Re: Weird NFS problems

2005-05-27 Thread Don Lewis
On 26 May, Skylar Thompson wrote: > I'm having some problems with NFS serving on a FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE > machine. The FreeBSD machine is the NFS/NIS server for a group of four > Linux clusters. The network archictecture looks like this: > > 234/24

Re: Weird NFS problems

2005-05-27 Thread Don Lewis
On 26 May, Skylar Thompson wrote: > I'm having some problems with NFS serving on a FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE > machine. The FreeBSD machine is the NFS/NIS server for a group of four > Linux clusters. The network archictecture looks like this: > > 234/24

Re: Weird NFS problems

2005-05-27 Thread Jon Dama
Try switching to TCP NFS. a 100MBit interface cannot keep up with a 1GBit interface in a bridge configuration. Therefore, in the long run, at full-bore you'd expect to drop 9 out of every 10 ethernet frames. MTU is 1500 therefore 1K works (it fits in one frame), 2K doesn't (your NFS transactions

Re: Weird NFS problems

2005-05-27 Thread Jon Dama
Try switching to TCP NFS. a 100MBit interface cannot keep up with a 1GBit interface in a bridge configuration. Therefore, in the long run, at full-bore you'd expect to drop 9 out of every 10 ethernet frames. MTU is 1500 therefore 1K works (it fits in one frame), 2K doesn't (your NFS transactions

Re: Context sensitivity in beastie.4th?

2005-05-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, 2005-May-26 23:41:26 -0600, Scott Long wrote: >Seems to work for me with the commented lines fixed. Btw, you by no >doubt have noticed that it's somewhat inconvenient to do 4th programming >by modifying the boot scripts and then praying that the reboot works. >It's possible to do 90% of t

trouble booting 5.4 installation media (repost)

2005-05-27 Thread dave
Hello, Didn't get a response so i'm going to try this again. I'm trying to do a fresh install of 5.4 on a test machine, which previously ran 5.3 just fine. I'm doing the install via a serial terminal as this box is headless and off of an nfs server which i've also prepared identically to 5.3. I

trouble booting 5.4 installation media (repost)

2005-05-27 Thread dave
Hello, Didn't get a response so i'm going to try this again. I'm trying to do a fresh install of 5.4 on a test machine, which previously ran 5.3 just fine. I'm doing the install via a serial terminal as this box is headless and off of an nfs server which i've also prepared identically to 5.3. I

cron stops silently

2005-05-27 Thread Phil Brennan
Hi, Since updating our server to 5.4-STABLE, I've noticed a very strange problem with cron. Sometimes it just decides to stop, for no apparent reason. It stops at different times, it doesn't seem to be affected by any particular cronjob. There are no messages about this in any logfile, it just stop

Re: cron stops silently

2005-05-27 Thread David Adam
Phil, On Fri, 27 May 2005, Phil Brennan wrote: > Since updating our server to 5.4-STABLE, I've noticed a very strange > problem with cron. > Sometimes it just decides to stop, for no apparent reason. It stops at > different times, it doesn't seem to be affected by any particular > cronjob. > There

Re: kern/78824: race condition close()ing and read()ing the same socketpair on SMP.

2005-05-27 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Marc Olzheim wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:00:14PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: Is this going to be fixed before 5.4 ? It still breaks on today's 5.4-STABLE. As this is the only issue known to me now, that I don't have a patch for and is standing in my way of upgradin

Re: cron stops silently

2005-05-27 Thread Dean Strik
Phil Brennan wrote: > Since updating our server to 5.4-STABLE, I've noticed a very strange > problem with cron. > Sometimes it just decides to stop, for no apparent reason. It stops at > different times, it doesn't seem to be affected by any particular > cronjob. > There are no messages about this

cron stops silently

2005-05-27 Thread Phil Brennan
From: Phil Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 27, 2005 1:30 PM Subject: Re: cron stops silently To: Dean Strik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 5/27/05, Dean Strik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phil Brennan wrote: > > Since updating our server to 5.4-STABLE, I've noticed a very strange > > problem with c

Re: kern/78824: race condition close()ing and read()ing the same socketpair on SMP.

2005-05-27 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 12:47:28PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > Hmm. I'm unable to reproduce this on local SMP hardware, although I can > see at least one way that the race could occur. Could you try the > attached patch and see if it helps matters? This is a slight shot in the > dark but cl

Re: cron stops silently

2005-05-27 Thread Dean Strik
Phil Brennan wrote: > From: Phil Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: May 27, 2005 1:30 PM > Subject: Re: cron stops silently > To: Dean Strik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On 5/27/05, Dean Strik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Phil Brennan wrote: > > > Since updating our server to 5.4-STABLE, I've not

Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches

2005-05-27 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Scott Long wrote: Is the goal to have a new major branch every 2 years? Yes. This will allow us to pace our major development projects much better than we have in the past. Someone mentioned 5.X will be supported till 2007 (or at least that's the plan). So will, in ave

Re: cron stops silently

2005-05-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 27 May 2005 08:05, Dean Strik wrote: > I just filed PR 81555 about this. For me, it appears that cron(8) exits > after a SIGPIPE when an LDAP-user does a crontab -e. Are you also using > LDAP here? See also the PR (hasn't appeared on the website when I type > this btw). Me too -- Kir

Re: 5-Stable (5.4) any ipnat changes?

2005-05-27 Thread Daniel Mester
Hi, I got the same problem with NAT not working at boot time after upgrading to 5.4. I compiled a generic kernel, so it doesn't seem to be a problem concerning the kernel. I guess some change in the rc system. Hope we find a solution. sincerely, Daniel Mester ___

Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches

2005-05-27 Thread Scott Long
Francisco Reyes wrote: On Thu, 26 May 2005, Scott Long wrote: Is the goal to have a new major branch every 2 years? Yes. This will allow us to pace our major development projects much better than we have in the past. Someone mentioned 5.X will be supported till 2007 (or at least that's

Re: cron stops silently

2005-05-27 Thread Dick Davies
* Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0538 15:38]: > On Friday 27 May 2005 08:05, Dean Strik wrote: > > > I just filed PR 81555 about this. For me, it appears that cron(8) exits > > after a SIGPIPE when an LDAP-user does a crontab -e. Are you also using > > LDAP here? See also the PR (hasn't appear

Re: Context sensitivity in beastie.4th?

2005-05-27 Thread Scott Long
Peter Jeremy wrote: On Thu, 2005-May-26 23:41:26 -0600, Scott Long wrote: Seems to work for me with the commented lines fixed. Btw, you by no doubt have noticed that it's somewhat inconvenient to do 4th programming by modifying the boot scripts and then praying that the reboot works. It's pos

Re: kern/78824: race condition close()ing and read()ing the same socketpair on SMP.

2005-05-27 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 03:44:41PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > Could you try the attached patch and see if it helps matters? This is > a slight shot in the dark but closes at least two races in the > transition of socket state with respect to socket buffer state. Yes! This fixes it, on the tag=R

rpc.yppasswdd exits on signal 11

2005-05-27 Thread Frédéric Bloise
Hi, We can't change nis password on your server using yppaswd : after "Retype New Password:" server says "yppasswd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module". In /var/log/messages : nisserver kernel: pid 5196 (rpc.yppasswdd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 nisserver yppasswd: in pam_sm_chau

mdconfig

2005-05-27 Thread Michael Grant
I'm mounting a snapshot using mdconfig, then mount like this: mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /home/.snap/4 -u 0 mount /dev/md0 /snapshot/home mount (with no args) shows this: /dev/md0 on /snapshot/home (ufs, local, read-only) # mdconfig -l -u md0 md0 vnode 23503425 KBytes How can I see (to veri

FreeBSD 5.4 Dropping off Network

2005-05-27 Thread Jovan Ross
I am experiencing problems keeping FreeBSD 5.4 connected. I have uptimes of 5 or 6 days - sometimes 10 or 11, then, without freezing the machine totally, it stops responding to network traffic. I get DOS attacked every once and a while and my logs are also filled with failed auths from password

Re: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!

2005-05-27 Thread Igor Pokrovsky
Friday, May 20, 2005, 1:15:42 PM, you wrote: > Do these lists have a moderator or is he on vacation? Im tired of deleting > this useless thread from my mailbox. So you decided to add another *useless* message to the thread, as did I. :) -ip -- The more time and energy you put into preparing a m