Mouse buttons aren't working unless the mouse pointer is in motion
I just got a new wireless mouse and I find that none of the buttons work unless the mouse is currently in motion. I think this has happened before, but I don't remember what I did to fix it. I can deal with this for single click operations but double clicking is virtually impossible to do reliably. The mouse in question is a Logitech MX1000 mouse in combination with their wireless keyboard. I am using FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE compiled with sources from yesterday. I'm just wondering if there is a setting I need to pass to moused that I have forgotten about. -Will -- Will Saxon Systems Programmer - Network Services University of Florida Department of Housing ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: etherchannel on 5.2.1 - possible?
-Original Message- From: J.D. Bronson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 9:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: etherchannel on 5.2.1 - possible? I am looking for performance. Not fail-over.. Does anyone have this working with either intel or broadcom nics? Anyone have any good site that talks about what is needed to make this work as well? - I do have a Cisco switch and it fully supports this. I need a little advice on setting this up... I have used the ng_fec netgraph module with both broadcom 5703X and HP NC7170 nics (uses em driver). This is how to set it up: First you have to have the ng_fec module loaded. Then, # ngctl mkpeer fec dummy fec # ngctl msg fec0: add_iface 'bge0' # ngctl msg fec0: add_iface 'bge1' Obviously replace bge with em or whatever other driver you are using. ng_fec supports up to 4 links. At this point, you will have a fec0 interface that you can manipulate normally with ifconfig. I have noticed that sometimes I have to bring the interface up and down a couple of times to get it to start passing traffic. Whenever you 'ifconfig up' or assign an address to fec0 it resets the bundle. One thing that is annoying is that ng_fec doesn't work with vlans. There is an ng_vlan module that was recently released, but ng_fec doesn't work with it because it isn't quite like other netgraph modules. Almost all of my freebsd machines use vlans, so I am not making heavy use of ng_fec. We aren't pushing enough data to make it really necessary anyway. There is also ng_one2many which does implement failover and channel bonding but not using the etherchannel technique. I think it uses round robin. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
raster text mode for ATI Mach64
Hello, I have a machine with an integrated Mach64 adapter and I would like to use the VESA_800x600 raster text mode. I have the appropriate options in my kernel and when loading the vesa kernel module it reports VESA v2.0 support. However, setting the video mode always fails with 'Operation not supported by device.' Is there a good reference on what the requirements are for VESA_800x600 to work? I thought all I needed was 'options SC_PIXEL_MODE', the vesa module and reported VESA 2.0 support, but apparently this is not always the case. -Will _ Will Saxon Systems Programmer - Network Services Department of Housing and Residence Education University of Florida Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (352) 392-2171 x10148 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
winbind under 5.2
Heloo, I am trying to use the winbind functions of Samba on a 5.2-RELEASE system. I am able to enumerate users and groups per the documentation using wbinfo -u/-g, although while the examples show the output as being 'DOMAIN+user' or 'DOMAIN+group' I do not see the 'DOMAIN' part. I have copied the pam_winbind and nss_winbind modules to appropriate places and have confirmed that libnss_winbind is in the cache. I have nsswitch.conf edited properly. I have winbindd loaded, etc. however I am not able to assign permissions using domain accounts and I am not able to resolve domain password entries via pw. I am trying to use this combination (FreeBSD/Samba) instead of Win2k Server for our file server needs, but I need to be able to set permissions for roaming user profiles and shared directories as we depend heavily on a terminal server/thin client environment. Relevant portions of my smb.conf file: [global] netbios name = samba workgroup = NT_DOMAIN_NAME realm = DNS.DOMAIN.SUFFIX security = ADS encrypt passwords = yes password server = dns name of a global catalog domain controller winbind separator = + idmap uid = 1-2 idmap gid = 1-2 winbind enum users = yes winbind enum groups = yes winbind use default domain = yes ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How to get out of Africa?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wayne M Barnes Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to get out of Africa? Dear FreeBSD, During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my timezone. I have looked all over the documentation, and I cannot find out to reset my time zone. Does anybody else know? I installed 5.1 from the CD. I think that you can copy the file that matches your timezone from /usr/share/zoneinfo/ over top of /etc/localtime. For me it is EST5EDT and I usually link it (ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime) but that might not be the recommended way. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freebsd 5.1 isc-dhcpd w/ multiple vlan interfaces
I am trying to have DHCP 3.1rc11 from ports provide dhcp for 18 different vlans. It detects the first 14 vlans without difficulty, then just flatly ignores each additional vlan through vlan 18. I have created a separate config file with definitions for just the networks on vlans 14-18, and dhcpd ignores them still. The machine is a Compaq DL360G3 with the broadcom 5703x adapters. I am using 5.1-RELEASE. The vlan interfaces are up, active, properly configured and seem to be passing traffic. I moved the vlans to a different machine that did not have so many and it was able to do dhcp without difficulty. Is this a known bug? I have not had the opportunity to research the archives. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Sendmail_enable
-Original Message- From: Michael Conlen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sendmail_enable Is this true? Yes The reason I ask is that sendmail_enable=NO appears to be starting an inbound process. Are you sure? I am using sendmail_enable=NO and the only listening process is listening on 127.0.0.1. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Sending System Messages
-Original Message- From: Peter Elsner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:44 PM To: Justin P. Michel Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sending System Messages Don't know about Windows clients, but wall will do it for anyone connected to Unix... man wall Peter Samba can certainly send popup messages to any machine that supports NetBIOS messages. We do something along these lines by first querying an IP for its netbios name and messenger service status with nmblookup (nmblookup -A ip_address) and then sending a message if we know the client supports it (smbclient -I ip_address -M NAME -UBig\ Brother\ Is\ Watching). I have never tried to send a message to an entire domain, although it would seem that using the workgroup or domain name might work. Not knowing how it actually works, I would guess Microsoft does not do this. I only know how to send mass messages like this through Server Manager, which also details who all is connected to a particular server. I think MS probably just takes this list and sends a separate message to each connected host. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Compaq ML370 and FreeBSD-5.1
-Original Message- From: Grzegorz Czaplinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 12:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Compaq ML370 and FreeBSD-5.1 On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 05:14:50PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: Has anyone else had this problem? Is it ML370G2 or ML370G3? I know Will Saxon is running ML370G2 without any problems. He reads this mailing list... I have installed it only - we don't use FreeBSD on the ML370 in production and it was over a year ago when I tried it. I did not have trouble installing or booting at the time, though. Maybe there is a BIOS setting that could be changed? I think I changed an OS setting to be 'Linux' or 'Other'. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Compaq ML370 and FreeBSD-5.1
-Original Message- From: Richard Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 12:48 PM To: Kerberus Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Compaq ML370 and FreeBSD-5.1 I left the default kernel hanging, and it now seems to be progressing through the kernel init, albeit painfully slowly (so far two hours). Well, just let it go and then build a new kernel, and about 3 weeks from now you might have a properly booting machine :P! -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Tyan Tiger 230T
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 8:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tyan Tiger 230T Dear list, does anyone has had experience with this M/B and cam tell me how it is supported under 4.8 and/or 5.1. thanks We have one with 2 1.4GHz P3's and have been using it with 4.x for several months. I recently upgraded it to 5.1-RELEASE and it still works fine. We are using it with 2GB of ram and a 64 bit lsi logic ultra160 scsi card (obviously in 32 bit 'mode') without issue. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Network interface NC7781
-Original Message- From: Hany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 8:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Network interface NC7781 hi, does any one knows if the network interface HP NC7781 Gigabit ethernet integrated with compaq(or HP) Proliant DL380 G3. if it is not supported (which i suspect it) when it is planned and what is the solution until that time thanks in advance for you help Hany Hany, These controllers are really Broadcom 5703Xs in disguise. They work fine with the bge driver. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: HP or Compaq servers.
Gregory, We have a lot of their machines, and have been happy with them. While we are still primarily a Microsoft shop, we do have one DL360G3 running 5.1-RELEASE without difficulty. We also have another just like that one running Slackware something. We are using 2 36GB drives in a 'raid-0' stripeset off the built in Smart Array 5i+ controller. The machine has dual Xeon 3.06GHz processors and 2GB of ram. We have not had any problems with the integrated Broadcom ethernet controllers (bge driver). Everything is detected and works great. I only have 2 complaints: One is that the keyboard port doesnt seem to work with our KVM solution (a raritan paragon). The dongle we tried gets power from the keyboard port and that works since we can get video. However, we did not get any feedback from the keyboard. Plugging a keyboard directly into the machine works fine and using the dongle on another machine with the same keyboard works. We have seen this on both of the DL360G3's we have. The other issue is that there is no health monitoring driver for FreeBSD yet. My understanding is that one is in development and near completion. This would be a good thing - making world typically kicks the fans into high speed, and the only way to quiet them back down is to reboot the machine. I added CPU_SUSP_HLT to the kernel on that machine and it seems to get noisy less often. When the fans go into high speed mode they are pretty loud. Other than those two things, they are good machines that seem to work just fine with FreeBSD. -Will -Original Message- From: Grzegorz Czaplinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 9:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HP or Compaq servers. Hi there! Does anyone can recommend an HP or Compaq server from the most recent line? Any experience with those systems? Problems? I need to get two servers and HP, Comapq seems to be the only option on the market for me. Do we have any webpage with hardware configuration for FreeBSD? Your help will be great! Cheers, gregory -- Grzegorz Czaplinski gregory at prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl The Power to Serve, Right for the Power Users! - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ Fingerprint: EB77 E19D CFA2 5736 810F 847C A70F A275 2489 469F ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
matrox parhelia and p-series
Has anyone tried to use these cards with X in FreeBSD? I suspect the linux driver cannot be made to work, but perhaps X would still work using the vesa server until a real driver is written? -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: HP or Compaq servers.
-Original Message- From: Grzegorz Czaplinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 2:23 PM To: Will Saxon Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HP or Compaq servers. Hi Will, Thanks for the grat feedback! Your informations are great! Anyway DL360G3 is too much for us. I was thinking about ML line, like ML330G3 or ML350G3. No one in Polish Compaq support is willing to help me with this as they simply don't have such knowledge. Do you have any of ML line? Does any one here have? I need this info! Gregory, We bought an ML370G2 about a year and a half ago. I was able to install FreeBSD on it and compile/boot an SMP kernel. That was about the extent of my playtime with the machine, which was quickly whisked off to slave away as an MS SQL 2000 server. I know the onboard NICs work fine using the fxp driver, the onboard video works OK and the onboard RAID controller is also supported via the ciss driver. The fans dont get all loud either. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: mouse speed
-Original Message- From: Eric Yang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: mouse speed Response 2 man moused, and read about the -r option. You can use the actual dpi number if you know it, or just use 'high' and that works also. It works quite well. -Will Okay I tried both solution but neither worked. Few more detail I for got to include, it's a Logitech optical mouse and I am primarily concerned with the mouse speed in KDE. Just as a note to make sure I didn't do anything wrong, I changed the file /etc/X11/XF86Config but just by un ticking the line the read Option Resolution 256 and changed the number to 300. That made no noticeable change. Next I used the command moused -r 300 -p /dev/sysmouse also I did it with high instead of 300 both time no noticeable difference. Eric, Is it a USB or PS2 mouse? If it is USB, try this: moused -t auto -r 300 -p /dev/ums0 -z 4 If it is PS2, try this: moused -t auto -r 300 -p /dev/psm0 -z 4 /dev/sysmouse is used primarily to provide an interface for X to read mouse events when moused is blocking the real mouse device. the -z 4 mouse is unnecessary, but provides support for the wheel if you have one and are using moused with X. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ssh dump What is blowfish?
-Original Message- From: DanB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 9:27 AM To: freebsd Subject: ssh dump What is blowfish? # /sbin/dump -0uan -f - /usr | gzip -2 | ssh1 -c blowfish \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=/mybigfiles/dump-usr-l0.gz What is the blowfish? I s this the users name? File name? Dan Blowfish in an encryption algorithm. 'man ssh' and you can read about the various algorithms you can specify via -c. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Why does cvsup + supfile delete all my ports ?
-Original Message- From: Rob Lahaye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why does cvsup + supfile delete all my ports ? (Only the tag has changed from RELENG_4 to the dot .). This works; well, at least the ports are not deleted, but updated. But updated to what? Why can I not use the RELENG_4 for my 4.8 ports selection? Will the dot update my ports to the ports of 5.x series? If so, will that cause trouble for my 4.8 system? What should I do to safely update my ports? Leave it as the dot. If you want to have a single supfile that handles ports and source, you can say something like: *default host=cvsup2.freebsd.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all tag=. This may be explained in the sample supfiles in /usr/share/examples/cvsup, I am not sure. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Problems with my Mouse Wheel of Genisu NetScroll+
-Original Message- From: Luís Vitório Cargnini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problems with my Mouse Wheel of Genisu NetScroll+ Hi i have a Genius NetScroll+. In version 4.X my mouse wheel worked fine, but now on version 5.0 and 5.1 it isn't working more. This is a know problem or could be only with me ? I'm asking this because i have done everything that is mandatory to mouse wheel works but it ins't working. -- Thanks Regards Luís Vitório Cargnini Are you using moused or trying to use the mouse directly from X? I found that I had forgotten the proper procedure for getting the wheel to work correctly the last time I configured a new machine. If you are using moused, make sure you use the -z flag and probably have it look like this: moused -t auto -p /dev/psm0 -r high -z 4 In rc.conf I have: moused_enable=YES moused_flags=-r high -z 4 Then, in XF86Config the only thing you have to do is make sure that you are using 'Auto' or 'Sysmouse' as the mouse protocol, /dev/sysmouse as the mouse device and have the line: Buttons 5 In that section. If you do it this way it should work. I am not completely sure how to set up the mouse with the wheel bypassing moused and doing it directly with X, but I believe you just have to change the port and protocol (probably to 'Auto' and '/dev/psm0', respectively) and add: ZAxisMapping 4 5 To the XF86Config file. I use the moused method, and it has usually worked for me. The only time I have ever had mouse wheel problems was when using a KVM switch that did not seem to present the mouse capabilities properly to FreeBSD during boot. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: NAT and MTU
-Original Message- From: Brent Wiese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NAT and MTU I have a machine that is being double-NAT'd. Would it make sense to set the MTU lower to account for the NAT overhead? It makes sense to me as I know MTU, but I like to check in case my thinking isn't right. :) Why would it matter? Does NAT increase the overall datagram size? I thought it just changed addresses and stored connection information in a table somewhere. If this is the case, just having NAT, even 2x, isn't going to make it any more likely that your traffic will fragment. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: mouse speed
-Original Message- From: Eric Yang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mouse speed I am pretty new to Freebsd and I am having a problem with the mouse. It moves slowly across the screen, it seems I can the acceleration factor, but I really dislike acceleration, is there anyway to make the mouse move at a faster constant speed. Running freebsd 4.8 stable, PIII 600, 256 ram, usb mouse plugged into PS2 port with adapter. man moused, and read about the -r option. You can use the actual dpi number if you know it, or just use 'high' and that works also. It works quite well. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Windows Terminal Server clients
-Original Message- From: Edy Lie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Windows Terminal Server clients Greetings, Anyone happen to know any windows terminal server client which allow cut and paste ? I have tried rdesktop but i was not able to cut and paste from local box to the windows terminal server. The developmental version of rdesktop has some support for clipboard copying. There used to be an rdesktop-devel port but it doesn't seem to exist any more. There are links to CVS, etc. through http://www.rdesktop.org -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
archive search broken?
I'm fairly certain that there was a thread in -current regarding work on a 'health and wellness' type driver for HP ProLiant machines but I can't seem to actually get any results for any searches since at least yesterday afternoon. Is this a known issue or am I doing something wrong? -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ATI 8500 or matrox 550?
-Original Message- From: .VWV. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 7:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ATI 8500 or matrox 550? Hi. Owing to the need of purchasing a supported video-card before it's too late for my 4.6.2, I would like to know if the X Window System driver can run fine or not the ATI 8500. I have noticed the driver is not listed in the 'sysinstall' tool. If I choose 'ati' using xf86config or editing /etc/X11/XF86Config, would the card work as well as a Matrox 550 one? You would actually want the radeon driver, not the ati one. http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/radeon.4.html http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/index.html I've never personally used one, but it seems like it ought to work. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: tr
cat filename | tr -d '\r' output mv output filename There is also a method spat out by fortune every once in awhile, using col, but I can't remember it. -Will -Original Message- From: Fabio Miranda Hamburger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 3:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tr How can I remove annoy ^D end of line from MS systems? I know there is an utility called dos2unix. But I think It's possible to do it with freebsd tr. How would that be? thanks, --- Fabio Andres Miranda Ingenieria de sistemas informaticos Universidad Latina - Costa Rica ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Storage Area Network/Fiber Channel questions
Hello, Does/has anyone here had experience using a FreeBSD machine in a SAN environment? I am looking at a few different offerings and of course none claim FreeBSD support. It seems like it shouldn't matter, a virtual disk created in the SAN for a particular machine should just look like another disk to FreeBSD, but if there are any gotchas or products that definitely work better with FreeBSD than others, I would like to know. While the SAN purchase is not intended directly for our FreeBSD servers, it would be nice to at least have the capability to add them on at a later date. -Will ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: network tuning
-Original Message- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 12:08 PM To: Will Saxon Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: network tuning You first need to determine what is being overloaded. Run top. Is ntop running at 100% cpu? If so, you'll need a faster machine. If it's close to 100%, bumping debug.bpf_bufsize might help. What are the user/system/irq CPU percentages while ntop is running? It's pretty close to 100% all the time. I guess I am overestimating the horsepower of this machine. Oddly enough, while ntop itself claims to be using 80-95% of the cpu, the user/system/irq generally does not add up to 100%. In fact, user is generally 15-20%, system is 20-50%, irq is 10% and idle is 35% all the time. I set the debug_bpf_bufsize also, to 65536. No change. Sounds like I get to spend some more money :). -Will To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
network tuning
I am trying to use ntop in the 'border filter' mode to get some statistics on that link, which is a gigE link typically seeing 40-120Mbps sustained traffic (varies throughout the day). The capturing interface is an intel pro/100+ server adapter, plugged into another port on the switch set to mirror the gigE interface. Obviously there ought to be some drops due to serialization differences, etc. But ntop is reporting upwards of 2/3 packets dropped in the kernel and running tcpdump on that interface for any length of time reports usually 50% drops in the kernel. I have enabled the link0 processing offload onto the nic, changed the nmbclusters sysctl, and raised all of the send/recvspace sysctl's. I read the tuning manpage, and applied whatever looked applicable with no discernable results. The system is running FreeBSD 4.8-PRERELEASE. Machine is a dual p3 1.4GHz with 2.2GB ram and 1 15krpm IBM SCSI drive on a LSI/symbios logic u160 card. It is using a via chipset tyan tiger 230T, which is understandably nothing special. Is there something else I should try, besides getting a gigE card (and gbic) to try again? I feel like I am not setting something up correctly. -Will To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: network tuning
-Original Message- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:04 PM To: Will Saxon Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: network tuning That's consistent with a dual-CPU box. The CPU states are for the system as a whole, but the CPU usages in the process listing are per-process. A single CPU-heavy process will cause its process line to hit 100% CPU, but that will only force the User percentage to 50%, since there is antoher CPU sitting idle. Aha, didn't realize this. We were all kind of wondering if that was all-cpu or just the one cpu. Well, there isn't a faster processor available on that platform so we will have to just build something better, or find something multithreaded. Thanks for the pointers! I appreciate the help. -Will To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: citrix ica client
I had the same citrix-ica problems a while back. Reinstalling XFree86-libraries solved it. see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=542242+545230+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-ports/20020929.freebsd-ports Well alright, that sounds plausible. Thanks Karel! -Will To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
citrix ica client
Is anyone using the citrix_ica port with complete success? I just installed it on this fairly fresh (2 week old) 4.7-stable machine, and the software is not behaving at all like I remember. Wfcmgr seems to basically not work at all (buttons don't do anything, drop down boxes dont drop, selection boxes do not allow selection, text fields do not allow text entry, etc), it occasionally 'freezes' X also, requiring a restart. -Will To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: sudo and mount_smbfs authentication problem
/usr/home/joeblow sudo mount_smbfs //photocd@pdx-james/pub mnt Password: Password: mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Authentication error Here is the meat of my sudoers file: # User privilege specification rootALL=(ALL) ALL # Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL What is preventing joeblow from using mount_smbfs? You need to enter the sudo password first, and the password to mount the share second. Alternatively, you could edit the sudo config file to allow wheel users to do that command with no password. I think it would look something like this: # Let wheel users mount_smbfs whatever they want without their password %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/mount_smbfs -Will To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
