Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
a very large number of problem entries. A lot of them have no real response from Lenovo. Draw your own conclusions. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: Bug in calcru in he 6.2 and 6.3 kernels

2008-07-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
felt more testing needed to be done. I believe the plan is to have ULE as the default scheduler in 7.1. You should really be running 4BSD on 6.x, and ULE on 7.x (unless you have reason to run 4BSD on 7.x -- and some people do. And no, I don't know the reasons why). -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: I'm sorry about being a jerk regarding Sysinstall a week or so ago

2008-07-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to be the case). I don't think you should be sorry, but your humbleness is noted. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA

Re: GPG encryption of binary sample requested.

2008-07-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
with dovecot, however -- but it only applies if you're using dovecot with postfix, and have postfix configured to use dovecot as the SMTP AUTH authentication mechanism (yes, that's a feature dovecot provides as well!). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: Can I change the device of the / mount point at boot time.

2008-07-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: weird restarts when compiling

2008-07-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
are there any stress tests i can do, to test the PSU and some major subsystems of the computer? Windows offers many free utilities that do this; I'm not sure about FreeBSD. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: AuthenticAMD, cpufreq and SunFire X2200

2008-07-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
? Are there BIOS settings which are relevant to this board enabling Cool'n'Quiet or anything else of that nature (thus inducing the use of powernow(4))? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: AuthenticAMD, cpufreq and SunFire X2200

2008-07-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
the language :-( First and foremost, please don't remove the mailing list from the CC line; others need to know the technical details. I don't have an answer for you, however. Nate Lawson might have some ideas as to what's going on. A verbose boot may be needed. I've CC'd Nate here. -- | Jeremy

Re: error 1 lba 752976 while booting from USB key to install

2008-07-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
-- and there are many. USB-FDD, USB-HDD, USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM, USB-KEY, USB-LS120, etc... They're all handled in different ways. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: massive interrupt storm

2008-07-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
and hw.pci.enable_msix=0 in /boot/loader.conf and reboot. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others

Re: serial console speed

2008-07-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. is this by design? Yes. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: serial console speed

2008-07-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
place -S115200 in /boot.config and it will work. I know, because every single one of our production servers (RELENG_6 through RELENG_7) use this. We **do not** rebuild boot blocks. Please read this document for my findings. http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install.html -- | Jeremy

Re: Modifying the loaded kernel image

2008-06-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. And you know what's even *more* annoying? HTML Email that is sent with a text/plain MIME type, indicating it's not HTML. Fix your mail client, it's very rude. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com

Re: Looking for *cheap* embedded platform w- 2 ethernets

2008-06-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
is quite awesome. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: eeePC 900 with SSD reducing writes

2008-06-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
, ... any other ideas how to reduces unnecessary often-writes? Why bother? http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems

Re: RELENG_7 pxeboot fails on SuperMicro 6012

2008-06-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install.html Be sure to read this, and see Item #10. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA

Re: RTL8168/8111 PCI express support

2008-06-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
have re and rl drivers compiled in the kernel (stock GENERIC kernel, actually). What do I need to make the NIC work properly? CC'ing PYUN YongHyeon, who should be able to help, since he helps maintain the driver. :-) I'd recommend you start by providing pciconf -lv output here. -- | Jeremy

Re: Is there any way to increase the KVM?

2008-06-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
looked at the code myself, in attempt to figure out where the actual limitation is, and the code is beyond my understanding. (It's somewhat abstracted, but only to those who are completely unfamiliar to the VM piece -- like me :-) ). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc

Re: Is there any way to increase the KVM?

2008-06-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
the problem you're reporting. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: Is there any way to increase the KVM?

2008-05-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
you tried increasing the KVM size and seeing what happens? On amd64 there's still a 2GB limit, re: vm.kmem_size. Increasing it to or past 2048M results in the message kmem_suballoc(): bad status return of 3. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-May/042764.html -- | Jeremy

Re: Maximum memory allocation per process

2008-05-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:58:14PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: On Thu, 22 May 2008 06:38:19 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: You need to modify some kernel settings via /boot/loader.conf and reboot. Here's what we use on our production RELENG_6 and RELENG_7 boxes: # Increase maximum

Re: RAID status issues with Intel MatrixRAID ataraid

2008-05-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since

Re: temporary freezes when pressing capslock / numlock

2008-05-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
in the above wiki. I've also CC'd kbdmux's maintainer. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others

Re: libz.so no found

2008-05-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
reporting missing libraries, and not just nexxus. If the startup script for nessus calls ldconfig or uses $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, that could explain the missing library. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: Maximum memory allocation per process

2008-05-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: Net Mask Prob!

2008-05-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
router uses 255.255.255.0 as a default netmask; most residential routers do. FreeBSD doesn't have any issues/bugs relating to netmasks which would cause what you're seeing. Additionally, your request probably should have gone to -net, not -hackers. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: BDB corrupt

2008-05-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
this: is there some particular reason you can't just write to a file yourself, using your own/documented file format? Why does DB have to be used? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems

Re: Adding .db support to pkg_tools

2008-05-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. Sometimes they're backwards-compatible, other times not. http://www.sqlite.org/formatchng.html http://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html Just stuff to consider. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com

Re: general i/o question

2008-05-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
if it would work with USB keyboards. I would assume it would also interfere with any existing keyboard I/O handler the OS has, but I'm not sure. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: jumbo packets on em card.

2008-04-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
provider doesn't support jumbo. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: jumbo packets on em card.

2008-04-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 05:43:42PM +0530, Sharad Chandra wrote: , [Jeremy Chadwick wrote:] | On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 04:13:13PM +0530, Sharad Chandra wrote: | I am getting a problem in setting em card to 1000baseTX. It shows active | status with 100baseTX but as soon as i run ifconfig

Re: Vital Patches for ataraid with Intel Matrix RAID (ICH7)

2008-03-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
.) on those systems and report back here. Would that be ideal? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life

Re: Vital Patches for ataraid with Intel Matrix RAID (ICH7)

2008-03-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:00:49PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 04:58:47AM +, Stef Walter wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: I have seen this bug in other ATA RAID implementations (VIA Promise) too. From what I can tell this part of your patch is general to all

Re: zpool scrub tank high file system activity caused crash

2008-03-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
the machine with a dump. There's been many previous statements from others that heavy I/O on ZFS results in either a crash or a hard hang, on both i386 and amd64. You're not alone. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Vital Patches for ataraid with Intel Matrix RAID (ICH7)

2008-03-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
/pipermail/freebsd-cluster/2006-June/000292.html http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/fbsdcluster/ -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
? :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
) Can you elaborate? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: Graphic boot loader?

2008-03-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
working on it is Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED]. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard

Re: Versioned symbols

2008-03-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
, dlvsym() function has been added to allow lookups for a specific version of a given symbol. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: Kernel crash on Asus A7N8X-X

2008-03-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
via /boot/loader.conf)? dmesg might be useful here. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard

Re: PXE on 7.0 problem and solution

2008-02-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
/pxeboot_serial_install.html I opened a PR at the time of this discovery as well: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/120127 -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

loader and ficl/Forth help

2008-02-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
-insensitive 0= if 2drop ascii_lines then 2drop cp437_lines I suspect this is what's broken, causing none of the routines to get executed, thus sh_el never gets defined. The version is here: http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/frames.4th.new -- | Jeremy

Re: loader and ficl/Forth help

2008-02-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. The same happens when running this natively (outside of testmain). I'll have to get the qemu stuff set up so I can test this more easily. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: loader and ficl/Forth help

2008-02-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:03:05PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I'll have to get the qemu stuff set up so I can test this more easily. I re-thought the method a bit, and went with something slightly more hackish, plus added code to deal with the case where one uses -h or -Dh in /boot.config

Re: loader and ficl/Forth help

2008-02-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 02:01:14PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: ... I'll submit a PR for the whole thing. We can hash out details/improvements there. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121064 -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: Security Flaw in Popular Disk Encryption Technologies

2008-02-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
as a safety net. If said software doesn't do this, it's very likely succeptable. So the OP's question about ELI/GELI stands -- does it properly zero out memory it allocates before using it? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Zeroing sensitive memory chunks [Was: Security Flaw in Popular Disk Encryption Technologies]

2008-02-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:32:02PM +0300, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:56:20AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: A possible counter-measure would be to add wiping features to the RAM modules themselves. When power is lost, the memory could wipe itself. Still

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
a substantial security risk, especially during the mergemaster phase (we can discuss why if anyone is curious). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:52:54AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Upon a reboot, the kernel is usually loaded to the same physical addresses in RAM where it was before, so the dmesg buffer will be at the same location, too (unless you

Re: cool feature of dmesg.boot file

2008-02-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. I'll try out said patch this weekend. Assuming it works, and does get committed, I'll be more than happy to submit a PR along with a patch to update the loader.8 manpage, documenting kern.ignore_old_msgbuf. Thanks! -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com

Re: Winbond IO chip driver

2008-02-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. I get SOME temperatures, but I don't know if they're right, and these voltages are totally wrong, etc... Finally, I have not played with the watchdog capabilities at all. Watchdogs are pretty cool though. :-) I'll look at your code over the next few weeks... -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: sort(1) memory usage

2008-02-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
}BSD for instance). In this specific case, I think you're bashing GNU just because you feel like it. Come on man... =/ -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems

Re: Fetching thermal information from HP servers

2008-01-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
and 2.6 kernels), as it's significantly more advanced than the above two. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA

Examples of sysctl/sysctlbyname/sysctlnametomib?

2008-01-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
confused... Thanks... :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: kernel time sync enabled

2008-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-December/031512.html # server 0.north-america.pool.ntp.org maxpoll 9 iburst server 1.north-america.pool.ntp.org maxpoll 9 server 2.north-america.pool.ntp.org maxpoll 9 -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
or using the hw.model sysctl, or if you need lower-level information, there is a port that apparently gets cache size and other data. There are very few things I liked about Linux /proc when I used it, but getting h/w information happened to be one of them... -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
). This thread is running in circles. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
can switch virtual VGA consoles via Control-Alt-Fx seems to indicate you have a working VGA console somehow. I think it would be benefitial to see your kernel configuration, the contents of /boot/loader.conf, and /boot.config if you have one. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 02:19:30PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I think it would be benefitial to see your kernel configuration, the contents of /boot/loader.conf, and /boot.config if you have one. I forgot another one: /boot/device.hints. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: FreeBSD specific WINE errors

2007-12-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
something like get a list of IP addresses bound to an interface, or something low-level in the routing table. It's possible that the emulation layer in Wine for FreeBSD lacks this translation. As for the other errors, I'm not sure... -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc

Re: boot0 code mystery

2007-12-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
is an assembler variable set to 0x600: 25 .set ORIGIN,0x600 # Execution address -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: Large array in KVM

2007-12-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
safe to say I'm missing some key knowledge, hence my question. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA

Re: problem compiling RELENG_6

2007-11-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
-- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: bge/ilo blues on Sun X2200 (fwd)

2007-11-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
full-duplex, and no magic will get it to 100/full-duplex, which is what the ilo was/is using. this works fine on an Oct 20 system. any ideas? Try using the following in /boot/loader.conf and reboot: hw.bge.allow_asf=1 The default is 0. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Serial speed for boot device selection prompt

2007-10-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to your office networking folks to find out what's going on. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life

Re: Serial speed for boot device selection prompt

2007-10-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
setting in your kernel config as well. All that said, chances are the boot blocks you're using are likely configured to use data from ad0s1a (for booting). So that would be the place to put the /boot.config file. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com

Filesystem snapshots dog slow

2007-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. :-( I will gladly work with anyone who wishes to tackle this, either by providing hardware (MB/disks/etc.) for free, or by giving the individual access to a box that has serial console + a serial debugger available. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com

Re: Filesystem snapshots dog slow

2007-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
(and that's a bit extreme), which wouldn't provide for very much by itself. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA

Re: Filesystem snapshots dog slow

2007-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ad4 ONLINE 0 0 0 ad6 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors I'll have to see how ZFS snapshots work out. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: Serial console/remote install discussion

2007-09-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:52:23AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to open up a discussion regarding FreeBSD serial console and the aspect of installation via serial console. how about you go read loader(8) and loader.conf(5) first

Re: Serial console/remote install discussion

2007-09-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:27:14PM +0200, Achim Patzner wrote: Am 22.09.2007 um 11:52 schrieb Dag-Erling Smørgrav: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to open up a discussion regarding FreeBSD serial console and the aspect of installation via serial console. how about you go

Re: Serial console/remote install discussion

2007-09-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 05:12:40AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:52:23AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to open up a discussion regarding FreeBSD serial console and the aspect of installation via serial

Serial console/remote install discussion

2007-09-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
-- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: Progress for 7.0 - the what's cooking page

2007-09-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to take a moment to say that I'm *really* looking forward to trying out and migrating to RELENG_7 once it's tagged and released. I haven't been this giddy over an upcoming FreeBSD release since the launch of 4.x. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com

Re: two-way terminal multiplexing

2007-08-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:18:10PM +0100, djembe nazar wrote: Thanks for all suggestions. GNU screen appears to be the most straightforward option as it handles the complexity of non-identical terminals. And does it very badly, I might add. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: FreeBSD Hot pluggable disks (SATA?)

2007-07-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
experience nonetheless. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: alias netmask bug?

2007-07-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
randomly? Don't know, but my guess is no, it probably does not use each IP randomly, and I cannot even fathom the network breakage that would ensue as a result of such. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: ttyd0 permission denied problem

2007-07-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
behaviour if you use cu or tip? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: ttyd0 permission denied problem

2007-07-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to provide details to everyone on the list so that others know where the problem is, and future mailing list searches can reveal clues. :-) Thanks. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: Very slow sed...

2007-06-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
may be trying to work around it and doing a delayed read (inducing EC). This seems less likely to be the case than bad memory, but I've seen it happen. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http

Re: Very slow sed...

2007-06-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
2GB in it): http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Filter_Results.aspx?strTypes=allProductID=2374OSFullname=OS+IndependentstrOSs=38 Intel is one of the few companies who does a decent job documenting BIOS changes, so you may see something there that stands out. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: i386 with PAE or AMD64 on PowerEdge with 4G RAM

2007-06-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
much is taken up by each portion; PCI, ACPI, etc.) if you want one. It's for SuperMicro systems, but the general idea applies to most everything. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com

Re: i386 with PAE or AMD64 on PowerEdge with 4G RAM

2007-06-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
--- Memory available to OS and2.84GB other applications === -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Fwd: AMD deciding _now_ what to do about Linux

2007-06-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
chiefs, not enough indians. nVidia has the same problem, for what it's worth. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA

Re: Disk block or sector to file mapping?

2007-06-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
... -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | bash

Re: ASCII menu in loader/frames.4th

2007-06-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:07:40PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One could enable use of this with some loader.conf variable like loader_frames=ascii or (default) loader_frames=cp437, possibly even a vt100 type (using VT100 line-drawing

ASCII menu in loader/frames.4th

2007-06-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
...), or hack around a bit. Comments? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others

Re: Looking for speed increases in make index and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:34:29PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2007-May-27 15:30:48 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This sounds like a good solution. In fact, I'm lead to believe that heavy reliance on /bin/sh is part of why the ports collection is slow. Someone needs

Re: Looking for speed increases in make index and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
in regards to ports. I have no qualms with PMake per se, but if another tool gives us what we need, then maybe we should consider the pros and cons of adapting that. There's also CMake, which is incredibly fast. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com

Re: issue with net/if_ppp.h

2007-05-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB

Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning

2007-03-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
corruption? If Eric's doing it and it's working fine, I'm left wondering if there's maybe sysinstall isn't handling something right. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems

Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning

2007-03-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. (I'm not denying the problem exists, I just want to reproduce it, and I think those steps would be useful to those who can fix the problem too.) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX

Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning

2007-03-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
used, 2301667 free (27 frags, 287705 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) Is there something I'm missing? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networkinghttp://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain

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