Re: Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations?

2004-12-27 Thread joseph kacmarcik
> Let's say that, as fine as NetApps are, I can't afford their prices. So I > set up a FreeBSD box with a whole lot of disk attached and use that as > network-attached storage, serving files by NFS, with gigabit ethernet. > > Setting up such a box is trivially easy. But what are the practical > c

Re: grep help

2005-01-05 Thread joseph kacmarcik
> grep ^[^1.2.3.4]*$ logfile.log to not match, use: grep -v 1.2.3.4 logfile.log -v, --invert-match Invert the sense of matching, to select non-matching lines. when there are multiple patterns you don't want to see, try: egrep -v '1.2.3.4|5.6.7.8' logfile.log joe __

Re: nic aggregation/teaming (AFT or similar)

2005-01-06 Thread joseph kacmarcik
> Has there been any developments with this? We are using AFT with dual > intel nics for switch redundancy on Linux boxes. I really want to try > and move to FreeBSD, and this is the only major issue that I can see. if you're looking for single-path redundancy and not increased throughput, you co

umount gpt partitions

2005-01-07 Thread joseph kacmarcik
hello's! forgive me if i've missed something obvious, am feeling flu-like but need to get a project done. i'm using freebsd 5.3 with gpt partitions to get filesystems more than 2TB, but when i umount and mount again, i always get: 'WARNING: /filesystem was not properly dismounted'. should i do

Re: ssh file transfers - how to?

2005-01-09 Thread joseph kacmarcik
> For purposes of discussion, I'm logged into the distant machine > as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm logged in to the directory /www/jay > and my localmachine directory (now empty) is /home/www/jay. I want > everything in the www/jay directory on distantmachine to be copied > as the home/www/jay directory

Re: Help Renaming Multple Files

2005-03-07 Thread joseph kacmarcik
> I need help figuring out how to rename multple files. The files are > named like reports_abcdef_MMDD.dat, reports_hijklm_MMDD.dat, > and reports_nopqrs_MMDD.dat. Here is an example. > > Original Filename: reports_abcdef_MMDD.dat > New Filename: abcdef_MMDD.dat > > Let me kn

Re: mystery /var space usage

2005-01-27 Thread joseph kacmarcik
> /dev/amrd0s1e 9.8G 4.8G 4.2G53%/var > > A du -h of /var shows a total of 616M data only. First thing that came > to mind is some process which is holding onto data so I tried > restarting various daemons - cyrus, imapd, exim, apache and still no > change. I've checked with fstat a

Can't see second CPU in FreeBSD 5.4-p6

2005-09-01 Thread joseph kacmarcik
hello's! i've recently installed freebsd 5.4 and patched up to p6. since the install and up to this patch level, i'm not certain the second cpu (hyperthreading, not physical cpu) is being used. i guess it could just be top not showing it, cuz it's in my kernel and in dmesg. relevant kernel lines

Re: Can't see second CPU in FreeBSD 5.4-p6

2005-09-02 Thread joseph kacmarcik
> Hyperbollocks is disabled by default. > > See /usr/src/UPDATING entry for 20050513: > > Intel Hyper-Threading is now disabled by default due to a > security issue, but can be re-enabled by setting the > machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable in /boot/loader.conf. ah,