IDE RAID controllers

2003-10-01 Thread Irvine Short
good on the hardware front but doesn't know much about FreeBSD and has had trouble with the more fancy Promise controllers with RAID 5 under other OS's. They recommend the LSI MegaRAID i4 - see http://www.lsilogic.com/products/stor_prod/raid/i4.html Anyone used this under FreeBSD here? Irvine

Re: IDE RAID controllers

2003-10-03 Thread Irvine Short
, but that's not why I bought it. Irvine Short Sys Admin SANBI, University of the Western Cape, South Africa http://www.sanbi.ac.za tel: +27-21-959 3645 cel: +27-82-494 3828 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

failed to change NIS password

2004-02-02 Thread Irvine Short
Hey All Got an odd one here - have set up a few FreeBSD NIS environments and they've not done this to me before. FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE NIS master, trying to change password for NIS user on same machine. One other client - Red Hat 7.3 All works fine, can log in to both machines, can ypcat all the

Re: failed to change NIS password

2004-02-02 Thread Irvine Short
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Irvine Short wrote: Sorry, below: setting up a /etc/securenets was actually /var/yp/securenets Irvine ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: failed to change NIS password

2004-02-02 Thread Irvine Short
OK, got it! On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Irvine Short wrote: FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE NIS master, trying to change password for NIS user on same machine. One other client - Red Hat 7.3 All works fine, can log in to both machines, can ypcat all the maps, etc. However when I try and change password

Large memory issues

2003-08-27 Thread Irvine Short
bytes) and then later it says on the console something like: 256MB of RAM over 4GB ignored. Seems silly to waste 256MB RAM so any hints would be appreciated here too. Cheers, Irvine Short Sys Admin SANBI, University of the Western Cape, South Africa http://www.sanbi.ac.za tel: +27-21-959 3645 cel

Re: Large memory issues

2003-08-27 Thread Irvine Short
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, David Landgren wrote: Irvine Short wrote: I then found that this: options MAXDSIZ=(2048*1024*1024) options MAXSSIZ=(128*1024*1024) (and also 64MB) options DFLDSIZ=(512*1024*1024) worked fine but not as expected - limit reports datasize

NIS server oddities

2002-10-17 Thread Irvine Short
this? I've tried putting the slave servers in /etc/hosts to no avail. The slave servers are both Irix, one 6.5.8m the other 6.5.17m Anyone else use the FreeBSD NIS server stuff? It seems to not have changed much in a long time... All help much appreciated! -- Irvine Short Sys Admin SANBI

USB Mass storage (Datafab)

2003-03-04 Thread Irvine Short
: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device Mar 4 12:02:33 fusion kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): removing device entry Mar 4 12:02:33 fusion kernel: umass0: detached Anyone ever make these things work? Under Windoze 2000 and XP it just works, no hassle at all. Cheers, -- Irvine Short Sys

Re: BandwidthD syntax error?

2004-07-09 Thread Irvine Short
but on a variety of both FreeBSD 4.8 and 4.9 boxes I get the same problem. Perhaps I'll see f I can dig out an older version of bandwidthd. Irvine Short Sys Admin SANBI, University of the Western Cape, South Africa http://www.sanbi.ac.za tel: +27-21-959 3645 cel: +27-82-494 3828

Re: BandwidthD syntax error?

2004-07-12 Thread Irvine Short
Mike Maltese wrote: There's a bug report on this on the project's SourceForge page. I Found it, thanks. installed 1.20b and it's running without issue. On which platform? 4.x or 5.x? Cheers, -- Irvine Sys Admin SANBI, University of the Western Cape, South Africa http://www.sanbi.ac.za tel:

Re: BandwidthD syntax error?

2004-07-13 Thread Irvine Short
Eric Crist wrote: On Monday 12 July 2004 03:56, Irvine Short wrote: installed 1.20b and it's running without issue. On which platform? 4.x or 5.x? FreeBSD 4.10. (cc'd to port maintainer) This is getting odder. I have found bandwidthd just works out of the box on FreeBSD 5.2.1 but on 4.8 4.9

Re: BandwidthD syntax error?

2004-07-13 Thread Irvine Short
Eric Crist wrote: On Tuesday 13 July 2004 03:32, Irvine Short wrote: Did you do anything else to get bandwidthd to work? Nope. I still have not gotten it to work. OK! I have it working. Simple solution: portupgrade -R bandwidthd it updated: === Cleaning for libiconv-1.9.2 === Cleaning

ruby coredumping in 4.10 w. ports utils

2004-09-28 Thread Irvine Short
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Re: ruby coredumping in 4.10 w. ports utils

2004-09-29 Thread Irvine Short
Irvine Short wrote: What's the deal with ruby coredumping all over the place when using pkgdb -F and portsdb -Uu under 4.10 these days? Hmmm, well an upgrade to yesterday's STABLE did the trick on both boxes. Now to get kde-3.3 to build... -- Irvine