watchdog questions

2009-05-05 Thread Brad Waite
I need some help understanding FreeBSD's kernel watchdog functionality. I've been reading up, and here's what I think I understand (correct me if I'm wrong): If a watchdog timer is set in the kernel and not reset or disabled within the time given, the kernel reboots the system. 'watchdog -t n'

Broken drive geometry / partitions on 7.2 install

2009-05-04 Thread Brad Waite
Hi all, I was trying to install 7.2 RELEASE on top of a previous 6.4 RELEASE I'd set up (but not deployed). The server has a 40MB Intel service partition and the rest of the drive for FreeBSD. Here's what greeted me when doing the fdisk from the install CD: Disk name: da0

/var or /usr for data?

2007-08-22 Thread Brad Waite
It would appear that the proper allocation of filesystems on FreeBSD is to put all data in /usr. I'm used to this and have been doing it for years. However, there's a few issues that keep coming up. A lot of the ports use /var for data dirs. MySQL, Qmail, dspam are a few that I've had issues

Xeon CPU temp

2006-02-11 Thread Brad Waite
Wasn't sure if this would be better directed to -hardware. I'm attempting to read the temperatures of my CPUs on my dual Xeon Tyan 2720 running 5.4-STABLE. According to the manual, the motherboard has supports diagnostics via smbus, so I dutifully built a new kernel with the smbus and i2c

Building part of world

2004-10-29 Thread Brad Waite
I'm trying to update my sys/pci/if_sk.c and would like to be able to build several versions without having to build the entire world. How would I do that? Thanks, Brad Waite ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Building part of world

2004-10-29 Thread Brad Waite
In the last episode (Oct 29), Brad Waite said: I'm trying to update my sys/pci/if_sk.c and would like to be able to build several versions without having to build the entire world. Since that's a kernel driver, you only have to build a new kernel. Heh. I realized that about 10 minutes after

Re: Building part of world

2004-10-29 Thread Brad Waite
On 2004-10-29 13:37, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Oct 29), Brad Waite said: I'm trying to update my sys/pci/if_sk.c and would like to be able to build several versions without having to build the entire world. Since that's a kernel driver, you only have to build

How do you increase the size of lost+found?

2004-04-13 Thread Brad Waite
| wc -l 8899 This fs was copied from a drive reporting hard errors reading fsbn... using dd. Thanks, Brad Waite ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY

2004-04-12 Thread Brad Waite
| wc -l 8899 This fs was copied from a drive reporting hard errors reading fsbn... using dd. Thanks, Brad Waite ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: hard disk recover

2004-04-09 Thread Brad Waite
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting the dreaded ad1s1a: hard error reading fsbn 524543 of 96-127 (ad1s1 bn 524543; cn 520 tn 6 sn 5) status=59 error=40 errors. Based on what I've read, it means my drive's going bye-bye. As it is, it won't even boot - fortunately I have another FBSD drive to