Re: NFS Issue

2010-09-07 Thread A. Wright
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, A. Wright wrote: your symlinks will work -- that is, if you have this kind of /etc/fstab entry, mounting "/disk1" on A to "/disk1" on B: A:/disk1/somedir/disk1/somedir A:/disk2/disk2 then a symlink in

Re: NFS Issue

2010-09-07 Thread A. Wright
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: I have two LAN segments with a FreeBSD server on each. Server A is 10.0.0.254 Server B is 192.168.0.102 I setup server A has two drives and I setup a share on drive #2 to be shared via NFS with the both networks. I also made a symlink on drive #2 to a f

Re: Extracting a variable listing

2010-08-18 Thread A. Wright
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Jack L. Stone wrote: The content I need will always fall beneath a row of pound signs, and there is content above that row I don't want, like this: bunch of rows I don't need here ### <--- the top of stuff needed row1 If you want the '#' line

Re: fetchmail ssl certificate verification problem in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-08-16 Thread A. Wright
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010, RW wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 Dan Strick wrote: That explains the problem. I copied the file /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt from my old FreeBSD release-8.0 system and hooked it up to fetchmail with the fetchmail sslcertfile option. At least fetchmail is now happy

Re: Text mode screen size max. compatibility

2010-07-23 Thread A. Wright
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Polytropon wrote: Is there a way to easily determine the terminal output size at program startup so the program can be preconfigured for certain screen sizes, and even refuse to run if it's less than 80x25? The "curses" library will do this. The variables LINES and COLS

Re: Strange filesystem problems

2010-07-21 Thread A. Wright
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Let's say I have directory "foo"; under "foo" I have "bar" which keeps thousands of files (in several subdirectories). I do: %cd /xyzzy/foo %pwd xyzzy/foo %rm -fR bar %pwd pwd: .: Permission denied At this point, I would suspect that you may hav

Re: Archive Server Error

2010-06-14 Thread A. Wright
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/06/2010 13:21:40, Carmel wrote: I am/was attempting to search the archive located at: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ Unfortunately, I am continually greeted with this error message: [ error message deleted ] Works fo

xsltproc: failed to load external entity

2010-06-09 Thread A. Wright
Is anyone else experiencing a rash of docbook-related build issues centering around xsltproc accessing remote XML files? Currently while building polkit (recursively from a build of emacs), I get the error: gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/polkit/work/polkit-0.96/docs

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread A. Wright
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: Thanks for real data to work from. Thanks for the assistance! There's no signs of surface failure with high reallocated sectors or anything, but your drive is parking it's heads nearly 100 times an hour. Someone else suggested this was a "green fir

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread A. Wright
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Mike Tancsa mailto:m...@sentex.net>> wrote: At 04:27 PM 5/12/2010, A. Wright wrote: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD15EARS-00S8B1 Serial Number:WD-WCAVY2700359 Isnt that one of

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread A. Wright
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On May 12, 2010, at 12:48 PM, A. Wright wrote: So I ran the "short" test, and am now running the "long" test. After the short test, I have been examining the output (using smartctl -a), and there seem to be no errors reports.

Re: Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread A. Wright
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 09:46 AM 5/12/2010, A. Wright wrote: Does anyone have any thoughts on how to conclusively prove that the drive is at fault? I have not seen any errors logged to dmesg. Start with smartmontools to ask your disk if it has logged any errors and check

Long I/O pauses on same mass storage

2010-05-12 Thread A. Wright
I have recently upgraded my system to 8.0, and in the course of doing so, have migrated most filesystems onto a new drive. I have noticed, since the upgrade, several instances where a very long pause occurs during which time one or more process is in uninterruptible device wait. This seems to m

Re: More than 8 partitions

2010-05-12 Thread A. Wright
On 2010/5/2, Christopher Key wrote: frhed. Next write the data back to the disk: dd if=/tmp/hdr of=/dev/da0s2 On 2010/5/12, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: obviously this is not the case. So I'll dd the existing partitions to another drive, use gpart to create "enough" partitions and then dd

Re: dangerously dedicated disks and 8-stable status

2010-05-07 Thread A. Wright
On Fri, 7 May 2010, krad wrote: FYI happened on 2nd box as well but I least it didnt catch me out this time 8). It seems that pre freebsd-8 it is permissible to use format s1[a-h] , however in freebsd-8+ to you are forced to use the format [a-h]. I have noted peculiarities also in this move

Re: pf suggestions for paced attack

2010-05-04 Thread A. Wright
I wrote: If anyone is interested, I can send (or I suppose post) the scripts. Balázs Mátéffy wrote: Would you be so kind to share those scripts? No problem; the scripts are below. I run them both in /usr/local/bin Note the usual caveats about running scripts as root; some squashing of pr

Re: 8.0-RELEASE upgrade -- no files visible

2010-04-28 Thread A. Wright
Some further information . . . recap: failures mounting filesystems that were not in dangerously dedicated mode . . . I have now managed to move many of the files by doing the following: - run fdisk, label and newfs under 8.0 - reboot to 7.2, mount, place files on device - reboot to 8, files no

Re: Copying files without scp

2009-04-08 Thread A. Wright
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Steve Bertrand wrote: Can someone recommend a *known good* production quality copy mechanism that will act like scp, but without the overhead? rsh? nc? If you are happy with rsh authentication, then have you looked at plain old rcp? A.

Re: recovering from a power outage

2009-02-12 Thread A. Wright
[ deletia introducing discussion of fsck ] On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Tim Judd wrote: It's part of the bootup scripts now. It runs in the background 60 seconds after the login prompt shows up (not exactly, but close to 60 secs) it's the background_fsck option that defaults to YES in /etc

Re: Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

2009-02-11 Thread A. Wright
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Keith Palmer wrote: What if I symlinked each home user's public_html directory to a directory readable only by Apache? Would Apache be able to read the destination directory via the symlink, even if it doesn't have permission to access the destination directory? You can do

Re: dump/restore problem

2009-02-04 Thread A. Wright
Ivan; when I started a migration to new HDD, according few how-tos, I got the following warning: # dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad0s1f | restore -rf - When debugging dump/restore problems, it is always best to dump to a file, and then restore from the file -- this allows you to see which of dump and r

Re: Lockup on boot -More Info-

2003-01-17 Thread A. Wright
, Station 0.08.03 - Original Message - From: "A. Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 2:25 PM Subject: Lockup on boot > If this list is not appropriate for this question, please direct me to the > correct one. > &

Lockup on boot

2003-01-17 Thread A. Wright
If this list is not appropriate for this question, please direct me to the correct one. I recently purchased 2 SMC2632 wireless PCI adapter cards, and put them in my desktop machine, which is a really old Compaq Prolenia 5500, on which I have FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p1 installed. The problem I have i