Re: VMware host on stable?

2006-02-16 Thread Scott Long
dick hoogendijk wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:15:55 -0700 Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Butler wrote: What is the most recent version of VMware known to work on 6.x in host mode so as to be able to run windoze as a guest? Anyone tried 5.5 on 6.x yet? .. or the time-l

Re: VMware host on stable?

2006-02-15 Thread Scott Long
)? Michael I have the same question. I've been looking at porting the 5.5 vmmon module, but haven't had time yet to start. All I really need is the ability to run an existing vmware image. And no, qemu and xen and all that is not an opti

BETA1 announcement

2006-02-09 Thread Scott Long
Announcement The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the beginning of both the FreeBSD 6.1 and FreeBSD 5.5 release cycles with the availability of FreeBSD 6.1-BETA1 and FreeBSD 5.5-BETA1 Both FreeBSD 6.1 and FreeBSD 5.5 are meant to be a refinement of their re

Re: [releng_6 tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64

2006-02-03 Thread Scott Long
fforts in the past to stop the practice. Warner There is value in testing -O2, since enabling that is a good long-term goal. What might be nice is to run tinderboxes with all default compiler settings, and then once or twice a week to a special run that has the more experimental flags.

Re: [releng_6 tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64

2006-02-03 Thread Scott Long
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Warner Losh wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) Subject: Re: [releng_6 tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64 Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:22:25 +0100 Harti Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The interesting point is: why does it build on my real sparc (2-UII

Re: [releng_6 tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64

2006-02-01 Thread Scott Long
I've been trying to reproduce this on my local hardware, but I can't trigger it. Scott Harti Brandt wrote: This is failing since January 26. Shouldn't RELENG_6 build, especially while we're preparing a release? harti On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, FreeBSD Tinderbox wrote: FT>

Re: [danger] broken libc.so on stable

2006-01-27 Thread Scott Long
about 16 hours in the tree. However, how did you trash your system? Did you try building libc by itself and installing it directly? That's dangerous no matter what. Using the buildworld/installworld targets will catch problems like these before they touch your running system.

POKE

2006-01-23 Thread Scott Markwell
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Re: Which tag should I use?

2006-01-20 Thread Scott Robbins
> what is the different with the RELENG_6 and RELENG_6_0? See http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/release.html for a good explanation. (My page, but alas, not my explanation). :) - -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserv

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with PERC4e/DC RAID?

2006-01-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 04:41:17PM -0800, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Scott Mitchell writes: > | > | That's a pity. Maybe Doug was thinking of one of the aac(4) based PERC > | cards? Still, something I can run out of cron to check the array status > | should be fine. > >

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with DRAC4 management card?

2006-01-06 Thread Scott Mitchell
console which I can access remotely via > ssh, too. I agree that is the best way. Sun have got this right on their Opteron servers: Ethernet port for the management board, ssh access into that then just start a console session. Cheers, Scott -- ===

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with PERC4e/DC RAID?

2006-01-06 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:35:46AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > >I may be getting a new Dell PE1850 soon, to replace our ancient CVS > >server > >(still running 4-STABLE). The new machine will ideally run 6.0 a

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with DRAC4 management card?

2006-01-06 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:12:06AM -0500, Ralph Hempel wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >On to my next question about running 6.0 on a Dell PE1850, since it seems > >that the RAID card will work just fine... > > > >I'm thinking a

6.0 on Dell 1850 with DRAC4 management card?

2006-01-06 Thread Scott Mitchell
bject if I 'liberated' any of them :) Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with PERC4e/DC RAID?

2006-01-06 Thread Scott Mitchell
rom the likes of Dell and LSI, too. I might be able to get away with running -stable on this machine, but -current will be right out. Hopefully these changes can be MFCed in time for 6.1. Scott > Log: > Mega update to the LSI MegaRAID driver: > > 1. Implement a l

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with PERC4e/DC RAID?

2006-01-05 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 06:09:09PM -0600, David Sze wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:34:24PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > supported by amr(4), but I'm wondering how well it actually works in the > > > case of a dis

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with PERC4e/DC RAID?

2006-01-05 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:34:24PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I may be getting a new Dell PE1850 soon, to replace our ancient CVS server > > (still running 4-STABLE). The new machine will ideally ru

6.0 on Dell 1850 with PERC4e/DC RAID?

2006-01-05 Thread Scott Mitchell
some management/monitoring tools for these controllers that were allegedly available from the www.lsilogic.com website, but I can't find anything on there for FreeBSD. Do the Linux tools work? Cheers, Scott -- ===

Re: sendmail_enable="NO"

2005-12-31 Thread Scott Robbins
lmost sure it was somewhere in /usr/src/UPDATING, but I just did a quick search (through CURRENT's UPDATING) and don't see it. It was quite awhile ago though. - -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-

Re: [releng_6 tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2005-12-30 Thread Scott Long
Just for the sake of posterity, it would be really cool if the tree compiled at the end of 2005/beginning of 2006. Hopefully that's not asking too much. Scott FreeBSD Tinderbox wrote: TB --- 2005-12-30 20:12:50 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2005-12-30 20:

Re: em bad performance

2005-12-25 Thread Scott Long
set to half duplex? :) Jack Isn't 'half duplex' meaningless in the gigabit link protocol? Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: DLT Tape Read errors on aac0

2005-12-19 Thread Scott Long
ck. Trying to do so only jeopardizes the integrity of the system. Scott Maxim M. Kazachek wrote: IBM ServeRAID 6i in IBM xSeries 345 doesn't see tape drive on second LSI Logic MPT channel (6i is a Zero channel RAID Controller). There was trouble with setting DDS-4 streamer under SC

Re: DLT Tape Read errors on aac0

2005-12-19 Thread Scott Long
Christian Gründemann wrote: Thanks for your fast answer, Scott! What Adaptec Card can you recommend? I am thinking about this card, it seems to be supported quite well. * Adaptec 19160B Is this card a "real" SCSI card ? Actually I thought the 2120S is a "real" SCSI Card

Re: DLT Tape Read errors on aac0

2005-12-18 Thread Scott Long
emarks. Thanks for your help! Christian I have a DLT drive here that I could probably hook up and start debugging with, but there are a lot of other things on my plate with higher priority, unfortunately. Your best bet for now is to put the tape drive onto a real Symbio

FreeBSD Update is the binary update solution [Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006]

2005-12-17 Thread Scott Long
ot; binary update tool accessible from www.freebsd.org. FreeBSD Update was written by, and is continuously maintained by the actual FreeBSD Security Officer. It's as official as it gets. If the only barrier to acceptance is that it's not distributed from the FreeBS

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-16 Thread Scott Long
Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:59:09PM +, Joao Barros wrote: On 12/16/05, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FreeBSD 7 We will start preparing for FreeBSD 7.0 in June 2007. I'll hopefully update the release engineering pages soon to reflect this. If y

Re: indefinite wait buffer: Does this indicate hardware issue?

2005-12-16 Thread Scott Long
disabled. Does this indicate a hardware issue, or some bugs elsewhere? Cheers, -- It means that either the hardware or driver lost a transaction, or that some sort LOR-type situation happened in the VM that is preventing the transaction from completing. First of all, do you have more than 4GB

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-16 Thread Scott Robbins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:50:05AM -0800, Rob wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:04:05AM -0700, Scott Long > wrote: > > > >>All, > >> > >>The following is the approx

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-16 Thread Scott Long
Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:04:05AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: All, The following is the approximate schedule for FreeBSD releases in 2006: Jan 30: Freeze RELENG_5 and RELENG_6 Mar 20: Release FreeBSD 6.1 Apr 3: Release FreeBSD 5.5 Jun 12: Freeze RELENG_6 Jul 31: Release

HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-15 Thread Scott Long
June 2007. I'll hopefully update the release engineering pages soon to reflect this. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me and the rest of the release engineering team. Thanks!ott Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org ma

Re: kernel cpu entries

2005-12-14 Thread Scott Long
Jonathan Noack wrote: Kevin Oberman wrote: Scott Long wrote: Also, taking out CPU_I586 is usually a bad idea. It offers no performance penalties (unlike CPU_I386 and maybe CPU_I486), but enables things like optimized bcopy. Ahh, This is the sort of thing I never realized. Is there

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-14 Thread Scott Long
lso, taking out CPU_I586 is usually a bad idea. It offers no performance penalties (unlike CPU_I386 and maybe CPU_I486), but enables things like optimized bcopy. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 panic: kmem_malloc(16384): kmem_map too small: 172728320 total allocated

2005-12-14 Thread Scott Long
t necessarily mean that the ramdisk pages will live in swap, it just means that they will get managed directly in the bufcache, eliminating the 320MB restriction. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Boot manager beep

2005-12-10 Thread Scott Long
jonathan michaels wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:38:43PM +0100, Thomas E. Zander wrote: On Fri, 09. Dec 2005, at 16:00 +, David Malone wrote according to [Re: Boot manager beep]: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:43:14AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: It is highly irritating for everyone else

Re: Boot manager beep

2005-12-09 Thread Scott Long
Wilko Bulte wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 07:49:33AM -0700, Scott Long wrote.. Thomas E. Zander wrote: Hi, just installed a fresh 6.0 on a laptop, using the standard boot manager. The problem is: The default volume of pcspeaker can't be tuned in bios or anywhere else before loading a

Re: Boot manager beep

2005-12-09 Thread Scott Long
adless systems, but it is indeed annoying for others, especially with laptops in quiet places. We should probably conditionalize this on a variable that can go into /etc/make.conf. Note that amd64 uses the i386 bits here. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@free

Re: FreeBSD-6 amr and ahd trouble

2005-12-05 Thread Scott Long
the problem? I don't get any kind of error messages, so I haven't had much luck in tracking it down. With help from Scott Long and John Baldwin, i have my system up and running again without problems. You should build your own kernel which should have options MUTEX_NOINLINE in

Difference between RELEASE, STABLE, CURRENT (was (no subject) )

2005-11-28 Thread Scott Robbins
the best explanations that I've seen can be found on freebsdforums.org http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=36652&highlight=RELEASE+CURRENT+STABLE (The final post, by the gentleman who uses the name phoenix) - -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0

Re: sym(4) broken on amd64 (Time to port new driver?)

2005-11-23 Thread Scott Long
hree since 2001, which is newer ported to FreeBSD by the author. And FreeBSD hooks was removed from the driver code... May be it is a time to port siop(4) from NetBSD? No. I'm working on fixing this right now. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.o

Re: [Fwd: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi_cmbat.c]

2005-11-22 Thread Scott Long
looking at 6.0 or taking a breather from the release work. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: PAE-SMP compilation problem

2005-11-22 Thread Scott Long
her with option SMP (only two changes I have made to PAE config file). Regards, Goran Gajic Yes, this was discovered shortly after the release and corrected. I don't think that it'll be possible to make the hptmv driver work on PAE, unfortunately. Scott ___

Re: FreeBSD-6 amr and ahd trouble

2005-11-16 Thread Scott Long
ome. regards Joerg This is almost certainly an interrupt routing bug. Can you try booting with ACPI disabled? Can you try building a 6.0 kernel without SMP and the 'apic' devices? From 5.4, can you send your system information? Scott ___ free

Re: Strange warning while upgrading

2005-11-06 Thread Scott Robbins
s NOGAMES to > NO_GAMES to get rid of the warning. See make.conf(5). It's also in /usr/src/UPDATING. (I don't know if it was in 5.x or not, I don't have a 5.x box here to check.) See the entry for 20041221 - -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 Released

2005-11-04 Thread Scott Robbins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:33:10PM -0200, Renato Botelho wrote: > On 11/4/05, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > It is my great pleasure and pr

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 Released

2005-11-04 Thread Scott Long
Boris Samorodov wrote: Remove CC: to current. ;-) On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:40:58 -0700 Scott Long wrote: It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. [skip] Typo at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/announce.html: - Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2005

FreeBSD 6.0 Released

2005-11-04 Thread Scott Long
luding The FreeBSD Foundation, FreeBSD Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and SPARTA. The release engineering team for 6.0-RELEASE includes: Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Release Engineering, I386 and AMD64 Release Building K

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-11-01 Thread Scott Long
7;t panned out, though, due to synchronization requirements and the technical requirements of proper TLS support. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-10-31 Thread Scott Long
e' directive. You can even just delete the DEFAULT file entirely if you choose, though I really don't recommend this. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-31 Thread Scott
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Warner Losh wrote: From: Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:42:32 -0700 Warner Losh wrote: The ACPI+sio problem is known. I have a motherboard with a similar problem, though a different brand than you

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-31 Thread Scott Long
-acpi attachment honored the hints that already exist for the purpose of describing the sio resources. Last I checked, neither Windows nor Linux nor Solaris required users to read the ACPI 2.0 spec to get their comms ports working. Having the flexibility to do what you des

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-31 Thread Scott Long
Marc Olzheim wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:05:07PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: Everyone is still welcome to update their sources on the RELENG_6_0 branch and provide feedback for the next 48 hours or so. The release will likely be announced by the end of the weekend or early next week, at

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-28 Thread Scott Long
Felipe openglx wrote: On 10/27/05, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All, Wanted to let everyone know that the testing on RC1 has gone well enough that we've decided to skip RC2 and go straight to 6.0-RELEASE. Everyone that we have talked to has applauded the stability and fu

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-27 Thread Scott Long
Vladimir Sharun wrote: What about Gleb Smirnoff NFS locking leak patch ? I put it on production, everything works just fine. The question is: this patch will be merged to main source tree for 6.0-RELEASE ? Scott Long wrote: SL> Wanted to let everyone know that the testing on RC1 has gone w

Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-27 Thread Scott Long
arcin This was just fixed a couple of hours ago. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming

2005-10-27 Thread Scott Long
r the next 48 hours or so. The release will likely be announced by the end of the weekend or early next week, at the latest. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any

FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 available

2005-10-11 Thread Scott Long
Announcement The release engineering team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0. We encourage everyone to help with testing so any final bugs can be identified and worked out. Availability of ISO images is given below. If you have an older system you want to updat

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-06 Thread Scott Long
, links, camino, opera, safari, and mozilla. All rendered nicely. It even rendered acceptably on my Treo650. Can't please 100% of the people 100% of the time. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: problem with aac0 on FreeBSD 5.4 Stable#5

2005-09-27 Thread Scott Long
elieve that you can still get it from the Adaptec website. If not, let me know and I'll see if I have a copy that I can share. Scott martin wrote: Synopsis: aac driver hangs under load Description: I am having the same/very similiar problem as described in http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: 6-Release Beta 5: extremely slow installation in VMWare 4.52

2005-09-22 Thread Scott Long
g that has changed that would be a smoking gun. In fact, debugging was removed from BETA5, so it _should_ go faster, not slower. Do you have the ability to install BETA4 and then incrementally update the source tree? That might be a good way to find out what happen

Re: any ideas when 5.5 will be out

2005-09-19 Thread Scott Long
ntional wisdom of staying away from N.0 releases, but we are putting quite a bit of effort into this one. 6.1 is not going to be 9-12 months away either, nor will 6.2. The 6.x line is generating quite a bit of excitement and will be a very good set of releases. Scott __

HEADS UP! Debugging, SMP changed in RELENG_6

2005-09-17 Thread Scott Long
n the mailing lists if this happens. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: burncd input output error

2005-09-17 Thread Scott Robbins
cdcontrol using the eject and close options. Not that this helps, but just letting you know you're not alone. :) - -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Giles: I need you to take Spike fo

Re: Panic for 6.0-BETA4 on AMD64

2005-09-16 Thread Scott Long
This is a well known problem. A fix is hopefully being worked on. Scott Slawek Zak wrote: Hi, A panic occured on tmpfs overfill. /tmp with tmpmfs was configured for 100MB size. Backtrace from debugger: db> where Tracing pid 60288 tid 100299 td 0xff02c3cba980 putc() at putc+0

HEADS UP! [Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4 Available]

2005-09-08 Thread Scott Long
All, It looks like I accidentally put amd64 packages onto the i386 ISO images. I'm generating new ISOs and will upload then as soon as possible. This likely explians the problems with installing X11 from the ISO. Sorry for the confusion. Scott Scott Long wrote: Announc

FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4 Available

2005-09-07 Thread Scott Long
ailability The BETA3 ISOs are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror sites. A list of the mirror sites is available here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html Thanks, Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Incorrect super block--help!

2005-08-29 Thread Scott Robbins
/dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro, noauto0 0 The answer is probably yes, but if not, that would be the issue and you'd need to use mount_cd9660 rather than mount. - -- Scott Robbins GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6) gpg --keyserver

Re: 6024H-T / X6DHT-G / Marvell H2 SATA

2005-08-23 Thread Scott Long
are actually pretty good. My challenge for someone to reverse engineer them is still open. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

FreeBSD Status Report Second Quarter 2005

2005-07-22 Thread Scott Long
E, depending on the decission from the Release Engineering team. Open tasks: 1. Respect the NO_* switches and remove those files too. This is easy to do with the current implementation, but isn't needed to commit the removal of obsolete files feature. __

RE: Machine Replication

2005-07-22 Thread Scott, Brian
For what its worth I use Norton Ghost to regularly set up a classroom of machines with FreeBSD 5.3, mostly because other teachers put Windoze stuff on the same boxes so the Ghost setup makes sense. Ghost doesn't understand UFS but doesn't need to. It just takes a block by block copy of the whole p

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-17 Thread Scott Long
BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso ftp-master didn't carry it until yesterday morning, due to a permission problem. There is no ISO-IMAGES-powerpc in the top of the tree, like there is for the other archs. No idea why that is the case to be honest. Scott might know. Simple oversight. I'll

Re: HELP --a question on LOCALE

2005-07-16 Thread Scott Robbins
will fix the problem. (It did for me.) For example, I input Japanese in aterm. If I did ldd `which aterm` I'd get back some answers showing me it used libc.5.so. Doing portupgrade -f aterm fixed it with that application. The best way is probably to upgrade all ports that are used in inp

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Scott Robbins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 04:27:44PM +0100, Yann Golanski wrote: > Quoth Scott Long on Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:18:50 -0600 > > Part of the purpose of moving quickly on to RELENG_6 is so that the > > migration work for users from 5.x

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Scott Long
like they were with RELENG_4. 6.x offers everything of 5.x, but with better performance and (hopefully) better stability. If you're thinking about evaluating 5.x, give 6.0 a try also. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-15 Thread Scott Long
Announcement The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 6.0 Release Cycle. FreeBSD 6.0 will be a much less dramatic step from the FreeBSD 5 branch than the FreeBSD 5 branch was from Free

Re: FYI - RELENG_6 branch has been created.

2005-07-14 Thread Scott Robbins
that I was in /usr. Oops. :) While on the subject, I wonder if it would be worth adding to UPDATING, the ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf to turn off malloc debugging. Thanks - -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-

Re: FYI - RELENG_6 branch has been created

2005-07-12 Thread Scott Robbins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 02:28:33PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: Scott wrote >> The other problem that will possibly affect more people is that >>SpamAssassin stopped working properly. This isn't a server, simply a >&g

Re: FYI - RELENG_6 branch has been created.

2005-07-11 Thread Scott Robbins
ose to 300 programs on it, so that we can see what problems we might run into with a variety of servers. - -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Anya: Men like sports. I'm sure of it. Xander: Y

Re: FYI - RELENG_6 branch has been created.

2005-07-11 Thread Scott Long
from the kernel settings, what other debug settings need to be turned off ? i.e. How do I turn off malloc debugging ? ---Mike ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: How to set polling for printer upon startup

2005-07-08 Thread Scott Robbins
case for a similar problem) Just put it into /usr/local/etc/rc.d and make it executable, changing the -p to an -e of course. Call it whatever you wish, but be sure to add an sh extension, e.g. call it lptcontrol.sh That should do it. - -- Scott GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FD

5.x discussions should migrate to freebsd-stable

2005-07-02 Thread Scott Long
E and GEOM, for example), so this should be seen as a way to help continue to stabilize 5.x and also get ready for 6.0. Scott ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: unable to compile 5.4-p3 kernel

2005-06-29 Thread Scott Robbins
rtunately, this doesn't happen very > often. Yes, doing a cvsup and rebuild from cvsup2) just finished without problems. - -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: She's playing y

Re: [Fwd: Re: unable to compile 5.4-p3 kernel]

2005-06-29 Thread Scott Robbins
tried patching the kernel and got previously applied patch detected, chose to go ahead anyway to see what would happen and got the same stop error. I haven't tried a fresh cvsup yet, but I'm guessing I'll run into the same thing. - -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 07

Re: how can I use all the plugins in mozilla

2005-06-09 Thread Scott Robbins
Adobe reader. You can, however, use it with Firefox at least, easily enough, by choosing in the downloads section to open pdf files with acroread. - -- Scott GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Joyce: Y

Re: What to use to get remote display from a amd64 machine?

2005-06-06 Thread Scott Robbins
he vnc session, or various other changes, I do have to edit a few files that it places in my $HOME directory. - -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Cordelia: If the world doesn't

Re: Context sensitivity in beastie.4th?

2005-06-03 Thread Scott Long
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Fri, 27 May 2005 03:13 pm, Scott Long wrote: Scott Long wrote: Malcolm Kay wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE on a new machine, Celeron + SATA drive, without and problems, include a kernel rebuild to support a PCI serial card. But now I wish to change the

Re: good performing SCSI RAID5 ( was: asr ( 2015S ) support in 5.4 amd64? )

2005-06-01 Thread Scott Long
to 'slightly tolerable'. Under ideal conditions, it has been benchmarked to get close to 170MB/s, but you need to be very careful about stripe alignment and cache settings. Oh, and that was RAID-0, not RAID-5. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd

Re: good performing SCSI RAID5 ( was: asr ( 2015S ) support in 5.4 amd64? )

2005-06-01 Thread Scott Long
event of a power failure or other problem. The cache tricks are what allow it to appear to have such good sequential write characteristics, though. Just like CPUs, benchmarking storage is all about customizing your hardware for the benchmark, not f

Re: jdk security vuln?

2005-05-31 Thread Scott Robbins
eeBSD5x.html It doesn't go into all the details of installing java, but gives a few of the problems, letting you know what to expect. (Though I don't cover the vulnerability issue, that happened later) :) - -- Scott GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575

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 ho

Re: Context sensitivity in beastie.4th?

2005-05-27 Thread Scott Long
Peter Jeremy wrote: On Thu, 2005-May-26 23:41:26 -0600, Scott Long wrote: Seems to work for me with the commented lines fixed. Btw, you by no doubt have noticed that it's somewhat inconvenient to do 4th programming by modifying the boot scripts and then praying that the reboot works.

Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches

2005-05-27 Thread Scott Long
Francisco Reyes wrote: On Thu, 26 May 2005, Scott Long wrote: Is the goal to have a new major branch every 2 years? Yes. This will allow us to pace our major development projects much better than we have in the past. Someone mentioned 5.X will be supported till 2007 (or at least that&#

Re: Context sensitivity in beastie.4th?

2005-05-26 Thread Scott Long
Scott Long wrote: Malcolm Kay wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE on a new machine, Celeron + SATA drive, without and problems, include a kernel rebuild to support a PCI serial card. But now I wish to change the graphic, beastie, that appears in the boot menu. I am certainly no

Re: Context sensitivity in beastie.4th?

2005-05-26 Thread Scott Long
keys naturally won't do what they are supposed to do, but everything else in the menu should work just as it would at boot. I tested your colorized phoenix this way just now and it worked. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches

2005-05-26 Thread Scott Long
Francisco Reyes wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2005, Scott Long wrote: Again, please don't take the abrupt switch to 6.0 to mean that 5.x is flawed or that 6.x will also have a short lifespan. The real purpose of the switch is nothing but positive; it'll keep us focused and preve

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

2005-05-24 Thread Scott Robbins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:23:59PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Scott Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > True, but in general, having gotten used to LINT, usually, I would just > > check notes for syntax--for instanc

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

2005-05-24 Thread Scott Robbins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:27:21PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > On May 24, 2005 12:14 pm, Scott Robbins wrote: > > > > The other is for items that apply to all CPU architectures, and is > > > located at /usr/src/sys/conf/NOT

Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches

2005-05-24 Thread Scott Long
ase let me know. Again, please don't take the abrupt switch to 6.0 to mean that 5.x is flawed or that 6.x will also have a short lifespan. The real purpose of the switch is nothing but positive; it'll keep us focused and prevent us from overreac

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

2005-05-24 Thread Scott Robbins
er things, it seems that a lot of people aren't aware of the second NOTES file. (Of course, you can do make LINT while in /conf, which I blush to admit, is what I did before I realized the existance of the second NOTES file. :) - -- Scott GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A40

Re: problems with ASR card/5.4

2005-05-18 Thread Scott Long
abscence is causing problems then it needs to be fixed. I'll try to look at it soon. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 647172276 bytes for inoinfo

2005-05-18 Thread Scott Long
y they optimize writes. You might try something like ffsinfo to locate a alternate superblock that is more sane. Scott ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

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