Re: Kernel panic: flush_pagedep_deps: flush failed

2008-05-21 Thread Thomas Herzog
with backtrace, it looks like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] STORAGE kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.1 [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol ps_pglobal_lookup] GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free

Re: Kernel panic: flush_pagedep_deps: flush failed

2008-05-21 Thread Thomas Herzog
since i activate ataidle i have this errors: ad8: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 timed out LBA=314770799 +ad8: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=12207 +ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly after disable it, this messages are gone. so

Your suggestions about this Dell configuration?

2008-05-21 Thread VeeJay
Hello friends, My employer is buying this Dell server and I would like to have your opinion about the configuration. Requirements are: 2 Websites with 3-4 million hits per month with video ads. Operating System: *FreeBSD AMD647-STABBLE* Database: *PHP+MySQL with Apache* Server

Sed, shell and hexadecimal character codes

2008-05-21 Thread Karel Miklav
There's a tip in the FreeBSD fortunes database that says: Want to strip UTF-8 BOM(Bye Order Mark) from given files? sed -e '1s/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' bomfile newfile I can't make it work, and I can't find any other method to work with hexa codes in scripts or on the command line so I'm kind-a

Re: Now what would you expect this to print out?

2008-05-21 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 16:44, RW wrote: On Tue, 20 May 2008 11:33:50 +0200 Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 May 2008 02:41, RW wrote: On Mon, 19 May 2008 21:46:03 +1200 Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: find /usr/src \( -name Makefile -or -name

Which version

2008-05-21 Thread Russell Schoen
Hi, Do you have a version that will run with an AMD Sempron 3100+, 1.8Ghz, 32 bit, X86 family processor? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Instant reboot with FreeBSD 6.3 and 2GB RAM

2008-05-21 Thread votdev
Hello, some users of FreeNAS which is based on FreeBSD 6.3 reported instant reboots on systems with 2GB RAM (most of them use 4GB). The reboot occurs right after displaying the FreeBSD loader menu. Most of them told me that they can boot if they reduce RAM to = 2GB. We are using the

Re: Which version

2008-05-21 Thread Christian Zachariasen
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Russell Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Do you have a version that will run with an AMD Sempron 3100+, 1.8Ghz, 32 bit, X86 family processor? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ipw2200 freebsd 7 firmware problem

2008-05-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi all, I have an ipw2200 bg. I can't make it work under FreeBSD 7 on AMD64. This is the output of pciconf -lv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:5:0: class=0x028000 card=0x27028086 chip=0x42208086 rev=0x05 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Christian Zachariasen
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then, if crash dumps are enabled, it could be a HW failure.. no it is not. i have similar problems but not with apache, it is certainly FreeBSD bug that causes it to randomly reboot under certain types of load. i

Re: resident memory limit

2008-05-21 Thread Brad Penoff
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Brad Penoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Brad Penoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have an application that runs on Linux or Mac OS X but seems to have a problem when I run on FreeBSD (6.3

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Alan Gilmour
I guess it can, but in the past when hardware has failed for me, I generally got some indicative errors in the logs. I managed to move a lot of the intensive operations across to another server and for the moment,its working much better on the other server which has a newer kernel. Cheers Alan

rc script REQUIRE-ing a service on another host

2008-05-21 Thread Jonathan McKeown
We had a power failure last night, and this morning I found that imapproxyd (running on a webserver which provides webmail) had failed to start because it depends on imapd (running on the mailserver, a different host), and imapproxyd had won the startup race. I need to prevent the race by

Re: Your suggestions about this Dell configuration?

2008-05-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Requirements are: 2 Websites with 3-4 million hits per month with video ads. which means 10 per day. some time ago i wa doing somethink like that on 486/100. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: resident memory limit

2008-05-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
a problem when I run on FreeBSD (6.3 or 7). The issue is the memory footprint for the application (osubw_sctpclien below) is quite large; on Linux it can be as much as 950 MB in resident memory, according to top. However, on FreeBSD I start to get ENOMEM always around the time my resident

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I guess it can, but in the past when hardware has failed for me, I generally got some indicative errors in the logs. hardware failures are different. rarely causes reboot, or reboots ramdomly independent of what you do. with bad memory it usually produces sig11 or similar errors much more

Re: Your suggestions about this Dell configuration?

2008-05-21 Thread VeeJay
Yes, but its 4 million each.. so its 8 million hits per day Just a hint VJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah, because hardware never fails, right Wojciech? it does. but this is software

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Daniel Marsh
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it can, but in the past when hardware has failed for me, I generally got some indicative errors in the logs. hardware failures are different. rarely causes reboot, or reboots ramdomly independent of what you

Large filesystems help/ideas

2008-05-21 Thread Matias Surdi
Hi, I'm implementing a backup solution at work.We've bought a x86 server with two hardware raid 5 with for a total storage capacity of about 7Tb. For the software we are using for backups, the ideal scenario would be to have just one big disk so that no space problems would appear. I've

Re: Large filesystems help/ideas

2008-05-21 Thread Julien Cigar
You cannot use fdisk slices/partitions with disks over 2TB. For those GPT should be used. More info is available from here : http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:57 +0200, Matias Surdi wrote: Hi, I'm implementing a backup solution at work.We've bought a x86 server

RE: Slightly OT - steaming data server software?

2008-05-21 Thread Bob McConnell
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 15:32 -0700, John Pettitt wrote: Slightly OT but since I'm going to run this on FreeBSD 7 I figured I'd ask here .. I have an application where data arrives in what is effectively continuous stream (actually NMEA messages from an AIS receiver) and I'd like to

Re: resident memory limit

2008-05-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Brad Penoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Brad Penoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Brad Penoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have an application that runs on Linux or Mac OS X but

Re: Large filesystems help/ideas

2008-05-21 Thread Matias Surdi
As far as I understand from the following sentence taken from the link you are pointing and the text following it: ...Many systems don't require an MBR or GPT, and even PCs don't require it if booting and inter-operating with other OS's is not required. The next limit that comes in, though,

RE: rc script REQUIRE-ing a service on another host

2008-05-21 Thread Tandon, Sahil (IM)
Jonathan McKeown: We had a power failure last night, and this morning I found that imapproxyd (running on a webserver which provides webmail) had failed to start because it depends on imapd (running on the mailserver, a different host), and imapproxyd had won the startup race. I need

Re: Large filesystems help/ideas

2008-05-21 Thread Julien Cigar
If you only have FreeBSD installed on the box or if you don't need slices/partitions you can just do newfs /dev/xxx (dedicate). vinum should not be used on 6.x and above, gvinum (GEOM + vinum) replaced it but I'm not sure if it's still actively supported/developped .. (?) Also, take a look at

Re: Instant reboot with FreeBSD 6.3 and 2GB RAM

2008-05-21 Thread Vivek Khera
On May 21, 2008, at 4:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some users of FreeNAS which is based on FreeBSD 6.3 reported instant reboots on systems with 2GB RAM (most of them use 4GB). The reboot occurs right after displaying the FreeBSD loader menu. Most of them told me that they can boot if

Re: Asus eee (was Re: G4 Quicksilver as Web Server?)

2008-05-21 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, January 18, 2008 a las 10:41:28PM -0500, Garance A Drosehn escribió: At 9:14 AM -0500 1/2/08, Ed Maste wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 06:20:22PM +, James Jeffery wrote: Before i end the toipic, anyone got any feeback on the Asus Eee (mini laptops) with FreeBSD? It

Re: Instant reboot with FreeBSD 6.3 and 2GB RAM

2008-05-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:01:56AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, some users of FreeNAS which is based on FreeBSD 6.3 reported instant reboots on systems with 2GB RAM (most of them use 4GB). The reboot occurs right after displaying the FreeBSD loader menu. Most of them told me

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Pratt
On May 20, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Alan Gilmour wrote: Hey all, We have recently been getting a lot of traffic to one of our sites. The CPU is consistently during busy periods using 100% utilisation. When this happens we have approx 150 apache threads, and the loads goes way above 15. However

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Pratt
On May 21, 2008, at 8:05 AM, Chris Pratt wrote: On May 20, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Alan Gilmour wrote: Hey all, We have recently been getting a lot of traffic to one of our sites. The CPU is consistently during busy periods using 100% utilisation. When this happens we have approx 150 apache

Re: fxload (ports/misc/ezload for usb firmware loading)

2008-05-21 Thread Steve Franks
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:28 AM, bridd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Steve, I saw your thread http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-usb/2008-April/004753.html via googling for FreeBSD fxload equivalents. Did you get any further with it? I'm wondering, because I've got an m-audio USB

Re: Asus eee (was Re: G4 Quicksilver as Web Server?)

2008-05-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Friday, January 18, 2008 a las 10:41:28PM -0500, Garance A Drosehn escribió: At 9:14 AM -0500 1/2/08, Ed Maste wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 06:20:22PM +, James Jeffery wrote: Before i end the toipic, anyone got any feeback on the Asus Eee

Multiple instances of BIND at startup

2008-05-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi everybody, I am attempting to configure a BIND 9 name server that will be authoritative for certain domains which will listen exclusively on IPv6. This same box will also be a caching server for a handful of networks (IPv6 and IPv4). The way I have it set up is that the authoritative

Re: Large filesystems help/ideas

2008-05-21 Thread David Robillard
Hi, I'm implementing a backup solution at work.We've bought a x86 server with two hardware raid 5 with for a total storage capacity of about 7Tb. For the software we are using for backups, the ideal scenario would be to have just one big disk so that no space problems would appear. I've

Jails and multiple ip addresses with FreeBSD 7.0

2008-05-21 Thread Mark A Christofferson
Hi, I currently have a webserver running Apache 2.2.8 inside of a FreeBSD 7.0 jail. It's running several virtualhosts, and it's doing great! My problem is that I need to run an SSL enabled virtual host, and that requires me to use an IP based virtual host. Most documentation indicates that

Re: Multiple instances of BIND at startup

2008-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi everybody, I am attempting to configure a BIND 9 name server that will be authoritative for certain domains which will listen exclusively on IPv6. This same box will also be a caching server for a handful of networks (IPv6 and IPv4). The way I have it set up is

Re: resident memory limit

2008-05-21 Thread Brad Penoff
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:09 AM, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Brad Penoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Brad Penoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Brad Penoff [EMAIL

Re: resident memory limit

2008-05-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Brad Penoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:09 AM, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Brad Penoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Brad Penoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Bill Moran [EMAIL

SOLVED: minimalist config, (was Lock down the all-staff email list? sendmail, alias, majordomo?)

2008-05-21 Thread brad davison
What is the best way to have a list that only certain users are able to send to? That sounds like you're getting into a full blown mailing0list package. I set up the minimalist port for a small list last year. Small very easy to config. I think it has the restriction you

Re: resident memory limit

2008-05-21 Thread Joshua Isom
On May 21, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Brad Penoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:09 AM, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Brad Penoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Brad Penoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May

vi secure

2008-05-21 Thread William O. Yates
[sent the below message thru the freebsd-security list with no answers, hope for more from freebsd-questions] Recently started using vi macros. When attempting to use one which accessed the external shell, got the following message: The ! command is not supported when the secure edit option

Re: Instant reboot with FreeBSD 6.3 and 2GB RAM

2008-05-21 Thread Volker
On 12/23/-58 20:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, some users of FreeNAS which is based on FreeBSD 6.3 reported instant reboots on systems with 2GB RAM (most of them use 4GB). The reboot occurs right after displaying the FreeBSD loader menu. Most of them told me that they can boot if

Re: ipw2200 freebsd 7 firmware problem

2008-05-21 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Vince Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi all, I have an ipw2200 bg. I can't make it work under FreeBSD 7 on AMD64. This is the output of pciconf -lv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:5:0: class=0x028000 card=0x27028086 chip=0x42208086

Re: Large filesystems help/ideas

2008-05-21 Thread Matias Surdi
David Robillard escribió: Hi, I'm implementing a backup solution at work.We've bought a x86 server with two hardware raid 5 with for a total storage capacity of about 7Tb. For the software we are using for backups, the ideal scenario would be to have just one big disk so that no space problems

Re: ipw2200 freebsd 7 firmware problem

2008-05-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
Fernando Apesteguía wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Vince Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi all, I have an ipw2200 bg. I can't make it work under FreeBSD 7 on AMD64. This is the output of pciconf -lv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:5:0: class=0x028000

Re: Multiple instances of BIND at startup

2008-05-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
However, how can I make the FreeBSD (7.0) startup scripts load both instances of BIND, each with it's own configuration? I did something very similar. Run one of the bind instances in a jail -- especially with a little firewall rdr rules and similar trickery to redirect traffic into the

Re: Multiple instances of BIND at startup

2008-05-21 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 06:52:36PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Again, I'd rather do this without jails if possible, and at the same time, be able to use the built in FBSD startup scripts if possible. Can you not make use of BIND 9's view features? Possibly each view using a

Network interface detection order

2008-05-21 Thread Alexandre Biancalana
Hi list, I'm installing some new Dell PowerEdge Servers and I have a question, this servers came with 2 internal nics and FreeBSD recognize the interfaces in inversal order, the nic marked as 1 in chassis is bce1 in ifconfig and nic marked as 2 is bce0. Someone know why ? Do we have some way

Unusual use of ssh

2008-05-21 Thread Doug Hardie
I have an unusual situation that I suspect is not practical, but just in case... I have a class C network with a T1 to the internet. There are a number of hosts on that network. Unfortunately the T1 line is just part of a path with several additional links before it gets to the

Re: Multiple instances of BIND at startup

2008-05-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 06:52:36PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Again, I'd rather do this without jails if possible, and at the same time, be able to use the built in FBSD startup scripts if possible. Can you not make use of BIND 9's view features? Possibly each view

Re: Unusual use of ssh

2008-05-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:35 PM 5/21/2008, Doug Hardie wrote: I have an unusual situation that I suspect is not practical, but just in case... I have a class C network with a T1 to the internet. There are a number of hosts on that network. Unfortunately the T1 line is just part of a path with several additional

Re: Unusual use of ssh

2008-05-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
Sure enough, ssh packets are received by the host. The problem is that it does not respond on the right interface. The routing table uses a default route through the T1. Thats where the sshd responses are being sent. If I understand correctly, this is only one box you need a correction

Re: Unusual use of ssh

2008-05-21 Thread Dave Curry
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 04:35:29PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I have an unusual situation that I suspect is not practical, but just in case... I have a class C network with a T1 to the internet. There are a number of hosts on that network. Unfortunately the T1 line is just part of a path

Re: Your suggestions about this Dell configuration?

2008-05-21 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:49:51AM +0200, VeeJay wrote: Hello friends, My employer is buying this Dell server and I would like to have your opinion about the configuration. Requirements are: 2 Websites with 3-4 million hits per month with video ads. If it's 3-4 million hits per month as

Re: Multiple instances of BIND at startup

2008-05-21 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:01:50PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Jonathan Chen wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 06:52:36PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Again, I'd rather do this without jails if possible, and at the same time, be able to use the built in FBSD startup scripts if possible.

Re: Multiple instances of BIND at startup

2008-05-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
Well, from what I read (I can't remember where), if I use views to do this with only a single instance running, the problem arises that even though the 'external' (requests for authoritative answers) clients can and will get responses from the caching side of the server if the result they are

Re: vi secure

2008-05-21 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:51:03PM -0700, William O. Yates wrote: [sent the below message thru the freebsd-security list with no answers, hope for more from freebsd-questions] Recently started using vi macros. Show us the macro. When attempting to use one which accessed the external

Re: Which version

2008-05-21 Thread Tim Judd
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 10:32 +0200, Christian Zachariasen wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Russell Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Do you have a version that will run with an AMD Sempron 3100+, 1.8Ghz, 32 bit, X86 family processor? Please do some reading before asking

Re: Multiple instances of BIND at startup

2008-05-21 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:21:05PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: [...] My authoritative name server (service, eventually cluster) will eventually house about 500 domains, which I want only recursive DNS servers that come from the root .tld down to see (no caching). The caching name server

Re: Multiple instances of BIND at startup

2008-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:21:05PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: [...] My authoritative name server (service, eventually cluster) will eventually house about 500 domains, which I want only recursive DNS servers that come from the root .tld down to see (no caching). The