Re: $HOME changed from 6.2 to 6.3 and 7.0 ?!

At 2008-02-29 12:15:26+, Willy Offermans writes: > Is /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/ not the place to put your daily > executable scripts? What is daily.local about? /etc/daily.local predates /etc/periodic/, somewhat. It was introduced in 1996. Before that, there was just the /etc/daily scr

Re: syslog console log not logging SCSI problems

At 2008-05-15 10:02:03+, Jeremy Chadwick writes: > Another thing I can think of would be your kernel configuration. Can > you provide it? Just GENERIC. By the way, the need to set kern.maxdsiz - for really big processes - doesn't seem to be documented anywhere. I could have sworn it used t

syslog console log not logging SCSI problems

on, but here is the dmesg and syslog.conf. Any suggestions? (yes, I know this is 6.2-RELEASE; I'm partway through cvsupping; the failure was under 6.2p11). Thanks in advance, Nick Barnes dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 19

Re: syslog console log not logging SCSI problems

At 2008-05-15 09:46:32+, Jeremy Chadwick writes: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:14:01AM +0100, Nick Barnes wrote: > > One of our FreeBSD boxes has a SCSI controller and disk, which showed > > problems earlier this week. There was a lot of of chatter from the > > SCSI driver

Re: syslog console log not logging SCSI problems

At 2008-05-20 16:21:01+, Oliver Fromme writes: > Nick Barnes wrote: > > One of our FreeBSD boxes has a SCSI controller and disk, which showed > > problems earlier this week. There was a lot of of chatter from the > > SCSI driver in /var/log/messages and to the c

5.x to 6.x or 7.x with 64MB /

I have a machine which I have recently upgraded using cvsup, from 4.x to RELENG_5, as a staging post en route to 7.x. The upgrade went well until installworld ran out of disk on / and I realised it was only 64BMB. My bad; should have checked before upgrading. With help from an on-site colleague

Re: port make index (was: Re: make -j$n buildworld : use of -j investigated)

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:19:02 +0900, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > time(minutes) * speed(MHz) * nproc / 1000 MHz Looking at your examples, it seems you divide by 1e5, not by 1000. In other words, buildworld is CPU bound and takes about 6e12 clock cycles. Use -j. Nick B ___

Re: 4.x can't read 5.x dump?

At 2004-12-02 02:40:53+, Ken Smith writes: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:48:43AM +1000, Joel Hatton wrote: > > > I'm backing up a 5.x machine at the moment with this command: > > > > dump -0Lau -b128 -f - /var | gzip -2 | ssh FreeBSD4 dd of=aacd0s1f.gz > > > > After the dump finishes, I try t

Re: NIC card problems....

ands, but the performance of such interfaces is reputed to be much lower. Nick Barnes ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: undefined reference to `memset'

At 2005-03-24 08:31:14+, Bruce Evans writes: > what is gcc to do when -fno-builtin tells it to turn off its > builtins and -ffreestanding tells it that the relevant interfaces > might not exist in the library? Plainly, GCC should generate code which fills the array with zeroes. It's not oblig

virtual machines

hines as virtual machines under FreeBSD. Can anyone recommend virtualizing software for FreeBSD? I don't mind having to pay, as long as it really works. I see that VMWare, for instance, is not supported on FreeBSD. I'm running 4.9-RELENG at the moment, but considering an upgrade to 5.

Re: kernel killing processes when out of swap

At 2005-04-12 13:52:59+, Vivek Khera writes: > > of swap? Which leads to the question would it not be more sensible to > > kill off the largest process first as its more than likely that it is > > responsible > > for the problem? > > > > so when this largest process is your production databa

Re: kernel killing processes when out of swap

At 2005-04-12 14:26:40+, Marc Olzheim writes: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:06:41PM +0100, Nick Barnes wrote: > > The right choice is for mmap() to return ENOMEM, and then for malloc() > > to return NULL, but almost no operating systems make this choice any > > more. >

Re: kernel killing processes when out of swap

At 2005-04-12 18:17:32+, Matthias Buelow writes: > This stuff has been discussed in the past. Indeed. For a couple of examples from the days before BSD systems got overcommit, see these threads from 1990 and 1991:

Re: Failing to understand getrusage()

At 2006-03-02 22:24:17+, Nik Clayton writes: > I'm failing to understand how getrusage() works, which is a bit perplexing, > because it doesn't seem like it would be terribly complicated. ru_maxrss is the maximum resident set size, not the heap size. malloc(big) doesn't grow the resident set.

Re: Machine Replication

tor of the disk. Note that this first sector also includes the slice table. You could easily use dd in combination with tar and rsync. > Norton Ghost (Doesn't support UFS/UFS2?) > G4U (little experience with this) I notice that 'dump' is not in your list. Why is that

Re: Laptop choices

At 2005-11-29 10:19:17+, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" writes: > On Thursday, 24 November 2005 at 11:17:41 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On the [Dell] warrenty... I'm hard on equipment and I depend on my > > equipment. I've been impressed that if I put my foot down and "say" > > that I belie

Re: cvsup confusion

At 2001-02-22 17:41:51+, Allen Landsidel writes: > I guess we can all be grateful that a great number of people apparently > don't bother updating their systems. ;) Yes, and so can they. Many (most?) users are very happy with the FreeBSD they are running, in a headless box stuffed behind a

Re: VPN, via pppd over ssh

At 2001-04-16 20:17:48+, Tom writes: > > On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Rich Morin wrote: > > ... > > The client suggests that I set up my FreeBSD box to run pppd over ssh, > > achieving a VPN connection, then let the server act as a router for my > > > That won't likely work too well. When packe

serial console

It goes without saying that you should choose good-quality kit for remote located machines. For instance, don't use anything which doesn't come up reliably first time from a power cycle. Nick B > From: Nick Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <

Re: probably remote exploit

anel can't boot some other OS from CD or floppy), so this scenario isn't _totally_ nuts (only, say, 99.98% nuts). A hassled sysadmin might well put in a CD and reboot without watching too closely, forgetting that the BIOS config will cause the CD to be disregarded. Nick Barnes At 2001-0

Re: sshd: requiring password _and_ RSA authentication

At 2001-10-03 18:09:06+, Zvezdan Petkovic writes: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:43:39PM +0100, Nick Barnes wrote: > > One of our servers used to run FreeBSD 2.2.8 with SSH 2 built from > > /usr/ports/security/ssh2. I'm not sure exactly which version of SSH > &

Upgrading from 3.3 to RELENG_4_4

;t seem unreasonable, but it would be good if UPDATING told me I had to do this (maybe under "To update from 3.x to 4.x stable"). Nick Barnes Ravenbrook Limited To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Upgrading from 3.3 to RELENG_4_4

3.3-RELEASE to RELENG_4_1_1_RELEASE failed due to absence of mkstemps. On further archive trawling I see I should go to RELENG_3 first. Sigh. Nick Barnes Ravenbrook Limited At 2001-11-01 16:35:28+, Nick Barnes writes: > I'm trying to use cvsup to upgrade from 3.3-RELEASE to RELENG_

Re: ha!

This is a "Google Special Search" page. They have 5 of them: <http://www.google.com/bsd> <http://www.google.com/linux> <http://www.google.com/mac> <http://www.google.com/microsoft> <http://www.google.com/unclesam> See <http://www.google.com/options/

telnet "SRA secure login" fails intermittently

When I telnet into a FreeBSD box, I get this: $ telnet spong Trying 192.168.0.1... Connected to spong.my.domain Escape character is '^]'. Trying SRA secure login: User (nb): Password: If I mistype the password, I get this: [ SRA login failed ] User (nb): Password: And s

Re: telnet "SRA secure login" fails intermittently

At 2002-07-29 09:21:25+, Nick Barnes writes: > When I telnet into a FreeBSD box, I get this: > > $ telnet spong > Trying 192.168.0.1... > Connected to spong.my.domain > Escape character is '^]'. > Trying SRA secure login: > User (nb): &g

Re: default route

At 2003-09-25 02:53:18+, Mike Tancsa writes: > > The initial commit was broken causing routes to be deleted > incorrectly. Dont know about 4.8R-P8 but a fix was committed to > RELENG_4. says: RELENG_4_3 1.64.2.10.2.2 Wed S