Re: xRAID disks....

2008-06-12 Thread DA Forsyth
On 10 Jun 2008 , Erik Trulsson entreated about "Re: xRAID disks": > > I suspect the raidinfo is stored on the disk somewhere and a suitable > > 'dd' command can erase it. but where and how? > > That kind of information is usually stored last on the disk (where it is > least likely to be ov

Re: xRAID disks....

2008-06-12 Thread DA Forsyth
On 10 Jun 2008 , Erik Trulsson entreated about "Re: xRAID disks": > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 04:56:07PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > > > The pair of ex-RAID disks are ad1 and ad2 and obviously are no longer > > > a raid pair, yet 'something' is telling the ar() driver to try and > > >

RE: OT: lots of IPv6 DNS requests

2008-06-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Nameservers are hitting an address of yours. Therefore something is probably handing out your address. Somebody (that would be me) has looked up the address in question and even looked up the nameserver which is handing out that address in a glue record. A simple problem EASILY solved. than

Re: two monitors, two displays, one PC

2008-06-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
In the last 4 months I bought a new monitor to replace the one that clunked out in me. I am currently using it with an old PS2 type keyboard and mouse attached to a creaky old desktop that will eventually be replaced. Likely I will want to replace it with a laptop with wifi and a lot more me

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
David It is my understanding that since 1995 all computers must have a hardware back door that permits undetectable access by the government to the computer. This capability can be implemented using System Monitor(Maintenance) Mode which is built into all x86 computers now. It would appear that

Re: Effects of CPUTYPE

2008-06-12 Thread Torben Jakobsen
> [image removed] > > Re: Effects of CPUTYPE > > Wojciech Puchar > > to: > > freebsd-questions, parish > > 2008-06-11 20:31 > > Sent by: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > In my personal opinion, the small gain you get is more than > > > overwhelmed by the big pain you get from setting CPUTYPE

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-12 Thread perryh
> How do you know that the bios has not been reflashed by a virus, > trojan, or rootkit? For that matter, how do you know that the *original* bios was free of "interesting non-essentials"? It's been a few years since bios were delivered in socketed ROMs/EPROMs (readable by a standalone device, in

Re: xRAID disks....

2008-06-12 Thread DA Forsyth
On 12 Jun 2008 , DA Forsyth entreated about "Re: xRAID disks": > hmmm, thinking now the gmirror create/remove route will probably > work. let me try it on a blankish disk and see this appears to be the answer to the question: how to stop ar recognizing a disk that used to be on a raid

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:50:36PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I brought a new ThinkPad T61 for work, the hardware is as follows: T7300(2GHz), 2GB RAM, 120GB 5400rpm HD, 15.4in 1680x1050 LCD, 128MB nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M, CDRW/DVDRW, Intel 802.11agn(n-disa

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-12 Thread perryh
> > It is my understanding that since 1995 all computers must have > > a hardware back door that permits undetectable access by the > > government to the computer. This capability can be implemented > > using System Monitor(Maintenance) Mode which is built into all > > x86 computers now. It wo

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-12 Thread Valerio Daelli
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:50:36PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I brought a new ThinkPad T61 for work, the hardware is as follows: >>> >>> T7300(2GHz), 2GB RAM, 1

RE: reboot after panic : page fault for two consecutive days nowwith FreeBSD stable 7.0

2008-06-12 Thread 1
I had a similar problem when I tried to use kgdb to diagnose a page fault. I found that it worked fine on another vmcore from the next crash - without any knowledge of the subject, I assume that sometimes when FreeBSD crashed it was unable to write a correct vmcore? Anyway, try it again with ot

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Is FreeBSD going to enhance himself on the desktop ? It seems that FreeBSD i don't understand your question. FreeBSD can run any unix program, be in "server program" or "desktop program" whatever "desktop" means for you. there is nothing to be enhanced. ___

RE: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-12 Thread Daniel Eriksson
Anders Häggström wrote: > I plan to install a web server for production use and ZFS looks very > interesting, especially since it has built-in support for RAID and > checksum. ZFS is very nice, but slightly over-hyped imho. However, some of the hype is warranted and for some use cases ZFS is a m

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-12 Thread dfeustel
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:03:00AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do you know that the bios has not been reflashed by a virus, > > trojan, or rootkit? > > For that matter, how do you know that the *original* bios was free > of "interesting non-essentials"? It's been a few years since bio

linux_sys_futex: unknown op 128

2008-06-12 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi all, i have this weird log in my /var/log/messages, it keeps showing Jun 12 06:53:36 kernel: linux_sys_futex: unknown op Jun 12 06:53:36 kernel: 128 Jun 12 06:53:36 kernel: linux_sys_futex: unknown op 128 and it seems to have something to do with my flash plugin, as I kill npviewer, thi

Re: dell wireless

2008-06-12 Thread tholoko
I didn't find nothing about this card on web!!! Is there any generic driver? What's the chipset? Maybe Intel? THanks! Philippe Schottey wrote: > > Hello, > > I just bought a dell inspiron 1525. > Included is a Dell™ Wireless 1395 802.11b/g Mini-Card - Europe > Can this card be used on FreeBS

Installing FreeBSD

2008-06-12 Thread Telpiz Sorin
 tried several times to install 7.0-RELEASE x amd64 on my friend's machine that is eqiupped with hard drive manufactured by Samsung. The hard drive (master) appears to have SATA interface, nonetheless SYSINSTALL regognizes it as ad04! Besides, SYSINSTALL complains about the disk's geometry . The

RE: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ZFS is very nice, but slightly over-hyped imho. not slightly and not only over-hyped. it's definitely far from being for storage as "VM is for memory". for example you can't select per file (or at least - per pseudo-filesystem) if you want no protection, mirrored or raidz. you must have dis

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2008-06-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
 tried several times to install 7.0-RELEASE x amd64 on my friend's machine that is eqiupped with hard drive manufactured by Samsung. The hard drive (master) appears to have SATA interface, nonetheless SYSINSTALL regognizes it as ad04! what do you expect to be recognized as? it's OK The tex

Re: linux_sys_futex: unknown op 128

2008-06-12 Thread Aline de Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Em Thursday 12 June 2008 07:55:55 Tsu-Fan Cheng escreveu: > hi all, > i have this weird log in my /var/log/messages, it keeps showing > > Jun 12 06:53:36 kernel: linux_sys_futex: unknown op > Jun 12 06:53:36 kernel: 128 > Jun 12 06:53:36 kernel:

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
of "interesting non-essentials"? It's been a few years since bios were delivered in socketed ROMs/EPROMs (readable by a standalone device, independently of their own operation) or since sources were typically published :) now they are standard devices too, just not socketed, you may unsolder an

How

2008-06-12 Thread Austin Evans
I had a question concerning how to, suggest a feature in freebsd. But I did not know who to email, I am very new to this open-source feel, and was just wondering who, or where I post a suggestion. ~Austin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: linux_sys_futex: unknown op 128

2008-06-12 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
i c, will do that, thank you!! TFC On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Aline de Freitas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Em Thursday 12 June 2008 07:55:55 Tsu-Fan Cheng escreveu: >> hi all, >> i have this weird log in my /var/log/messages, it keeps

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-12 Thread David Naylor
On Wednesday 11 June 2008 23:47:43 you wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:25:32PM +0200, David Naylor wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Today I read an article describing how my government had lost ZAR200 000 > > 000 from fraud. This is just under $25 000 000. The article credited > > this loss largely

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2008-06-12 Thread DA Forsyth
On 12 Jun 2008 , Telpiz Sorin entreated about "Installing FreeBSD": >  tried several times to install 7.0-RELEASE x amd64 on my > friend's machine that is eqiupped with hard drive manufactured by > Samsung. The hard drive (master) appears to have SATA interface, > nonetheless SYSINSTALL regognize

How

2008-06-12 Thread Robert Huff
Austin Evans writes: > I had a question concerning how to, suggest a feature in > freebsd. But I did not know who to email, I am very new to this > open-source feel, and was just wondering who, or where I post a > suggestion. One possibility: 1) Propose it here. Perhaps it's

Re: dell wireless

2008-06-12 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Thursday 12 June 2008 08:07:12 tholoko wrote: > I didn't find nothing about this card on web!!! > > Is there any generic driver? What's the chipset? Maybe Intel? > > THanks! > > Philippe Schottey wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just bought a dell inspiron 1525. > > Included is a Dell™ Wireless 1395

Re: Static NAT and PAT on FreeBSD 6.2

2008-06-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:17:11 -0400 Matt Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have continued to experiment and am still running into the same issues. > Anyone? > > -Matt > > On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Matt Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I am running Fre

new hardware - compatible?

2008-06-12 Thread Brad Mettee
Hi all, I'm new to FreeBSD and don't have a lot of time to go digging through archives/info to find answers, so excuse this if it's a "noob" question. It's an emergency server build, and needs to be solid and fast. Will FreeBSD have any problems running on the following hardware? Which would

Fwd: twe0 interrupt storm

2008-06-12 Thread Stanislav
Hi, I have problem on FreeBSD 6.2, 7.0 with 3ware 8006-2LP RAID-1 controller: Model 8006-2LP Serial # L018501C7271467 Firmware FE8S 1.05.00.068 Driver1.50.01.002 BIOS BE7X 1.08.00.048 Monitor ME7X 1.01.00.040 Memory Installed 512 kB # of Ports2 #

Re: new hardware - compatible?

2008-06-12 Thread Pascal S Clermont
Brad Mettee wrote: Hi all, I'm new to FreeBSD and don't have a lot of time to go digging through archives/info to find answers, so excuse this if it's a "noob" question. It's an emergency server build, and needs to be solid and fast. Will FreeBSD have any problems running on the following ha

Re: How

2008-06-12 Thread Simon Chang
> I had a question concerning how to, suggest a feature in freebsd. But I did > not know who to email, I am very new to this open-source feel, and was just > wondering who, or where I post a suggestion. You have the right mailing list, so go ahead with your question/comment. Just know that if you

Re: use a specific php.ini for php cli

2008-06-12 Thread AlexW474
On Jun 4, 3:31 pm, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to Nicolas Letellier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello. > > > I would like to know if it is possible to have anotherphp.ini forphp > > command line? I have aphp.ini with many restrictions (open_basedir, > > disabled functions,

Re: Nanobsd on a CD-ROM

2008-06-12 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 J. Porter Clark wrote: | Is it possible to build a CD-ROM with a bootable NanoBSD on it? | If so, how? | Yes, Section 2.2 of http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/index.html - -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://g

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Is FreeBSD going to enhance himself on the desktop ? It seems that FreeBSD i don't understand your question. FreeBSD can run any unix program, be in "server program" or "desktop program" whatever "desktop" means for you. there is nothing to be enhanced. For example,

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 04:40:36PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:50:36PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>Hi all, > >> > >>I brought a new ThinkPad T61 for work, the hardware is as follows: > >> > >>T7300(2GHz), 2GB RAM, 120GB 5400rp

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-12 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:25:32PM +0200, David Naylor wrote: > > Hi All, > > Today I read an article describing how my government had lost ZAR200 000 000 > from fraud. This is just under $25 000 000. The article credited this loss > largely due to the use of spyware. > > My question is how

RE: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-12 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:37 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > for example you can't select per file (or at least - per > pseudo-filesystem) if you want no protection, mirrored or raidz. Isn't it a pity that the fbsd implementation of ZFS lacks such a feature. Your anti stories of ZFS often show t

Re: Nanobsd on a CD-ROM

2008-06-12 Thread J. Porter Clark
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 04:40:25PM +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > > J. Porter Clark wrote: > | Is it possible to build a CD-ROM with a bootable NanoBSD on it? > | If so, how? > > Yes, Section 2.2 of > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/index.html Well, no, because I can't do this:

Re: new hardware - compatible?

2008-06-12 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Brad Mettee wrote: Hi all, I'm new to FreeBSD and don't have a lot of time to go digging through archives/info to find answers, so excuse this if it's a "noob" question. It's an emergency server build, and needs to be solid and fast. Will FreeBSD have any problems running on the following ha

sound card

2008-06-12 Thread Joey Mingrone
Hi, I'm trying to determine what sound card a notebook has. There are three relevant dmesg lines below, but looking at freebsd's hardware notes, I can't tell whether I should use the snd_ich(4) driver for an Intel ICH4 card, the snd_hda(4) driver for an 82801 card or a sigmatel card. Any suggest

Re: dell wireless

2008-06-12 Thread Camilo Reyes
Do a lookup on what pciconf -lv says...then do a search on Google to find the chipset driver. "Bono Vince Malum" -Camilo > I didn't find nothing about this card on web!!! > > Is there any generic driver? What's the chipset? Maybe > Intel? > __

determining sound card device from /var/run/dmesg.boot

2008-06-12 Thread Joey Mingrone
Hi, I'm trying to determine what sound card a notebook has. There are three relevant dmesg lines below, but looking at freebsd's hardware notes, I can't tell whether I should use the snd_ich(4) driver for an Intel ICH4 card, the snd_hda(4) driver for an 82801 card or a sigmatel card. Any suggest

RE: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
pseudo-filesystem) if you want no protection, mirrored or raidz. Isn't it a pity that the fbsd implementation of ZFS lacks such a feature. Your anti stories of ZFS often show these aspects. Almost none of your comments on zfs are valid in Solaris. AFAIK on solaris set copies= and what i told b

Re: new hardware - compatible?

2008-06-12 Thread Robert Andersson
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:35:39 -0400 Brad Mettee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Intel Quad Core Extreme 3Ghz, LGA775 > Asus P5K-E Motherboard (P35 chipset, Onboard LAN) > 4G Kingston DDR 2 RAM (PC2 6400) > Seagate 500G, SATA 2, 7200RPM > GeForce 7200GS 128MB 32-bit GDDR2 PCI-E x16 Video Card (basicall

Re: sound card

2008-06-12 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2008-06-12 12:28:06 UTC-0300, Joey Mingrone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to determine what sound card a notebook has. There are > three relevant dmesg lines below, but looking at freebsd's hardware > notes, I can't tell whether I should use the snd_ich(4) driver for an > Intel I

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 12, 2008, at 8:19 AM, David Naylor wrote: I think this argument is rather mute, just because there are no programs exploiting security vulnerabilities does not been there are not vulnerabilities, But it is far from moot if you are interested in the actual threat against your system.

Re: Nanobsd on a CD-ROM

2008-06-12 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 J. Porter Clark wrote: | On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 04:40:25PM +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote: |> J. Porter Clark wrote: |> | Is it possible to build a CD-ROM with a bootable NanoBSD on it? |> | If so, how? |> |> Yes, Section 2.2 of |> |> http://www.freeb

Re: sound card

2008-06-12 Thread Peter Boosten
Joey Mingrone wrote: Hi, I'm trying to determine what sound card a notebook has. There are three relevant dmesg lines below, but looking at freebsd's hardware notes, I can't tell whether I should use the snd_ich(4) driver for an Intel ICH4 card, the snd_hda(4) driver for an 82801 card or a si

Re: new hardware - compatible?

2008-06-12 Thread Josh Carroll
> Intel Quad Core Extreme 3Ghz, LGA775 > Asus P5K-E Motherboard (P35 chipset, Onboard LAN) I have the same motherboard, and it runs great on 7.0-RELEASE (amd64). I do not, however, use the onboard ethernet controller. I use a pair of em cards, so I can't speak to the Marvell Gigabit chipset and wh

Re: sound card

2008-06-12 Thread jeff
Joey, More than likely snd_ich but best bet is to: kldunload snd_driver kldload snd_ich dmesg if pcm0 doesn't load then: kldload snd_hda Jeff Hi, I'm trying to determine what sound card a notebook has. There are three relevant dmesg lines below, but looking at freebsd's hardware notes, I can't

Re: use a specific php.ini for php cli

2008-06-12 Thread AlexW474
On Jun 12, 5:24 pm, AlexW474 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 4, 3:31 pm, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > In response to Nicolas Letellier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Hello. > > > > I would like to know if it is possible to have anotherphp.ini forphp > > > command line? I have a

Intel Dual PRO/1000 Nic - Setup of shared code failed

2008-06-12 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
I just got an Intel Dual gigabit nic that I planned to use with FreeBSD 7-STABLE. On startup neither of the Nics attach to the kernel. They give up with an error message of: "Setup of shared code failed" I hunted around on Google for this last night and found something about the cards

Asus A7V-E and ACPI.

2008-06-12 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
I'm running a Fileserver on a now ancient Asus A7V-E box. Until last week this box ran FreeBSD 6.2 and it worked okay. Now it runs 7.0- STABLE. Before last night I had a pair of PCI Dec Tulip Nics in it. I've since replaced that with a Dual Intel Pro/100 (yes, 100, not 1000 if you saw my oth

ZFS mount points

2008-06-12 Thread Forrest Aldrich
What precautions could I take to prevent users from writing to a portion of a ZFS mount point that might fill up the underlying filesystem that wouldn't impede writes to that ZFS mount point. For example: /foo/bar/volume If some program accidentally started writing to /foo/bar, as far as I u

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
But it is far from moot if you are interested in the actual threat against your system. In a sense, using a less popular OS is a form of "security by obscurity" which is not to be heavily relied on, but still it does make a real, practical, difference in the case that you described. FreeBSD

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-12 Thread Novembre
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Tore Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Novembre wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not > > subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From > time > > to time, I see posts which I can actua

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-12 Thread Novembre
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Andrew Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10-Jun-08, at 12:10 AM, Novembre wrote: > > So to be more specific, how can I answer to a post from a mailing list >> from >> within my, e.g., GMail or Yahoo! mailboxes? >> > > You might be able to use telnet to open a

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-12 Thread Tore Lund
Novembre wrote: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Tore Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Novembre wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is there any way to answer the posts in the mailing lists if one is not >>> subscribed to the list and does not receive them in his mailbox? From >> time >>> to time, I see p

Re: Poor read() performance, and I can't profile it

2008-06-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Chuck Swiger wrote: > If your data files are small enough to fit into 2GB of address space, > try using mmap() and then treat the file(s) as an array of records or > memoblocks or whatever, and let the VM system deal with paging in the > parts of the file you need. Othe

Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Berry
Novembre wrote: I tried to telnet to smtp.gmail.com, but it didn't work. Is that what you meant? Pretty much. The problem you're having is caused partially by being unable to manually set headers in many mail clients. If you have a server with Sendmail set up which can send outbound email you

Rsync From FreeBSD To Windows

2008-06-12 Thread Tim Daneliuk
I have an smbfs share that mounts at boot time on a 6.3-STABLE system. I want to rsync from a FreeBSD directory to the Windows share. For reasons I seem to not be able to discover, rsync insists on copying every file, every time. The exact command is: rsync -va /FreeBSD-dir-tree /windows-mo

Re: Rsync From FreeBSD To Windows

2008-06-12 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I have an smbfs share that mounts at boot time on a 6.3-STABLE system. > I want to rsync from a FreeBSD directory to the Windows share. For > reasons I seem to not be able to discover, rsync insists on copying > every file, every time. The exact command is: > > rsync -

Intel Dual PRO/1000 Nic - Setup of shared code failed

2008-06-12 Thread Robert Huff
Christopher Sean Hilton writes: > I just got an Intel Dual gigabit nic that I planned to use with > FreeBSD 7-STABLE. I'm using this on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Apr 19 23:17:00 EDT 2008 i386 with no problems. Robert Huff _

Stripe sizes with gstripe

2008-06-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
Does gstripe read an entire stripe at a time? If so, why do that instead of just reading a few requested blocks? If not, then is there any advantage to large stripes? -- Kirk Strauser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-12 Thread David Naylor
On Thursday 12 June 2008 18:43:40 you wrote: > On Jun 12, 2008, at 8:19 AM, David Naylor wrote: > > I think this argument is rather mute, just because there are no > > programs > > exploiting security vulnerabilities does not been there are not > > vulnerabilities, > > But it is far from moot if yo

Upgrading a System from Freebsd6.2 to 6.3

2008-06-12 Thread Martin McCormick
Can I upgrade a system from 6.2 to 6.3 by changing the *default tag=RELENG_6_2 line in my cvs-supfile to *default tag=RELENG_6_3 Then, I just do the usual remaking of the world and kernel. I don't know if I missed it, but I did not even find the word 'upgrade' in the ha

Re: Intel Dual PRO/1000 Nic - Setup of shared code failed

2008-06-12 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Jun 12, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Christopher Sean Hilton writes: I just got an Intel Dual gigabit nic that I planned to use with FreeBSD 7-STABLE. I'm using this on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Apr 19 23:17:00 EDT 2008 i386 with no problems. Sounds cool.

Re: Intel Dual PRO/1000 Nic - Setup of shared code failed

2008-06-12 Thread Robert Huff
Christopher Sean Hilton writes: > >> I just got an Intel Dual gigabit nic that I planned to use with > >> FreeBSD 7-STABLE. > > > >I'm using this on > > > > FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Apr 19 23:17:00 EDT 2008 i386 > > > > > >with no problems. > > Sounds cool. I had one going

Samba & FreeBSD

2008-06-12 Thread white list
hope to be in the right place, I'm seeking help join a FreeBSD 6.2 machine to a ADS Windows 2008. when I execute "net ads join -U Administrator" I get a "/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.8: Undefined symbol "init_error_table" error message. [global] dos charset = cp866 uni

Re: Upgrading a System from Freebsd6.2 to 6.3

2008-06-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Martin McCormick wrote: > Can I upgrade a system from 6.2 to 6.3 by changing the > > *default tag=RELENG_6_2 > line in my cvs-supfile to > *default tag=RELENG_6_3 > > Then, I just do the usual remaking of the world and > kernel. Yep! Be sure to check in /usr/

Re: Samba & FreeBSD

2008-06-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:36 PM 6/12/2008, white list wrote: hope to be in the right place, I'm seeking help join a FreeBSD 6.2 machine to a ADS Windows 2008. when I execute "net ads join -U Administrator" I get a "/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.8: Undefined symbol "init_error_table" error message. [glob

Re: multiple ntpd processes

2008-06-12 Thread Nerius Landys
In addition, here are the contents of my /etc/ntp.conf file: server 0.us.pool.ntp.org server 1.us.pool.ntp.org server 2.us.pool.ntp.org server 3.us.pool.ntp.org restrict default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery I'm running FreeBSD 7.0, and I have 'ntpd_enable="YES"' in my /etc/rc.conf. > Every

multiple ntpd processes

2008-06-12 Thread Nerius Landys
I'm running FreeBSD 7.0, and I have 'ntpd_enable="YES"' in my /etc/rc.conf. Every time I reboot my server, I get two ntpd processes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps -U root | grep ntpd PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 571 ?? Ss 0:00.12 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid 686 ??

Re: sound card

2008-06-12 Thread Joey Mingrone
Thank you all for your replies. It was snd_ich. And sorry for the double post to the list. Despite having the list option "Receive your own posts to the list" set, it seems when I send messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't get my own copy. I reread the mailing list info on the freebsd.org page

Re: Intel Dual PRO/1000 Nic - Setup of shared code failed

2008-06-12 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Jun 12, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Christopher Sean Hilton writes: I just got an Intel Dual gigabit nic that I planned to use with FreeBSD 7-STABLE. I'm using this on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Apr 19 23:17:00 EDT 2008 i386 with no problems. Sounds cool.

Re: Intel Dual PRO/1000 Nic - Setup of shared code failed

2008-06-12 Thread Robert Huff
Christopher Sean Hilton writes: > I can try that later but given that the em driver is already in the > kernel I don't expect it to bear fruit. However, can you do a kldstat > on your machine with the em card? It will tell me if there is some > firmware module or something that I'm miss

Re: Intel Dual PRO/1000 Nic - Setup of shared code failed

2008-06-12 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Jun 12, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Christopher Sean Hilton writes: I can try that later but given that the em driver is already in the kernel I don't expect it to bear fruit. However, can you do a kldstat on your machine with the em card? It will tell me if there is some firmwar

Re: multiple ntpd processes

2008-06-12 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 02:17:46PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 7.0, and I have 'ntpd_enable="YES"' in my /etc/rc.conf. > Every time I reboot my server, I get two ntpd processes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps -U root | grep ntpd > PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND > 571 ?? Ss

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Is FreeBSD going to enhance himself on the desktop ? It seems that FreeBSD i don't understand your question. FreeBSD can run any unix program, be in "server program" or "desktop program" whatever "desktop" means for you. there is nothing to be enhanced. I beg to diff

Tried to symlink /etc to another disk, now stuck

2008-06-12 Thread Glenn Gillis
I think I did just about the worst thing I could do to my organization's FreeBSD-4.11 email server today: I was trying to free up space on the root disk and attempted to copy the /etc directory to another disk, /new/etc, then delete and symlink the old location to the new: $ sudo cp -Rp /etc /n

Re: Tried to symlink /etc to another disk, now stuck

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
Glenn Gillis wrote: Now, I cannot log in as a privileged user to copy or move /new/etc back to /etc. (Because the password files were also in /etc.) I've tried booting into Single User mode with "boot -s" at the boot prompt, only to receive a "mountroot>" prompt wanting to know where to find the

Re: IPv6 jails for FreeBSD (6.* preferably)

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
Daniel Gerzo wrote: Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 8:27:56 PM, you wrote: does patch exist for it? http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/jail.html Trying to apply the aforementioned patches, I ran into this during buildkernel. I'll remove src, re csup and rebuild and try again. If there is a more a

Re: Stripe sizes with gstripe

2008-06-12 Thread David Kelly
On Jun 12, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Kirk Strauser wrote: Does gstripe read an entire stripe at a time? If so, why do that instead of just reading a few requested blocks? If not, then is there any advantage to large stripes? Apparently it won't read anything larger than your stripe size which

Re: Tried to symlink /etc to another disk, now stuck

2008-06-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 12), Glenn Gillis said: > I think I did just about the worst thing I could do to my > organization's FreeBSD-4.11 email server today: > > I was trying to free up space on the root disk and attempted to copy > the /etc directory to another disk, /new/etc, then delete and sy

Re: Tried to symlink /etc to another disk, now stuck

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
Dan Nelson wrote: To make a long story shorter, is there any hope for getting a privileged user account on this machine to move /etc back to where it should be? It may be easiest to boot a live CD (FreeSBIE, or a FreeBSD-7 install disc 1 should work), mount both of your hard drives from it, an

Re: Tried to symlink /etc to another disk, now stuck

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: I'm off to try it. I've got a system here with a da device. I'll fsck up /etc/fstab, reboot, and report back with the appropriate mountroot> prompt entry... # cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#

Re: Tried to symlink /etc to another disk, now stuck

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Bertrand
To the OP...if you know what your disk type is, you CAN get it to continue to mount root at the mountroot prompt. Furthering that, you can also fsck and mount your other disk mountpoints in order to gain access to your editing binaries. I'm sorry to reply to my own posts, but I'd like to poin

Re: sendmail: stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address

2008-06-12 Thread jonathan michaels
greetings, derek, much appreciated the prompt reply On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:43:42PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: > At 06:36 AM 6/11/2008, jonathan michaels wrote: bit of history trimed for brevity > >in teh freebsd.mc/sendmail.mc and a 'make install' to cover all > >bases. > > > >i treied to r

Re: Tried to symlink /etc to another disk, now stuck

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Berry
Steve Bertrand wrote: If the disk type is known, it is as simple as typing the appropriate location of the root fs at that prompt and the system will come up. I don't remember about FreeBSD 4, but last time I dealt with a broken fstab on FreeBSD 6 I could just press tab to get a list of valid

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Berry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, I think the installation and local language support(I need to read and input Chinese frequently) of ubuntu may be better than FreeBSD. I believe most of those sorts of enhancements would be provided by the applications or desktop environment. Gnome or KDE

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 12, 2008, at 3:24 PM, David Naylor wrote: This is a general enquiry. What had sparked my interest in this subject is the above mentioned article. In this case it is a workstation used to access and manage account and cash flows. The threat would be anyone gaining access to 'diver

Unable to reach hosts outside my subnet after initial install

2008-06-12 Thread Edward Lay
After a fresh installation of freeBSD 7.0, I am unable to communicate with any hosts beyond the local subnet. All important values (gateway, netmask,etc) were copied from other unix hosts on the same subnet. Presumably I've either failed to include something important or there is a conflict. Deta