Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 01 May 2009 22:43:51 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:07:22PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: Let's say we have a system that is backed up regularly and it vanishes in a puff of smoke one day. One can get FreeBSD installed on a new drive in maybe half an hour or

Re: lost+found

2009-05-04 Thread Alexander Tarasov
# - is a comment.. in bash cd without dirname always return you to a home-directory.. cd - returns you to previous location, for example.. 2009/5/4 Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 11:06:27PM +0200, Polytropon typed: On Sat, 02 May 2009 15:45:13 -0400, PJ

Re: clear old output in login screen?

2009-05-04 Thread Mike Clarke
On Monday 04 May 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: If I needed to do this, could not find a way to do it via configuration settings, and didn't want to hack the login source code, I would try renaming the login binary to something like login.real, and replacing it with an executable script

Re: lost+found

2009-05-04 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 11:06:27PM +0200, Polytropon typed: On Sat, 02 May 2009 15:45:13 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: [~]# cd /tmp/lost+found/#123456 [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# ls Okay, it's empty. [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# cd .. Strange, why does .. lead you from

Re: Quagga problem

2009-05-04 Thread Steve Bertrand
Bc. Radek Krejca wrote: Hello, starting this day I have problem with quagga, I get this messages in my log: May 3 19:15:36 gw bgpd[7225]: Assertion `len str_size' failed in file bgp_aspath.c, line 619, function aspath_make_str_count May 3 19:15:36 gw kernel: pid 7225 (bgpd), uid

Re: Broken Partition

2009-05-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 06:26:42PM -0700, Chris Chambers wrote: Hi, Using partition magic, I freed some space from my msdos partition. Then using sysinstall's fdisk and label, I attempted to add the space to my freebsd partition. I broke the installation. The boot loader can not find

Re: Filesystem and bigger files

2009-05-04 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Antonio, good day. Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:50:59PM +0200, Antonio Tommasi wrote: i've freebsd 7.0 in production and i've this hard-drive Filesystem SizeUsed AvailCapacity Mounted on /dev/aacd0s1a 64G15G 44G 26%/ In a directory (spamassassin) i've one

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 04 May 2009 15:59:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:31:16AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: If you have kept the right information beforehand, you can actually restore your dumps onto ``bare metal'' without doing a partial install first, and with the same newfs

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:31:16AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Friday 01 May 2009 22:43:51 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:07:22PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: Let's say we have a system that is backed up regularly and it vanishes in a puff of smoke one day.

Re: install -s

2009-05-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 01), Nathan Lay said: Should install -s really fail if strip fails? I noticed cross-binutils strips everything it installs...in my case, one of the utilities it tries to strip is a script and install -s obnoxiously fails. I set DONTSTRIP to get around this problem.

Re: Groups problems

2009-05-04 Thread Maciej Milewski
Monday 04 May 2009 16:24:33 Shaun Friedle napisał(a): Hi, I seem to have a weird problem with groups, it seems like the system doesn't notice that I am in certain groups when it comes to file permissions, and if I run groups or id with no arguments it also has some groups missing from the

Re: Groups problems

2009-05-04 Thread Armin Pirkovitsch
Have you relogged in after adding the user to the group file? (su -l should do the trick as well if you can't log out/relog in for some reason) Otherwise you'll get exactly the behaviour you described below. Armin On Mon 04 May 2009, Shaun Friedle wrote: Hi, I seem to have a weird problem

Groups problems

2009-05-04 Thread Shaun Friedle
Hi, I seem to have a weird problem with groups, it seems like the system doesn't notice that I am in certain groups when it comes to file permissions, and if I run groups or id with no arguments it also has some groups missing from the list, but with my username as an argument it is complete.

Questions about groups.

2009-05-04 Thread Old Crankbuster
Coming from Gnu/Linux, I see differences in group generation on regular user generation, and there's a group I'm not familiar with - 'operator'. What does that one do? I'm familiar with 'staff' and I've added my normal user to that, and of course 'wheel'. I intend to use the system on a laptop

Cannot mount smbfs share without requiring manual password

2009-05-04 Thread Ryan van Eerdewijk
Hi, I have a strange issue. If I type: mount_smbfs //theu...@theserver/myshare$ /mnt/here ... I will be prompted for theuser's password, I type it, and the share will mount fine. But I want this share to mount automatically at bootup. I haven't been able to get it to work through /etc/fstab

Re: Broken Partition

2009-05-04 Thread John Nielsen
It is best to include the list in all replies, so that people other than the original responder can offer additional help and so people searching the list archives in the future will have a complete picture. Also, not top-posting (putting replies in the context of the original message) is is

ReturnCode Checking for FTP

2009-05-04 Thread Eddie Chen
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Re: Cannot mount smbfs share without requiring manual password

2009-05-04 Thread Ray
On May 4, 2009 09:31:09 am Ryan van Eerdewijk wrote: Hi, I have a strange issue. If I type: mount_smbfs //theu...@theserver/myshare$ /mnt/here ... I will be prompted for theuser's password, I type it, and the share will mount fine. But I want this share to mount automatically at bootup. I

per protocol bandwidth filters for firewall

2009-05-04 Thread Tamar Lea
Hello all, I have inherited the job of maintaining a FreeBSD firewall that sits behind an ADSL line that connects 128 clients to the internet. I have not used FreeBSD before but have some linux experience. The connections must be always on though I am allowed to reboot if absolutely necessary. It

Re: per protocol bandwidth filters for firewall

2009-05-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Tamar Lea wrote: Hello all, I have inherited the job of maintaining a FreeBSD firewall that sits behind an ADSL line that connects 128 clients to the internet. I have not used FreeBSD before but have some linux experience. The connections must be always on though I am allowed to reboot if

base system openssl in 7.1

2009-05-04 Thread Josh Paetzel
I've been trying to figure out a way to run openssl's make test against the openssl included in FreeBSD RELENG_7_1 What I haven't been able to make go is make test in /usr/src/crypto/ openssl using various permutations of ./config Can someone clue me in? Thanks, Josh Paetzel

Re: per protocol bandwidth filters for firewall

2009-05-04 Thread Odhiambo ワシントン
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Tamar Lea tamar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I have inherited the job of maintaining a FreeBSD firewall that sits behind an ADSL line that connects 128 clients to the internet. I have not used FreeBSD before but have some linux experience. The connections

Re: Cannot mount smbfs share without requiring manual password

2009-05-04 Thread Tim Judd
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Ray r...@stilltech.net wrote: On May 4, 2009 09:31:09 am Ryan van Eerdewijk wrote: Hi, I have a strange issue. If I type: mount_smbfs //theu...@theserver/myshare$ /mnt/here ... I will be prompted for theuser's password, I type it, and the share

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-04 Thread Doug Poland
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 04:30:53PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Monday 04 May 2009 15:59:14 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:31:16AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: If you have kept the right information beforehand, you can actually restore your dumps onto ``bare

Cannot mount smbfs share without requiring manual password

2009-05-04 Thread Ryan van Eerdewijk
You, sir, are a genius. This solved it. Much thanks, Ryan V. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Questions about groups.

2009-05-04 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/5/4 Old Crankbuster crankbus...@gmail.com: Coming from Gnu/Linux, I see differences in group generation on regular user generation, and there's a group I'm not familiar with - 'operator'. What does that one do? Members of operator can run /sbin/shutdown among other things. find / -group

Re: lost+found

2009-05-04 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 4 May 2009 11:08:04 +0200, Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: Probably because the # is interpreted as comment. I can reproduce this in a bourne shell; not in (t)csh. Ah, thank you. According to the prompt, it didn't look like csh in the first place, but not like plain sh, too.

Re: Questions about groups.

2009-05-04 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 4 May 2009 21:18:34 +0700, Old Crankbuster crankbus...@gmail.com wrote: Coming from Gnu/Linux, I see differences in group generation on regular user generation, and there's a group I'm not familiar with - 'operator'. What does that one do? The operator groupt allows its users to

To file a PR, or not to file a PR. That is the question.

2009-05-04 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, A server running 7.1-RELEASE(i386) recently starting deadlocking when multiple UFS2 snaphosts are being manipulated (via sysutil/freebsd-snapshot). Upon searching the PR database, I found a problem repart that appears similar (kern/94769) but with my level of expertise, I'm not certain.

Re: To file a PR, or not to file a PR. That is the question.

2009-05-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Doug Poland d...@polands.org: Hello, A server running 7.1-RELEASE(i386) recently starting deadlocking when multiple UFS2 snaphosts are being manipulated (via sysutil/freebsd-snapshot). Upon searching the PR database, I found a problem repart that appears similar

NIC

2009-05-04 Thread Jos Chrispijn
In order to speed up my LAN backups a little bit, I would like to replace my old 10/100 nic with a 10/100/1000 one. Should be placed in an ancient Dell of 5 years old. Can someone pls advise on the type nic I should buy (not necessarily a Dell brand)? thanks, Jos Chrispijn -- No one is

RE: NIC

2009-05-04 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
I don't think dell has their own brand of NIC's in my experience intel has always great quality and support (drivers) for their nic cards -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jos Chrispijn Sent: Monday,

Re: NIC

2009-05-04 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Jos Chrispijn wrote: In order to speed up my LAN backups a little bit, I would like to replace my old 10/100 nic with a 10/100/1000 one. Should be placed in an ancient Dell of 5 years old. Can someone pls advise on the type nic I should buy (not necessarily a Dell brand)?

RE: NIC

2009-05-04 Thread Robert Huff
Jean-Paul Natola writes: I don't think dell has their own brand of NIC's in my experience intel has always great quality and support (drivers) for their nic cards Conversely, cards based on RealTek chips have a reputation of being both inexpensive /and/ cheap. (This may or may

Re: NIC

2009-05-04 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 04:31:16PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Conversely, cards based on RealTek chips have a reputation of being both inexpensive /and/ cheap. (This may or may not be true of the wireless cards.) The first generation of RealTek chips were little more than a shift

FOR MARK

2009-05-04 Thread Warren Liddell
After finally managing to get some encoding options from this list everything went smoothley untill it got to the burning part .. below is the error i got enterprise# ls dvd.iso enterprise# growisofs -dvd-video -Z /dev/cd1 dvd.iso WARNING: /dev/cd1 already carries isofs! About to execute

Broken drive geometry / partitions on 7.2 install

2009-05-04 Thread Brad Waite
Hi all, I was trying to install 7.2 RELEASE on top of a previous 6.4 RELEASE I'd set up (but not deployed). The server has a 40MB Intel service partition and the rest of the drive for FreeBSD. Here's what greeted me when doing the fdisk from the install CD: Disk name: da0

Re: FOR MARK

2009-05-04 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 05 May 2009 07:25:47 +1000, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com wrote: After finally managing to get some encoding options from this list everything went smoothley untill it got to the burning part .. below is the error i got enterprise# ls dvd.iso enterprise# growisofs

Re: FOR MARK

2009-05-04 Thread Warren Liddell
What am i missing//not doing correctly ? Missing: Reading the handbook. Not doing correctly: Command line options. :-) I'll skip a lot of steps then an just use the standard growisofs for img files since DVStyler creates the DVD Video IMG once you've imported the mpeg file / /

Re: Questions about groups.

2009-05-04 Thread Old Crankbuster
* ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com [2009-05-04 14:39:34 -0400]: Various methods apply (for instance /dev/dspN.n is world writable), man 5 devfs.conf is a good start for some of that. Ah. Thanks. -- Cheers signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Part II: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-04 Thread Duane
The bios in this old Micron dual PPro-180 full tower antique only initializes the second CPU if the machine is cold-booted. A simple 'reboot' results in a single processor machine regardless of the kernel that is launched. This fact -- unknown to me before last night -- was the source of a great

Re: Questions about groups.

2009-05-04 Thread Old Crankbuster
* Polytropon free...@edvax.de [2009-05-04 21:02:29 +0200]: [...] and of course 'wheel'. Why of course? :-) Umm, linuxism habit :-) There are several groups that you can add your user to, but because you're already in wheel, you don't have to (such as the dialer group for ppp).

Emacs-ess

2009-05-04 Thread Daniel Underwood
How do I install emacs-ess. I don't see it in the ports. Thanks in advance, Daniel (Sent from my iPhone) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Part II: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-04 Thread Adam Vande More
Duane wrote: The bios in this old Micron dual PPro-180 full tower antique only initializes the second CPU if the machine is cold-booted. A simple 'reboot' results in a single processor machine regardless of the kernel that is launched. This fact -- unknown to me before last night -- was the

May training courses - £109 p.p.

2009-05-04 Thread Sandra Keating
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Re: Emacs-ess

2009-05-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 4 May 2009 21:09:34 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: How do I install emacs-ess. I don't see it in the ports. You can probably just download the emacs-ess sources and extract them in a personal directory for testing, i.e.: % mkdir ~/elisp % cd ~/elisp %

Re: Emacs-ess

2009-05-04 Thread Daniel Underwood
Giorgos, thanks a bunch--that was easy! Your suggestions worked perfectly. When I originally tried to install ess, i downloaded the tarball and tried to build it's contents from source. I did this because I glanced at the tarball's contents and saw such things as Makeconf and Makefile. This,

Re: Emacs-ess

2009-05-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 4 May 2009 22:45:42 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Giorgos, thanks a bunch--that was easy! Your suggestions worked perfectly. When I originally tried to install ess, i downloaded the tarball and tried to build it's contents from source. I did this because I

Re: Part II: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-04 Thread Tim Judd
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Duane du...@cheekymonkey.us wrote: The bios in this old Micron dual PPro-180 full tower antique only initializes the second CPU if the machine is cold-booted. A simple 'reboot' results in a single processor machine regardless of the kernel that is launched.

Re: Part II: Running SMP kernel but only one cpu

2009-05-04 Thread Duane
On 5/4/09, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: IRQ15 is typically your secondary IDE controller; but due to PCI (or E-ISA) plugplay, including the PnP the BIOS may setup, lots of others can be on that bus too. This box has one SCSI card running two SCSI drives. The IDE's are disabled in the