diskless problem: Lookup of /dev for devfs, error: 13

find any other references to this. I know that other people have PXE-booted FreeBSD on VMWare, however. Anyone have any suggestions on what to check? Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucasmwlu...@blackhelicopters.org http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/ Latest book: Cisco Routers for the Despera

Re: diskless problem: Lookup of /dev for devfs, error: 13

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:20:54AM -0900, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:18:29 -0500, "Michael W. Lucas" > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm attempting to run a diskless 8.0 i386 workstation on VMWare, using > > an OpenSolaris box as a file stor

em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

I've tried disabling TSO. No change. Anyone else experiencing this, or have any suggestions? At the moment, the boss is complaining that his Windows Home Server is doing better than this machine, and that's a technological direction I really don't want to go in. Thanks, =

Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 07:12:27PM +0200, Eduardo Morras wrote: > At 18:04 20/07/2011, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm running FreeNAS 8.0/amd64, with an 8.2-p1 kernel. When using FTP > >or SCP, performance maxes out around 30MB/s. This is on a gigab

Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:19:47PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 7/20/2011 12:04 PM, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running FreeNAS 8.0/amd64, with an 8.2-p1 kernel. When using FTP > > or SCP, performance maxes out around 30MB/s. This is on a gigabi

Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 09:32:27PM +0200, Eduardo Morras wrote: > At 21:16 20/07/2011, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > >It's at gigabit: > > > >em0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 > > > >options=219b > >ether 00:15:17:31:c8:fe > >

Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:01:57PM +0200, Eduardo Morras wrote: > > Have you tried other protocols? Http, rsync... It maybe a problem at > client side, some ftp clients can set a maximun ftp transfer, like > filezilla, winscp, FTP and NFSv3 both have similar results. ==ml -

Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 02:06:23PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 7/22/2011 1:50 PM, Eduardo Morras wrote: > > At 17:12 21/07/2011, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:01:57PM +0200, Eduardo Morras wrote: > >> > > >> > Have you tried

Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 03:46:06PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 7/22/2011 3:08 PM, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > > > Basically the same. I don't think it's disk. > > Are you able to saturate the ethernet ? Try something like > > > /usr/src/tools/too

Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 04:15:11PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 7/22/2011 4:10 PM, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > > > > > 3.65 419155.4 > > Thats 400Mb/s no ? Whats the CPU in this thing ? Also your NIC version > was 7.1.9. RELENG_8 has 7.2.3. Can you try

PAM confusion

stem # session # XXX: pam_lastlog (used in system) causes users to appear as though # they are no longer logged in in system logs. session requiredpam_permit.so # password #password include system --- Any suggestions what I'm doing wrong? Th

Re: PAM confusion

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 03:34:28PM -0600, Reid Linnemann wrote: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Michael W. Lucas > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm attempting to hook security/pam_ssh_agent_auth into sudo, and have > > learned that PAM doesn't work the w

pkgng problem

hing to do This is from a machine freshly converted to pkgng. Any suggestions? Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas - mwlu...@michaelwlucas.com, Twitter @mwlauthor http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http://blather.MichaelWLucas.com/ Absolute OpenBSD 2/e - http://www.nostarch.com/openbsd2e c

Re: pkgng problem

Thanks, Matt. # pkg -vv | sed -ne '/Repositories/,$p' Repositories: packagesite: url: http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/pkg-test-freebsd:9:x86:32/latest key: enabled: yes mirror_type: SRV Also: # pkg -v 1.1.4 ==ml -- Michael W. Luca

Re: pkgng problem

s the "bad repo" theory, but it's interesting. Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas - mwlu...@michaelwlucas.com, Twitter @mwlauthor http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http://blather.MichaelWLucas.com/ Absolute OpenBSD 2/e - http://www.nostarch.com/openbsd2e coupon code "ILUVMICHAE

Re: pkgng problem

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:23:41AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: >Have you done a "pkg update" first, just in case you needed to pull in a >pkgng update? Yep, tried that. ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas - mwlu...@michaelwlucas.com, Twitter @mwlauthor http://www.MichaelW

Re: pkgng problem

For the archives: I left the problem alone for a few days, with no changes on my side. Came back Monday. Tried again. Everything worked on the affected machines. ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas - mwlu...@michaelwlucas.com, Twitter @mwlauthor http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http

replacement for Acrobat Professional?

pers the search. :-) Any suggestions on a replacement for or equivalent to Acrobat Pro? I'm on a -current box running i386. Thanks for any pointers, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ "The cloa

Re: replacement for Acrobat Professional?

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:18:35PM +, Ceri Davies wrote: > > On 9 Jan 2006, at 19:53, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > > > >Hi folks, > > > >I've been handed a whole bunch of PDFs and asked to make my comments > >directly in them. I'm sure there

Re: replacement for Acrobat Professional?

can be used as a PDF editor. This looks like the best option to me. I missed this in my search. :-( I never thought I'd say this, but we have too *much* software available... ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.BlackHelicopters.

Re: replacement for Acrobat Professional?

sted and that I've tried last night and this morning, it's as good as we have. Thanks for all the help, I'll do this the old-fashioned way. ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ "The c

Re: replacement for Acrobat Professional?

mments, strip out everyone's comments, and send it to the printer. Scary? Yes. Terrifying, actually. But more and more web presses speak PDF. It could be worse; they *could* speak only MS .doc... And hey, I imagine that *you* of all people would understand dealing with publishers and p

filling up UDP socket buffers like mad

at is most resistant to restarting, but that's a pretty crappy reason. Any thoughts? Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ "The cloak of anonymity protects me from the nuisance of caring."

Re: filling up UDP socket buffers like mad

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 06:03:47PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Mar 24, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > >Running FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE as a DNS, dhcp, and syslog server. > > > >I'm having trouble with DNS, DHCP, and syslogd locking up, and I think &

Re: filling up UDP socket buffers like mad

On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:22:18AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 06:03:47PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: > [ ... ] > > udp4 43414 0 *.514 *.* > > udp4

Re: filling up UDP socket buffers like mad

On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 04:29:31PM +0100, Freminlins wrote: > Michael, > > On 3/27/06, Michael W. Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > # netstat -na > > udp4 43414 0 *.514 *.* > > > That's a big queue. Yep. Mine

Re: Maximum uptime 497 days?

Hi, This tickles something in the back of my memory. You aren't by chance talking about remote uptime detection, Netcraft-style, are you? IIRC, that rolls over to 0 at 497 days. But actual system uptime is unaffected. ==ml On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:39:30PM +0900, Rob wrote: > > Hi, > > By

Re: Maximum uptime 497 days?

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:40:53AM +0900, Rob wrote: > Michael W. Lucas wrote: > >Hi, > > > >This tickles something in the back of my memory. > > > >You aren't by chance talking about remote uptime detection, > >Netcraft-style, are you? > > >

mimedefang, perl, and amd64 trouble

1747) exit ed normally with status 255 (SLAVE DIED UNEXPECTEDLY) Has anyone seen anything like this on FreeBSD before? I know that Wine has had some mmap problems, but I imagine a Perl failure would be big news here... Any ideas or suggestions appreciated. ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas

pfspamd greylisting stuttering at everything

:msg="SPAM. Your address %A is in my relaydb list.":\ :method=exec:\ :file=relaydb -4lb: relaydb-white:\ :white:\ :method=exec:\ :file=relaydb -4lw: --- I'm missing something obvious, I'm sure... something so obvious th

Re: pfspamd greylisting stuttering at everything

;ll happen. ;-) > PS My favorite quote about spamd and greylisting at the moment is this > recent message to openbsd-misc: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=116136841831550&w=2 That's what inspired me to try this. Thanks for your help, it's nic

Is the last sector of a partition free?

downtime.) Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Coming Soon: "Absolute FreeBSD" -- http://www.AbsoluteFreeBSD.com On 5/4/2007, the TSA kept 3 pairs of my

xorg resolution on new laptop

Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 Modes "1440x900" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 Modes "1440x900" EndSubSe

Re: xorg resolution on new laptop

; (from xdpyinfo) > screen #0: > print screen:no > dimensions:1440x900 pixels (302x191 millimeters) > resolution:121x120 dots per inch > depths (7):24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32 > root window id:0x5d > depth of root window:24 planes > number of colo

Re: xorg resolution on new laptop

, I don't know enough to even write the proposal! :-) Does anyone have a recommendation for a decent user tutorial for X troubleshooting? I don't mean "run startx", I mean "this is the log file and this is what the various entries mean" sort of troubleshooting. Thanks

USB key device nodes

fs /dev/da1s1. Is this behavior normal? I'm trying to configure devd to automount a USB device, but the lack of a proper device node appearing the first time around kiboshes that. This is a 7.x i386 system. Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: USB key device nodes

Thanks for the answer! ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Latest book: PGP & GPG -- http://www.pgpandgpg.com "The cloak of anonymity protects me from t

if_lagg(4) and rc.conf

onfig_lagg0="laggproto lacp laggport em3 laggport em7 10.184.1.19 netmask 0x" Any suggestions? Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Coming Soon: "Absolute FreeBSD&q

Re: if_lagg(4) and rc.conf

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 03:10:05PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: > On Tuesday 03 July 2007 02:35:16 pm Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > I'm trying to configure a lagg(4) interface out of rc.conf. FreeBSD > > doesn't want to initialize the interface at boot. I'm obviously

timekeeping on jail servers

Hi, Been searching around without results: Has anyone come up with a decent way to do timekeeping on a jail server? ntpd(8) binds to all addresses, and I'd rather not do a ntpdate out of cron. Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:02:12AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to "Michael W. Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi, > > > > Been searching around without results: > > > > Has anyone come up with a decent way to do timekeeping on a j

Portmaster error or actual bug?

portmaster? Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Now Shipping: "Absolute FreeBSD" -- http://www.AbsoluteFreeBSD.com On 5/4/2007, the TSA kept 3 pairs of my soiled undies "for s

Re: Portmaster error or actual bug?

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:52:49PM -0500, Randy Pratt wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:08:59 -0500 > "Michael W. Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Not sure if this is a bug, but it sure looks like one to me. > > > > I

"disklabel: Class not found" when editing USB disk

d restore (-R). Google tells me that this error is not uncommon, but the only solutions I saw (loading geom_mbr and setting kern.geom.debugflags=16) did not help. Anyone have any suggestions? Or, can anyone tell me I'm running down the wrong path? Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas

play a music CD backwards?

No, I'm not looking for satanic messages. :-) I have a music CD that was pressed from a master tape run backwards (Throbbing Gristle's "2nd Annual Report", if anyone cares). It would be nice to hear it forwards. Can someone suggest a way to hear a CD backwards? Sadly, none of the standard CD

net4801, nanobsd, & -current

over FireWire (non-standard!) #device fwip# IP over FireWire (RFC 2734,3146) #device dcons # Dumb console driver #device dcons_crom # Configuration ROM for dcons -- Michael W. Lucas[EMAIL PROTECTE

Proper startup of ng_fec?

appears that I need to write a custom rc.d script to have a ng_one2many interface appear and start early in the boot sequence. Anyone have a better way? Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/

ng_fec headaches

400MB (2929459200 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a -- Michael W. Lucas[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Latest book: PGP & GPG

PDF storage software recommendations?

od candidate. While I'm sure I could build a database/PHP app that would work, surely someone's already done this? Any recommendations? Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucasmwlu...@blackhelicopters.org http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http://blather.MichaelWLucas.com/ New book: Netwo

Re: PDF storage software recommendations?

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 01:12:13PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have to store a bunch of PDFs of orders. I'd like to be able to > > "tag" these by cu

apache22 build problem: cgi disabled

't making it down to the Apache build process. Am I doing something daft here, or should I file a PR? Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucasmwlu...@blackhelicopters.org http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http://blather.MichaelWLucas.com/ New book available: Network Flow Analysis http://ww