2nd copy of named is dying
I run two copies of named(8), out of /etc/rc.network:
${named_program:-named} ${named_flags} /etc/namedb/named.conf
${named_program:-named} ${named_flags} /etc/namedb/lan/named.conf
This seems to work fine, except that the second instance of named
occasionally (like, once a month) disappears. Any suggestions as
to how to track down the reason for this?
-r
P.S. I'm running a fairly vanilla install of FreeBSD 4.7
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Re: crontab same time execution order
At 10:43 PM -0700 7/4/03, Dave McCammon wrote: Perhaps this predictable behavior is in FreeBSD only. (I don't have access to other platforms). Or perhaps my simple test was too simple. It just seemed to be too predictable to not at least try to get some feed back. I'm not a big fan of programming to take advantage of undocumented implementation details; they may change unexpectedly. Why not: * Write a wrapper script that does the desired ancillary actions, running the original command in the process: : # newsyslog_lcl - wrapper for newsyslog ... pre-actions ... newsyslog ... post-actions ... * Change /etc/crontab to invoke newsyslog_lcl, rather than newsyslog The usual caveats apply, of course, to writing root-level programs. -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
format of /etc/crontab?
The cron(8) man page (on my FreeBSD 4.7 system) says: Cron searches /var/cron/tabs for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron also searches for /etc/crontab which is in a different format (see crontab(5)). The crontab(5) man page, however, says nothing about any differences in the file formats. Instead, it appears to describe only the format that is used in /var/cron/tabs/* files. I would like to know precisely how the format of /etc/crontab differs, but I can't find any man page that addresses this. Help? -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: format of /etc/crontab?
At 5:23 PM -0400 7/3/03, Paul Chvostek wrote: The /etc/crontab is largely self-documenting. It is similar to the format of the other crontab files, and includes a comment line: #minute hourmdaymonth wdaywho command What further information do you need? None, in the file itself, but the crontab(5) man page should be tweaked. I have posted the following suggestion (to [EMAIL PROTECTED]): The ``sixth'' field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be ... --- In the case of /etc/crontab, another field (username) follows the time and date fields. This is normally set to root, but other names can be specified; the command will be setuid(2) to the corresponding uid. The ``final'' field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be ... The user shouldn't be required to spot the added who field in the comment, let alone read the source code to determine that no other format changes have been made. The man pages promise to (and should) describe any format differences. -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: format of /etc/crontab?
At 8:31 PM -0500 7/3/03, Dan Nelson wrote: It already does, a couple paragraphs above the stuff you quoted: The format of a cron command is very much the V7 standard, with a number of upward-compatible extensions. Each line has five time and date fields, followed by a user name (with optional ``:group'' and ``/login-class'' suffixes) if this is the system crontab file, followed by a command. Thanks for pointing this out. I still think the information could do with being a bit less hidden... -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot problem: ata0: resetting devices
At 7:29 AM -0700 5/30/03, Kent Stewart wrote: I use the Promise TX2 and Maxtor pci cards in several systems. I just dropped them in and they worked. You would have to boot scsi. So, you're saying that I can't boot from an ATA drive on a PCI-based controller card? What is the background for this limitation? Also, I'm curious about the effects of turning off hw.ata.ata_dma; outside of using some CPU time, what are the likely effects of this. For instance, is this likely to slow down disk transfers, assuming that the system is mostly idle? -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot problem: ata0: resetting devices
At 10:04 AM -0700 5/30/03, Kent Stewart wrote: No, you didn't understand. The ATA cards appear like a scsi to the bios. To boot from an add in ATA card, you have to choose scsi boot. I'll look into this. However, I haven't seen any way to request this in the SETUP screens. Anything I should look for? You lose a lot of speed. My new ATA cards are all UDMA-133. Dma transfers are always faster. PIO is set at something like 16MB/s. You only get so many milliseconds of time for a each transfer block and dma is always faster. So, it's definitely worth pursuing. -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot problem: ata0: resetting devices
At 10:52 AM -0700 5/30/03, Kent Stewart wrote: My definition of speed is a concept based on how long it takes for the prompt to return after I press the enter key. A fast HD helps. ... The 300 MHz PII I've been running has been totally satisfactory, in terms of speed, except that I have a Perl/Tk app that is quite demanding. My entire motivation for upgrading is to get this app to run faster. The current setup (PIO) is still faster than the old machine, but I suspect strongly that getting DMA online would be a win... -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot problem: ata0: resetting devices
I have tried a couple of PCI-based IDE cards. I see messages that
indicate that the motherboard is seeing the card and that the card
is seeing the disk. Unfortunately, the system is not willing to
boot off the disk (sigh). I have tried changing several settings,
including:
* Setting {Pri,Sec}{Master,Slave} to Not Installed
* Setting the {1st,2nd,3rd} Boot Device to IDE-[123]
* Turning off Plug and PLay Aware O/S
* Turning off Onboard PCI IDE
No luck. Suggestions, anyone?
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Re: About reading and writing to files
At 3:04 AM -0500 5/30/03, Bingrui Foo wrote: I'm wondering in freeBSD, if I have a directory with 10,000 files, or maybe even 100,000 files, each about 5 kb long. Wondering will reading and writing to any one of these files in C be affected by the sheer number of these files? Will the access time be affected significantly? Just wondering because not sure whether I should put these data in a database or just use files with unique names. Also will separating the files into many directories help? Looking up .../x/12/34/56 can be done in logarithmic time (i.e., look up .../x/12, then .../x/12/34, then .../x/12/34/56); looking up .../y/123456 (unless some optimization has been added) will require a linear scan through the directory. In short, don't go there... -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot problem: ata0: resetting devices
At 2:05 AM -0700 5/30/03, Kent Stewart wrote: Did you try doing it in /boot/loader.conf. The man page indicates that I can set assorted variables in this file, so perhaps I could put in a line such as: hw.ata.ata_dma=0 If so, the sysctl.conf(5) man page should be amended to indicate the fact. Nonetheless, as I already have a kernel which has the variable turned off, this wouldn't buy me anything. What I'm really looking for is a way to use a different ATA controller. -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boot problem: ata0: resetting devices
I recently purchased a new motherboard (ECS EliteGroup Mainboard P4S5A/DX+; AMI BIOS) and a matching CPU (Celeron, 478 pin, 2.1 GHz) from outpost.com. I stuffed these into an old chassis, adding a 500 W power supply and a pair of 512 MB DDR DIMMs. After walking through the configuration (accepting Optimal Settings for everything), I tried booting up the machine on an IDE drive that was loaded with FreeBSD and had been used most recently with a 200 MHz Pentium II. The boot sequence proceeded without problems for quite a while, checking devices, etc. Then, however, it halted with a pair of nastygrams: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 resetting ata0: resetting devices I tried putting the ATA drive and the CDROM on separate cables, but that didn't seem to help. My suspicion is that the drive is too slow for the ATA controller, but I don't see any way to compensate for this. Help? -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot problem: ata0: resetting devices
Here's a bit more information on the configuration: OS: FreeBSD 4.5 Disk: Seagate Barracuda ATA II (ST320420A; 20 GB) Chips: 478 pin Celeron; 2.1 GHz 512 MB DDR DIMM (2 ea.) SiS645DX Northbridge _or_ SiS962(L) Southbridge The manual indicates that the motherboard could have either a Northbridge or Southbridge chipset, but I don't know an easy way to tell which one this board has. Suggestions? Anyway, assuming that it's the latter, here's a note that seems relevant, if not real encouraging: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/160/2002/11/0/10219234/ the controller is technically unsupported The note does NOT say whether I can simply plug in a PCI-based controller card (which seems like the obvious workaround). Is this likely to work? -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does FreeBSD work on Walmart's $199 Microtel box?
A quick web search didn't bring up any answer to this. Does anyone here have the definitive word? -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
SIZE of rpc.statd?
In looking for a possible memory leak, I tries running top -S -osize. I was curious about the size listed for rpc.statd: PID USERNAMEPRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPUCPU COMMAND 124 root 2 0 257M 0K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% rpc.statd Why is it listed with such a large size? BTW, my current swap space is 256 MB: 128 from the partition that the installer set up and another 128 that I set up as /usr/swap0. -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
100Base-T problem?
I am trying to get my FreeBSD system to work with 100Base-T. It works fine with 10Base-T, but when I put in any of several 100Base-T cards, it fails to work. Interestingly, the lights on the card and on the hub both indicate that the 100Base-T card is connecting. I am running a fairly vanilla PC: CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (300.68-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x58c Stepping = 12 Features=0x8021bfFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,PGE,MMX AMD Features=0x8800SYSCALL,3DNow! I recently upgraded from FreeBSD 4.5 to 4.7, but I don't think this is relevant to the problem at hand. Here are some lines from an unsuccessful (in terms of networking) boot -v, using a Netgear 100Base-TX card: ... dc0: 82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX port 0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xdd80-0xdd8000ff irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0 dc0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:cc:5e:89:b2 miibus0: MII bus on dc0 ukphy0: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface on miibus0 ukphy0: OUI 0x001018, model 0x0021, rev. 2 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto bpf: dc0 attached ... isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices BIOS Geometries: ... Here are some lines from a successful (in terms of networking) boot -v, using an SMC 10Base-TX card: ... de0: Digital 21041 Ethernet port 0xb800-0xb87f mem 0xdd80-0xdd80007f irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0 de0: SMC 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1 de0: address 00:00:c0:63:b2:f2 bpf: de0 attached ... isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices de0: enabling 10baseT port- note additional line BIOS Geometries: ... I have also tried a couple of Farallon cards (de0 driver, IIRC) with no success. Clues and/or suggestions are solicited... -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: 100Base-T problem? (solved)
It turns out that my /etc/rc.conf file was asking for de0, so it wasn't starting up the dc0 interface. Blush. -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm- my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
