Re: vinum and hot-swapping

On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at 14:14:53 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 13), Andrea Venturoli said: >> ** Reply to note from "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 12 Jul 2003 >> 17:13:29 +0930 >>> The real performanc

Re: vinum and hot-swapping

On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at 20:57:46 -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 10:02:58AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> I don't believe vinum can optimize full-stripe writes, though, since >>> FreeBSD can only do I/O in 64k max chunks, >> &

Re: vinum and hot-swapping

On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at 22:01:37 -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 11:49:14AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at 20:57:46 -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 10:02:58AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey

Re: ATI-Radeon-9000

[spurious line spacing removed] On Monday, 14 July 2003 at 8:40:53 -0700, cloper wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 9 July 2003 at 17:55:07 -0700, cloper wrote: >>> lewiz wrote: >>>> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:03:46PM -0700, cloper wrote

Re: Seting the hardware clock

On Monday, 14 July 2003 at 19:16:04 -0400, stan wrote: > ;m struggling with getting the hardware clock (BIOS clock) equal to the > kernels time. > > On my Linux boxes a utility called hwclock is run on the way down to > synchronize the 2. > > The problem I'm running into is that if the time on the

Re: help with ide cd burner

On Tuesday, 22 July 2003 at 3:04:55 -0500, sweetleaf wrote: > I am trying to use xcdroast with my ide burner but it cat see it. I > think i need to enable scsi emulation ...well according to some > links on google but anyway i cant find how to do this in the > handbook. Would someone please infor

Re: Time on Mail wrong...

On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 14:00:21 -0400, Lucas Holt wrote: > I've been having problems with the time recorded on messages passing > through my Sendmail server on freebsd. I've noticed that it always > happens using Squirrelmail or when someone using Outlook sends me > email. Is there any way

Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

On Wednesday, 23 July 2003 at 14:11:31 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-07-23T18:21:42Z, Eivind Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Out of curiosity, what offsets have you had to calculate? > >> I've read a bit of a chapter from the 4th edition of The Complete FreeBSD: >>

Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

On Wednesday, 23 July 2003 at 9:19:16 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-07-23T13:51:28Z, Eivind Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> There's no data on the disks that I want/have to keep. Is it at all >> possible to configure Vinum and then install FreeBSD or will I have to >> install FreeBS

Re: Installing FreeBSD onto Vinum-volumes?

On Wednesday, 23 July 2003 at 14:11:31 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-07-23T18:21:42Z, Eivind Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Are you able to have a mirrored root-device (/) with this approach? Or >> will you end up with having a single copy of / on one drive? > > I end up with a sing

Re: New Laptop

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long/short syndrome. On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 15:13:41 -0800, Thanjee Neefam wrote: > > I am considering buying a new laptop (my current one is a Dell Inspiron > PII-233 without a CD Drive (it broke :( )) > > I just simply w

Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: > I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should > I post the question here or on the mobile list? Start here, but give some details. If this is a Dell Inspiron 5100, I'm working on it. Greg -- See complete header

Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 19:15:57 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: > At 11:10 AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote: > >> On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: >>> I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should >>> I post the question here or on the mobile list? >> >>

Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Quoted text inappropriately wrapped. On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 20:49:55 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: > At 12:53 PM 7/28/2003 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 19:15:57 -0700, K

Re: more Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output wrapped. On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 21:06:04 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: > Ok, I just made a change to the monitor setting.and it froze up like > before. Here is the log message: > > (II) Silicon Motion(0): Pri

Re: Floppy Disk Formatting

On Monday, 28 July 2003 at 13:31:10 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We have received a file on a floppy disk from a client. When we put it into > the drive it says that disk has not been formatted. We already read from the > disk and transferred the file to another system earlier. Why, after

Ignoring SIGSEGV (was: no subject line)

On Tuesday, 29 July 2003 at 9:16:29 +, cool46 cool46 wrote: > how can ignore SEGV signal on Freebsd? You can't. > I am not mean setting SEGV's handler to SIG_IGN,this way can prevent > program to exit,but can't restore environment to continue this > program,so the program will hang and can't

Re: Vinum on Root

On Tuesday, 29 July 2003 at 18:00:25 -0700, Richard Johannesson wrote: > Is it possible to create vinum on a root drive without using the offsets in > the vinum configuration file? You need a configuration file to set up Vinum. If you mean "Is it possible to create vinum on a root drive without s

Re: Vinum on Root

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Mutilated quotation, known broken MUA: > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 On Tuesday, 29 July 2003 at 18:54:53 -0700, Richard Johannesson wrote: > On Tuesday, July 29, 2003 6:25 PM, Greg 'groggy&#

Re: Vinum on Root

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] I wish you'd get a functional MUA. On Tuesday, 29 July 2003 at 23:29:46 -0700, Richard Johannesson wrote: > I went back to the original root install method as per the book, and I got > vinum working. > > Now, needed to change th

Re: Mirroring Vinum Volumes - importance of subdisk sequence onmirrordevice

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Mutilated quotes, known broken MUA. On Wednesday, 30 July 2003 at 14:11:28 -0700, Richard Johannesson wrote: > On Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:52 PM, Richard Johannesson wrote: >> Question: >> Is it important that the sequence ple

Re: HDDs dividing rules

On Saturday, 2 August 2003 at 13:06:52 +0200, Peter Rosa wrote: > Hi all, > > please, could you explain for those of us, who are new to Unix, > are there some rules for partitioning of HDDs in accordance to > security needs ? I know, I can set nosuid+noexec on whole > partition (slice ?), I can mo

Re: How to debug fatal trap? running on vinum

On Friday, 1 August 2003 at 12:41:15 -0700, Richard Johannesson wrote: > Had FreeBSD5.1 on a box that had a physical hard-drive failure last > week. So, this time setup the box using mirrored 200GB drives using > vinum sub-disks. Setup multiple vinum partitions to help limit any > file system cor

Re: your mail

On Monday, 4 August 2003 at 15:06:38 +0800, Nasharuddin Zainal wrote: On Monday, 4 August 2003 at 15:14:11 +0800, Nasharuddin Zainal wrote: Once is enough. > pls give me info how to configure my pc for connecting to > internet. i've my own ip, gateway and dns address. pls reply as soon > as pos

Re: Load Modules at boot time (just checking)

On Sunday, 3 August 2003 at 13:20:12 -0700, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > Just want a sanity check. I want to load the jailfsstat module at boot > time so I've done > > vi /boot/loader.conf > added > jailfsstat_load="YES" > > Is that right? I don't know a module jailfsstat. Why don't you try it?

Re: X won't start

On Tuesday, 5 August 2003 at 14:21:38 +0200, mess-mate wrote: > Hi, > X no more start after a crash with root. > Error Knotify, kdeinit, etc.. pid... If you get that far, X is running. Those error messages are there for a purpose. Read them. > As user all goes well. So you're saying that root

Re: Vinum on an existing system

On Thursday, 7 August 2003 at 11:12:02 -0700, Hank Wethington wrote: > Greetings! > > I have recently taken over a machine (FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE 7/31/03) that > is a mail server (qmail, imap, apache2, pop3, etc) and due to the > companies relience upon the machine, want to use vinum to mirror the >

Re: I want to Join

On Friday, 8 August 2003 at 9:54:02 +0100, Morgoth wrote: > I love your system, FreeBSD 5.1 > It rocks, It kills, It rulezzz > > How can I join USER_GROUPS, developers etc... ?? Start by looking at the web site. http://www.FreeBSD.org/ Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the ori

Re: vinum: need help with crash recovery please

On Tuesday, 12 August 2003 at 0:53:06 +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Have production server harddisk problem, initially one disk (da5) was > down, then replaced. When trying to add a new (hotswap) drive according > to http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/replacing-drive.html , > the system stopped and

Re: ThinkPad T21: sio0 detected as 8250 UART

On Wednesday, 6 August 2003 at 21:44:01 -0700, James Long wrote: > Is this correct? I can't find any specs on the IBM website which > specify what UART the serial port uses/emulates, but FreeBSD thinks > its an 8250: > > sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 This suggests that it

Re: problem adding subdisk to vinum

On Tuesday, 12 August 2003 at 9:40:49 -0700, Shawn Ostapuk wrote: >> Vinum configs are additive. You shouldn't redefine things that Vinum >> already knows about. As far as I can see with a superficial look, all >> you need is: >> >>> drive vinumdrive10 device /dev/ad7e >>> sd name vinum0.p0.

Re: problem adding subdisk to vinum

On Tuesday, 12 August 2003 at 23:52:09 -0700, Shawn Ostapuk wrote: > (Sorry for being so long, thought it would be less confusing and save > additional questions to show complete vinum lists) > > At this point lv -r shows everything as up. same as above but with total > size as 1172 GB. vinum list

Re: problem adding subdisk to vinum

On Monday, 11 August 2003 at 21:41:00 -0700, Shawn Ostapuk wrote: > I have an unusual (or at least usual problem for me) with vinum that > I seem to be the only one suffering from. > > I'm running freebsd 4.8 RELEASE, generic kernel... > > I have about 10 drives making a terabyte or so with a simpl

Loading keymaps (was: two KEYBOARD LAYOUTS....)

On Thursday, 14 August 2003 at 19:56:48 +0400, Denis wrote: > Hi All! > > Does anybody know how can use two keyboard layouts? > I want to change between russian and english keyboard. > Now I do it by click in the tray menu... > And how i can change by... ctrl+shift I do this in X with the foll

Re: test

On Thursday, 14 August 2003 at 16:35:22 -0600, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: > Just a test I have been having a bit of trouble posting to this list. > Please accept my apologies for sending a test message to the list. This > list is an invaluable resource for me and i do not want to cause any > inconven

Re: vinum config info stays intact during reinstall?

On Saturday, 16 August 2003 at 17:51:14 -0500, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: > Hi, > > I reinstalled one of my machines that had vinum running > (wiped & installed 5.1) and vinum was able to pickup the > drives/plexes etc right after I started vinum. Can I rely > on this feature? You should be able to. H

Re: panic on heavy read/writes (5.1 + vinum)

On Sunday, 17 August 2003 at 15:01:41 -0500, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: > Hi, > > I recently installed 5.1 RELEASE on a PII (old!) > machine. I am using vinum on everything except '/' ( I am not > using the new vinum-root setup possible with 5.1 ) > (Versions are straight out of the 5.1 RELEASE, no cvsu

Re: Vinum performance

On Tuesday, 19 August 2003 at 9:56:13 +0200, Niklas Saers Mailinglistaccount wrote: > Hi all, > I was wondering if anyone can tell me about their experience of Vinum and > its performance on RAID5 systems? I've built a vinum-raid of 4 160Gb disks > that each do a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adNd of ab

Re: problem adding subdisk to vinum

On Wednesday, 13 August 2003 at 19:03:21 -0700, Shawn Ostapuk wrote: >>> su-2.03# vinum lv -r >>> V pr0n State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 1172 GB >>> ... >>> >>> Either method results in an umountable and unaccessable filesystem. >>> >>> su-2.03# mount /dev/vinum/pr0n /d

Re: problem adding subdisk to vinum

On Wednesday, 20 August 2003 at 15:37:27 -0700, Shawn Ostapuk wrote: >> Hmm. This is very strange. Try this: >> >> # vinum debug 8 >> # fsck ... >> # vinum info -V >> >> I'd like to see the output of the info command. > > Nothing :( > > su-2.03# vinum debug 8 > su-2.03# fsck /dev/vinum/pr0

Re: FreeBSD licence and 'the advertisement clause'

On Wednesday, 20 August 2003 at 15:25:24 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:33:38PM +0100, Theo Markettos wrote: >> I'm looking to incorporate some source from FreeBSD into a project of mine >> under the GPL. I see that Berkeley dropped their requirement on the >> advertising

Re: Calendar program dates

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Mutilated quotations. On Thursday, 21 August 2003 at 10:43:17 -0500, Charles Howse wrote: >>> OK, I jumped the gun here. >>> After browsing through some of the calendar.* files, I >> realize that it >>> sends an event for tomorr

Re: Need Vinum help

On Monday, 25 August 2003 at 18:19:25 -0700, Thomas Smith wrote: > I think I have the process of creating a Vinum volume but I'm missing > something. > > My config file (config1) contains: > > drive a device /dev/ad0 > volume root > plex org concat >sd length 36g drive a > > When I run /vinum

Re: Hard drive devices (WAS Need Vinum help)

On Tuesday, 26 August 2003 at 17:54:07 -0700, Thomas Smith wrote: > Thanks to those of you who replied to my previous question. However, I > don't think the problem was Vinum entirely. > > - Is there a way to tell whether a device is aleady configured? That is, > if I'm not sure ad1s1e is configure

Re: Problem with Vinum RAID-5 configuration

[moved to -questions; this isn't a file system issue] On Thursday, 28 August 2003 at 11:52:44 +0800, Francis A. Vidal wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm configuring a RAID-5 filesystem on a Pentium III 1Ghz machine (FreeBSD > 4.9-PRERELEASE). The disks are "dangerously dedidcated." I created the > filesyste

Re: dd issues

On Monday, 1 May 2006 at 19:44:00 -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: > I'm trying to back up some of my software, and I'm having some > problems, I found something in the archives specifying the need to set > a block size of 2k or greater. This makes a backup (I've not tested it > yet). > > My questions

Re: Installing Services at University of South Australia

On Monday, 1 May 2006 at 17:27:03 +0930, Harish Sukumar wrote: > > I have recently deployed FreeBSD on couple of machines at the University > and I am not quite familiar with *nix You should talk to Ben Close (copied). > So can you please provide me with some documents that I can use to > config

Re: dd issues

On Monday, 1 May 2006 at 21:21:26 -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: > On 5/1/06, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Without more background in what you're trying to do (you don't even >> say what backup program or what medium you're tryin

Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

On Saturday, 6 May 2006 at 10:22:11 +0200, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > > I have found a problem. > > I find the design / typesetting to be very unprofessional. > It looks like a teenager wrote it, in Microsoft Word, but no offense. > > You just used the wrong typesetting system. > > Please check out the

Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse is it possible

On Friday, 12 May 2006 at 18:44:01 +0400, Igor Robul wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:35:43AM -0400, Bakki Kudva wrote: >> How about using x-terminals on a network? I remember seeing them in >> the surplus market for $15 recently. After all X is designed to be a >> network gui. > X-Terminals may

Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

On Sunday, 7 May 2006 at 23:39:10 -0700, Eric Dan wrote: > * Greg 'groggy' Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> On Saturday, 6 May 2006 at 10:22:11 +0200, Kyrre Nygard wrote: >>> >>> I have found a problem. >>> >>> I find the design / typ

In search of volunteers (was: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda)

On Monday, 8 May 2006 at 9:33:46 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> >> i think the book is great, easy to read, helped me a lot and also >> saved me a lot of time. I hope you're gonna eventually write a new >> edition that covers 6.* releases. > > Actually, by this time, I am hoping for a jump ah

Re: Multiple monitors with Dell Latitude D810

On Tuesday, 16 May 2006 at 10:02:07 -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to use a Dell D810 with xorg and multiple monitors. The two > monitors I have are the internal laptop screen, and an external Dell > monitor hooked up through the docking station. > > Windows was able to displ

The logo discussion

I've just fought my way through the logo discussion of the past few days. Here's my impression in a nutshell: - I don't like the logo either. - I don't spend all my time bitching about it. - I don't discuss it in violation of list charter on a mailing list intended for technical questions. - I

Re: Find the Date a Port Was Installed

On Wednesday, 17 May 2006 at 17:40:24 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 17), Jeff Cross said: >> I have recently upgraded to RELENG_6_1 and have attempted a portupgrade >> on all ports since the upgrade so that new libs, etc. are being used >> with the installed ports. When it *f

Re: Install FreeBSD on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop

On Sunday, 21 May 2006 at 17:25:38 -0700, Sadashiv Kulthe wrote: > Helllo, > > I want to Install Linux on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop can > anyone tell me is it compatitable? As others have observed, Linux and FreeBSD are two different operating systems. You certainly need to decide which (

Re: is vinum in FBSD 6.0?

On Friday, 2 June 2006 at 5:04:15 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Travis H. wrote: >> >> Is there some kind of IP lawsuit over vinum or something? > > If so, it's never been mentioned ;-) It has now, but it's the first time I've heard of it. > It's a valid question, but I don't think Greg's that k

Re: MySQL port won't understand SSL configuration directives

On Sunday, 4 June 2006 at 15:07:39 +, Matt Bostock wrote: > Hello, > > I compiled the MySQL port with WITH_OPENSSL=yes, but it won't start as it > complains about the SSL directives in /etc/my.cnf; > > [ERROR] /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: unknown variable 'ssl-ca=/x' > > Any help is much

Re: OT: Longest uptime

On Saturday, 21 February 2004 at 15:24:47 -0500, S wrote: >>I'm curious as to what the longest uptimes are people have seen on >> production servers. > > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html I've known people with server uptimes of over 1000 days. It's rather pointless to go

Re: vinum raid5 initializing died overnight

On Wednesday, 18 February 2004 at 11:52:09 +0100, Bjorn Eikeland wrote: > Yesterday I set up a vinum raid5 array on a fairly slow pc > (p3-500, 128mb pc100, udma66) and started the initializing, > but only to find vinum l showing the drives as 'State: I 38%' > and the vinum processes were gone this

Re: Growfs Vinum on 5.2-RELEASE

On Sunday, 8 February 2004 at 21:43:19 +1030, Michael Ritchie wrote: > I have followed the method advocated by Drew Tomlinson on this list > (October 2002) to create a Vinum volume without losing data. Everything > worked ok for the first drive... and then I added the second, and grew > the file

Re: Growfs Vinum on 5.2-RELEASE

On Monday, 23 February 2004 at 13:51:52 +1030, Michael Ritchie wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> What file system? UFS 1 or UFS 2? growfs is suffering a bit from >> lack of love at the moment. It might be worth putting in a PR. > > Thanks for the respo

Re: Fixing vinum after removing a HDD

On Wednesday, 11 February 2004 at 19:30:52 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 17:02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 4 February 2004 at 19:52:03 +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:41:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

On Wednesday, 18 February 2004 at 9:34:29 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: > Quoting Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I answered an almost identical question yesterday: it depends on the >> volume structure, which you haven't stated. Look at &g

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

On Thursday, 19 February 2004 at 1:04:29 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:15:18PM +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: >> Quoting Tony Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> So you have a subdisk down which means Vinum can still read from the plex >>> but has to manually calculate th

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

On Thursday, 19 February 2004 at 9:46:35 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: > Tony et al,.. > > Thanks for the information... I really need the space now so I am going to wipe > it and start from scratch, although I am not sure if I will use vinum again. > > I guess my main concern is that when one of m

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

On Friday, 20 February 2004 at 9:22:21 +1100, Tony Frank wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:46:35AM +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: >> Thanks for the information... I really need the space now so I am going to wipe >> it and start from scratch, although I am not sure if I will use vinum agai

Re: RAID (ccd/vinum) with 2 harddisks

On Monday, 23 February 2004 at 8:27:33 +0100, Axel S. Gruner wrote: > Hi. > > I want to use RAID on a IBM xSeries 345 with two harddisks. > So the problem is, i can not setup a RAID System via Installation of > FreeBSD (it will be 4.9 or maybe 5.2) and i do not have a System > harddisk so that i c

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

On Monday, 23 February 2004 at 12:44:19 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: > Greg, > > Thanks for all the responses. Unfortunatly I ran out of time and resorted to a > restore of week old data. No big loss for me, but I really wanted to debug > this to better understand what happened. > > I think it wen

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

On Tuesday, 24 February 2004 at 8:30:15 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: >>> vinum and ide on my system results is very poor disk performance, I >>> see a 10-fold increase in read/write actions. I'll be interested in >>> revisiting vinum with some SCSI disks sometime soon. >> >> How did you test it? >

Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...

On Tuesday, 24 February 2004 at 8:56:58 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: >> No, that's not correct. It does happen if you choose too small a >> stripe size, but that's the best reason for choosing larger stripes. >> That's described in much detail in the man page. > > How can it not be correct? When

Re: Help on kernel debugger

On Tuesday, 24 February 2004 at 11:23:40 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I need to use a kernel debugger on FreeBSD 4.8 to check if > my messages to the kernel have all the info required and if > Is being processed. I don't really understand what you mean here. > DDB is the debugger mentioned

Re: Vinum configuration question.

On Friday, 27 February 2004 at 14:06:48 -0500, Jason Schadel wrote: > Here's my situation. I have two machines. One running OpenBSD on a > 60gig drive and one running FreeBSD on a 10gig drive with a second 60gig > for storage. I want to take the 60 gig drive from the OpenBSD box and > use it as

Re: Looking for FreeBSD 1.0

On Friday, 27 February 2004 at 12:25:30 -0600, Chris wrote: > Does anyone know where I can find (ISO perhaps) of FreeBSD 1.0? I have a couple of CDs here. I won't part with the originals, but I suppose I could burn a CD-R. You may find somebody closer, though. Greg -- When replying to this mess

Re: Number 9 PC Revolution Card and SGI 1600SW

On Sunday, 29 February 2004 at 18:44:28 -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Does anyone have a working X config for the Number 9 PC Revolution IV > card along with the SGI 1600SW Monitor (flatpanel). > > I've given up trying to tweak it. This is on FreeBSD-5.2.1... the > stock monitor database is rat

Re: Number 9 PC Revolution Card and SGI 1600SW

On Sunday, 29 February 2004 at 19:16:46 -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Sunday, 29 February 2004 at 18:44:28 -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: >> >> >>> Does anyone have a working X config for the Number 9 PC Revolution IV

Re: vinum mirroring (raid1) - replacing a disk

On Sunday, 29 February 2004 at 23:07:47 -0500, William Wong wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm testing vinum on FreeBSD 4.9, currently the mirroring feature. > > I've created a mirror'd volume using 2 hard disks. > > I yanked out one of the hds, and unsurprisingly the mirror kept on going. Well, that is t

Re: vinum

On Monday, 1 March 2004 at 6:41:14 -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: > I am currently using 5.2.1 and have dual SCSI 18GB drives. > They are the same make and model. > > What do I need to do to setup mirroring on these? (only for > redundancy...not necessarily for performance) > > I am used to DiskSuite

Re: SIngle User Mode Help

On Thursday, 4 March 2004 at 23:48:05 -0900, Joe Pokupec wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot > correctly. I've learned to create a working fstab and call is fstab.orig > which I can overwrite the botched file if I end up in Single User M

Re: Recommend MTA

On Saturday, 6 March 2004 at 20:50:11 -0600, Michael Madden wrote: > Which MTA is the recommended one to use on FreeBSD? > I've noticed sendmail is installed by default, but > my book I've been learning FreeBSD from (The Complete > FreeBSD) only covers setting up postfix. But it does say: If s

Re: vinum unable to find root

On Tuesday, 9 March 2004 at 15:33:54 -0500, dave wrote: > Hello, > Trying to set up FreeBSD on a mirrored raid1 root. I have followed the > section in ch12 of "The Complete FreeBSD" added the lines to loader.conf, > altered the disklabel, and ran fsck on /dev/vinum/root which worked fine. > Wh

Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.

On Tuesday, 16 March 2004 at 17:25:26 +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 07:13:25PM +0800, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 16 March 2004 at 2:00:00 +, Lewis Thompson wrote: >>> I had a failed disk in my RAID-0 Vinum array. This was a physical disk >>> problem and in an at

Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.

On Friday, 19 March 2004 at 3:03:34 +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:26:02PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 16 March 2004 at 17:25:26 +, Lewis Thompson wrote: >>> I can't think of anything else. Originally I ran dd

Re: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best?

On Thursday, 18 March 2004 at 22:54:49 -0600, W. D. wrote: > At 21:45 3/18/2004, Gary Kline, wrote: >> >> People, >> >> I'm upgrading my hub from a 5-port hub and thought I would check >> with this list to see if the Linksys EFAH08W is still a good >> deal. If there is somethng

Re: Top posting

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] RFC 1855 violation, reordered. Mutilated IRL. On Friday, 19 March 2004 at 14:28:24 -0800, Charles McManis wrote: > On Friday 19 March 2004 09:46, Louis LeBlanc wrote: >> On 03/19/04 09:21 AM, Joshua Lokken sat at the `puter and

Re: Top posting

On Friday, 19 March 2004 at 17:53:09 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004, Charles McManis clacked the keyboard to produce: >>> Perhaps it isn't "logical", if you've read all the email then the quoted >>> thread is just reference anyway. This is the "new stuff". I love being ab

Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.

On Saturday, 20 March 2004 at 0:23:11 +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:57:38AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 19 March 2004 at 3:03:34 +, Lewis Thompson wrote: >>> In a reply to my original question you stated that ``dd if

Re: raid-1, Vinum

On Friday, 19 March 2004 at 17:22:17 -0800, Me wrote: > I'm using vinum Raid-1. > I have figured out how to recover from a failed disk. > Does any one know what to do if the disk that has the > vinum configuration/OS fails? All Vinum drives have two copies of the configuration. They would all

Re: Vinum

On Saturday, 20 March 2004 at 22:00:09 +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > Hi, > > I might be lying to you with my answers. I'm hoping Greg Lehey or some > other Vinum hacker will point anything I get wrong out though :) Heh. You could have waited for me to wake up :-) > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 01:2

Re: Top posting

[Format *not* recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] RFC 1855 violation. On Saturday, 20 March 2004 at 20:53:18 +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > So far I only see argument agains top-posting. Why should the number of arguments count? It's their validity. But I think you're

Re: Top posting

On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 19:35:48 -0500, Lucas Holt wrote: > Aside from mailing lists, I tend to be a top poster. I don't like > when people leave the last 12 emails and then bottom post.. "Bottom posting", where you leave the entire previous message, is only marginally better than top postin

Re: Top posting

The following message is the second in a series of three, intended to show why top-posting is bad. See the previous message (Message ID [EMAIL PROTECTED]) for a version that I consider understandable. "Bottom posting", where you leave the entire previous message, is only marginally better than to

Re: Top posting

The following message is the second in a series of three, intended to show why bottom-posting (where a reply is completely separate from the original message) is bad. See the first message (Message ID [EMAIL PROTECTED]) for a version that I consider understandable. On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 19:

Re: Top posting

On Monday, 22 March 2004 at 11:13:37 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 19:35:48 -0500, Lucas Holt wrote: >> Aside from mailing lists, I tend to be a top poster. I don't like >> when people leave the last 12 emails and then bottom post

Re: Top posting

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long/short syndrome. On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 20:09:17 -0500, JJB wrote: > So unix mail clients bottom post by design and MS/outlook tops > posts by design. No, that's not a question of design: it's the way you use them. >

Re: Top posting

On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 20:44:12 -0500, Scott Ballantyne wrote: > Top posting is irritating. So is scrolling through 20Mb of unedited text > to get to a one line response, which is often "Yes, I've seen this too." > Spelling flames are irritating too. And the most irritating of all is > reading

Re: Top posting

On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 20:27:57 -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2004-03-22T01:23:45Z, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> DO Unix mail clients have some option to config them to top post? > >> No. > > Kmail, for one,

Re: Top posting

On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 22:41:12 -0500, Jud wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:04:36 +1030, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 20:27:57 -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: >>> At 2004-03-22T01:23:45Z

Re: Top posting

On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 22:54:56 -0500, Michael W. Oliver wrote: > On 2004-03-21T19:33:58-0600, Gary wrote: >> Hi JJB, >> >> --On Sunday, March 21, 2004 8:09 PM -0500 JJB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> So is there some MS/Outlook config option to change it to bottom >>> post? >> >> Outlook

Re: kernel module

On Tuesday, 23 March 2004 at 13:26:32 -0600, Brian Henning wrote: > Greetings: > > Could someone explain howto move something that is part of the kernel and make > it a kernel module? > for example the pcm, /modules/pcm.ko This is probably something for the -hackers list, though you're likely to g

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