altering maxdsiz or datasize limit ?

2010-10-05 Thread Mark Stosberg
Hello, We've been satisfied FreeBSD users for several years at our hosting company. Recently we ran into into a problem where a long running cron script was dying early because it is hitting FreeBSD's data segment size limit of 512 Megs, even though the machine has plenty more memory. I would

Re: solution: getting a Motorola Razr V3 to work as a GSM modem on FreeBSD

2009-11-05 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:15:24 -0500, Mark Stosberg m...@summersault.com wrote: For software to send the pages, I use the gammu port. I ran gammu-config for the initial setup, and then moved the resulting file from /root/.gammurc

Specifying only constrained options in /etc/libmap.conf ?

2009-05-07 Thread Mark Stosberg
libpthread.so.2 libthr.so.2 libkse.so.3 libthr.so.3 Thanks for your help! Mark -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark StosbergPrincipal Developer m...@summersault.com Summersault, LLC 765-939-9301 ext 202 database driven websites

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Mark Stosberg
We had problem with named starting on boot on a FreeBSD 6.1 server, managed by /etc/rc.conf. The startup script failed with errors about shared library libm.so.2 failing to load because of something related to libxml2.so.5. Later, when I then tried starting it via /etc/rc.d/named

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Mark Stosberg
Agreed. Bind 9.5 and higher from ports has XML statistics support. That explains the xml and iconv. ldd -a /usr/sbin/named should show you which one wants libm.so.2 which is from the 4.x days. If you don't need these statistics, I would suggest turning them off through make config. This

named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-20 Thread Mark Stosberg
We had problem with named starting on boot on a FreeBSD 6.1 server, managed by /etc/rc.conf. The startup script failed with errors about shared library libm.so.2 failing to load because of something related to libxml2.so.5. Later, when I then tried starting it via /etc/rc.d/named it worked

recovering from a missing package database?

2009-04-08 Thread Mark Stosberg
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Recovering loss of /var/db/pkg ?

2009-04-08 Thread Mark Stosberg
I'll just say it plainly: /var/db/pkg is long gone and there is no backup. It was not copied to new a machine. Is there is any hope of being able to use the ports or packages system in a meangingful way again? My sense is that some recovery is possible, but may be prohibitively expensive.

outbound serial modem now times out or drops connection

2008-06-06 Thread Mark Stosberg
We are using qpage to dial a remote TAP modem (Sprint and Verizon), so we can send pages about our hosting infrastructure without using the internet connection. Recently it started failing consistently with timeout to connect. I first suspected the remote modem (Sprint), but found I got the same

RE: outbound serial modem now times out or drops connection

2008-06-06 Thread Mark Stosberg
Trying a new modem (US Robotics external 56k serial modem) did help slightly. With it, we consistently connnect, but then after a short pause the connection is dropped. This is easily reproduced in minicom: (Using the Sprint TAP modem number here). ATDT18886561727 CONNECT

requesting help restoring disklabel on unbootable system

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Stosberg
Hello, After an unfortunate sequence of events, my newly successfully upgraded FreeBSD 4.7 machine would not boot anymore and gave me a boot: prompt. Returning to the install CD disklabel program, I saw that the only partition it seemed be to finding was the swap partition. I recreated and wrote

Re: requesting help restoring disklabel on unbootable system

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Mark Stosberg wrote: After an unfortunate sequence of events, my newly successfully upgraded FreeBSD 4.7 machine would not boot anymore and gave me a boot: prompt. Returning to the install CD disklabel program, I saw that the only partition it seemed be to finding

Re: /dev/ums0 not initialized

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Adam Bender wrote: When I left for break, I had a perfectly working system (FreeBSD 4.7-CURRENT). When I came back and booted it after being down for 5 days, when I try to start KDE I get an error saying no mouse found, device at /dev/ums0 is not initialized. I'm using

Re: Mail Reader Clients

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: I'm looking for a good graphical mail reader client (to handle appx 3000 mails per day) I've got mail my mail working with fetchmail/procmail, so I don't need one with filtering. Just one that understands mbox format. Kmail and Knode (for news)

Re: requesting help restoring disklabel on unbootable system

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Mark Stosberg wrote: On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Mark Stosberg wrote: After an unfortunate sequence of events, my newly successfully upgraded FreeBSD 4.7 machine would not boot anymore and gave me a boot: prompt. Returning to the install CD disklabel program, I saw

perl 5.8.0 use.perl system doesn't update /usr/local/bin/perl

2002-07-24 Thread Mark Stosberg
Hello, I recently installed the Perl 5.8 port for FreeBSD easily with make install. Thanks to the FreeBSD crew for making this so easy. It was also nice to find the use.perl script to easily switch between the system perl and the perl port. I ran into a small hang-up running use.perl system