Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-29 Thread Robert Bonomi
Fbsd8 wrote; > > You have never said if you restarted syslog after making your changes to > syslog.conf, you have to reboot your box or restart syslog for the > changes to take effect. Need I point out that the FM says that 'kill -HUP' of syslogd will cause it to reread it's configuration file

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/11/2011 01:28, Kaya Saman wrote: > As you know rsyslog works over udp and telnet is a tcp protocol so I > enabled tcp on port 514 within rsyslog and telnet'ed from my router to > the syslog server. Use netcat to test UDP connectivity -- it's in the base system as nc(1): % nc -v -u 192.0.

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-29 Thread Kaya Saman
On 11/29/2011 12:29 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 29/11/2011 01:28, Kaya Saman wrote: As you know rsyslog works over udp and telnet is a tcp protocol so I enabled tcp on port 514 within rsyslog and telnet'ed from my router to the syslog server. Use netcat to test UDP connectivity -- it's in the

No network in mixed FBSD81/90 chroot environment

2011-11-29 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Hi: I have a system running FBSD81 preparing migrate to 90 on a different disk, so the new disk and partitions are mounted in /mnt. To build FBSD90 on the new disk I mount devfs on /mnt/dev and chroot to /mnt. Today I finished make build/install world/kernel in /mnt, and now I no longer have

Re: No network in mixed FBSD81/90 chroot environment

2011-11-29 Thread Erik Nørgaard
On 29/11/2011 13:50, Erik Nørgaard wrote: Today I finished make build/install world/kernel in /mnt, and now I no longer have network access, interfaces are visible with ifconfig but no ip is set and can't be set from within the chroot environment. Is this to be expected? How do I get my networ

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-29 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 11/29/11 1:44 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: > On 11/29/2011 12:29 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On 29/11/2011 01:28, Kaya Saman wrote: >>> As you know rsyslog works over udp and telnet is a tcp protocol so I >>> enabled tcp on port 514 within rsyslog and telnet'ed from my router to >>> the syslog server.

Re: No network in mixed FBSD81/90 chroot environment

2011-11-29 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 11/29/11 1:58 PM, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > On 29/11/2011 13:50, Erik Nørgaard wrote: >> Today I finished make build/install world/kernel in /mnt, and now I no >> longer have network access, interfaces are visible with ifconfig but >> no ip is set and can't be set from within the chroot environme

bug in rc.conf

2011-11-29 Thread FreeLine
I think status must check service in any case and I must not to setup _enable="YES" in rc.conf. Because of people want to check something: -- Are that service running or not? (He do not know that service was runned by /usr/local/etc/rc.d/service start or onestart. He just want to check) # /usr/

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2011-11-29 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
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Re: bug in rc.conf

2011-11-29 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 11/29/11 7:02 PM, FreeLine wrote: > I think status must check service in any case and I must not to setup > _enable="YES" in rc.conf. > > Because of people want to check something: > -- Are that service running or not? (He do not know that service was > runned by /usr/local/etc/rc.d/service s

kern.timecounter.hardware change on the fly

2011-11-29 Thread Ireneusz Pluta
Hi all, is it safe to change kern.timecounter.hardware on a busy production system on the fly? Or I better schedule a downtime to do that? It seems I got a bad current selection, somehow, probably as an effect of leaving /etc/sysctl.conf contents of early experimental setup stage of this mach

Re: kern.timecounter.hardware change on the fly

2011-11-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Ireneusz Pluta wrote: > is it safe to change kern.timecounter.hardware on a busy production system > on the fly? Or I better schedule a downtime to do that? > > It seems I got a bad current selection, somehow, probably as an effect of > leaving /etc/sysctl.conf c

Re: Twiki problems - no such file or directory

2011-11-29 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:05:30 +1000, >> Da Rock said: D> I installed twiki on a test server to get a handle on how it operates, D> and it all worked fine so I installed it on the production server. The D> only difference between the 2 is that the production server uses vhosts. D> When I try t

Re: Can't install freebsd/pcbsd

2011-11-29 Thread Andreas Junius
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:45 PM, wrote: > There were more typos and bad grammar than good information in my previous > response. What I ment to say: > > Go into the BIOS and make sure the CD is first in the boot list. Then > make sure another system can read and boot the FreeBSD CD. After tha

Re: No network in mixed FBSD81/90 chroot environment

2011-11-29 Thread Erik Nørgaard
On 29/11/2011 15:58, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 11/29/11 1:58 PM, Erik Nørgaard wrote: Today I finished make build/install world/kernel in /mnt, and now I no longer have network access, interfaces are visible with ifconfig but no ip is set and can't be set from within the chroot environment. Is

Re: No network in mixed FBSD81/90 chroot environment

2011-11-29 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 29 Nov 2011, at 23:27, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > On 29/11/2011 15:58, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > >> On 11/29/11 1:58 PM, Erik Nørgaard wrote: Today I finished make build/install world/kernel in /mnt, and now I no longer have network access, interfaces are visible with ifconfig but

u3g: Huawei E367

2011-11-29 Thread vee ELL
Hello freebsd-questions. I am having problems with the Huawei E367 3G modem (USB) on FreeBSD (tried both 8.2 and 9.0-RC2). It's using the u3g driver. I have made a thread in the FreeBSD forums about this without much luck. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=156029 As you can see (if you

Re: Twiki problems - no such file or directory

2011-11-29 Thread Da Rock
On 11/30/11 05:24, Karl Vogel wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:05:30 +1000, Da Rock said: D> I installed twiki on a test server to get a handle on how it operates, D> and it all worked fine so I installed it on the production server. The D> only difference between the 2 is that the production s

serial console access on ZFS server

2011-11-29 Thread David Newman
I'm having difficulty gaining serial console access to an 8.2-RELEASE box running ZFS on its root partition. I would appreciate pointers to help determine if this is a FreeBSD issue, or something external like BIOS or cabling. The server is a vanilla 1U Supermicro motherboard with AMI BIOS. The BI