Re: /dev/random question

2007-09-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:57:57PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:31:55PM +0100, RW wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:36:30 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:56:26PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi

Re: Software

2007-09-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 07:17:51PM -0700, Kellen Dale wrote: I was wondering what kind of software freeBSD can support. I am currently a windows user but I would like to switch to a Unix operating system. What you could do is install FreeBSD inside a virtual machine like Qemu, to get some

Re: My experiment which FreeBSD, stuck with wireless card.

2007-09-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:29:03PM -0230, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a solution to this issue for PCBDS 1.3? I am using the WN825G on an old IBM TP 600. According to the user guide, this card uses a Broadcom 4306 2050. AFAIK, these chips are not supported under freebsd. Broadcom

Re: Software RAID5

2007-09-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:50:58PM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Hi all Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the internet seem to be few and far between, and official documentation is a little too technical. Basically I have 3 x 500GB hard drives which I'd like to

Re: Software RAID5

2007-09-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 05:59:01PM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote: This sounds good. How exactly did you manage to encrypt discs and then install freebsd there? I can just about setup software raid once freebsd is installed, but by then I am unable to use a hard drive because it already has

Re: FreeBSD on AMD64

2007-09-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 06:39:06PM +0400, Михаил Кипа wrote: I wish to install FreeBSD 6.2 on a computer with processor AMD Athlon64 X2. However I do not know what to me to choose the hardware. What chipsets are at the moment supported among nVidia nForce or ADM, VIA? Speaking solely from

Re: Software Lojack

2007-09-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 06:33:30PM -0400, Jerry wrote: Hi All, I am wondering if there is already written (in the ports) some utility that would either periodically and/or on boot up, take note of if the machine is connected to the net and if so, send some information to a configured

Re: remote printing question

2007-04-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:56:13PM -0400, David Banning wrote: I have a someone who wants to have a remote printer without using a server at the printing location. Is it possible to do; DSL Line-Modem - router - printer | - |

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-04-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:51:28AM +0200, Ivan Zenzerović wrote: Hi, I just put instead of sk0 nve0 (wich is my ethernet card). But, on boot i see that it searches for ALTQ and I saw that it can be turned on only by configuring the kernel. Is there maybe any other way? Like this?: No ALTQ

Re: backup solution for home FreeBSD server

2007-04-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:06:44PM -0700, Vlad Skvortsov wrote: Robert Huff wrote: I'm looking for an external backup solution for my FreeBSD file server. I want it to be pluggable via USB interface (I'd share it with a couple of servers). I'd also like to be able to move backups to an

Re: wine on amd64

2007-04-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:37:00AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: Hi, question of the day: Why does the wine port complain that it will not build on my 6.2/amd64 machine? A quick search around winehq.com seems to indicate that the linux (kubuntu, debian) guys compile wine on their 64-bit

Re: mounting a solaris HD

2007-04-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 05:09:51AM +0800, Tun Eler wrote: Hi all, i have to mount a Solaris HD on my FBSD 6.2 machine in order to extract some data. It is recognized at boot time as ad1: 76319MB SAMSUNG SP0842N BH100-35 at ata0-slave UDMA66 I tried mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad1 /mnt and

Re: light version

2007-04-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:52:13PM +0100, Jonathan Smith wrote: Hello, Is there a live or single cd basic boot version of freebsd available? Yes, there is: http://www.freesbie.org/ Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_

Re: strange mouse behaviour with xorg

2007-04-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 07:06:20PM -0300, freenity wrote: Hi. My mouse has some strange behaviour with kde and gnome, I think its some problem with xorg. Anyway the problem is this: when I click left button and drag it then when I realease it the mouse pointer appears in another position. It

Re: mounting an external Hard Drive

2007-04-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 11:09:46PM +0200, Tun Eler wrote: Hello, i was trying to mount an external HDD in my machine running FBSD 6.2 RELEASE. I configured the kernel according to the Handbook and pluged the exernal HD. Then i typed (starting with # are my commands, otherwise output): #

Re: Locking SSH Users to $HOME

2007-04-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:22:19AM +0200, Nagy László Zsolt wrote: L33T Networks wrote: Using the SSHD server, how can I lock users SSH'ing into a box into their home directory, without having access to the /usr/home directory as a whole? You could set them up with a restricted shell.

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:43:27PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Claude Menski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why is freebsd better then ubuntu? I like Ubuntu too. If you want a desktop OS that Just Works and doesn't require a lot of time to configure and keep up-to-date, it's a good

Re: Looking for GIF library in the ports collection

2007-04-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 07:40:08PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Hi, I've written a program that generates images. Currently it writes them in PPM format, and I would like to add support for GIF. So I've looked at the ports collection for a GIF library and found -- nothing. The only thing

Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:11:48AM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: I have a 1.2TB UFS2 filesystem with irrecoverable corruption. As such, I must move all 500GB or so of data off of it and re-newfs it. If the corruption is due to hardware failure, your data is probably lost. Ditto if the

Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:14:35PM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:11:48AM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: I have a 1.2TB UFS2 filesystem with irrecoverable corruption. As such, I must move all 500GB or so of data off of it and re-newfs

Re: keeping all things up to date

2007-04-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:12:31AM +0200, Michael Grant wrote: Is there some sort of automated way to keep freebsd and all the installed ports/packages up to date automatically? I don't mean just the source, that part is easy. I mean something that actually reinstalls the things ad needed,

Re: Execute command upon interface initialization?

2007-04-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:02:25PM +0300, Ido Admon wrote: Hello list, I couldn't find any way to execute an arbitrary command upon network interface initialization. My situations is that I have and ethernet card that takes DHCP from a cables provider (not a fixed IP address) and I need to

Re: AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:41:46PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with the reliable x86 or try the AMD64 port. Any performance penalties when

Re: dump/restore corrupted filesystems

2007-04-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:09:22PM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Roland Smith wrote: Sorry if I wasn't clear. Most all of the data is readable and complete if I mount the filesystem read-only. It just panics the box when mounted read/write, and fsck can't fix the damage. That might

Re: mspaint-like application?

2007-04-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:50:28PM +0300, Ghirai wrote: Hello, Even though this is not necessarily a pure FreeBSD question, i'd like to know if there are any mspaint-like applications in the ports collection? I don't need anything as complex as gimp, i just want to make quick edits,

Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 05:01:17PM -0700, L Goodwin wrote: I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1 Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista Home Premium users as a

Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:03:34PM -0700, L Goodwin wrote: Forgot to mention that off site storage is a priority. Please don't top-post. The USB drive option is interesting. I know thumb drives are not considered a good long-term storage solution, but for daily backups, I could rotate a

Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher?

2007-04-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:20:27PM -0400, james thompson wrote: How difficult is FreeBSD to use in place of MS windows, say compared to Apple OSX? Setup is difficult to compare, since OSX always comes pre-installed, and has a limited range of hardware to contend with. FreeBSD is more

Re: Hardware requirement

2007-04-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:56:04PM +0100, mukul choudhuri wrote: Would U Plz. tell me about MAX amount of RAM freeBSD supports per processor in SMP systems? Depends on the architecture. A 32 bit x86 chip can address 4GB, unless you have the PAE extension in the kernel. In that case it is 64

Re: Serial Converter

2007-04-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:31:54PM +1200, Mark Mumby wrote: Hello, I am currently running 5.4 release and i have problems with a usb serial converter (a FDTI version). When i do a usbdev -v i get - Controller /dev/usb2: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, OHCI root hub(0x),

Re: testing for directory

2007-04-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 04:39:42PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: In C code, is there a quick and dirty way to tell if a path points to a directory? Or do I have to open the parent directory and check the entry for that name? Try opening the path in question for writing with open(2). If it

Re: Easiest method to install a DVD writer

2007-05-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:40:46AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a desktop Compaq computer running the latest stable version of FreeBSD. I want to install a DVD writer to use for backups (either internal or USB). Can someone recommend the easiest method to do this by? Is

Re: Ports wrangling

2007-05-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:29:32AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: Hi, I have a machine in the midst of taking a dirt nap. I bought a replacement and want to start loading all my ports on it. I have a few questions. Is there a way to get a report of what my first level ports

Re: Some questions about hardware and software

2007-05-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:24:42AM +0200, Michele wrote: Hi, I'm thinking to change my OS from windows to freeBSD and I would some information about: If you download the FreeSBIE live-CD from http://www.freesbie.org/, burn it and boot from it you can check if all your hardware works. -

Re: Backing up Samba share to USB jump drive?

2007-05-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 06:10:53PM -0700, L Goodwin wrote: Here's another round of dumb questions for ya: Can USB jump drives be used to back-up a Samba share? If so, what do I need to do to prepare the USB drive to accept files? Since I don't really need to compress or encrypt, I was

Re: cdrtools question

2007-05-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 09:33:49PM +, AN wrote: I am having a problem, and I hope someone can help me. I use a program called Xcdroast to burn DVDs. I can no longer burn DVDs because I do not have the correct version of cdrtools. This is what I have installed on my system running

Re: cdrtools question

2007-05-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:36:52PM +, AN wrote: Install the cdrtools-devel port instead of cdrtools. That should give you 2.01.01a11. Or you can install dvd+rw-tools, which can burn DVDs. snip 4 installed 2.01.01a11 from ports with make install clean installed successfully Now

Re: about Geforce Go 7700

2007-05-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:47:25AM +0200, Runner on the Road wrote: Hi i have an asus a8js with a 7700 Go gefroce in it i ve tryed seveal times to confi my xorg.conf but still not working Try the nv(4) driver in your device section: Section Device Identifier Card0

Re: troubles with libxslt and libxml2 from ports.

2007-05-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:58:48AM -0400, Jeff MacDonald wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install textproc/libxslt on a 6.1 machine. The issue is, is that it needs libxml2 - 2.6.27 . I've installed this version but everytime I try to install libxslt it complains saying it can only find

Re: Anyone could make Epson Stylus cx4700 work?

2007-05-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:51:53PM -0300, Anton Galitch wrote: Hi I tried to install my epson stylus cx4700 printer, I installed cups, then gutenprint. When configuring the printer in kde control center it detected the driver for stylus cx4700 and a device was /dev/ulpt0 (its has a usb

Re: Fwd: troubles with libxslt and libxml2 from ports.

2007-05-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:03:42PM -0400, Jeff MacDonald wrote: Well, I'm replying to all here, tho I'm not sure where to ofically report it there is a file xml2-config that exists in both /usr/bin by default and ports installs it in /usr/local/bin /usr/bin is set in my path first. So

Re: /etc/devfs.conf not working properly

2007-05-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:53:47PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: I have my /etc/devfs.conf file set to make some of my files mountable/readable directly for normal users (specifically CD/DVD devices). However, the original permissions are being retained. Am I doing something wrong in the

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:15:06PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I looked into the matter and discovered the utility fsck. I ran this as root and I got the

Re: Anyone could make Epson Stylus cx4700 work?

2007-05-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 02:56:25PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 01:44:17 pm Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:51:53PM -0300, Anton Galitch wrote: Hi I tried to install my epson stylus cx4700 printer, I installed cups, then gutenprint. When

Re: Anyone could make Epson Stylus cx4700 work?

2007-05-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:06:07PM -0300, Anton Galitch wrote: Thanks Roland, I put what you have said to /etc/devfs.rules and it printed the test page well =) The only problem now is Epson Inkjet Tool that shows ink levels, cleans heads, etc when I click on Show ink level it tells:

Re: Anyone could make Epson Stylus cx4700 work?

2007-05-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 06:25:40PM -0300, Anton Galitch wrote: Well, I did this and now the permissions look like this: -r-xr-sr-x 1 root usb 72504 May 15 13:01 escputil and if I execute the program being in my user it tells permission denied. Yes, because escputil belongs to the

Re: Backing up large partitions

2007-05-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:27:01PM -0500, Phusion wrote: I need some advice on how to backup a UNIX server. The server has multiple large partitions ranging from 200 to 400 GB. Also, the server doesn't have a tape drive. We recently got a large NAS device that has 2 TB of storage space.

Re: Anyone could make Epson Stylus cx4700 work?

2007-05-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:53:39PM -0300, Anton Galitch wrote: Yes, because escputil belongs to the 'usb' group. It should belong to the same group as /dev/ulpt0, which should be 'cups'. A 'chown :cups escputil' should fix that. Thanks a lot it worked. to check the ink level

Re: Piping across machines? - a suggestion

2007-05-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:40:24PM +0200, Nino Ivanov wrote: I am still a newbie in some respects, so maybe this idea is a moot point or done already, but in case it is not, I'd like to suggest it: One nice thing about unix is this piping, like programX | programY | programZ... Well, I

Re: Best remote backup method?

2007-05-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:38:13PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm presently backing up two servers in a remote location to a usb drive located elsewhere by using rsync over ssh (all three are FreeBSD boxes.) After the recent discussion about dump, I'm wondering if I would gain anything

Re: Lexmark E120 (with CUPS or apsfilter)

2007-05-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 03:40:04PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Has Anyone successfully installed this printer on a FBSD machine? I tried it using CUPS, it works but some times it sends some garbage to printer (basically when printing from a Windows machine).

Re: Best remote backup method?

2007-05-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:27:35PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:38:13PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm presently backing up two servers in a remote location to a usb drive located elsewhere by using rsync over ssh (all three are FreeBSD boxes.) After the recent

Re: Random Restarts?

2007-05-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:03:25AM -0500, Edward Ruggeri wrote: Hi, My system randomly reboots, usually in the evening. It is definitely not a soft reboot, since the filesystems don't get properly dismounted. My suspicion is that it is a heat related issue -- I do leave the computer

Re: Random Restarts?

2007-05-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:49:01PM -0500, Edward Ruggeri wrote: Athlon X2 4200+ proc (2.2GHz, maybe?) DFI nF4 infinity SLI motheboard G.Skill RAM (2GB) Antec True Power II (550W) I'll use MemTest or somesuch to test my RAM latter today for errors. The drives sit right infront of

How to start desktop environment (was Re: ....)

2007-05-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:49:49PM +0200, * ** wrote: Hello. First of all, try to make a better subject line next time. im trying to install freebsd on my computer, but when the installation is finish and i should login. i type in my account name and password. byt then i only get to

Re: Hot to configure simple mail forwarder?

2007-05-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:52:34PM -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On 5/21/07, Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maxim Khitrov wrote: Hi everyone, I have what I hope is a rather simple question. I'm not very familiar with this area of system administration, so hopefully

Re: Security Run Output Setuid Differences

2007-05-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:59:33AM -0700, PeterPluta wrote: snip Looks like you were portupgrading around with postfix, screen and xterm. The output is diff(1). See the man page for details, but it's basically showing you the difference between last night's directory listing, and that

Re: notebook cpu throttling

2007-05-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:56:08AM +0300, Ghirai wrote: Hello list, I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, SMP, on a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro v3205 (Core Duo). Everything works fine, except the cpu throttling, which makes the fan start quite often. Is there any way to fix this? You

Re: notebook cpu throttling

2007-05-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 01:23:02AM +0300, Ghirai wrote: That's a lot. Are you doing anything to make it work hard? Such a constantly high CPU usage is not normal, IMHO. Unless you're doing something wacky like running xearth or xlock on your root window. You can try to renice(8) the X

Re: HP 2605 printer and FreeBSD.

2007-05-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:19:12PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would want to buy a color laser printer. The HP laserjet 2605 works well on Linux with CUPS. On FreBSD it is the same? It is listed as a postscript printer on openprinting.org. It should work fine. Roland -- R.F.Smith

Re: Security Run Output Questions

2007-05-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:40:19PM -0700, PeterPluta wrote: I see this quite regularly. What exactly is the http process doing? I'm guessing this is the master process stopping and restarting when I rotate logs or something. Can anyone confirm? There is usally more processes, 10-15 or more.

Re: Kernel Options fo a File Server

2007-05-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:42:17PM -0700, PeterPluta wrote: Ivan Carey wrote: Hello, What would be the best Kernel options to run a file server? I will be using an Intel server mother board with one Xeon quad core CPU installed (this mother board has 2 CPU sockets) 2GB RAM and dual

Re: Can't Figure out What I Did to Our Environment FreeBSD6.2.

2007-05-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 03:31:27PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: I discovered that the file utility works for some accounts on a new FreeBSD system but not others. When it doesn't work, the response is: file: could not find any magic files! If I am su'd to root, me, or any

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:30:06AM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: so nobody on this list knows anything about raid? wrong list? hi all.. i have a box in a remote hosting facility that claims that the machine has two discs raided in it but df and fstab show only one disc with a bunch of

Re: Backup advice

2007-05-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:27:05PM -0400, Jason Lixfeld wrote: So I feel a need to start backing up my servers. To that end, I've decided that it's easier for me to grab an external USB drive instead of a tape. It Buy at least two, and keep one off-site. would seem dump/restore are the

Re: laser printer - which one?

2007-05-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:55:40PM +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Hello, might be a bit off here, but I'm sure some of you have experiences with laser printers. I would like to buy a (relatively) cheap laser printer with the following requirements: - quality (I mean here, that I want

Re: freebsd network fax server?

2007-05-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 12:32:08PM -0400, Dave wrote: Hi, I do have windows clients, and i do not have any fax client software for them. I thought i could just go through a cups printserver that i've got but haven't seen anything to get that going. I am open to suggestions. Maybe

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 06:48:52PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list! Is it possible to rollback a file system snapshot, i.e. restore the file system to the state it was in at the time a mksnap_ffs command was issued? You can

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 09:05:07PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roland Smith wrote: Is it possible to rollback a file system snapshot, i.e. restore the file system to the state it was in at the time a mksnap_ffs command was issued

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 10:30:13PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roland Smith wrote: You can mount the snapshot, and then copy the files back to the original fs. Note that cp can preserve flags, but not ACLs AFAIK. Yes, I know

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:59:13PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Roland Smith wrote: You could use rsync instead of tar. That would save time. I'm not talking about saving time. But saving CPU time and HDD stress. However, the disk space issue is a bigger one: rsync would do much

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:08:31PM -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote: I don't think he is talking about that. From what I understand about the snapshot system (correct me if I'm wrong) is that a snapshot creates it's own file system by remembering, for example, what the superblock was at the time

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:01:53AM -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote: The process of undoing the snapshot can't be O(1). Because the time needed to create the shapshot isn't either. Wait a sec, when you mount a snapshot as a memory disk, does that memory disk contain the snapshot as well?

Re: IPv6 jails

2007-05-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 08:24:43AM -0700, Ofloo wrote: Hi, I'm new to jails, but from what I understand is that a jail allows one to have multiple virtual systems on one system, now I was wondering if this could be done through IPv6, I would want to setup multiple IPv6 only systems, does

Re: compiling kernel problem

2007-05-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 01:51:42PM -0300, Anton Galitch wrote: Hi I have a problem while compiling my kernel. When I go to /usr/src then make buildkernel ... it says that make doesnt know what to do because buildkernel is invalid option. I downloaded the latest source and still the

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 05:15:19PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: I share Roland's concern about the reliability of any new code designed to accomplish the 'full rollback' desired, but of course anything would have to undergo incredibly rigorous testing before it would be allowed anywhere near even

Re: How to find disk slice layout

2007-05-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:38:41AM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Note you do not back up the swap partition which is normally 'b' and don't do anything to the 'c' partition which is there only to describe the slice to the system and is not a true partition. You can probably skip backing

Re: Stranges messages in terminal

2007-05-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:55:18AM -, DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all again I had twice strange messages in the terminal of my FreeBSD 6.2 box. The messages are: info:[drm] setting GART location based on old memory map info:[drm] loading R200 Microcode info:[drm] writeback test succeeded

Re: Blown Up /Usr files

2007-05-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 01:41:47PM -0500, Jack Schneider wrote: Hi, Anyone. My /Usr directory/slice is now over 5.2 GB for a basic workstation 6.2 install. thats 90%+ of the slice. I need help with a procedure to clean it up. The machine is: FreeBSD Growler.maplebend.net 6.2-RELEASE-p3

Re: Blown Up /Usr files

2007-05-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:42:43PM -0500, Jack Schneider wrote: As sugested by Roland Smith, I looked at /usr/obj as follows: Growler# cd /usr/obj ; ls -al total 6 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Mar 30 12:08 . drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 512 May 29 14:34 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root

Re: cant get the damn bandwidth limiter working

2007-05-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:58:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Sat, 26 May 2007 16:52:56 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pf and altq are enabled. My ISP allows 16kB/s upload and 128kB/s download. I want to use half of that. What should pf.conf contain, to limit my

Re: Linksys WMP54G Version 4.1

2007-05-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:42:33PM +0200, Christopher Prance wrote: Does anyone know if this card is supported in FreeBSD 7.0? Or if there is a way to get it to work in 6.2. I installed it with the ndisgen. Everything sets up fine, but as soon as it tries to send a packet, the kernel panics.

Re: Linksys WMP54G Version 4.1

2007-06-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:32:41PM +0200, Christopher Prance wrote: Hey appreciate the info and would love to get mine up and running, but the version of the if_ral_pci.c that I have is 1.2.x.x something. I'm running 6.2 p4. Which cvs tag did you use to get the 1.5 version of the ral

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 03:27:57PM -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote: Hi everyone, I'm currently setting up a new server, and I'd like to keep track of all changes made to various config files (in /etc, /usr/local/etc, and a few other places perhaps). My first thought was to setup a

Re: See output of local xterm session on remote ssh session.

2007-06-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 07:23:45AM -0400, Jeremy Gransden wrote: Hello, I have been searching Google for a few days for this but have not been coming up with the correct answer. Then again maybe I am asking the wrong question... If I start a process, i.e. compile a kernel, on my desktop,

Re: Flatbed scanners for FreeBSD

2007-06-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 03:15:22PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi everybody, What scanners are best used with FreeBSD? I'm hoping for one that I can use in both Windoze and FreeBSD. Preferably, one that is USB. I've never configured a scanner for FreeBSD before and would like

Re: COM1 problems

2007-06-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:01:38AM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: I'm subscribed to the digest, everyone -- send CC me on every reply please... Hi there, new installation, 6.2-STABLE. I have a Belkin UPS on COM1 and sysutils/nut is trying to talk with it. I know it talks with it, because it has

Re: Registering installation for...

2007-06-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:09:39PM +0300, Vlad GURDIGA wrote: Hello, Registering installation for mplayer-0.99.10_9 took about 8 minutes (at 97% CPU-core load) of CPU time on one of the two cores on my Pentium D 820 on a system with 1 GiB of RAM and Barracuda SATA drive. It looks a

Re: Registering installation for...

2007-06-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:02:03PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Jun 4, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Roland Smith wrote: This is probably due to the new structure of xorg. On my system, mplayer now depenws on 104 other ports (pkg_info -rx mplayer|grep Dependency:|wc -l). Some dependencies

Re: GEOM/GELI Boot Disk Encryption

2007-06-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 07:28:48AM -0500, Eric F Crist wrote: Hey folks, I'm trying to take a system that already has a running freebsd system (or I can start over), and make the entire system encrypted. I've found instructions (freebsd manual) for creating secondary disks, but not the

Re: Seeking recommendation for anti-spam software

2007-06-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 12:00:59PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: I am running a mail server using Postfix and Dovecot. I would like to hear people's recommendation for which port to use to add server side anti-spam. The problem these days is a richness of choices, so it's hard to know

Re: How to mount USB key

2007-06-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:57:57AM -0600, Oscar Chavarria wrote: I want to copy files to it. I introduced the key and was recognized as da0. I did ls dev/da0 == dev/da0 Then mount /dev/da0 /home == incorrect super block. You're trying to mount the drive as a UFS filesystem; this is

Re: Security Run Output Setuid Differences

2007-06-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 04:11:24PM -0700, Peter Pluta wrote: mail.***.net setuid diffs: --- /var/log/setuid.today Mon May 21 03:02:30 2007 +++ /tmp/security.wq6BsVcrSun Jun 3 03:01:48 2007 @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ 377398 -r-sr-xr-x 2 root wheel 5828 Jul 30 16:19:57 2006

Re: Seeking recommendation for anti-spam software

2007-06-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:21:58PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: Bogofilter works very well, after you've trained it with some spam ham. You can get a head start by starting from someone else's wordlist. BTW, I'd be happy to share my wordlist. At ≈12MB it's kinda large though. Yes, works very

Re: GEOM/GELI Boot Disk Encryption

2007-06-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:27:09PM -0400, Bob wrote: What is this virtual machine created with qemu you talk about? http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ especially http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/about.html It is a program that emulates a computer. Using a file as a disk image it can run

Re: Is there a way to undelete?

2007-06-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 10:24:07PM +0200, Kyrre Nygård wrote: Hello! I'm just curious if there's a way to undo a rm -rf. There has to be something eqivalent in FreeBSD to all those recovery tools? Unless you've written new data to the disk, the old data is still there. So yes it is

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:02:38AM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I just installed a fresh 6.2-RELEASE i386 system last night and was trying to get cvsup-without-gui installed from ports and was having some interesting problems. The install of FreeBSD went flawlessly, and the system

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:25:38AM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: You don't need cvsup-without-gui anymore. A rewrite in C called csup is part of the base system in 6.2. This should be fixed in the handbook, as it still references cvsup. Roland Thank you for this. I was not aware.

Re: sendmail startup problem

2007-06-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:41:22PM -0700, Charlie McElfresh wrote: Hi, I have sendmail disabled in rc.conf, but it starts up anyway. Any hints what might be starting it up? How have you disabled it? It is not enough to do 'sendmail_enable=NO'. To completely disable sendmail you shoud use

Re: Install issue: get root login in GUI

2007-06-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:22:42PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote: On 18/06/07, Harriet Severino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having install isues and can not login as root in the GUI. I have to re-boot and come up in single user mode to work as root. Then when I need to look

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