Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Freminlins
2009/10/30 Adam Vande More > Where's your config files, your errors logs, your stats? > I am not going to reply to you after this because you are blinkered. I'm not going to waste my time with you. I've given you more than enough to feed on, but you just can't smell the coffee. > Adam Vande

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Freminlins
2009/10/30 Neil Short > > This is comforting for many reasons: notably, that I'm not alone in this > experience. > Do you know something, it's not comforting. Not really. It just means you are another user for whom a program doesn't work properly. MF. __

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Freminlins
You are arrogant because you won't accept that people have problems with your beloved HAL, the Half Arsed Luser program. Some or many in the Linux crowd are planning to move away from it because it doesn't work properly. You don't accept that a 3k config file now needs 18MB of RAM. And doesn't wor

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Freminlins
2009/10/30 Adam Vande More > I was part of this and the x11 mailing list during the period in which most > made the switch to hal. I am fully aware of all the complaining which > occurred. There was a bug which made the issue difficult. I experienced > it, the workaround was available nearly i

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Freminlins
2009/10/30 Adam Vande More > > I am unable to replicate this. YMMV. But I did replicate it. I measured "before and after". Show us the output of top from your box with the hal processes, as I did for a start. > Nowhere have you demonstrated HAL is not working as it's meant to. This is > poi

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Freminlins
2009/10/30 Adam Vande More > > No my point was top is not accurate measure of HAL's memory usage. HAL has > shared library's just like many other applications. > Yep, I know all about that. But it is indicative. And indeed born out by the fact that when HAL is not running I get 18MB more memory

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Freminlins
I've read the responses and comments here, so don't think I'm ignoring anyone because I haven't responded directly. I rebuilt xorg-server without HAL. I killed hal stone dead and started up the new (i.e. old-skool) xorg. It all works fine. My mouse and keyboard work as specified in the xorg.conf

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-29 Thread Freminlins
2009/10/29 Paul Schmehl > Far be it from me to pile on when you're already so frustrated, but I run > into these sorts of problems myself from time to time. It's usually because > I didn't bother to read /usr/ports/UPDATING first, which in this case might > have warned you. > Yeah, thanks for

Effing HAL

2009-10-29 Thread Freminlins
For Christ's sake. I have an IBM X41 laptop, which was happily running FreeBSD 7.1. Having a little free time this evening I decided to update it to 7.2. The upgrade failed miserably so I had to install from scratch. But that's OK, because I had backed up the machine beforehand. The install went t

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-26 Thread Freminlins
2009/10/25 Matthew Seaman >% pkg_info -r linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32 >Information for linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32: > >Depends on: >Dependency: linux_base-f10-10_2 >Dependency: linux-f10-openssl-0.9.8g >Dependency: linux-f10-openldap-2.4.12_1 >Dependency: linux-f10

Re: Non-root user and accept() or listen()

2009-09-15 Thread Freminlins
2009/9/14 Chris Rees > > Isn't this a bit drastic? Listening sockets are opened by very many > types of processes, as well as remembering that sendmail, BIND, and > others don't actually run as root... I suppose it'd be possible, but > would it actually be useful? > Sure, those open listening s

Non-root user and accept() or listen()

2009-09-14 Thread Freminlins
Hi, I am not sure if this exists (but don't think so), so I am asking. Is there a sysctl type thing to disallow non-root users, or indeed any specified user or group, from running a program with listen() ? What I am looking at is improving network security, such that if a user account is comprom

Re: Opera 10.00 (native) & flash

2009-09-07 Thread Freminlins
2009/9/7 Jerry > I don't think that readily addresses the OP's question. I personally > have never gotten 'flash', or most other add-ons to work Opera. It is > one of the main reasons that I discourage others from using it. It > suffers even worse on a Windows machine. RoboForm does not work with

Re: 7.2 RELEASE ? Buggy as hell

2009-07-30 Thread Freminlins
2009/7/30 Mel Flynn > > > You should really be using PCBSD if you want a packaged desktop system, for > which the developers claim responsibility and for which much (if not all) > of > the configuration has been done for you. I disagree with that. It even says on the FreeBSD web site "FreeBSD® i

Re: 10gb network interface suggestions

2009-02-08 Thread Freminlins
2009/2/7 Wojciech Puchar > But also I am open to other brands. Especially If anyone has >> experience on that this matter would be very very helpful. I have seen >> that Sun has quad 10gbE adapters: >> http://www.sun.com/products/networking/ethernet/10gigethernet/index.xml >> I am not sure if Fre

Re: NFS, how to find out which files are used

2009-02-03 Thread Freminlins
2009/2/3 Dan Nelson > In the last episode (Feb 03), Sandra Kachelmann said: > > I have an NFS fileserver and would like to figure out which files are > > being read/written to. Is there something to find that out? Something > > similar to samba's 'smbstatus' command. > > The best you can do curre

Re: opera 9.63 installation and Qt version

2009-01-24 Thread Freminlins
Sorry, my bad. I misread you wanted the static version for 7. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: opera 9.63 installation and Qt version

2009-01-24 Thread Freminlins
2009/1/24 Paul B. Mahol > > Well for 9.63 there is only static one for FreeBSD 5. > After all this is not freebsd problem, ask opera where is > static version for FreeBSD 7 ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/unix/freebsd/963/en/intel/static/ ___ freebsd-que

Re: sysctl machdep.independent_wallclock

2009-01-14 Thread Freminlins
2009/1/14 Mister Olli > hi... > > what is the exact function of this sysctl setting? I'm guessing it's something to do with Xen, having seen a few references in Linux for xen.machdep.independent_wallclock. Have a look here: http://docs.xensource.com/XenServer/4.0.1/guest/ch04s06.html > > I co

Re: Sysinstall

2009-01-08 Thread Freminlins
2009/1/8 Jerry McAllister > > Beyond that, it is just the pretty pictures > that are missing. sysinstall also works over serial console. No use for pretty pictures there... > jerry MF. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: Kernel SMB performance

2008-11-21 Thread Freminlins
2008/11/21 Ansar Mohammed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think you are. We should care about a KERNEL module being bug free and > high performance. Agreed. We did a migration from a Windows email server a while back (about 40,000 mail boxes). As customers logged into the FreeBSD boxes, a process was kic

Re: 7.0 installation, and Xorg in particular

2007-11-29 Thread Freminlins
On 29/11/2007, Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So I do a pkg_add -r xorg. After about 70 packages I give up. I only > used to > > have about 65 packages in total on my old desktop, now I need more than > 70 > > and I haven't even got x windows up yet. So I go off and have a look an

7.0 installation, and Xorg in particular

2007-11-28 Thread Freminlins
I used to find FreeBSD easy. What has happened? I have a couple of machines I usually install new versions on, one is headless the other is a desktop machine (which was a 100% reliable 5.4 installation). I boot the headless machine using floppies, then install across the net. But something has happ

Re: How to use dump?

2007-08-29 Thread Freminlins
Hi, On 29/08/2007, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dump doesn't copy files to files, but files to raw device (partition, > tape, DVD) or to one/few big files. Dump is used to back up a file system and can write that data to a file. It doesn't have to write to a raw device. To dum

ipfw - limit other networks

2007-06-06 Thread Freminlins
Hi, I am trying to limit the number of connections from "foreign" networks to a server. I don't want to limit bandwidth, just the number of connections. Let's say I have a network 192.168.1.0/24. I want to allow 192.168.2.0/24 to have at most 50 connections. I want to allow 192.168.3.0/24 to have

Re: serious performance problems with 6.2 Release

2007-02-16 Thread Freminlins
Ted, On 16/02/07, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know where your getting the impression that I said this was a hardware bug. Umm, quoted from you above: "Defects that are specific to hardware that are not documented in the PR database generally do not get fixed. " If I

Re: serious performance problems with 6.2 Release

2007-02-15 Thread Freminlins
Ted, On 15/02/07, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We are all ears for your suggestions to help him fix this, Frem. I'm sure we all expect to see some kernel patches from you any day now. Please sort out your formatting. It looks horrible. You didn't offer any help whatsoever.

Re: serious performance problems with 6.2 Release

2007-02-15 Thread Freminlins
On 15/02/07, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: please use send-pr and include a dmesg output with debugging turned on, and exact model of motherboard and bios revision. questions isn't for bugs. I don't mean to be rude but you won't get the problem fixed by bitching about it on this

Re: mknod, devfs and FreeBSD

2007-01-31 Thread Freminlins
Ruben, On 31/01/07, Ruben de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not exactly. Solaris, especially Solaris 10 is relying more and more on pseudo filesystems. # uname -srpi SunOS 5.10 sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210 # mount | grep '^/devices' /devices on /devices read/write/setuid/devices/dev=47c on T

Re: mknod, devfs and FreeBSD

2007-01-30 Thread Freminlins
Kris, On 29/01/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To put it bluntly, it's something you're just going to have to get over :-) That's unhelpful. It is, in my opinion, a bad idea to have to mount up 1400 instances of devfs just to get a few device nodes. It just doesn't seem right.

Re: mknod, devfs and FreeBSD

2007-01-29 Thread Freminlins
Kris, On 28/01/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I not understand this no sentence :) Sorry, I didn't read what I typed. I meant to type "Was the effect of this considered at all?" What reasons, other than cosmetic, do you have for not wanting to do this? Well, I am sure you

Re: mknod, devfs and FreeBSD

2007-01-28 Thread Freminlins
Kris, On 26/01/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry, it's the only way. Was the considered at all? There's simply no way that I would mount up 1400 devfs. It is a backward step. Kris Frem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: mknod, devfs and FreeBSD

2007-01-26 Thread Freminlins
Kris, On 26/01/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Set up and mount numerous devfs file systems ;) That is exactly what I am trying to avoid. One of the servers has 1400 sites on it, and I really don't want 1400 devfs mounts. If the only way to do this now is by having so many devfs

mknod, devfs and FreeBSD

2007-01-26 Thread Freminlins
Hello, I have a web server still running FreeBSD 4.7 which I want to update to FreeBSD 6.2. There are quite a few sites on this machine, and each of them has a chroot containing their own /dev. In their /dev are things like null, zero, random and so on. I don't really want to set up or mount num

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Freminlins
On 11/01/07, Jeff Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The basic reason is that a ../.. walk invalidates cached metadata, and you end up with a pipe full of getattr's all of the time. Freebsd-fs has discussed this a bit, but no fixing is coming soon. We use linux to compile builds, we'd like to

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Freminlins
On 10/01/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A reason why you have less problems is I expect you using premium hardware such as scsi, currently I am lucky enough to not be using realtek lan cards although I am still having problems with intel nics. I wouldn't term SCSI as premium. Maybe it

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Freminlins
On 10/01/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I think freebsd needs. 1 - To fix stuff that works in linux but goes to crap in freebsd, one such example is NFS. I don't actually have a problem with FreeBSD and NFS. This is using about 20+ clients and 2 NetApp filers. What problem are yo

Re: solaris

2006-09-07 Thread Freminlins
On 06/09/06, White Hat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That is a totally unqualified evaluation. No it's not. It's in response to YOUR comment that "A very large majority of users simply want to use their PCs for email, occasional word processing and possible game playing". And OpenOffice fits th

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread Freminlins
On 06/09/06, White Hat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Immaterial. the singularly most important feature is suitability to task. If it is free and it does not work, what good is it? It depends what you are using it for. You made a comment about "occaisonal word processing" (pasted below). For suc

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread Freminlins
On 06/09/06, White Hat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have tried Open Office. No matter what anyone says, it is just not as full featured as Word 2003. It is not even close. True, but also compare the cost. Not even close... He/she does not want to read tons of manuals and spend hours in a f

Re: Large File System?

2006-08-09 Thread Freminlins
On 08/08/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Right now, if no fsck is really really important to you for your data store, then get an OpenSolaris system and put ZFS on it. Never fsck again as it is ALWAYS (they claim) in a coherent state. Or wait for ZFS to show up on Fr

Re: Large File System?

2006-08-09 Thread Freminlins
On 08/08/06, Martin Hepworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Softupdates are the FreeBSD equivalent. From my point of view they perform better than a traditional journaling FS (do a google search for the original usenix papers on these). Journalling means not having to fsck the file system in the

Re: Large File System?

2006-08-08 Thread Freminlins
On 08/08/06, Atom Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What exactly does a journaling file system give you? As I understand it, it doesn't prevent corruption and it doesn't help you fix the corruption when it occurs. As answered by Dan Nelson. It saves time (sometimes a lot) in the event of an u

Re: Large File System?

2006-08-08 Thread Freminlins
On 08/08/06, Atom Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks. I found my problem. (Sysinstall, aka fdisk, won't do more that 1.2TB.) BTW, anybody have any good advice on how to manage a large file system? Unfortunately I have to say "consider Solaris or Linux as they have journalling file syst

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-08-05 Thread Freminlins
On 05/08/06, Martin Hepworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Softupdates removes the issue if havinh to fsck filesystems after and unclean umount. No it doesn't. Absolutely not. After an unclean shutdown fsck runs in the background. And sometimes it can't do that. Here's an example: Jul 23 1

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Freminlins
On 04/08/06, Joseph Le-Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Personally, it'd be fantastic if mc was slated for inclusion. It's an absolute necessary install once I get a system up and running. The thing is, once you go down this route it won't stop. Other people regard bash, or lsof, or vim, or wg

Re: Need Advice for Tuning NFS to place nice with a Netapp

2006-08-02 Thread Freminlins
On 02/08/06, N. Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cool! Can you share with me what sort of settings you use on your boxes? sysctl/kerneltunes/mount options? This may be a disappointment to you but... I didn't have to do anything :-( All I have is rw on the client. It has taken me a over

Re: Need Advice for Tuning NFS to place nice with a Netapp

2006-08-02 Thread Freminlins
Nicole, On 02/08/06, N. Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I have several web servers that are attached to a Netapp (network appliance) unit via NFS-3. A few servers are 5.5 and a few are 6.1 for comparison testing. All seem to have lousy performance. We have a similar setup and it run

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

2006-08-01 Thread Freminlins
On 01/08/06, Erik Nørgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you configure your server using LDAP or NIS for user management then you only need to mount the root file system rw when updating the base system or changing root password. Add the MAC and you will likely be able to protect further against

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

2006-08-01 Thread Freminlins
On 01/08/06, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On my system, "additional software" goes under the separate partition /usr. Or are we using different definitions of "additional"? /usr includes a large part of the base installation. /usr/local is the usual place for additional so

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

2006-08-01 Thread Freminlins
On 01/08/06, Erik Nørgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You usually don't patch up your system everyday. Remount rw do the patching and remount ro. The problem is more that some 3rd party applications assume that /usr is writeable. I found the problem more annoying with / whenever I need to change

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

2006-08-01 Thread Freminlins
On 01/08/06, Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you may even want to mount it read-only for security. (I think these are good advises on any system). I used to agree with this (specifically the mantra was "mount /usr read only") - until I tried to patch anything! Then it's useless. Wh

ntpd on FreeBSD

2006-07-28 Thread Freminlins
Hello, After a power outaga (Level 3 at Goswell Road, London), all our FreeBSD machines came up OK. Nearly all of them had a problem though with ntpd. I'm guessing that most of these machines booted before the the ntp servers came up. What happens is that the machine runs two copies of ntpd: ro

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-24 Thread Freminlins
Nikolas, On 24/07/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This would be like running Windows 3.1 on a brand new Xeon 5100 dual-core CPU... sure it will run fast* but what the hell are you going to do with it? Play solitaire? You have this the wrong way round. The correct allusion wou

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-24 Thread Freminlins
Ted, On 24/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All you have to do to see this is try booting FBSD 6 on a 80386 and compare it's performance to FBSD 3.X on a 386. How are you going to do that, Ted? From the 6.0R release notes: "Support for 80386 processors (the I386_CPU kern

Re: What FreeBSD users really want

2006-07-22 Thread Freminlins
On 22/07/06, sammy sumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To Whom It May Concern: 1.Reinvent the installer and interface. Fundamental thing like system installer is still phenomenally arcane. There is no excuse for FreeBSD developers not to upgrade the system installer and why not using dis

Sendmail = mind boggling

2006-06-09 Thread Freminlins
Hello, I've always steered clear of using Sendmail (prefering Exim), but I thought I would give it a try and am having real difficulties with something I think should be simple. I want to keep running Exim on port 25. I want Sendmail to run on a different port. So I am trying to use the "O Daem

Re: named always binds to "*"

2006-05-19 Thread Freminlins
Oh, sorry. You already have that. It should work. It does for me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

ntpd as a server on 5.4 and 6.0 just doesn't seem to work

2006-05-18 Thread Freminlins
Hello, I have this problem whereby I just cannot make ntpd work as a server on FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0. It works flawlessly on 4.6.2, which I'm still running somewhere. The contents of my ntpd.conf file are: server ntp0.bris.ac.uk server ntp.linx.net restrict A.B.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0 notrust nomodif

Re: pam_userdb.so: Where is it?

2006-05-10 Thread Freminlins
Kyrre, On 5/10/06, Kyrre Nygard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello! Does anybody know where pam_userdb.so has gone? FreeBSD doesn't appear to have ever had it, so it hasn't "gone" anywhere. The thread you linked to below suggests exactly that. Linux has it, but apparently FreeBSD does not.

Re: filling up UDP socket buffers like mad

2006-03-27 Thread Freminlins
Michael, On 3/27/06, Michael W. Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # netstat -na > udp4 43414 0 *.514 *.* That's a big queue. I'm attaching the output of netstat -na and netstat -s for general > informative purposes; if anyone has any further suggestions, I'm all > ea

Process stuck in START state

2006-03-24 Thread Freminlins
Hello, I have a process which I cannot kill. It is stuck in the START state. Top shows this: 37028 frem 1 1000 0K 0K START5:20 6.54% acroread and ps shows this: frem37028 6.5 0.0 0 0 v0 RE2:40PM 5:20.33 [acroread] There is no entry for this pid und

Re: Dell SCSI problem (reasonly long with some debugging)

2006-01-31 Thread Freminlins
A quick follow up to my earlier post... I tried using FreeBSD 6.0 stable Snap 10, but the problem still exists. I tried installing Solaris 10 (01/06) and the card is not detected by Solaris at all. I tried with RHEL 4 and Win 2003 and the machine works fine. Back on FreeBSD 6.0 release, I lower

Dell SCSI problem (reasonly long with some debugging)

2006-01-27 Thread Freminlins
Hello, I have FreeBSD installed on well over a dozen Dells (plus 50 other makes) and they run without any problem. Today I have a Dell arrive and I am getting very serious SCSI problems with it duing and after installing FreeBSD 6 release. Basically the machine "freezes" and them comes back to lif

Re: overloaded webserver: nfs wait issue?

2005-12-01 Thread Freminlins
Can you provide the output of nfsstat -c 1 on the web servers (and nfsstat -s 1 on the nfs server if they are running FreeBSD)? Run them for a minute when you are getting bad performance. Please also quantify "moderately high traffic". What is this in Mbit/s? Also, it may be helpful to know a litt

Re: Serial console prob on amd64

2005-11-24 Thread Freminlins
Hello Arden, On 11/24/05, arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has this ever worked? If its a new box could be a hardware prob could try a > loop-back test if you have the wrap plugs Yes, on Solaris 10 before I wiped it today. I just can't see what I am doing wrong. During the boot up sequence I ca

Serial console prob on amd64

2005-11-24 Thread Freminlins
Hello, I have a dual amd64 machine on which serial console is not working properly. I've configured dozens of Intel machines without a problem. I have set up boot.config and /etc/ttys. If I boot the machine some data is printed to console. Rather than paste the whole lot here, here's the last few

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-22 Thread Freminlins
Ted, On 11/22/05, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snipped a massive load of nonsense] Why don't you do us all a favour and shut up. Your posts are off-topic and a waste of storage bytes. AFAIK this mailing list is not your personal soap box. Frem. ___

dump/restore puzzle

2005-10-06 Thread Freminlins
I have a puzzling problem with dump and restore. I'm looking to implement a dump and restore pipe to automatically make copy of a file system onto another system completely. I've used / only as an example (because it's small) and I'm not overwriting /. I do the following: 1. Level 0 dump and resto

Turning off file flags during restore

2005-08-30 Thread Freminlins
Hello, I have some data on a NetApp which I am in the process of migrating to a machine running FreeBSD. I dump the data off the NetApp to one big file on the FreeBSD machine. When I restore the data I get some odd file flags like this: -rw-r--r-- 1 www www schg 73 Jul 27 22:04 foo.txt I unde

/sbin/restore on 6.0 beta 3

2005-08-26 Thread Freminlins
Hello, I'm not sure where I should send this. /sbin/restore on FreeBSD 6.0 beta 3 does not recognise dump files off a netapp: zoe# /sbin/restore -if ./vol1_LEVEL1_2005-08-23 Tape is not a dump tape restore on a FreeBSD 4.7 box does however and works fine. Frem. ___

Re: disk fragmentation, <0%?

2005-08-15 Thread Freminlins
On 8/15/05, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As someone mentioned, there is a FAQ on this. You should read it. > > It is going negative because you have used more than the nominal > capacity of the slice. The nominal capacity is the total space > minus the reserved proportion

Re: Crashes on 5.4R

2005-08-01 Thread Freminlins
Kris, On 8/1/05, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See the chapter on kernel debugging in the developers' handbook. It should be obvious from my post that I did look at the handbook. I have a dump and I've extracted the line where the kernel has crashed. I do have a backtrace (not poste

Crashes on 5.4R

2005-08-01 Thread Freminlins
Hello, I have a machine which I've installed afresh with 5.4R last week. It is a dual Xeon machine with hyperthreading. Since I've updated it, it has crashed regularly. So regularly that I have had to remove it from service. I built a debugging kernel and from my last crash dump I get the followi

Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

2005-07-28 Thread Freminlins
Gayn Winters wrote: > What I get from reading this article is that if the use of the file > system is to store lots of small files, then use a small block size. Am > I missing something? No and yes! There is a minimum block and fragment size. In this case there were not enough contiguous fragme

Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

2005-07-28 Thread Freminlins
On 7/28/05, Bob Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why is it unnecessary to defragment UFS? > > > > In normal use, files never become fragmented enough to affect performance. In > a (loose) sense, files are intentionally fragmented in a controlled way so > that fragmentation doesn't cause pr

Question about FreeBsd 5.4 + BIND 9.3.1 and threads

2005-07-28 Thread Freminlins
Hello, I have a FreeBSD 5.4R box running BIND 9.3.1 from base on a dual Xeon with hyperthreading enabled. According to the man page for named: -n #cpus Create #cpus worker threads to take advantage of multiple CPUs. If not specified, named will try to determin

Puzzling nfs/rpc log message

2005-07-27 Thread Freminlins
Hello, I have a number of FreeBSD machines mounting two NetApps via NFS. I updated one of the machines to 5.4 release. I have no prolems mounting the filers, but I am getting the following log entry every so often: Jul 27 16:36:33 fred rpcbind: connect from 192.168.1.5 to getport/addr(nlockmgr)

dump with -L flag - machine truely unresponsive

2005-06-21 Thread Freminlins
I have a FreeBSD 5.4 machine with a SCSI hard drive. I dump all our machines onto a nfs-mounted filer. There are some files which it's important not to clobber during the dump, so I've been experimenting with dump using the -L flag like so: dump auLf /var /mnt/dump/var What I have noticed is that

Re: set-uid bit: where am I going wrong?

2005-04-11 Thread Freminlins
On Apr 11, 2005 2:51 PM, Tim Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Clearly the file is owned by root, and I kept it as part of my group. I've > read the man pages, and believe that when I call the script, it will assume > root's permissions. It doesn't, so where am I going wrong? FreeBSD does n

Re: possible bug report re: (malformed?) internet addresses

2005-03-31 Thread Freminlins
Interesting. Host can look it up: bash-2.05b$ host mr-chips-.deviantart.com mr-chips-.deviantart.com has address 69.28.181.43 But the host name is itself invalid. From RFC 1035: The labels must follow the rules for ARPANET host names. They must start with a letter, end with a letter or digit

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-23 Thread Freminlins
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 03:46:40 +0100, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I don't really know for sure, because nothing is documented, and > nobody here knows anything. So you keep telling us. So why do you bother posting in the first place if you don't expect an answer that pleases

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-22 Thread Freminlins
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:51:36 +0100, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And _hope_? Yes, hope someone looks into it. You get the support you paid for... > -- > Anthony Frem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-22 Thread Freminlins
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:26:13 +0100, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Freminlins writes: > No, FreeBSD doesn't work very well with the hardware. As a matter of > fact, it doesn't work very well with the hardware on my production > server, either. So

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-22 Thread Freminlins
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:25:14 +0100, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exactly. With _identical_ hardware. So if the hardware ran under the > other OS, but not under this OS, where do you look first for the > problem? Both, actually. > If your car runs perfectly for years with one

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-22 Thread Freminlins
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 04:19:25 +0100, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It ran for eight years without errors. On a different OS. > So your saying an anciety copy of NT is more reliable than a current > copy of FreeBSD? Don't try and put your words in my mouth. On your ancient hardw

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-21 Thread Freminlins
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:39:11 +0100, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Show me that it's not a bug in FreeBSD first. Alternatively, show us it is not a firmware problem first. > I never had the problem > in Windows NT. Yawn. I had loads of problems with NT, virtually none with Win

Re: Location of openssl certs in FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

2005-03-12 Thread Freminlins
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:29:24 -0500, Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyways, where are the certs installed in FreeBSD ? There are no default certificates in FreeBSD. They are easy to create however. Look in the Handbook here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbo

Re: What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify?

2005-03-07 Thread Freminlins
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:56:44 +0100, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there an easy way to combine a backup and verify when doing backups > with dump? With the FreeBSD version of dump, no. You can use the L flag to ensure a consistent dump, though this is not the same thing as verif

Re: no free inodes

2005-03-05 Thread Freminlins
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 14:22:50 +, db <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /var: create/symlink failed, no inodes free > foo.domain.topdomain - error opening scoreboard: No space left on device This means what it says - you have run out of inodes. Do df -i /var and you will see all your inodes have been

Re: ftp monitoring and limiting transfer rates

2005-03-04 Thread Freminlins
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:26:26 +0100, Frank Staals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everyone, I have a question: > > I am running FreeBSD 5.3 with the default ftp-server ( ftpd ) as ftp > deamon, everything works fine but I'd like to see what files peolpe are > trying to download and when people log

Re: NFS Write performance

2005-03-02 Thread Freminlins
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:52:16 -0800, Tim Traver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > ok, I've searched far and wide, but I have to ask the FreeBSD gurus > about it... > > I'm using a Netapp NFS server to serve up content to FreeBSD clients, > and I am seeing terrible write performances. I don

Re: kernfs

2005-03-02 Thread Freminlins
kernfs was removed some time ago (about 4.8 I think). It certainly exists on a 4.7 machine I have. Frem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL P

Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-23 Thread Freminlins
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:36:36 +0100, Jorn Argelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think that they would. That'll be a massive migration involving lots > and lots of costs. They have to pay for RedHat Enterprise too. The only reason > I can think off is that they want support.Perhaps I missed a

Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

2005-02-23 Thread Freminlins
"But in December, Yahoo started to port its homegrown infrastructure applications from its custom operating system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, which was in beta at the time and was released last week. Plans call for a gradual migration of more applications to Linux, but the timing and number w