systat -vm not seeing /dev/acd0

2006-10-31 Thread Ian Smith
Hardly a showstopper, but .. Burned a backup CD on a 4.10-RELEASE system downtown; no problem. Being important, I checked by mounting it (/dev/acd0) and running 'cat /cdrom/* >/dev/null' which was useful verification given all were big compressed files in the CD's root directory. That was taking

dns caching service

2006-10-31 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, I have followed all the instructions from http://www.tnpi.biz/internet/dns/djbdns-freebsd.shtml to install and run a dns caching services using djbdns. I have the svscan process up and running. 2454 ?? S 0:00.07 svscan /var/service And yet when I changed the /etc/resolv.conf so t

Re: More questions on sr sync driver, packet filters, and altq

2006-10-31 Thread John
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 03:11:04AM -, John Levine wrote: > I am putting together a FreeBSD router to replace a tired old BSD/OS > one. My external line is a T1, so I got a Wanic 400 on ebay. I have a > /24 that is about half full so I don't do NAT and don't expect to need > to do so. [snip pa

Can you pls point me to freebsd source code?

2006-10-31 Thread Praveen Kumar Amritaluru
Hi, I am interesting in looking at source code for freebsd. Is it possible to do so without installing freebsd? Can you provide information on how I can get access to source code for reading purposes? Thanks, -Praveen - Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that

Re: Can you pls point me to freebsd source code?

2006-10-31 Thread Vince
Praveen Kumar Amritaluru wrote: > Hi, > > I am interesting in looking at source code for freebsd. Is it possible to > do so without > installing freebsd? > Can you provide information on how I can get access to source code for > reading purposes? > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ for

Re: dns caching service

2006-10-31 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
hello, On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, I have followed all the instructions from http://www.tnpi.biz/internet/dns/djbdns-freebsd.shtml to install and run a dns caching services using djbdns. I have the svscan process up and running. 2454 ?? S 0:00.07 svscan /var/se

Netflow sensor/generator for Freebsd

2006-10-31 Thread n j
Hello everyone, I'd like to inspect the flows in and out of my fbsd boxes. In order to closely simulate a true netflow-capable router, I found out I need three components: flow sensors, flow collector and flow analyzer. There are quite a few solutions for collecting and analyzing flows, even som

Re: pkg for gnome 2.16?

2006-10-31 Thread Iantcho Vassilev
On 10/31/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:24:03AM -0500, Timothy Parker wrote: > Hello > I am currebtly using the 2.12 package port for Gnome. (My processor is in > bad shape and can't handle most source builds without shutting down.) > What are the plans f

help increase process/kernel memory please

2006-10-31 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi, I clearly have a problem figuring out how to increase the limits for memory available to a process and the kernel. I'm running a Perl app that need lots of memory and I would like to make around 2G available to it, the box has 4G physical RAM. Which knob(s) should be tweaked? System is

Re: subversion on boot

2006-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-10-31 14:49, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > what is the best way to launch subversion (svnserve) on boot? > > So far I did not find out something that can be put in /etc/rc.conf. You can write your own rc.d script and save it in `/usr/local/etc/rc.d'. We hav

Re: subversion on boot

2006-10-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: You can write your own rc.d script and save it in `/usr/local/etc/rc.d'. We have a very good guide about the internals of the rc.d scripts now, which you can read online at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/rc-scripting/ A sample `svnserve' scrip

Re: help increase process/kernel memory please

2006-10-31 Thread Tom Judge
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, I clearly have a problem figuring out how to increase the limits for memory available to a process and the kernel. I'm running a Perl app that need lots of memory and I would like to make around 2G available to it, the box has 4G physical RAM. Which knob(s) sh

subversion on boot

2006-10-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, what is the best way to launch subversion (svnserve) on boot? So far I did not find out something that can be put in /etc/rc.conf. Thank you, Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

RE: Dell PERC 5/i mfi status?

2006-10-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Bret Esquivel wrote: Mathieu, I was actually asking if there is an "amrstat" type utility that I can check the array status while in production. Thanks for the advice on 6-STABLE, I Well, it was sysutils/megarc for PERC/4. On PERC/5 mfi(1), it's whatever we decide to ca

RE: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950

2006-10-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Krempasky, Mark wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 and have no issues with using multiple RAID groups with the Dell 2950 internal disks. Thanks, ~BAS -Original Message- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: WordPress, Apache, modules, mod_rewrite - how to verify?

2006-10-31 Thread Jorn Argelo
Nick wrote: Thanks! Can anyone help me regarding mod_rewrite? Can't find it in the ports. mod_rewrite comes with Apache if you build it from the ports tree AFAIK. Check out /usr/local/libexec/apache and see if you have a mod_rewrite.so. If you do, all you have to do is enable it in your h

Re: Dell 2950 Perc 5/i RAID Controller and FreeBSD 6.1 Question

2006-10-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
It would be very very useful if you provided dmesg(8), bsdlabel(8), and fdisk(8) outputs to illustrate the problem. For each RAID group you assemble in the BIOS/CMOS utility, you should see a seaparate mfid[0-9] phyiscal device. Once properly partitioned, they should each contain "s1" slice

Re: help increase process/kernel memory please

2006-10-31 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Per olof Ljungmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I clearly have a problem figuring out how to increase the limits for > memory available to a process and the kernel. > > I'm running a Perl app that need lots of memory and I would like to make > around 2G available to it, the box

Re: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950

2006-10-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
It finds the RAID controller fine. However, we're very concerned about the lack of a management CLI like ports/sysutils/megarc. Now that 6.2 release is imminent and bce(4) has been patched to the point where it is relatively stable, we're nearing the point where we can finally put Dell Power

RE: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950

2006-10-31 Thread Krempasky, Mark
I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 and have no issues with using multiple RAID groups with the Dell 2950 internal disks. -Original Message- From: Brian A. Seklecki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 9:59 AM To: ke han Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: Dell 2950 Perc 5/i RAID Controller and FreeBSD 6.1 Question

2006-10-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
See the question archive: Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:42:49 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marthias, Santosso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 and RAID controller PERC 5/i in DELL PowerEdge 2950 [...snip...] Similar problem rep

Re: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950

2006-10-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
The DRAC cards do that, don't they? I dunno the SSH interface on the DRAC5's wont let us in. The SSH interface on the DRAC4 was useless, but it was the last version upon which Firefox could load the remote console interface via Java. Now they only support Firefox 1.0.5 plugins on RH7.1 >

Re: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950

2006-10-31 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:58:50 -0500 "Brian A. Seklecki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It finds the RAID controller fine. However, we're very concerned about the lack of a management CLI like ports/sysutils/megarc. Now that 6.2 release is imminent and bce(4) has been patched to the poin

Re: help increase process/kernel memory please

2006-10-31 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Bill Moran wrote: I'm running a Perl app that need lots of memory and I would like to make around 2G available to it, the box has 4G physical RAM. Which knob(s) should be tweaked? System is running 6-STABLE from around 1st of October. This is what I see when the process exits: Out of memory

Trouble-shooting Cron Problems FreeBSD5.4

2006-10-31 Thread Martin McCormick
After building a new FreeBSD5.4 system, I have done something bad to it. When cron runs jobs in /etc/crontab as operator, it seems as if that 6TH field in /etc/crontab is being interpreted as a command rather than the user ID it is supposed to run under. I keep getting messages li

Re: Trouble-shooting Cron Problems FreeBSD5.4

2006-10-31 Thread Lane
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 12:08, Martin McCormick wrote: > After building a new FreeBSD5.4 system, I have done > something bad to it. > > When cron runs jobs in /etc/crontab as operator, it seems > as if that 6TH field in /etc/crontab is being interpreted as a > command rather than the

Re: Trouble-shooting Cron Problems FreeBSD5.4

2006-10-31 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 31), Martin McCormick said: > After building a new FreeBSD5.4 system, I have done > something bad to it. > > When cron runs jobs in /etc/crontab as operator, it seems > as if that 6TH field in /etc/crontab is being interpreted as a > command rather than the use

ive been trying to build a kernel all morning!

2006-10-31 Thread Jonathan Horne
i have a 6.2-PRERELEASE machine, that i am trying to build a 6.1-RELEASE-p10 kernel and world on. before i began, i did a rm -rf /usr/src/* /usr/obj/*, and then did a fresh cvsup of RELENG_6_1. i do the same thing i always do, which would be to cd to /usr/src, and then issue 'make -j 6 buildkerne

Memory information relations

2006-10-31 Thread Nejc Skoberne
Hi, I would like to know what are exact relations between these 3 memory information printouts: top: Mem: 157M Active, 127M Inact, 60M Wired, 25M Cache, 60M Buf, 125M Free Swap: 998M Total, 998M Free sysctl -a | grep Mem: Virtual Memory: (Total: 78781K, Active 798692K) Real Memory:

Re: SCSI Controller Question

2006-10-31 Thread Derek Ragona
If you are using the drives as just SCSI drives and get another controller in the same Manufacturer's "Family" you should be able to just replace the controller. If you use a different manufacturer's controller, you may have to re-format the drives after you do a dump on the old controller. T

Re: subversion on boot

2006-10-31 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > what is the best way to launch subversion (svnserve) on boot? > > So far I did not find out something that can be put in /etc/rc.conf. > > Thank you, > Iv The script resides in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve svnserve_enable="YES" in your rc.conf should suf

Re: ive been trying to build a kernel all morning!

2006-10-31 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 31), Jonathan Horne said: > i have a 6.2-PRERELEASE machine, that i am trying to build a > 6.1-RELEASE-p10 kernel and world on. > > before i began, i did a rm -rf /usr/src/* /usr/obj/*, and then did a fresh > cvsup of RELENG_6_1. i do the same thing i always do, which wou

Re: Memory information relations

2006-10-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nejc Skoberne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to know what are exact relations between these 3 memory > information printouts: Did you start by reading the FAQ entry "What do the various memory states displayed by top mean?"? ___ freebsd-ques

Re: pkg for gnome 2.16?

2006-10-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:11:17PM +0200, Iantcho Vassilev wrote: > On 10/31/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:24:03AM -0500, Timothy Parker wrote: > >> Hello > >> I am currebtly using the 2.12 package port for Gnome. (My processor is > >in > >> bad shap

totem crashes on launch - gnome 2.16

2006-10-31 Thread Gobbledegeek
Hello Folks Compiled gnome 2.16 last fortnight. Cannot run any multimedia clips however. Totem disappears with a flash and a popup that sez "could not open resource for writing". Which filesystem/folder/device file is this referring to? I have no clue. Any help will be apprecia

gnome 2.16 - gdm ignores modelines or mode in xorg.conf

2006-10-31 Thread Gobbledegeek
Hi all Got the following in xorg.conf Section Monitor: Modeline "1280x1024" 135.00 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync Section Screen: Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" Login screen is flickering at max resolution of my radeon 7500 @60hz Setup resolution from within gn

Re: Trouble-shooting Cron Problems FreeBSD5.4

2006-10-31 Thread Martin McCormick
Dan Nelson writes: > The "operator" user has no access to /etc/crontab. You have probably > copied entries from the system crontab (i.e. /etc/crontab) into a > user's crontab. The system crontab has the extra "user" column, where > user crontabs don't (since they always run as the user). >

Re: ive been trying to build a kernel all morning!

2006-10-31 Thread Jonathan Horne
> In the last episode (Oct 31), Jonathan Horne said: >> i have a 6.2-PRERELEASE machine, that i am trying to build a >> 6.1-RELEASE-p10 kernel and world on. >> >> before i began, i did a rm -rf /usr/src/* /usr/obj/*, and then did a >> fresh >> cvsup of RELENG_6_1. i do the same thing i always do,

Re: iSCSI setup

2006-10-31 Thread Jeff Mohler
I got bored, installed this on 5.3 with a Netapp F880. Slow isnt the word..anyone else try this with similar results? Like..max write speed is 600k/sec. On 10/23/06, freebsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm trying to have my mailboxes put on iSCSI (NetAPP). I downloaded iscsi-17.5.tar.bz2

nfsiod

2006-10-31 Thread Brett Glass
I have no interest in running NFS (AKA "no file security") on my FreeBSD boxes, but have noticed that FreeBSD 6.x seems to start a daemon called "nfsiod" by default even when it is not configured as an NFS server or client. What's the best way to instruct the system not to start these processe

Re: FreeBSD 6.x and disklabel

2006-10-31 Thread Eric Schuele
On 10/30/06 12:05, Reuben A. Popp wrote: Good morning everyone, Recently, we've been looking at purchasing a SAN here and I came across this site while doing some research. Seeing as how we just met with reps from Apple to discuss their offerings, I thought that the article was well worth re

Re: nfsiod

2006-10-31 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 31), Brett Glass said: > I have no interest in running NFS (AKA "no file security") on my > FreeBSD boxes, but have noticed that FreeBSD 6.x seems to start a > daemon called "nfsiod" by default even when it is not configured as > an NFS server or client. What's the best

Re: cvsup*.au.freebsd.org ??

2006-10-31 Thread James Long
> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:21:32 +1100 > From: Alan Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: cvsup*.au.freebsd.org ?? > To: Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > I also find that the cvsup6.au.freebsd.org i

Re: cvsup*.au.freebsd.org ??

2006-10-31 Thread Pete Slagle
James Long wrote: >> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:21:32 +1100 >> From: Alan Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: cvsup*.au.freebsd.org ?? >> To: Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Content-Type: text/plain >> >> I also find that

Re: cvsup*.au.freebsd.org ??

2006-10-31 Thread Alan Garfield
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 15:24 -0800, Pete Slagle wrote: > Edit fastest_cvsup. It's just a Perl script -- it's simple to change it > to check whatever list of servers you want. Yeah but then I have to remember to fix it each time whenever it gets updated (which is currently what I've been doing). It

Re: nfsiod

2006-10-31 Thread Brett Glass
On my system, sysctl(8) shows that vfs.nfs.iodmin is 4. And this is out of the box on a fresh install of 6.1 in which I told sysinstall that I wanted no NFS. Sounds like a bug. Now that you've explained where the knobs are, I see that I can work around it via lines in /boot/loader.conf, which can

Hardware Console Redirection

2006-10-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
God I miss the days of the good old PC Weasel. Those guys would have made a killing selling the technology to Intel/Dell/Phoenix. Instead this is what we're stuck with On two platforms I work with: 1) Dell Poweredge [1,2][8,9]50 2) Axiomtek VIA Embedded SBC83672 I have noticed that

Re: nfsiod

2006-10-31 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:09:14PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > On my system, sysctl(8) shows that vfs.nfs.iodmin is 4. And this > is out of the box on a fresh install of 6.1 in which I told > sysinstall that I wanted no NFS. Sounds like a bug. Now that you've > explained where the knobs are, I see

lpt0 printer slows system response significantly

2006-10-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Hello I have a printer attached to a parallel port on an old Compaq Armada 1700 laptop. When I print large (> 100k) documents the system responds very slow (1-3sec) to keyboard strokes or mouse moves. I wonder if I can lower the priority of printing. The details: $dmesg [

Re: Acroread not working

2006-10-31 Thread Rich Winkel
Here's what worked for me: /usr/compat/linux/usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-32 > /usr/compat/linux/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders Probably should have been done by whatever port installed that file (linux-gtk2?) Rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Ports maintainer

2006-10-31 Thread Miguel Vazquez Gocobachi
Hi there! I am interesting to be a ports maintainer for FreeBSD project. What need I do? Thanks a lot. Miguel -- Miguel Vazquez Gocobachi Web Developer/Designer| Phone: (662) 1744395 139 Arroyo hondo, Nacameri| Home: (662) 2516753 Hermosillo, Son 83287 MX | GPG: 4A6E14B1 __

Re: Hardware Console Redirection

2006-10-31 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 06:18:22PM -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > I have noticed that the "Phoenix BIOS" console redirection feature on both > discontinues to operate once the kernel has booted (however, the 1st/2nd > stage boot loaders work fine). Why is that a problem? The BIOS doesn't use

RE: Dell PERC 5/i mfi status?

2006-10-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Bret Esquivel wrote: Mathieu, I was actually asking if there is an "amrstat" type utility that I can check the array status while in production. Thanks for the advice on 6-STABLE, I Well, it was sysutils/megarc for PERC/4. On PERC/5 mfi(1), it's whatever we decide to c

Re: Dell PERC 5/i mfi status?

2006-10-31 Thread J. T. Farmer
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Bret Esquivel wrote: Mathieu, I was actually asking if there is an "amrstat" type utility that I can check the array status while in production. Thanks for the advice on 6-STABLE, I Well, it was sysutils/megarc for PERC/4. On PERC/5 mfi(1), it's

Re: Ports maintainer

2006-10-31 Thread Kevin Brunelle
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:43, Miguel Vazquez Gocobachi wrote: > Hi there! > > I am interesting to be a ports maintainer for FreeBSD project. What need I > do? > > Thanks a lot. > Miguel Find a port that needs a maintainer and take over it or find a program not in ports and bring it in. There

Re: Ports maintainer

2006-10-31 Thread Robert Huff
Kevin Brunelle writes: > On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:43, Miguel Vazquez Gocobachi wrote: > > I am interesting to be a ports maintainer for FreeBSD project. > > What need I do? > > Find a port that needs a maintainer and take over it or find a > program not in ports and bring it in. > >

Re: Ports maintainer

2006-10-31 Thread Lane
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:33, Robert Huff wrote: > Kevin Brunelle writes: > > On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:43, Miguel Vazquez Gocobachi wrote: > > > I am interesting to be a ports maintainer for FreeBSD project. > > > What need I do? > > > > Find a port that needs a maintainer and take ove

Re: Hardware Console Redirection

2006-10-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
> Why is that a problem? The BIOS doesn't use the console once > the kernel has booted. Because it becomes a burden always having to customize your install/upgrade media/kernels/bootblocks to use redirection. Dell knew that; that's why they made the DRAC4 with a virtual VNC-based console redire

Re: IPFW and PF

2006-10-31 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 10/30/06, Andy Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/30/06, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Andy Greenwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> top-posted: > > > On 10/28/06, David Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> IPFW seems to be the same IPFW that is used on MacOSX,

PPPoE statistic

2006-10-31 Thread kvoznjuk
I have gateway with FreeeBSD 6.0 and LAN users get access to Internet through pppoe connection. I can see connection statistic when it alive # pppctl /var/tmp/pppuser3 ! echo UPTIME USER OCTETSIN OCTETSOUT 1:28:46 drgho 148957 504786 but I want to colect this information exactly before conection