Installing FreeBSD 6.2 on 9 TB RAID 6 disk - Guide to GPT?

2007-09-27 Thread James Riendeau
. I keep seeing a message about an invalid superblock whenever I try to mount the new partitions. I'm sure it's something simple I'm missing. Thanks, James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician University of Wisconsin-Madison ___ freebsd

Re: gmirror setup

2007-01-23 Thread James Riendeau
a close eye on your daily reports, so a backup is essential. James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 159, Issue 43

2007-01-08 Thread James Riendeau
to install Linux binary compatibility and you selected no. This is usually a bad idea unless you know you won't run any software written for the linux kernel. James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-3351 After

Re: cron not running

2006-12-28 Thread James Riendeau
, to ensure that cron starts up after ntpd. ...or just buy a new motherboard battery. James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-3351 After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696 Fax: (608) 262-8418 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: reading process memory

2006-06-07 Thread James Riendeau
, however, both processes have to agree to share some memory or connect via a pipe. I'm not going to give you a howto via email as the subject usually fills a solid chapter in most OS books. James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI

Re: reading process memory

2006-06-07 Thread James Riendeau
Ahh. I think I goofed slightly. I think your application has to be the parent of the running process to get at that property. See: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=366888seqNum=10 James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro

Re: reading process memory

2006-06-07 Thread James Riendeau
any real experience working with procfs. -james On Jun 7, 2006, at 2:33 PM, James Riendeau wrote: Ahh. I think I goofed slightly. I think your application has to be the parent of the running process to get at that property. See: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=366888seqNum

Re: Intel Macs and FreeBSD?

2006-04-27 Thread James Riendeau
Why? Mac OS X has a complete unix freebsd-like core called darwin ( http://www.darwin.org ). There's no reason to install freebsd on it. Just install Mac Developer Tools (included in the Applications folder), compile your favorite progs and go. James Riendeau MMI Computer Support

Re: Intel Macs and FreeBSD?

2006-04-27 Thread James Riendeau
Oops. Looks like the URL changed. It is: http://opensource.apple.com/ -james On Apr 27, 2006, at 3:47 PM, James Riendeau wrote: Why? Mac OS X has a complete unix freebsd-like core called darwin ( http://www.darwin.org ). There's no reason to install freebsd on it. Just install Mac

Re: Help

2006-04-19 Thread James Riendeau
://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-3351 After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696 Fax: (608) 262-8418 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 19, 2006

su to root not prompting for a password

2006-04-17 Thread James Riendeau
mergemaster. My apologies if this has already been asked, but the search function on lists.freebsd.org won't let me access other search result pages beyond the first, and google didn't help. Many thanks, James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro

Re: su to root not prompting for a password

2006-04-17 Thread James Riendeau
Thanks! I didn't think it was so simple, and I feel like a lunkhead for not thinking of that. I'm accustomed to being prompted for the user's password when I run su, even if it is blank (I've been spending way too much time on Mac OS X, I guess). I must have clobbered only the root

Re: Copying a disk.

2006-04-17 Thread James Riendeau
the new disk. You can make any of the partitions larger than the original, but you should probably avoid making them smaller unless your sure that your data will fit. James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262

Re: Test messages to -questions

2005-07-01 Thread James Riendeau
I say burn 'em on the cross. Why do you need to test to see if you can post before you actually post a question? If your first question/comment doesn't go through, you know it's not working. And subsequent tests can be the same question/comment with a datestamp. Just my 2 cents. James

Re: Logging Stops after few minutes

2005-06-29 Thread James Riendeau
us know if you find out anything. James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-3351 After-hours Phone: (608) 260-2696 Fax: (608) 262-8418 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 6/29/05 12:55 PM, Dixit, Viraj [EMAIL

Re: Logging Stops after few minutes

2005-06-29 Thread James Riendeau
Message- From: James Riendeau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:19 AM To:Dixit, Viraj; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:Re: Logging Stops after few minutes Whoa now. No need for us all to get snappy. Bottom line, what you posted isn't much

Re: FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW

2005-06-17 Thread James Riendeau
. Thanks to all those who replied, - James Riendeau I'm posting this to the list for posterity's sake. In case someone else has this problem, they will have full instructions at their disposal, provided they can find it. On 6/17/05 4:56 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying

FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW

2005-06-16 Thread James Riendeau
I'm trying to setup backups to the DVD-RW drive on our new server before it goes into production. I've got the DVD-RW drive working, and I figured out how to dump to it: # dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0 # dump -0 -uL -C16 -B4589840 -P 'growisofs -speed=4 -Z /dev/cd0=/dev/fd/0' /usr A test restore comes