general load balancing issues

2003-12-15 Thread Bogdan TARU
Dear hackers, Up until now, I had a setup with 4-5 webservers, one 'main' server on which all the changes to the websites were done, and the rest which were rsync-ing the web repository to the local drives. The content is either static or dynamic (PHP). Of course, I was load

Re: general load balancing issues

2003-12-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:46:52PM +0100, Bogdan TARU wrote: Right now I am considering a setup with one common NFS repository for the configuration files, Apache binaries, Web content and temp directory for PHP, NFS resource which will be mounted on all the 'front' webservers. I am

Re: general load balancing issues

2003-12-15 Thread Clement Laforet
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:46:52 +0100 Bogdan TARU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! Right now I am considering a setup with one common NFS repository for the configuration files, Apache binaries, Web content and temp directory for PHP, NFS resource which will be mounted on all the 'front'

Re: REPOST - Installation Bug - All available versions hang on install

2003-12-15 Thread David Raistrick
Pro 10/100 PCI network adaptor. What makes this system unusual is that it is “legacy free” which means it has none of the traditional I/O ports (no serial, parallel, PS/2 or even floppy interface). All I/O is via one of the and thereby it doesn't have a keyboard controller at all. The

Re: general load balancing issues

2003-12-15 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:46:52PM +0100, Bogdan TARU wrote: Right now I am considering a setup with one common NFS repository for the configuration files, Apache binaries, Web content and temp directory for PHP, NFS resource which will be

Re: general load balancing issues

2003-12-15 Thread Tim Kientzle
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:46:52PM +0100, Bogdan TARU wrote: I am wondering, though, if I will be able ... to load-balance the domains involving sessions: will the sessions be lost when connsecutive hits go to different webservers, or not? It depends

RE: Hyperthreading crashes

2003-12-15 Thread John Baldwin
On 13-Dec-2003 Mikulas Patocka wrote: Hi I use FreeBSD-4.9-RC1 on a machine with hyperthreading (it seems that hyperthreading support was ripped out of final 4.9 release --- why?) It wasn't ripped out. It is now enabled by default. Check /usr/src/UPDATING and the release notes. I get

atapicam and residual byte counts

2003-12-15 Thread Dan Strick
While hacking on an ATAPI CD-drive via atapicam, I noticed that the returned data transfer counts for all data input operations (e.g. mode sense) were too high. In fact, they were all equal to the input buffer sizes. A little hacking revealed that the residual byte counts in the CAM CCB for scsi

PAM and passwd

2003-12-15 Thread Adil Katchi
I was just wondering if anyone knew about the details of loading PAM. My problem is that I need to create a local user account while I am authenticating using a PAM module. That is, using some remote authentication mechanism, if it authenticates a user, I want to create that user locally on the

Re: PAM and passwd

2003-12-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Adil Katchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This seems to indicate that the local users' info is loaded at PAM startup. Is this true? It depends on the module. Most PAM modules use getpwnam() to look up the user, and will fail if it does not exist; some modules don't (for instance, pam_ldap looks

Re: general load balancing issues

2003-12-15 Thread Adam C. Migus
On Monday 15 December 2003 08:02 am, Clement Laforet wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:46:52 +0100 Bogdan TARU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! Right now I am considering a setup with one common NFS repository for the configuration files, Apache binaries, Web content and temp directory for

Re: howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR

2003-12-15 Thread paul van den bergen
After all that angst, I couldn't get it to work anyway - on reboot the system reverted to a 4.8 kernel... Not sure why, but gave up at this point... On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:25 pm, paul van den bergen wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:17 pm, paul van den bergen wrote: Hi... snip... I stuffed

RE: howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR

2003-12-15 Thread Minnesota Slinky
There's actually a very simple process to use to upgrade, providing you have a broadband connection: 1) cvsup your sources to the newer sources. For more information read about cvsup or checkout the handbook! 2) once you have new sources, cd to /usr/src and type make world; this could take an

Re: howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR

2003-12-15 Thread paul van den bergen
Yes, I am familiar with that upgrade path... Part of my motivation was ... well, lazyness :-) using someone elses worked out example, part a desire to blow away a rather mixed and heavily tweeked system (read I've been experimenting on it for so long I'm not sure what I've done anymore)...