FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE stability?

2013-09-30 Thread Brett Glass
re or hardware defects in individual systems, so I am eager to hear how the new release is working for everyone. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, sen

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon Registrations Only Open For 30 More Days!

2013-09-23 Thread Brett Glass
, and operating systems. We may want to look this gift horse very carefully in the mouth, or at least monitor very closely "contributions" of code that might introduce backdoors or weaknesses. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Help! Cannot boot after freebsd-update update to 9.1-p5

2013-07-28 Thread Brett Glass
ver from the USB key; still can't boot. Tried moving the GENERIC kernel over from the USB key into /boot/kernel, just in case there was a problem with my custom one; still can't boot. Not sure what to try next. Any ideas would be muc

Bad kernel with make -j?

2013-04-17 Thread Brett Glass
be able to do fast, multithreaded kernel builds, but will obviously have to avoid it if the resulting kernels are corrupted. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Brett Glass
Just made that into a batch file for my library. Should be a target in the standard ports Makefile, IMHO. Maybe call it "rdistclean". Perhaps this could be submitted as a PR. --Brett Glass At 12:37 PM 4/10/2013, Greg Larkin wrote: Here's an easy way to delete all of the distf

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Brett Glass
the machine unless I do a painstaking manual search and removal. Aaargh! --Brett Glass At 12:03 PM 4/10/2013, pete wright wrote: can't answer for the freebsd project - but the folks at pc-bsd have made a 9.1 pkgng repository available: http://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/04/pc-bsd-announces-pac

When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Brett Glass
ey be back? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

How close is 9.1 to release?

2012-11-15 Thread Brett Glass
Have begun getting warnings from freebsd-update that 9.0 is close to its EOL, but the successor release (9.1) is not even out yet... which means that there's no way to gauge its stability or quality by watching for reported problems. How's 9.1-RELEASE coming? Any showstoppers? --B

Re: How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

2012-08-13 Thread Brett Glass
ustom kernel, for use in emergencies and during version upgrades. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

2012-08-13 Thread Brett Glass
eebsd-update on a FreeBSD 9.0 machine with a module-less custom kernel at /boot/kernel/kernel, it fetched a GENERIC kernel and overwrote the custom kernel with it. Interestingly, it didn't bring in any modules; it just overwrote the one file. --B

Re: How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

2012-08-13 Thread Brett Glass
rashed the customer kernel in /boot/kernel, and did so with no warning. If there had been a power outage or other problem before I could rebuild, the system would have been disabled. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

2012-08-12 Thread Brett Glass
ating /boot/GENERIC, and putting the GENERIC kernel in it, would cause freebsd-update to update that directory rather than one's custom kernel. I now must rebuild the kernel to keep the machine working. What went wrong, and how do stop it from recurring? --B

Maximum number of "tun" pseudo-devices

2012-05-13 Thread Brett Glass
any more. What sets the limit on the number of "tun" devices that can exist in the system, and how can the limit be adjusted? Is there a similar limit on, say, "ng" devices? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

System initialization

2012-04-18 Thread Brett Glass
27;t want to reinvent the wheel if someone's already come up with a clever system to do it on FreeBSD. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

RE: Quick build of stripped-down kernel

2011-11-25 Thread Brett Glass
of drivers that are not going to be linked statically into the kernel. Build on an older Pentium II server took about 10-12% of the time! Worth knowing about. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Quick build of stripped-down kernel

2011-11-24 Thread Brett Glass
y where the new kernel is placed after installation? I am not intimately familiar with the cascade of makefiles that does the build I could probably figure out what to tweak, but if someone who is expert in this can help it would be appreciated. It would save me countle

Memory error?

2011-11-04 Thread Brett Glass
4 08:31:21 joe kernel: MCA: Bank 3, Status 0x9001010a Nov 4 08:31:21 joe kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0005, Status 0x Nov 4 08:31:21 joe kernel: MCA: Vendor "GenuineIntel", ID 0x652, APIC ID 0 Nov 4 08:31:21 joe kernel: MCA: CPU 0 COR GCACHE L2

Timing of FreeBSD 9.0-RC2?

2011-11-03 Thread Brett Glass
TA for RC2? Need to build servers, and since freebsd-update can't do binary updates between release candidates I'd like a version that has the latest fixes. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Approximate date of RC1?

2011-10-14 Thread Brett Glass
Just wondering if a date has been set for posting of FreeBSD 9.0-RC1. I have some servers to build that will need fixes made after BETA3 --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Timeline for 9.0-RELEASE?

2011-10-04 Thread Brett Glass
Just looked at the project Web site, and the timeline for 9.0-RELEASE is way, way out of date. If all goes well, when is 9.0 expected to be released? What remains to be done? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Patent expired; time to add protocol to FreeBSD?

2011-09-20 Thread Brett Glass
Everyone: The Hifn, Inc. patent on the compression used in Microsoft's MPPC protocol expired earlier this year. Shouldn't the code at http://mavhome.dp.ua/MPPC/ at last be added to the source tree to support it? --Brett Glass _

Re: ICMP redirects and FreeBSD

2011-09-18 Thread Brett Glass
ated to do an address assignment. What's more, there's virtually zero propagation time and no flapping. The problem seems to be that RFC 1821 ignores this use of ICMP redirects. It recommends not allowing any router to accept ICMP redirects, and this appears to ha

ICMP redirects and FreeBSD

2011-09-17 Thread Brett Glass
Here's a networking question: Does FreeBSD generate and accept ICMP redirects? Is it controllable via tuneables? How long do routing tables generated by ICMP redirects last? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Negative ping times with FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE on older Celeron system

2011-09-13 Thread Brett Glass
y other systems this is affecting. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Negative ping times with FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE on older Celeron system

2011-09-13 Thread Brett Glass
hosen if it rolls over in less than a second, since this clearly leads to imprecision and missed rollovers. --Brett Glass At 11:04 PM 9/12/2011, Adam Vande More wrote: >it's a runtime tunable so /etc/sysctl.conf ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: Negative ping times with FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE on older Celeron system

2011-09-12 Thread Brett Glass
) with the EOL that's the farthest out. We'll retire the hardware before we will run non-release code on a production box. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: Negative ping times with FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE on older Celeron system

2011-09-12 Thread Brett Glass
the BIOs setup, including clock speed modulation. So, the TSC ought to be pretty stable. At least it's worth a shot. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

RE: Negative ping times with FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE on older Celeron system

2011-09-12 Thread Brett Glass
s? I am wondering if perhaps some recent change to the kernel assumed that one would always have a faster CPU than the old Celeron this machine is running, and that there is a race condition or an error in the kernel code. --Brett Glass # ping localhost PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes 64

Negative ping times with FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE on older Celeron system

2011-09-12 Thread Brett Glass
led xl0: promiscuous mode disabled dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold dc0: TX underrun -- increasing TX threshold Any hints here as to what's wrong? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: Huge interrupt overhead reported after RAM added to Atom-based system

2011-09-04 Thread Brett Glass
, the BIOS reports that you have 1GB of "4GB+ memory" (a possible indication that the last gigabyte is mapped into some special space). Maybe there's something like PAE going on. Anyone know what might be up? (Copying this message back to the lis

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread Brett Glass
; (or, for that matter, anything else that wasn't the name of a local user), mail.local(8) would just reject it. --Brett Glass At 02:35 PM 9/4/2011, Johan Hendriks wrote: Maybe ssmtp is something you can use. It is in ports, it does get mail out of the system. I use it on all of my serve

Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread Brett Glass
by programs that do things such as mail output to a local user. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: "at" command and mail

2011-09-03 Thread Brett Glass
At 08:26 PM 9/3/2011, Adam Vande More wrote: Call a shell script which preforms the actions you want. Needlessly complex, and doesn't handle the case of stderr. Since the utility has the ability to force mail to be sent, it should also have an option not to send it, IMHO. --Brett

Re: Huge interrupt overhead reported after RAM added to Atom-based system

2011-09-03 Thread Brett Glass
to tell the kernel to do that. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: "at" command and mail

2011-09-03 Thread Brett Glass
At 02:35 PM 9/3/2011, Robert Bonomi wrote: >Is 'atrun' actually sending the mails or is 'cron' doing it? 'atrun' is >invoked by 'cron', from a specification in the system crontab file. /usr/src/libexec/atrun/atrun.c shows an invocation of sendmail(8) directly from atrun(8). >Cron emails *whene

Huge interrupt overhead reported after RAM added to Atom-based system

2011-09-03 Thread Brett Glass
ported CPU load is an artifact of some weirdness in the kernel. I need to know, though, before I deploy the system... so I'd appreciate any advice or ideas from any kernel experts who might be reading messages here. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-ques

Re: "at" command and mail

2011-09-03 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:55 AM 9/3/2011, Adam Vande More wrote: If you redirect the output from the command to /dev/null or other file, you shouldn't recieve an email unless you've also specified -m. True. But that's awkward, and if you have a job that runs more than once, it'd be convenient to be able to keep

"at" command and mail

2011-09-03 Thread Brett Glass
at says "do not mail," or at least I can't find one.) Am I missing something, or does at(8) always expect to be able to send mail? If so, would it be worth implementing an atrun.conf configuration file that makes it optional and possibly sets other

Re: Turn off hyperthreading on dual core Atom?

2011-08-29 Thread Brett Glass
a 4% difference. (If the peak were 50% idle, HTT would be doing nothing at all, because top(1) can't tell that there aren't really 4 CPUs.) --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Turn off hyperthreading on dual core Atom?

2011-08-29 Thread Brett Glass
do not know if the supposed higher utilization of the resources on each chip (including executing one thread while the CPU waits for data for another) is worth it. What has your experience been? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: System hanging, error messages with USB drive on FreeBSD 8.1

2011-08-28 Thread Brett Glass
eally should not be trying to issue them in the first place. In short, this shouldn't be something that's handled by "quirks." Instead, the system simply should recognize that a USB memory stick is not a SCSI drive. --Brett Glass ___

System hanging, error messages with USB drive on FreeBSD 8.1

2011-08-27 Thread Brett Glass
f there's a bug, one would think it would have gotten some attention). Do I have to abandon the use of FreeBSD with USB thumb drives (or maybe with USB altogether)? Hope not, but I may have to if I can't get this fixed. --Brett Glass ___ free

Last Stacker patent expires May 14th

2011-04-03 Thread Brett Glass
s now absolutely no reason for them to do so anymore. (Linux, in fact, has jumped the gun and has compression code available.) Shall we start coding? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: Realtek 8111C support?

2010-11-18 Thread Brett Glass
Thank you. Neither the 8.1 release notes nor the man page mentions the chip. They both should. --Brett Glass At 11:46 AM 11/18/2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Brett Glass <<mailto:br...@lariat.net>br...@lariat.net> wrote: Does FreeBSD 8.1 have sup

Realtek 8111C support?

2010-11-18 Thread Brett Glass
Does FreeBSD 8.1 have support for the Realtek 8111C GigE adapter chip? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ques

Driver support for Supereal SR9600 USB-to-Ethernet chip?

2010-04-03 Thread Brett Glass
I just received a handful of USB Ethernet NICs whose primary chip says "SUPEREAL" on it. I've installed one on a Windows machine, and the computer identifies it as having the Supereal SR9600 chip on it. Is there support for this chip in FreeBSD?

Re: CF Ethernet for FreeBSD?

2009-11-30 Thread Brett Glass
often used in embedded systems because it can interface with pretty much any CPU. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd

CF Ethernet for FreeBSD?

2009-11-30 Thread Brett Glass
et me know; any help would be MUCH appreciated! --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

What does this message mean?

2009-11-28 Thread Brett Glass
Just installed mpd5 to experiment with it, and got the following error message on the next boot: WARNING: attempt to domain_add(netgraph) after domainfinalize() What does this mean? Does it signal a serious problem? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd

HTT on Atom (Was: FreeBSD 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset)

2009-11-26 Thread Brett Glass
At 04:33 PM 11/26/2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Though it seems hyperthreading is improved on the Atom and there is no penalty for leaving it on. Is there really no penalty? With HZ=1000 there are double the clock interrupts to be serviced at least. And as I understand it the Atom has less re

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset

2009-11-26 Thread Brett Glass
At 08:28 AM 11/26/2009, Warren Block wrote: Hard to tell. Is it possible it's just disabled? There's no switch to disable the wireless on the Eee Box. Also, the wireless did work with Linux just before I installed FreeBSD. So, I do not think the problem is that the wireless is disabled. I t

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset

2009-11-25 Thread Brett Glass
> Dead as in doesn't show in dmesg/pciconf Yep, that's correct. The only hint of it is the following message: pci3: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) --Brett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

FreeBSD 8.0 and Atheros AzureWave wireless chipset

2009-11-25 Thread Brett Glass
eas as to how I can get it working with FreeBSD 8.0? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: kern.polling.lost_polls

2009-11-20 Thread Brett Glass
fore I tried polling, and I'm not sure how many packets the interfaces (some fxp, some em) can buffer up. I'm going to try it, but if it doesn't work I will have to go back to interrupt-driven operation. --Brett Glass ___ fr

kern.polling.lost_polls

2009-11-20 Thread Brett Glass
ld be more effective? How can I tell? (Feel free to ask for more information about the hardware or kernel config if it would help you to provide a good answer.) --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Date/time formats in ps

2009-11-18 Thread Brett Glass
tarted within the past 24 hours, is "%l:ps.1p". But to me, it looks as if the correct format is "%l:%M%p". Is the man page wrong, or am I missing something here? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

State of interface polling in FreeBSD

2009-11-17 Thread Brett Glass
head? What "HZ" settings are recommended? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-30 Thread Brett Glass
At 02:50 AM 10/30/2009, Randi Harper wrote: This bikeshed is old and tired. I don't want to paint it. I want to drown it in lighter fluid and set it on fire. I've never seen a bike shed. Unless perhaps it had a furry seat cover. --B

Re: IPFW in-kernel NAT: How to compile?

2009-02-01 Thread Brett Glass
'd add the information. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: IPFW in-kernel NAT: How to compile?

2009-02-01 Thread Brett Glass
At 05:43 PM 2/1/2009, Dan Nelson wrote: Do you have "options LIBALIAS" in your kernel config? Nope. There was nothing that said that such an option was needed (or even that it existed). I did find it, via a recursive grep, in a file labeled "NOTES" a couple of levels up in the directory hie

IPFW in-kernel NAT: How to compile?

2009-02-01 Thread Brett Glass
t the build failed -- and the error messages suggest that the problem had to do with linking libalias into the kernel. libalias seems to be there, so I'm not sure what's wrong. Ideas? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Status of hyperthreading in FreeBSD

2008-12-20 Thread Brett Glass
o processes that were both privileged anyway, it might make sense to re-enable it. But has this feature of the scheduler been maintained well enough for this to be a good idea? If not, would it worth looking into updating it so that FreeBSD runs well on the Atom? --Brett Glass _

Secondary DNS or BSD Server space

2008-12-18 Thread Brett Glass
ere I and others can set up a secondary DNS server? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

2007-12-10 Thread Brett Glass
It's worth noting that the WINE project, not long ago, abandoned the BSD license for the GPL despite urging from many sources to keep the code open and free for use by developers. We've stopped using it as a result. --Brett Glass At 10:59 AM 12/6/2007, Tom Wickline wrote: >Oh yea,

Support for Realtek 8187-based USB Wi-Fi adapters?

2007-11-30 Thread Brett Glass
Is there a FreeBSD driver for USB Wi-Fi adapters based on the Realtek 8187 chip? Many vendors, including TrendNET, are coming out with USB adapters based on it. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Inverse ARP query

2007-05-11 Thread Brett Glass
, I need their IPs so that I can get into them via a telnet or Web interrace. I could scan for the devices' addresses, but this would take months. But if they respond to inverse ARP queries, I can find out in an instant what their IP addresses are. --Brett

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:01 AM 4/14/2007, Colin Percival wrote: >GPL/CDDL taint doesn't cross dynamic linking. Richard Stallman claims it does. The proposed Version 3 of the GPL makes it even more explicit. --Brett Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing l

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Brett Glass
e, not ever to patent anything, to give up firstborn children, etc.). So, FreeBSD is covered by the license. You can't use it freely. It is no longer free. --Brett Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Brett Glass
BSD part. Yes, you are. Because it appears that the whole thing is now covered by the CDDL. --Brett Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:12 AM 4/14/2007, Bill Moran wrote: >How is this any worse than the GPLed stuff in /usr/src/contrib? It's in the kernel. And the announcement went as far as to say that it is "part of FreeBSD." --Brett ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://l

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Brett Glass
This is part of the nastiness of viral licenses. --Brett Glass At 07:06 AM 4/14/2007, Philipp Wuensche wrote: >Brett Glass wrote: >> I just read with some concern the announcement that Sun's ZFS has been >> integrated into the FreeBSD kernel. This would mean, unfortunately, th

Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-13 Thread Brett Glass
ernel truly free? --Brett Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Upgrade from 4.x -> 6.2: Old file systems?

2007-03-23 Thread Brett Glass
I'll need to be careful about if I upgrade just the system disk? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: DST on very old FreeBSD system

2007-03-10 Thread Brett Glass
it'd be a great help. It'd be nice if administrators could just download the relevant files and drop them into /etc/localtime. Perhaps someone with the power to do so could upload the zones in both formats to directories on ftp.freebsd.org, so folks could bring in the zone(s) they needed via

DST on very old FreeBSD system

2007-03-10 Thread Brett Glass
IX, but I don't know if versions of FreeBSD that old are POSIX-compliant.) --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: nfsiod

2006-10-31 Thread Brett Glass
h can set sysctl variables at the time when the kernel is loaded. But the bug should be addressed in 6.2. If you're not running NFS, you don't need NFS- related processes laying around. --Brett Glass At 02:42 PM 10/31/2006, Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Oct 31), Bret

nfsiod

2006-10-31 Thread Brett Glass
ystem not to start these processes, which take up resources and may be a security risk? Why isn't this done at sysinstall time? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Best way to "renice" a process by name?

2006-09-26 Thread Brett Glass
n one up, but since this seems like something that people would want to do frequently, find it hard to believe that someone hasn't already written one. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Best gigabit network interface for FreeBSD?

2006-09-03 Thread Brett Glass
interrupt overhead (important because interrupts in FreeBSD 6.x are relatively expensive)? I have some Intel "em" interfaces available to me, but have been told that while the driver is well supported they are quirky and not the best choice. --Brett Glass _

Re: "Hostile" vs. "Friendly" instances of Sendmail

2006-08-25 Thread Brett Glass
arguments and options; information on how to get it to listen on a specific address, port, or interface; and how it responds to signals. Other things can be in other documentation, but these are essential in the man page for a daemon, IMHO. --Brett Glass ___

"Hostile" vs. "Friendly" instances of Sendmail

2006-08-25 Thread Brett Glass
load limits, etc.? Will there be problems with file locking, queues, etc. if a third instance of Sendmail is started on a standard FreeBSD install (which normally runs two)? And where's the option that tells Sendmail to listen only on a particular interface? (This should be on the ma

Increasing socket send buffer size

2006-08-21 Thread Brett Glass
is problem? The only tunable I can find that seems to address this issue is kern.ipc.maxsockbuf, which seems to set an absolute ceiling on the size of a socket's buffers. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Strange errors from BIND on FreeBSD 4.x system

2006-07-05 Thread Brett Glass
27;ve seen hints that the problem may have something to do with IPV6 but no instructions as to how to resolve it. Can anyone explain what's wrong and how to fix it? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Internal DSL modems for FreeBSD?

2006-02-27 Thread Brett Glass
internal modem are a bit like WinModems they are software type. Regards, Chris > On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 13:30 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: >> At 05:54 AM 2/27/2006, robert wrote: >> >> >On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 12:30 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: >> >> What internal DMT

Re: Internal DSL modems for FreeBSD?

2006-02-27 Thread Brett Glass
At 05:54 AM 2/27/2006, robert wrote: >On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 12:30 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: >> What internal DMT ADSL modems are supported by FreeBSD? I am >> looking for internal modems rather than external ones, because the >> link requires redundancy and I'd like F

Internal DSL modems for FreeBSD?

2006-02-27 Thread Brett Glass
What internal DMT ADSL modems are supported by FreeBSD? I am looking for internal modems rather than external ones, because the link requires redundancy and I'd like FreeBSD to do multilink PPP over two of them. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-ques

Sendmail X port

2005-12-27 Thread Brett Glass
7;s not available as a package or port for FreeBSD? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: Has this box been hacked?

2005-07-10 Thread Brett Glass
entry cause for concern? Is there a way in which it could have happened innocently (e.g. due to a power failure that left the disk inconsistent)? --Brett Glass At 02:31 AM 7/10/2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >When I am in that same position as a rule I tell the customer >that I would assume

Re: Has this box been hacked?

2005-07-08 Thread Brett Glass
At 05:32 PM 7/7/2005, J65nko BSD wrote: >If you would have installed something like tripwire or aide, you would have >been in a better position to find out whether the box has been owned. I didn't build the machine. --Brett Glass

RE: Has this box been hacked?

2005-07-08 Thread Brett Glass
unning and we can give >you a better idea of how easy it might be to root. > >Ted > >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brett Glass >>Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 9:42 AM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Has this box been hacked?

2005-07-06 Thread Brett Glass
A client had a network problem, and I wanted to make sure that his FreeBSD 4.11 router wasn't the cause of it, so I rebooted it. I then did a "last" command and saw the following: root ttyv0 Tue Jul 5 12:01 - 12:05 (00:04) adminttyp0localhost

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-27 Thread Brett Glass
At 06:48 PM 6/27/2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: >The 1820a has hardware XOR while the 1820 is purely software This server will be mirroring, so we wouldn't need XOR. It'd be a big plus for RAID 5, though. --Brett ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-27 Thread Brett Glass
At 06:34 PM 6/26/2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: >Highpoint RocketRAID: >1640: 4xSATA,PCI 32bit, 33MHz >1810A: 4xSATA,PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz >1820A: 8xSATA,PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz >2220: 8xSATA-II, PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz > >With the exception of the 2220 all of the other

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-26 Thread Brett Glass
At 02:53 PM 6/26/2005, Björn König wrote: >You don't need an additional controller necessarily, because you can set up a >RAID 1 with two single ATA hard disks. You'll find a small how-to at [1]. Even >most cheap ATA chipsets have hot-swap capabilities. > >[1] http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirr

Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-26 Thread Brett Glass
At 12:39 PM 6/26/2005, Mike Maltese wrote: >Brett Glass wrote: >>I need to set up a FreeBSD server with two or more sets of >>mirrored drives. What is the best controller to use for this >>purpose? Note that I don't need striping or other RAID >>functions -- ju

Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

2005-06-26 Thread Brett Glass
with minimal impact on performance would be ideal. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine

2005-04-20 Thread Brett Glass
At 05:58 PM 4/20/2005, Kevin Kinsey wrote: >Not in my experience. More oft than not, it's FreeBSD I "fix" and >that other OS I "flatten". > >But then, maybe we work in different environments, although >I'm betting my experience is more common than yours I consult with, and provide service to, qui

Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine

2005-04-20 Thread Brett Glass
mple. And make sure that the port collection as a whole does not break itself when updated according to the recommended procedure. (This is the least one could expect of software of even mediocre quality.) --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine

2005-04-19 Thread Brett Glass
rately aggravating, or does it just come naturally to you? My e-mail client has been honoring your "Reply-to" field correctly. You'll note that the "To:" fields on my replies all point to the list. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine

2005-04-19 Thread Brett Glass
one they get with Linux or even Windows. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

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