Suspect results from iostat--FBSD bug?

2010-05-05 Thread Peter Steele
We use iostat to collect statistics of hard drive activity. We've been seeing some values for the transaction wait column that look suspicious. This is easy to reproduce by just running iostat repeatedly over a short period of time, as I show below. Notice the third from last column. From what

php52-spl doesn't compile

2010-05-05 Thread n dhert
(FreeBSD 8.0 amd64) As part of # cd /usr/ports/lang/php52-extensions # make install clean I get teh error below.. What's wrong and how to remedy? ... === Building for php52-spl-5.2.13 /bin/sh /usr/ports/devel/php52-spl/work/php-5.2.13/ext/spl/libtool --mode=compil e cc -I.

Re: compile error kdelibs4

2010-05-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Marco Beishuizen mb...@xs4all.nl writes: I'm getting an error compiling kdelibs4: /usr/local/include/qptrlist.h: In copy constructor QPtrListtype::QPtrList(const QPtrListtype) [with type = QDBusSignature]': /usr/local/include/qt4/QtCore/qmetatype.h:138: instantiated from void*

Re: compile error kdelibs4

2010-05-05 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote: You seem to have a bunch of unique problems. Have you customized your compiler usage? Do you have any settings in make.conf or other relevant /etc files? I've never done anything to compiler settings afaik. My /etc/make.conf looks like this:

newsyslog not reading /ect/rc.conf arguments?

2010-05-05 Thread Paul Hoffman
Greetings again. Running FreeBSD 8.0, I have added the following to /etc/rc.conf: newsyslog_flags=-a /usr/old-log/ I have stopped and started newsyslog. However, the rotated logs are still being written into /var/log. No errors appear in /var/log/messages or in dmesg. Any clues? --Paul

HP NC522SFP 10GE-Adapter under FreeBSD?

2010-05-05 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Does anybody know whether the HP NC522 SFP 10GE-Adapter (http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/networking/nc522sfp/index.html) is supported under FreeBSD. HP only lists various Windoze and Linux as supported but I'd like to get this baby going under FreeBSD 8.0. Any experience with

Re: Suspect results from iostat--FBSD bug?

2010-05-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 5 May 2010 07:34:55 -0500, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: We use iostat to collect statistics of hard drive activity. We've been seeing some values for the transaction wait column that look suspicious. This is easy to reproduce by just running iostat repeatedly over a short

Re: newsyslog not reading /ect/rc.conf arguments?

2010-05-05 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Hoffman wrote: Greetings again. Running FreeBSD 8.0, I have added the following to /etc/rc.conf: newsyslog_flags=-a /usr/old-log/ I have stopped and started newsyslog. However, the rotated logs are still being written into /var/log. No

Re: newsyslog not reading /ect/rc.conf arguments?

2010-05-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 5 May 2010 08:01:26 -0700, Paul Hoffman phoff...@proper.com wrote: Greetings again. Running FreeBSD 8.0, I have added the following to /etc/rc.conf: newsyslog_flags=-a /usr/old-log/ I have stopped and started newsyslog. However, the rotated logs are still being written into

Is it safe to increase / double kern.maxvnodes under FreeBSD 6.4 i386?

2010-05-05 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, We had some issues at the weekend that left one of our machines with a very, very large sendmail queue... While we were trying to sort it out we noticed the machine takes over 4 minutes to go through the queue (i.e. 'mailq'). I noticed the machine was hovering around the maxvnode

Re: Samba 3.5.2 with/out aio on FreeBSD 7.2

2010-05-05 Thread Timur I. Bakeyev
The real answer would be: if you don't know, what you are doing - don't compile from source. Timur. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Gabor Radnai gabor.rad...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a FreeBSD 7.2/amd64 machine with Samba 3.4.5 with aio support enabled. If I try to upgrade to Samba

RE: Suspect results from iostat--FBSD bug?

2010-05-05 Thread Peter Steele
This looks like a bug in iostat. 4294967295 == 2 * 32 - -1 It seems that some call returns (unsigned long)-1, e.g. to indicate a failing system/library call but iostat still prints the result: Which _precise_ version of FreeBSD are you using? Well, that's a good question. The particular

dangerously dedicated disks and 8-stable status

2010-05-05 Thread krad
I updated a production box at work last night from freebsd 6.2 to 8-stable, via 7-stable. The upgrade went ok just a minor glitch in jumping from 7 to 8. Basically all the device names changed from mfid0s1[a-g] to mfid0[a-g]. I presume this is because the initial layout was in dangerously

saving job state over a power outage

2010-05-05 Thread Joey Mingrone
Hello, Our lab has a cluster (Sun Fire X40z master node, Opteron 270 and generic 2.0 GHz Opteron based compute nodes) running 8.0-RELEASE. We've been informed that the power has to be turned off for the weekend, but one of the lab members has been running some jobs since December. I don't know

booting??

2010-05-05 Thread Gary Kline
well, the pcbsd iso on my dvd-rw seems to be doing something. i have at least seven junk dvd's that k3b tells me are full. is there a way of erasing these 7 discs or are they trash? (I did try # cdrecord dev=1,0,0 foo.iso on a non-empty and and empty DVD. no joy. k3b knew howto do

Re: Samba 3.5.2 with/out aio on FreeBSD 7.2

2010-05-05 Thread Matthias
Guess that's the Russian way to say google is your best friend...:P @gabor: did you load the AIO module? On 5 mei 2010, at 17:58, Timur I. Bakeyev wrote: The real answer would be: if you don't know, what you are doing - don't compile from source. Timur. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:44

Re: newsyslog not reading /ect/rc.conf arguments?

2010-05-05 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 6:14 PM +0300 5/5/10, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: How did you start newsyslog? There's an rc.d script that should *read* the flags from rc.conf: /etc/rc.d/newsyslog start Yes, exactly. I did '/etc/rc.d/newsyslog stop', then '/etc/rc.d/newsyslog start'. At 11:14 AM -0400 5/5/10, Greg

Re: Server disappears from network

2010-05-05 Thread Scott Johnson
IIRC, there was a memory leak in the em driver for 8.0. That and a bunch of other improvments to the em driver have happened since then so you may want to give 8-STABLE a go. After some googling, I think I've found the problem: bug kern/144330, recently fixed in 8-stable. I think it's

Re: Samba 3.5.2 with/out aio on FreeBSD 7.2

2010-05-05 Thread Gabor Radnai
Guys, arrogance and bad humor is not very helpful ... Pls read again: I have a working version 3.4.5 _with_ aio. So, yes I know what I am doing and yes, aio module is loaded. And yes, I know google. And as I am asking here then no, I have not found any help yet. My problem is that when using

Re: booting??

2010-05-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: well, the pcbsd iso on my dvd-rw seems to be doing something.  i have at least seven junk dvd's that k3b tells me are full.  is there a way of erasing these 7 discs or are they trash? (I did try  # cdrecord dev=1,0,0

Re: compile error kdelibs4

2010-05-05 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Has anyone an idea what's the problem here? You seem to have a bunch of unique problems. Have you customized your compiler usage? Do you have any settings in make.conf or other relevant /etc files? This one seems solved. It seems that libkde4

Re: booting??

2010-05-05 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 5 May 2010 09:59:35 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: (I did try # cdrecord dev=1,0,0 foo.iso on a non-empty and and empty DVD. no joy. I'm not sure it's safe to use cdrecord for DVDs. Anyway, I always wqas lucky using growisofs (from port dvd+rw-tools). This is

Re: dangerously dedicated disks and 8-stable status

2010-05-05 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 5 May 2010 17:17:09 +0100, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: I updated a production box at work last night from freebsd 6.2 to 8-stable, via 7-stable. The upgrade went ok just a minor glitch in jumping from 7 to 8. Basically all the device names changed from mfid0s1[a-g] to mfid0[a-g].

PCI devices without drivers

2010-05-05 Thread Eitan Adler
I ran the following command and I was wondering how I could figure out what drivers are needed for each of the following. $pciconf -lv|grep -A 4 none no...@pci0:0:31:3: class=0x0c0500 card=0x3a1d17aa chip=0x29308086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device =

Re: newsyslog not reading /ect/rc.conf arguments?

2010-05-05 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Hoffman wrote: At 6:14 PM +0300 5/5/10, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: How did you start newsyslog? There's an rc.d script that should *read* the flags from rc.conf: /etc/rc.d/newsyslog start Yes, exactly. I did '/etc/rc.d/newsyslog stop',

Received signal 15; terminating.

2010-05-05 Thread Antonio Kless
Received signal 15; terminating. - this is the last line in /var/log/auth.log before my 7.2-STABLE suddenly shut down. Something with signal 15 also was in /var/log/messages, but I can't copy it exactly. What could produce halting of system with this symptoms, if I sure that nobody could just

Magic Jack VOIP telephone

2010-05-05 Thread Lee Shackelford
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Have any of you attempted to use Magic Jack VOIP telephone with an Intel workstation equipped with FreeBSD operating system? It is supposed to work with Mac OSX, which I understand to be similar to FreeBSD, but I do not know if it is sufficiently similar.

Re: Magic Jack VOIP telephone

2010-05-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Lee Shackelford lee_shackelf...@dot.ca.gov wrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts.  Have any of you attempted to use Magic Jack VOIP telephone with an Intel workstation equipped with FreeBSD Hi there, and sorry to be so blunt. MagicJack is a piece of crap.

Re: Magic Jack VOIP telephone

2010-05-05 Thread Outback Dingo
not sure id waste my time on Magic Jack, let alone working with FreeBSD On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Lee Shackelford lee_shackelf...@dot.ca.govwrote: Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Have any of you attempted to use Magic Jack VOIP telephone with an Intel workstation equipped with

Problems booting up on 1201N

2010-05-05 Thread Phusion
I recently got a Asus 1201N and installed FreeBSD 8.0 on it. This uses the alc (Atheros AR8132 PCIe Fast Ethernet) NIC card. /etc/rc.conf hostname=host.test.com ifconfig_alc0=DHCP I noticed that if I start up the computer with the network cable unplugged it will hang at the following spot.

Re: dangerously dedicated disks and 8-stable status

2010-05-05 Thread krad
On 5 May 2010 18:55, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010 17:17:09 +0100, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: I updated a production box at work last night from freebsd 6.2 to 8-stable, via 7-stable. The upgrade went ok just a minor glitch in jumping from 7 to 8. Basically

Re: dangerously dedicated disks and 8-stable status

2010-05-05 Thread krad
On 5 May 2010 21:28, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: On 5 May 2010 18:55, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010 17:17:09 +0100, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: I updated a production box at work last night from freebsd 6.2 to 8-stable, via 7-stable. The upgrade went

Re: kdelibs3 fails to compile

2010-05-05 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Marco Beishuizen wrote: ./kopenssl.h:532: error: 'STACK' has not been declared ./kopenssl.h:538: error: 'STACK' has not been declared ./kopenssl.h:544: error: expected ';' before '(' token ./kopenssl.h:550: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'STACK' with no type

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Marc G. Fournier wrote: can you tell me two things: nslookup rpt.bsdstats.org and the contents of /var/db/bsdstats I seem to have probs with mine too. I was under the impression that bsdstats was installed by default (in the base system?) so for a very long time I haven't installed it.

2 qstns re pc-bsd...

2010-05-05 Thread Gary Kline
while it installed faitly easily, the ssh studd failed; so is there any easy way of doing this? and more important, am i going to have to join thepc-bsd list or will you guys be pissed off if i ask here? [i'm trying to add my beloved zsh [[heart-throbs]], and ff3, and others. i thought i had

Re: 2 qstns re pc-bsd...

2010-05-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Gary Kline wrote: i ask here? [i'm trying to add my beloved zsh [[heart-throbs]], and ff3, and others. i thought i had installed the ports stuff. nope. When I looked at PCBSD some while ago it had 3 ways of doing ports. #1 is standard (make install) FreeBSD ports, #2 is also standard FreeBSD

Re: booting??

2010-05-05 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010 09:59:35 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: (I did try # cdrecord dev=1,0,0 foo.iso on a non-empty and and empty DVD. no joy. I'm not sure it's safe to use cdrecord for DVDs. Anyway, I always wqas lucky using growisofs

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-05 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:12:21PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote: BSDSTATS is dead. Don't waste your time. Not dead, still very active with reports in daily ... i

Re: 2 qstns re pc-bsd...

2010-05-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:52:48PM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Gary Kline wrote: i ask here? [i'm trying to add my beloved zsh [[heart-throbs]], and ff3, and others. i thought i had installed the ports stuff. nope. When I looked at PCBSD some while ago it had 3 ways of doing ports. #1

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: can you tell me two things: nslookup rpt.bsdstats.org and the contents of /var/db/bsdstats I seem to have probs with mine too. I was under the impression that bsdstats was installed by default (in the base system?) so

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Chris Hill wrote: Since we're on the topic, and in light of Fbsd1's recent adventure... Panama seems awfully high in the country stats. I understand what you said upthread about haproxy being in Panama, but it's a small country to be always at the top; maybe there's some

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I seem to have probs with mine too. I was under the impression that bsdstats was installed by default (in the base system?) There has been talk about adding it as an option to sysinstall, but, unfortunately, I don't have enough knowledge of

bash while read question

2010-05-05 Thread Evuraan
I cant figure out why the variable in in loop2 does not hike to +1? (its a friday, i am dazed, I admit. but this should not be a mystery!) any help would be much appreciated. $ cat loop1 #! /bin/bash date /tmp/somefile b=1 while read blah; do let b=(b+1) done /tmp/somefile echo variable is

BSDstats website displaying data incorrectly

2010-05-05 Thread Fbsd1
Why does this page show PCBSD has count of 387 http://www.bsdstats.org/bt/home.html?os= And this page shows PCBSD has count of 1307 http://www.bsdstats.org/bt/home.html?os=PC-BSD Why is this? I would think both should show the same value, or you better add explanation to the web page why the

Re: bash while read question

2010-05-05 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 05/05/2010 08:25 PM, Evuraan wrote: I cant figure out why the variable in in loop2 does not hike to +1? (its a friday, i am dazed, I admit. but this should not be a mystery!) any help would be much appreciated. snip $ cat loop2 #! /bin/bash date /tmp/somefile b=1 cat /tmp/somefile |

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-05 Thread Randi Harper
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I seem to have probs with mine too. I was under the impression that bsdstats was installed by default (in the base system?) There has been talk about adding it as an option to sysinstall, but, unfortunately, I don't have

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-05 Thread mikel king
On May 5, 2010, at 10:55 PM, Randi Harper wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I seem to have probs with mine too. I was under the impression that bsdstats was installed by default (in the base system?) There has been talk about adding it as an

dont think much of pcbsd.....

2010-05-05 Thread Gary Kline
maybe i need to reboot the ThinkPad, but i can't find and d/load zsh and many other of our std ports. no ff3, no evo or kmail. not much there-there. at least from what i see right now. oh-yeah, and the festival stuff, too. oh, and no ssh configured by default. pc-bsd has a well thought out

Re: BSDstats website displaying data incorrectly

2010-05-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote: Why does this page show PCBSD has count of 387 http://www.bsdstats.org/bt/home.html?os= And this page shows PCBSD has count of 1307 http://www.bsdstats.org/bt/home.html?os=PC-BSD Why is this? I would think both should show the same value, or you better add

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Randi Harper wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I seem to have probs with mine too. I was under the impression that bsdstats was installed by default (in the base system?) There has been talk about adding it as an option to

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-05 Thread Randi Harper
mikel king wrote: On May 5, 2010, at 10:55 PM, Randi Harper wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I seem to have probs with mine too. I was under the impression that bsdstats was installed by default (in the base system?) There has been talk about

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-05 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Randi Harper ra...@freebsd.org wrote: This idea was mentioned a few years as a way to improve advocacy statistics. Something short and sweet, with a one or two line explanation encouraging people to install the BSDStats system. If it were a yes/no option