Remote upgrade of 4.X-5.3-Stable

2005-02-23 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, I've been experimenting with upgrading 4.X to 5.3-STABLE. The challenge I've been given is that the box to be upgraded is physically inaccessible and so there's no console access. All I have to work with is ssh and scp. In our lab I built a box to 5.3-STABLE. I then used the /usr/obj d

Hyperthreading question

2004-06-09 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hello, I'm in charge of upgrading a number of boxes from 4.8-RELEASE from 4.10-RELEASE. My problem is this section of notes from the 4.9-RELEASE errata: (28 Oct 2003) Very late in the release cycle, a change was made to the HyperThreading (HTT) support on IntelĀ® processors. HTT support is now

Re: Problems with use of M_NOWWAIT in ATA

2003-12-05 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi, I'm wondering if this could possibly be related to a problem I was having with my 4.9-RELEASE box. Twice in two days it hung on me completely, and started spouting the following error messages: ad0 WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 -restting ad0: trying fallback to PIO mode ata0: resetting

Re: PUzzling sshd behaviour

2003-09-05 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Simon L. Nielsen wrote: Do you use Privilege Separation? That can give interesting results with DNS due to chroot into /var/empty... see the mailing lists archives. Argh. This frustrates me. I did some searching on various mailing lists before, and when they talked about switching into /var/emp

Re: PUzzling sshd behaviour

2003-09-05 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Ted Faber wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:04:04PM -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: That much I know. I was just wondering why the daemon is trying DNS lookup when the IP in question is listed in /etc/hosts. I thought listings in /etc/hosts would supercede the need for a DNS lookup. Of course

Re: PUzzling sshd behaviour

2003-09-05 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:32:52AM -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: Anyone else see this type of thing before? I did some research on the lists but all I ever saw was a problem with reading resolv.conf. That's not the case here, because it's definitely pick

PUzzling sshd behaviour

2003-09-05 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi, I recently took one of our machines off the main network and set up a crossover cable between it and my personal box. I was looking to scp some large files over and I didn't want to swamp the network. (I use scp from force of habit, even though ftp would probably be quicker in this case.)

Re: pkg_create broken?

2003-06-26 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Arrgh. Forget what I just wrote about a @dstdir option. My brain shortcircuited and I believed it actually existed. Cheers, DMK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: pkg_create broken?

2003-06-26 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Julian Elischer wrote: Alternatively, the man page hints that a 'srcdir' would stop a following 'cwd' from having effect in the create phase. Just wanted to mention that order is extremely important with package creation. If you have @cwd /foo/bar; @srcdir /bar/foo your files will be picked up f

Re: pkg_create broken by design?

2003-06-25 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, Just wanted to chime in that I've encountered the exact same thing, although it's a relatively recent thing... I think it happened when I ported to 4.5 from 4.2. The only solution I've found, pain in the neck that it is, is to create the destination directories on the source box. That