Subject: Re: Ezmlm Port Okay Or Junk?

2006-11-22 Thread Graham Bentley
Can you expand on this ? I have noticed that quite alot of ports are broken on 6.2 but then again I only loaded it a few days ago and havent updated the tree (thinking this is the 'latest' version - flawed?) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

'pkg_version' comparison failure

2006-11-22 Thread Gerard Seibert
What would cause this command: /usr/sbin/pkg_version -vIL= to produce this error message: openoffice.org-2.0.3! Comparison failed I have updated the ports tree several times; however, the error remains. No other ports exhibits this phenomena. -- Gerard [EMAIL

Re: Upgrade Question

2006-11-22 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday November 21, 2006 at 09:08:42 (PM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RELENG_6 for whatever 6-STABLE is (6.2 right now but will soon enough be moving on towards 6.3.). I wasn't aware that 6.2 had been released as 'STABLE' yet. -- Gerard Mail from '@gmail' is rejected and/or discarded

Re: Upgrade Question

2006-11-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Tuesday November 21, 2006 at 09:08:42 (PM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RELENG_6 for whatever 6-STABLE is (6.2 right now but will soon enough be moving on towards 6.3.). I wasn't aware that 6.2 had been released as 'STABLE' yet. Short version: No, the OP

ADI AD1888 AC'97 audio CODEC on ASUS P4P800S

2006-11-22 Thread alan ramlan
give me driver sound ad1888 for P4P800S plese. Sponsored Link Online degrees - find the right program to advance your career. www.nextag.com ___

Re: 'pkg_version' comparison failure

2006-11-22 Thread RW
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 11:48, Gerard Seibert wrote: What would cause this command: /usr/sbin/pkg_version -vIL= to produce this error message: openoffice.org-2.0.3! Comparison failed I have updated the ports tree several times; however, the error remains. No

To which port GPG belongs?

2006-11-22 Thread VeeJay
Hi If I want to run commands like # gpg httpd-2.0.49.tar.gz.asc Which port one should install, becasue there are many... 1. /usr/ports/security/gnome-gpg 2. /usr/ports/security/gpgme03 3. /usr/ports/security/kgpg 4. /usr/ports/security/nofgpg 5. /usr/ports/security/ruby-gpgme And with

Re: To which port GPG belongs?

2006-11-22 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
On 22/11/2006 14:53, VeeJay wrote: Hi If I want to run commands like # gpg httpd-2.0.49.tar.gz.asc Which port one should install, becasue there are many... /usr/ports/security/gnupg Btw, there's excellent documentation at http://www.gnupg.org/ And with which options one should

Re: NIC driver question

2006-11-22 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
U can always add additional Intel/3COM NIC, in case the builtin card is not recognized. -- Aftab Jahan Subedar CEO/Software Engineer Subedar Technologies Ltd Soubedar Baag Bibir Bagicha #1 North Jatra Bari Dhaka 1204 Bangladesh http://www.DhakaStockExchangeGame.com Frank Bonnet wrote:

Re: To which port GPG belongs?

2006-11-22 Thread Felix 'buebo' Kakrow
Am 22.11.06 14:53 schrieb VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi If I want to run commands like # gpg httpd-2.0.49.tar.gz.asc Which port one should install, becasue there are many... How about security/gnupg or security/gnupg-devel? I've never messed with the options on this one, but unless you

Re: Building Sendmail from ports

2006-11-22 Thread David Robillard
[ ---8--- Text has been removed! ---8---] But, where will the port install my *.mc and *.cf files? This I can't seem to figure out. I would like to know before I hit 'make install' in the port dir. I would think it will install them into /usr/local/share/sendmail/cf, would that be correct? Hi

Re: Password Security

2006-11-22 Thread Jeff Hinrichs - DMT
Although I haven't used either, gbde and geli are possible methods. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: To which port GPG belongs?

2006-11-22 Thread VeeJay
Thanks for your quick thoughts... I am still unable to verify Key I have got this key from Apache site -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUARMj7lvcTqHkQ/eB1AQKApAgAjnO4vMS0hmJc7FI/X/qT5L9ZmwZpZFLW

additional processor in IBM xSeries

2006-11-22 Thread Marko Kobal
Hi, I have an IBM xSeries 225 with two-processor motherboard, currently with only one Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz. OS is 6.1p10, otherwise is this an apache22-mysql50-php5 web server. I would like to add an additional, second Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz. Do I have to change anything in OS, kernel, etc, before

problems with check_dhcp in nagios

2006-11-22 Thread Thierry Lacoste
Hello, I'm using nagios-2.4 with nagios-plugins-1.4.3,1 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10. I have a problem to make check_dhcp work. dhclient works as expected: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dhclient em0 DHCPREQUEST on em0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST on em0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPDISCOVER on

Re: To which port GPG belongs?

2006-11-22 Thread VeeJay
I have this Help Instructions from a Step-by-Step for Apache installation lynx http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi download: httpd-2.0.xx.tar.gz, httpd-2.0.xx.tar.gz.asc, KEYS gpg --import KEYS gpg httpd-2.0.49.tar.gz.asc gpg: Good signature from Sander Striker [EMAIL PROTECTED] tar

linux-sun-jdk15, Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ))

2006-11-22 Thread Andy Harrison
I'm trying to install jdk15 because I need it to access the ilom on some Sun x4100 boxes. Has anyone else seen or know how to handle this error message? I tried both bash and tcsh with a clean env just to see if that might be mucking something up. No luck... # make -D

Does disk encryption causes a performance penalty for Data Access/Read/Write, etc

2006-11-22 Thread VeeJay
Hi Does *disk encryption* causes a *performance* penalty for Data Access/Read/Write, etc? -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: linux-sun-jdk15, Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ))

2006-11-22 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:07:44 -0500 Andy Harrison wrote: I'm trying to install jdk15 because I need it to access the ilom on some Sun x4100 boxes. Has anyone else seen or know how to handle this error message? I tried both bash and tcsh with a clean env just to see if that might be mucking

Re: Does disk encryption causes a performance penalty for Data Access/Read/Write, etc

2006-11-22 Thread Bill Moran
In response to VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does *disk encryption* causes a *performance* penalty for Data Access/Read/Write, etc? Any kind of encryption causes a performance penalty. However, if your CPU is powerful enough, it's possible (even likely) that the CPU is still able to encrypt

Re: Does disk encryption causes a performance penalty for Data Access/Read/Write, etc

2006-11-22 Thread Nick Pavlica
Does *disk encryption* causes a *performance* penalty for Data Access/Read/Write, etc? I haven't done any testing, but would assume that it would impact it to a certain degree, because there is the additional encryption overhead. --Nick Pavlica ___

Re: To which port GPG belongs?

2006-11-22 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
On 22/11/2006 15:48, VeeJay wrote: Thanks for your quick thoughts... I am still unable to verify Key I have got this key from Apache site [ key snipped ] but how to verify because When I give this command # gpg httpd-2.0.59.tar.gz.asc gpg: Signature made Thu Jul 27

Re: Password Security

2006-11-22 Thread Andy Greenwood
I've used geli to encrypt my swap partition following the instructions in the handbook and it went quite well. If you really need to secure the data on the machine, mark the terminal as insecure and encrypt all the disks, including swap. Keep in mind though, that no system is completely secure.

Re: linux-sun-jdk15, Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ))

2006-11-22 Thread Andy Harrison
On 11/22/06, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You didn't mention if by a chance you did follow those instructions about linprocfs... Yes, it's mounted. # grep lin /etc/fstab linprocfs /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 # mount | grep lin

Re: firefox build error

2006-11-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Laurence Sanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Firefox build from ports is exiting with this error: cc -o gtk2xtbin.o -c -DMOZILLA_INTERNAL_API -DOSTYPE=\FreeBSD6\ -DOSARCH=\FreeBSD\ -DBUILD_ID=00 -D_IMPL_GTKXTBIN_API -DUSE_XIM -I../../../dist/include/xpcom

Re: I don't see anything to answer my question

2006-11-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 07:05:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/21/06, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 09:38:26PM -0500, rickie lyman wrote: I am a newbee and sometimes Dizzy too. My question is I have a computer that has a rather large drive

Re: Upgrade Question

2006-11-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 01:34:23AM +, Robert Davison wrote: If my cvs-upfile reads, and specfically im looking at the default release line *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all ports-all tag=. doc-all tag=.

Re: linux-sun-jdk15, Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ))

2006-11-22 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:07:44 -0500 Andy Harrison wrote: I'm trying to install jdk15 because I need it to access the ilom on some Sun x4100 boxes. Has anyone else seen or know how to handle this error message? I tried both bash and tcsh with a clean env just to see if that might be mucking

Re: Password Security

2006-11-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 04:41:37AM +0100, VeeJay wrote: Hi I need to secure my data and server. Any advice will be highly appreciated. I am going to place my FreeBSD server at a shared place? I am just afraid that any unauthorized person might boot machine in single user mode and steal

Re: Building Sendmail from ports

2006-11-22 Thread DAve
David Robillard wrote: [ ---8--- Text has been removed! ---8---] But, where will the port install my *.mc and *.cf files? This I can't seem to figure out. I would like to know before I hit 'make install' in the port dir. I would think it will install them into /usr/local/share/sendmail/cf,

Re: Ezmlm Port Okay Or Junk?

2006-11-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:30:58AM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 11/22/06, Rachel Florentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 105Hi; Okay, I learned from sad experience and you all that the qmail port is junk. What about ezmlm? Same thing? Or good to go? Didn't you know that /usr/ports is a

Re: 'pkg_version' comparison failure

2006-11-22 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday November 22, 2006 at 07:45:07 (AM) RW wrote: On Wednesday 22 November 2006 11:48, Gerard Seibert wrote: What would cause this command: /usr/sbin/pkg_version -vIL= to produce this error message: openoffice.org-2.0.3! Comparison failed I have

Re: processes not getting fair share of available disk I/O (was: Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output )

2006-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 11:12:38PM +, Dieter wrote: I'm surprised that you're seeing that much of a hang. Even if the disks are busy, the system should slow down all disk processes equally, so no one process blocks, but they're all a little slower. I collected a bit of data: While

Re: linux-sun-jdk15, Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ))

2006-11-22 Thread Andy Harrison
On 11/22/06, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where did you get the version 1.5.0.09? I checked out cvsweb, and there is 1.5.0.07. Doh! Sorry... totally spaced out. I forgot that last month I had updated the Makefile to try to use the new version since 1.5.0.07 can no longer be

Re: External USB drive kernel problems

2006-11-22 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 12:38 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Please reply directly to me, as I am not subscribed) I just bought a VIA external USB enclosure with a Hitachi 200GB ATA drive to use for disk-based backups. I put it on my test box here, which I just upgraded to 6.2-Prerelease.

Re: To which port GPG belongs?

2006-11-22 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
VeeJay wrote: I have this Help Instructions from a Step-by-Step for Apache installation On a side note, you would probably want to install Apache via ports. Svein Halvor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

IPFW NFS

2006-11-22 Thread vittorio
I have two FreeBSD 6.1 boxes one of which (IP 10.0.0.1) is an NFS server and the other one (IP 10.0.0.2) is, among other things, an NFS client sharing directories with the NFS server. It all works correctly and I can mount_nfs all the directories from the server. BUT, I'm now trying to use an

mntent.h creating problems - compiling gcc4

2006-11-22 Thread Jamie
Greetings! I am having trouble compiling gcc 4.0.3 on FreeBSD 4.9. The compiler seems to be referencing mntent.h and the compilation fails with: from /usr/include/mntent.h:2, from ../../../gcc-4.0.3/libmudflap/mf-hooks2.c:97: /usr/include/mntent.h:2:20: error: #include

Re: IPFW NFS

2006-11-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
vittorio wrote: I have two FreeBSD 6.1 boxes one of which (IP 10.0.0.1) is an NFS server and the other one (IP 10.0.0.2) is, among other things, an NFS client sharing directories with the NFS server. It all works correctly and I can mount_nfs all the directories from the server. BUT, I'm now

check_disk_smb: another nagios problem

2006-11-22 Thread Thierry Lacoste
There is something weird about check_disk_smb from nagios-plugins-1.4.3,1 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10. From the command line (pwd is /usr/local/libexec/nagios) the switches work as expected: # ./check_disk_smb -H 194.214.13.140 -s public -u guest -p Domain=[MIAGE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.22]

Re: IPFW NFS

2006-11-22 Thread Bill Moran
In response to vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have two FreeBSD 6.1 boxes one of which (IP 10.0.0.1) is an NFS server and the other one (IP 10.0.0.2) is, among other things, an NFS client sharing directories with the NFS server. It all works correctly and I can mount_nfs all the directories

BTX Loader

2006-11-22 Thread Robert Kellison
I have tried to install Free BSD 6.1 after burning the ISO to CD. The loader loads very slowly (on character per 1 or 2 seconds) and finally hangs up after the line (root @ opu.cse.buffalo.edu ..) My computer is a Shuttle XPX SK21G with a Sempron 3100 and a SATA drive. I am about to give up

Gnome display configuration problem

2006-11-22 Thread Gary Robinson
Hi, Yesterday I installed freebsd 6.1 on an old Dell PowerEdge 1300. It's working fine with one exception. I installed gnome from freebsd ports, and it's giving me a 640x480, 80 Hz screen resolution. The Screen Resolution Preferences panel gives that combination as the only option. But my

Re: Big external drives - which filesystem?

2006-11-22 Thread Ivan Levchenko
There is a UFS2 driver for Windows, google on it and you are sure to find it. (There are also ext2/3 drivers for Windows if you prefer that one.) I use ext2 on my usb pen drive and it works great under windows. On 11/16/06, Chris Hastie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just acquired a Western

Re: mntent.h creating problems - compiling gcc4

2006-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:37:34AM -0600, Jamie wrote: Greetings! I am having trouble compiling gcc 4.0.3 on FreeBSD 4.9. The compiler seems to be referencing mntent.h and the compilation fails with: from /usr/include/mntent.h:2, from

Re: Opera Cups Print!

2006-11-22 Thread Beni
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 01:49, Graham Bentley wrote: Anyone got this working? Firefox and other apps all printing fine :) Tried Opera advice and googled about to no avail Thanks ! I'm using KDE and had to put the following in the Printer Program-tab from the Print-menu in Opera

Re: Gnome display configuration problem

2006-11-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 02:00:43PM -0500, Gary Robinson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I installed freebsd 6.1 on an old Dell PowerEdge 1300. It's working fine with one exception. I installed gnome from freebsd ports, and it's giving me a 640x480, 80 Hz screen resolution. The Screen Resolution

Re: firefox build error

2006-11-22 Thread Drew Sanford
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Laurence Sanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Firefox build from ports is exiting with this error: cc -o gtk2xtbin.o -c -DMOZILLA_INTERNAL_API -DOSTYPE=\FreeBSD6\ -DOSARCH=\FreeBSD\ -DBUILD_ID=00 -D_IMPL_GTKXTBIN_API -DUSE_XIM -I../../../dist/include/xpcom

Re: Upgrade Question

2006-11-22 Thread Graham Bentley
You've confused STABLE with RELEASE. 6.2 has not reached RELEASE. 6-STABLE is the latest these changes worked fine in CURRENT (right now, aka 7) and have been MFCed (merged from current) so that more people can try them out, which right now corresponds to the version of FreeBSDthat is just

Re: mntent.h creating problems - compiling gcc4

2006-11-22 Thread Jamie
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:37:34AM -0600, Jamie wrote: Greetings! I am having trouble compiling gcc 4.0.3 on FreeBSD 4.9. The compiler seems to be referencing mntent.h and the compilation fails with: from /usr/include/mntent.h:2,

Re: mntent.h creating problems - compiling gcc4

2006-11-22 Thread Michael Johnson
On 11/22/06, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:37:34AM -0600, Jamie wrote: Greetings! I am having trouble compiling gcc 4.0.3 on FreeBSD 4.9. The compiler seems to be referencing mntent.h and the compilation

Re: Upgrade Question

2006-11-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 09:05:13PM -, Graham Bentley wrote: You've confused STABLE with RELEASE. 6.2 has not reached RELEASE. 6-STABLE is the latest these changes worked fine in CURRENT (right now, aka 7) and have been MFCed (merged from current) so that more people can try them out,

Advice please

2006-11-22 Thread Old Ranger
Hello to all, I just ordered DSL from my phone service (and ISP) provider. I have a Dell dual core laptop enroute, with extras. The advice I'd like, is some do's and don'ts when switching from dial-up to DSL with FreeBSD. What are the pitfalls? I'd like to avoid as many as possible. Regards,

Re: processes not getting fair share of available disk I/O (was: Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output )

2006-11-22 Thread Dieter
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway writes: I'm surprised that you're seeing that much of a hang. Even if the di= sks are busy, the system should slow down all disk processes equally, so no one process blocks, but they're all a little slower. =20 I collected a bit of data:

Re: Gnome display configuration problem

2006-11-22 Thread Gary Robinson
Frank, Thanks for your suggestion: Try replacing your screen section with something like this: Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultColorDepth 24 SubSection Display Depth 24

package dependencies

2006-11-22 Thread Brian
Is there a way to tell either portupgrade or make install in a ports folder to use a package for dependencies, even if one isn't available for port/package I'm installing/upgrading? Brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: package dependencies

2006-11-22 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:23:03 -0800 Brian wrote: Is there a way to tell either portupgrade or make install in a ports folder to use a package for dependencies, even if one isn't available for port/package I'm installing/upgrading? May be you need a command portupgrade -RPP? WBR -- Boris

Mount and repair HD?

2006-11-22 Thread David Horis
Hello, A Snap Server 1100 just died on me... (Single drive, FreeBSD-based, I think...) I think it's not HD related as I can't even get into to the hardware/bios reset mode. Have you folks ever heard of anyone opening one of these things up and mounting the drive on a regular PC? Since the

RE: additional processor in IBM xSeries

2006-11-22 Thread Tamouh H.
Hi, I have an IBM xSeries 225 with two-processor motherboard, currently with only one Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz. OS is 6.1p10, otherwise is this an apache22-mysql50-php5 web server. I would like to add an additional, second Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz. Do I have to change anything in OS, kernel,

Re: Does disk encryption causes a performance penalty for Data Access/Read/Write, etc

2006-11-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
VeeJay wrote: Hi Does *disk encryption* causes a *performance* penalty for Data Access/Read/Write, etc? *Yes*. If your disk is faster than your CPU, I/O will slowdown. I've seen an Athlon64 4200+ use up to 90% of its computing power just to transfer files from an NFS server to a local SATA

RE: Mount and repair HD?

2006-11-22 Thread Tamouh H.
Hello, A Snap Server 1100 just died on me... (Single drive, FreeBSD-based, I think...) I think it's not HD related as I can't even get into to the hardware/bios reset mode. Have you folks ever heard of anyone opening one of these things up and mounting the drive on a regular

Re: Gnome display configuration problem

2006-11-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 04:51:24PM -0500, Gary Robinson wrote: Frank, Thanks for your suggestion: Try replacing your screen section with something like this: Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0

ICH7 SATA RAID (LSI MegaRAID)

2006-11-22 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I've bought a small server with Intel SE7230NH1 motherboard, which incorporates the ICH7 SATA RAID controller. Using the LSI BIOS utility, I created a RAID1 array of two disks and installed FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 (amd64) on it. atapci1: Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller port

RE: ICH7 SATA RAID (LSI MegaRAID)

2006-11-22 Thread Tamouh H.
Hello! I've bought a small server with Intel SE7230NH1 motherboard, which incorporates the ICH7 SATA RAID controller. Using the LSI BIOS utility, I created a RAID1 array of two disks and installed FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 (amd64) on it. atapci1: Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller port

Re: Password Security

2006-11-22 Thread Jeff Hinrichs - DMT
On 11/22/06, VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Jeff... But does this encryption affects on Disk Speed or Performance for Data Access/Read/Write? On 11/22/06, Jeff Hinrichs - DMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I haven't used either, gbde and geli are possible methods.

RE: Mount and repair HD?

2006-11-22 Thread David Horis
Hi, Thanks for the tip. What iso should I get from the freebsd.org site? (5.5 or 6.1?) The warranty is long expired on this device... I've just popped it open... Looks like it's powered by a Pentium 166. (w/MMX! :) ) I seriously doubt it will act as a boot drive in a PC, as it seems some of

RAID

2006-11-22 Thread Office of CEO- rithy4u.NET
Does FreeBSD support newer SATA RAID Controller? What software to make RAID 1? or someone know which SATA RAID Controller can support hardware mirror? -- *Rithy Ray, RCSA* Chief Executive Officer Web: www.rithy4u.net http://www.rithy4u.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: processes not getting fair share of available disk I/O (was: Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output )

2006-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:02:54AM +, Dieter wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway writes: I'm surprised that you're seeing that much of a hang. Even if the di= sks are busy, the system should slow down all disk processes equally, so no one process blocks, but

Re: mntent.h creating problems - compiling gcc4

2006-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 03:05:04PM -0600, Jamie wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:37:34AM -0600, Jamie wrote: Greetings! I am having trouble compiling gcc 4.0.3 on FreeBSD 4.9. The compiler seems to be referencing mntent.h and

Problems opening, viewing, and manipulating PRs

2006-11-22 Thread Nick Barkas
Hello Since around last Friday the 17th, I have been having some difficulty working with FreeBSD problem reports. I'm not sure if this has something to do with the FreeBSD.org systems being moved that day or if it's just a coincidence. Anyway, I have opened two PRs, ports/105652 three

External HD create different slice on /dev which one i need to mount...?

2006-11-22 Thread perikillo
Hi people. I have one external HD: umass0: Prolific Technology Inc. Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 umass0:0:0:-1: Attached to scbus0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): error 22 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Unretryable Error pass0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 pass0: WDC WD25

Re: processes not getting fair share of available disk I/O (was: Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output )

2006-11-22 Thread Dieter
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway writes: --mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:02:54AM +, Dieter wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway

Re: Mount and repair HD?

2006-11-22 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:22:24 -0800 (PST) David Horis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, A Snap Server 1100 just died on me... (Single drive, FreeBSD-based, I think...) I think it's not HD related as I can't even get into to the hardware/bios reset mode. Have you folks ever heard of

Re: External HD create different slice on /dev which one i need to mount...?

2006-11-22 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:37:52 -0800 perikillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mount /dev/da0s1 /ext this is the slice, dont use it mount /dev/da0s1c /ext this is the raw partition, DONT use c - ever, unless u really (think you) know what you are doing mount /dev/da0s1d /ext bing Always:

Re: processes not getting fair share of available disk I/O (was: Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output )

2006-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 06:12:06PM +, Dieter wrote: time ls on a small directory on disk2 =3D20 real4m51.911s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.002s =3D20 I expect access to a busy disk to take longer, but 5 minutes is a bit much. And that's the root

Re: RAID

2006-11-22 Thread Jeff Hinrichs - DMT
On 11/22/06, Office of CEO- rithy4u.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does FreeBSD support newer SATA RAID Controller? What software to make RAID 1? or someone know which SATA RAID Controller can support hardware mirror? -- *Rithy Ray, RCSA* Chief Executive Officer Web: www.rithy4u.net

Re: DSL (was: Advice please)

2006-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/22/06, Old Ranger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The advice I'd like, is some do's and don'ts when switching from dial-up to DSL with FreeBSD. Not to sound overly arch, but a generic subject is not going to garner you nearly as much help as something specific. It would also depend on whether

Re: processes not getting fair share of available disk I/O (was: Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output )

2006-11-22 Thread Dieter
time ls on a small directory on disk2 =3D3D20 real4m51.911s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.002s =3D3D20 I expect access to a busy disk to take longer, but 5 minutes is a bit much. And that's the root directory of the filesystem, it didn't have

Re: IPFW NFS

2006-11-22 Thread Ian Smith
vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two FreeBSD 6.1 boxes one of which (IP 10.0.0.1) is an NFS server and the other one (IP 10.0.0.2) is, among other things, an NFS client sharing directories with the NFS server. It all works correctly and I can mount_nfs all the directories from

Re: External HD create different slice on /dev which one i need to mount...?

2006-11-22 Thread perikillo
On 11/22/06, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:37:52 -0800 perikillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mount /dev/da0s1 /ext this is the slice, dont use it mount /dev/da0s1c /ext this is the raw partition, DONT use c - ever, unless u really (think you) know what you are

Re: processes not getting fair share of available disk I/O (was: Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output )

2006-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 07:41:46PM +, Dieter wrote: oad have been trimmed from your email. =3D20 In telnet window 1: =3D20 cd /disk1/ cp -ip very_big_file /disk2/bar/ (the workload) =3D20 In telnet window 2: =3D20 time ls /disk3/foo1/

Re: additional processor in IBM xSeries /ii

2006-11-22 Thread Marko Kobal
Hi, I have an IBM xSeries 225 with two-processor motherboard, currently with only one Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz. OS is 6.1p10, otherwise is this an apache22-mysql50-php5 web server. I would like to add an additional, second Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz. Do I have to change anything in OS, kernel, etc,

Re: processes not getting fair share of available disk I/O (was: Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output )

2006-11-22 Thread Dieter
hw.ata.wc=3D0 ^^^ Make my hard drive go rally slow please (just in case I crash) :) Slower, yes, but not *that* slow. Normal ls : 0.032 second. Two processes using same disk, multiply by two, so 0.064 second. Maybe the multiplier is more than 2, call it 10x, so 0.32

Need help with IPv4/IPv6

2006-11-22 Thread Rob Berens
This is a repost of an earlier message. I have some problems that seem to be related to the interoperation of ipv4 client programs and ipv6 servers or the other way round. Does anyone have some examples of how to configere FreeBSD to have a smooth interoperation of IPv4 and IPv6? What lines do

Re: processes not getting fair share of available disk I/O (was: Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output )

2006-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:29:16PM +, Dieter wrote: hw.ata.wc=3D0 ^^^ Make my hard drive go rally slow please (just in case I crash) :) Slower, yes, but not *that* slow. Normal ls : 0.032 second. Two processes using same disk, multiply by two, so 0.064