Re: bizarre mount_nullfs issue with jails / ezjail

2010-04-06 Thread Mars G Miro
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: >>> An additional question: how come "sade" and "sysinstall" which are run >>> inside the jail can see (and I can only assume they can also operate >>> on and damage) the real underlying disks of the host? >>> >> >> Disks (as well as others you hav

Re: bizarre mount_nullfs issue with jails / ezjail

2010-04-06 Thread Dan Naumov
>> An additional question: how come "sade" and "sysinstall" which are run >> inside the jail can see (and I can only assume they can also operate >> on and damage) the real underlying disks of the host? >> > > Disks (as well as others you have in your host's /dev) aren't visible > inside jails. We

FreeBSD 6.2 on esx3.5 network issue

2010-04-06 Thread josemel esleta
Hi,   I currently have installed FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE in esx, I do have problem with download file from the box using ftp/scp service. It seems to be slow having a Gigabit lan. it just seems to have going about 100Kbps-500Kpbs on download speed. But I do have high upload speed ranging from 4-5MBps

RE: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-06 Thread Peter Steele
>What incidentally does /var get populated with? Our image has a custom >directory under /var but this did not show up in the MFS versions of this >directory. I can get >around this but I wonder what else might not be included? I found something else that's missing--/var/db/pkg is empty. It look

Can freebsd be installed on a new mac pro 8 core machine ?

2010-04-06 Thread Wayne Burkart
Hello, I have a new Mac Pro 8 core desktop machine. I want to install an os that will let me install Cpanel and whm so I can use it as a server. Will FreeBsd install on the new intell based pro macs ? Pleasea advise. Thank you for your time, Wayne __

Re: bizarre mount_nullfs issue with jails / ezjail

2010-04-06 Thread Mars G Miro
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Glen Barber wrote: >> Hi Dan, >> >> Dan Naumov wrote: >>> So, I want the basejail to only contain the world and link the ports >>> tree from the host into each individual jail when it's time to update >>> the por

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:20:49PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:55:44 -0600 > Chad Perrin wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:36:32PM +0100, RW wrote: > > > > > > IMO this is a bad mistake that other languages were quite right not > > > to copy - a test shouldn't come after a blo

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 06:17:41PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > On 2010.04.06 17:10, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > > Now, on the other hand, emacs rules, vi sucks. :-) :-) > > ok, ok. I was on the side of Perl, and was content following this > thread, but now I don't like you anymore :P > > h

Re: RootBSD?

2010-04-06 Thread RJ
On 4/6/2010 9:04 AM, Tom Ierna wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? > > I'm looking to move an office-hosted machine's services to the cloud, and > they seem to be one of the only VPS companies centered around BSD support > instead of Linux. > > Thanks, > -Tom

Re: RootBSD?

2010-04-06 Thread Gautham Ganapathy
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Tom Ierna wrote: > > On Apr 6, 2010, at 9:31 AM, Glen Barber wrote: > >> Hi Tom, >> >> Tom Ierna wrote: >>> Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? >>> >> >> I've been using RootBSD for a few months now, and would give you nothing >> but positive feedback - how

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.06 17:10, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > Now, on the other hand, emacs rules, vi sucks. :-) :-) ok, ok. I was on the side of Perl, and was content following this thread, but now I don't like you anymore :P heh ;) Steve ___ freebsd-questions@f

Interrupt ptr 12h?

2010-04-06 Thread Axel Schmalowsky
Hello list, sometimes my system freezes, and I cannot figure out why. What I do know is that everytime I try to build openoffice, it freezes during the build process. Last time my system froze, the kernel "spat out" the following message: "kerneltrap with interrupt ptr 12h disabled". What does t

Re: RootBSD?

2010-04-06 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010, Tom Ierna wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? > > I'm looking to move an office-hosted machine's services to the cloud, and > they seem to be one of the only VPS companies centered around BSD support > instead of Linux. I just setup a small VPS wi

Re: bizarre mount_nullfs issue with jails / ezjail

2010-04-06 Thread Dan Naumov
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Glen Barber wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Dan Naumov wrote: >> So, I want the basejail to only contain the world and link the ports >> tree from the host into each individual jail when it's time to update >> the ports inside them, but I am running into a bit of a bizarre is

Re: bizarre mount_nullfs issue with jails / ezjail

2010-04-06 Thread Glen Barber
Hi Dan, Dan Naumov wrote: > So, I want the basejail to only contain the world and link the ports > tree from the host into each individual jail when it's time to update > the ports inside them, but I am running into a bit of a bizarre issue: > I can mount_nullfs /usr/ports elsewhere on the host j

bizarre mount_nullfs issue with jails / ezjail

2010-04-06 Thread Dan Naumov
So, I want the basejail to only contain the world and link the ports tree from the host into each individual jail when it's time to update the ports inside them, but I am running into a bit of a bizarre issue: I can mount_nullfs /usr/ports elsewhere on the host just fine, but it doesn't work if I t

Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-06 Thread Tim Judd
On 4/6/10, Peter Steele wrote: >>If FreeBSD cannot write to /tmp or /var on boot, it automatically >>creates a MFS filesystems for those mountpoints and mounts them during >> boot. You don't need to do anything. >> >>It works as the same readonly compactflash environments out there. > > What inci

Building for polkit-0.96_1 fails

2010-04-06 Thread Michel Seliverstoff
Hello, I'm having difficulties updating polkit. I read the ports/updating and did portupgrade -f policykit first. unfortunatelly it didn't help. Would anyone have a tip to share. Thanks, Michel gmake[4]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/polkit/work/polkit-0.96/src/polkit' CC lib

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Chuck" == Chuck Swiger writes: Chuck> Very well; I would like to hear you propose another type of Chuck> change that might be made to this sort of postfix test syntax Chuck> which you consider to be "most likely". Maybe the content of the text message. I change that stuff all the time.

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 6, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > "Chuck" == Chuck Swiger writes: >> Then you wouldn't have used this construct. > > Chuck> If the construct isn't a good idea considering the most obvious > Chuck> change one might make to the code, > > Objection: presumes facts not in evi

Re: Preventing Bad SMB Mount From Stalling A Boot

2010-04-06 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 4/6/2010 1:50 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 4/6/2010 1:36 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: >>> I mount my SMB shares from /etc/fstab on a FBSD 8.x production machine like >>> this: >>> >>> //USER at WINSERVER/SHARE /mountpointsmbfs rw 0 0 >>> >>> The problem is that after an outage, "

Re: Preventing Bad SMB Mount From Stalling A Boot

2010-04-06 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 4/6/2010 1:36 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: >> I mount my SMB shares from /etc/fstab on a FBSD 8.x production machine like >> this: >> >> //USER at WINSERVER/SHARE /mountpointsmbfs rw 0 0 >> >> The problem is that after an outage, "WINSERVER" doesn't come up >> before the FBSD mac

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Chuck" == Chuck Swiger writes: >> >> Then you wouldn't have used this construct. Chuck> If the construct isn't a good idea considering the most obvious Chuck> change one might make to the code, Objection: presumes facts not in evidence, your honor. Seriously, I've written thousands of

RE: Preventing Bad SMB Mount From Stalling A Boot

2010-04-06 Thread Dan Naumov
>I mount my SMB shares from /etc/fstab on a FBSD 8.x production machine like >this: > > //USER at WINSERVER/SHARE /mountpointsmbfs rw 0 0 > >The problem is that after an outage, "WINSERVER" doesn't come up >before the FBSD machine. So, the FBSD machine tries to boot and then

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 6, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> "Chuck" == Chuck Swiger writes: > Chuck> Let's suppose you want to display one message if debugging is > Chuck> enabled, and a shorter message if it is not. > > Then you wouldn't have used this construct. If the construct isn't a good ide

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Chuck" == Chuck Swiger writes: Chuck> Let's suppose you want to display one message if debugging is Chuck> enabled, and a shorter message if it is not. Then you wouldn't have used this construct. >> If you don't like all this freedom, there's always Python. :) Chuck> Yes, Perl lets you

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Apr 6, 2010, at 6:21 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> "RW" == RW writes: > RW> Imperative languages have a natural order of decision followed by > RW> action, and code is most easily readable if the syntax doesn't try to > RW> subvert that. > > And yet, there's an equally valid ar

Re: example C code for reading db hash files

2010-04-06 Thread Jim Sander
On Apr 5, 2010, at 8:51 PM, C. P. Ghost wrote: /usr/src/lib/libc/db/README "This is version 1.85 of the Berkeley DB code." I apologize for being imprecise in my original question. What you've provided is enough to give me progress. I think /usr/src/lib/libc/db/ tests/hash.tests will at lea

Re: csup vs cvs

2010-04-06 Thread doug
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote: d...@safeport.com writes: Yesterday I was updating an 8.0 stable system to pick up a change I specifically needed. The change was MFC'd Apr 4th at 11:38. I waited until about 8PM and ran cvs from cvsup2.FreeBSD.org. When the change was not there, I wai

Re: Preventing Bad SMB Mount From Stalling A Boot

2010-04-06 Thread Glen Barber
Hi Tim, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I mount my SMB shares from /etc/fstab on a FBSD 8.x production machine like > this: > > //u...@winserver/SHARE /mountpointsmbfs rw 0 0 > > The problem is that after an outage, "WINSERVER" doesn't come up > before the FBSD machine. So, the F

Preventing Bad SMB Mount From Stalling A Boot

2010-04-06 Thread Tim Daneliuk
I mount my SMB shares from /etc/fstab on a FBSD 8.x production machine like this: //u...@winserver/SHARE /mountpointsmbfs rw 0 0 The problem is that after an outage, "WINSERVER" doesn't come up before the FBSD machine. So, the FBSD machine tries to boot and then hangs per

Re: RootBSD?

2010-04-06 Thread Outback Dingo
Highly recommended. great systems great service... great prices On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Craig Butler wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 09:31 -0400, Glen Barber wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > > > Tom Ierna wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? > > > > > > >

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Giorgos" == Giorgos Keramidas writes: Giorgos> This means you can write your sh version like this in Perl: Giorgos> #!/usr/bin/perl Giorgos> if (int(@ARGV) == 0) { Giorgos> die "No args; at least one filename expected"; Giorgos> } Giorgos> printf("%s\n", join(' ',

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:01:53 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > thanks for your url as well and the others to posted. but it seems > like overkill since i dont need any explicit option or argument. i > just need the script to tell me whether i have an arg or not. > following is something i've kept in on

RE: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-06 Thread Peter Steele
>If FreeBSD cannot write to /tmp or /var on boot, it automatically >creates a MFS filesystems for those mountpoints and mounts them during boot. >You don't need to do anything. > >It works as the same readonly compactflash environments out there. What incidentally does /var get populated with?

Re: Finding port dependants

2010-04-06 Thread Craig Whipp
On Mon, April 5, 2010 7:04 pm, Aiza wrote: > The ports make file tree is so very large now a days (21491 ports). > Doing portsnap to download the complete ports system just to install 3 > ports is massive over kill. I have been doing package installs because > the resources consumed in disk space (

Re: RootBSD?

2010-04-06 Thread Craig Butler
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 09:31 -0400, Glen Barber wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Tom Ierna wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? > > > > I've been using RootBSD for a few months now, and would give you nothing > but positive feedback - however, your question isn't exactly sp

Re: RootBSD?

2010-04-06 Thread Tom Ierna
On Apr 6, 2010, at 9:31 AM, Glen Barber wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Tom Ierna wrote: >> Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? >> > > I've been using RootBSD for a few months now, and would give you nothing > but positive feedback - however, your question isn't exactly specific. > > Is there

Re: RootBSD?

2010-04-06 Thread Glen Barber
Hi Tom, Tom Ierna wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? > I've been using RootBSD for a few months now, and would give you nothing but positive feedback - however, your question isn't exactly specific. Is there anything in particular you need to know? -- Glen Barber

RootBSD?

2010-04-06 Thread Tom Ierna
Hi, Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? I'm looking to move an office-hosted machine's services to the cloud, and they seem to be one of the only VPS companies centered around BSD support instead of Linux. Thanks, -Tom___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: csup vs cvs

2010-04-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
d...@safeport.com writes: > Yesterday I was updating an 8.0 stable system to pick up a change I > specifically needed. The change was MFC'd Apr 4th at 11:38. I waited > until about 8PM and ran cvs from cvsup2.FreeBSD.org. When the change > was not there, I waited until Apr 5th, a bit after midnigh

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "RW" == RW writes: RW> Imperative languages have a natural order of decision followed by RW> action, and code is most easily readable if the syntax doesn't try to RW> subvert that. And yet, there's an equally valid argument that the most important thing should stand out the most. In th

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread RW
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:55:44 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:36:32PM +0100, RW wrote: > > > > IMO this is a bad mistake that other languages were quite right not > > to copy - a test shouldn't come after a block of code unless it's > > evaluated after the block (as in repeat

Re: ttyu0 link down

2010-04-06 Thread Jay Hall
On Apr 6, 2010, at 1:14 AM, Sabine Baer wrote: Using cu -l /dev/ttyu0 I receive a message stating "link down". ^ Shouldn't that be /dev/cua0 instead? $ less /etc/ttys|grep mgetty cuau0 "/usr/local/sbin/mgetty"unknown on insecure Sabine -- Good fences make

Re: install.cfg for Documentation Installation Menu on 8.0-RELEASE

2010-04-06 Thread don Juan
thank you, thenk you, thank you :) On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Ross wrote: > > dJ> What come up with 8.0-RELEASE is the new FreeBSD > dJ> Documentation Installation Menu in sysinstall. I would like to know > dJ> what command for install.cfg to configure my installation with, say, > dJ> Englis

Re: Sendmail Five Second Greeting Delay

2010-04-06 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:46:24 -0400 Jon Radel wrote: >On 4/2/10 11:49 AM, David Allen wrote: >> >> On 4/2/10, Jon Radel wrote: >>> On 4/2/10 8:33 AM, David Allen wrote: >>> [much stuff deleted --SB] >> >> Interesting reading. Thanks for elaborating. >> >> So the IDENT protocol was rel

Re: Intel D945GSE vs Zotac ION ITX (was: Support for Zotac MB with nVidia ION chipset)

2010-04-06 Thread perryh
Robert Bonomi wrote: > One fairly well-known super computer class architecture from the > mid 1960s ran without *any* error checking in the CPU *or* main > memory. Dr. Seymour Cray analyzed things and concluded the > significant extra component count for just doing 'parity' > checking, let alone