Re: /etc/rc.d/netif em interfaces

2010-12-01 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
To make this problem even stranger, I can make a connection from the server to a workstation without issue. It appears to only be incoming We've seen something very similar to this; we assumed it was EEPROM corruption. Is this a Dell PowerEdge by chance? Do you have TSO enabled?

Restarting network vlan interface = kernel memory corruption (if_vlan / conf/63700 redux)

2010-11-19 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=63700cat= (Circa 2004) http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2007-September/015447.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2010-June/025514.html -- Brian A. Seklecki bsekle...@collaborativefusion.com Collaborative Fusion, Inc. signature.asc Description

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
On 9/30/2010 4:11 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: I mean for a DNS server (all be it a small one) is it wise to use compact flash as storage?? For our GSLB DNS Slaves, we boot embedded/low power (or even VMs these days) systems with CF images off of flash, keep a shadow copy of /etc around, and

Anyone client-bridge'ing with ath(4) ?

2010-08-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
All: It's a bit hard to track where we stand with this issue. Is anyone having success running client-bridge (wifi0 in client mode, briding to wired interfaces)? From assorted posts, I understand ath(4) can't transmit from arbitrary source MACs or there's some limitation to the the

Re: Bacula 5.0 compiler error (crypto.c)

2010-04-29 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (NOC)
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 09:48 -0400, Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC) wrote: On 4/26/2010 9:05 AM, Efren Bravo wrote: I've OpenSSL 1.0.0 installed and ports up2date. My server is on production, so, What do you think I should do in my case? Okay yea you'll need 5.0.1 and a copy of KR

8.0-R failing to parse DHCP root-path or loader.conf/rc vars (Diskless NFS/PXE)

2010-04-27 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
All: DHCP: option root-path 192.168.224.67:/export/tftpboot/root-db; loader.rc: set vfs.root.mountfrom=nfs set vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw set boot.nfsroot.path=/export/tftpboot/root-web set boot.nfsroot.server=192.168.224.67 loader.conf: mfsroot_load=NO nfsclient_load=YES

Re: Bacula 5.0 compiler error (crypto.c)

2010-04-26 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
On 4/26/2010 9:05 AM, Efren Bravo wrote: I've OpenSSL 1.0.0 installed and ports up2date. My server is on production, so, What do you think I should do in my case? Okay yea you'll need 5.0.1 and a copy of KR or Stevens` APUE to help hold you down. [1] ~BAS 1. Down under water, until the

Re: Bacula 5.0 compiler error (crypto.c)

2010-04-24 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (NOC)
crypto.c: In function 'ASN1_OCTET_STRING* openssl_cert_keyid(X509*)': crypto.c:333: error: invalid conversion from 'const X509V3_EXT_METHOD*' to 'X509V3_EXT_METHOD*' crypto.c: In function 'CRYPTO_SESSION* crypto_session_new(crypto_cipher_t, alist*)': What's your uname -a look like?

PXE + sysinstall(8) install.cfg: DHCP Attribute to map install config/policy to system MAC?

2010-04-21 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
All: The install.cfg mechanism is pretty wicked. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a really efficient way to provide new clients (or class of clients) an install.cfg without rebuilding an MFSROOT image. At least with pxeboot(8), in TFTP-only-mode, using dhcpd.conf(5) client{}

Debugging RLIMITs signals: SIGXFSZ and SIGXCPU

2010-04-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
All: I've got a process that is mysteriously receiving a SIGTERM (or other signal. It's a RADIUS daemon; runs a non-Root (not privsep, unfortunately). Identical hardware, identical code, identical config on 6.3-PL is fine. On 8, the daemon is logging receipt of a non-HUP signal and

Re: ipv6 static route.

2010-01-25 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
On 1/25/2010 12:15 PM, Peter Ankerstål wrote: How do I set a static ipv6 route in rc.conf? This command works: route add -inet6 -net 2003:16c8:dc1e:2:: -prefixlen 64 2003:16c8:dc1e::2 and I use this in rc.conf: ipv6_static_routes=2003:16c8:dc1e:2:: -prefixlen 64 2003:16c8:dc1e::2 Do it

Re: Yahoo! moving to Linux???

2009-12-19 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
http://m.de.yahoo.com was running YTS on Linux when last queried at 19-Dec-2009 19:12:25 GMT - refresh now Site Report Hard to stand, I'd expect FreeBSD get replaced by Windows because of MS/Yahoo! agreement, but Linux?? Its possible the frontend loadbalancer/L4 switch is an A10 at Yahoo!,

Re: Specific interface to default route

2009-11-25 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
Anthony M. Rasat wrote: Dear all, I have two (ethernet) network interface with IP address within the same subnet, call it msk0 and nfe0. Interface msk0 have IP address 192.168.0.2 and nfe0 192.168.0.3 and default router IP address is 192.168.0.1. route(8) takes a 'dev' argument, but the

Re: Apache 2.2 mod_ldap refusing to work over SSL/TLS

2009-11-25 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
As far as I can tell, it doesn't even get to the certificate verification phase even though the STARTTLS command is successful. Is there any level of debugging that can be increased on the Apache side ? Possibly a build/compile-time option for the module? Debugging apache code can always

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-18 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
I really think that it should be corrected to: cd /usr/src make distribution DESTDIR=$D That's almost certainly correct, but it notes: Notes [1] This step is not required on FreeBSD 6.0 and later. But then I get this error in syslog: bind: Can't assign requested address That's a

Re: mfi(4) lockups and the adapter event log

2009-11-09 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
with linux-megacli showed TONS of messages. Trying to clear them using linux-megacli seemed to cause a similar lockup, filled with command timeouts, but no fatal firmware error. Also, does anyone know if the mfiutil(8) util in RELENG_8 has the ability to purge the event log? Man page

Re: Trying to make a mirror for a disconnected lab

2009-08-28 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 22:20 -0400, Duncan Hutty wrote: Q. ports/distfiles contains tarballs of multiple versions of each software; I assume that I only need one version of each tarball. And since this mirror as described comes to ~100GiB, how can I modify my For this you want

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 09:48 -0700, Tim Gustafson wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support ZFS boot partitions in the installer. No one has gone near that stuff in years. We don't even have gmirror(8) creation support in there. Best not to use

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 08:58 -0700, Tim Gustafson wrote: then there's no reason that the functionality couldn't or shouldn't be built into the installer. With a few machines, yes. Once you get to 5 or 6, start building your own custom internal ISOs, and maintain your configuration templates in

Re: bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 12:41 +, Eitan Adler wrote: I have a Lenovo G530 laptop with a broadcom wireless card. I downloaded the drivers referenced here: If the driver didn't attach because IBM chose some exotic OEM PCI ID, then the grep wont find it. You really should post the full

Re: SSO solution in ports?

2009-07-17 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 10:52 -0400, John Almberg wrote: I am trying to build a set of web applications that are accessed through a web portal that uses a Single Sign On (SSO) solution. Combine your SSO (LDAP mostly, Kerberos is a waking nightmare) with a 2FA/TFA (Second Factor

Re: fsck

2009-06-16 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
settings to default to power on state when power is restored. You can get a APC Backups 350 for ~ $50 retail. -- Brian A. Seklecki bsekle...@collaborativefusion.com Collaborative Fusion, Inc. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Legato Client for freeBSD 7

2009-06-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 10:29 +0200, Gian Paolo Buono wrote: Hi, I have a server running freeBSD7 that needs the legato backup client Legato is no more. Legato and RSA are now EMC. Time to upgrade to Bacula! ~BAS ___

Re: Sun E250

2009-05-15 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 16:19 +0100, RAUL H C LOPES wrote: Hi, No. the A1000 does not require any special RAID controller. Freebsd 7.2 is freezing after message: Jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0078000 Okay, this erroneous behavior is happening much earlier than before the RAID controller

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 opencrypto -- kern.cryptodevallowsoft

2009-05-15 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 19:14 +0100, Brendan Kennedy wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to test a hardware crypto driver, but want to run my tests through the software driver first (and possibly use the software driver to validate results). I have set the following in my GENERIC conf file: What

Re: Sun E250

2009-05-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 10:27 +0100, RAUL H C LOPES wrote: Hello, We've got a Sun server E250 with a disk array Storedge A1000. We'd like to Try a LiveCD on it? Also, does the Storedge A1000 require a special RAID controller or does it appear on the onboard HBA as a logical volume? In my

Re: Configuring an IPv6 router to assign addresses

2009-05-08 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 14:30 +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've found in the handbook how to start up a v6 router and some other helpful links on this topic at the FreeBSD diary. However, I'm wondering, You want to the rtadvd(8) daemon. $ sudo grep -i rtadvd /etc/defaults/rc.conf

Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

2009-05-08 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 13:54 +0200, Olivier Mueller wrote: - it took about 12 hours to delete these 30GB of files and sub-directories (smarty cache files: many small files in many dirs). Haven't you ever had the pleasure of running Sendmail on Solaris? :) Move this data store to a separate

Re: HyperThreading

2009-05-08 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 02:20 -0400, APseudoUtopia wrote: Am I correct to assume that the above means that HTT is enabled? There is nothing in my loader.conf, sysctl.conf, or kernel config file related to hyperthreading. Yes, you are correct. Try: % sudo ps gauxww Or % sudo top You can

Re: FreeBSD on VMware ESXi

2009-05-08 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 13:44 +0300, Daniels Vanags wrote: We moved Hard Disk Drives from HP ProLiant DL 385 G2 with 4GB RAM, AMD Opteron processor to HP ProLiant DL 380 G5, 4GB RAM, Intel Xeon processor. Disks contain FreeBSD Virtual Machines running in VMware ESXi Server. When trying to

Re: 6.2 STABLE to 6.2 RELEASE problem

2009-04-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
. Binary upgrades in general. -- Brian A. Seklecki bsekle...@collaborativefusion.com Collaborative Fusion, Inc. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: jail stop

2009-04-06 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 15:27 -0400, alexus wrote: cannot stop jail mx. No jail id in /var/run $ uname -a There were problems with TTY code in older versions that would cause processes to get stuck, ghosting jails. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

ubsec(4) and geli(4) Benchmarks (WAS: Re: freebsd encrypted hard disk? (fwd))

2009-04-01 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
All: Has anyone bench-marked the performance improvements associated with various ubsec models in conjunction with OpenSSL cryptodev acceleration of geli(4) in the kernel? I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm a pilgrim on unholy land here. I'm precluding hifn(4), padlock(4), and gblx(4),

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 on Dell PowerEdge 850

2009-03-19 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 14:10 -0500, Dean Weimer wrote: Just wondering if anyone is running FreeBSD 7.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with SATA raid, I have 5.4 installed on one now, because there was a problem with the Intel ich5 sata chipset on 6.x branch at the time I RAID on the 850 is rare,

Re: weird permissions on directories when installing ports through sudo

2009-02-25 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
lowering the umask of the person running sudo. This had the effect of truly screwing up many installed ports for me Maybe try sudo -H -u root [command] NetBSD Pkgsrc is nice in this respect because it has sudo(8) integration in the MKs. ~BAS signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: weird permissions on directories when installing ports through sudo

2009-02-25 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
I didn't think this would do much, but gave it a try anyway And it doesn't help. :/ I think i meant '-i' -- but I'd have to look at the patch`s interaction. I can't recreate the problem in the 1.6.x we're running in our internal release engineering. 1.7.x, and its associated backport,

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950

2009-01-27 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
mail# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/megarc mail# make install clean === megarc-1.51 is marked as broken: Running megarc seems to cause memory corruption. We have a PR open on that - ports/130326:

Re: Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-29 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
using getenv() in PHP directly. ~BAS in /usr/share/skel on FreeBSD does not set them. Neither does /etc/login.conf. I would set it in /etc/profile. -- Brian A. Seklecki bsekle...@collaborativefusion.com Collaborative Fusion, Inc. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-29 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
on the lists. -- Brian A. Seklecki bsekle...@collaborativefusion.com Collaborative Fusion, Inc. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-24 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
all!) ~BAS -- Brian A. Seklecki bsekle...@collaborativefusion.com Collaborative Fusion, Inc. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-22 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 22:46 +0300, Jeff Laine wrote: Just mv teh snowflakes to /dev/null ^_- $ sudo pkill -9 xsnow ~BAS -- Brian A. Seklecki bsekle...@collaborativefusion.com Collaborative Fusion, Inc. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 11:15 -0800, Casey Scott wrote: Obviously downgrade to 6.0 on snow affected servers. Or rebuild all of your ports and melt the snow away. ~BAS -- Brian A. Seklecki bsekle...@collaborativefusion.com Collaborative Fusion, Inc. signature.asc Description

PXE Boot - Silent kernel dmesg output

2008-11-21 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
) on NFS reads to my export and determine if it is indeed actually reading loader.conf(5). However, the system-wide defaults w/o loader.conf + loader.rc + boot.conf shouldn't prohibit kernel VGA console output. -- Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT

Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
is teach psychology or serve coffee. Send us your screenshot. Nothing was attached. -- Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message

Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
out how to solve this issue... With best wishes VJ On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 16:01 +0100, VeeJay wrote: There seemed to be a problem related to RAID controller on one server

Re: Errors found in Freebsd

2008-10-22 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
to anyone who lives or dies by PowerEdge. -- Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual

Re: rc: not working as expected? (round 2)

2008-10-10 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only

Re: cvsup.uk.freebsd.org down

2008-10-10 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ Guilty? Yeah. But he knows it. I mean, you're guilty. You just don't know it. So who's really in jail? ~Maynard

Re: cvsup mirrors

2008-10-10 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ Guilty? Yeah. But he knows it. I mean, you're guilty. You just don't know it. So who's really

Re: core Dumb during CVSUP

2008-10-10 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
use csup, but at this stage, i'll wait untill portupgrade has finished to see if anything changes in that reguards. Well, you could ktrace(8) the binary and/or rebuild it with debugging symbols and bt the coredump ~BAS ~BAS ___

Check_CVSUp / PServer - Nagios Plugins?

2008-10-10 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
: - Duh FTP/RSYNC: - Yea Thougths? Discussion? l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ Guilty? Yeah. But he knows it. I mean, you're guilty. You just don't know it. So who's really in jail? ~Maynard James Keenan

Re: svpn

2008-08-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile)
connect and after several seconds shows me connection failed. But then in the top I see that process of svpn consumes almost 100% of processor. ktrace the process and find out what its doing. linux binary XPIs for firefox are hit-or-miss (Dell DRAC5) ~BAS Is it posible to run F5Networks

Re: Monitoring raid health with mpt

2008-08-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 09:25 -0400, John Almberg wrote: On Aug 11, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Chris Hastie wrote: I have a Dell PowerEdge 860 with SAS 5iR RAID controller and FreeBSD 6.2. The controller is configured for RAID 1. The controller is See if Dell has populated IPMI SDR data structures

Re: Jail problem while starting

2008-07-02 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile)
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 01:02 +0500, Jo Pesko wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 7.0 version and expecting some problems with jail. /etc/rc.d/jail script hangs when it try to map jail's interface to alias address of my nic. Script successfully starting if i removing alias Hard to say. Paste

Re: mfi freebsd7

2008-06-02 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
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Re: bge1: watchdog timeout -- resetting bge1: link state changed to DOWN

2008-05-09 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 23:35 +0300, Indiana Jones wrote: If anybody could provide a solid solution, I'd be most grateful. I have this box that works as an Internet router and I have two NICs in it, 3com 3C996-SX and 3C996-T, the later is bge1 on which I get this persistent ERROR below,

Re: Max Ram

2008-04-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 18:49 -0400, Jose Perez wrote: Hello Freebsd I would like to know if can i use 8 GB To use 8 gigs of ram, run the amd64 distribution. of Ram in Freebsd 6.1 and if have raid drivers for the new dell 2950 The r3 of the 2950 that Dell will sell you on Monday is the

ipmi(4) on PowerEdge 860 - bogus CPU temperature readings

2008-04-14 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
This platform is returning a bogus value for the main temperature sensor using the ipmi(4) module in 6.3/amd64: # ipmitool -V ipmitool version 1.8.8 # ipmitool sdr Temp | -54 degrees C | cr Planar Temp | 30 degrees C | ok That value should probably be an absolute

Re: Comments on DRAC IV, V, VI w/ FreeBSD 6.3, 7.0

2008-04-11 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
need ActiveX plugins (or a RHEL4-i386-only-XPI). The DRAC4 is very agreeable. Pure Java, which works out-of-the-box with Ports. Overall, the 9th-gen PowerEdges were sloppy (Revision 1 had serious instability issues related to PERC5) ~BAS notes, etc with DRAC and FreeBSD? -- Brian

Re: building a distribution server

2008-04-06 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile)
If you have a heterogeneous hardware platform, you shouldn't be aff\raid to distribute binary kernels, userland, and ports. It also sounds like you need a load balancer to do zero-downtime upgrades. Just take a server out of production, upgrade it, validate it with the new OS, and put it back

Re: How to instal my NIC Card?

2008-04-06 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile)
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 21:51 -0700, berlowin wrote: after i have installed freeBSD 5.4, in ifconfig only display fwe0, plip0, and lo0... Why my NIC which is supposed to be em0 is not seen? Send us the contents of /var/run/dmesg.boot and pciconf -vl TIA, ~BAS My Network Adapter is

RE: Temperature Monitoring on PowerEdge 1950

2008-04-06 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 13:28 -0500, Andy Christianson wrote: In response to Andy Christianson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We've been able to do this using IPMI. You can talk to the DRAC4/DRAC5 BMC out of band, independent of the OS. Otherwise: # kldload /boot/kernel/ipmi.ko God speed. ~BAS Thanks

Re: Suppressing Limiting icmp unreach response log messages

2008-03-27 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
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Re: Working /etc/pam.d/sshd file with pam_ldap 6.3 or 7.0 ?

2008-03-25 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Collaborative Fusion, Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Working /etc/pam.d/sshd file with pam_ldap 6.3 or 7.0 ?

2008-03-25 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
fall in a loop like the following panzer:~ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Password: Old Password: Password: Old Password: Password: I am SURE the password I type works Brian A. Seklecki wrote: The problem is that the PAM libraries provide a shit-fuck-ass-worthless debug mechanisms

Re: fault tolerance with FreeBSD for old DOS app

2008-03-24 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 19:36 +0200, B. Bonev wrote: I want advice for old DOS app on Windows PC, that I need to make on 2 PC-s fault tolerant. Any advice for working solution on FreeBSD? Yep...rewrite the database in SQL with a PHP front end. Import the data from the old system. Use a

Re: Virtualized FreeBSD

2008-03-23 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile)
Sorry, I meant virtualized as in a guest os under Xen. I need to experiment with FreeBSD as a DomU guest under a Xen hypervisor -- and it looks like NetBSD/amd64 is the only quality platform for Dom0 (function Xen DOM0, iSCSI, SMP, IPv6, VLANs, briding, pf(4), mfi(4), PowerEdge 9th gen

Re: Urgent: filesystem full, though space is available

2008-03-17 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
-hi. Inodes at 100% capacity (such as a sendmail clusterfuck) can cause file system-full error messages. This is why you should have partitioned off /var ~BAS -- Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information

libdisk(3), geom(4), gmirror(8), sysinstall(8)

2008-02-24 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
All: There was a patch to libdisk in late 2005 that added geom(4) support to libdisk. I'm noticing that Disk_Names() doesn't grab contact/ or mirror/ volumes, though. It still depends on kern.disks. Should I add my gmirror/gconcat probing code to /usr.sbin/ sysinstall/devices.c directly,

Re: automatic fsck on gmirror failure

2008-02-22 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 23:39 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: it failed while rebuilding with badly written data on the disk that was used, while other rebuild. now it can't read it. if you are sure that it doesn't pass through fsck before second reboot, do the following. 1) turn off

Re: automatic fsck on gmirror failure

2008-02-22 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: $ grep -i fsck /etc/defaults/rc.conf fsck_y_enable=NO # Set to YES to do fsck -y if the initial preen fails. gmirror(8) / geom(8) should automatically remove (degrade) components with bad I/O operations after a certain threshold, but I'm

Re: automatic fsck on gmirror failure

2008-02-22 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: gmirror(8) / geom(8) should automatically remove (degrade) components with bad I/O operations after a certain threshold, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't. but i'm absolutely sure it does because it did several times for me Finally I had some time

Re: diskLabelCommit fails within a sysinstall script?

2008-02-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
that this is still the case. defeats / undermines the whole purpose of /dev/[as][d##][s#][a-z] /dev/[as][d##][s#] alone can represent entire BIOS partitions /dev/[as][d##] alone can represent entire disk Not sure why we still need a 'c' slice for legacy ?! -- Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Collaborative

_devname in src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/devices.c

2008-02-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
All: Does anyone know the relationship between this structure (major, minor, delta, etc.) and real device IDs? Obviously devd(8) isn't running in the MFS install kernel, but I assume the magic still happens. Also, I don't see that major/minors indexed here actually matching a booted SMP kernel?

Re: diskLabelCommit fails within a sysinstall script?

2008-02-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
of uncertainly is likely why the other projects haven't adopted the new model, which is a shame, but pragmatically speaking... I'll be happy when they do, either way. jerry -- Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Collaborative Fusion, Inc

Re: RELENG_6_3 build fail -- signal 13 consistently

2008-02-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 09:17 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: This is 6.3/amd64 release as a guest inside a vmware server (free) host: It happens randomly. First time I've seen it. amd64 and i386 under vmware 1.x server (Free Version). I guess I'll use physical hardware for build farms

Re: RELENG_6_3 build fail -- signal 13 consistently

2008-02-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 14:33 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 09:17 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: This is 6.3/amd64 release as a guest inside a vmware server (free) host: It happens randomly. First time I've seen it. amd64 and i386 under vmware 1.x server (Free

Re: PowerEdge 860 (Resend)

2008-02-19 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
:~{ Broadcom ethernet has not changed -- is a Broadcom BCM5750 B1, ASIC rev. 0x4101 (same as 850) The 860 is an 850 in just about every measurable aspect. At least they're shipping WDC instead of Maxtor. ~BAS On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 12:42 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: [Sorry if this is a resend

Re: freebsd dead after attempt on upgrade from 6.2 to 6.3

2008-02-17 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile)
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 22:53 +0200, Deian Popov wrote: I have tested numerous times both 6.3 and 7 and the ata driver would not detect my hdd. Here is output of dmesg on 6.2system: File a bug for sure! Here are the relevant lines from the working 6.2 system: atapci0: Intel ICH5 SATA150

Re: freebsd dead after attempt on upgrade from 6.2 to 6.3

2008-02-17 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile)
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 23:45 +0200, Deian Popov wrote: I will most definitely do, but this would happen after few days (don't have time to fix the system before that). The output of 6.3 and 7 is the same, so I will provide one from 6.3. Should I use http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html to file

Re: disk error

2008-02-16 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 17:59 +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: Hi all, Just found these messages in my logfile. Is it something to worry about? I've never seen them before upgrading to 6.3. ra kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=281550271 ra kernel: ad0: FAILURE -

Re: disk error

2008-02-16 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
UDMA_CRC_Error_Count0x000a 200 200 000Old_age Always - 0 ~BAS not use it anymore)? -- http://www.boosten.org l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ Guilty? Yeah. But he knows it. I mean, you're guilty. You

Re: freebsd dead after attempt on upgrade from 6.2 to 6.3

2008-02-15 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
new dmesg(8), and original fstab(5). -- Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual

RELENG_6_3 build fail -- signal 13 consistently

2008-01-24 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
This is 6.3/amd64 release as a guest inside a vmware server (free) host: === gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ar (install) install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 ar /opt/relchroot/usr/bin *** Signal 13 Make.conf has some sparing NO_ knobs set and: COPTS=-pipe CFLAG=-pipe Other than that, its a

Re: Server unreachable after quagga install from ports

2008-01-23 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 23:50 -0600, Nomad wrote: I just setup a server running FreeBSD 6.3. After the install I made some Ugh... show us: $ netstat -rn -f inet $ arp -an Any pf.conf(5) or rc.conf(5). Likely $defaultroute in rc.conf(5) is a short-lived value. ~BAS Any information would

Re: VM Options

2008-01-23 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 13:11 -0600, Jack Barnett wrote: Are there any good VM Options for FreeBSD? There is VMWare in ports; which I really like - but it's a few years old Jails and as a Xen guest --- probably with a NetBSD or GNU/Linux host. There's always Solaris domain. :} ~BAS

Re: Latest Stable FreeBSD version and its Dell 2950 Compatiblity

2008-01-22 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 10:11 +0530, navneet Upadhyay wrote: Hi, I need to know which is the latest stable FreeBSD release(6.2 ?) and does it goes well with Dell 2950 ? Did you check the list archives? With 6.2: - Make sure you get revision 2 of the unit - bce(4) onboard is not

Re: Latest Stable FreeBSD version and its Dell 2950 Compatiblity

2008-01-22 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
And yes about the 2950, with the bellow remarks (I asked the same question one month ago, check fro the tread about dell Power Edge 2950). Time for a FreeBSD-PowerEdge Wiki. ~BAS Olivier Make sure that you get a Revision 2 (R2). We had some serious stability

gmirror(8) on 6.3 mfsroot / fixit

2008-01-19 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
All: I see that gmirror(8) is available on the 6.3 fixit file system, but still not a part of the mfsroot. Is this a crunchgen problem? The install kernel has had boot/kernel/geom_mirror.ko since the 5x days. so it seems only appropriate to include the binary. I guess its a moot point since

Re: dell Power Edge 2950

2008-01-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
No idea. The systems are remote to me, so I can't check. BTW it's called patrol read. I was just having a particularly cynical day. The PR confirms that manually initiating one with megacli causes a hard lock. It could be a linux32 compat issue sending the command or it could be the

Re: dell Power Edge 2950

2008-01-10 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Dennis Glatting wrote: As stupid as this is going to sound, I solved my dump problem on one of my 2950s running amd64 7.0 with two dual core processors. The problem was when I did a level 0 dump, regardless of partition. At random times the dump would halt, never to

Re: dell Power Edge 2950

2008-01-09 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hello, This is just to confirm that Dell Power Edge 2950, with Quad Core Xeon E5420 is OK with FreeBSD 6.2/6.3. Make sure that you get a Revision 2 (R2). We had some serious stability issues with two R1s. Yay for beta testing $6k servers.

PowerEdge 860 (Resend)

2008-01-09 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
[Sorry if this is a resend to some -- I do not see that it made it through the first time --- possibly spam filtered due to a DNS problem with my personal domain.] -- Hi all: There are scattered reports in late 2006 / early 2007 of success using the PE 860 w/ the SAS RAID, but not w/o the RAID

Re: software raid 1 and recovery

2008-01-05 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 10:56 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Google: nagios + seklecki + check_raid_gmirror Also check out sysutils/smartmontools/ Also, I recently updated the plugin code to r270 with some patches from Scott Swanson. You can see a small screenshot of it in action here: http

Re: software raid 1 and recovery

2008-01-04 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
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Re: AAARRRGH: network foul-ups.

2007-12-27 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile)
On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 18:38 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: The trouble is that two of my machines report the identical private IP: 10.0.0.250. Previously tao was 10.0.0.247 and Be sure to flush old entries from: /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient.leases on DHCP Clients ~BAS tao2 was

Re: Release 7.0 Beta2

2007-12-09 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 09:36 -0800, Srinivasa R Kanduru wrote: Hi, I was trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 Beta2 on a dell x86 machine which use the bios menu to set the keyboard mode to compat/ps/2 emulation mode. Also try unplugging reconnecting the usb keyboard post-boot. Is this a a

Re: Pioneer DVR-112D/1.21 refuses to write CDs, only writes DVDs

2007-11-17 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 20:26 -0800, Yuri wrote: I bought the new DVD writer -- Pioneer DVR-112D. But every time I try to write data CD or audio CD it gives Input/Output error. It can read CDs and write and read DVDs no problem. Anybody else has this problem? What is the solution? Are

Re: Pioneer DVR-112D/1.21 refuses to write CDs, only writes DVDs

2007-11-17 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
) ~BAS On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, Yuri wrote: Are you using burncd(1) or ports/sysutils/cdrtools ? Are you getting DMA errors to kernel msgbuf or simple 1-line I/O error? I am using burncd. There is only one-line I/O error. l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Re: How to know PID responsible for network connection/listen?

2007-11-15 Thread Brian A Seklecki (Mobile)
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 11:20 -0800, Yuri wrote: 'netstat -a' gives me the listing of network connection/listening records. But there's no link to the process id that opened it. Install ports/sysutils/lsof/ Each socket is a file descriptor. ~BAS With lots of processes this can be a

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