Re: CPIO compatibility with Freebsd 8[.1]

2010-11-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
'usr/local/lib/python2.6/distutils/tests/__init__.pyo' usr/local/lib/python2.6/distutils/tests/__init__.pyc: Can't create 'usr/local/lib/python2.6/distutils/tests/__init__.pyc' usr/local/lib/python2.6/distutils/tests/support.py: Can't create 'usr/local/lib/python2.6/distutils/tests/support.py'

CPIO compatibility with Freebsd 8[.1]

2010-11-10 Thread Pico Geyer
Hi all. I recently noticed that I could not extract a cpio archive that I have on my Freebsd 8.0 machine. I thought that the archive might be corrupt so I compared the md5sum to a backup that I have and it was fine. I then tried to extract the archive on Freebsd 7.2 and it extracted without

RE: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-19 Thread Terrence Koeman
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of J.D. Bronson Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 3:23 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Backing up freebsd to 1 file? I have a freebsd 8.0 install

Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/04/2010 06:52:29, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: but I use zfs and I think that during shutdown, /etc/rc.d/zfs is called stop so it unmounts all zfs partition... (I did not tested...)... so It must be called /etc/rc.d/zfs start again...

Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Sergio == Sergio de Almeida Lenzi lenzi.ser...@gmail.com writes: It kills everything ungracefully and will screw up anything that needs to sync state to disk -- like mysql. Just use shutdown(8): it's what it's there for. # shutdown now Going single user to make backups Cheers,

Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/04/2010 16:16:21, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Nope. shutdown doesn't appear in /etc/rc.d/zfs keywords, so it won't get stop during normal shutdown. That must happen later. Dammit. I know this really -- but for some reason i had it in my head

Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-19 Thread Chris Rees
On 18 April 2010 15:56, J.D. Bronson jd_bron...@sbcglobal.net wrote:  be created by the time your system boots on. Nice answer by Sergio, but I personally would use the j option with tar to compress to bzip2; 3) tar --one-file-system -cvjf /mnt/backup.tbz ./ var usr home Though I prefer

Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-18 Thread J.D. Bronson
I have a freebsd 8.0 install and was wondering if it is possible to tar up the entire install...for backup purposes. # cd / # tar -cvf backup.tar {list of directories} then I can ftp the tar file out to another machine. This works in theory, but if I need to do a restore tar complains on 'tar

Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:23:12 -0500, J.D. Bronson jd_bron...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I have a freebsd 8.0 install and was wondering if it is possible to tar up the entire install...for backup purposes. # cd / # tar -cvf backup.tar {list of directories} then I can ftp the tar file out to

Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-18 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
I am very happy with the folowing Supose that you have mount ANOTHER device on /mnt 1) mount /dev/ /mnt 2) init 1 (this closes all applications and drop into single user) 3) tar --one-file-system -cvzf /mnt/backup.tar.gz ./ var usr home 4) umount /mnt 5) exit (reboot from single

Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-18 Thread Jan Hlodan
you can migrate to zfs and then create snapshot of whole disk, import this snapshot (e.g. via ssh) and then restore it back. Good luck. -- Jan Hlodan On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:23 PM, J.D. Bronson jd_bron...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I have a freebsd 8.0 install and was wondering if it is possible

Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-18 Thread Chris Rees
On 18 April 2010 15:37, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi lenzi.ser...@gmail.com wrote: I am very happy with the folowing Supose that you have mount ANOTHER device on /mnt 1) mount /dev/ /mnt 2) init 1  (this closes all applications and drop into single user) 3) tar --one-file-system

Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-18 Thread J.D. Bronson
be created by the time your system boots on. Nice answer by Sergio, but I personally would use the j option with tar to compress to bzip2; 3) tar --one-file-system -cvjf /mnt/backup.tbz ./ var usr home Though I prefer personally to use dump/restore because: - If you're on UFS, you don't

Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/04/2010 15:37:03, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: 2) init 1 (this closes all applications and drop into single user) It kills everything ungracefully and will screw up anything that needs to sync state to disk -- like mysql. Just use

Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/04/2010 15:19:32, Jan Hlodan wrote: you can migrate to zfs and then create snapshot of whole disk, import this snapshot (e.g. via ssh) and then restore it back. You can create snapshots with UFS too. It's a good way of getting a reasonably

Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-18 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, J.D. Bronson wrote: I have a freebsd 8.0 install and was wondering if it is possible to tar up the entire install...for backup purposes. # cd / # tar -cvf backup.tar {list of directories} then I can ftp the tar file out to another machine. This works in theory, but if I

Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-18 Thread J.D. Bronson
On 4/18/10 10:39 AM, Warren Block wrote: If you don't have any other drives, where will the backup file be stored so it survives a system failure or reinstall? Thoughts on this would be appreciated... dump/restore is the standard safe way; you can send it over ssh to back up to a file on

Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

2010-04-18 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
It kills everything ungracefully and will screw up anything that needs to sync state to disk -- like mysql. Just use shutdown(8): it's what it's there for. # shutdown now Going single user to make backups Cheers, Matthew Ok you are right... for me worked because I

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-13 Thread Jim Stapleton
Heh, FreeBSD is #1 to me because it is the most painless operating system I've ever used... Ignoring the 5.x installer. Never used pre-5.x -Jim On 6/12/06, Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Freebsd 4.x no doubt :) --- Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this on Netcraft

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/12/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, FreeBSD is #1 to me because it is the most painless operating system I've ever used... Ignoring the 5.x installer. Never used pre-5.x -Jim What do you mean 5.x? FreeBSD never made 5.x. They went straight from 4 to 6 like everybody else

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-13 Thread Danial Thom
intensive stress testing and QA by the project than 4.x did. It is stable. Kris I'm not saying that its not, only that I know a lot of ISPs and more of them are running 4 than 6. In fact I know exactly 0 running 6. So proclaiming that Freebsd is #1 without qualifying what

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 08:53, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/12/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, FreeBSD is #1 to me because it is the most painless operating system I've ever used... Ignoring the 5.x installer. Never used pre-5.x -Jim What do you mean 5.x? FreeBSD

FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Beech Rintoul
I found this on Netcraft and thought I'd share it: Six Hosting Companies Most Reliable Hoster in May. Six hosting companies share the top spot this month, with INetU, Hostway, IPower, New York Internet, Pair Networks andTiscali all sharing the top spot as the most reliable hosting company site

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Danial Thom
Freebsd 4.x no doubt :) --- Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this on Netcraft and thought I'd share it: Six Hosting Companies Most Reliable Hoster in May. Six hosting companies share the top spot this month, with INetU, Hostway, IPower, New York Internet, Pair Networks

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:36:24PM -0700, Danial Thom wrote: Freebsd 4.x no doubt :) At this point FreeBSD 6.x has had way more intensive stress testing and QA by the project than 4.x did. It is stable. Kris pgp3Ibgo80nS3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Monday 12 June 2006 13:36, Danial Thom wrote: Freebsd 4.x no doubt :) --- Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this on Netcraft and thought I'd share it: Six Hosting Companies Most Reliable Hoster in May. Six hosting companies share the top spot this month, with

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Danial Thom
not, only that I know a lot of ISPs and more of them are running 4 than 6. In fact I know exactly 0 running 6. So proclaiming that Freebsd is #1 without qualifying what version they are running doesn't really say anything. DT __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Beech Rintoul
. It is stable. Kris I'm not saying that its not, only that I know a lot of ISPs and more of them are running 4 than 6. In fact I know exactly 0 running 6. So proclaiming that Freebsd is #1 without qualifying what version they are running doesn't really say anything. While trying

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
. It is stable. Kris I'm not saying that its not, only that I know a lot of ISPs and more of them are running 4 than 6. In fact I know exactly 0 running 6. So proclaiming that Freebsd is #1 without qualifying what version they are running doesn't really say anything. We're small but we're running 6.0

Re: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Sergio Lenzi
While trying to introduce FreeBSD into a Micro$oft only house, I've heard the following many times: Never heard of FreeBSD and Show me some documentation and stats. Regardless of the actual version, the stats are accurate for those providers. They reflect overall uptime and

RE: FreeBSD is #1

2006-06-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danial Thom Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 5:06 PM To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Beech Rintoul Subject: Re: FreeBSD is #1 --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 12

5.4 Headless Installation from FreeBSD Disk 1?

2005-08-04 Thread Martin McCormick
I am attempting to install FreeBSD5.4 on a Dell Poweredge 1850 via the serial console. I went through the documentation again and found the following on the FreeBSD 5.4 documentation in installation-i386.txt FreeBSD/i386 5.4-RELEASE Installation Instructions -- snip --

Re: freebsd disc 1

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew P.
Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 5, 2005 2:53 AM, Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 00:46, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 9:54 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 12:04 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: Who

Re: freebsd disc 1

2005-04-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 00:46, Gert Cuykens wrote: Is the only way to setup a ftp by enabeling inetd ? If so i want a /etc/rc.d/ftpd script too Standard ftpd runs through inetd. It *can* run as a daemon, without inetd.

Re: freebsd disc 1

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew P.
Gert Cuykens wrote: Who do i ask if he / she would like to put this to the distribution list [ ] cvsupdate-nogui Cant we make some user freebsd-voting list were we can vote for changes :) Come to think about it, I kinda miss this option, too. Best wishes, Andrew P.

Re: freebsd disc 1

2005-04-04 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Apr 4, 2005 12:04 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: Who do i ask if he / she would like to put this to the distribution list [ ] cvsupdate-nogui Cant we make some user freebsd-voting list were we can vote for changes :) Come to think about it, I kinda miss

Re: freebsd disc 1

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew P.
Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 12:04 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: Who do i ask if he / she would like to put this to the distribution list [ ] cvsupdate-nogui Cant we make some user freebsd-voting list were we can vote for changes :) Come to think about it, I

Re: freebsd disc 1

2005-04-04 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Apr 4, 2005 9:54 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 12:04 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: Who do i ask if he / she would like to put this to the distribution list [ ] cvsupdate-nogui Cant we make some user

Re: freebsd disc 1

2005-04-04 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 00:46, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 9:54 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 12:04 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: Who do i ask if he / she would like to put this to the distribution list

Re: freebsd disc 1

2005-04-04 Thread Gert Cuykens
On Apr 5, 2005 2:53 AM, Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 00:46, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 9:54 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 12:04 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: Who do

freebsd disc 1

2005-04-03 Thread Gert Cuykens
Who do i ask if he / she would like to put this to the distribution list [ ] cvsupdate-nogui Cant we make some user freebsd-voting list were we can vote for changes :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

SoundBlaster Live, FreeBSD 4.9 #1

2003-09-20 Thread Erick Smith
I have recently made a FreeBSD 4.8 (now up to 4.9 #1 via CVSup) and can't get the sound to work. Naturally, I have a SoundBlaster Live card. My FreeBSD 5.1 installation has no problems with this card. The manual says I need a patch, though I've searched around on the internet and others

$CVSROOT/options file in FreeBSD cvs(1)

2002-11-15 Thread Roman Neuhauser
Hi there, I'm trying to make use of the FreeBSD hacks into cvs(1). I've read the Stijn Hoop's article in /usr/share/doc, and things partly works (I receive commit emails). What I can't get to work is custom tag expansion. roman@freepuppy ~/work/CVSROOT 1016:0 grep -rI BVista .

Re: $CVSROOT/options file in FreeBSD cvs(1)

2002-11-15 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-15 11:26:25 +0100: Hi there, I'm trying to make use of the FreeBSD hacks into cvs(1). I've read the Stijn Hoop's article in /usr/share/doc, and things partly works (I receive commit emails). What I can't get to work is custom tag expansion. got it to work.