serial console problem

onsol so I can see what's going on, but that is happening as fast as hell freezes. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &qu

geometry does not match label

"geometry does not match label" message? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Undefined symbol libintl_bindtextdomain

o.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x28091000) however, there are references in the text of _locale_failed.so. Is there an implication that a library reference is missing during the build of the module? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: binary package dependencies

se when I install apache22 it's the entire ports system that needs to record the conflicts. I don't think it's reasonable for an individual port to know that a future conflict may arise. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

binary package dependencies

ict with a later one? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: atom based servers

s will still be using the Intel 945 or similar chipsets. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

binary upgrade 6.1 - 7.2/8.0

Is it feasible to upgrade a system from 6.1 to 7.2 or 8.0-RC1 and if yes what sequence of upgrades should I actually carry out ie is it feasible to do 6.1-6.2 and then 6.2 - 7.2 or should it be done in small steps? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd

Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

around for ways to shrink the slice, but didn't discover anything very authoritative or easy. Is there a slice reduction beast? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

00 bytes which looks quite strange as it looks like something got lopped off somehow. I didn't think bad blocking/sectoring was done any more. Anyhow they've removed this disk and are considering options (at least I hope they are). -- Robin Becker

Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

I tried to insert gmirror complains that it is too small. What are my options? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-que

Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

doesn't seem to be required. I guess the whole idea is to be able to just connect a new disk and start the system up and then insert back into the mirror. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: fix remote degraded gmirror

is required, Dru Lavigne was my guide when we installed this stuff, but this is the first time it's failed and she doesn't mention the repair process. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

fix remote degraded gmirror

identify. I looked at the smartctl output and see this /dev/ad4 Device Model: WDC WD1600JS-22MHB0 Serial Number:WD-WCANM4438410 /dev/ad6 Device Model: WDC WD1600JS-22MHB0 Serial Number:WD-WCANM4434657 is this sufficient to enable a data centre engineer to fix my problem? -- Rob

Problem building htop

need a more modern system or should I update the ports tree and try again? I guess that stdlib comes with the OS and maybe ncurses is modernized. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

apache halting during log rotation

with 6.0/6.1/6.2 for some years and it has never failed till the last few days when I'm now running 7.0-RELEASE. Can anyone adivise what could be done to ameliorate this. I see mention of rotatelogs, is that a better solution to this problem? -- Robin Becker _

smartd errors again

sk is supposedly only 433 hours old acording to the smartctl output (assuming I do need to regard the Hitachi numbers as being minutes). Any help would be appreciated. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

problem rotating apache logs

d to be USR1 which is intended to cause a graceful restart. However, I find that although I do get a rotated log file the new logs always seem to be empty. The logs seem to start growing only after I restart the apache server. What am I doing wrong? --

Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

fine. I suppose with this setup (provided all stays connected) one can do a full install from a network whose parameters may be set up during the install. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

7;t know where the dependency is, perhaps it must use a primary partition or perhaps there's some way to specify the boot device that's not being used. The bootcode is fixed and not a function of the boot target (which is suspicious). -- Robin Becker ___

Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

e target partition, but I don't know exactly how I could fix that, but presumably it's supposed to boot as freebsd. I see it sets partition to 4, 5 sectors size. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

even remove one of the folders. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: install freebsd from inside another operating system

mu skills are really there yet. Can you run qemu in a tty/console? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

install freebsd from inside another operating system

get KVM over IP however, and I assume that really clever people might know how to handle this sort of thing if they have console access. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: gcc-4.3.3 problem

4.3.3 >> >> things improved. > > The ports framework has support to do this automatically, so the > question is why it didn't happen. Could you file a PR on the matter? > yes. I looked in the makefile and it certainly has USE_LDCONFIG= ${TARGLIB} so I su

Re: gcc-4.3.3 problem

Robin Becker wrote: I'm trying to run some benchmarks for a modified version of Python 2.5.2, unfortunately the modification requires a newer version of GCC so I have installed gcc version 4.3.3 from ports. When I try to run my make command I'm seeing this error *** WARNING

gcc-4.3.3 problem

uot; since importing it failed: Shared object "libgcc_s.so.1" I see that the gcc 4.3.3 libs were installed in /usr/local/lib/gcc-4.3.3 and I can get things to work by setting up the appropriate -L option and LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Is there some way to make these libraries available

gcc 3.4.4 -fno-gcse

timisation approach is going wrong. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: no reverse dns

Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 29, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Robin Becker wrote: We have just moved offices and our freebsd machine has started complaining in the following terms Oct 29 17:14:39 int kernel: arplookup ww.xx.yy.zz failed: host is not on local network We have an external router

no reverse dns

ur ISP will not make the reverse mapping. I assume that we're trying to reverse lookup something and the lack of reverse dns is causing this issue. What can I add to my rc.conf to stop this arplookup problem? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-q

change of behaviour after reboot

obviously changed as the scripts now only work if I use #!/usr/local/bin/python I'm worried now in case my reboot or the over usage has caused some hidden damage. Anybody have any idea what could cause this misbehaviour? -- Robin Becker ___ fr

Re: network problem

er and static router. When I connect from the lan side to http://xxx.yyy.zzz.240 it seems to work fine. From outside it fails. On Saturday 16 August 2008 15:55:11 Robin Becker wrote: After a recent change of ISP and hence our external IP address I find that our FreeBSD 6.1 apache http server

network problem

internally/externally to see what happens to my port 80 packets? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: shutdown forensics

Robert Huff wrote: Robin Becker writes: I'm trying to figure out what caused an unplanned shutdown of a freebsd 6.0 server; I see this in the last output reboot ~ Thu Apr 24 06:15 shutdown ~ Thu Apr 24 06:10 but c

shutdown forensics

time. Is there any way I can trace the origin of the shutdown command? I looked in the root shell history various other logs, but couldn't see anything obvious. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

ldconfig vs /usr/local/lib/mysql

/local/lib/mysql are on the standard paths, but I don't know where those folders get set up as there are no ld.so.conf (or ld-elf.so.conf) files in /etc. It's easy to get those folders into the /var/run/ld.so.hints etc files, but how does one make them persist? -- Ro

how to respond to possible attacks

doesn't seem to be reverse mappable. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

apache/fastcgi/django kern.maxfiles

ving reached kern.maxfiles. Has anyone got any experience with this kind of setup and how to decide what the fault really is. In particular since the web can always out request any particular limit is there some way to make apache start refusing gracefully before things go critical. --

Re: 7.0 kde 3 build patch error

Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, March 05, 2008 a las 04:02:11PM +, Robin Becker escribió: I'm trying to build kde3 from ports with 7.0 release and get this patch error whilst trying to build cups ... After doing portsnap update I get further with building kde3, but a

Re: 7.0 kde 3 build patch error

Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, March 05, 2008 a las 04:02:11PM +, Robin Becker escribió: I'm trying to build kde3 from ports with 7.0 release and get this patch error whilst trying to build cups ===> Running ldconfig *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/pr

7.0 kde 3 build patch error

orts/x11-toolkits/qt33. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kde3. /usr/ports/x11/kde3: -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

duplicate message removal

. I was wondering if there's any simple compression script which notices the repetitions (apart from timestamp) and can remove the many duplicates etc etc. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: FBSD or PCBSD?

on my current acer laptop (a 1680). -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

software raid 1 and recovery

g Dru Lavigne's recipe, but I don't really understand what happens if one of the drives starts to fail. I think there was some discussion about HD monitoring recently, but I can't seem to locate it. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: genuine bulk email

Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Robin Becker wrote: these all sound very reasonable. However, we use the same IP for several virtual hosts ie we have more than one domain name so the reverse DNS is not clear to me. Is the from address inspected for comparison with the

Re: genuine bulk email

Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Oct 12, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Robin Becker wrote: At present I have reduced the email to a textual format with an embedded textual link. So the email looks like .. When you personalize that give the date and IP address of the request. Something like

genuine bulk email

can be done to make emails less likely to be classified as spam? I assume that spammers try very hard and fail, so is this kind of email application effectively dead in the water before it starts? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: temporary su login

e operator group and do the chmod trick on shutdown. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

temporary su login

key based. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

hda driver

Xorg 7.2 and latest port kde 3.5. I have seen that others have this HDA sound working; so what's the proper way to get it working? My reading of the related threads in freebsd-multimedia left me a bit confused. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Yes i need to Ask A question

the kinks ironed out (and had written about it). Unfortunately improvements in FreeBSD have taken me backwards in terms of understanding over the last year. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

iwi won't switch on at boot

again? -- Robin Becker various bits of information $ uname -a FreeBSD xxx.net 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 $ kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 15 0xc040 70794c kernel 21 0xc0b08000

Re: failure in xorg 7.2 compile of vblank.c

On 09/06/07, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying the build from scratch route of xorg 7.2. > cc -c -I. -I../../../../../src/mesa/drivers/dri/common -Iserver -I../../../../../include -I../../../../../include/GL/internal -I../../../../../src/mesa -I../../../../../src/mes

detect stderr writes when combined

normal informative output. If I could have the combined output go to my logs in the normal way and detect that some error output had occurred I could then email the whole cron output. I'm fairly sure this is doable with some C, but is there an easier way? -- Robin B

Re: Synaptics trackpad problem

Paul Fraser wrote: On 6/3/07, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any help appreciated Hi Robin, I know this isn't going to be much of a comfort - but I've had great difficulty trying to get Xorg to work nicely with - surprise - the Synaptics touchpad on my Acer not

Re: Is it better to just rebuild Xorg 7.2

Norberto Meijome wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:45:48 + Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've just installed 6.2R and have just about got Xorg going. Is it better for me to just remove all my X related packages and try and build from the xorg-7.2 meta package or to go

complete static link

loc anyone know what that means? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Is it better to just rebuild Xorg 7.2

I've just installed 6.2R and have just about got Xorg going. Is it better for me to just remove all my X related packages and try and build from the xorg-7.2 meta package or to go through the pain of trying to update? In either case I need to sync the ports tree etc. -- Robin B

Re: Synaptics trackpad problem

Paul Fraser wrote: On 6/3/07, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any help appreciated Hi Robin, I know this isn't going to be much of a comfort - but I've had great difficulty trying to get Xorg to work nicely with - surprise - the Synaptics touchpad on my Acer not

Synaptics trackpad problem

quot;UpDownScrolling""on" Option"UpDownRepeat""on" Option"LeftRightScrolling""on" Option"LeftRightRepeat""on" # "SHMConfig on" seems good works with synclient(1). Bu

Re: ezjail ip conflicts

but now I see \$rc_flags which I guess must be what is used. Thanks Joe and Karol. I now get a message saying Warning: IP 209.67.217.27 not configured on a local interface. but I think that just means I don't have an alias set up yet. -- Robin Becker __

ezjail ip conflicts

hd is started by init nowadays. Anyhow I think I can fix the mysqld problem by having mysql_args="--bind-address=xxx.xxx.xxx.26" in the rc.conf, but I don't see any easy way to configure syslogd to start with a -b xxx.xxx.xxx.2

Re: cron mystery

Chuck Swiger wrote: Robin Becker wrote: [ ... ] before ## SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=user 13 3 * * * $HOME/bin/daily 19 * * * * $HOME/bin/hourly after ## SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=user 13 3 * * * /home/user/bin/daily 41 * * * * /home/user/bin/hourly

cron mystery

13 3 * * * /home/user/bin/daily 41 * * * * /home/user/bin/hourly and at 41 past the hour the hourly job came back. Is it the HOME variable or the act of rewriting? User did have home defined in /etc/passwd. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: binary updating 6.0-6.2

be hard to find. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: binary updating 6.0-6.2

Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:38:18PM +, Robin Becker wrote: . What you want to do is a cvsup (Mathew Seaman recently pointed out csup that is supposed to be part of the system, but I don't seem to have it on the machine I am presently on running 6.

binary updating 6.0-6.2

know about updates? Does the updater squirrel away copies of the updated files so a last ditch attempt at status quo restoration can be made? Also do my existing ports continue to work with the new kernel? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: BBC debate "Battle of the operating systems"

Bill Moran wrote: In response to Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want Vista, OS X and Linux, but I don't see w

Re: BBC debate "Battle of the operating systems"

Robin Becker wrote: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want Vista, OS X and Linux, but I don't see why we can't press for FreeBSD. unfortunately th

BBC debate "Battle of the operating systems"

The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want Vista, OS X and Linux, but I don't see why we can't press for FreeBSD. -- Ro

Re: make world for a jail

c/tmp par-all is there some magic that's required to make world into a specified DESTDIR? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

make world for a jail

aw sub makes going on that had a different DESTDIR. Eg make -f Makefile.inc1 DESTDIR=/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp par-all how do I get things built into my desired location or is the make world eventually going to put them in the right place? -- Robin Becker _

Re: find port install options

ed in building perl. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: find port install options

N.J. Mann wrote: On Wednesday, 20 December, 2006 at 12:42:09 +, Robin Becker wrote: Robin Becker wrote: [...] thread sample script. But I guess I still need to know if any other options were used during the install. /var/db/ports e.g. > cat /var/db/ports/portupgrade/options # T

Re: small mail server

ould be fairly easy to do. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: small mail server

as well. I would base this server on a postfix solution, and for the amound of users your not likely to need a database, that's overkill. HTH Dave. .. Thanks for the offer Dave, I don't think my boss would allow non-employees to access our serve

Re: find port install options

Robin Becker wrote: Is it possible to determine what options were used during port installation. One of the recipes I'm trying to follow calls for perl to be installed with USE_THREADS=yes. well I found out that the installed perl doesn't have threads by running a thr

find port install options

as installed by default. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

small mail server

x27;t need to authenticate directly. 3) web based interface for adding users and redirections etc etc 4) spam filtering (presumably based on their large user mail volume). 5) white/grey listing -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: python 2.3 binary package bug

Gerard Seibert wrote: On Wednesday December 06, 2006 at 11:34:40 (AM) Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Robin Becker wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: .. them. If it is a bug what's the reporting mechanism? man send-pr what an awful interface that was ;( made me grumpy using it. Perhaps

Re: python 2.3 binary package bug

Gerard Seibert wrote: .. them. If it is a bug what's the reporting mechanism? man send-pr what an awful interface that was ;( made me grumpy using it. Perhaps I've grown too used to these new fangled web applications :) -- Ro

python 2.3 binary package bug

m the source of the package it seems OK. Is this a bug? The binary install mentioned certain bits might be missing, but socket wasn't one of them. If it is a bug what's the reporting mechanism? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: shell test for stdout=stderr

Matthew Seaman wrote: Robin Becker wrote: Is there a way for a shell script to test if 2> is the same as 1>? I want to put messages in both when they are connected to different files, but would like to avoid duplicating the message when they are the same. You could try using fstat(1) to

shell test for stdout=stderr

Is there a way for a shell script to test if 2> is the same as 1>? I want to put messages in both when they are connected to different files, but would like to avoid duplicating the message when they are the same. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-que

Re: sysv semaphores

Damian Wiest wrote: ... No, it's my fault; I checked things on the wrong system. OpenBSD uses seminfo, FreeBSD uses ipc. aa the joy of forking :) -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: sysv semaphores

.ipc.semopm=250 kern.ipc.semume=160 kern.ipc.semusz=92 kern.ipc.semvmx=32767 kern.ipc.semaem=16384 and on my 6.1 system I see these with sysctl -a | grep ipc, however, # sysctl -a | grep seminfo /usr/RL_HOME/users/robin: # I guess they've been renamed. -- Robin Becker _

sysv semaphores

they memory/cpu intensive? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

kick off a post boot job

cally after the boot is finished? I could imagine asking another, trusted, server to supply the magic string using scp or some other secure transport and then using the decoded result to start up apache. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

IP address impersonation

) Are there ways to mitigate this kind of problem? We have other hosted servers on machines with similar (root) access. They presumably could also be impersonated. We found this out by inspection of our own log files; could the provider be doing something more to prevent this? -- Robin B

Re: denyhosts problems

Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:22:43PM +0100, Robin Becker wrote: I'm trying to get denyhosts-2.5 to work in 6.0 and have inserted a line in hosts.allow ALL: xxx.myoffice.com : allow sshd: /etc/hosts.deniedssh : deny ALL: ALL : allow but am finding that this causes my ho

Re: linux recovery tool

Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote: ... One of my hosters says they provide a ram based linux recovery tool, but I'm actually using freebsd on the hardware so am wondering if linux knows how to mount UFS partitions? -- Robin Becker Yes, it does .. thanks -- Robin B

denyhosts problems

e messages related to line 24 from that setup. Does denyhosts work properly? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

linux recovery tool

One of my hosters says they provide a ram based linux recovery tool, but I'm actually using freebsd on the hardware so am wondering if linux knows how to mount UFS partitions? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

also done the smartd thing with an email output as well. Thanks to all for useful input. -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

oing bad. Would it change from COMPLETE to DEGRADED suddenly? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

gmirror HD failure detection

rtctl in a cron or what? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

serial console install

boot into a freebsd installer. I assume that I will be able to see the installer in my serial console and will be able to do the normal install, but do I get the opportunity to do some editing of /boot/loader.conf & /etc/ttys to allow the HD boot to show up in my console? -

AMD 64 3000

Anybody have any strong opinions on this for a freebsd 6.1 web server? We are currently using a 2.40GHz celeron which is fairly slow. I'm hesitant to switch to 64 bits, are there any gotchas for freeBSD? -- Robin Becker ___ freebsd-ques

Re: vmware on freebsd?

they are from the real hardware. USB is still "new" so I don't expect to get my usb dvbt working even if a virtual XP runs fine. I know the qemu can do some kind of device control under linux, but I suspect it's harder under freeBSD. -- Robin Becker ___

Re: vmware library problem

dick hoogendijk wrote: On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:59:53 + Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I fixed this by adding LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib to the environment, but since I actually have a choice of /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib /usr/X11R6/lib which should I actually us

Re: vmware library problem

Robin Becker wrote: I have built and installed vmware3 from a recent(3/Aug) cvsup'd ports # vmware Setting TMPDIR=/var/tmp. vmware-mks: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory vmware-ui: error while loading s

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