Re: advice sought on tape backups with cyrus-imap

the actual message files. So backup/restore induced inconsistencies are normally no problem. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: How To Copy A Group of Files To Different Name?

permissions and modification time. For a test run in order to verify in advance what would happen, use the '-n' option. Great tool IMHO. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net

Re: Security run question

/packages collection? Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: UsersFiles and Quota

/path/to/filesystem | sort -rn +2 -3 That's less taxing on the system than using 'find', and it also takes into account files that a user might have deleted but still holds open and therefore allocated. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Best way to cleanly uninstall packages?

be interested, too. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Choosing A Stripe-Size (RAID5 Array)

degradation. The FreeBSD kernel is optimized for 16kB blocks. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Process priority

) command. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Linking disk utilization to a process

the respective process terminated. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Virtual Sound Channels

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Re: Unexpected soft update inconsistency

by a couple of seconds, from the file system's point of view, until it gets into the time range again where all files were still consistent (payload and meta data). Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net

Re: tcp blackhole and ident

for an application level solution. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: documentation on FreeBSD kernel

BSD development teams. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Out of memory and inactive memory

again and should be given to a process needing it. So why does Zope fail here? Do you happen to have a per-process data size limit? What does ulimit -a or limit show? The former is for sh or bash, the latter for csh or tcsh. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand

Re: Out of memory and inactive memory

the corresponding database file. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Determining free memory on FreeBSD 4.8-REL

pages available without delay when you need them. Hope to have shed some light on the subject. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: startup daemon as unpriviliged user

;; stop) ;; esac cut here Also, keep in mind that the script's name requires a suffix of '.sh', or else the system won't execute it automatically. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX

Re: a sysctl machdep.tsc_freq problem

, for technical reasons I understand. So in this case 'machdep.tsc.freq' is omitted from the kernel and therefore cannot be queried. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL

Re: a sysctl machdep.tsc_freq problem

the CPU speed? Because the CPU speed info in the 'kern.msgbuf' will be rushed after the machine run a long time and a lot of kernel msg. Did you consider parsing '/var/run/dmesg.boot'? That one won't change over time. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers

Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

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Re: portsdb: Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry

Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Uwe Doering wrote: Bernard El-Hagin wrote: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I think there's something in one of the included makefiles that relies on a change to make(1) that happened after 5.1-RELEASE. Note that only the most recent release is supported

Re: MySQL and FreeBSD 4.x.. problems, problems with server

://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_write.c?sortby=dateonly_with_tag=RELENG_4 BTW, a potentially serious problem with signals in 'uthread_join.c' has been fixed recently, too. Hope it helps in your case. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand

Re: mysql in a jail

jail runs on its own, unique IP address? If not, port binding conflicts are to be expected. You cannot have multiple MySQL daemons on the same IP address/port combination, regardless of whether they run inside jails or not. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX

Re: apache log files rotation

'. This will omit the 'logfile turned over due to ...' lines generated by 'newsyslog', which the statistics program may otherwise complain about. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net

Re: Kernel Questions

these things by hand if you didn't use the recommended sequence. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: writing to specific block address

and length would be set with 'seek=' and 'count='. However, make sure that you understand their interaction with 'bs=' (block size), or you may be very sorry afterwards ... Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net

Re: Kernel Questions

Loren M. Lang wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:59:44AM +0100, Uwe Doering wrote: Loren M. Lang wrote: [...] 3. The handbook seems to suggest to use the config, make, make install procedure for installing the kernel if you have no other reason for not using it, what is the reason

Re: Simple file count question

' will traverse them by default as well. If you want to count files only in the directory level of '/path/to/dir' you may want to add '-maxdepth 1', like so: find /path/to/dir -type f -name db\* -maxdepth 1 -print | wc -l Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL

Re: Problem with ncurses install

depend make make install (clean up /usr/obj) That's how it is in FreeBSD 4.x at least. Can't tell, though, whether the path names are still the same in 5.x. Hope it works for you, too. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: changing directory permissions recursively

safe than sorry. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: enabling S.M.A.R.T on drives attached to Adaptec 2400A RAID controller

by default in all cases I've seen. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: How to get memory usage for process?

memory segments that indicate memory sharing etc. Try this: cat /proc/pid/map 'pid' is of course to be replaced by the PID of the process you want to examine. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net

Re: changing directory permissions recursively

Cory Petkovsek wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:47:07AM +0200, Uwe Doering wrote: cd $topdir find . -type d | xargs chmod 755 In case (potentially) untrusted users have had write permission in this directory tree in the past, a safer alternative would be find /path/to/tree/root -type d

Re: FreeBSD router: Can my internet provider detect my home network?

an effort for probably just a couple of bucks saved. Larger companies do this, but for security reasons and also to control what their employees do on the Internet. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net

Re: SOLVED: Re: openssl port not over-writing the base

syntax for assigning a value to a make variable would be make OPENSSL_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes install This can be important in cases where just defining the variable with '-D' is not enough. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: idle process status

interrupt, hanging controller etc.) that blocks the intended demise of the process. But without further debugging it is impossible to tell what it is exactly. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net

Re: Booting using serial console

it is properly listening there? I'm guessing the baud rates of the machine and the terminal are mismatched. 'sio0' in the kernel config needs a 'flags 0x10' directive in order to make COM1 a (potential) console port. Default speed is 9600 bit/s. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox

Re: resolver problem

and exclusively, so there doesn't have to be any directive in the system telling them to do so. Most programs, however, use gethostbyname() etc. and need the 'bind' entry in host.conf, which you just removed by deleting this file. If you restore the file DNS lookups will work. Uwe -- Uwe Doering

Re: Strange formatting error with pkg_info after using portupgrade

/pkg_install/info/show.c) in order to build and install a fixed 'pkg_info'. Or if it doesn't happen often you could just as well edit the respective '+COMMENT' file in the '/var/db/pkg' hierarchy. The pragmatic approach. ;-) Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX

Re: Using pw adduser to set password in a script

or given) in a file (with secure permissions, of course) and then feed 'pw' from that file: pw useradd -q -h 0 -n user -g group -s shell -d /home/user \ -c 'comment' -m /path/to/file rm -f /path/to/file Hope that helps. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX

Re: log viewer

, you may want to take a look at 'multitail'. It's a curses application, but with 'xterm' you can use it on a GUI as well. Regards, Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net

Re: Unexpected resolver behavior

code because they need DNS information that is not available through system library functions. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Good rentable servers?

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Re: FreeBSD 4.9 - clearing local DNS cache

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Re: Help Renaming Multple Files

how I can do this. Thanks. You may want to take a look at the 'mmv' package (ports/misc/mmv). Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Fast and reliable /tmp partition.

expensive. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: FreeBSD Hosting

these issues for us. While I can't tell from your posting what exactly you would like to do with the server, going by your general requirements you may be interested in what we (EscapeBox) do. Please consider following the link in my signature. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed

Re: identifying and fixing server I/O slowdowns

that disk into failed mode and would then replace it. The exact details depend on your raid controller. Of course, your mileage may vary, but I've experienced disk failures like these several times in the past, with the effect you've described. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed

Re: kernel error

infrequently. At least that's my experience. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: md5/des ?

you're running FreeBSD 4.x, please see the attached patch. I pulled it from the Internet some time ago and subsequently improved it slightly, as far as I recall. With this patch applied 'adduser' honors the 'passwd_format' parameter in '/etc/login.conf'. Uwe -- Uwe Doering

Re: mysql can't finf shared library

/etc/rc.d' don't get executed on your system? Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Multiple CPU Performance

. Just wondering A single instance of PHP would use only one CPU. However, if your web server spreads multiple parallel requests over multiple processes (Apache 1.x, for instance) you would indeed benefit from the second CPU. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX

Re: sync delay and consitency

for the 30-29-28 (the 1 differece between) sequence ? It gives a FS w/soft-updates its crash resilience, by ensuring the order of disk updates for these three data types. Meta data first, then directory data, and finally the actual file contents. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed

Re: Strange errors swap...

with a dying hard disk which was fortunately part of a raid array, so it was sufficiently easy to replace the disk. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL

Re: cpu load

had this problem once when a lead of the tiny RTC quartz came loose (due to bad soldering) and the chip stopped working. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net

Re: group members can't modify files even though 775 set

, or if this behaviour is the default, try to override it with 'set +o noclobber'. Hope this helps. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Can't traceroute to my box

(net.inet.tcp.blackhole). Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Other ways than quotas to limit mail files size ??

, which is a complete IMAP4/POP3 email storage subsystem with file system independent quotas. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: route entries after ICMP redirect

to your kernel sources ought to solve the problem. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.escapebox.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman