Re: filling up UDP socket buffers like mad

2006-03-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
Michael W. Lucas wrote: Hi, Running FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE as a DNS, dhcp, and syslog server. I'm having trouble with DNS, DHCP, and syslogd locking up, and I think I've found what they all share in common. During the lockups, the box starts dropping UDP due to full socket buffers. I have a

Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous

2006-03-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
Oliver Iberien wrote: > I have never been on a list from which I have received as much help as this > one, which raises a question for me. I would like to thank the people who > post questions to my answers, such as the fellow below, but don't want to > spam people's inboxes and/or the with tha

what is going on??

2006-03-24 Thread Jonathan Horne
last night i took down my fedora sever to migrate it to freebsd 6.0. ive done numerous tests on dev boxes in the past weeks getting ready for this event, and they were all successful test installs. i had all my services down and i knew what i was supposed to be doing. however, when i get to firs

Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous

2006-03-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jonathan Horne wrote: im fond of the "next time im in [your town] ill stop off and buy you a beer!" :) jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail t

Re: what is going on??

2006-03-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jonathan Horne wrote: last night i took down my fedora sever to migrate it to freebsd 6.0. ive done numerous tests on dev boxes in the past weeks getting ready for this event, and they were all successful test installs. i had all my services down and i knew what i was supposed to be doing. ho

Re: what is going on??

2006-03-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:10:04AM -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote: > last night i took down my fedora sever to migrate it to freebsd 6.0. ive > done numerous tests on dev boxes in the past weeks getting ready for this > event, and they were all successful test installs. i had all my services > down

Re: what is going on??

2006-03-24 Thread Joseph Vella
On Friday 24 March 2006 16:47, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:10:04AM -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote: > > last night i took down my fedora sever to migrate it to freebsd 6.0. ive > > done numerous tests on dev boxes in the past weeks getting ready for this > > event, and they were

Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous

2006-03-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > im fond of the "next time im in [your town] ill stop off and buy you a > beer!" It gets the point across too. jerry > :) > > jonathan > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Cups startup problem on NFS client (w/resolution)

2006-03-24 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
This afternoon I had an interesting problem. Cups failed to startup on my machine and threw the error: cupsd: Child exited with status 48 or somesuch. The short story is that rpc.statd had grabbed port 631 on my machine and that blocked cups from working. Normally this would be harmless exce

Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous

2006-03-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 04:30:02PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Jonathan Horne wrote: > > >im fond of the "next time im in [your town] ill stop off and buy you a > >beer!" > > > >:) > > > >jonathan > > > > > That is an awesome way to do things. Gotta love beer-funded > programming/support :).

TCP delayed acks not being delayed?

2006-03-24 Thread RW
I have a 1MB/0.25Mb ADSL connection and have an IPFW rule to prioritize outgoing empty acks. If I download a single file with kget at 100 kbytes/s, I see that the rule gets hit at a rate of 50/s: ie a little under 1 empty-ack per incoming packet. I have: net.inet.tcp.delacktime: 100 net.inet

Re: portmanager configuration and stunnel options

2006-03-24 Thread RW
On Friday 24 March 2006 17:13, Noah wrote: > Hi there, > > I am trying to figure out the proper options and configuration syntax for > the portmanager configuration file - pm-020.conf . I cant figure out what > the proper stunnel switches to automatically keep the stunnel GID and UID. > At hte m

Re: Fwd: Re: Gnucash takes 5+ minutes to load

2006-03-24 Thread Eric Schuele
Oliver Iberien wrote: Here is an answered question from elsewhere which I am posting here, FYI... A solution is available here: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=104080+0+current/freebsd-hackers In short: Set libltdl_cv_sys_dlopen_deplibs=yes in the environment before building guil

Re: crontab doesn't work

2006-03-24 Thread RW
On Friday 24 March 2006 21:52, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > 3. Reasoning: It appears that you have modified /etc/crontab. > In BSD-land, you usually want to use the "root" crontab (which > is under /var/cron/tabs/root) or your personal account > crontab (/var/cron/tabs/username) to do cron work. What'

Re: TCP delayed acks not being delayed?

2006-03-24 Thread RW
On Saturday 25 March 2006 02:09, RW wrote: > I have a 1MB/0.25Mb ADSL connection and have an IPFW rule to prioritize > outgoing empty acks. If I download a single file with kget at 100 kbytes/s, > I see that the rule gets hit at a rate of 50/s: ie a little under 1 > empty-ack per incoming packet.

Re: Fwd: Re: Gnucash takes 5+ minutes to load

2006-03-24 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Friday 24 March 2006 18:22, you wrote: > Oliver Iberien wrote: > > Here is an answered question from elsewhere which I am posting here, > > FYI... > > A solution is available here: > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=104080+0+current/freebsd-hacke >rs > > In short: > Set libltdl_cv_sy

Re: what is going on??

2006-03-24 Thread Eric Schuele
Jonathan Horne wrote: last night i took down my fedora sever to migrate it to freebsd 6.0. ive done numerous tests on dev boxes in the past weeks getting ready for this event, and they were all successful test installs. i had all my services down and i knew what i was supposed to be doing. how

Re: Fwd: Re: Gnucash takes 5+ minutes to load

2006-03-24 Thread Eric Schuele
Oliver Iberien wrote: On Friday 24 March 2006 18:22, you wrote: Oliver Iberien wrote: Here is an answered question from elsewhere which I am posting here, FYI... A solution is available here: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=104080+0+current/freebsd-hacke rs In short: Set libltdl_

Re: Remote Single User Mode?

2006-03-24 Thread Chris
On 23/03/06, Chris Maness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Schultz wrote: > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:11:48AM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: > >>> I administer this box by remote. > >> > >> Look into setting up a serial console; this is the "remote single user > >> mode" y

RE: what is going on??

2006-03-24 Thread Jonathan Horne
Thanks for the replies everyone. It turned out to be partially ipv6, partially the ipfw on my pfsense firewall. Ultimately, the hangup was in sendmail, unable to start. Ipv6 messages in the logevel 20 maillogs. However, during all my troubles, I was always able to resolve ftp.freebsd.org (I don

[OT] What's in a name? FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1

2006-03-24 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi all, I recently built 6-STABLE and I was wondering what the #0 and #1 refer to in the uname FreeBSD dwpc.dwlabs.ca 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri Mar 24 19:34:58 AST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DWPC-200603230410 i386 --Duane Whitty _

Re: what is going on??

2006-03-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jonathan Horne wrote: Thanks for the replies everyone. It turned out to be partially ipv6, partially the ipfw on my pfsense firewall. Ultimately, the hangup was in sendmail, unable to start. Ipv6 messages in the logevel 20 maillogs. However, during all my troubles, I was always able to resol

Re: [OT] What's in a name? FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1

2006-03-24 Thread Chris Hill
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Duane Whitty wrote: I recently built 6-STABLE and I was wondering what the #0 and #1 refer to in the uname FreeBSD dwpc.dwlabs.ca 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri Mar 24 19:34:58 AST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DWPC-200603230410 i386 I think

em device on 4.x: ifconfig alias issue

2006-03-24 Thread Marc G. Fournier
'k, I thought I had this licked, but apparently I'm still missign something ... When I alias a new IP onto an em device running on a 4-STABLE server (I'm in the process of moving to 6.x, haven't gotten to this server yet), for some reason, it isn't seeing appropriate 'arp' messages, so the u

Re: [OT] What's in a name? FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1

2006-03-24 Thread Duane Whitty
Chris Hill wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Duane Whitty wrote: I recently built 6-STABLE and I was wondering what the #0 and #1 refer to in the uname FreeBSD dwpc.dwlabs.ca 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri Mar 24 19:34:58 AST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DWPC-20060323

Re: [OT] What's in a name? FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1

2006-03-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 3/24/06, Duane Whitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Hill wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Duane Whitty wrote: > > > >> I recently built 6-STABLE and I was wondering what > >> the #0 and #1 refer to in the uname > >> > >> FreeBSD dwpc.dwlabs.ca 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri >

Re: Fwd: Re: Gnucash takes 5+ minutes to load

2006-03-24 Thread Oliver Iberien
Thanks very much for this. This is very thorough, leaving me practically no possible means of screwing up. Oliver On Friday 24 March 2006 18:55, Eric Schuele wrote: > Oliver Iberien wrote: > > On Friday 24 March 2006 18:22, you wrote: > >> Oliver Iberien wrote: > >>> Here is an answered questio

Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous

2006-03-24 Thread Oliver Iberien
I've posted questions to the linux users' groups for SuSE and Mandriva during my years as a linux desktop user. They are largely composed of posts by my fellow amateur enthusiasts, whose knowledge does not go very deep. This list's base seems to be IT professionals who are happy to help non-comp

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