Identry wrote:
> Well, the bad day has come... My primary server won't boot. I have
> backups of databases and user directories, but I need to try to get
> this server back up again.
>
> During the boot sequence, it freezes at the statement:
>
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mfid0s1a
>
Identry wrote:
>> Try downloading and booting the livefs environment (I think you need cd1
>> and the livefs cd or just the DVD) and see if you can mount it from
>> that, if not it could be a controller issue. If you can then its
>> probably your OS/kernel but at least you now have access to your
>
Mak Kolybabi wrote:
> On 2009-08-13 13:41, Doug Poland wrote:
>
>> I thought I recalled reading, within the last few months, that there is no
>> longer a 8 partition/slice limitation in FreeBSD. I've been googling and
>> reading man pages to verify that but cannot find any documentation to suppo
Robin Becker wrote:
> I'm just wondering if it is possible to install FreeBSD from inside a
> bootstrap operating system such as a knoppix or ubuntu preinstall?
>
> Reason I'm asking is that my boss is asking about getting another
> commodity server using a provider that doesn't offer freebsd. We d
Da Rock wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:29 -0500, Jerry wrote:
>
>
>
>> IMHO, before FreeBSD can make a significant market share improvement,
>> it has to improve its hardware support. NVidia, for one, has expressed
>> a desire to support FreeBSD; however, it needs the FreeBSD organization
>>
Bernard Dugas wrote:
> Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>> So you din't think that if all files are already in RAM on server, i
>>> will save the drive access time ?
>>
>> FreeBSD automatically use all free memory as cache.
>
> OK
>
> > there is slowdown because network introduces slight delay,
> > but few
cpghost wrote:
> Hello,
>
> with MITM attacks [1] on the rise, I'm concerned about the integrity
> of local /usr/src, /usr/doc, and /usr/ports trees fetched through csup
> (and portsnap) from master or mirror servers.
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack
>
> There's alrea
B. Cook wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> We had a raid card die in a dell box and reinstalled FreeBSD 7 and
> restored from backups.. the problem is amd64 didn't boot on the box and
> the person doing the restore wanted to 'help' and changed from ufs2 to
> zfs..
>
> while being a noble effort, he was testin
Saifi Khan wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Is Apache Software License (ASL) 2.0 based software contributions
> accepted in FreeBSD code base ?
>
> Specific case to consider would be:
> a. device driver code released under ASL 2.0
> b. code contributed to kernel (eg. scheduler implementation) under ASL 2.0
> c.
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> simply do portsnap in one place and use rsync to mirror /var/db/portsnap
>
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Razor wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I want to build a mirror server of portsnap in my company. But I
>> couldn't
>> find any tools either in ports-mgmt or in google. So is there a tool
client."
I havent tried this though.
Vince
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>> simply do portsnap in one place and use rsync to mirror
>>> /var/db/portsnap
>>>
>>> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Razor wrote:
>&
Saifi Khan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Saifi Khan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi:
>>>
>>> Is Apache Software License (ASL) 2.0 based software contributions
>>> accepted in FreeBSD code base ?
>>>
On 10/2/09 16:58, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Valentin Bud wrote:
>
>
>> I noticed that it is already at 1GB. Now my problem is how can i avoid this
>> in the future because
>> on that production server mysql is crucial or in case it happens how ca I be
>> the first to know
>> of that problem?
>>
>
On 14/2/09 06:28, Tim Judd wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 22:32 -0600, Bobby Walker wrote:
>
>> I have a small network at work that, unfortunately, uses Windows 2003.
>> I need a good mail server, but I do not have a budget for purchasing
>> additional software. Exchange requires too many h
On 23/2/09 17:54, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:26:04AM +0200, Jaco le Roux wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Would anyone know if there is any kind of X-style (or web) GUI for FreeBSD
>> applications like pf and isc-dhcp3-server ?
>>
>
> The sysutils/webmin port would enable you to
Dont know the script myself, but I would try running it in the directory
of the port you want to check.
Vince
On 18/3/09 11:59, Peter Portin wrote:
> Tiss error is appears on two different computers running 6.4and 7.1.
>
> What is wrong?
>
> [r...@fritjof /usr/ports/Tools/scripts]# ./checknewver.
On 27/3/09 10:32, Mel Flynn wrote:
> On Thursday 26 March 2009 22:20:45 Tobias Rehbein wrote:
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I have a perl script which seems to work fine under Linux but fails on
>> FreeBSD. The Problem is the line:
>>
>> sysopen(CD, "/dev/cd0", O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK)
>>
>> After th
On 31/3/09 16:58, Dimiter Ivanov wrote:
> Hello, i have a Silicon Image SATA controler, which is identified as:
>
>
> It has 4 ports, and supports RAID.
> I configured the RAID trough the BIOS, but FreeBSD 7.1, does not see
> the RAID arrays, only 4 separate disks.
>
> I searched the mailing lists
On 1/4/09 17:07, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I run into a problem I can not solve. I need to fetch a whole
> directory tree from a public remote site. The top level directory and
> its subdirectories are accessible via ftp:// and http:// so I tried
> fetch, but fetch does only retrieve data on
On 2/4/09 10:41, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
>> O. Hartmann wrote:
>> > I run into a problem I can not solve. I need to fetch a whole
>> directory > tree from a public remote site. The top level directory
>> and its > subdirectories are accessible via ftp:// and http:// so I
>> tr
On 3/4/09 13:28, Ewald Jenisch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This question is not purely about FreeBSD itself, but about getting
> Symantec Netbackup (formerly Veritas) running under FreeBSD.
>
> First of all FreeBSD is supported directly; there's a native
> commandline client for FreeBSD that supports 7.0.
>
>
On 3/4/09 20:39, Ewald Jenisch wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 11:08:50AM -0600, Tim Judd wrote:
>
>
>>> This would lead me to think you need the port misc/compat5x installed.
>>> I havent any experience of netbackup though.
>>>
>> I agree with this statement, since it's clearly listed a
On 4/4/09 21:13, Oliver Roeschke wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm using a HP Laserjet P1006 on a freebsd with cups to make the printer
> available on the network.
> Since this modell is one of the crapy-cheap-laserjets it has some
> firmware you have to upload, everytime the printer has lost power.
>
> C
On 20/4/09 23:36, Keith Seyffarth wrote:
>> Googling that shows it to be a file shared with Windows boxes when you're
>> running samba. I don't know if you set up samba or not, but I would ignore
>> this error for now. It's likely unrelated to the printing problem that
>> you're
>> having.
>>
On 29/4/09 14:18, Alexander Popov wrote:
> Hi, Daniel,
>
> This is the output:
>
> Checking setuid files and devices:
>
> Checking for uids of 0:
> root 0
> toor 0
>
> Checking for passwordless accounts:
>
> Checking login.conf permissions:
>
> ***.home kernel log messages:
> +++ /tmp/security.G4Qu
On 8/5/09 07:47, Daniels Vanags wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> FreeBSD 6.3 has new device called lagg(4).
>
> Lagg is a link aggregation and link failover interface.
>
> With lagg we can easily bond two NIC interfaces together.
>
> But how we can do NIC teaming in FreeBSD 6.2? Please help.
>
>
>
On 8/5/09 12:36, Derek Ragona wrote:
> At 04:00 AM 5/5/2009, Johan Hendriks wrote:
>> Are there no more snapshots of current?
>> The last is from 02-2009
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Johan
>
> I downloaded one from this month a couple days ago. You should see a
> May snapshot available.
>
> -Derek
On 11/5/09 11:48, Saifi Khan wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the
> installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ?
>
> i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking
> for an approach to drive the entire installation from the
> Fixit# comman
On 28/5/09 15:04, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Thursday 28 May 2009 08:53:23 am Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>
>
>> depends, between pentium I and core2 quad.
>>
>> what's a difference?
>>
>
> Well, I can transfer 25MB/s between hosts on the LAN without my CPU ever
> breaking 10% CPU usage. I'm of
Marc Coyles wrote:
Am running freebsd-update following instructions at
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.htm
l
I did similar recently, although I went from 6.2 to 6.3 then to 7
(almost certainly not necessary though.)
It’s decided that it can’t merge
Chocas, Connie S wrote:
I could not find anything referencing export controls for FreeBSD. You may
find the following link for Apache Software Foundation products helpful. This
is the type is information that is needed to determine what is required to
legally export software. If FreeBSD ha
Troy Kocher wrote:
Listers,
For some reason my kernel setting aren't being recognized. .
tao# more loader.conf
geom_vinum_load="YES"
kern.ipc.semmni=256
kern.ipc.semmns=512
kern.ipc.semmnu=256
kern.ipc.semmap=256
kern.ipc.shmall=32768
kern.ipc.shmmax=1
On reboot shmall & shmmax have to
David Collins wrote:
Hi,
I am not sure if this is the correct list to post this to, and if it
isn't please could you point me to where it should go.
I have recently turned to freeBSD and so far I love it. I have a small
laptop that I use for playing around and general fiddling. I was using
the
Marc Coyles wrote:
Righty - now that I'm back from my wanderings I've managed to complete the
upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0-RELEASE, but am still getting issues with named not
starting. For reference, I pulled down a clean 7.0-R version of named.conf
and dropped it in as /etc/named.conf
/var/log/messa
Jim Pazarena wrote:
Is there a utility available which can take a database of dates &
events and email
out a reminder?
I know that I could create something using at, but seems to me that I
saw a utility
already designed for this.
I have missed one too many birthdays
calendar and cron ?
a cr
Gary Kline wrote:
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:33:20PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:19:31AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
I kep track on the load on my main server, and it is rarely above
0.20. If the load is a poor metric of power use, what is
Gary Kline wrote:
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:24:06PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:56:12AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
the datasheets for the 40G drives are lost lost.
Oh, come now! If you still know what make and model the drives are, the
datasheets
Warren Liddell wrote:
The easiest way to do the upgrade (if you are using a GENERIC kernel) is
to use Freebsd-update (http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/)
It's a pretty powerful tool which allows you to do binary updates for
FreeBSD.
To upgrade between major versions you would want to ch
Warren Liddell wrote:
On Thursday 07 August 2008 23:18:34 Marc Coyles wrote:
If i have read the man pages correct the command im using being ...
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.0-CURRENT
# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r 7.0-RELEASE upgrade
followed eventually by...
#
Warren Liddell wrote:
no for versions of FreeBSD beyond 6.3 its in base and you dont need to
install it seperately to upgrade between versions.
freebsd-update -r 7.1-RELEASE upgrade
seems to have an effect where 7.0-RELEASE no longer does. I have CCed
freebsd-stable@ on this to see if anyone know
Warren Liddell wrote:
I would upgrade to a -RELEASE branch from source then try again.
Vince
change my releng to 7 in the supfile and do a csup then do world & kernel and
go from there ?
RELENG_7_0 for the -RELEASE
7 is -STABLE
Vince
__
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
I have screwed up my upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0 following the doc at...
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html
I ran the install a second time and it completed before the next to the
last step including 'portupgrade -af' was complete
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 14:09 +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
I have screwed up my upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0 following the doc at...
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html
I ran the install a second
My understanding is that its nothing to worry about.
http://freebsd.monkey.org/freebsd-stable/200609/msg00020.html
for example, where [EMAIL PROTECTED] who wrote gjounal says
"It happens sometimes under load, haven't investigated yet what exactly
is happening, but you can ignore it for now, it's
Matias Surdi wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm starting a new project where I would like to distribute the
software as a distribution, something as pfSense guys do (but mine is
not targeted to be a firewall).
It would be very appreciated any pointer to some documentation or
starting point for creatin
Andrea Venturoli wrote:
John Almberg ha scritto:
I don't think it's far OT, either, since IMHO, Mac desktops and
FreeBSD servers are the perfect, practical combination for many
organizations, including my own.
Since there seem to be a lot of expert here...
Does anybody know of a FreeBSD clie
enom-FBSD1 wrote:
> Is there a way to reactivate the black and white beastie which used to
> display to the right of the 'Welcome to FreeBSD' boot options menu?
>
>
Yes add
beastie_disable="NO"
in /boot/loader.conf
> ___
> freebsd-questions@freebsd
DAve wrote:
> I would love to have a way to tail a log, like piping to grep, except
> I see every line and the lines I would normally grep for are
> highlighted. That would be cool. Anyone know of a bash command or tool
> that will do this?
>
> Side note, I am tailing sendmail after changes to my o
In short yes
from http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/Guidelines.shtml
"Please note that the following Terms and Conditions are intended to
cover typical situations, in a general way, but that there may be
special circumstances, which, in the judgment of the Foundation, result
in different
On 20/05/2010 15:12, Frank Bonnet wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm searching for a software that could perform some kind of real time
> mirroring between two (or more) freebsd servers.
>
> My meaning is to keep up to date some files ( flat and db maps ) used
> by Postfix on our MX servers and propagate every
On 30/05/2010 08:10, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 29/05/2010 22:15:37, Alexandre L. wrote:
> > I have this link to a French Blog :
> http://blog.etoilebsd.net/post/Emprisonner_une_debian_dans_un_FreeBSD
>
> > This describe how to "jail" a Linux Debian in FreeBSD.
>
> > I hope this will help you. I ha
On 04/06/2010 19:20, Ross Penner wrote:
> I'm trying to update my system and when I run cvsup, the connection
> repeatedly has problems (TreeList failed: Network write failure:
> Connection closed). I'm wondering if anybody can suggest any other
> method to grab the current source files?
>
svn w
On 23/06/2010 11:26, Aiza wrote:
> Is there an equivalent of the MAC sparseimage on FreeBSD?
If you mean you would like to make a sparse file and attach it using
mdconfg then
dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/outfile bs=1M seek=1024 count=0
This will give you a sparse file that reports a gig in size, but
On 30/06/2010 06:19, Aiza wrote:
> Thanks Vince this was very helpful.
> I was able to create a sparse image jail, but when I used cpio to
> duplicate the sparse file to other jails I lost the sparseness of the
> file. Is there a way to copy a sparse file and keep it intact?
>
I havent tested but t
On 14/07/2010 00:30, Aiza wrote:
> Ed Flecko wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> I'm reading about "jails" and "chroot", and I'm not clear about the
>> differences so I'm hoping someone can clarify this for me.
>>
>> Here's what I "think" is correct:
>>
>> 1.) FreeBSD has both "chroot" capability as well as "ja
On 21/07/2010 10:08, krad wrote:
>
> Anyone tried using it yet? Not much info out there apart from the
> announcments it seems. In my quick play with it this morning, it didnt seem
> to be binding the ips to the jails. Not sure if you are supposed to have the
> ip bound to the box before you use th
On 28/07/2010 08:17, Corey Smith wrote:
> Has anyone tried gmultipath under 8.1-RELEASE/amd64 yet? This is my
> first attempt at multipathing so it is possible I'm doing something
> wrong but anyways:
>
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD host 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49
> UTC 2010
On 30/07/2010 18:48, Carl Johnson wrote:
> I have running versions of 7.3 and 8.0, so I tried experimenting with
> 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I ran into a couple of problems. I have an 8.0
> system that is running a IPv6 tunnel to sixxs.net, and it is running
> rtadvd to act as the gatway for my netwo
On 03/09/2010 08:53, bsd wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a patch for clamav that was submited by a developer of clamav.
> I don't know how to apply It to the source code of the port.
>
> What I would like to do:
>
> 1. Get the source code
> 2. cd to the source directory
> 3. Apply the patch
> 4.
Hi all,
Work has kindly supplied a shiny new macbook pro (6,2) so
I've re-partitioned it (OSX's grow/shrink partitions/filesystems online
is handy) and now have an EFI partition (hidden,) OSX partition, FreeBSD
/ partition, ZFS partition for the rest and a swap partition. I've
stuck w
On 09/09/2010 22:02, Jules Gilbert wrote:
> About Java. Using java with freebsd/mozilla or another browser.
>
> Some questions:
>
> Is GNU java sufficient? I need to be able to run a browser with Java.
> No alternative -- and no I don't want to run windoz.
>
> I'm trying to do an 8.1 install.
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