Blargh tell me about it Wow... been so busy; time has flown. I've had my VPS here for 8 months now. I just wanted to pop in and say thanks to up_the_irons & Co. for the great service. baklava: I've only had mine for a few weeks now, but glad to hear it has been long-term reliable. :) Nice baklava: i get hungry every time i see your nick baklava: thanks for the kind words; feedback always appreciated cedwards: yea, big thumbs up from me :) up_the_irons: haha, no problem. thank you :) up_the_irons: Turns me on to see your nick \o uhh cedwards :D I was kind of joking Beer <3 Firemacs is just plain awesmoe awesome man, that guy hit almost every channel I'm in ..either that or freenode is advertising now ;) lol :) Yay! Using LUKS to encrypt my external hard drive now :D uh-huh How can I force a certain user:group and permissions to files in a mount point+ there's no classic way to do that so it'd have to be a relatively modern invention since classically, only root could mount well, yeah I never said no one else could mount :) some one else* someone else* gah hmm im trying to figure why my vps is locked up just vnc'd in and its frozen last thing in the console is: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=262559 huh 'hmm' even on a normal box that'd be a failed disk/disk controller not sure how that equates to a VPS though :/ looks liek ill have to do a hard reboot i suspect you'll continue to have issues from the message is that freebsd? yes this is the first time i've had a hard lockup but i've seen that message before i'm guessing there's nothing particularly special about your kernel/world? well, it just has pf thats the only thing special about it shouldn't cause that if i were you i'd fire a support ticket over just to get things checked out, that seems pretty odd I get those messages when the host box is a bit too overloaded had to do hard shutdown or so says up_the_irons maybe 1-2 every third day i must be lucky, nothing like that in my logs :D