increased spam levels (was Re: Spam Avenger and Toner spam that came through)

2001-03-20 Thread Dan Langille
This thread should move to freebsd-chat, reply-to set accordingly. On 20 Mar 2001, at 14:52, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > I've been getting a lot of spam lately from all the freebsd lists, anyone > notice that? Not from the lists, but I have noticed a dramatic increase in spam levels over the

RE: Spam Avenger and Toner spam that came through

2001-03-20 Thread Nate Dannenberg
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Juha Saarinen wrote: > The spammer might be the notorious Sam Khuri, who I understand got into > severe trouble for his activities. The message with headers should be > forwarded to the appropriate authorities. On looking this guy's header over, it looks like it originates f

Re: 4.3-BETA

2001-03-20 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:53:50 -0800 Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: KS> > - -RELEASE branch doesn't change. To my mind this is all backwards. KS> Not in my mind. The -release branch always has something wrong with it But -release is *not* a branch, it is a point. It cannot change,

Spam Avenger and Toner spam that came through

2001-03-20 Thread Jason Fuller
Just a note about that stupid toner spam that came through today. toll free numbers cost companies somethin' aweful most of the time. (Though I'm not suggesting each of us call that number and complain about the spam, it might convince said company that spammers aren't good company to keep.) Fi

Re: CPUTYPE flag of 4.3-BETA

2001-03-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 05:03:30AM +0900, Yoshihiro Koya wrote: > Is it correct behavior of the standard make world/buildkernel on 4.3-BETA? > Or, does something go wrong? CPUTYPE isn't currently used for building the kernel on 4.x. I've patched it to do so on -current, but haven't merged the c

XFree86-4 port problems

2001-03-20 Thread Josh Benton
I am having problems getting the lastest XFree86-4 port to run. It builds/installs fine, but I am not able to run 'X -configure' or 'startx'. I have a Dell OptiPlex GX110 with an i810 card. I have re-compiled my kernel with agp support and have added /dev/agpgart. Here is the output of my X log.

CPUTYPE flag of 4.3-BETA

2001-03-20 Thread Yoshihiro Koya
Hello, I have a question about CPUTYPE of 4.3-BETA. My environment is FreeBSD presario.my.domain 4.3-BETA FreeBSD 4.3-BETA #0: \ Thu Mar 15 13:09:40 JST 2001 \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/presario i386 I cvsup'd at Tue Mar 20 10:14:12 UTC 2001. I also set CPUTYPE flag as CPUTY

Re: NFS performance

2001-03-20 Thread Matt Dillon
:Actually, from what I've been told, TCP allows for much larger requests :than what UDP does, afaik UDP maxes out at 8k while tcp should be able :to go to 32k (maybe 64k) and give possibly better performance. : :Plus each time you 'hickup' under a UDP mount it's a lot more painful :because since i

Re: NFS performance

2001-03-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jan Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010320 10:36] wrote: > We're making plans to upgrade our NFS server to FreeBSD-4.3 (including > new disks...) and I would like to ask about the status of NFS v3? > > Currently, a standard NFS mount (4.3BETA) gives us a sequential writing > speed of approx. 2Mb/s

Re: NFS performance

2001-03-20 Thread Rich Morin
At 10:45 AM -0800 3/20/01, Gordon Tetlow wrote: >Why are you using TCP? If you are on a reliable LAN, use UDP. TCP should >be used for long haul NFS. There are lots of reasons for using UDP, if you >want me to go into them, I will. Although TCP imposes some overhead, it may provide better worst-c

Re: NFS performance

2001-03-20 Thread Matt Dillon
Putting on my NFS hat... I would not recommend NFSv2 to anyone. Everyone should be using NFSv3 at this point. It just does a much better job at everything, including and most especially at writing. TCP mounts are useful, and much safer, if you need to export NFS across a fir

Re: NFS performance

2001-03-20 Thread Gordon Tetlow
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Actually, from what I've been told, TCP allows for much larger requests > than what UDP does, afaik UDP maxes out at 8k while tcp should be able > to go to 32k (maybe 64k) and give possibly better performance. This is true. I'm used to working with

Re: NFS performance

2001-03-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Gordon Tetlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010320 10:47] wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Jan Conrad wrote: > > > We're making plans to upgrade our NFS server to FreeBSD-4.3 (including > > new disks...) and I would like to ask about the status of NFS v3? > > Why do you need NFSv3? Are there particular fe

Re: /usr/ports/apache13 & sig11

2001-03-20 Thread Andrew Tulloch
One ServerName directive later and it works :) Thanks! Andrew On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Hroi Sigurdsson wrote: > CC'ed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More below. > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:53:08PM +, Andrew Tulloch wrote: > > > I built apache from the ports updated this morning using cvsup and fo