altering "maxdsiz" or "datasize" limit ?

2010-10-05 Thread Mark Stosberg
Hello, We've been satisfied FreeBSD users for several years at our hosting company. Recently we ran into into a problem where a long running cron script was dying early because it is hitting FreeBSD's data segment size limit of 512 Megs, even though the machine has plenty more memory. I would li

Re: solution: getting a Motorola Razr V3 to work as a GSM modem on FreeBSD

2009-11-05 Thread Mark Stosberg
> On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:15:24 -0500, Mark Stosberg wrote: > > For software to send the pages, I use the "gammu" port. > > > > I ran "gammu-config" for the initial setup, and then moved the > >

Specifying only constrained options in /etc/libmap.conf ?

2009-05-07 Thread Mark Stosberg
y MySQL. [darcs] libpthread.so.1 libthr.so.1 libpthread.so.2 libthr.so.2 libkse.so.3 libthr.so.3 Thanks for your help! Mark -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark StosbergPrincipal Developer m...@summersault.com Summersault, LLC 765-

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Mark Stosberg
> Agreed. Bind 9.5 and higher from ports has "XML statistics" support. That > explains the xml and iconv. ldd -a /usr/sbin/named should show you which one > wants libm.so.2 which is from the 4.x days. > If you don't need these statistics, I would suggest turning them off through > make config.

Re: named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-21 Thread Mark Stosberg
> > We had problem with "named" starting on boot on a FreeBSD 6.1 server, > > managed > > by /etc/rc.conf. > > > > The startup script failed with errors about shared library "libm.so.2" > > failing > > to load because of something related to libxml2.so.5. > > > > Later, when I then tried starting i

named fails to start on boot on FreeBSD 6.1, complains about libxml2.so.5

2009-04-20 Thread Mark Stosberg
We had problem with "named" starting on boot on a FreeBSD 6.1 server, managed by /etc/rc.conf. The startup script failed with errors about shared library "libm.so.2" failing to load because of something related to libxml2.so.5. Later, when I then tried starting it via /etc/rc.d/named it worked f

Recovering loss of /var/db/pkg ?

2009-04-08 Thread Mark Stosberg
I'll just say it plainly: /var/db/pkg is long gone and there is no backup. It was not copied to new a machine. Is there is any hope of being able to use the ports or packages system in a meangingful way again? My sense is that some recovery is possible, but may be prohibitively expensive. Th

recovering from a missing package database?

2009-04-08 Thread Mark Stosberg
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RE: outbound serial modem now times out or drops connection

2008-06-06 Thread Mark Stosberg
> > Trying a new modem (US Robotics external 56k serial modem) did help > > slightly. With it, we consistently connnect, but then after a short > > pause the connection is dropped. This is easily reproduced in > > "minicom": (Using the Sprint TAP modem number here). > > > > ATDT18886561727 >

outbound serial modem now times out or drops connection

2008-06-06 Thread Mark Stosberg
We are using qpage to dial a remote TAP modem (Sprint and Verizon), so we can send pages about our hosting infrastructure without using the internet connection. Recently it started failing consistently with "timeout to connect". I first suspected the remote modem (Sprint), but found I got the sam

Re: /dev/ums0 not initialized

2002-12-02 Thread Mark Stosberg
> > That didn't work, I get the same error. What I have gotten to work is > using it in the PS/2 port and setting the X mouse device to /dev/psm0. > Any idea why it doesn't work with USB anymore? Do you have this set in your rc.conf file? usbd_enable="YES" Maybe you need to start or restart the

Re: requesting help restoring disklabel on unbootable system

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Mark Stosberg wrote: > On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Mark Stosberg wrote: > > > > After an unfortunate sequence of events, my newly successfully upgraded FreeBSD 4.7 > > machine would not boot anymore and gave me a "boot:" prompt. Returning > > to th

Re: Mail Reader Clients

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > > I'm looking for a good graphical mail reader client (to handle appx 3000 > mails per day) > I've got mail my mail working with fetchmail/procmail, so I don't need > one with filtering. Just one that > understands mbox format. Kmail and Knode (for n

Re: /dev/ums0 not initialized

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Adam Bender wrote: > > When I left for break, I had a perfectly working system (FreeBSD > 4.7-CURRENT). When I came back and booted it after being down for 5 days, > when I try to start KDE I get an error saying no mouse found, device > at /dev/ums0 is not initialized. I'm us

Re: requesting help restoring disklabel on unbootable system

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Mark Stosberg wrote: > > After an unfortunate sequence of events, my newly successfully upgraded FreeBSD 4.7 > machine would not boot anymore and gave me a "boot:" prompt. Returning > to the install CD disklabel program, I saw that the only partition it

Re: dump/restore after filesystem layout changes

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > Ok, now on to my question: I'd like to do a full backup on each of my > filesystems, zap all the partitions and do a new fdisk/disklabel with more > filesystems than I'm currently using. For example, create a new /home > partition instead of using a s

requesting help restoring disklabel on unbootable system

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Stosberg
Hello, After an unfortunate sequence of events, my newly successfully upgraded FreeBSD 4.7 machine would not boot anymore and gave me a "boot:" prompt. Returning to the install CD disklabel program, I saw that the only partition it seemed be to finding was the swap partition. I recreated and wrot

perl 5.8.0 "use.perl system" doesn't update /usr/local/bin/perl

2002-07-24 Thread Mark Stosberg
Hello, I recently installed the Perl 5.8 port for FreeBSD easily with "make install". Thanks to the FreeBSD crew for making this so easy. It was also nice to find the "use.perl" script to easily switch between the system perl and the perl port. I ran into a small hang-up running "use.perl syste