poll() timing problems?

2002-03-15 Thread Markus Stumpf
We are experiencing some problems which I think *could* be related to timeout problems with poll(). 1) mysql-3.23.48 + FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE (also happens with prior mysql releases) CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (796.54-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x683

dump(8) race conditions?

2002-02-07 Thread Markus Stumpf
We use amanda and dump for backups. Some hosts have rather busy disks even during non prime time hours when backup is run. From time to time amanda reports dump(8) errors like the following: sendbackup: info end | DUMP: Date of this level 5 dump: Wed Feb 6 01:53:12 2002 | DUMP: Date of

Re: dump(8) race conditions?

2002-02-07 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:54:02AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: Dump should ideally be run on an unmounted filesystem. The next best is to create a snapshot ( /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot ) and dump that. True. But on systems that host e.g. mailservers or webservers its unacceptable to

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Markus Stumpf
ex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/stable # freebsd-scsi folder-hook lists/freebsd/scsi \ 'my_hdr From: "Markus Stumpf" [EMAIL PROTECTED]' save-hook ~hmaex-lists-freebsd-scsi =lists-archives/freebsd/scsi I have switc

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Markus Stumpf
\ /home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/stable # freebsd-scsi folder-hook lists/freebsd/scsi \ 'my_hdr From: Markus Stumpf maex-lists-freebsd-s...@space.net' save-hook ~hmaex-lists-freebsd-scsi =lists-archives

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-02 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:42:58AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: The numeric ID is not important. Neither is the name. So long as there's something that people maintaining ports can use. I've followed Solaris' lead on the choice of name, ``smtp''. The numeric id IS important. How do you think

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-02 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:42:58AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: The numeric ID is not important. Neither is the name. So long as there's something that people maintaining ports can use. I've followed Solaris' lead on the choice of name, ``smtp''. The numeric id IS important. How do you think

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-01 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 03:56:10PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: If we do this, I hope a more obvious name is chosen; something like "mailman" might be a start. Or "mailperson", or "postperson", or whatever. "mta" just feels a little obscure. May I vote for NO more predefined uids/gids at all?

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

1999-09-01 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 03:56:10PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: If we do this, I hope a more obvious name is chosen; something like mailman might be a start. Or mailperson, or postperson, or whatever. mta just feels a little obscure. May I vote for NO more predefined uids/gids at all? I think

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

1999-08-04 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 02:22:17PM -0700, Alex Zepeda wrote: Also you'll have to run the script to allow users to change passwords as "root", which you probably will NOT want to do (same for adding/ deleting/changing users) So with your setup, any user can add/delete/modify existing

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

1999-08-04 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 02:22:17PM -0700, Alex Zepeda wrote: Also you'll have to run the script to allow users to change passwords as root, which you probably will NOT want to do (same for adding/ deleting/changing users) So with your setup, any user can add/delete/modify existing users?

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

1999-08-03 Thread Markus Stumpf
I would recommend qmail (http://www.qmail.org/). It has a VERY modular structure, where you e.g. can easily substitue the checkpassword module with a e.g. perl script doing the lookups. Nothing else needs to be patched/changed and the described scenario can be accomplished with standard qmail

Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...)

1999-06-24 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 01:23:19PM +0930, Mark Newton wrote: I've found FreeBSD to outperform NT-anything in any task you throw at the machine from web service to Samba for file and print service for PCs running Windows. Granted. Perhaps we're seeing an artifact of NT's developers

2.2.7 + NBUF + NMBCLUSTERS

1999-06-22 Thread Markus Stumpf
Hoi folx, I have a 2.2.7 system that runs out of mbuf clusters. maxuser 64 I've raised options NMBCLUSTERS=6144 options NBUF=3072 and that made it for a while. However the system is running a chatserver and a webserver of a customer and now it hits me again. Are there any