Greg Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tony Finch wrote:
Why not just use rename(2)? To protect against the new filename
already existing?
Why not just read the man page for rename(2) before making
suggestions?
I did. I'm glad I was right that it's deleting the destination that is
the problem.
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:25:42PM -0500, Kevin Brunelle wrote:
Hey everyone,
Sorry if you have heard this before, or if it is annoying. I just can't
seem to find any information on this.
I have been poking around my kernel for quite some time now, and I have
been doing it with various
Matthew Emmerton wrote:
On 7 Feb 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
Matthew Luckie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I completely understand your plea to not use 3.0 release.
I am personally using 4.2-stable. Its not my decision to use 3.0
I beleive the computers running 3.0 have been
Matthew Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've got a 3.2-R machine which I'm forced to maintain, and the only reason
why it's not running 3.2-S or 4.2-S is because I can't take the stupid
thing offline. I've haggled with my boss for a 6 hour window and the
answer is no, no, no. I've even
Dan Phoenix wrote:
Yes maxusers stopped the dmesg errorsit seemed. Only thing I do not
like to much about postfix is that it only tries one MX record and then
does not try any others"default"yes there is still backlog with
#'s I gave you. Right now 8 min to get an email from
Matt Dillon wrote:
:Yes maxusers stopped the dmesg errorsit seemed. Only thing I do not
:like to much about postfix is that it only tries one MX record and then
:does not try any others"default"yes there is still backlog with
:#'s I gave you. Right now 8 min to get an email from
Hmm, I have exactly the same situation, a mission-critical server that
can't be taken offline to do an upgrade. It's running 3.4,
but with a few binaries from 4.0 that I needed to make our CGIs work
(development is done on 4.2 :).
Euh... Mission Critical(tm) without a backup machine?
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:07:06PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
On 7 Feb 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
Brian Somers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Indeed. I've been doing a ``make build'' on an OpenBSD-current vm
for three days (probably about 36 hours excluding suspends) on a
Yes I did and it made some real differences. I enabled it on /usr as well
as /var and mounted /var with the noatime option. Doing not bad for the
amount of email it is pushingthing is this I/O problem never use to be
an issuebut with growth constantly happening it has come to a
Josef Karthauser wrote:
The slowdown during start up appears to be in biowr; this is probably
because of IDE write caching being switched off. More seriously
the vmware hangs during various phases of it's boot process.
Write caching is incompaible with soft updates.
The drive must NEVER
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 03:41:59AM -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote:
Yes I did and it made some real differences. I enabled it on /usr as well
as /var and mounted /var with the noatime option. Doing not bad for the
amount of email it is pushingthing is this I/O problem never use to be
an
Dan Phoenix wrote:
Yes I did and it made some real differences. I enabled it on /usr as well
as /var and mounted /var with the noatime option. Doing not bad for the
amount of email it is pushingthing is this I/O problem never use to be
an issuebut with growth constantly happening it
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:08:12AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
Josef Karthauser wrote:
714 root -14 0 123M 79192K inode0:45 25.29% 25.29% vmware
When this happens the whole machine freezes also. Processes run, but
new processes don't get forked. The whole machine
negative on that houston :)
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=52705+54899+/usr/local/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-scsi/20001008.freebsd-scsi
..i think maybe thread you are talking about.
Not to much info I could find on specifically on what you are talking
about. ...but again are you
Josef Karthauser wrote:
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:08:12AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
Josef Karthauser wrote:
714 root -14 0 123M 79192K inode0:45 25.29% 25.29% vmware
When this happens the whole machine freezes also. Processes run, but
new processes don't
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:41:29PM -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote:
Only thing I do not like to much about postfix is that it only tries
one MX record and then does not try any others
Have a look at smtp_connect_timeout parameter (documented at
/usr/local/etc/postfix/sample-smtp.cf).
Cheers,
Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I believe that vmware mmaps a region of memory and then somehow syncs
it to disk. (It is certainly doing something like it here).
Theory: VMWare mmaps a region of memory corresponding to the virtual
machine's "physical" RAM, then touches every page
Matthew Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That might work, but that requires boss/manager to have some idea of the
technical implications of a) upgrading and b) remaining with old
OS. Depending on the organization, the situation may be
next-to-impossible. (And no saying I-told-you-so when
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:58:17AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
Looks like some way of clustering this might achieve a lot.
what does systat -vmstat or vmstat 1
show?
Better still, I guess we could do a linux-truss
and see what it's doing...
I believe that it's strace under linux. If
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 02:47:59PM +, Josef Karthauser wrote:
what does systat -vmstat or vmstat 1
show?
Better still, I guess we could do a linux-truss
and see what it's doing...
I believe that it's strace under linux. If someone can provide me
with a binary of this tool I'll
Hi:
Is it possible to have an application like ping or telnet iterate
through IP addresses for a given hostname, if a previous attempt fails?
For example:
in /etc/hosts:
---
0.0.0.1 testhost
0.0.0.2 testhost
0.0.0.3 testhost
---
If I attempt to 'ping
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Eric Fiterman wrote:
Hi:
Is it possible to have an application like ping or telnet iterate
through IP addresses for a given hostname, if a previous attempt fails?
For example:
in /etc/hosts:
---
0.0.0.1 testhost
0.0.0.2 testhost
0.0.0.3
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:41:59AM -0500, Eric Fiterman wrote:
Hi:
Is it possible to have an application like ping or telnet iterate
through IP addresses for a given hostname, if a previous attempt fails?
For example:
in /etc/hosts:
---
0.0.0.1 testhost
0.0.0.2
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 18:51:50 +0200
Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
roam I do not think that any of the applications in the base system have
roam this ability. The only place I've seen it (and am using it in several
roam home-grown apps) is in DJB's ucspi-tcp package (sysutils/ucspi-tcp,
Nick Rogness wrote:
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote:
May some one give me some help where i can find documentation on
building my own boot floppy disk for freebsd ?
Most info about the FreeBSD OS can be obtained via the website
at:
:
:Don't forget to put logging and other such things on a separate drive..
:even a small 1G drive as a secondary will be ok, as long as it has soft
:updates and doesn't share heads with the work area..
:
:vmstat 1 and iostat 1 output would be intersting.
:
:--
: __--_|\ Julian Elischer
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:06:31AM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 18:51:50 +0200
IPv6 aware applications in base system such as telnet, ssh... do
round-robbin so that it can be fall back to use IPv4 if IPv6
connection is fail.
Errr.. oops. I must have been on something.
: already existing?
:
:Why not just read the man page for rename(2) before making
:suggestions?
:
:I did. I'm glad I was right that it's deleting the destination that is
:the problem. I would have thought it would be easy to be sure that
:spool filenames are unique, but OTOH I guess that's not
I just want to say thanks for all your help. I really like cscope and it
was almost exactly what I was looking for. I got several other great
ideas from some people. I like using a web browser for code browsing
when I just want to poke around and kill time. Just so you all know, vi
has an
-Original Message-
From: Eric Fiterman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 9:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: multiple IP addresses in /etc/hosts
Hi:
Is it possible to have an application like ping or telnet iterate
through
Dan Phoenix wrote:
Yes maxusers stopped the dmesg errorsit seemed. Only thing I do not
like to much about postfix is that it only tries one MX record and then
does not try any others..
(slightly off topic)
In my experience, postfix is very nice about trying multiple MX records.
It
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 03:00:23PM -0500, Thomas Strmberg wrote:
Dan Phoenix wrote:
Yes maxusers stopped the dmesg errorsit seemed. Only thing I do not
like to much about postfix is that it only tries one MX record and then
does not try any others..
(slightly off topic)
In my
Here's an idea for a new /etc/malloc.conf option to help with
debugging... I'm interested in what other people think.
The option would have the effect of setting a "failure probability"
P between 0.0 and 1.0 such that any malloc()/realloc() operation would
fail with probability P.
Sometimes
http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/SiS/sis.diff
This patch adds support for reading the station address from the
ATC CMOS RAM for board with the SiS 630E chipset with integrated
SiS 900 ethernet. I've verified that the patch compiles and doesn't
make the system explode, and it should have no effect
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Archie Cobbs writes:
Here's an idea for a new /etc/malloc.conf option to help with
debugging... I'm interested in what other people think.
The option would have the effect of setting a "failure probability"
P between 0.0 and 1.0 such that any malloc()/realloc()
http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/4.x/fec.tar.gz
http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/5.x/fec.tar.gz
This is a call for testers for a netgraph module that can be used to
aggregate 2 or 4 ethernet interfaces into a single interface. Basically,
it lets you do things like the following:
# kldload
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:58:17AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
=20
Looks like some way of clustering this might achieve a lot.
=20
what does systat -vmstat or vmstat 1
show?
Better still, I guess we could do a linux-truss
and see what it's doing...
I believe that it's strace
Hello,
I am trying to do the following setup:
/jail
/jail-run
The first is a directory in a filesystem and holds the necessary files to
run the given application. The second directory is also a simple directory
but /jail mounted into it with mount_null.
The command I use to mount the first
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 08:15:42PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote:
When I start jail I often get page faults.
Also I want to chroot() in the jail (ftp daemon) but it page faults in all
cases.
nullfs is broken in all versions prior to 5.0-CURRENT. This is even
documented in the manpage. I don't
What is the status of the Cyclades Z driver under 4.2. The cyclades site
only has drivers for 3.2, NetBSD has a driver for NetBSD 1.5. I can't
find any reference to a driver for freebsd 4.2. If you know of any
please tell me.
Greg
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Does this update ERRATA.TXT on the FTP site too?
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.2-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT
-Charles
-Original Message-
From: Jordan Hubbard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 11:03 PM
To: Charles Randall
Cc: 'Alfred Perlstein'; Paul
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 02:07:32PM -0800, Greg Wohletz wrote:
What is the status of the Cyclades Z driver under 4.2. The cyclades site
only has drivers for 3.2, NetBSD has a driver for NetBSD 1.5. I can't
find any reference to a driver for freebsd 4.2. If you know of any
please tell me.
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:09:01AM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote:
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Eric Fiterman wrote:
Hi:
Is it possible to have an application like ping or telnet iterate
through IP addresses for a given hostname, if a previous attempt fails?
For example:
in
Would it generally be viewed as helpful to add the option of reporting
the md5 for the files listed in /var/log/setuid.*?
It would make the lines in that file very long, but in many cases they
already break the 80 character boundary anyhow.
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Attila Nagy writes:
Hello,
I am trying to do the following setup:
/jail
/jail-run
The first is a directory in a filesystem and holds the necessary files to
run the given application. The second directory is also a simple directory
but /jail mounted into it with mount_null.
The
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Nick Sayer wrote:
Would it generally be viewed as helpful to add the option of reporting
the md5 for the files listed in /var/log/setuid.*?
I don't see the benefit in this if either the md5 binary or the
comparison file are on writable storage (which is almost always
going to be true).
To
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 03:55:41PM -0800, Nick Sayer wrote:
Would it generally be viewed as helpful to add the option of reporting
the md5 for the files listed in /var/log/setuid.*?
To what end? We already know the files changed - adding their MD5
doesn't seem to provide the administrator with
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Bill Paul wrote:
http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/4.x/fec.tar.gz
http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/5.x/fec.tar.gz
This is a call for testers for a netgraph module that can be used
to aggregate 2 or 4 ethernet interfaces into a single interface.
Basically, it lets you
:Here's an idea for a new /etc/malloc.conf option to help with
:debugging... I'm interested in what other people think.
:
:The option would have the effect of setting a "failure probability"
:P between 0.0 and 1.0 such that any malloc()/realloc() operation would
:fail with probability P.
:...
:
Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I believe that vmware mmaps a region of memory and then somehow syncs
it to disk. (It is certainly doing something like it here).
Theory: VMWare mmaps a region of memory corresponding to the virtual
machine's
There's this little problem with FreeBSD that has been bugging me a bit
for a while now. There have been a couple times I've tried to mount Zip
disks or floppy drives in FreeBSD, and had the /etc/fstab set up to
mount read/write, and didn't realize that I had write protect turned
on. However, I
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kenny Drobnack writes:
: Is some system call to check the hardware to see if its physically
: writable? I figure there is. I want to start hacking at the kernel a
: bit, and it seems like something simple (comparitively) would be a good
: place to start. Up
Well, after a long conversation with Mr Bernstein and Kirk it turns out
that all my blathering about a normal FFS mount being easily corruptable
due to a crash occuring during heavy disk I/O (e.g. from qmail) is so
much smoke.
The fsync()/rename() combination that QMail does
Does anybody know of any attempt to write a Fast Filesystem driver for
windows 2000?. I have a machine that dual boots, and I can see the NTFS
under FreeBSD no problem, but I would like to see my freebsd volume under
windows, too.
Is this a good project for me to do, or has someone done this
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:13:42PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anybody know of any attempt to write a Fast Filesystem driver for
windows 2000?. I have a machine that dual boots, and I can see the NTFS
under FreeBSD no problem, but I would like to see my freebsd volume under
windows,
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kenny Drobnack writes:
: Up there on my wish list is getting a journaling
: filesystem ported to FreeBSD.
You may wish to check out IBM's JFS port for Linux
(http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jfs/) It's released
under the GPL. The nice
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