Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-22 Thread Nielsen
Yes I've had the same problem. One system runs just fine with it's jails, and another crashes habitually. It has to do with a certain jail (and services). Our system are set up to be able to move jails between them (great for backups and near perfect uptime), and a certain set of jails always

help with PicoBSD for the DAR

2002-06-22 Thread John Franz
Im currently attemting to build a embeded type Digital Audio Recorder running PicoBSD booting off a zip disk. its a pretty strait forward project. unfortunatly none of the default scripts to make PicoBSD seem to work out of the box, let alone after adding the features i need, or writing a

Re: help with PicoBSD for the DAR

2002-06-22 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 12:31:35AM -0700, John Franz wrote: Im currently attemting to build a embeded type Digital Audio Recorder running PicoBSD booting off a zip disk. its a pretty strait forward project. unfortunatly none of the default scripts to make PicoBSD seem to work out of the

RE: LINT CPU features table

2002-06-22 Thread Lucky Green
Let me turn my original inquiry into an offer: I volunteer to write the section for the Handbook or other documentation detailing the various CPU options in LINT if somebody who fully understands what these options do is willing to spend 30 minutes on the phone with me answering questions about

Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer)

2002-06-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Chris Dillon wrote: While I appreciate the positive support of Cyrus, I guess I need to point out that this approach only works if you are willing to send passwords over the wire in plaintext. Yes, but this is the case with any IMAP server and doesn't really have anything to do with

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-22 Thread Patrick Thomas
What it does is the userland hangs, but the kernel keeps running. When the system is crashed, I can still ping it successfully, and I can still open sockets (like I can open a connection to a jails httpd or sshd, or the sshd of the underlying server itself) but nothing answers on the sockets -

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Patrick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020622 01:56] wrote: What it does is the userland hangs, but the kernel keeps running. ... I'm mostly just curious if this kind of crash (userland hung but kernel running) is a possible outcome of someone in a jail fiddling with those /dev nodes, or if

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Patrick Thomas wrote: What it does is the userland hangs, but the kernel keeps running. When the system is crashed, I can still ping it successfully, and I can still open sockets (like I can open a connection to a jails httpd or sshd, or the sshd of the underlying server itself) but nothing

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-22 Thread Patrick Thomas
Terry, Thanks for that informative email - just a quick reality check though (for myself) - the last time this type of crash happened, I was running and watching `top` on the machine - and when it froze, the `top` output froze as well, and this was the last display on the screen: last pid:

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Patrick Thomas wrote: Since all of the things you spoke of basically revolved around you're running out of memory, is it possible or reasonable to think that within the space of 1 second, I ran through 1404 megs inactive and 28 megs free memory ? machine is 4.5-RELEASE with 3gigs ram.

Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer)

2002-06-22 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Sat 2002-06-22 (00:06), Chris Dillon wrote: Yes, but this is the case with any IMAP server and doesn't really have anything to do with Cyrus in particular. Unlike other IMAP servers, however, Cyrus supports SASL which offers plenty of non-plain-text authentication options, unfortunately

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Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-22 Thread Nielsen
1) do you allow them write access to their /dev/mem, /dev/kmem, /dev/io ? Actually haven't yet let anyone else inside a jail with root capabilities. Will soon though. So, no probably not, unless there's a daemon which does just that. 2) does this sound like what you see? Can you still ping

Re: LINT CPU features table

2002-06-22 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Lucky Green wrote: Let me turn my original inquiry into an offer: I volunteer to write the section for the Handbook or other documentation detailing the various CPU options in LINT if somebody who fully understands what these options do is willing to spend 30

RE: LINT CPU features table

2002-06-22 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Lucky Green wrote: Let me turn my original inquiry into an offer: I volunteer to write the section for the Handbook or other documentation detailing the various CPU options in LINT if somebody who fully understands what these options do is willing to spend 30 minutes on

Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer)

2002-06-22 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Terry == Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Terry Personally, I think SASL should have specified that you Terry crypt(3) the passwords, and then use the resulting hash as Terry the password value for the shared secret on both ends. At Terry least that way, you would not

Re: LINT CPU features table

2002-06-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 22), Mike Silbersack said: On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Lucky Green wrote: Let me turn my original inquiry into an offer: I volunteer to write the section for the Handbook or other documentation detailing the various CPU options in LINT if somebody who fully understands

Weird problems with BIND 8.3.1-REL

2002-06-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
I am having weird problems with BIND. It started happening about a month and a half ago. named would start returning immediate host name lookup failures for just about everything and never recover. I dumped named in one of these instances. The dump file (500K) is

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-22 Thread Patrick Thomas
How do you increase KVA space these days ? I see that in earlier releases you had to edit /sys/conf/ldscript.i386 and /sys/i386/include/pmap.h and do all sorts of crazy stuff. What is the procedure in 4.5-RELEASE (please say just change KVA_PAGES=260 to KVA_PAGES=512) That's what you want me

Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer)

2002-06-22 Thread Chris Dillon
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: On Sat 2002-06-22 (00:06), Chris Dillon wrote: Yes, but this is the case with any IMAP server and doesn't really have anything to do with Cyrus in particular. Unlike other IMAP servers, however, Cyrus supports SASL which offers plenty of

USB mouse probes, but I get uhci_timeout

2002-06-22 Thread Brian Reichert
Under FreeBSD-RELEASE, I'm messing with a USB mouse. I've compiled into the kernel the lot of USB devices, and the USB debug options. (More specifcally, the device is a Twiddler2, which acts as a keyboard and a mouse, and a keyboard/mouse - USB converter the vendor sold me.) I get as far as:

Re: LINT CPU features table

2002-06-22 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 22), Mike Silbersack said: On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Lucky Green wrote: Let me turn my original inquiry into an offer: I volunteer to write the section for the Handbook or other documentation detailing the various CPU options in

Visor USB Problems

2002-06-22 Thread Anish Mistry
I am having some trouble reading data from a Handspring Visor Platinum. What I am trying to do is make the necessary modifications to pilot-link so that it will work with the usb on FreeBSD. My problem is that I can open a connection to the /dev/ugen0.2 endpoint, but whenever I try to call a

Re: Weird problems with BIND 8.3.1-REL

2002-06-22 Thread Doug Barton
Matthew Dillon wrote: I am having weird problems with BIND. It started happening about a month and a half ago. named would start returning immediate host name lookup failures for just about everything and never recover. That's not good. :) I assume you're using it as

Re: Ultra320 drivers?

2002-06-22 Thread Peter Wemm
Jonathan Lemon wrote: I have an IBM box that has a dual LSI 53c1030 controller on the motherboard. Our SYM driver doesn't appear to have support for this device; under Linux it is supported by a Fusion/MPT driver from LSI. Any chance of getting a driver for this chip? I have an IA64 box

Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer)

2002-06-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: Terry Personally, I think SASL should have specified that you Terry crypt(3) the passwords, and then use the resulting hash as Terry the password value for the shared secret on both ends. At Terry least that way, you would not have to pass cleartext to

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Patrick Thomas wrote: How do you increase KVA space these days ? I see that in earlier releases you had to edit /sys/conf/ldscript.i386 and /sys/i386/include/pmap.h and do all sorts of crazy stuff. What is the procedure in 4.5-RELEASE (please say just change KVA_PAGES=260 to

Re: (jail) problem and a (possible) solution ?

2002-06-22 Thread Patrick Thomas
I think I'll just decrease my swap size from 2 gigs to 1 gig - is that a reasonable alternative that provides the same benefit and possible solution to this problem ? ...since bsically 0 swap has ever been used on the machine anyway... --PT On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: Patrick

Re: FreeBSD NFS server benchmarks vs. OpenBSD, NetBSD?

2002-06-22 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 09:57:55AM -0400, Matt Simerson wrote: FreeBSD has very solid NFS code in addition to being a very robust, versatile, and downright fun operating system. It's very easy to do everything I want to with FreeBSD. It's NFS is missing locking support but it's very

Re: FreeBSD NFS server benchmarks vs. OpenBSD, NetBSD?

2002-06-22 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, David O'Brien wrote: Actually Matt Jacob has some NFS testsuites that makes FreeBSD servers blow chunks. Solaris still is the most robust NFS server of the general purpose UNIXes. I'm quite happy with the performance of my SGI machines as NFS servers. They're quite robust

bge driver not working in Dell 2650

2002-06-22 Thread Lai Yiu Fai
Anyone get the Broadcom BCM5701 gigibit ethernet working on new Dell 2650? I noted it has been fixed in latest STABLE branch from freebsd-hacker list. http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/thread.php3?subject=Broadcom+BCM5701+GigE+Ethernet+problems%3F%3Flist=159 I grabed the latest -STABLE branch but

Re: Weird problems with BIND 8.3.1-REL

2002-06-22 Thread Doug Barton
David O'Brien wrote: On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:52:19PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: version in the tree appears to be 8.3.2-T1B (which I just installed a second ago). I just updated the bind8 port to 8.3.2-RELEASE, which I recommend that you run instead. I saw some

Re: inuring FreeBSD to the apache bug without upgrading apache ?

2002-06-22 Thread Joshua Lee
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:59:20 -0700 Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Thomas wrote: Is it possible to patch/recompile FreeBSD 4.5 in such a way that your system is no longer vulnerable to the chunking attack, even if you are still running a vulnerable apache ? Not FreeBSD,

Re: FreeBSD NFS server benchmarks vs. OpenBSD, NetBSD?

2002-06-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020622 19:28] wrote: On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 09:57:55AM -0400, Matt Simerson wrote: FreeBSD has very solid NFS code in addition to being a very robust, versatile, and downright fun operating system. It's very easy to do everything I want to with