Weird NIS master problem

2002-12-13 Thread Doug Silver
(Originally sent to -questions, but no one replied so I'm reposting it here) I have two FBSD NIS machines, the master is running 4.6 and the slave is at 4.7. The slave works properly, it's the master that is acting strangely. The master is also serving as a router with 2 nic cards, and is runnin

Re: cdburning in 4.7

2002-12-13 Thread Rob
Eriq Lamar wrote: > > I tryed to burn a cd w/ new msi dragonwriter and this is what I got > > #burncd -f /dev/acd1c data .tcshrc fixate > next writeable lba 0 > writing from file .tcshrc size 0 KB > written this track 2 KB total 2 KB > burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFLUSH):Input/output error > > I am

Re: ATA errors

2002-12-13 Thread Henk Wevers
I do have the same problems. When i untar a file whitch the output is bigger than 1GB the system crashes. It is reproduceable on both my machines, one with ata-100 and another ata-133 both running FreeBSD-4.7-p2. Henk Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Can anybody explain what has happened here? My mac

Re: cdburning in 4.7

2002-12-13 Thread Simon Dick
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 17:57, Rob wrote: > Eriq Lamar wrote: > > > > I tryed to burn a cd w/ new msi dragonwriter and this is what I got > > > > #burncd -f /dev/acd1c data .tcshrc fixate > > next writeable lba 0 > > writing from file .tcshrc size 0 KB > > written this track 2 KB total 2 KB > >

Re: 4.7-release-2002.11.14.02.05.57 - spontaneous reboot possibly related to modem/pccard/ppp

2002-12-13 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Julian Stacey thusly... > > parv wrote: > > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > wrote parv thusly... > > > > > > so far i had experienced 2 spontaneous reboots on freebsd > > > 4.7-release-2002.11.14.02.05.57 (on dell inspiron 5000e). > > > > curses! this tim

Re: memory disks in 4.5-stable

2002-12-13 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marius M. Rex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to create a number of small RAM disks on some webservers so they > can serve high traffic content directly off of RAMdisks instead of > conventional disks or NFS. > > I first tested this out on my desktop machine

repeated trouble w/ buildworld

2002-12-13 Thread Russell D. Murphy Jr.
I usually update my office machine weekly, but did not the week of Thanksgiving. Last week the buildworld failed, but I didn't have time to follow up on the problem (and thought it might not be my problem and so be resolved in short order). However, the build failed again this week. I removed /

Re: memory disks in 4.5-stable

2002-12-13 Thread Tim Kientzle
I want to create a number of small RAM disks on some webservers so they can serve high traffic content directly off of RAMdisks instead of conventional disks or NFS. I would strongly suggest you do some load-testing before you do this on a production machine. Otherwise, you might waste a lot of

Re: repeated trouble w/ buildworld

2002-12-13 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 13 December 2002 01:19 pm, Russell D. Murphy Jr. wrote: > I usually update my office machine weekly, but did not the week of > Thanksgiving. Last week the buildworld failed, but I didn't have > time to follow up on the problem (and thought it might not be my > problem and so be resolved

Re: repeated trouble w/ buildworld

2002-12-13 Thread Russell D. Murphy Jr.
Kent Stewart writes: | You aren't showing the error. The error 1 just means there was an | error messager earlier. Since they are stopping in different places, | I would expect hardware errors of some sort. If you are running a | make with a "-j?", turn it off so you don't get your error messag

Re: repeated trouble w/ buildworld

2002-12-13 Thread Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Russell D. Murphy Jr. " writes: > > Kent Stewart writes: > | You aren't showing the error. The error 1 just means there was an > | error messager earlier. Since they are stopping in different places, > | I would expect hardware errors of some sort. If you are ru

Why no INSTALLFLAGS_EDIT for installkernel target?

2002-12-13 Thread Samuel Chow
Hi there, Is there a reason why INSTALLFLAGS_EDIT does not exist for the installkernel target? I am playing with some scripts that generate a small FreeBSD image in a directory. To prevent accidential overwriting the host system, I am running these scripts in a jail. Unf

Re: repeated trouble w/ buildworld

2002-12-13 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 13 December 2002 03:36 pm, Russell D. Murphy Jr. wrote: > Kent Stewart writes: > | You aren't showing the error. The error 1 just means there was an > | error messager earlier. Since they are stopping in different > | places, I would expect hardware errors of some sort. If you are > | run

Re: Cyrix CPUs, was: Re: Repeatable crash from nautilus2

2002-12-13 Thread Rhett Monteg Hollander
All right, gentlemen, let's finish with it. I have never meant that Cyrix produced perfectly wonderful processors; but they don't deserve for an attitude like to trash, anyway. To Charles Swiger: > NOTE 1: The options, CPU_BTB_EN, CPU_LOOP_EN, > CPU_IORT, and CPU_RSTK_EN should not be used becaus