Re: howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR

2003-12-15 Thread paul van den bergen
Yes, I am familiar with that upgrade path... Part of my motivation was ... well, lazyness :-) using someone elses worked out example, part a desire to blow away a rather mixed and heavily tweeked system (read I've been experimenting on it for so long I'm not sure what I've done anymore)... and

RE: howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR

2003-12-15 Thread Minnesota Slinky
There's actually a very simple process to use to upgrade, providing you have a broadband connection: 1) cvsup your sources to the newer sources. For more information read about cvsup or checkout the handbook! 2) once you have new sources, cd to /usr/src and type make world; this could take an hou

Re: howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR

2003-12-15 Thread paul van den bergen
After all that angst, I couldn't get it to work anyway - on reboot the system reverted to a 4.8 kernel... Not sure why, but gave up at this point... On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:25 pm, paul van den bergen wrote: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:17 pm, paul van den bergen wrote: > > Hi... > > snip... > > I stu

Re: general load balancing issues

2003-12-15 Thread Adam C. Migus
On Monday 15 December 2003 08:02 am, Clement Laforet wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:46:52 +0100 > Bogdan TARU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi ! > > > Right now I am considering a setup with one common NFS repository > > for the configuration files, Apache binaries, Web content and temp > > dire

Re: PAM and passwd

2003-12-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Adil Katchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This seems to indicate that the local users' info is loaded at PAM startup. > Is this true? It depends on the module. Most PAM modules use getpwnam() to look up the user, and will fail if it does not exist; some modules don't (for instance, pam_ldap looks

PAM and passwd

2003-12-15 Thread Adil Katchi
I was just wondering if anyone knew about the details of loading PAM. My problem is that I need to create a local user account while I am authenticating using a PAM module. That is, using some remote authentication mechanism, if it authenticates a user, I want to create that user locally on the B

atapicam and residual byte counts

2003-12-15 Thread Dan Strick
While hacking on an ATAPI CD-drive via atapicam, I noticed that the returned data transfer counts for all data input operations (e.g. mode sense) were too high. In fact, they were all equal to the input buffer sizes. A little hacking revealed that the residual byte counts in the CAM CCB for scsi

RE: Hyperthreading crashes

2003-12-15 Thread John Baldwin
On 13-Dec-2003 Mikulas Patocka wrote: > Hi > > I use FreeBSD-4.9-RC1 on a machine with hyperthreading (it seems that > hyperthreading support was ripped out of final 4.9 release --- why?) It wasn't ripped out. It is now enabled by default. Check /usr/src/UPDATING and the release notes. > I ge

Re: general load balancing issues

2003-12-15 Thread Tim Kientzle
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:46:52PM +0100, Bogdan TARU wrote: I am wondering, though, if I will be able ... to load-balance the domains involving sessions: will the sessions be lost when connsecutive hits go to different webservers, or not? It depends on

Re: general load balancing issues

2003-12-15 Thread Taavi Talvik
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Robert Watson wrote: > When setting up load balancing with state, one of the hardest things is > making sure the solution isn't slower than the original, and the details > of the local installation are often relevant. If there are frequent state > queries, going to a backend

Re: general load balancing issues

2003-12-15 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:46:52PM +0100, Bogdan TARU wrote: > > Right now I am considering a setup with one common NFS repository for > > the configuration files, Apache binaries, Web content and temp > > directory for PHP, NFS resource which will

Re: REPOST - Installation Bug - All available versions hang on install

2003-12-15 Thread David Raistrick
> Pro 10/100 PCI network adaptor. What makes this system unusual is that it > is “legacy free” which means it has none of the traditional I/O ports (no > serial, parallel, PS/2 or even floppy interface). All I/O is via one of the and thereby it doesn't have a keyboard controller at all. Th

Re: general load balancing issues

2003-12-15 Thread Clement Laforet
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:46:52 +0100 Bogdan TARU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi ! > Right now I am considering a setup with one common NFS repository for > the configuration files, Apache binaries, Web content and temp > directory for PHP, NFS resource which will be mounted on all the > 'front'

Re: general load balancing issues

2003-12-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:46:52PM +0100, Bogdan TARU wrote: > Right now I am considering a setup with one common NFS repository for > the configuration files, Apache binaries, Web content and temp > directory for PHP, NFS resource which will be mounted on all the > 'front' webservers. I am won

general load balancing issues

2003-12-15 Thread Bogdan TARU
Dear hackers, Up until now, I had a setup with 4-5 webservers, one 'main' server on which all the changes to the websites were done, and the rest which were rsync-ing the web repository to the local drives. The content is either static or dynamic (PHP). Of course, I was load balancin