Re: multiprocessors

2005-04-07 Thread Tom Trelvik
Eric McCoy wrote: You are looking in the wrong place. A C *column*, not a CPU *row*. FreeBSD will only ever show the total CPU time on the CPU row. This is something like what you will see on an SMP system: PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPUCPU COMMAND 89704

Re: Cannot use cvsup with 5.3-release

2005-04-07 Thread Tom Trelvik
Tetsuji Maverick Rai wrote: *default host=cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all I don't think you want tag=. as the default. That would put you the most current sources for the OS, which may have plenty

Re: Rebuilding everything

2005-03-31 Thread Tom Trelvik
Darksidex wrote: How could I re-compile and re-install everything to take into account the new directives in make.conf? Ciao Vittorio You can use portupgrade -vaf Though that would only affect ports/packages you've installed, and not the rest of your system. I regularly cvsup /usr/ports

Re: [OT] Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Tom Trelvik
That is truly one of the most disturbing things I've ever read (about technology, anyway). Must be careful not to frighten small children, or all but the most experienced sysamins, with that one. Tom Ean Kingston wrote: As someone who has inhereted an Exchange server I have a few hints for

Re: Is this a good or a bad idea to delete all off this ?

2005-03-15 Thread Tom Trelvik
Gert Cuykens wrote: can i do controle C when i want to go to sleep while upgrading ? A cleaner solution, regardless of whatever you're running that you'd like to ^c, is to just let it run inside a screen session and reattach to the screen session later to see how it went. Screen should

Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

2005-03-02 Thread Tom Trelvik
Luke wrote: 1) NTP is difficult to configure. I've done it, but it wasn't trivial. It's always seemed rather straightforward to me, what in particular gave you trouble, perhaps we could help? 2) Finding an NTP server willing to accept traffic from the public isn't easy either. For me it

Re: recommended trouble ticketing system

2005-02-25 Thread Tom Trelvik
(redirecting back to the list) I've not used specialized bug tracking software before, so I'm not sure what kind of bug tracking specific features they might offer, but RT is, as the name suggests, just a generic request tracking system, and I don't see why it couldn't also be used for bug

Re: recommended trouble ticketing system

2005-02-24 Thread Tom Trelvik
RT is wonderful, it does an excellent job managing information and emails, and is very customizable. If you want it to display something it normally wouldn't, you can query it's MySQL db yourself to generate the reports/stats you're interested in, or even modify it's main page to display

Re: how long does it takes you to do a make buildworld

2005-02-24 Thread Tom Trelvik
~35min, iirc. dual 2.2GHz Opterons 4GB RAM 36GB RAID 1 SCSI SCA Wouter van Rooij wrote: I'm very curious about how long it took you guys to do a make buildworld. So I thought let's start a topic about it.;-) See who is the most fast and please also put your hardware in the reply: like for example

Re: web software

2005-02-24 Thread Tom Trelvik
Peter Risdon wrote: If, on the other hand, you want to use a FreeBSD desktop and are looking for a good graphical website development tool, you might try Quanta. This is also in the ports. Or nvu might be worth a try as well, it's also in ports. Tom

Re: /tmp on same partition as /

2005-02-11 Thread Tom Trelvik
Chad Morland wrote: In your opinion is having /tmp on the same partition as / really THAT bad in this case? I'm just wondering cause some people have mentioned that its a major security risk. Really, I don't think it is for what this box is doing. It's obviously a much bigger security risk on a

Re: groff/font/devX100 segfault in make installworld

2005-02-10 Thread Tom Trelvik
this problem? Obviously that approach could be a problem for many other programs, but groff doesn't seem worth worrying over if it's preventing me from keeping my system patched. Or, if that's not a good idea, what might be a better work around? Thanks again! Tom Tom Trelvik wrote: So I

Re: groff/font/devX100 segfault in make installworld

2005-02-10 Thread Tom Trelvik
Bah, I knew I'd forget something ... Tom Trelvik wrote: {...} So, my questions: {...} 5) Is there documentation I haven't found on how to go about diagnosing a problem such as this? I was very surprised my problem was not in the build stage, but the actual install stage, which made me

groff/font/devX100 segfault in make installworld

2005-02-08 Thread Tom Trelvik
So I ran into this problem a few months ago when I first started setting up a couple new servers. At the time I found one person online who'd had a very similar sounding problem some time before that, and he said it had gone away on its own for him, and that he suspected it was something