Re: Swaping Fs (from ntfs to ufs), or ntfs3g?

2009-09-29 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
great I will do a massive Cp as both fs are mounted under BSD, (ntfs just with read access)... should you suggest guy to do a normal #cp /media/DATAWIN /media/UFShd as there is no any soft and hard links on this partition... will be fine? Thanks! 2009/9/28 Jerry McAllister : > On Mon, Sep 28,

How to restore Base_Bind on amd64 7.2 p3 -

2009-09-29 Thread David Southwell
Hi I installed bind96 without keeping base-bind and am now having problems with some ports not compiling. What is the simpliest way to restore the original system Base_Bind? Thanks in advance David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-29 Thread RW
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:08:43 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200 > > Polytropon wrote: > > > >> doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will > >> keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately > >> with

Adding Windows Machine to LDAP

2009-09-29 Thread KIRAN
HI All, I am FreeBSD User I am using samba domain, Recently 20 day's back I have updated ports. After updating the ports I am not able to join Windows desktop samba domain. Kindly do the need full (Before joining the domain I use to configure wins IP into the windows machine) Kindly do the ne

Re: Adding Windows Machine to LDAP

2009-09-29 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi Kiran, > I am FreeBSD User I am using samba domain, Recently 20 day's back I have > updated ports. After updating the ports I am not able to join Windows > desktop samba domain. I think you must give more details about your configuration. In the message title you mention LDAP, but you don't me

Re: How to restore Base_Bind on amd64 7.2 p3

2009-09-29 Thread Алексеев Александр
Исходное сообщение Тема: Re: How to restore Base_Bind on amd64 7.2 p3 - Дата: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:51:00 +0400 От: Алексеев Александр Кому: David Southwell Ссылки: Please let me see the error messages that occur when you're building ports. What means base

Re: Adding Windows Machine to LDAP

2009-09-29 Thread Алексеев Александр
Ports update could affect the efficiency of Samba. Perhaps you have updated your software, that effect on one of the libraries. Try to rebuild Samba. -- Alexandr A Alexeev http://www.unixcommunity.net/ KIRAN пишет: HI All, I am FreeBSD User I am using samba domain, Recently 20 day's back

Re: Adding Windows Machine to LDAP

2009-09-29 Thread Алексеев Александр
Ports update could affect the efficiency of Samba. Perhaps you have updated your software, that effect on one of the libraries. Try to rebuild Samba. -- Alexandr A Alexeev http://www.unixcommunity.net/ KIRAN пишет: HI All, I am FreeBSD User I am using samba domain, Recently 20 day's back I

NetGear WPN111 and FreeBSD 7.2

2009-09-29 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Hi, I just bought an NetGear WPN111 USB Wireless adapter after reading the Wireless Networking section of the workbook, but unfortunately I can't make it work. I included this in my /boot/loader.conf: if_ath_load="YES" wlan_scan_ap_load="YES" wlan_scan_sta_load="YES" wlan_wep_load="YES" wlan_cc

Re: NetGear WPN111 and FreeBSD 7.2

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Leonardo M. Ram? wrote: Hi, I just bought an NetGear WPN111 USB Wireless adapter after reading the Wireless Networking section of the workbook, but unfortunately I can't make it work. I included this in my /boot/loader.conf: if_ath_load="YES" wlan_scan_ap_load="YES" wlan

Anyone using two monitors as extended desktop under FreeBSD??

2009-09-29 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
Im thinking to get a second monitor to use with my 7.2 STABLE workstation and my ati card using the following splitter: http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Peripherals/Cabling/HDMI%2FMonitor+Cables/DVI+Splitter+Cable+?productId=17127 There is someone currently using any config like this? In this case

Re: Anyone using two monitors as extended desktop under FreeBSD??

2009-09-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Jeronimo Calvo < jeronimocal...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Im thinking to get a second monitor to use with my 7.2 STABLE > workstation and my ati card using the following splitter: > > > http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Peripherals/Cabling/HDMI%2FMonitor+Cables/DVI+Spl

Re: Anyone using two monitors as extended desktop under FreeBSD??

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: Im thinking to get a second monitor to use with my 7.2 STABLE workstation and my ati card using the following splitter: http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Peripherals/Cabling/HDMI%2FMonitor+Cables/DVI+Splitter+Cable+?productId=17127 That looks like a sim

disable ACPI for mouse

2009-09-29 Thread Eitan Adler
Is it possible to disable ACPI support for one specific device? (/dev/psm) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.o

Re: Anyone using two monitors as extended desktop under FreeBSD??

2009-09-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > > Im thinking to get a second monitor to use with my 7.2 STABLE >> workstation and my ati card using the following splitter: >> >> >> http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Peripherals/Cabling/HDMI%2FMoni

Re: Swaping Fs (from ntfs to ufs), or ntfs3g?

2009-09-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 09:14:38AM +0100, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > great I will do a massive Cp as both fs are mounted under BSD, (ntfs > just with read access)... > > should you suggest guy to do a normal > > #cp /media/DATAWIN /media/UFShd > > as there is no any soft and hard links on this par

Re: Anyone using two monitors as extended desktop under FreeBSD??

2009-09-29 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
Great! I didn know that DVI was that clever!!! thats great news, as a splitter for 6 is much cheaper than any other tool... Well the HD7200... is a PCI-E card... (not sure if is 7200 but is from HD7xxx series), with DVI. 2009/9/29 Adam Vande More : > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Warren Bl

Re: hardening guideline for Freebsd 7.2

2009-09-29 Thread doug schmidt
center for internet security benchmarks; http://www.cisecurity.org/bench_freebsd.html On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: > Hi, > Is there a hardening guideline for Freebsd 7.2? > > Thanks > > > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: hardening guideline for Freebsd 7.2

2009-09-29 Thread krad
2009/9/29 doug schmidt > center for internet security benchmarks; > > http://www.cisecurity.org/bench_freebsd.html > > > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Aflatoon Aflatooni >wrote: > > > Hi, > > Is there a hardening guideline for Freebsd 7.2? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > __

Netwroked Storage

2009-09-29 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, For the past few months I have been researching methods to create a storage enclosure, perferably with out spending many 10s of k's of $'s. The intent here is to connect about 10 Web servers, each of them hosting about 200 domains, to a central storage system to house users home directo

Re: lacie external hard drive supported?

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Bill Campbell wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 26), Chris Whitehouse said: Hi all Does anyone have experience of a LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton eSATA, FireWire 400 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0 1TB ? http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11064

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:32:33 +0100, RW wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200 > Polytropon wrote: > > > doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will > > keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separately > > with bs=512 and count=1 from the /dev/ad{source} device. > > Wh

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:36:00 +0800 (WST), Bret Busby wrote: > See > http://busby.net/bret/Screenshot--dev-sda-GParted.png I think I do understand. You have: 1. a primary DOS partition which contains a NTFS file system 2. an extended DOS partition containing "subpar

RE: How to restore Base_Bind on amd64 7.2 p3

2009-09-29 Thread David Southwell
> > David Southwell пишет: > > Hi > > > > I installed bind96 without keeping base-bind and am now having > > problems with some ports not compiling. > > > > What is the simpliest way to restore the original system Base_Bind? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > David > > > > ___

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-29 Thread Tim Judd
On 9/29/09, Polytropon wrote: > Honestly, I've never seen the need for extended DOS partitions. > Let's say you intendedly want to run a multi-OS system, then > you can install four systems, each one in its own slice, and > within the slice, the partitiions, if needed and supported. By using

Re: NetGear WPN111 and FreeBSD 7.2

2009-09-29 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Thanks Warren, now how can I upgrade to 8 without destroying my current configuration? Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com --- On Tue, 9/29/09, Warren Block wrote: > From: Warren Block > Subject: Re: NetGear WPN111 and FreeBSD 7.2 > To: "Leonardo M. Ramé" > Cc: freebsd-questio

Re: How to restore Base_Bind on amd64 7.2 p3

2009-09-29 Thread Frank Steinborn
David Southwell wrote: > By base-bind I mean the version of bind that is included in freebsd 7.2 > operating system which is a version earlier than the latest Bind96. > > When installing bind96 and I did not keep base-bind. > > Now multiple ports give the following type of problem -this is just o

sysctl kern.geom.debugflags ERROR when using Sysinstall to format HD (FreeBsd 7.2 STABLE)

2009-09-29 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
Hi folks!! Trying to create a new Ufs on a HD using sysinstall. im getting the following error: ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad10! │ │ │ │To edit the labels on a running system set │ │sysctl

Re: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags ERROR when using Sysinstall to format HD (FreeBsd 7.2 STABLE)

2009-09-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jeronimo Calvo wrote: Hi folks!! Trying to create a new Ufs on a HD using sysinstall. im getting the following error: ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad10! │ │ │ │To edit the labels on a running system set

RE: How to restore Base_Bind on amd64 7.2 p3

2009-09-29 Thread david
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of > Frank Steinborn > Sent: 29 September 2009 11:47 > To: David Southwell > Cc: ' ?'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: How to restore B

problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-29 Thread chrisa
I have several related problems with hald on 7.2 i386. First, on one machine (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2), hald will not start at startup, nor by executing the startup script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start. It doesn't exit with any error code: it simply produces no output at all, and ps -ax | grep hal

Re: Anyone using two monitors as extended desktop under FreeBSD??

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Adam Vande More wrote: That looks like a simple splitter that will just send the same signal to both monitors.  They would both display the same image, not an extended desktop. That's what I thought too prior to hooking it up and trying it.  Since then, I found DVI is a

backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread PJ
I am getting more and more confused with all the info regarding backing up and cloning or moving systems from disk to disk or computer to computer. I would like to do 2 things: 1. clone several instances of 7.2 from and existing installation 2. set up a backup script to back up changes either every

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, PJ wrote: I am getting more and more confused with all the info regarding backing up and cloning or moving systems from disk to disk or computer to computer. I would like to do 2 things: 1. clone several instances of 7.2 from and existing installation 2. set up a backup scri

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:08:43 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, RW wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:22:31 +0200 Polytropon wrote: doing 1:1 copies with dd is always possible and will keep content identically; remember to copy the MBR separate

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:44:38 -0400, PJ wrote: > This may be clear to someone; it certainly is not to me. > As I understand it, newfs will (re)format the slice. No. The newfs program does create a new file system. In other terminology, this can be called a formatting process. Note that NOT a slice

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:15:00 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > For me, it would be because dealing with an individual 512-byte > partition table file is easier than decompressing a multi-gigabyte image > file to get at the first 512 bytes. There is a point where a dd copy of the MBR is quite

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote: So far, I have been unable to dump the / slice, not even with the -L option. Always keep in mind: Use dump only on unmounted partitions. That is unnecessary. The -L option is there just for dumping mounted filesystems. -Warren Block * Rapid City, Sou

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread PJ
Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, PJ wrote: > >> I am getting more and more confused with all the info regarding backing >> up and cloning or moving systems from disk to disk or computer to >> computer. >> I would like to do 2 things: >> 1. clone several instances of 7.2 from and existing

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Olivier Nicole
> >> $ newfs -U /dev/ad2s1a > >> $ mount /dev/ad2s1a /target > >> $ cd /target > >> $ dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad1s1a | restore -rf - > >[...] > But what does that mean? But ad2s1a has just been newfs'd - so how can Thats ad*1*s1a that has just been formatted, not ad2... Best, Olivier ___

Re: Netwroked Storage

2009-09-29 Thread Mauro Rezzonico
Grant Peel wrote: The intent here is to connect about 10 Web servers, each of them hosting about 200 domains, to a central storage system to house users home directories. It might be worth noting that the Web machines host a full array of software, i.e. Mail, Web, MySQL, PHP etc. I don't have

Re: Netwroked Storage

2009-09-29 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > For the past few months I have been researching methods to create a > storage enclosure, perferably with out spending many 10s of k's of > $'s. You can asemble the machine yourself, I have put up a storage (for back-up, slow SATA disks, 7.5 TB, only one quad core AMD 1.9 GHz and 4GB RAM) fo

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:09:51 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote: > >> So far, I have been unable to dump the / slice, not even with the -L > >> option. > > > > Always keep in mind: Use dump only on unmounted partitions. > > That is unnecessary. The -L optio

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:26:19 -0400, PJ wrote: > But what does that mean? But ad2s1a has just been newfs'd - so how can > it be dumped if its been formatted? When you're working on this low level, triple-check all your commands. Failure to do so can cause data loss. In the example you presented, a

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread PJ
You are a Master among masters... extraordianry understanding of the genre and ver, very clear explanations... I guess my filter between the brain and the computer is a bit foggy... :-( I really appreciate your explanations. But I still have a couple of small questions below... Polytropon wrote:

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread PJ
Olivier Nicole wrote: $ newfs -U /dev/ad2s1a $ mount /dev/ad2s1a /target $ cd /target $ dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad1s1a | restore -rf - >>> [...] >>> >> But what does that mean? But ad2s1a has just been newfs'd - so how can >> > > Thats ad*1*s1a that has

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:26:19 -0400, PJ wrote: > >> But what does that mean? But ad2s1a has just been newfs'd - so how can >> it be dumped if its been formatted? >> > > When you're working on this low level, triple-check all your > commands. Failure to do so can cause da

eSpeak??

2009-09-29 Thread Gary Kline
PEople, Can anybody clue me in on using eSpeak with OOo? Be greak to have a plugin for OO? Also, how do I choose different Voices than the default? thanks much, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:23:00 -0400, PJ wrote: > I feel a bit stupid, as usual, my carelessness led me to miss the > difference between ad1 and ad2... dumb, dumb, dumb. As long as you realize it BEFORE any writing operation, it's no problem. Keep in mind that the numbering of ad*, as well as of da

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
Forgot to mention this: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:23:00 -0400, PJ wrote: > 1. will the s1a slice dump the entire system, that is, the a, d, e, f > and g slices or is it partitions? The ad0s1 slice (containing the a, d, e, f and g partitions) can be copied 1:1 with dd. By using dump + restore, the

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:48:30 -0400, PJ wrote: > Duh I think I see where this is leading... I'm pretty sure it was > issued from / which makes it redundant, right? I should have issued it > from somewhere else, like from home, usr or whatever but not from / as > that is what I was trying to dum

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, PJ wrote: $ newfs -U /dev/ad2s1a $ mount /dev/ad2s1a /target $ cd /target $ dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad1s1a | restore -rf - dump is reading /dev/ad1s1a and using stdout for output. restore is writing to the current directory (/target) and is reading from stdin. But what

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote: Forgot to mention this: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:23:00 -0400, PJ wrote: 1. will the s1a slice dump the entire system, that is, the a, d, e, f and g slices or is it partitions? The ad0s1 slice (containing the a, d, e, f and g partitions) can be copied 1:

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:48:30 -0400, PJ wrote: Duh I think I see where this is leading... I'm pretty sure it was issued from / which makes it redundant, right? I should have issued it from somewhere else, like from home, usr or whatever but not from /

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:37:50 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > Why make it harder than it needs to be? Call it / or /var or /usr > instead of /dev/ad0s1whatever. dump will handle it. This works without problems as long as it is running from the system to be copied. In case you use a live sy

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:48:30 -0400, PJ wrote: Duh I think I see where this is leading... I'm pretty sure it was issued from / which makes it redundant, right? I should have issued it from somewhere else, like

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:37:50 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: Why make it harder than it needs to be? Call it / or /var or /usr instead of /dev/ad0s1whatever. dump will handle it. This works without problems as long as it is running from the system t

Re: backups & cloning

2009-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:49:01 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > So usually I back up /, /var, and /usr to files > on a USB disk or sshfs. Then I switch to the new target system, booting > it with a FreeBSD disk and doing a minimal install. That makes sure the > MBR is installed, gives me a c

Re: Netwroked Storage

2009-09-29 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: "Mauro Rezzonico" To: Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:46 PM Subject: Re: Netwroked Storage Grant Peel wrote: The intent here is to connect about 10 Web servers, each of them hosting about 200 domains, to a central storage system to house users home

Re: ath atheros 5424/2424 on the CQ60 Presario

2009-09-29 Thread Kenneth
Thank you! The led flashes with traffic now...however, the flashing between blue and orange is irritating, so I removed the lines, and yes, the card works. It would be nice to have a steady blue to signifiy a connection. To get my ath0 device working, I have the following 2 files with the line

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-29 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 278, Issue 4, Message 2 On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:36:00 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby wrote: > On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > Bret Busby wrote: > >> Hello. > >> > >> I have been interested in installing FreeBSD on my laptop (HP/Compaq > >> NX5000, 2MB