Re: How to get file from nfs id

2013-07-11 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 11/07/2013 06:47, Radek Krejc(a wrote: Hello, I have problem with heavy load of my nfsd server. There is connected about 70 diskless machines, but in readonly mode. I catched traffic and get this: 21:00:39.715337 IP diskless-1.3297435097 storage.nfs: 112 getattr fh

Re: prevent ip conflict in dhcp client

2013-07-11 Thread Frank Leonhardt
This all sounds like a very strange thing to be doing! But I hate it when people answer my questions with Why would you want to do that, so I won't. Binding an IPv4 address using a MAC address, which is the answer to a lot of DHCP problems. But your explanation my client acts like a router

Re: jls usage

2013-07-12 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 12/07/2013 02:33, Teske, Devin wrote: On Jul 11, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: In a .sh script I'm trying to get the jid for a single jail using this code jid=`jls -j jailname | cut -f 1- | awk '{print $1}'` Looks a little over complicated... why not just.. jls -j jailname jid I've

Re: jls usage

2013-07-12 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 12/07/2013 15:20, Teske, Devin wrote: On Jul 12, 2013, at 2:35 AM, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 12/07/2013 02:33, Teske, Devin wrote: On Jul 11, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: In a .sh script I'm trying to get the jid for a single jail using this code jid=`jls -j jailname | cut -f 1- | awk

Re: jls usage

2013-07-12 Thread Frank Leonhardt
I've tried using the actual jail name, and the hostname to be sure - nothing - and on checking (jls -v) I'm somehow ending up with the Name being the same as the ID. I just put this down to a quirk/bug (it's there in 8.2-9) but it sounds like it's not an issue for anyone else. I'm defining

Re: jls usage

2013-07-12 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 12/07/2013 16:32, Frank Leonhardt wrote: I've tried using the actual jail name, and the hostname to be sure - nothing - and on checking (jls -v) I'm somehow ending up with the Name being the same as the ID. I just put this down to a quirk/bug (it's there in 8.2-9) but it sounds like it's

Re: jls usage

2013-07-13 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 13/07/2013 05:12, Shane Ambler wrote: On 13/07/2013 01:26, Frank Leonhardt wrote: Okay - answering my own question and solved... It's a bug (or is that a feature?). In /etc/rc.d/jail line 647 it currently reads: eval ${_setfib} jail ${_flags} -i ${_rootdir} ${_hostname

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-16 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 16/07/2013 10:41, Shane Ambler wrote: On 16/07/2013 14:41, aurfalien wrote: On Jul 15, 2013, at 9:23 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote: ... thats the question :) At any rate, I'm building a rather large 100+TB NAS using ZFS. However for my OS, should I also

Re: to gmirror or to ZFS

2013-07-20 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 16/07/2013 20:48, Charles Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Johan Hendriks joh.hendr...@gmail.com wrote: Well, don't do that. :-) When the server reboots because of a powerfailure at night, then it boots. Then it starts to rebuild the mirror on its own, and later the fsck

Re: dhcp server returns core dump when i define network with mask 8

2013-07-23 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 23/07/2013 09:03, jb wrote: s m sam.gh1986 at gmail.com writes: ... subnet 192.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 { range 192.0.0.1 192.255.255.255; The 'range' denotes IP addresses that can be allocated to clients. The IP 192.255.255.255 is a reserved broadcast address for the network. jb

Re: dhcp server returns core dump when i define network with mask 8

2013-07-23 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 23/07/2013 13:35, j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: Quoting Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk: There are two common ways of defining a subnet mask - one is a dotted quad (e.g. 255.255.255.0) and the other is with a slash and the number of low-order bits - e.g. 192.168.1.0/8. Eight bits here means

Re: disk is AWOL

2013-07-26 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 26/07/2013 17:56, Dieter BSD wrote: 8.2 amd64 ad8 is a 3TB Seagate on nforce4-ultra controller At boot: ad8: 2861588MB ST3000DM001 9YN166 CC4B at ata4-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s DEBUG g_part_gpt.c gpt_read_hdr() ad8 succeeded with pp-sectorsize=512 An hour later: # dd if=/dev/ad8 bs=4k

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 27/07/2013 13:58, David Noel wrote: Post the stack trace of the core and maybe someone can help you. panic: ufs_dirrem: Bad link count 2 on parent cpuid = 0 KDB: stack backtrace: #0 0x808680fe at kdb_backtrace+0x5e #1 0x80832cb7 at panic+0x187 #2 0x80a700e3 at

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 27/07/2013 19:57, David Noel wrote: So the system panics in ufs_rmdir(). Maybe the filesystem is corrupt? Have you tried to fsck(8) it manually? fsck worked, though I had to boot from a USB image because I couldn't get into single user.. for some odd reason. Even if the filesystem is

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-27 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 27/07/2013 20:38, David Noel wrote: I was going to raise an issue when the discussion had died down to a concensus. I also don't think it's reasonable for the kernel to bomb when it encounters corruption on a disk. If you want to patch it yourself, edit sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_vnops.c at around line

Re: Delete a directory, crash the system

2013-07-28 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 28/07/2013 06:54, Polytropon wrote: And here, kids, you can see the strength of open source operating system: You can see _why_ something happens. :-) Too true! On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 20:35:09 +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 27/07/2013 19:57, David Noel wrote: So the system panics

Re: Kernel Panic - Unix socket communication in kernel module

2013-07-29 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 29/07/2013 08:31, varanasi sainath wrote: Hello, I am writing a kernel module in which I am trying to connect to a UNIX socket (UNIX domain sockets use the file system as their address name space). Kernel module (loadable) acts as a client and User mode program acts as server, I have loaded

Archiving a log file

2013-08-03 Thread Frank Leonhardt
The answer isn't (AFAIK) newsyslog As a one-off, I need to archive an old log file - say httpd-access.log - while its still open. I don't want this to happen automatically and I don't want to set up newsyslog or anything like that. And I really don't want to mess about with signals to

Re: Archiving a log file

2013-08-03 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 04/08/2013 00:20, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 12:11:21AM +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote: The answer isn't (AFAIK) newsyslog As a one-off, I need to archive an old log file - say httpd-access.log - while its still open. I don't want this to happen automatically and I don't

Re: Archiving a log file

2013-08-04 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 04/08/2013 04:04, mikel king wrote: On Aug 3, 2013, at 7:11 PM, Frank Leonhardt freebsd-...@fjl.co.uk wrote: The answer isn't (AFAIK) newsyslog I did some more digging on the whole log piping thing and apache includes a nifty little application called rotatelogs which lives in /usr

Re: hardware monitor

2013-08-04 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 04/08/2013 21:48, Gary Aitken wrote: Can anyone suggest a hardware monitor app in the ports tree? I've got an amd64 which may have a temperature issue, but I can't see it to tell... Try sysctl hw.acpi.thermal For more information see man acpi and man acpi_thermal. If you're lucky it

Re: Archiving a log file

2013-08-04 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 04/08/2013 14:38, Terje Elde wrote: On 4. aug. 2013, at 12:54, Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk wrote: The program writing the log is actually called flubnutz and it doesn't play nice with newsyslog, reopen handles on a signal or anything else Then you're out of luck for normal rotation

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-04 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 05/08/2013 00:29, Gary Aitken wrote: On 08/04/13 17:22, Gary Aitken wrote: Ok, so now I see that my cpu temperature shoots up pretty dang fast when a build is going on. I'm running an AMD Phenom II X4 with the AMD-supplied fan in an ASUS M4A89TD PRO / USB3 motherboard. The system works

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-04 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 05/08/2013 03:01, Gary Aitken wrote: 50C isn't crazy. Actually, the 50C figure is just where it shoots to for starters. Mfg specs say 62C max, so I stall the process when it gets around 59 and still climbing steeply. The manufactures specs I found when I looked that range of CPUs up was

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-05 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 05/08/2013 06:05, Gary Aitken wrote: On 08/04/13 21:39, Frank Leonhardt wrote: This suggests it's not the ACPI in FreeBSD shutting you down, but something on the motherboard. That was my guess as well. big snip As it's probably not FreeBSD you're now asking on the wrong list, and other

Re: php problems

2013-08-06 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 06/08/2013 15:21, Lars Eighner wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 2013, Mark Moellering wrote: I tried a simple hello world type program the actual code is : ?php echo test ? and the output was; testsegmentation fault First, try it with clean code: put the ; after the command and stop closing the

Re: php problems

2013-08-06 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 06/08/2013 15:21, Lars Eighner wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 2013, Mark Moellering wrote: I tried a simple hello world type program the actual code is : ?php echo test ? and the output was; testsegmentation fault First, try it with clean code: put the ; after the command and stop closing the

Re: BSD Magazine

2013-08-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 07/08/2013 13:19, Kamil Sobieraj wrote: Hello, I am from BSD Magazine (BSDMag.org), devoted to BSD operating systems. I would like to ask if you are interested in contributing an article? Current theme is: *Day-to-day BSD administration*. I believe that your experience will enrich our

Re: Terrible disk performance with LSI / FreeBSD 9.2-RC1

2013-08-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 07/08/2013 21:36, J David wrote: It feels like some sort of issue with the bus/controller/kernel/driver/ZFS that is affecting all the drives equally. Also, even ls takes forever (10-30 seconds for ls -lh /) but when it eventually does finish, time ls -lh / reports: 0.02 real

Re: Terrible disk performance with LSI / FreeBSD 9.2-RC1

2013-08-08 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 08/08/2013 12:42, Terje Elde wrote: On 8. aug. 2013, at 00:08, Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk wrote: As a suggestion, what happens if you read from the drives directly? Boot in single user and try reading a Gb or two using /bin/dd. It might eliminate or confirm a problem with ZFS

Re: New to Free-BSD with questions.

2013-08-10 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 10/08/2013 10:58, r_oliva...@juno.com wrote: New to Free-BSD. Downloaded a current ISO image and burned it to a DVD. System boots from DVD to command line mode. Questions are: A.) Is Xwindows, (X11) included on the DVD copy? That's X, X11, Xorg or the X-Window System. Yeah, kind-of but

Re: High availability on remote site

2013-08-15 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 15/08/2013 13:18, Mark Felder wrote: On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 18:19:35 +0700 Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Hi, I have been assigned to offer HA on a 3 tiers architecture. Data storage tier will be MySQL, so replication is easy. Keep in mind that MySQL replication has

Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-08-15 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 15/08/2013 19:13, aurfalien wrote: Hi all, Is there a faster way to copy files over NFS? Currently breaking up a simple rsync over 7 or so scripts which copies 22 dirs having ~500,000 dirs or files each. I'm reading all this with interest. The first thing I'd have tried would be tar

VPN where local private address collide

2013-08-16 Thread Frank Leonhardt
Let's say we're using MPD on FreeBSD at both ends of a link here, using a VPN to connect two LANs. (The use of MPD is negotiable). One LAN uses the address range 192.168.1.0/24 and the other uses the address range, er, 192.168.1.0/24. However hard you try to avoid this, it's going to happen.

Re: VPN where local private address collide

2013-08-17 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 16/08/2013 20:30, Terje Elde wrote: On 16. aug. 2013, at 19:17, Frank Leonhardt freebsd-...@fjl.co.uk wrote: Has anyone actually done this, and if so, how? This is wrong on so many levels, and you'll have to work around all og them. Yes, you can use nat, but what about adress-resolution

NAT loopback using natd and ipfw

2013-08-17 Thread Frank Leonhardt
Does anyone know how to get NAT loopback (aka NAT hairpin or NAT reflection) working with natd and ipfw? It seems to work with the in-kernel NAT without the need for configuration, but not if you're using natd. I have a feeling it may be something do do with the ipfw diverted-loopback test

Re: VPN where local private address collide

2013-08-18 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 18/08/2013 00:29, Terje Elde wrote: The obvious answer is IPv6, of course. I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet. You seemed dead set on not renumbering the networks, and moving to IPv6 would not only be just that, but also be harder than just renumbering IPv4-nets, so you answered

Re: VPN where local private address collide

2013-08-18 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 18/08/2013 12:51, Terje Elde wrote: On 18. aug. 2013, at 12.20, Frank Leonhardt wrote: I'm not sure that TLS would cause more problems than any other packets, but as you point out, the exercise is bound to be full of pooh traps as yet undiscovered. FTP should be interesting, for a start

Re: undelete files in msdosfs

2013-08-18 Thread Frank Leonhardt
I wrote something to do this a long time back, but I doubt I can find the source quickly. The easiest way would be to download a forensic live-CD like DEFT, which includes Undelete 360. Possibly over-kill but it's handy to have one around. Most of these forensic tools use a GUI. There is a

Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

2013-08-20 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 20/08/2013 08:32, krad wrote: When i migrated a large mailspool in maildir format from the old nfs server to the new one in a previous job, I 1st generated a list of the top level maildirs. I then generated the rsync commands + plus a few other bits and pieces for each maildir to make a

Re: Renumber users and groups

2013-08-21 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 21/08/2013 13:36, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hello, On my system legacy users come with UID starting from 200 upward, and all users come with GID lower that 100. I know it's not a good idea, but consider that some accounts are over 20 years old! This is not too much a problem with FreeBSD as I

Re: dig

2013-08-21 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 22/08/2013 00:34, Doug Hardie wrote: There appears to be a problem with dig and the +trace option in 9.2. I believe its also in 9.1. The command: dig freebsd.org +trace Only yields a dumb response. No useful information is provided. Running the same command on FreeBSD 7.2 yields a

Re: Jail with public IP alias

2013-08-28 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On28/08/2013 00:19, Patrick wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Patrick gibblert...@gmail.com wrote: That's not the behaviour I see. My jail has a private and public IP. Hi Patrick, thanks for your reply. The

Re: Jail with public IP alias

2013-08-28 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 28/08/2013 19:42, Patrick wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk wrote: On28/08/2013 00:19, Patrick wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com

Re: Jail with public IP alias

2013-08-29 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 29/08/2013 02:08, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk wrote: On 28/08/2013 19:42, Patrick wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Frank Leonhardt fra

Re: Jail with public IP alias

2013-08-29 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 29/08/2013 09:52, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 29/08/2013 02:08, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk wrote: On 28/08/2013 19:42, Patrick wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Alejandro Imass aim...@yabarana.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 28

Re: Since SquirrelMail Looks Like It Will Never Be Supported Again...

2013-08-31 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 30/08/2013 22:20, Tim Daneliuk wrote: SquirrelMail seems to be forever on hold because of an incompatibility with PHP 5. So I am going to have to replace it as our Webmail interface. I'm a bit confused about this - you seem to be saying that Squirrelmail won't work on PHP 5? I've been

Re: Since SquirrelMail Looks Like It Will Never Be Supported Again...

2013-08-31 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 31/08/2013 10:32, Reko Turja wrote: -Original Message- From: Frank Leonhardt On 30/08/2013 22:20, Tim Daneliuk wrote: SquirrelMail seems to be forever on hold because of an incompatibility with PHP 5. So I am going to have to replace it as our Webmail interface. I'm a bit

Re: Since SquirrelMail Looks Like It Will Never Be Supported Again...

2013-09-02 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 02/09/2013 08:41, doug wrote: On Sat, 31 Aug 2013, Reko Turja wrote: -Original Message- From: Frank Leonhardt FWIW I'm using Dovecote 1 or 2 for the IMAP. In particular, Dovecot 1 with Squirrelmail has been really hammered, but has never broken. I sometimes get time-outs copying

Re: Custom release ISO questions.

2013-09-04 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 04/09/2013 13:17, Paul Wootton wrote: On 09/04/13 10:27, Sergey wrote: Hi all! Is there a way to create custom ISO without buildworld? I just want to edit some configs and bsdinstall scripts for silent automated install - why need to recompile whole world? It will be great if you'll share

Spam control (was: Let People Find You in Google!)

2013-09-06 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 06/09/2013 11:21, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 09:32:39 +0100 Graham Todd articulated: Isn't this pure SPAM? Why yes it is. Would you prefer it mixed with non-spam to make it more palatable? Seriously, the ration of spam to non-spam is increasing exponentially on this list. Until the

Re: ufs recovery

2013-09-08 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 08/09/2013 09:46, Laszlo Danielisz wrote: Hi, By mistake I forgot to edit my crontab on my FreeBSD 8.3 after I took out one of the hard drives. I had a little rsync script which I used to synchronise a directory between those two hard drives, because one of the hard drives were not present

Re: ufs recovery

2013-09-08 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 08/09/2013 10:39, Laszlo Danielisz wrote: On 2013.09.08., at 11:07, Frank Leonhardt freebsd-...@fjl.co.uk mailto:freebsd-...@fjl.co.uk wrote: On 08/09/2013 09:46, Laszlo Danielisz wrote: Hi, By mistake I forgot to edit my crontab on my FreeBSD 8.3 after I took out one of the hard drives

Re: Network Question

2013-09-13 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 12/09/2013 20:16, Daniel Nang wrote: That was easier than I thought. My initial approach already looked something like this, except that for the ip address I always put the machine's name as in: machine1# ssh u...@machine2.example.com which results in ssh: Could not resolve hostname

Re: how to tell which process call sendmail

2013-09-19 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 19/09/2013 19:30, Glenn McCalley wrote: So, some idiot is using a cgi or php or something to send mail out of his website that he shouldn't be sending. With a bunch of sites on the server, can't tell who. I had a similar problem, but some time back and I can't remember *exactly* what I

Re: What is Negative permissions

2013-09-23 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 23/09/2013 11:54, Leslie Jensen wrote: In the daily security run I see the following: Checking setuid files and devices: Checking negative group permissions: 3791965 -rwxr--r-x 1 admin wheel 172 Mar 9 10:59:55 2011 /usr/home/admin/bin/noip_update.sh Is it just a reminder that the

Re: Files in /tmp directory - Is there any timelimit ?

2013-09-25 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 25/09/2013 10:05, Sreeram BS wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kw...@gmail.comwrote: 25.09.2013 11:34, Sreeram BS wrote: Hi, I am using FreeBSD 9. I would like to know as to what is the lifetime of the files in /tmp directory. The general description says

Re: How to ask a DNS resolver listening on a different port than the tcp/udp 53

2013-09-27 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 27/09/2013 19:20, Laurent SALIN wrote: Hello, I wondering how i can send queries to a dns resolver listening on a different port than the normaly 53 tcp/udp ? The situation: I've got a vps who running NSD as a autoritative nameserver, listening on tcp/udp 53 and unbound as personnal

Re: How to ask a DNS resolver listening on a different port than the tcp/udp 53

2013-09-27 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 27/09/2013 23:08, Terje Elde wrote: On 28. sep. 2013, at 00:03, Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk wrote: If I understand the way it works correctly, the resolver pulls a list of the NS and hard-sets the port number for each to 53 (via a manifest constant) . See libc/resolv/res_init.c. All

Re: How to ask a DNS resolver listening on a different port than the tcp/udp 53

2013-09-28 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 28/09/2013 00:20, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk wrote: On 27/09/2013 23:08, Terje Elde wrote: On 28. sep. 2013, at 00:03, Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk wrote: If I understand the way it works correctly, the resolver pulls

How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
In the good'ol days I could make UNIX ring a bell (literally) by sending \a to the console TTY (an ASR33 in my case). Now there's an electronic synthesised ting or beep from an terminal emulator IF it's got a sound card and so on, and an IBM-PC had a beep routine in the BIOS. Is there any way

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 07/10/2013 13:06, Peter Boosten wrote: On 7 okt. 2013, at 13:37, Frank Leonhardt fra...@fjl.co.uk mailto:fra...@fjl.co.uk wrote: In the good'ol days I could make UNIX ring a bell (literally) by sending \a to the console TTY (an ASR33 in my case). Now there's an electronic synthesised

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 07/10/2013 14:31, RW wrote: On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:46:53 +0100 Frank Leonhardt wrote: Alas, not. The console driver won't ring the BIOS bell on anything I've tried. It might on a desktop with a built-in sound card and speakers, but it won't do anything with the beep speaker. Are you sure

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 07/10/2013 13:36, Polytropon wrote: Is there any way to make a noise through the built in bell speaker found on an IBM PC compatible server box? Writing 007 to the BIOS cout routine might do it, but I've realised I haven't got a clue how to do that. Making it audible is part of the

Re: Authorisation Errors on 9.2

2013-10-13 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 13/10/2013 18:08, Beeblebrox wrote: I have two strange errors but I am not sure whether they are related. ERROR-1: Slim allows login without checking for password. /var/log/auth.log shows: Oct 13 11:44:57: slim: gkr-pam: no password is available for user Oct 13 11:44:57:

Re: Authorisation Errors on 9.2

2013-10-14 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 14/10/2013 06:37, Beeblebrox wrote: Hi, I Inadvertently posted the gnome-keyring bit. That's almost standard error message on FreeBSD-Gnome. The relevant bit for the error is in fact: slim: gkr-pam: no password is available for user However, the user cannot login on a tty without providing a

Re: warning: total configured swap (8960911 pages) exceeds maximum recommended amount (8243200 pages).

2013-10-17 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 17/10/2013 17:01, RW wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:27:49 +0100 Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 17/10/2013 15:04, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm using a 72gb swap disk. I've 10gb RAM I get this warning: warning: total configured swap (8960911 pages) exceeds maximum recommended amount (8243200