Re: (SOLVED) 5.4RELEASE: problem with my ST34311A UDMA666 controller

2005-05-28 Thread David Adam
Subhro, On Sat, 28 May 2005, Subhro wrote: > This is not something new or unexpected. Windows are Linux run happily > on a lot of garbage grade hardware. But FreeBSD is very fussy about > hardware. Thats the reason why a Linux box CAN create strange situations > due to hardware. But a FreeBSD box

Re: problems with ASR card/5.4

2005-05-28 Thread Bruce Burden
Hi Doug, On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 01:14:51PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2005, Bruce Burden wrote: > > > >Hi Doug, > > > > well, pulling cards demonstrated where the problem lie, but it > >was not a hardware problem. By chance, I happened upon the "options > >A

Re: Abort rap from cron

2005-05-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 10:54:16PM +0200, K?vesd?n G?bor wrote: > It is a single processor system. Those cron scripts are to verify > whether my processes are run. So, there isn't such simultaneous runs. > They are small scripts, that send a SIGCHLD to the processes they are > responsible for, a

minor change to /etc/rc.d/var

2005-05-28 Thread Boris Samorodov
Hi! What do you think in minor change to /etc/rc.d/var: --- var.origSun May 29 01:05:47 2005 +++ var Sun May 29 01:06:12 2005 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ # # PROVIDE: var -# REQUIRE: mountcritlocal +# REQUIRE: mountcritremote . /etc/rc.subr If there are no NFS mountpoints at /etc/fstab, both

Re: Abort rap from cron

2005-05-28 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
It is a single processor system. Those cron scripts are to verify whether my processes are run. So, there isn't such simultaneous runs. They are small scripts, that send a SIGCHLD to the processes they are responsible for, and if they don't find the processes running, they restarts them. I've b

clone_root [a followup to conf/62417]

2005-05-28 Thread Boris Samorodov
Hi! This PR is about one year old. I've just submit a patch to FreeBSD-5.4-RELEASE, which worked just fine for me. Could anybody look at this PR? The patch is very simple but helpful: --- clone_root.orig Sat May 28 18:20:09 2005 +++ clone_root Sun May 29 00:12:28 2005 @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ SY

Re: Why Move . . .

2005-05-28 Thread Claus Guttesen
> Im currently running fedora core 2. I was informed about this list by a > friend running freebsd. Now what I wanted to ask is whether any one of you > has used any redhat flavours, if so, what is the distinct advantage of > moving to freebsd ( i have never used it), i cant just migrate because th

[releng_5 tinderbox] failure on i386/i386

2005-05-28 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2005-05-28 18:15:55 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2005-05-28 18:15:55 - starting RELENG_5 tinderbox run for i386/i386 TB --- 2005-05-28 18:15:55 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2005-05-28 18:16:30 - checking out the source tree TB --- 2005-05-28 18:16:30 - cd

[releng_5 tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2005-05-28 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2005-05-28 16:33:16 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2005-05-28 16:33:16 - starting RELENG_5 tinderbox run for amd64/amd64 TB --- 2005-05-28 16:33:16 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2005-05-28 16:33:47 - checking out the source tree TB --- 2005-05-28 16:33:47 - c

Re: (SOLVED) 5.4RELEASE: problem with my ST34311A UDMA666 controller

2005-05-28 Thread Subhro
On 5/28/2005 22:15, Remi Degruson wrote: Hello, my problem was due to a bad ide cable. I replace it and all work well. I am surprised , this cable was ok with linux. This is not something new or unexpected. Windows are Linux run happily on a lot of garbage grade hardware. But FreeBSD is ve

Re: Abort rap from cron

2005-05-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 07:10:58PM +0200, K?vesd?n G?bor wrote: > Hello, > > since I upgraded to 5.3-p15 from 5.3 the cron daemon sometimes send me > an e-mail, that contains "Abort trap". Nothing seems to go wrong anyway, > but it might be a source of troubles, if my cron scripts can't run norm

Re: Why Move . . .

2005-05-28 Thread Kurt Buff
Phares Kariuki wrote: > Hi, > > Im currently running fedora core 2. I was informed about this list by a > friend running freebsd. Now what I wanted to ask is whether any one of you > has used any redhat flavours, if so, what is the distinct advantage of > moving to freebsd ( i have never used i

Abort rap from cron

2005-05-28 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Hello, since I upgraded to 5.3-p15 from 5.3 the cron daemon sometimes send me an e-mail, that contains "Abort trap". Nothing seems to go wrong anyway, but it might be a source of troubles, if my cron scripts can't run normally. Do You know anything about this effect? Cheers, Gábor Kövesdán _

Re:(SOLVED) 5.4RELEASE: problem with my ST34311A UDMA666 controller

2005-05-28 Thread Remi Degruson
Hello, my problem was due to a bad ide cable. I replace it and all work well. I am surprised , this cable was ok with linux. On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 06:03:01PM +0200, Remi Degruson wrote: > Hello, > > On one of my computers, the 5.4 RELEASE bootonly disc don't want to write on > my hdd. > The

[releng_5 tinderbox] failure on alpha/alpha

2005-05-28 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2005-05-28 15:17:55 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2005-05-28 15:17:55 - starting RELENG_5 tinderbox run for alpha/alpha TB --- 2005-05-28 15:17:55 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2005-05-28 15:18:24 - checking out the source tree TB --- 2005-05-28 15:18:24 - c

OT: Postmaster

2005-05-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
Please don't send mailing list messages to postmaster. Many of us filter that as a magic address and therefore find spurious messages outside of where they're supposed to be. Thanks! pgpaIASkkjKSU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why Move . . .

2005-05-28 Thread Bashar
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Sat, 28 May 2005 11:43:14 +0300 Phares Kariuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Im currently running fedora core 2. I was informed about this list by a friend running freebsd. Now what I wanted to ask is whether any one of you has used any redhat flavours, if so, wh

Re: Weird NFS problems

2005-05-28 Thread Jon Dama
Oh, something else to try: I checked through my notes and discovered that I had gotten UDP to work in a similar configuration before. What I did was bind the IP address to fxp0 instead of em0. By doing this, the kernel seems to send the data at a pace suitable for the slow interface. -Jon On

Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches

2005-05-28 Thread Matthias Buelow
Scott Long wrote: Yeah, and what I'm trying to do is smooth the bumps for the long term. The 4.x->5.x transition was simply a gigantic mess for users, and it was largely a function of it being 4+ years in the making. It still _is_ a gigantic mess. My hosted 5.3-stable server just crapped it

[5.4-STABLE] SATA & IDE ... don't co-exist on same machine?

2005-05-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Today, I decided to merge two machines into one ... faster CPU, double the RAM, etc ... but, seem to having a problem when trying to enable the SATA drives ... Namely, there are 4 drives in this box .. two IDE (ad0 and ad1) and two SATA (ad2 and ad3) ... When I try and boot with just the 2

Re: Romanian BitDefender for FreeBSD Mail Servers line

2005-05-28 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sat, 28 May 2005 10:29:17 +0300 Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Here are some links about the BitDefender for FreeBSD Mail Servers line. > > http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/products.php?p_id=52 > > ftp://ftp.bitdefender.com/pub/freebsd/mailserver/RELEASE_NOTES > > As a s

[releng_5 tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2005-05-28 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2005-05-27 17:42:52 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2005-05-27 17:42:52 - starting RELENG_5 tinderbox run for amd64/amd64 TB --- 2005-05-27 17:42:52 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2005-05-27 17:43:30 - checking out the source tree TB --- 2005-05-27 17:43:30 - c

Re: wi0 is always status: no carrier

2005-05-28 Thread John Baldwin
On Sunday 22 May 2005 06:24 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Friday 20 May 2005 10:20 pm, John Baldwin wrote: > > I have a patch to make the PIR code trust the BIOS in this case over the > > $PIR table that you can test if you want. Actually, I committed the > > patch finally a while ago. It is rev

Romanian BitDefender for FreeBSD Mail Servers line

2005-05-28 Thread Daniel
Hi all, Here are some links about the BitDefender for FreeBSD Mail Servers line. http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/products.php?p_id=52 ftp://ftp.bitdefender.com/pub/freebsd/mailserver/RELEASE_NOTES As a side note, BitDefender is a Romanian brand/product. It is developed by Softwin. The link

Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches

2005-05-28 Thread Andy Fawcett
On Friday 27 May 2005 23:22, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Scott Long wrote: > > Yeah, and what I'm trying to do is smooth the bumps for the long > > term. The 4.x->5.x transition was simply a gigantic mess for users, > > and it was largely a function of it being 4+ years in the making. > > It still _is

Re: Why Move . . .

2005-05-28 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Sat, 28 May 2005 11:43:14 +0300 Phares Kariuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im currently running fedora core 2. I was informed about this list by > a friend running freebsd. Now what I wanted to ask is whether any one > of you has used any redhat flavours, if so, what is the distinct > advant

[releng_5 tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64

2005-05-28 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2005-05-27 23:38:56 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2005-05-27 23:38:56 - starting RELENG_5 tinderbox run for sparc64/sparc64 TB --- 2005-05-27 23:38:56 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2005-05-27 23:39:20 - checking out the source tree TB --- 2005-05-27 23:39:20

5.4-panic

2005-05-28 Thread Eirik Øverby
Hi folks, I have sinned, I have forgotten to configure a dump device. I do have a debug kernel compiled though (I think), so maybe someone can help me figure out what's happening here. Nothing in particular going on, server has been up for a few weeks. Dual opteron machine, running FreeBS

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-28 Thread Arjan Van Leeuwen
On 5/26/05, Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Others don't see this though, and in other cases it was *definitively > >> proven* to be caused by the issue I mentioned. I'll have to think > >> more about what to try next..thanks for running the tests. > > > > Perhaps it's something

Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches

2005-05-28 Thread Matthias Buelow
Scott Long wrote: No, 4.x is stale enough. If you need help debugging your computer, please let me know and I will personally fix it for you. Sorry for letting some steam out.. I guess I shouldn't answer directly after a crash. Frankly, I don't know what caused it, so just ignore my rant.

Why Move . . .

2005-05-28 Thread Phares Kariuki
Hi, Im currently running fedora core 2. I was informed about this list by a friend running freebsd. Now what I wanted to ask is whether any one of you has used any redhat flavours, if so, what is the distinct advantage of moving to freebsd ( i have never used it), i cant just migrate because th

Re: wi0 is always status: no carrier

2005-05-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 27 May 2005 02:48 pm, you wrote: > The patch should change the IRQ numbers and also print out a line about how > it is trusting your BIOS over the $PIR, so I think you didn't backport the > patch correctly or boot the patched kernel somehow. Here's what I did: 1) Install 5.4 to an empt

Re: ATA Timeouts

2005-05-28 Thread Robert Backhaus
> I temporarily moved the disk to a recent 5.4 desktop machine equipped > with the same chipset and the timeouts stopped, so it appears that the > problem is not with the disk. So the problem exists on 5.S and not on 5.4-RELEASE? or is it vice versa? ___

Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches

2005-05-28 Thread Scott Long
Matthias Buelow wrote: Scott Long wrote: Yeah, and what I'm trying to do is smooth the bumps for the long term. The 4.x->5.x transition was simply a gigantic mess for users, and it was largely a function of it being 4+ years in the making. It still _is_ a gigantic mess. My hosted 5.3-stab

[releng_5 tinderbox] failure on i386/i386

2005-05-28 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2005-05-27 19:25:14 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2005-05-27 19:25:14 - starting RELENG_5 tinderbox run for i386/i386 TB --- 2005-05-27 19:25:14 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2005-05-27 19:25:55 - checking out the source tree TB --- 2005-05-27 19:25:55 - cd

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 Dropping off Network

2005-05-28 Thread Chris
On 5/27/05, Jovan Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am experiencing problems keeping FreeBSD 5.4 connected. I have uptimes of > 5 or 6 days - sometimes 10 or 11, then, without freezing the machine > totally, it stops responding to network traffic. I get DOS attacked every > once and a while and m

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 Dropping off Network

2005-05-28 Thread Xin LI
Hi, Jovan, 在 2005-05-27五的 13:16 -0400,Jovan Ross写道: > I am experiencing problems keeping FreeBSD 5.4 connected. I have uptimes of > 5 or 6 days - sometimes 10 or 11, then, without freezing the machine > totally, it stops responding to network traffic. I get DOS attacked every > once and a while

Re: [5.4-STABLE] SATA & IDE ... don't co-exist on same machine?

2005-05-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Ignore ... just figured it out ... had UDMA turned off for those drives in the BIOS :( Turned it back on, and all four drives come up as expected again ... Thanks ... On Sat, 28 May 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Today, I decided to merge two machines into one ... faster CPU, double the

[releng_5 tinderbox] failure on ia64/ia64

2005-05-28 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2005-05-27 22:05:15 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2005-05-27 22:05:15 - starting RELENG_5 tinderbox run for ia64/ia64 TB --- 2005-05-27 22:05:15 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2005-05-27 22:05:40 - checking out the source tree TB --- 2005-05-27 22:05:40 - cd

Re: Weird NFS problems

2005-05-28 Thread Jon Dama
Oh, something else to try: I checked through my notes and discovered that I had gotten UDP to work in a similar configuration before. What I did was bind the IP address to fxp0 instead of em0. By doing this, the kernel seems to send the data at a pace suitable for the slow interface. -Jon On

[releng_5 tinderbox] failure on i386/pc98

2005-05-28 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2005-05-27 20:47:12 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2005-05-27 20:47:12 - starting RELENG_5 tinderbox run for i386/pc98 TB --- 2005-05-27 20:47:12 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2005-05-27 20:47:43 - checking out the source tree TB --- 2005-05-27 20:47:43 - cd

[releng_5 tinderbox] failure on alpha/alpha

2005-05-28 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2005-05-27 16:27:09 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2005-05-27 16:27:09 - starting RELENG_5 tinderbox run for alpha/alpha TB --- 2005-05-27 16:27:09 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2005-05-27 16:27:40 - checking out the source tree TB --- 2005-05-27 16:27:40 - c