like the message below. I'm sure the queue active messages are related to me restarting postfix after making changes.

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