Re: Maximum swap size?

2008-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My first question is, why are you partitioning more than 2x your RAM? I highly doubt you have 16GB of RAM. probably because he need it. 2x is just rough estimate, real requirements depends on load ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Proliant ML115 G5

2008-07-01 Thread Rob Mason
Hi - has anyone come across the HP Proliant ML115 G5 (Opteron Dual Core) and had any install success with 7.0-STABLE or 6.3-STABLE? I've got one of these boxes at my disposal but the boot sequence freezes mid-way through the startup? I guess this means it's not yet compatible? Rgds Rob

Fatal Trap 12: Page Fault While in Kernel Mode

2008-07-01 Thread Devinder Singh
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RE: Fatal Trap 12: Page Fault While in Kernel Mode

2008-07-01 Thread Devinder Singh
Hi I am getign this serios error message when i have packaged free radius in freebsd 6.3 Fatal Trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address fault code = supervisor write , page not present instruction pointer = 0*20 stack pointer = curent process = 0 trap njumber

Re: sysctl enabled but HAL non-existant (Reid Linnemann)

2008-07-01 Thread Desmond Chapman
I've installed HAL and the same message comes up with the gnome desktop- and this happens in the install of NetBSD that I also have- the HAL problem of not being enabled or installed. I may be wrong in assuming this; but, isn't there some basic compatibility between bsd systems that what would

Re: Fatal Trap 12 Page Fault while in Kernel Moder

2008-07-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
Devinder Singh wrote: Hi I am using Free BSD 6.3 and am intergating Monowal and FreeRadius When i make the image i get this error Fatal Trap 12 :page fault while in kernel mode Fault virtual addres 0xbffle000 fault code -= supervisor write, page not present instruction pointer = 0*28 =

Re: Is it reliable to increase the MAXCPU in param.h ?

2008-07-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
ProAce wrote: Server: HP DL785G5 with 8 CPU ( 32 cores ) , 16G RAM OS: FreeBSD 7.0-amd64 Kernel 1: MAXCPU = 16 ( default ) Kernel 2: MAXCPU = 32 DL785G5 run with kernel 1 and kernel 2 both successfully, and the FreeBSD can detect the 16 CPUs and 32 CPUs normally ( using top -S command). If I

Re: filesystem information

2008-07-01 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:12:59PM -0400, Jim typed: I'm aware of nothing but a UPS can completely protect me from an outage. I was just wondering why that ONE file system was misbehaving, and the rest are prefectly fine - which seemed odd. Additionally, why were files that are read, but not

cant su to root

2008-07-01 Thread Warren Liddell
When i try to su to root from konsole within kde it tells me.. $ su su: Sorry i got a feeling when i added my user client to operators group this may have done this an sadly now i cant run or do anything that requires root access. Any thoughts? ___

Re: cant su to root

2008-07-01 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Tuesday 01 July 2008, Warren Liddell said: When i try to su to root from konsole within kde it tells me.. $ su su: Sorry i got a feeling when i added my user client to operators group this may have done this an sadly now i cant run or do anything that requires root access. Any

Re: cant su to root

2008-07-01 Thread Peter Boosten
Warren Liddell wrote: When i try to su to root from konsole within kde it tells me.. $ su su: Sorry i got a feeling when i added my user client to operators group this may have done this an sadly now i cant run or do anything that requires root access. Any thoughts? wheel group ;-)

Re: cant su to root

2008-07-01 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Tue, 1 Jul 2008 20:43:21 +1000, Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi, When i try to su to root from konsole within kde it tells me.. $ su su: Sorry i got a feeling when i added my user client to operators group this may have done this an sadly now i cant run or do anything

RE: cant su to root

2008-07-01 Thread Marcel Grandemange
It should have been added to the wheel group if you wanted to su from it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Warren Liddell Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 12:43 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: cant su to root When i try to su to

Re: cant su to root

2008-07-01 Thread cpghost
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 20:43:21 +1000 Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When i try to su to root from konsole within kde it tells me.. $ su su: Sorry i got a feeling when i added my user client to operators group this may have done this an sadly now i cant run or do anything that

Re: cant su to root

2008-07-01 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Warren Liddell wrote: When i try to su to root from konsole within kde it tells me.. $ su su: Sorry i got a feeling when i added my user client to operators group this may have done this an sadly now i cant run or do anything that requires root access. Any thoughts? Maybe you added

Re: cant su to root

2008-07-01 Thread Warren Liddell
On Tuesday 01 July 2008 20:53:36 Manolis Kiagias wrote: Warren Liddell wrote: When i try to su to root from konsole within kde it tells me.. $ su su: Sorry i got a feeling when i added my user client to operators group this may have done this an sadly now i cant run or do anything

Re: cant su to root

2008-07-01 Thread Vasile Cristescu
Hello, Your username needs to be in wheel group. When i try to su to root from konsole within kde it tells me.. $ su su: Sorry i got a feeling when i added my user client to operators group this may have done this an sadly now i cant run or do anything that requires root access. Any

Re: cant su to root

2008-07-01 Thread Dez Accid
Warren Liddell wrote: When i try to su to root from konsole within kde it tells me.. $ su su: Sorry i got a feeling when i added my user client to operators group this may have done this an sadly now i cant run or do anything that requires root access. Your user needs to be in wheel group

Re: cant su to root

2008-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
When i try to su to root from konsole within kde it tells me.. $ su su: Sorry i got a feeling when i added my user client to operators group this may have to wheel group done this an sadly now i cant run or do anything that requires root access. Any thoughts?

Re: Using freebsd-update after upgrading from source

2008-07-01 Thread Victor Sudakov
Manolis Kiagias wrote: I have been updating 6.2-RELEASE with freebsd-update. Recently I upgraded it to RELENG_6_3 from source. Can I continue using freebsd-update or must I upgrade only from source from now on? I don't see why not. I was wondering if freebsd-update will break if my

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
be using as a squid box. I've configured two drives as RAID 1 with the third as a hot spare, and two drives as RAID0 - I intend to put the squid cache on the latter, and have mounted it as /squid. it would be better to turn off RAID at all and use all five disks as fine squid partitions.

autoconf problem when trying to portupgrade

2008-07-01 Thread Warren Liddell
# pkgdb -F --- Checking the package registry database Stale origin: 'devel/autoconf262': perhaps moved or obsoleted. How do i fix this issue so i can update my ports ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-07-01 Thread Tandon, Sahil (IM)
Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see the need. And I couldn't get 7 to install on my brand new machine. Once I got the 6.3 amd64 build it went in without an issue. Just because you could not install 7.0 does not mean 7.0 is flawed. I don't see the reason to run the latest

Re: Too Much Context Switching? - FIXED

2008-07-01 Thread Michael Powell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I'll probably be upgrading to 7.0 in the next month or so, given that this is obviously a thread issue and that that release has much improved thread code. However, for the time being, the pressing issue is fixed, and for anyone in my position stuck on

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
less capable whitebox. One of the big issues I've had has manifested itself recently - we've moved from a T1 to a DS3, and while overall throughput has increased dramatically, people are now complaining that the Internet is slow, which I've found is all down to initial page load. I'm pursuing

Re: filesystem information

2008-07-01 Thread Jim
Just a thought, but in normal circumstances files *are* written to, even when they are just being read: the access time is updated (unless you mount the fs with the noatime flag). quite true, but isn't that file metadata and not the actual file? I thought most filesystems had a file-entry

RE: filesystem information

2008-07-01 Thread Bob McConnell
On Behalf Of Jim Just a thought, but in normal circumstances files *are* written to, even when they are just being read: the access time is updated (unless you mount the fs with the noatime flag). quite true, but isn't that file metadata and not the actual file? I thought most filesystems

Fwd: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-07-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Sorry. This should also have been sent to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:22 AM Subject: Re: Configuring an older server for speed... To: Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Wojciech

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-07-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: be using as a squid box. I've configured two drives as RAID 1 with the third as a hot spare, and two drives as RAID0 - I intend to put the squid cache on the latter, and have mounted it as /squid. it would be better to

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-07-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I've got a Compaq ML570 with 2gb RAM, dual PIII Xeon 700s and 5x10k RPM drives in it attached to a Compaq 5300 RAID card that I'm going to be using as a squid box. I've configured two drives as RAID 1 with the third as

Re: PPS and thunderbird

2008-07-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sébastien Morand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using thunderbird to read my mail and I'm not able to open directly the attachments .pps. Actually I get a lot of file like this for my work, and it's quite boring to have to save them in a directory and then read them with openoffice. When I

BTX errors on Intel SR1200 following gvinum ?crash

2008-07-01 Thread David Adam
I have a reasonably old (P3-class) Intel SR1200 which has three SCSI drives installed. I've installed FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE over NFS onto the first drive. While configuring gvinum, I issued the following commands: --- blade# gvinum gvinum - list 1 drive: D r0State: down

Re: FreeBSD and Active Directory

2008-07-01 Thread Tom McLaughlin
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 15:20 -0400, Chris Edwards wrote: I have been put in charge of creating a single sign-on mechanism for our Windows 2003 and FreeBSD servers. We are wanting to use Active Directory as our LDAP server. I know of four different methods that could possibly work. 1.

Re: OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?

2008-07-01 Thread Steve Franks
Actually . . . if things get that bad, you're going to need some firepower to protect your garden (and everything else you don't want taken from you by force). To properly protect a garden, you'd need to make it a community farm, with community members who have and will use firearms to

PAE support using freebsd-update procedure

2008-07-01 Thread bsd
Hello folks, I have just baught brand new servers with an 8Gb memory attached to each of these server. I generaly use the freebsd-update procedure to update and apply patches to the system. Problem is the default kernel provided with freebsd-update does not seem to have the PAE support

OpenNTPd howto?

2008-07-01 Thread B . Cook
Hello All, Not sure what I am missing, but I am. so I put openntpd on a machine (10.20.0.16) cat ntpd.conf | egrep -v ^# listen on 0.0.0.0 server clock.nyc.he.net then start it and it looks like it does: USER COMMANDPID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS _ntp

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-07-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthew Seaman wrote: should we use 7 or think about going with 6.3? I'd go with 7.x every time. It wipes the floor with 6.3 performance-wise and it is just as stable and bug-free as you'ld expect from FreeBSD. You've seen it works for you: there's no conceivable reason to downgrade. I

Re: OpenNTPd howto?

2008-07-01 Thread Bill Moran
In response to B. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello All, Not sure what I am missing, but I am. so I put openntpd on a machine (10.20.0.16) cat ntpd.conf | egrep -v ^# listen on 0.0.0.0 server clock.nyc.he.net then start it and it looks like it does: USER COMMANDPID FD

Re: OpenNTPd howto?

2008-07-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
B. Cook wrote: Hello All, Hey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/local/etc]# 32 ntpdate -b clock.nyc.he.net 1 Jul 12:49:57 ntpdate[70917]: step time server 209.51.161.238 offset 358.732506 sec Why when it was running did it not update the clock on the server? My first guess, which is only a

Re: autoconf problem when trying to portupgrade

2008-07-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Warren Liddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # pkgdb -F --- Checking the package registry database Stale origin: 'devel/autoconf262': perhaps moved or obsoleted. Have you tried pkg_deinstall devel/autoconf262? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: PAE support using freebsd-update procedure

2008-07-01 Thread bsd
Adding some infos to the issue, plus partial answer… Main answer still needed !! Le 1 juil. 08 à 18:53, bsd a écrit : Hello folks, I have just baught brand new servers with an 8Gb memory attached to each of these server. I generaly use the freebsd-update procedure to update and apply

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-07-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: should we use 7 or think about going with 6.3? I'd go with 7.x every time. It wipes the floor with 6.3 performance-wise and it is just as stable and bug-free as you'ld expect from FreeBSD.

Re: OpenNTPd howto?

2008-07-01 Thread B. Cook
On Jul 1, 2008, at 1:21 PM, Bill Moran wrote: In response to B. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello All, Not sure what I am missing, but I am. so I put openntpd on a machine (10.20.0.16) cat ntpd.conf | egrep -v ^# listen on 0.0.0.0 server clock.nyc.he.net then start it and it looks like it

Re: OpenNTPd howto? [success]

2008-07-01 Thread B. Cook
I did sync finally.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/local/man]# 30 /usr/local/sbin/ntpd -s -d -f /usr/ local/etc/ntpd.conf listening on 10.20.0.16 listening on 10.20.0.29 ntp engine ready reply from 209.51.161.238: offset 0.005419 delay 0.016668, next query 6s reply from 209.51.161.238: offset

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm hoping that 137gb striped across two RAID0 volumes should be sufficient space for our needs, and also hoping that it will be faster than individual drives. there is NO point to assume it will be faster than sum of speed of each drive, with program that already have logic to spread load

Re: OpenNTPd howto?

2008-07-01 Thread Bill Moran
In response to B. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jul 1, 2008, at 1:21 PM, Bill Moran wrote: In response to B. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello All, Not sure what I am missing, but I am. so I put openntpd on a machine (10.20.0.16) cat ntpd.conf | egrep -v ^# listen on 0.0.0.0

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
As a benchmark, there are about 230 people in my site who will be it's strange. my squid supports 300 users, with just 3 partitions on 3 drives (and other part of drives used for other things). and it EASILY do this. To further extend the question - what about things like mounting the RAID0

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Steve It's been suggested off-list that I put up a caching DNS server. I'm in the process of doing that. Initial page load delay, however, is a new phenomenon, cropping up after our move from the T1 to the DS3, so I was putting it down to increased use of cache - I'm certainly willing to be

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-07-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve It's been suggested off-list that I put up a caching DNS server. I'm in the process of doing that. Initial page load delay, however, is a new phenomenon, cropping up after our move from the T1 to the DS3, so I

Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
it's strange at least you haven't it already for a long time. no matter you use squid or not. it takes 5 minutes to set up, and saves a bit of bandwidth and a lot of time on resolving hostnames I just looked at my configuration - looks like I had it going at one point, but disabled it, and I

Re: PPS and thunderbird

2008-07-01 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Sébastien Morand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using thunderbird to read my mail and I'm not able to open directly the attachments .pps. Actually I get a lot of file like this for my work, and it's quite boring to have to save them in a directory and then read them with

Re: PAE support using freebsd-update procedure

2008-07-01 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 07:39:12PM +0200, bsd wrote: --- Wouldn't It be better to run amd64 instead of i386? I have seen that this will allow to take full capacity of the memory - on the other hand there seems to have restriction on the ports Can anyone let me know if these restrictions

Let me re-phrase this: [was:Re: which font previewer?]

2008-07-01 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 06:10:46PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Now that I'm learning to use the GIMP --*thanks* to the patient and thouhtful -questions members who have help me with Layers--now i need to find which typeface(s) looks best. i'd be much obliged for the

Data recovery

2008-07-01 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I'm throwing this out to this list because our SNAP drive has a *nix kernel- One of the folders mysteriously lost a large portion of its data today, I immediately powered down the unit as to prevent further writing to the disks (raid 5)- Is there any tool or utlity you can recommend to

Re: Let me re-phrase this:

2008-07-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:27:08 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've spent hours looking around (both in ports and via Google) and haven't found a font viewer that will let me preview all the fonts I've collected. Some are ghostscriptt, others are ttf; others are labeled system fonts

Re: Data recovery

2008-07-01 Thread Paul Procacci
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm throwing this out to this list because our SNAP drive has a *nix kernel- One of the folders mysteriously lost a large portion of its data today, I immediately powered down the unit as to prevent further writing to the disks (raid 5)- Is there any tool or

Re: Data recovery

2008-07-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:27:41PM -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm throwing this out to this list because our SNAP drive has a *nix kernel- One of the folders mysteriously lost a large portion of its data today, Oops. Am I correct in assuming that you have a NetApp appliance that

Re: Let me re-phrase this:

2008-07-01 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:44:43AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:27:08 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've spent hours looking around (both in ports and via Google) and haven't found a font viewer that will let me preview all the fonts I've collected.

Re: Let me re-phrase this:

2008-07-01 Thread Ryan Coleman
Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:44:43AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I've got PS, TT, and TeX; never heard of OT. OT = OpenType. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?

2008-07-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:45:19AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: Actually . . . if things get that bad, you're going to need some firepower to protect your garden (and everything else you don't want taken from you by force). To properly protect a garden, you'd need to make it a community

freebsd-update linker.hints

2008-07-01 Thread Gary Newcombe
Hi all, I'm having a problem updating my freebsd 7 amd64 box. After a recent freebsd-update, the kernel and linker.hints were updated. However with subsequent freebsd-updates, it reports that linker.hints still needs to be updated. I can (re)install but always the same. The linker.hints

XFCE Themes don't work

2008-07-01 Thread chip
I am using FreeBSD 7.0 Release and XFCE4. I have downloaded and extracted some themes into /usr/local/share/themes/ and reset the permissions to 777, they do not appear on the themes list in the Settings control panel. I also copied them into ~./themes, reset the permissions and they still do

Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?

2008-07-01 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Actually . . . if things get that bad, you're going to need some firepower to protect your garden (and everything else you don't want taken from you by force). To properly protect a garden, you'd need to make it a community farm, with community members who have and will use firearms

httpd php dump

2008-07-01 Thread kalin m
ok... what to do? freebsd 7; httpd 2.2.9; php5.2.6 (or 5.1.2) if the line: LoadModule php5_modulemodules/libphp5.so is in the httpd.conf httpd dumps core. no matter which version of php. php was configured with just this : ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql

Re: Using freebsd-update after upgrading from source

2008-07-01 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: I have been updating 6.2-RELEASE with freebsd-update. Recently I upgraded it to RELENG_6_3 from source. Can I continue using freebsd-update or must I upgrade only from source from now on? I don't see why not. I was wondering if freebsd-update will

Re: httpd php dump

2008-07-01 Thread kalin m
there is no extensions.ini anywhere on this machine... a brand new one. httpd/logs/error_log has 6 lines in it. something about session cash (SSL) not configured... httpd runs fine without loading the php module Odhiambo Washington wrote: Normally caused by one of the php extensions

Re: OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?

2008-07-01 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:15 PM, DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Franks wrote: So call me a sociopath, but times are a bit scary. I'd like to do the 2000's equivalent of the 1960's bomb shelter, and have my very own snapshot in case of major local/regional internet disruption, etc.