Top display pri and renice questions...

2008-07-26 Thread Agus
Hi guys, Have a question regarding top PRI and the renice command extract from top PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND 17269 brahama 1 960 5932K 5300K select 30:55 0.00% perl5.8.8 Ok...what are the values of PRI? for

Re: upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0

2008-07-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
k Hi I ve got 6.3 stable database server. Can i directly upgrade my server from 6.3 to 7.0 yes. anyway - if your server works fine - why? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Security Issue Alert

2008-07-26 Thread support
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Re: IP alias/routing question

2008-07-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
David Allen wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Pratt wrote: Carefully not answering the 'why do these packets come from the wrong address' question, Deliberately addressing the question of 'why do these packets come from the wrong

Re: upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0

2008-07-26 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 08:38:08AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: k Hi I ve got 6.3 stable database server. Can i directly upgrade my server from 6.3 to 7.0 yes. anyway - if your server works fine - why? Because 7 is demonstrably faster than 6.x? Because local policy requires the

Binary upgrade from legacy version

2008-07-26 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Hi, list! I want to upgrade two freebsd machines I have from 6.1-SECURITY and 5.3-RELEASE respectively, to the latest 7.0 release of FreeBSD. I don't want to cvsup and build, but prefer to use prebuilt binaries. Also I'd like to avoid wiping the systems, and starting afresh. I know this might

Re: crontab mails

2008-07-26 Thread Jyun-Yi Liou
Hi Yavuz, It's easy to tell crontab stop sending mail to you by disable sendmail in /etc/rc.conf % echo sendmail_enable=\NO\ man rc.conf for more information :-) or set the variable MAILTO null on corntab MAILTO= Regards, jyuny1 2008/7/26 Yavuz Maslak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello On

Re: optimal CPUTYPE / arch for Intel T5600 ?

2008-07-26 Thread Jyun-Yi Liou
Hi Rene, for optimizationm, CPUTYPE is depends on what verison of gcc you use. you can determine waht CPUTYPE you use by checking gcc's online manul http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/ i.e. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.2.4/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#Optimize-Options Regards, jyuny1 2008/7/25

Re: Switch to alternate screen buffer

2008-07-26 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Donnerstag, 24. Jul 2008, 16:57:40 +0200 schrieb Wojciech Puchar: I know from some old Linux installations that Less and Vim are able to switch to an alternate screen buffer. They use the escape sequences \e[?1047h and \e[?1047l to switch back respectively. How can I activate this in

Backspace Key Not Working

2008-07-26 Thread Schiz0
Hey, I have an annoying problem that I'm not sure how to solve. Here's my setup: PuTTy = My FreeBSD 6.2 box = Production FreeBSD 7.0 box All via SSH, of course. Now, on my FreeBSD 6.2 box, the backspace key works fine all the time. However, when I connect from my 6.2 box into the production 7.0

Re: Backspace Key Not Working

2008-07-26 Thread Sahil Tandon
Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an annoying problem that I'm not sure how to solve. Here's my setup: PuTTy = My FreeBSD 6.2 box = Production FreeBSD 7.0 box All via SSH, of course. Now, on my FreeBSD 6.2 box, the backspace key works fine all the time. However, when I connect from

Re: Backspace Key Not Working

2008-07-26 Thread Schiz0
.vimrc on the 7.0 box: --- set autoindent set background=dark set backspace=indent,eol,start set cmdheight=2 set ignorecase set number set numberwidth=2 set report=0 set restorescreen=on set ruler set scrolloff=3 set showbreak=++ set showmatch set showmode set showtabline=3

Re: Binary upgrade from legacy version

2008-07-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Hi, list! I want to upgrade two freebsd machines I have from 6.1-SECURITY and 5.3-RELEASE respectively, to the latest 7.0 release of FreeBSD. I don't want to cvsup and build, but prefer to use prebuilt binaries. Also I'd like to avoid wiping the systems, and

Re: Switch to alternate screen buffer

2008-07-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 03:03:57PM +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi, Am Donnerstag, 24. Jul 2008, 16:57:40 +0200 schrieb Wojciech Puchar: I know from some old Linux installations that Less and Vim are able to switch to an alternate screen buffer. They use the escape sequences \e[?1047h

Root boot/mount Password?

2008-07-26 Thread DSA - JCR
Hi all FreeBSD 6.2 I would like to put a password when booting/mounting mi Freebsd box. is it possible? How? What I want is that if the system is rebooted or shutdown, somebody must enter a password to boot and/or mounting / is for protecting the system from unauthorized users Thanks in

Re: Root boot/mount Password?

2008-07-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all FreeBSD 6.2 I would like to put a password when booting/mounting mi Freebsd box. is it possible? How? What I want is that if the system is rebooted or shutdown, somebody must enter a password to boot and/or mounting

Re: Root boot/mount Password?

2008-07-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 05:31:23PM -, DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all FreeBSD 6.2 I would like to put a password when booting/mounting mi Freebsd box. is it possible? How? Yes. Use geli(8) encryption. is for protecting the system from unauthorized users Disk encryption also protects your

Re: Root boot/mount Password?

2008-07-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 01:53:27PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all FreeBSD 6.2 I would like to put a password when booting/mounting mi Freebsd box. is it possible? How? What I want is that if the system is

VLAN vs Virtual IPs(Alias)....

2008-07-26 Thread Agus
Hi guys, I have a doubt while planning my network enlargement... I have a router where i created 3 Virtual ips(alias)...eth0:1, eth0:2, etcso i have 3 subnets with only one eth interface192.168.[0-3].0 subnets...this connected to a switch, a simple one which doesnt support 802.1q and 4

Re: Root boot/mount Password?

2008-07-26 Thread Polytropon
Hi! Allthough you already got good answers, I'd like to add the following: On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:31:23 - (GMT), DSA - JCR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all FreeBSD 6.2 I would like to put a password when booting/mounting mi Freebsd box. is it possible? How? What I want is that if

Re: Root boot/mount Password?

2008-07-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 09:58:53PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: What I want is that if the system is rebooted or shutdown, somebody must enter a password to boot and/or mounting / Next to the usual means of access control (no automated login, no users without password), there would be an

malloc options

2008-07-26 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a program that has run correctly since FreeBSD 3.7. However, when upgrading the server to 7.0 I am encountering issues where values just seem to arbirtrarily change. These values are all located in memory allocated by malloc. Malloc was significantly changed with 7.0 and reading

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-07-06 - 2008-07-26

2008-07-26 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: malloc options

2008-07-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
Doug Hardie wrote: I have a program that has run correctly since FreeBSD 3.7. However, when upgrading the server to 7.0 I am encountering issues where values just seem to arbirtrarily change. These values are all located in memory allocated by malloc. Malloc was significantly changed with

Re: malloc options

2008-07-26 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jul 26, 2008, at 17:10, Kris Kennaway wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: I have a program that has run correctly since FreeBSD 3.7. However, when upgrading the server to 7.0 I am encountering issues where values just seem to arbirtrarily change. These values are all located in memory

Re: graid3

2008-07-26 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i read the graid3 manual and http://www.acnc.com/04_01_03.html to make sure i know what's RAID3 and i don't understand few things. 1) The number of components must be equal to 3, 5, 9, 17, etc. (2^n + 1). why it can't be say 5 disks+parity? The reason

Re: malloc options

2008-07-26 Thread Ivan Voras
Doug Hardie wrote: If you did recompile it and it is behaving differently then it is probably because your program contains bugs in how it manages memory that happened to be working by accident with the old memory allocator. e.g. because you were making use of memory after it had been freed,

Re: malloc options

2008-07-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:36:35 -0700, Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 26, 2008, at 17:10, Kris Kennaway wrote: Firstly, if you did not recompile the program under 7.0 then it is not using the new malloc at all. It was recompiled. All there is on the system is new stuff. It was

Re: crontab mails

2008-07-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 08:18:14PM +0800, Jyun-Yi Liou wrote: Hi Yavuz, It's easy to tell crontab stop sending mail to you by disable sendmail in /etc/rc.conf % echo sendmail_enable=\NO\ man rc.conf for more information :-) Kind of overkill, don't you think? Sendmail does more than

Re: upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0

2008-07-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:25:12PM -0400, David Gurvich wrote: You should not do the upgrade, Whatever would cause you to give such poor advice? though you can. ZFS is still experimental on FreeBSD though you can certainly use zfs pools on your existing system. It works. jerry

Re: malloc options

2008-07-26 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jul 26, 2008, at 18:47, Ivan Voras wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: If you did recompile it and it is behaving differently then it is probably because your program contains bugs in how it manages memory that happened to be working by accident with the old memory allocator. e.g. because you

Re: malloc options

2008-07-26 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jul 26, 2008, at 19:03, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: While that's understandable, the current malloc() has undergone quite extensive testing by Jason Evans and a lot of people who use it in FreeBSD 7.X or later. Its ability to expose bugs in this way was deemed important enough that it is

SATA300

2008-07-26 Thread Jason Lenthe
My machine, a home-brew running 7.0-RELEASE-p2, has 3 SATA hard drives all of which were advertised, I believe, as SATA300 drives, but: vader# dmesg | grep ATA ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 atapci1: Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller port

SATA300

2008-07-26 Thread Jason Lenthe
My machine, a home-brew running 7.0-RELEASE-p2, has 3 SATA hard drives all of which were advertised as SATA300 drives, but: vader# dmesg | grep ATA ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 atapci1: Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller port

Re: SATA300

2008-07-26 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:22:26PM -0400, Jason Lenthe wrote: My machine, a home-brew running 7.0-RELEASE-p2, has 3 SATA hard drives all of which were advertised as SATA300 drives, but: vader# dmesg | grep ATA ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 atapci1: Intel