Re: Help with su on 6.3

2008-02-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:16 AM 2/14/2008, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: I usually just set the shell to /usr/bin/false or /usr/sbin/nologin for users like these. Of course you can't test these interactively with su. If you want to do that, give the account a valid login shell, test it, then set it

Re: Help with su on 6.3

2008-02-13 Thread Neil Gruending
On 2/12/08, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:16 PM 2/12/2008, Neil Gruending wrote: Hi, Today I upgraded my computer to 6.3, but now root can't su to other users. I login as a regular user (neil) over ssh and I can su to become root. But now root can't su to other users. For

Re: Help with su on 6.3

2008-02-13 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:51 PM 2/13/2008, Neil Gruending wrote: On 2/12/08, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:16 PM 2/12/2008, Neil Gruending wrote: Hi, Today I upgraded my computer to 6.3, but now root can't su to other users. I login as a regular user (neil) over ssh and I can su to become

Re: Help with su on 6.3

2008-02-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:16 PM 2/12/2008, Neil Gruending wrote: Hi, Today I upgraded my computer to 6.3, but now root can't su to other users. I login as a regular user (neil) over ssh and I can su to become root. But now root can't su to other users. For example, if I do su svn I get su: Sorry. My boot rc

Re: Help with su on 6.3

2008-02-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, su works on my 6.3 - but without ssh - just as expected. Do you have physical access to the machine? Try it without ssh to help isolate the problem. Erich Neil Gruending wrote: Hi, Today I upgraded my computer to 6.3, but now root can't su to other users. I login as a regular user

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-07 Thread Eugen
My feeling is that's something in my router that BSD doesn't like and Linux doesn't care (since it works). Instead of posting my custom kernel config, I decided that I will give it another two radical tries: - first, I'll compile a generic kernel - second, if the first attempt is unsuccessful, I

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-07 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:24 PM 2/6/2008, Eugen wrote: I tried everything you guys told me and it still doesn't work : - tried to set a static address as Derek indicated - commented out the ipv6 line in rc.conf, even if it was already set to NO - the answer to Kevin's questions follow: # ping -I dc0 192.168.1.1

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My feeling is that's something in my router that BSD doesn't like and Linux doesn't care (since it works). Instead of posting my custom kernel config, I decided that I will give it another two radical tries: - first, I'll compile a generic kernel - second, if the first attempt is unsuccessful, I

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-06 Thread Eugen
Thanks for all your input. For now I am posting my rc.conf, but I will try your suggestions this evening when I come back from work. If anyone needs additional details, please ask and I'll repost my initial cry for help. Eugen ### Console options keymap=us.iso font8x8=NO font8x14=NO font8x16=NO

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:40 AM 2/6/2008, Eugen wrote: Thanks for all your input. For now I am posting my rc.conf, but I will try your suggestions this evening when I come back from work. If anyone needs additional details, please ask and I'll repost my initial cry for help. Eugen ### Console options

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-06 Thread Eugen
I tried everything you guys told me and it still doesn't work : - tried to set a static address as Derek indicated - commented out the ipv6 line in rc.conf, even if it was already set to NO - the answer to Kevin's questions follow: # ping -I dc0 192.168.1.1 ping: invalid multicast interface:

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-06 Thread OutBackDingo
But i still dont see any ipv6 data in the ifconfig for dc0, we had an instance where ipv6 being turned off networking stopped functioning in your ifconfig dc0 should show inet6 data like lo0 does. make sure its commented out of rc.conf and reboot. also is this a generic kernel or did you

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-06 Thread Eugen
That's what I get when I put ipv6_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf : $ ifconfig -a dc0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU ether 00:14:cf:52:b4:17 inet6 fe80::214:cfff:fe52:b417%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-06 Thread OutBackDingo
Yeah you might want to attach the kernel config just to make sure nothing was dropped that needs to be there , when you got this dc0 ip of 192.168.1.33 was that set staticly?? On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 22:48 -0600, Eugen wrote: That's what I get when I put ipv6_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf : $

Re: Help on freeBSD 4.10

2008-02-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 4, 2008, at 11:01 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: As an administrator, how can i disable an account after three consecutive unsuccessful login attempts? As root, you could run: chsh -s /usr/sbin/nologin _user_ Um... I don't think that's quite what the OP meant. He wants to automatically

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-05 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Eugen wrote: Are there really no experienced FreeBSD users who can help me with my behind a router problem ? Should I post it again ? Should I just give up using BSD altogether due to an unusable system? I would not like this idea, I was really starting to like it. I'm not a very experienced

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-05 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:24 PM 2/5/2008, Eugen wrote: Are there really no experienced FreeBSD users who can help me with my behind a router problem ? Should I post it again ? Should I just give up using BSD altogether due to an unusable system? I would not like this idea, I was really starting to like it.

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Eugen wrote: Are there really no experienced FreeBSD users who can help me with my behind a router problem ? Should I post it again ? Should I just give up using BSD altogether due to an unusable system? I would not like this idea, I was really starting to like it. Respectfully, Eugen Hello.

Re: Help on freeBSD 4.10

2008-02-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 4, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Tuan Ho wrote: 1/ As an administrator, how can i disable an account after three consecutive unsuccessful login attempts? As root, you could run: chsh -s /usr/sbin/nologin _user_ 2/ How can I enable logged file to monitor successful and unsuccessful logins

Re: Help on freeBSD 4.10

2008-02-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 4, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Tuan Ho wrote: 1/ As an administrator, how can i disable an account after three consecutive unsuccessful login attempts? As root, you could run: chsh -s /usr/sbin/nologin _user_ Um... I don't think that's quite what the OP meant. He

RE: HELP: Motherboard Selection (ASUS)

2008-01-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Naylor Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 12:21 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: HELP: Motherboard Selection (ASUS) Hi, Late last year I bought a AS US P5N-E (force 650)

Re: HELP: Motherboard Selection (ASUS)

2008-01-28 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Naylor Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 12:21 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: HELP: Motherboard Selection (ASUS) Hi, Late last year I bought a AS US P5N-E (force

Re: HELP: Motherboard Selection (ASUS)

2008-01-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Ted, I love reading your comments as you are so knowledgeable but you should give a brake to a poor guy. He is already traumatized by online experience so we need to conform him. There is nothing wrong in buying thins from online retailers as you can usually save 30-50% in my experience but

RE: HELP: Motherboard Selection (ASUS)

2008-01-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Predrag Punosevac Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 2:37 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: David Naylor; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP: Motherboard Selection (ASUS) Ted Mittelstaedt wrote

Re: help

2008-01-21 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Montag, 21. Januar 2008 10:16:40 schrieb Enovation Technologies: my question is how to configure 2 nics with different ip on same box in the same subnet. You know that this makes no sense? At least not in 99.99% of the cases? Maybe you can describe a little more clearly _why_ you want to

Re: help

2008-01-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
on re0 i have installing this ip # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Thu Dec 6 15:26:31 2007 ifconfig_re0=inet 10.200.1.37 netmask 255.255.255.0 defaultrouter=10.200.1.1 hostname=zeus.local i want to install on re1 another ip10.200.1.40 it won't work this way, 2 cards on same subnet.

Re: Help From Indonesian....What's the matter with my mouse ??

2008-01-20 Thread Colin Brace
An issue like this is best posted in the appropriate pcbsd forum: http://forums.pcbsd.org/ with detailed information about your system and dmesg output. -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-08 Thread Robert Huff
Anish Mistry writes: So if the PSC attaches as umass, I'm hosed, but if it attaches as ugen I win. You can probably hack the umass driver to prevent it from attaching to the printer. On attaching, I get: ugen1: Hewlett-Packard PSC 750xi, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 6

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-08 Thread Robert Huff
Robert Huff writes: So it looks like I'm good. Now we'll see if HPLIP can do its job. So close, and yet so far. Ran hp-setup. Everything worked OK except for: 1) didn't automatically find the correct driver (is it supposed to?) 2) found

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-07 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Robert Huff wrote: I've got it installed, see the post-install configuration message, and have questions about how it will interact with existing printers. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Help with Crontab

2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to use cron to run a script on the first Sunday of every month at 0930. I used this entry in the crontab: # Run 1st Sunday at 0930 - Fulls 30 9 1-7 * 7 /usr/local/scripts/backup_bootstrap.sh Yet this script just ran on Thursday, December 6 at 0930. Why? I

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-07 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Robert Huff wrote: I've got it installed, see the post-install configuration message, and have questions about how it will interact with existing printers. Were I you, I would install cups, and then goto web page interface on localhost. It kind of just works. --

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-07 Thread Anish Mistry
On Saturday 08 December 2007, caldari_halo wrote: Anish Mistry wrote: On Friday 07 December 2007, Robert Huff wrote: Predrag Punosevac writes: I've got it installed, see the post-install configuration message, and have questions about how it will interact with existing

Re: Help with Crontab

2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 12/7/2007 10:49 AM Kevin Kinsey wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to use cron to run a script on the first Sunday of every month at 0930. I used this entry in the crontab: # Run 1st Sunday at 0930 - Fulls 30 9 1-7 * 7 /usr/local/scripts/backup_bootstrap.sh

[Fwd: Re: Help with Crontab]

2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kevin Kinsey wrote: ] Well, as the sage said, the light at the end of the ] tunnel is an oncoming train. Note the word restricted ] there, and realize that it means that both fields are ] checked and the job is constrained by both of them. ] ] In other words, any of these should mail you the

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-07 Thread Anish Mistry
On Friday 07 December 2007, Robert Huff wrote: Anish Mistry writes: You should be fine since your other printer is a parallel port printer. The HPLIP port doesn't configure parallel port printers so just use the normal CUPS configuration. There are some issues with the PSC printers

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Huff
Anish Mistry writes: You should be fine since your other printer is a parallel port printer. The HPLIP port doesn't configure parallel port printers so just use the normal CUPS configuration. There are some issues with the PSC printers and getting attached as umass devices. Search the

Re: Help with Crontab

2007-12-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/7/2007 10:49 AM Kevin Kinsey wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to use cron to run a script on the first Sunday of every month at 0930. I used this entry in the crontab: # Run 1st Sunday at 0930 - Fulls 30 9 1-7 * 7 /usr/local/scripts/backup_bootstrap.sh Yet this script just ran

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-07 Thread Anish Mistry
On Friday 07 December 2007, Robert Huff wrote: Predrag Punosevac writes: I've got it installed, see the post-install configuration message, and have questions about how it will interact with existing printers. You might want to repeat your message as attachments are stripped

Re: help wanted configuring HPLIP

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Huff
Predrag Punosevac writes: I've got it installed, see the post-install configuration message, and have questions about how it will interact with existing printers. You might want to repeat your message as attachments are stripped by the FreeBSD mail server. Didn't

Re: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-27 Thread Albert Shih
Le 26/11/2007 à 22:34:34-0800, Ted Mittelstaedt a écrit Sorry yeasterday I don't have time to answer you. I've already send a message. But I don't receive any answer :-(. I try again and hope there more solution I've a bi-proc single core Xeon 3.2ghz with FreeBSD 6.2, I'm

Re: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-27 Thread Albert Shih
Le 26/11/2007 à 13:31:12+0100, Jan Catrysse a écrit I've a bi-proc single core Xeon 3.2ghz with FreeBSD 6.2, I'm running Mysql 5.X on this server and the performance of MySQL is very bad. For some complexe select I've got ~6secondes (on some basic Linux it's take 0.6

Re: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-27 Thread Albert Shih
Le 26/11/2007 à 13:29:35+0100, Ivan Voras a écrit Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I've already send a message. But I don't receive any answer :-(. I try again and hope there more solution I've a bi-proc single core Xeon 3.2ghz with FreeBSD 6.2, I'm running Mysql 5.X on this server and

Re: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-27 Thread Albert Shih
Le 26/11/2007 à 07:20:43-0500, Philip M. Gollucci a écrit Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I've already send a message. But I don't receive any answer :-(. I try again and hope there more solution I've a bi-proc single core Xeon 3.2ghz with FreeBSD 6.2, I'm running Mysql 5.X on this

Re: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-27 Thread cpghost
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:03:19 +0100 Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a bi-proc single core Xeon 3.2ghz with FreeBSD 6.2, I'm running Mysql 5.X on this server and the performance of MySQL is very bad. For some complexe select I've got ~6secondes (on some basic Linux it's

RE: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Albert Shih [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:00 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help for very bad perf for MySQL Le 26/11/2007 à 22:34:34-0800, Ted Mittelstaedt a écrit Sorry

Re: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-27 Thread Josh Carroll
Is Hyperthreading enabled (by default it is not under FreeBSD) mysql is heavily dependent on threading, if it is not built and linked into the freebsd threads package you will get poor performance. Some folks have installed the linux compat libs and linked mysql into the linux threads

RE: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-27 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Carroll Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:12 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

RE: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-26 Thread Jan Catrysse
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Albert Shih Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 12:50 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help for very bad perf for MySQL Hi all I've already send a message. But I don't receive any answer

Re: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-26 Thread Albert Shih
Le 26/11/2007 à 13:01:47+0100, Jan Catrysse a écrit -Original Message- I've already send a message. But I don't receive any answer :-(. I try again and hope there more solution I've a bi-proc single core Xeon 3.2ghz with FreeBSD 6.2, I'm running Mysql 5.X on this server

Re: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-26 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I've already send a message. But I don't receive any answer :-(. I try again and hope there more solution I've a bi-proc single core Xeon 3.2ghz with FreeBSD 6.2, I'm running Mysql 5.X on this server and the performance of MySQL is very bad. For some complexe

Re: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-26 Thread Ivan Voras
Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I've already send a message. But I don't receive any answer :-(. I try again and hope there more solution I've a bi-proc single core Xeon 3.2ghz with FreeBSD 6.2, I'm running Mysql 5.X on this server and the performance of MySQL is very bad. For some complexe

RE: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-26 Thread Jan Catrysse
I've a bi-proc single core Xeon 3.2ghz with FreeBSD 6.2, I'm running Mysql 5.X on this server and the performance of MySQL is very bad. For some complexe select I've got ~6secondes (on some basic Linux it's take 0.6 sec). 6 seconds seem to be an awful lot. What kind of query

RE: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Albert Shih Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 3:50 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help for very bad perf for MySQL Hi all I've already send a message. But I don't receive any answer

Re: Help with a new port?

2007-11-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 05:01:36PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote: I must confess I haven't. I'll look into it and see what comes up. Currently trying to figure out how to get ports upgraded in a sane fashion as well, as I've noticed some of the packages are quite behind in comparison to

Re: Help with a new port?

2007-11-24 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi, I have a new port which I feel should be included in the FreeBSD accessibility category, if only because I noticed its absence in searching for it. Have you read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html yet ? I don't use ports myself and never

Re: Help with a new port?

2007-11-24 Thread Zachary Kline
Robert Joosten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I have a new port which I feel should be included in the FreeBSD accessibility category, if only because I noticed its absence in searching for it. Have you read

Re: Help with a new port?

2007-11-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-24 15:24, Zachary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My name is Zachary Kline, Hi Zachary, Anyway, to get to the point: I'm not quite sure where to ask this. I have a new port which I feel should be included in the FreeBSD accessibility category, [...] This port is Emacspeak,

Re: Help no network with dhcp

2007-11-19 Thread kev c
--- security [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its me, kev. Sorry, I misunderstood the request. I redid the test on a separate computer and it didnt broadcast the dhcprequest. The router's log shows no dhcp activities. I tried by passing the router and using my isp's dhcp server but

Re: Help how to set up networking for ftp install

2007-11-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:12:59PM -0800, kev sadasda wrote: I am trying to install freebsd over ftp but it always says, cannot resolve ftp.freebsd.org I told it to use dchp but it didnt do anything even though my router's dhcp server was on. it kept on saying dhcpdiscover on dc0 to

Re: Help how to set up networking for ftp install

2007-11-16 Thread Tino Engel
kev sadasda schrieb: I forgot to explain that my computer is behind a home router connected to the cable modem. The dhcp server is working on the router it gives me an ip address in windows. So I think the problem is that freebsd isnt finding the server. It is failing with dhcpdiscover on dc0 to

Re: Help how to set up networking for ftp install

2007-11-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:50:36AM -0800, kev sadasda wrote: I forgot to explain that my computer is behind a home router connected to the cable modem. The dhcp server is working on the router it gives me an ip address in windows. So I think the problem is that freebsd isnt finding the

Re: Help how to set up networking for ftp install

2007-11-16 Thread Andriy Babiy
I am trying to install freebsd over ftp but it always says, cannot resolve ftp.freebsd.org I told it to use dchp but it didnt do anything even though my router's dhcp server was on. it kept on saying dhcpdiscover on dc0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval .. Have you tried to unplug

Re: Help how to set up networking for ftp install

2007-11-16 Thread kev sadasda
I forgot to explain that my computer is behind a home router connected to the cable modem. The dhcp server is working on the router it gives me an ip address in windows. So I think the problem is that freebsd isnt finding the server. It is failing with dhcpdiscover on dc0 to 255.255.255.255 port

Re: Help how to set up networking for ftp install

2007-11-16 Thread kev sadasda
Is your router functioning as a firewall too? Maybe you have to look in to passive ftp. But it isnt getting to the ftp part it is not even getting the infos from the dhcp server. Does the network options screen fill in the values automatically? No it is all blank. So I tried filling it in

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread James
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:53 -0800, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data and the FreeBSD OS on a hard disk that is failing. I need advice on the best way to clone the entire disk (or at least the data) onto a larger ide disk drive, then

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:53 PM 11/5/2007, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data and the FreeBSD OS on a hard disk that is failing. I need advice on the best way to clone the entire disk (or at least the data) onto a larger ide disk drive, then pull the failing

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data and the FreeBSD OS on a hard disk that is failing. I need advice on the best way to clone the entire disk (or at least the data) onto a larger ide disk drive, then pull the failing

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Hakan K
Try to connect the bad one as a secondary HD to get the data if u can not clone it.. Thanks Hakan http://dominor.com On Nov 5, 2007 3:50 PM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:53 PM 11/5/2007, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, James wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:53 -0800, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data and the FreeBSD OS on a hard disk that is failing. I need advice on the best way to clone the entire disk (or at least the data) onto a

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread James
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 14:04 -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, James wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:53 -0800, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data and the FreeBSD OS on a hard disk that is failing. I need advice on the

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:16:46PM +, James wrote: rsync is too high-level, and may not do exactly the right thing with links or sparse files or who knows what. rsync -cav takes cares of symlinks and all that just right. It's a beautiful thing. Checksumming, too. Ah, bliss. It

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:53:13AM -0800, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data and the FreeBSD OS on a hard disk that is failing. I need advice on the best way to clone the entire disk (or at least the data) onto a larger ide disk drive,

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread FX Charpentier
: Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, November 5, 2007 4:58:47 PM Subject: Re: Help Failing Disk Problem On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:16:46PM +, James wrote: rsync is too high-level, and may

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:40:36PM -0800, FX Charpentier wrote: Roland, The mention of dump '-L' in your email below has caught my attention. Pardon my ignorance, but what is the '-L' option? I looked it up in the man pages but wasn't able to find any mention of it. Can you point me in

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread FX Charpentier
@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, November 5, 2007 7:18:57 PM Subject: Re: Help Failing Disk Problem On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:40:36PM -0800, FX Charpentier wrote: Roland, The mention of dump '-L' in your email below has caught my attention. Pardon my ignorance, but what is the '-L' option? I

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Jon Hamilton
James [EMAIL PROTECTED], said on Mon Nov 05, 2007 [03:16:46 PM]: } On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 14:04 -0700, Warren Block wrote: } } On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, James wrote: } } On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:53 -0800, Sean Murphy wrote: } } I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:40:36PM -0800, FX Charpentier wrote: Roland, The mention of dump '-L' in your email below has caught my attention. Pardon my ignorance, but what is the '-L' option? I looked it up in the man pages but wasn't able to find any mention of it. Can you point me in

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I use dump with the following options (e.g. for /usr); dump -0 -B 4589560 -C 8 -h 0 -L -u -P \ 'cat - usr-0-20071106-vol${DUMP_VOLUME}.dump' /usr This splits dump output in DVD-R sized chunks. completely strange better -f file1,file2,file3,. (you may type more files than actually

Re: Help with Cron pleazzzzzzzzzzzz

2007-10-31 Thread Bill Moran
In response to VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Gurus…. I am running a status script written in Perl (*status.pl*) and want to have it *Always Running*. How can I check through CRON that status.pl is running and if NO, then start the script execution again? Please help and

Re: Help with Cron pleazzzzzzzzzzzz

2007-10-31 Thread Mike Jeays
On October 31, 2007 07:58:21 am VeeJay wrote: Hello Gurus…. I am running a status script written in Perl (*status.pl*) and want to have it *Always Running*. How can I check through CRON that status.pl is running and if NO, then start the script execution again? Please help and

Re: Help with Cron pleazzzzzzzzzzzz

2007-10-31 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On October 31, 2007 07:58:21 am VeeJay wrote: I am running a status script written in Perl (*status.pl*) and want to have it *Always Running*. How can I check through CRON that status.pl is running and if NO, then start the script execution again? Please

Re: Help Plz... Cron Job question....hellp...

2007-10-31 Thread Michaël Grünewald
VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Gurus…. I am running a status script written in Perl (*status.pl*) and want to have it *Always Running*. How can I check through CRON that status.pl is running and if NO, then start the script execution again? Why don't you use the following SH

Re: Help with Cron pleazzzzzzzzzzzz

2007-10-31 Thread Andy Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/07, VeeJay wrote: I am running a status script written in Perl (*status.pl*) and want to have it *Always Running*. How can I check through CRON that status.pl is running and if NO, then start the script execution again? Run monit.

Re: Help with Cron pleazzzzzzzzzzzz

2007-10-31 Thread RW
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:02:53 -0400 John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This should probably be something like ps -ax | grep 'status.pl' | grep -v grep so you don't get false positives from the grep process itself. or simply use: pgrep status\.pl

Re: Help Plz... Cron Job question....hellp...

2007-10-31 Thread Tino Engel
call a script called script.sh from cron e.g. every minute. script.sh contains: #!/bin/sh ps -a | grep status.pl | | perl status.pl Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 08:32 schrieb VeeJay: Hello Gurus…. I am running a status script written in Perl (*status.pl*) and want to have it *Always

Re: help in deletion part of a line

2007-10-23 Thread Benjamin M. A'Lee
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 03:41:40PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Is there an easier way by sed or ed to remove strings (caight by grep) of the sort: part5.chapter2.text- where 5 and 2 can be any integer below 10? (I know how to delete the *entire* line using

Re: help in deletion part of a line

2007-10-23 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
On 23-Oct-07, at 4:11 AM, Gary Kline wrote: Is there an easier way by sed or ed to remove strings (caight by grep) of the sort: part5.chapter2.text- where 5 and 2 can be any integer below 10? (I know how to delete the *entire* line using ed, but not

Re: help in deletion part of a line

2007-10-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 03:37:13AM +0100, Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 03:41:40PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Is there an easier way by sed or ed to remove strings (caight by grep) of the sort: part5.chapter2.text- where 5 and 2 can be any

Re: help in deletion part of a line

2007-10-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:13:49AM +0530, Shantanoo Mahajan wrote: On 23-Oct-07, at 4:11 AM, Gary Kline wrote: Is there an easier way by sed or ed to remove strings (caight by grep) of the sort: part5.chapter2.text- where 5 and 2 can be any integer below 10?

Re: help: the Input problem

2007-10-16 Thread ronggui
Thanks. Finally, I set all the env variables in ¬/.tcshrc, It works. 2007/10/8, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:23:01AM +0800, ronggui wrote: I use scim as my input. When I use bash as my login shell, I add these lines to ~/.profile export

Re: help: the Input problem

2007-10-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:19:31PM +0800, ronggui wrote: Thanks. Finally, I set all the env variables in ¬/.tcshrc, It works. Far out!! jerry 2007/10/8, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:23:01AM +0800, ronggui wrote: I use scim as my input.

Re: help with text-append over SSH ? - dd: unknown operand

2007-10-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-12 16:43, Juri Mianovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-10-11 16:49, Juri Mianovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an account on a system where I cannot log in over SSH, but I _can_ run a limited set of commands remotely, over SSH.

Re: help with text-append over SSH ?

2007-10-14 Thread J65nko
On 10/14/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'dd' command (among others) on the remote host ... so for instance, I can do things like this: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] rm -rf filename So, with all that in mind, how do I append the contents of a local file to a remote file, over

Re: help with text-append over SSH ? - dd: unknown operand

2007-10-13 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
I want to append the contents of a local text file to the contents of a remote text file, over SSH. : Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: cat file1 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd -of file2 That will replace the contents of file2, not append it. Also it should be dd of=file1. However, you can use seek=n to

Re: help with text-append over SSH ? - dd: unknown operand

2007-10-13 Thread Mel
On Saturday 13 October 2007 12:08:16 Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: I want to append the contents of a local text file to the contents of a remote text file, over SSH. Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: cat file1 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd -of file2 That will replace the contents of file2,

Re: help with text-append over SSH ?

2007-10-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
'dd' command (among others) on the remote host ... so for instance, I can do things like this: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] rm -rf filename So, with all that in mind, how do I append the contents of a local file to a remote file, over SSH, using either 'echo' or 'dd' ? Thanks. cat file |ssh

Re: help with text-append over SSH ?

2007-10-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-11 16:49, Juri Mianovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an account on a system where I cannot log in over SSH, but I _can_ run a limited set of commands remotely, over SSH. (I am in a jail of some sorts). I want to append the contents of a local text file to the contents of a

Re: help with text-append over SSH ?

2007-10-12 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Friday 12 October 2007 01:49:04 Juri Mianovich wrote: I have an account on a system where I cannot log in over SSH, but I _can_ run a limited set of commands remotely, over SSH. (I am in a jail of some sorts). I want to append the contents of a local text file to the contents of a

Re: help with text-append over SSH ?

2007-10-12 Thread Peter Boosten
On Fri, October 12, 2007 01:49, Juri Mianovich wrote: I have an account on a system where I cannot log in over SSH, but I _can_ run a limited set of commands remotely, over SSH. (I am in a jail of some sorts). I want to append the contents of a local text file to the contents of a remote

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