Re: help
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newsyslog.conf wrong count of archive logs
I'm using newsyslog (FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p6) to manage Apache's monthly log files. The relevant /etc/newsyslog.conf entry is # logfilename [owner:group]mode count size when flags [/pid_file] [sig_num] /var/log/httpd/*log root:wheel 644 2 *$M1D3 GB /var/run/httpd.pid 30 newsyslog.conf(5) says: count Specify the maximum number of archive files which may exist. This does not consider the current log file. But there already are 3 months worth of archive logs (*.0 *.1 *.2), excluding the current log. What did I do wrong? Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Unix Haters Handbook
Hi all. I had not before seen this book, but doing some Unix research I found it at http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/uhh-download.html Loving Unix I found the book hilarious and quite entertaining and still containing some truth. The chapter about the rm command is very funny because everybody has tried that mistake once. Anyway, wanted to share my discovery. I know many knows this book, but perhaps many also don't. Best and kind regards, Rico ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newsyslog.conf wrong count of archive logs
count Specify the maximum number of archive files which may exist. This does not consider the current log file. From what i see on a running system, count is the maximum number of the archive log: a count of 2 makes archives .0, .1 and .2 Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice compilation failure
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Looks kind of like a problem that was fixed within the last few days when the port was updated to the next release candidate. Try updating your ports? Looks kinda not. I've got 2.0.3rc3 and I have the same problem. I reported it several months ago and all I got to be told was that it's a strange problem. bye av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
scponlyc on 6.1
Hello, I have installed scponlyc with the chroot option: #cd /usr/ports #cd shells/scponly/ #make -DWITH_SCPONLY_CHROOT I have used scponly on Linux before, so I knew that there is a special makefile inside. #cd work/scponly-4.4/ #make jail I have created a new chrooted, scp only user. Here are the files that were created by 'make jail': ./bin: echopwd ./etc: pwd.db ./lib: libc.so.6 libcrypt.so.3 libcrypto.so.4 libmd.so.3 libz.so.3 ./libexec: ld-elf.so.1 ./public_html: ./usr: bin lib libexec ./usr/bin: groups id ./usr/lib: libasn1.so.8libcom_err.so.3 libgssapi.so.8 libkrb5.so.8 libroken.so.8 libssh.so.3 ./usr/libexec: ld-elf.so.1 sftp-server Now if I try to do 'su -l scpuser' then I do not get any error messages but nothing happens. If I try to login with WinSCP, it tells me that my shell is incompatible with bash. Is this a problem with the port? What am I doing wrong? What logfiles should I check? (/var/log/messages tell nothing...) Thanks, Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Illegal instruction while portupgrade
Kris Kennaway wrote: A lot of these are invalid, i.e. not the correct name. Oh?which one? Probably, are you sure that is the CPU you have? I'm sure. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: performance graphs with netgraph
On 6/1/06, Iantcho Vassilev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/1/06, Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iantcho Vassilev wrote: Hello everyone, Does anyone knows how to implement(make graphs of the traffic) via the Netgraph framework? This may be silly but you do know that netgraph (in FreeBSD) is not a graphing program right? :) Is it? Yes i know what netgraph is..What i tought is that someone point me to a good explanation of usage of netgraph..For example i found a netgraph usage which make to interfaces showing like one..so if you sniff on this one you get the traffic from both.. Sorry for the forwarding...My mistake ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Unix Haters Handbook
At 09:20 01.06.2006, Rico wrote: Hi all. I had not before seen this book, but doing some Unix research I found it at http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/uhh-download.html Loving Unix I found the book hilarious and quite entertaining and still containing some truth. The chapter about the rm command is very funny because everybody has tried that mistake once. Anyway, wanted to share my discovery. I know many knows this book, but perhaps many also don't. Best and kind regards, Rico I surely didn't know about it. Thanks a lot man :) Kyrre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system load mrtg ?
Hello I'm searching for some tools that are able to produce some graphics ( understandables by managers ...) to show the system load ( CPU . DISK I/O , memory ... etc etc ) The purpose is to show how the machine ( mailhub ) is loaded to replace it by a stronger box. TIA -- Frank Bonnet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail when users over quota
We are implementing quota on our servers and it worked out fine. But we would like to warn users with a mail when they are over quota. Is there a tool that does that? We found warnquota for linux but nothing for FreeBSD. We are not the only users of quota who want to warn their users with a mail, right? Regards, Bart ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
limiting apache thru login.conf ?
Hello again I'm in troubles with a webmail using apache ( squirrelmail ) that seems to eat a lot of ressources of the machine then really slowing it down. Does anyone has tried to limit ressources eaten by apache using the /etc/login.conf file for the www user ? The apache.sh launching script use the /usr/bin/limits command but there is no special entry for the www user in login.conf file . TIA -- Frank Bonnet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: troubleshooting network settings
Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: On 31/05/2006, at 11:30 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: Take a look at the 'ServerName' directive in your httpd.conf file. Try uncommenting said directive, and put your IP address beside it. This line is already in place ServerName 127.0.0.1:80 I can confirm this behavior with www/apache22 for a FBD_6_1 machine not in DNS. My solution: I commented out the load of mod_unique_id in httpd.conf making everything work just fine. Looking at the documentation of mod_unique_id convinced me that I would only need it for some sort of server-side application that could not provide itself with a concept of a session. I haven't dug into the mod_unique_id code to find out what it is trying to resolve. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: openldap-2.3 won't start on a 6.1R system
had the same problem, went away after disabling WITH_SHELL, there also seems to be a related entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING: [..] 20060526: AFFECTS: users of net/openldap23-server AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The setting of SHELL backend has been inverted to off by default, because of the side effect it can cause. ... ... You are advised to do a make config in the net/openldap23-server directory *before* upgrading. [..] lg, ~reinhard Am Mon, 22 May 2006 15:23:53 -0700 (PDT) schrieb Jon Falconer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Greetings, I had a server running FreeBSD 6.0 Release with openldap 2.3.20 running fine (along with postfix, cyrus-sasl, courier-imap, bdb-4.3, etc.) I needed to move the system to new hardware, so I rebuild it using 6.1 Release. The ports tree has been updated so openldap 2.3.23 is current. After building and installing this port, and copying my config files from my 6.0 system, openldap server will not start. It silently quits with no error or log entries when run using /usr/local/etc/rc.d/slapd start. However typing: /usr/local/libexec/slapd -Tt yields: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libldap_r-2.3.so.2: Undefined symbol pthread_getconcurrency My build options for openldap are: %cat /var/db/ports/openldap23/options # This file is auto-generated by 'make config'. # No user-servicable parts inside! # Options for openldap-server-2.3.23 _OPTIONS_READ=openldap-server-2.3.23 WITH_SASL=true WITHOUT_PERL=true WITH_SHELL=true WITHOUT_ODBC=true WITHOUT_SLP=true WITHOUT_SLAPI=true WITH_TCP_WRAPPERS=true WITH_BDB=true WITHOUT_ACCESSLOG=true WITHOUT_AUDITLOG=true WITHOUT_DENYOP=true WITHOUT_DYNGROUP=true WITHOUT_DYNLIST=true WITHOUT_LASTMOD=true WITHOUT_PPOLICY=true WITHOUT_PROXYCACHE=true WITHOUT_REFINT=true WITHOUT_RETCODE=true WITHOUT_RWM=true WITHOUT_SYNCPROV=true WITHOUT_TRANSLUCENT=true WITHOUT_UNIQUE=true WITHOUT_VALSORT=true WITHOUT_ACI=true WITH_DYNAMIC_BACKENDS=true % I don't know if this is a problem with the db43 library or something else. Any pointers are welcome. Thanks, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- reinhard weismann creative media gmbh ditscheinergasse 4/3, a-1030 vienna t: +43 1 7150227 74 f: +43 1 7150227 99 http://www.creative.co.at ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system load mrtg ?
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for some tools that are able to produce some graphics ( understandables by managers ...) to show the system load ( CPU . DISK I/O , memory ... etc etc ) The purpose is to show how the machine ( mailhub ) is loaded to replace it by a stronger box. TIA MRTG will do this, you just need to make sure you provide it with the proper information. I run MRTG to monitor many things on many machines, including cpu usage, load averages, memory free/shared/cached/buffered and disk space available as well as traffic (as it was intended for). The easiest way I know how to tell you to set this up is configure your favorite SNMP service on the machine to be monitored, and snmpbulkwalk options machine mibfile then go through mibfile to find the information you need and put it in the MRTG config file. Lots of good help on stuff like this on the MRTG site. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bug in tcpdump?
It seems to me that I see a bug in tcpdump(1): option -A working same as -x and don't produce ASCII output. (I use FreeBSD 6.1) -- Sensory yours, Eugene Minkovskii Сенсорно ваш, Евгений Миньковский ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix?
On 5/31/06, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Do you have a link on that article? I use postfix on every unix system i own or manage, removing sendmail is one of the first things i do. [deleted] Thanks dave, the article is here: http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/31/126238 And the link to the FreeBSD handbook article is here: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/mail-changingmta.html - Original Message - From: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 9:58 PM Subject: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix? Hey did anyone see the article on /. about Sendmail being removed from NetBSD, and being replaced with Postfix? What advice can you offer about doing this on FreeBSD? What's involved, How do you do it, are there any gotta's (cron scripts?), etc? Is it just as simple as installing the Postfix port? How do you stop buildworld from reinstalling sendmail? /etc/mail/mailer.conf? Oh hmm, I see there's a section in the FreeBSD handbook that deals with this topic... Oh well I've already wrote this much... maybe you guy and gals have something more to add. Thanks! -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
R, unixodbc easysoft problems
I installed first, from the ports, unixodbc, then the latest oracle easysoft driver on my FBSD 6.1 box, following the included instructions. When using unixodbc with postgresql, plain sailing, it works like a charm! But when I try to connect via odbc to oracle (here an instance of the statistical software R) I get: 1: [RODBC] ERROR: state 01000, code 0, message [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Can't open lib '/usr/compat/linux/usr/local/easysoft/oracle/libesoracle.so' : Shared object libm.so.6 not found, required by libesoracle.so and issuing: /compat/linux/usr/bin/ldd -v libesoracle.so /compat/linux/usr/bin/ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: not found ldd: /lib/ld- linux.so.2 $exited with unknown exit code (127) I understand that there's something to be set as far as libraries to be used linked are concerned. Is there anyone out there able to point me at documents where the exact setting up of the easysoft oracle driver ** ON FBSD ** is explained OR able to explain how to set it up on the same OS? Thanks a lot - Vittorio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice compilation failure
Andrea Venturoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I reported it several months ago and all I got to be told was that it's a strange problem. Well, that's true... Do you have devel/epm installed by any chance? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card?
Danial Thom wrote: The intel cards that use the EM driver are the best performing cards in FreeBSD that we've tested. We've test cards made by the same company that use the broadcom controllers and the intel cards are substantially better (ie use less CPU passing the same amount of traffic). Be careful using on-board controllers. Usually vendors, for some reason, don't wire them to the pci-x bus. Most supermicro boards wire the em controllers to the 32bit/33mhz bus and the tyan and supermicro opteron boards we've tested wire the broadcoms to a shared 1x PCI-E, both of which will not only give you poor performance, but are not capable of running full gigabit rates. DT The Intel card would be an INTEL Pro1000MF, right? This would be quite expensive (~ EUR 430), but good performance and stability would warrant that. ATM, we are using the onboard controller (Broadcom BCM5704C wired to the pci-x bus). I did not have opportunity to do performance measurements, but we do have problems with our Linkpro 1000SX/1000TX converters, the 3rd of which has already died. That's why i want to give a PCI-X card with fiber interface a try. The 3com 996-SX is somewhat cheaper, does anyone have experience with that one? Thanks for all your replies :-) Heinrich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
modems
Does FreeBSD support the modem-devices: - D-Link DFM-562IS 56K - CNet CN5614RV V.92 56K ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Net dies after many torrent packets, BUG?!
nocturnal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not sure if this is already posted or already reported as a bug because i honestly don't have time for those things. I have reproduced this problem a few times but it has some special requirements. For example i download a torrent from a very fast peer in the rtorrent client. I have reproduced this with both rTorrent 0.4.5 - libTorrent 0.8.5 and two earlier versions which i don't remember. My friend is using the same versions as i am now and reported no problems in the latest development versions, he only started using them today. I have a 10/10Mbit connection at home and this happens when rtorrent is downloading at max speed. It varies somewhere around 7-10Mbit but never over 10Mbit by much. My friend only has a capacity of 1Mbit but got the same problem. This is why i'm reporting this because if it turns out that this can be reproduced by sending speciall crafted packets or packets in a special order then i guess it's pretty serious. I highly doubt this but still, a user process should not kill the net like rtorrent has done. Both me and my friend were running FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE when this happened. I was not going to report this but a friend just told me he gets the exact same results on FreeBSD 6.0 so i felt i should tell someone. Do you have good NICs? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card?
ATM, we are using the onboard controller (Broadcom BCM5704C wired to the just a hint: be really careful of what kind of broadcom-chip you'll get - some are could be not/bad supported by bge(4)/bce(4). (check the archives/PRs on that). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Net dies after many torrent packets, BUG?!
Hi One thing i should have mentioned is that this only happens with rtorrent. For example i can transfer in 10Mbit+(not much plus) from work, where i have no bandwidth restriction, for hours without problems. Using scp, i have not tried with ftp and very large files. When i transfer large files from work with scp i can maintain a speed of 10Mbit+ for long periods of times without problems. This problem has only happened because of rtorrent using a lot of bandwidth. And as i said earlier it happens when using less bandwidth to. Med vänliga hälsningar Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal [Swehack] http://swehack.se Lowell Gilbert wrote: nocturnal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not sure if this is already posted or already reported as a bug because i honestly don't have time for those things. I have reproduced this problem a few times but it has some special requirements. For example i download a torrent from a very fast peer in the rtorrent client. I have reproduced this with both rTorrent 0.4.5 - libTorrent 0.8.5 and two earlier versions which i don't remember. My friend is using the same versions as i am now and reported no problems in the latest development versions, he only started using them today. I have a 10/10Mbit connection at home and this happens when rtorrent is downloading at max speed. It varies somewhere around 7-10Mbit but never over 10Mbit by much. My friend only has a capacity of 1Mbit but got the same problem. This is why i'm reporting this because if it turns out that this can be reproduced by sending speciall crafted packets or packets in a special order then i guess it's pretty serious. I highly doubt this but still, a user process should not kill the net like rtorrent has done. Both me and my friend were running FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE when this happened. I was not going to report this but a friend just told me he gets the exact same results on FreeBSD 6.0 so i felt i should tell someone. Do you have good NICs? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card?
--- Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danial Thom wrote: The intel cards that use the EM driver are the best performing cards in FreeBSD that we've tested. We've test cards made by the same company that use the broadcom controllers and the intel cards are substantially better (ie use less CPU passing the same amount of traffic). Be careful using on-board controllers. Usually vendors, for some reason, don't wire them to the pci-x bus. Most supermicro boards wire the em controllers to the 32bit/33mhz bus and the tyan and supermicro opteron boards we've tested wire the broadcoms to a shared 1x PCI-E, both of which will not only give you poor performance, but are not capable of running full gigabit rates. DT The Intel card would be an INTEL Pro1000MF, right? This would be quite expensive (~ EUR 430), but good performance and stability would warrant that. ATM, we are using the onboard controller (Broadcom BCM5704C wired to the pci-x bus). I did not have opportunity to do performance measurements, but we do have problems with our Linkpro 1000SX/1000TX converters, the 3rd of which has already died. That's why i want to give a PCI-X card with fiber interface a try. No, that would be the 1000MT, the MF is a fiber card I believe. They are about US$120. in the US. How do you know its wired to the PCI-X bus, since I don't believe that the controller has a way of reporting the way that the intel controller does? What MB do you have? Also keep in mind that the bge driver is a piece of crap; driver quality is a much more telling factor in these free OS's than the card in many cases. The EM and FXP are the only drivers worth anything (mainly because neither were written by mass-driver mill man Bill Paul). DT __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: R, unixodbc easysoft problems
Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed first, from the ports, unixodbc, then the latest oracle easysoft driver on my FBSD 6.1 box, following the included instructions. When using unixodbc with postgresql, plain sailing, it works like a charm! But when I try to connect via odbc to oracle (here an instance of the statistical software R) I get: 1: [RODBC] ERROR: state 01000, code 0, message [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Can't open lib '/usr/compat/linux/usr/local/easysoft/oracle/libesoracle.so' : Shared object libm.so.6 not found, required by libesoracle.so and issuing: /compat/linux/usr/bin/ldd -v libesoracle.so /compat/linux/usr/bin/ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: not found ldd: /lib/ld- linux.so.2 $exited with unknown exit code (127) I understand that there's something to be set as far as libraries to be used linked are concerned. Do you have the missing library? On my system, it was installed by the linux_base port, and is /usr/compat/linux/lib/libm.so.6 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card?
--- Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danial Thom wrote: The intel cards that use the EM driver are the best performing cards in FreeBSD that we've tested. We've test cards made by the same company that use the broadcom controllers and the intel cards are substantially better (ie use less CPU passing the same amount of traffic). Be careful using on-board controllers. Usually vendors, for some reason, don't wire them to the pci-x bus. Most supermicro boards wire the em controllers to the 32bit/33mhz bus and the tyan and supermicro opteron boards we've tested wire the broadcoms to a shared 1x PCI-E, both of which will not only give you poor performance, but are not capable of running full gigabit rates. DT To clarify, I'd recommend trying an intel PCI-X copper card with the convertor. The bge driver is garbage and is likely at least part of your problem with the convertor. DT __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system load mrtg ?
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:07:13 +0200 Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm searching for some tools that are able to produce some graphics ( understandables by managers ...) to show the system load ( CPU . DISK I/O , memory ... etc etc ) The purpose is to show how the machine ( mailhub ) is loaded to replace it by a stronger box. TIA http://www.cacti.net/ Port: cacti-0.8.6h_42 Path: /usr/ports/net/cacti Info: Web-driven graphing interface for RRDTool Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] B-deps: mysql-client-4.1.19 R-deps: expat-2.0.0_1 freetype2-2.1.10_3 libart_lgpl-2.3.17_1 mysql-client-4.1.19 net-snmp-5.2.2_2 perl-5.8.8 php4-4.4.2_2 php4-mysql-4.4.2_2 php4-pcre-4.4.2_2 php4-session-4.4.2_2 php4-xml-4.4.2_2 pkg-config-0.20_2 png-1.2.8_3 rrdtool-1.2.12_1 WWW:http://www.cacti.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Net dies after many torrent packets, BUG?!
On Thursday 01 June 2006 16:30, nocturnal wrote: Hi One thing i should have mentioned is that this only happens with rtorrent. For example i can transfer in 10Mbit+(not much plus) from work, where i have no bandwidth restriction, for hours without problems. Using scp, i have not tried with ftp and very large files. When i transfer large files from work with scp i can maintain a speed of 10Mbit+ for long periods of times without problems. This problem has only happened because of rtorrent using a lot of bandwidth. And as i said earlier it happens when using less bandwidth to. Is you computer behing a dsl modem/router which does NAT? Sometimes modem/routers cannot handle the number of connections torrents do and die. And most of the time you cannot have a clue, everything will look normal, but it won't do NAT. Also, what do mean when you say net dies? Do you mean internet dies or your LAN dies? Med vänliga hälsningar Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal [Swehack] http://swehack.se Lowell Gilbert wrote: nocturnal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not sure if this is already posted or already reported as a bug because i honestly don't have time for those things. I have reproduced this problem a few times but it has some special requirements. For example i download a torrent from a very fast peer in the rtorrent client. I have reproduced this with both rTorrent 0.4.5 - libTorrent 0.8.5 and two earlier versions which i don't remember. My friend is using the same versions as i am now and reported no problems in the latest development versions, he only started using them today. I have a 10/10Mbit connection at home and this happens when rtorrent is downloading at max speed. It varies somewhere around 7-10Mbit but never over 10Mbit by much. My friend only has a capacity of 1Mbit but got the same problem. This is why i'm reporting this because if it turns out that this can be reproduced by sending speciall crafted packets or packets in a special order then i guess it's pretty serious. I highly doubt this but still, a user process should not kill the net like rtorrent has done. Both me and my friend were running FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE when this happened. I was not going to report this but a friend just told me he gets the exact same results on FreeBSD 6.0 so i felt i should tell someone. Do you have good NICs? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card?
Danial Thom wrote: --- Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danial Thom wrote: The intel cards that use the EM driver are the best performing cards in FreeBSD that we've tested. We've test cards made by the same company that use the broadcom controllers and the intel cards are substantially better (ie use less CPU passing the same amount of traffic). Be careful using on-board controllers. Usually vendors, for some reason, don't wire them to the pci-x bus. Most supermicro boards wire the em controllers to the 32bit/33mhz bus and the tyan and supermicro opteron boards we've tested wire the broadcoms to a shared 1x PCI-E, both of which will not only give you poor performance, but are not capable of running full gigabit rates. DT The Intel card would be an INTEL Pro1000MF, right? This would be quite expensive (~ EUR 430), but good performance and stability would warrant that. ATM, we are using the onboard controller (Broadcom BCM5704C wired to the pci-x bus). I did not have opportunity to do performance measurements, but we do have problems with our Linkpro 1000SX/1000TX converters, the 3rd of which has already died. That's why i want to give a PCI-X card with fiber interface a try. No, that would be the 1000MT, the MF is a fiber card I believe. They are about US$120. in the US. Our building has fiber cabling, that's why i am looking for a fiber card. The 1000SX/1000TX converters that we use are just to unreliable. How do you know its wired to the PCI-X bus, since I don't believe that the controller has a way of reporting the way that the intel controller does? What MB do you have? It is a Tyan Thunder K8SD Pro S2882-D http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8sdpro_spec.html The spec says that the BCM5704C is connected to PCI-X Bridge A (64Bit,100MHz). Also keep in mind that the bge driver is a piece of crap; driver quality is a much more telling factor in these free OS's than the card in many cases. The EM and FXP are the only drivers worth anything (mainly because neither were written by mass-driver mill man Bill Paul). That really sounds bad. I wonder if others can confirm that. --Heinrich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card?
Danial Thom wrote: Also keep in mind that the bge driver is a piece of crap; driver quality is a much more telling factor in these free OS's than the card in many cases. The EM and FXP are the only drivers worth anything (mainly because neither were written by mass-driver mill man Bill Paul). No doubt you've written a truly remarkable replacement driver which your email is too small to contain. Unlike Fermat, however, you've presumably hidden the proof under the bridge where only trolls may go. I'm tempted to set a Followup-to: header to -chat or maybe /dev/null... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: modems
horn wrote: Does FreeBSD support the modem-devices: - D-Link DFM-562IS 56K - CNet CN5614RV V.92 56K ? I don't think so. Those are winmodems with conexant chipset. As far as I'm concerned those are a no go. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/compatibility-networking.html#SUPPORT-WINMODEM Cheers, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice compilation failure
On 6/1/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrea Venturoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I reported it several months ago and all I got to be told was that it's a strange problem. Well, that's true... Do you have devel/epm installed by any chance? No I do not have epm installed. Should I install it and try again? Subhro -- Subhro Kar Security Engineer iViZ Techno Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Dhanshree Bldg, 1st Floor Plot XI-16, Sector V Salt Lake City 700091 India ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card?
--- Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danial Thom wrote: --- Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danial Thom wrote: The intel cards that use the EM driver are the best performing cards in FreeBSD that we've tested. We've test cards made by the same company that use the broadcom controllers and the intel cards are substantially better (ie use less CPU passing the same amount of traffic). Be careful using on-board controllers. Usually vendors, for some reason, don't wire them to the pci-x bus. Most supermicro boards wire the em controllers to the 32bit/33mhz bus and the tyan and supermicro opteron boards we've tested wire the broadcoms to a shared 1x PCI-E, both of which will not only give you poor performance, but are not capable of running full gigabit rates. DT The Intel card would be an INTEL Pro1000MF, right? This would be quite expensive (~ EUR 430), but good performance and stability would warrant that. ATM, we are using the onboard controller (Broadcom BCM5704C wired to the pci-x bus). I did not have opportunity to do performance measurements, but we do have problems with our Linkpro 1000SX/1000TX converters, the 3rd of which has already died. That's why i want to give a PCI-X card with fiber interface a try. No, that would be the 1000MT, the MF is a fiber card I believe. They are about US$120. in the US. Our building has fiber cabling, that's why i am looking for a fiber card. The 1000SX/1000TX converters that we use are just to unreliable. How do you know its wired to the PCI-X bus, since I don't believe that the controller has a way of reporting the way that the intel controller does? What MB do you have? It is a Tyan Thunder K8SD Pro S2882-D http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8sdpro_spec.html The spec says that the BCM5704C is connected to PCI-X Bridge A (64Bit,100MHz). Also keep in mind that the bge driver is a piece of crap; driver quality is a much more telling factor in these free OS's than the card in many cases. The EM and FXP are the only drivers worth anything (mainly because neither were written by mass-driver mill man Bill Paul). That really sounds bad. I wonder if others can confirm that. I clarified this in a second post, sorry. I'd recommend trying a copper card with your converter. I've tested that MB and I don't believe the controller is connected to a 64/133Mhz bus. Its less than have the speed (ie twice the load) as an EM card in the PCI-X slot. You can, of course, connect a part to a pci-x buss at 32bits and 33Mhz. Nevertheless, the bge driver with the mobo is suspect (we've had to hack it a bit to get it to work properly with bridging at all). It doesn't seem to want to come up at a gigabit unless you give it an address. The driver is really junk, IMO. DT __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card?
No, I use drivers that are good. I don't feel the need to fix all that is broken in an OS; a good engineer finds what works and what doesn't and adjusts accordingly. Intel controllers are better than broadcom controllers anyways, so simply avoiding broadcom controllers is the strategy of choice. DT --- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danial Thom wrote: Also keep in mind that the bge driver is a piece of crap; driver quality is a much more telling factor in these free OS's than the card in many cases. The EM and FXP are the only drivers worth anything (mainly because neither were written by mass-driver mill man Bill Paul). No doubt you've written a truly remarkable replacement driver which your email is too small to contain. Unlike Fermat, however, you've presumably hidden the proof under the bridge where only trolls may go. I'm tempted to set a Followup-to: header to -chat or maybe /dev/null... -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DJ Deep More with The Doctor's Orders
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snd_uaudio compatibility and multiple USB audio
question 1: does snd_uaudio works with all USB sound card on market? if not - what is supported and how to check when buying? FreeBSD webpage isn't much talkative about this :( question 2: will multiple uaudio devices work without problems in parallel? if yes - can kernel be configured the way device names numbering will be predictable every time system is booted? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card?
--- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danial Thom wrote: Also keep in mind that the bge driver is a piece of crap; driver quality is a much more telling factor in these free OS's than the card in many cases. The EM and FXP are the only drivers worth anything (mainly because neither were written by mass-driver mill man Bill Paul). No doubt you've written a truly remarkable replacement driver which your email is too small to contain. Unlike Fermat, however, you've presumably hidden the proof under the bridge where only trolls may go. I'm tempted to set a Followup-to: header to -chat or maybe /dev/null... What exactly is wrong with all of you people anyway? Clearly there are drivers that are well supported and drivers that aren't. There are people out there trying to run their businesses and you seem to want to pretend that everything is just peachy and that everything can be tweaked and tuned a bit to be usable. The poor guy goes out and buys a big honking machine with dual opterons (probably) and he's getting half of the performance out of the box because he's using an ethernet controller thats a piece of crap, or a driver thats a piece of crap, or maybe both. If you're going to call people who tell the truth about things trolls, so be it, but all you're doing is showing your own delusional view of the world, or your own stupidity as an engineer, if you just think that everything works so damn well. DT __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail when users over quota
In the last episode (Jun 01), Bart Braem said: We are implementing quota on our servers and it worked out fine. But we would like to warn users with a mail when they are over quota. Is there a tool that does that? We found warnquota for linux but nothing for FreeBSD. We are not the only users of quota who want to warn their users with a mail, right? One way would be to parse the output of repquota, and send an email to anyone with a + in the 2nd column. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freebsd custom livecd
Sorry, my english is not very well i have some boxes, without HDD. i'd like to setup diskless routers, so i need to create my own livecd, with installed and configured demons(mrtg,proxy,apache and so on) what kind of scripts can do this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Illegal instruction while portupgrade
Hello snnn! Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 04:46:28PM +0800 you wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Probably, are you sure that is the CPU you have? I'm sure. Could it be that you need to recompile your kernel with the CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK option? # CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK tries to enable SSE instructions when the BIOS has # forgotten to enable them. -- DoubleF No virus detected in this message. Ehrm, wait a minute... /kernel: pid 56921 (antivirus), uid 32000: exited on signal 9 Oh yes, no virus:) pgpSvgsudj4Du.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: freebsd custom livecd
On 010606, 17:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, my english is not very well i have some boxes, without HDD. i'd like to setup diskless routers, so i need to create my own livecd, with installed and configured demons(mrtg,proxy,apache and so on) what kind of scripts can do this? Take a look at FreeSBIE. http://www.freesbie.org Ciao ! -- Massimiliano Stucchi pgpCrT5XYBWy4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Troubles with an Intel ethernet card
Hi! I have just installed FreeBSD 6.1 Beta, and my Ethernet card hasn't been detected. I'm not able to see them when I do ifconfig. If I search in dmesg, I find this : pci4: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) If I do a lspci from a GNU/Linux liveCD, I obtain this : :03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 4222 (rev 02) :04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 20) Using GNU/Linux over this system, I need to use the sky2 driver to use my Ethernet card. Anybody know how can I use this Ethernet card in FreeBSD? Thanks a lot! -- Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. http://servomac.blogspot.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card?
Danial Thom wrote: [ ... ] I'm tempted to set a Followup-to: header to -chat or maybe /dev/null... What exactly is wrong with all of you people anyway? Why do people ask rhetorical questions? We're not you, evidently. Invert the question, and I get an answer that makes sense. Invert the answer? You don't understand the point, perhaps? Very well, let me put it another way: if your opinions about what's wrong differ from most other people, you might do better to rely on a discussion involving facts rather than opinions. I mention this because some people regard their own opinions so highly that they don't seem to be aware that other approaches exist and might even prove effective. Clearly there are drivers that are well supported and drivers that aren't. There are people out there trying to run their businesses and you seem to want to pretend that everything is just peachy and that everything can be tweaked and tuned a bit to be usable. I don't know about either the OP or your situation(s), but I'm generally of the opinion that FreeBSD works just fine, most of the time, on most hardware, without any specific tweaking or tuning to be entirely usable. That's true of some other platforms, such as Apple hardware and MacOS X, or even Sun/SPARC boxes, as well. YMMV. If you have specific problems or a FreeBSD-driver to Windows-driver performance comparison, providing #'s and enough details to reproduce would be helpful. Writing random flames about specific people is not helpful. [ ...EOT, at least for me... ] -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card?
--- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danial Thom wrote: [ ... ] I'm tempted to set a Followup-to: header to -chat or maybe /dev/null... What exactly is wrong with all of you people anyway? Why do people ask rhetorical questions? We're not you, evidently. Invert the question, and I get an answer that makes sense. Invert the answer? You don't understand the point, perhaps? Very well, let me put it another way: if your opinions about what's wrong differ from most other people, you might do better to rely on a discussion involving facts rather than opinions. I mention this because some people regard their own opinions so highly that they don't seem to be aware that other approaches exist and might even prove effective. Clearly there are drivers that are well supported and drivers that aren't. There are people out there trying to run their businesses and you seem to want to pretend that everything is just peachy and that everything can be tweaked and tuned a bit to be usable. I don't know about either the OP or your situation(s), but I'm generally of the opinion that FreeBSD works just fine, most of the time, on most hardware, without any specific tweaking or tuning to be entirely usable. That's true of some other platforms, such as Apple hardware and MacOS X, or even Sun/SPARC boxes, as well. YMMV. If you have specific problems or a FreeBSD-driver to Windows-driver performance comparison, providing #'s and enough details to reproduce would be helpful. Writing random flames about specific people is not helpful. [ ...EOT, at least for me... ] -- -Chuck thanks for clarifying that you're more of a clown than an engineer, chuck. I'm sure that info will come in handy for others when you state your opinions. Here's the deal. When passing a controlled stream of packets (say 10Kpps) through a 5704 controller on the tyan MB, the cpu load is twice what it is when passing the exact same load through an intel card in a pci-x slot. Maybe the intel card is superior, maybe the driver is superior, but the bottom line is that the broadcom sucks in comparision. I don't care if the card works well in windows or something else; its not practical to re-write the driver, and the intel cards are cheap, so why give a rat's butt why the results are what they are; I just use something else. Perhaps you take exception to my comment about the author of the driver, but the fact is that the guy wrote 50 drivers from a template, he doesn't support them, he didn't optimize them for performance, nor did he thoroughly test most of them (since most have stupid little quirks, which is what happens when you write a driver from a template). That spells trouble to me. The intel drivers are supported on an ongoing basis and they were written specifically for the controller, so they ought to work better, even if the hardware is identical performance-wise. Its not a flame to say that something works better than something else. If you think that all hardware and all drivers just either work or don't, then you're not only not an engineer, but a total fool. Its sharing my experience. If you care not to listen, fine, but you're making more noise calling me names for reiterating my experience, and at least I'm conveying information that might be useful, unlike yourself. You obviously have nothing to contribute, so I don't see why you feel the need to pipe in with an uneducated opinion. DT __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with wireless card drivers
I have been trying to get my wireless card working for the last week. Practically I read almost everything about it in man pages, handbook and some google results. Nothing worked. I just cannot see why it doesn't appear. I am doing the kernel module compilation and loading by the book. My last resort is kernel recompilation. Does anyone have a HP/Compaq nx6110 with a working wireless card? Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with wireless card drivers
could you tell us what wireless card you have? perhaps its unsupported and you will need ndis support. -ben I have been trying to get my wireless card working for the last week. Practically I read almost everything about it in man pages, handbook and some google results. Nothing worked. I just cannot see why it doesn't appear. I am doing the kernel module compilation and loading by the book. My last resort is kernel recompilation. Does anyone have a HP/Compaq nx6110 with a working wireless card? Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bug in tcpdump?
On 6/1/06, Eugene M. Minkovskii [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that I see a bug in tcpdump(1): option -A working same as -x and don't produce ASCII output. Попробуй так: tcpdump -npx -i iface (I use FreeBSD 6.1) -- Sensory yours, Eugene Minkovskii Сенсорно ваш, Евгений Миньковский Sensory - прилагательное, наречие - sensorially ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting alerts about system upgrades
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:54:24 +1200 (NZST), Andrew McNaughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: A I do that, but my mailbox gets lots of traffic. Sometimes I miss A something, and as far as I know, there's no system to keep reminding me, A nor a way to quickly check the current state of play. I have the same problem, so I run the script below hourly from cron to check my mailbox for anything I consider urgent. It won't nag me repeatedly about the same messages, so it's not too intrusive. The file $HOME/.whitelist-alert holds patterns (one per line) for messages that should get immediate attention. The patterns are mostly email addresses or words consistently found in subject lines. The xnote program is simply a driver for xalarm, which displays an X-windows popup message. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company vogelke at pobox dot com http://www.pobox.com/~vogelke The early bird still has to eat worms. === #!/bin/sh # look for important messages. PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin export PATH umask 077 # Any mail? mbox=/var/mail/$USER if test -s $mbox then old=$HOME/.priority new=$HOME/.priority.n fgrep -if $HOME/.whitelist-alert $mbox $new # don't say anything unless we have new priority mail. if test -s $new then cmp -s $old $new || xnote you have high-priority mail fi mv $new $old fi exit 0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
difference between deinstall and pkg_delete?
Greetings, I see in the man page for ports the following: reinstallUse this to restore a port after using pkg_delete(1) when you should have used deinstall. So I'm wondering what is the difference between pkg_delete and using make deinstall from within the ports directory? What does make deinstall do that pkg_delete does not do? What does pkg_delete do that make deinstall does not do? Thanks, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system load mrtg ?
On 6/1/06, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:07:13 +0200 Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm searching for some tools that are able to produce some graphics ( understandables by managers ...) to show the system load ( CPU . DISK I/O , memory ... etc etc ) http://www.cacti.net/ Seconded. I used cricket (an mrtg clone) for a long time. But cacti makes setting up the hosts and graphs so much easier. (Although I still have to figure out how to create custom data sources...) -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
divx2dvd
hi, someone know a program to convert a DivX to DVD file in gui? -- Best Regards, Carlos Silva, CSilva Web: http://www.csilva.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system load mrtg ?
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:07:13 +0200 Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm searching for some tools that are able to produce some graphics ( understandables by managers ...) to show the system load ( CPU . DISK I/O , memory ... etc etc ) The purpose is to show how the machine ( mailhub ) is loaded to replace it by a stronger box. TIA http://www.cacti.net/ I tried cacti, and I don't know if its FreeBSD itself, or cacti, but other then traffic stats, it sucked ... i was getting sys+usr+idle CPU %ages taht were adding up to 115% (or similar high #s) ... I really wish that FreeBSD had something a bit better built into the kernel itself, to give you averages, similar to loadavg ... some easy way to determine % busy of disks, ethernet, cpu, etc ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: divx2dvd
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006, at 20:03:55 +0100, Carlos wrote: hi, someone know a program to convert a DivX to DVD file in gui? Hi. Try Avidemux. It's in ports at /usr/ports/multimedia/avidemux2 -Mark -- Internet Radio: Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net IRC: MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941) GnuPG Public Key: http://www.mkproductions.org/mk_pubkey.asc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with wireless card drivers
The wireless card is not supported by a native driver. It has a BCM4306 chipset (Broadcom). Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB /root shutdown freeze
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 14:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 6.1-RELEASE installed on a disk in an external USB 2.0 disk chassis. It successfully boots a computer and becomes da0. However, it is not able to shutdown or reboot, as the system freezes before it shuts down. --- begin --- # shutdown -h now Try a shutdown -p now instead of a -h. From man shutdown : [...] The shutdown utility provides an automated shutdown procedure for super- users to nicely notify users when the system is shutting down, saving them from system administrators, hackers, and gurus, who would otherwise not bother with such niceties. The following options are available: -h The system is halted at the specified time. -p The system is halted and the power is turned off (hardware sup- port required) at the specified time. [...] Hope this helps, Beni. [...] System shutdown time has arrived Shutting down daemon processes:. Stopping cron. Shutting down local daemons:. Writing entropy file:. Terminated . May 22 13:54:48 allegra syslogd: exiting on signal 15 Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process 'vnlru' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process 'bufdaemon' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process 'syncer' to stop...done Syncing disks, vnodes remaining...8 4 4 2 2 0 0 done All buffers synced. Uptime: 40s --- end --- This is the point where system stops doing things and not responding to anything but five-secs-powerbutton. The system was installed by issuing 1. Regular FreeBSD install on internal ATA 2. fdisk, bsdlabel, mount USB-disk 3. dump | restore 4. Fix fstab The computer is a Dell Latitued D400 (the problem is reproducable on a number of other computers). The harddisk is a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB IDE. The chassis is Amitech something. I appreciate any ideas! - markus ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with wireless card drivers
following the isntructions on this post worked fine for me; give it a try http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-October/059938.html Atanas Atanasov wrote: The wireless card is not supported by a native driver. It has a BCM4306 chipset (Broadcom). Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with wireless card drivers
Are you sure one should use ndiscvt? I mean i tried it the same except for getting pccarddefs.h (which as they say will be used in eventual kernel compiles) and for synchronising the source which I cannot do because no network is available. I have wireless only connection. Most people say that ndisgen is the better method as from 6.0. Actually it seems due to unknown reasons the old method is not supported anymore. Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system load mrtg ?
On 6/1/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote: I tried cacti, and I don't know if its FreeBSD itself, or cacti, but other then traffic stats, it sucked ... i was getting sys+usr+idle CPU %ages taht were adding up to 115% (or similar high #s) ... This is a problem with the way system load is reported to the SNMP agent, not cacti itself. Any other tool you would use to read SNMP data would give the same result. -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scponlyc on 6.1
On 6/1/06, User Gandalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have installed scponlyc with the chroot option: Now if I try to do 'su -l scpuser' then I do not get any error messages but nothing happens. If I try to login with WinSCP, it tells me that my shell is incompatible with bash. Is this a problem with the port? What am I doing wrong? What logfiles should I check? (/var/log/messages tell nothing...) what is your output from pw showuser scpuser? The last part of the line should match the output of which scponly. Never used WinSCP, but it sounds like it's trying to execute bash, or maybe scponly is symlinked to bash? I recommend FileZilla for MS Windows sftp needs. -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice compilation failure
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Andrea Venturoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I reported it several months ago and all I got to be told was that it's a strange problem. Well, that's true... Do you have devel/epm installed by any chance? Same questions of some months ago... :) No, I don't have epm and never did. bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shared Memory?
Hello All, I'm not a programmer and nor do I play one in real life.. :) I've recently setup a DansGuardian box for someone and I had some interesting things happen. When the box would get under load (500+ simultaneout connections) it would load up the cpu: last pid: 69931; load averages: 4.73, 3.56, 3.32 up 5+11:10:58 09:56:31 49 processes: 8 running, 41 sleeping Mem: 157M Active, 202M Inact, 106M Wired, 20M Cache, 60M Buf, 8168K Free Swap: 2048M Total, 32K Used, 2048M Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND 49814 guardian1 1200 85868K 85160K RUN 0:01 14.87% dansguardian 30132 guardian1 1200 85868K 85180K RUN 0:22 14.11% dansguardian 52245 guardian1 1190 85860K 85168K RUN 0:06 13.94% dansguardian 23445 guardian1 1200 85896K 85208K RUN 0:22 13.87% dansguardian at this time there were 10 dansguardian processes running. the default config suggests 120 to start off with.. (doing that crashed the box in about 5 minutes) I found one thing that seemed to help: kern.ipc.shm_use_phys=1 from man tuning. after setting the sysctl value the system now looks like this: last pid: 40265; load averages: 0.29, 0.29, 0.27 up 7+17:55:46 16:41:47 34 processes: 1 running, 33 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.7% system, 1.5% interrupt, 97.8% idle Mem: 125M Active, 249M Inact, 98M Wired, 16M Cache, 60M Buf, 4392K Free Swap: 2048M Total, 36K Used, 2048M Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND 6266 guardian1 960 76116K 18004K select 0:05 12.54% dansguardian 696 guardian1 960 76112K 16960K select 0:01 0.81% dansguardian 8969 guardian1 960 76112K 6036K select 0:00 0.12% dansguardian 21017 squid 1 960 31228K 26684K select 41:52 0.00% squid After searching I can't seem to find out when it's appropriate (or not) to set this and if anything else should be set in conjunction with it. Other than the fact that this helped.. can anyone point me in a direction or tell me why it helped? collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC this error is what somewhat lead me to this discovery. And in hoping to fix that it suggested recompling the kernel with those values changed.. NOTES tells me that that value is now 201, google has people with numbers all over the place.. and I still can't seem to figure out why they did it. egrep -v # /etc/sysctl.conf security.bsd.see_other_uids=0 net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 net.inet.ip.random_id=1 kern.randompid=1 kern.coredump=0 kern.ipc.shmmax=536870912 kern.ipc.shm_use_phys=1 This is a stock 6.1 GENERIC kernel The box is a router for internet traffic that passes several gigs of data from about 2500+ users. Its a small 866 w/ 512M of ram and as previously stated running DansGuardian (www/dansguardian) and squid (www/squid). I've asked a few times for information on the DG list, but I guess it's mainly a linux only crowd as I did not hear anything back from anyone. netstat -m 260/2155/2415 mbufs in use (current/cache/total) 258/1264/1522/17088 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 258/1210 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache) 0/0/0/0 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/0 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 0/0/0/0 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 581K/3066K/3647K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total) 56061/494261/470674 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters) 0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k) 0/9/4528 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max) 0 requests for sfbufs denied 0 requests for sfbufs delayed 12 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile 328 calls to protocol drain routines They want me to move it a larger box just for the sake of putting it on a larger box.. (2.2G Xeon w/ 2G ram) but I'd like to tune it better.. as opposed to just throw hardware at it and hope for the best. all data/packets passes over lo.. lo0 16384 127 127.0.0.1 57055828 - 33798613 - - and the box so far has been up for 7 days. Any information helping me understand this beast would be greatly appreciated. - Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice compilation failure
Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 6/1/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrea Venturoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I reported it several months ago and all I got to be told was that it's a strange problem. Well, that's true... Do you have devel/epm installed by any chance? No I do not have epm installed. Should I install it and try again? No. If you had it, I would recommend removing it before trying again. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Net dies after many torrent packets, BUG?!
Hi Not sure how to answer your question but the network dies in a way that i can't send any packets out or recive any packets in. What usually helps is to run dhclient fxp0 on my card again. My friend said he used to bring the card down and then up again and it would solve the issue. Med vänliga hälsningar Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal [Swehack] http://swehack.se Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Thursday 01 June 2006 16:30, nocturnal wrote: Hi One thing i should have mentioned is that this only happens with rtorrent. For example i can transfer in 10Mbit+(not much plus) from work, where i have no bandwidth restriction, for hours without problems. Using scp, i have not tried with ftp and very large files. When i transfer large files from work with scp i can maintain a speed of 10Mbit+ for long periods of times without problems. This problem has only happened because of rtorrent using a lot of bandwidth. And as i said earlier it happens when using less bandwidth to. Is you computer behing a dsl modem/router which does NAT? Sometimes modem/routers cannot handle the number of connections torrents do and die. And most of the time you cannot have a clue, everything will look normal, but it won't do NAT. Also, what do mean when you say net dies? Do you mean internet dies or your LAN dies? Med vänliga hälsningar Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal [Swehack] http://swehack.se Lowell Gilbert wrote: nocturnal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not sure if this is already posted or already reported as a bug because i honestly don't have time for those things. I have reproduced this problem a few times but it has some special requirements. For example i download a torrent from a very fast peer in the rtorrent client. I have reproduced this with both rTorrent 0.4.5 - libTorrent 0.8.5 and two earlier versions which i don't remember. My friend is using the same versions as i am now and reported no problems in the latest development versions, he only started using them today. I have a 10/10Mbit connection at home and this happens when rtorrent is downloading at max speed. It varies somewhere around 7-10Mbit but never over 10Mbit by much. My friend only has a capacity of 1Mbit but got the same problem. This is why i'm reporting this because if it turns out that this can be reproduced by sending speciall crafted packets or packets in a special order then i guess it's pretty serious. I highly doubt this but still, a user process should not kill the net like rtorrent has done. Both me and my friend were running FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE when this happened. I was not going to report this but a friend just told me he gets the exact same results on FreeBSD 6.0 so i felt i should tell someone. Do you have good NICs? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice compilation failure
The net thing to do would presumably be to look at the log file referenced in the error message included in your original posting. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Net dies after many torrent packets, BUG?!
Don't top-post, please. nocturnal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not sure how to answer your question but the network dies in a way that i can't send any packets out or recive any packets in. What usually helps is to run dhclient fxp0 on my card again. My friend said he used to bring the card down and then up again and it would solve the issue. And when it's in the failed state, what does ifconfig(8) show? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice compilation failure
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The net thing to do would presumably be to look at the log file referenced in the error message included in your original posting. Um, next thing to do... [Sorry.] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with wireless card drivers
On Thursday 01 June 2006 15:03, Atanas Atanasov wrote: Are you sure one should use ndiscvt? I mean i tried it the same except for getting pccarddefs.h (which as they say will be used in eventual kernel compiles) and for synchronising the source which I cannot do because no network is available. I have wireless only connection. Most people say that ndisgen is the better method as from 6.0. Actually it seems due to unknown reasons the old method is not supported anymore. I have an hp nx9600 with a similar (or same) card, and ndisgen worked fine. I didn't modify rc.conf, but instead use kldload to load the module when I need it. Here's what I do: # kldunload /root/bcmwl5_sys.ko #dmesg ... ndis0: Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN mem 0xc8206000-0xc8207fff irq 17 at device 3.0 on pci11 ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1 ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:90:4b:af:7f:68 What does dmesg tell you when you try to load the module? hth... don Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Don Hinton don.hinton at vanderbilt.edu tel: 615.480.5667 ISIS, Vanderbilt University skype: donhinton http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~don.hinton/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfw Kernel Module - Default to Accept?
On 5/30/2006 9:45 AM Toni Schmidbauer wrote: At Tue, 30 May 2006 09:04:09 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm using FBSD 6.1. When using the ipfw kernel module, is it possible to get ipfw loaded in a default to accept mode? I've seen the kernel option to enable this when compiling statically but nothing specific to the kernel module. Maybe there's a way to compile the kernel module with some entry in /etc/make.conf? I've Googled but have not been able to turn up anything. you can recompile the module, uncomment the line #CFLAGS+= -DIPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT in /usr/src/sys/modules/ipfw/Makefile. next call make in the same directory and copy the compiled module to /boot/kernel. i've done that in the past, works like a charm. Thank you. I'll try it. Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danial Thom Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 6:38 AM To: Heinrich Rebehn; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card? --- Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danial Thom wrote: The intel cards that use the EM driver are the best performing cards in FreeBSD that we've tested. We've test cards made by the same company that use the broadcom controllers and the intel cards are substantially better (ie use less CPU passing the same amount of traffic). Be careful using on-board controllers. Usually vendors, for some reason, don't wire them to the pci-x bus. Most supermicro boards wire the em controllers to the 32bit/33mhz bus and the tyan and supermicro opteron boards we've tested wire the broadcoms to a shared 1x PCI-E, both of which will not only give you poor performance, but are not capable of running full gigabit rates. DT The Intel card would be an INTEL Pro1000MF, right? This would be quite expensive (~ EUR 430), but good performance and stability would warrant that. ATM, we are using the onboard controller (Broadcom BCM5704C wired to the pci-x bus). I did not have opportunity to do performance measurements, but we do have problems with our Linkpro 1000SX/1000TX converters, the 3rd of which has already died. That's why i want to give a PCI-X card with fiber interface a try. No, that would be the 1000MT, the MF is a fiber card I believe. They are about US$120. in the US. How do you know its wired to the PCI-X bus, since I don't believe that the controller has a way of reporting the way that the intel controller does? What MB do you have? Also keep in mind that the bge driver is a piece of crap; driver quality is a much more telling factor in these free OS's than the card in many cases. The EM and FXP are the only drivers worth anything (mainly because neither were written by mass-driver mill man Bill Paul). After having fixed bugs in the bge driver I must stress how wrong this statement is for the bge driver. Bill Paul may or may not have been associated with the bge driver, whether he was or not is immaterial since the bge driver is basically a port of the broadcom-supplied Linux driver, the code is Broadcoms mostly, with hunks of Broadcom code removed (like that dealing with the PHY's) when it was too difficult to port. (apparently) The quality of the Broadcom driver isn't Bill Paul's, it's Broadcoms. No, I can assure you that the reason the Broadcom chips work like crap under FreeBSD is not due to Bill Paul, it is because the Broadcom hardware iteself is pure, unadulterated, stinking, bull crap. It is crappy even under the supported operating systems like Windows, it's craptitude reaches new heights on the crap pile. Broadcom missed their calling as an ethernet chipset designer, they should have gone into making vacuum cleaners, as they would certainly be the suckiest ones in that business. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Morse + Thinklight is fun... but how do I stop it?
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:08:00 +0200 Michal F. Hanula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried it, had the same problem. echo 0 /dev/led/thinklight doh! :) thanks , i tried /dev/null but not 0. doh! cheers, Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system load mrtg ?
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 11:21:35 -0700 Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/1/06, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:07:13 +0200 Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm searching for some tools that are able to produce some graphics ( understandables by managers ...) to show the system load ( CPU . DISK I/O , memory ... etc etc ) http://www.cacti.net/ Seconded. I used cricket (an mrtg clone) for a long time. But cacti makes setting up the hosts and graphs so much easier. (Although I still have to figure out how to create custom data sources...) they are not that hard to create - you need something that returns a series of values (as many as defined in your data source in cacti) and then feed that into the processor. I remember that the tricky bit was understanding how all the custom Cacti components plugged into cacti (i.e, custom data source, custom this and that ), rather than the feed of the data itself. I'll see if I can dig up some sample if you need me to. Regards, Beto ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Swiger Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 8:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card? Very well, let me put it another way: if your opinions about what's wrong differ from most other people, you might do better to rely on a discussion involving facts rather than opinions. Or, it could simply be that he's not doing what most people are doing, so he is going to run into trouble that most people don't run into. I mention this because some people regard their own opinions so highly that they don't seem to be aware that other approaches exist and might even prove effective. Like you? Clearly there are drivers that are well supported and drivers that aren't. There are people out there trying to run their businesses and you seem to want to pretend that everything is just peachy and that everything can be tweaked and tuned a bit to be usable. I don't know about either the OP or your situation(s), Then, pray tell, don't comment. Instead thank your lucky stars that you have not had to deal with that kind of problem. but I'm generally of the opinion that FreeBSD works just fine, most of the time, on most hardware, without any specific tweaking or tuning to be entirely usable. It does not. In reality, current versions of FreeBSD work better on current versions of hardware. FreeBSD has a terrible history of breaking things that used to work on old hardware, then when someone complains that something is broken, the developers in effect tell them their old hardware is crappy junk and to buy new hardware. Try running FreeBSD 6.X on a 80486 or Pentium system. FreeBSD 4.11 runs just fine on that hardware, if a bit slowly. But, I don't need speed to control my garden sprinklers. Now, it is true that sometimes backwards compatibility can hurt you, it can cause you to maintain interfaces and structures that conflict with support of new hardware, it can sometimes put you into situations that cannot be automatically resolved, thus you have to create a knob for the user to twaddle one way or another, depending on what hardware they have or what they want to do. It can suck off developer time to maintain old junk that only a few people use, instead of putting in support for new crap that a lot of people use. So there is a balance beam of too much backwards compatability and not enough of it. Microsoft is most definitely way far on the side of bending over backwards to support everything, but most people don't realize that FreeBSD is way far on the other side of sacrificing hardware support at the drop of a hat when people lose interest in it. That's true of some other platforms, such as Apple hardware and MacOS X, or even Sun/SPARC boxes, as well. YMMV. Total apples and oranges comparison, not relevant to anything. If you have specific problems or a FreeBSD-driver to Windows-driver performance comparison, providing #'s and enough details to reproduce would be helpful. That has been done with the Broadcom driver exhaustively in the PR database, there's at least a dozen PRs on problems related to that chip. However it has not resulted in much code to fix the problem, or even interest among committers to apply the fixes that have been posted. So no, I don't think that doing that is helpful at all. In fact, I really think the PR system has gotten pretty much broken these days, there's too many bugs and not enough people working on them, and more coming in every day. What is needed is some developers putting some time into knocking down the bugs in the PR database, but instead we have the foundation dumping money into funding students on projects like The Summer of Code which basically ends up creating a lot of half-finished efforts that may or may not eventually get integrated into the operating system at some point down the road. Nobody wants to fix other people's bugs, that's boring stuff, that is the one area of Open Source where commercial software companies have a leg up over us. A commercial company can find some starving programmer and pay him, then put a manager over him to keep jerking the paycheck string to keep him on task to do the icky programming. Open Source has real difficulty with the concept that some things in it are broken, rather ickely broken, and totally un-fun to work on, and the only way your going to get them fixed is by whipping some slave until they do the filthy task. People would rather spend the gold that they have on nice, pleasant projects that treat everyone nicely and look good on Resumes, and are not icky, nasty, uncomfortable things to do that make you late for dinner. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adding as a second hard drive
Yes, I was wondering what the best way was to add a second hard drive to my existing FreeBSD system, I searched the Handbook, but cannot find it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
compiling problem against libc_r
Hello i have a reccurent problem while compiling the software originally written for Linux it is often compiled agains pthread library, but in freebsd such a library is called libc_r (i'm using 4.11 RELEASE) so i often adjust configure options with LIBS=-lc_r option but here comes the problem when calling libtool such as following /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -g -02 [snip] -lc_r option is present but when immideatly after the effective command is called like gcc -g -02 the -lc_r option is systematically absent! i've tried to mannually adjust makefile by placing -lc_r option even in CC flag CC= gcc -lc_r but it didn't solve my problem please can you help me. how should i proceed to compile against libc_r cause LIBS=-lc_r doesn't seems to work. it's really boring to execute gcc lines by hand :( HEEELP!!! i'm tired -- Best Regards Vitaly katsuo_harada_evil_does [at] hotmail [dot] com Marseille Nice _ MSN Hotmail sur i-mode : envoyez et recevez des e-mails depuis votre téléphone portable ! http://www.msn.fr/hotmailimode/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding as a second hard drive
You need to tell us what version of FreeBSD you are running. You will need to add the drive physically. You need to choose how the drive will be used: single filesystem or multiple filesystems. What mount points will you use for these file systems. In general you will need to partition the new drive drive, then run newfs on the new partitions to create the file systems. Once the filesystems are created you will need to edit /etc/fstab to set the mounting of these filesystems. I would recommend you reboot to test the setup of the new mounts. -Derek At 07:03 PM 6/1/2006, Adam M wrote: Yes, I was wondering what the best way was to add a second hard drive to my existing FreeBSD system, I searched the Handbook, but cannot find it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: troubleshooting network settings
Take a look at the 'ServerName' directive in your httpd.conf file. Try uncommenting said directive, and put your IP address beside it. This line is already in place ServerName 127.0.0.1:80 What about something like: ServerName 192.168.1.10:80 ...or whatever your LAN/WAN IP is? Does that help? Try removing the localhost addr from there and replacing it with a NIC IP and see what happens. I have to admit, I haven't followed the entire thread, so if this has been mentioned, I apologize in advance. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system recovery
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 21:28, Olivier Nicole wrote: or, can someone recommend how i might use that tarball of my entire system to quickly get a new system up and running (all this with the assumtion that i have not changed any hardware configurations). if someone has time to answer quickly, i would sure appreciate it. I think that the recovery system that lies on one of the CDs has tar. You could boot the recovery system and untar the things. Olivier ___ well, i sucessfully recovered my system, back just as it was before my tinkering got out of control. here was my (probably quite unorthodox) method: 1) mount my external drive that contained my system tarball. untar the entire backup of the old system 2) rm -rf /boot, and replace it with my old (which had my recompiled kernel) 3) cd to usr, then cp -vpnRP src obj /usr. (this recovered my most recently built world) 4) reboot to single, do my mergematers and install world, reboot back to normal again. 5) enter the directory that holds my untarred system backup. cp -vpnRP * / (this copied the root of the old, over the root of the new, but skipping anything that exists... assuming that anything that exists that is crashably inportnat, was recently upgraded with the buildworld) 6) rm -rf /etc/ and /usr/local/etc/. replace both with etc/ and usr/local/etc/ from the tarball. 7) reboot. i logged in as my normal user, which i did not create as a part of my reinstall. everything seems to have picked up and kept going as if nothign happened, excluding /tmp i could not write to it at first (and thus, could not startkde, but i 777'd it and now things are working). it took me 3 attempts to finally cp -vpnRP correctly, without spewing files all over the wrong places, but i have to say, im pretty happy with my result! (/me scratches practice total system recovery off list of things to do) cheers, jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is vinum in FBSD 6.0?
I recently installed 6.0, and there doesn't seem to be a vinum binary. There is a gvinum binary, but it doesn't even implement all of the commands in its own help screen. I'm somewhat confused. Did I screw up my install, or is this normal? Is there some kind of IP lawsuit over vinum or something? -- Scientia Est Potentia -- Eppur Si Muove Security guru for rent or hire - http://www.lightconsulting.com/~travis/ -- GPG fingerprint: 9D3F 395A DAC5 5CCC 9066 151D 0A6B 4098 0C55 1484 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: troubleshooting network settings
On 02/06/2006, at 10:54 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote: Take a look at the 'ServerName' directive in your httpd.conf file. Try uncommenting said directive, and put your IP address beside it. This line is already in place ServerName 127.0.0.1:80 What about something like: ServerName 192.168.1.10:80 That works for the numbered address, though it is extremely slow, about a minute to respond and virtual hosting doesn't work. At this point Apache is running but localhost loopback address is lost. malcolm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding as a second hard drive
Yes, I was wondering what the best way was to add a second hard drive to my existing FreeBSD system, I searched the Handbook, but cannot find it. Basic process: Get a good, that either works with your existing controller or also get a controller with is. eg. If it is SCSI and you only have SATA you will need another controller, etc. Install it in the box and boot the machine. Observe the boot messages or use dmesg to make sure it is recognized and that you know how the system is identified. It will probably be either da1 or ad1 depending on whether it is SCSI or SATA. Decide on how you want the new disk divided. Use fdisk to create a FreeBSD slice on the disk Use bsdlabel(or disklabel for 4.xxx systems and before) to create at least one partition within the slice. Use newfs to build a filesystem on all of the partitions you create with bsdlabel. create a mount point (for example 'mkdir /newdsk') Edit the /etc/fstab file to add an entry to make it mount upon boot. Mount the new disk(For example 'mount /newdsk' or just 'mount -a') The man pages for fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs have all the information you need but can be a little confusing. In the bsdlabel man page there are some examples near the bottom that are good. They suggest using dd to overwrite anything that might preexist in the first sector. That isn't always needed, but can fix things if that sector is a problem. Actually, I usually write around the first 100 sectors just for good measure when I need it. The only more complicated things are if you want to make more than one partition and/or slice, and if you want to be able to boot from it. More slices and partitions amounts to the same, but just require some calculations. Making it bootable requires using -B on both fdisk and bsdlabel. All this can also be done using sysinstall, but I prefer doing it straight up with the regular tools. Read the man pages. Good luck, jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Odd sendmail behavior change
Sendmail seems to have changed its behavior in the last week. I only use sendmail for system mail and it was working up until May 28: May 28 03:08:23 kt sendmail[96390]: k4S78MdC096390: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=32393, relay=[127.0.0.1] [12 7.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (k4S78MRA096392 Message accepted for delivery) May 28 03:09:39 kt sm-mta [96399]: k4S78MRA096392: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay =00:01:16, xdelay=00:01:16, mailer=esmtp, pri=32709, relay=hus.parkingspa.com. [ 66.246.195.41], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation timed out with hus.parkingspa.com. Now all system mail seems to want to be forwarded thru some relay at hus.parkingspa.com. I have no clue where this came from nor can I find any configuration for it. My sendmail configuration has always been the default (6.1-STABLE). The only 'configuration' I've done is to alias root's mail to my local user in /etc/aliases. Have there been any changes to sendmail or required configurations that I've missed. src/UPDATING gave no clues and I've grepped files trying to find where hus.parkingspa.com could have came from to no avail. Any suggestions for fixing this would be appreciated. If any information is needed, just ask. Randy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6.1 jumpstart issues
I recently upgraded my jumpstart server from 5.5 to 6.1 and have had some issues getting the new jumpstart process working. Specifically, while using my old install.cfg, my new machines were not being built with a kernel. I figured out that the sysinstall manpage is out of date and as of 6.x there is a new distribution that needs to be installed, named kernels. However, even after adding that: # Select which distributions we want. dists=base kernels manpages catpages proflibs dict distSetCustom the kernel was still not installed. It dosen't even look like sysinstall attempted to process it, either. I'm going through the sysinstall source to see if it's aware of kernels, but having no luck yet. Has anybody successfully used a 6.x machine to build a jumpstart server? Is there a better source for automating sysinstall info than the manpage? (I originally used the freebsd.org handbook site on pxeboot, but it was horribly out of date (4.x) and later had more luck with http://www.daemonsecurity.com/pub/pxeboot/article.html, which is how I got my 5.5 machine working. I see it has been updated for 6.x but uses a non-custom dist install set, which isn't exactly what I want) -- - Lamont I am not an atomic playboy. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Odd sendmail behavior change
Now all system mail seems to want to be forwarded thru some relay a t hus.parkingspa.com. I have no clue where this came from nor Try dig kt.weeble.com it is just an alias name for hus.parkingspa.com olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Odd sendmail behavior change
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 10:03:35 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now all system mail seems to want to be forwarded thru some relay a t hus.parkingspa.com. I have no clue where this came from nor Try dig kt.weeble.com it is just an alias name for hus.parkingspa.com Doh.. the obvious.. I've been using that name internally for many years and I do have it listed in /etc/hosts. I thought that /etc/hosts was checked before bind. It was never an issue before May 28 but the solution was relatively easy: change the network name for my LAN add the hostname to /etc/mail/local-host-names restart sendmail (kill -HUP `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`) Thanks for the clue stick and the quick response! It really was driving me crazy for a bit but I should know after 8 unix years that when contradictions exist, check the premises. I never dreamed anyone would actually use such a stupid hostname for real ;-) Best regards, Randy -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What Port Installs /usr/local/lib/libiconv.la?
libiconv)- make -DWITH_EXTRA_PATCHES install I know its over a year later, but haha i just found out and saw your old post ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sudoedit, restricting to particular folder
well in that case what can uyou recommend for editing only zone files and being able to run rndc, that is my main goal, i need to lock a system so that only rndc reload, rndc reconfig and editing zone files is possible by a group of users, any suggestins? and/or how do you do this? On 5/31/06, N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-30 16:30:45 -0500]: luser ALL = (root) sudoedit /home/luser/foo/* Why not give them root while you're at it: luser$ cd ~/foo; ln -s /etc/master.passwd; sudoedit ~/foo/master.passwd Yikes, he's right. Don't put that in your sudoers file. I found some notes on the sudo mailing lists while Googling, that luser ALL = (root) sudoedit /home/luser/foo/ would work one day for all files in /home/luser/foo/, IIRC Todd Miller said this would come out in version 1.7, but it looks like development of sudo has stalled, so short of writing your own wrapper script (which shouldn't be terribly hard) I don't know how to solve the original problem of restricting sudoedit to a particular directly using sudo alone. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo -- -Lawrence ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice compilation failure
On 6/2/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 6/1/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrea Venturoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I reported it several months ago and all I got to be told was that it's a strange problem. Well, that's true... Do you have devel/epm installed by any chance? No I do not have epm installed. Should I install it and try again? No. If you had it, I would recommend removing it before trying again. Initially did not have epm. Even tried to compile *with* epm installed. Still stuck up at the same place. :-( Subhro -- Subhro Kar Security Engineer iViZ Techno Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Dhanshree Bldg, 1st Floor Plot XI-16, Sector V Salt Lake City 700091 India ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is vinum in FBSD 6.0?
Travis H. wrote: I recently installed 6.0, and there doesn't seem to be a vinum binary. There is a gvinum binary, but it doesn't even implement all of the commands in its own help screen. I'm somewhat confused. Did I screw up my install, or is this normal? Is there some kind of IP lawsuit over vinum or something? Hi, The following is an extract from: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html [...] Note: Starting with FreeBSD 5, Vinum has been rewritten in order to fit into the GEOM architecture (Chapter 18), retaining the original ideas, terminology, and on-disk metadata. This rewrite is called gvinum (for GEOM vinum). The following text usually refers to Vinum as an abstract name, regardless of the implementation variant. Any command invocations should now be done using the gvinum command, and the name of the kernel module has been changed from vinum.ko to geom_vinum.ko, and all device nodes reside under /dev/gvinum instead of /dev/vinum. As of FreeBSD 6, the old Vinum implementation is no longer available in the code base. [...] Cheers, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
