Re: Installation on private network

2006-07-04 Thread Bill Moran
p-mirror port makes this particularly easy to set up. Hope this helps. -- Bill Moran There's more'n seventy little earth's spinning about the galaxy, and the meek have inherited not a one. Malcom Reynolds ___ freebsd-questio

Re: Portupgrade

2006-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
hen was the last time you did a cvsup? Portupgrade was hosed for a few days there, if your ports tree previously installed the hosted version, portupgrade won't work. If this is the case, the solution is: 1) cvsup ports 2) pkg_delete portupgrade 3) cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade &&

Re: requesting some info on CVSUP (some is help related, others are your own personal preferences)

2006-06-30 Thread Bill Moran
ag=. means "latest". The ports tree doesn't have other tags. The source tree has RELENG tags, and tag=. is head (again: latest). See this page for more on source tags: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html -- Bill Moran That'

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread Bill Moran
ilure. If you've already decided to give up and aren't willing to try again: farewell and good luck. If you ever change your mind, we'll still be here. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: FBSD 4 series

2006-06-29 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Moran wrote: > > Anish Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> http://security.freebsd.org/ > >> > >> You should be transitioning to 6.x now/soon. > > > > ??? > > > &g

Re: FBSD 4 series

2006-06-29 Thread Bill Moran
r 18 months. I have servers that are scheduled for hardware retirement before then -- I'm not upgrading them. Why should I? They're doing their job perfectly well. You should review the the security support information and make sure that you plan to upgrade/replace before anything beco

Re: busy disks - a lot of write activities on / part

2006-06-28 Thread Bill Moran
00%/var/named/dev > > procfs 44 0 100%/proc > > /dev/aacd1s1d 137099908 70149522 5598239456%/backup > > > > Any info on matter of disks performance is much appreciated. > > > > Thx, > > > > Tamouh Hakmi

Re: how to check for a compromised system

2006-06-28 Thread Bill Moran
ately, you have to have it set up _before_ this happens in order for it to be useful. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: bacula question

2006-06-27 Thread Bill Moran
up with jobs, files, etc that it can't prune because it no longer has configuration information on how to prune them. In that case, run Bacula's dbcheck program to clean those up. If you continue to have trouble, I recommend subscribing to the bacula-users mailing list and asking future

Re: FreeBSD and VMWare

2006-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
am under FreeBSD, i.e. using FreeBSD as the host for other vmware machines. I have tried several times. Technically, VMWare doesn't support it. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: Tracking if disk is busy

2006-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
stal net-snmp you can get various statistics via snmp. We use mrtg to graph them. Disk activity is but one. I haven't messed with the builtin snmp stuff that comes with 6.x, but I've got in on my list to investigate and see if it's ready to replace the net-snmp port. -- Bill Mor

Re: Easiest way to remove php5-extensions

2006-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
all or will i have to go through them all one by one (I have > a lot installed). The pkg_cutleaves port will simplify things for you. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential infor

Re: Dell PowerEdge 2850

2006-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Skoryk Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Is there any way to monitor hardware on Dell PowerEdge 2850. > Hot-Swap PowerSupply(most critical), CPU Temperature, RAID status and other? ipmitool and megarc in the ports. -- Bill Moran Collabora

Re: pkgdb.db locked

2006-06-19 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Lewis McLouth wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Also, if pkgdb.db was deleted, how do I rebuild the pkgdb.db? (pkgdb -f > > > does not rebuild pkgdb.db, I just checked) > > portupgrade -an > >

Re: pkgdb.db locked

2006-06-19 Thread Bill Moran
t doesn't exist. I'm sure there's a less-roundabout way to accomplish this ... -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?

2006-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
on, that it was linux and not BSD. Have a read of the man page for brandelf and see if that helps you. -- Bill Moran I lay down for a while, and I woke up on the ocean, floating on my back, and staring at the grey. It was completely still, 'cept for the pounding of my heart, was bring me

Re: file creation date in freebsd

2006-06-17 Thread Bill Moran
e stores the last time the file metadata was changed (such as permissions and ownership). Since it's uncommon for people to change the file metadata, the ctime can be a good indicator of when the file was created, but it's no guarantee. -- Bill Moran I am a leaf on the w

Re: clarification of cvsup process.

2006-06-15 Thread Bill Moran
In response to RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 15 June 2006 21:02, Bill Moran wrote: > > > Are you sure you completed the process successfully? If you'd had > > tag=., this would reports something like 6-STABLE. If you'd had > > 6_0_RELENG, it

Re: clarification of cvsup process.

2006-06-15 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Greg Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 6/15/2006 3:02 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Greg Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> On 6/15/2006 2:42 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > >> > In response to Greg Groth <[EMAIL PR

Re: clarification of cvsup process.

2006-06-15 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Greg Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 6/15/2006 2:42 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Greg Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > >> Contents of cvsupfile: > >> > >> *default host=cvsup6.FreeBSD.org > >> *defau

Re: clarification of cvsup process.

2006-06-15 Thread Bill Moran
ill update the cf files. The last patch that came out, > I did the same thing I outlined above, but I did not notice a change in > the version number of Sendmail when telnetting to it. I don't know if the patch updates sendmail's internal version or not. What does uname -a tel

Re: Process for cloning freebsd

2006-06-14 Thread Bill Moran
I can remember. > I was planning to Ghost the harddrives. Anything that allows you duplicate the HDD will work. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: EM64T chipset and FreeBSD instalation

2006-06-13 Thread Bill Moran
gt; - ad12 => one of the SATA HD > - ad8 => the other SATA HD > - ar8 => > > what is this ? I think is the RAID controller because is of logic, but, > must I create filesystems on the ad12, ad8? or only on ar8? or on all?. I don't know the answer to this. -- Bil

Re: Upgrading Ports on 5.3

2006-06-11 Thread Bill Moran
, I am no longer been able to get new ports. > > If change my cvs-supfile to be: > > -- > *default tag=RELENG_5_4 Use "tag=." when fetching ports. -- Bill Moran That seem right to you? Jubal Early

Re: Deny large number of IPs via ipfw

2006-06-11 Thread Bill Moran
e is about 3 *million* lines, and is from > cbl.abuseat.org. You're probably better off using pf so that you can use a table. -- Bill Moran You will give me the Ring freely? In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Mornin

Re: reading process memory

2006-06-07 Thread Bill Moran
ybe there is another way of doing such things ? > > Any clue would be appreciated. see "man 5 procfs" [I removed -stable, as I think it's unnecessary cross-posting] -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: Running out of swap space????

2006-06-06 Thread Bill Moran
ide the full output of top to the list, I'm sure some problem will jump out for someone on the list. Wait till the system is close to having no swap, then do "top > somefile" and paste the file into your mailer. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: shmget: No space on device (sshit)

2006-06-05 Thread Bill Moran
there a > man page or recommended document that describes what these mean in > detail? ipcs -M or /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES I believe the "mni" portion is "maximum number of identifiers". -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.

Re: shmget: No space on device (sshit)

2006-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
wheel 65536 > m 65727 586283 --rw-r--r-- rootwheel 65536 > > Semaphores: > T ID KEYMODE OWNERGROUP NSEMS > s 65536 1768452979 --rw-r--r-- rootwheel 3 > s 65537 134881 --rw-r--r-- rootwheel 3 > s 65538

Re: Cannot delete stubborn files

2006-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
during brownout. We finally got UPS on the system, but months later we had files that wouldn't delete. The only way we finally got rid of them was to reboot in single user and fsck. I expect the disk suffered some subtle corruption during an unclean boot and it took time before we notic

Re: shmget: No space on device (sshit)

2006-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
14:11:12 PDT 2005 root@<>:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ROUTERKERNEL i386 > > ~% pkg_info | grep sshit > sshit-0.5 Checks for SSH/FTP bruteforce and blocks given IPs > > ~% perl -v > This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-freebsd-64int > > If you have absolu

Re: Error Message Upon Reboot

2006-06-02 Thread Bill Moran
worried about. It means you have two machines on your network with the same IP. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Using Flash on FreeBSD [Fwd: Macromedia Customer Service Request [8564611]]

2006-05-31 Thread Bill Moran
r service rep, > Astrid C. Villanueva, there is not problem with using Flash on FreeBSD, it's > just not supported. > > Therefore, would it be possible to add it back to the ports? Update your ports tree. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. __

Re: getting alerts about system upgrades

2006-05-31 Thread Bill Moran
o know comes through those channels. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

2006-05-26 Thread Bill Moran
lure, you can try the liveCD thing, but it's less likely to work. Good luck. > Press for BMC Setup within 5 sec. > No /boot/loader > > FreeBSD /i386 boot > Default: 0:da(0,a)/kernel > boot: > No /Kernel > > FreeBSD /i386 boot

Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

2006-05-26 Thread Bill Moran
ash is readible by root only, so that doesn't help if you only have a mortal account. Unless you've specifically set up something else to work around this problem, you _must_ get physical access to fix it. In the future, try installing sudo or using PKI to protect yourself from los

Re: cant' find port

2006-05-26 Thread Bill Moran
Matias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > > Matias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've been googling about this but I can't find the answer: > >> > >> Is there a port to in

Re: cant' find port

2006-05-26 Thread Bill Moran
Matias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been googling about this but I can't find the answer: > > Is there a port to install Yakuake (the quake-styled terminal for kde)? http://www.freshports.org -- Bill Moran We meddle. People don't like to be

Re: remote file moves, over SSH, with wildcards ... help needed.

2006-05-26 Thread Bill Moran
to do it. I've had cases where I had to double escape things, for example: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "echo \"cp * /backup\" >> log.txt" I wrote a whole remote control framework for a client once, and I believe I had 4 \ at one point in the script. -- Bill Moran T

Re: Spam problem!

2006-05-25 Thread Bill Moran
you can purchase a commercial solution. There are many appliances available. Or you could hire an experienced consultant to set up spam blocking on your existing server. Good luck. -- Bill Moran Time for some thrilling heroics. Jayne Cobb ___

Re: gcc-3.3.6 / gcc-3.4.4

2006-05-25 Thread Bill Moran
ample) ends up in /usr/local/gcc-ooo To get it used, you'll need to tell make which one to use. I believe the magic incantation is to acc "CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc33" to /etc/make.conf, but I'm not positive. A google search should find the correct way to accomplish that, however

Re: PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

2006-05-23 Thread Bill Moran
hese values changed. Most likely the result of a different kernel config file. Either put the workable values in a kernel config that will persist across upgrades, or put them in /etc/sysctl.conf so you don't lose them. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. **

Re: controlling ports: connection refused

2006-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
c:141: (apr_err=61) > svn: Can't connect to host '192.168.0.103': Connection refused > > Any ideas what I should do? You should probably start the Subversion server on the FreeBSD machine. What does sockstat -4 tell you? I'm guessing you never started the subversion

Re: Software taking a long time to load on FreeBSD6

2006-05-20 Thread Bill Moran
end part should give some indication of what the holdup is. If the process just takes a long time, it'll require some more work to diagnose what's takin so long. HTH -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd

Re: OT: Router Preference

2006-05-18 Thread Bill Moran
Juniper J4300 and why would you make that choice? Imagestream: http://www.imagestream.com/Industrial_Routers.html -- Bill Moran What hope have we without [Gandalf]? We must do without hope. Aragorn, son of Arathorn ___ freebsd-qu

Re: C coding question

2006-05-17 Thread Bill Moran
need to close a file that failed to open. The fclose( ) > acting on > a NULL pointer might be your error. >From man fclose: The fclose() function does not handle NULL arguments; they will result in a segmentation violation. This is intentional - it makes it easier to

Re: Questions about monitoring Dell servers

2006-05-17 Thread Bill Moran
On Tue, 16 May 2006 19:15:06 -0400 Jason Lixfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 16-May-06, at 1:01 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > > > DRAC is irrelevant to FreeBSD. Configure it in the BIOS (give it an > > IP and the like) and you can use a web browser to get a cons

Re: Is MAXFILES still valid in a kernel config option?

2006-05-16 Thread Bill Moran
On Tue, 16 May 2006 19:06:45 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-05-16 11:35, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Using 6.1, is MAXFILES still honored in the kernel config? > > > > I know I can adjust this via sysctl, but

Re: Questions about monitoring Dell servers

2006-05-16 Thread Bill Moran
s nice in that it gives you a spiffy web interface, as well as the whole console over IP thing. IPMI is nice because it's a standard that can be programmed to, with ipmitool, for example. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-quest

Is MAXFILES still valid in a kernel config option?

2006-05-16 Thread Bill Moran
Using 6.1, is MAXFILES still honored in the kernel config? I know I can adjust this via sysctl, but setting it in the kernel config is more conducive to our deployment methodology. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: acquiring other versions of GCC (was no subject)

2006-05-16 Thread Bill Moran
[Please keep the conversation on the mailing list] On Tue, 16 May 2006 06:23:55 GMT "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 03:14 PMBill Moran wrote > > > [Please wrap your lines at around 72 chars] > I do that if I can writ

Re: Help to find cause of recurring crash

2006-05-16 Thread Bill Moran
can help. However, before doing that, I would upgrade to 6.1, in case the problem has already been fixed. Additionally, FreeBSD is heavily tested enough that kernel panics are _usually_ the result of failing hardware. I'd get ahold of a memtest86 CD and test your RAM before doing much else. -

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-16 Thread Bill Moran
ooking for performance, pull down a tarball, unpack it, then run cvsup to update it, and I bet it will be considerably faster. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Bill Moran
var Not reliably. Folks could guess. Post again and include the output of "ls -l /" this time. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Overwite problem

2006-05-15 Thread Bill Moran
f not, feel free to post again, but provide more details: 1) Is there anything in the FTP server's logs about this? (look in /var/log) 2) Will the actual file permissions allow this (ls -l) 3) If #1 isn't helpful, increase ProFTP's logging verbosity and try again. -- Bill Mora

Re: Please explain make -j to my little brain

2006-05-15 Thread Bill Moran
100% usage of the machine, which won't happen if you batch the whole thing. > Just as a side line... does anybody know the best -j value to build world on > a > 4-core box? I generally quadruple the # of cores, so I'd use -j16. I couldn't tell you authoritatively what is

Re: VM and jailed processes

2006-05-14 Thread Bill Moran
tical_, they're still seperate, and the kernel has now way of knowing that /jail1/usr/bin/httpd and /jail2/usr/bin/httpd are the same execution image (Unless you're doing symlinks or hardlinks). So getting that kind of memory sharing will require some extra work on your part, above and be

Re: StarOffice inmstallation in FreeBSD 6.0

2006-05-12 Thread Bill Moran
blem won't work, but you can try it. If is screws up X, just re-brand the binary back to FreeBSD. I expect, however, that branding it _will_ break X, and won't help with your installation anyway. -- Bill Moran ZOE: Preacher, don'

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Bill Moran
timeouts will never occur as the system will find its hostname. Not that, in my experience, it's important to put _both_ the short name and the FQDN in. -- Bill Moran That's why I never kiss 'em on the mouth. Jayne Cobb ___ free

Re: Reducing the size of /

2006-05-12 Thread Bill Moran
es again. Unless you have very limited Internet access, cleaning out /usr/ports/distfiles is a pretty safe way to free up space. -- Bill Moran Well, let's see. We killed Simon and River, stole a bunch of medicine, and now the captain and Zoe are off springing the othe

Re: Reducing the size of /

2006-05-12 Thread Bill Moran
pkg_cutleaves port and see if it can help you clean up unneeded ports. Also, consider trimming down your log files in /var/log. You can also use the "du -hd1 /" trick to narrow down where all the space is being used. Depending on what's installed on the server, however, I doubt you&#x

Re: fsck way too slow

2006-05-12 Thread Bill Moran
s not have soft-updates, which I believe is the default. AFAIR, fsck can not do background mode unless soft-updates is enabled. That's likely your problem. -- Bill Moran I tore these out of your symbol, and they turned into paper -- but I

"Anatomy of a Troll" by Bill Moran

2006-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
y statements, then attempts to escape by pretending those statements were never made. There are other examples of this "Inflame then dodge" technique in this thread. I'll leave their discovery as an exercise to the reader. How many can _you_ find? -- Bill Moran Coll

Re: New freebsd logo on freebsd.org

2006-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
ig bucks to design their logos and their marketing materials, and you fund that with your Windows license fees. Or, _contribute_ something back to the wonderful free software community other than a lengthy email thread of whining. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. __

Re: OT: Torn between SCSI and SATA for RAID

2006-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
t to have things hecticly slow > either. > This will be a NAS type of implementation so speed would be bound by > relatively > speaking slow network connections in any case... http://www.seagate.com/content/docs/pdf/whitepaper/D2c_More_than_Interface_ATA_vs_SCSI_042003.pdf --

Re: New FreeBSD Logo

2006-05-10 Thread Bill Moran
n do we > actually get to be grownups. I don't want to be a grownup. If FreeBSD ever gets serious enough that it makes me feel like a grownup, I'll switch careers. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-question

Re: kern.randompid: jot generation senseful?

2006-05-09 Thread Bill Moran
omments in src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c before > the sysctl_kern_randompid() function (around line 150). The function > itself ignores sysctl settings of less than 2." Yes, but constantly changing the setting is unneeded. Simply set it to something large, like 1, and a random numbe

Re: New freebsd logo on freebsd.org

2006-05-09 Thread Bill Moran
"Kep Woof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Interested to hear what people think, Then take this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's just flame bait here. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freeb

Re: ibsh shell session fails using scp/sftp

2006-05-08 Thread Bill Moran
not start? Run sshd with -d. Be sure to read the manpage on what this does first, as it may be an unpleasant surprise if you're trying to work on a machine that you don't have local access to. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd

Re: DCSSI Authorisation for Free BSD Software

2006-05-05 Thread Bill Moran
thorisation, as Reuters will need this to export this > > product to/from France, and the DCSSI does not supply this information > to > > third parties. > > I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advise. > > However: > http://www.fr.freebsd.org/ > > Th

Re: i/o error OOo-2.0.2 NFS

2006-05-05 Thread Bill Moran
ets denied by OOo-2.0.2. The only $var is another OOo version ;-) Think so. This is the exact same problem I had when I upgrade from OOo1 to OOo2. Search the archives and you'll see that Fabian is correct and that it solved the problem for me. Apparently, OOo2 is more careful about

Re: BSD equiv of /proc?

2006-05-05 Thread Bill Moran
the BSD equivalent of this, or > is it /proc, and I'm just missing something? If you absolutely can't live without /proc, install the linuxulator and mount linproc. It will give you a linux compatible /proc. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.

Re: which graphics card?

2006-05-04 Thread Bill Moran
, but it really depends > upon the type of processes you run. In our experiments, we found that a 32-bit PAE kernel allowed us to access all the memory we had in the machines, and performance was better than a 64-bit kernel. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: DCSSI Authorisation for Free BSD Software

2006-05-04 Thread Bill Moran
r.freebsd.org/ The site is actually _hosted_in_ France. Thus you are wasting your time. There is no need to export the software at all, it's already in France. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questi

Re: wanted: hp-ux glance pendant

2006-05-03 Thread Bill Moran
t i'd like to run it w/o > enabling any user keystrokes/input to systat. tried /dev/null and an > empty file, obviously w/o success -( > any further ideas? Dump it to a file and "tail -f" the file in the console? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. __

Re: acquiring other versions of GCC (was no subject)

2006-05-03 Thread Bill Moran
ts/devel If you have a recent version of FreeBSD, it will have a recent version of GCC, and will compile compliant code without trouble. Since you provided no version information, nor errors, nor examples of failing code, I can't speculate further. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion

Re: wanted: hp-ux glance pendant

2006-05-03 Thread Bill Moran
ast render the figures inaccurate, not? I wouldn't call that normal. Running systat doesn't cause anything like that kind of load on my system. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Recovering Squirrelmail settings

2006-05-03 Thread Bill Moran
ake up the program. With the FreeBSD port, this ends up somewhere in /usr/local/www. Which breaks hier ... but that's for another day and another patch ... -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contain

Re: wanted: hp-ux glance pendant

2006-05-03 Thread Bill Moran
things like disk-io, > memory usage, etc... I'm not familiar with glance, but have a look at systat, specifically, the vmstat screen. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confident

Re: NFS server not responding, new in 6.0

2006-05-02 Thread Bill Moran
em? What exactly is it > reporting if it's not a real problem? Sure is a real problem. Unless you've got serious network congestion, in which case it's still a problem, just not with NFS. > b) If you've had this trouble before, what settings have you used to fix it? Look

Re: Kernel not compiling

2006-05-01 Thread Bill Moran
e right list. Generally, posting the last 100 lines or so of the output will be enough for people to help you. If folks need more information, they'll ask you for it. I recommend using the script(1) command to capture everything, then truncated to to just the last 100 lines or so

Re: Restore your online bank account

2006-04-29 Thread Bill Moran
larly screen activity in > >the Bank of America Online Bank system. We recently contacted you > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any m

Re: How do you resize an existing partition / slice ?

2006-04-28 Thread Bill Moran
requires unused space at the _end_ of the partition, which is usually not the case with a root partition. If you're using some sort of volume manager, such as hardware RAID or Vinum, you may be able to do it anyway. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.

Re: generating a FeeBSD system

2006-04-28 Thread Bill Moran
to destroy their Windows partition if they're not familiar with the process. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Intel Macs and FreeBSD?

2006-04-27 Thread Bill Moran
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:08:37 -0600 "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 27, 2006, at 2:52 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > > > On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:47:37 -0500 > > James Riendeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: Intel Macs and FreeBSD?

2006-04-27 Thread Bill Moran
cs can boot and install FreeBSD, > > now that the firmware includes BIOS compatibility? Has anyone seen > > it happen? > > > > I'm thinking of using a Mac Mini as a quiet living-room server. > > Thanks! -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ***

Re: sendmail_enable in rc.conf

2006-04-26 Thread Bill Moran
aemon to listen for incoming network mail. This does not preclude a sendmail(8) daemon listening on the SMTP port of the loopback interface. The ``NONE'' option is deprecated and should not be used. It will be removed in a future

Re: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf?

2006-04-26 Thread Bill Moran
act question was asked a few weeks ago. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Horrible: Apache corrupting files?

2006-04-26 Thread Bill Moran
at least 8 hours. _Any_ errors are bad, especially on a server. The bootable versions (CD or floppy) are better because they can test more of the machine's memory. I don't know of any ready-to-go images for USB, but it should be possible to create one ... -- Bill Moran Collabor

Re: account maintenance and verification ( Your account is suspended )

2006-04-26 Thread Bill Moran
ubscribe. !! Take your blood pressure medication ... -- Bill Moran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Purchasing the correct hardware: dual-core intel? Big cache?

2006-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:48:21 -0400 Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > [ ... ] > >> If you use well optimized applications, you see the larger performance > >> gain. Poor optimization causes a CPU to chug along, flushing the CPU >

Re: Purchasing the correct hardware: dual-core intel? Big cache?

2006-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=555&l=en&oc=pe6850pad&s=biz -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. I

Re: Purchasing the correct hardware: dual-core intel? Big cache?

2006-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
ting a lot of poorly-written code in something as mature as PostgreSQL. So, making a (reasonable) assumption that PostgreSQL is well-optimized, I need a way to tell if adding another 6M of cache will improve performance, _before_ we pay for it. That's

Re: Purchasing the correct hardware: dual-core intel? Big cache?

2006-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
determining how well the cache is working, so I'm > >stuck on whether or not the 8M cache that's available on the HT units > >is worth the money or not. Can anyone suggest a testing methodology > >that will isolate this particular aspect? > > > &g

Re: Purchasing the correct hardware: dual-core intel? Big cache?

2006-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
run the application hard enough to saturate the SCSI bus so far. So ... the current bottleneck is CPU. > > -- > martin > > On 4/24/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:03:59 +0100 > > "Martin Hepworth" <[EM

Re: OT: Domain Registration

2006-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
useful. I believe they can even host your DNS for you, which means you don't have to set up your own server, but you can tell godaddy to point records wherever you want. > d) Are there any good reasons not to do it this way (remember, this > is not a mission critical setup, and its m

Re: Can't login via SSH

2006-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
ts.allow file and Everything is allowed by > default. What else can I check? You're not trying to log in as root, are you? Remote root login is disabled by default. The debugging suggestions Daniel made are excellent as well. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.

Re: Purchasing the correct hardware: dual-core intel? Big cache?

2006-04-24 Thread Bill Moran
e be a significant improvement? If not, then we're going with the dual-core CPUs. What I'd like is some way to take an existing system and determine how often the cache is getting invalidated, so I can make some guesstemate as to whether more cache will help or not. > > -- > ma

Purchasing the correct hardware: dual-core intel? Big cache?

2006-04-24 Thread Bill Moran
an anyone suggest a testing methodology that will isolate this particular aspect? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: bacula daemon dosent died..?

2006-04-24 Thread Bill Moran
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:25:24 -0700 perikillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/23/06, perikillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/23/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > perikillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >

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