Re: FS of choice for max random iops ( Maildir )

2011-09-16 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 16.09.2011 15:57, free...@top-consulting.net wrote: Quoting Terje Elde te...@elde.net: On 16. sep. 2011, at 12:31, free...@top-consulting.net wrote: Right now I defined an entire array of 8TB ( all 16 disks ) separated in two pieces. 50 GB for FreeBSD to boot and the rest available to

Re: legal notices at the end of emails

2011-07-27 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 27.07.2011 13:01, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 7/27/11 5:11 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.com wrote: A heads up about your footer: This email goes onto a mailing list that is available via an online archive... your terms are violated just by sending an

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-17 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 17.07.2011 13:10, Jerry wrote: While I usually consider Slashdot nothing more than a bunch of juveniles ranting against Microsoft; however, I did find this rather interesting post this morning. Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

Re: OCI support in PHP is dead

2011-07-14 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 14.07.2011 11:43, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/07/2011 07:16, Victor Sudakov wrote: The databases/php5-oci8 port exists no more, and databases/php52-oci8 is marked as vulnerable. Oracle 8 is pretty obsolete now. Now, the only options for getting more up to date support are --

Re: OT: printer, our cups port, and is-there-a-generic-laser?

2011-06-16 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 16.06.2011 08:28, Gary Kline wrote: we had a power out here this morning and besides it costing most of my day, it blew out my Brother laser printer. i just got it working FINALLY with our cups stuff. don't asked me how; other than i was using our olden lpr/lpd and had /etc/printcap.

Re: (no subject)

2011-03-10 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 10.03.2011 18:38, 6412037...@email.uscc.net wrote: Does OpenBSD use the same kernel as FreeBSD? No. OpenBSD uses the OpenBSD kernel. //Svein -- +---+--- /\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9| PGP

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 08.03.2011 04:36, Ivan Voras wrote: On 7 March 2011 19:44, Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Ivan Voras wrote: On 06/03/2011 19:56, Lars Eighner wrote: Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in ports that I install or

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 13.02.2011 19:50, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:05:51PM -0500, Maxim Khitrov wrote: Can you guys please take Microsoft bashing elsewhere? This thread is about FreeBSD and SSDs - a topic I'd like

Re: vm ware

2011-01-19 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 19.01.2011 09:41, rafay awan wrote: Hi, I want to inquire if its possible to install freeBSD on vm ware? is there any live cd iso available? I suspect you are talking about VMWare ESXi (the hypervisor). If so, I'm running a dozen or so FreeBSD VMs here. Absolutely un-problematic.

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 06.01.2011 15:19, c0re wrote: why not to restart your httpd and mysqld? This may release your unused filehandles. As I said I've restarted whole server, so nothing there to release at all. Another place to look for wasted space is filesystem snapshots, if any. They can be created

Re: Spam with fake address from the list?

2010-12-16 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 16.12.2010 19:56, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2010-12-16 12:40, Michelle Konzack: Hello *, does someone get this kind of spam too? No, nothing from the ip-range 69.170.128.0/24 is getting thru. I actually have a very specific route, just for them, in my border gateway: ip route 64.38.11.26

Re: foo; no such thing as a dual-nic atom firewall

2010-11-24 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 24.11.2010 02:43, Gary Kline wrote: Maybe someone on-list can help me; after 5+ hours of clicking and typing, I can't find an atom cpu computer with dual NICs. I _thought_ I'd found a computer to replace to Kayak firewall [pfSense], but nada. Any wizards on this list have a clue?

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 13.11.2010 15:59, Mario Lobo wrote: On Friday 12 November 2010 23:27:42 Mubeesh ali wrote: i guess it is high time this list bans the word devil in subject ;-) Let's hack the term and use lucifer instead! Can we add this once-a-month question about Beastie to either the FAQ or the

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 13.11.2010 21:29, Robert Bonomi wrote: Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:18:03 +0100 From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Subject: Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:57:46 -0800, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 15:44:01 PST Chris

Re: You complain about my exceeded question but got an outstanding volume of answers!!! Why?

2010-11-12 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 12.11.2010 13:24, José Silveira wrote: You guys complain cause I asked why do use a demon as a mascot of freeeBSD. Some says... oh no this crap again, others desrespected me but what is incredible is that even a simple question like I did caused so many rage and movement of answers!!! I

Re: Per core frequency control

2010-11-09 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 09.11.2010 11:56, David Naylor wrote: Hi, I was reading through cpufreq(4) and in the bugs section it mentions that per core (or CPU) frequency control is not supported. That all cores/CPUs have to be at the same speed. What is the reason for that? Is it an infrastructure

Re: zfs performance issues with iscsi (istgt)

2010-11-08 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 08.11.2010 09:13, DJ wrote: After scratching my head for a few weeks, I've decided to ask for some help. First, I've got two machines connected by gigabit ethernet, network performance is not a problem as I am able to substantially saturate the wire when not using iscsi [say iperf] or

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-08 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 08.11.2010 16:37, Arthur Chance wrote: On 11/08/10 13:52, krad wrote: On 6 November 2010 21:38, Roland Smithrsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 02:30:16PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: Having said all that it really depends on whether you need the extra features of zfs.

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-08 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 08.11.2010 18:47, Arthur Chance wrote: *snip* Presuming you're talking about ZFS, the hash isn't intended to correct hardware errors, it's only there to detect them. Correction comes from mirroring or the use of RAIDZ{1,2,3}. (I have personal experience of how well that works, as I had a

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-08 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 08.11.2010 21:44, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 05:08:33PM +0100, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote: But it's still not capable of true forward-error-correction. If we are to embark upon creating a new

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 06.11.2010 17:44, Chris Brennan wrote: On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 11:25:13PM -0500, Steven Susbauer wrote: On 11/5/10 4:34 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: Will Oracle start using patent suits to try to stop people who aren't

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 06.11.2010 19:52, krad wrote: On 5 November 2010 19:11, Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: Hey folks, A while back I started the thread Troubles on SATA drives ZFS. I decided to bring the zpool down check each disk and re-construct the pool. Nevertheless, I was revising one of

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-05 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 05.11.2010 20:14, Alejandro Imass wrote: Hey folks, A while back I started the thread Troubles on SATA drives ZFS. I decided to bring the zpool down check each disk and re-construct the pool. Nevertheless, I was revising one of the ZFS error message links and Oracle made me create a

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-20 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 20.10.2010 09:47, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline escribi?: PS: I really _was_ current on hardware stuff. Back in the VAX 780 days :-) I booted my first UNIX V7 tape on a

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-02 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 02.10.2010 21:08, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:36:40 -0700 Robert travelin...@cox.net articulated: I am in deep with the wife. Her computer went belly up. It was running XP pro and I had backups going to a second drive. I can no longer access that drive. If the disk is the

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-21 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 21.09.2010 13:37, Jerry wrote: The bottom line is that installing and running a printer on a Window's machine is usually far easier than on a *nix variation. Even sharing a printer on a network in a Windows environment is simpler. Actually ... no. Unless you are talking about the keep HP

Re: WANTED: Camera Neck Strap (92313)

2010-09-16 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 16.09.2010 18:30, Chris Maness wrote: oops. I meant freecycler ;o) sorry guys. Not to worry, I'm sure there are a few hobby photographers on this list as well. ;) //Svein -- +---+--- /\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \

Re: fan control

2010-08-28 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 27.08.2010 20:52, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:02:18PM +0200, Matias wrote: Thanks for replying! I've tried everything you mention here with no success: The BIOS is pretty basic, just allows to select boot order, set the date, and not much more than that. No sysctls

Re: Parklogic making a mess

2010-08-22 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 22.08.2010 00:48, Bruce Cran wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:35:57 +0200 Svein Skogen sv...@stillbilde.net wrote: Anybody else seem to get these header-falsified messages lately: I think anyone who posts to freebsd-questions is probably getting them. I contacted parklogic and got a

Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

2010-08-21 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 18.08.2010 18:20, C. Bergström wrote: Hi Oliver, The problem behind the subject is a little bit frustrating, so I do not know were to start. Yeah it's a pretty big problem, but I can say others are looking at it and taking small steps in the right direction. First, and this hasn't

Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

2010-08-21 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 21.08.2010 11:01, C. Bergström wrote: *snip* (Hope I don't come across negative... I'm just trying to give real feedback based on our experience) No coming-across-as-negative interpreted. ;) As I said, my two 5970s sit in a windows box... //Svein --

Re: 5900 RPM drives

2010-08-13 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 14.08.2010 03:52, Ryan Coleman wrote: Can anyone give me any reasons to buy these over 7200RPMs for a RAID? I may need to pinch pennies if I have to finance my next servers out of pocket. Stupid idea, I know, but I really want to know if there's a reason to skimp. They're a little slower,

Re: test

2010-08-13 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 14.08.2010 05:23, PR wrote: epic fail. ;) //Svein -- +---+--- /\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9| PGP Key: 0xE5E76831 X|2020 Skedsmokorset | sv...@jernhuset.no / \ |Norway

Re: releases, branches,..

2010-08-12 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 12.08.2010 22:46, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: My years of OpenSolaris made me forget the use of releases and branches. I'm not into too much compiling anymore. I want a stable, but also safe server. I'm running 8.1-RELEASE now, but what about security issues found? What do I need to run if I

Re: copyright for man pages

2010-08-05 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 05.08.2010 13:16, r...@mlg3.com wrote: Hello, Sorry of this is the wrong list but what is the copyright situation for things like man pages? If I want to host a copy of one on the web or something, is there some additional disclaimer I need to add? I may be wrong, but aren't those ...

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-02 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
On 02.07.2010 09:33, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 01/07/2010 22:29:54, Ed Flecko wrote: Henrik, When I FIRST installed 8.0, I did create a separate /home partition. When I installed the kernel and starting running out of space in / , I thought O.K...I'll let FreeBSD make the partition sizes IT

Re: PDF storage software recommendations?

2010-06-17 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
On 17.06.2010 20:55, Michael W. Lucas wrote: We get orders for services via PDF. We need to keep them, and call them up months or years later. We'd need to find things like all of the PDFs for Customer X or all of the PDFs for circuit ID such-and-such. Surely other people have had this

Re: * wildcard in.sh script

2010-06-15 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
On 15.06.2010 10:25, Aiza wrote: I have a directory with files in it. The first 3 letters of the file names is the group prefix. I'm trying to write a script to accept the 3 letter of the group followed by a * to mean its a prefix lookup. But when I run it I get a message NO match that is not

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
On 10.06.2010 18:12, Jerry wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:12:48 +0200 Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za articulated: On Thursday 10 June 2010 15:04:53 Matthew Seaman wrote: The only other mechanism might be to tag each list e-mail with a unique value for each recipient in such a way that

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-05-28 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
On 27.05.2010 17:00, Kevin Wilcox wrote: Hello everyone. We're in the very early stages of considering [Free|Open]BSD on commodity hardware to handle NAT *and* firewall duties for (what I consider to be) a sizable deployment. Overall bandwidth is low, only a gigabit connection, but we

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-05-28 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
On 28.05.2010 13:38, Bruce Cran wrote: *snip!* This is possibly the wrong place to be saying this, but isn't OpenBSD usually recommended for routers? I believe the version of pf, for example, is normally kept more up-to-date than than in FreeBSD. The major downside I know of is that it's

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-04 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
On 04.04.2010 11:22, Stacey Roberts wrote: The documentation for EasyBCD documentation itself states that its compatible with windows vista - there's nowhere that actually states that it supports windows 7. Or, am I missing something? BCD was the boot mechanism introduced with Vista and

Re: Enough Is Enough

2010-03-27 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
On 27.03.2010 20:10, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:28:26PM -0500, Programmer In Training wrote: On 03/27/10 13:06, Tijl Coosemans wrote: snip In /usr/ports/UPDATING look for the 20100205 entry for users of Qt 3 and KDE 3. Pointless in as far as that does not address the

Re: Creating multiple directories simultaneously

2010-03-26 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26.03.2010 12:12, Jerry wrote: I could have sworn that I saw a method of creating several directories, actually a parent direct and several sub-directories simultaneously; however, I cannot fine the documentation any longer. Assume I want to

Re: Support for Dell PERC H700 RAID controller

2010-03-26 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26.03.2010 15:00, Steve Polyack wrote: On 03/26/10 09:00, Peter Steele wrote: Does FreeBSD 8 support the Dell H700 RAID controller? We've been using a 3Ware controller but may need to switch to this controller. What we'd like to have is a

Re: Support for Dell PERC H700 RAID controller

2010-03-26 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26.03.2010 17:22, Peter Steele wrote: I see that these PERC controllers are all SAS instead of SATA. What kind of cost differential is there between SAS and SATA disks? If it's a megaraid sas controller, you can still use SATA disks. I know I

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18.03.2010 10:35, Andy Wodfer wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Law m...@webcontracts.co.ukwrote: Is ZFS not an option? I'm afraid ZFS is not an option for this customer. I use ZFS on other system and it works great, but

Re: Which version of FreeBSD is it?

2010-03-17 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.03.2010 18:03, Bas v.d. Wiel wrote: On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:36:38 +0100, Mikolaj Rydzewski m...@ceti.pl wrote: Антон Клесс wrote: That is what I suspected for. What is the most safe way to upgrade it, remembering that this is production

Re: Amanda, FreeBSD8, amtype, hairpulling, etc.

2010-03-13 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12.03.2010 15:20, Svein Skogen wrote: I'm having trouble getting Amanda (2.6.1p2 from ports) to play nicely with my hardware. Devices are: HP Ultrium 3-SCSI Q25W at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (sa0,pass0) HP 1x8 G2 AUTOLDR 2.80

Re: locale settings and displaying file names in multiple languages

2010-03-03 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.03.2010 10:24, Dan Naumov wrote: Hello I have a 8.0/amd64 system serving a few Samba shares. Windows clients write files to some of these shares using multiple languages: english, finnish and russian. When accessed from any given Windows

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

2010-02-04 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.02.2010 10:39, krad wrote: If you combine snapshoting with a redundant array, and maybe a secondary pool that you zfs send your files ystems to (perhaps on a different box) its questionable whether having stuff on tape has any advantage. If

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

2010-02-04 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.02.2010 17:57, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 04/02/2010 15:35, Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) wrote: On a monthly rotation the tapes are placed in a firetolerant safe. Since the most critical thing here is the terabyte (and growing

Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

2010-02-03 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm currently considering switching my Backend (Running WSS2008 Enterprise) to FreeBSD RELENG_8+zfs, however my last melee with ZFS and backups to Autoloader (HP 1/8 G2 LTO-3 job) didn't quite turn out in my favour. Seems FreeBSD has a decent backup

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

2010-02-03 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.02.2010 19:14, LoH wrote: If my memory serves, you're looking at something similar to taking a snapshot and then sending it to the tape device, so zfs send snapshot | (tape device access). This, IIRC, is functionally identical to

Re: Backup and FreeBSD/ZFS

2010-02-03 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03.02.2010 17:41, Goran Lowkrantz wrote: I have been using Amanda straight from the port, it supports both tar from snapshots if you need to be able to retrieve individual files from the backup and zfs send if recovery at filesystem level is OK.

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-11 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: $witch a.spine...@rfc1925.net writes: but i look in syslogs of some FreeBSD internet server and there is a great evidence that some botnets are (again) tryng simple combination of uid/pwd. starting from Dec 8

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-11 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Svein Skogen svein-listm...@stillbilde.net writes: The easiest way of brute-forcing access to a FreeBSD server includes locating the sysadmin and applying the common desk drawer. It's that simple. *laugh* I thought

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chargen wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:51:22AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: I had to fight a long battle,