Re: more on fsck with securelevel

2004-06-04 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 05:05:34PM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote: I did set this in /etc/rc.conf: fsck_y_enable=YES But I was wondering if this might be a good idea too: (looking at the defaults) fsck_y_enable=NO # Set to YES to do fsck -y if the initial preen fails.

Re: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-28 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 06:03:52PM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote: So far my athlon 64 3200+ has been one of the coolest running processors I've ever owned... although I've never used it in a laptop, my friend's p4 2.8 is running a lot hotter... Yes, current AMD64 CPUs are fairly lower power

Re: problems with filesystems 1TB

2004-01-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 08:59:32PM -0500, Eric wrote: hello... i have been trying (for many moons now) to create a filesystem larger than 1TB. I've had a variety of RAID controllers in my boxes, and I have 250GB drives, so it adds up quick. I've also tried doing this with vinum, but that

Re: FreeBSD IP Device Driver

2004-01-30 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:34:41AM -0600, Erik Hamilton wrote: I'm currently working on building a simple token ring networking scheme over the parallel port (/dev/ppi0) for a graduate project. The project itself is to be used later for educational purposes, illustrating how you can build a

Re: FW: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-02 Thread Brooks Davis
[This isn't really a performance issue so I trimmed it.] On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:48:29PM -0700, Max Clark wrote: I need to attach 20TB of storage to a network (as low cost as possible), I need to sustain 250Mbit/s or 30MByte/s of sustained IO from the storage to the disk. I have found

Re: format of /etc/crontab?

2003-07-03 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:54:36PM -0700, Rich Morin wrote: The cron(8) man page (on my FreeBSD 4.7 system) says: Cron searches /var/cron/tabs for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron also searches for /etc/crontab

Re: Memory Allocation Accounting (a conceptual question)

2002-09-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 04:01:37PM -0700, Coleman, Ellery wrote: 3- If i were able to determine that a process had died without returning all of it's memory, does the modern unix kernel provide a mechanism that would allow me to retrieve/recycle this wasted memory? This can't happen for

Re: Why is there no JFS?

2003-02-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:40:00PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Darren Pilgrim wrote: Not really. A properly laid-out filesystem hierarchy will result in no writes to / (except for installworld/kernel). That removes the problem that journalling addresses, and is probably why softupdates is

Re: Question re: GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64

2005-01-07 Thread Brooks Davis
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of alexei kozlov Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 10:58 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Question re: GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64 My fellow asked me if GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64 supports

Re: How to recover/reinitialize a trashed /var partition?

2004-07-28 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 01:43:29AM +0100, David Kreil wrote: Hello, I am writing in the hope that someone can give me a hint of how to either recover or recreate a virgin FreeBSD /var partition in an otherwise (apparently) functioning system. Probably in the process of a drive failure

Re: Help me ObwanKnobi your my only hope.

2004-08-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:11:14PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have spent many usless hours looking at Freebsd.org, google.com and yahoo.com in an attempt to find a ftpd that I can cap / choke the outgoing bandwith. Do you know of any such animals? dummynet(4) will probably do

Re: incorrect disk geometry warning using 3ware controler

2004-08-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:28:54PM +0800, FreeBSD Daemon wrote: Dear list I bought a 3ware 7500-4LP controller and 4x 200GB IDE disks to go with it. Now installing FreeBSD 4.10 I get a warring that the disk geometry (72963cyls/255heads/63sectrors) is wrong. Can I ignore this warning

Re: Problem with Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller

2004-09-01 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:49:25PM -0700, Gabor Esperon wrote: Hi! I have an Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller working at 100Mb/s on FreeBSD 5-CURRENT and FreeBSD 5-BETA3: em0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500

Re: fwe driver under 6.0-RELEASE

2005-12-20 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:21:06PM +, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Hey guys, I just got a new laptop, and I'm trying to get the onboard ethernet over firewire to work so I can download the iwi driver. :-) I can't seem to ping anything, even the router, after bringing up fwe0. Are there

Re: Reboots under 6.0 while exercising md device

2005-12-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 04:11:02PM -0800, James Long wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 08:35:19PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:50:49PM -0800, James Long wrote: [snip] What do I need to fix to be able to use a RAM-backed filesystem? From mdconfig(8

Re: Encrypted volume - how?

2006-01-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:39:52AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a way to recreate the functionality of PGP Disk (under Win32). Basically, create an encrypted file, which contains a filesystem which can then be mounted in any mount point. I know I can use GELI in

Re: Get multicast addresses from interface

2004-10-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 05:44:57PM +0400, Grigory Klyuchnikov wrote: Hello, How can a user process get IPv6 multicast addresses of ethernet interfaces? I have FreeBSD 5.2.1 and get interface addresses via ioctl(SIOCGIFCONF) or sysctl(witch NET_RT_IFLIST), but all returned addresses are

Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed

2004-10-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 06:00:50PM -0700, ALeine wrote: Hello, I'm shopping for a new printer and I want to get a multifunction printer/scanner/copier that is proven to work well under FreeBSD for both printing and scanning. The Canon MP360 looks like a good choice for my needs in terms

Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed

2004-10-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:32:50AM -0700, Peter Giessel wrote: On Tuesday, October 05, 2004, at 00:51AM, ALeine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm shopping for a new printer and I want to get a multifunction printer/scanner/copier that is proven to work well under FreeBSD for both

Re: Multifunction printer/scanner/copier recommendation needed

2004-10-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:41:32AM -0700, ALeine wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just so no one gets screwed, the Cacon multifunction devices are entierly different beasts from the regular printers. I can't find the refrence at the moment, but I looked at them when I was shopping for a

Re: rcNG script problems

2005-06-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:12:01PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jun 14, 2005, at 1:39 PM, JM wrote: Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 14 June 2005 12:07, JM wrote: i've written an rcNG script but i'm having some issues. Step one: set

Re: sysctls issue

2005-06-29 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:29:30PM +0200, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: Hello, I think the net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_movements and net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface sysctls should control the arp messages in /var/log/messages. I don't want to see this kind of errors, thus I've set them

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-15 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 08:07:35PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote: Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: ... I wanted to stress only one point: simple 'kldunload driver' and 'kldload driver' makes devices to flip for Yony's case. This means that unless some PCI hotplug stuff is here (which I don't

Re: booting off GPT partitions

2010-01-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:45:36PM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: Hey I was under the impression that everyone and their dog is using GPT partitioning in FreeBSD these days, including for boot drives and that I was just being unlucky with my current NAS motherboard (Intel D945GCLF2) having

Re: booting off GPT partitions

2010-01-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:27:54AM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2010-01-27 22:27, John Baldwin wrote: GPT was defined along with EFI, so many folks assume that you have to use EFI to boot a GPT-labelled disk. However, FreeBSD has its own BIOS-based bootstrap that can handle GPT-labelled

Re: phidgets for FreeBSD?

2009-06-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:25:09AM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:07:53 +0300 Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: Is there any (native) FreeBSD supoprt for Phidgets (http://www.phidgets.com? Someone seems to have attempted (and succeeded) to run things on 7.0, some time

Re: kde3 Make Install failure

2006-08-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 10:00:35AM -0700, Vizion wrote: Trying to compile and install kde3 on amd64 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0. kde3 fails a test and then hangs. cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3 Make runs fine but then: # Make Install terminates and hangs with following consol message:

Re: kde3 Make Install failure

2006-08-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 10:36:30AM -0700, Vizion wrote: -Original Message- From: Brooks Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:20 AM To: Vizion Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: kde3 Make Install failure On Tue

Re: diskless boot /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts do not run, why?

2007-02-01 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:23:23AM +0900, Artem Kazakov wrote: Hello everyone, I'm using 6-stable on 4 amd64 machines. One of them has FreeBSD on its local hard drive and others are booted via network with PXE. But I encounter that /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* are not executed during the boot

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:38:35AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups around here and I saw something interesting. On my lab's FreeBSD 6.2/i386 box (ASUS P4P800,

Re: wpa_password not included in 6.1

2006-11-15 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 03:05:55PM -0800, probsd org wrote: I'm using FBSD 6.1 and have ndis0 configured. The wireless router I need to connect to is doing WPA-PSK TKIP encryption. I have installed wpa_supplicant but when configuring /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf I have to define 32-bit psk

Re: squeezecenter hangs kernel on sigterm

2008-04-08 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:42:51AM -0700, Scott Gasch wrote: Hi, I have a problem with the squeezecenter port -- when I stop it (via /usr/local/etc/rc.d/squeezecenter stop or via system shutdown or via kill -9 pid) it hangs the machine instantly, every time. There is nothing in the system

Re: /usr/ports/www/phpbb --? Makefile query

2005-09-08 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:05:41PM -0700, Vizion wrote: The makefile has the following lines: PHPBBDIR= ${WWWDOCROOT}/${PHPBBURL} PKGOPTS= ${FILESDIR}/pkg-opts EXCEPTFILES= ${PREFIX}/${PHPBBDIR}/install/install.php \ ${PREFIX}/${PHPBBDIR}/install/upgrade.php \

Re: /usr/ports/www/phpbb --? Makefile query

2005-09-08 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:34:32PM -0700, Vizion wrote: On Thursday 08 September 2005 17:23, you wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:05:41PM -0700, Vizion wrote: The makefile has the following lines: PHPBBDIR= ${WWWDOCROOT}/${PHPBBURL} PKGOPTS= ${FILESDIR}/pkg-opts EXCEPTFILES=

Re: Is rcorder working under /usr/local/etc/rc.d?

2005-10-17 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 11:16:12AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 04:42, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: I am getting all these no provider and rcorder doesn't seem to work properly under /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Services seem to start alphabetically and not in the right order