Re: FreeBSD 13.0-RC5 Now Available

2021-04-05 Thread Colin Percival
he new location. Where is it? I think the freebsd-update build code might be homeless right now. I know I have seen emails mentioning that it needs to land somewhere but I don't recall any decision being reached. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder

Re: Upgrade to 11.1-RELEASE fails to boot on aws EC2.

2017-07-28 Thread Colin Percival
chine hangs > in the loader. Do you know what version of FreeBSD this system was originally running? It may be that there are other oddities in the old partitioning which cause problems for the newer loader code. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Foun

HEADS UP: Do not upgrade EC2 instances from 10.x to 11.x yet

2016-10-04 Thread Colin Percival
ase engineering team. Thanks to Peter Ankerstål, Allan Jude, Warner Losh, and Glen Barber for their help in tracking down this problem. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the

Re: [UART] GPS 18-5Hz LVC and COM1 silence, OK on Linux though...

2013-04-28 Thread Colin House
On 29/04/2013 3:48 AM, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: Hi, I'm having issues connecting Garmin GPS 18 to COM1 on 9.1, I get nothing but silence. Identical setup works absolutely fine with Linux. I've got PPS wire connected to DCD, but that seems to make no difference on Linux, so I presume it shouldn't af

HEADS UP: FreeBSD 7.3 EoL coming soon

2012-03-06 Thread Colin Percival
RELENG_9_0 |9.0-RELEASE |Normal |January 10, 2012 |January 31, 2013 | +-+ - -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the trul

(8.2|7.4)-RC3 amd64 bits in place now

2011-02-06 Thread Colin Percival
Hi all, I forgot to upload some of the amd64 RC3 bits to the mirrors earlier. They should be in place now. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

Re: Issues with ar0(Host Raid) adaptec after upgrade to 8.2

2011-02-01 Thread Colin Legendre
On 2/1/2011 6:22 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 05:34:18PM -0500, Colin Legendre wrote: Hey All, I'm having an odd issue, and the only thing I can imagine is that there has been a major change between 8.1 and 8.2. Using the 8.1 kernel everything is dandy. But when

Issues with ar0(Host Raid) adaptec after upgrade to 8.2

2011-02-01 Thread Colin Legendre
Hey All, I'm having an odd issue, and the only thing I can imagine is that there has been a major change between 8.1 and 8.2. Using the 8.1 kernel everything is dandy. But when I try to use a newly compiled kernel from 8.2(GENERIC) I have no luck. Root will not mount. Here are relevant k

HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

2010-10-31 Thread Colin Percival
, 2010|July 31, 2012| +-+ - -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: make buildkernel failing on zfs - fixed but now everything is slow

2010-01-24 Thread Colin
Colin wrote: Thanks for the reply. I must admit that the ins and outs of paging and interrupts are something I don't have much expertise in. I've asked the colo company to look into it but I've put the output of those commands into pastebin incase anything stands out. http://w

Re: make buildkernel failing on zfs - fixed but now everything is slow

2010-01-23 Thread Colin
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 03:27:12PM +, Colin wrote: There's nothing obvious that I can see in any other logfiles, are there any tools or other things that I can use to figure out why the system is so sluggish now? A couple things I can think of: vmstat

Re: make buildkernel failing on zfs - fixed but now everything is slow

2010-01-23 Thread Colin
n any other logfiles, are there any tools or other things that I can use to figure out why the system is so sluggish now? Cheers Colin. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, sen

Re: make buildkernel failing on zfs

2010-01-22 Thread Colin
N.J. Mann wrote: In message <4b596838.9020...@southportcomputers.co.uk>, Colin (free...@southportcomputers.co.uk) wrote: [snip] It goes for a while and then the buildkernel fails with this: cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -DFREEBSD_NAMECACHE -DBUILDING_ZFS -D_

Re: make buildkernel failing on zfs

2010-01-22 Thread Colin
Christer Solskogen wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Colin wrote: Anyone got any pointers? Could you post your /etc/make.conf? That said, I recon you build your kernel in a rather wierd way. Delete /usr/obj/* and run "make cleandir && make cleandir" in /u

make buildkernel failing on zfs

2010-01-22 Thread Colin
hine but I do need some of the other options in the kernel hence using custom. I am currently running another csup and will try building a generic kernel to see if that works but I can't really install a generic. Anyone got any pointers? Cheers, Colin.

FreeBSD 8.0-BETA1 available via FreeBSD Update

2009-07-11 Thread Colin Percival
ounter any problems -- I'm aware of two systems already which didn't manage to reboot after installing 8.0-BETA1 kernels, so this is definitely a case of "here be dragons". -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap

Looking for FreeBSD Update mirrors for 7.2-RELEASE

2009-04-24 Thread Colin Percival
(the buggy phttpget dies if a connection is reset instead of retrying it properly). Since I'm sure people will ask: I'm not looking for extra permanent mirrors at the moment. The FreeBSD Update mirroring code currently consists of "Colin sshes into servers and copies bits ar

Re: FreeBSD Update should be back to normal

2009-01-08 Thread Colin Percival
Aristedes Maniatis wrote: On 09/01/2009, at 7:19 AM, Colin Percival wrote: 2. Assuming the first mirror still fails, use the -s option to pick a different mirror. Where can we find a list of mirrors? The list of is distributed via DNS SRV records: # host -t srv _http

FreeBSD Update should be back to normal

2009-01-08 Thread Colin Percival
to pick a different mirror. 3. Assuming that the second mirror works, send me an email telling me which mirror failed and which one worked so that I can have the load balancing adjusted. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsna

FreeBSD Update slow right now, please be patient

2009-01-06 Thread Colin Percival
Hi all, FreeBSD Update is being slow right now due to server load issues. It will improve. Please be patient. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

Re: freebsd-update not working from 7.1-PRERELEASE

2008-10-18 Thread Colin Percival
best solution here is to make FreeBSD Update realize that you're running 7.1-BETA: # env UNAME_r=7.1-BETA freebsd-update [...] Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubsc

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-23 Thread Colin Percival
't agreed to anything yet. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 6.3-RELEASE panic

2008-01-21 Thread Colin Percival
t; or .debug for that kernel? (See my previuous email with more detailed >> info). > > Ah, I missed that, sorry. Colin hopefully will have the kernel.debug > handy. I'm afraid not -- FreeBSD Update is just distributing the bits from the release ISO image, and the release ISO doesn&

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 Available

2007-12-06 Thread Colin Percival
's irritating to have to rebuild all of the installed ports, but (unless some disaster strikes) this should be the last time it is needed until FreeBSD 8.x happens ~2 years from now. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: missing .cshrc and pf.conf after upgrade to 7.0-beta3

2007-12-05 Thread Colin Percival
Max Laier wrote: > On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Colin Percival wrote: >> John Baldwin wrote: >>> Considering that /etc/pf.conf is a file that users edit to configure >>> pf(4), removing it out from under them is probably a very bad idea. >> >> The heurist

Re: missing .cshrc and pf.conf after upgrade to 7.0-beta3

2007-12-04 Thread Colin Percival
John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 28 November 2007 02:47:11 pm Colin Percival wrote: >> Miroslav Lachman wrote: >>> I am not 100% sure, maybe I overlook something in binary major version >>> upgrade procedure, but after upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0-BETA3 my roots >

Re: missing .cshrc and pf.conf after upgrade to 7.0-beta3

2007-11-28 Thread Colin Percival
fact that /etc/pf.conf disappeared is due to it being removed from the release (it is now in /usr/share/examples/etc). The fact that /.cshrc was upgraded in spite of having been locally modified is probably a bad idea -- I'll change the default freebsd-update.conf to deal

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 Available

2007-11-19 Thread Colin Percival
daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-10-freebsd-minor-version-upgrade.html for upgrading from 7.0-BETA1.5 or 7.0-BETA2 to 7.0-BETA3. Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer & FreeBSD Update wrangler ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: freebsd-update 6.2-R -> 6.3-B1 rollback failed

2007-11-17 Thread Colin Percival
ou can use to tell FreeBSD Update not to touch some files (even if they haven't been modified locally). FreeBSD Update will never produce mangled files as a result of applying a bsdiff patch to the wrong file -- it checks file hashes before and after applying patches and gracefully falls back to

Re: [HEADS UP] "freebsd-update rollback" broken on minor version upgrades

2007-11-16 Thread Colin Percival
Colin Percival wrote: > A quick heads-up to everyone here using my new FreeBSD Update "upgrade" > code: If you have performed a minor version upgrade (e.g., 6.2-RELEASE -> > 6.3-BETA1 or 7.0-BETA1.5 -> 7.0-BETA2) please do not attempt to roll it > back using "fr

Re: freebsd-update 6.2-R -> 6.3-B1 rollback failed

2007-11-16 Thread Colin Percival
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: >> I believe that your system is now 6.3-BETA1 with a few shared libraries >> from 6.2-RELEASE mixed in. If you can get a copy of /lib/*.so.* and >> /usr/lib/*.so.* from a 6.3-BETA1 system and install those into place >

[HEADS UP] "freebsd-update rollback" broken on minor version upgrades

2007-11-14 Thread Colin Percival
currently broken and will make your system unbootable. I should have this fixed within the next couple of days. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: freebsd-update 6.2-R -> 6.3-B1 rollback failed

2007-11-14 Thread Colin Percival
t the FreeBSD Update code thinks that it has rolled back its updates, but I might be able to find a way to do that for you -- is it a disaster if this system ends up stuck at 6.3-BETA1? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 Available

2007-11-11 Thread Colin Percival
ETA2 will be provided > via the freebsd-stable list when available. As promised, instructions on upgrading from FreeBSD 6.x to 7.0-BETA2 are now available: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html Colin Percival FreeBSD S

Re: FreeBSD 6.3-BETA1 available

2007-11-10 Thread Colin Percival
s running FreeBSD 6.x to 6.3-BETA1 are now available: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-10-freebsd-minor-version-upgrade.html Instructions on using FreeBSD Update to upgrade to 7.0-BETA2 should be here within 24 hours. Colin Percival FreeBSD Securit

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 EoL =~ s/January/May/

2007-10-18 Thread Colin Percival
ither FreeBSD 6.3 or FreeBSD 7.0 > once > those have been released (hopefully by the end of December). FreeBSD 6.3 will > be supported until the end of 2009, while FreeBSD 7.0 will be supported until > the end of 2008. > > Colin Percival > FreeBSD Security Officer _

Re: bug in BSD tar?

2007-05-29 Thread Colin Percival
27;s breakage by explicitly telling it to ignore these options via --pax-option="delete=SCHILY.*" . Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Colin Percival
Scott Long wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: >> I point releases have been obsoleted by errata notices. In the past when >> X.Y.Z-RELEASE has happened, it has been because of critical bugs in the >> X.Y-RELEASE which there wasn't any other mechanism to fix. Now that we

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Colin Percival
lease. > PS. This having been said I know there are some kernel fixes that were > candidates for errata against 6.2-RELEASE...I'm not sure what their > current state is. Don't ask me, I just approve the errata which you send to me. Which hasn't been anything at all latel

Re: bug in BSD tar?

2007-05-28 Thread Colin Percival
Steven Hartland wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Colin Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> tar -xvzf test.tar.gz >>> tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' >>> tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino

Re: bug in BSD tar?

2007-05-28 Thread Colin Percival
e fairly typical symptoms of gnutar being broken. What makes you think that the archive created by BSD tar was invalid? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: freebsd-update weirdness

2007-04-01 Thread Colin Percival
GENERIC i386 > > C3# freebsd-update fetch > [...] > No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p3. This may look odd, but it's actually correct. The version number reported by `uname` is the version number of the kernel, and the change from 6.2-RELEASE-p2 to 6.2-RELEA

Re: freebsd-update problem (on 6.2)

2007-03-28 Thread Colin Percival
o a buildworld. There isn't any good solution here, yet. I might add support for the snapshot ISOs at some point (at least for upgrading to/from them -- there will not be security updates built for them). Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebs

Re: freebsd-update problem (on 6.2)

2007-03-28 Thread Colin Percival
nloaded because the files have been modified locally: > /etc/rc.d/jail This is correct. The version you have here is not the version which was distributed with the release -- it's the version in the latest RELENG_6_2. Colin Percival

Re: freebsd-update changes kernel to SMP-GENERIC

2007-03-25 Thread Colin Percival
t; > Did something go wrong? What does `sysctl kern.bootfile` say? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ANNOUNCE: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-07:05.freebsd-update

2007-03-16 Thread Colin Percival
s/conf/newvers.sh 1.69.2.13.2.5 > + src/UPDATING 1.416.2.29.2.6 > + src/sys/conf/newvers.sh 1.69.2.13.2.6 I guess I ought to update my CVS tree before using it to figure out the RCS numbers

Re: freebsd-update ignores /boot/kernel/kernel sometimes!?

2007-03-01 Thread Colin Percival
t/kernel, the kernel will be replaced with a GENERIC (non-SMP) kernel. I'm working on a patch for this and will be talking to re@ about having an Errata Notice sent out about this. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: 6.1 to 6.2 freebsd-update binary upgrade on amd64

2007-02-04 Thread Colin Percival
ack run should be sufficient. Downgrading is easier than upgrading, since you don't start running the new kernel until you reboot. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: freebsd-update from 6.1 RELEASE to 6.2 RELEASE: directory creation caused failure.

2007-01-19 Thread Colin Percival
directory instead. > Suggestion for the developer: either permit directory creation in > /usr/upgrade, or document that it's a no-no. It will be documented. :-) Thanks, Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: HEADS UP: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail

2007-01-11 Thread Colin Percival
Philipp Wuensche wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: >> In the end we opted to reduce functionality (the jail startup process is >> no longer logged to /var/log/console.log inside the jail) > > Thats a bummer, when Dirk showed me this problem the first time my ideas > for fix

HEADS UP: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-07:01.jail

2007-01-11 Thread Colin Percival
e, as well as the release engineering team for being very patient with us and delaying the upcoming release to give us time to fix this. Sincerely, Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote: > =

Re: 6.2 Release

2007-01-10 Thread Colin Percival
ing upon your time zone. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-21 Thread Colin Percival
id-January. This does not give > much time for people to migrate to the newest FreeBSD release. I think it > would be fair if support is extended for a few more months especially since > 6.2 is so late in coming. Your opinion has been noted. Colin Percival ___

Re: freebsd-update to track release engineering

2006-11-28 Thread Colin Percival
e fine to have the files at least ready so that user can diff them > and decide what to do. I'm planning on adding automatic merging of configuration files soon. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: freebsd-update to track release engineering

2006-11-26 Thread Colin Percival
Colin Percival wrote: > Petr Holub wrote: >>> I'm working on it. >> If I install RC1 now, would it be possible to upgrade to RC2 >> and RELEASE, or is it not ready yet? > > My intention is that anyone running 6.1-RELEASE, 6.2-BETA*, or > 6.2-RC* will be

Re: freebsd-update to track release engineering

2006-11-21 Thread Colin Percival
release. I haven't worked out all the details yet as to how this should be done to minimize the chance that my script will accidentally break things, but I'm not going to release anything until I think that accidental breakage is very unlikely. :-) Colin Percival _

Re: daemonology.net instructions - binary upgrade 5.3 to 6.1

2006-10-19 Thread Colin Percival
Hans F. Nordhaug wrote: > At daemonology.net Colin Percival has some excellent instructions on > how to do binary upgrades - he has even written a script to do a 6.0 > to 6.1 upgrade. My question is: Can I do a 5.3 to 6.1 upgrade using > the instructions for "5.4 system to F

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-04 Thread Colin Percival
y personal website, I haven't had any complaints. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-02 Thread Colin Percival
EV1Servers has never been a major supporter of FreeBSD -- back when they were RackShack, it took a petition of several hundred people before they started offering FreeBSD at all. I wonder if they'll start offering more recent FreeBSD releases next month after FreeBSD 5.4 becomes uns

Re: buildworld fails after patch (FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl)

2006-09-29 Thread Colin Percival
Christer Solskogen wrote: > I've tried norway's mirror (my default), the danish, the swedish mirror > and the mirror in holland. No change. > Just to be sure I also deletet src/crypto before I tried the different > mirrors. Exactly what command did you run to try to compile

Re: buildworld fails after patch (FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl)

2006-09-29 Thread Colin Percival
an updated dh.h yet. Try running cvsup again, maybe from a different mirror. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 6.2-BETA1 Available

2006-09-20 Thread Colin Percival
i386 running FreeBSD 6.2-BETA1, FreeBSD Update should be able to fetch the updates right now. If it doesn't, something is broken, and I'd like to hear about it. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-10 Thread Colin Percival
ystem to the latest updates on RELENG_n_m. > RELENG_n (RELENG_6 at the moment) > Has somebody just said that RELENG_6 = STABLE? Yes. > I'm going to guess then that RELENG_7 is CURRENT. > No, this doesn't make sense to me at

Re: 6.2 ETA

2006-08-30 Thread Colin Percival
that these dates are > no longer accurate. > > What is a valid ETA for starting the 6.2R releng process? I'm not part of the release engineering team, but I'm not aware of anything which they're waiting for before starting the freeze. I'd be surprised if RELENG_

Re: FreeBSD 6.0->6.1 binary upgrade script

2006-07-09 Thread Colin Percival
Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sun, 2006-Jul-09 00:42:31 -0700, Colin Percival wrote: >> I have written an automatic script >> for performing binary FreeBSD 6.0 -> FreeBSD 6.1 upgrades. > > That sounds useful. Are you intending to provide this for future > FreeBSD minor-rev

FreeBSD 6.0->6.1 binary upgrade script

2006-07-09 Thread Colin Percival
he process is entirely secure. The script can be obtained from http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-6.0-to-6.1/ and the SHA256 hash of the download is 29075fc5711e0b20d879c69d12bbe5414c1c56d597c8116da7acc0d291116d2f . Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- V

Re: FreeBSD 5.5 Released

2006-05-25 Thread Colin Percival
Ken Smith wrote: > BitTorrent > -- > > 5.5-RELEASE ISOs are not available via BitTorrent at this time. They > may be made available in the future on an on-demand basis. Thanks to ps, torrents are now available for 5.5-RELEASE: http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/

FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-21 Thread Colin Percival
se visit http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/survey.html and complete the survey below before May 31st, 2006. Thanks, Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubs

Re: 4.11 snapshots?

2006-05-16 Thread Colin Percival
If you absolutely must run FreeBSD 4.11, install the RELEASE and then run FreeBSD Update. Personally, since FreeBSD 4.11 will reach its EoL about 8 months from now, and the 4.x->[56].x upgrade path is non-trivial, I recommend installing FreeBSD 6.1 instead. Colin Perci

Re: portsnap mirror servers

2006-04-21 Thread Colin Percival
default server for pre-1.0 versions of portsnap from the ports tree). Given that most systems running portsnap are FreeBSD 6.0 or 6.1, this doesn't cause much differential loading. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: portsnap mirror servers

2006-04-18 Thread Colin Percival
uld be an .eu mirror? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-RC1 Available

2006-04-13 Thread Colin Percival
ease images with the number set to "6.1-RC1"? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

2006-04-01 Thread Colin Percival
developed ? > This is maybe a stupid question, but i am only curious to know why ? > Is there any special reason for this ? Look at the date on Scott's email. :-) Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: How do I turn off hyperthreading on 6.0 ?

2006-01-27 Thread Colin Percival
Pete French wrote: >> If you look at top(1), which processors do you see actually running >> processes? > > Errr, 0, 1, 2 and 3! What do # sysctl machdep.hlt_cpus # sysctl machdep.logical_cpus_mask # sysctl machdep.hyperthreading_allowed sa

Re: How do I turn off hyperthreading on 6.0 ?

2006-01-27 Thread Colin Percival
ts correctly.) If you look at top(1), which processors do you see actually running processes? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006)

2005-12-23 Thread Colin Percival
upported by the project"), I'll get to those as soon as I have time. Sadly, I have a pesky thing called "a full time job" and my FreeBSD time has been occupied with portsnap lately. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mai

Re: free space reported incorrectly

2005-12-14 Thread Colin Farley
sable or just remove them for me. I think at the same time I will make a change to my apache log rotation strategy as it appears to be causing the problems. Thanks again, Colin Dan N

free space reported incorrectly

2005-12-14 Thread Colin Farley
87359 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) I see there are a couple of large files there that seem to have some problems. Can anyone explain what is going on and maybe point me in the direction of a good document on fsck and common problems? Thanks, Colin ___ fr

Fw: em devices not sending proper arp packets ...

2005-11-14 Thread Colin Farley
I forgot to add this isn't specific to the em driver, as I use the lnc. Also, it's not a problem all the time, only sometimes the boxes fail to send out Gratuitous ARP packets. I have verified by capturing packets and trying to readd an alias a short period after the failu

Re: em devices not sending proper arp packets ...

2005-11-14 Thread Colin Farley
I have this same problem on some production servers running 4.10-RELEASE-p16. My work around is to set the arp cache timeout on our 2811 router to 10 seconds. Colin David Kirchner

Re: What should be in GENERIC? (was Re: Facilitating binary kernel upgrades)

2005-11-09 Thread Colin Percival
Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Colin Percival wrote: >> I find this argument hard to accept. The vast majority of FreeBSD >> users will never need the NFS_ROOT option, and many systems do not >> even have the hardware for serial or parallel ports, yet those ar

What should be in GENERIC? (was Re: Facilitating binary kernel upgrades)

2005-11-08 Thread Colin Percival
Tom Grove wrote: > Richard Bejtlich wrote: >> After speaking with Colin, he mentioned that IPSec, NAT, and disk >> quotas (enabled via options QUOTA) are the three most popular kernel >> changes that prevent people from running GENERIC and hence using >> freebsd-updat

Re: How to update to the security advisories

2005-09-30 Thread Colin Percival
provides and supports), you might like to try FreeBSD Update (http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update, or security/freebsd-update in the ports tree). Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p16 on ESX Server 2.5.1

2005-09-24 Thread Colin Farley
Thanks for your help, adding the two lines that you mentioned below fixed the problem. Thanks again, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - To: Colin Farley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Tom Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 09/23/2005 05:27PM cc: fr

Re: geom_mirror and ggatec/d safe for filesystem replication?

2005-09-24 Thread Colin Farley
or 10 months. = You might want to look into rsync as an alternative if it is practical for = the data you are wanting to replicate. Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --= --- To:= freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Brian Candler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&= gt; Sent by:

FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p16 on ESX Server 2.5.1

2005-09-23 Thread Colin Farley
tems as well. The work around for it is to edit your kernel config file with 'OPTIONS SCSI_DELAY=1000' and to rebuild and install the new kernel" To me this doesn't sound right, can anyone confirm? Thanks, Colin ___ freebsd-stable

Re: Gratuitous ARP

2005-09-19 Thread Colin Farley
couple dozen hosts on this subnet I would think that thi= s would be fine. Please confirm. Thanks again. Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] .org wrote: - To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Matt Douhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] itsalad.org> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Da

Gratuitous ARP

2005-09-19 Thread Colin Farley
the alias addition not functioning properly? &= nbsp; Any input at all is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Colin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscrib

Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

2005-08-28 Thread Colin Percival
var. If anything, these are vast overkill for most systems; on /, for example, it is hard to imagine a situation where a normal user would use more than 150MB of space unless they were doing something which they shouldn't be doing. Colin Percival

Re: broken fxp driver in 4.x ...

2005-08-22 Thread Colin Farley
I have made this change on the switch my virtual machines are connected to. We use HP PorCurve switches, unfortunately the switch needs to be rebooted for the change to take effect, I will have to do this late tonight. I will let you know the outcome. Colin

Re: broken fxp driver in 4.x ...

2005-08-22 Thread Colin Farley
add this to my UCARP scripts)? Colin "Marc G. Fournier"

Re: RELENG_6 periodic security default problem

2005-08-22 Thread Colin Percival
grep ^+' in > /etc/periodic/security/security.functions. Thanks for reporting this; I've changed the grep regex to '^[>+]' in order to catch lines from both unified and non-unified diffs. This change isn't going to be in 6.0-BETA3, but hopefully I can get it MFCed

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Colin Percival
at > this time wouldn't be prudent? If I was deploying a new server today, I'd install FreeBSD 5.4. If I were planning on installing a new server next month, I'd install FreeBSD 6.0-BETA-whatever-number-we're-up-to-by-then. Colin Percival __

Re: unable to compile 5.4-p3 kernel

2005-06-29 Thread Colin Percival
mpile much happier. Yeah, it looks like the mirrors managed to update at exactly the wrong time and got one patch but not the other. Fortunately, this doesn't happen very often. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: [Fwd: Re: unable to compile 5.4-p3 kernel]

2005-06-29 Thread Colin Percival
> Colin Percival wrote: >> What version of /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_var.h do you have on that >> system? Oops. I meant to ask about src/sys/netinet/tcp_seq.h of course... Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org ma

Re: unable to compile 5.4-p3 kernel

2005-06-29 Thread Colin Percival
sys/netinet/tcp_input.c:2706: warning: nested extern > declaration of `TSTMP_GT' What version of /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_var.h do you have on that system? Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 SMP kernels now available via FreeBSD Update

2005-06-16 Thread Colin Percival
Mipam wrote: > Thanks for the kernel. > What parameters did you change in your SMP kernel. > Just curious, surely gonna try your kernel. :-) I didn't change any parameters, I just used the SMP kernel configuration from the source tree (i.e., GENERIC plus "options SMP

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 SMP kernels now available via FreeBSD Update

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Percival
Billy Newsom wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: >> It sounds like the SMP kernel I provided for FreeBSD 5.3 was quite >> popular [...] > > I'm curious how popular. Would you like to report some statistics here > on the list? As in, how many SMP downloads did you get

FreeBSD 5.4 SMP kernels now available via FreeBSD Update

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Percival
ernel/SMP # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install # echo 'bootfile="SMP"' >> /boot/loader.conf and reboot. You should now find that `uname -ri` outputs "5.4-SECURITY SMP". Colin Percival ___ fre

Re: 5.4 not running HTT

2005-06-10 Thread Colin Percival
e added it to the stable branches, but not to -current, since hyper-threading is still enabled by default in HEAD. Colin Percival ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

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