Re: mkisofs and large files
growisofs is your solution. It is in the dvd+r-tools port in /usr/pots/sysutils. This was supposed to be a front end to mkisofs and therefore handles most of the options that mkisofs has. It also allows you to burn directly to disc! (I use this one a lot, great for backups). -Randy RW wrote: On Wednesday 08 December 2004 17:42, Paul Mather wrote: On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 04:08:12 +, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to burn a single large file (a 4.2 GB encrypted gbde filesystem within a file) to a DVD, but mkisofs tells me the file is too large. I looked on Google and found that mkisofs had a filesize limit of 2 GB, but this was increased to 4 GB, so I dropped the filesize to 4095 MB, but it still failed, so I guess the version in ports still has the 2 GB limits. The mkisofs of sysutils/cdrtools has the 2 GB limitation; the mkisofs installed by sysutils/cdrtools-devel does not. ... But, I would issue a big caveat about what you are proposing to do: you may be able to burn the DVD, but it is likely that you will not be able to access the large ( 2 GB) file under FreeBSD from the burned disc. Ah, you're right df reports the size correctly, but nothing else works. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trying to build a speed demon
Hi All, I am trying to build a Samba file server that will serve 2TB to a single dept. The dept will have a large variety of file types being saved to the server; thousands of small (32K) files to hundreds of medium to large files (a few hundred KB in size to a few hundred MB in size). I am using a 3ware 9500 series card in a PCX slot with 8 SATA drives connected to it in a RAID 5 config. The proc is an Intel 3.2GHz with 4GB of 400MHz DDR ECC Dual Channel RAM. The computer also has a single GB Ethernet. The clients are all XP Pro. I have put 5.3 on it and recompiled the kernel with only the items (drivers?) in it that are physically on the system and being used. For example I've turned off USB, Serial and Parallel ports in the motherboard's BIOS and have removed them from my kernel. Do you gurus have anything else you could recommend? I know that RAID5 will have a slowdown in write performance as will using UFS (Journaled file system). Of course I'm not specifically asking for Samba help but any advice for kernel/OS/Network config or insight to fine tuning SAMBA on FreeBSD, so that this machine can set new land speed records. I was also wondering about dual NIC for load balancing as I'm hoping that the network is actually going to be the bottleneck here. On a quick side note, I have been a part of this list for a couple of years now and have offered support when I can or wasn't already beaten to it. I just wanted to give a BIG Thank You to the developers for hands down 'The Best OS' on the planet and to the individuals on this list who have consistently taken time from their day to offer their technical expertise and talent in an effort to further FreeBSD! Sincerely, -Randy Grafton ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: questions
You were given some good starting points for on line docs to get your more familiar with what you're getting into. With a little effort in bringing yourself up to speed with FreeBSD, you will find how incredibly easy it is to build a robust, secure, stable and reliable system where you get what you expect. Here's a small peek into FreeBSD accommodating you're goals; FreeBSD has a software/application repository called ports, (this thing is truly amazing!). Within the ports directory you will find apache and mod_mp3. This will give you a web server with streaming mp3 capabilities. Not including the time to load up your mp3 collection and web pages, you could have this system up, running and ready to satisfy your goals within an hour or 2, (taking that you have fast Internet connection and hardware)! Read the Handbook on the FreeBSD site, use the mailing lists. Also grab a book. Two books that helped me get started were Ted Mittelstaedt's 'The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide' and Michal Urban and Brian Tieman's 'FreeBSD Unleashed 2nd edition'. -Randy MAMware wrote: wow that was fast, i got two responces i dont know how this exctaly works :S sry so i reply to the first adress thanks terry for the link im gonna check it (print it will by more usefull) and SpiralEyed ididnt check the docs at shoutcast.com but i didnt even get to install it im looking more exactly for a document or a web from someone who did something like i wanna do, or some how to related, most docs online are too large and contains a lot of info, i know its good but i just wanna set up the site =/ well first of all i think that i need to read more becouse i dont even know how this mailing list works (and gmail is making me crazy) thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postgres
Dick Davies wrote: * Norman Uittenbogaart [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1010 16:10]: I'm trying to write a backup script for postgres and us a crontab on it. In the manual it says for pg_dumpall make $HOME/.pgpass so it won't ask for a password. Now I made the .pgpass in root's homedir (i wanted to use root's crontab) paste the password in it, chmod 400 it ... Can't you just pgdump from the local socket? And not bother with the password thing at all? I chose to go with the pg_dump solution command from root's crontab. Cron runs a script once a night with the following commands: DATE=`/bin/date +%Y%m%d` /usr/local/bin/vacuumdb -a -F -v -U pgsql /var/backups/$DATE_pg.vac /usr/local/bin/pg_dump -Fc -U pgsql db_name /var/backups/$DATE_db.bu -Randy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to umount Cdrom drive.
Mike Jeays wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 14:22, Laszlo Antal wrote: Hi, I have FreeBSD 4.10 installed. When I mount the cdrom with #mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom everything works fine.I can get to my ports and everything But when I want to swap cds and I type #umount /cdrom I get this error message:: Unable to umount /cdrom, Device is busy. If I do the umont from KDE I get the same error message. What I'm doing wrong?? Thank you for all the help. Laszlo --lantal ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use a script eject, as follows. It CDs back to my home directory, and then ejects the CD. Lazy but effective. #!/bin/sh cd $HOME umount /cdrom cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0c eject ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Most of the time this message pops up because either you are in the /cdrom (mounted) directory or a file form that directory is still in use. The 'eject' script is a pretty good idea. -Randy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing mod_php5
Ronnie Clark wrote: Hello all, Is there an easy way to install mod_php5 so that it has GD and MySQL support? There used to be a graphical menu that came up for these options, but it is no longer there. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Ron Clark __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes. Install mod_php5 from /usr/ports/www/mod_php5, then install php5-extensions from /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions. It is the php5-extensions port that has the menu you were looking for. Once both are installed be sure to look at your php.ini file to verify that the extensions are referenced properly. -Randy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: java install errors
Not to beat a dead horse but here are a couple of extra points to offer. From a Base/Minimal install of 5.2.1 I got a current ports tree with cvsup-without-gui. Next, I install linux-base: cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux-base make install clean edit /etc/rc.conf to contain the line linux_enable=YES I then downloaded: bsd-jdk14-patches-6.tar.gz (Got this from www.eyesbeyond.com) j2sdk-1_4_2-bin-scsl.zip j2sdk-1_4_2-src-scsl.zip j2sdk-1_4_2_05-linux-i586.bin j2sdk-sec-1_4_2-src-scsl.zip (I got the j2sdk stuff from java.sun.com). Once these files were downloaded, I placed them in /usr/port/distfiles. Now cd to /usr/ports/java/jdk14 and do a make install clean. I just did these steps in the listed order yesterday and after a few hours of compiling java it was up. -Randy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Hodgson Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:15 AM To: 'T Kellers'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Chip' Subject: RE: java install errors Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack location /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/gensrc/java /util/Curr ency Data.java:1: 'class' or 'interface' expected Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack location ^ /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/control/build/bsd-i586/gensrc/java/ util/Currency Data.java:1: unclosed character literal Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack location ^ snip Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk14. -- What needs to be done to make this actually install correctly? Thanks, Chip I had this happen to me a couple of times, and the cause (for me) was that I hadn't setup linux emulation properly. This message (from a google search) seems to sum it up: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg60015.html IIRC, I had to make clean in /usr/ports/java/jdk14 to get it work again once this had happened. Steve ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
File I/O Optimizations
I've got a few FreeBSD boxes running SAMBA as file servers on our LAN. Our client workstations are all Windows OS's including 98SE, Win2K and WinXP Pro. I've been looking long and hard for ways to improve the I/O of networked hosted files. Our utilizations of the servers vary from a few large, (~700MB), files that need to be moved around to a ton, (~80,000), small files, (~30KB). Our directory structure is pretty well maintained in that the nesting of files and folders does not get very deep, (maybe 6). The number of users per server rarely exceeds 50. Our problem is that when files/ folders are being copied across the network for burning onto DVD or CD, that the CPU utilization on those servers rockets up leaving the server at maybe 1% to 2% idle and overall performance of the server is weak/slow. Could someone provide some advice or suggestions for fine tuning the configurations of the servers. We're running FreeBSD 4.8, SAMBA 2.2.8a. The host hardware is P3 or P4 CPU's with 512MB to 2GB of RAM and 3Ware Escalade RAID cards with 3 to 4 7200RPM, 200MB hard drives with 8MB of drive cache running in a RAID 5. The servers are also outfitted with Intel gigabit Ethernet. My current SAMBA configs include the following general settings: oplocks=no level2 oplocks=no socket options=TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 I've not made any special configurations for the OS or kernel. Thanks, -Randy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: redirect port
Stanley, If you are using natd and have recompiled your kernel with the appropriate options then this should work for you. These are entries to your /etc/rc.conf, (just a starting point, you can fine tune to your needs): gateway_enable=YES firewall_enable=YES firewall_type=OPEN firewall_quiet=YES firewall_logging=YES natd_enable=YES natd_interface=fxp0 natd_flags=-f /etc/natd.conf In the above statement natd_interface=fxp0, fxp0 is the outside nic of your system. Next put these statements in your /etc/natd.conf file as referenced above, (natd.conf doesn't exist by default, you'll create it): same_ports yes dynamic yes redirect_port tcp inside_address:port outside_address:port redirect_port udp inside_address:port outside_address:port As shown above, don't forget to redirect udp traffic if the service you're trying to facilitate needs it. Also know that the ports for the inside and the outside don't have to match. For example, my service provider blocks http/port 80 traffic coming in to my connection so my statement in the natd.conf file would be something like: redirect_port 192.168.1.10:80 outside_address:8080 By doing so outside connectivity attempts to my isp assigned address have to be stated as: http://outside_address:8080. FYI if you ever want to host gaming sessions on an inside system like Counter strike or Unreal Tournament, then put a couple of lines like these in your natd.conf file, (these examples are ones that I used so that my buddies and I could blast away in Unreal Tournament): redirect_port tcp inside_address:-7781 outside_address:-7781 redirect_port udp inside_address:-7781 outside_address:-7781 As you make these changes you can apply them without restarting by running /etc/netstart. Hope that helps. -Randy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stanley Chan Sent: Friday, January 01, 1999 9:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: redirect port Dear Friends, The example in the NAT documents is sufficient, can anyone tell me how to redirect ports in the NAT machine. How to put the following command in the rc.conf ? I want to use one of the amchine behind the NAT to run web server. -redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.2:6667 6667 -redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.3:80 80 Thanks Sanley ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Checking directory sizes
I need to run a script that checks to see if a large directory has finished copying onto my FreeBSD hosted Samba server. My script currently uses 'du -s' to check the directory size. My problem is that the check can occur while the directory is still being copied, so the du commend takes a long time before it returns a size. I'm guessing that the reason for this is that du recursively checks subfolders and files then totals the size, but when the directory in question is still growing from an external source the du command is in catch-up mode and continues its recursion until it has outpaced the arrival of the new subdirectories/files. Is there any way to see a quick snapshot of a file size, I hate to say this, but for example on a Windows box you can start a folder/directory copy and if you click on the new folder at any time during the copy you will see what Windows thinks is the size at that time but by hitting refresh you will see the size increase. Thanks -Randy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Where can I find a list of the cvsup tags for ports?
You can use the refuse file to omit branches. I've attached my cvsupfile and my refuse file to give you an idea as to how this works. I placed my cvsupfile in /usr/local/etc and the refuse file goes in /user/local/etc/sup. I then call cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/local/etc/cvsupfile. The directory locations are based on the settings within the cvsupfile. -Randy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of stan Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 8:21 AM To: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Where can I find a list of the cvsup tags for ports? I want to omit some of the ports from my cvsup run. I've always used the ports-all tag, but these days there a a good many non English language ports that only use space on my disks. I would like to limit the collections. Probably by excluding certain ports subtags, rather than explicitly including the ones I want, as I think this would be more robust relative to future additions. Where can I find a list? And what's the syntax of the exclude statement? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] refuse Description: Binary data cvsupfile Description: Binary data ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
File Corruption
I originally posted this question to the Apache list and was strongly encouraged to try here. I have a FreeBSD 4.8 server running Apache 2.0.48a (installed from the ports). This server is dedicated to hosting files for download through http and ftp. 99.99% of the downloads occur through http. Our situation is we have a Win2K server with our primary website on IIS. There are ASP generated pages that provide links to the files on the FreeBSD/Apache server. The IIS links are done with a Response.Redirect http://freebsdServer/dir/file.exe;. I don't know ASP so I'm a little clueless to the difference of this code compared to a standard html anchor with its href value set to this path/url. The files on this server vary in size up to 150MB. The files are self extracting/install demos of some of our products. The problem is that every so often the large files become corrupted. We'll end up getting a call from a customer stating that after a couple of download attempts the installer file crashes. We'll go and grab the file ourselves through ftp/sftp and sure enough the file is no longer functional and we'll have to replace it with another copy. I googled and searched the lists but have only found tips regarding speeding up http downloads, (reverting to the current Apache 1.3.x version). Should I be using a database to store the file with it delivered through PHP scripts? Are there OS or Apache settings that I should have made to accommodate this purpose? (The config files are pretty plain vanilla). Thank you for any suggestion, -Randy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Diablo-JDK1.3.1 Configuration
I've gotten a hold of the native binary from the FreeBSD Foundation's website. I've downloaded and actually been able to compile and run a couple of little apps by launching them with the full path to the java or javac binary from an xterm window, (/home/me/diablo-jdk1.3.1/bin/java myApp). How do I get this thing properly installed with VM pathing so that other downloaded apps that are compatible with this version can use it? Thanks, -Randy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache2 and mod_perl2
I have just installed FreeBSD 4.9 and am having problems with Apache2 and mod_perl2. I used the ports, which was updated immediately after install, and did a 'make install clean' for both apache2 and mod_perl2, more specifically apache-2.0.48_2 and mod_perl2-1.99r12. I have not gotten fancy yet and have only included the following lines in my httpd.conf for mod_perl2: LoadModule perl_module libexec/apache2/mod_perl.so PerlModule Apache2 The problem is that when I do '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh start' the machine just hangs, for a long time (4-8 minutes), before apache finally comes up. I checked the logs and there aren't any negative entries. I recently had to down system to move it, upon reboot it hung for 45 minutes before I had to kill the 'apache.sh start/apachectl start/httpd -k start' processes. When I say hung I don't mean the entire system, just the startup processes of apache2. I have slightly older versions on a 4.8 box that was installed identically to what was described here and all is fine. Any ideas? Thanks, -Randy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
