Re: v6 speed compared to previous versions

2006-11-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:57:01AM +0300, John Smith wrote: On 11/14/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When was this corrected? Is 6.2 going to be faster than 6.1? As I said earlier, some of the most important changes that went into 6.0 were fixing performance problems in 5.x.

Re: win32 codecs not fixed?

2006-11-14 Thread Armin Pirkovitsch
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: Yousef Adnan Raffah wrote: I have tried to portsnap this morning in order to see if the security issue with the multimedia/win32-codecs was resolved, which seems like it is not. What does usually happen when such a thing is happening, does the package/port stay

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-14 Thread Leo L. Schwab
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:16:35PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Honestly, I wouldn't worry about it: review your config and make some simple choices to reduce the noise, see this article: http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1876 But I rather thought that was the point of

NFS export - how no_root_squash with -maproot=

2006-11-14 Thread Klaus Friis Østergaard
Hi, I need to set up a NFS export for a client, I have created the dir /export/data I have chown nobody:nogroup and acess chmod 755 on /export/data the requrements are that the export for Linux is /export/data x.x.x.x (rw, no_root_squash) should this be like this when it is configured in

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-14 Thread Leo L. Schwab
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:10:58AM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: I had the same 'problem'. As said it's not realy a problem since FreeBSD will hold just fine if you don't have any rather stupid user + pass combinations. While FreeBSD and OpenSSH are very good, I'm not prepared to rely

Re: net-snmp and 6.1

2006-11-14 Thread gahn
thanks. i didn't recall that i activated any snmp but there is a bsnmpd running though: root snmpd 414 13 tcp4 *:199 *:* root snmpd 414 14 udp4 *:161 *:* root snmptrapd 408 10 udp4 *:162 *:* how could i remove

net-snmp and 6.1

2006-11-14 Thread gahn
hi: is a generic snmp running with 6.1? i installed net-snmp on 6.1 and it seems to have conflict with some another snmp process: [init_smux] bind failed: Address already in use Error opening specified endpoint udp:161 Server Exiting with code 1 i have no anothe snmp application running except

Re: [OT]two networks, one nic

2006-11-14 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 07:52, jekillen wrote: Hello FreeBSD users, I have been operating under the assumption that the same network interface card cannot handle two different networks. But then I seem to have seen an example in one of the OReill„ books on networking that had one

Re: Question about Ventrilo port at startup

2006-11-14 Thread Miles Cannon
Hi Lowell, The port maintainer wasn't able to reply to my first email, however, he included the following in a reply to my post in questions which I've included in case you should find it useful: Check to make sure your /usr/local/etc/ventrilo_srv.ini file can be read by the ventrilo user/group.

Re: net-snmp and 6.1

2006-11-14 Thread gahn
thanks. it definitely helped...-:) really i can't recall i ever activate the bsnmpd. best --- Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gahn wrote: thanks. i didn't recall that i activated any snmp but there is a bsnmpd running though: root snmpd 414 13 tcp4 *:199

Re: net-snmp and 6.1

2006-11-14 Thread Frank Staals
gahn wrote: hi: is a generic snmp running with 6.1? i installed net-snmp on 6.1 and it seems to have conflict with some another snmp process: [init_smux] bind failed: Address already in use Error opening specified endpoint udp:161 Server Exiting with code 1 i have no anothe snmp application

Re: [OT]two networks, one nic

2006-11-14 Thread Vince
Its certainly possible. In fact on FreeBSD you can only have multiple addresses in one interface if they are in different broadcast domains (although one can be a subset (say /32) of the other. I have 10.0.0.1/25 and 10.10.10.1/24 on my wireless interface at home. Its often a good idea to

Inquiry about using FreeBSD logo

2006-11-14 Thread Sher Shah Farooq
Dear FreeBSD My name is Sher Shah Farooq, working in Ministry of IT and Telecom as Open Source Security Expert. I am a great fan of FreeBSD Operating System and using FreeBSD from the last 6 years. I have introduced FreeBSD in Government as well as in hundreds of Private organizations. I want

Re: net-snmp and 6.1 (confusion)

2006-11-14 Thread gahn
the entry bsnmpd_enable=NO does works and the result from sockstat showed there is no snmpd running. then i added following entries in rc.conf: snmpd_enable=YES snmpd_flags=-a -p /var/run/snmpd.pid snmptrapd_enable=YES snmptrapd_flags=-a -p /var/run/snmptrapd.pid

Re: error while building lang/p5-Error

2006-11-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
James Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How to fix? ns : 20:53:22 /root# portupgrade lang/p5-Error --- Upgrading 'p5-Error-0.17.004' to 'p5-Error-0.17.007' (lang/p5-Error) --- Building '/usr/ports/lang/p5-Error' === Cleaning for perl-5.8.8 === Cleaning for p5-Error-0.17.007 ===

Re: Inquiry about using FreeBSD logo

2006-11-14 Thread David Schulz
http://www.freebsd.org/art.html#USE On Nov 14, 2006, at 7:02 PM, Sher Shah Farooq wrote: Dear FreeBSD My name is Sher Shah Farooq, working in Ministry of IT and Telecom as Open Source Security Expert. I am a great fan of FreeBSD Operating System and using FreeBSD from the last 6 years. I

Building Ports w/ Options, Env

2006-11-14 Thread Rachel Florentine
71- Original Message From: Nils Vogels [EMAIL PROTECTED] What you put between the brackets [], is passed to make ans should be options that make recognizes. A small example: MAKE_ARGS = { 'www/squid' = 'CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-delay-pools --enable-snmp --enable-ssl

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-14 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:56:17PM -0600, Chuck Remes wrote: Also, please recall I said most software and not 100% of software. I am certain there are outliers that don't compile cleanly on OSX, but that hardly proves that OSX is not a good UNIX target. The vast majority of software

Re: win32 codecs not fixed?

2006-11-14 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Yousef Adnan Raffah wrote: I have tried to portsnap this morning in order to see if the security issue with the multimedia/win32-codecs was resolved, which seems like it is not. What does usually happen when such a thing is happening, does the package/port stay restricted until the

It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Scott Schappell
The writing is on the wall and all that stuff. I've put this off long enough. What needs to be done to upgrade from 4.11 to 6.x? I have an extensive amount of ports installed and in googling and searching the list, it seems I need to make a jump to 5.2 then from there to 6. My thinking is the

deleting automatically the oldest file from a harddisk

2006-11-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 Koen de Wijs wrote: I have a ftp -server. I use a harddisk of 9 Gb for the ftp-directory. This isn't very big so I want to throw away the oldest file if the disc is full. I'd tend to define 'full' as perhaps 8GB in that situation, and likely protect at least some

Re: FreeBSD UFS vulnerability: Is NIST off its medication, or am I missing something?

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-5824 Following the links around, it seems that you would have to mount a corrupt or malicious filesystem in order to exploit this vulnerability. Yes, NIST claims there

Re: net-snmp and 6.1 (confusion)

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to gahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the entry bsnmpd_enable=NO does works and the result from sockstat showed there is no snmpd running. then i added following entries in rc.conf: snmpd_enable=YES snmpd_flags=-a -p /var/run/snmpd.pid snmptrapd_enable=YES snmptrapd_flags=-a -p

sysv semaphores

2006-11-14 Thread Robin Becker
I'm trying to test a python extension (POSH) that uses semaphores. When testing I get a run time error that indicates it requires too many semaphores. Is it possible to adjust the allowed number of semaphores without rebuilding the kernel? What are the costs of having semaphores ie are they

Re: Blank screen after using X

2006-11-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 Christian Walther wrote: I forgot to mention that the machine is an IBM Thinkpad T23 with S3 Savage chip, max. resolution is at 1024x768. Ok, now your first problem becomes one that I've had :) I'm using FreeBSD 6.x for a couple of month now, and I'm quite happy with

Re: net-snmp and 6.1 (confusion)

2006-11-14 Thread gahn
thanks bill: no, i did cat /var/log/snmpd.log every time i restarted the server. here is the error message after i disabled snmpd in rc.conf (with entry bsnmpd=NO): [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL

win32 codecs not fixed?

2006-11-14 Thread Yousef Adnan Raffah
I have tried to portsnap this morning in order to see if the security issue with the multimedia/win32-codecs was resolved, which seems like it is not. What does usually happen when such a thing is happening, does the package/port stay restricted until the developer/port owner fix the security

multiple ports trees

2006-11-14 Thread Christopher M. Hobbs
Hello, list! I've got about six production servers and a couple of workstations running FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE and 6.2-PRERELEASE. Some of these machines are sitting in DMZ, the others are internal. Currently, each of them has their own ports tree. How terrible of an idea would it be to take one

Re: [OT]two networks, one nic

2006-11-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:52:32PM -0800, jekillen wrote: Hello FreeBSD users, I have been operating under the assumption that the same network interface card cannot handle two different networks. But then I seem to have seen an example in one of the OReill? books on networking that had one

Re: win32 codecs not fixed?

2006-11-14 Thread Armin Pirkovitsch
Yousef Adnan Raffah wrote: I have tried to portsnap this morning in order to see if the security issue with the multimedia/win32-codecs was resolved, which seems like it is not. What does usually happen when such a thing is happening, does the package/port stay restricted until the

MailScanner Ports problems

2006-11-14 Thread ohlund
I've been doing cvsup's on ports-all and src-all. After rebuilding world for the second time, I still get errors when building the ports. For example, I'm trying to rebuild MailScanner and I get the following: ===Verifying install for /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.2/mach/Filesys/Df.pm in

Re: net-snmp and 6.1

2006-11-14 Thread Frank Staals
gahn wrote: thanks. i didn't recall that i activated any snmp but there is a bsnmpd running though: root snmpd 414 13 tcp4 *:199 *:* root snmpd 414 14 udp4 *:161 *:* root snmptrapd 408 10 udp4 *:162 *:* how

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:56:17PM -0600, Chuck Remes wrote: Also, please recall I said most software and not 100% of software. I am certain there are outliers that don't compile cleanly on OSX, but that hardly proves that OSX is not a good UNIX target. The vast

It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Huff
Scott Schappell writes: Am I on the right track by doing source upgrades? Source upgrades are certainly possible; I'll let others address the sequence of steps. However: were this my problem, I would get a clean disk and install from scratch. Advantages: ability to

Re: win32 codecs not fixed?

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Huff
Hello: 2) make rmconfig Thanks. Never heard of that option before. Note also make showconfig. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Building Ports w/ Options, Env

2006-11-14 Thread Rachel Florentine
- Original Message From: Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAKE_ARGS = { 'www/squid' = 'CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-delay-pools --enable-snmp --enable-ssl --enable-ipf-transparent --enable-removal-policies', 'mail/imp' = 'WITH_HTML=yes WITH_COURIER-IMAP=yes', } Okay,

Rescuing mangled RAID5 array

2006-11-14 Thread Greg Eden
Hello I'm trying to recover data from a broken RAID5 array (drive removed whilst array was rebuilding!). What's the best way to get an image of the corrupted partition and how would I run fsck -y on the image. The corrupted partition is 1.3TB, /dev/da1s1d, usually mounted as /raid. I

RE: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Jay Gordon
That's the way I would go about it. Jay Gordon Unix Systems Administrator DataPipe Managed Hosting Services - What It Means To Be Sure - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.datapipe.com Tel: 201.792.1918 x2402 | Fax: 201-792-3090 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Building Ports w/ Options, Env

2006-11-14 Thread Rachel Florentine
- Original Message From: Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAKE_ARGS = { 'www/squid' = 'CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-delay-pools --enable-snmp --enable-ssl --enable-ipf-transparent --enable-removal-policies', 'mail/imp' = 'WITH_HTML=yes WITH_COURIER-IMAP=yes', } Okay,

linksys WPC54G | WPA-TKIP | FreeBSD 6.1

2006-11-14 Thread probsd org
Anyone know of a good HOWTO on setting up networking in 6.1-RELEASE using a Linksys WPC54G v2 PCMIA card to connect to a wireless linksys router doing WPA-TKIP encryption? michael - Cheap Talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates.

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jay Gordon wrote: That's the way I would go about it. Jay Gordon Unix Systems Administrator DataPipe Managed Hosting Services - What It Means To Be Sure - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.datapipe.com Tel: 201.792.1918 x2402 | Fax: 201-792-3090 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
Leo L. Schwab wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:16:35PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Honestly, I wouldn't worry about it: review your config and make some simple choices to reduce the noise, see this article: http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1876 But I rather thought that was

Re: MailScanner Ports problems

2006-11-14 Thread Martin Hepworth
There was talk about this on the Mailscanner list a while ago. I use the tar.gz to install MailScanner direct (on 4.11), but then I do alot of beta testing and JPK can lag behind in getting releases out. Ask on the main MailScanner list as JPK hangs about there sometime,, -- Martin On

Re: linksys WPC54G | WPA-TKIP | FreeBSD 6.1

2006-11-14 Thread probsd org
OK thanks. I'm also assuming I will have to download the windows WPC54G driver and convert it using ndisgen. I didnt see the WPC54G v2 card listed in the hardware compatibility list. Kevin Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/14/06, probsd org wrote: Anyone know of a good HOWTO on setting

Re: Building Ports w/ Options, Env

2006-11-14 Thread Eric Schuele
On 11/14/06 13:32, Rachel Florentine wrote: - Original Message From: Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAKE_ARGS = { 'www/squid' = 'CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-delay-pools --enable-snmp --enable-ssl --enable-ipf-transparent --enable-removal-policies', 'mail/imp' =

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 02:31:26PM -0500, Jay Gordon wrote: That's the way I would go about it. Jay Gordon Unix Systems Administrator DataPipe Managed Hosting Services - What It Means To Be Sure - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.datapipe.com Tel: 201.792.1918 x2402 | Fax: 201-792-3090

Re: Building Ports w/ Options, Env

2006-11-14 Thread Rachel Florentine
83 - Original Message From: Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm no expert here but... 1) MAKE_ARGS (and MAKE_ENV) is a hash... so it would be curly braces. 2) Use MAKE_ENV. (from the man page) MAKE_ENV = { 'databases/mysql41-*' = [ 'WITH_LINUXTHREADS=1',

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-14 Thread Eric
Erik Norgaard wrote: Leo L. Schwab wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:16:35PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Honestly, I wouldn't worry about it: review your config and make some simple choices to reduce the noise, see this article: http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1876 But I rather

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry McAllister writes: I believe there are also some file system improvements that you will miss if you do not rebuild the file systems at the 6.xxx level. Particularly, 4.x does not have UFS2/MAC which is the wave of the future.

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Robert Huff wrote: Jerry McAllister writes: I believe there are also some file system improvements that you will miss if you do not rebuild the file systems at the 6.xxx level. Particularly, 4.x does not have UFS2/MAC which is the wave of the future.

Re: sysv semaphores

2006-11-14 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:22:33PM +, Robin Becker wrote: I'm trying to test a python extension (POSH) that uses semaphores. When testing I get a run time error that indicates it requires too many semaphores. Is it possible to adjust the allowed number of semaphores without rebuilding

Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a server with 6.1 and one dual-core processor and the SMP option was built in the kernel according to the doc below, but only zeros show up in the 'C' column of top after I've rebooted with the newly compiled kernel. http://www.freebsddiary.org/smp.php I did not add APIC_IO as the doc

Re: linksys WPC54G | WPA-TKIP | FreeBSD 6.1

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 11:40 -0800, probsd org wrote: Anyone know of a good HOWTO on setting up networking in 6.1-RELEASE using a Linksys WPC54G v2 PCMIA card to connect to a wireless linksys router doing WPA-TKIP encryption? michael I would also take a look at 'man ath' and the

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a server with 6.1 and one dual-core processor and the SMP option was built in the kernel according to the doc below, but only zeros show up in the 'C' column of top after I've rebooted with the newly compiled kernel.

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Josh Carroll
up in the 'C' column of top after I've rebooted with the newly compiled kernel. Run top with the -S argument. You should then see two idle processes, one for each CPU: 11 root 1 171 52 0K 8K CPU0 0 72.1H 91.70% idle: cpu0 10 root 1 171 52 0K 8K RUN

Re: sysv semaphores

2006-11-14 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 04:46:52PM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:22:33PM +, Robin Becker wrote: I'm trying to test a python extension (POSH) that uses semaphores. When testing I get a run time error that indicates it requires too many semaphores. Is it possible

Re: Laptop Wireless

2006-11-14 Thread doug
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Damian Wiest wrote: The OP replied off-list with his output from dmesg. I'm sending it back to the list in the off-chance that someone knows more about this wireless adapter. -Damian - Forwarded message from Rem P Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED] - On Sun, Nov 05,

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

2006-11-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Honestly, I wouldn't worry about it: review your config and make some simple choices to reduce the noise, see this article: One other noise reduction method which is really easy to implement is to use pf and write arule set

Re: multiple ports trees

2006-11-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 9 November 2006 at 8:46:00 -0600, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: Hello, list! I've got about six production servers and a couple of workstations running FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE and 6.2-PRERELEASE. Some of these machines are sitting in DMZ, the others are internal. Currently, each of

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 15:04 -0800, Josh Carroll wrote: up in the 'C' column of top after I've rebooted with the newly compiled kernel. Run top with the -S argument. You should then see two idle processes, one for each CPU: 11 root 1 171 52 0K 8K CPU0 0 72.1H

Re: sysv semaphores

2006-11-14 Thread Robin Becker
Damian Wiest wrote: . You'll want to use either sysctl(8) to change the settings dynamically, or use /etc/sysctl.conf to modify the settings permanently. I'm not sure if there's a benefit to rolling a new kernel versus using sysctl.conf, or if things even work that way anymore. #

Re: sysv semaphores

2006-11-14 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 11:56:45PM +, Robin Becker wrote: [snip] thanks very much all very useful info. Someone else recommended looking at these options kern.ipc.semmap=180 kern.ipc.semmni=160 kern.ipc.semmns=210 kern.ipc.semmnu=180 kern.ipc.semmsl=210 kern.ipc.semopm=250

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 11/15/06, Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like my hyperthreading is enabled and it is in the BIOS. I was told there was a dual-core in the machine, but not confirmed. But there should be two with HT anyway as seen, correct? This is a dmesg from an Intel D830 box: CPU:

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Mohler
My dmesg matches yours Juha.. Would enabling Hyperthreading increase any of my processing power? On 11/14/06, Juha Saarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/15/06, Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like my hyperthreading is enabled and it is in the BIOS. I was told there was

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 11/15/06, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dmesg matches yours Juha.. Would enabling Hyperthreading increase any of my processing power? Well, if you have the D830, no, because it doesn't have HTT support. :) As a general question, the answer is yes and no. Depends on your

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2006/11/14 15:13, Jeff Mohler seems to have typed: My dmesg matches yours Juha.. Would enabling Hyperthreading increase any of my processing power? It depends on load and so forth, most reports I saw vary from a minimal increase to a large decrease. The first few links from a google

Re: FreeBSD 6.0/AMD64 server crash

2006-11-14 Thread perikillo
Hey wojtek. Did you find a fix for this error...? I receive this error today went i try to cp some backups files from my server to the external hard disk(USB 2.0): cp -P -R -v /backups/backups /ext/ After some minutes i receive this error in my console: Nov 14 16:36:09 bacula kernel:

Network Monitoring Application Help, What do you use?

2006-11-14 Thread Sean Murphy
I was looking into a Network/Server monitoring application that would do the following Must have features email/page/sms if one of the rules fail has the ability to of course ping the device, ssh into or have someway of checking if a daemon is running. Optional but nice features reporting

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Mohler
I thought that since we both had HTT tags in the CPU ID, that we had it. ;) On 11/14/06, Juha Saarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/15/06, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dmesg matches yours Juha.. Would enabling Hyperthreading increase any of my processing power? Well, if you

Re: Network Monitoring Application Help, What do you use?

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Mohler
Im am _loving_ zabbix for this. 1.1 in ports works, 1.1.3 from the site works, 1.3 doesnt compile for me cleanly at all..but what does work..does ALL of those things very easily. On 11/14/06, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking into a Network/Server monitoring application that

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 11/15/06, Jeff Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that since we both had HTT tags in the CPU ID, that we had it. Yeah, well... that's a funny thing that tag. Got it on my first-generation 1.3GHz Pentium 4 as well. Makes me wonder if Intel had that feature in the processors very early

Re: Dual core processors

2006-11-14 Thread Jeff Mohler
Is a stock kernel config the 'fast' way to go on these CPUs? Sure wish there was an 'options I_WANNA_GO_FAST' or an 'options RICKY_BOBBY' that would just do all the right things. Still not sure which scheduler to go with.. On 11/14/06, Juha Saarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/15/06,

TV card on freebsd

2006-11-14 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, this is a follow-up to what I posted before, about choosing a TV card to use on freebsd6.2. Okay, so the card I got A VerMedia M-500 ...DOES NOT work!! Indeed!!! It uses Philip chip. shoot but I have windows xp installed on another HD, after downloading the driver and all, that seemed

Re: Building Ports w/ Options, Env

2006-11-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Now, if this could only be used *within* a ports Makefile to affect other ports that it depends on while building ... that would be most cool ... - --On Monday, November 13, 2006 10:40:57 -0800 Rachel Florentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi;

Re: multiple ports trees

2006-11-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 01:24, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 9 November 2006 at 8:46:00 -0600, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: [sharing ports tree] Also, what about user accounts between machines? With NFS you typically have the same user ID on all related machines. I got to

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 18:13, Scott Schappell wrote: The writing is on the wall and all that stuff. I've put this off long enough. What needs to be done to upgrade from 4.11 to 6.x? I have an extensive amount of ports installed and in googling and searching the list, it seems I need to