Re: urgent help

2004-12-27 Thread Bill Moran
should cause things to panic, unless you did the upgrade process improperly. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-19 Thread Bill Moran
f you're unable to complete those steps, then you may be better off reinstalling and trying again - write it off as part of the learning process. There are ways to restore your system if you've made this mistake and the above doesn't

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-19 Thread Bill Moran
he previous paragraphs). On a production system, you should have a serial terminal connected so you can go to single-user mode remotely to do updates. There are fairly inexpensive serial terminal boxes available from a number of vendors, and if you have a spare machine available, you can always hook i

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-19 Thread Bill Moran
Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > The system can not replace programs that are in use, > > This is generally not the case. Unix lets you continue to access a file > after > it has been deleted, so long as the process hangs on to a file d

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-19 Thread Bill Moran
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:34:37 -0600 (MDT) Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Newbie Question About System Update > Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:32:37 -0400 > > > Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-22 Thread Bill Moran
Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >Fact is, trying to update a running system could result in silent failures. > >The system can not replace programs that are in use, so there's always the > >chance

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
a proper upgrade remotely, because you can still access the system when it's in single user mode. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
n-networkable KVM and you get the same idea of what I was thinking when I compared a serial console to a KVM. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: background_fsck=no does not work?

2005-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
ed 1. Reboot system 2. System claims all buffers flushed, then just hangs 3. After hardbooting, filesystems need fscked I noticed others with similar complaints about OpenOffice, so I haven't said much. The problem also happens pretty rarely, and I don't have any idea how to rep

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
ght be the only real advantage of a serial console. The unit you pointed to is ~$4000.00, whereas 16-port serial console units run more like $1000.00. Of course, the obvious advantage to the networkable KVM is that you can remotely admin GUI-based servers easily. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies h

Re: PostgreSQL in FreeBSD jails

2005-04-26 Thread Bill Moran
t; > ___ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: PostgreSQL in FreeBSD jails

2005-04-26 Thread Bill Moran
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Bill Moran wrote: > > > Alexander Rusinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I need to run a number of PostgreSQL servers in different FreeBSD jails. >

Re: problems with make world (Sunday)

2000-09-04 Thread Bill Moran
What I've seen in the UPDATING file seems to refer to 3.X upgraded to 4.X As far as I can tell there is no special documented procedure for updating within the 4.X line. Should be able to do everything in the ordinary way. I've done it that way on the current system. Along those same lines ... I'm

Re: problems with make world (Sunday)

2000-09-04 Thread Bill Moran
Oops ... my mistake. A bit further down in the file there ... Warner Losh wrote:  > >From UPDATING: > > To update from 4.0-RELEASE or later to the most current > 4.x-STABLE > -- > ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-sta

Re: Stop error in make world

2000-09-05 Thread Bill Moran
John Reynolds~ wrote: > Well, I just cvsup'ed 1 hour ago and built world. No problems. That segfault > you got when building perl looks really odd. Other people have said that > segfaults during buildworld are generally hardware problems. Most likely > memory. I'd be surprised ... considering I

Re: username with -

2000-10-09 Thread Bill Moran
Doug Barton wrote: > I think a better question is, why does rmuser need to check the > validity of the username at all? Should it do wildcarding? If not, it needs to check for invalid chars that could be used to wildcard. On the flipside, wildcarding might be nice. -Bill To Unsubscrib

Re: Where do i ask newbie install questions

2000-10-24 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this single line in the body: subscribe freebsd-questions erich alfred heine wrote: > > I subscribed to this list, but after reading it for the last few days, i > dont think this is the place to ask newbie install questions. If you > could

Dangerously dedicated (was Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h)

2000-10-30 Thread Bill Moran
John Baldwin wrote: > It is kind of semantic. However, on the alpha it is hardly dangerous. Nor > do we fake a MBR on the alpha (which is what makes it dangerous). The alpha > architecture doesn't use MBR's, but the PC arch does. Thus, having a disklabel > on the alpha is normal, having one at

Re: Problems in Memory

2000-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
Jorge Filipe Andrade wrote: > I am to have problems with the memory of my server. > I have 384MB, and I have 200MB of Swap, it simply, passed one week You should have more swap than RAM. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

rpc.statd mem leak?

2001-01-28 Thread Bill Moran
I seem to be "memory leak guy" this month ... Is it normal for rpc.statd to soak up 257M (as reported by top in the size column)? The "res" column shows 542K. The machine seems to be functioning just fine otherwise. It just seems a little unusual. It's a 4.2-STABLE (Jan 8) machine and it's servic

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
r most hardware and that significant performance improvements can be made in most cases by raising it. While it would be nice if FreeBSD shipped with a more performant default setting, it would also be nice if mindless benchmark drones would quit assuming that every system ships pre-configured to

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Robert Huff : > > Bill Moran writes: > > > It's common knowledge that the default value for vfs.read_max is > > non- optimal for most hardware and that significant performance > > improvements can be made in most cases by raising it. > >

Unable to make release on recent 6-STABLE

2006-09-21 Thread Bill Moran
Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/release. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intende

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Bill Moran
rom the system, > getting FreeBSD installed + upgraded to 6.2, building a kernel that > has PAE enabled and then putting the extra RAM back in. > > Any other administrators have tips/comments? I have no idea if the problem is related to PAE, but have you tried booting an amd64 kernel on

Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-27 Thread Bill Moran
P4 systems have 64 bit support. Unless it's specifically an Itanium (in which case an i386 kernel wouldn't even boot) it's amd64. -- Bill Moran Many miles away, something crawls through the slime at the bottom of a dark, Scottish lake. ___ f

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
testing/etc I can do, _please_ let me know. I might even be able to get remote console access to this machine approved for a developer. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential in

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In my case, it's a bce driver that's doing it. I also have some em > cards in this machine that I can test if the information will be > helpful. Note that I can _not_ reproduce the problem with an em interface (a PCI NI

Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
1:1:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (da0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (da0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 (da0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Medium not present (da0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Unretryable error Opened disk da0 -> 6 Trying to moun

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Guy Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Moran wrote: > > A reboot causes the OS to halt, but the hardware just sits there on the > > shutdown screen. > > > > A shutdown -p does the same. > > > > Other ACPIish stuff seems to work as ad

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Mike Tancsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At 12:27 PM 10/4/2006, Bill Moran wrote: > >In response to Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > In my case, it's a bce driver that's doing it. I also have some em > > > cards in

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Guy Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Guy Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Bill Moran wrote: > >> > >>> A reboot causes the OS to halt, but the hardware just sits there on the

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bruno Ducrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:28:35PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > > > A reboot causes the OS to halt, but the hardware just sits there on the > > shutdown screen. > > > > A shutdown -p does

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

2006-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
t; Remote console access would be a help. I suspect there may be more > than one problem here. In progress ... I'll contact you privately when it's ready. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message c

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Doug Ambrisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bruno Ducrot writes: > | On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:07:12PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > | > In response to Bruno Ducrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > | > > Hi, > | > > > | > > On Wed,

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-10 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Doug Ambrisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > John Baldwin writes: > | On Tuesday 10 October 2006 08:54, Bill Moran wrote: > | > In response to Doug Ambrisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > | > > Bruno Ducrot writes: > | > > | On Wed, Oct 04,

bce issues still outstanding

2006-10-11 Thread Bill Moran
I've copied many of the people who I've been working with directly on this issue. Can anyone provide a status update on these problems? Discussion seems to have stopped since Oct 5. Any new patches to test? -- Bill Moran Collaborative

Re: Ping question

2006-10-12 Thread Bill Moran
more detail information about it or it is error > happen to NIC? It's unlikely that this has anything to do with FreeBSD. It's more likely that a networking problem is causing packets to take multiple routes back at times, thus arriving twice. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-12 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bruno Ducrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:53:15PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Doug Ambrisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > John Baldwin writes: > > > | On Tuesday 10 October 2006 08:54, Bill Moran

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-12 Thread Bill Moran
the thread in hardware@ please, I've been unable to find it searching the archives. I'm guessing "bce" is not part of the title? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-12 Thread Bill Moran
; network > interface working fine (cf. thread on freebsd-hardware). Are you saying that the version from that site makes your bce card reliable? Doesn't seem to address the issues being worked on: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-October/029407.html -- Bill M

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-18 Thread Bill Moran
ly 2-3 people, tell me that > the changes in HEAD work for them. So far, no one has. I'm working on that now. I wasn't aware that improvements had been committed or I'd have started on it 2 days ago ... -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. _

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In response to Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Conrad Burger wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > It looks like there is a "new" version of the bce driver in HEAD. > > > When w

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-19 Thread Bill Moran
AD* in the latest RELENG_6 didn't fix our > problems. > > We could still trigger the Watchdog timeout when copying a local file to > an NFS mounted filesystem (UDP mount, GigE speeds). Same here, although it seemed to require a lot more effort to produce the problem. I see ther

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-19 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In response to Jason Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Scott Long wrote: > > > Conrad Burger wrote: > > > > > >> Hi > > >> > > >> It looks like there is a "

Re: When will the new BCE driver in HEAD be incorporated into RELENG_6?

2006-10-23 Thread Bill Moran
onnections. I'm seeing similar improvement. I've been testing the new version since I came in this morning (About 2.5 hours so far), with no failures. This is the first version of the driver that has allowed me to actually complete a buildworld over NFS. I will continue testing and

Re: cpu usage

2006-10-23 Thread Bill Moran
tried running the make with > an increased nice level, but that doesn't seem to change > much. and looking through ports there only seems to be > cpu monitoring tools, not suppression? It's unlikely that there's anything you can do in software to fix this problem. You need t

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-23 Thread Bill Moran
There are often discussions of huge databases there: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/ -- Bill Moran The presence of stale files in this directory can cause the dreaded unpredictable results, and therefore it is highly recommended that you delete them. _

Re: RELENG 6.1/AMD64 system hangs when SMP enabled

2006-10-27 Thread Bill Moran
w I can get it to give more info or how to > resolve this problem. I'm no expert, but this is probably where you'll need to start: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-online-ddb.html -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.

Re: AMD64 Stable fails to boot on Dell PowerEdge 1950

2006-10-31 Thread Bill Moran
install CD that I'm using today to install on several others. Haven't had to tweak anything at all in the BIOS. I missed the start of this thread. Did you give any more hardware details? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-10-31 Thread Bill Moran
; I won't be trying another amd64 setup for at least a couple more > years. Are there open PRs on this? We've not had any problems. Although our amd64 deployment is still young, we have several machines humming away happily. Where did you have problems, specif

em interrupt storm

2006-11-13 Thread Bill Moran
ee or not? I'm pretty early in the diagnosis on this, but I'm looking for pointers to keep me from doing random upgrades or other time-wasting activities. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 ***

Re: em interrupt storm

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Jack Vogel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11/13/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Just experienced an "interrupt storm" on an em device that disabled a > > server until I could reboot it. > > > > My ini

Re: mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Operation timed out

2006-12-08 Thread Bill Moran
rs: I would take some extra time to turn "think" into "know" before wasting any time pissing around with kernels. The above error sounds like a routing and/or port-blocked issue. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-s

Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2006-12-15 Thread Bill Moran
ng 1955 Blades and would > very much like to install FreeBSD on them :) Support for them is in CURRENT and 6.2, although the comment saying that they're _not_ supported is still there as well ;) -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2006-12-15 Thread Bill Moran
gt; > > > > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > > > > > Any development here? We have just started purchasing 1955 Blades and > > > would > > > very much like to install FreeBSD on them :) > > > > Support for them is in CURRENT and

Re: Cached file read performance with 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-21 Thread Bill Moran
FCed back in to 6. Keep in mind also that the holidays tend to slow things down, it might be early January before you get a lot of people looking at this issue seriously. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Block IP

2006-12-21 Thread Bill Moran
onsideration your existing IPFW rules, as this will not work if a previous rule allows the connection. > Also how do I block out IPs after a certain number of invalid login > attempts to prevent brute forcing? There are a number of ports that provide this functionality. I believe the mo

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-21 Thread Bill Moran
e on amd64. There is something about these "please continue to support 4.x" discussions that confuses me. The general argument has been that 4.11 support should continue because 6.2 is not at release status yet. Are the people making this argument unaware that 6.1 and 5.5 have been at

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Michael R. Wayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Private reply. Not interested in trolling or becoming a troll... > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:58:11AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > > > Are the people making this argument unaware that 6.1 and 5.

Communicating with the public (was Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support)

2006-12-22 Thread Bill Moran
t the impression that this whole EOL issue with 4.x is partly a result of not reminding people when the EOL date for 4.x is every 5 minutes. The result is that it's just hitting home for a lot of people now that it's the 11th hour. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___

Re: Communicating with the public (was Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support)

2006-12-22 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Adrian Chadd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 22/12/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I could be wrong, but I get the impression that this whole EOL issue with > > 4.x is partly a result of not reminding people when the EOL date for

Re: rsync write fails on descriptor 3

2006-12-28 Thread Bill Moran
of removing the skip and/or scrub directives to pf? 3) Are you even using pf? The PR involved is related to pf, and it appears as if the problem was related to an incorrect pf configuration, and _not_ a bug in FreeBSD. Someone should follow up on that PR and see if the OP ever fixed the pr

Re: Failover-HA-Setup

2007-01-17 Thread Bill Moran
th diffs at every upgrade? Not the approach I would take. And please don't top-post. I don't remember the details of how heartbeat works, but you should be able to set the required variables and export them into the environment prior to calling the mysql-server script. If not, just creat

Re: freebsd-stable Digest, Vol 190, Issue 5

2007-01-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Pieter Migo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > please unsubscribe > ___ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PR

pmap panic message: can someone take a look at this PR?

2007-01-29 Thread Bill Moran
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/108121 -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 6.2 buildworld fails without "NO_CXX=YES"

2007-01-29 Thread Bill Moran
7;make > buildworld' fails: groff is written in C++. If you can live without groff, there may be a NO_GROFF knob you could tweak. However, it looks like openssl is also written in C++ as well. If you can live without those two, it should be doable. I'm not sure how practical a

Re: getting garbage faster using FreeBSD?

2007-02-20 Thread Bill Moran
o wouldn't be enough for data security as this might get > >> recovered). > > > > Neither would a single pass with /dev/random, but you presumably knew > > this. > > Yes, I know... I would like to run 5 or more passes if it's not that >

Re: Your Recent Trade Show Results

2007-02-20 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Trond Endrestøl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > plz! go away with all your junk. I reported it to spamcop.net ... as usual. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. __

Re: getting garbage faster using FreeBSD?

2007-02-20 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:12:38AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Volker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On 02/19/07 20:51, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 08:40:

Re: issues with Intel Pro/1000 and 1000baseTX

2009-05-14 Thread Bill Moran
both ends. Make absolutely sure the Procurve is set to autoneg. Replace the cable. If the cable is marginal, autoneg will downgrade the speed to ensure reliability. Use a cable that you know will produce 1000baseTX because you've tested it on other systems. Try switching out the NIC. Man

Re: Signing Request

2009-09-23 Thread Bill Moran
e to voice your opinion, I don't understand your purpose in spamming three mailing lists with this demand. What problem are you trying to solve? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/

Re: sendmail does not return

2001-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
As a side note: if this is the problem, sendmail will not block _forever_. It will eventually time out. I don't know what the actual value is, but it seems like 5 minutes or something, so it could easily seem like it's frozen. -Bill Mike Tancsa wrote: > > The place where I have come across this

RE: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-27 Thread Bill Moran
Is there a reason why you took this off the list? On Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:52 AM, Mike Porter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > On Wednesday 27 June 2001 07:11, you wrote: > > On Tuesday, June 26, 2001 5:07 PM, Chad R. Larson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > wrote: > > > If anyone is taking vot

RE: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-27 Thread Bill Moran
On Wednesday, June 27, 2001 3:14 PM, Mike Porter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > On Wednesday 27 June 2001 09:44, Bill Moran wrote: > > Is there a reason why you took this off the list? > > > my mistake (or my mailer's depending on how you look at it). If the > maj

RE: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-27 Thread Bill Moran
On Wednesday, June 27, 2001 5:30 PM, Juha Saarinen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > > > In a company, alpha testing is done by the developers or other > > employees of the company, > > Once Upon A Time this was true, but no

Re: JFS

2001-07-07 Thread Bill Moran
Dave Uhring wrote: > You seem to have missed the critical point of that paper. When the > system goes completely haywire and either crashes or locks up so hard > that a manual reset is required, UFS/softupdates requires a substantial > amount of time to run fsck. If you have a very large filesys

Re: JFS

2001-07-08 Thread Bill Moran
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I just took a look at www.sistina.com and a web site which has its font > > set to Arial is suspect, IMHO. If they have to use Microsoft products > > to produce a web site.. > > Is that the best you could come up wit

Re: JFS

2001-07-08 Thread Bill Moran
Juha Saarinen wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > > > I know my opinion of Wind River has been negatively impacted by > > the numerous spelling errors I found on their web site the first > > time I visited. > > That's different though -- on

Re: Tracking -stable remotely/colocated

2001-07-10 Thread Bill Moran
There is a way to accomplish this. It requires 2 computers. The first is your server, the second is a terminal computer. You never log into the actual server, but the terminal computer is connected via serial line to the server to act as a console. This way, you can reboot and everything over an s

Re: Is FreeBSD more secure than Windows NT or Windows 2000?

2001-07-21 Thread Bill Moran
Sung Nae Cho wrote: > One thing that makes me uncomfortable with both Linux and FreeBSD is that > unlike Windows NT, both UNIX clones seem to be less secure for a desktop > use. ( ** Note clones doesn't mean it's any less better than UNIX, it just > means, it's not officially considered UNIX by OP

Re: RELENG_4_3 calls itself -RELEASE?

2001-08-04 Thread Bill Moran
Why not 4.4.1-RELEASE, 4.4.2-RELEASE, etc It's simple, to the point. Implies upgrades. Allows you to quickly determine exactly how current a particular system is with regards to patches, and follows long-standing conventions. Just my $.02 -Bill Andrew Boothman wrote: > > [Boy do I wish I hadn'

Re: Q: upgrade from 4.0-RELEASE

2001-08-08 Thread Bill Moran
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bill Moran writes: > : Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this (anyone?) > > I've upgraded from 4.0-current to 4.3-stable about a month ago. I > don't know why he's seeing this problem. Hmm

Re: prerelease 4.4

2001-08-16 Thread Bill Moran
klein brock wrote: > i don't wanna see this message... does somebody know > how ? Is that coming from /etc/motd? -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

kernel won't build from kernel sources

2001-08-16 Thread Bill Moran
Before I get flamed or anything, let me first say that I don't know for sure that this is broken, but it WAS broken in 4.3-RELEASE. I have been meaning to cut a CD and see if it's still broken in 4.4-PRERELEASE but I've been simply overwhelmed lately. If nobody else gets around to it first, I'll m

Re: VINUM PANIC ON -STABLE

2001-09-15 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I posted a message to -hackers several days ago, complete with a kernel > backtrace.The panic is 100% reproducible on my machine running the > latest -stable. > > Does anyone care? My message to Greg Lehey was rejected by his mail server, > but I am pretty sure

Re: ipfilter/ipnat question

2001-10-04 Thread Bill Moran
re that your ISP is using RFC-1918 addys on their internal routing. Stupid idea, but it's become commonplace to do it. IPv6 needs to come into use soon. This internet thing is such a mess that it amazes me that it works at all! -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services (412) 793

Re: spontaneous crashes with STABLE

2001-10-18 Thread Bill Moran
y again. If the system version and kernel config file are the same as the running kernel, you won't have to wait for another crash, but can use the existing crash dump files. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services (412) 793-4257 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: dirpref benefit on virtual disks

2001-11-12 Thread Bill Moran
optimal layout policy, but I don't know if the minimal free space is still 8% or not, and I don't know if anyone has even tested the new dirpref code to see if that number has changed. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: 4.5-PRERELEASE (25 Dec) and IBM IC35L040AVER07-0

2001-12-29 Thread Bill Moran
you using? Personally, I suspect HW problems, and I seem to recall a few months ago, someone else with IBM HDDs complaining about the same thing. Have there been any patches to the ata code that could affect this? If so, I'll update this machine and see if it continues to be a problem. -- Bil

Re: 4.5-PRERELEASE -- Pobs in compiling custom kernel

2001-12-29 Thread Bill Moran
nd it to that person only. Sending large messages to the list will generally not be received well. > Thanx a lot. Thanks for being curteous enough to check before posting :) -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &qu

Re: ultra160 SCSI

2002-01-20 Thread Bill Moran
I have three systems running U160 at full speed. I don't remember which version of FreeBSD started to support full spped U160, but if you're not running 4.4, you may want to upgrade before trying. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send

Re: samba package

2002-02-04 Thread Bill Moran
samba package exist in ftp. Did you check all 4 CDs? -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Frequent Restarts

2002-02-09 Thread Bill Moran
s well as crash dumps to be saved which can be analized with gdb. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: DVD writer support in -STABLE?

2002-09-13 Thread Bill Moran
ked at this, the answer was "no, you can't burn DVDs in FreeBSD yet" I just send an email to Soren to see if he needs hardware to develop with, we're ready to donate a DVD-burner to help. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: PCI oddity

2003-02-11 Thread Bill Moran
ose things that cards usually brag about if they support. If you have non-sharing cards trying to use a shared interrupt, it won't work. Crashes don't surprise me under these circumstances. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: fsck problem

2003-02-24 Thread Bill Moran
Jaime wrote: New info for this problem: S array.p0.s0 crashed S array.p0.s1 up S array.p0.s2 up S array.p0.s3 stale Should I just "vinum start" at the shell? Well, at this point you've got vinum started now. I would fix the raid problem before bothering with an fsck, if it w

Re: wrong CPU frequency detection

2003-03-03 Thread Bill Moran
ome FreeBSD-boxes running with CPU frequency lower than 1GHz - FreeBSD detects them correctly. Is it some kind of misconfiguration ? Can it cause problems ? Thanks a lot. WBR. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail t

Re: Upgrading sequence to 4.x from 3.3-R

2003-03-12 Thread Bill Moran
l is used in many parts of the system in 4.x, if you don't upgrade it, you may not even be able to build 4.x, and if it does build and install, you may find many utilities don't work. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTE