RE: EC2 Instances Future

2013-04-11 Thread Don O'Neil
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sierchio Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 7:44 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EC2 Instances Future I have constructed several AMIs. If I get a sense for which flavor of instance/OS combos are of interest, I can

RE: Amazon VPC instances

2013-04-10 Thread Don O'Neil
anonymous FTP sites? -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Sean DuBois Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 8:35 PM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Amazon VPC instances I don't know about

RE: EC2 Instances Future

2013-04-10 Thread Don O'Neil
Have you made any AMI's based on this method? I would love to deploy a medium or large instance that isn't subject to the 'tax', but don't really know where to start to build one like this. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org

Amazon VPC instances

2013-04-09 Thread Don O'Neil
Has anyone used Colin Percival's FreeBSD builds for Amazon EC2 to build an Amazon VPC instance? If so, does it support multiple network interfaces or aliases with multiple IP's so that I can run multiple SSL certs on the same instance? Thanks! ___

Problem making software distros

2013-04-07 Thread Don O'Neil
I've got an older FreeBSD 6.1 install that will no longer allow me to build any software distributions. Any time I try to do a 'configure', the configure seems to run fine, then I get a config.status: error: cannot find input file:. This has happened on several packages from several different

RE: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions

2013-04-01 Thread Don O'Neil
: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sierchio Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 10:04 PM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_short_lifetime

RE: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions

2013-04-01 Thread Don O'Neil
...@tenebras.com] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 7:23 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions Okay, what's your DNS setup? Are you running a recursive cache that contacts the root servers directly? Using your ISP's servers? Etc

Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions

2013-03-31 Thread Don O'Neil
Hi everyone. recently my server started having issues with DNS and FTP sessions either not resolving or timing out. I've tracked the issue down to IPFW. if I issue a 'sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.enable=0' then my issues go away. I have the basic rules like this for dns; 01160 allow udp from any

Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions

2013-03-31 Thread Don O'Neil
Hi everyone. recently my server started having issues with DNS and FTP sessions either not resolving or timing out. I've tracked the issue down to IPFW. if I issue a 'sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.enable=0' then my issues go away. I have the basic rules like this for dns; 01160 allow udp from any

RE: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS and FTP sessions

2013-03-31 Thread Don O'Neil
, and there aren't. I'm not running NAT, it's a publically accessible IP address. -Original Message- From: Michael Sierchio [mailto:ku...@tenebras.com] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 8:58 PM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with IPFW causing failed DNS

zfs configuration

2013-01-21 Thread Don Dugger
Hi All, So I use zfs for the root file system. Works well. However now I want to move /tmp to ram-disk (memory disk or what ever). When I try to unmount /tmp with the zfs command of course it won't because its busy. With ufs I would just edit fstab and reboot what do I don with zfs?? Thx

User IDs

2013-01-07 Thread Don Dugger
but then I must go through add they files on the new box change uids and gids. Question is there an easier way?? Thx in advance... Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: User IDs

2013-01-07 Thread Don Dugger
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:49:48 -0800, Don Dugger wrote: The question is about dealing with adding users. I been using NIS for a while now it works ok however I've had to keep good notes on how to do thing mainly because I don't add user or boxes very often. I'm a software engineer not a system

Best RAID setup

2011-01-25 Thread Don O'Neil
I'm getting ready to setup a new FreeBSD 8.1 64 bit server and wanted to know everyone's thoughts on which way to go. software RAID 5 (or 10) or hardware RAID 5 (or 10). I currently have a 3Ware card in one of my servers and it works great, but I haven't really been keeping up on what the latest

Re: 8.1-RELEASE hangs on reboot

2010-12-01 Thread Don Lewis
On 1 Dec, Ondřej Majerech wrote: Hello, my 8.1-R system has just started hanging on reboot. Specifically after I svn up'd my source and updated from 8.1-R-p1 to -p2. Some kind of hang occurs on every reboot attempt. Usually it hangs at the Rebooting... message, but sometimes the thing

Gateway 8.1

2010-08-21 Thread Don Dugger
I recently loaded 8.1 Rel on a box using the same basic configuration as a 7.1 Rel box I was replacing. Everything works except the box won't work as a gateway now. Is there something new in 8.1 that would change the basic configuration that I would need to change. Thx in advance... Don Heres

Re: question about FreeBSD installing

2010-04-21 Thread Don Brearley
://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd Take Care! - Don 王跃辉 wyh1...@gmail.com 04/21/10 10:21 AM hi I have a problem when I try to install FreeBSD as client OS on a Linux OS. following the instruction I find that I can't open the website of www.fsmware.com to finish some download work. it seems

Re: question about FreeBSD installing

2010-04-21 Thread Don Brearley
Sorry for my previous top-post, was a mistake! I forgot to mention, check out this website as well, it has instructions for running 8.0 in paravirtualization mode in Xen. http://www.ita.com.ua/eng/articles.htm?id=34 - Don ___ freebsd-questions

Re: install.cfg for Documentation Installation Menu on 8.0-RELEASE

2010-04-06 Thread don Juan
thank you, thenk you, thank you :) On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Ross we...@connection.ca wrote: dJ What come up with 8.0-RELEASE is the new FreeBSD dJ Documentation Installation Menu in sysinstall. I would like to know dJ what command for install.cfg to configure my installation with, say,

RE: VirtualBox from the command line

2010-03-18 Thread Don O'Neil
You need to use 'vboxtool'... http://vboxtool.sourceforge.net/ -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Aiza Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:45 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: VirtualBox from the

Re: install.cfg for Documentation Installation Menu on 8.0-RELEASE

2010-03-03 Thread don Juan
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:51 PM, don Juan fmem...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What come up with 8.0-RELEASE is the new FreeBSD Documentation Installation Menu in sysinstall. I would like to know what command for install.cfg to configure my installation with, say, English Documentation. i've found

Re: USB 3.0

2010-03-01 Thread Don Read
, but FreeBSD probably already can take advantage of it. -- Don Readdon_r...@att.net It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ___ freebsd

install.cfg for Documentation Installation Menu on 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-24 Thread don Juan
Hi, What come up with 8.0-RELEASE is the new FreeBSD Documentation Installation Menu in sysinstall. I would like to know what command for install.cfg to configure my installation with, say, English Documentation. i've found this question already posted to this forum but it's still unanswered.

RE: [PHP] RE: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping / Can't Build Port - FreeBSD 6.1

2010-01-13 Thread Don O'Neil
changed in the port between 5.1.2 and 5.2.12 1.add WITHOUT_X11=yes in /etc/make.conf 2.remove X11BASE= from that file and 4.make all-depend-list 5.make clean all depend soft 6.make menuconfig set X11 disable 7.make make install 2010/1/12 Don O'Neil li

RE: [PHP] RE: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping / Can't Build Port - FreeBSD 6.1

2010-01-12 Thread Don O'Neil
clean all depend soft 6.make menuconfig set X11 disable 7.make make install 2010/1/12 Don O'Neil li...@lizardhill.com: Ok.. just for grins I installed a new instance of 6.1, NO Patches, just straight off the ISO... I loaded the ports that came WITH the distro, and was able to make php

RE: [PHP] RE: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping / Can't Build Port - FreeBSD 6.1

2010-01-11 Thread Don O'Neil
Ok.. just for grins I installed a new instance of 6.1, NO Patches, just straight off the ISO... I loaded the ports that came WITH the distro, and was able to make php 5.1.2 ok... When I did a portsnap fetch, portsnap extract, then went into the /usr/ports/lang/php5 and just typed make I get the

RE: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping

2010-01-10 Thread Don O'Neil
I tried adding WITHOUT_X11=yes to /etc/make.conf as well as X11BASE= and X11BASE=, but I still get the same error. Remove them. This makes sure they are not defined, not even empty (as in #define BLA - symbol 'BLA' is defined). Where to go from here? Do I have and old version of

RE: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping

2010-01-09 Thread Don O'Neil
: Friday, January 08, 2010 10:35 PM To: Don O'Neil Cc: php-gene...@lists.php.net; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 16:18:11 -0800, Don O'Neil li...@lizardhill.com wrote: Ok... more info on the problem... I started with a clean

RE: Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping

2010-01-09 Thread Don O'Neil
Well, I hadn't edited the Makefiles, I was planning on it (but won't now that you pointed out the make option), but never got past making the generic port I tried adding WITHOUT_X11=yes to /etc/make.conf as well as X11BASE= and X11BASE=, but I still get the same error. Where to go from here?

Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping

2010-01-08 Thread Don O'Neil
I'm trying to build a clean version of php 5.2.12 on my FreeBSD 6.1 box and even with NO OPTIONS, php core dumps during the make test phase. How do I go about tracking down what is causing this problem? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Clean PHP 5.2.12 Build Core Dumping

2010-01-08 Thread Don O'Neil
Ok... more info on the problem... I started with a clean untarred archive, ad just ran ./configure, make, make test I get a core dump. After running gdb on the core dump I noticed it was the sqlite stuff that was dumping, so I re-ran configure with --without-sqlite --without-pdo-sqlite

Re: sendmail CLIENT_OPTIONS

2009-10-06 Thread Don Wilde
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de wrote: Don Wilde dwil...@gmail.com wrote:   I am setting up the sendmail on my 7.2-STABLE system, and I cannot get   it to listen to my live server address besides the localhost.     I've added

sendmail CLIENT_OPTIONS

2009-10-05 Thread Don Wilde
me for not including them. No other changes have been made to the mc file. Thanks in advance! :D -- -- Don Wilde Engineering the Future http://www.EngineeringJobFuture.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: sendmail CLIENT_OPTIONS

2009-10-05 Thread Don Wilde
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: Don Wilde said the following on 2009-10-06 02:48: Hello, folks - I am setting up the sendmail on my 7.2-STABLE system, and I cannot get it to listen to my live server address besides the localhost. I've added

Requesting Service

2009-09-28 Thread don carlos
the hardware. Can you please advise if you do such services or if you could refer us. Many Thanks, Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Wake up time

2009-09-21 Thread Don Brearley
the on the day of week. Could you enable Wake-On-LAN in the BIOS and then configure another box to wake it up via the LAN at your specified time? - Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

df -k vs. du -s

2009-08-13 Thread Don O'Neil
My /var partition is showing a different value for a df -k on the file system vs a du -s on the file system: df -k Filesystem1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 202603088954497440448%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev

Re: restoring a dump file across the network

2009-06-30 Thread Don Read
an encrypted ssh connection. Suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave. Can you mount the files system(s) with nfsd? Regards, -- Don Readdon_r...@att.net It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-09 Thread Don Read
of date or missing? then run script ... etc. ... -- Don Readdon_r...@att.net It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ___ freebsd

Re: FreeBSD on USB drive for a MacBook Pro

2009-06-01 Thread Don Read
/msg/5c759b1c87376b22?pli=1 Regards, -- Don Readdon_r...@att.net It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: csup source tree as of a certian date

2009-05-14 Thread Don Read
to track down the trouble. Sam Fourman Jr. Have you tried: *default date=2009.04.28.23.59.59 Back when I had to get the old XOrg, *default date' in my ports-supfile returned me to sanity ... -- Don Readdon_r...@att.net It's always darkest

Compass 597 Sprint

2009-05-07 Thread Don Dugger
Has anyone got a Compass 597 from Sprint to work? And if so can I get some pointers? Thx in advance... Don 8) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: make install krb5 conflict with heimdal

2009-04-09 Thread Don Read
pkg_delete. Note the -f, --force argument. furrfu ... -- Don Readdon_r...@att.net It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do

Re: Physical location of cvsup servers

2009-03-17 Thread Don Read
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:50:46 -0500 Charles Howse said: Hi, Can anyone point me to a link that shows the physical location of the U.S. cvsup servers? Not physical, but by wire time: localhost# fastest_cvsup -c us -- Don Read donr...@sbcglobal.net

Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer

2009-02-11 Thread Don Read
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:54:18 -0500 michael copeland said: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:52 PM, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: i agree now that i think about it. but what about the ipv6?! vi versus Emacs? -- Don Read donr...@sbcglobal.net It's

Vinum/FreeBSD 6.4

2009-02-01 Thread Don O'Neil
Are there any disk size/volume size limitations on Vinum with FreeBSD 6.4? Can I run Vinum on 4 500 G drives and get a 1Tbyte RAID10 config? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-02 Thread Don O'Neil
With all the discussions of ZFS lately, I'm beginning to wonder if it's really ready for a production environment. Concerns over memory utilization, speed, stability, etc... So, my question is this... If you were building a brand new 6.3/7.0 server with decent performance (dual core, 32 Bit OS -

RE: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In

2008-11-03 Thread Don Witt
This is very cool. What is up with NetBSD and OpenBSD. Are these numbers accurate? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 2:34 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

RE: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Don O'Neil
I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm trying to label it and mount it... If I run bsdlabel -w ad4, I get: bsdlabel: Geom not found If I run sysinstall, it tells me that it can't write to the disk. I've tried an old 'bypass': sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16, but

RE: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Don O'Neil
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:03:46AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm trying to label it and mount it... If I run bsdlabel -w ad4, I get: bsdlabel: Geom not found If I run sysinstall, it tells me that it can't write

RE: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Don O'Neil
I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm trying to label it and mount it... If I run bsdlabel -w ad4, I get: bsdlabel: Geom not found If I run sysinstall, it tells me that it can't write to the disk. I've tried an old 'bypass':

RE: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Don O'Neil
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:45:52AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: There is one thing about later FreeBSDs which I am aware of: 48-bit LBA addressing. I'm left wondering if what you're running into is a bug or a problem with older FreeBSD (6.1) not supporting this. I would have to go

RE: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-06 Thread Don O'Neil
The hardware I have is the built in SATA controller on the motherboard, which is GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3. With the NVIDIA GeForce 6100 / nForce 430 and Super I/O chip: ITE IT8716. Oct 4 04:07:30 kermit kernel: atapci0: GENERIC ATA controller port

Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-04 Thread Don O'Neil
I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm trying to label it and mount it... If I run bsdlabel -w ad4, I get: bsdlabel: Geom not found If I run sysinstall, it tells me that it can't write to the disk. I've tried an old 'bypass': sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16, but that didn't

RE: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-04 Thread Don O'Neil
I've tried an old 'bypass': sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16, but that didn't help. Can anyone help me get this new disk installed without having to boot off a recovery CD? The server is 500 miles away from me and I don't have direct console access. Uhmm... This may seem silly, but did

RE: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-04 Thread Don O'Neil
I've tried an old 'bypass': sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16, but that didn't help. Can anyone help me get this new disk installed without having to boot off a recovery CD? The server is 500 miles away from me and I don't have direct console access. Uhmm... This may

Re: Fwd: newsyslog.conf / rotating logs based on size AND time

2008-09-22 Thread Don Read
log files every hour, if necessary. 0 * * * * rootnewsyslog # Rotate apache logs once a month 0 0 1 * * rootnewsyslog -f /usr/local/etc/nsl.http.conf # Regards, -- Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED

restricted users

2008-09-12 Thread Don Wilde
suggestions! Please reply including my direct address as I am not on the list subscription. -- Don Wilde ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

unsetting a Port's configuration

2008-03-08 Thread Don Wilde
it by wiping the makefile and re-CVSupping, but that does seem like the long way 'round. Thanks in advance! -- Don Wilde ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: unsetting a Port's configuration

2008-03-08 Thread Don Wilde
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:06 AM, D Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 at 09:32 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hello, all - When building a port, specifically in this case qdvdauthor, I run into a setup issue that makes me want to redo the configuration of the

Re: unsetting a Port's configuration

2008-03-08 Thread Don Wilde
I DID see that whoopsie in the previous post, thanks Giorgos! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which environment variable?

2008-01-14 Thread Don Read
=$Title $1; done;; esac shift done if [ -n $Title ] then xprop -id $WINDOWID -set WM_NAME $Title; fi Title=`xprop -id $WINDOWID | grep WM_NAME | cut -d= -f2` echo $Adjective 'title :' $Title exit 0 -- Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It's

Port Updates for 6.1

2007-12-29 Thread Don O'Neil
What is the safest and cleanest way to update the ports in /usr/ports for a 6.1-STABLE install? I don't want to risk breaking anything, I just need some updated ports so I can install the latest SpamAssassin port. Thanks! ___

Building a SAN using FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread Don O'Neil
Anyone have any resources for building a FreeBSD based SAN device? IE, how can I create an extendable file system using networked drives in muliple boxes without paying a billion dollars for someones expensive drive arrays. TIA! ___

OpenSSL/PHP/Apache problem

2007-10-06 Thread Don O'Neil
Any time I compile PHP 4.4.7 with --with-ssl my apache 1.3.39 server core dumps on start up on my FreeBSD 6.1 dual core AMD X2 box (in 32 bit mode). Anyone have a work around for this or suggestions where to look/try? I was having a similar problem with Curl, but once I told curl where the

RE: Building a SAN using FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread Don O'Neil
it by adding disks and not have to move home directories to different file systems, etc... _ From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 2:14 PM To: Don O'Neil; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building a SAN using FreeBSD At 04:00 PM 10/6/2007, Don

Re: Mutt Help

2007-10-02 Thread Don Read
agents will there- fore work automatically. If no port 25 listener is available, but your fetchmail configuration was told about a reliable local MDA, it will use that MDA for local delivery instead. /quote $ man fetchmail Regards, -- Don Read

Re: Portupgrading cups-base gives compiler error

2007-09-30 Thread Don Read
/files/patch-configure Edit ports/print/cups-base/pkg-plist localhost.root# Regards, -- Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do

Stress testing/burning in HDDs

2007-09-27 Thread Don O'Neil
I have an array that has a drive that keeps timing out/failing... So I need to replace it. However, I want to stress test/burn in a replacement disk first. What is the best way to do this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Stress testing/burning in HDD's

2007-09-26 Thread Don O'Neil
I have an array that has a drive that keeps timing out/failing... So I need to replace it. However, I want to stress test/burn in a replacement disk first. What is the best way to do this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Support for LSI SAS 1068?

2007-09-19 Thread Don Smith
Is the LSI SAS 1068 controller (non-RAID) supported (it is used in the Dell 5/i integrated SAS on the PowerEdge 2950)? If so, what driver? Thanks. -- F. Donelson Smith (Don) (919) 962-1884 Research Professor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department

Re: Unable to delete a package

2007-09-17 Thread Don Read
' force flag as in: pkg_delete -f libgda2-1.2.4_1,1' Regards, -- Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do

Re: hosts is ignored

2007-09-12 Thread Don Read
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:51:23 +0800 Erich Dollansky said: Hi, checked. It is readable by all. I agree. It is something stupid like. Try to delete and re-type it. I got stung by a non-printing character once ... Regards, -- Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED

Strange port 80 access problem

2007-09-12 Thread Don O'Neil
I have a very strange access problem that just popped up this morning. For whatever reason, my machine at home over my cable modem can no longer access Apache on port 80... However other services are accessible elsewhere (Direct Admin control panel, FTP, SMTP,etc...) BUT Apache is accessible to

RE: Server rebooting itself

2007-08-29 Thread Don O'Neil
That is interesting, we are using filters. What version ot Apache are you running? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gert Lynge Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 2:16 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Server rebooting itself

RE: Server rebooting itself

2007-08-29 Thread Don O'Neil
We tried that, 2 different PS's and no change, so I don't think that is what it is. I'm thinking its either a BIOS issue, or _maybe_ memory. There may be 1 bad cell somewhere in RAM that gets randomly hit and causes a reset. I'm going to try upgrading the BIOS, and then if that doesn't work, put

RE: Server rebooting itself

2007-08-29 Thread Don O'Neil
@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server rebooting itself Don O'Neil wrote: Don, This happens randomly every 3-20 days (no apparent pattern). Any suggestions on what to check next? As other wrote: it can be anything. I had a similair problem and it almost drove me mad. It was a webhosting machine running 5.4

Server rebooting itself

2007-08-28 Thread Don O'Neil
I have a 6.1 machine (AMD X2-5200) that reboots itself from time to time for no apparent reason. Today, I caught it in a reboot and on the console it said it was shutting down the CPU's, like someone had hit control-alt-delete on it (the same message)... But there is no keyboard attached to it,

Server rebooting itself

2007-08-28 Thread Don O'Neil
I have a 6.1 machine (AMD X2-5200) that reboots itself from time to time for no apparent reason. Today, I caught it in a reboot and on the console it said it was shutting down the CPU's, like someone had hit control-alt-delete on it (the same message)... But there is no keyboard attached to it,

Re: cheap (supported) wifi card

2007-08-16 Thread Don Hinton
Hi Adam: Adam J Richardson writes: Don Hinton wrote: Could someone recommend a good (and cheap) one that's includes a/b/g*/n and is supported, either natively or via ndis? Hi Don, I can heartily recommend any card based on the TNET1130 chipset. They work very well

cheap (supported) wifi card

2007-08-09 Thread Don Hinton
access, I've decided to pick up a temporary PCMCIA wireless card in the meantime. Could someone recommend a good (and cheap) one that's includes a/b/g*/n and is supported, either natively or via ndis? thanks in advance... don ___ freebsd-questions

Re: How does Sendmail know how it was invoked?

2007-08-04 Thread Don Hinton
bar $ ./bar my name is: ./bar hth... don I'm just curious. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Don Hinton don.hinton

Re: How does Sendmail know how it was invoked?

2007-08-04 Thread Don Hinton
/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/mailwrapper/mailwrapper.c?rev=1.11;content-type=text%2Fplain hth... don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: How does Sendmail know how it was invoked?

2007-08-04 Thread Don Hinton
[0]. And so sendmail behaves as if it had been invoked as mailq or whatever. You're exactly right. I misread the man file and did a little test to confirm it. thanks... don -- Don Hinton don.hinton at vanderbilt.edu or hintonda at gmail.com Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS

Re: semi OT: sh scripting problem

2007-08-01 Thread Don Hinton
} cat test.sh | myloop hth... don Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Don

Re: awk question

2007-07-26 Thread Don Hinton
out of range field -1 input record number 1, file user.csv source line number 1 Obviously $(NF-1) doesn't do the trick. Any better idea? Hmmm, works for me it does... Me too, except of course if the first line of user.cvs is blank... Peter -- Don Hinton don.hinton

FW: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

2007-06-29 Thread Don O'Neil
I've been getting these messages fairly regularly lately. We're running SA 3.1.8 and Exim 4.6.6 on FreeBSD 6.1. I've changed the exim-SA config to go through a pipe rather than the traditional way, set it to only scan messages 100K, turned off Bayes AutoLearn because it was creating token files in

Re: testing for directory

2007-04-29 Thread Don Hinton
() the path, then pass the fd to getdirentries(), if it returns -1, and errno = EINVAL, it's not a directory. (man getdirentries for more info) hth... don Try opening the path in question for writing with open(2). If it returns -1, and errno is EISDIR, it is a directory

Quotacheck failing

2007-04-28 Thread Don O'Neil
I'm having a problem with quotacheck failing and giving this message: quotacheck: /home/quota.user: seek failed: Invalid argument THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: /dev/twed0s1d (/home) However, I have run a full fsck from single user mode on this volume and it

Quotacheck failing

2007-04-25 Thread Don O'Neil
I'm having a problem with quotacheck failing and giving this message: quotacheck: /home/quota.user: seek failed: Invalid argument THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: /dev/twed0s1d (/home) However, I have run a full fsck from single user mode on this volume and it

Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Don O'Neil
I just built a new server with an Athlon 64 x2, 4GB Ram and a Gigabyte/Nvidia motherboard. When I boot the system up it says on the console that 532888K will be ignored. Of course it isn't put in any of the log files. Dmesg shows this: real memory = 3724476416 (3551 MB) avail memory =

RE: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Don O'Neil
Message- From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:05 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory 3.5GB not used? In response to Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just built a new server with an Athlon 64 x2, 4GB Ram and a Gigabyte

RE: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Don O'Neil
I never had this problem before when I built the kernel the first time. Could my module source be corrupt? If so, how do I re-install just the kernel sources for 6.1? -Original Message- From: Andy Greenwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:44 AM To: Don O'Neil

RE: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Don O'Neil
, 2007 11:55 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: 'Andy Greenwood'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory 3.5GB not used? In response to Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I never had this problem before when I built the kernel the first time. Could my module source be corrupt? If so, how do I re-install

Unable to delete files/directories - bogus user/group ID's

2007-04-23 Thread Don O'Neil
I had a crash on a disk array last week that was severe enough that fsck wouldn't fix it, even in single user mode. So, I was forced to suck off the good data, and restore the bad stuff from backups. However there are 2 directories that contain files/directories which have bogus user group ID's

Unable to delete files/directories - bogus user/group ID's

2007-04-23 Thread Don O'Neil
I had a crash on a disk array last week that was severe enough that fsck wouldn't fix it, even in single user mode. So, I was forced to suck off the good data, and restore the bad stuff from backups. However there are 2 directories that contain files/directories which have bogus user group ID's

Problem with Quotacheck after crash

2007-04-23 Thread Don O'Neil
This question is related to my recent question about not being able to delete files after a disk crash... I solved that problem with the chflags (the no-delete flag was set!).. Thanks for all who suggested it. Now that I've deleted the files, I thought this problem would go away, but its not:

Supported PCI Express x1 Ethernet Cards

2007-04-20 Thread Don O'Neil
Does anyone have a suggestion for a supported 10/100/1000 PCI Express x1 ethernet card supported under 6.1? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

nVidia GeForce 6100/430 Realtek 8211 Gig-E on FreeBSD 6.1

2007-04-19 Thread Don O'Neil
Does anyone know how to get a nVidia GeForce 6100/430 Realtek 8211 Gig-E interface to work on FreeBSD 6.1? Loading the standard nVidia lan drivers doesn't work, nor does anything in the generic kernel. Is there a patch/driver for this device? The MB is a Gigabyte M61P-S3. Thanks!

Migrating from i386 to AMD64

2007-04-17 Thread Don O'Neil
I've currently got a production server in place that I want to do some hardware upgrades on. We're currently running a Dual P3 1.4 GHz and I plan on replacing it with an AMD X2-5200+ cpu/mb. Now.. Can I just use the same SMP kernel I have currently (assuming the correct drivers are loaded) for

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