Resolving Perl 'make test' Errors?

2006-01-20 Thread David Marshall
We're running perl 5.8.7_2 (from ports), with a mix of modules installed via ports and CPAN, all on a 6.0-STABLE machine. Someone tried to install WWW::Mechanize from CPAN, and when it tried to do a 'make test', there was an error. If I build the module in ports and go into the work directory

Re: Best Way to Mount a File-Backed Memory Disk at Boot-Time?

2005-11-08 Thread David Marshall
Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:16 PM 10/9/2005, David Marshall wrote: Hi, I've got a system with a file-backed memory disk that needs to be run through mdconfig and then mounted at boot-time? What's the best way to do this? Is putting a script into /usr/local/etc/rc.d the best? make

How to Mount NFS Automatically After Boot-Time?

2005-10-11 Thread David Marshall
We have several servers that mount from an NFS server for a lot of reading and writing. We typically have this mount listed in /etc/fstab. If one of these servers reboots when the NFS server is offline, it hangs in single-user mode until the NFS server comes back online. We have tried usiing

Re: How to Mount NFS Automatically After Boot-Time?

2005-10-11 Thread David Marshall
Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Marshall wrote: We have several servers that mount from an NFS server for a lot of reading and writing. We typically have this mount listed in /etc/fstab. If one of these servers reboots when the NFS server is offline, it hangs in single-user mode

mkstemp on NFS Mount?

2005-10-10 Thread David Marshall
I've read mixed opinions on whether it's feasible to be doing msktemp on an NFS-mounted filesystem. Is it possible to do this? I use File::Temp to use mkstemp, but it's all the same, I get error messages such as: Error in tempfile() using /mnt/.X: Could not create temp file /mnt/.hkATa:

Best Way to Mount a File-Backed Memory Disk at Boot-Time?

2005-10-09 Thread David Marshall
Hi, I've got a system with a file-backed memory disk that needs to be run through mdconfig and then mounted at boot-time? What's the best way to do this? Is putting a script into /usr/local/etc/rc.d the best? TIA! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

File-Backed Memory Disks: Performance and Manipulation

2005-09-14 Thread David Marshall
Hi, Scenario: We have millions of little (almost all 10 kB), about 30 GB total. It takes 24 hours to either tar them up or then untar them. It finally occured to us to put them into a file-backed memory disk. Questions: 1. How does the performance of a file-backed memory disk change as it

NTP: Driving Me Nuts

2005-06-12 Thread David Marshall
I'm having an awful time trying to get NTP working on some new servers. Consider three machines: jeffy: my home machine, runs 5.4 with a very sleek kernel, sits behind a router. web1: one of the new servers, running 5.4-p2 with a kernel configuration that *only* has options INET6 commented out:

SOLVED: NTP: Driving Me Nuts

2005-06-12 Thread David Marshall
had. -- Forwarded message -- From: David Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jun 11, 2005 11:37 PM Subject: NTP: Driving Me Nuts To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I'm having an awful time trying to get NTP working on some new servers. [snip

AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES: Is BIOS Update the First Step?

2005-05-30 Thread David Marshall
Hi, My boss just put a new server in our colo. It has a Tyan Thunder K8SR motherboard with 2 Opterons. When I boot an SMP kernel, dmesg.boot includes the following: CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 (1991.88-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0xf58 Stepping = 8

Multiple Apaches

2005-05-17 Thread David Marshall
Hi all, My boss has finally seen the light, and we're migrating from a cobbled-together Linux box to FreeBSD very soon. In the four months I've been working for him, I have spent more time fiddling with our Linux servers than I spent in 4 years running FreeBSD on a number of servers. On one of