ugh. dump / restore problem(s) Cannot find file dump list

2012-11-14 Thread Gary Aitken
I needed to expand a /var partition, which required saving and restoring /var and /usr did the following: booted to backup disk dump -0aR -h 0 -f /usr/backup/dump_var_0_20121113_1920 /dev/ada0p4 (repeat for /tmp, /usr, / partitions to be safe) repartitioned the main disk using gpart

Re: ugh. dump / restore problem(s) Cannot find file dump list

2012-11-14 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, November 14, 2012 a las 01:20:14AM -0700, Gary Aitken escribió: I needed to expand a /var partition, which required saving and restoring /var and /usr did the following: booted to backup disk dump -0aR -h 0 -f /usr/backup/dump_var_0_20121113_1920 /dev/ada0p4

Re: ugh. dump / restore problem(s) Cannot find file dump list

2012-11-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:20:14 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: mount /dev/ada0p4 /mnt/ssd/var cd /mnt/ssd/var restore -r /usr/backup/dump_var_0_20121113_1920 Cannot find file dump list The last command looks wrong. The restore program requires the dump file to be provided via -f, so

Re: ugh. dump / restore problem(s) Cannot find file dump list

2012-11-14 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de To: free...@dreamchaser.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 12:27 PM Subject: Re: ugh. dump / restore problem(s) Cannot find file dump list On Wed, 14 Nov 2012

Re: ugh. dump / restore problem(s) Cannot find file dump list

2012-11-14 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, November 14, 2012 a las 01:01:08AM -0800, Jack Mc Lauren escribió: Hi There is no - . This is the correct format : restore rf /path/to/dump/files from man restore(8): RESTORE(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual RESTORE(8) NAME restore, rrestore — restore

Re: ugh. dump / restore problem(s) Cannot find file dump list

2012-11-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:01:08 -0800 (PST), Jack Mc Lauren wrote: There is no - . This is the correct format : restore rf /path/to/dump/files Really? The manual at man restore mentions: restore -r [-dDNuvy] [-b blocksize] [-f file | -P pipecommand] [-s fileno] And in the -r

Re: Old file reappeared by itself

2012-11-14 Thread Artem Kuchin
13.11.2012 17:24, Friedrich Locke: Be very careful, watch your back. Someone may be trying to get you paranoid! And you are following their game. Does anyone else have access to your host ? I doubt it. The only access to the host is via ssh. The last log is not damaged or altered, the

Re: portsnap

2012-11-14 Thread ajtiM
On Wednesday 14 November 2012 00:37:47 Elias Chrysocheris wrote: Yeap. Same here: pluto# portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from ec2-eu-west-1.portsnap.freebsd.org... done. Latest snapshot on server matches what we already

Re: Old file reappeared by itself

2012-11-14 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2012/11/14 14:25:27 +0400 Artem Kuchin mat...@itlegion.ru = To Friedrich Locke : AK Have you ever call the police ? AK AK Ever - yes, in this case - no. Have police ever called you? ;-) AK It happened today again! I checked file today and the file was Then it's much easier if it

Installations

2012-11-14 Thread Vitor Rodrigues Tanamachi
Good morning I'm difucudade to install the graphics and installation of the Oracle database and 11XE Caché database in FreeBSD 9. Could someone help me? I need to make these facilities for my CBT. Thank you for your attention ___

OT: problems with gpl-licensed software

2012-11-14 Thread jb
Thinking about extending or dual-licensing a gpl-licensed software ? https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/7/338 jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:58:14 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:26:00 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:07:38 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi,

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-14 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:58:02 -0600 (CST) Robert Bonomi wrote: In 'classic' English (as taught in the 60s and earlier), a comma was _required_ before a trailing 'and' in a list of 3 or more items, and forbidden if there were only two items. Not really:

Re: ugh. dump / restore problem(s) Cannot find file dump list

2012-11-14 Thread Gary Aitken
On 11/14/12 01:30, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, November 14, 2012 a las 01:20:14AM -0700, Gary Aitken escribió: I needed to expand a /var partition, which required saving and restoring /var and /usr did the following: booted to backup disk dump -0aR -h 0 -f

Re: ugh. dump / restore problem(s) Cannot find file dump list

2012-11-14 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:01:08 -0800 (PST), Jack Mc Lauren wrote: There is no - . This is the correct format : restore rf /path/to/dump/files Really? The manual at man restore mentions: restore -r [-dDNuvy] [-b blocksize] [-f file | -P pipecommand]

Re: Issues with smartd starting up at boot time - delays sever start?

2012-11-14 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 13 November 2012 11:14 -0600 Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: Can anyone think of a 'simple' fix for this? - Is there anything I can do to '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/smartd' to make it run later in the startup process? Try adding mail to the REQUIRE: line, since sendmail has that

Re: ugh. dump / restore problem(s) Cannot find file dump list

2012-11-14 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, November 14, 2012 a las 09:45:22AM -0700, Warren Block escribió: One of the (in my opinion) most interesting reference sources for dump/restore also mentions this format: # mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt # mkdir /tmp/oldvar # cd /tmp/oldvar # restore -ruf

Mounting SD card.

2012-11-14 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
Hi, I can't make my SD card reader work. It is from a 4 years old Compaq PC. It works fine in Linux however. I'm using 9.0 release with stock kernel. If I boot the system and plug the SD card in, the green led doesn't even switch on and there is only a /dev/da0 that I can not mount. If I boot the

curious -- what's /tmp/fam-root ?

2012-11-14 Thread Gary Aitken
Just curious; what's the purpose of /tmp/fam-root, and what is written there? Is it simply where the os writes stuff which is sensitive, and putting it in a rwx-- directory avoids potential security issues regarding file access? or is there more to it than that?

rm -rf and flags (schg, sunlnk)

2012-11-14 Thread Gary Aitken
Assuming one makes a mirror of a file system for backup purposes, then renames the mirror and makes another one, then attempts to remove the original using rm -rf, the rm will fail if any of the files have the schg or sunlnk bits set. Is there an easy way around this problem other than traversing

Re: rm -rf and flags (schg, sunlnk)

2012-11-14 Thread Bryan Drewery
On 11/14/2012 2:34 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: Assuming one makes a mirror of a file system for backup purposes, then renames the mirror and makes another one, then attempts to remove the original using rm -rf, the rm will fail if any of the files have the schg or sunlnk bits set. Is there an

Re: Mounting SD card.

2012-11-14 Thread Mike Clarke
On Wednesday 14 November 2012 19:43:30 Fernando Apesteguía wrote: If I boot the system and plug the SD card in, the green led doesn't even switch on and there is only a /dev/da0 that I can not mount. If I boot the system with the card plugged in, the green led is on and there is a /dev/da0s1

Re: curious -- what's /tmp/fam-root ?

2012-11-14 Thread jb
Gary Aitken freebsd at dreamchaser.org writes: Just curious; what's the purpose of /tmp/fam-root, and what is written there? Is it simply where the os writes stuff which is sensitive, and putting it in a rwx-- directory avoids potential security issues regarding file access? or is

Re: Advanced Format Drive ?

2012-11-14 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I'm looking at the examples section of the gpart(8) man page. May I assume that if I just want to merely ``try out'' GPT... you know... taking it out on the road for a first time test run... that I can just do the first five (5) commands listed

Proposition

2012-11-14 Thread Li Hao
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Re: curious -- what's /tmp/fam-root ?

2012-11-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:22:06 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: Just curious; what's the purpose of /tmp/fam-root, and what is written there? Is it simply where the os writes stuff which is sensitive, and putting it in a rwx-- directory avoids potential security issues regarding file access? or is

Re: why sync during shutdown when sync already done?

2012-11-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:32:46 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: It's my understanding that the sequence of numbers one sees output when shutdown is issued reflect writes of cached items. Is that correct? If so, why does: sync shutdown -r now still show cached items being written? Issuing the

perl, rrdtool issue

2012-11-14 Thread Dánielisz László
Hi Guys, Yesterday I issued the following command which I regretted: portupgrade -CPy, and this little tool installed perl 5.12 while perl 5.10 was already on the system. Since then everything is messed up. Now I deleted perl 5.10 and reinstalled perl 5.10 and everything which depends on it

Re: perl, rrdtool issue

2012-11-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Laszlo, Yesterday I issued the following command which I regretted: portupgrade -CPy, and this little tool installed perl 5.12 while perl 5.10 was already on the system. Since then everything is messed up. Now I deleted perl 5.10 and reinstalled perl 5.10 and everything which depends on

Amanda not working in 8.3

2012-11-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Since I updated all my servers from previous versions of FreeBSD to 8.3 (p4), Amanda started failing for any big back-up. I cannot trace the problem and would appreciate some help. For one of the big file system, I did a manual tar-gzip-ssh to amanda server. It proceeded well, so it seems

Re: perl, rrdtool issue

2012-11-14 Thread Laszlo Danielisz
Actually I did portupgrade -rf, and still have the issue with that bsdpan-RRDp-0.99.0. And because of that my munin isn't working, I'm getting email like: Can't locate Munin/Common/Defaults.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4/BSDPAN /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4/mach