Re: change hostname

2011-03-27 Thread Noel
On 3/27/2011 9:18 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: hey guys, I setup a FreeBSD 8.2 box to server as an LDAP server. I forgot that I had a TLS cert with a different hostname than the one I selected. So I edited /etc/rc.conf to change the name there defaultrouter=192.168.1.1

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-08 Thread Noel
! -- Noel ___ 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: FreeBSD Questions off line?

2011-06-02 Thread Noel
The archives show 30+ messages yesterday and today. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-June/date.html Check your mail server, your subscription, etc. -- Noel Jones On 6/2/2011 3:01 PM, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, I havent seen any FreeBSD questions on line for 2 days

Re: Problems with sshd

2011-07-15 Thread Noel
repositioning the mifi will help -- try the other side of the house or near a window. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Broadcom BCM5780 Link-UP before auto-negotiation completes

2011-08-25 Thread Noel
-X network card that doesn't suffer this issue. Suggestions welcome. I've found this workaround useful with my bge cards: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-April/056400.html -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Installing free bsd

2011-12-12 Thread Noel
/Vista (or if you want a little more control in Win7), you need an iso burner program. Here's a free one I've used this in the past: http://www.ntfs.com/iso_burner_free.htm -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: OT: Slackware: Starting Servers at Boot

2012-02-02 Thread Noel
On 2/2/2012 2:22 PM, Chris Maness wrote: I have been using FreeBSD for so long I forgot how to configure services and startup. I now also have a Slack box. What file do I edit to so that services like named start automagically? I am aware lines can be uncommented in inetd.conf, but I want

Re: Adding a Static Route to rc.conf?

2012-05-01 Thread Noel
-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-routing.html see section 32.2.5.2 Persistent Configuration -- Noel Jones -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: Adding a Static Route to rc.conf?

2012-05-03 Thread Noel
-- Noel Jones I added: # Add Internal Net 2 as a static route static_routes=internalnet2 route_internalnet2=-net 44.18.44.0/24 192.168.1.33 to rc.conf per the section above. I rebooted and it was a no go. Did I miss something? Looks OK, and works for me. Wild guess is you need to enable

Re: Adding a Static Route to rc.conf?

2012-05-03 Thread Noel
On 5/3/2012 1:08 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Noel noeld...@gmail.com mailto:noeld...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/3/2012 11:45 AM, Chris Maness wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Chris Maness chris at chrismaness.com http://chrismaness.com wrote

Re: Adding a Static Route to rc.conf?

2012-05-03 Thread Noel
On 5/3/2012 1:54 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Noel noeld...@gmail.com mailto:noeld...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed, I should have mentioned that if you have freebsd-8x or earlier, this feature isn't built-in but can be easily added: http

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-09-11 Thread Noel
the files, and probably not useful for verifying if all files have been copied/moved correctly to a different directory. The Midnight Commander has a function to compare directories which will also identify _which_ files have changed (unlike Yes, much more promising. -- Noel Jones

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-11 Thread Noel
time, not a timezone, never shown on a computer. Your system correctly switched to daylight savings time, as verified by the EDT timezone indicator. Most likely the clock was already an hour slow before the time change. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd

Re: UEFI Secure Boot

2013-07-08 Thread Noel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/8/2013 6:28 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: On Jul 8, 2013, at 3:24 PM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: [snip] So the question: Why or when will I need an secure UEFI boot??? From what I've read of UEFI Secure boot, I've parceled out into

Re: UEFI Secure Boot

2013-07-08 Thread Noel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/8/2013 6:28 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: Not entirely correct. Microsoft licensing requires UEFI Secure boot for PCs sold with preinstalled Win8 and the Windows 8 logo. Win8 itself boots and runs fine on legacy hardware without UEFI (and often

Tape drive suggestion (IDE)

2003-08-29 Thread Noel Fitzpatrick
week. Obvious point it must work with FreeBSD and I'd prefer to use IDE/ATAPI rather than scsi. Thanks in advance. Regards, Noel. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

missing startkde

2003-03-28 Thread NOEL BALANSAG
hi all. i recently installed kde3 via ports, but it seems that make forgot to install startkde. i thought that it was just a problem with cvsupping in between updates, so i deinstalled kde3, cvsupped again this morning, and reinstalled kde3 via ports. same problem. is it possible to just create

how do i invoke the command ee or vi when system fails to load

2003-03-11 Thread NOEL BALANSAG
hello. pardon my stupid question, but how do i invoke the command ee or vi? i recently removed partition no. 2 on my disk, and fbsd resides on partition no. 3, so now i have 2 partitions, windoze on partition 1 and = fbsd on partition 2. but when i boot into fbsd, the system cannot see the files,

Re: how do i invoke the command ee ... problem solved.

2003-03-12 Thread NOEL BALANSAG
hey all, thanks for all the tips. problem is system won't let me run fsck -p, but i was able to mount the partition where my /usr is, so i was able to edit /ect/fstab and make the system look in the right places. thanks a lot to all of you. i really appreciate it. --- Mike Meyer [EMAIL

Re: postfix on FreeBSD

2005-03-09 Thread Noel Jones
multiple database types, you don't need to specify this. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to find files less than a day old?

2005-03-29 Thread Noel Jones
find -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to find files less than a day old?

2005-03-29 Thread Noel Jones
instead of -1 and it didn't work. How can I accomplish this? find . -mtime -1h -type f man find -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: how to find files less than a day old?

2005-03-29 Thread Noel Jones
-- Noel Jones Is there a way that I could do this without using find? I basically just need a listing of files to pipe to cat. Is there any easier way to do this? If there isn't, could you explain in more explicit email how to this? /Brian Here's some commands that should

Re: Is there a Data Communications Program Native to FreeBSD?

2005-10-22 Thread Noel Jones
of the base system and should work for manually setting modem parameters. If you want something more sophisticated, ports/comms has several. I've used ecu and kermit for various projects in the past. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: How to have sshd log IP numbers instead of reverse lookups

2005-11-27 Thread Noel Jones
will do what you want. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: switching timezone within crontab?

2006-03-03 Thread Noel Jones
to schedule a UTC cron job in crontab, is it sufficient to put a little: TZ=UTC Right before the job? Pretty sure the above will only set the timezone for your job, and not alter the schedule time. But I don't know a solution to your problem. -- Noel Jones

Re: awk question

2006-03-06 Thread Noel Jones
it? I'd like to just pipe the information from the logs to this mini-script and end up with a list of URLs consisting of just the domain (http://www.happymountain.com). | cut -d / -f 1-3 -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: AND COBOL

2006-03-07 Thread Noel Jones
On 3/7/06, Bob Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I couldn't figure out how to fit ALGOL in there. Ain't life a PISTOL? After that, I need a Tylenol... -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: chown confusion

2006-04-27 Thread Noel Jones
/books/handbook/permissions.html -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vacation for postfix

2006-04-27 Thread Noel Jones
), will it work fine with postfix ? Yes, it will work fine as long as these are local (not virtual) users each with their own home directory. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: RAM check

2006-01-26 Thread Noel Jones
/ http://www.memtest.org/ -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sshd possible breakin attempt messages

2006-02-06 Thread Noel Jones
situation going forward? Should I wait until 6.1 for bug fixes (generally I am opposed to n.0 anything). Your call. Base your decision on what features you need. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Syslog

2006-02-15 Thread Noel Jones
-a RemoteIP. Then stop and restart syslogd before continuing your test. You also likely need to clear the program specification in syslog.conf by using: !* +sphere *.* /var/log/sphere/messages -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Redirecting Traffic with PF

2006-02-24 Thread Noel Jones
on $extif inet proto udp from any to self port 27902 - 192.168.2.11 port 27902 -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: postfix restrictions error

2003-11-26 Thread Noel Jones
= permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_pipelining, reject_invalid_hostname reject_maps_rbl maps_rbl_domains = sbl.spamhaus.org relays.ordb.org opm.blitzed.org dun.dnsrbl.net spam.dnsrbl.net -- Noel Jones ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Supressing dd output

2009-12-23 Thread Noel Jones
summaries. I guess I could hack the source code of dd, but I'd prefer not to have to. Has anyone got any ideas? Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas to all of you, Rolf Nielsen Order matters. dd ... /dev/null 21 -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd

Re: [OT] ssh security

2010-03-08 Thread Noel Jones
is written for ssh to take advantage of something like this, we're stuck with what's available. -- Noel Jones [1] http://srp.stanford.edu/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: warning: network_biopair_interop: error reading 5 bytes from the network: Connection reset by peer

2010-03-09 Thread Noel Jones
connection, your TLS is broken. If you get it fairly consistently with some specific client, maybe that client has a busted TLS implementation. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: warning: network_biopair_interop: error reading 5 bytes from the network: Connection reset by peer

2010-03-09 Thread Noel Jones
Add your client IP to the postfix debug peer list and follow up o the postfix users list On Mar 9, 2010 5:02 PM, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:36:31 -0600 Noel Jones noeld...@gmail.com articulated: Maybe you didn't have TLS enabled before? Anyway, this message caused

Re: FreeBSD 8: Postfix policyd-weight not working!!!

2010-04-08 Thread Noel Jones
for the outside connections? Mail that's permitted by permit_mynetworks or submitted via the sendmail(1) interface won't trigger the policy server in your config. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Setup Fail2Ban on FreeBSD

2010-04-23 Thread Noel Jones
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Bauer, Aaron J. aaron.j.ba...@saic.com wrote: I am currently using FreeNAS 0.7 for a file server.  I have multiple SSH bruteforce attacks each week, and wish to use fail2ban to prevent this. I don't have much experience with BSD, and am having trouble getting

Re: postgrey question

2005-06-02 Thread Noel Jones
the entire message via SMTP from postfix. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to prevent users from receiving email

2006-08-19 Thread Noel Jones
. But check_client_access is unlikely to be effective matching a recipient address. Use check_recipient_access instead. There are lots of examples on the postfix-users list. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: ssh public key authentification

2007-01-18 Thread Noel Jones
key. Did you copy the displayed Public key for pasting into OpenSSH from PuttyGEN, or did you paste the actual contents of the public key? Putty's on-disk format for public keys is not compatible with OpenSSH. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions

Re: export nfs to a host with dynamic IP address

2007-03-19 Thread Noel Jones
address. OpenVPN is secure, fairly easy to configure, and works well with dynamic IP. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: telnet mydomain.tld 465 ERROR : connection closed

2007-10-30 Thread Noel Jones
also test that TLS is working on port 25 (which requires the STARTTLS command) with: $ openssl s_client -connect localhost:25 -starttls smtp The above command issues the STARTTLS command for you and establishes an encrypted connection. -- Noel Jones

Re: telnet mydomain.ild 465 : connection closed

2007-10-30 Thread Noel Jones
also test that TLS is working on port 25 (which requires the STARTTLS command) with: $ openssl s_client -connect localhost:25 -starttls smtp The above command issues the STARTTLS command for you and establishes an encrypted connection. -- Noel Jones

Re: Hopefully an easy header rewriting problem for Postfix

2007-12-07 Thread Noel Jones
: masquerade_domains = my.domain and then run postfix reload -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sendmail question

2007-07-26 Thread Noel Jones
. a fairly simple mail client that supports authentication: http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/ -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?

2007-08-24 Thread Noel Jones
-new add address extensions such as user+spam and to let dovecot file the mail in a spam folder. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?

2007-08-26 Thread Noel Jones
On 8/25/07, Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 24, 2007, at 11:26 PMAug 24, 2007, Noel Jones wrote: [snip] an easier way is to run spamassassin under the control of amavisd-new and let amavisd-new add address extensions such as user+spam and to let dovecot file the mail

Re: Named

2007-08-26 Thread Noel Jones
On 8/25/07, Narek Gharibyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has Anyone tried to use Named under windows? What are results? I used bind on windows a couple years ago. Seemed to work as expected. Official binary packages for Windows are available from isc.org -- Noel Jones

Re: completly remove (or modify) a port

2007-04-18 Thread Noel Jones
On 4/18/07, Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have been trying to work with postfix from the ports collection. I need to rebuild it to include mysql support. I tried #make deinstall but a subsequent #make install doesn't give me the options screen. try make config

Re: DomainsKeys/DKIM with Postfix - Questions

2007-05-07 Thread Noel Jones
it yet. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tailing logs

2008-08-23 Thread Noel Jones
/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Look at ports/sysutils/multitail -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: a bit OT - VPN+Windows

2007-01-08 Thread Noel Jones
docs and good sample configs: http://openvpn.net/ windows gui: http://openvpn.se/ -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Load balancing outgoing mail relay

2007-01-17 Thread Noel Jones
amounts of mail, but leave it on if sending thousands of messages at a time. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Load balancing outgoing mail relay

2007-01-17 Thread Noel Jones
://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem with email...

2005-08-31 Thread Noel Jones
sender addresses - add some spam controls to your mail server Specific answers depend on what mail software (sendmail? postfix? exim? qmail? something else?) you are using and how strict rules you can apply. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions

Re: script advice

2005-09-14 Thread Noel Jones
] { echo Other users logged on! echo $USERS echo logging out... logout } -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntp problem :(

2005-09-15 Thread Noel Jones
how to tell ntpdate to use only IPv4 addresses, so a workaround is to use the IPv4 address directly. ntpdate -v 129.88.30.1 -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: bruteforceblocker + PF

2005-10-05 Thread Noel Jones
202.92.126.217 reached the maximum number of failed attempts!!! Adding IP to the firewall... -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: bruteforceblocker + PF

2005-10-06 Thread Noel Jones
On 10/6/05, Enrique Ayesta Perojo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Miércoles, 5 de Octubre de 2005 21:53, Noel Jones escribió: I'm going to assume this is just a small part of your pf.conf, because the part you show doesn't allow any internet access. Maybe you should show us your entire

Re: Simple Monitoring Of TCP/IP Question

2009-12-18 Thread Noel Jones
direction. For a simple service/system monitor, monit may suit your needs. http://mmonit.com/monit/ ports/sysutils/monit -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Open Mail Relay

2010-08-14 Thread Noel Jones
is an open relay. But you may need to add some spam filtering to your lists, or at least restrict posting to members only. -- Noel Jones ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: svn checkout head or stable

2012-09-28 Thread David Noel
On 9/28/12, Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent! Thank you all. :-) So, for ME...does this look right? This will track the latest release that has the patches applied? svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1 /usr/src svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/releng/9.1

Re: svn checkout head or stable

2012-09-28 Thread David Noel
On 9/28/12, Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote: David - I'd like to, but every time I try that it prompts me for a password...and I don't know what password it wants??? Ed Great question. I'm running into the same issue. I guessed around a bit with no luck: svn/anonsvn... Would anyone on the

Re: svn checkout head or stable

2012-09-28 Thread David Noel
On 9/28/12, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote: On 28/09/2012 20:41, Ed Flecko wrote: David - I'd like to, but every time I try that it prompts me for a password...and I don't know what password it wants??? That would be the password to a freebsd.org account, which isn't going to work

Re: svn checkout head or stable

2012-09-28 Thread David Noel
On 9/28/12, David Noel david.i.n...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/28/12, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote: On 28/09/2012 20:41, Ed Flecko wrote: David - I'd like to, but every time I try that it prompts me for a password...and I don't know what password it wants??? That would be the password

Re: installworld strangeness

2012-11-22 Thread David Noel
On 11/22/12, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: --On November 22, 2012 7:14:35 AM -0600 David Noel david.i.n...@gmail.com wrote: Updating from 8.2 to 8.3 I'm running into the following: === include (install) creating osreldate.h from newvers.sh dirname: not found *** Error code

Re: installworld strangeness

2012-12-05 Thread David Noel
On 11/22/12, David Noel david.i.n...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/22/12, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: --On November 22, 2012 7:14:35 AM -0600 David Noel david.i.n...@gmail.com wrote: Updating from 8.2 to 8.3 I'm running into the following: === include (install) creating

Strange console behavior - hangs every few minutes until a key is pressed

2013-04-17 Thread David Noel
I'm experiencing something odd from a few new servers I've been setting up today. I'll do something at the console that takes some amount of time and produces lots of output such as fetching the ports tree, svn updating /usr/src/, or building world, and the console will hang. The console ceases to

signal vs. sigaction and SIGCHLD

2013-05-20 Thread Noel Hunt
I have a small test program which simply forks and execs its command line arguments, but after the fork and before the exec, it sends a SIGSTOP to the child. The parent then sleeps for 3 seconds before exiting. However, a signal handler for SIGCHLD has been installed and I was expecting the parent

FreeBSD upgrade woes (8.3 - 8.4)

2013-07-11 Thread David Noel
I have 4 servers I'm upgrading from 8.3 to 8.4. Two of them went without a hitch, two of them blew up in my face. The only difference between the two is the ones that worked have a 2-disk ZFS mirror and the ones that didn't have a 4-disk ZFS striped mirror configuration (RAID10). They both use the

Re: [Bulk] FreeBSD upgrade woes (8.3 - 8.4)

2013-07-11 Thread David Noel
On 7/11/13, Alexandre axel...@ymail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:04 AM, David Noel david.i.n...@gmail.com wrote: I have 4 servers I'm upgrading from 8.3 to 8.4. Two of them went without a hitch, two of them blew up in my face. The only difference between the two is the ones

Re: [Bulk] FreeBSD upgrade woes (8.3 - 8.4)

2013-07-11 Thread David Noel
Ah. That very well might be it. I did call buildkernel with j 1. I'll boot an 8.4 memstick and replace the kernel. Thanks, -David On 7/11/13, Eduardo Morras emorr...@yahoo.es wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 04:40:38 -0500 David Noel david.i.n...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't include the make

Re: [Bulk] FreeBSD upgrade woes (8.3 - 8.4)

2013-07-11 Thread David Noel
On 7/11/13, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 05:00:39 -0500, Eduardo Morras emorr...@yahoo.es wrote: Perhaps make buildkernel was compiled with -j 1, it's known to create a buggy kernel. This is not true to my knowledge. If buildkernel produced bad kernels with -j1

Re: [Bulk] FreeBSD upgrade woes (8.3 - 8.4)

2013-07-19 Thread David Noel
Perhaps make buildkernel was compiled with -j 1, it's known to create a buggy kernel. Check your make configuration. Adding a -B, like make -B -j N buildkernel may work and is fast if -j is set to number or processors, but it's safer do a make -j 1 buildkernel, same for buildworld. I replaced

Re: [Bulk] FreeBSD upgrade woes (8.3 - 8.4)

2013-07-19 Thread David Noel
It's possible. But again, I've been using -j 1 for years on a variety of processors, mostly Intel, without problems. That's with buildworld and kernel (which is buildkernel plus installkernel), but not with installworld. Are you using clang instead of gcc? That could be very different.

Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread David Noel
I had a strange experience on my laptop yesterday. I was deleting a directory and the system crashed. It spat out a message along the lines of ufs_dirrem bad link count 2 on parent. I thought it was so strange I repeated the process several times, and each time it crashed. Is this behavior

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread David Noel
Yes On 7/27/13, Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com wrote: El 27/07/2013 13:49, David Noel david.i.n...@gmail.com escribió: I had a strange experience on my laptop yesterday. I was deleting a directory and the system crashed. It spat out a message along the lines of ufs_dirrem

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread David Noel
Post the stack trace of the core and maybe someone can help you. panic: ufs_dirrem: Bad link count 2 on parent cpuid = 0 KDB: stack backtrace: #0 0x808680fe at kdb_backtrace+0x5e #1 0x80832cb7 at panic+0x187 #2 0x80a700e3 at ufs_rmdir+0x1c3 #3 0x80b7d484 at

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread David Noel
I'm taking a guess here - the effective link count when it came to removing the parent directory was only two and it should have been three or more. This gets sanity checked this before proceeding, and panics if it is not. Why an effective link count of three? We're talking about the parent

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread David Noel
You may want to look into running fsck(8) and its myriad of options fsck did the trick Also make sure you have soft updates enabled on your filesystem and preferably journaled soft updates ..pretty sure I do but I'll double check, thanks. ___

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread David Noel
So the system panics in ufs_rmdir(). Maybe the filesystem is corrupt? Have you tried to fsck(8) it manually? fsck worked, though I had to boot from a USB image because I couldn't get into single user.. for some odd reason. Even if the filesystem is corrupt, ufs_rmdir() shouldn't panic(),

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread David Noel
I was going to raise an issue when the discussion had died down to a concensus. I also don't think it's reasonable for the kernel to bomb when it encounters corruption on a disk. If you want to patch it yourself, edit sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_vnops.c at around line 2791 change: if

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-28 Thread David Noel
Ok folks, thanks again for all the help. Using the feedback I submitted a PR (#180894) -- http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=180894. I also submitted a follow-up to it with Frank's code and notes. What next? I don't really know what happens from here, but I'm guessing/hoping that someone's

Update /usr/src with subversion

2013-08-05 Thread David Noel
Does anyone know how a workaround for having to rm -rf /usr/src every time the source URL changes? I'm updating from 8.3 to 8.4 with subversion and got a message along the lines of Error: /usr/src/ contains files from a different URL. -David ___

Re: Update /usr/src with subversion

2013-08-05 Thread David Noel
the man for svn switch. Thanks again, -David On 8/5/13, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote: On 05/08/2013 09:00, David Noel wrote: Does anyone know how a workaround for having to rm -rf /usr/src every time the source URL changes? I'm updating from 8.3 to 8.4 with subversion and got

Re: Update /usr/src with subversion

2013-08-05 Thread David Noel
Thanks, guys! On 8/5/13, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote: On 05/08/2013 14:22, Warren Block wrote: Your solution looks a bit cleaner than the one proposed there: rm -r /usr/src/.svn, and then check out the new branch. I'll check out the man for svn switch. The new form is just

Re: Update /usr/src with subversion

2013-08-05 Thread David Noel
On 8/5/13, David Noel david.i.n...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, guys! On 8/5/13, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote: On 05/08/2013 14:22, Warren Block wrote: Your solution looks a bit cleaner than the one proposed there: rm -r /usr/src/.svn, and then check out the new branch. I'll check