Best way to measure disk bandwidth usage

2007-11-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've got a couple of servers which I'd like to keep an eye on in order to check wether their storage subsection is providing enough throughput or wether disk i/o is their bottleneck. I know how to check this wrt cpu usage, memory size, network throughput, but I'm totally lost when it c

Re: Best way to measure disk bandwidth usage

2007-11-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Doug Clements ha scritto: gstat, iostat, and systat -vm are the tools I use for this. Thanks for the fast answer. A couple more questions: gstat gives percentage values: what are these and how are they computed? In the man page I can find no answer. iostat is also expecially interesting,

Re: portaudit in periodic

2007-11-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
RW ha scritto: Have you checked its clock? Yep. # date Fri Nov 23 18:13:17 CET 2007 Seems fine to me. Also, it's running ntp, although I'd excpect something better from it. bye & Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

portaudit in periodic

2007-11-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm running a dozen boxes (most being 6.2) with portaudit installed and I usually get a port vulnerability report in the daily security run. On one box, however, portaudit's db won't update automatically. The security reports will mention no vulnerability, even when I know they are the

SAS RAID support

2007-12-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm in need to replace an old SCSI-RAID5 based server, and I'm thinking about switching to a SAS RAID5. The hardware offers I've had right now are: _ an Intel S3000AHLX based server with a SRCSAS144E controller; _ an Intel S5000PSLSAS based server with an "Activation Key" module (to ge

SAS Controller again

2007-12-09 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. In my search for a SAS controller, I've been offered an Adaptec ASR3405 or ASR3805. These are not supported in 6.2R, but it looks like they will be in upcoming 6.3R by the aac driver. I'd like to know about ground experiences with these cards. Do they work well? Does aaccli allow for pr

Worldwind (Java)

2007-12-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Anyone tried running the demo from their SDK? I had no luck with native JDK: %./run-demo.bash gov.nasa.worldwind.examples.ApplicationTemplate Running gov.nasa.worldwind.examples.ApplicationTemplate Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/jre/lib/i

Re: Enemy Territory

2003-11-09 Thread Andrea Venturoli
** Reply to note from "Lee Harr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 09 Nov 2003 13:28:15 + > >I am tring to run Enemy Territory using linux emulation, and the program > >fails telling my it can't find libGL.so.1. I believe I need the linux > >version of this library, but I don't know where to get it

snort & PostgreSQL

2003-12-04 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I upgraded snort from 2.0.0_1 to 2.0.5 and logging to PostgreSQL stopped working. The file snort.conf is the same and I defined WITH_POSTGRES before using portupgrade; however, if I log connections to the database, I see none. Any hint? bye & Thanks av. P.S. I guess PostgreSQL,

Two ISP connections

2003-12-09 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I have a server with two ISP connections: a flat ADSL with an ISP and pay-per-traffic HDSL with another. I'd like to use ADSL whenever possible, but switch to HDSL in case the first line drops. Any pointer? bye & Thanks av. ___ [EMAI

vinum swap no longer working.

2003-12-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli
** Reply to note from Micheas Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:00:04 -0800 > # > # swapon /dev/vinum/swap > swapon: /dev/vinum/swap: Operation not supported by device > # > > Is this a 5.2 bug or do I have vinum incorrectly configured? > > I am using RAID 1 if that mat

Re: Mountable encrypted file? What to use?

2009-10-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Greg Morell ha scritto: Since TrueCrypt doesn't work on FreeBSD, I'm wondering what you'd recommend for this: I like to keep all of my sensitive stuff in a few encrypted mountable files. Something where I can copy the file to a USB key for backup, but not worry if I lose the USB key since it'

6.3 uname -a weirdness

2009-12-03 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Due to the recent advisories, on an i386 6.3 box, i just did: cd /usr/src make update make buildworld make kernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL make installworld shutdown -r now Now "uname -a" reports 6.3p13, although "cat /usr/src/UPDATING" gives: ... 20091203: p14 FreeBSD-SA-09:15.ssl,

Re: 6.3 uname -a weirdness

2009-12-03 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Diego F. Arias R. ha scritto: If you are using freebsd-update to keep your system up-to-date is normal. Unless updates apply to kernel it will keep the number of the last one who patch it. As I said above, I did a source upgrade. bye & Thanks av.

WINE on 6.3

2009-12-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Is WINE usable on 6.3/i386? I cannot seem to start any win32 program and before I spend time into it, I thought I just ask. My interest is almost limited to running a simple console app that does very litte beyond reading a text file, processing it, and outputting another text file.

Re: WINE on 6.3

2009-12-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Gary Gatten ha scritto: I can't speak to if WINE will work or nor, but if the app is so simple why not use a native bsd/*nix app? Because it doesn't exist and, even if it did, I have to use *that* app, not an equivalent one. bye av. ___ fr

Re: WINE on 6.3

2009-12-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
RW ha scritto: For win32 console applications try using wineconsole, if you aren't already. I've tried both, but both seem to hang with CPU at 100%, doing nothing. If your app is a DOS application you would be better-off with dosbox. DosBox works as a charm, but this app is Win32. by

Re: WINE on 6.3

2009-12-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Tijl Coosemans ha scritto: On Saturday 05 December 2009 13:47:00 Andrea Venturoli wrote: Is WINE usable on 6.3/i386? I cannot seem to start any win32 program and before I spend time into it, I thought I just ask. You probably need the FreeBSD 6.x patch at http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine

Re: WINE on 6.3

2009-12-11 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Andrea Venturoli ha scritto: Tijl Coosemans ha scritto: On Saturday 05 December 2009 13:47:00 Andrea Venturoli wrote: Is WINE usable on 6.3/i386? I cannot seem to start any win32 program and before I spend time into it, I thought I just ask. You probably need the FreeBSD 6.x patch at http

Re: APC Smartups 1500va sua1500

2009-12-17 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Gary Kline ha scritto: Okay, well, very-soon, I'll need to plug in my watt-meter to see how much juice my server, firewall, and maybe one desktop take. Guessing is less than 500w. Is there a tutorial for newbie on how to use this beast? Optimally, I wou

I have mail, but where?

2009-12-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. This evening something new appeared on my box. When I open an xterm or a KDE shell, I get: "You have 10 mail messages in /var/mail/." This does not happen when I login on ttyvX. Nothing mail related is on this box (apart from KMail and Thunderbird) and "ls -l /var/mail" gives only zero

Re: I have mail, but where?

2009-12-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
APseudoUtopia ha scritto: Type "mail" You have 10 mail messages in /var/mail/. %mail No mail for andrea % I had already tried that, but AFAIK mail reads from /var/mail/andrea and that file is not there (in spite of the above message). FreeBSD has a daily cron security and status scri

Re: I have mail, but where?

2009-12-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Ed Jobs ha scritto: In my box, there is the ~/mbox file that has the messages in it. you can check out if it exists... Nope. bye av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: I have mail, but where?

2009-12-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Steve Randall ha scritto: No mail for andrea Are there really two spaces in a row there? That's a vital clue. Sure. I noticed that too, but though it might be normal. For some reason your 'USER' environment variable is set to ' andrea' (with a leading space). Then .cshrc sets the 'mail'

Denyhost

2008-06-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Anyone using this? I've used it for a long time on a 6.x box and it worked fine. Recently I had to deactivate it since it seems to lock away every IP which is listed in the logs. Any hint? bye & Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Best practices about Jails

2012-04-04 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Plase forgive the long post and the amount of questions, but I'm new to jails and I'd like to be sure of what I'm doing before deploying more than a test one. Right now I need to run a commercial Java app, which, ideally, I would forbid to access files outside its directory. This might

Fast question abount EDITOR

2012-04-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. This might be a stupid question... however... %setenv EDITOR emacs -nw setenv: Too many arguments. %setenv EDITOR "emacs -nw" %crontab -e crontab: emacs -nw: No such file or directory crontab: "emacs -nw" exited with status 1 Is there a way I can easily achieve the above? Do I really

Re: Best practices about Jails

2012-04-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 04/04/12 16:06, Fbsd8 wrote: This is overkill. I single ports tree on the host is fine. Matter of fact I use packages for everything accept for php which I have to compile in apache module. I even pre-install all of php's dependents as packages before doing "make install" on the php port. As

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/25/12 02:58, Mike Jeays wrote: I am amazed anyone still has a working Zip drive! I have a SCSI one and I'm using it to backup some data (can't even remember how old that is, 10 years probably, but never had any glitches). I also have a couple of customers still using two or three such

[OT] Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/25/12 04:58, Thomas Mueller wrote: Zip 100 drive, and also SyQuest SyJet drive, got to where they would > just eject the disk a few seconds after insertion. I hope I'm remembering this correctly (this happened probably ten years ago or so): I had an internal Zip drive which showed this

Re: portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it?

2012-06-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/25/12 10:40, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 06/25/12 09:53, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey there, I'm presently in the process of trying to do a portupgrade from rt-3.8.8 to 3.8.13. By all estimations, this is a minor bump. Already, I've encountered several annoyances

Re: portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it?

2012-06-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/25/12 09:53, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey there, I'm presently in the process of trying to do a portupgrade from rt-3.8.8 to 3.8.13. By all estimations, this is a minor bump. Already, I've encountered several annoyances due to ABI changes, such as the libtool2.4 fun. With normal

umass troubles again

2011-02-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've a 4GB USB memory which is formatted as a single FAT32 partition. When I insert it, I get: root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x1e3d product 0x2092 bus uhub5 kernel: ugen5.3: at usbus5 kernel: umass1: on usbus5 kernel: umass1: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x kernel: umass1:3:

Maximum partition size

2011-05-11 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Sorry for the stupid questions, but Google only turns out very old answers which might be outdated (at least I hope so). What is the maximum partition size I can use on 7.3? I've used a 3TB gstripe on amd64, but now I'd like to gstripe two 2TB HDs on a i386. Will that work? bye & Tha

Critical issues with WD green drives

2011-06-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. In a server of mine (7.3p4/i386) I replaced a 1TB Hitachi SATA drive (which worked perfectly), with two brand new Western Digital 2TB disks. Now I'm having critical problems, ranging from the disks getting stuck, to the box rebooting. Those are not the main disks in the box, so they are

Re: Critical issues with WD green drives

2011-06-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/02/11 18:02, Reid Linnemann wrote: I've gotten similar errors before with a failing power supply. After an electrical storm I started getting HD errors all over the place. I replaced drives, futzed with SATA cables, booted, rebooted, and when the machine got stable finally I just tried to

Re: Critical issues with WD green drives

2011-06-10 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/02/11 14:16, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. In a server of mine (7.3p4/i386) I replaced a 1TB Hitachi SATA drive (which worked perfectly), with two brand new Western Digital 2TB disks. Now I'm having critical problems, ranging from the disks getting stuck, to the box rebooting. T

Re: Firefox 3 and 4 with NFS home directory

2011-06-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/20/11 21:55, Devin Teske wrote: I'm wondering if anyone has been able to test Firefox 4 on NFS $HOME. I had problems in the past with Firefox 3, but they are gone. Firefox 4 also works. Right now I'm using 8.1, but I don't remember if this was what solved. In any case, have you got stat

Re: FreeBSD 64 Bit Applications

2011-07-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/30/11 10:06, John Dakos wrote: My questions is .is FreeBSD 64 Bit stable and Rock such as 32 bit ? Yes, go for it. These standard applications are working well on 64 bit or not ? Apache , Bind, Webmin , Mysql ,Postfix ,Dovecot, Spamassasin, PHP, Squid, PF I can personally

ATA troubles

2011-07-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello everyone. For those interested, this post is a sequel of: http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/html/freebsd-questions%40freebsd.org/2011-06/msg00018.html However, I'll summarize. At the beginning of June, I installed two WD 1TB Caviar Green SATA drives into an Intel-S5000-based production

ATA troubles

2011-07-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
(Sorry for the previous post, I accidentally hit sent, while the messages was still unfinished). Hello everyone. For those interested, this post is a sequel of: http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/html/freebsd-questions%40freebsd.org/2011-06/msg00018.html However, I'll summarize. At the begin

Re: ATA troubles

2011-07-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/25/11 02:45, Jerome Herman wrote: At the beginning of June, I installed two WD 1TB Caviar Green SATA >> Just a shot in the dark : are your drives of the "green" kind ? Such as Western Digital Caviar Green ? Exactly. I disabled the idle timer though. Also since they are ATA drives m

Re: ATA troubles

2011-07-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/25/11 12:01, Jerome Herman wrote: Ok I must have been way more tired than I thought when I answered... :-) A few things though, WD Green have always been very problematic, in FreeBSD and elsewhere. I acknowledge that. However, I think I can live with some glitch, but what I'm exper

Re: ATA troubles

2011-07-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/25/11 16:03, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I fixed a similar problem -- involving a VIA 6421 controller -- a while back, by using atacontrol(8) to reduce the DMA speed from UDMA133 to UDMA100. Evidently it is possible, under some circumstances, for a device and controller to negotiate a sp

Re: ATA troubles

2011-07-26 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/25/11 02:45, Jerome Herman wrote: On 25/07/2011 01:58, Andrea Venturoli wrote: So, for the records... Now it looks like one drive is not working fine anymore... Jul 24 23:48:36 mydavid kernel: ad6: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51 error=40 LBA=1671887488 Jul 24 23:48:36 mydavid kernel

Re: upgrade of portupgrade to 2.4.9,2

2011-08-21 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 08/21/11 08:26, n dhert wrote: I did a portupgrade on a freebsd 8.2-RELEASE of the portupgrade program itself portupgrade-2.4.8_1,2

Re: upgrade of portupgrade to 2.4.9,2

2011-08-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 08/23/11 09:58, Stanislav Sedov wrote: On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:18:28 +0200 Andrea Venturoli mentioned: On 08/21/11 08:26, n dhert wrote: I did a portupgrade on a freebsd 8.2-RELEASE of the portupgrade program itself portupgrade-2.4.8_1,2< needs updating (index has 2.4.9,2) (t

Re: upgrade of portupgrade to 2.4.9,2

2011-08-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 08/23/11 11:11, Stanislav Sedov wrote: Are you sure you have the latest one (2.4.9.2_2,2). If not, you can grab it from here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade/ (the page has a small "download as a tarball" link at the bottom). You are right: I had just "c

Help with crash dump

2011-09-08 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Anyone can give any hint on this? I really have no clue. bye & Thanks av. # uname -a FreeBSD x..it 7.3-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p4 #1: Wed Dec 15 11:53:13 CET 2010 r...@x..it:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/x i386 # kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmc

Re: Help with crash dump

2011-09-09 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 09/09/11 14:26, Bernt Hansson wrote: You have run out of swapspace, based on these 2 lines panic: ffs_write: dir write current process = 0 (swapper) Hmmm... Cacti woldn't think so: the graph about swap space is plain flat (round 0%, by the way); of course it could have risen so fast that

Re: Thunderbird 6.0.2/7.0: Crashing when using with OpenLDAP backend

2011-09-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 09/28/11 14:29, O. Hartmann wrote: I run in a problem on FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3/10.0-CURRENT using OpenLDAP (Cyrus SASL2 aktivated) and OpenLDAP backend (most recent client and server). Thunderbird 6.0.2 and 7.0 coredumps with signal 11. I hadn't any chance to check whether this also happens on 8.2

Monitor directory and execute script

2011-11-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I need to check for new or updated files in a directory and execute a script on them whenever that happens. Before I launch on complicated scripting, is there some utility/port/deamon that already does this? bye & Thanks av. ___ free

Re: Monitor directory and execute script

2011-11-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/07/11 15:26, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Andrea Venturoli wrote: I need to check for new or updated files in a directory and execute a script on them whenever that happens. Before I launch on complicated scripting, is there some utility/port/deamon that already does this

How to persist tape configuration

2011-11-10 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I need to set my tape with: mt comp off. After a reboot I need to do this again. I could write a script and place it in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, but I'm just wondering if there's already something standard in /etc. bye & Thanks av. ___

ATA trouble again

2011-11-16 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. This is a follow-up of a previous thread, which can be found here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-July/232257.html I finally have two working WD Green drives: they have run severel times for more than a few days continuosly and I've run their full diags a

Re: ATA trouble again

2011-11-16 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/16/11 12:23, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: Are you using ZFS? No. I'm using gstripe. or do you know if the drives are using 4096 bytes Per sector? How do I find out without physical access to the box? bye & Thanks av. ___ f

Re: Monitor directory and execute script

2011-11-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/07/11 16:29, Frank Brendel wrote: || I think sysutils/wait_on is what you are looking for. Thanks, that's exactly it! bye av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: ATA trouble again

2011-11-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/16/11 13:13, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: or do you know if the drives are using 4096 bytes Per sector? How do I find out without physical access to the box? The only way to be sure is to look at the datasheet for the drive. If the drives are SMART capable, you can always load Smar

Old releases support

2013-03-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Just a quick question on EOL dates. According to http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup, 7.4R support should have ended two days ago. Did it? Is Feb 28 2013 date confirmed? Next, 9.0 should reach EOL at the end of this month. Is this confirmed too? bye & Thanks av.

Re: Old releases support

2013-03-04 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 03/02/13 19:32, Remko Lodder wrote: I just removed 7.4/7-STABLE from the list and moved it to the 'unsupported' section. Thanks for mentioning this! Thanks to you! Although I'm fine (I know what I asked for :-), I'll point out another little thing: 7.4 is still listed as "legacy" in the

Re: FreeBSD 8.1 install on Intel Romley platform

2013-03-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 03/20/13 12:44, belle_...@wiwynn.com wrote: We are facing a problem to install FreeBSD8.1 8.1 is not supported anymore; I don't think you'll get much help. > our Firewall application only work on FreeBSD 8.1 and 8.3. 8.3 is still supported, so I'd move on to that one. SAS HDD could

Re: USB host controllers on a server that does not use USB devices?

2013-03-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 03/20/13 14:59, ill...@gmail.com wrote: Probably not on a server, but there are some built-in devices in some notebooks (webcam & bluetooth) that are run through a usb bus. It happened to me to see an internal USB tape drive, connected to an USB port on the motherboard. bye av.

Re: openvpn and tap device

2013-05-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 05/29/13 09:36, Arthur Chance wrote: It's a while since I looked at OpenVPN, so this is from unreliable memory, but IIRC it uses tap devices under Windows and tun devices under Unix(ish) OSes. It can use tun OR tap device on both Unix(ish) (and IIRC the same holds for Windows). Do yo

Stop SMTP attack with pam_abl

2013-06-03 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I have different sendmail based servers deployed and all of them are, more or less frequently, subject to dictionary attacks. So I looked for some solution to stop them and stumbled upon pam_abl. However it does not seem to do its job; in the logs I have: > pam_abl[2398]: /usr/local/etc

Possibly OT: NFS vs SMB performance

2013-07-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Sorry to ask here: maybe it's not the best place, but it might be a start (the client and server are both FreeBSD). The server exports the same directory via NFS and via SMB. I'd expect some performance penalty when using SMB, but: "find /nfs_mounted_dir >/dev/null" takes more or less

Re: Possibly OT: NFS vs SMB performance

2013-07-06 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/05/13 20:42, Terje Elde wrote: On 5. juli 2013, at 18:18, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Is this normal in your experience? Did you do them in that order, or did you do the smb (slow) one first? If the slow was first, I'm thinking caching on the server could be a major factor. Yest

Re: SV: Re: Possibly OT: NFS vs SMB performance

2013-07-08 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/06/13 19:51, Leslie Jensen wrote: Smb is slow by design compared to nfs. Sure. As I said, I was expecting lower performance; not *this* lower, however. bye & Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: Possibly OT: NFS vs SMB performance

2013-07-08 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/07/13 00:52, Adam Vande More wrote: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-January/038903.html Thanks Adam. However: I'm using UFS, not ZFS, so the first part is not applicable. I have an nfe card, not an em; so again, the second part does not apply. The only tunable i

4-STABLE server crashing

2006-02-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. As per subject, a 4.11 server of mine started crashing quite often; I upgraded it to 4-STABLE just in case, but this didn't solve. I'm attaching three backtraces; can someone give me any hint? I'm oviously willing to provide any further needed info. I also checked to see whether the ha

Re: portupgrade xorg-* -> mouse-wheel stops working under X

2006-02-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:11:44AM -0500, George Fazio wrote: I had the same issue. My mouse wheel stopped working, and imwheel started using it for my broswer back/forward (instead of the buttons it's suppose to use). I was able to get the mouse wheel working again by editi

k3b hardware detection

2006-02-03 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I just tryed installing k3b and I did follow all the instruction from pkg-message5. The problem now is that my burner is detected as a cd-rom read only device. First of all: _ I'm using FreeBSD 6-STABLE; I followed the instruction for FreeBSD 5.x, since that's what I was presented with

Re: k3b hardware detection

2006-02-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Fabian Keil wrote: Just a guess, but maybe the drive reports false capabilities which are then checked by k3b. You could try cdrecord's prcap option to see if the drive advertises it self as a writer. Fabian Guess it does: Drive capabilities, per MMC page 2A: Does read CD-R media Doe

Re: Adaptec AIC7901 and Striping

2006-02-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Necati Ersen Siseci wrote: Hello, I have a Asus Xeon server with Adaptec AIC 7901 SCSI card and two discs. I made a RAID configuration for stripping two disks (RAID 0) When I try to install FreeBSD 5.4. FreeBSD still see two different discs( da0 and da1). Do you have any idea about this problem

SDR GEM312P

2006-02-09 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm building a new server and stumbled upon this: > ses0 at ahd0 bus 0 target 8 lun 0 > ses0: Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device > ses0: 3.300MB/s transfers > ses0: SAF-TE Compliant Device I guess it has something to do with a SCSI hot-swap device, but I didn't find any info on it. What is

Re: SDR GEM312P

2006-02-10 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Tom Grove wrote: Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I'm building a new server and stumbled upon this: > ses0 at ahd0 bus 0 target 8 lun 0 > ses0: Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device > ses0: 3.300MB/s transfers > ses0: SAF-TE Compliant Device I guess it has something to do with a SCS

Re: SDR GEM312P

2006-02-10 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Chuck Swiger wrote: Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I'm building a new server and stumbled upon this: ses0 at ahd0 bus 0 target 8 lun 0 ses0: Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device ses0: 3.300MB/s transfers ses0: SAF-TE Compliant Device I guess it has something to do with a SCSI hot-swap device

Re: SDR GEM312P

2006-02-11 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Tom Grove wrote: aic7902 is the controller card...the board that has your scsi channels and such. SDR GEM318P 1 is the processor on the aforementioned board. It's similar to a regular motherboard in that you would have a things like ata0 and cpu0 except here you have ahd0 and ses0. Ok, tha

PCI Express 1x NIC

2006-03-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'v got an MB which is going to run 6.0/AMD64. It features a "PCI Express x1" slot. Has anyone had any experience with such a NIC? Altought this is gonna be Gigabit, I'm more insterested in stability than in performance. Also, slightly OT, is PCI-Express aka PCI-X? Or is it PCI-E? None

Re: PCI Express 1x NIC

2006-03-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Derek Ragona wrote: PCI Express is NOT PCI-X PCI-X is larger slot usually running faster at 66MHz vs. standard PCI at 33MHz. PCI-X is found mostly on server motherboards. PCI Express is a small connector found on primarily desktop motherboards. Ok, thanks a lot. So, does PCI Express=PCI-E

System does not power off

2006-03-16 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. After I changed the motherboard, at shutdown my box does not power off any more, but waits until I press the power button. This happens also on other systems of mine, but here it is most easily debuggable. Where do I start? Guess this is the relevant part of dmesg, but on the other sys

Re: k3b incorrectly identifies scsi r/w drive as read-only -- Mode sense fails

2006-03-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Duane Whitty wrote: Please forgive me for stepping in, but I'm having the same problem, asked sometime ago and did not get any answer. I believe you may also need in defs.conf perm xpt0 0666 Did that, same situation. My Yamaha burner is still detected as a read-only device. bye & Than

Re: k3b incorrectly identifies scsi r/w drive as read-only -- Mode sense fails

2006-03-26 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Oliver Iberien wrote: There is a thread here: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-ports/2005-March/021958.html of someone with a scsi cd-r/w that was giving the same errors. The thread goes on to post some kind of fix to a flac decoder: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/free

Re: Why are so many people using 4.x?

2006-03-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you have had plenty of response already. i just want to post my experience. I'll post my 2 cents too. in late 2001, i installed 4.3 on a server and a couple of workstations. i have upgraded them as time went by up to 4.11. no problems, it runs runs runs. I've had p

Re: Why are so many people using 4.x?

2006-03-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Michael Hughes wrote: PII machine. Am I better off using an older version for such old equipment? If so, do any particular versions stand out? I use vinum on two of my machine and most of what I have seen on the list about gvinum isn't good. That is the main reson I haven't upgraded.

Samba on amd64 6.0

2006-04-03 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Anyone using this with LDAP backend? Does it work for you? To me it's giving severe troubles: smbd will tend to hang, hog CPU to 99% and keep some file locked, the user was modifing. I'll need to kill -9 it, in order to let the user keep on working. If anyone is having or has had this problem,

No answer send-pr

2004-07-28 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I wrapped up a small port and submitted it with send-pr. However (after maybe a couple week) I don't see it in the list of upcoming ports, nor did I get any answer. IIRC I should get an automated message, just to inform me that my report was received... is it so? bye & Thanks av

panic with 4.10p4 and ipfw2

2004-12-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. A box of mine, which acts as firewall/bridge, is experiencing frequent panics. As said in the subject line, it's a 4.10-RELEASE-p4 with ipfw2 enabled in the kernel. I've run through post mortem kernel analisys and found out that the crashes are always related to ipfw2; specifically I get

gprof does not output flat profile

2004-12-16 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. As from subject: I've compiled and linked everything with -pg (ad I do on other platforms), I get the call graph, but in the flat profile I only get "None". Any hint? bye & Thanks av. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.free

3D CAD ?

2005-01-06 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. As from subject: does a simple usable 3D CAD system exist for FreeBSD? Something on the line of QCAD, but 3D. Free at best, but also free for personal use can do. I've looked into the port tree: many electrical CAD and some big app like Blender for animations, but nothing a bit more techinc

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Anthony Atkielski wrote: From what you say and from what I've read today, it sounds like hyperthreading comes close to providing two separate processors for heterogenous system loads (where each hyperthread is using slightly different processor resources at any given instant), but it may not buy mu

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-13 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Where these computations in which all threads were doing pretty much the same thing? Not exactly the same algorithm and on different set of data. And was it floating-point? Yes. (Doesn't the processor have just one FPU, or something like that?) I don't really know (I made

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-13 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Andrea Venturoli writes: AV> Not exactly the same algorithm and on different set of data. But similar machine instructions, perhaps? Yes, both numerical computations. Basically one thread would model geometry and the other would mesh it. Frequent stall would arise, as

Re: programming languages and visual programming under FreeBSD

2005-01-17 Thread Andrea Venturoli
koen de wijs wrote: > I heard that C is the most powerfull language under unix Two points here: first, this is just one opinion, and one that may start a flame war (which I'll avoid); second, C is not just for UNIX, it's a platform neutral standard language. That means you can write a program wi

Re: tap interface, bridging and freebsd 5.3

2005-02-28 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Andrea Riela wrote: Hi folks, I would test openvpn with bridging options, then I need a tap interface. I've compiled my kernel with devicetap then 'kldload if_tap' via command line These are mutually exclusive: either you compile your kernel with tap or you load it as a module, not both. but I

Re: tap interface, bridging and freebsd 5.3

2005-02-28 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:18:55PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli typed: Andrea Riela wrote: but I don't see a tap interface in /dev or with ifconfig ... You won't see any network interface in /dev; just run ifconfig -a and check: you won't find any of the listed

Strange SCSI logs

2005-03-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. On a 5.3 machine I'm getting the following log messages. It appears they started when I activated smartd from smartmontools. Now I disabled it, but I'd like to have some more insight. Any info? bye & Thanks av.

Re: Strange SCSI logs

2005-03-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Anthony Atkielski wrote: I've been getting strange messages of similar character on my system, too. I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 on a dual-processor PPro with an Adaptec AIC7880 controller and two 4.5 GB SCSI drives. There doesn't seem to be any data corruption occurring, but the process doing the I/O

Re: Strange SCSI logs

2005-03-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Andrea Venturoli wrote: And I was wrong to blame healthd, even after I stopped it, I'm still getting these messages. Hemm, I was meaning smartd, not healthd, sorry. bye av. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: smbus and freebsd 5.3

2005-03-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Andrea Riela wrote: Thank you Volodymyr, I've tryed with: # System Management Bus device smbus device smb device iicsmb device bktr device iicbus device iicbb device iic device ic device viapm but nothing. mbmon says:

Re: c standard

2005-03-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Florian Hengstberger wrote: We are OT, anyway... Following is possible with gcc and g++: These are two quite different cases: gcc is normally for C, g++ for C++. Contrary to what many people believe, they are two very different languages. #include If you are using C++ you should not #include ,

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