Re: Software RAID options

2010-01-30 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Danny Edge wrote: > Thanks, Glen, I should have mentioned that I did see gmirror > mentioned in the HB. Pending further suggestions, I will try gmirror > for software RAID 1 (yes, as large as the smallest disk). It's also possible to mirror individual slices rather th

Re: Shared object "libcrypt.so.4" not found ...(or library munging after make-delete-old)

2010-01-30 Thread krad
On 29 January 2010 20:53, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi-- > > On Jan 29, 2010, at 12:45 PM, mikel king wrote: > [ ... ] > > I would have thought that perl was rebuilt when I make the world and > upgraded from 7.x to 8.0. > > > > Anyone have a quick and easy fix out of this mess? > > perl isn't part of

Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD

2010-01-30 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi all, Does anyone have a recommendation on a good GPS receiver/board for use with NTP/FreeBSD to create a stratum 1 public time server? Preferably something above the Garmin "puck" level but not ridiculously expensive either... Thanks for any input, -- per ___

Re: gjournal on compact flash

2010-01-30 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 1/30/2010 1:35 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: There is an rc flags to automatically do a full fsck instead of backgroud, but I am unsure exactly what you mean by user intervention. Practice has shown that while softupdates handle most situations cleanly, they don't handle ALL situations. In shor

Re : Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD

2010-01-30 Thread Alexandre L.
You can see here : http://www.meinberg.de/english/ I don't use their products (I don't know about the quality products), I just use their NTP package software for Windows. --- En date de : Sam 30.1.10, Per olof Ljungmark a écrit : > De: Per olof Ljungmark > Objet: Recommendation on GPS time so

ral vap

2010-01-30 Thread Gaurang Pandya
Hi , Just configured my new linksys wmp54G in Freebsd-8 worked like charm, but when tried to create yet another wireless interface (wlan1), am getting error ral0: only 1 vap supported, checked man for ral and found "Only one hostap" Just before selling the wifi card in ebay (as I wanted, it

Replacing base NTP with ports NTP

2010-01-30 Thread David Rawling
Greetings all and sundry About 3 months ago I built myself a time server using 8.0-RC3, IIRC, and I upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE (and now -p2). Naturally, as I want this server to provide time services, I've installed the net/ntp port, among others. Recently, for reasons that have become lost in

Re: Replacing base NTP with ports NTP

2010-01-30 Thread Ben Schumacher
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:06 AM, David Rawling wrote: > About 3 months ago I built myself a time server using 8.0-RC3, IIRC, and I > upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE (and now -p2). Naturally, as I want this server to > provide time services, I've installed the net/ntp port, among others. > > Recently, for

Re: Replacing base NTP with ports NTP

2010-01-30 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Saturday 30 January 2010, David Rawling wrote: > Greetings all and sundry Hello David, > > About 3 months ago I built myself a time server using 8.0-RC3, IIRC, and > I upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE (and now -p2). Naturally, as I want this > server to provide time services, I've installed the ne

Re: Replacing base NTP with ports NTP

2010-01-30 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:06:53 +1100 David Rawling articulated: > Greetings all and sundry > > About 3 months ago I built myself a time server using 8.0-RC3, IIRC, > and I upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE (and now -p2). Naturally, as I want > this server to provide time services, I've installed the net/ntp

fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello, My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. I.e. I'd like to put the following line: /dev/msdosfs/MY FLASH /mnt/flash msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 Any ideas? -- Best rega

Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Joe Springer
Hi. I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For example, samba. I found that pkg_add -r samba fails. I need to know specifically the samba version to install it. To install, I needed

Re: fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread krad
On 30 January 2010 19:05, Jeff Laine wrote: > Hello, > > My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. > How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? > I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. > I.e. I'd like to put the following line: > > /dev/msdosfs/MY FLASH /m

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Tim Judd
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Joe Springer wrote: > Hi. > > I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After > installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For > example, samba. > > I found that > > pkg_add -r samba > > fails. I need to know

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:48:23 -0800 (PST) Joe Springer articulated: > Hi. > > I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. > After installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some > packages. For example, samba. > > I found that > >pkg_add -r samba > > fa

Re: fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:05:43 +0300 Jeff Laine articulated: > Hello, > > My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. > How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? > I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. > I.e. I'd like to put the following line: > > /dev/

Problems with "make clean"

2010-01-30 Thread Frank Wißmann
Hi, Beasties! I just installed the new VirtualBox through ports. It worked fine, but now I have trouble cleaning the directory. Neither "make clean" nor a "rm -rf work/" do what they are supposed to. Here is the output: rm: work/virtualbox-3.0.51r22902/out/freebsd.amd64/debug/obj/VBoxRT/VBox:

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:48:23AM -0800, Joe Springer wrote: > Hi. > > I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After > installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some > packages. For example, samba. > > I found that > >pkg_add -r samba > > fails. I

Re: fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Laine
On Sat,30-01-2010 [19:33:37], krad wrote: > On 30 January 2010 19:05, Jeff Laine wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. > > How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? > > I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. > > I.e. I'd li

Jails and Hardware security

2010-01-30 Thread Jay Hall
Is it possible to limit what hardware a jail has access to? I am wanting to limit access to the tape drive/autoloader in one jail, but allow another to have access to it. Is this as simple as deleting the appropriate entries in /dev? Thanks, Jay

Re: fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread Elias Chrysocheris
On Saturday 30 of January 2010 21:05:43 Jeff Laine wrote: > Hello, > > My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. > How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? > I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. > I.e. I'd like to put the following line: > > /dev/msdos

apache22 and new hostname???

2010-01-30 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, As some of you might know, i am trying to host a friend's website on my DNS and web server. Can anybody suggest what i have to add to my /usr/local/etc/apache22/* files and directories to get http://www.anacondabuilders.us to display since I do not

Re: apache22 and new hostname???

2010-01-30 Thread Matt Emmerton
Gary, But I do need the basics of having/serving/hosting two domains on one computer. What you are looking for are called "virtual hosts". See the examples in /usr/local/etc/apache22/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf. The Apache documentation (mentioned in the above file) is also helpful. Regards, -- M

Re: Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD

2010-01-30 Thread David Kelly
On Jan 30, 2010, at 3:51 AM, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have a recommendation on a good GPS receiver/board for use with NTP/FreeBSD to create a stratum 1 public time server? Preferably something above the Garmin "puck" level but not ridiculously expensive either...

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:48, Joe Springer wrote: > Hi. > > I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After > installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For > example, samba. > > I found that > >   pkg_add -r samba > > fails. I need to know s

Re: Problems with "make clean"

2010-01-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Frank Wißmann wrote: Hi, Beasties! I just installed the new VirtualBox through ports. It worked fine, but now I have trouble cleaning the directory. Neither "make clean" nor a "rm -rf work/" do what they are supposed to. Here is the output: rm: work/virtualbox-3.0.51r22902/out/freebsd.amd64/

Generating normally distributed random numbers.

2010-01-30 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Hi all, I am working on a project where I have the need to generate normally distributed random positive integers, preferably unsigned 64 bit (or even longer if possible) integers. More specifically, I will need the ability to supply the expected value and the standard deviation for the desir

Nehelem & 64 bit, kern conf and /etc/make.conf

2010-01-30 Thread Nerius Landys
I just installed FreeBSD 8.0 (amd64) onto my new Nehalem-based system. CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5506 @ 2.13GHz (2128.00-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x106a5 Stepping = 5 Features=0xbfebfbff Features2=0x9ce3bd AMD Features=0x28100800 AMD Features2=0x1

Re: Generating normally distributed random numbers.

2010-01-30 Thread J65nko
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Rolf Nielsen wrote: > I am working on a project where I have the need to generate normally > distributed random positive integers, preferably unsigned 64 bit (or even > longer if possible) integers. More specifically, I will need the ability to > supply the expect

Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Mitchell
Hello my friends, I've just noticed one of my beloved headless shell boxen is FreeBSD 5.4; its a workhorse I've been neglecting far too long and I'd really like to bring it up to 'current' (say fbsd 8.x). For awhile it was held back by very specific applications I had to support, but

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-30 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Jeff Mitchell wrote: > >Hello my friends, > >I've just noticed one of my beloved headless shell boxen is FreeBSD > 5.4; its a workhorse I've been neglecting far too long and I'd really like > to bring it up to 'current' (say fbsd 8.x). For awhile i