Creative Extigy with FreeBSD 4.9?

2004-02-22 Thread Eric Rescorla
I've got a 4.9 machine which I'd like to interface to my Creative Extigy external amp for playing MP3s and the like. For obvious reasons, I'd like to have that connection be digital. After some research, it looks like there are two choices: (1) SPDIF I've got an Asus P4C-800E mainboard with a

Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?

2004-01-02 Thread Eric Rescorla
I'm finally getting to the point where my disk capacity massively outruns my tape capacity, so I'm thinking of converting to removable disk-only backup. I could just use Amanda to backup to disk, but I'm intrigued by Plan 9's archival filesystem where backups from (say Jan 1, 1999) would go in

Missing /etc/periodic.daily processes in /proc

2004-12-18 Thread Eric Rescorla
FreeBSD Version:FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #2 Platform: x86 I recently ran chkrootkit and it complained about processes that were in ps but not in /proc. Usually these are just transient processed but in this case I investigated and found something weird. Here's a sample output:

Re: Missing /etc/periodic.daily processes in /proc

2004-12-18 Thread Eric Rescorla
Eric Rescorla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD Version: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #2 Platform: x86 I recently ran chkrootkit and it complained about processes that were in ps but not in /proc. Usually these are just transient processed but in this case I investigated and found

Help diagnosing system hangs?

2005-08-23 Thread Eric Rescorla
I've recently been experiencing frequent hangs with FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p20. Strangely, this didn't appear to happen with 5.3-RELEASE or before a few months ago. My platform is a P4-2.8 GHz (dmesg appended at end). The behavior is that X freezes (sorry, I can't say if the clock is still working

Re: Help diagnosing system hangs?

2005-08-23 Thread Eric Rescorla
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/23/05, Eric Rescorla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently been experiencing frequent hangs with FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p20. Strangely, this didn't appear to happen with 5.3-RELEASE or before a few months ago. My platform is a P4-2.8 GHz