Availability of a journaling file system

2006-03-22 Thread Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont
I've had some problems earlier this year due to FreeBSD-6.0 crashing after a few hours of execution (perhaps it's mal-functioning hd's dma, but - simply put - I can't install FreeBSD 2 or 3 times a day to find out! ^^). And so I thought of journaling file systems. I think XFS is being ported to Fr

Strange HD behavior

2006-03-25 Thread Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont
Hi, I've recently (2 or 3 days ago) installed 6.1-BETA4 (from bootonly CD). The installation process went on flawlessly. Then I left kdebase3 compiling (and its dependancies) overnight. But I woke up the next day to find the login prompt and a few (2, i guess) messages of bad blocks somewhere in t

Re: Strange HD behavior

2006-03-26 Thread Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont
sort of watchdog in FreeBSD that gets installed by default? =/ Has anyone ever had a problem like this? Thanks for the answers / tips / help, but now I've got more questions. :) On 3/26/06, Matthias Fechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Luiz, > > * Luiz Eduardo Gui

Fwd: package vs ports question

2006-03-27 Thread Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont
Thanks for the answer. I just hope I'm not messing things too much. So if a port may override a package, is the only solution to this generate a package then install it? Now if this happens, what will happen for example (supposing I install everything from packages - or "make package" then pkg_add

Re: filling up UDP socket buffers like mad

2006-03-27 Thread Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont
Could it be that you're under a DOS attack even though you're "behind three layers of firewall"? =/ Try configuring a firewall to block every UDP packet for every port except those needed by the services you run. On 3/27/06, Michael W. Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 06:

package vs ports question

2006-03-27 Thread Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont
Wow, I stopped following this thread for a few hours and now I can just compile a mini-ports howto. ^^ So, first things first: thanks for all who replied. All replies were meaningful, so thank you all. Kevin, what I didn't know was the fact that ports and packages share the same database. Knowing

reconfiguring a package

2006-04-02 Thread Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont
I'm sorry if this is one of those rtfm cases, but I've exhausted my options so far (except asking for help here ^^). When you "make install" a package, for some the first thing you get is a screen where you choose some compile-time options that affect the package's dependancies (eg. "postgresql su