Problem regarding free BSD

2009-10-14 Thread Abhilash Shukla
Hello,Respected Sir/Madam,Actually i tried to install free BSD on my system, I have 1 TB hard disk of 500GB X 2 in which i made a partition in one of my hard disk which even contains some data. Unfortunately i lost all my data, as i think but its truly very important for me. As after the

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Bill Campbell wrote: The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the second time it hits eof while ``-E'' exits the first time. Bill, Thank you for your

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 18:44:57 Jon Radel wrote: Jacques Henry wrote: I commented the commands involved and nothing changed... (with only 10 minutes of time difference) The 19 minutes between when I sent my suggestions and you responded is hardly enough time to see if ntpd was slewing

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-14 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:10:02PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the second time it

Re: View font selection

2009-10-14 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Chris Stankevitz wrote: Hello, Question: What command should I issue to see what each of my installed x11 fonts looks like? Thank you, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: some issues with 9-CURRENT

2009-10-14 Thread Alexander Best
since my first question got answers, here are answers to questions 2 and 3: 2: there's a problem report here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/108968 this still exists in CURRENT 3: i believe it takes so long to do fsck on a device in background mode because a snapshot has to be

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-14 Thread Ashok TM
send me ur citiback card no On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:10:02PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of these specified if you don't want to

Re: Problem regarding free BSD

2009-10-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Abhilash Shukla abhi_shu...@in.com wrote: Hello,Respected Sir/Madam,Actually i tried to install free BSD on my system, I have 1 TB hard disk of 500GB X 2 in which i made a partition in one of my hard disk which even contains some data. Unfortunately i lost

test please ignore

2009-10-14 Thread henter2009
test please ignore -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/test-please-ignore-tp25889720p25889720.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: howto install virtualbox

2009-10-14 Thread henter2009
anyone can give some references of this? any kind how to explanation will be more than welcome :D Manolis Kiagias-2 wrote: Mark Stapper wrote: Hello, I'm currently migrating my home desktop from Gentoo linux to FreeBSD 8.0(Beta but it'll be Stable soon. Using RELENG_8 btw). I'm kind of

Re: test please ignore

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Rees
2009/10/14 henter2009 jeronimocal...@googlemail.com: test please ignore -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/test-please-ignore-tp25889720p25889720.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. This is not the list to test on.

Linux compatibility in FreeBSD

2009-10-14 Thread Leandro F Silva
Dears, Does anyone know or already configured the linux compatibility in FreeBSD to install rpm packages and so on. Actually I'm running the i386 7.2 FreeBSD and the following package. %pkg_info |grep linu linux_base-fc-4_14 Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (for i386/amd64) I already

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the second time it hits eof while ``-E''

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-14 Thread RW
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:10:02 -0700 Chris Stankevitz cstankev...@toyon.com wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: The -e and -E options to less control this. You want neither of these specified if you don't want to have less automatically exit at end-of-file. The ``-e'' option causes it to exit the

Re: whacky `fc-list` output

2009-10-14 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:21:16 +0200 (CEST) Alexander Best wrote: hi there, when i do `fc-list` the output looks rather odd. `fc-cache -f` doesn't help. the output looks the same using different shells. Those messages seem to be UTF-8 formatted. I use UTF-8 locale and iso10646 font. Here is a

Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread freebsd
I'm in need of a new graphics card for a new computer, that I hope will run FreeBSD (with a strong preference for AMD64) and compiz-fusion on a dual-monitor, which I believe means the 3D acceleration has to be in good working order. I don't really care whether the graphics driver is binary, or

zfs root

2009-10-14 Thread krad
Hi, I have a quick question about freebsd on zfs root. I have built a few test systems all work fine. I have one question though. Does the loader replay any information when it accesses the pool? Basically im interested in how or what is done on reboot after the kernel panic or power loss. Are

Re: Broadcom bce interface problems

2009-10-14 Thread Brian McCann
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:18 AM, H.Fazaeli faza...@sepehrs.com wrote: what type of blade switch you are using? Are you using HS21 onboard ports or an expansion card? Make sure the corresponding internal ports of the blade switch are at 'no shutdown' state. Brian McCann wrote: I'm having

Re: Linux compatibility in FreeBSD

2009-10-14 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:57:58 -0300 Leandro F Silva wrote: Does anyone know or already configured the linux compatibility in FreeBSD to install rpm packages and so on. hm, actually (almost) all linux applications are installed using RPM packages. Did you mean using linux RPM database?

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:31:00 -0700 free...@t41t.com free...@t41t.com (free...@t41t.com) replied: I'm in need of a new graphics card for a new computer, that I hope will run FreeBSD (with a strong preference for AMD64) and compiz-fusion on a dual-monitor, which I believe means the 3D acceleration

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-14 Thread Jacques Henry
The 19 minutes between when I sent my suggestions and you responded is hardly enough time to see if ntpd was slewing the time. Slewing 587 seconds takes days. The thing is that ntpd is not slewing the time at all, even after several hours!! Are you sure that -x in there, telling ntpd

Upgrade 7.2-RELEASE to 8.0-RC1 problem

2009-10-14 Thread Alexandre
Hi, I have tried to upgrade my laptop system from 7.2-RELEASE to 8.0-RC1 using the freebsd-update method. I have ran the following commands : # freebsd-update -r 8.0-RC1 upgrade # freebsd-update install # nextboot -k GENERIC # shutdown -r now # freebsd-update install # portmaster -adf Then

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread jgrosch
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:31:00 -0700 free...@t41t.com free...@t41t.com (free...@t41t.com) replied: I'm in need of a new graphics card for a new computer, that I hope will run FreeBSD (with a strong preference for AMD64) and compiz-fusion on a dual-monitor, which I believe means the 3D

Re: whacky `fc-list` output

2009-10-14 Thread Alexander Best
Boris Samorodov schrieb am 2009-10-14: On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:21:16 +0200 (CEST) Alexander Best wrote: hi there, when i do `fc-list` the output looks rather odd. `fc-cache -f` doesn't help. the output looks the same using different shells. Those messages seem to be UTF-8 formatted. I

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jgro...@es.net wrote: nVidia support on i386 FreeBSD is not much better. One can use an nVidia card with 7.1 but under 7.2 one hits the dreaded mtrr error. A Google search finds many posts on how to fix this but none of them seem to work. I could be wrong but nVidia does not

Re: Broadcom bce interface problems

2009-10-14 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
do you double-check the internal por assignement? How many switchs has that blade1 or 2? You can try running a linux live-cd or maybe Windows to discard a FreeBSD trouble with the nic. does Freebsd detects 1 or 2 nics, and how many does the blade have? On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Brian

Re: whacky `fc-list` output

2009-10-14 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:40:07 +0200 (CEST) Alexander Best wrote: so why does fc-list output in utf8 if none of the LC_* vars is set to it? If you can reproduce it by rebuilding fontconfig from ports, it may be good to write to the maintainer (gnome@). -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread jgrosch
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jgro...@es.net wrote: nVidia support on i386 FreeBSD is not much better. One can use an nVidia card with 7.1 but under 7.2 one hits the dreaded mtrr error. A Google search finds many posts on how to fix this but none of them seem to work. I could be wrong but nVidia does

First time for everything

2009-10-14 Thread jeffry killen
Hello; How is a usb device accessed on Freebsd. I installed an SATA drive in a usb enclosure and plugged in into usb port on the machine. Console message indicated detection of the device when the power switch for the usb enclosure was set to on. When I did mount -w /dev/usb (or usbN) I got

Re: First time for everything

2009-10-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:33 PM, jeffry killen jekil...@prodigy.net wrote: Hello; How is a usb device accessed on Freebsd. I installed an SATA drive in a usb enclosure and plugged in into usb port on the machine. Console message indicated detection of the device when the power switch for

Re: whacky `fc-list` output

2009-10-14 Thread Alexander Best
Boris Samorodov schrieb am 2009-10-14: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:40:07 +0200 (CEST) Alexander Best wrote: so why does fc-list output in utf8 if none of the LC_* vars is set to it? If you can reproduce it by rebuilding fontconfig from ports, it may be good to write to the maintainer

First time for everything

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Huff
jeffry killen writes: How is a usb device accessed on Freebsd. I installed an SATA drive in a usb enclosure and plugged in into usb port on the machine. Console message indicated detection of the device when the power switch for the usb enclosure was set to on. When I

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Huff
jgro...@es.net writes: I could be wrong but nVidia does not seem to be very interested in working with the FreeBSD project to address these problems. nVidia has offered what many/most hardware vendors* do not: to write and maintain a driver for their product. However, in

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread jgrosch
jgro...@es.net writes: I could be wrong but nVidia does not seem to be very interested in working with the FreeBSD project to address these problems. nVidia has offered what many/most hardware vendors* do not: to write and maintain a driver for their product. However, in

Re: Broadcom bce interface problems

2009-10-14 Thread Brian McCann
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Diego F. Arias R. dak@gmail.com wrote: do you double-check the internal por assignement? How many switchs  has that blade1 or 2? You can try running a linux live-cd or maybe Windows to discard a FreeBSD trouble with the nic. does Freebsd detects 1 or 2

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jgro...@es.net wrote: All of my cards are ATI and I don't know of the mtrr problem you're talking about. This X1650 works fine on i386 with both 7-STABLE and 8-STABLE. I am seeing mtrr error using a Diamond Radeon HD4670 on FreeBSD 7.2 Really need a lot more specifics.

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:55:05AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jgro...@es.net wrote: nVidia support on i386 FreeBSD is not much better. One can use an nVidia card with 7.1 but under 7.2 one hits the dreaded mtrr error. A Google search finds many posts on how to fix this

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, cpghost wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:55:05AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jgro...@es.net wrote: nVidia support on i386 FreeBSD is not much better. One can use an nVidia card with 7.1 but under 7.2 one hits the dreaded mtrr error. A Google search

Unknown devices

2009-10-14 Thread Arkady Tokaev
While I was trying to update ports I have received message about absence disk space.It's impossible, I thought.But df command said:$ df -hFilesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on/dev/ad0s1a 23G3.5G 18G16% /devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%

is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-14 Thread Len Conrad
the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE

Re: No serial console input in loader

2009-10-14 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I have to come back to this problem. When I boot over the serial console, input works all fine until I come to the loader menu. There, input from the serial console is just ignored, I can not interrupt the autoboot and e.g. choose a different kernel. I have partitioned with GPT and

Re: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-14 Thread jhell
No you want: IA64 not AMD64 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/ On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:48, lconrad@ wrote: the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1

Re: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-14 Thread Roland Smith
Yes. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:48:26PM +0200, Len Conrad wrote: the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1

Re: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-14 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:08 PM, jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote: No you want: IA64 not AMD64 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/ On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:48, lconrad@ wrote: the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25-MHz

clone-dump-restore

2009-10-14 Thread PJ
Gentlemen, I have not had a chance to thank you for your very helpful suggestions. I have tried to follow them as well as possible and I cerainly am grateful for your input. It has taken me some time to prepare for a cloning of an existing 7.2 sytem. Now that I have everything running smoothly

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:55:05 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: All of my cards are ATI and I don't know of the mtrr problem you're talking about. This X1650 works fine on i386 with both 7-STABLE and 8-STABLE. I had an old-fashioned ATI Radeon 9200 RV250 AGP with both a

ldap and pam-mkhomedir, anyone know how to set directory ownership to the ldap user logging in ??

2009-10-14 Thread Craig Butler
Hi All Currently I have got pam authenticating against ldap and mkhomedir creating the home directories, but they are created owned as root:wheel and the user can't write to their own home directory -- I have read the man page for pam_mkhomedir, the only way I see it working at the moment is

Re: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:08:23PM -0400, jhell wrote: No you want: IA64 not AMD64 No, he does not want that. IA64 is for Intel's Itanium CPUs which are only used in a few big servers and just about nowhere else. The below is an ordinary x86 CPU (which the Itanium most certainly is not.)

Re: clone-dump-restore

2009-10-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:21:57 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: It has taken me some time to prepare for a cloning of an existing 7.2 sytem. Now that I have everything running smoothly with all the proggies configurations the way I want them, I tried (notice - tried) to clone the

Re: ldap and pam-mkhomedir, anyone know how to set directory ownership to the ldap user logging in ??

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Cowart
Craig Butler wrote: Currently I have got pam authenticating against ldap and mkhomedir creating the home directories, but they are created owned as root:wheel and the user can't write to their own home directory -- I have read the man page for pam_mkhomedir, the only way I see it working at

Re: Unknown devices

2009-10-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:04:51 +0400, Arkady Tokaev tok...@hotmail.com wrote: While I was trying to update ports I have received message about absence disk space.It's impossible, I thought.But df command said: $ df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a

Link exchange with my site voipmodem.net?

2009-10-14 Thread Damien Ross
Hey- I've got a website targeted towards the keyword Voip Modem and I'm looking for link exchanges. Would you be interested? If so, please reply and I'm sure we can work something out. Have a nice day! Damien Ross ___

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Jacques Henry wrote: The 19 minutes between when I sent my suggestions and you responded is hardly enough time to see if ntpd was slewing the time. Slewing 587 seconds takes days. The thing is that ntpd is not slewing the time at all, even after several hours!! If I

Experiencing blank @pkgdep entries

2009-10-14 Thread Vinny
Hi, I tried to do some port maintenance, specifically, updating python and its ports to 2.6. I used the instructions in UPDATING for portmaster: 20090608: AFFECTS: users of lang/python* and py-* AUTHOR: m...@freebsd.org The default version of Python has been changed from 2.5.x to 2.6.x.

persian home page

2009-10-14 Thread saber adavi
hi, my name is saber adavi and im CS student at tehran polytechnic university. im using freeBsd as my main OS near one year and i like to help ( if there is a chance) to add persian language into your website. cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Multiple qt4 issues

2009-10-14 Thread Warren Liddell
im running AMD64 FreeBSD7.2-STABLE latest src//kernel and ports so far as what depends on various QT4 pkgs ... Everything comes down to this 1 port but yet i removed all of them an it still cracks .. what am i missing or havent read... ===Verifying install for qt4-phonon=4.5.2 in

Re: persian home page

2009-10-14 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM, saber adavi saber.ad...@gmail.com wrote: hi, my name is saber adavi and im CS student at tehran polytechnic university. im using freeBsd as my main OS near one year and i like to help ( if there is a chance) to add persian language into your website. cheers

Re: Experiencing blank @pkgdep entries

2009-10-14 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Vinny vinny-mail-01+f.questions20091...@palaceofretention.cavinny-mail-01%2bf.questions20091...@palaceofretention.ca wrote: Hi, I tried to do some port maintenance, specifically, updating python and its ports to 2.6. I used the instructions in UPDATING for

Re: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-14 Thread jhell
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:10, rsmith@ wrote: Yes. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:48:26PM +0200, Len Conrad wrote: the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1

mkisofs error

2009-10-14 Thread Warren Block
My data backups to DVD use mkisofs to build ISO9660 DVDs like so: mkisofs -J -joliet-long -r -hide-rr-moved -graft-points dir1 dir2 dir3 and then piped into cdrecord. However, I found a problem with one file that casts some doubt on the whole process. The file is named img_0185-6x4crop.jpg

Re: clone-dump-restore

2009-10-14 Thread PJ
I believe that my problems arise out of subliminal refuse syndrome: the brain refuses to comprehend dump and restore TOs and FROMs. In other words, I'm beginning to see that dump -0af TO ( - or device/file) FROM (device or directory/file) and restore -rf (TO curr.dir FROM device or file) or

Re: Multiple qt4 issues

2009-10-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Warren Liddell wrote: im running AMD64 FreeBSD7.2-STABLE latest src//kernel and ports so far as what depends on various QT4 pkgs ... Everything comes down to this 1 port but yet i removed all of them an it still cracks .. what am i missing or havent read... What exactly are you doing that

Re: clone-dump-restore

2009-10-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:29:42 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: I believe that my problems arise out of subliminal refuse syndrome: the brain refuses to comprehend dump and restore TOs and FROMs. In other words, I'm beginning to see that dump -0af TO ( - or device/file) FROM (device or

FBSD 7.2, on a CQ60-419WM Presario, about headphones, function keys, FVWM fonts, and GBDE

2009-10-14 Thread Henry Olyer
How do I get to use the headphones? The speaker works but continues to play when I plug in headphones. Also adjusting the keyboard function controls to control the sound, (o anything else,) does nothing -- what is with this? Last, how do I change the font size with FVWM? As you can see I am new

Re: restore(8)ing new / -- boots on metal but not in a VM

2009-10-14 Thread Alex Jurkiewicz
2009/10/14 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com: My suggestion is to check the VM config and see if you can emulate an IDE ad(4) device instead of the possible SCSI da(4) device that vmware/virtualbox may setup.  I'm almost positive (not 100% because I don't have either one of those installed at the

Re: mkisofs error

2009-10-14 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Warren Block wrote: My data backups to DVD use mkisofs to build ISO9660 DVDs like so: mkisofs -J -joliet-long -r -hide-rr-moved -graft-points dir1 dir2 dir3 and then piped into cdrecord. However, I found a problem with one file that casts some doubt on the whole

Re: mkisofs error

2009-10-14 Thread Al Plant
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Warren Block wrote: My data backups to DVD use mkisofs to build ISO9660 DVDs like so: mkisofs -J -joliet-long -r -hide-rr-moved -graft-points dir1 dir2 dir3 and then piped into cdrecord. However, I found a problem with one file that casts some doubt

Re: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-14 Thread LoH
Get cpuid from /usr/ports/misc/cpuid and run it, that should give you a better idea of what your processor is. Although, from the string you gave, looks like a 'yes'. I think that's a nocona xeon (I have a pair of gallatins). jhell wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:10, rsmith@ wrote: Yes. On

Best procedure for full backup of live system

2009-10-14 Thread Nerius Landys
My server is increasingly having important work stored on it, and I need to start taking backups of a lot of directories, especially /home, /opt, /etc, /usr/local/etc, and maybe others. The ideal backup (and what I've done in the past) is to take a full low-level dd image of the disk while the

Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

2009-10-14 Thread LoH
Take a UFS2 snapshot and then backup the snapshot. A similar approach using ZFS snapshots would also work. See the handbook for more details. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/backup-strategies.html Nerius Landys wrote: My server is increasingly having important work stored on

Re: Multiple qt4 issues

2009-10-14 Thread Warren Liddell
Do a: %pkg_version -v ~/pv.out ...and then review the ~/pv.out file *manually* to see if you can identify any oddities. (yes, grep is good and grep is great, but I've missed obvious things by grep'ing the pkg db in the past). I'm personally not one to help with GUI things, but hopefully my

Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

2009-10-14 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Nerius Landys wrote: My question is, what is the recommended procedure of taking a full backup on a live system? Ideally, if my hard drive were to crash, I would like to have such a backup so as to make it possible to copy over the entire backup to a new identical

Re: Multiple qt4 issues

2009-10-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Warren Liddell wrote: Do a: %pkg_version -v ~/pv.out ...and then review the ~/pv.out file *manually* to see if you can identify any oddities. (yes, grep is good and grep is great, but I've missed obvious things by grep'ing the pkg db in the past). I'm personally not one to help with

Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

2009-10-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Nerius Landys wrote: My server is increasingly having important work stored on it, and I need to start taking backups of a lot of directories, especially /home, /opt, /etc, /usr/local/etc, and maybe others. The ideal backup (and what I've done in the past) is to take a full low-level dd image