Re: On SMP, getting: Message from watchdog: The system will be rebooted because of error -3!

2003-09-07 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:09, Jason Lim wrote:
> Recently got SMP working, but now keep getting:
> Message from watchdog: The system will be rebooted because of error -3!

Check /var/log/daemon.log for the real reason, a transient load spike is a 
likely cause.

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On SMP, getting: Message from watchdog: The system will be rebooted because of error -3!

2003-09-07 Thread Jason Lim
Hi all,

Recently got SMP working, but now keep getting:
Message from watchdog: The system will be rebooted because of error -3!



(note this isn't really SMP, it's intel hyperthreading...)



The system auto reboots because of this. Not sure why... doesn't appear to
be the load or anything (no conditions met from /etc/watchdog.conf)



Any idea what this might be?


Sincerely,
Jas


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Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-07 Thread W.D. McKinney

> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 03:43:33PM +1000, Rudi Starcevic wrote:
> > Sendmail or Qmail ? That is my question.
> 

Well Rudi,

You have heard from most camps of users who prefer MTA's for various
reasons. Interesting enough, Debian ships exim default, and uses Mailman
for it's Debian hosted lists, SuSE ships Postfix, oh yea but they use
qmail for the MTA of choice and ezmlm for all the SuSE hosted lists, and
the so on and so on.

Opinions abound on which is better but I have found after running them
all, that I personally like one over the other. Personal convictions
because of personal experience. In other words, "only the experienced
walk with a limp". 

I trust that regardless of what your MTA of choice is, you have fun and
learn, which is more important than which MTA.

Warm Regards,
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Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:14:09PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:58, Eric Sproul wrote:
> > First, scale is a consideration.  Once we began to grow our customer
> > base, our email volume began to increase dramatically.  Qmail queues
> > everything to disk, so the more mail you do, the more pressure you put
> > on your disk I/O.  The server running Qmail was always blocking while it
> 
> I was under the impression that Sendmail also queues everything to disk.  

by default, it doesn't.

> How does it's queue operate then?

although it can be configured otherwise (either in the config file or in
command line options when calling /usr/sbin/sendmail), sendmail will first
attempt to deliver a message submitted to it, and will only fall back to
queuing it if the initial delivery fails.  this is a performance disaster
because it makes resource limiting/rationing impossible, and is probably the
primary reason why a sendmail server will fall over and crash under a heavy
load that other MTAs (that implement a "queue everything first, deliver out of
the queue" approach) handle without breaking a sweat.


BTW, this is also one of the reasons why sendmail is slow with most list
managers - most of them do not call /usr/sbin/sendmail with '-O DeliveryMode=q'

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Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:54:55AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> - qmail has a good integration with one of the fastest mailing list
>   servers, ezmlm.

ezmlm is probably the best thing about qmail.   however, it's also an example
of the technology trap that i referred to in a previous message in this thread.

fortunately, courier-mlm has all of the features of ezmlm and works with any
standard unix MTA including courier-mta, sendmail, exim, and postfix.  ezmlm
only works with qmail.



btw, mailing list speed has a lot more to do with MTA speed than the list
software itself.  take any mailing list and try running it with different list
managers and different MTAs - several things will become apparent:

1. sendmail is slow with any list manager, even if you pre-sort the recipient
list.

2. sendmail's performance varies greatly depending on how you tweak it, and
depending on which list manager you use (and how it sends the mail).  no matter
how well you tweak it, though, it will not even begin to come close to
postfix's performance.

3. postfix is extremely fast with any list manager, regardless of whether you
pre-sort the recipient list or not and regardless of whether you use VERP[1]
features or not.

4. qmail comes close to postfix's speed ONLY if there aren't many recipients at
the same domain *OR* if you are using VERP.  if there are many recipients at
the same domain (e.g. a few hundred at hotmail.com, a few hundred more at
yahoo.com etc) and you don't need VERP then delivery by qmail will be much
slower.



[1] another good idea from djb that was implemented better by others.  IMO &
IME, he's good at ideas, bad at implementation and absolutely lousy at systems
administration.

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Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:47:14AM -0400, Dale E Martin wrote:
> > It doesnt at all Not to ellaborate, but the subject says it
> > all...even then. I hate exim too.
> 
> Has it been covered before on this list?  I for one would be interested in
> elaboration, if there is something technically inferior about exim or
> postfix to qmail or sendmail?  Or politically, I suppose, since much of
> people's dislike about qmail has more to due with "political" than
> technical reasons.

there are technical and "political" reasons to avoid qmail.  the political
reasons have been discussed many times on many lists, so i'll ignore them here.

like all of djb's software, qmail has extremely weird configuration.  not
difficult to learn, just a PITA and completely unlike any other unix tools, and
completely unlike anything else on your system - djb (wrongly) believes that it
is far more important for his programs to be consistent with each other no
matter what system they're running on than it is for them to be consistent with
everything else on the system.

amongst many other problems (including the unneccessary bizarre re-invention of
existing tools that work perfectly well) he makes extensive use of "magic" file
and directory names, mere existence of a file can trigger events and radically
change the behaviour of a program.  this is so fucked up that it's hard to
believe he thinks it's a good idea (but he does!).

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Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 03:43:33PM +1000, Rudi Starcevic wrote:
> Sendmail or Qmail ? That is my question.

neither.  postfix is the answer.

postfix is backwards compatible with sendmail (meaning minimal disruption
during the migration) with better security, speed, and features than qmail (and
sendmail too, but that goes without sayiing).

> Currently we use Sendmail. It's worked fine, well actually problem free so
> better than fine  - I've got the Sendmail book and all.  However we will be
> setting up some new email servers soon and I'm considering Qmail.

if you're used to sendmail, you will find postfix to be much easier to
understand and configure.


> At this stage I'm leaning towards sticking with Sendmail but something inside
> wants to know more about Qmail.

try setting up two experimental boxes, just to play with.  install qmail on one
and postfix on the other.you'll need to do this anyway, you really
shouldn't migrate mail servers based ONLY on advice from a mailing list - you
need to have hands on experience yourself.

qmail is certainly worth learning, if only because it has some interesting
ideas - but those ideas are implemented far better in postfix.


> If you *had* to pick one of these two which would it be ?

if i really had no other choice, i'd very reluctantly pick sendmail.  not
because it's better than qmail (it certainly isn't) but because it isn't a
dead-end trap like qmail.

qmail is so different to sendmail, exim, postfix, and just about every other
unix MTA that migrating to it is a major PITA.  migrating away from it is at
least as bad.  qmail has some very nice features, and is much faster and far
more secure than sendmail but it's a technology trap as bad as any proprietary
MTA.

craig


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Re: multiple ppp connections

2003-09-07 Thread Martin F. Foster
Róbert,

You can force the ppp interface number by using the "unit" option in
your pppd configuration file.  

So, following the standard debian ppp setup, if you have:
/etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider1
and
/etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider2

You can set "unit 1" in the first to force it into using ppp1, and "unit
2" in the second to make it come up as ppp2.  These options also work as
command line arguments, but that gets messy.  

Once the ppp interfaces are predictable, your iptables rules should be a
lot simpler to set up.

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On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 22:24, Szőts Róbert wrote:
> Does anyone know how can I put iptables firewall script onto a firewall where is 
> more ppp connectoins?
> Expl.
> 
> There is a firewall with two  dsl connection the first is ppp0 the 2nd is the ppp1. 
> It's clear.
> 
> How can I build firewall If I do not know which dsl connection wil be the ppp0 or 
> the ppp1?
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> Robert
> 
> 


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Re: CBQ/HBQ and other QoS algorithms

2003-09-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 22:07:22 +0200, 
Clément Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hi,
> 
> I'd like some information on HBQ in particular and QoS in general.
> 
> Does anyone knows where I can find useful information (I only found
> the Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control HOWTO so far, must-read
> but lacks informations about HBQ) ?
> 
> I'd be really grateful if anyone could provide some links, and 
> especially I'd like to know what are the differences between the 
> existing algorithms.
> 
> Also, If there is some "shaper-like" scripts with other method than
> CBQ, i'd like to know them.

..http://fmb.no/ipcop/setup-cbq-0.0.4.tar.bz2, I'm open for 
ideas on setup-xbq-0.0.5, and it could use a web interface.

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CBQ/HBQ and other QoS algorithms

2003-09-07 Thread Clément Hermann
Hi,

I'd like some information on HBQ in particular and QoS in general.

Does anyone knows where I can find useful information (I only found the 
Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control HOWTO so far, must-read but 
lacks informations about HBQ) ?

I'd be really grateful if anyone could provide some links, and 
especially I'd like to know what are the differences between the 
existing algorithms.

Also, If there is some "shaper-like" scripts with other method than CBQ, 
i'd like to know them.

Best regards,

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Re: ..fixing ext3 fs going read-only, was : Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 00:20:12 +1000, 
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 00:17, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > ..I have had a few cases of ext3fs'es, even on raid-1, going
> > read-only on errors, what do you guys use to bring them back
> > into service?
> 
> What happens on error conditions can be set through tune2fs or as a
> mount option.  Having it remount read-only is probably better than
> panicing the kernel.

..yeah, except in /var/log, /var/spool et al, I also lean towards 
panic in /home.

> When it happens a reboot may be a good idea, in which case a fsck to
> fix the problem should occur automatically.

..should, agrrrRRRrrreed.  IME (RH73 - RH9 and woody) it does not.

..what happens is the journaling dies, leaving a good fs intact, 
on rebooting, the dead journal will "repair" the fs wiping good 
data off the fs.

..compare 'df -h' and 'cat /proc/mounts' on such a system.

..the errors=remount,ro fstab option remounts the fs ro but fails 
to tell the system, so the system merrily "logs" data and "accepts" 
mail etc 'till Dooms Day, and especially on raid-1 disks I sort of 
expected redundancy, like in "autofeather the bad prop and trim out 
the yaw" and "autopatch that holed fuel tank", and "auto-sync the 
props", I mean, this was done _60_years_ ago in aviation to help 
win WWII, and ext3 on raid-1 floats around USS Yorktown-style???

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Re: Postfix! [WAS: Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..]

2003-09-07 Thread Hans Spaans
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:54:28AM +0800, Jason Lim wrote:
> 
> Hear hear! Nationality doesn't matter. We're talking about technical merit
> of things here. Let's keep race, creed, religion, colour out of this.

If we gave that impression, that was not the idea. If someone has that
feeling, my apologies.

> Don't mention SPEWS. SPEWS is famous for blocking large non-USA ISPs at
> the drop of a hat, while large USA spam-support ISPs get away with murder.
> Why? Because Spews is either run by someone in the USA or knows that if
> they started applying the same principals to everyone, more and more large
> USA ISPs will be blocked completely, and less and less people will use
> SPEWS. Thus SPEWS has double-standards in this regard.

Not only SPEWS has that problem :(
 
> I prefer ones that have the same standard, regardless of what country you
> are in. Many many block lists are available... www.spamcop.net... or just
> check out one of the best Block List comparisons yourself at:
> http://www.declude.com/JunkMail/Support/ip4r.htm

We currently only use rbl's based on spamtraps and I must say it stops
a great number of spammessages. That mostly its automated and no one
has to submit anything except spammers that use open-proxies, agents,
faulty mailservers, etc.

> Don't tell SPEWS and NANAE that... from the way they talk and act, every
> spammer must be in China, Korea, Taiwan, and everywhere else EXCEPT the
> USA.

I know and its a shame :(

> In the above block list comparison webpage, I believe it is listed there?

No, they're not and they shouldn't be listed there. Spamikaze is just
software so everyone can make there own personal rbl and Spamvrij.nl
is just a foundation that tries to make emailmarketing acceptable by
education of companies and marketiers. It also lists companies on
there website that send `spam', but also lists companies that have
changed there policy about emailmarketing..

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Re: Postfix! [WAS: Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..]

2003-09-07 Thread Hans Spaans
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 03:48:42PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
Content-Description: signed data
> Hans,
> 
> Glad to hear the situation is getting better in .nl. Having been hit by 
> several 10s of spam from some dutch provider the other day just didn't imply 
> this :-)
 
I have one advice when sending abuse doesn't help, post[1] the spam in
nl.internet.misbruik.spam-signalering with a follow-up to
nl.internet.misbruik. Most ISP's in the Netherlands are lurking there
and/or posting there like Easynet and Chello. Don't expect results
directly, but they will come.

> > What is the connection between the nationality of Wietse Venema and
> > people who sent spam? This is a very strange argument and more fitted
> > for a discussion between kids. 
> 
> You *did* see my original mail on that subject? You *did* look at the list of 
> other more or less silly reasons that were posted already alongside some of 
> the more serious ones? My-mailer-is-better-than-yours discussions are equal 
> with my-OS-is-better-than-yours discussions or my-editor-is-better-than-yours 
> flamefests. Those discussions will always (i) be very long and (ii) turn 
> silly. I was hoping to avoid (i) by accelerating (ii).

Those my-wheel-is-rounder-then-your-wheel-discussions are always silly
;-)

[1] Limit you post to onder 10KB max.

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Re: ip aliasing and second default gw in /etc/network/interfaces

2003-09-07 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:51:54PM +0300, Sami Haahtinen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:23:58AM -0700, Peter Nome wrote:
> > I'm hoping some smart soul can help me with this. After experimenting
> > a bit, I discovered that I could add a second ip address by issuing
> > 
> >   ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.92 up
> 
> So far so good.. 
> 
> > Once that's in pace, I found I could add a second default gatway by
> > issuing
> > 
> >   route add default gw 192.168.1.1
> 
> Wrong, the problem with linux routing tables is that linux is capable of
> having only one default gateway, so your idea would never work, you
> would need to poll the connection and change the gateway if the other
> route goes down..

Wrong; check my main routing table (trimmed a bit to make it simpler);

203.12.236.227 dev ippp0  scope link
210.15.254.253 dev ppp5  scope link
[...]
192.188.107.0/24 dev ippp0  scope link
198.142.76.0/24 dev ppp5  scope link
[...]
203.113.192.0/18 dev ppp5  scope link
unreachable 192.168.0.0/16  scope host
unreachable 172.16.0.0/12  scope host
unreachable 10.0.0.0/8  scope host
default
nexthop via 203.12.236.227  dev ippp0 weight 1
nexthop via 203.17.101.66  dev ppp5 weight 4
 
Of course, if one goes down, you still want it to dispear as a
"nexthop" default route, otherwise you end up with strange
intermittant behaviour.

As in my case I have ppp and ippp links, I don't put stuff in
/etc/network/interfaces but in /etc/ppp/ip-(up|down).d/*

I see no reason why you couldn't use ip route stuff to do the same
sort of suff in /etc/network/interfaces though (it would probably be
easier).

Search for the Advanced Linux Routing HOWTO... it has much good info.
The other place to look is /usr/share/doc/iproute/ip-cref.ps.gz (why
the hell couldn't they provide this doco in html) after intalling
iproute.

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Re: ..fixing ext3 fs going read-only, was : Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-07 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 00:17, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> ..I have had a few cases of ext3fs'es, even on raid-1, going
> read-only on errors, what do you guys use to bring them back
> into service?

What happens on error conditions can be set through tune2fs or as a mount 
option.  Having it remount read-only is probably better than panicing the 
kernel.

When it happens a reboot may be a good idea, in which case a fsck to fix the 
problem should occur automatically.

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..fixing ext3 fs going read-only, was : Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 12:34:45 +1000, 
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> Also I believe that in Ext3 if you write data to a file and then
> unlink the file before the data is committed to disk then the data
> will never be written.  So there seems no loss as long as the file
> isn't opened with O_SYNC and you don't call fsync() (and no-one calls
> sync()).
> 

..I have had a few cases of ext3fs'es, even on raid-1, going 
read-only on errors, what do you guys use to bring them back 
into service?

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Re: Postfix! [WAS: Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..]

2003-09-07 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder (Careful! What I say *might* be a joke.)
On Sunday 07 September 2003 15:48, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:

Apologies - missing attribution. This was Brian:
> > What is the connection between the nationality of Wietse Venema and
> > people who sent spam? This is a very strange argument and more fitted
> > for a discussion between kids.
>
> You *did* see my original mail on that subject? You *did* look at the list
> of other more or less silly reasons that were posted already alongside some
> of the more serious ones? My-mailer-is-better-than-yours discussions are
> equal with my-OS-is-better-than-yours discussions or
> my-editor-is-better-than-yours flamefests. Those discussions will always
> (i) be very long and (ii) turn silly. I was hoping to avoid (i) by
> accelerating (ii).
>
> Well. It didn't work. Surprise.
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Re: Postfix! [WAS: Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..]

2003-09-07 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
Hans,

Glad to hear the situation is getting better in .nl. Having been hit by 
several 10s of spam from some dutch provider the other day just didn't imply 
this :-)

> What is the connection between the nationality of Wietse Venema and
> people who sent spam? This is a very strange argument and more fitted
> for a discussion between kids. 

You *did* see my original mail on that subject? You *did* look at the list of 
other more or less silly reasons that were posted already alongside some of 
the more serious ones? My-mailer-is-better-than-yours discussions are equal 
with my-OS-is-better-than-yours discussions or my-editor-is-better-than-yours 
flamefests. Those discussions will always (i) be very long and (ii) turn 
silly. I was hoping to avoid (i) by accelerating (ii).

Well. It didn't work. Surprise.
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Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Thomas Lamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.09.05.1414 +0200]:
> Complete ACK. I'm also willing to give support, as I use
> postfix+mysql+sasl at a couple of clients.

did you ever get sasl to work with mozilla clients in any but the
non-plaintext forms? i'd really appreciate help here!

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Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nathan Eric Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.09.05.2025 +0200]:
> News flash: the FHS specifies how distributions should (or should not)
> lay out filesystems.  The FHS does not prohibit end users from
> creating new root-level directories.

executables alongside configuration files in /var is just wrong. the
user does not have a choice.
that's the last thing i'll say about this.

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Re: SMP on Debian server with Hyperthreading

2003-09-07 Thread Jason Lim


Sincerely,

- Original Message - 
From: "Guus Houtzager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, 06 September, 2003 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: SMP on Debian server with Hyperthreading


> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 09:31, Jason Lim wrote:
> > Hi Guus,
> >
> > Yes, BIOS setting is enabled. The ONLY thing that I haven't done is
edit
> > lilo to include the acpismp=force setting. Did you set that to make it
> > work? Does it work without it (ie. SMP enabled WITHOUT modifying
lilo)?
>
> Haven't modified lilo for this to work.
> I looked again at your dmesg output and compared it to mine. With me
> it's ACPI doing the detection of the cpu's. Did you enable ACPI?


Ah... did NOT have ACPI enabled. Did not know it had to be, for SMP to
work!

I enabled it, compiled the kernel, and /proc/cpuinfo sees 2 CPUs, but top
doesn't.

After spending ages trying to figure it out, I found the version of top
that comes with Debian 3.0 does NOT have SMP support.

So I downloaded the backported version from:
http://people.debian.org/~nobse/debian/woody/backported/procps/

and after top launches, press 1 (or set the appropriate cmd line
parameter) and it works great.

I did ACPI a little different than you though... I have:
> # CONFIG_ACPI_HT_ONLY is not set

set as y/1 (and therefore everything else set as n/0), as I don't need all
the "acpi_power" and other stuff, just want SMP to work.

So it's working now. Thanks for your help!




> Part of my dmesg:
> Linux version 2.4.22 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 20030831 (Debian
> prerelease)) #1 SMP Tue Sep 2 11:37:18 CEST 2003
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>  BIOS-e820:  - 000a (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 0010 - 2fff (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 2fff - 2fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
>  BIOS-e820: 2fff3000 - 3000 (ACPI data)
>  BIOS-e820: fec0 - 0001 (reserved)
> 767MB LOWMEM available.
> ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0002000
> found SMP MP-table at 000f51c0
> hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice.
> hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.
> hm, page 000f reserved twice.
> hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice.
> On node 0 totalpages: 196592
> zone(0): 4096 pages.
> zone(1): 192496 pages.
> zone(2): 0 pages.
> ACPI: RSDP (v000 IntelR) @
> 0x000f6c50
> ACPI: RSDT (v001 IntelR AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @
> 0x2fff3000
> ACPI: FADT (v001 IntelR AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @
> 0x2fff3040
> ACPI: MADT (v001 IntelR AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @
> 0x2fff6700
> ACPI: DSDT (v001 INTELR AWRDACPI 0x1000 MSFT 0x010d) @
> 0x
> ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee0
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
> Processor #0 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 16
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
> Processor #1 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 16
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] polarity[0x1] trigger[0x1] lint[0x1])
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] polarity[0x1] trigger[0x1] lint[0x1])
> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec0] global_irq_base[0x0])
> IOAPIC[0]: Assigned apic_id 2
> IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec0, IRQ 0-23
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus[0] irq[0x0] global_irq[0x2] polarity[0x0]
> trigger[0x0])
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus[0] irq[0x9] global_irq[0x9] polarity[0x1]
> trigger[0x3])
> Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
> Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=303 hdc=scsi
>
> and so on...
>
> ACPI part of my config:
>
> #
> # ACPI Support
> #
> CONFIG_ACPI=y
> # CONFIG_ACPI_HT_ONLY is not set
> CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_BUS=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_PCI=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
> # CONFIG_ACPI_AC is not set
> # CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY is not set
> CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=y
> # CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL is not set
> # CONFIG_ACPI_ASUS is not set
> # CONFIG_ACPI_TOSHIBA is not set
> # CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG is not set
> # CONFIG_ACPI_RELAXED_AML is not set
>
>
> > Thanks.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
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