Re: switching timezone within crontab?

> On 3/4/06, Noel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pretty sure the above will only set the timezone for your job, and not > > alter the schedule time. But I don't know a solution to your problem. > > How about running cron with the TZ environment set? > Ie. setting TZ=UTC in /etc/rc.d/cron > >

switching timezone within crontab?

Hey, So, we have systems running in Eastern and Pacific time zones as their local time, not to mention DST. So, we like to schedule a few things with UTC to save our sanity. If a system is not running UTC as its locale, but I want to schedule a UTC cron job in crontab, is it sufficient to put a

Re: Time Zone

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:32:01AM -0400, Carlos A. Carnero Delgado wrote: > On 1/16/06, Ian Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the "prefered" time zone for a web server > > > > Is it better to keep it GMT or local timezone ? > > Both ;) Set the machine's clock to GMT (actually, UTC.) Th

Re: ssh -X yields "Error: Can't open display:"

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:32:39AM -0800, Danny Howard wrote: > 1-10:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports# pkg_add -r xorg-clients > Error: FTP Unable to get > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest/xorg-clients.tbz: > File unavailable (e.g., file not foun

Re: ssh -X yields "Error: Can't open display:"

Ahhh ... 10:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ ssh -v -X -i ~/.ssh/mito.key castor [...] debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing. :) 0-10:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports# find /usr/ports -name pkg-plist | xargs grep -l

ssh -X yields "Error: Can't open display:"

Hello, I'm trying to run xfig, but the version on this Fedora laptop is jacked. So, I installed xfig on one of the FreeBSD servers, to forward over SSH, with ssh -X, right? I can ssh -X and run X apps on other Linux hosts. But here I have a problem: 10:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ ssh -X -i ~/.ssh/

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:10:28AM -0800, Colin Percival wrote: > Danny Howard wrote: > > So ... I am genuinely curious ... if 6.0 is basically 5.4 plus > > improvements, why isn't it called 5.5? > > FreeBSD numbers releases based on compatibility, not based on > fe

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:14:25AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > As I understand it, 6.0 is primarily concentrating on improving some > > of the major stuff introduced in 5.x, and shouldn't take nearly as > > long to become a "stable" platform. Even so, conventional wisdom > > generally warns a

Re: how do I tell FreeBSD to sync, for real ?

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 04:34:04PM -0500, user wrote: > > Sometimes you delete a large batch of files, or you do some other serious > FS operations and the output of `df` does not tell you immediately of the > new disk space, etc. > > If you run something like: sync > > Or even: sync ; sync u

Re: gmirror clearing configuration

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 06:30:45PM -0500, Dave wrote: > Hello, >I'm trying to set up raid1 on fbsd 5.4-RELEASE no patches yet installed > just a vanilla release box. I've messed up somewhere, the primary drive is > smaller than the secondary drive and i'm using Ralf's second procedure. My >

Re: Carp and Apache

Dave, Yes. The trick with CARP is that it is an IP-level heartbeat, so if you are running Apache, you want to "carp up" after you start apache, and "carp down" before you stop Apache. >From some test boxes, web0: ifconfig_fxp1="inet 192.168.1.210 netmask 255.255.255.0" defaultrouter="192.168.1.1

Re: bizar problem with a Dell latitude D600's onboard nic

Uhm. Ditto here never having trouble with D600. Just for sanity's sake, have you: - Tried a different ethernet cable? - Tried a different switched port, or whatever you are plugging in to? I'd say the easiest solution is to sweet-talk your friend into swapping hardware. You might also try the w

Re: ng_one2many v.s. AFT (NIC Fault Tolerance/Fail Over/Redundancy Revisited)

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:52:24AM -0400, Jonathan Donaldson wrote: > >Essentially, a single layer 3 IP address needs to be visible in a > >"switch fault tolerant" or "adapter fault tolerant" configuration. > >A userland-level daemon could be scripted, and it has been done > >before: [...]

Re: GRE tunnels anyone?

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:06:58PM -0500, Joshua Weaver wrote: > The company I work for uses a lot of multicast tunnels, usually with a > QOS/GRE implementation with quite pricy hardware. I googled around a bit, > it looks like basic vpn is supported for FreeBSD. I guess my questions are > > 1.)

Re: Loki Linux Games on FreeBSD

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 07:54:35AM -0700, Norbert Papke wrote: > On October 10, 2005 09:33 am, Sean wrote: > > Of the several I have the ones in particular I would be most interested > > in getting to work are Sim City 3000, Railroad Tycoon II, and Civ: Call > > To Power. > Have a look at /usr/po

Re: FreeBSD Support (Commerical)

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:55:58PM -0400, Christian Kuhtz wrote: > > Yeah, but also the most irrelevant when it comes to supply chain folk. Supply-chain folk? Is that a euphemism for "suits?" My employer is audited by clients on a regular basis. If you have your internal documentation and proc

Re: Mutt weirdness

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 06:15:14PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: > I did "portupgrade -ar" last night. When I tried to use mutt this > morning, it was behaving weirdly. Mutt wasn't one of the upgrades. I'm pretty sure this command isn't recursive: 0-15:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/mail/mutt> make ru

Re: Firefox won't stay as default browser ...

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:04:09PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Kiffin Gish wrote: > > >Every time I fire up firefox it claims it is not the default browser. > >If I click on yes to make it the default browser or go into Prferences > >| General and hit the Default Browser [Check Now]-button an

Reccomendations for FC-attached storage appliance?

[NOTE: cross-posting to freebsd-scsi and -questions ... please reply direct to me, or followup to just ONE list. I may post summary after.] Hello, I have spent the past few weeks confusing around with different vendors to find a cool external disk solution that might offer high performance,

Re: Thinkpad Accelerometer driver new Version 0.5

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 02:14:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ok. > > It's the base of the IBM Active Protection System (APS). > At the moment there is NO protection of any kind > but you can use it as an input device for X. (I get a slow right drift after > heavy use) ... so, you jiggle

Re: Which games are good, and easy to install?

On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 11:42:29AM -0400, WOB wrote: > Other games were client-server based, and it wasn't immediately > obvious how to get them running. Free, open-source games are hard to write in the first place, and so they tend to have poor documentation. > A few games just core dump, like f

Fibre Channel disks to two Systems?

[NOTE: If posting followup, please mind the cross-post to -questions and -scsi.] Hello, We host our PostgreSQL database on FreeBSD. Until now, we have just built the beefiest DB server we can spec, and then dump the data every thirty minutes to a backup DB server, so if the primary DB ser

Re: chrooting SSH users into their home directories

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 04:50:17PM -0400, Brian Kaczynski wrote: > I was wondering how you could lock a user into their home with chroot > when using SSH, similar to what the /etc/ftpchroot file does for FTP > users. The ssh server is sshd. Brian, Check out: rssh -danny -- http://dannyman.to

Re: HP Servers (Blade & SAN)

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:34:25PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > I've been starting to investigate migrating from "individual servers" to a > more infrastructure approach to our servers ... namely, blade servers to > run the applications on, with a SAN backend for the data ... > > Specific

Re: cloning installed packages?

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:53:27AM -0400, Wolfgang Lausenbart wrote: > I want to setup a FreeBSD 5.4 Server, which should have all > packages, as an older 4.11 based Server. What is the best > way of providing the same packages to as installed on the > 4.11 based? Note that it must not be *exactly

Re: limits puzzle - different limits on similar machines

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 09:46:44PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Danny Howard wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:52:28PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC > >wrote: > >>On Aug 23, 2005, at 5:56 PM, Danny Howard wrote: > >>># bump max datasize >

Re: limits puzzle - different limits on similar machines

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:52:28PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Aug 23, 2005, at 5:56 PM, Danny Howard wrote: > > ># bump max datasize > >options MAXDSIZ="(1024*1024*1024)" > >options MAXSSIZ="(1024*1024*1024)" > >opti

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:32:38PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: > Another useful rsync option is --link-dest: > > --link-dest=DIR > This option behaves like --copy-dest, but unchanged files are > hard linked from DIR to the destination directory. The files > must be ident

limits puzzle - different limits on similar machines

Hello, We have a process that runs fine on one machine but then dies on another, spitting an out-of-memory error. Interestingly, the limits for the user are higher on the working machine and lower on the other. So, I try to puzzle out why, reading all about login.conf, but login.conf is the same

Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:15:35PM +0300, Ilari Laitinen wrote: > Hello. > > Lately I have been getting more and more worried about data on my > FreeBSD box at home. I am forming a "real" small-scale backup policy > with two different big USB harddrives (yet to buy) storing regular > incremental b

multiport serial reccomendations?

Hello, I'm looking to build a nanny box to provide maintenance services to my servers. One of these services ought to be serial console access. I've currently got an old Cyclades box in service, but I'm curious to just sport a multiport serial card and run conserver directly on the nanny box. S

Re: All about netgraph

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 06:29:22PM +0200, Peter Blok wrote: > Hi, > > > > I was looking for the all-about-netgraph document on www.daemonnews.org > , but DNS ( even a root server ) doesn't > resolve the name anymore? > > > > Does somebody know what is going on?

Re: Support for HP Intel Servers

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 06:09:55PM +0200, Yacoob Patel wrote: > Hi > > I am currently working on a proposal for a customer that is using > FreeBSD .Information is required for FreeBSD compatibility with the > current HP Blade servers. Hello, I was researching blade servers last week, and the spi

Re: sterminal or alternative

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:07:35AM +0200, Maarten wrote: > Is anyone aware if there have been efforts to port sterminal? If not, are > there any ported alternatives which I have overlooked? Maarten, Perhaps you can get it ported easily. :) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters

Re: how to run 2 instance of memcached from rc.conf?

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:59:59PM -0700, Lei Sun wrote: > Yeah, the tricky part is not to what to do, but how to do it. I know I > need to configure 2 ip or 2 ports. > > As the memcached.sh is using run_rc_command, and somehow, even if when > I am giving it 2 arguments with different port, it stil

CARP Load-Balancing? (Or, HTTP peer load balancing?)

Hello, I am looking at building a tiered web application (web layer, DB layer) and am wondering about configuring automatic failover for the web layer. If possible, I'd like to avoid having to implement a third firewall / balancing tier, but if I must, I shall do that ... I am looking at CARP.

Crypto Accelerators?

Hello, Does anyone have suggestions as to preferred hardware crypto accelerators? I want to improve performance of our SSL-based web application, and making it easier for the web server to spew encrypted ought to help. :) Based on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html#CRYPTO-AC

Kerberos support in sudo?

Hello, First off, I'll admit up front that PAM makes no sense to me whatever. So, maybe the anser is in my PAM config. I have a 5.3 system running in a Kerberos 5 environment. I have configured ssh to authenticate against Kerberos just fine. And ksu works just right too. But sudo, I can not ge

Re: port to Ardent Titan?

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 02:01:12PM -0700, Keira Chekel wrote: > Is a porting of FreeBSD available for this Ardent Titan? Thanks, Jim You have such a legendary beast? >From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardent : "Ardent was a graphics minicomputer manufacturing company, one of a very few 3rd par

g4u and growfs? (Was Make Image of Hard Drive)

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 11:42:26PM +0100, Iu hh wrote: > You can try ghost for unix (g4u, here: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/). It's a > very powerful network based cloning software, just pop in the bootable > disk/cd, and then upload/download the image to your local ftp server. I'm > using it to

Re: Linksys WMP11 on Freebsd 4.3

Jamie Ann P. Zamodio wrote: Hi, I would just like to ask if there is any way at all that I can configure the Linksys wireless PCI card (WMP11) to work on Freebsd 4.3? I know the card's not compatible, but if I can't make it work I'll have to buy a wireless card that IS compatible and I'm hoping

Re: dhclient.conf for wireless interface

Erik Nørgaard wrote: Hi, I am trying to configure dhclient to associate with the correct accesspoint, I use FreeBSD Current with the new dhclient ported from OpenBSD. The examples I can find mentions that I should create an entry in my dhclient.conf like this: interface "ath0" { medi

Re: Software RAID-1 - Swap partition

John Oxley wrote: Hi, I followed http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ to create a software RAID mirror. I have two 75G drives in the machine. I allocated 74G to the filesystem on each drive and 1 G to swap. When I blanked ad1 and created ad1s1, I didn't notice that it had taken up the whol

Re: raid1 with gmirror (some questions left)

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 12:13:50PM +0200, P.U.Kruppa wrote: > swapoff="YES" > into /etc/rc.conf -since it was recommended. It is still there > can I remove it now or will there be any problems? I think they might have "fixed" that in 5.4, but it doesn't huirt to have it there. I've been careful

Re: RAID Cards

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:48:18PM -0400, Simon wrote: > Just because there is no monitoring tool available due to lack of > support, doesn't mean the card itself is bad. I much prefer hardware > implementation than software. True hardware RAID frees up a lot of > CPU time if you have heavy IO an

Re: raid1 with gmirror (some questions left)

P.U.Kruppa wrote: As far as I can see, booting from gm0 works fine. There are only two questions left: 1) I installed FreeBSD 5.4 -RELEASE and thus I put - as recommended (or was that only for 5.3 ???) - swapoff="YES into my /etc/rc.conf . Now my raid1 device doesn't show any swap pa

Re: RAID Cards

Bob Bomar wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am looking to build a new file server. I have used Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have any opinions on RAID cards? My 2c: RAID cards suck, because they are

Re: ipf blocking pass rule

James Bowman Sineath, III wrote: James, You should send messages to the list directly. When you start your question by hitting "reply" to a question about shell accounts, your message will be lumped under there in a lot of mail clients, and is less likely to be see. I have the following r

Re: dvd+rw on freebsd 4.10

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do drives like the nec 3520 dvd-r,rw,... work ok under freebsd 4.x (9 or 10) as well as growisofs or do they require the 5.x branch? FWIW, I recently procured a nice Sony DVD+RW off Amazon.com for about $120 or so. Works like a charm in FreeBSD 4.x but you'll want to

Re: syslogd and pipe to email

Jim Pazarena wrote: I would rather have a script which waits at least 30 seconds before terminating rather than after one line, because some of the records I am looking for are multi-line, and I'm not sure if a script can be made to timeout. Jim, Even without setting up some sort of fancy in

Re: which raid option in FreeBSD 5.X?

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 04:01:29PM -0700, Jev wrote: > Danny Howard wrote: > > You might set up a RAID10, which is a stripe across two mirrors. > > Mirrors are the best way to preserve data -- very simple to implement, > > and if a disk crashes, rebuild is just a matter of

Re: How do I run this cron job?

Odhiambo Washington wrote: Perhaps trivial How do I run a cron job at the end of every month? Type: man 5 crontab [...] # run at 2:15pm on the first of every month -- output mailed to paul 15 14 1 * * $HOME/bin/monthly [...] When you are ready to rock, type: crontab -e Good Luck. -d

Re: which raid option in FreeBSD 5.X?

Jev wrote: Hi All, We have a new box with 4 200GiG IDE disks, we wish to set it up using software raid, and I'm aware there are many options, from vimum, gvinum, various other geom classes... What is the best option looking to the future, that is usable for now? We are looking for data safety over

Re: daily log reports

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is not my IP address or what is assigned, i was just using it for simplicity... How can I change the address it sends mail to? I rather change it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead or [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can probably do that by changing /etc/aliases but it's strange s

Re: Pico editor for 5.3

Dixit, Viraj wrote: I am installing Pico on BSD 5.3, the installation for Pico goes up to ver. 4. Will this work or is there another solution. I have vi installed already but I have Pico user here. Viraj, You might try ports or packages. Or, you might try nano, which I understand is like pico, bu

Re: gmirror on local + nfs volume

Feczak Szabolcs wrote: I have read about this some months ago on the list, but I can not find it now. Can someone explain how to make a Geom mirror with one local and one remote component ? (so basicly syncronize two volumes between machines automagically) Feczak, I saw that too ... my searching tu

Re: gmirror losing drive

Andrea, I have no idea, sorry, but I do notice that your "gmirror list" looks somewhat different from mine, so I'll include that output, in case we might learn something. I wish you all the best in cracking this nut ... :/ On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:38:33PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Geom n

Re: gmirror losing drive

Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I'm almost happily using gmirror on da0 and da1. The problem is after every reboot da0 is gone and I have to issue: gmirror forget gm0 gmirror insert gm0 da0 Then it will synchronize automatically. Why? How do I resolve? Should I save the configuration in any way aft

Re: Suggestions for post rm -rf /etc/*

Glen Smith wrote: Anyone have a suggestion for fixing a machine three states away after you rm -rf * dir/* inside of /etc or am I just screwed. I even had zsh ask me if that's what I really want to do. ::sob:: Glen, I'm glad this worked out for you. I thought I might chime in that this is an e

Re: Adaptec 1210SA

Daniel Martin-Fabiani wrote: Hello, I want to install latest version of FreeBsd in my box with two disks plugged into an Adaptec1210SA (Serial ATA) in order to have a mirror. I create the mirror at the Adaptec BIOS, but FreeBsd installation program doesn't notice about it and shows me only two devi

Re: SATA drives and hotplug capability

Frederic Andres wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I have an Asus motherboard with an embedded Promise 20378 controller. I want to plug/unplug a SATA drive when the system is up. The drive is a data drive, I don't want to use RAID capabilities of my Promise controller. Can someone have any expe

(LONG) ATA Benchmark: 5.x Reads Slower than Writes

Hello, BACKGROUND I need to purchase a new system for our developers, for use as a Postgres database test server. Having a RAID, probably RAID1, is desirable for performance and reliability. I have recently set up a system with a gmirror-based software RAID1 on a pair of 250GB ATA drives. I woul

Re: Digital Cameras

Anthony Atkielski wrote: You might be better off removing the card and using a card reader. Card reader specs are much more generalized and consistent than digital camera specs. If the type of card/reader your camera uses is unsupported by FreeBSD, at least you have a better chance of getting supp

Re: Securely allowing just one application via telnet

Anthony, "Securely" and "telnet" is an oxymoron. This is mainly because any data, including passwords, sent through a non-encrypted connection, can be sniffed by anyone who can access any of the intervening networks. Your question is really very open-ended and vague. The correct question may

FAQ: How to Measure Swap in FreeBSD

Hello, I tried to get an answer to this question last year but failed. Today, I think I have it. Q: How do you measure swap utilization in FreeBSD? (Assuming you are writing a script to gather performance metrics.) A: If you are writing a C program, check kvm_getswapinfo(3) and maybe take a gan

Re: Mount a tar archive?

Andrew P. wrote: Hello! I have a 80G tar archive which I have nowhere to extract to. Could I mount it as a filesystem? Read-only would suffice. Andrew, Short of that solution, why not tar -t to get a list of files in the archive, then you can tar -x the files you actually want. You ought to be ab

Re: cannot boot 5.3 after power failure - major bug?

stheg olloydson wrote: Thanks for the reply. I had tried that and kept getting the "invalid format" error. I am puzzled by the fact that I can get a directory list, but the boot loader thinks the format is wrong. Also it seems to be looking in /kernel and not /boot/kernel/. stheg, Is this a system

Re: Postfix and Queues

Vladimir Dvorak wrote: Well, is there any chance to reduce queue to one mail in active queue ? The system runs postfix-19991231pl08-29 - I know its very old. Vladimir, I know you can do this in qmail, but not obvious way for me to do with with Postfix. Perhaps you can find the Postfix list and a

Re: shell stdin redirection: possible for ssh-password input?

Rob wrote: I take for granted that my password will be there in clear text! Are there other options? Rob, Check out expect. There's even a Perl module for it. Expect is the bad old way we used to handle such problems. It is this funky sub-language designed for completing interactive session

Re: Scripting oddness (sh)

David J. Weller-Fahy wrote: * David J. Weller-Fahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-23 20:36 +0100]: Anyone have any ideas on how to troubleshoot? It helps if I include the script. Bonus points if you inline the relevant portion, or at least name your attachment something like foo.sh. -d

Re: wow ! 5.3 -> 5.4 ->

Alex D'Elia wrote: Hello dear people @ freebsd something wonderfull ( at least in my case ) happened since the last update of the base system on a sony vaio laptop ( CPU: Intel Pentium III (694.84-MHz 686-class CPU) ) before, when the machine was compiling, it was getting at 82 degrees with 100%

Re: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:52:46PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: > >> Is your solution better? > > > > You can deliver your own opinion, my resolution is at: > > http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/ > > I was able to make the atacontrol method work flawlessly via a

Re: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:37:24PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: > I tried following the instructions at: > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ and couldn't make it work. > > I ended up installing a minimal installation on one disk, reooting to the > new install, doing atacontrol create RAID1 ad

Re: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:53:30PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: > >> Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that is compatible with 5.3? > >> The 3ware ones listed in the hardware notes are pretty > >> expensive...over a hundred dollars for the lowest end card. Is 5.3 > >> compatible with any of

Re: <$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

Mike Loiterman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can anyone recommend a SATA RAID card that is compatible with 5.3? The 3ware ones listed in the hardware notes are pretty expensive...over a hundred dollars for the lowest end card. Is 5.3 compatible with any of the adpatec or pr

probe dmesg status of RAIDs -- twe and amr

Hello, I have a bunch of FreeBSD systems, many with hardware RAIDs. The problem is, I have no easy way of checking to see that they are okay. I tried once to get the 3ware binary to work with the 3ware kernel module to get to work with the 3ware firmware update that I had to ... ARGHH! It was

Re: firefox share profile in freebsd and windows!

Ean Kingston wrote: At the worst, you could export your bookmarks from one and import them into the other. Then you would just have to go through the preferences and make sure the settings are the same otherwise. I have been using Amazon's a9.com which has a browser bar for Firefox that facilit

Re: FreeBSD HOWTO: Software Mirror System Disk

Danny Howard wrote: As the documentation is a bit sketchy, here’s a quick cheat sheet for setting this up with gmirror: (This crib sheet assumes you have a pair of identical IDE (in my case, SATA) drives identified as ad4 and ad6.) Let me apologize for Thunderbird formatting my mail goofy. (I

FreeBSD HOWTO: Software Mirror System Disk

[ From http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/ ] A new feature of FreeBSD 5.3 is the ability to set up a software mirror of your system disk. This allows you to boot off either of a pair of hard disks, which will then function as a RAID1, which will ensure system upti

Re: mouse wheel

dusan >> wrote: hi there. can somebody tell me the best way how to configure mouse wheel on freebsd ?? thx alt dusan, Someone already has: http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/x-wheel.html -danny ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: Remote terminal sessions lock up and daemons flake out

still on the box. kill -1 -1 is handy for that, though. Thanks, -danny -- Danny Howard[EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Support Manager (312)829- x235 Server Central Network http://www.servercentral.net

Re: Cannot log into 4.10 machine via ssh

you are seeing beyond "it does not work." Everything else (pinging the machine, Samba service) works fine. What can be done? Is sshd running? ps auxww | grep sshd Maybe sshd died or needs to be restarted or something. ;) -danny -- Danny Howard[EMAIL P

Re: Remote terminal sessions lock up and daemons flake out

Danny Howard wrote: This last problem has started to happen only lately. I log in from my FreeBSD workstation, on an xterm, via ssh to a remote machine running 4.9. I often sudo -s. I'm using tcsh. Lately, I leave the session for a while and come back and the session is locked up. I

Remote terminal sessions lock up and daemons flake out

ght look, perhaps in sysctl, to pinpoint what might be happening? Thanks, -danny -- Danny Howard[EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Support Manager (312)829- x235 Server Central Network http://w

Re: Pulling measurements of system memory?

. Thanks, David. I pulled the memory measurement bits from your shell script. I couldn't find where you were measuring swap - which sysctls do you check? Sincerely, -danny -- Danny Howard[EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Support Manager

How do I calculate the size and utilization of my VM from sysctl?

Phil Schulz wrote: Danny Howard wrote: What's the easiest command to read to get good information on memory usage? I played with "/sbin/sysctl -n hw.physmem hw.usermem vm.kvm_size vm.kvm_free" yesterday but I have the feeling that these are not the numbers I think they are, beca

Pulling measurements of system memory?

me pretty good stuff at the top of top, but I'd be happier with output in raw numbers of bytes, to feed to my graphing program. This would also save the trouble of reinterpreting M into * 1024^2. Thanks in advance for any tips. Sincerely, -danny -- Danny Howard

Re: Sendmail deferred email?

JJB wrote: I see in mail log some deferred email being held. Is there a way to clear this email from sendmail? Maybe so sendmail sub command? sendmail -q -- Danny Howard[EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Support Manager (312)829- x235

Re: /var/log/messages question

Mike Jackson wrote: I pipe those, and other messages to a virtual terminal, like this: syslog.conf -- *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice/dev/ttyv3 ... and then what do you do with this virtual terminal? Just check alt+f3 every so often? -- Danny Howard

Re: mail/majorcool

On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 06:32:26PM +0600, éÌØÑ ûÉÐÉÃÉÎ wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > after installing the port I see the following message in httpd-error.log: > > [Sat Jul 20 18:31:15 2002] [error] [client 212.57.175.94] Premature end of > script headers: /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/majordomo > > what sho

Re: Dump / soft updates interaction?

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 08:26:25AM -0700, Vivek Khera wrote: > > "RT" == Richard Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Yes. You need to wait for the system to "settle down" before dumping. > RT> Is there any way to wait until a soft-update filesystem is up-to-date - > RT> something like s