Re: can't figure out an one-liner

2005-01-12 Thread Toomas Aas
Nathan Kinkade wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:36:30PM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote: I have a directory structure like this /home /joe /peter /bill ... etc I'm trying to move some (but not all) subdirectories of /home to /newhome, using tar. Are /home and /newhome on

Re: Defining MAKE_ARGS in pkgtools.conf

2005-01-12 Thread Murray Taylor
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 10:28, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: > I'm trying to define some arguments in pkgtools.conf to use in a > portinstall of moregroupware (deskutils/moregroupware). I haven't used > pkgtools.conf before, and I'm apparently doing something wrong. I'm > doing this under FBSD 4.9. >

FreeBSD 5.3 and some stranges logging in /var/log/messages

2005-01-12 Thread Vyacheslav Druzhinin
Hello freebsd-questions, I use FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p4, builded with ipfw support options IPFIREWALL options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE options IPDIVERT some times I see some strange messages in /var/log/messages, like this: -- cut Jan 12 10:01:30 ns kernel: vJan 12 10:01:30

RE: Default LQR timeout period

2005-01-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Open up your registry editor and go to HEKY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Modem\\Set tings where is the number of your modem (example: 0001). On the right pane search for a string value named InactivityTimeout. Enter the new timeout rate in minutes. For example ente

modem in FreeBSD

2005-01-12 Thread dkouroun
Dear List, Is there somebody who has succesfully installed a SoftModem in FreeBSD(5.3 or 4.10)? thanks! D.K. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Stijn Hoop
off-topic, but... On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:43:54AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > AV> BTW, an old AMD 2000 XP+ would in any case almost outperform a P4 3GHz, > AV> but that's another story. > > An AMD processor will also melt or catch fire if the CPU fan fails, > whereas an Intel processor w

Re: Which OS should we use?

2005-01-12 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 03:22:15PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: > We're getting ready to create some new servers from scratch > (format/install). We've been using 4.9 and 4.10 for a while now with no > problems. We've got one 5.3 box setup for test purposes. > > On this list I have seen comments

A question occured when installing FreeBSD5.3

2005-01-12 Thread Peng Shan
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Default LQR timeout period

2005-01-12 Thread Bikrant Neupane
Hi We have pppoe server running on FreeBSD 4.9 and 90% of our wireless clients are using MS Windows OS to access the service. I have noticed that when ever there is some problem in the link ( due to AP or SM reboot, switch reboot etc etc ) the pppoe connection closes. I have also noticed that t

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Subhro writes: S> This *used* to be true. I am using a AMD64 3000+ and the idle S> temperature is 28C. The room temp is around 12-14C. After asking this S> kid to crunch FPs for over 16 hrs, the processor temperature rose to S> only 38C. I am not using any special cooling gears, just the stock S>

Re: Apache Log Rotation & Statistics

2005-01-12 Thread Eric F Crist
On Jan 12, 2005, at 5:03 PM, Gadi Golan wrote: Hi, What I am looking for here is some advice on what will be the best ways to acomplish what I have in mind. What I hope to acomplish follows, so any thoughts on how to do it, or if it is complex or impossible would be very helpful. I have Apache 2.x

Re: UNIX-Based VPN Applications

2005-01-12 Thread Eric F Crist
On Jan 12, 2005, at 11:19 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: I have been asked as to whether there are any VPN applications that can run on UNIX clients using Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS. I think the general idea is that they could tunnel in from outside of our campus and receive an IP number on ou

RE: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Subhro
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 6:14 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3? > > Andrea Venturoli writes: > > Where these co

Re: Create tgz packages

2005-01-12 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Parv thusly... > > find /var/db/pkg -mindepth 1 -type d \ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ > | while read port; do pkg_create -b $(basename "$port"); done I made a gross mistake in my above reply related to "-mindepth"

RE: Freebsd 5.3 Performance

2005-01-12 Thread Butterworth, Thaddaeus (Manpower Contract)
> > >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd->[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris >Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 5:44 PM >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.3 Performance > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Mr Watson, >> >> As you are listed as the lead

Re: Remote hardware identification

2005-01-12 Thread Tim Aslat
In the immortal words of "Andras Kende" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I would get a brand name DDR400 PC3200 since its backward compatible > with lower speeds (PC2100 PC2700), unless it's more highend server > motherboard with ECC or Registered memory... Thanks for the tip. Its not a high-powered serv

RE: Remote hardware identification

2005-01-12 Thread Andras Kende
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Aslat Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 8:56 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Remote hardware identification Hi All, I have a remote server which I inherited which I have no real specifica

Remote hardware identification

2005-01-12 Thread Tim Aslat
Hi All, I have a remote server which I inherited which I have no real specifications for except the basic dmesg output. This machine needs more RAM and rather than buying 5 sticks of varying types for the job, is there some way to identify the type of ram needed? All I know is that it's a P4 cla

gmirror problem on 5.3-R i386

2005-01-12 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm having a problem with gmirror. It would seem that I cannot add my first disk to the mirror after booting off the second drive. My current status is a degraded mirror and I cannot see any of the partitions on disk one. For a guide, I'm using the excellent instructions at: http://peo

nVidia 6800 quick-and-dirty

2005-01-12 Thread José de Paula
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:11:04 -0600, Christopher Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, you wrote: > > > I've just bought a GeForce 6800 card, and it worked wonderfully > > with the nvidia-driver port. > > I, by contrast, am pulling my hair out trying to get this card/driver > combination to w

problem with the last login

2005-01-12 Thread 288137
Guys! I’ve got some problems with motd as following description: After logging in system, messages: last login、copyright、os version、motd will show on the screen in sequence. According to the man page for motd, use touch ~/.hushlogin can suppress those messages besides the last login part. ---

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Olivier Nicole writes: ON> Not always true, I had a P4 1.5 die on me for lack of fan. I understood that all recent Intel processors will first slow the clock and then halt completely if the die temperature rises too much, but there may be exceptions (or perhaps some processors run so hot that the

Re: pkg_info question

2005-01-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 08:45:30PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Hey folks. I'm trying to make a cruft killing run through my > installed packages. > > What would make this a lot easier is if I could easily get a list of > packages that are installed that are NOT required by other packages. > >

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
> An AMD processor will also melt or catch fire if the CPU fan fails, > whereas an Intel processor won't. I found this out the hard way, and so Not always true, I had a P4 1.5 die on me for lack of fan. Now what was tha company selling a new box with no fan on the CPU is another story... Olivier

Re: USB CD-ROM installations.

2005-01-12 Thread John Wilson
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:34:32 -0500 Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I've gotten the impression that USB2 under FreeBSD 5.3 will support 4x well > and be OK at 8x DVD burning speeds, although I've seen some reports of > problems (failing every third or forth burn) at high speeds, to

pkg_info question

2005-01-12 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey folks. I'm trying to make a cruft killing run through my installed packages. What would make this a lot easier is if I could easily get a list of packages that are installed that are NOT required by other packages. I know that `pkg_info -aR` will give me all packages along with those that re

Definitions of process states in top

2005-01-12 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Is there someplace where I can find definitions of the process states that I see in the STATE column of top? RUN and CPU1 are easy enough to figure out, but most of the rest are mysterious. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

login.conf problems

2005-01-12 Thread Static
Im trying to add a class that will limit processes and session limits, I added this ircd:\ :tc=default:\ :copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\ :welcome=/etc/motd:\ :setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K:\ :path=~/bin /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin:\ :manpath=/usr/share/

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Scott Bennett writes: SB> I notice that the 5.2.1 boot messages refer to the second core as an SB> AP, which I'm guessing stands for "attached processor". If that SB> guess is correct, then it means that only the first core is able to SB> perform certain functions, and the AP core has to get the f

Re: SMP question

2005-01-12 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/12/05 11:11:46, Bob Ababurko wrote: Hi all- I am wondering if it is possible to specify which processor that a process will use, on a multi-processor box. Where can I find this information if it is possible. Thanks, Bob ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Dual Opteron -- experiences?

2005-01-12 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/12/05 15:12:42, sp0ng3b0b wrote: I am getting a quote for a new server. I would like to get a box with 2x AMD Opterons and an Intel MF 1000 fiber gigabit card. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with Opterons and FreeBSD 5.3? ___ freebsd

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Dual Opteron -- experiences?

2005-01-12 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/12/05 15:12:42, sp0ng3b0b wrote: I am getting a quote for a new server. I would like to get a box with 2x AMD Opterons and an Intel MF 1000 fiber gigabit card. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with Opterons and FreeBSD 5.3? ___ freebsd

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Jan 12, 2005, at 12:34 AM, Timothy Luoma wrote: ps - thanks to all who responded. I'm going to disable HT, boot to FreeBSD and try another large file transfer and see if I see the large delays. If no, I'll copy the files I need off the XP drive and reinstall XP. Ok, well I disabled HT and s

Re: Freebsd 5.3 Performance

2005-01-12 Thread Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr Watson, As you are listed as the leader of the FreeBSD foundation, and you seem to be the only one willing to admit that FreeBSD 5.3 is not yet up to the performance of 4.x, doesn't in concern you that: 1) Freebsd 4.x is not being supported as a production O/S, and t

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Andrea Venturoli writes: AV> FWIW I tried numerical computations on a P4 with HT enabled: I expected AV> using 2 threads might give *at least slightly* better results, but I AV> could come to the conclusion that with 1, 2 or 4 threads the performance AV> gain (or loss) was exactly zero. Where the

Re: Freebsd 5.3 Performance

2005-01-12 Thread Tm4528
Mr Watson, As you are listed as the leader of the FreeBSD foundation, and you seem to be the only one willing to admit that FreeBSD 5.3 is not yet up to the performance of 4.x, doesn't in concern you that: 1) Freebsd 4.x is not being supported as a production O/S, and the "support" is ending

Re: Defining MAKE_ARGS in pkgtools.conf

2005-01-12 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-01-12 18:28, "Bill Schmitt (SW)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, in the pkgtools.conf file, I added: MAKE_ARGS = { 'deskutils/moregroupware' => 'WITH_APACHE2 WITH_MODULES' } But, when I execute portupgrade moregroupware, I receive a message that states: make: don't

Re: server replication?

2005-01-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Gregor Mosheh wrote: For starters, how does such a solution work conceptually? The possibility of load-balancing appliances has been suggested; how does this work with user databases and uploaded files? Our services are primarily web-based and do involve a significant amount of users uploading file

Re: Defining MAKE_ARGS in pkgtools.conf

2005-01-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-01-12 18:28, "Bill Schmitt (SW)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, in the pkgtools.conf file, I added: > > MAKE_ARGS = { > 'deskutils/moregroupware' => 'WITH_APACHE2 WITH_MODULES' > } > > But, when I execute portupgrade moregroupware, I receive a message that > states: > > make: don't know

Re: server replication?

2005-01-12 Thread Andreas Davour
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Gregor Mosheh wrote: My employer is looking for solutions to achieve zero-downtime in the event of a hardware failure. I've been doing sysadmin for some time, but this is out of my league, and I wanted to ask the list for any advice, hints, etc. What you need then is some kind

Defining MAKE_ARGS in pkgtools.conf

2005-01-12 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I'm trying to define some arguments in pkgtools.conf to use in a portinstall of moregroupware (deskutils/moregroupware). I haven't used pkgtools.conf before, and I'm apparently doing something wrong. I'm doing this under FBSD 4.9. In the Makefile, there is a section that states: .if defined(WIT

Re: Serial communication, terminal

2005-01-12 Thread Matthias Buelow
Florian Hengstberger wrote: I have a microcontroller with an uart interface. I want to communicate with my computer through the serial port of my FreeBSD box. Is it somehow possible to connect the serial io to a xterm? Case it is not: I don't want to write a program myself - is there an existing pr

server replication?

2005-01-12 Thread Gregor Mosheh
My employer is looking for solutions to achieve zero-downtime in the event of a hardware failure. I've been doing sysadmin for some time, but this is out of my league, and I wanted to ask the list for any advice, hints, etc. For starters, how does such a solution work conceptually? The possibility

Re: Apache Log Rotation & Statistics

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 12 at 18:03, Gadi Golan wondered aloud: > > I have Apache 2.x running with a collection of virtual hosts, each > logging to their own access.log file. I want to offer log statistics > to all of my virtual hosts on an individual basis. I want them to be > able to go to say log.theirdomain.

Apache Log Rotation & Statistics

2005-01-12 Thread Gadi Golan
Hi, What I am looking for here is some advice on what will be the best ways to acomplish what I have in mind. What I hope to acomplish follows, so any thoughts on how to do it, or if it is complex or impossible would be very helpful. I have Apache 2.x running with a collection of virtual hosts, e

Re: Upgrade to Courier 4.0.1?

2005-01-12 Thread Juha Saarinen
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:44:57 -, Scott Bye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I updated to this via ports, and the services appear to be running and > listening for connections. > > However, if I connect to them, I get disconnected immediately, and nothing > appears to be logged for any of the serv

Re: can't figure out an one-liner

2005-01-12 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Toomas Aas wrote: # for luser in 'joe peter bill' { tar cf - -C /home $luser | tar xf - } ... but I keep getting error messages that luser is undefined. What am I doing wrong? In csh, it's "foreach", like this (tested): foreach luser (joe peter bill) echo $luser end The csh

httperf warning

2005-01-12 Thread Gardner Bell
Hi, I've been benchmarking Apache13 the past few days with httperf and always see the following warning. Open file limit > FD_SETSIZE; limiting max. # of open files to FD_SETSIZE. Can I safely increase FD_SETSIZE without buggering anything up or is this something that shouldn't be touched? If it

FW: Vinum bootable RAID-1 setup help - RESOLVED

2005-01-12 Thread Faisal Ali
Hello, To follow-up on my initial question, Iam happy to inform that I have bootable RAID-1 FreeBSD 5.3 i386 Release working using "gmirror" using excellent documentation provided on http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ Thankyou for the heads-up in the Errata about GEOM related changes. Using

Re: Serial communication, terminal

2005-01-12 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Florian Hengstberger wrote: I have a microcontroller with an uart interface. I want to communicate with my computer through the serial port of my FreeBSD box. Is it somehow possible to connect the serial io to a xterm? Case it is not: I don't want to write a program myself - is

Seg Fault in Dig on 5.3-RELEASE

2005-01-12 Thread Brian McCann
Hi all. Wondering if anyone else is having similar problems. On 5.3-RELEASE (smp if it matters), I'm getting occasional (1 out of every 10 runs or so) seg faults from running dig. In the core dump, it makes mention of: pointer != NULL ERROR /usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/

RE: 4.9 rebooting

2005-01-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
If this was something like a kernel panic there would be a message in /var/log/messages If nothing is in there then it's probably failing hardware. My experiences in those cases is that no matter what logging you turn on, nothing gets logged, the machine just reboots. If it's a remote colocated s

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:45:56 +0100 Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Scott Bennett writes: > >SB> Well, no, not exactly. The dual-cored CPUs share certain resources >SB> on the chip that are not shared in a multi-CPU situation, and that sharing >SB> means certain operations

Re: can't figure out an one-liner

2005-01-12 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:36:30PM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hello! > > I have a directory structure like this > > /home > /joe > /peter > /bill > ... etc > > I'm trying to move some (but not all) subdirectories of /home to > /newhome, using tar. I'm doing this as root

Replacing both disks in RAID1

2005-01-12 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I have a small server running FreeBSD 4.10, 2 x 80 GB drives mirrored on Promise TX2 integrated RAID1 controller. I'd like to replace the 80 GB drives with 200 GB drives. Here's my current plan: 1. Attach one of the new drives to free ICH4 IDE port on motherboard, partition it and transf

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Anthony Atkielski wrote: From what you say and from what I've read today, it sounds like hyperthreading comes close to providing two separate processors for heterogenous system loads (where each hyperthread is using slightly different processor resources at any given instant), but it may not buy mu

Re: File System mounting prob

2005-01-12 Thread Kris Maglione
I can't find kppp(the dial up connecter that used to come with KDE) anymore!?? If KDE is not providing it any more, then is there any other (GUI) substitute for it? kppp is part of the kdenetwork port. It should automagically appear on the kde menu under Internet (maybe Network, don't remember

Re: 'cause the ports don't work...

2005-01-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 01:04:34PM +0100, craig wrote: > i've had a good couple of problems installing ports, either because of > compilation issues, or because they were just not there. > is there something i am missing? > > zB, i need to install stlport, and a quick search on www.freshports.org

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Dual Opteron -- experiences?

2005-01-12 Thread Kris Maglione
Colin J. Raven wrote: On Jan 12 at 12:12, sp0ng3b0b launched this into the bitstream: I would like to get a box with 2x AMD Opterons and an Intel MF 1000 fiber gigabit card. Err, I'd like to get one of those too! With 16GB of ECC DDR400 RAM and 10 15K RPM SCSI Ultra's in a RAID0/1 array

apache1.3 mysql and php

2005-01-12 Thread dick hoogendijk
I'd like to give phpBB (kind of a php driven userboard) a change. This means I'll have to change my apache 1.3.33 server into a PHP, MySQL Apache1.3.33 server. I will do the reading, but I appreciate some links on how to set up this combination from ports. I googled but got lost in the information

Re: smtp pull

2005-01-12 Thread Brian Clapper
On 12 January, 2005, at 14:54 (-0500) Kris Maglione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Maybe fetchmail is what you need? That is what most of dialup users use > >when they run their own MTA servers. > > > > > > > Fetchmail uses POP. It'll do more than just POP. From the man page: AU

can't figure out an one-liner

2005-01-12 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I have a directory structure like this /home /joe /peter /bill ... etc I'm trying to move some (but not all) subdirectories of /home to /newhome, using tar. I'm doing this as root on FreeBSD 4.10, the shell is csh. I'd like to get it done with one command li

Re: How dangerous is HFS+ in FreeBSD 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005, Timothy Luoma wrote: > >On Jan 12, 2005, at 9:07 AM, Eric Anderson wrote: > >>If you are simply recovering your mp3's^H^H^H^H^Hdata, > >Heh... actually my iPod is FAT32 because I had it with Windows before I >had a Mac. > >>then just mount it read only, copy data, unmount.. A

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Dual Opteron -- experiences?

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 12 at 12:12, sp0ng3b0b launched this into the bitstream: > > I would like to get a box with 2x AMD Opterons and an Intel MF 1000 fiber > gigabit card. > Err, I'd like to get one of those too! With 16GB of ECC DDR400 RAM and 10 15K RPM SCSI Ultra's in a RAID0/1 array naturally. Yeah, dam

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-01-12 19:23, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > GK> The 'separate file' is NOTES. This file is actually the complete > GK> reference of options that the kernel supports, so it's not like the SMP > GK> option is hidden or something. > > I must have

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Bryan Fullerton
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:02:37 -0500, Bryan Fullerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm experiencing some strangeness with a uniproc HTT-capable machine > and SATA with either SMP or non-SMP kernels, so I'll try turning off > HTT in the BIOS later this week and see if that helps. Well, this is inter

FreeBSD 5.3 on Dual Opteron -- experiences?

2005-01-12 Thread sp0ng3b0b
I am getting a quote for a new server. I would like to get a box with 2x AMD Opterons and an Intel MF 1000 fiber gigabit card. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with Opterons and FreeBSD 5.3? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Bryan Fullerton
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:29:01 +1300, Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:02:37AM -0500, Bryan Fullerton wrote: > > By default the system will detect a HTT processor, but can only launch > > the second 'virtual' CPU core if you recompile the kernel with the SMP > > o

Re: smtp pull

2005-01-12 Thread Kris Maglione
Maybe fetchmail is what you need? That is what most of dialup users use when they run their own MTA servers. Fetchmail uses POP. Obviously I can make smtp1 drop the mail in a mailbox on smtp1 and then get smtp2 to imap or pop the mail out however I'm looking for something that's fast and p

Re: File System mounting prob

2005-01-12 Thread Rod Person
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 6:20 pm, Emon wrote: > Is there any way to mount a filesystem, as a generel user? so > that everytime I put a cd in the CD player I dont have to su to > root just to mount it! > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html > > I can't find kppp(the

4.9 rebooting

2005-01-12 Thread Jim Pazarena
I have a remote server which has begun re-booting every few days. Are there any logs which I can examine that may provide a clue as to the reason? Or any logging I can turn "on/up" ? I realize that during a reboot, logs are seldom "up-to-date", but any clue would be handy. This is a remote co-locat

Re: finding installation date ?

2005-01-12 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:36:18AM -0800, faisal gillani wrote: > that shows 24 feb 2004 .. > but isnt that the release date of my freebsd 5.2 ? Try looking at the date of the /rescue directory and see what that says. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

burncd: "device busy" error when writing .iso

2005-01-12 Thread Jason Morgan
I am attempting to burn an .iso of the 5.3 mini distribution and keep running into the following error: # burncd -f /dev/acd0 data 5.3-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso fixate next writeable LBA 0 writing from file 5.3-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso size 274400 KB written this track 640 KB (0%) total 640 KB o

Re: Which OS should we use?

2005-01-12 Thread Dave McCammon
--- Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On Tuesday, January 11, 2005 05:48:41 PM -0800 > sp0ng3b0b > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm in the same boat. I've had mixed results with > 5.3. I advise you to > > test it out for your needs. If your hardware and > apps play well together,

Re: finding installation date ?

2005-01-12 Thread faisal gillani
that shows 24 feb 2004 .. but isnt that the release date of my freebsd 5.2 ? thanks --- Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:49:26AM -0800, faisal > gillani wrote: > > how can i find what date did i install my freebsd > box > > The date of the files in /rescu

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Giorgos Keramidas writes: GK> The 'separate file' is NOTES. This file is actually the complete GK> reference of options that the kernel supports, so it's not like the SMP GK> option is hidden or something. I must have a magic special version of FreeBSD: # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # grep SMP *

File System mounting prob

2005-01-12 Thread Emon
Hello everyone I am newbie using FreeBDS 5.3, & would apprecate some advice on the folling problems First Is there any way to mount a filesystem, as a generel user? so that everytime I put a cd in the CD player I dont have to su to root just to mount it! Second I can't find kppp(the

RE: UNIX-Based VPN Applications

2005-01-12 Thread Tom Connolly
Martin McCormick wrote: > I have been asked as to whether there are any VPN applications that > can run on UNIX clients using Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS. I think the > general idea is that they could tunnel in from outside of our campus > and receive an IP number on our network. > > There

FreeBSD 5.3 USB printing problem

2005-01-12 Thread timlee
I have a PC (Asus A7M266 motherboard, AMD / VIA chipset) with FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p4 (kernel is like GENERIC, but has eisa and a bunch of storage stuff removed, and sound and COMPAT_LINUX added -- no changes to USB stuff from GENERIC) with a USB printer (Brother HL-5050). USB printing to the same

Re: UNIX-Based VPN Applications

2005-01-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:19 am, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have been asked as to whether there are any VPN applications > that can run on UNIX clients using Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS. I > think the general idea is that they could tunnel in from outside of > our campus and receive an

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-01-12 18:41, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > GK> You need to enable SMP too, to allow the FreeBSD kernel to use the > GK> second (hyper-threaded) CPU. > > I found it, in a file called SMP. Why is the SMP option tucked away in > a separate file?

RELENG_4 IPX commit broke net/mars_nwe?

2005-01-12 Thread Igor B. Bykhalo
[Sorry, incidentally sent unfinished letter] [Cc'ing Boris Popov as maintainer] Greetings! Looks like the follwoing commit broke net/mars_nwe port on my RELENG_4 file server box: Edit src/sys/netipx/ipx.h Add delta 1.15.2.1 2005.01.02.13.00.51 rwatson First, after upgrading machine (buildwor

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Scott Bennett writes: SB> Well, no, not exactly. The dual-cored CPUs share certain resources SB> on the chip that are not shared in a multi-CPU situation, and that sharing SB> means certain operations have to be handled differently. An MP setup has SB> separate cache and TLB managment in ea

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

2005-01-12 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Giorgos Keramidas writes: GK> You need to enable SMP too, to allow the FreeBSD kernel to use the GK> second (hyper-threaded) CPU. I found it, in a file called SMP. Why is the SMP option tucked away in a separate file? I stuck this into the config and rebuilt the kernel. Seems to run fine. I see

RELENG_4 IPX commit broke net/mars_nwe?

2005-01-12 Thread Igor B. Bykhalo
[Cc'ing Boris Popov as maintainer] Greeings! On my RELENG_4 file server box the follwoing commit broke net/mars_nwe port: Edit src/sys/netipx/ipx.h Add delta 1.15.2.1 2005.01.02.13.00.51 rwatson First, after upgrading machine (buildworld, kernel, installworld), non-rebuilt nwserv didn't even

UNIX-Based VPN Applications

2005-01-12 Thread Martin McCormick
I have been asked as to whether there are any VPN applications that can run on UNIX clients using Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS. I think the general idea is that they could tunnel in from outside of our campus and receive an IP number on our network. There would probably be a UNIX server on t

Re: Mac/FreeBSD shared drive, which filesystem to choose

2005-01-12 Thread markzero
> I have an external firewire drive that I would like to use both with my > Powerbook (Mac OS X 10.3.7) and FreeBSD 5.3. > > Ideally I would like read/write access from both machines. Both OSs support UFS. Mac OS X gives you the option to format your drive as UFS on installation but recommends H

Rebooting after kernel panic

2005-01-12 Thread Nicolas
Hello, I run a small server under FreeBSD 5.3, but it's very unstable (kernel panics) and I don't have time to debug it. So I customized the GENERIC kernel by adding these options, in order to automatically reboot the server every time it panics (this is apparently NOT the default behaviour in

Mac/FreeBSD shared drive, which filesystem to choose

2005-01-12 Thread Timothy Luoma
I have an external firewire drive that I would like to use both with my Powerbook (Mac OS X 10.3.7) and FreeBSD 5.3. Ideally I would like read/write access from both machines. Is there a filesystem that both OSes can read? The only one I know of is FAT32, which (IIRC) isn't a good choice on lar

Re: Linksys WPC11 Wireless Card.

2005-01-12 Thread aksis
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 08:52 am, Walker, Michael wrote: > Hi > > I apologise for asking this, as I know for a fact this question has been > asked before, however when searching the archives, I am finding conflicting > answers. > I have a Linksys WPC11 Version 4 wireless notebook adapter, and am

Re: sendmail problem - Helo command rejected: Host not found

2005-01-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Srot BULL wrote: [ ... ] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (reason: 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Relay access denied) - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to vc.point.ne.jp.: DATA <<< 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Relay access

Re: Trouble starting MySQL

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 12 at 10:28, Eric F Crist said: >> >> mysql-4.1.7 >> installed from ports >> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE > > If you haven't changed your syslog.conf file, you should have a > /var/log/all.log. Take a look in there to see if you see anything related to > mysql. This is interesting. No I didn't

Re: Trouble starting MySQL

2005-01-12 Thread Eric F Crist
On Jan 12, 2005, at 5:46 AM, Colin J. Raven wrote: On Jan 12 at 05:36, Eric F Crist then said: On Jan 12, 2005, at 5:22 AM, Colin J. Raven wrote: I would check the /var/log/messages log file for anything related to mysql, in this case. There's a reason it won't start, and it'll be indicated ther

Re: Trouble starting MySQL [SOLVED] [CLOSED]

2005-01-12 Thread Colin J. Raven
Earlier today I said: >> Greetings all, >> I installed MySQL from ports (mysql-4.1.7) >> then tried to start it. Nothing doing - wo way. >> >> Starting it from /usr/loca/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh nothing happens. No >> error message is emitted, but no running instance of mysql either. > > You may ne

Re: Busniess Proposal?

2005-01-12 Thread Tm4528
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SMP question

2005-01-12 Thread Bob Ababurko
Hi all- I am wondering if it is possible to specify which processor that a process will use, on a multi-processor box. Where can I find this information if it is possible. Thanks, Bob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: Trouble starting MySQL

2005-01-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Colin J. Raven > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:30 AM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Trouble starting MySQL > > > Greetings all, > I installed MySQL from ports (mysql-4.1.7) > then tried to

Re: Which OS should we use?

2005-01-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Tuesday, January 11, 2005 05:48:41 PM -0800 sp0ng3b0b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm in the same boat. I've had mixed results with 5.3. I advise you to test it out for your needs. If your hardware and apps play well together, go for it. As a web, mysql and samba server, I've had no problems.

help on on the implemtation - SCSI enclosure services protocol

2005-01-12 Thread Reddy cmr
Hi, Currently, I am working on writing a application software for getting the information from FC RAID, which haiving 14 FC disks. I want to extract the RAID encosure info, such as power supply, temp and alarm status etc. I came to know that, these information can be extracted by sending the SCS

Re: Trouble starting MySQL

2005-01-12 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Colin, > Hey Nico, long time, no see! Happy New Year. Ah, indeed! It took a while, but now my brain said "click!". Same to you, thanks. Hope you are well (apart from the php/mysql problem) > I have *no* idea what to do next, none. As far as I can see, > phpinfo.php shows no sign of MySQL. Th

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