Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2))

1999-07-16 Thread David Scheidt
ndom processes. The downside is, I have seen 4GB boxes, with plenty of swap, run out with less than a gig of memory actually in use. Oh, and if you swap to a filesystem, you can fill it up, without actually using any of the space. I don't know which behaviors is more bogus. David Sc

Re: softupdates on root partition, no floppy

1999-07-19 Thread David Scheidt
a writes are done synchronously. Data is still done asynchronously. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread David Scheidt
ugh. It's always worth remembering that. Does any have numbers about how much slower the new grep is? I have been using the port (version 3) for my interactive grepping, and havedn't noticed a speed difference. I have been using it on zippy machines though, where 30% hit wouldn&#x

Re: Hey kernel hackers, this is worth a read.

1999-07-30 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > http://features.linuxtoday.com/stories/8191.html > > > > A story on upcoming plans for the Linux 2.4 kernel. Since they're > > going after a lot of the same performance goals we are, it's worth a > > r

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-02 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Brian Somers wrote: > Yes, but do it the other way 'round - strtol first, if it's not all > numeric, getservbyname(). Can't you have all numeric service names? > David scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "un

Re: Building a new kernel

1999-08-04 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > I have a freebsd-stable system. I can't build a kernel for > freebsd-current on that system unless I upgrade my compiler to egcs. > Will this cause problems for our upgrade proceedure? > > gcc 2.7.2.3 doesn't like i386/include/atomic.h. It complains a

Re: Building a new kernel

1999-08-04 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message > David > Scheidt writes: > : I upgraded a -STABLE system to -CURRENT using source a month or two > : ago. The first step is to build the new toolchain, so you shouldn't > : ever be compiling a new kernel with an old

Re: s...@home bug?

1999-08-12 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: > I've been attempting to run s...@home on -current. Has anyone else > found that both setiathome-1.1.i386-unknown-freebsd4.0 and > setiathome-1.2.i386-unknown-freebsd3.2 fail with the following > message after downloading a work unit: > > Scanning data f

Re: Q: panic: pipeinit: cannot allocate pipe -- out of kvm -- code = 3

1999-08-12 Thread David Scheidt
of nfs improvements, as well as assorted other changes. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-14 Thread David Scheidt
y sure that under the terms of the > GPL > the end-user may opt to use a later version at their discretion. Now, if one > were > to buy out the FSF... That is something that always bothered me. I have taken it as the "When we realize that we won't take over the world, w

Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system

1999-08-14 Thread David Scheidt
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Nick Sayer wrote: > dannyman wrote: > > > > Uhmmm, what if we don't have a floppy drive? > > Do the old SunOS trick: > > 1. Boot single user. > > 2. dd the boot floppy image to your swap partition. To really do the ScumOS trick, you should just assume that the swap parti

Re: lpd security check for changed-file vs NFS

1999-08-18 Thread David Scheidt
istration would kill me. I would prefer to avoid that. > > (note that the check isn't completely removed, it's "only" nullified > for NFS-mounted files. We use AFS for most things here, so the vast Couldn't you turn it off only for NFS mounted files? David sche

Re: lpd security check for changed-file vs NFS

1999-08-18 Thread David Scheidt
meant was use the fstat test for local files. For NFS mounted files, don't use the test, since it doesn't work, and don't allow the the -s option. (Better would be to accept, and ignore the -s, perhaps producing a warning?) David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord..

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Cillian Sharkey wrote: > Keeping records would be handy alright..but cutting out all > the "everything is ok" msgs would reduce reading time..having > an option for full report OR just the important results should satisfy > everyone.. What I do run things through a filter tha

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-08-27 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Doug wrote: > > Ok, revised diff attached. I made the case indentation change and some > of > sheldon's suggestions are incorporated. I also neglected to mention > previously that I tuned up a few of the comments in the file, as well as > error output. I also was more

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

1999-08-27 Thread David Scheidt
udes not only 10.x stuff, but also 9.x and 8.x stuff. We have stuff that runs on 11 that was originally compiled for 8.0. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-29 Thread David Scheidt
t going to make *everyone* jump ship for an expensive, slow chip, with unproven compilers. Yeah! David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-31 Thread David Scheidt
t-lurkers want to help out? Assuming I can find my 2.2.6 CDs, I will do this tonight. You don't even need to send me the patch. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-31 Thread David Scheidt
e fix appears to work. My 2.2.6 to RELENG_3 build hasn't finished yet, but it makes it past the point where it fails due to machine_arch be ing undefined. Do I need to check if 2.2.6 to -CURRENT works? David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: nobody knows the answer?

1999-09-01 Thread David Scheidt
peed. Most of the tunefs(8) tunables are not something that need to tuned by the user. If you are tuning them, you should have a full understand of what the tunables do, and what the side effects of fiddling with them are. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.or

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread David Scheidt
y winmodems > very cheap, since everyone is making them now. You can't buy non-winmodem's You can buy winmodems cheap because they are cheap crap. they force the host system to do everything useful. Network quake players will keep the real modem on a PCI card going for a while ye

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread David Scheidt
access to the system. Heavily armed guards would help, but I don't expect to see them as part of the base distribution anytime soon. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: The usage of MNT_RELOAD

1999-09-08 Thread David Scheidt
The root filesystem is mounted when it is fscked, as it is difficult to run fsck, which lives on the root filesystem, without mounting the root filesystem. You shouldn't run fsck on a mounted filesystem, except for this. The results are generally not fun. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe:

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > How is it that BIOS settings can affect this? Do they fiddle > with some battery-backed switch on the motherboard? The ATX power supply has a lead or two that are always powered. This allows the machine do softpower on. It also means that the bios

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread David Scheidt
up a friend's computer to do this, over an ssh-forwarded local port, even. It all more less "Just worked". On a win98 box, even. shudder. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 10-Sep-99 Florent Parent wrote: > > I've been trying different MUAs that would allow me to read my mail > > under FreeBSD and NT (dual boot laptop) while sharing the same mail > > folders (shared DOS partition). So far, only VM/Xemacs allowed

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199909151928.vaa26...@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Oliver > Fromme writes: > : It only works on two's-complement machines, though, but I'm not > : aware of any FreeBSD port to an architecture that doesn't use > : two's-complement numbers...

Re: cache-friendly scheduling for SMP

1999-09-16 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Keith Stevenson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:25:52PM +, greg wrote: > > I'm trying to run 1-2 processes with very large memory footprints on my P2 > > SMP > > machine. I'm finding that the process switches cpu's quite often, which > > obviously isn't good for th

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread David Scheidt
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: : :It seems there's a need, and the possibility. Would somebody like to :suggest a syntax? : ifconfig interface ether ab:cd:ef:fe:dc:ab [options] makes sense to me. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "u

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread David Scheidt
So he has two wires, each with 10Mbs. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread David Scheidt
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: : :If you have two different nets, why do you need the same Ethernet :address? : Transparent redundancy. With them both up on the same MAC address, if one fails, you have no loss of connection, though you may drop some packets, of course. Most of the tim

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread David Scheidt
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: :OK, now maybe I'm missing something here. But an Ethernet address is :used to identify a board. Arp binds it to an IP address. An IP :address is bound to a network. So if you're on a different network, :you get a different IP address. Why do you need th

Re: What does VOP_WHITEOUT() do?:

1999-05-20 Thread David Scheidt
996. :ISBN 0-201-54979-4 Not exactly "new". David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: File system gets too fragmented ???

1999-05-26 Thread David Scheidt
I don't know what you are doing, but you might consider a real database. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: File system gets too fragmented ???

1999-05-27 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Don Lewis wrote: > On May 26, 6:59pm, Graeme Tait wrote: > } The filesystem is built with 4096 byte blocks, 512 byte fragments, and > } 2048 bytes/inode, and is mounted 'async noatime'. > > If a file shrinks by one fragment, it'll most likely leave a one > fragment gap in th

Re: Kernel config script

1999-05-30 Thread David Scheidt
get one? That FreeBSD should only be for talented ubergeeks? "The power to serve" doesn't do anyone any good if they can't figure out how to apply it. David Scheidt > Ideally, no interaction at all will be required. Just give me knobs to turn everything off. To Unsubs

Re: Kernel config script

1999-05-30 Thread David Scheidt
yes, that *is* an offer. Who do I talk to?) Someone used to have a .sig that summed the difference between Linux and *BSD pretty nicely: "Linux is for people that hate Microsoft. FreeBSD is for people who love Unix." David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org

Re: a two-level port system? (fwd)

1999-05-31 Thread David Scheidt
(CCs snipped) On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote: > (3) Hit jkh with a baseball bat until he stops refusing to use soft > updates on the boot floppy during install (due to "making a point") What exactly is the point? We clearly wouldn't be distributing a kernel withoutthe whole sources,

Re: Kernel config script:

1999-06-01 Thread David Scheidt
e every six months? One of the machines I run -CURRENT on is a 4 year-old Pentium. Other than build times being longer than I would like, I don't have noticable performance issues. The same machine is essentially unable to run NT, and do work at the same time. David Scheidt {1} Anyone ne

Re: Partitioning a freebsd partition on the fly

1999-06-01 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Evan Tsoukalas wrote: > My question is, can I shrink my /usr partition down without losing what is on > it? It is a 3.8 gig partition that only has 900 meg or so on it. I would > like to trim about a gigabyte off of it so that I can install Windoze. Is > this going > to b

Re: P5 vs Celeron vs PII

1999-06-10 Thread David Scheidt
ame clock. The vast majority of my desktop computing isn't compute bound, though. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

softupdates problem?

1999-06-11 Thread David Scheidt
12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 giving up Jun 11 21:37:53 tumbolia /kernel: Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key o n the console to abort David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: softupdates problem?

1999-06-13 Thread David Scheidt
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 12:13:43AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > > I had a 3.2 stable (from 30 May 1999)machine panic tonight, trying > > to load the oss driver, which is not too shocking. What was shocking > > was the damage done t

re: david cross's NFS panic fix

1999-06-14 Thread David Scheidt
Since he has tracked it down, it needs to be quashed, right? (note, CC's trimmed, subject changed, and redirected back into -hackers, which this has wondered out of.) David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: symlink question

1999-06-14 Thread David Scheidt
;t a good idea. I can think of serveral uses that would make my life easier. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: how do I install driver examples?

1999-06-15 Thread David Scheidt
cdrom2. # cd /; (cd /cdrom; tar cvf - usr/share/examples/drivers ) | tar xvf - should work. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 & 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Travis Cole wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:30:05PM -0400, Jamie Howard wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > I just reproduced this on a system running 4.0-CURRENT from about > Sun Jun 27 01:12:42 PDT > > I got a ton of these errors in dmesg and /

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 & 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Scheidt wrote: > I can do this from -CURRENT from whenever CTM broke. I have a panic, and a > dump which i havne't had time to look at. The panic string is > panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs > > David > And the dump showsnothing: rall

Re: Xfree86 v 3.3.4

1999-07-01 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Leif Neland wrote: > Does anyone have any inside information on subj? > The website still claims: "We are planning to release 3.3.4 some time in > June 1999" > > I'm longing to get support for my S3 Trio3D. Heh. It now says early july. I have a Voodoo Banshee I want to use.

Re: Xfree86 v 3.3.4

1999-07-01 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Mark J. Taylor wrote: > > There is a Linux X server for the Voodoo Banshee, over at: > http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ > > You might have some luck running it under the Linux emulator. > I've never tried it, as I don't have a Banshee. Thanks! This appears to work

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-04 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 4 July 1999 at 15:36:21 -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > It also clears up the misconception that being a member of -core requires > > a beard. > > > > A constant 5 o'clock shadow, maybe, but not a beard. > > And what's wrong with a beard? > >

Re: Easy way to compute memory stats? (procfs?)

2001-03-19 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Is there an easy way (from script ideally) to get the following :stats: : :free physical mem (avail ram) This is going to be quite small on any busy machine, or machine that has a reasonable uptime. The VM system will cache things unless ther

Re: Easy way to compute memory stats? (procfs?)

2001-03-20 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :> :Is there an easy way (from script ideally) to get the following :> :stats: :> : :> :free physical mem (avail ram) :> :> has a reasonable uptime. The VM system will cache things unless :> there's a demand for memory. vm.stats.vm.v_free_count

Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server

2001-03-20 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Michael C . Wu wrote: : :This box is rather a FreeBSD advocacate itself, as you will see why. Indeed. : :It runs an self-wrote PERL SMTP daemon. (Sendmail and Postfix croaks) How do sendmail and postfix croak? How much mail are you transporting? If you really can't use

Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server

2001-03-20 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Michael C . Wu wrote: : :SWAP is never touched. :) Your vmstat output shows page out activity. I can't tell if it's to swap or to file backed memory, but it's happening. You know this isn't happening when your box blows up? : :last pid: 23395; load averages: 2.08, 2.92

Re: Fw: Debugging kernel crashes

2001-03-21 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Gurpratap Virdi wrote: :Hi, : : :I have the following questions related to the above instructions though. :I understand we can use dumpon(8) to tell the kernel to dump the core file :to a swap partition. If our system is only configured with one swap :partition, can we still

Re: Locking and Mail spool Files

2001-03-25 Thread David Scheidt
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Marc W wrote: : :Excellent, I will look for that. However, in the meantime, on :older systems (3.x, 4.x, etc ...), is the below assertion correct? : You don't want to put mail spools on NFS filesystems. If you must, use the maildir format, ala qmail. David Sc

Re: pmap bomb on 4.0-STABLE

2001-04-05 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Joseph Gleason wrote: :A friend of mine swears by this memory testing utility: : :http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/ : :Apparently it tries a bunch of diffrent test patters that are likely to find :memory problems that a simple test wouldn't find. It is cool beca

Re: Anyone managed to get microns ClientPro's X going

2001-04-15 Thread David Scheidt
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: :* Alwyn Goodloe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010415 19:54] wrote: :> :> We have several systems like our Micron ClientPros running FreeBSD. :> :> These machines have the Intel 82810E chip in it and what seems forever :> there has only been XFree86 drive

Re: fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: :> I have a bunch of old floppy disks with some text files I'd like to :> recover. Many of them have errors and are unreadable past a certain point :> in the disk. Others I can't read from at all. :> :> The ones I can't read, period, are all 1.44MB-size

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-22 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Shannon Hendrix wrote: : :Point taken, but the "yank power, see who survives" test is illogical :and dangerous thinking. Depends on the enviornment. I've had lots of machines just lose power. People will pull power cords out, the back-up generators won't start before the ba

Re: brainstorm: "intermediate" disk caching

2001-05-28 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 28 May 2001, E.B. Dreger wrote: : :Of course, with 36 GB drives readily available, maybe I shouldn't worry :until I have a database larger than 72 GB. ;-) If you're really interested in database performance, remember "Spindles is good." Spreading your IO load over as many seperate disks

Re: "find" and "quota" find different amounts of files

2001-05-29 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Mark Stosberg wrote: : :Hello! I'm running FreeBSD 4.3 and have encountered a mystery of some :missing files. Using "find" and "quota" to find the same files, I get :different results. For example: : : :root@nollie vector1> find /usr -user evan -print | wc -l :

Re: nfs within jail

2004-12-16 Thread David Scheidt
Matt wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, there's nfsshell, an FTP-like client. just google for nfsshell. Won't help in case of NFS4, I guess :-( Stefan Thanks. I'd like to try the nfsshell, but I can't get it to build. It doesn't appear to be a port either. I'm an amateur C coder at best.

Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA)

2005-01-19 Thread David Scheidt
yoke an wrote: I'm running on SATA mode. Supposingly I will need to configure my Driver on "The Kernel Device Configuration Visual Interface". Not sure the setting for SATA mode and whether 4.8 is supported? SATA is not supported on 4.x. Unless you write support, it's going to stay that w

Re: Two keyboards

2005-01-21 Thread David Scheidt
Julian Elischer wrote: Bram Van Steenlandt wrote: Hi For a pos system I am working on I need support for two keyboards (actually one keyboard(ps/2) and one scanner(usb)). you can already do this.. what makes you call the scanner a keyboard? Proabably, because it acts like one? I don't know abo

/etc/hosts lines starting with white space are ignored

2005-02-01 Thread David Scheidt
If a line in /etc/hosts starts with a space or tab, it's not read. I'm not sure that's really a desirable behavior. I'm quite sure it's not the vehavior I expected. It looks like it's the usage of strpbrk() in the gethostent() function of src/lib/libc/net/gethostbyht.c. It wouldn't be hard t

Re: 5.4-STABLE corrupting fs on shutdown -p now?

2005-05-01 Thread David Scheidt
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 03:38:49AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: Why would FS's be being corrupted by "shutdown -p now" where as "reboot" doesnt seem to? Maybe the machine is being powered down before your disks have finished writing their data to disk. My ThinkPad has done

Re: IBM Active Protection System Approach

2005-08-23 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:06:18AM +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote: > > Early reports from Mac enthusiast sites (and I believe similar > reports from IBM users) indicate that the hysteresis is so small that > gently pounding the table the notebook is sitting on will make the > drive park the head

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread David Scheidt
I start to use it again, and I often don't notice, because I have to move my hand from the mouse back to hte keyboard. I'm probably not a typical user, of course. David scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: NFS client locks.

2000-06-20 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote: :Hi, : :I have a Linux box as an NFS server and a FreeBSD box which acts as an :NFS client. If I explicitly shutdown the NFS services in the Linux box, :actions like 'df', 'ls /mnt' (/mnt is the mount point of the remote :directory), or even 'umoun

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-27 Thread David Scheidt
On 26 Jun 2000, Chris Shenton wrote: :I was considering this for a project I developed: web up/download of :lots of large files. I was using MySQL and some of the folks on that :list recommended not storing large files in the DB: even though the :disk consumption is the same, if it's in a DB you

Re: PC compatibility cards.

2000-08-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Paul Halliday wrote: :Hi. : :Kinda off topic, but maybe not. : :I just aquired a few pc compatibility cards. From what I can ascertain :they have an onboard p166 processor, 16m ram, 2 meg ati video, 256k :cache, etc. Anyway, after a little reading i figured out what th

Re: 4.1 Release....MIIBUS

2000-08-23 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Daryl Chance wrote: :Hi, : :I know that in 4.0 Release that miibus was required, though :not marked. I noticed that 4.1 Release miibus is still not :marked as (required), is it no longer required, or is it still :not marked? I ahven't tried compiling it with miibus commente

RE: 4.1 lockup at isa0: on reboot

2000-08-27 Thread David Scheidt
t might well be that you have something similiar going on. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-20 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Marc Tardif wrote: :> > I've been using FreeBSD over the last 6 years (since I switched from :> > NetBSD) to run a small ISP out of my basement. :> > :> > I've had about six disk crashes in as many years and still don't know how :> > to work reliably with them. :> :> "man v

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-20 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote: :I work since 1991 with computer hardware and know exact :that SCSI drives is about ten times less reliability than :IDE. Yes, I understand that SCSI was more ... extremal may be. :I am wery glad that now mostly no need in SCSI drives at all. :Just

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-20 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Sergey Babkin wrote: :Plus different manufacturers have different reliability - :if you use Seagate SCSI disks and someone else's IDE then you most :certainly will see a lot more SCSI disk failures. : :-SB, Seagate Hater : I've had almost a thousand Seagates in service for a

Re: Monitoring user activity

2000-09-22 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Mustafa N. Deeb wrote: :hi , : :I'm look for a way to monitor what happens on my servers :I need to know each command being executed? : :is there away to do that . System accounting should do most of what you want. See accton(8), sa(8), lastcomm(1) to start with. David

Re: dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: : :Well, you obviously need two keyboards and two mice. I can't think of :a case where that would be useful, but with x2x (in the Ports :collection) you can allow different people access to the same server. I'd think that a monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse

Re: etherchannel / bonding

2000-10-12 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote: :We will have the feature in our bandwidth manager product for FreeBSD :shortly, including fallover. Its really load balancing; bonding is a bad :term (no doubt coined by the linux camp). : It's telco usage from before there was a linux (and probably before t

Re: etherchannel / bonding

2000-10-12 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 12 Oct 1988, Dennis wrote: :At 09:01 AM 10/12/2000, David Scheidt wrote: :>On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote: :> :>:We will have the feature in our bandwidth manager product for FreeBSD :>:shortly, including fallover. Its really load balancing; bonding is a bad :>:term (

Re: 16 port 10/100 hubs/switches.

2000-10-31 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Stephen Hocking wrote: :I just went out & bought a D-Link 10/100 switch. There was another 16 port :10/100 switch on sale by netgear, for twice the price. Now I've established :that they're both switches (as opposed to hubs) and the three machines I :current have connected

Re: Time to close the list?

2000-11-03 Thread David Scheidt
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Keith Jones wrote: :On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:46:14PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: :> At 3:08 PM + 11/2/00, Terry Lambert wrote: :> >3. Automatically delete all MIME parts with: :> > :> >Content-Type: application/* :> > :> >Which are ever sent via the

Re: High-availability failover software available.

2000-11-06 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Andrew Sporner wrote: :Hi, : :Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Andrew Sporner and I have :authored :a H/A Failover system that happens to work with BSD. I would like to Very cool! :The current source is located at http://www.sporner.com/bsdclusters Your webpages

Re: changing a running process's credentials

2000-11-16 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, void wrote: :Does anyone remember the article in Phrack, issue 53 I think, about :speaking Forth to a Sun's boot-prom in order to write a '0' into the UID :member of one's shell's struct proc? Yes. It works a treat. Similar steps let you do the same thing with DDB or (pres

Re: general Darwin imports (was Re: Darwin cmd import?)

2004-06-05 Thread David Scheidt
On Jun 5, 2004, at 2:55 PM, Robert Watson wrote: On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Edwin Groothuis wrote: Now the question of course is: where can I find it? It is somewhere in a CVS repository (that would be nicest), or are it raw sourcefiles only? Edwin, now owning a Mac so not really familiar with things Th

Re: Sudden Reboots

2004-10-01 Thread David Scheidt
On Oct 1, 2004, at 7:23 PM, Jim Durham wrote: These are very rare except they seem to happen about once a day for a while and then stop... very strange.. and usually caused by hardware problems (e.g. faulty power supply, overheating CPU, bad RAM). Possible, but if so, the hardware fixed itsel

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-11 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Bill Moran wrote: :Wes Peters wrote: :> Just because you don't see it doesn't make it a bad idea. Network admins :> begged for years for a centralized IP address space management server; :> now that they've been given one (that works, and is FREE) people like you :> bitch ab

Re: Whitespace at end of line

2001-07-15 Thread David Scheidt
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Mike Silbersack wrote: : :On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: :> I see. Dima suggested in private email that I/we MFC such changes :> relatively fast in order to avoid that; of course this would be done :> only after md5 "approval" of the binaries. : :Whether you MF

Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review)

2001-07-19 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: :Max Khon wrote: :> :> hi, there! : :what is arcnet? : It's a token-based LAN protocol. It's used in some embedded applications, as its controllers are cheap, it's pretty low-overhead, and has deterministic behavior (you can calculate the worst case t

Re: not showing in ps

2001-07-24 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: :> how i may kill that 31341 port coz ps isnt showing it. : :Install lsof and try "lsof -i :31341". But, frankly, it looks like you :have been hacked. Sockstat will tell you enough, and it's in the base system. : -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bipedalism is o

Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda

2001-07-26 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, James Howard wrote: :On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Lars Kühl wrote: : :> Neither tar nor cpio is suitable for backup purposes. :> Use dump instead. : :A lot of people said this. Why? As near as I can tell, dump isn't that :great either. There is no way to exlude specif

Re: crash dump output

2001-08-01 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Eugene L. Vorokov wrote: :> > Maybe it's offtopic a bit, but can you please give exact instructions of how :> > to compile debug kernel ? My machine crashes sometimes too, I tried to compile :> > debug kernel, but it seemed not so easy and I gave up due to lack of time. Or :>

Re: Finding filesizes in C++ for files greater than 4gb

2001-08-01 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Joseph Gleason wrote: : :- Original Message - :From: "Alex Zepeda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :> On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:34:43PM -0400, Joseph Gleason wrote: :> :> > In FreeBSD, how can I determine the size of a file in C++ when the file :is :> > greater than 4gb? :> > :>

Re: if_strip for FreeBSD?

2001-08-14 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Devin Butterfield wrote: :Hi folks, : :I was thinking about porting netbsd's if_strip driver (the driver for the :metricom ricochet radios--allows you to use these radios as nodes in a WLAN). :Before I do this, I thought I should first check to see if anyone else had :already

Re: memory + apache

2001-08-29 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Dan wrote: : :i am seeing problems where apache is running into swap at times. :When all is said and done...i see alot of available memory from top :and alot still stuck in swap. Restarting apache at that point clears the :swap space right out and memory is used properly agai

Re: ALT- (Was: how to make 'for' understand two words as a singleargumen)

2001-10-03 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Greg Shenaut wrote: > Just out of curiosity, what would be an instance where you have > wanted a space in a filename and wouldn't have been satisfied with > 0xa0 instead of 0x20? All the times my file names have actual information in them? If I want to create a file with a

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 & 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Travis Cole wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:30:05PM -0400, Jamie Howard wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > I just reproduced this on a system running 4.0-CURRENT from about > Sun Jun 27 01:12:42 PDT > > I got a ton of these errors in dmesg and

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 & 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Scheidt wrote: > I can do this from -CURRENT from whenever CTM broke. I have a panic, and a > dump which i havne't had time to look at. The panic string is > panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs > > David > And the dump showsnothing: rall

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