Re: Restarting exports disturbs clients

2013-05-03 Thread Graham Allan
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 02:08:26PM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2013-05-03 12:49, Daniel Feenberg skrev: When we change the exportfs file on our FreeBSD 9.1 fileserver: kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid` That seems a bit harsh, try /etc/rc.d/nfsd restart or /etc/nfsserver restart.

8.3 hanging on boot, Dell 1950 with mfi and qlogic HBA

2013-03-25 Thread Graham Allan
CAM (I guess), and the OS drive /dev/mfid0 isn't changing its device name... and of course I'm not getting any root mount errors either. Is there part of the boot mechanism I'm missing? Graham -- - Graham Allan School

FreeBSD 9

2012-01-18 Thread Allan McKinnon
for listening. Allan ___ 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

Tracking for Multiple Machines

2006-11-16 Thread George Allan
The section in the Handbook presents a solution for a scenario in which all machines in a build set are more less identical, or sufficiently generic enough that each machine's make.conf is the same, the exception being the build machine's own make.conf (which can specify that multiple kernels are

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-15 Thread George Allan
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote

Re: Automated installations

2006-10-19 Thread George Allan
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:15:58AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be considerate of others. Please don't top post. Quoting George Allan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just

Re: Automated installations

2006-10-16 Thread George Allan
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:46:08AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in search of an tool for automated installations. SOmething like Kickstart or Autoyast for Linux - just the BSD-able version ;-) Is anybody aware of such a tool that I perhaps overlooked or anybody perhaps currently

Re: Hard Drive Issues

2006-10-13 Thread George Allan
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 03:03:31PM -0400, Richard McIntyre wrote: David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 06:54:53PM +0100, Spiros Papadopoulos wrote: Since as you say everything is working, maybe it is a good idea to take a look and run the fsck command at least it may give you some

Re: Running Name Server

2006-10-02 Thread George Allan
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 12:04:48AM +1000, Warren Liddell wrote: Im wanting to run a name server server locally around my network on FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE ... Where abouts do i find the port to install so i can configure it ? /usr/ports/dns/bind9/ Read the Handbook for information on how

Re: pdf editor

2006-09-27 Thread George Allan
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 12:47:56PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Anthony Agelastos wrote: On Sep 26, 2006, at 11:46 AM, sean wrote: Can anyone recommend a pdf editor, hopefully one in ports? What you can do is use the command pdf2ps (should install with Ghostscript if

Re: New to FreeBSD/UNIX

2006-09-19 Thread George Allan
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:54:14PM -0400, Edward and Nancy Powers wrote: I am new to UNIX, and want to download a basic UNIX system, just to run commands and become familiar with the system. I wish to use this system as a companion piece to a UNIX tutorial which I have on DVD. I do not want

Re: Calling setxkbmap when starting X

2006-09-16 Thread George Allan
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 12:30:37AM +0300, Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote: I am from Bulgaria and I use Bulgarian language on my FreeBSD machine. I use the following command $ setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout us,bg -variant ,phonetic -option grp:alt_shift_toggle to enable both Bulgarian and

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-15 Thread George Allan
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:34:01AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:54:38PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD.

Compiling DBD::Oracle against Oracle 10g (Linux)?

2005-06-14 Thread Allan Tingey
Hi, I'm having the same trouble building dbd. Did you ever get it workign? Al Tingey [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

silencing the boot beep

2005-05-14 Thread Allan Bowhill
Does anyone know how to turn off the annoying beep when BSD partition selector comes up? Also, has anyone got a decent setup for a synaptics touchpad attached to a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop? 5.4-STABLE Thanks in advance! :) -- Allan Bowhill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Kernel panic on keyboard-interaction with rc.local and ACPI

2005-05-06 Thread Allan Bowhill
from a critical section in an interrupt thread handler in kern_intr.c. But, there I am lost :) I can provide more info if needed, given that I can keep the machine running... --Allan Bowhill [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol

sysinstall flakey after PXE booting 5.3 / AMD64

2004-11-26 Thread allan
the server out of the network closet, and hang a CDROM off the side (hangs head in shame). Is sysinstall not yet quite up to the job, or have I missed a few specs of magic pixie dust in my loader.conf configuration? Allan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

5.3/AMD64 fails to detect ARAID-99 PATA unit when booting Tyan S2882 from a SATA unit

2004-11-19 Thread allan
Yesterday I received hardware to complete a Tyan S2882 based system. In just a few hours I had FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE/AMD64 running with all memory and processors accounted for. I have two hotswap IDE RAID devices installed. I have an old ARAID-99 from the previous 4.x system where it worked fine.

Question about backing up filesystem/boot disk

2004-08-10 Thread Allan Bandaly
syntax and or options or a better options please let me know, thanks. Allan Bandaly Reedy Photoprocess IT, Digital Lab Dept. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Addition of user

2004-02-25 Thread Jeffrey Allan D. Java
Hi, Is it possible to add an email account in a mail server without a shell account? Regards, Jeff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-11 Thread Allan Bowhill
, Gnats). It impresses me as a fair and correct choice in design that an open-source operating system should have these things. -- Allan Bowhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real software engineers don't like the idea of some inexplicable and greasy hardware several aisles away that may stop working at any

Re: Way OT: SSH+VNC as quickndirty VPN

2003-12-04 Thread Allan Bowhill
can't simultaneously lock your machine and do work on it at the same time from home. In other words, when you login from home, everything you do will be displayed on the windows machine in your office while you are doing it. -- Allan Bowhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to determine which distribution sets were installed

2003-11-30 Thread Allan Bowhill
you can't guarantee the person who owned it last had not added, removed or modified anything outside the record-keeping mechanisms since he/she first installed the OS. --Allan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: How to determine which distribution sets were installed

2003-11-30 Thread Allan Bowhill
On 0, Melvyn Sopacua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :On Sunday 30 November 2003 08:52, Allan Bowhill wrote: : : On 0, Paul van Berlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : :Hello, : : : :is there an easy way to determine which distribution sets were installed : :during the FreeBSD installation and after that? I

Re: Modem

2003-11-23 Thread Allan Bowhill
, the handbook doesn't have too much to offer there. -- Allan Bowhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spend extra time on hobby. Get plenty of rolling papers. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Multiple Internet connection

2003-03-20 Thread Allan Jude - ShellFusion.net Administrator
I have a FreeBSD box that has 3 nic's. 2 of them are connected to separate internet connections, and the 3rd is a lan. When data is coming in over one of the connections, it comes over the nic to which that ip is assigned, but, outgoing traffic, even if bound to the second nic, always going out

Re: Procmail site-wide recipe's

2003-02-10 Thread Allan Dib
This still requires a .forward in each home directory to pipe the mail through procmail. On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 11:01 AM, JacobRhoden wrote: On Tuesday 11 February 2003 10:52, BSD Freak wrote: I am running a 4.7-R/sendmail mail server. I currently use procmail on a few email

Re: BSD on Tecra 8100 w/Docking Station

2003-02-09 Thread Allan Dib
I hate to be a party pooper but I think you'll find that if Linux (which supports a larger range of hardware than FreeBSD) doesn't support your card then FreeBSD probably won't. In any case consult the freebsd hardware notes. Your best bet is just to buy a cheopo PCMCIA NIC... -Allan

Re: Monitoring the entire filesystem?

2003-02-09 Thread Allan Dib
I use /usr/ports/security/tripwire-131 Works great... -Allan On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 06:44 AM, Kevin Fogleman wrote: Is there an existing way to monitor the entire filesystem for changes to any file, particularly changes in extended attributes? I've read over the documentation

RE: Bystander shot by a spam filter.

2002-12-28 Thread Allan Jude
This is not all that surprising The behavior you are talking about, blocking entire isp's and blocks of ips, is the same as the other service you mentioned earlier, SPEWS. SPEWS has blocked 2 entire c-classes at my isp, preventing my company from sending mail to many large email sites, like

RE: rc.conf and adding a command

2002-07-16 Thread Allan McDonald
Hi, I use the following, it works for me.. natd_program=/sbin/natd natd_enable=YES natd_interface=xl0 # Public interface or IPaddress to use. natd_flags=-s -m -redirect_port tcp 10.0.1.60:http 8080 Regards Allan McDonald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL