Servers are using limited amount of memory after upgrade from 6.2-PRE to 6.2-STABLE

Remy de Ruysscher remy at unix-asp.com
Tue Jan 23 09:43:35 UTC 2007



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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: rsync issues (Peter Pluta)
   2. RE: PCIe Core2 Duo Motherboard? (Philippe Lang)
   3. Re: Firefox keeps beeping at me ... (Glenn Becker)
   4. Re: rsync issues (Bill Moran)
   5. Re: rsync issues (Jay Chandler)
   6. Re: rsync issues (Greg Albrecht)
   7. Re: how to know what DNS server is being used (Dan Nelson)
   8. Re: PCIe Core2 Duo Motherboard? (Ivan Voras)
   9. Re: how to know what DNS server is being used (Matthew Seaman)
  10. Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive (Erik Trulsson)
  11. Re: 5.3 -> 6.2 should work right? (Erik Trulsson)
  12. Re: Use of CVS (Damian Wiest)
  13. Re: Sun Fire x2100 (Damian Wiest)
  14. Re: Install from CVS? (Damian Wiest)
  15. Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd
      (Damian Wiest)
  16. Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11 (Damian Wiest)
  17. Re: Subject: Re: Execute script every time a specified user
      logs	in	(FreeB SD 6.1) (Damian Wiest)
  18. cache logs (Helen.Nanong at pngharbours.com.pg)
  19. paragui-1.0.4 fails - wants earlier version of libSDL
      (Joshua Tinnin)
  20. Re: cache logs (Chuck Swiger)
  21. Company Representative Is Needed. (Saint Zero)
  22. Re: php5-session port seems borked (Jeff MacDonald)
  23. Company Representative Is Needed. (Saint Zero)
  24. 6.2-REL w/ SuperMicro Pentium D board, installer problem?
      (chris neill)
  25. gmirror setup (Jonathan Horne)
  26. Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive (Garrett Cooper)
  27. Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder
      (Garrett Cooper)
  28. Re: php5-session port seems borked (Pieter de Goeje)
  29. Re: gmirror setup (Jason Morgan)
  30. Mirroring FreeBSD (Olivier Nicole)
  31. Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder (ajm)
  32. RE: PCIe Core2 Duo Motherboard? (Philippe Lang)
  33. Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder
      (Garrett Cooper)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:15:09 -0600
From: Peter Pluta <peter at placidpublishing.net>
Subject: Re: rsync issues
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <45B5295D.3020205 at placidpublishing.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Anyone?

Peter Pluta wrote:
> I have a win2k3 server running as my rsync server. I also have a 
> freebsd web server being the rsync client. A shell script runs every 
> night at 5am (it's below).
>
> Shell script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> . `dirname $0`/settings.inc
> destination=**.***.***.***::backup
> if [ "$TERM" ]; then verbose=-v; fi
> rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /usr/local/etc/       $destination
> rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /usr/local/lib/sasl2/ $destination
> rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /var/cron/            $destination
> rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /root/                $destination
> rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /etc/                 $destination
> rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after --exclude httpd-*.log $wwwDir/ 
> $destination
>
> After it runs for 5 minutes it throws this:
> rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 16385 bytes [sender]: Broken 
> pipe (32)
> rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (54)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at 
> io.c(613) [sender=2.6.9]
>
> Dmesg on the box only shows this:
> em0: promiscuous mode enabled
> em0: promiscuous mode disabled
>
> But that is probably pretty old.
>
> What can the problem be? backups are really important to me and they 
> don't currently work as the transfer times out after the first few files.
>
> Anyone got an idea? Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly 
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:15:52 +0100
From: "Philippe Lang" <philippe.lang at attiksystem.ch>
Subject: RE: PCIe Core2 Duo Motherboard?
To: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras at fer.hr>, <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Message-ID:
	<6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F421D171A at poweredge.attiksystem.ch>
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owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote:

>> 2) Can anyone suggest a well supported board with gigabit lan,
>> onboard video, and PCIe expansion, that accepts Core2 Duo CPUs?
> 
> If you're willing to pay for it, server boards will suit you better.
> For example something like this:
>
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBE.cfm

This board ships with a 82563EB network controller, which is AFAIK not
supported under FreeBSD yet. I haven't tested it, so maybe I'm wrong?

Latest intel drivers vresion 6.2.9 says:

typedef enum {
    em_undefined = 0,
    em_82542_rev2_0,
    em_82542_rev2_1,
    em_82543,
    em_82544,
    em_82540,
    em_82545,
    em_82545_rev_3,
    em_82546,
    em_82546_rev_3,
    em_82541,
    em_82541_rev_2,
    em_82547,
    em_82547_rev_2,
    em_82571,
    em_82572,
    em_82573,
    em_80003es2lan,
    em_ich8lan,
    em_num_macs
} em_mac_type;

Philippe


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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:21:30 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Becker <burningc at sdf.lonestar.org>
Subject: Re: Firefox keeps beeping at me ...
To: Jorge Aldana <jorge at salk.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0701222120110.779 at sdf.lonestar.org>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed


Jorge -

> I know this one. The debug option is on, you need to turn it off, the 
> file is here: /var/db/ports/firefox/options

I'll try this out when I get home - thanks!

GB

+-----------------------------------------------------+
Glenn Becker - burningc at sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
+-----------------------------------------------------+


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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:25:19 -0500
From: Bill Moran <wmoran at collaborativefusion.com>
Subject: Re: rsync issues
To: Peter Pluta <peter at placidpublishing.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20070122162519.cc3a0838.wmoran at collaborativefusion.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII

In response to Peter Pluta <peter at placidpublishing.net>:
> 
> Peter Pluta wrote:
> > I have a win2k3 server running as my rsync server. I also have a 
> > freebsd web server being the rsync client. A shell script runs every 
> > night at 5am (it's below).
> >
> > Shell script:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > . `dirname $0`/settings.inc
> > destination=**.***.***.***::backup
> > if [ "$TERM" ]; then verbose=-v; fi
> > rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /usr/local/etc/       $destination
> > rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /usr/local/lib/sasl2/ $destination
> > rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /var/cron/            $destination
> > rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /root/                $destination
> > rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /etc/                 $destination
> > rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after --exclude httpd-*.log $wwwDir/ 
> > $destination
> >
> > After it runs for 5 minutes it throws this:
> > rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 16385 bytes [sender]: Broken 
> > pipe (32)
> > rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (54)
> > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at 
> > io.c(613) [sender=2.6.9]
> >
> > Dmesg on the box only shows this:
> > em0: promiscuous mode enabled
> > em0: promiscuous mode disabled
> >
> > But that is probably pretty old.
> >
> > What can the problem be? backups are really important to me and they 
> > don't currently work as the transfer times out after the first few
files.
> >
> > Anyone got an idea? Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly 
> > appreciated.

I don't know what your problem is, but I can make some recommendations
on debugging it.

*) Are you running it verbosely when this happens?  Crank the verbosity
   up as high as it will go on both the client and the server and see if
   anything shows up.  Is the a DEBUG option available if you recompile?
*) Got any network monitoring stuff available?  Heavy packet loss?
*) Try ktracing the process while it's running.  Should narrow down
   the cause a good bit.  Or maybe attach gdb to it.
*) Try rsycing to a local directory to see if it still happens.  That
   should narrow the problem down to either network or not.
*) fsck your disks?

Hope some of this is helpful.  Generally, when I have mystery errors,
I start with ktrace.  If you're not familiar with it, ktrace can be a
bit overwhelming, but it's got lotsa useful information.  Same can be
said for gdb.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.


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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:25:59 -0800
From: Jay Chandler <chandler at chapman.edu>
Subject: Re: rsync issues
To: Peter Pluta <peter at placidpublishing.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <45B52BE7.2030803 at chapman.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Peter Pluta wrote:
> Anyone?
>
> Peter Pluta wrote:
>> I have a win2k3 server running as my rsync server. I also have a 
>> freebsd web server being the rsync client. A shell script runs every 
>> night at 5am (it's below).
>>
>> Shell script:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> . `dirname $0`/settings.inc
>> destination=**.***.***.***::backup
>> if [ "$TERM" ]; then verbose=-v; fi
>> rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /usr/local/etc/       $destination
>> rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /usr/local/lib/sasl2/ $destination
>> rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /var/cron/            $destination
>> rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /root/                $destination
>> rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after /etc/                 $destination
>> rsync $verbose -azR --delete-after --exclude httpd-*.log $wwwDir/ 
>> $destination
>>
>> After it runs for 5 minutes it throws this:
>> rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 16385 bytes [sender]: 
>> Broken pipe (32)
>> rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (54)
>> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at 
>> io.c(613) [sender=2.6.9]
>>
>> Dmesg on the box only shows this:
>> em0: promiscuous mode enabled
>> em0: promiscuous mode disabled
>>
>> But that is probably pretty old.
>>
>> What can the problem be? backups are really important to me and they 
>> don't currently work as the transfer times out after the first few 
>> files.
>>
>> Anyone got an idea? Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly 
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Peter
>> _______________________________________________
>> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to 
>> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"

Looks like the 2k3 box is resetting the connection for whatever reason. 

-- 
Jay Chandler
Network Administrator, Chapman University
714.628.7249 / chandler at chapman.edu
Today's Excuse: excess surge protection 



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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:41:15 -0800
From: "Greg Albrecht" <gregoryba at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: rsync issues
To: "Peter Pluta" <peter at placidpublishing.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID:
	<39ed86f90701221341r64592914x21ad24e6fbe561e1 at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

On 21/01/07, Peter Pluta <peter at placidpublishing.net> wrote:
> After it runs for 5 minutes it throws this:
> rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 16385 bytes [sender]: Broken
> pipe (32)
> rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (54)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(613)
> [sender=2.6.9]

i had a similar problem and the fix ended up being pretty simple:
make sure the windows box has the right duplex setting, eg: 100full

-g


-- 
Greg Albrecht (gregoryba at gmail.com)
An Indie, Hip Hop and IDM Podcast: The Letter G
http://theletterg.org


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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:42:32 -0600
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com>
Subject: Re: how to know what DNS server is being used
To: patrick <gibblertron at gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com>, FreeBSD Questions
	<questions at freebsd.org>
Message-ID: <20070122214232.GB4120 at dan.emsphone.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

In the last episode (Jan 22), patrick said:
> On 10/28/06, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> >On recent FreeBSD, the resolver actually iterates through the listed
> >nameserver lines in order, sending the query out to each in turn
> >until it gets a response.  It used to be that the resolver would
> >wait for the full 30s DNS timeout before trying the next server
> >(hence the cry dreaded by sysadmins everywhere that "the Internet is
> >slow today"), but nowadays
> 
> Is there any way to configure this 30 second delay for older versions
> of FreeBSD (eg. 4.11)?

You should be able to apply the changes made in rev1.31 of
/usr/src/lib/libc/net/res_init.c ; the commit log for that revision is

 revision 1.31
 date: 2003/12/07 12:32:24;  author: murray;  state: Exp;  lines: +20 -0

 Add support for timeout: and attempts: resolver options.

 Submitted by:   Paul Vixie <paul at vix.com> / ISC
 MFC After:      1 week

Apparently the MFC never happened :)

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:59:38 +0100
From: Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr>
Subject: Re: PCIe Core2 Duo Motherboard?
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <ep3c4j$cc9$1 at sea.gmane.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Philippe Lang wrote:
> owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote:
> 
>>> 2) Can anyone suggest a well supported board with gigabit lan,
>>> onboard video, and PCIe expansion, that accepts Core2 Duo CPUs?
>> If you're willing to pay for it, server boards will suit you better.
>> For example something like this:
>>
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBE.cfm
> 
> This board ships with a 82563EB network controller, which is AFAIK not
> supported under FreeBSD yet. I haven't tested it, so maybe I'm wrong?
> 
> Latest intel drivers vresion 6.2.9 says:...

I can't reliably explain it. Maybe I've got an OEM version with some
other NIC or someone stuck an additional NIC in it before it got to me.
Or maybe the documentation or the driver are wrong :)

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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:21:50 +0000
From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>
Subject: Re: how to know what DNS server is being used
To: patrick <gibblertron at gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com>, FreeBSD Questions
	<questions at freebsd.org>
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patrick wrote:
> On 10/28/06, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On recent FreeBSD, the resolver actually iterates through the listed
>> nameserver lines in order, sending the query out to each in turn until
>> it gets a response.  It used to be that the resolver would wait for the
>> full 30s DNS timeout before trying the next server (hence the cry dreaded
>> by sysadmins everywhere that "the Internet is slow today"), but nowadays
> 
> Is there any way to configure this 30 second delay for older versions
> of FreeBSD (eg. 4.11)?

Nope.  It's specified in the DNS RFCs, and consequently built into the
client side resolver stuff in libc.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

-- 
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:23:20 +0100
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se>
Subject: Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive
To: Christian Baer <christian.baer at uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20070122222320.GA30161 at owl.midgard.homeip.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:10:15PM +0100, Christian Baer wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:42:36 -0600 Doug Poland wrote:
> 
> > # Device        Mountpoint      FStype  Options            Dump    Pass#
> > /dev/da0s1b     none            swap    sw                 0       0
> > /dev/da0s1a     /               ufs     rw                 1       1
>        ^^^^^^
> 
> Where did you get to create slices. When I installed this system (Sun
> U60) sysinstall didn't offer the possibility of creating a slice at all.
> The only devices of this sort that I can create are da0x and da1x - no
's'!
> 
> Is this due to the SPARC64 plattform or did I miss something?

It is almost certainly due to your platform. Slices (aka partitions in
MS-DOS) are pretty much specific to the IBM PC (and derivatives thereof.)



-- 
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013 at student.uu.se


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Message: 11
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:26:15 +0100
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se>
Subject: Re: 5.3 -> 6.2 should work right?
To: Nagy L?szl? Zsolt <nagylzs at freemail.hu>
Cc: "B. Cook" <bcook at poughkeepsieschools.org>,
	freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20070122222615.GB30161 at owl.midgard.homeip.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:44:26PM +0100, Nagy Laszls Zsolt wrote:
> B. Cook wrote:
> >I'm inheriting an older network and I'm trying to update it..
> >
> >cvsup to 6_2..
> >
> >Doing a build kernel && install kernel
> >
> >then reboot and build world && install world && mergemaster -p if needed
> >
> >then rebuild the kernel and reinstall it..
> >
> >right?
> >
> >I couldn't see anything major in UPDATING.. am I missing something?
> First, you should update your system to RELENG_5_5. Then probably you 
> can try to update to RELENG_6_2. It is always good to update to the 
> latest minor before you update to a different major version.
> 
> By the way, updating a system from 5 to 6 is a headache. (Updating from 
> 4 to 5 is much easier.)

It is the other way around in my experience.  Going from 4.x to 5.x is quite
a bit of work and not for the faint of heart. From 5 to 6 is not much more
difficult than upgrading from (say) 5.4 to 5.5 or 6.1 to 6.2

> Many will suggest (including me) to install your 
> new 6.2 system from binaries, and then transfer your programs and users, 
> if possible.



-- 
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013 at student.uu.se


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Message: 12
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:41:53 -0600
From: Damian Wiest <dwiest at vailsys.com>
Subject: Re: Use of CVS
To: Doug Hardie <bc979 at lafn.org>
Cc: Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net>,	freebsd-questions
	<freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Message-ID: <20070123004153.GB22569 at dfwdamian.vail>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:35:43PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
> 
> On Jan 11, 2007, at 18:28, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:35:38 -0800
> >Doug Hardie <bc979 at lafn.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Any suggestions on these approaches will be appreciated.
> >>Thanks,
> >
> >I suggest you read the CVS Red book, in particular the section on  
> >branch
> >management and merging.
> >http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html
> >
> >I agree with other posters, you may want to move to newer SCM  
> >systems... I've
> >been using SVN for a while now, and couldn't be happier. There's  
> >also a SVN red
> >book , with sections for current CVS users to understand the  
> >differences.
> 
> Thanks.  I have started reading them.

Don't forget the Cderquist!  It should have been installed along with 
the CVS binary and man pages.

I haven't used Subversion myself, but have plenty of experience with 
release management using CVS.  If you start using branches, make sure
you keep complete and accurate documentation of your branching and 
merging.  Also, make sure you understand what will and will not get
merged in certain situations.

For example, it's fairly common to make the following mistake:

1) You main development branch is on the trunk.
2) You create a branch for some development and add some new directories
3) You prepare for a merge by updating to the latest version of the trunk
   with something like "cvs -q up -PAd"
4) You perform your merge operation: "cvs -q up -j DEV_BRANCH"

You will not have merged your new directories to the trunk.  This is 
because you pruned empty directories in step 3 and CVS will only examine 
directories that exist in your working copy during a merge.

-Damian


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Message: 13
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:18:11 -0600
From: Damian Wiest <dwiest at vailsys.com>
Subject: Re: Sun Fire x2100
To: Peter Thoenen <eol1 at yahoo.com>
Cc: DAve <dave.list at pixelhammer.com>,	Free BSD Questions list
	<freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Message-ID: <20070123001811.GA22569 at dfwdamian.vail>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:27:15PM -0800, Peter Thoenen wrote:
> --- DAve <dave.list at pixelhammer.com> wrote:
> > Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire X2100? Any caveats I should
> > know 
> > about? 
> 
> I don't recommend them if you plan to use as a file server.  They have
> an issue with randomly rebooting under a large network load with
> thousands of open connections.  Have seen this on my system and have
> have had a dozen or so folk email me with the identical problem. 
> 
> -Peter

I've had the same problem, but with x86 systems (specifically an IBM 
xSeries system and a home-built AMD64 system) running FreeBSD 6.0 (IIRC).

These systems were on a home cable modem connection and there were 
pretty regular break-in attempts.  When reviewing logs, I'd see attempts 
to brute-force logins and passwords for the ftp and ssh services.  
I eventually had to turn ftpd off since it seemed guaranteed to panic 
the box during one of these cracking attempts.  sshd seemed to handle 
things better, but I have had one panic occur.

I haven't tried 6.2 to see if I encounter similar problems.

-Damian


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Message: 14
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:57:54 -0600
From: Damian Wiest <dwiest at vailsys.com>
Subject: Re: Install from CVS?
To: Jay Chandler <chandler at chapman.edu>
Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Message-ID: <20070123005754.GC22569 at dfwdamian.vail>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:11:51PM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote:
> Is it possible to install (instead of upgrading) FreeBSD from my local 
> CVS repository?  Looking to find a good way to automate installations, 
> and figured I'd start there.
> 
> -- 
> Jay Chandler
> Network Administrator, Chapman University
> 714.628.7249 / chandler at chapman.edu
> Today's Excuse: emissions from GSM-phones 

I really need to do the same sort of thing for the *BSD systems I admin.
You may want to look at Ghost 4 Unix, although for the record I have
not yet tried it.  Our Solaris installs have been automated using 
Jumpstart and cfengine, but we haven't worked out a similar system for 
the BSDs.

A quick and dirty hack that's worked for me thus far is to mirror your
primary disk with gmirror, then pull the second drive and just insert
it into a new system.  You'll then want to modify the typical files
with the new IP, hostname, etc.  If you end up using gmirror on the new
system, be sure you do a "gmirror forget" to erase the metadata stored
at the end of the disk.  If you forget to do this, you'll run into some
issues when to try to create the new mirror.

-Damian


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Message: 15
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:16:59 -0600
From: Damian Wiest <dwiest at vailsys.com>
Subject: Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd
To: Steve Franks <stevefranks at ieee.org>
Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Message-ID: <20070123011659.GD22569 at dfwdamian.vail>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:33:47AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
> I'm tired of win2k crashing, and we won't even go into my opinion of
vista's
> strongarm marketing tactics (read: changing my hardware means I have to
pay
> again? they can keep their OS).
> 
> Problem is, I've got 320GB of accumulated detrius on ntfs volumes to
> migrate.  I see there is some good r/w ports for ntfs, so I'm willing to
> evaluate that to see if it's stable (shoestring budget here obviously -
this
> is my personal stuff only).
> 
> Forging ahead, I get ready to start playing the mounting game, but
> lo-and-behold, suddenly I have 4 disks whereas in windows I had two.  Now
I
> praise FreeBSD for it's superior intellect here, but now I have a problem.
> I want two 160GB mirrored volumes, not 4 unmirrored ones.  The RAID is an
> ASUS P5DR1-VM motherboard with a ULI raid chipset onboard.  Very nice
setup
> for the money.
> 
> Is this normal?  Am I going to break my mirror if I mount a single disk?
If
> so, how do I mount a mirror?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
> 
> -- 
> Steve Franks, KE7BTE
> Staff Engineer
> La Palma Devices, LLC
> http://www.lapalmadevices.com
> (520) 312-0089

It sounds like your onboard RAID chip is either not supported, or the 
appropriate driver is not being loaded.  Can you post the output of 
dmesg?

Also, be aware that you may not really have a hardware RAID chip.  
Many (most?) times the onboard chips simply make multiple disks look 
like a single LUN to the operating system; they also require driver 
support.  Real hardware RAID chips/cards tend to be expensive, 
proprietary, don't require an OS driver and include a battery backup
system for data in the RAID cache should the system lose power.

You may want to read up on gmirror.

-Damian

ps. I've got at least a half-dozen different x86 system boards that
    include these crappy RAID chips from vendors like nVidia, Intel, 
    Adaptec, LSI, etc.  Typically you get closed-source, Windows-only
    driver support.

pps. If you do want real hardware RAID support under FreeBSD, I've had
     great experiences with the Promise arrays (m500 and m300) and
     one of the PCI cards (I'd have to check on the exact model).


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Message: 16
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:23:27 -0600
From: Damian Wiest <dwiest at vailsys.com>
Subject: Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11
To: hal <hal at cc.usu.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG
Message-ID: <20070123012327.GE22569 at dfwdamian.vail>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:31:22PM -0700, hal wrote:
> This came down from above?!
> 
> Beginning in 2007, Daylight Savings Time will be lengthened one month  
> by starting three weeks earlier (2AM on the second Sunday in March)  
> and ending one week later (2AM on the first Sunday in November).
> 
> 
> What patch levels do I need to be at for my 4.7 and 6.1 systems to be
> daylight savings 2007 ready?
> 
> Currently: 4.11-RELEASE-p25
> 
> Currently: 6.1-RELEASE-p10
> 
> hal

You can grab the latest zoneinfo file from http://www.nih.gov/ and
recompile it with /usr/sbin/zic.

Yeah, you could use the ports tree, but I prefer using methods that
are a little more portable across operating systems.  I've got like
two dozen different OS releases of various flavors to update with the 
new timezone information. 

-Damian


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Message: 17
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:32:58 -0600
From: Damian Wiest <dwiest at vailsys.com>
Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Execute script every time a specified user
	logs	in	(FreeB SD 6.1)
To: "gs_stoller at juno.com" <gs_stoller at juno.com>
Cc: pieter at degoeje.nl, George.Vanev at gmail.com,
	freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20070123013258.GF22569 at dfwdamian.vail>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

> > On Jan 17, 2007, at 18:46 , George Vanev wrote:
> 
> >> On 1/17/07, Pieter de Goeje <pieter at degoeje.nl> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 11:49, George Vanev wrote:
> >>>> Every time user X (for example) logs in the system I want to execute
some script.
> >>>> The user must not have the permission to change this behavior.
> >>>> Also the script must be run as root.
> >>>> Something like crontab, but depending on logins, not time
> >>>>
> >>>> Any ideas?!
> >>> If this user logs in via SSH you can use the ForceCommand keyword in
> >>> sshd_config(5) to execute your script. The root part can be
> >>> achieved with  sudo(8) .
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Pieter de Goeje
> >>>
> >>
> >> Thanks, nice idea. But it seems I can't use it.
> >> Let me be more specific:
> >> If user X logs in then I want to run "/usr/bin/script -aq /path/user_X"
> >> The file user_X must be protected from modifying/deleting
> >>
> >> Could this be done?!
> >>
> >> --
> >> George Vanev
> 	A simple technique is to have  /etc/profile  check for user  X  and
for him
> source another file (containing the commands which  X  can't modify).
Have  root
> own this file and allow all others to only read and execute it.   sudo  is
unnecessary.
> This is inelegant in that it has a general and widely used file look for
special cases,
> but that is something that almost all programs do.  This inelegancy is
present in other
> places in  UNIX .

FWIW if you're really feeling up to it you can simply craft your own 
shell for the user.  You can write a short C program that forks a 
process, and call execve() with your script in the child, and then 
execve() with their desired shell in the parent.

I'm probably mistaken about this, but I didn't think /etc/profile was 
necessarily executed should someone login via ssh.

-Damian


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Message: 18
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:43:05 +1000
From: Helen.Nanong at pngharbours.com.pg
Subject: cache logs
To: questions at FreeBSD.org
Message-ID:
	
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I am running  FreeBSD 4.4 and currently have the following displayed as 
output from the command df


FileSystem         1K blocks    Used      Available     Capacity Mounted 
on
/dev/ad0s1a        63503           63214      -4791            108%     /


In issuing the following command: du / | sort -n the following 5 files are 
listed as biggest in size

/
/usr
/usr/local
/usr/local/squid
/usr/local/squid/cache

I would like some assistance as to how to go about removing/clearing the 
files, in this case I assume the cache logs would have to be removed to 
clear up the space in /.

Any assistance on this will be appreciated.


Helen Nanong
Systems Administrator
PNG Ports Corporation Limited
P.O Box 671
Port Moresby

Phone: 321 1400 (Switch) 308 4202 (Direct)
Fax:     321 1546
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Message: 19
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:07:55 -0700
From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig at speakeasy.net>
Subject: paragui-1.0.4 fails - wants earlier version of libSDL
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20070123020755.GA73904 at smogmonster.local>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

I've run into this problem since the ports freeze, still getting it now.
As mentioned in this thread:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2006-September/035572.html
except that the answer here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2006-September/035573.html
doesn't work.

I don't know enough about libtool to understand which port is
referencing the old version of libSDL. Here's the failure:

...
Making all in data
Making all in bindings
Making all in test
Making all in keyboard
c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include
-I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/SDL
-I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE=1
-D_REENTRANT  -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include  -O -pipe
-march=athlon-xp -Wall -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include
-fno-exceptions -c keyboard.cpp
c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include
-I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/SDL
-I/usr/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE=1
-D_REENTRANT  -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include  -O -pipe
-march=athlon-xp -Wall -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include
-fno-exceptions -c main.cpp
/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/libtool --mode=link c++  -O -pipe -march=athlon-xp
-Wall -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include   -fno-exceptions
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/lib
-pthread -o keyboard  keyboard.o main.o -L../../src/.libs  -lparagui
-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -lSDL -pthread -lSDL_image
-lexpat -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,--rpath
-Wl,/usr/local/lib -lfreetype -lz  -lstdc++ -lpng -ltiff -ljpeg
mkdir .libs
libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/local/lib/libSDL-1.1.la' or
unhandled argument `/usr/local/lib/libSDL-1.1.la'
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/paragui/work/paragui-1.0.4/test/keyboard.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/paragui/work/paragui-1.0.4/test.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/paragui/work/paragui-1.0.4.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/paragui.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa
/tmp/portupgrade.57570.1 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade
UPGRADE_PORT=paragui-1.0.4_5 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=1.0.4_5 make
** Fix the problem and try again.
--->  Skipping 'games/asc' (asc-1.16.3.0) because a requisite package
'paragui-1.0.4_5' (x11-toolkits/paragui) failed (specify -k to force)
** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed)
        ! x11-toolkits/paragui (paragui-1.0.4_5)        (unknown build
error)
        * games/asc (asc-1.16.3.0)
--->  Packages processed: 0 done, 33 ignored, 1 skipped and 1 failed



It's also happening when trying to upgrade from openoffice.org-2.0.3 to
openoffice.org-2.1.0. Am running:

FreeBSD smogmonster.local 6.1-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD
6.1-RELEASE-p6 #0: Sun Sep 10 16:20:43 MDT 2006
krinklyfig at smogmonster.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL61 i386

- jt


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Message: 20
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:46:11 -0800
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com>
Subject: Re: cache logs
To: Helen.Nanong at pngharbours.com.pg
Cc: questions at FreeBSD.org
Message-ID: <9DCBAEB0-931E-47B8-B02D-CB7782618ADA at mac.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed

On Jan 22, 2007, at 5:43 PM, Helen.Nanong at pngharbours.com.pg wrote:
> I am running  FreeBSD 4.4 and currently have the following  
> displayed as
> output from the command df
>
>
> FileSystem         1K blocks    Used      Available     Capacity  
> Mounted
> on
> /dev/ad0s1a        63503           63214      -4791             
> 108%     /
>
>
> In issuing the following command: du / | sort -n the following 5  
> files are
> listed as biggest in size

It's almost certain that you've got more partitions on that machine,  
and that the files under /usr are on another partition then the root  
partition.  Try using "du -x /" to only consider files on the root  
partition without crossing filesystem mountpoints....

-- 
-Chuck



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Message: 21
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:10:11 +0100 (CET)
From: Saint Zero <info at barrytravel.net>
Subject: Company Representative Is Needed.
To: questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20070123031011.09A9080EBD1 at p15178485.pureserver.info>
Content-Type: text/plain


    Good Day
Barry Travels and Tours Limited, An Asian Based
Multinational Company
seek the service of a liaison officer who would
act as a medium of
reaching our customers abroad. Your Job is to
receive  payment on
our behalf and settle our clients with the
payment.
If you choose to work with us, you do not need to quite your
present
job, or have problems with your employers as this is on a part
time
basis. An agent commission would be paid to you on a weekly basis.
Kindly reply so that i can provide you with more details.
KINDLY
INDICATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE BY FILLING THE BELOW FORM SO THAT WE
CAN SEND
YOU THE PAYMENT FOR IMMEDIATE PROGRESS.
KINDLY SEND US:
====================================
1. YOUR NAME:
2. YOUR FULL ADDRESS
3. TELEPHONE NUMBER
4. PRESENT OCCUPATION
5. POSITION HELD
6. STATE
7. ZIP CODE
8. CITY

===================================





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Message: 22
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:14:41 -0500
From: "Jeff MacDonald" <bignose at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: php5-session port seems borked
To: "Pieter de Goeje" <pieter at degoeje.nl>
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID:
	<f17daf040701221914v60f30e07mb2bf97b02d5449c7 at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

> > -I/usr/ports/www/php5-session/work/php-5.2.0/ext/session/main
> > -I/usr/ports/www/php5-session/work/php-5.2.0/ext/session
> > -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main
> > -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend
> > -I/usr/local/include/php/ext  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -O -pipe
> <snip>
> My output differs significantly from your output, I guess you have removed
the
> first 100 lines of output here; if not you should probably do a 'make
clean'
> before 'make'. If that is not the case then I would try recompiling all
php
> related ports.
>
> - Pieter

Well here's the thing, I was able to reproduce it on 2 separate
machines both with full up to date ports, even after a make clean. And
i got the same error whether i used portupgrade or just a plain make
file...

here is a script, just after a make clean

http://preview2.interchange.ca/script.txt

So I'm still at a loss.


-- 
Unless otherwise indicated, anything I write is either garnered from
experience or pulled out of my ass, depending on situational needs..

Jeff MacDonald


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Message: 23
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:54:51 +0100 (CET)
From: Saint Zero <info at barrytravel.net>
Subject: Company Representative Is Needed.
To: questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20070123025451.05E0A80ED6C at p15178485.pureserver.info>
Content-Type: text/plain


    Good Day
Barry Travels and Tours Limited, An Asian Based
Multinational Company
seek the service of a liaison officer who would
act as a medium of
reaching our customers abroad. Your Job is to
receive  payment on
our behalf and settle our clients with the
payment.
If you choose to work with us, you do not need to quite your
present
job, or have problems with your employers as this is on a part
time
basis. An agent commission would be paid to you on a weekly basis.
Kindly reply so that i can provide you with more details.
KINDLY
INDICATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE BY FILLING THE BELOW FORM SO THAT WE
CAN SEND
YOU THE PAYMENT FOR IMMEDIATE PROGRESS.
KINDLY SEND US:
====================================
1. YOUR NAME:
2. YOUR FULL ADDRESS
3. TELEPHONE NUMBER
4. PRESENT OCCUPATION
5. POSITION HELD
6. STATE
7. ZIP CODE
8. CITY

===================================





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Message: 24
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:16:22 -0500
From: chris neill <chris at revolt.com>
Subject: 6.2-REL w/ SuperMicro Pentium D board, installer problem?
To: freebsd-questions at lists.freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20070123021622.GA39711 at revolt.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

It is my understanding that the new Dualcore Pentiums fall under the
auspices of the AMD64 port..

Anywho, whenever I try to run the bootonly installer, the boot stalls here:

acd0: CDROM <Compaq CRN-8245B/1.16> at ata0-slave PIO4

If I run from an i386 kernel, everything is hunky-dorey. From dmesg:

Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.40GHz (3391.51-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf64  Stepping = 4
 
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA
,C
MOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
  Features2=0xe49d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,EST,CNTX-ID,CX16,<b14>,<b15>>
  AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>
  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
  Cores per package: 2
real memory  = 3756916736 (3582 MB)
avail memory = 3677409280 (3507 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <PTLTD          APIC  >
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
ioapic1 <Version 2.0> irqs 24-47 on motherboard
ioapic2 <Version 2.0> irqs 48-71 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
acpi0: <PTLTD   RSDT> on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
...
acd0: CDROM <Compaq CRN-8245B/1.16> at ata0-slave PIO4
da0 at twa0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <AMCC 9550SX-8LP DISK 3.04> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da0: 100.000MB/s transfers
da0: 238408MB (488259584 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 30392C)
da1 at twa0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
da1: <AMCC 9550SX-8LP DISK 3.04> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da1: 100.000MB/s transfers
da1: 953632MB (1953038336 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 121571C)
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
em0: link state changed to UP

I know the media works because I just used the same disc today to install
6.2-RELEASE on a Sun XFire X4200 (AMD Opteron).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Chris


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Message: 25
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:11:05 -0600
From: Jonathan Horne <freebsd at dfwlp.com>
Subject: gmirror setup
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <200701222211.05393.freebsd at dfwlp.com>
Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="us-ascii"

i just set up my first gmirror raid1, and... it was really simple.  too 
simple.  "ok... what did i skip or do wrong?", was my first thought.

i follow the doc from onlamp.com:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=1

i did have one giant deviation tho, and im wondering if it really makes a 
difference.  the article depicts creating the gmirror immediately following 
initial operating system install, but i did my example on a fully
functioning 
system.  other than that, i have 2 identical disks, and things seem to be 
working:

castor# gmirror status
      Name    Status  Components
mirror/gm0  DEGRADED  ad0
                      ad1 (33%)

im sure im seeing less than the best performance since im using but a single

ide channel, but other than that, is it feasible to insert an identical
disk, 
and setup the gmirror at anytime a freebsd'er likes?

also, the doc didnt mention it, but if you do use to differing disk sizes, 
obviously the smaller one should be ad0?  and other than that, is there any 
difference in setting up gmirror if the second disk is larger?

cheers,
jonathan


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Message: 26
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:24:14 -0800
From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: more than 7 partitions on a SCSI-drive
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <45B58DEE.4060607 at u.washington.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

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Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:10:15PM +0100, Christian Baer wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:42:36 -0600 Doug Poland wrote:
>>
>>> # Device        Mountpoint      FStype  Options            Dump    Pass#
>>> /dev/da0s1b     none            swap    sw                 0       0
>>> /dev/da0s1a     /               ufs     rw                 1       1
>>        ^^^^^^
>>
>> Where did you get to create slices. When I installed this system (Sun
>> U60) sysinstall didn't offer the possibility of creating a slice at all.
>> The only devices of this sort that I can create are da0x and da1x - no
's'!
>>
>> Is this due to the SPARC64 plattform or did I miss something?
> 
> It is almost certainly due to your platform. Slices (aka partitions in
> MS-DOS) are pretty much specific to the IBM PC (and derivatives thereof.)

The first step covered the partitions in sysintall, the second step the
slices.

Maybe you did everything beforehand in fdisk before going to the
"graphical" version of disklabel?

- -Garrett
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Message: 27
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:42:15 -0800
From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <45B59227.3010204 at u.washington.edu>
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ajm wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:27:10AM +0100, Tore Lund wrote:
>> Andrew Gould wrote:
>>> [snip]
> 
> this is from a previous message in the thread:
>> attempt:  mount -tmsdos -orw /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310
> 
> try as root or su to root
> 
> # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310

Interestingly enough I tried out these steps as root to see if I could
resimulate this with my camera and I ended up with the same results.
Only by trying to mount the camera as root could I succeed.

Does anyone have a FAT16/FAT32 drive properly mounting under FreeBSD as
a non-root user? If so, did you modify /dev, /etc/devfs.conf, or are you
using amd(8)?

- -Garrett
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Message: 28
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:16:26 +0100
From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter at degoeje.nl>
Subject: Re: php5-session port seems borked
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Cc: Jeff MacDonald <bignose at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <200701230616.26196.pieter at degoeje.nl>
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On Tuesday 23 January 2007 04:14, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> Well here's the thing, I was able to reproduce it on 2 separate
> machines both with full up to date ports, even after a make clean. And
> i got the same error whether i used portupgrade or just a plain make
> file...
>
> here is a script, just after a make clean
>
> http://preview2.interchange.ca/script.txt
>
> So I'm still at a loss.
Hmm, perhaps your environment is corrupting the build. Try "env -i make".

- Pieter


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Message: 29
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:36:31 -0500
From: Jason Morgan <jwm-freebsd-questions at sentinelchicken.net>
Subject: Re: gmirror setup
To: Jonathan Horne <freebsd at dfwlp.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20070123053631.GD5367 at sentinelchicken.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:11:05PM -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote:
> i just set up my first gmirror raid1, and... it was really simple.  too 
> simple.  "ok... what did i skip or do wrong?", was my first thought.

I thought the exact same thing. My previous experience was with vinum
and, while it was great 4 years ago (props to grog), the simplicity of
geom for simple setups was greatly needed.

> i follow the doc from onlamp.com:
> 
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=1
> 
> i did have one giant deviation tho, and im wondering if it really makes a 
> difference.  the article depicts creating the gmirror immediately
following 
> initial operating system install, but i did my example on a fully
functioning 
> system.  other than that, i have 2 identical disks, and things seem to be 
> working:
> 
> castor# gmirror status
>       Name    Status  Components
> mirror/gm0  DEGRADED  ad0
>                       ad1 (33%)
>
> im sure im seeing less than the best performance since im using but a
single 
> ide channel, but other than that, is it feasible to insert an identical
disk, 
> and setup the gmirror at anytime a freebsd'er likes?

Whether or not this is the *right* way to do it or not, I am not sure,
but I can tell you that this is basically what I did on two servers
about 6 months ago and I've had no problems. I even had a drive
failure. When I plugged the new one in, it rebuilt correctly and has
been running well since.

> also, the doc didnt mention it, but if you do use to differing disk sizes,

> obviously the smaller one should be ad0?  and other than that, is there
any 
> difference in setting up gmirror if the second disk is larger?

Yes, make the first disk the smaller one. I don't believe there is a
difference in setup, but the extra space on the second drive (say,
ad2) will be wasted.

Cheers,

Jason


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Message: 30
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:29:24 +0700 (ICT)
From: Olivier Nicole <on at cs.ait.ac.th>
Subject: Mirroring FreeBSD
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <200701230629.l0N6TOKa037949 at banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>

Hi,

We are considering to set-up a mirror for FreeBSD in Thailand, how
much disk space should we target for a full irror?

Best regards,

Olivier


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Message: 31
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:30:48 -0600
From: ajm <ajm91qw at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20070123063048.GA728 at powerfull.bsd>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:42:15PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
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> ajm wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:27:10AM +0100, Tore Lund wrote:
> >> Andrew Gould wrote:
> >>> [snip]
> > 
> > this is from a previous message in the thread:
> >> attempt:  mount -tmsdos -orw /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310
> > 
> > try as root or su to root
> > 
> > # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310
> 
> Interestingly enough I tried out these steps as root to see if I could
> resimulate this with my camera and I ended up with the same results.
> Only by trying to mount the camera as root could I succeed.
> 
> Does anyone have a FAT16/FAT32 drive properly mounting under FreeBSD as
> a non-root user? If so, did you modify /dev, /etc/devfs.conf, or are you
> using amd(8)?
> 
> - -Garrett
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Take a look at   sudoers(5)   and   visudo(8)

I use sudo to mount my mass storage compliant devices with the 
following command as regular user:

for my mp3 player
[ajm at bsd]$ sudo mount_msdosfs /dev/da?s1 /usr/home/ajm/mnt/mp3player

for my camera
[ajm at bsd]$ sudo mount_msdosfs /dev/da?s1 /usr/home/ajm/mnt/kodak

for a memory card reader
[ajm at bsd]$ sudo mount_msdosfs /dev/da?s1 /usr/home/ajm/mnt/card_reader

Just make sure you change the  ?  to an actual device number.
You do need to create the /mnt directories in your own home directory 
so that you can read and write to those devices as a regular user.

Also use sudo to un mount the device:

[ajm at bsd]$ sudo umount_msdosfs /dev/da?s1

NOTE: I did not change anything in the /etc/devfs.conf or am I using 
amd(8).

-- 
Alexander
FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE i386


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Message: 32
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:14:51 +0100
From: "Philippe Lang" <philippe.lang at attiksystem.ch>
Subject: RE: PCIe Core2 Duo Motherboard?
To: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras at fer.hr>, <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Message-ID:
	<6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F4218CD41 at poweredge.attiksystem.ch>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="US-ASCII"

owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote:
> Philippe Lang wrote:
>> owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote:
>> 
>>>> 2) Can anyone suggest a well supported board with gigabit lan,
>>>> onboard video, and PCIe expansion, that accepts Core2 Duo CPUs?
>>> If you're willing to pay for it, server boards will suit you better.
>>> For example something like this:
>>> 
>>
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBE.cf
>> m 
>> 
>> This board ships with a 82563EB network controller, which is AFAIK
>> not supported under FreeBSD yet. I haven't tested it, so maybe I'm
>> wrong? 
>> 
>> Latest intel drivers vresion 6.2.9 says:...
> 
> I can't reliably explain it. Maybe I've got an OEM version with some
> other NIC or someone stuck an additional NIC in it before it got to
> me. Or maybe the documentation or the driver are wrong :) 

Hum, that means LAN works on a SuperMicro X7DBE motherboard? That's
really good news! I was hesitating buying one, because of the supposed
lack of 82563EB support, but I see I'm wrong. Can anyone explain how
this chip could be supported, even if not mentioned in the driver itself
and in the documentation?

Ivan, do you have the opportunity to open your server, and check what
LAN chip there is inside?

Thanks, bye

Philippe Lang


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Message: 33
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:16:54 -0800
From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <45B5B666.5030801 at u.washington.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

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ajm wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:42:15PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> ajm wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:27:10AM +0100, Tore Lund wrote:
>>>>> Andrew Gould wrote:
>>>>>> [snip]
>>>> this is from a previous message in the thread:
>>>>> attempt:  mount -tmsdos -orw /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310
>>>> try as root or su to root
>>>>
>>>> # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310
> Interestingly enough I tried out these steps as root to see if I could
> resimulate this with my camera and I ended up with the same results.
> Only by trying to mount the camera as root could I succeed.
> 
> Does anyone have a FAT16/FAT32 drive properly mounting under FreeBSD as
> a non-root user? If so, did you modify /dev, /etc/devfs.conf, or are you
> using amd(8)?
> 
> -Garrett

> Take a look at   sudoers(5)   and   visudo(8)

> I use sudo to mount my mass storage compliant devices with the 
> following command as regular user:

> for my mp3 player
> [ajm at bsd]$ sudo mount_msdosfs /dev/da?s1 /usr/home/ajm/mnt/mp3player

> for my camera
> [ajm at bsd]$ sudo mount_msdosfs /dev/da?s1 /usr/home/ajm/mnt/kodak

> for a memory card reader
> [ajm at bsd]$ sudo mount_msdosfs /dev/da?s1 /usr/home/ajm/mnt/card_reader

> Just make sure you change the  ?  to an actual device number.
> You do need to create the /mnt directories in your own home directory 
> so that you can read and write to those devices as a regular user.

> Also use sudo to un mount the device:

> [ajm at bsd]$ sudo umount_msdosfs /dev/da?s1

> NOTE: I did not change anything in the /etc/devfs.conf or am I using 
> amd(8).

That's not an absolute solution though, because it should work as a
regular user (maybe with a bit of fenaggling). Besides, installing sudo
is a security risk anyhow..
- -Garrett
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