ftpd traffic accounting ... _per user_ - please help
I really need to track ftp traffic on a per user basis. Is this possible with the freebsd built-in ftpd ? If not, what is a good ftpd to use instead that has this feature ? Thanks a lot. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I use the 3dm2 CLI without a web browser ?
Hi, Let's play a game. Let's imagine for just one second that I am not a fucking asshole. Let's imagine that I do not want to manage my _disk drive arrays_ over a fucking web interface like a fucking little child. Let's pretend that I am a grown person, and not some bright-blinkenlights sourceforge groupie, and that I just want to run a command on the command line and get information over STDIO. Remember STDIO ? No, of course you don't - you're too busy loading KDE on your powerbook because you're too cool to use OSX, but too much of a fag not to run apple. With me so far ? Now let's say I have a 3ware array. I want to see whether it is working or not. I am used to using mlxcontrol. If nothing is wrong IT RETURNS FUCKING ZERO. Yeah - that's right - no GUI, no aqua colored desktop, and no fucking mascot. It just returns fucking zero. Or aaccli (you know, the app that won't quit on ctrl-D ? - yeah, that one) at least I can run it over ssh. So I install /usr/ports/sysutils/3dm ... and ... what ? HTML files ? gif files ? png files ? Look assholes, if I wanted a bunch of HTML and GIF and PNG files on my server, I would wget a porn site. So, now that I have mucked up my system with all of your STUPID CRAP /cameron, I run: 3dm2 Nothing. It does nothing, and now I have a 3dm2 process running in the background (presumably this is the web server for the I just lernd linux!@ crowd and middle management) There is no man page. There is no HOWTO. There is nothing but a bunch of HTML pages and pictures. Fuck you 3ware, fuck you dead. /tim_may So. My question. Is there a way to run 3dm2 on the command line, that doesn't start a daemon, that doesn't require a web browser, and that will give me information over STDIO and allow me to delete all the garbage that that port installed ? Thanks in advance! __ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
toggle volume with scroll wheel in X on freeBSD ?
Hello, WHen I used to use windows, a very favorite app I used was: http://www.toggle.com/products/volume/ Very simple - if you held down control, then the mouse scroll wheel caused master volume to go up and down. It was terrific. Is there a way to do this in X on FreeBSD ? I would really like this functionality again...any thoughts ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
which firewire card for 5.4 ? Will adaptec fireconnect 8300 work ?
Hello, The hardware compatibility list for FreeBSD 5.4 lists: Adaptec AHA-894x/AIC-5800 which I cannot find on the adaptec web site. What I _can_ find is the adaptec 4300 and 8300 fireconnect adaptors. Will both of these work in FreeBSD 5.4 ? I am particularly interested in the 8300, which has one 400 port and two 800 ports... thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
finding an old md5 from an old ports tree...
hello, there is an app I need that is no longer included in the ports tree. I want to search for the .tar.gz file with google - I am sure it is out there somewhere - but I do not know the name. Further, I want to be sure I am getting a good copy, so I would also need to know the md5 hash. Since I have no 4.5/4.6 systems up and running, and since I cannot find old ftp trees with them on it, my question is: how can I find the distinfo file that came with the ports tree of a specific port from 4.5-release ? thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
questions RE: opera web browser and plugins...
Hello, I am using linux-opera in FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE, with ion as my window manager. As far as plugins, shockwave-flash is behaving perfectly. When I click on a .swf file, the flash animation opens up _inside_ the web viewing area, stays inside the browser, etc. No new windows are created. However, when the flash animation is finished, I am simply left with a black screen and have to hit the back button to go back to the page I initiated the flash file from. 1. Is there any way to just have the animation finish and be left back at the screen I started on ? (and not have to hit the back button) Now, acroread behaves differently ... I can successfully open pdf documents in opera, but acroread spawns a whole new window. 2. Is there any way to have acroread initiate itself _inside_ of opera ? Even better, is it possible for it to respect the browser back button, so I can just go back with the back button and the acroread window (and program) just disappear ? 3. Is this possible with xmms and/or xine as well ? They also spawn whole new windows when I hit a .avi or .mp3 ... 4. Is it possible that somehow, between opera and xine, (or xmms) they can be smart enough to know that if one piece of media is playing, and I click on another piece of media, not to spawn another player and compete with each other for graphics/sound, but rather to just start playing the new thing in the existing player and forget the old piece of media ? 5. Finally, often opera will, when I click on a mp3 or a movie, download the entire thing before sending it off to xmms/xine for playback. How can I force opera to just start playing it immediately ? And further, is it possible to configure how much of it to buffer before handing it off ? I know it is possible, because if I run: xmms http://example.com/mp3/some_song.mp3 playback begins immediately ... it doesn't download the entire song first... thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how can I make xterm just like the console ? (colors, etc.)
Hello, I am used to using the console for things like bitchx, nethack, etc. Now I have started using Xorg in 5.4-RELEASE (with the ion window manager). I notice that the xterm program comes up with black text on a white background, and that colors in BitchX, etc., are not the same as they were in the console. Can someone tell me what configuration I need to make the colors (and as much other behavior as possible) in xterm identical to the normal FreeBSD console ? thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mapping mouse clicks to keystrokes in X ?
I want my two mouse buttons to create the letters z and x when I press them, instead of the normal actions that those mouse buttons send to X. Don't ask. It's as simple as it sounds: if I click mouse button one, it is as if I press z on the keyboard, if I click mouse button 2, it is as if I press x on the keyboard. Does anyone know how to do this ? I am looking at xmodmap, but even though it swaps mouse buttons around, and maps keys to other keys, I can't see how to make it map mouse buttons to keys... Any ideas ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using a logitech mx700 with scrollwheel and thumb buttons in xorg
Hello, I have a logitech mx700 - it has a scrollwheel and two thumb buttons (designed for forward and back in your browser) as well as some other launch button on the top that I guess is for launching an app. I am using FBSD 5.4-RELEASE with xorg installed from the ports tree. I have tried many, many different combinations of settings in /etc/rc.conf, xorg.conf and .xinitrc. The results are always the same: - I can use the scrollwheel just fine - first three mouse buttons work just fine - the other three (two thumb buttons and the app button) _always_ generate the same mousebutton event So for instance, at first I had: moused_flags=-z 4 in /etc/rc.conf and I had: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option Buttons 7 EndSection in my xorg.conf and I had: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap -e pointer = 1 3 2 4 5 6 7 in my .xinitrc Checking button events in xev, under this config, shows that upwheel is 4, downwheel is 5 (and yes, the wheel worked) and all three other buttons (two thumbs and app button) were all button 5. so then I removed the -z line from /etc/rc.conf, and added this to my xorg.conf: Option ZAxisMapping 6 7 Same behavior. wheel works, the other three are all event button 5. So the only semi-success I had was when I changed my ZAxisMapping line to: Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 When I did this, wheelup is 4, wheeldown is 5, the little pseudo buttons above and below the wheel now create the following combo events of 6,4 and 5,5 respectively, and my two thumb buttons and app button now all produce button 7. - So what can I do here ? No matter how I rearrange my settings, the two thumb buttons and the app button always produce the same button event. Whether it is 5 or 7, it is always the same. Does anyone have a Logitech mx700 mouse, in FreeBSD 5.x, with xorg, running properly with the wheel and the thumb buttons ? thanks, __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
trying to use vga11x19.pcf.gz with rxvt under Xorg
Hello, I am advised by the bitchx faq that the best xterm environment to run bitchx under is rxvt, with the vga11x19 font. So I installed rxvt from the ports tree, and ran: rxvt -bg black -fg white -fn vga11x19 it did indeed start, but I received the error: rxvt: can't load font vga11x19 Sure enough, I do not have that font. So I searched for it and downloaded the file vga11x19.pcf.gz and placed it into my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc directory. I then ran `rehash`. However I get the same error from rxvt. How can I incorporate this new font file into my system such that rxvt can find it ? Would it help to just re-init my Xserver ? Or should I be able to drop new font files into that dir and use them on the fly ? thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problems mailing from base_host to jail_on_base_host
I have a freeBSD 4.10-RELEASE installation. On that system, I have, running, a jail with a 4.10-RELEASE userland that is _identical_ to the base host. It is identical because I dumped the base systems filesystem and restored it inside the jail. Everything is working fine. I have never touched any of the files inside of /etc/mail on either the base host OR the jail. Email works find on the base host, and email works fine in the jail. Users in the jail can email users in the base host without any problem. HOWEVER, if a user on the base host attempts to email a user in the jail (example.com, the base host will not deliver the mail. In /var/log/maillog, the following error is generated: May 13 08:47:03 basehost sm-mta[59207]: j4xSj059205: SYSERR(root): MX list for example.com. points back to basehost May 13 08:47:03 basehost sm-mta[59207]: j4xSj059205: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED] (1001/1001), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=30457, relay=example.com., dsn=5.3.5, stat=Local configuration error May 13 08:47:03 basehost sm-mta[59207]: j4xSj059205: j4DFl3Sj059207: DSN: Local configuration error So it seems as if basehost is looking up the IP of example.com (the jail) and deciding hey that is one of the IPs on the machine I am on ... barf! So, again, I reiterate, I have never touched any files in /etc/mail on either the basehost or the jail ... it seems that all is well in the jail, but it seems that I need to somehow tell sendmail on the basehost to only consider the main IP on basehost to belong to itself, and ignore other IPs. How do I do this ? __ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
setting an alias in .cshrc with parentheses in it ...
Hello, I often run this command: lynx -useragent blah blah (compatible; MSIE blah blah) Note that the custom referrer string that I set includes parentheses. So, to save time, I added this line to my .cshrc: alias lynx lynx -useragent blah blah (compatible; MSIE blah blah) However, when I run lynx, I get this error: Badly placed ()'s If I escape the parentheses with a backslash in .cshrc, it also doesn't work - it splits the line up and lynx thinks that the next command line argument begins where the first backslash is inserted. So how do I include a command alias that contains parentheses into .cshrc ? thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Personals - Better first dates. More second dates. http://personals.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help with pine mail reader ... two quickies
Hi, Two config options I cannot seem to find in pine, and wonder if they exist ... if you know what they are: 1. Is there a way to tell pine to QUIT asking me if I want to save space by deleting previous months sent-mail folders ? No, I don't. Ever. How can I get it to quit asking me ? 2. Is there a way to make pine auto-create the new months sent-mail folder on the first of each month ? I have pine up and running for sometimes 60-90 days at a time, which means that it saves three months of sent-mail in the month in which I invoked the program ... because it only seems to make a new sent-mail folder when I restart it. Any way to make it more proactive ? thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I cut and paste from xterm _into_ another program ? (NOTE - I am not an IDIOT)
Hmmm...so instead of actually reading my post, several folks have responded ... presumably just looking at the words cut and paste in my post and responding with a tutorial on how to use my mouse buttons. Thanks. So I'll start all over. I am running X on fbsd 5.3, with ratpoison as my window manager. I only run two apps - xterms (1 or 2 or 3 of them) and opera (my web browser). I can cut text in my xterms by simply highlighting it, and I can paste that text back into that xterm, or a different xterm by clicking my right mouse button. So yes, I know how to cut and paste thank you very much. I can also cut and paste in opera by selecting text and choosing edit-copy from the menu - I can then paste that text back into opera with edit-paste, or shift+insert, and FURTHER, I can paste that text into any of my xterms, with shift+insert OR with my right mouse button. THE PROBLEM IS, if I cut text in an xterm, I cannot paste it in opera. That is the only problem. So to recap, I know how to cut and paste - thanks. No need for the mouse button tutorials. All I want to know is, why can I not properly cut and paste from xterm TO opera, when I can already do it successfully gtom opera TO xterm ? Thanks. Hopefully anyone responding will actually read the post this time. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I cut and paste from xterm _into_ another program ?
Hi, I am using a very vanilla XFree86 installation on fbsd 5.3. I am using ratpoison as my window manager. If I highlight text in an xterm, it is immediately in my buffer, and I can paste it into that xterm, or any other xterm. Further, if I copy text in my web browser, I can paste it into all my xterms. However, I cannot take text that I copied in my xterm and paste it into my browser (opera). Why is this ? Why can I go in one direction (paste from opera into xterm) but not the other (paste from xterm into opera) ? thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Sign up for Fantasy Baseball. http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I cut and paste from xterm _into_ another program ?
--- Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Copy: select the text: Paste: middle mouseclick. If you got a 2 button mouse it you most probably have to do this: left and right click at the same time. I have no problem cutting and pasting. The problem is, I cannot cut from xterm and paste into opera. I can cut from xterm and paste into any xterm. I can cut from opera and paste into any xterm. I can cut from opera and paste into opera. BUT I cannot cut from xterm and paste into opera. So yeah ... I know how to cut and paste :) It just doesn't work from xterm into opera... any ideas why ? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please advise on triple-head _HIGH_ resolution solution for FreeBSD ...
Hello, To let me say initially, I have the goal of buying three of the new apple 30 cinemadisplays and running them as one large extended desktop in x11 under FreeBSD. The displays are 2560x1600, and I want to utilize them at full resolution. The question: what hardware can perform this _and_ work under FreeBSD ? My guess is I have three choices: - find _one_ PCI-X or AGP card that can drive all three monitors at once ... the matrox p750 can do this, but only at 1280x1024 for three screens. The new matrox APVe can also do this, but only at 1920x1080 or below (not quite clear) ... so these are not valid choices ... are there any single cards that can do 3x (2560x1600) ? - find three normal PCI cards that can each drive 2560x1600 ... not sure if such advanced cards were ever made for plain old PCI, or how well that would work ... at 3x that res, would I be getting close to saturating the PCI bus ? - find a system that has 3 PCI-X slots in it (does that exist ?) and then find 3 PCI-X gfx cards that can each do 2560x1600 ... any thoughts on this line ? And if so, what would be a good FreeBSD supported gfx card to stick three of in a system ? -- Obviously I need help ... so any comments at all are appreciated. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
switching key mappings on a laptop (function and ctrl)
I have a new laptop that has the FN (function) key in the very lower left, and the CTRL key one key to the right of it ... but I like the CTRL key to be in the far lower left ... Is it possible to switch the function of these two keys (not just in X, but in the console, virtual terminals, etc.) thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
triple monitor hardware setup on FBSD - suggestions needed...
I am currently running a triple-monitor setup under winXP, with an extended desktop that stretches across all three monitors. I like it. I would, however, like to use FreeBSD. So, first off, what hardware (video card) comes to mind for doing triple screens with FreeBSD ? A matrox P750 comes to mind, but when you run it with three screens, they downgrade to 1280x1024, which is bad. I am happy to consider multiple video cards to accomplish this ... at the very least I need 1600x1200 out of each card, preferably 1920x1200 ... Second, what is the support for something like this in XFree86, or x.org ? What I am really looking for is the ability to create virtually sized screens - so instead of having three total (physical) screens that I can maximize windows inside of, I want to split each physical screen in half for a total of 6 virtual screens - so there are six total areas within which I can maximize a window in ... this is something I am really trying to accomplish. thanksy! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
passwordless ssh logins _STILL_ not working - help needed.
I am trying to allow _all users_ on CLIENT to login to SERVER without a password. IMPORTANT: I am not interested in user keys _at all_ - at no point in this process should I ever be dealing with any keys in /home/user/.ssh - I am only interested in doing this with HOST keys - where I copy one key between SERVER and CLIENT, and _all_ users on CLIENT can login to SERVER without a password. Don't even mention user keys. My /etc/sshd/sshd_config is exactly the same on both SERVER and CLIENT: #VersionAddendum FreeBSD-20020629 #Port 22 #Protocol 2,1 #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 #ListenAddress :: # Authentication: IgnoreRhosts yes #RhostsRSAAuthentication no HostbasedAuthentication yes IgnoreUserKnownHosts yes ChallengeResponseAuthentication no Further, SERVER has CLIENT in its /etc/hosts.equiv, and CLIENT has SERVER in its /etc/hosts.equiv Finally, I have copied the output of /etc/sshd/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub on each system to /etc/ssh/known_hosts on the other system. The permissions on /etc/ssh/known_hosts on each system are: 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel So that's it. The options are set in sshd_config, the keys have been exchanged, hosts.equiv are populated and permissions are correct. SO now I go to CLIENT and run: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I get a password prompt!!! So what am I doing wrong ? Again - NO user keys are used and I am not interested in user keys _AT ALL_. DOn't even mention the /home/user/.ssh directory. The goal here is to share one public key between SERVER and CLIENT and allow _all_ users on CLIENT to log into SERVER without a password. So what am I doing wrong ? thanks. ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: host-based ssh authentication (no password) not working ... help needed
--- Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For ssh(1) to work using key based auth, all of the files in ~user/.ssh on the server must have the correct permissions, and the host public keys for the server should be known to the client machine, and vice versa. No no ... I was talking about _host_ keys, not user keys - no user home directories should be involved at all. I am simply sharing host keys so that all users on CLIENT can login to SERVER with no passwords ... am I missing something here ? I think my problem is that I gave the public _host_ key of the CLIENT to the SERVER, but really I should give the public _host_ key of the SERVER to the CLIENt ... is that my problem ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Having trouble sharing public/private keys for ssh ... keeps asking for password
Ok, this should be easy: I want to log in from CLIENT to SERVER without being asked for a password. On CLIENT, I run: ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 2048 as user test and I do not enter a password. Then I copy the .pub portion of that key over to SERVER and save it as /usr/home/jerkoff/.ssh/authorized_keys2 ... note that I save it as authorized_keys2, because it is a dsa key ... then I chmod 0600 authorized_keys2 ... So now I should be able to go to CLIENT and: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] and log in with no password, right ? Wrong. I get: % ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Password: Response: (I hit enter) [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: (I hit enter) Permission denied, please try again. So ... what am I doing wrong ? thanks. ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tracking per process IO usage / stats ... help needed..
--- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might want to see if the io mode of top can be ported to RELENG_4. In 5.X you can use top to display io statistics too: Wow - that is really useful. I didn't know you could output like that in 5.x. : $ top -m io | sed -e 1,7d | head -10 (snip) The differences of top from RELENG_4 to CURRENT are many and I don't have the time right now to try porting the io mode stuff to RELENG_4, but if you cannot do it yourself I might find a bit of time this weekend. Well, porting it is way beyond my abilities, so yes, if it is not too much trouble, that would be great. Alternatively, is there any other way to get this information in 4.x - perhaps without top, etc. ? thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tracking per process IO usage / stats ... help needed..
I have a FreeBSD system (4.9) running a fair number of processes in a multi-user / shell hosting environment. One problem that routinely comes up is that the system will seem to be fine in terms of CPU, and none of the top 10 or 15 processes that I see in top are using much CPU ... but the load average is very high - sometimes as high as 30 or 40 ... I have good reason to suspect that the load is high due to I/O. I can see the number of processes blocking on I/O in vmstat, and I can see iostat for the entire machine, of course ... BUT HOW do I see on a per process basis which processes are using the most I/O time ? It does not help me to simply see that the system is using a lot of I/O ... I need to know which processes specifically are guilty, and to see them in some kind of ranked order, just like top shows me for CPU usage. So what would you recommend ? Is there some way of interpreting top to see that, or a way to tell top to show me based on I/O instead of CPU ? Any suggestions appreciated. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
making files opposite from themselves (100% change)
Hi, I want to do some benchmarking and speed testing of rsync and UFS snapshots by taking existing files, doing rsyncs and snapshots of them and their filesystem, and then _changing_ those files by a certain percent difference, and rsyncing/snapshotting again. So the question is, how do I take a given file and make it 100% different from itself (but maintain its size and place on disk) ? I could just output /dev/zero to it, but that would leave unchanged all the bits that were aleady zero. So how do I flip the bits of an entire file ? Further, is there a good command line that will flip the bits of some percentage of the file ? thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
max concurrent scp sessions - and testing methodology for them...
I have read several documents on the number of concurrent https sessions a FreeBSD system is capable of. However, I wonder how well this relates to how many ssh sessions (scp file transfers, specifically) that a FreeBSD server can handle. Can anyone throw out some basic numbers for this ? Assuming a 1ghz p3 and 2gigs of RAM, and assuming that everyone is transferring a totally different file. (so there is no amount of cache hits - everything comes straight off the drives) I would think the major bottleneck would be disk - you would start chugging the disks far before you used up all the CPU on a 1ghz p3 ... but what is the second bottleneck ? Is it cpu, or is it ram (or mbufs, etc.) Would it be a reasonable test to just start up scp sessions from the machine to itself and then divide the number of sessions you can acceptably create by the number 2 ? Or is this somehow a flawed test ? Any additional comments (kernel tunes, settings, war stories) are greatly appreciated. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A few X questions (small X load for small drive needed)
Hi, I just loaded XFree86-4 from the ports tree on my laptop, running 5.2.1-RELEASE. It took about 2.5 gigs of space to compile and add it all. Let's say I have a small hard drive in an old laptop, and let's also assume that I am just loading X to just have a simple GUI to run opera and terminal windows on, and don't need a big fancy X server or whatever ... What are some options I can add to the standard `make install` command for that port to significantly reduce the size of X ? Any general comments on making a smaller/faster/more efficient X for an old laptop are greatly appreciated. thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how do I switch kernels in 5.x ?
I successfully compiled a new kernel, and was using it. No problem. Then I decided to move back to the old, GENERIC kernel. I did this by moving /boot/kernel to /boot/kernel.new, and then renaming /boot/kernel.old to /boot/kernel Is this correct, or will there be problems when I reboot now ? If it is incorrect, what else needs to be done ? thanks. - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
questions on UFS2 usage and snapshots
Hi - a few questions about UFS2: 1. Is it dangerous to mount all 20 possible filesystem snapshots and _leave them mounted_ to use at any time ? What about automatically mounting all 20 snapshots at boot time ? 2. Related to the first question, it seems like I am getting space out of nowhere ... that is, if I fill up a drive, then make a snapshot, then erase the drive and fill it again, then make another snapshot ... and do this 20 times, AND THEN mount all 20 snapshots, it seems like I now have 20x as much disk space as before (granted, most of it is read-only) ... it seems like I am getting something for nothing. What am I missing here ? What tradeoffs do I begin to make as I mount up more and more snapshots and get more and more browsable space ? 3. When I mount a snapshot, as described in the man page, but then later mount -uw the snapshot ( to make that a writeable mount) and, say, touch a file or create a file in the mounted snapshot ... what exactly am I doing ? Have I corrupted the snapshot ? Is it still usable as a snapshot ? Where does this space end up being used at if I write a file in a write-enabled mounted snapshot ? 4. This is not related to snapshots, but is a UFS2 question ... I see that if I am doing filesystem activity, and before I can sync the disks, my machine crashes ... the machine sort of goes back in time when it reboots - the files or directories I had created no longer exist when it reboots. This is expected, I suppose, and makes sense. However, it seems like I have also seen the following behavior: write file A write file B crash file A exists, but B does not write file B crash BOTH file A and B _no longer exist_ Is this possible ? Have I really seen that behavior, or am I remembering it wrong ? I swear that I have seen something like this happen ... if this is possible, can someone explain how ? It seems like it shouldn't be possible... Thanks! - Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 5.2.1 - Joke-only release ? April Fools ??
I have attempted to install 5.2.1-RELEASE on four (very) different computers today: - dell inspiron laptop - toshiba libretto - some other toshiba laptop - Intel N440BX p3 server (with fxp0 and Intel onboard SCSI) Every single time, I boot off kern.flp, move on to mfsroot.flp, and as sysinstall is booting, after most of the dmesg has passed by, it suddenly starts spitting out error messages at an extremely fast rate. The error messages are always the same - I can't read it all because it flies by too fast, but there are only two lines that repeat continuously: A line that starts with: spec_getpages A line that starts with: vm_fault: pager One of the lines ends with: 0xc4866000 (can't tell which) One of the lines contains: md0: I/O read failure One of the lines contains the word: sysinstall And that's that. This happens _no matter what machine_ I try to install 5.2.1-RELEASE on - and as you can see, I tried it on several very different machines. I tried disabling things like USB, etc., to no avail. So the question is, has any person, anywhere, at any time, successfully installed 5.2.1-RELEASE on any hardware whatsoever ? Or is it just a practical joke release ? __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UFS2 and ufs2 documentation ?
Quick question - when I run `mount` or view /etc/fstab in fbsd 5.x, I just see ufs as the filesystem type. How can I get some kind of output that assures me that those volumes are indeed UFS2 volumes ? How do I verify that ? Second, where can I find documentation on ufs2 and snapshotting, etc. ? There is no 'ufs2' manpage, and the mksnap_ffs man page is about 20 lines long ... where can I find more documentation ? thanks. - Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does 4.x + UFS2 exist in any way ?
I need to run 4.x (currently 4.10-RELEASE) but I really want to use UFS2 because I also need larger files and filesystems, and I really want to use snapshots. Is UFS2 available on 4.10 ? If not, how big of a hack would it be to try to use UFS2 with 4.10-RELEASE ? thanks. - Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
software equivs for netapps snapmirror / snapshots in FreeBSD fileserver ?
I am very intrigued by some of the features that Network Appliance (NetApp) has for its network attached arrays. Chiefly: snapmirror http://www.netapp.com/products/filer/snapmirror.html which allows real time replication of a filesystem(s) over a WAN - and saves bandwidth by transferring changes only. snapshot copies http://www.netapp.com/products/snapshot.html which provides point-in-time snapshots of a filesystem(s) that can be returned to at any time - it keeps track of changes only (after the original snapshot data is created) So ... if I want to use some features like this on my home fileserver (replicating to a friends fileserver over T1) ... do I have any hope of achieving these features with standard UNIX tools and scripts, or do I really need to buy things made by NetApp (or their competitors) to get features like this ? - Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD use for SANs ?? Reasonable ?
What is the world of SAN on FreeBSD like ? Does it exist at all ? More specifically, are there _any_ iSCSI drivers in existence for FreeBSD ? If so, how exactly does it work in terms of reallocating storage ? If I have a large iSCSI disk array, and I have a fbsd server that suddenly needs more space, how do I expand the partitions already in use ? Wouldn't I need to unmount the existing partition and resize it on the array and then remount it ? Or do people just keep adding more and more discreet partitions from the array as time goes on, ending up with a fbsd server with serveral mounted filesystems that were needed over time ? thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mplayer + realaudio ... what to expect when installing ...
Hello, I have a simple goal - to convert realaudio files I have saved to my drive into mp3s, on the fbsd command line. The answer, I have been told, is to install mplayer with realaudio support, and then just: mplayer file.ra -ao pcm That sounds reasonable. But I have two issues. First, I see no mplayer+realaudio in the ports tree - just mplayer. How do I get realaudio support into mplayer ? Second, just what kind of install is mplayer (and mplayer + realaudio, for that matter) ?? I want to keep this system nice and clean - and I will be upset if mplayer installs a million dependencies, or does something lame like install X for me, when I don't want it. So can someone describe just what an mplayer install is like ... and how to keep it from installing X, etc., if that is what it does ? thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
realaudio to mp3/wav conversion utility in FreeBSD ?
I already have a good method for saving realaudio streams to local files. No discussion of this is necessary. So now I have locally saved realaudio files, and I would like to convert them to mp3 (or at least to wav, and then to mp3). There is some lame GUI tool in windows to do this, but of course I would like a CLI tool in FreeBSD. Does such a tool exist ? thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What kind of crash is this ? (kernel ? userland ? )
Hello, I have become familiar with certain FreeBSD crashes - namely, I can tell the difference between the kernel crashing, and the userland crashing. If the machine is down, but I can still ping it, then the userland has crashed - the kernel is still running, which is why it responds to pings. But if it crashes and just reboots itself, then the kernel has crashed. Oversimplified I know, but I am leading up to: What kind of a crash is it if: I can ssh to the system, it gives me the BSD copyright and the uname message, but never ever gives me a prompt. What is going on in this scenario ? What kind of things have you seen that cause a crash like this ? thanks. - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best practices - USB 2.0 PCI card and gigabit ethernet PCI card for FreeBSD 4.9
I am running freebsd 4.9 and want to add: - a USB 2.0 PCI card and - a gigabit ethernet (copper - cat-5 wiring) PCI card What is the best and best supported choices for each of these ? I am happy to blindly follow whatever suggestion for the USB 2.0 card, however for the gigabit card I have had great luck on the 100meg side of thigns with the Intel etherexpress pro (fxp) cards, so if there is a well supported Intel card, that would be best, I guess. But then again, if there is a non intel gigabit card that is the clear leader in freebsd support, I would like to know it thanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
