Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-08 Thread Ray
On Monday 07 May 2007 11:16 pm, Ian Smith wrote: snip Ray, I've been watching this thread, and you've had some good advice about backups etc, but if you really did 'rm -f *' in /usr/local (NOT 'rm -rf *') then it's very likely that you deleted no files at all. snip sorry, should have said rm

harddisk failed strangely, badly need to recover data

2007-05-08 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Dear list. I added a 160 GB harddisk to the FreeBSD server several days ago. I have setup only one slice on it (/dev/ad6s1) and it has two partitions on it. /dev/ad6s1c is used as swap /dev/ad6s1d is used as /var Today I decided to reboot the FreeBSD server because I messed up nfs settings.

Problem with RRDTool reinstallation

2007-05-08 Thread Dinesh Pandian
Hello guys, I'm a new freebsd user and love the freebsd environment very much that I've not given up though I've been in some serious trouble, usually reinstalling the whole thing everytime it gets screwed. :) This server is close to deployment so I can't afford to reinstall. I get the following

Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-08 Thread Bernd Trippel
Martin Tournoij typed on 06/05/07 05:23: On Sat 05 May 2007 18:05, Garrett Cooper wrote: Martin Tournoij wrote: On Sat 05 May 2007 17:05, Ray wrote: Hello all, I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a clever hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if

Re: ppp.conf + resolv.conf

2007-05-08 Thread Tom Evans
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 18:32 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 JD Bronson wrote: I am using 6.2 as a DSL (PPPoE) router and also run my own internal DNS on the same machine. I would like to APPEND my ISP's dished out DNS servers to my current

Re: Problem with RRDTool reinstallation

2007-05-08 Thread Julien Gabel
This server is close to deployment so I can't afford to reinstall. I get the following error when I try to reinstall/install RRDTool. Must be caused by a failed portupgrade I did earlier. There are already 3 PRs for this problem : -

RE: Peak SOHO wired network camera.

2007-05-08 Thread Bob
Checking out the peakhardware's website I see this camera is distributed by a single company in the USA and their website does not list the camera for sale. I would pass on this camera. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of mal content Sent:

Re: Peak SOHO wired network camera.

2007-05-08 Thread mal content
On 08/05/07, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Checking out the peakhardware's website I see this camera is distributed by a single company in the USA and their website does not list the camera for sale. I would pass on this camera. Yes, I think you're right... MC

Re: (no subject)

2007-05-08 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Dienstag, den 08.05.2007, 02:58 +0400 schrieb Иван Алешкович: Good day I have a problem with compilation kernel. when i do make with attach file configuration novellkernel(GENERIC-original file configuration), i get error: -8 messages..., messages...,

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite? [semi-solved]

2007-05-08 Thread Olaf Greve
Hiya all, Well, I promised you guys a follow-up on this, and here's what I have found out (first the situation and solution, and then two small questions) The situation: Firstly, I took some measures to figure out where the issues came from, and using Apache's server-status handler

Wierd interface issues

2007-05-08 Thread Brent
Hello, I am running FBSD 6.2 Release #0 . We are seeing wierdness while connected to the machine with ssh. As long as my session stays active..i dont get connected but if i stay idle for more than 2-3 minutes ill get disconnected. Im seeing this in my daily log output, web.whatever.com kernel log

Sysinstall Drive Geometry

2007-05-08 Thread Lewis Joshua
Hello List, I am installing FreeBSD 6.2 on a DELL 2900 with a PERC 5i controller. There are three 750GB SATA drives using Hardware Raid 5. When I try to install FreeBSD I get errors when fdisking the drive. I have never had that problem with FreeBSD so I don't know what to do. Of course I

camcontrol

2007-05-08 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have a disk that may be going bad, SCSI. How do I tell camcontrol to stop using parts of the disk that show errors? such as: (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 3 ab d5 c1 0 0 e 0 (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:3abd5c1 asc:11,1 (da0:ahc0:0:1:0): Read retries exhausted

[solved] Re: harddisk failed strangely, badly need to recover data

2007-05-08 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Actually this is not solved. I have discovered that it will not be easy to solve this problem and decided to accept the lose of data, that's how it solved/ Basically the accident took place because one line in /etc/fstab was wrong. in /etc/fstab /dev/ad6s1c is used as swap, when FreeBSD boots,

Re: Rough go moving from 5.4-RELEASE to 6.X

2007-05-08 Thread Lane
On Monday 07 May 2007 20:58, RW wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2007 20:07:09 -0500 Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to upgrade from 5.4 to ANYTHING and I'm confounded by I've tried with (in /etc/cvsupfile) tag= each of RELENG_5, RELENG_5_5, RELENG_6, and several others. It even fails

Re: clock problem

2007-05-08 Thread Javier Henderson
On Tue, 8 May 2007 15:33:51 +0200 (CEST), Martin Dieringer wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2007, Oliver Fromme wrote: Martin Dieringer wrote: My clock is now _15 minutes_ late, after about 1 day with powerd running. ntpd is running also. Can nobody tell where the problem is here? Are you sure that

Re: ppp is broken???

2007-05-08 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Bob írta: The method you are using is obsolete. The following is all you need. Take special note of rc.conf statements to use. start of DSL ppp.conf ### default: set log Phase tun #use to avoid excessive log sizes set timeout 0

Re: Problem with RRDTool reinstallation

2007-05-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 08), Julien Gabel said: This server is close to deployment so I can't afford to reinstall. I get the following error when I try to reinstall/install RRDTool. Must be caused by a failed portupgrade I did earlier. There are already 3 PRs for this problem : -

Re: Rough go moving from 5.4-RELEASE to 6.X

2007-05-08 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 16:43, Lane wrote: On Monday 07 May 2007 20:58, RW wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2007 20:07:09 -0500 Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to upgrade from 5.4 to ANYTHING and I'm confounded by I've tried with (in /etc/cvsupfile) tag= each of RELENG_5,

Re: [solved] Re: harddisk failed strangely, badly need to recover data

2007-05-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:27:56PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Actually this is not solved. I have discovered that it will not be easy to solve this problem and decided to accept the lose of data, that's how it solved/ Basically the accident took place because one line in /etc/fstab was

Re: Sysinstall Drive Geometry

2007-05-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 08 May Lewis Joshua wrote: The funny thing is I can fdisk the drive auto create the /, /swap, / temp, /var, /usr and just keep going no biggie. The system installs fine and boots and is doing a cvsup as we speak. So I don't even know if I should worry about it. I have seen this question SO

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite? [semi-solved]

2007-05-08 Thread Howard MITCHell Feldman
Here's what I do with spammers and others I want to keep out of my server... I make an IP entry into my /etc/hosts.deny file of those I want to deny access to my server. Then I make an entry in my /etc/hosts.allow file that denies access to all in my hosts.deny file. That entry is the first

Re: ppp is broken???

2007-05-08 Thread RW
On Mon, 7 May 2007 10:25:20 -0400 Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The format of the statement to add is ifconfig_=up where is the NIC's FBSD interface name used by PPPoE that you specified in the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file. ee /etc/rc.conf # add following statements ifconfig_=up

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite? [semi-solved]

2007-05-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 8, 2007, at 5:51 AM, Olaf Greve wrote: [ ... ] -Can anyone recommend me proper anti spam authorities to whom I can report the IP addresses that caused the issues on my machine? Try doing a WHOIS lookup on the IP address, and send a report containing sample httpd-access log lines or

Open Source Streaming Tools

2007-05-08 Thread Sean Murphy
Is there any open source software to create playlists, hinted movies, encoding, etc for use with Darwin Streaming Server running on FreeBSD. I have the Streaming Server working but would like the tools to be open source as well such as quicktime pro, broadcaster, qtss publisher. Thanks

Re: Rough go moving from 5.4-RELEASE to 6.X

2007-05-08 Thread Lane
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 09:51, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: You do rm -r /usr/obj, everytime right? There is this note in /usr/src/UPDATING, which I am currently tracking snip buildworld and make kernel (see below) to fix this problem. Did you try building 5.4-RELEASE? Just to rule out the

Another slightly OT q...

2007-05-08 Thread Gary Kline
Hey Guys, Does anybody have any websites where I can look up the latest in compression technology? I've got a very thin ISDL link so pulling streams over is like looking at postage-stamp images. There were whispers about fractal-compression as being the

Re: Open Source Streaming Tools

2007-05-08 Thread Chris Slothouber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2007-05-08 12:51, Sean Murphy wrote: Is there any open source software to create playlists, hinted movies, encoding, etc for use with Darwin Streaming Server running on FreeBSD. I have the Streaming Server working but would like the tools to

Re: Open Source Streaming Tools

2007-05-08 Thread Schiz0
On 5/8/07, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any open source software to create playlists, hinted movies, encoding, etc for use with Darwin Streaming Server running on FreeBSD. I have the Streaming Server working but would like the tools to be open source as well such as quicktime

Re: Open Source Streaming Tools

2007-05-08 Thread Schiz0
On 5/8/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/8/07, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any open source software to create playlists, hinted movies, encoding, etc for use with Darwin Streaming Server running on FreeBSD. I have the Streaming Server working but would like the

Re: Another slightly OT q...

2007-05-08 Thread usleepless
On 5/8/07, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Guys, Does anybody have any websites where I can look up the latest in compression technology? I've got a very thin ISDL link so pulling streams over is like looking at postage-stamp images. There were

Re: Anyone dual booted freebsd/vista yet?

2007-05-08 Thread Apatewna
O/H Jerry McAllister έγραψε: On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 07:09:16PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Friday 04 May 2007 16:01:38 Jeff Palmer wrote: At 03:26 PM 5/4/2007, Jonathan Horne wrote: Has anyone successful configured a freebsd/vista dual boot, and if so, how did you get around this

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite? [semi-solved]

2007-05-08 Thread Gary Palmer
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 02:51:45PM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: The questions: -Can anyone recommend me proper anti spam authorities to whom I can report the IP addresses that caused the issues on my machine? 99.99% of the hits will be from zombie PCs which have one or more virus

Re: Open Source Streaming Tools

2007-05-08 Thread Kevin Downey
On 5/8/07, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any open source software to create playlists, hinted movies, encoding, etc for use with Darwin Streaming Server running on FreeBSD. I have the Streaming Server working but would like the tools to be open source as well such as quicktime

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite? [semi-solved]

2007-05-08 Thread Ray
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 1:57 pm, Gary Palmer wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 02:51:45PM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: The questions: -Can anyone recommend me proper anti spam authorities to whom I can report the IP addresses that caused the issues on my machine? 99.99% of the hits will

Re: Another slightly OT q...

2007-05-08 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:16:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/8/07, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Guys, Does anybody have any websites where I can look up the latest in compression technology? I've got a very thin ISDL link so pulling streams over

ip refresh, resolv.conf and local scripts on startup?

2007-05-08 Thread Jack Barnett
I have a script that updates some dynamic DNS records (can be run as non-root if needed). It needs to be run on startup - after network is configured and after rc.firewall (it'll get blocked if it's run before the firewall is setup). What is a good place to put this? I could put it at the end

Re: Another slightly OT q...

2007-05-08 Thread usleepless
Gary, On 5/8/07, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:16:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/8/07, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Guys, Does anybody have any websites where I can look up the latest in compression technology?

RE: Manual mount root issue

2007-05-08 Thread David Cramblett
My FreeBSD 5.2.1 server had a 4.5 GB HDD. I decided to upgrade it with a larger drive. I installed a new drive on the second IDE channel which made it ad2, of course, my original drive was ad0. I created a partition, boot loader and matching slices on the new drive. Then I copied the old

how could I add perl to my FreeNAS install?

2007-05-08 Thread Justin Muir
Hi, Does anyone have any idea how I could do this? I see that some people are building custom binaries...are there pre-fabbed ones? Thx, J __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

dual monitors?

2007-05-08 Thread Jonathan Horne
anyone out there running dual monitors in FreeBSD? if so, what is your setup? single display adapter/2 heads, or 2 seperate adapters? i have a nvidia 7300 GS with 2 heads, and im thinking about picking up another monitor like im currently runing, before the *blip* off the market, but im

Re: dual monitors?

2007-05-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 8 May 2007 at 18:15:52 -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: anyone out there running dual monitors in FreeBSD? Yes. if so, what is your setup? single display adapter/2 heads, or 2 seperate adapters? I'm using separate adaptors. Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/grog/hardware.html

Re: FreeBSD Java and Openoffice.org 2.0.3

2007-05-08 Thread Christopher Hilton
Robert Huff wrote: I've never tried OO 2.*+JDK 1.4; however, OO 2.*+JDK 1.5 and OO 1.1+JDK 1.4 have both worked for me. YOu might get better information on the openoffice@ list. Thanks for the tip. The 1.4 build wasn't that tough. I'll try the 1.5 build and see how it goes.

Re: dual monitors?

2007-05-08 Thread Bruce Holmes
I'm running 2 monitors with the 7600GS. Configuration is easy, you can email me privately if you have problems getting things set up. This URL should answer a lot of config questions for you. http://http.download.nvidia.com/freebsd/1.0-9625/README/index.html I've only got a couple of

Re: dual monitors?

2007-05-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On May 8, 2007 6:15:52 PM -0500 Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone out there running dual monitors in FreeBSD? Of course. if so, what is your setup? single display adapter/2 heads, or 2 seperate adapters? Single adaptor, two heads. i have a nvidia 7300 GS with 2 heads,

Re: dual monitors?

2007-05-08 Thread youshi10
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 8 May 2007 at 18:15:52 -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: anyone out there running dual monitors in FreeBSD? Yes. if so, what is your setup? single display adapter/2 heads, or 2 seperate adapters? I'm using separate adaptors. Take a

Re: dual monitors?

2007-05-08 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 8 May 2007 at 17:22:15 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 May 2007, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: If you follow up on something I wrote, please copy me. See http://www.lemis.com/questions.html for more details. On Tuesday, 8 May 2007 at 18:15:52 -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote:

FOSS movement in Eugene Oregon is looking for help.

2007-05-08 Thread Chad Thompson
Attention Free and Open Source Software advocates!! The City of Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A. is currently looking for an *Infrastructure and Service Desk Manager*. What I, an anonymous employee and free and open source software advocate is looking for is someone to apply for this job who canA)

Re: Anyone dual booted freebsd/vista yet?

2007-05-08 Thread RW
On Fri, 4 May 2007 19:09:16 -0500 Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 May 2007 16:01:38 Jeff Palmer wrote: 2) as i was installing the gag per recommendation, this ended what appeared to be successfully, but in the end, i didnt have gag. Gag runs on a floppy or other

cannot email to the jail from the host

2007-05-08 Thread Jonathan Horne
i have a host, that runs a jail that is my network's email server. the host, cannot send mails to the jail. (host is canopus, jail is pollux) example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mail No mail for jhorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ifconfig|mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] then, in my host's maillog, i see:

RE: FOSS movement in Eugene Oregon is looking for help.

2007-05-08 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Thompson Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 5:39 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FOSS movement in Eugene Oregon is looking for help. Attention Free and Open Source Software advocates!!

7 install

2007-05-08 Thread User Iam
Hi I am doing a fresh install of 7.0 When I get the part when it asks for install media. I select cd/dvd disk And It claims it can't find it??? This is the disk I booted off TIA User Iam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Another slightly OT q...

2007-05-08 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:22:31PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary, On 5/8/07, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:16:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/8/07, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Guys, Does anybody have any websites

RE: Another slightly OT q...

2007-05-08 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kline Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 7:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Gary Kline; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Another slightly OT q... So it *was* a hoax? Rats. Some weeks ago on