Re: virtual machine software

, which is free. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Web Site Mistype

Alexis Megas wrote: Hello, The page http://www.freebsd.org/java/dists/16.html has a date mistype (November 15, 2008). Thanks! freebsd-www@ is the mailing list which deals with errors on the FreeBSD web pages - I've cc'd them.

Re: Unable to reboot with 7.0 release candidates and -RELEASE on AMD64

a USB keyboard won't function until after FreeBSD has booted. -- Bruce -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 7.0

ernel as separate files. They don't hurt performance (unlike witness and invariants) and are useful in a few situations, one of which is if you ever get a panic. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: Unable to compile anything from ports

VIA C3 Nehemiah+RNG+AES (800.03-MHz 686-class CPU) That's a new revision of the C3 which supports SSE: 'c3-2' is a better CPUTYPE for it. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: X86 cpu without a FPU - Vortex86sx

ainly possible to get the userland built with FPU emulation but there's more work required in the kernel since the MATH_EMULATE/GPL_MATH_EMULATE options were removed in 2003. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: Virtualization using FreeBSD and AMD-V

by running code natively instead of having to interpret each instruction. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: JOSEF VESELY; www.freebsd.org access problem

those sites use IPv6. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Desktop Performance Tuning?

Dominic Fandrey wrote: Bruce Cran wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: disabling SMP, but it didn't help. There have been threads on the stable list about jerky mouse performance, which may be part of this, but I have really followed it closely. I'm also wondering whether this might be d

Re: Desktop Performance Tuning?

late 2007 that I only noticed when I started doing a lot of rebuilding under 7-stable. does it lag when doing disk I/O or just any case? I think it's disk I/O: even doing a cvsup makes the desktop start lagging on my Athlon XP UP system. -- Bruce

Re: VM Options

http://feanor.sssup.it/~fabio/freebsd/lkvm/ If that doesn't work then you could also try emulators/kqemu-kmod/ - while it doesn't take advantage of the VT or SVM features in modern CPUs, it allows Qemu to run a lot of code natively and so speeds things up quite a

Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset

one on the list have any experience with it? By the way, I'm going to run FreeBSD 7. I also want a cheap PCI/e NIC that works well with drivers back to FreeBSD-4 like my plain PCI bge and em NICs do. I doubt that any popular motherboard will have anything better than

Re: How manu swap ?

x RAM. Is that still valid on recent releases of FreeBSD? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Relayd (former hoststated) status for freebsd 7.0RC1

Alexandre Vieira wrote: Hello all, I remember that there was a port (net/hoststated) where I could install hoststated to use with PF. Anyone can shed a light on what is the status of this software implementation on 7.0? Perhaps ports/net/ifstated is the answer? BMS

Re: G5 Install

release? Thanks, Steve According to a recent post on ppc@ (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2007-December/002527.html) FreeBSD doesn't run on G5/PPC970 hardware. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: amd64 native boot loader?

mode and only get switched into 64-bit 'long mode' by the kernel later on. Since both i386 and amd64 start booting in the same way, there's no need for separate bootloaders. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

nd recursively clean each port - i.e run "make NOCLEANDEPENDS=yes distclean". -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: what is /dev/xpt0/

CAM transport layer driver - see xpt(4). -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Upper limit on make -j ?

than I think it is. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Upper limit on make -j ?

x7fffe7f0) at /usr/src/usr.bin/make/make.c:793 #7 0x0040a081 in main (argc=0, argv=0x0) at /usr/src/usr.bin/make/main.c:1273 -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Strange kernel log message

The kernel option I've seen mentioned before to at least make this less common is: options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128# Prevent printf output being interspersed. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Problems with zzz failing on FreeBSD 7/amd64

cpi_ReqSleepState: #if !defined(__i386__) /* This platform does not support acpi suspend/resume. */ return (ENOTSUPP); #endif I guess that's where the "Operation not supported" error is coming from, at least on amd64. -- Bruce Cran ___

Re: How to set maximum disk cache size?

x has a higher limit on the number of dirty pages it can have in memory before it writes them out to disk? -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How to set maximum disk cache size?

On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 01:12:48PM +0100, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > Bruce Cran ?rta: > >Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> Laszlo wrote: > >>>Hi All, > >>> > >>>Is there a way (sysctl?) to tell FreeBSD (6.2 RELEASE) how many > >>>memory can i

Re: How to set maximum disk cache size?

/2004-April/000785.html The information there is quite old now though so I don't know if things are done differently in 6.x. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: Socket programming question

ogram opened the connection and the file descriptor number of the socket. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: vim doesn't preserve the terminal content

- see http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-July/075665.html for more information. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &q

Re: nvidia display driver on amd64

be done before an amd64 nVidia driver can work. Should that page be linked to from the wiki homepage? It's somewhat difficult to find at the moment. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: Rebuilding world

terms of kernel code and compatibility with installed software. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU

x27;t display system (kernel) processes, which can take up lots of CPU time. To show these, run top with the "-S" flag. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Can't overwrite a particular swap partition

. Does setting kern.geom.debugflags=16 solve this? -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: First panic in 7.0-BETA1 on i386

rrent list was more relevant to RELENG_7 problems? It seems to be where most problems are being reported at least, and 8-CURRENT has only recently started diverging from 7. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: XScreenSaver

t this, when xscreensaver comes on it does suspend and everything as meant to... Any ideas? I'm thinking it's possibly a bug with mplayer? Regards Bruce Alcock On 10/17/07, Kelvin Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, October 17, 2007 08:48, Bruce Alcock wrote: >

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

le typically sizeof(short) == 2). I think short and int stay the same on both 32 and 64 bit platforms, while it's only long that gets bumped to 8 bytes. At least that seems to be what happens on FreeBSD amd64. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

e the correct size for variables. Your segv is because scanf was trying to put an int where it won't fit. You will get the same result if you go off the end of an array. -Derek It's well worth increasing the number of warnings enabled when writing C code, to catch any

4 clause BSD license in a.out.h

While looking through some header files I found a.out.h in /usr/include. If this header is still valid (can FreeBSD still be configured to handle a.out binaries?), is the 3rd clause still valid, or should it be removed? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd

Re: Rebuilding world

you want to be running 8-CURRENT? It's very very new and will probably break in many ways in the coming months. You almost certainly want to be running 7-BETA1 (from the RELENG_7 branch) which is current at BETA1 stage - HEAD recently changed from 7-CURRENT to bec

Re: mounting a uif dvd image

Bruce Cran wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have a uif dvd image that I want to mount how do I do this (or convert to ISO). You can do this by using mdconfig and mount_udf (which is called by 'mount'). First, create a md device: mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /path/to/dvd_image

Re: mounting a uif dvd image

mdX device, which you can then mount with: mount -t udf /dev/mdX /path/to/mount/dir -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: msttf?

User Roberth wrote: Is /usr/ports/chinese/msttf the right port of microsofts truetype fonts? It seems the msttf package was renamed some time ago - I believe the port you should install is /usr/ports/x11-fonts/webfonts -- Bruce ___ freebsd

Re: Two questions about UNIX(r) certification.

ner of the Unix trademark (sco if I am not mistaken) I'd imagine that the big reason that FreeBSD hasn't done this yet is: It costs a lot of money. Apparently The Open Group are in charge of UNIX certification - see http://www.opengroup.org/certification/ for details. -- Bruce

Re: www.freebsd.org won't load in IE 7.x in vista box.

ry running traceroute to check for routing problems to see where the problem is. -- Bruce Cran While his reply may not have been the most cordial that I have seen, it was nevertheless quite on point. I have used Vista and IE7 to connect to FBSD without incident. It therefore becomes evident that t

XScreenSaver

on in XScreenSaver for logging, so my question is what logging is he talking about and how do I use it? (he thought the mouse was moving ever so slightly every now and then, but this isn't the case since I unplugged my mouse last night and it still didn't suspend) Than

Logitech G15

- Forwarded message -- From: Bruce Alcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 14, 2007 9:49 PM Subject: Re: Logitech G15 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On 10/14/07, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 08:11:30PM +0200, Bruce Alcock w

Re: Logitech G15

On 10/14/07, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 08:11:30PM +0200, Bruce Alcock wrote: > > > > > It doesn't generate keysyms...hence the problem. Thanks, should've > mentioned > > that. Anyone got any ideas how to map

Re: Logitech G15

On 10/14/07, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 11:16:31AM +0200, Bruce Alcock wrote: > > Hi > > > > I own a Logitech G15 keyboard and although the standard keys work, none > of > > the multimedia or 'G' keys do

Logitech G15

eas? Even ways to go about writing a driver myself would be helpful. Thanks Bruce Alcock ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

features that need to be implemented before an amd64 nVidia driver will work - see http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests for more info. nVidia do want to create an amd64 driver, but they need the kernel work to be done first. -- Bruce ___ f

Re: hard drive testing...

ffline etc. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: zero copy tcp send

Wojciech Puchar wrote: i found sendfile(2) doing this. but the question - does normal write(2) doing this when sending from user process memory, not file? does memory have to be aligned special way,like to page boundary? Yes - see zero_copy(9) -- Bruce

Re: using the date command

Brian A. Seklecki wrote: To set time: $ sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org 29 Sep 23:48:31 ntpdate[9404]: adjust time server 66.250.45.2 offset 0.001289 sec ntpdate is deprecated, you should use "ntpd -q" instead if you want ntpd to set the time once then exit. From ntpdate(8): Note: The

Re: Hard drive RPM

is extra space isn't displayed in the "Avail" column of df, so when the disk is really full (i.e the root user has filled the disk) it will show negative values. The amount of space reserved can be changed using tunefs(8). -- Bruce Cran ___ fr

Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup

m? I think there's more going on however, since the driver doesn't seem to know about my card during bootup (it shows ) though it clearly does find it when starting Xorg. Going back to the nvidia-driver-96xx port appears to fix the problems, and that driver does know what nVidia car

Version of top included in FreeBSD

ge in a newer version, or will improvements continue to be made locally? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: DOH! ata_alloc_request failed!

On Tue Jul 31, 2007, Adam J Richardson wrote: > Bruce Caruthers wrote: > >> Um... should I be concerned? > > Hi Bruce, > > I've found wherever hard disks are doing anything suspicious, such as > operating properly, it's best to be paranoid. Take multiple co

Re: DOH! ata_alloc_request failed!

On Tue Jul 31, 2007, Bruce Caruthers wrote: > > Um... should I be concerned? > > Jul 31 02:29:26 arachne2 kernel: DOH! ata_alloc_request failed! > > I was in the process of copying all my files over > from my old server, but I didn't receive any errors > during the

DOH! ata_alloc_request failed!

Um... should I be concerned? Jul 31 02:29:26 arachne2 kernel: DOH! ata_alloc_request failed! I was in the process of copying all my files over from my old server, but I didn't receive any errors during the copies except for this in the dmesg and messages logs... (and, unfortunately, since I was

ICH8R and SATA drives at boot

After much googling and poring through the Intel site, I'm stumped, so I hope you don't mind my asking here, even though it is technically not a FreeBSD question, since this is before it even gets to the loader... My system: * Intel DG965WH mobo * Pentium 4 (631, HT, EM64T) 3GHz * FreeBSD 6.2R/a

Re: Can't burn cds

On Thu Jul 26, 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote: > Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. > [...] > > burncd -ef /dev/acd1 data > /home/pauls/Downloads/RedHat/RHEL4-U5-x86_64-ES-disc1.iso fixate > burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCWRITESPEED): Input/output error > > What the heck is going on? The devic

bootable rescue cd?

Hi, all. Given my "special-case" system (DG965WH), I am trying to make a custom boot CD based off the original 6.2-RELEASE/amd64 install disc in case I ever need to login to fix it (such as when I had to do a partial reinstall when I made a typo in one of the loader files). I have replaced /boot

Re: Intel G965 chipset? (solved)

rors. Also: * added hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" to /boot/device.hints to make the default boot have ACPI disabled Thanks to all, and hopefully this helps someone else avoid all the headaches! On Mon Jul 23, 2007, Bruce Caruthers wrote: > > Here's a followup, so anyone che

Re: Intel G965 chipset?

Here's a followup, so anyone checking the archives will know what to do... (and if it helps the group overall, even better) Much thanks to those who tried to help. As I was running a Pentium on an Intel board, it never occurred to me to even look at the amd64 variant, until I realized the one g

Re: Intel G965 chipset?

On Fri Jul 20, 2007, Bruce Caruthers wrote: > > On Fri Jul 20, 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > Garrett Cooper wrote: > > > Bruce Caruthers wrote: > > >> On Sat Jul 14, 2007, Antony Mawer wrote: > > >> > > >>> On 14/07/2007 8:07 AM

Re: Intel G965 chipset?

On Fri Jul 20, 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Garrett Cooper wrote: > > Bruce Caruthers wrote: > >> On Sat Jul 14, 2007, Antony Mawer wrote: > >> > >>> On 14/07/2007 8:07 AM, Bruce Caruthers wrote: > >>> ... > >>> > >>&g

Re: Intel G965 chipset?

On Sat Jul 14, 2007, Antony Mawer wrote: > On 14/07/2007 8:07 AM, Bruce Caruthers wrote: > ... > > === My Question: > > So, can I use an Intel motherboard with the 965 > > chipset? If not, what is the latest chipset I can > > use which will meet my needs? > >

Intel G965 chipset?

h 5.x or newer yet. Any major gotchas I should be aware of? Sorry for being long-winded. Just want to be clear on what my concerns are, so I don't waste anyone's time. :) Thanks! -bkc -- Bruce Caruthers http://www.BruceCaruthers.com/ ~~~

ftpd and filenames with curly brackets

nd: TYPE I <--- 200 Type set to I. command: SIZE guid_{1234567890}_file.txt <-- 550 guid_1234567890_file.txt: No such file or directory. Is there a way to enable it to deal with such filenames? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: dual monitors?

fgfs the 7600 is plenty fast anyway. Regards, Bruce On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:15 -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: > anyone out there running dual monitors in FreeBSD? if so, what is your > setup? > single display adapter/2 heads, or 2 seperate adapters? > > i have a nvidia 7300 GS with 2

Re: Why is dmidecode failing?

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:15:16AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Apr 18), Bruce Burden said: > > > > ===> Installing for hal-0.5.8.20070403 > > ===> hal-0.5.8.20070403 depends on file: /usr/local/share/pciids/pci.ids > > - found > > ==

Why is dmidecode failing?

y hal does not think dmidecode is not installed, when obviously it is. Suggestions? I did not see any thing in /usr/ports/UPDATING, and the tidbits on hald do not seem to apply. pkgdb -F does not think anything is wrong...

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

64K-blocks then you would have to worry about the contiguous block sizes being a mixture of 128K and much smaller blocks, with the much smaller blocks (actually, more the seeks across gaps to get to the smaller blocks) being very inefficient. Bruce ___ fr

Re: PXEboot fails at kernel (text) loading

Rob wrote: Is it OK to have a double kernel read at the last two lines? Any idea what's wrong here or what I could do to further test what the actual problem is? Argh. I had this same problem as recently as October, but I can't remember exactly what caused this. When I went back and re-did thin

newbie & setup

Hi — In setting up FreeBSD 6.1, i don't know what group or member groups to choose. Thank you - Bruce Greene Macs Plus 410 764-8599 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.macsplus.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

FreeBSD user groups?

Is there anyone using FreeBSD in Perth, WA, Australia? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Newbie questions: 2 of a few.

OS I could name)? Question 2: How do I get FreeBSD to automount a USB drive? I have a Kingston DataTraveller 128MB usb drive. Thanks in advance. Regards, Bruce. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: How to find out my systems DDR RAM speed?

BIOS screens and RAM chips are tough to see from a distance :) The program memtest86+ http://www.memtest.org/ shows the information you seek. Unfortunately, as far as I know, it must be run from a boot disk, though since it is open source, it perhaps could be modified to run under FreeBSD. Also,

Re: very big files on cd9660 file system

e below the limit, which happens automatically for the non-multi-session case only. See revs.1.77 and 1.99 for other bugs caused by isodirino(). Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

installing ports/permission denied

as root I continually receive permission denied when attempting to veiw ports collection.When I try to install again it says cannot find.I try using commands in the handbook very few of which are found by system.My version is 5.3 with total port collection(supposedly installed,the install sreen

Re: RAID Cards

27;t tried to boot my RAID, it only contains user directories. When the Adaptec 3210S POST screen comes up, does it should one logical disk? I trust you don't have any of the ear-piercing alarms going off when the card performs its POST checks.

Re: RAID Cards

ave when I added OPTION ASR_TOOLS to the kernel. What is option 6 in the boot screen? Bruce -- "I like bad!" Bruce Burden

Re: Connecting My ADSL MODEM To My FreeBSD Pc.

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 08:59:38AM -0400, Stephan Weaver wrote: > My Isp Uses PPPoA, i used the instructions from the handbook; > Using 'mpd'. > I set the ADSL router in 'bridge' mode and connect the Ethernet cable > from the Dsl Router/Modem to my FreeBSD Firewall. ON the Interface vr0. > But i ha

Re: Migration Guide

ed. Some suitably motivated doc committer could update them if necessary and bring them back. Note that the Migration Guide was intended to address concerns of users upgrading from 4.X to 5.X. This is implied in its abstract and is specifically stated in the introduction. Bruce. > >On

re: Had to revert from 5.3 to 4.11

Ted Mittelstaedt said... >Bruce, > > Please do us a favor, these kinds of reports basically go into the >bit bucket when posted to the freebsd-questions mailing list. > > If you would be so kind, please run send-pr on your 4.11 systems >and send what your seeing in as a

root: /etc/rc: WARNING: Setting entropy source to blocking mode

I can't get ssh to work Does this have anything to do with it? root: /etc/rc: WARNING: Setting entropy source to blocking mode Thanks, Bruce Rohde 713-818-1381 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Had to revert from 5.3 to 4.11

il and web servers. nfs server is 4.7 Same hardware in all cases, dual xeon supermicro. At a later time we will invest further diagnostic effort. Sorry for the lack of specifics. -- Bruce Campbell Manager, Science Computing CPH-2374B University of Waterloo (519)888-456

FTP server problem

Hi there, just trying to install FreeBSD, I am in the install section and can seemingly login to an ftp server. However everyone I try just brings me back to the ftp server listing. Any help would be great. Thanks Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: flock failure on NFS from 5.3 client to 4.7 server

nable="YES" # Run the portmapper service and on the server: rpc_lockd_enable="YES" # Run NFS rpc.lockd (*broken!*) if nfs_server. rpc_statd_enable="YES" # Run NFS rpc.statd if nfs_server (or NO). -- Bruce Campbell Engineering Comput

flock failure on NFS from 5.3 client to 4.7 server

On our NFS server, rpc.statd is running, but rpc.lockd wasn't. Started it, still no worky. Killed it, other 4.7 clients still flock fine. Any suggestions for a fix or workaround so "vacation" works (which depends on flock) ? Thanks, -- Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow - traced to getpwnam maybe ?

Quoting Bruce Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ... > Well, somewhat unbelievably, copying a getpwent.c from 4.7 > and remaking libc on 5.3 with it worked. Load average > has gone from 70 to 2. > One of my co-workers has found a less kludgey workaround for the high load prob

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow - traced to getpwnam maybe ?

Quoting Bruce Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Bruce Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:27:27PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > I wrote a small program: > > > > > > > > #inclu

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow - traced to getpwnam maybe ?

Quoting Bruce Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:27:27PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > > > > I wrote a small program: > > > > > > #include > > > #include > > > > >

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow - traced to getpwnam maybe ?

Quoting Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:27:27PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > > I wrote a small program: > > > > #include > > #include > > > > main( int argc, char *argv[] ) > > { > > get

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow - traced to getpwnam maybe ?

fine on the same hardware, just it has a small /etc/master.passwd which may explain that systems success to date. Thank you to everyone who sent suggestions. -- Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing CPH-2374B University of Waterloo (519)888-4567 ext

Re: New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow...

Quoting Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:38:48PM -0500, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > > > We upgraded from a dual 1.66GHz AMD running FreeBSD 4.7 > > and a dual 3GHz Xeon running FreeBSD 5.3 and the new server > > is painfully slow

New FreeBSD 5.3 e-mail server extremely slow...

57422 908916},0x0)= 0 (0x0) setitimer(0,{0 0, 600 0},{0 0, 0 0}) = 0 (0x0) top shows 80-90% "system" activity. About to revert to our old box and maybe nfs mount /var/mail to make it less painless. Any suggestions ? -- Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing CPH-2

apparent change in php4 port build procedure...

e-ftp \ But I liked the old menu system, as it saved me figuring out the configure args. Was there a reason to move away from that, or is there a new mechanism I am not aware of ? Thanks, -- Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing CPH-2374B University of Waterloo (519)888-4567 ext

Re: Status of high-speed usb drivers

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:43:13AM -0500, Davon Shire wrote: > That said, I'd very much like to know where on the horizon do USB 2.0 > highspeed drivers sit? I've seen that current is now into 6.0 but from what > I've read USB functionality is not even on the agenda. Short answer: It doesn't work

Re: Get multicast addresses from interface

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 08:01:49AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 05:44:57PM +0400, Grigory Klyuchnikov wrote: > > How can a user process get IPv6 multicast addresses of ethernet > > interfaces? I have FreeBSD 5.2.1 and get interface addresses > > via ioctl(SIOCGIFCONF) or sys

vinum software raid as boot drive

We are currently trying to set up server with software raid using vinum on 5.3. We plan to use it as a Mirrored root filesystem So far we have followed Greg Lehey's instructions from http://www.daemonnews.org/22/vinum.html and the handbook on vinum: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-

Hacker Scans - Advice requested

impairing the services provided by the operating system. Many thanks Mike Bruce ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

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