Re: FreeBSD Motherboard survey...

2003-12-30 Thread Francisco
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > I'd love for this to take off and become a repository of sorts... It is a great idea. About the only thing that would be nice about it, is if someday there could be something like it for other pieces of hardware too. For instance DVD/CD burners come

Re: FreeBSD Motherboard survey...

2003-12-30 Thread Francisco
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > http://www.eilio.com/freebsd-motherboards/ One suggestion. Allow from the home page to view the results for a particular CPU only and for SMP. These are probably common enough that would be helpfull to allow them upfront. ___

Re: firewall question...

2003-12-31 Thread Francisco
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Xpression wrote: > Hi list, I've two servers running some services, now I want > to firewall both them, do I need to build it on router or in > the FreeBSD box...thanks. That is totally up to you. If you plan to do it on one of your FreeBSD machines I believe you will need t

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/gallery/npgallery.html

2003-12-31 Thread Francisco
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, J.D. Falk wrote: > My site, cybernothing.org, is now hosted on a friends' machine > running Linux. (I still prefer FreeBSD myself.) I am a little curious.. Was your email intended to ask to be included in the non-profit page? Not that I am involved with setting

Re: What do you use?

2003-12-31 Thread Francisco
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Jason Bacon wrote: > 3ware IDE RAID. Agree on the 3ware controllers. > No such thing as cheap tape backups. :-( If the amount of data can compress into a CD or DVD you could consider a burner. Moreover, although not a replacement for a tape backup or burning to CD/DVD yo

Re: How to create .iso file image of cdrom (atapi)?

2004-01-06 Thread Francisco
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, W. Sierke wrote: > Is there a straightforward way of creating a file image (.iso) of a data > cdrom mounted in an atapi cd-rom drive? I use a port called mkisofs. mkisofs -R -l -J -o . So you would mount the CD and then CD into it. To later burn to another CD I use burncd -

Re: Hardware requirements for firewall

2004-01-07 Thread Francisco
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Pentium III 667 Mhz with 512MB RAM > 2 x Intel EtherExpress 100Mb cards > Would either of these machines be able to meet my firewall requirements Why not just try it? It should be fairly simple to move from one machine to the other if need be. If t

Re: Kernel & KVM switch

2004-01-08 Thread francisco
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Marius Kirschner wrote: > Basically, with both my 4.9 and 5.1 boxes if I reboot any of them and they > are not selected on the switch then the keyboard won't work. You need to change your kernel. Look for a line device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 Yours I believe has dev

Re: What is the end of FreeBSD ?!

2004-01-09 Thread francisco
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Robert Huff wrote: >There are 192 open prs of category "docs"; none are Critical, > but 15 are Serious. (Some look like they would take a couple of > minutes to fix.) Where can one see these? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:/

RE: Dead disk? READ_DMA Failure

2005-07-31 Thread Francisco
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Norbert Koch wrote: I have a one year old Hitachi Travelstar 60GB/4200RPM disk. This night and since then, I get these errors: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=48926527 ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=48926527 ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA

Re: any backup utilities for ACLs?

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Dru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: However, I can't seem to find a backup program that will actually restore the ACLs. The day sent that message I tried looking too.. Interestingly enough tar describes that it can restore ACL.. yet it seems it fails to

Re: DNS caching: Squid, BIND or anything else?

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Ivailo Tanusheff wrote: Better use djbdns :) It's simple, fast and reliable. Maybe I am dense, but I found it much simpler to setup Bind as caching DNS than to figure out how to setup djbdns. Perhaps I looked at the wrong tutorials for djdbns, but there are tons of tuto

Re: RAED_DMA timed out crap

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote: fsck stops randomly with stuff like: CANNOT READ BLOCK: evry time is different number and eventually i get: ad0: WARNING - removed from configuration ata0-master: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out Sounds like the HD may be near a fatal crash. I sug

RE: question on hosting and memory

2005-08-07 Thread Francisco
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Sander Holthaus - Orange XL wrote: You might want to consider LiteSpeed WebServer. They have a standard (free) The specs for that seem very interesting. What has been your experience with that program so far? ___ freebsd-questions

Re: illegal user root user failed login attempts

2005-05-18 Thread Francisco
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Peter Kropholler wrote: As things stand, ssh is designed so you can't get at people's passwords and I am leaving it alone. Focussing instead on the task of making sure my passwords are strong One thing I do is to prevent the IPs from connecting to my machine One can either do i

Re: slow SSH access from another FreeBSD, but not from WinXP

2004-11-23 Thread Francisco
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, I Nyoman Suka Ada wrote: But still, very slow. But the most interesting thing is that, why is it not slow when SSH-ing from Win XP. Try looking at the clients and see if they are trying to connect to a different protocol. For example if your server is trying protocol 1 then

Re: AMD vs Intel ...

2004-03-04 Thread Francisco
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Server environment, Dual Processor ... web/mail/ftp generally ... all our > current servers are Intel based, but looking at the costs, the AMD are so > much cheaper, just figured for next one I'd check out what AMD had to > offer as comparable ... > >

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
Frank Jahnke writes: VMs in general are a problem on Free. There is an effort to port the most recent VMware Workstation by a very good man. VMware employee? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
Norberto Meijome writes: I do not have Windows on any of my machines but I have heard that Win4BSD is really good. It is not free! I believe it is about $45. $45 is far cheaper than EMC's VMWare workstation edition. Does it support Vista now? interesting..you can also try QEMu, on which Win4B

Where is the next uid from adduser pulled from?

2007-12-12 Thread Francisco Reyes
I have scripts to add new users. However, after that any port that installs a user creates it with a UID after the ones I made. For example I want all employees to have uids starting at 5000, but I would like too port installed uids to be 2000 and up. After I add some users (ie say last user i

Recursion with grep?

2003-11-13 Thread Francisco Reyes
The man page for grep says to use "-r" to recurse, yet when I try something like grep -r -li string *.c I get no files. However, if I go into one of the subdirectories and do a plain grep *.c then is found on several files. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail

Re: Recursion with grep?

2003-11-13 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Matthew Hunt wrote: > > The man page for grep says to use "-r" to recurse, yet when I try > > something like > > > > grep -r -li string *.c > > > > I get no files. However, if I go into one of the subdirectories and do a > > plain grep *.c then is found on several files. > >

Re: Recursion with grep?

2003-11-13 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, JacobRhoden wrote: > No need to hack grep plese! just use -R (it appears the man page does not > document the -R function, but you need to use -R in grep for it to recurse. -R == -r That was mentioned in the previous emails. It only recurses directories. It will not work wit

Re: Recursion with grep?

2003-11-17 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, parv wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote Francisco J Reyes thusly... > > > > Do we want something like: > > grep -r *.c > > I do not know about anybody else, i myself like to keep the current > behaviour for -r option. S

Re: Recursion with grep?

2003-11-17 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote: > Grep works perfectly in that respect, thanks - it's your understanding > that's a bit askew. Say you're in a directory with 'file1.c', 'file2.c', > 'file3.c', etc. When you type: > > grep -r 'string' *.c > > your shell (*not* grep!) is expanding yo

Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-19 Thread Francisco Reyes
Anyone used a mini ATX machine with FreeBSD? Have a client that has a space limitation and a mini atx machine like http://shentech.com/shutspacskvi.html Would be perfect for him. My primary concern is the network card. Since these small machines only have one PCI slot I will add one card for the

Re: Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-19 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Scott Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:11:46PM +0100, Nico Meijer wrote: . > > It was a ME6000 (fanless 600Mhz machine): > I'm using a USB Ethernet adapter for the 'outside' interface on my ME6000, > since I needed the PCI slot for the wireless card. Wh

Re: How do I set up a firewall with minimal disk access?

2003-11-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, paul van den bergen wrote: > You can also get CF and similar solid stat memory chips to IDE connection > adaptors for around AU$30... URL? Sounds like an interesting option for a Firewall I need to do myself very soon. ___ [EMAIL PR

Re: Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, paul van den bergen wrote: > I have a bunch of these (8000s actually) for a testbed network. work like a > treat... go fanless if you can... Where did you get them from? How much? > I did have some hassles with the onboard via network connection not coping > with long vlan

Please help. Can't see HD

2003-12-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
Upgraded to stable like so many countless times. All was fine after reboot. After a few more reboots while troubleshooting why a port was not coming up at bootup the machine froze right after loading the kernel... at the part with the spinning lines... |/-\ <== like those.. Upon bootup I am able t

Fwd: Re: Please help. Can't see HD

2003-12-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:54:06 -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: >Is there a way to recover the label info? I don't know if the HD >is dying or whether the filesystem/HD boot sector is messed up. More info.. When starting /stand/sysinstall it shows: ad2: raw partition size != slice size a

Re: Please help. Can't see HD

2003-12-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 04:06:27 +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: >On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:54:06 -0500 >"Francisco Reyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a way to recover the label info? I don't know if the HD >> is dying or whether the filesystem/HD

Re: Fwd: Re: Please help. Can't see HD

2003-12-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:27:01 +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: >This is likely your problem source!!! > >/dev/rad[n] is an alias of /dev/ad[n]; that is it refers to IDE drive n. >(Historically they had somewhat different meanings but even then still >refered to the same physical device -- the 'r' means ra

Re: Fwd: Re: Please help. Can't see HD

2003-12-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:57:13 +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: >How big was the image you copied to the disk? -- that should tell >you how much of your drive is overwritten. The image was about 4MB. >It is probable your disklabel has also disappeared, so you >probably need to reconstruct both the slic

Re: Fwd: Re: Please help. Can't see HD

2003-12-29 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:53:06 +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: >OK; how did you install initially? Was the whole disk used for BSD? >Did you follow the defaults during installation? > >If both the latter questions are answered in the affirmative then you >might go back to installation and try to create t

Finding USB CF writer/reader

2003-12-29 Thread Francisco Reyes
How do I find the /dev name for a usb CF writer? I just messed up my primary HD and have spent most of yesterday and today just restoring because I used the wrong device name to dd an image to. :-( I am basically working on setting up a soekris machine and need to write to a CF card an image of M0

Re: Installation failure with version 4.9

2003-12-29 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:31:40 -0500, Claude Fournier wrote: >I am using only one operating system, the intended FreeBSD >with one slice and 3 partitions, a root of 4 gig, a SWAP of 512 mg, > and the rest for /home. Shall I try with another release? Did you try with a smaller root slice? If you tr

Re: Websites inside jails - backing up

2003-12-29 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:44:15 -0600, Chris wrote: >But what about when the site is within a jail? >I notice I can get to /path/to/jail/path/to/htdocs, >so can I similarly just copy the appropriate files/directories >for backup purposes? Or is there something magical about being >"inside" the jail

Where Live CD ISO image?

2003-12-30 Thread Francisco Reyes
Where can I download a Live CD ISO? The only place I was able to find was http://www.freesbie.org, but that's basically some scripts on how to do an ISO from one's system. Was hopping to find something already made. Want this just for repairs and such when having problems with the HD. __

Re: Where Live CD ISO image?

2003-12-30 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Chris Pressey wrote: > Why not the images on this page?: > http://www.freesbie.org/?section=ISO-en I guess if I don't find anything else I could use that, but that is a 4.7 image. Although it probably is enough I would prefer something a bit more recent.

Re: hard drive test

2003-12-31 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, David Bear wrote: > i just installed 4.9-rel. after having the system on for about two > hours I got a console message that device ad0 had timed out. then the > system froze. I believe Seagate has an utility you can use to check a drive. Also if the drive was bought in the

Backing up programs

2003-12-31 Thread Francisco Reyes
With every HD problem I loose less and less data. On my last episode I lost only the current day's worth of data (backup at night). However I realised that I also need to backup programs installed on the machine. It takes a long time to rebuild all packages (I had a list of ports I had installed).

Soekris machines

2003-12-31 Thread Francisco Reyes
Anyone has set one of those up? In particular how did you communicate with the machine? Do I need a null modem cable? Which program you used and settings? From the ports it seems minicom may do the trick. If using the CF card in the machine how did you find out what was the device name of your USB

Re: Backing up programs

2003-12-31 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Dany wrote: > On my file server I have 2 drives. I also have two drives on each of my machines. One for backup. I also keep several days worth of backups in case I corrupt a file. Overall I think I have the data part of the backup covered properly, although I plan to backup s

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Scott Mitchell wrote: > As for RAID, we use Vinum, but only because I inherited a bunch of machines > with hot-swap SCSI bays and no hardware RAID. It works well, once you have > it set up, and I've even managed to swap out failed drives without a reboot > :-) I'll definitely

Torrent for 8.0 RC1?

2009-10-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
Looking for 8.0 RC1 torrents and so far only found this one http://www.legittorrents.info/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=28d9970704ce aedddec8873d21b34d57cbb0b58d Are RCs not officially distributed through torrents? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-10-03 Thread Francisco Reyes
krad writes: On a side note. Anyone building new systems manually from the shell I would recommend using GPT labels if you can. Apart from not having the 8 fs limit (128 iirc) gpart is a dam sight nicer to use than bsdlabel, and scripting it Any links on GPT on 8? Found this tutorial for 7 htt

Which FTPs are most used by ports?

2008-05-12 Thread Francisco Reyes
I am about to install FreeBSD at a new job. They block ftp, along with most other ports. I may be able to get a whole open for the freebsd server to be able to ftp from some specific machines. Any suggestions what machines I should add to the list? For programs I know about I plan to do "mak

Install fails, but newfs worked

2008-05-18 Thread Francisco Reyes
Trying to install FreeBSD in a machine with Adaptec 2120 SCSI controller. Newfs finished without errors, but when the installer tried to write the different parts it fails with "write failure". Have tried it twice. Wouldn't any/most errors have been caught by newfs? ___

Re: ISO images

2011-08-17 Thread Francisco Cabrita
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Rui Silva wrote: > Hi, > > I want to install FreeBSD for the first time but I have some doubts > regarding the ISO images. > > I have downloaded an ISO image (FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-**dvd1.iso) via > torrent, but soon realised that the packages collection was v

Script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d doesn't run

2005-12-30 Thread Francisco Reyes
I have one script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that doesn't run. Any ideas why? It is marked as executable ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 441B Dec 30 20:36 start-program.sh The script is just: #!/bin/sh log="/var/log/program.log" echo ->>$log /bin/date >>$log

Re: "Load Balancing": How Busy are the servers?

2005-12-31 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marc G. Fournier writes: 1. What variables on a server should be monitored to determine how busy a server is? I am a fairly new sysadmin.. who inheritted nearly 20 machines, so take my comments with a gain of salt. Before that the most I ever had was 7, mostly DB, FreeBSD machines :-) .. a

Re: "Load Balancing": How Busy are the servers?

2006-01-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marc G. Fournier writes: For all the technology, I was kinda hoping for some 'scientific formula' :) There are.. Now, I really hate to ask, but how do you use vmstat to get a feel for how busy the disk subsystem is? For me, reading "Absolute BSD" by Michael Lucas was very helpfull. In part

Re: "Load Balancing": How Busy are the servers?

2006-01-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marc G. Fournier writes: I just installed cacti, which seems fairly useful for 'long term views' of how a server is doing Have not played with it, but have read good/favorable comments about it. I would be nice if you did a mini report of your early impressions later.. In particular I think

Re: Cacti (Was: Re: "Load Balancing": How Busy are the servers?)

2006-01-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marc G. Fournier writes: You can setup "Graph Trees", so you can group Graphs together .. ie. all the CPU Usage graphs for all (or groups of) servers, so that you can compare them ... Great report. Have you seen anything yet about disk performance? That would be very usefull too... specially

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-14 Thread Francisco Reyes
Bill Campbell writes: Cyrus scaling? We currently user Courier and so far I am far from impressed with it's scalability. We have NFS servers for the storage and then front end machines for the POP/IMAP connections. The footprint per connection is about 3MB to 5MB on the client. On a mach

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-14 Thread Francisco Reyes
Foo Ji-Haw writes: I've been using FreeBSD + courier IMAP + MySQL (for user authentication). It's hardly a load issue for more than 200,000 users, and that was years ago. Would you mind sharing some info on the setup? First time I read about a courier setup of that size. __

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-14 Thread Francisco Reyes
Foo Ji-Haw writes: Specifically my mail server combo was: FreeBSD 4.1 + Qmail + Courier IMAP + MySQL 3.22 How many clients did each front end machine handled? What was the hardware of the front-end machines? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-15 Thread Francisco Reyes
Foo Ji-Haw writes: I'm not sure what's the peak traffic like, but we were using a standard P3 800Mhz server h/w w/ 1GB RAM, and SCSI drives. How many of those? Also is that your front-end (ie POP/IMAP) machine or your storage (NFS server) machine?

/etc/rc.d/jail can't stop jail

2006-02-22 Thread Francisco Reyes
Doing my first jail. I am able to start the jail manually using the jail command and using /etc/rc.d/jail start, however I am unable to stop the jail using /etc/rc.d jail. I get the error Stopping jails:cannot stop jail mail. No jail id in /var/run The name of the jail is "mail". I also trie

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-22 Thread Francisco Reyes
Bill Campbell writes: Thanks much for sharing the info This server is the primary NFS server with 2GB of RAM, with dual 3GhZ Pentium IVs. While not a truly low-end box, it probably cost about $1,500USD. Ok... so 1 NFS server. This system as one publically accessible MX server that handles

Re: /etc/rc.d/jail can't stop jail

2006-02-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
Thanks to Valerio daelli for pointing out that the names I had in my rc.conf needed to be changed to match the actual jail name. The jail now starts, however trying to kill it still doesn't work. There is no error and running /etc/rc.d/jail mail stop shows Stopping jails: mail12. However the

Zombie jail?

2006-02-24 Thread Francisco Reyes
I have a jail that after running /etc/rc.d/jail seems to stay around. jls 1 but if I do "pgrep -lfj 1" nothing is listed. I am able to enter the jail by "jexec 1 chs", but once inside it doesn't seem like anything is working. Is this basically a Zombie jail? ie an entry claimi

atacontrol status for 3ware?

2006-03-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
How does one do "atacontrol status" for a 3ware card in FreeBSD 6? Tried atacontrol status 0 (like in previous versions) atacontrol status twe0 atacontrol status twed0 I rebuild an array and saw the controller display messages at the start of the rebuild and it showed "twe0" as the name of th

Re: atacontrol status for 3ware?

2006-03-05 Thread Francisco Reyes
Mike Tancsa writes: Sorry for the delay.. ever since my HD crashed last weekend.. have been having problems with my home courier-imap setup. :-( On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 22:40:32 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: How does one do "atacontrol status" for a 3ware card in FreeBS

/usr/local/etc/rc.d not running for jail

2006-03-08 Thread Francisco Reyes
I have a jail, running in FreeBSD 6, which starts sshd and syslogd, but doesn't start any of the programs from /usr/local/etc/rc.d All the appropriate variables are in /etc/rc.conf for the various programs (postfix, spamd, clamsmtp, freshclam). I am able to run the programs manually by going t

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d not running for jail

2006-03-08 Thread Francisco Reyes
Philip Hallstrom writes: Put the following into the jail's /etc/rc.conf: early_late_divider="NETWORKING" Thanks! That worked. That worked for me. My memory is this isn't a *real* solution, but that it does the trick (going off some posts I found on the issue when this happened to me) It

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-08 Thread Francisco Reyes
Duane Whitty writes: My appologies in advance for the OT post. This probably more appropriately belongs on ISP@ but there doesn't seem to be much traffic there. Although there isn't much traffic, people to read it, and so far the advice I have gotten from that list is pretty good. business

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-08 Thread Francisco Reyes
Bill Moran writes: One advantage of Maildir over mbox and the Cyrus db (that, for some reason, I seldom see touted) is that you can make a safe backup of a Maildir without shutting down the SMTP, POP, or IMAP server. For a small/simple setup I think Maildir is most definitely the way to go. Fr

Re: Postfix inside a jail

2006-04-08 Thread Francisco Reyes
Vaaf writes: I'm trying to get FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE, postfix-2.1.6,1 and mysql-5.0.16 working. I have a couple of postfix setups inside jails. The one thing you have to watch for is that, as far as I can tell, there is no 127.0.0.1.. inside the jail so you need to configure your filters to l

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-04-08 Thread Francisco Reyes
Kris Kennaway writes: Well there you go then..you're trying to access a file that is larger than RAM, so naturally you won't be able to fit it all in RAM, and with 1GB less RAM in your system you'll spend much more time reading bits of it from disk and later throwing them away. Not to mention

Lossing network connectivity

2005-01-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
Have a new machine that I installed 5.3 release. Has been working for a week. Yesterday it started to loose network connectivity. ifconfig -u shows the interface as active, but ping to any other machine in the subnet fails. Looked at /var/log and did not see any errors or messages to hint what

AWK in 4.X different from 5.X?

2005-03-26 Thread Francisco Reyes
Are the AWK in the 4.X branch and 5.X branch different? Looking at http://www.shelldorado.com/articles/awkcompat.html#os11 it seems the AWK in the 4.X branch has strftime. I have 5.3 in my machine and AWK doesn't have that function. ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: AWK in 4.X different from 5.X?

2005-03-26 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Christopher Nehren wrote: Probably because the awk on a 4.x machine is GNU awk, whereas the 5.x awk is the awk that comes straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak, and so thus hasn't been "extended" with GNUisms. Thanks. That makes sense. Now I just wonder how to get date i

Re: AWK in 4.X different from 5.X?

2005-03-27 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Mario Hoerich wrote: Now I just wonder how to get date in my output. :-( Well, if nothing else helps there's always system("date"). However, you could also install lang/gawk. Since this was from a shell script I did date | awk '{print "#"$1 " " $2 "-" $3 "-" $6}' It works for m

Re: AWK in 4.X different from 5.X?

2005-03-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 12:09:03PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: Since this was from a shell script I did date | awk '{print "#"$1 " " $2 "-" $3 "-" $6}' How about: date +"#%a %b - %d - %Y"

Re: AWK in 4.X different from 5.X?

2005-03-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Jonathan Chen wrote: which is equivalent to : date +"#%a %b - %d - %Y" Doing this within awk is another story.. Sorry. Got it. Originally I thought it was something to do from AWK. I tried the string you wrote from the command line and worked. I like your approach better. :-

Re: Portupgrade (vs. Portmanager) question

2005-03-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Jay O'Brien wrote: Alec Berryman wrote: Thanks for the heads up on 'make search', even if I can't find a complete description of the command. I find that it is referenced in the manual, however. Also check out the port /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_tree It's very usefull to see depen

Re: Portupgrade (vs. Portmanager) question

2005-03-29 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Jay O'Brien wrote: Francisco Reyes wrote: /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_tree Interesting. Thanks! I wonder how that compares to portmanager. I have never used port manager, but pkg_tree only lets you see a tree of the ports. It doesn't help you manage them. I don'

Re: mksnap_ffs woes

2005-03-31 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Andrea Venturoli wrote: I'll explain my needs briefly: I export (via Samba) a whole bunch of databases that 9 clients read and write. What databases? a) backup data so that in case of severe failure we can get it rapidly back (we are going to loose the last transactions, obvi

Re: mksnap_ffs woes

2005-03-31 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Replacing the software would mean replacing the hardware (not only the PCs, but the attached machines too) at multiple sites, which would mean a HUGE amount of money; that's behind my power and is to be considered out of question. Not necessarily true.

Re: xorg stuff needed on web server?

2005-04-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Kiffin Gish wrote: I noticed that there is a bunch of xorg installed on my web server for some reason: They may be dependencies xorg-clients-6.8.2 X client programs and related files from X.Org ... I was just wondering, do I really need all that xorg stuff for a simple web serv

WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR

2005-01-31 Thread Francisco Reyes
A few days ago I started to get some errors which seemed like a HD was about to fail. Changed the drive and put a brand new drive. Since changing the drive I am getting even more errors. Jan 30 12:52:24 zoraida kernel: ad2: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=52551839 Jan

Re: WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR

2005-01-31 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Santo Natale wrote: check if yours new hd is connected through a 80 pin ide cable ( for UDMA speed >= 66 ). I had the same troble and it disappeared as soon as i replaced the cable. hope this will help, regards (retrying request) LBA=106009983 Jan 30 13:12:05 zoraida kernel: a

Re: WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR

2005-01-31 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Santo Natale wrote: check if yours new hd is connected through a 80 pin ide cable ( for UDMA speed >= 66 ). Jan 30 12:52:24 zoraida kernel: ad2: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=52551839 Jan 30 13:08:36 zoraida kernel: ad2: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICR

Re: WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR

2005-01-31 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, cpghost wrote: In the mean time how could I decrease the UDMA setting so it operates at a lower speed? Use atacontrol(8): Thanks. That was easy enough. :-) They are warnings, but a UDMA speed mismatch can bite you when you least expect it :) The drive is UDMA100. Set it to UDM

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Scott Mitchell wrote: > There no particular reason for an ATA RAID to be slower than SCSI, assuming > similar disks in each. 10krpm 'server class' ATA disks are available these > days, although I don't know that anyone has done a 15krpm one yet. That is the point. SCSI disks

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Jason Bacon wrote: > Well, I'm in a position to provide some comparison data with not-too-many > variables, Thanks much for sharing the results. They seem close enough that someone who is price concious or on a limited budget may want to consider the 3Ware. However, what a

Re: How to create .iso file image of cdrom (atapi)?

2004-01-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:42:35 + (GMT) > Francisco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > > > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, W. Sierke wrote: > > > > > Is there a straightforward way of creating a file im

Re: How to create .iso file image of cdrom (atapi)?

2004-01-07 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: > Ah, I see, first mount the cdrom, then make an iso from its filesystem - > then that's OK, but is seems a little of an overkill, as the cdrom > already `contains' the iso. If created your way, the image will not > be completely identical to

Re: Hardware requirements for firewall

2004-01-08 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > > Another alternative.. prepare both machines. Have the better machine ready > > to do an able to be connected/switched to at a moments notice. Put the > > slower machine on at the slowest day. Monitor it closely as traffic grows. > > That's probably the w

Syslogd sending messages to two files

2004-01-09 Thread Francisco Reyes
Recently I setup a Soekris machine with M0n0wall and redirected the log files to a freebsd server. In /etc/syslogd I have: !ipmon *.* /var/log/mono.log Which works, however I also get the messages in /var/log/messages Is there a way to stop those message

Re: Problems adding a second hard drive

2004-01-09 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Keith McKay wrote: > I got a 3.1Gig > hard drive and thought I'd add it to the FreBSD box and since 4.9 had just > been released I'd start from scratch and install that as well. Is the second HD just for data? If so you could use /stand/sysinstall to add it. After it is setup

Re: Syslogd sending messages to two files

2004-01-16 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Jez Hancock wrote: > Try adding local0.none to the line for /var/log/messages in > /etc/syslog.conf - remember to send a HUP signal to syslogd after the > changes are made :P Adding that seems to have helped. Not sure yet if the messages stopped totally, but they do seem to ha

Installing all versions of PHP: CLI and apache mod

2004-05-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
This post is mostly for the archives. I had installed mod_php4 and later needed to install the CLI version to get pear. After searching the archives and asking around for several days finally found the answer. To get CLI/Pear and web_mod installed just use the /lang/php4 port. To get ONLY mod or

When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
My swap used to be 30MB+ I increased from 256MB to 384MB. For several days swap usage was zero. Then I saw it increase to a few hundred Kbs.. and now it's up to 10MB. I am wondering if it's because swap is not going down or there is now that many more programs running (which I doubt). Before

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used blocks of memory to swap. It will not free the swap space until the process owning them exits (even if it pages that memory back into RAM), so at some point the system paged out 30MB of memory,

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, K. Greenwood wrote: Perhaps /sysutils/lsof? Desc. as follows. Checked both lsof and fstat. Neither lists programs that are using the swap. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used blocks of memory to swap. It will not free the swap space until the process owning them exits Have not found any program to see what programs are using the swap, but as I think about it, the

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 20), Francisco Reyes said: How wonder how the current method affects performance. Basically if there is a surge of memory usage and processes start that use the swap and these processes are long lived.. I wonder if performance

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