Re: Rocketport (rp) PCI card on stable ?

2002-09-06 Thread Mike Nowlin
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 05:30 PM 06/09/2002 -0400, Mike Nowlin wrote: On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 05:15 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 09:51 PM 05/09/2002 -0400, Peter Radcliffe wrote: I use kermit to /dev/cuaR0 and can get out to the console of other machines fine. I finally got

Re: Interesting plight

2001-01-13 Thread Mike Nowlin
A couple days ago I was mentioning about my ps and top problems. Well at the advice of a FreeBSD user I went and installed the bin distribution for 4.2-RELEASE rebooted with the 4.2-RELEASE kernel and everything was golden. I could ps and top and kill I was one happy guy. Well I

Re: 4.1-STABLE fails to 'buildkernel'?

2000-09-12 Thread Mike Nowlin
kicking along nicely!) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Understated/funny man-page sentence of the current time period: From route(4) on FreeBSD-3.4, DESCRIPTION section: "FreeBSD provides some packet routing facilities." ...duh... Mike Nowlin, N8NVW [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viewsne

Re: occasional reboots

2000-05-21 Thread Mike Nowlin
: One of the old Fijitsu 1GB scsi drives had an air flow requirement of : so many feet/second of air flow. The fan died and the drive case metal : turned blue just before the drive died. I never thought of an HD : getting that hot. I am not sure what got hotter the HD or the Celeron. Try

serial console buglet

2000-05-11 Thread Mike Nowlin
(Taken from "Re: Server Farms?") You mean you don't have a serial console? And yes, I can see where it may be impractical (network access only, no serial ports, etc). Speaking of serial consoles, I keep getting bit by a little bug that is a descendant of the RS-232 specification (mother) and

Re: Server Farms?

2000-05-11 Thread Mike Nowlin
I'd never do a server farm w/o a serial console machine to serve the serial consoles on all the machines It would be a nightmare otherwise... Long live "retired" Equinox 16-port terminal servers! VT100 on one port, modem on another, and 14 machines. (Plus a parallel port as an added

Re: Server Farms?

2000-05-11 Thread Mike Nowlin
/you have any info as to how they work?? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, 'I drank what?'" -- Chris Knight (Val Kilmer), Real Genius Mike Nowlin, N8NVW [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3.3 Stable Performance Monitoring

1999-10-23 Thread Mike Nowlin
We also have a few Solaris machines around. We've purchased a SNMP agent from Empire Technology (www.empiretech.com) which can report various system performance related parameters, like swap usage, system load, cpu utilization, number of open file descriptor, number of processes, etc.