Re: bsdlabel question..

2005-07-30 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:39 PM 7/30/2005, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pp-p_fstype = FS_BSDFFS; pp-p_fsize = sblock.fs_fsize; pp-p_frag = sblock.fs_frag; pp-p_cpg = sblock.fs_fpg; } The last line

Re: URGENT -- AP #1 (PHY #1) failed -- what does this mean?

2005-07-29 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:51 AM 7/29/2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Hi Sorry for the URGENT line. I have a critical server running 5.4- RELEASE-p1. It is a dual AMD MP 2800+ (Gigabyte board) with 4GB RAM and an Adaptec 2100S raid controller. Running (obviously) an SMP kernel. I recompiled the

Re: Sendmail help needed

2005-07-29 Thread Glenn Dawson
host. Thank you On 7/29/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:30 AM 7/29/2005, you wrote: Hello, Thanks for the help. The thing is that our main mailserver is not able to work with reports from only one address. It has a db with some names that match [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: how to run 2 instance of memcached from rc.conf?

2005-07-28 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:36 AM 7/28/2005, Danny Howard wrote: How are you giving anything different arguments? I only see one service configured in your rc.conf. So how do I use the same script to run 2 instance of memcached? From my original email: then, you can use two sets of variables in /etc/rc.conf

Re: script for adding a samba-user

2005-07-28 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 11:25 AM 7/28/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, been working on a script to add a samba-user, below an example which is not working, can someone provide the fix here to make it work properly ? It's difficult to help since you didn't provide a description of the problem beyond not

Re: Determine processing holding open a 52+Gig file ...

2005-07-28 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:40 PM 7/28/2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: 'k, this is the second time its happened ... on a file system that is currently 35% full (52G free), all the disk space disappeared ... Are you out of inodes? df -i Is there a way of finding out what process is holding open this immense file?

Re: Sendmail help needed

2005-07-28 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 03:17 PM 7/28/2005, Alexandre Vieira wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to get past a standard in sendmail which is very simple. I have several machines reporting mails trough local MTA's (sendmail) in each one of the boxes to our main mailserver. The thing is, I did not developed the scripts

Re: Can't boot 5.x

2005-07-28 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 04:21 PM 7/28/2005, Gerald S Stoller wrote: I tried to boot FreeBSD versions 5.0 , 5.3 , and 5.4 ; all were unsuccessful. I was told that something basic in the boot stuff was changed and my micro-processor (or BIOS , or whatever) may be out-of-date vis-a-vis the new boot

Re: how to run 2 instance of memcached from rc.conf?

2005-07-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 11:16 PM 7/26/2005, Lei Sun wrote: Hi, I am trying to run 2 instance of memcached from rc.conf, but whenever I try to start it the second time, it tells me that the instance is already running. Please help... According to the documentation at http://www.danga.com/memcached running more

Re: DNS settings in FreeBSD?

2005-07-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:46 AM 7/27/2005, Xu Qiang wrote: Hi, all: Last time I asked you that why the machine can map the hostname to ip address without setting DNS Server in /etc/rc.conf. Now I remember that I have provided DNS ip address in the initial installing stage, where the installation wizard asked

Re: Segmentation fault (11)

2005-07-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:48 PM 7/27/2005, steve lasiter wrote: This is a questions to the group since I'm not sure if it's related to my FreeBSD 5.4 OS or something else. I'm on a Dell Pentium 2.55Ghz with 1 GB Ram. Background: In trying to install oscommerce I have uninstalled my php5 and went to php4. Because

Re: Need Help Installing FreeBSD with AMD x86

2005-07-26 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 11:57 PM 7/25/2005, Corey Farwell wrote: I have all the ISO's burned to a CD, but when I put the boot disk in to install, after I restart, it goes to the normal windows. More info about your hardware would help. Are you unable to boot from the CD? or are you adding FreeBSD as a second

RE: undelete in FreeBSD?

2005-07-26 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:48 PM 7/25/2005, Xu Qiang wrote: Ross Kendall Axe wrote: Yes. MS-Windows doesn't have anything Unix doesn't in this regard. I take it you're not familiar with the DOS/Windows 'del' command... Hehe, this is a good analog I didn't think of. :) If he's worried about accidentally

Re: ETINC BW Manager. Watchdog failover not working

2005-07-26 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 04:10 AM 7/26/2005, John Oxley wrote: I have installed the ETINC BW Shaper software v3.24c and things aren't working. The problem I am having is if I try and run watchdogd, I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/conf# watchdogd failover -i 7 -d IOCTL: Invalid argument Checking every 2 seconds

Re: certance DAT

2005-07-26 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 08:17 PM 7/26/2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: ...so it's not exactly super-zippy, either. Hmm, is it just me, or are the following numbers significantly low for a RAID-1 of two 10K RPM U320 SCSI disks...? /dev/amrd1 512 # sectorsize 73274490880 # mediasize in

Re: resizing virtual disk (vn0)

2005-07-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:36 AM 7/25/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I am searching how to resize a virtual disk created with: # dd if=/dev/zero of=newimage bs=1k count=5k 5120+0 records in 5120+0 records out # vnconfig -s labels -c vn0 newimage # disklabel -r -w vn0 auto # newfs vn0c

Re: resizing virtual disk (vn0)

2005-07-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:36 AM 7/25/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I am searching how to resize a virtual disk created with: # dd if=/dev/zero of=newimage bs=1k count=5k 5120+0 records in 5120+0 records out # vnconfig -s labels -c vn0 newimage # disklabel -r -w vn0 auto # newfs vn0c

Re: bsdlabel and moving to a bigger drive

2005-07-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 03:11 AM 7/25/2005, Omar Thameen wrote: I'm trying to transfer a 5.4 box from one drive to another bigger one. I've added the second drive, partitioned and labeled it using sysinstall's post-install configuration of FreeBSD menu item, created new partitions with better space allocation, then

Re: cannot install ntop under freeBSD 5.5

2005-07-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:03 AM 7/25/2005, PK wrote: hi It must be a BUG in the freeBSD 5.4 ntop port ! greetings Piotr The problem you are seeing is because the rrd plugin that's part of ntop is supplying 5 argument to the rrd_graph() function. Which is ok for the versions of rrd that are bundled with

Re: Dump/Tape block question

2005-07-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:20 AM 7/25/2005, FreeBSD Questions wrote: Sorry if this is a repeat. I posted this on the 21st and never saw it show up in the mailing list, so I'm assuming nobody ever received it. I have a question about dump and tape blocks. When I do backups, dump tells me it uses a certain number

Re: burncd - verify burn

2005-07-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:38 AM 7/25/2005, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know a process to verify that I my cd burner has burned an ISO file correctly with burncd. I know I can take some precautions like checking the md5sum of the iso during a transfer from

Re: cannot install ntop under freeBSD 5.5

2005-07-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:17 PM 7/25/2005, PK wrote: hi I did what you suggested. I've deinstalled rrdtool completely, tried install ntop but now I get following horrible errors: xmldumpPlugin.c:36:2: warning: #warning xmldumpPlugin.c:37:2: warning: #warning

RE: undelete in FreeBSD?

2005-07-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 07:51 PM 7/25/2005, Xu Qiang wrote: I am just wondering the only shortcoming of Unix clone, such as FreeBSD, in contrast to M$ Windows, is the lack of a cyclin bin, from which you can restore anything you have mis-deleted before. Or, am I mis-informed on this issue? If you're really

Re: DHCP3 Server on FreeBSD 4.11

2005-07-24 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 08:51 PM 7/23/2005, Paul Taylor wrote: Hi, I'm new to FreeBSD, so there is a good possibility that this is just something stupid that I'm doing wrong... I've had bad timing with linux software that I've tried installing in the past (just happened to try to install while there was a broken

Re: Reverting Ports 5.4 - 5.3

2005-07-24 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:51 AM 7/24/2005, Robert Slade wrote: Hi, As I have been having problems with 5.4 on my Compaq Pl5000, I would like to go back to 5.3-Stable. Is it possible to roll back the ports via CVSUP to 5.3 by just changing the TAG=. There's no tags in ports like there are in src. You have to

Re: very strange net problem in FreeBSD 5.4

2005-07-24 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 07:12 PM 7/24/2005, he ccjj wrote: Hi,everyone. I met a very strange net problem in FreeBSD 5.4,it disturbed me very long time,i like freebsd very much,but if this problem can't be resolved,i have to give up it.:( The problem is just like this: My server box located in the education network

Re: SPAM Problem

2005-07-23 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 11:37 AM 7/23/2005, Aaron Siegel wrote: Hello This message is off topic but I was not sure were else I can go to get help with my problem. For the past week I have been receiving messages from various mail servers which have bounced messages I have not sent but have my email address as the

Re: Changing Ports in SendMail

2005-07-21 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:05 PM 7/21/2005, Gerard Seibert wrote: I need to change the ports that SendMail uses by default - port 25. I inserted this into the hostname.mc file. DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=2525, Name=MTA') I then did the `make all install restart' thing. SendMail now listens on port 2525 correctly. How

Re: How To Set Speed Of Serial Console In 5.4-RELEASE?

2005-07-21 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:26 PM 7/21/2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I have compiled two kernels and worlds in the 5.4-RELEASE source tree. In /etc/make.conf, I have the line: BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=115200 Yet the speed stays at 9600 baud. This worked in version 4. Do I need to do something different in version 5?

Re: How To Set Speed Of Serial Console In 5.4-RELEASE?

2005-07-21 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:11 PM 7/21/2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/21/2005 10:05 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/21/2005 9:43 PM Glenn Dawson wrote: At 09:26 PM 7/21/2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I have compiled two kernels and worlds in the 5.4-RELEASE source tree. In /etc/make.conf, I have the line

Re: ps -awux

2005-07-21 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:39 PM 7/21/2005, Akhthar Parvez. K wrote: Hi, Thanks to Frank. I have changed the value of kern.ps_showallprocs to 1 and its listing all processes now. I used the following command sysctl kern.ps_showallprocs=1 Will the value change back to zero once the server is rebooted. If yes, is

Re: Perl module for parsing tcpdump file

2005-07-19 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:11 AM 7/19/2005, Erik Nørgaard wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there is a perl module that can read the tcpdump formated files produced by pflog. I've been looking in the ports collection but can't seem to fine a port whose name decrypts to tcpdump. I don't think it's in ports, but this

Re: Remove GRUB?

2005-07-19 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 03:25 AM 7/19/2005, Michael Dexter wrote: Hello, I was experimenting with the GRUB bootloader and would now like to remove it. Something went wrong and I must now use a bootable CD that gives me an option to boot to the first partition and the system boots fine. man bsdlabel gives:

Re: Daemon, Devil... woops!

2005-07-18 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:36 AM 7/18/2005, Ray Jenson wrote: There was an old country-western song that said something about God, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz That was Mercedes Benz by Janis Joplin. She'd probably turn over in her grave if she heard it called country-western... As far as icons, symbols,

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-18 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 06:13 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Dean wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: I am currently trying to get to grips with FreeBSD and am trying it out on an old Pentium machine. However, the machine's BIOS can't

Re: /boot on a separate partition

2005-07-18 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 07:34 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 18 July 2005, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 06:13 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: It's starting to look to me as though the stage 2 bootloader and kernel both want to be in the /boot directory

Re: java in a jail

2005-07-17 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 11:38 PM 7/16/2005, flowctrl wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup OpenXchange in a FreeBSD 5.4 jail environment, and I'm stuck. At its core, OpenXchange is 3 java programs, and this one fails to start: /usr/local/bin/java -server -ms20M -mx280M -Djava.awt.headless=true

Re: Newbie IPFW Questions

2005-07-17 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 08:18 PM 7/17/2005, Jim Campbell wrote: I have a machine set up as a classroom to learn about FreeBSD. It is running 4.11 primarily because anything later can't see my hard drive. As background, my FBSD machine has an address of 192.168.1.110. It is situated behind a hardware firewall (a

Re: Can I use jumbo frames on my LAN?

2005-07-16 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:50 PM 7/16/2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: Is it true that jumbo frames are only useable with VLANs or LANs that are 100% GigE? There's a bunch of good info here: http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/net/jumbo/ -Glenn ___

Re: DHCP assigned unregistered IP address

2005-07-14 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:29 PM 7/13/2005, Robert Huff wrote: Glenn Dawson writes: Sounds like you have one of the motorola cable modems. They will assign exactly that address if they are turned on and can't communicate with the cable companies network. In such situations, my 3Com shows a red

Re: Apache 1.3 FreeBsd Port missing mod_auth_digest

2005-07-14 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:52 AM 7/14/2005, Chris Roos wrote: Hi, I'm not entirely convinced this is the right place for this question as it may be an Apache issue rather than FreeBsd/Port issue. Either way, I thought I'd start here first. I've been running Apache 1.3 from the ports on FreeBsd 5.3R for quite a

Re: Left/right arrow and backspace translation confusion

2005-07-14 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 04:09 AM 7/14/2005, Doug Lee wrote: This one is making me feel dumb...I've been using FreeBSD for at least six years but I can't seem to figure this out... I have two FreeBSD systems running 4.10/4.11 (these problems have plagued me through several versions though). On one system, arrows

Re: Apache 1.3 FreeBsd Port missing mod_auth_digest

2005-07-14 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 04:47 AM 7/14/2005, Chris Roos wrote: Glenn Dawson wrote: At 01:52 AM 7/14/2005, Chris Roos wrote: Hi, I'm not entirely convinced this is the right place for this question as it may be an Apache issue rather than FreeBsd/Port issue. Either way, I thought I'd start here first. I've

Re: SSH

2005-07-13 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 03:50 AM 7/13/2005, Andrew Budiwaluyo wrote: I can ssh (and access http) to my server from the internet, but not from my internal network. if i turn off the firewall it still won't work so i think it's no from ipf.rules. Help! If I ssh from an internal machine, I get the login prompt, but

Re: Soft-updates du df

2005-07-13 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:01 PM 7/13/2005, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi, I've taken over the administration of a FreeBSD box and now I've run into a problem that I could not solve by means of Google or the FreeBSD mailinglist archives. I am quite familiar with (Gentoo) GNU/Linux but a complete newbie when it comes to

Re: DHCP assigned unregistered IP address

2005-07-13 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:49 PM 7/13/2005, Bob Hall wrote: Tonight, during a thunderstorm, I shutdown the household FBSD internet gateway. After the storm passed, I booted it up again, only to discover that during the bootup, my ISP's DHCP server had assigned me a new IP address. That wasn't a problem in itself,

Re: dhcpd.conf problem

2005-07-08 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:16 AM 7/8/2005, thai nguyen wrote: Hi, We configured a dhcpd.conf as following. - ddns-update-style interim; ignore client-updates; option space PXE; option PXE.mtftp-ip

Re: Looking for arp scanner

2005-06-29 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:18 PM 6/29/2005, Fabian Anklam wrote: Hi there, I've browsing freshports.org for an arp scanner and found only arpscan, which is marked broken and knowlan, which hasn't been updated in years. What's the tool of choice to map out IP-Adresses on a subnet when you know that quite a few hosts

Re: Looking for arp scanner

2005-06-29 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 03:45 PM 6/29/2005, Vince Hoffman wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Fabian Anklam wrote: On 6/29/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:18 PM 6/29/2005, Fabian Anklam wrote: Hi there, I've browsing freshports.org for an arp scanner and found only arpscan, which is marked broken

Re: qpopper error

2005-06-20 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:52 PM 6/19/2005, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, In my research before posting this question, I saw this same question in numerous places, but I never saw a resolution! I have qpopper 4.0.5 running from inetd on FBSD 4.11. I start it thus: /usr/local/libexec/qpopper When I connect from my Mac to

Re: Detailed logging of ssh sessions

2005-06-19 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 08:38 AM 6/19/2005, Bill Moran wrote: I've been researching this, and so far haven't found a way to do what I want to do. I have servers here and there, that should only be accessible by a limited number of administrators via ssh (i.e. mail and web servers, firewalls). As an added security

Re: Blocking ports from upgrade

2005-06-17 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:45 PM 6/17/2005, Steven Lake wrote: Just curious about how to block portupgrade from upgrading certain files when you cvsup your ports and tell it to upgrade everything? I've got a few programs that refuse to work with the newer version so I have to copy the older version back

Re: fstab option to 'skip' a file system?

2005-06-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 08:16 PM 6/11/2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Is there an option that I can add to fstab (or some way of doing it?) that, when a server reboots, it will 'ignore' that file system, but I can still do a 'mount /fs' after the fact? in the options column in fstab specify noauto -Glenn I have

Re: icq server

2005-06-09 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:26 AM 6/9/2005, Anton Butsyk wrote: Hi all. Need to setup icq server under freebsd and have no experience with that. jabberd should be able to do that for you. It's in ports: /usr/ports/net/jabberd -Glenn Thank's for any advise. ___

Re: inbound ssh ceased on 4 servers at same time

2005-06-04 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:05 AM 6/4/2005, you wrote: Yesterday at about noon, all four freebsd servers on a clients lan quit accepting ssh connections. All were running 4.11-release-p4, and had been cvsup'd at the same time from cvs-10, cvs-11, or cvs-12. Outbound ssh (from console of the affected boxes) works as

Re: New ports in -RELEASE

2005-06-01 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 08:33 AM 6/1/2005, Tim Hogan wrote: Ron, I have run into a strange problem with ports and cvsup that you may be running into. For some unknown reason I can run a cvsup and it appears that everything has run fine however I show that nothing needs to be updated. Now here is the kicker;

Re: ftp server frustrating

2005-05-31 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:15 AM 5/31/2005, Vizion wrote: It is the general problem that concerns me - if I am in some goddamned foreign port trying to get an individual file by a slow ftp connection from my waterproof windows rugged tablet for subsequent transfer to my on below decks freebsd server I do not want

Re: ftp server frustrating

2005-05-31 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:26 PM 5/31/2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Vizion [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I still cant understand why the cut off is set so short!! ftp.freebsd.org has two IP's associated with it: # dig ftp.freebsd.org ; DiG 9.3.1 ftp.freebsd.org ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;;

Re: New ports in -RELEASE

2005-05-31 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:39 PM 5/31/2005, Vizion wrote: Or can someone point me to some very clear instructions for cvsup, that doesn't make a assumptions about me already being a FreeBSD guru? Does cvsups fix my problem? Installing a -RELEASE version and then wanting the latest ports seems like a common desire,

Re: syslog messages

2005-05-22 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:13 PM 5/22/2005, you wrote: hi, when i get an error or warning in my system, a mail is sent to the root user. does anyone know how to change the settings so that the mail is sent to my mail id instead of localhost id ? Just change where the root alias in /etc/mail/aliases points to. for

Re: Daemon Process

2005-05-17 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:27 AM 5/17/2005, Gowtham wrote: Hi All, Thank you very much for the feedback. Now, suppose I want to write a daemon for Unix in C whose job is to monitor other daemons and restart dead daemons. The daemon may take the list of such daemons to monitor from a file. I want to know how can this

Re: Kernel upgrade how-to

2005-05-12 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 11:15 AM 5/12/2005, Mark Probert wrote: Hi .. Is there documentation on how to do a kernel upgrade? I am looking at going from 5.3 to 5.4 and I am pretty sure that steps are: (1) upgrade the /usr/src tree (2) recomple the kernel (3) install the new kernel I am not sure of the best or

Re: is 4.11 still a good idea?

2005-05-09 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 06:26 PM 5/9/2005, Ed Stover wrote: When, I am waiting to get the official release none of this release candidate stuff but they wont release the turd yet. I like 4.x but 5.4 is hopefully going to guide me into the new millennium of FreeBSD computing ;) It's was released about 5 hours ago.

Re: /etc/resolv.conf and your ISP

2005-05-08 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:49 PM 5/8/2005, Forrest Aldrich wrote: I can think of a few ways to resolve this, but I thought to ask here. I have Comcast for my ISP, and of course DHCP changes /etc/resolv.conf during each update -- lately, they've been screwing things up bigtime, such that I simply use my own named

Re: what is the CVSROOT: SERVER and PORT of freebsd.org CVS?

2005-05-08 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:50 PM 5/8/2005, kylin wrote: the CVSsoftware i download in sourceforge asks me to enter in CVSROOT: SERVER PORT User Name and so on... so boring ,i just want to get some files new in freebsd 5.4 rc3:( can some kind hearted help me out? It's in the handbook...

Re: netgraph netflow

2005-05-06 Thread Glenn Dawson
enabled on an interface it only counts inbound traffic. If you want to count traffic going in two directions, you have to enable it on two interfaces, which is why (I assume) the examples in the man page are the way they are. -Glenn Thanks! --Brian On 5/5/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: netgraph netflow

2005-05-05 Thread Glenn Dawson
I didn't originally copy the list on this, but since there was a me too post, here it is. -Glenn At 07:26 AM 5/5/2005, you wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to get ng_netflow to work, and I'm having a heck of a time doing so. So if anyone can shed some light on my problem, please do so. I've tried

Re: swap space

2005-05-03 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 11:32 AM 5/3/2005, Chris Knipe wrote: Hi, Simple question really... Can you ever have to much swap space? We're sitting with quite a nifty P4 System with 1GB Ram. We will more than likely add another 2 or 3GB in the month to come as our applications (mainly perl) are consuming vast amounts

Re: Need help with a swap file

2005-04-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:18 PM 4/27/2005, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I think I screwed up. Perhaps someone here can help me. I need more swap space on my FreeBSD 4.6 box. I followed the directions at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html for Creating a swapfile for FreeBSD 4.X.

Re: Need help with a swap file

2005-04-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
OppsI should read more carefully before I send...ignore my last message. -Glenn At 05:18 PM 4/27/2005, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I think I screwed up. Perhaps someone here can help me. I need more swap space on my FreeBSD 4.6 box. I followed the directions at

Hyperthreading and schedulers [was Re: looking for a good sata or scsi raid 0/1 controller]

2005-04-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:33 PM 4/25/2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: I would start by turning off Hyperthreading as that only really works if you are using the ULE scheduler and thats broken under RELENG_5. I haven't noticed this mentioned before. Is using an SMP kernel on a system with a single P4 and SCHED_4BSD a waste

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:23 PM 4/20/2005, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Nothing spectacular, to be sure. I simply noticed that I have done a lot of things to set up a server or whatever, and they can easily be scripted. I'm certainly no shell scripting expert (A month ago I would have tried this in PHP, but there's a little

Re: lost root passwd

2005-04-16 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:35 AM 4/16/2005, Joshua Tinnin wrote: You should probably install 5.3-RELEASE if at all possible, or 4.11-RELEASE (though 6.x is soon to be the STABLE branch). Considering that 5.x was just recently declared stable and no release of 6.x is even scheduled (see

Re: SCSI Hardware problem?

2005-01-06 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:30 PM 1/6/2005, Jorn Argelo wrote: Oh, one other question ... I'm used to runlevels on Linux. When I reset this machine, I'm presented with the prompt asking me for the default shell (/bin/sh). I hit enter, and I'm in sh where I can fsck the other drives and mount them. Cool. But

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