Re: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best?
I use the Linksys EZXS88W and have had _no_ problems at all. It's nice and small, too. I can't speak for the model that you mentioned below, though if the specs are similar, I am sure it will serve well. -Craig - Original Message - From: Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:45 PM Subject: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best? People, I'm upgrading my hub from a 5-port hub and thought I would check with this list to see if the Linksys EFAH08W is still a good deal. If there is somethng other that would work equally well on my FreeBSD netwrk, please le me know. (I've had good luck with Linksys, but have read some negative comments.) thanks much, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?)
Is NFS an option? It does mean that the client will have slower file access, but it would appear to do exactly what you are after... Hope this at least partially helps. -Craig - Original Message - From: Steven N. Fettig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 2:46 PM Subject: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?) I have two workstations I use (one at home and one at work) connected via a private DSL link that each have the directories /home/me. I want to run a cron job to sync the directories (bi-directionally). Rsync seems to work only in one direction (I know I could set up the script on both machines), but I wanted to see if I could run the script on one machine and simply copy new files over to the lacking machine or update files via checksums (where a file has been updated on one machine and I want that updated file to be copied over the old file on the other machine). I am not worried about the case where I might update a given file on both machines at the same time - it doesn't happen. Any advice and scripts that you use to accomplish this? Thanks, Steve Fettig ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Well-supported gigabit cards under 4-stable?
I have two Intel Pro1000MT's, and they work flawless. I can say with a straight face that I have never had a problem with them. They have only been used with one another over a crossover cable, so I can't speak for how well they play with switches or other brands. I beleive NCI (ncix.com) has them on sale for about the price you mentioned. I actually got one of them off of ebay for $43 after shipping. I use an MTU setting of 9014, and it helps performance sustantially. This testimonial actually applies to both -stable and -current. Hope this helps. -Craig - Original Message - From: Tillman Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD-Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 1:46 AM Subject: Well-supported gigabit cards under 4-stable? Howdy, I found a few threads on this topic in google, but they were from a while ago (-stable and hardware are both moving targets, after all). I'm interesting in seeing what low-cost gigabit cards are supported under -stable and which cards might be recommended. I'm looking specifically at the Linksys EG1032, D-Link DGE-530T, Intel Pro1000MT, and the Micronet SP2612R. All are relatively cheap (Can$64 and lower), are easily obtained in Canada via the popular online merchants, and would be within reach a typical (though geeky) home network. Most of my computers will remain 100Mbit, but I'd like to move my main file server to 1000Mbit. All the other machines do full dumps to it every night (which eventually end up on tape), so it spends a fairly large portion of every day with it's interface completely saturated (and it's worse on weekly dump days). I'm primarily concerned with driver stability. For example, I noticed some messages in the archives about the nge driver causing problems ... that was some time ago, but I'd like to avoid that on a server which handles my backups ;-) I'm also interested in nice vlan and jumbo frame support, though I can get by without them. So what's recommended by folks running gigabit gear these days? -T -- Page xxviii: Live with Unix long enough and you will change. You will become more creative, and you will come to understand the spirit of creation in others. - Harley Hahn, _The Unix Companion_ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changing the root device - properly
Hi, The other day, I replaced my server's motherboard with a new one. The old board had an onboard ATA33 controller that could not read disks 32GB, even with the bios upgrade, so I bought an ATA133 pci card. The computer has two disks, a 40GB 5400rpm ata100, and a 120GB 7200rpm ata133. The way I had it setup was the 40G was the pri master on the controller (ad4), and the 120 was the secondary master (ad6). The root partition is 's1a' on the 40G drive. When I put in the new board, I decided to re-arrange things a bit. It has an ata100 controller on it, so I put the 40G as the pri master on that, and made the 120G the pri master on the pci card. This obviously changes ad4-ad0, and ad6-ad4, respectively. I had forgotten to change /etc/fstab before doing all this, so the kernel couldnt mount the root device, and complained accordingly. I tried to enter ufs:/dev/ad0s1a a few times, with no luck. I forget the exact error code, but I'm reasonably confident it was 22. What I ended up doing was putting the drives in the old configuration, booting up, changing fstab, and then putting it back to the new layout. This did end up working, but my question now is: What's the _proper_ way of changing the root device after making hardware changes? Or, should fstab _always_ be changed prior? I actually didn't forget, I just hadn't thought of re-arranging the drives until the screwdriver was in my hand... Thanks, -Craig ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recycled cd's
Spencer, I doubt that there is a formal way of getting old cd's, besides going to a local computer store, or somesuch. -Craig - Original Message - From: Spencer Chirume [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 4:49 PM Subject: Recycled cd's Hi Who do I get in touch with if to get a copy of a old BSD CD? -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ rockmail.exodus.ro - 30MB free email POP3 Access! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disable core dumps
I think you are looking for the 'kern.coredump' sysctl. Put a line like this in /etc/sysctl.conf: kern.coredump=0 Hope this helps. -Craig - Original Message - From: Tobias Eichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 1:39 PM Subject: Disable core dumps Hello, I'd like to know whether there's a possibility to disable core dumps in a 'global' manner. I've already modified my bash config by adding a ulimit -c 0 in order to prevent core dumps from being written to the disk. The problem still persists when starting an application via the KDE menu, in my case the qt assistant. The core file will be in my home directory. There's a way to disable crash dumps by adding the line dumpdev=NO to /etc/rc.conf. Is there something analogue for nomal core dumps? Thanks and best regards, Tobias ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RealTek 8139 PC Card
pciconf -lv will show you very beautiful output of pci devices. -Craig - Original Message - From: Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 4:20 AM Subject: RealTek 8139 PC Card [snipped, OE sucks] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: startup daemon as unpriviliged user
man 5 crontab -- check out @reboot Or, for something crazy, man gettytab; you can autologin on a tty and then use a shell script to do all kinds of fun things. I used to run X without xdm that way. Hope this helps. -Craig - Original Message - From: Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 7:47 PM Subject: startup daemon as unpriviliged user Hey everyone. Here's a general question for you. I have a FreeBSD 4.8 system that runs fetchmail for me as an unprivileged everyday userid. The problem is that the machine isn't on the most reliable powergrid one could hope for. So when the system comes back up after going down, I ALWAYS forget that I have to get fetchmail restarted. If I forget for too long, there's so much mail it blows the server that receives the mail into oblivion (also FreeBSD 4.8, running Sendmail, Cyrus Imapd, and the main culprit, Spamassassin - spamd). This is so bad that I often have to reboot the receiving system. So, how can I get a process to run automatically on startup for an unprivileged user? Thanks. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. -- John Muir ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I'm really upset with my new computer
I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX permissions on their proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a patch is committed into the source tree. -Craig - Original Message - From: Rob2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 12:41 PM Subject: I'm really upset with my new computer I can't even log in without permission errors, yet all the files in my home directory are rob.rob permissions. I end up at the root directory where all homeless users end up Nvidia video doesn't work. I downloaded the latest binary from Nvidia and I don't know where it went on my computer. I'm just having a bad day. BTW Win XP is working flawlessly, just to rub it in. This is Dell 8600 laptop. I just needed to rant and complain. It will get figured out in time. I remember when I bought my Sony laptop I had a whole crop of similar problems. Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: playing CDs as non-root user
I've got my FreeBSD system setup with KDE and sound. I have 2 questions: 1. I got sound to work simply by doing kldload snd but then I did kldstat and saw that all available sound modules had been loaded. I thought that was unnecessary - is there any way (besides inserting each module one at a time) that I can determine which exact module is providing the driver for my sound card? Try typing 'dmesg | grep pcm0' and see what shows up. You should then be able to narrow it down. Do note that some are common between (almost?) all cards, such as snd_pcm.ko. 2. I can play a music CD just fine as root, using cdcontrol, as described in the handbook. But under KDE, running as a non-root user, I cannot play music CDs. I looked at the permissions on /dev/acd0c, and they are 0640, root.operator, so an ordinary user cannot read the CD. I changed the permissions to 0644, and I could play the CD. However, there must be a good reason for the permisisons to be 0640, and I don't want to mess up the permissions just to get the CD player to work. What is the official way to get this to work? The handbook didn't mention it. That's probably the best way to do it, believe it or not. To have it work on bootup in 5.X, try editing /etc/rc.devfs (I think), or in 4.X try editing /etc/rc.local to say chmod 644 /dev/acd0c (I think). It may not require anything after doing it once in 4.X. -Craig P.S. Sorry if this is out to lunch. -- Anand Buddhdev http://anand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Filesystem tuning for lots of small files (a Maildir)?
- Original Message - From: Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 07:13 Subject: Filesystem tuning for lots of small files (a Maildir)? I'm currently facing a problem of having used Netscape (now Mozilla) for years in Windows and now trying to find something I can regularly use in FreeBSD without losing Mozilla in Windows. I've mostly settled on IMAP (courier) with procmail filters, but that raises the issue of filesystem performance for directories with large numbers of files/subdirectories in them. I have more than 32,000 emails stored. How do I calculate/see the number of available inodes? ^ df -i /filesystem-in-question The existing filesystem was newfs'd with the sysinstall defaults. Should I re-newfs it with different values? What would I want to set them at? I know I'd need to adjust things to make sure I have enough inodes for 40,000+ files, but what about the block and fragment size? Should I use smaller values like 8192/1024 or 4096/512 or is the default 16384/2048 best? Higher values would just increase slack space, right? What are the impacts of lower values? The number of inodes varies with the filesystem size and bytes per inode. So if you're talking about a huge filesystem, you're probably all set as it is. However, I needed a /usr that has many inodes, so I doubled the default by doing this: newfs -b 16384 -f 2048 -i 4096 /usr -i 4096 is half as many bytes per inode compared to the default 8192, therefore, I have 2X as many inodes. See newfs(8) for more info. tuning(7) also. Some folders, like the one for the postfix-users list, can have 3000-4000 messages in them. For growth, we'll say 5000 messages. The IMAP layout with Courier means all the folders sit all on one level under ~/Maildir, which means I'd have 200 or so subdirectories in one place. I have the UFS_DIRHASH option enabled for the my MP3 collection, but that's as case of 300 subdirecories in one directory, not 5000 files. What else can I do to tune for this kind of (ab)use? Not sure. I hope at least part of this message was somewhat-kinda-sorta-maybe helpful. [Snipping mail questions; I have no idea.] -Craig To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
