Re: Adding up kernel mem usage

2009-10-15 Thread grarpamp
Is multiplying out the size and used columns from vmstat -z completely in addition to the amount used in vmstat -m, or do some of them overlap? vmstat -z | sed 's,^.*:,,' | sed -E 's,^ +,,' | sed -E 's/^([0-9]+),[^,]+, +/\1*/;s/,.*$//' | egrep '^[0-9]' | bc | add 58483416 Is netstat -m accounted

Adding up kernel mem usage

2009-10-15 Thread grarpamp
If I subtract vmstat and kldstat from wired, I'm missing approx 100M. What am I doing wrong or what should I be adding up to find the total mem in use by the kernel and a breakdown of that usage? Thanks. top -SH -d 1 1000 | egrep '^Mem:' Mem: 114M Active, 65M Inact, 258M Wired, 468K Cache, 46M Buf

Re: mkisofs error

2009-10-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Be _very_ careful, genisoimage is full of bugs and creates defective filesystems. Do not use it, genisoimage is unmaintained and does not even support files > 4 GB! Other well known bugs in genisoimage create defective directory entries for "." and "..". This is because genisoimage is based on a

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-15 Thread krad
2009/10/15 Chris Hill > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Jacques Henry wrote: > > The 19 minutes between when I sent my suggestions and you responded is hardly enough time to see if ntpd was slewing the time. Slewing 587 seconds takes days. >>> >>> >> The thing is that ntpd is not slewing th

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-15 Thread Jacques Henry
> > If I may pipe up... Can you not set the clock manually, then let ntpd take > it from there? Seems like your clock would become synced a lot faster if it > started out "close". Sorry if I'm being naive, but this seemed like the > obvious thing to do. > > Don't apologize! Any input is valuable! B

Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-10-15 Thread Artem Kazakov
LinkedIn Artem Kazakov requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Jerry, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Artem Accept invitation from Artem Kazakov http://www.linkedin.com/e/1o3bCy0npDqyzD3wjrAbLV0nLmq

RE: Unknown devices

2009-10-15 Thread Arkady Tokaev
Grate thanks!I had installed from 3 CD FreeBSD 7.2 with default (I hope) options.I don't understand - why it occurs, but now I understand - where to look.I think - I will reinstall the system, but if You have idea about this trouble - say me.Unfortunately I can not ask your last question becaus

tbs 8920

2009-10-15 Thread etrade business
hi how can i install tbs 8920 dvb card in free bsd? ___ 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"

FWD: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-15 Thread Len Conrad
-- Original Message -- From: "Len Conrad" Reply-To: Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:48:26 +0200 the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1 Feat

Re: FWD: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 03:13:49PM +0200, Len Conrad wrote: > > -- Original Message -- > From: "Len Conrad" > Reply-To: > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:48:26 +0200 > > the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows: > > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25-

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-15 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:59:49 -0400 Jerry wrote: > nVidia (AMD64) is not supported in 7.x versions of FreeBSD as far as I > know. There was some talk of it being supported in 8.x, but I have > not heard from anyone actually doing so. The existing driver is 32 bit and will never run on amd64. Wha

7.0 stable + postfix - how to setup chroot?

2009-10-15 Thread Laszlo Nagy
What I already did: syslogd_flags="-s -l /var/spool/postfix/var/run/log" # put into /etc/rc.conf Then I changed "n" to "y" for all lines in /usr/local/etc/postfix/master.cf in the "chroot" column. But I don't know how to create chrooted environment under /var/spool/postfix. Is there a co

Re: zfs root

2009-10-15 Thread krad
2009/10/3 krad > Hi, > > I have a quick question about freebsd on zfs root. I have built a few test > systems all work fine. I have one question though. Does the loader replay > any information when it accesses the pool? > > Basically im interested in how or what is done on reboot after the kerne

Re: clone-dump-restore

2009-10-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:29:42PM -0400, PJ wrote: > I believe that my problems arise out of subliminal refuse syndrome: the > brain refuses to comprehend dump and restore TOs and FROMs. > In other words, I'm beginning to see that > dump -0af TO ( - or device/file) FROM (device or directory/file)

Re: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-15 Thread Ross Cameron
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Len Conrad wrote: > Does it matter whether I run IA64 or AMD64 in the above Dell 1850? You wont even et IA64 booting as that is a compilation for Itanium processors. For the 64bit enabled Xeon processors Intel licensed the AMD64 instruction set. Therefor th

Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

2009-10-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 08:42:47PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote: > My server is increasingly having important work stored on it, and I > need to start taking backups of a lot of directories, especially > /home, /opt, /etc, /usr/local/etc, and maybe others. The ideal backup > (and what I've done in

Re: FWD: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 03:13:49PM +0200, Len Conrad wrote: > > -- Original Message -- > From: "Len Conrad" > Reply-To: > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:48:26 +0200 > > the FreeBSD 6.2 i386 dmesg.boot shows: > > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (3591.25

booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
While trying to learn and understand the dump-retore process, I messed up the ad4s1a partition and could not boot. To fix it I restored a dumpfile of ad12s1a which is, for all intents and purposes, the same as ad4s1a. I then boot from ad4 and surprise, surprise... #df shows we have been booted from

RE: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?

2009-10-15 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
> > Does it matter whether I run IA64 or AMD64 in the above Dell 1850? > > Len > This is a case where I wish the architecture types were renamed to modern day nomenclature. Most people outside the *nix world know i386 as the x86 architecture and AMD64 as either x86-64 or straight x64. IA64

Re: ZFS boot

2009-10-15 Thread Anselm Strauss
I just ran into the very same problem, although I use UFS instead of ZFS, but I think this doesn't matter for this problem. I updated to tinyBIOS v0.99h and now it works fine. Cheers, Anselm > Hi, > > I'm trying to boot a PC-engines board off GPT+ZFS, but the GPT MBR does not > support CHS layo

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
PJ wrote: > While trying to learn and understand the dump-retore process, I messed > up the ad4s1a partition and could not boot. To fix it I restored a > dumpfile of ad12s1a which is, for all intents and purposes, the same as > ad4s1a. I then boot from ad4 and surprise, surprise... > #df shows we h

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
PJ wrote: > While trying to learn and understand the dump-retore process, I messed > up the ad4s1a partition and could not boot. To fix it I restored a > dumpfile of ad12s1a which is, for all intents and purposes, the same as > ad4s1a. I then boot from ad4 and surprise, surprise... > #df shows we h

Request for Text Link

2009-10-15 Thread Sherry Spensor
-- Hi, I am looking for relevant material and I found your website " http://www.pl.freebsd.org/"; really informative. I would like to do business with you. I basically have an offer of buying text-links on your site. Let me know if you would be interested in hearing more. Kind regards Sherry

torrentflux

2009-10-15 Thread Dánielisz László
Hello, Ok, I know it sounds numb, but how can I actually start torrentflux on my freebsd machine? I installed by ports ... # pkg_info |grep torrent torrentflux-2.0.b1 A PHP based BitTorrent client that runs on a web server but I can not find how to start it and torrentflux forum is down, do

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:36:56 -0400, PJ wrote: > I imagine it is something in the boot files... but how to fix that? The easiest way is to prepare the disk with sysinstall. The steps usually involve: 1. creation of slice, usually covering whole disk 2. marking the slice "active"

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:07:17 -0400, PJ wrote: > I see from the boot process that this should fix it... > # fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad4 > but... > how do I get this onto the right disk? If I boot from ad4 or ad12 and > change the mbr, then it will be the ad12 that will be booting from ad4 > and vic

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:13:08 -0400, PJ wrote: > add another thought... > > If I change the mbr on the ad12 then mount ad4s1a to /mnt copy > /mnt/boot/boot0 to /boot/boot0.tmp and then copy the modified > /boot/boot0 (for ad4) back to /mnt/boot/ and then umount ad4s1a --- I > should be ok, OK? Hav

Re: torrentflux

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:19:55 -0700 (PDT), Dánielisz László wrote: > Hello, > > Ok, I know it sounds numb, but how can I actually start > torrentflux on my freebsd machine? I haven't used this torrent client so far (ctorrent is my choice at the moment), but according to > # pkg_info |grep torre

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, PJ wrote: While trying to learn and understand the dump-retore process, I messed up the ad4s1a partition and could not boot. To fix it I restored a dumpfile of ad12s1a which is, for all intents and purposes, the same as ad4s1a. I then boot from ad4 and surprise, surprise...

Re: torrentflux

2009-10-15 Thread Dánielisz László
I found out that there is an httpd.conf problem, I fixed that but now I'm thinking how to put php module in apache without reinstalling apache. From: Polytropon To: Dánielisz László Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thu, October 15, 2009 8:22:04 PM Subj

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:22:29 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > The /etc/fstab from ad12 will point at ad12. After restoring on ad4, > did you edit fstab to now have ad4 entries? Ha! Excellent point; I missed to see this obvious thing. Next to booting, the /etc/fstab mechanism is very importan

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:13:08 -0400, PJ wrote: > >> add another thought... >> >> If I change the mbr on the ad12 then mount ad4s1a to /mnt copy >> /mnt/boot/boot0 to /boot/boot0.tmp and then copy the modified >> /boot/boot0 (for ad4) back to /mnt/boot/ and then umount ad4s1a

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-15 Thread Jeff Laine
On Wed,14-10-2009 [23:48:26], Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:55:05 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block > wrote: > > All of my cards are ATI and I don't know of the "mtrr" problem you're > > talking about. This X1650 works fine on i386 with both 7-STABLE and > > 8-STABLE. > > I had an old-fa

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:22:29 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block > wrote: > >> The /etc/fstab from ad12 will point at ad12. After restoring on ad4, >> did you edit fstab to now have ad4 entries? >> > > Ha! Excellent point; I missed to see this obvious thing. > Next to booting,

how to prepare disk for dump/restore

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
I would like to just partition, label and newfs the disk; livefs wants to waste my time by installing other stuff like the kernel & man pages etc that I have not even selected; and if I use postinstall configuration, that doesn't do anything. Or should I use fixit and then do the manual thing? Sysi

Re: torrentflux

2009-10-15 Thread Dánielisz László
Ok, now is up and running. In case any of you have the same problem try this ones: Search in httpd.conf for /usr/local/www/apache22/data and replace it with /usr/local/www/data Have a nice day! Laci From: Dánielisz László Subject: Re: torrentflux I found o

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:42:24 -0400, PJ wrote: > But sysinstall will overwrite all the info on the disk and that defeats > the whole purpose of the exercise. If you only change a slice's state and add an MBR, it won't do anything to the data inside the slice. > What complicates matters is the u

Re: how to prepare disk for dump/restore

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:59:51 -0400, PJ wrote: > I would like to just partition, label and newfs the disk; livefs wants > to waste my time by installing other stuff like the kernel & man pages > etc that I have not even selected; Just don't go through the whole installation cycle; from the sysinst

Re: how to prepare disk for dump/restore

2009-10-15 Thread Tobias Rehbein
Am Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:17:43PM +0200 schrieb Polytropon: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:59:51 -0400, PJ wrote: > > You can use sysinstall from the Fixit CD, too. That's the way > I'm mostly doing this kind of thing: Preparing the disk with > the sysinstall tool, then dropping to CLI for the restori

Re: how to prepare disk for dump/restore

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:31:20 +0200, Tobias Rehbein wrote: > If all you want to do is to prepare the disks you can leave sysinstall alone > and > use sade(8). Very good advice! Sadly, it makes me feel that all my knowledge is very outdated because sade didn't come into my mind at fist place. :-)

phpMyAdmin install stopped in dependency 'libXau-1.0.4'

2009-10-15 Thread Kikachi Kozumi
Hi, I tried installing phpMyAdmin in an ezjail created jail already installed with apache22, mysql and php5 running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE i386 with no X11 (headless). The port install failed when dependency 'libXau-1.0.4' configure couldn't find gnome-config: ... checking for XAU... gnome-config: n

Re: phpMyAdmin install stopped in dependency 'libXau-1.0.4'

2009-10-15 Thread Michael Powell
Kikachi Kozumi wrote: > Hi, > > I tried installing phpMyAdmin in an ezjail created jail already > installed with apache22, mysql and php5 running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE > i386 with no X11 (headless). > The port install failed when dependency 'libXau-1.0.4' configure > couldn't find gnome-config: >

usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
I am running 7.2 but cannot properly attach/detach cruze 8gb and 4gb USB keys. When inserted, generate errors: da0 seems to be read correctly but then comes arow of (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): snip CAM Status: SCSI Status Error snip NOT READY asc:3a,0 Medium not present Unretryable error then cd0 at

network setup

2009-10-15 Thread Ilych narmonov
Guys, I'm new with freeBSD setup. I hope somebody here who will give some links on how I will buil my network using freeBSD. I'm planning to use it as my router and dhcp server. Thanks everyone.. Carlos Narmonov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: network setup

2009-10-15 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Ilych narmonov wrote: > Guys, > > I'm new with freeBSD setup. I hope somebody here who will give some links > on how I will buil my network using freeBSD. > > I'm planning to use it as my router and dhcp server. > > > Thanks everyone.. > > > Carlos Narmonov > _

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:42:24 -0400, PJ wrote: > >> But sysinstall will overwrite all the info on the disk and that defeats >> the whole purpose of the exercise. >> > > If you only change a slice's state and add an MBR, it won't > do anything to the data inside the slice

Re: how to prepare disk for dump/restore

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:59:51 -0400, PJ wrote: > >> I would like to just partition, label and newfs the disk; livefs wants >> to waste my time by installing other stuff like the kernel & man pages >> etc that I have not even selected; >> > > Just don't go through the who

Re: how to prepare disk for dump/restore

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Tobias Rehbein wrote: > Am Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:17:43PM +0200 schrieb Polytropon: > >> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:59:51 -0400, PJ wrote: >> >> You can use sysinstall from the Fixit CD, too. That's the way >> I'm mostly doing this kind of thing: Preparing the disk with >> the sysinstall tool, the

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
PJ wrote: > I am running 7.2 but cannot properly attach/detach cruze 8gb and 4gb USB > keys. > When inserted, generate errors: > da0 seems to be read correctly > but then comes arow of > (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): snip CAM Status: SCSI Status Error > snip NOT READY asc:3a,0 > Medium not present > U

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:19:16 -0400, PJ wrote: > I am running 7.2 but cannot properly attach/detach cruze 8gb and 4gb USB > keys. > When inserted, generate errors: > da0 seems to be read correctly > but then comes arow of > (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): snip CAM Status: SCSI Status Error > snip NOT RE

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:08:12 -0400, PJ wrote: > Gag is really about the simplest you can find... it is installed on the > main drive that is selected by bios and it works from there. I have > found it to be quite safe and reliable. Only difficulty is sometimes to > figure ;out what dist it is boot

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:18:45 -0400, PJ wrote: > Now that I have had a few moments to think about it, maybe I have to > give good old cruze and enema and format it under XP ... maybe all it > needs is a clean system on it. ;-) I'm not sure if USB sticks tend to degrade filesystem-wise, but when y

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:19:16 -0400, PJ wrote: > >> I am running 7.2 but cannot properly attach/detach cruze 8gb and 4gb USB >> keys. >> When inserted, generate errors: >> da0 seems to be read correctly >> but then comes arow of >> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:1): snip CAM Status:

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread PJ
Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:18:45 -0400, PJ wrote: > >> Now that I have had a few moments to think about it, maybe I have to >> give good old cruze and enema and format it under XP ... maybe all it >> needs is a clean system on it. ;-) >> > > I'm not sure if USB sticks tend

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:06:08 -0400, PJ wrote: > Anyway, I found the solution on the web... couldn't belive it was that > simple: just ignore the crap spewed out on the screen and just mount iit > as you would any other disk. > # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt > and that's it Additionally, when

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:12:06 -0400, PJ wrote: > I do hate MS, but can't totally avoid it. I'm totally MICROS~1 free for more than 15 years now. :-) > Now, I hope the key works to transfer the dumpfiles even if it's in Fat32... It should work, BUT... I think I remember that there was a size li

Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

2009-10-15 Thread Nerius Landys
Thanks for your help guys. I have decided to attempt the following. With a filesystem snapshot, take a dump 0 of all filesystems. Back up these dumps to a 500GB disk I have sitting at home (the server I'm backing up is in a data center). Perform this maybe once a week or once a month. I am now

Re: booting from wrong disk

2009-10-15 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/15/09, PJ wrote: > While trying to learn and understand the dump-retore process, I messed > up the ad4s1a partition and could not boot. To fix it I restored a > dumpfile of ad12s1a which is, for all intents and purposes, the same as > ad4s1a. I then boot from ad4 and surprise, surprise... >

CMS

2009-10-15 Thread Paul Schmehl
I manage a couple of FreeBSD servers for a friend. He's gotten all excited about content management and thinks that's the way to go. The system he's familiar with is Windows only. I've done a little research, but I'm wondering if anyone reading the list has experience with a CMS on FreeBSD -

Re: CMS

2009-10-15 Thread Glen Barber
Howdy On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I manage a couple of FreeBSD servers for a friend.  He's gotten all excited > about content management and thinks that's the way to go.  The system he's > familiar with is Windows only.  I've done a little research, but I'm > wondering

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-15 Thread Randi Harper
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Alexander Best < alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de> wrote: > > just did a quick research and google soc sponsored the finstaller in 2007 > and > the bsdinstaller in 2005. > > personally if i spent a lot of time on such a project i'd be expecting it > to > get integra

Re: CMS

2009-10-15 Thread Kevin Wilcox
Paul - I used to work with the guys at Appalachian State that did phpWebSite (I was their SA) and it worked great on FreeBSD. I can't say how well it works *now* but it ran fine as of a year ago on Apache2 + PostGreSQL. As far as a CMS or application framework went, it was a cinch. I just never cou

Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

2009-10-15 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Nerius Landys wrote: Thanks for your help guys. I have decided to attempt the following. With a filesystem snapshot, take a dump 0 of all filesystems. Back up these dumps to a 500GB disk I have sitting at home (the server I'm backing up is in a data center). Perform this

Re: Security blocking question

2009-10-15 Thread Aflatoon Aflatooni
> > > > Is there a way that I could configure the server so that if there are for > example X attempts from an IP address then for the next Y hours all the SSH > requests would be ignored from that IP address? There are only a handful of > people who have access to that server. > > Yes. > > I

Re: CMS

2009-10-15 Thread Andrew Berry
On 2009-10-15, at 10:38 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm wondering if anyone reading the list has experience with a CMS on FreeBSD - one that's in ports preferably. Whatever you choose, make sure that the port maintainer is active with security updates. Sometimes it's better to give them web spa

Re: CMS

2009-10-15 Thread Peter Boosten
Paul Schmehl wrote: > I manage a couple of FreeBSD servers for a friend. He's gotten all > excited about content management and thinks that's the way to go. The > system he's familiar with is Windows only. I've done a little research, > but I'm wondering if anyone reading the list has experience