Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > > > > Saw Chris' later message that -F isn't there for him, but here's what > > should be, on the data, the sure-fire way to clobber that last sector: > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 oseek=146

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:06:42 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith wrote: > Just be sure NOT to use the 'A' option for auto-partitioning again; > I'm sure I saw some problem with that on 8.1, not sure if it's fixed > on 8.2 (Bruce?) so I suggest allocating the BSD partitioning you > really want. I've not fixed a

Re: Swap Space

2011-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/01/2011 22:33, Jeff Whitman wrote: > I'm finding conflicting data on this. Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM, > others say stay with 2 x RAM. Standard advice is 2x RAM -- but that dates back to the days when servers would have quantities of RAM measured in Megabytes rather than Gigabytes. 2

Re: a perl question

2011-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/01/2011 22:15, RW wrote: > Personally I find that using cat makes things simpler and less error > prone when reusing pipelines in shell history. > > For example it's easier to edit > > cat file | foo > > into > > cat file | bar | foo > or cat file? | foo > > than editin

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Ian Smith wrote > Your dd of the first 71 sectors looked right, MBR looks ok, sectors 1-62 > are zeroes, boot1 and boot2 from sector 63-70 seem normal, after you > used 'W' to write anyway; can't say for sure that the bsdlabel is ok, > but see no reason to suppose

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 09:11:55 +, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:06:42 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Just be sure NOT to use the 'A' option for auto-partitioning again; > > I'm sure I saw some problem with that on 8.1, not sure if it's fixed > > on 8.2 (Bruce?) so I sugge

/ file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread c0re
# df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a496M466M -9.8M 102%/ So it's full. But by du it's not appeared to be full # du -hxd 1 / 2.0K/.snap 512B/dev 2.0K/tmp 2.0K/usr 2.0K/var 1.9M/etc 2.0K/cdrom 2.0K/dist 1.0M

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread Ryan Coleman
What about filehandlers? On Jan 6, 2011, at 5:26 AM, c0re wrote: > # df -h > Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a496M466M -9.8M 102%/ > > So it's full. > > But by du it's not appeared to be full > > > # du -hxd 1 / > 2.0K/.snap > 512B/

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2011 11:26, c0re wrote: > # df -h > Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a496M466M -9.8M 102%/ > > So it's full. > > But by du it's not appeared to be full > > > # du -hxd 1 / > 2.0K/.snap > 512B/dev > 2.0K/tmp > 2.0K/usr

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread c0re
2011/1/6 Ryan Coleman : > What about filehandlers? > > On Jan 6, 2011, at 5:26 AM, c0re wrote: > >> # df -h >> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on >> /dev/ad0s1a    496M    466M   -9.8M   102%    / >> >> So it's full. >> >> But by du it's not appeared to be full >> >> >> # du -

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread c0re
2011/1/6 Matthew Seaman : > On 06/01/2011 11:26, c0re wrote: >> # df -h >> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on >> /dev/ad0s1a    496M    466M   -9.8M   102%    / >> >> So it's full. >> >> But by du it's not appeared to be full >> >> >> # du -hxd 1 / >> 2.0K    /.snap >> 512B  

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Ian Smith wrote > > > Your dd of the first 71 sectors looked right, MBR looks ok, sectors 1-62 > > are zeroes, boot1 and boot2 from sector 63-70 seem normal, after you > > used 'W' to write anyway; can't say for sur

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Concrete jungle, oh freebsd-questions, you've got to do your best... 2011/01/06 15:06:18 +0300 c0re => To FreeBSD : cr> # lsof / why not to restart your httpd and mysqld? This may release your unused filehandles. Another place to look for wasted space is filesystem snapshots, if any. They can be

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Concrete jungle, oh freebsd-questions, you've got to do your best... 2011/01/06 16:57:34 +0300 Peter Vereshagin => To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : PV> This may release your unused filehandles. used but unlinked, really, oops. 73! Peter pgp: A0E26627 (4A42 6841 2871 5EA7 52AB 12F8 0CE1 4AAC

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Rees
Server has been rebooted before to try this. Chris Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do threading. On 6 Jan 2011 14:06, "Peter Vereshagin" wrote: > Concrete jungle, oh freebsd-questions, you've got to do your best... > 2011/01/06 16:57:34 +0300 Peter

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread c0re
> why not to restart your httpd and mysqld? > This may release your unused filehandles. As I said I've restarted whole server, so nothing there to release at all. > Another place to look for wasted space is filesystem snapshots, if any. They > can be created implicitly, e. g., by fsck. Yeah, I che

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 06.01.2011 15:19, c0re wrote: >> why not to restart your httpd and mysqld? >> This may release your unused filehandles. > As I said I've restarted whole server, so nothing there to release at all. > >> Another place to look for wasted space is filesystem snapshots, if any. They >> can be create

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Concrete jungle, oh freebsd-questions, you've got to do your best... 2011/01/06 17:19:05 +0300 c0re => To FreeBSD : cr> > Another place to look for wasted space is filesystem snapshots, if any. They cr> > can be created implicitly, e. g., by fsck. cr> Yeah, I checked /.snap - nothing there. snap

sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE

2011-01-06 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Dear people, I have a strange problem. On one system that I am running, I cannot use sysinstall to do partition/label for a disk. This problem seems peculiar to this OS, somewhere. When I launch sysinstall, I get some funny message appear on the screen (see http://lix.in/-9b7e16 for an image). >Fr

Re: blog-site questions....

2011-01-06 Thread Bryan H.
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Re: Swap Space

2011-01-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 09:42:36AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 05/01/2011 22:33, Jeff Whitman wrote: > > I'm finding conflicting data on this. Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM, > > others say stay with 2 x RAM. > > Standard advice is 2x RAM -- but that dates back to the days when > servers

Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.10 to 8.1?

2011-01-06 Thread patrick
I know this is a bit crazy, but is there any opinion as to whether a binary upgrade using an 8.1 CD would work to upgrade a system running 4.10? Normally I would want to do a fresh install, but it's at a remote client site where it's not going to be easy to do it that way, and I'm going to need to

Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.10 to 8.1?

2011-01-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 07:45:28AM -0800, patrick wrote: > I know this is a bit crazy, but is there any opinion as to whether a > binary upgrade using an 8.1 CD would work to upgrade a system running > 4.10? Normally I would want to do a fresh install, but it's at a > remote client site where it's

Re: freebsd and

2011-01-06 Thread gahn
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Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.10 to 8.1?

2011-01-06 Thread Robert Huff
patrick writes: > I know this is a bit crazy, but is there any opinion as to > whether a binary upgrade using an 8.1 CD would work to upgrade a > system running 4.10? Normally I would want to do a fresh install, > but it's at a remote client site where it's not going to be easy > to do it th

Re: blog-site questions....

2011-01-06 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Wednesday, 05 January 2011: > Guys, > > If there are any people who are into maintaining web logs/blog, this > might be _the_ place to ask. O/wise, type 'd' now. > > One thing I've heard several times is that blogging is a good way of > promoting one's own books. (I've got a

Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.10 to 8.1?

2011-01-06 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 1/6/2011 11:27 AM, Robert Huff wrote: > > patrick writes: > >> I know this is a bit crazy, but is there any opinion as to >> whether a binary upgrade using an 8.1 CD would work to upgrade a >> system running 4.10? Normally I would want to do a fresh install, >> but it's at a remote client

Re: sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:38:33 +0300 Odhiambo Washington wrote: > I have a strange problem. On one system that I am running, I cannot > use sysinstall to do partition/label for a disk. This problem seems > peculiar to this OS, somewhere. > When I launch sysinstall, I get some funny message appear on

Re: sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE

2011-01-06 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:38:33 +0300 > Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > I have a strange problem. On one system that I am running, I cannot > > use sysinstall to do partition/label for a disk. This problem seems > > peculiar to this OS, somewhere.

Re: sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:13:08 +0300 Odhiambo Washington wrote: > So, how do I fix/manoeuvre around that problem? Unfortunately you'd need to use a different tool to partition/label the disk, such as gpart. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

sendmail panic - savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

2011-01-06 Thread Lydia Rowe
Hi! I'm encountering this most curious error on a fairly new FreeBSD 8 machine and I'm just not sure where to go with this. The Error: Jan 6 12:56:31 sendmail[1600]: p06HuRGB001600: Losing ./qfp06HuRGB001600: savemail panic Jan 6 12:56:31 sendmail[1600]: p06HuRGB001600: SYSERR(root): savemai

Re: sendmail panic - savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

2011-01-06 Thread Paul Macdonald
On 06/01/2011 17:04, Lydia Rowe wrote: cannot save rejected email anywhere "savemail panics" occur when sendmail is unable to deliver a bounced message to the postmaster alias. (from googling :) http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/savemail_panic_in_Sendmail.html -- - Pa

Re: the GIMP and Samba

2011-01-06 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 23:36:12 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > Welcome to the glory of rapid application development and > "modern" programming! :-) Somebody could write a letter to the ACM: "Dynamic Linking Considered Harmful" ... or sth in that vicinity -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 1 signature.

Re: sendmail panic - savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

2011-01-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Lydia Rowe wrote: > Hi! > > I'm encountering this most curious error on a fairly new FreeBSD 8 > machine and I'm just not sure where to go with this. > > The Error: > Jan 6 12:56:31 sendmail[1600]: p06HuRGB001600: > Losing ./qfp06HuRGB001600: savemail panic > Jan 6 12:56:31 sendmail[1600]: p

Re: sendmail panic - savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere

2011-01-06 Thread Lydia Rowe
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 17:47 +, Paul Macdonald wrote: > On 06/01/2011 17:04, Lydia Rowe wrote: > > cannot save rejected email anywhere > > "savemail panics" occur when sendmail is unable to deliver a bounced > message to the postmaster alias. > (from googling :) > http://www.brandonhutchinson

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > Adam, I think you may have missed a lot from the earlier messages in > this thread. Admittedly it's long and likely tedious, but trying to > help somebody get the OS installed is about as basic as it gets for me; > I'd be hugely relieved if some

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > >> Adam, I think you may have missed a lot from the earlier messages in >> this thread. Admittedly it's long and likely tedious, but trying to >> help somebody get the OS installed is abou

Configuring BCE Interrupt Coalescing on 8.1-RELEASE

2011-01-06 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, I am looking to configure interrupt coalescing for a bce interface in 8.1-RELEASE. Everything I have found via google only points to the bce manpage, which only identifies that interrupt coalescing is supported with no information with regards to configuring it. Where can I find inform

Re: Configuring BCE Interrupt Coalescing on 8.1-RELEASE

2011-01-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 06), Rick Miller said: > I am looking to configure interrupt coalescing for a bce interface in > 8.1-RELEASE. Everything I have found via google only points to the bce > manpage, which only identifies that interrupt coalescing is supported with > no information with regard

Re: blog-site questions....

2011-01-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 08:53:24AM -0600, Bryan H. wrote: > If you're looking to pay a little for this, I might recommend you > check out Squarespace[1]. > > They have some great content management features and some wonderful > templates, which are completely customizable. Probably the best way >

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > I see now the SD Card was not the install target, but regarding the the > original point to OP was able to preform other normal operations on the card > eg different FS. > > I don't really think the OP was pressing W initially which is why I

Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.10 to 8.1?

2011-01-06 Thread grarpamp
I know I'll take heat from everyone else who responded saying to effectively ship a new box. But maybe this user has significant costs involved with that. Along with any other reasons... v4 to v8 can be done. I've done it entirely live over the net. Nothing crazy about it. The basic idea is that

Re: blog-site questions....

2011-01-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 08:29:48AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Gary Kline on Wednesday, 05 January 2011: > > Guys, > > > > If there are any people who are into maintaining web logs/blog, this > > might be _the_ place to ask. O/wise, type 'd' now. > > > > One thing I've heard several times

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote: Manual fdisk & bsdlabel & newfs would confirm that or otherwise, but Chris will have to hunt up mans, docs and howtos on doing that himself, they're out there. Aha! http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html May/may not be helpful, but the pr

Re: blog-site questions....

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > I don't know what happened to my .signature before, but I > already have several virtual/sub domains. i have already begun > to promote Journey at journey.thought.org. I've also [finally] > joined Facebook, and begun reading books and article

Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.10 to 8.1?

2011-01-06 Thread Devin Teske
Sharing some of our experiences here at VICOR. On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 15:55 -0500, grarpamp wrote: > I know I'll take heat from everyone else who responded saying to > effectively ship a new box. But maybe this user has significant > costs involved with that. Along with any other reasons... Our co

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Brennan
GMail threadding don't fail me now! On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > This is a pretty easy problem to replicate if you are pressing W, and that > "issue" has existed for quite some time. If you press W then Q at > sysinstall fdisk then attempt to force write disklabel scr

Re: Re: Configuring BCE Interrupt Coalescing on 8.1-RELEASE

2011-01-06 Thread vrwmiller
Thanks, Dan! I'm not well versed in C...glad you were able to help me out with that! On Jan 6, 2011 3:07pm, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 06), Rick Miller said: > I am looking to configure interrupt coalescing for a bce interface in > 8.1-RELEASE. Everything I have found vi

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > Adam, I think you may have missed a lot from the earlier messages in > this thread. Admittedly it's long and likely tedious, but trying to > help somebody get the OS installed is about as basic as it gets for me; > I'd be hugely relieved if som

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > >> Adam, I think you may have missed a lot from the earlier messages in >> this thread. Admittedly it's long and likely tedious, but trying to >> help somebody get the OS installed is abou

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Brennan
> > > If you google the error message in the OP, the first result is: >> > >> > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1675 >> >> > I read this, while that PR Reporter claims the same error message, the > conditions in which s/he gets it _are not_ the same conditions in which I am > getting

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote: > > Manual fdisk & bsdlabel & newfs would confirm that or otherwise, but Chris >> will have to hunt up mans, docs and howtos on doing that himself, they're >> out there. >> > > Aha! > http://www.wonkity.c

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:54:32 -0500 Chris Brennan wrote: > Next question, from this point (at the fixit prompt) can I preform a > manual install of just base? if I can get the system installed at > this point then all should be good when I reboot. http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop [solved]

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition has a good guide for > installing the base manually (you can ignore the gpart and zfs > commands if you want). I found I had to copy the base and kernel > directories from the install ISO to a U

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote: Manual fdisk & bsdlabel & newfs would confirm that or otherwise, but Chris will have to hunt up mans, docs and howtos on doing that himself, they

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Warren Block wrote: > destroy -F is supposed to mean "Forced destroying of the partition table > even if it is not empty." But compare to this thread on the forum earlier > today: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=20731 > > Maybe -F isn't quite as bruta

Manage Bind9 through the web, PowerDNS crash my system at startup

2011-01-06 Thread Sayed Nimer
Hello, I was looking for a solution to manage Bind9 DNS server through a web so I can add/edit zone. I thought PowerDNS/PowerAdmin would be a good solution for my requirements. I successfully installed both PowerDNS/PowerAdmin and tested them was working fine. When I restart my box I found PowerDNS

Re: Manage Bind9 through the web, PowerDNS crash my system at startup

2011-01-06 Thread Ross Cameron
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Sayed Nimer wrote: > Hello, > I was looking for a solution to manage Bind9 DNS server through a web so I > can add/edit zone. > I thought PowerDNS/PowerAdmin would be a good solution for my requirements. > I successfully installed both PowerDNS/PowerAdmin and teste