Re: freebsd-stable Digest, Vol 134, Issue 5

2005-11-04 Thread Brad Knowles
to the real issue of trying to find a better solution. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor

Re: Disk 100% busy

2005-11-03 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:34 PM -0500 2005-11-03, Francisco wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Brad Knowles wrote: Note that RAID-1 is the second worst-case for mail server performance -- it accelerates reads (if you have mirror load-balancing), but all writes are required to be held until complete on both

Re: Disk 100% busy

2005-11-03 Thread Brad Knowles
the array of disks. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member

Re: Disk 100% busy

2005-11-03 Thread Brad Knowles
. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See http

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-10-31 Thread Brad Knowles
DEFAULTS -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-10-31 Thread Brad Knowles
of those idiots will probably manage to avoid shooting themselves in the foot. Not all, of course. But most. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-20 Thread Brad Knowles
. But maybe that's just me. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-20 Thread Brad Knowles
pretty successful at building servers to compete pretty well on price with Dell, while also providing much better customer service, including custom-building servers to your precise requirements. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little

RE: Disk 100% busy

2005-10-17 Thread Brad Knowles
involving such features (see http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/papers/dihses/ and http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/papers/sistpni/). -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety

Re: Disk 100% busy

2005-10-16 Thread Brad Knowles
on overall system performance tuning. The O'Reilly book on this subject (see http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/spt2/) is a good start, even though it is a few years old. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-08 Thread Brad Knowles
more ADA lawsuits filed against companies (and other organizations) for the crimes they are committing with their websites. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-07 Thread Brad Knowles
, then scrolling is likely to be better. Who are you going to try to optimize the web pages for? -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790

Re: Advice sought on upgrading from 4.11-R to 5.4...

2005-09-28 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:42 PM +0200 2005-09-21, Brad Knowles wrote: I've seen the migration guide at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/migration-guide.html, and the thread at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-September/018151.html, but I was wondering about the specific

Re: Advice sought on upgrading from 4.11-R to 5.4...

2005-09-28 Thread Brad Knowles
to modify the DIFF_OPTIONS= setting to suit. Moreover, I was hoping for a command-line option to control this setting, and that it might be set by default -- no /etc/mergemaster.rc required. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary

Re: Advice sought on upgrading from 4.11-R to 5.4...

2005-09-28 Thread Brad Knowles
-- spread over a couple of lines or more. But every single one of them was relatively minor and I would have been very happy to have all of them automatically applied. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve

Advice sought on upgrading from 4.11-R to 5.4...

2005-09-21 Thread Brad Knowles
precise CVSup targets should be used to pull down the source that would be compiled, etc -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply

Re: Advice sought on upgrading from 4.11-R to 5.4...

2005-09-21 Thread Brad Knowles
media. I did get it to boot from the 4.11-R media (both sets of media written by the same computer with the same CD-Writer and software), so that is what I installed. I'd like to be able to take the backup/wipe/re-install path, but I don't think that's going to be possible for me. -- Brad

Re: Advice sought on upgrading from 4.11-R to 5.4...

2005-09-21 Thread Brad Knowles
this machine to boot off CD-ROM with the 5.x images (at least, not the ones I've tried in the past), I would like to keep the system in UFS1 anyway, just in case I need to reboot off the 4.x CD-ROMs and try to do some recovery things. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential

Problems with corrupted vinum devices...

2001-01-05 Thread Brad Knowles
of debugging this matter. Any and all help you can provide is appreciated. Thanks! -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ========== Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| Belgacom Skyn

Re: Problems with corrupted vinum devices...

2001-01-05 Thread Brad Knowles
fore I try much of anything else. Thanks! -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy == Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/P

Re: Problems with corrupted vinum devices...

2001-01-05 Thread Brad Knowles
, or the problems we're having. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy == Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg

Re: rawio 1.1 on FreeBSD 4.2-BETA?

2000-11-23 Thread Brad Knowles
s as to what I could do? Thanks! -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ========== Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy

Re: rawio 1.1 on FreeBSD 4.2-BETA?

2000-11-23 Thread Brad Knowles
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Re: rawio 1.1 on FreeBSD 4.2-BETA?

2000-11-19 Thread Brad Knowles
. I'll give that a shot. Thanks! Just curious -- IIRC, rawio is specific to FreeBSD, so why does there need to be a FreeBSD port for it? -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy == Brad

Re: Sendmail 8.11/TLS

2000-10-13 Thread Brad Knowles
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Re: Adaptec/DPT SmartRAID V under FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE [was:Re: Mylex adapters with 2.x firmware and couldn't map registerwindow]

2000-09-22 Thread Brad Knowles
s that's the price I pay for playing with beta drivers. ;-) -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ========== Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect,

Re: Adaptec/DPT SmartRAID V under FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE [was: Re: Mylex adapters with 2.x firmware and couldn't map register window]

2000-09-22 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:00 PM +0200 2000/9/22, Brad Knowles wrote: So, I've just rebooted the machine, moved the DPT-enabled kernel off to the side, re-named the old kernel back into place, and now I'm going to pull the side off the machine so that I can remove the SCSI connector for the internal

Adaptec/DPT SmartRAID V under FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE [was: Re:Mylex adapters with 2.x firmware and couldn't map register window]

2000-09-21 Thread Brad Knowles
anyone else has any insights into this problem, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ========== Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Arch

Re: Vinum (was: RAID)

2000-09-06 Thread Brad Knowles
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Re: affordable wireless

2000-09-05 Thread Brad Knowles
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Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target tomake your kernels

2000-07-11 Thread Brad Knowles
building a kernel. Hmm. Good idea. Until then, this needs to be mentioned in the documentation. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy == Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target tomake yer kernels

2000-07-11 Thread Brad Knowles
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Re: Weird NSLOOKUP output...

2000-06-22 Thread Brad Knowles
uot; program, or may be a script of some sort that simply calls dig. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ========== Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Arch

Re: SSH failed on 4.0-S

2000-06-19 Thread Brad Knowles
that for copyright reasons that will require that you continue to use the RSAREF library instead). -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy == Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| Belgacom

Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support?

2000-05-03 Thread Brad Knowles
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Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support?

2000-05-01 Thread Brad Knowles
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Kudos to all!

2000-04-05 Thread Brad Knowles
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Re: Off-topic News: WAS: Re: 3.4-Stable crashes..(heavydiskio+networking)

2000-03-23 Thread Brad Knowles
ation as well as Jon Lasser's "Bastille Linux: Security through Transparency" presentation (see http://www.nluug.nl/sane/daily/24/lasser.html for details). -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy =====

Re: Voxware is toast. Get used to it. (Re: Suggestions forimproving newpcm performance?)

2000-03-21 Thread Brad Knowles
stage, and can't do much more than identify that there is some sort of problem. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ========== Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| Belgacom Skynet SA/

Re: dot-0 releases

2000-03-21 Thread Brad Knowles
recommend that others do the same. We're not all clones of David Greenman, Jordan K. Hubbard, or Mike O'Dell. ;-) -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy == Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Weirdest crash I ever saw...

2000-03-10 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:58 PM +0100 2000/3/10, Brad Knowles wrote: PL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags= i nterrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 0 (swapper) interrupt mask = n

Re: Weirdest crash I ever saw...

2000-03-10 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:07 PM +0100 2000/3/10, Brad Knowles wrote: Also, although I've got DDB compiled into the kernel, it doesn't seem to be recognizing the serial cable I've got attached, which would allow me to cut-n-paste error messages. Is there anything more I need to do -- maybe remove

Re: Weirdest crash I ever saw...

2000-03-10 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:44 PM +0100 2000/3/10, Brad Knowles wrote: Nevermind. With a bit more searching, I found http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/x10359.html. My serial cable wasn't a cross-over, and I hadn't enabled certain other options. Well, I tried to drop into DDB for the first time

Re: Weirdest crash I ever saw...

2000-03-10 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:44 PM +0100 2000/3/10, Brad Knowles wrote: Nevermind. With a bit more searching, I found http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/x10359.html. My serial cable wasn't a cross-over, and I hadn't enabled certain other options. Okay, here's the crash dump traceback (yes, I just

Re: Weirdest crash I ever saw...

2000-03-10 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:23 PM +0100 2000/3/10, Brad Knowles wrote: As soon as I can, I'll gdb the crash dump, and post the trace back here. Okay, here's the traceback with debugging symbols: $ gdb -k kernel /var/crash/vmcore.1 GNU gdb 4.18 Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free

Re: Error: Maximum file descriptors exceeded...

2000-02-29 Thread Brad Knowles
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Re: Error: Maximum file descriptors exceeded...

2000-02-29 Thread Brad Knowles
case, since I have repeatedly stopped and restarted the daemon in question. -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy = Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sys. Arch., Mail/News/FTP/Proxy

Re: Error: Maximum file descriptors exceeded...

2000-02-29 Thread Brad Knowles
user that are any different from what root gets. -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy = Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sys. Arch., Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin Note: No Microsoft

Re: Error: Maximum file descriptors exceeded...

2000-02-29 Thread Brad Knowles
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Re: Error: Maximum file descriptors exceeded...

2000-02-29 Thread Brad Knowles
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Re: Multiple Adaptec 2940U2W controllers?

2000-02-24 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:04 PM +0100 2000/2/24, Brad Knowles wrote: Now that the problem has been fixed, initial preliminary test results indicate that I do actually see almost 2x speedup using two host SCSI controllers to the two different drive array controllers. I'm now moving one of the host SCSI

Re: Multiple Adaptec 2940U2W controllers?

2000-02-24 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:47 PM +0100 2000/2/24, Brad Knowles wrote: Blargh. It does appear to hurt. After having received positive feedback on these reports from several people, I will continue posting updates. Thanks, folks. I can really use the support right now

Re: Multiple Adaptec 2940U2W controllers?

2000-02-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:46 PM +0100 2000/2/23, Brad Knowles wrote: The machine in question is a Dell 1300 with two 450Mhz processors (512KB L2 cache each) and 1GB ECC RAM. In addition to the on-board Adaptec AIC-7890 controller (to which the system disk is attached, a Quantum Atlas IV 9GB), I have

Re: Popper

2000-02-12 Thread Brad Knowles
that are shared between QPopper procmail. -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy _ |o| Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, Mail

Re: 4.4 BSD forever?

2000-01-13 Thread Brad Knowles
to do with -stable. This thread should either be killed or moved to -chat. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy |o| Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o

RE: Sendmail, 3.3-STABLE, relaying

2000-01-06 Thread Brad Knowles
to make it understand CIDR notation short of some relatively significant source code modifications. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy |o| Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Temperature Findings

1999-12-31 Thread Brad Knowles
, but I felt like something needed to be said before this got too far out of hand. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy |o| Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o

Re: Route table leaks

1999-12-09 Thread Brad Knowles
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Re: Route table leaks

1999-12-09 Thread Brad Knowles
opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy |o| Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11

Re: speaking of 3.4...

1999-11-23 Thread Brad Knowles
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Re: Roasting Newbies

1999-10-14 Thread Brad Knowles
ones with Majordomo, but also some larger ones with industrial-strength tools such as Listserv. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy |o| Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Belgacom

RE: make world failing because of missing unroff

1999-10-13 Thread Brad Knowles
a particular tool, then that tool should be moved from the ports subsystem to the main source tree. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy |o| Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Belgacom

Re: make world failing because of missing unroff

1999-10-13 Thread Brad Knowles
trying to help suggest a path whereby we don't have more important things (like the doc/ tree) dependant on lesser things (like the ports system). -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy |o| Brad

Re: make world failing because of missing unroff

1999-10-13 Thread Brad Knowles
server should be part of the source tree, at least the way I understand things. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy |o| Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o

Re: problems with adaptec 2940 cards on 3.3-STABLE

1999-09-29 Thread Brad Knowles
policy |o| Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http

Re: vinum experiences (not as documented, at least).

1999-09-29 Thread Brad Knowles
get to the point where we can put all filesystems under vinum, including the root filesystem. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy |o| Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Belgacom

Re: [Q] HotPlug HDD vinum

1999-09-15 Thread Brad Knowles
to go out and spend all that much money on the hot swap drives. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____ |o| Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems

Re: Vinum performance testing...

1999-09-15 Thread Brad Knowles
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Re: softupdates in latest build?

1999-09-06 Thread Brad Knowles
security at that site. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy |o| Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News FTP Admin Rue Col

Re: OpenSSH for -STABLE?

1999-01-17 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:58 AM -0600 1999/11/19, Jim King wrote: Have you tried building the OpenSSH port on -stable? I built and installed it last night (on a -stable x86 box, and a -current Alpha box), and it appears to be working just fine. I tried that on my machine before I did anything else ;-),