Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Mark Felder
Hi all, We have quite a few BSD VMs on our infrastructure and are having some issues with our main webservers. They die randomly -- ESX shows high/100% CPU the exact moment it dies (very, very low up until that point), the console takes keyboard input but doesn't really do anything or

Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:15:29 -0600, Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: I haven't used watchdogd(8) (http://bit.ly/eKHUEN) before, but I wonder if it would help you by firing some data logging command (-e option) so you have some information to go on. That actually looks like a great

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:32:59 -0600, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Um, why exactly are so many people against HAL? HAL is deprecated now. All projects using HAL are in the process or have already migrated away from it. KDE has pluggable backends, so that's not a big deal, but XFCE

Re: Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:19:33 -0600, n j nin...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO, building Java on FreeBSD is a pain. AFAIK, Sun/Oracle doesn't provide precompiled OpenJDK for anyone, really. Even OSX now has to build their own. If it's precompiled it's probably not OpenJDK. Regards, Mark

Re: Server not booting

2011-03-08 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:10:32 -0600, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: Arima NM46X with dual AMD Opteron processors. My dual Opteron S2895 board does this as well. Latest BIOS and everything. I can get it to boot off of a flash drive but I can't get it to boot off a CDROM. FreeBSD just

Re: Apple FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-10 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:31:32 -0600, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: Apple produces the clusterfuck that is CUPS, I believe. Apple took over the CUPS project. They didn't write it. They're improving it a lot with every major OSX release, so I'm not sure why you're so upset. Apple is

Re: android phone -pc-ineternet

2011-03-16 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:48:45 -0500, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: IF I understand you correctly here, you need to configure the wifi connection on your phone, and have a wifi access point available. Else- see above... No, he's referring to wired tethering

Re: PAE: Cannot fork

2011-04-14 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:14:37 -0500, Dennis Nikiforov dennis.nikifo...@gmail.com wrote: There is a legacy piece of custom software that runs only on 32 bit systems, so going to 64 bit is not possible. Run it in a 32bit jail. PAE has never been very stable/reliable. Regards, Mark

Re: Why are *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8 identical on both stable standard supfiles

2011-05-02 Thread Mark Felder
Sounds like an error. stable-supfile should be RELENG_8 and if standard-supfile is supposed to be for the corresponding release (8.2) it should be RELENG_8_2 which gives you the 8.2 source with any official patches already applied to the source.

Re: (8.2) amd64 + linuxulator + nvidia driver is it stable ?

2011-05-10 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 10 May 2011 10:31:53 -0500, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: I've got a new box running 8.2-stable with amd64 + linuxulator + nvidia driver. Quite often when watching video on youtube the box freeze (no panic). I've previously reported this to freebsd-emul and

Re: (8.2) amd64 + linuxulator + nvidia driver is it stable ?

2011-05-10 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 10 May 2011 16:21:39 -0500, Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote: Are you guys using nspluginwrapper-devel? Hi Mario, It happens to me with Opera, Chromium (from chromium.hybridsource.org), and with Firefox via regular nspluginwrapper. Regards, Mark

Re: (8.2) amd64 + linuxulator + nvidia driver is it stable ?

2011-05-11 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 10 May 2011 20:19:06 -0500, Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote: You should try the devel version. I'll consider it, but I rarely use Firefox and furthermore Chromium and Opera don't use nspluginwrapper and have the same issue. This makes me think it has nothing to do with

Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Sat, 21 May 2011 14:14:39 -0500, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: I really trust the people on this list so hopefully you can point me to a real and non-bullshit lab that can really recover data. Gillware, Inc. Here's a referral code as well: 13967 http://www.gillware.com/

Re: Another PHP5 problem

2011-06-15 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:04:01 -0500, Jack L. Stone ja...@sage-american.com wrote: with the ionCube PHP Loader v3.3.16, Copyright (c) 2002-2010, by ionCube Ltd. ionCube causes all kinds of neat things like this. Disable it and I bet it won't happen. Regards, Mark

Re: Another PHP5 problem

2011-06-15 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:40:15 -0500, Jack L. Stone ja...@sage-american.com wrote: I cannot do without ioncube as another post mentioned. I understand your need for ioncube, but replicate the problem to another non-production system and remove ioncube to see whether or not it is the

Re: NFS zfs serveur (hardware question)

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:41:58 -0500, Michel Le Cocq miconof80.l...@gmail.com wrote: speedy disk : Sas 15K : to limit IO Wait The more spindles the better. Get more disks if possible. Regards, Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:31:05 -0500, ec...@encontacto.net wrote: In addition to having no information on the CPU as a server lack of comfort with 6 cores and memory 8GB of memory that I am having a problem with. I am not a gamer but I have always assumed that a gaming machine needs the

Re: ssh -X (X11 forwarding) not working from 6.1 to 8.1

2011-07-11 Thread Mark Felder
This sounds silly, but what happens if you try ssh -Y Regards, Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: ssh -X (X11 forwarding) not working from 6.1 to 8.1

2011-07-11 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:06:33 -0500, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: xauth not in your path? ssh -Y skips all auth stuff so you don't need xauth; he said that didn't work either :-( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: what to do about missing Flash and missing Java

2011-07-24 Thread Mark Felder
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:22:54 -0500, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: So here it is, I just installed 8.2 and need the latest Flash. What's the right procedure here, please. Java is not a problem and non-native flash has worked without issues here for a very long time. In

Re: more information

2011-08-04 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:04:22 -0500, Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: And you attach a Word document? Your scam stinks to high heaven. It's a pdf... but yeah, weird. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Help with Bind Weirdness Logging

2011-08-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:15:21 -0500, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: Just recently, I noticed that my server can't resolve for some names. The ones I've noticed are for Microsoft domains, specifically go.microsoft.com and time.windows.com. For example: What kind of

Re: Help with Bind Weirdness Logging

2011-08-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:25:13 -0500, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: Any ideas on how to get Bind logging going? Here's how we do it. named.conf: logging { channel my_syslog { syslog daemon; severity info; //print-time

Re: Support for Bigfoot Killer E2100?

2011-08-25 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:41:50 -0500, Dennis Glatting free...@penx.com wrote: A number of motherboards (e.g., GigaByte Guerrilla and Sniper) are sporting a BIGFOOT Killer E2100 chip, which is also the board's Ethernet. Does FreeBSD support this chipset? Anyone tried it? It's a new chipset

Re: Turn off hyperthreading on dual core Atom?

2011-08-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:24:08 -0500, Brett Glass br...@lariat.net wrote: With hyperthreading, the FreeBSD scheduler simply acts as if there are 4 CPUs. Each CPU gets clock interrupts (which add overhead), and the scheduler is naive about the fact that two of the CPUs are not separate chips

Re: Mumble

2011-09-12 Thread Mark Felder
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:52:14 -0500, Mr. Darren darren...@yahoo.com wrote: I am trying to install Mumble on a headless FreeBSD server which has no need for X11. Why is this port trying to install X11? Seems like it shouldn't be needed. QT4. It's required for the server still. Sorry.

Re: Hellanzb, segmentation

2011-09-14 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:44:32 -0500, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: Indirect answer to your question: do like me, switch to sabnzbd . Serving it with an nginx frontend doing PAM authentication, works pretty nicely. You can serve sabnzbd without using its own built-in webserver? Or are you

Re: FS of choice for max random iops ( Maildir )

2011-09-16 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:57:45 -0500, free...@top-consulting.net wrote: I know it's usually a big no-no but since I have the battery backed-up write cache from the raid card, can't I just disable the ZIL entirely ? No. ZFS doesn't work the way traditional filesystems do.

Re: load average with multi-core CPU's

2011-09-22 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:22:43 -0500, Henry M henr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Can someone explain, or point me to correct documentation on what the load average on top/uptime is actually displaying? Load average is average number of processes in the run queue for the 1, 5, and 15 minute

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Mark Felder
You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs are instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't wait to go home and do the same with my personal laser.

Re: Not found slim

2011-11-02 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:55:47 -0500, zan...@gmail.com wrote: But in my rc.conf said dbus_enable=YES and HAL? Your Xorg was probably compiled with HAL. I've had this problem before though and the fix was to recompile X without HAL. Sucks to not be able to plugplay though.

Re: painful binary upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2

2011-11-06 Thread Mark Felder
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:25:30 -0600, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: Why doesn't the freebsd-update command invoke mergemaster with -F? Or is there some step that I'm leaving out? Does freebsd-update follow /etc/mergemaster.rc? # Automatically install files that do not

Re: AMD64 with 9.0 PRERELEASE freezing/hanging without any messages

2011-11-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:54:18 -0600, Jukka A. Ukkonen j...@iki.fi wrote: Hello, Has anyone else noticed a similar odd behavior with AMD64 and 9.0 prerelease (as well as RCs and betas)? On my 12 core (2*4162EE) the whole system just freezes quite often without any warning, without any messages

Re: Intel EMGD driver on FreeBSD?

2011-12-27 Thread Mark Felder
Are you sure that the problem isn't just that the current releases of FreeBSD don't have GEM/KMS support which the newer Intel drivers require? I'm running a test build on my Google CR48 and have OpenGL acceleration without any major hiccups except not being able to get back to a console

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:46:54 -0600, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: I would just like to add that is FreeBSD was so crappy open sour software, why does it run half the Internet? This must be a mistake. I was just assured this weekend that FreeBSD is a niche OS.

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:14:52 -0600, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Maybe consider the chance that a FreeBSD OS can be turned into closed source (which the license explicitely allows) and put into some embedded device, a router, a DSL modem, a managed switch... In parts like this, you won't

Re: ZFS Root Won't Mount - Unknown Filesystem

2012-01-07 Thread Mark Felder
Hi Drew, I'm pretty sure you can't run a RAIDZ as your root pool. That's likely the problem. Kind of sucks, I know :-( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: ZFS Root Won't Mount - Unknown Filesystem

2012-01-07 Thread Mark Felder
On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:29:01 -0600, apseudouto...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: Hi Drew, I'm pretty sure you can't run a RAIDZ as your root pool. That's likely the problem. Kind of sucks, I know :-( You can use raidz1 as your root pool

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread Mark Felder
All of these complaints can go directly to /dev/null Just as you don't get to express your opinion about the government if you don't vote, you don't get to express your opinion about -RELEASE changes when you didn't run the STABLE/RC/BETAs. You had your chance to help improve FreeBSD for

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:40:42 -0600, je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:27:32 -0600 Mark Felder articulated: Just as you don't get to express your opinion about the government if you don't vote, Excuse me, but are you just trying to look naive? The wording wasn't exactly

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread Mark Felder
I've recently been presented with new information: namely that RC3 had sysinstall as an option (I did not know this, and I've been reading the lists) and that it was taken away for -RELEASE even though it was agreed upon that would not happen for 9.x. I'll crawl under this rock now.

UPDATING 20120116 -- x11/xcb-util -- instructions not working

2012-01-25 Thread Mark Felder
For the life of me I can't work around this xcb-util issue. This is a pretty fresh install and I have not made any workaround symlinks. I ran: # portmaster -R -r xcb-util-0 And the problem persists. It didn't even complete all the packages because some were still erroring on missing xcb

Re: UPDATING 20120116 -- x11/xcb-util -- instructions not working

2012-01-25 Thread Mark Felder
On 25.01.2012 09:52, Mark wrote: I got stuck in this hell the other day, I had to do this. portmaster --check-depends to see if anything is missing then portmaster -a -f I want to report back that this did end up working pretty darn well. :-) THANKS!

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-06 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:37:17 -0600, d...@nagual.nl wrote: I'm a bit confused. I always believed FreeBSD is a very safe system. That may be true for the core files, but what about ports. On the net I read _never_ to let the webserver be the owner of its files and yet, ports like Drupal or

istgt sessions / connections

2012-02-10 Thread Mark Felder
Can anyone here explain the MaxSessions and MaxConnections setting for istgt? Let's say I have the following: 6 servers 8 LUNs 2 Paths to each LUN Is that... 96 sessions? 96 connections? It's very unclear what is meant by session and connection. Thanks, Mark

Re: imap server performance benchmarks

2012-03-09 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:33:53 -0600, Weldon Godfrey wel...@excelsusphoto.com wrote: I would highly recommend looking at Dovecot. I have used courier for several ISPs then switched to Dovecot on my last install. Its ability for caching the index per user is of great performance advantage if

Re: imap server performance benchmarks

2012-03-10 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:17:15 -0600, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: Yes, thats true. That was tested in the paper: a cyrus? using sql database backend performed faster in searches and lookups. But writing and deleting was a drag, and you lose the shell; but I'm

FreeBSD 9's SSH HPN

2012-03-19 Thread Mark Felder
Is the HPN patchset included with the base OpenSSH the full patchset? Does it include the threaded CTR patch? I can't seem to find a clear answer to this. Thanks, Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: need info builing ports properly

2012-03-28 Thread Mark Felder
My first suggestion is to begin using portmaster which can be found here: /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster My second suggestion is to please never ever ever mess with CFLAGS on FreeBSD. You can get away with it on some Linux distros, but FreeBSD strongly discourages it. My third

Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-28 Thread Mark Felder
Alright guys, I'm at the end of my rope here. For those that haven't seen my previous emails here's the (not so) quick breakdown: Overview: FreeBSD ?? - 7.4 never crash FreeBSD 8.0 - 8.2 crashes FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested (Sorry, not possible in our production at this time,

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:31:38 -0500, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: * have you filed a PR? No * is the crash easily reproducable? Unfortunately not. It's totally random. Some servers will get the bug and crash daily, some will crash weekly, some might seem to be fine but 3

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:36:49 -0500, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without testing a newer version. 8.2 came out over a year ago, many many things have changed since

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
Thank you for the suggestion. We'll put it in our toolbox and see if it helps! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
Alright, new data. It happened to crash about 10 minutes after I came in this morning and I ran some stuff in the DDB. I have no idea what information is useful, but perhaps someone will see something out of the ordinary? http://feld.me/freebsd/esx_crash/ Thanks...

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:58:16 -0500, Hans Petter Selasky hsela...@c2i.net wrote: Do both 32- and 64-bit versions of FreeBSD crash? Correct, we see both i386 and amd64 flavors crash in the same way. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:31:24 -0500, Eduardo Morras nec...@retena.com wrote: Don't know about ESXi but on others VM Managers i can change the chipset emulation from ICH10 to ICH4. Can you change it to an older chipset too? Unfortunately there's no setting in the GUI for that but I'll keep

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:55:36 -0500, Hans Petter Selasky hsela...@c2i.net wrote: It almost sounds like the lost interrupt issue I've seen with USB EHCI devices, though disk I/O should have a retry timeout? What does wmstat -i output? --HPS Here's a server that has a week uptime and is due

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:49:30 -0500, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: I explained it at the time to one of my VMware friends: This is 100% identical to what we see, Joe! And we're so unlucky that we have this happen on probably a dozen servers, but a handful are the really bad ones.

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:05:30 -0500, Mark Atkinson atkin...@gmail.com wrote: If this is an interrupt problem with disk i/o, then you might want to look into (DDB(4)) show intr show intrcount maybe show allrman Thank you! I really don't know what things we should be running in DDB to

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:24:30 -0500, je...@seibercom.net wrote: I just started reading this tread, but I am wondering if I missed something here. What does this have to do with Windows 7? I emailed him off-list but I'm guessing he thought this was on VMWare Workstation or another product

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:53:02 -0500, Alan Cox alan.l@gmail.com wrote: Not so long ago, VMware implemented a clever scheme for reducing the overhead of virtualized interrupts that must be delivered by at least some (if not all) of their emulated storage controllers:

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:53:52 -0500, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: Doesn't VMWare offer different types of emulated disk controllers? If so, that might be the easiest way to narrow the field. Another thing maybe to try would be to backport the mpt Yes, they offer

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:27:31 -0500, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: It also doesn't explain the experience here, where one VM basically crapped out but only after a migration - and then stayed crapped out. It would be interesting to hear about your datastore, how busy it is, what technology,

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-03 Thread Mark Felder
Guys, The crash on my machine with debugging has evaded me for a few days. I'm still looking for further suggestions of things I should grab from the DDB when it happens again. Thanks for the help everyone! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Best practices about Jails

2012-04-04 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:06:25 -0500, fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Firewall in a jail will not work. Only the host firewall has access to the network. Jailsv2 allows your own firewall in the jail. You get a full network stack. This is not supported by ezjails, and should still be marked

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-09 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:55:07 -0500, Tony ableton...@gmail.com wrote: I will start work on a major Rails-based redesign I'm praying this is a troll. Ruby as a language is so broken, and anyone who has tried to host a Ruby project knows my pain. The only thing you could have said that would

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-09 Thread Mark Felder
I've been in this position before. Transparent proxy running Squid and Dansguardian will solve most of your problems. And having a local cache will help fix your low bandwidth issue. Your skill level and networking knowledge will determine how achievable this is, but it's a great solution

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-10 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:21:58 -0500, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote For the interim (and as a POC), setup squid and dans guardian and point the browsers to proxy using that machine. Prove your point and then explain that this can be done transparently if you had

Re: Changes in Jails from FreeBSD 6 to FreeBSD 9 -- particularly, networking and routing

2012-04-13 Thread Mark Felder
Do I understand this right? Working in FreeBSD 6.x: interface em0: 1.2.3.4/24 -- public IP, host only 192.168.1.1/24 -- private IP, host only 192.168.1.2/24 -- Jail #1 192.168.1.3/24 -- Jail #2 With this configuration you had no problems accessing the

Re: Changes in Jails from FreeBSD 6 to FreeBSD 9 -- particularly, networking and routing

2012-04-13 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:53:49 -0500, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC c...@shire.net wrote: No NAT needed since they share the network stack under Jails v1 they share the routing tables. It works. Try it. You're clearly exploiting a bug in FreeBSD 6's jails. It must get confused and send your

Re: jail v2 documentation?

2012-04-13 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:18:05 -0500, fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Where can I find documentation on version 2 of jail? It's quite scare because it's still experimental. I'd look up VNET and VIMAGE. You can probably get more questions answered on the freebsd-jails@ mailing list.

Re: jail v2 documentation?

2012-04-13 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:01:08 -0500, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: freebsd-jails@ My apologies; this should be singular and not plural: freebsd-jail@ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: jail v2 documentation?

2012-04-14 Thread Mark Felder
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:59:47 -0500, fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I don't see any v2 in the jail environment. Vimage is a separate software module that is not part of the the system base release. It has to be compiled into a custom kernel to be enabled and it's labeled as experimental, use

Re: policy...

2012-04-17 Thread Mark Felder
Ports are frozen, a snapshot of the ports tree is made for use on their build boxes to make packages for the mirrors. Assuming no issues have been discovered on the build servers (broken ports that need to be fixed) it will be packaged with 8.3-RELEASE. I'm probably missing several important

Re: recommendation(s) for new computer

2012-04-20 Thread Mark Felder
nvidia drivers just work. That's what matters. ___ 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: VLANs, default route not working on boot

2012-04-20 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:54:46 -0500, Chad M Stewart c...@balius.com wrote: Anyone have some suggestions how I can fix this? I'm guessing having the default route on a tagged vlan was not tested and the default route is attempted before the vlan interface is all the way up. After the

Re: VLANs, default route not working on boot

2012-04-20 Thread Mark Felder
Those errors are usually from it trying to create interfaces that already exist. It looks like it created your default route, though. Time to file a PR because the network boot stuff is not doing the order right. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: recommendation(s) for new computer

2012-04-20 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:34:11 -0500, Dale Scott dalesc...@shaw.ca wrote: As do Intel (video) drivers Not if they require GEM/KMS like all the modern variants do; they're not supported in FreeBSD yet. I have a laptop (Google CR48) that's running the very experimental GEM/KMS code

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Felder
Quick update: I have received word last night that this crash has been consistently happening to someone on FreeBSD 9 and they're looking for more ideas. I changed the following 41 days ago: - Video memory to auto if it wasn't already - SCSI controller changed from LSI Logic Parallel to

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 support for LSI SAS 2208 based controllers/Dell PERC 710

2012-05-16 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 16 May 2012 13:04:25 -0500, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com wrote: Would anyone else out there have any experience with installing FreeBSD on the R620 and be able to provide any tips for troubleshooting? Does 9.0 install on that hardware? It's possible your controller chip

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Felder
OK guys I've been talking with another user who can recreate this crash and the last bit of information we've learned seems to be leaning towards interrupts/IRQ issues like someone (bz@ perhaps?) suggested. I'm still trying to test this myself, but the other user was able to recreate my

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 21 May 2012 12:01:19 -0500, Andrew Boyer abo...@averesystems.com wrote: You could try switching mpt to MSI. MSI interrupts are never shared. Add this to /boot/device.hints: hint.mpt.0.msi_enable=1 Currently implementing this on the known crashy servers. I've been looking

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 21 May 2012 13:47:45 -0500, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Very curious how 'irq 22 at device 22.0' and 'dev.mpt.0.%location: slot=22' all match with a '22'. Strangely here in ESXi that doesn't work the same. Emulated BIOS must be considerably different... :/ $

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi, can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above information in it so we don't lose it? I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it permanently fixed. I certainly don't want this

Re: multiple versions of pcre needed with pkgs and ports

2012-05-24 Thread Mark Felder
Never mix packages and ports. You would have to be using the EXACT snapshot of ports that the package team used to build the packages for this to be safe. So conclusion: use one or the other, but never both. Things you need to be doing now: 1. Install sysutils/bsdadminscripts and run

Re: Can't get irc/inspircd to build, any clues?

2012-05-28 Thread Mark Felder
I'm currently the maintainer and it works on the machines I run it on. I also pushed it through redports to prove it can compile on 7.4, 8.x, 9, CLANG, etc. It looks like BSDMakefile is generated during the build process. I'm guessing something on your system is screwed up if it can't

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 30 May 2012 10:06:13 -0500, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: Do you only have one CPU in this VM? If not, do you know which threads the other CPUs were running (e.g. do you have ps7.png, etc.)? correct, only one CPU in the VM ___

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 30 May 2012 12:17:07 -0500, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: Humm, can you test it with 2 CPUs? We primarily only run with 1 CPU. We have seen it crash on multiple CPU VMs. Also, Dane Foster appeared to have been using multiple CPUs in his video transcoding VMs.

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread Mark Felder
So when this hang happens, there never is a real panic. It just sits in a state which I describe as like being in a deadlock. How would I go about getting a crashdump if it never panics? Is it possible to do the dump over a network or something because I don't believe it can write through

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Mark Felder
I'm doing this with HP heads, LSI SAS adapters, and http://www.dataonstorage.com/ JBODs. Note: the DataOn JBODs are very, very hard to get right now because these are really rebadged LSI devices and LSI sold this division to NetApp, who promptly shut it down to prevent people like us from

Re: Roster DNS Management

2012-06-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 10:58:39 -0500, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: What does this linking look like? Do you mean like symlinking zone files, so that domainA is exactly a replica of domainB - as in conjoined?:) precisely -- foo.com foo.net - foo.com foo.org - foo.com

Re: IP - e-mail

2012-06-06 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:11:02 -0500, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Matthias, your lynx-based 'solution' does *NOT* solve the OP's question. Incorrect; it does solve his problem. He wants to know -when- his DHCP assigned address changes. Consider what happens if both the

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:44:57 -0500, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: If the key should be divulged, then the key may be revoked by the issuer. Revoked how? Wouldn't they have to issue a firmware update to actually revoke it? The UEFI firmware doesn't have network access

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Mark Felder
Yes, let's all run ALPHA and MIPS hardware. I'll just jam my Nvidia card into one of the available slots and everything should work OK, right? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-06-06 Thread Mark Felder
Hi guys I'm excitedly posting this from my phone. Good news for you guys, bad news for us -- we were building HA storage on vmware for a client and can now replicate the crash on demand. I'll be posting details when I get home to my PC tonight, but this hopefully is enough to replicate the

Re: dumping file system subtree (/var)

2012-06-07 Thread Mark Felder
Would rsync or cpdup from single user mode cover your needs? Should cover everything and then you can just reboot into your newly partitioned system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: xfce 4.10 update problems

2012-06-11 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:22:51 -0500, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: I tested it by rebooting 3 times. I have 2 mouses: Lenovo Thinkpad stick and external usb mouse. moused_nondefault_enable=NO perhaps? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Mark Felder
Jerry, Chad: please unsubscribe me from your mailing list. Thanks!! ___ 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: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- you are *strongly* encocuraged to remove them. Yes, that means numbers will not be column aligned, but it is a small price to pay to

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:36:37 -0500, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: I don't have ready access to source at the moment, but I would expect (like the normal C I/O functions) it will be interpreted as octal. Suppose we could always ask Paul Vixie :-)

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