Re: Regarding New FreeBSD BenchMark From Sysadmin Mag (left out afiew tuning options)

2001-07-13 Thread Lamont Granquist
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Bruce Burden wrote: > > Some SCSI drive manufacturers ship their drives > > with WCE enabled. Other SCSI drive manufacturers, who are more > > concerned with data integrity as opposed to performance figures, will > > ship their drives with WCE disabled. >

Re: Cron still exiting signal 11.

2001-07-13 Thread Dima Dorfman
Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is up with "cron" not working? > > I cvsup'd last night and its still br0ke. It works fine unless you don't specify a username in /etc/crontab. It's a bug that it crashes instead of civilly reporting the error, but it has never and will never do what y

Re: Installing old port version

2001-07-13 Thread Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I apologize if I should already know how to do this, but I haven't > figured it out and haven't seen anything in the mailing lists > archives or handbook about it. The closest I've found relates > just to system source. > > I wa

Re: Regarding New FreeBSD BenchMark From Sysadmin Mag (left out a fiew tuning options)

2001-07-13 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Friday 13 July 2001 21:26, Juha Saarinen wrote: > ::camcontrol modepage da0 -m 0x08 -e -P 3 > > su-2.05# camcontrol modepage da0 -m 0x08 -e -P 3 > camcontrol: cam_lookup_pass: CAMGETPASSTHRU ioctl failed > cam_lookup_pass: No such file or directory > cam_lookup_pass: either the pass driver

Re: Regarding New FreeBSD BenchMark From Sysadmin Mag (left out a fiew tuning options)

2001-07-13 Thread Juha Saarinen
OK, recompiled the kernel with the 'pass' driver, and did the camcontrol modepage thing. On this particular system, with two IBM DDYS-T36950N SCSI-3 drives, WCE is enabled on both. -- Regards, Juha PGP fingerprint: B7E1 CC52 5FCA 9756 B502 10C8 4CD8 B066 12F3 9544 "My pid is Inigo Montoya. Yo

Re: Regarding New FreeBSD BenchMark From Sysadmin Mag (left out a fiew tuning options)

2001-07-13 Thread Juha Saarinen
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:48:30PM -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: :: :: cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV all :: :: or :: :: cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV pass4 xpt2 :: :: I'm assuming you have the pass(4) device in your kernel, which is by :: default in the GENERIC kernel. Nope, didn't

Installing old port version

2001-07-13 Thread lists
I apologize if I should already know how to do this, but I haven't figured it out and haven't seen anything in the mailing lists archives or handbook about it. The closest I've found relates just to system source. I want to install XFree86 4.0.x instead of the current release of 4.1.0. The c

Re: Regarding New FreeBSD BenchMark From Sysadmin Mag (left out a fiew tuning options)

2001-07-13 Thread Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group
In message <01f101c10c0c$73e1c000$0a01a8c0@den2>, "Juha Saarinen" writes: > ::camcontrol modepage da0 -m 0x08 -e -P 3 > > su-2.05# camcontrol modepage da0 -m 0x08 -e -P 3 > camcontrol: cam_lookup_pass: CAMGETPASSTHRU ioctl failed > cam_lookup_pass: No such file or directory > cam_lookup_pass

Re: Regarding New FreeBSD BenchMark From Sysadmin Mag (left out a fiew tuning options)

2001-07-13 Thread Bruce Burden
> > Some SCSI drive manufacturers ship their drives > with WCE enabled. Other SCSI drive manufacturers, who are more > concerned with data integrity as opposed to performance figures, will > ship their drives with WCE disabled. > I have 3 IBM drives, and the /root

RE: Regarding New FreeBSD BenchMark From Sysadmin Mag (left out a fiew tuning options)

2001-07-13 Thread Juha Saarinen
:: camcontrol modepage da0 -m 0x08 -e -P 3 su-2.05# camcontrol modepage da0 -m 0x08 -e -P 3 camcontrol: cam_lookup_pass: CAMGETPASSTHRU ioctl failed cam_lookup_pass: No such file or directory cam_lookup_pass: either the pass driver isn't in your kernel cam_lookup_pass: or da0 doesn't exist

Re: difficulty uninstalling ports

2001-07-13 Thread Jordan Hubbard
Boy, life would be easier if folks would just read the man pages. :-) -G Do not try to expand shell glob patterns in the pkg-name when selecting packages to be deleted (by default pkg_delete automati- cally expands shell glob patterns in the pkg-name). From: "

Re: $diety, I hate natd.

2001-07-13 Thread Mike Hoskins
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Ryan Taylor wrote: > Would something like this in your /etc/rc.conf do the trick: > > natd_flags="-proxy_rule port 8080 server 1.2.3.4:my_divert_port" > > This should divert incoming packets on port 8080 to the server 1.2.3.4 on > port my_divert_port. I use this on a firew

Re: difficulty uninstalling ports

2001-07-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:52 PM -0700 7/12/01, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >And, as I'm sure others have pointed out by now, it's even easier >to do this with the -a flag. :) > >Of course, since pkg_delete also supports globbing now, one assumes >'pkg_delete *' from *any* directory would also work. watch out there. you wo

Re: NMI panics

2001-07-13 Thread Tom
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Steve Price wrote: > Anyone have any suggestions for what the most probable causes of > the following panic are? > > panic: NMI indicates hardware failure Typically, it is a memory problem. If you use ECC or parity memory, and a memory error is detected (and unfixable w

Re: IPFirewall Module Breakage

2001-07-13 Thread Daniel Frazier
Andrew Boothman wrote: > Hi all! > > I've successfully built and installed a new world (including GENERIC kernel), > cvsuped a few hours ago. > > But I'm having trouble compiling my custom kernel. During a 'make buildkernel > KERNCONF=SPATULA' I'm getting the following failure : > > ===> ipf

Re: NMI panics

2001-07-13 Thread Dima Dorfman
Steve Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone have any suggestions for what the most probable causes of > the following panic are? > > panic: NMI indicates hardware failure It's obvious that something is generating an NMI when it shouldn't. There's a sysctl, machdep.panic_on_nmi, that control

Re: mass uninstall all ports?

2001-07-13 Thread Mike Harding
It's nice, but I have had it burn my ports so bad I had to start over. Gnome seemed to confuse it. I have had this happen twice and will use portupgrade after I hear people saying nice things about it for a while. - Mike H. Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:22:05 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <[EMAI

NMI panics

2001-07-13 Thread Steve Price
Anyone have any suggestions for what the most probable causes of the following panic are? panic: NMI indicates hardware failure Thanks. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: $diety, I hate natd.

2001-07-13 Thread Ryan Taylor
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Mike Hoskins wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > > > My new 'firewall' manual page has an ipfw example of a natd setup. > > It might help. You need a relatively recent -stable to have the > > man page. > > I see the page... Thanks, btw. However,

Re: Problem with user-pppoe after upgrade, fixed

2001-07-13 Thread Antoine Beaupre (LMC)
Brian Somers wrote: > Hi, > > I said your ppp.conf was censored because you didn't attach it - you > just attached an error message that said it couldn't read it :*P LOL! ok.. I see. Darn mozilla. :) Ok, here goes a url, that should be fine: http://anarcat.dyndns.org/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/local_in

Re: ipfilter Module Breakage (Was: IPFirewall Module Breakage)

2001-07-13 Thread Rasputin
* Andrew Boothman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010713 00:09]: > Replying to my own message, the subject of this message should have course > > have been "_ipfilter_ Module Breakage". > > > ===> ipfilter Search the archives of this mailing list, about a month ago. ipf moved oin the base system and borke

Re: Benchmarks from SysAdmin mag

2001-07-13 Thread Rasputin
* Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010712 23:23]: > Once upon a time, Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed: > > > In anycase, the results prove our point rather succinctly. > > Unfortunately, it proves our point to us daemonites mostly, and is > probably still lost on the average sysadminmag

Re: Problem with user-pppoe after upgrade, fixed

2001-07-13 Thread Brian Somers
Hi, I said your ppp.conf was censored because you didn't attach it - you just attached an error message that said it couldn't read it :*P The right fix is to simply remove these lines. What do your logs say when you enable LCP logging and the negotiation fails ? > Brian Somers wrote: > > >