Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:32:16AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:25:55PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hi! On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:42:30PM +0200, Philippe Pegon wrote: it's just a me too. On our ftp server (ftp8.fr.freebsd.org), sometimes we see some

Re: sed and comma-delimited file

2006-09-19 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:26:54PM -0400, SigmaX asdf wrote: Yo; I have a series of comma-delimited text files with fourteen columns of data and several hundred rows. I want to use a short shell script to strip them of the last 9 columns, leaving the same file but with just five of its

Re: optimization levels for 6-STABLE build{kernel,world}

2006-09-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 04:22:51PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: What are ppl currently using for CFLAGS/COPTFLAGS in /etc/make.conf for building kernel/world? I know awhile back it wasn't recommended to go above -O2, for instance, but suspect that has changed ... ? Nothing above -O2 is

Re: Still possible to directly boot without loader?

2006-09-11 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 09:10:26PM +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote: I just tried to load my standard kernel from the boot blocks (instead of using loader(8)), but I either get a hang before the kernel prints anything, or a BTX halted. Is this still supposed to work in 6- stable, or has it

Re: cron abuse

2006-09-03 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:57:44AM -0500, Don Wilde wrote: On 9/3/06, David Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:43:01AM -0500, Don Wilde wrote: ... Thanks for taking the time to answer, David. Sure thing. Yes, I see that. I'm reinstalling the old /etc/crontab

Re: The need for initialising disks before use?

2006-08-18 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:19:04AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 17 August 2006 8:35 am, Antony Mawer wrote: A quick question - is it recommended to initialise disks before using them to allow the disks to map out any bad spots early on? Note: if you once you actually start

Re: The need for initialising disks before use?

2006-08-18 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:41:27PM -1000, Antony Mawer wrote: On 18/08/2006 4:29 AM, Brooks Davis wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:19:04AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 17 August 2006 8:35 am, Antony Mawer wrote: A quick question - is it recommended to initialise disks before

Re: Default route (IPv4) demolished by destroying clone (gif/gre) interface

2006-08-17 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:16:51AM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:59:13PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:49:27AM +1200, Andrew Thompson wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 12:15:25PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:58:44PM

Re: The need for initialising disks before use?

2006-08-17 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 03:35:14AM -1000, Antony Mawer wrote: Hi list, A quick question - is it recommended to initialise disks before using them to allow the disks to map out any bad spots early on? I've seen some uninitialised disks (ie. new disks, thrown into a machine, newfs'd) start

Re: Default route (IPv4) demolished by destroying clone (gif/gre) interface

2006-08-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:23:13AM +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote: Ouch. Don't ppp(8), OpenVPN etc. destroy the tun interface they're using when they exit? Flushing all routes then would be rather harmful. I'm glad I haven't updated to a newer -stable yet then :-) In general, no since tun

Re: Default route (IPv4) demolished by destroying clone (gif/gre) interface

2006-08-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:58:44PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 09:54:19AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:23:13AM +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote: Ouch. Don't ppp(8), OpenVPN etc. destroy the tun interface they're using when they exit? Flushing

Re: Default route (IPv4) demolished by destroying clone (gif/gre) interface

2006-08-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:49:27AM +1200, Andrew Thompson wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 12:15:25PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:58:44PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 09:54:19AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:23:13AM

Re: Default route (IPv4) demolished by destroying clone (gif/gre) interface

2006-08-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:49:27AM +1200, Andrew Thompson wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 12:15:25PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:58:44PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 09:54:19AM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:23:13AM

Re: gzip is faster with -O3

2006-08-09 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 05:31:58PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 8/9/06, Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. gzip isn't usually used to compress incompressible data. 2. use time to figure out how much CPU time it actually burns. 5 GB are somewhat I/O bound, but gcc options

Re: scan stuck with if_iwi(4)

2006-08-01 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 04:47:16PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: Andrew Thompson wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:28:12PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: Oh? Sounds interesting, where can I find these patches? The work has always been in perforce.freebsd.org; look in

Re: interface announcement MFC

2006-07-24 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 10:33:06PM +1200, Andrew Thompson wrote: I would quite like to MFC the autobridge feature but it depends on this change, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2006-May/064529.html I cant see it being a problem MFCing this to stable as the existing devd

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-07-10 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:55:23PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Mornin'! On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:11:36AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: Not sure what STP is Spanning Tree Protocol. Having the link go up and down would cause the switch port

Re: pkg_version confused by architecutre in package name

2006-07-06 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 06:04:37PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:01:43AM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 02:45:45AM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I normally run the command # pkg_version -Iv | grep

Re: pkg_version confused by architecutre in package name

2006-07-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 02:45:45AM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I normally run the command # pkg_version -Iv | grep \ before running 'portupgrade -a', to see what's going to happen. This time I got the following output: diablo-jdk-freebsd6.i386.1.5.0.07.00 needs updating (index has

Re: Question about current rc scripts

2006-06-20 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 06:50:39PM +0200, M.Hirsch wrote: One question remains though: How can I make my script to be the very first rc script to be executed? Add appropriate BEFORE entries so it is before all unparented scripts. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form X is the one, true Y

Re: Question about current rc scripts

2006-06-20 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 06:58:15PM +0200, M.Hirsch wrote: As stated in my initial post, I used BEFORE: rcconf up to and including 6.0. So what is an appropriate BEFORE entry for 6-STABLE? Sorry, I really can't find any documentation on this issue, not in UPDATING and not in the mailing

Re: Question about current rc scripts

2006-06-20 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 07:11:38PM +0200, M.Hirsch wrote: Pete French schrieb: Actually I was suggesting you overwrite rc.conf *itself* with the variable setting code - so every script which reloads it gets the variables set. Surely that would work ? Though it would mean your code would be

Re: bridge.ko, sysctrl.conf and ifconfig_XXX_name, SCSI as a boot device

2006-06-19 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 05:38:43PM +0300, Todor Dragnev wrote: Hello list, I have two minor problems: First one: I want to make bridging on two of my interfaces but have problem when I use ifconfig_XXX_name directrive in rc.conf . After each restart of machine I must enter manually

Re: File DEFAULTS in 6.1

2006-05-11 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:34:39PM +0400, SeSu wrote: Hi all! What is the DEFAULTS file in /usr/src/sys/arch/conf for? It contains things which theoreticaly can be changed, but in practice should not. It is always part of your kernel config. For example, no i386 machines work without a FPU

Re: Stable Build Error

2006-04-24 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 04:18:06PM +0100, Lawrence Farr wrote: I've been seeing this for a week or so, and have deleted /usr/obj and run make My telepathy powers aren't working. What's the error? :) -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form X is the one, true Y is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D

Re: ypwhich -m

2006-04-20 Thread Brooks Davis
OK, I've merged it to RELENG_5, RELENG_6, and RELENG_6_1. Now in utterly lousy form I'm going to vanish for the weekend so hopefully nothing breaks. :-( -- Brooks On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:44:10PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 07:45:47PM -0400, Rong-En

Re: ypwhich -m

2006-04-19 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 07:45:47PM -0400, Rong-En Fan wrote: Hi, I found that ypwhich -m does not work on 6.1-RC, it shows ypwhich: can't find the master of `???`: reason: No such map in server's domain IIRC, there was a commit last year to fix this. After some search, I think it is

Re: Athlon 64 X2

2006-04-18 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:34:42PM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: Hi, With FreeBSD 4.9 do I have to enable SMP when building the kernel to take advantage of the dual cores in the X2? Yes. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form X is the one, true Y is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7

Re: portsnap mirror servers

2006-04-17 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:43:52AM +0100, Chris wrote: How many mirrors does portsnap have, it seems to only have around 3 or 4 and they all located in the .us whilst cvs has dozens around the world. Is there a eu pool of mirrors available to use or if not is their a way I can apply to host

Re: ifconfig -am shows ...

2006-03-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 04:58:04PM +0200, husnu demir wrote: Hi, my ifconfig -am command result is as follows; em0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU capabilities=5bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,POLLING

Re: dhclient wedged

2006-02-03 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:05:44PM -0800, John T. Yocum wrote: I've been having a same sort of issue that others have reported. After dhclient has been running for a random length of time, it suddenly starts consuming a large amount of CPU. Unfortunately for me, the longest it tends to run

Re: dhclient wedged

2006-01-31 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 12:29:48PM -0500, Lodewijk Vöge wrote: On 28-jan-2006, at 20:33, Kelly D. Grills wrote: Just a quick update. I've recompiled and am waiting for a failure. If I recall correctly my problem occured when the ip actually changed, so it may be a while before I post any

Re: dhclient wedged

2006-01-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 06:30:36AM -0800, Will Froning wrote: Kelly, On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Kelly D. Grills wrote: =On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 02:52:44AM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: = = I reported this problem a few OS versions back... pre-6. I'm on = FreeBSD-6-STABLE, and I've found the

Re: How do I turn off hyperthreading on 6.0 ?

2006-01-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:24:06PM +, Pete French wrote: Disable it in the BIOS. The kernel can't use what isn't advertised as available. :) true - but surely this is a bug in FreeBSD ? man smp says: Since using logical CPUs can cause performance penalties under certain loads,

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 - Network operations result in IP MASK: not found?

2006-01-26 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:57:57PM -0800, Eli K. Breen wrote: Is that behaviour actually documented anywhere? Sort of. The fact that rc.conf is an sh(1) script seems to be missing from rc.conf(5). Once you know that it's documented in the Simple Commands section of the sh(1) manpage though the

Re: dhclient wedged

2006-01-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 10:06:56AM +0100, Krzysztof Kowalik wrote: Brooks Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This definitly sounds like something particular to your dhcp servers. It would be nice if we could fix it, but without some debugging help that's going to be pretty much impossible

Re: dhclient wedged

2006-01-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:25:25PM +0100, Krzysztof Kowalik wrote: Brooks Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What NIC are you using? fxp0: Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet port 0xc000-0xc03f mem 0xdb121000-0xdb121fff,0xdb00-0xdb0f irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci2 What's ifconfig say

Re: dhclient wedged

2006-01-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:51:43AM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 02:52:44AM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: I reported this problem a few OS versions back... pre-6. I'm on FreeBSD-6-STABLE, and I've found the dhclient once again wedged in a mode that was eating a

Re: Using [Open]LDAP for authentication

2006-01-20 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:30:10AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, I use OpenLDAP for authentication in conjunction with nss_ldap and pam_ldap (and samba). I use the RCORDER port option so it put the startup file in /etc/rc.d. In 5.4 this worked fine - it started up correctly and in the

Re: recent rc changes

2006-01-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:16:38PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Brooks Davis wrote: You definitely have to change things somehow in the jail case because local scripts won't run until after early_late_divider shows up on the list and in the jail case, the default never

Re: recent rc changes

2006-01-10 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:34:16AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: Hello, I recently made the jump to -stable from 6.0 on a box that I'm looking to bring into production as soon as 6.1 hits. Everything seems fine so far but for one issue that I am guessing is related

Re: HEADS UP: Please clean out your */etc/rc.d directories

2005-12-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 10:45:06AM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Doug Barton wrote this message on Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:50 -0800: I should have said this in my last heads up message, sorry for forgetting about this important detail. The new code tries to run any script in a

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:10:19PM -0800, Jo Rhett wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 11:08:07PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: So, when will you fix it? Or hire someone to fix it? FreeBSD after all is mostly a volunteer operation. I and many others have offered to work on this. The core team

Re: Reboots under 6.0 while exercising md device

2005-12-21 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:50:49PM -0800, James Long wrote: For some reason, this script: #!/bin/sh DEV=$(md_config -a -t malloc -s 500m) newfs -i 512 -U /dev/$DEV mount /dev/$DEV /mnt cp -Rp /usr/src /mnt/ will kill my machine. I get zillions (well, hundreds at least, without a

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: devfs doesn't set access rights

2005-12-13 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 05:37:09PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: On my FreeBSD 6-stable (the last build is less then 24hours ago) my devfs doesn't apply permissions set in /etc/devfs.conf when I attach new devices. I have to call: /etc/rc.d/devfs restart manually for the settings to be applied.

Re: devfs doesn't set access rights

2005-12-13 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 06:19:47PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: It's a simple and working solution and I think it simply should be made default for ALL attach events. To me it makes more sense than having 2 different systems for the same thing. Anyway, now I'm going to set up a devfs.rules

Re: devfs doesn't set access rights

2005-12-13 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:22:34PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:21:43AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: snip This is normal. devfs.conf is for boot only, you need devfs.rules for runtime. Unfortunatly, the documentation of this fact and the docuementation

Re: devfs doesn't set access rights

2005-12-13 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:31:21PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:55:39PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: snip What's wrong with the EXAMPLES section in devfs(8)? It's fine. Referring to devfs(8) was poor word choice on my part. I meant the system as a whole

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-07 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 03:39:04PM -0800, Ed wrote: For these reasons, I believe your technically unsupported assertion that This is nothing to do with the core team should be shelved, pending actual investigation of the phenomenon. Peter's assertion is entirely correct. You misunderstand

Re: Trouble with amd64

2005-11-30 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:05:55PM -0800, Doug White wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Nils Berzins wrote: Hi ! Few days ago I downloaded release 6.0 ISOs, in hope that I will finally be able to run FreeBSD on my home computer. Unfortunately, booting from CD dies with: panic: sym:

Re: Silicon Image 3132under RELENG_5

2005-11-29 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:49:07AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:34, Juraj Lutter wrote: is there any chance that the support for SiI 3132 will get to RELENG_5 (and RELENG_6 as well) soon? I've got this card and am quite unhappy that it isn't working (yet)... I

Re: Restarting ntpd on address change

2005-11-29 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:01:16PM -0500, Ian D. Leroux wrote: Greetings, My machine's ip address is assigned by DHCP, and whenever it changes ntpd stops functioning and must be restarted. I gather this behavior will be changed in some future ntpd version, but in the meantime I had added a

Re: Unable to set device characteristics with devd

2005-11-28 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:04:05PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote: From: Kevin Oberman I've been trying to use devd for a number of things, but have not gotten far. One issue is when I attach an ATAPI disk: attach 100 { device-name acd0; action /bin/chmod 666

Re: is removable_interfaces still used?

2005-11-21 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 06:42:57PM +0100, Ronald Klop wrote: Hello, I'm running 6.0-STABLE and see that the option removable_interfaces is not used in any config script. /etc# grep -r removable_interfaces * defaults/rc.conf:removable_interfaces=# Removable network interfaces

Re: DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid

2005-11-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 07:14:00PM -0800, Mark Space wrote: Hi all, I just set up the latest 6.0 release, and I'm getting errors with the DHCP client. Trying to pull a network address during start up, I get: Bogus domain search list 15: domain_not_set.invalid This repeats several

Re: DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid

2005-11-14 Thread Brooks Davis
can test the two behaviors I'll commit them. -- Brooks Brooks Davis wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 07:14:00PM -0800, Mark Space wrote: Hi all, I just set up the latest 6.0 release, and I'm getting errors with the DHCP client. Trying to pull a network address during start up, I get

Re: 6-stable and mount_autofs

2005-11-02 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 08:06:59PM -0800, Sean McNeil wrote: Was this pulled from the release? Was autofs support suppose to go in (and was actually built at one point), then removed from 6-stable? An incomplete autofs was briefly in the tree and then removed. -- Brooks -- Any statement of

Re: 6.0 RC1 dhclient (was Re: 6.0 RC1 usbd.conf (and installation comments))

2005-10-31 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:50:38AM +1000, Joel Hatton wrote: I said: DHCP configuration - for some reason my machine didn't acquire a default route on boot, but rerunning the dhclient script after boot caused the interface to be set up again successfully. I haven't

Re: 6.0 RC1 dhclient (was Re: 6.0 RC1 usbd.conf (and installation comments))

2005-10-31 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:31:37AM +1000, Joel Hatton wrote: Ah, that's they key. aliases don't work with dhclient at the moment for most interfaces because the interfaces generate bogus link events when aliases are modified. We hope to fix this, but it's going to take some time. Ok -

Re: 5.x/6.x network stability

2005-10-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 09:55:21AM +1000, Carl Makin wrote: Morning All, I've been having a heap of trouble with the primary network interface on a box that was running 5.4 and recently upgraded to 6.0-Beta5 where the interface would just go dead. Nothing in ifconfig or syslog or dmesg

Re: 6.0 RC1 usbd.conf (and installation comments)

2005-10-26 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:46:43AM +1000, Joel Hatton wrote: /etc/usbd.conf has lost the [Device] configuration for the mouse, which although doesn't prevent the mouse from working, it did mean that I had to add those lines again so that I could turn on '-z 4' for the

Re: RFC: proposed patch for /usr/src/usr.sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.c

2005-10-26 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 03:20:47PM -0700, James Long wrote: wicontrol.c defaults to the wi interface. I used to have a wi device, but it eventually took a dump and I bought a new ath-based card, which works flawlessly AFAIK, after four months or so. But I grow weary of having to specify -i

Re: DHCP DDNS updates

2005-10-24 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:26:20PM +0500, rihad wrote: FreeBSD 6-STABLE has imported dhclient from OpenBSD: OpenBSD dhclient as of OpenBSD 3.7 has been imported. It replaces the ISC DHCP client used in prior versions of FreeBSD.

Re: Problems with PCI SATA controller (bug in ATA driver? both ATAng and ATAmkIII)

2005-10-19 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:30:48AM +0200, Alson van der Meulen wrote: (Please CC me in replies as I'm not a subscriber of this list) Update: I tested with an i810-based mainboard (Celeron 1GHz, RTL8139 ethernet, Promise SATAII 150 TX4 controller, 3 SATA disks in RAID 5, FreeBSD 6.0-RC1). It

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

Re: more then 9 tun-if's

2005-10-11 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 07:36:46PM +0200, Thomas Krause wrote: Hello, I'm using tun0 to tun8 successfuly with openvpn. Now I want to add a new tunnel (tun9), but I get interface tun9 does not exist with FreeBSD 5.4. How can I get mor interfaces? How are you adding the interfaces? I can

Re: Switching from RELENG_4 to newer Release that supports ia64

2005-10-07 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 12:36:13PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: Hello, we plan to change the Hardware from one of our Servers Running RELENG_4. The New Hardware becomes CPU-Types Xeon w/ EM64 - ia64 architecture. Now i have no experiences to change the OS-Release under the ass from running

Re: ndis0 WPA on 6.0?

2005-10-01 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:35:29PM -0700, Janet Sullivan wrote: Will WPA work with a wireless card that requires Project Evil (ndis) in RELENG_6? No. The necessicary support isn't there. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form X is the one, true Y is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7

Re: IPv6 and DUMMYNET traffic shaping

2005-09-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:00:23PM +0200, Folkert Saathoff wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello lists, in order to evaluate the latency penalty induced by mobile IPv6, i need some way to simulate different latencies between two nodes in a laboratory environment.

Re: Question about atheros wireless card

2005-09-26 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:14:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is DWL-G520 (atheros chipset) wireless card only supported under i386 platform?? I am trying to compile new kernel with this nic and returns me this error: ah_osdep.o(.text+0x210): In function

Re: Long Format Directory Listing 15x Slower in FreeBSD 5.x

2005-09-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:51:44PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:55:55AM +1200, Nikolai Schupbach wrote: Hello, We have been trying to migrate to FreeBSD 5.4 from an older 4.x release for one of our busy mail servers. But we have encountered problems with

Re: Long Format Directory Listing 15x Slower in FreeBSD 5.x

2005-09-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:37:27PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:33:53PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:51:44PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:55:55AM +1200, Nikolai Schupbach wrote: Hello, We have been

Re: WITNESS warning output from 6.0-BETA3

2005-08-30 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:12:37PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Hi, I get the following output under FreeBSD 6.0-BETA3 when WITNESS is enabled. It doesn't seem to cause any harm, though. I cvsupped this system to RELENG_6 a few days ago. I have no idea what is causing this output,

Re: how to find out the boot device

2005-08-26 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:41:47PM +0200, Jan Pechanec wrote: hello guys, during the rc.d phase, I need to find out in a shell script from which disk the system has booted up. - I cannot use kern.rootdev because my root fs is a memory disk - I cannot use

Re: pxeboot problems with BETA2

2005-08-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 02:05:08PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Hello, I just wanted to ask if somebody had success with providing pxe boot service under 6-BETA2. I have two clients, one NET4501 wich just reboots after fetching pxeldr via TFTP and a Laptop which just hangs when

Re: Too short ethernet frame...

2005-08-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 02:01:26AM -0700, Iva Hesy wrote: Just now, I add date=2005.07.31.03.00.00 to my src cvsup sup-file and make kernel, too short ethernet frames are still sniffered. But when I add date=2005.07.22.03.00.00 to sup-file and cvsup and make kernel, the damn datagrams gone!!!

Re: Too short ethernet frame...

2005-08-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 02:37:04AM -0700, Iva Hesy wrote: OS: RELENG_6 (Beta2) NIC: vr0: VIA VT6105 Rhine III 10/100BaseTX # tcpdump -penv -i vr0 less 32 16:15:42.512701 [|ether] 16:15:44.523102 [|ether] 16:15:46.522495 [|ether] 16:16:00.540387 [|ether] 16:16:02.541834 [|ether]

Re: Unreliable bge link state events (and associated dhclient problems)

2005-07-28 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:48:04PM -0700, Ben Jencks wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On my Thinkpad T43p, the bge card seems to be unreliable in giving link state events. This causes dhclient to behave incorrectly (at least my understanding of correctly, given what I've

Re: New question - hot plug support on TWE driver / 3ware board

2005-07-28 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:45:57PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:42:50PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:31:40PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 04:19 PM 28/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Is there a control program for the twe driver devices,

Re: Upgrading from 4.x to 5.x ... possible?

2005-07-07 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 06:03:34PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Without having to rebuild from scratch, is this something that is possible, or have the changes become so great as to make this undesirable? The only thought/concern I have ...

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: Atheros drirve

2005-06-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 04:26:17PM +0900, Eitarou Kamo wrote: It's -current only as it requires incompatable API changes to the interface code. I compiled WPA_Supplicant yesterday on 5.4. But Is there any plan back-port it to -stable? No. WPA support requires

Re: Atheros drirve

2005-06-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:35:23AM +0900, Eitarou Kamo wrote: Hi, Is there the Atheros wi-fi driver with WPA encryption. Do I need WPA_supplicant like hack? There is WPA support in 6-CURRENT. wpa_supplicant will be fully integrated into the startup scripts in 6.0. -- Brooks -- Any

Re: Atheros drirve

2005-06-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:35:50PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:05, Eitarou Kamo wrote: Is there the Atheros wi-fi driver with WPA encryption. Do I need WPA_supplicant like hack? I'd say you need to use wpa_supplicant but I don't see it as a

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh not working?

2005-06-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:43:55PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:58:36AM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:22:07AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: On Jun 14, 2005, at 11:10 AM, K?vesd?n G?bor wrote: For scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d You

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh not working?

2005-06-14 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:25:13PM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:19:04AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: It's b) and this guess is wrong because we don't do any detection of rcorder compatable scripts yet. See /etc/rc.d/localpkg for exactly how the scripts in /usr

Re: kvm not available

2005-06-09 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:40:27PM +0100, n0g0013 wrote: upon doing a 'netstat -r' i'm getting the message netstat: kvm not available Routing tables rt_tables: symbol not in namelist i assume i have removed a critical kernel option -- any ideas? You removed device mem.

Re: minor change to /etc/rc.d/var

2005-05-29 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 01:24:01AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: Hi! What do you think in minor change to /etc/rc.d/var: Content-Description: patch to /etc/rc.d/var --- var.orig Sun May 29 01:05:47 2005 +++ var Sun May 29 01:06:12 2005 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ # # PROVIDE: var

Re: Boot loader cant identify ntfs?

2005-05-18 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:21:32PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: Hello, Could someone tell me why our bootloader still can not recognize a ntfs partition, and report it as Windows instead of displaying ?? ? There isn't enough space to support all 256 partition types in the 512 bytes of space

calling fpa and fea users

2005-05-04 Thread Brooks Davis
I'm writing this message to attempt to determine if anyone is actually using either of these drivers. Please write if you are both: - Using these drivers to connect to a real, production FDDI network - Are running FreeBSD 5.3+ or will be in the near future Please DO NOT write if: - Your

Re: Kodak USB flash reader causes freezes, panics

2005-04-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 07:42:35PM -0400, Tim Howe wrote: Brooks Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reproducibly, if I begin copying data to a [...] CF card [...] it works for a while, then freezes the system. [...] Sounds like you should file a PR about the issue. Are you sure

Re: Kodak USB flash reader causes freezes, panics

2005-04-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:14:14PM -0400, Tim Howe wrote: Brooks Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 05:24:15PM -0400, Tim Howe wrote: Reproducibly, if I begin copying data to a [...] CF card [...] it works for a while, then freezes the system. It is quite

Re: Package managment

2005-04-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:45:11PM +1000, Robert Backhaus wrote: On Apr 12, 2005 6:28 PM, Jan Sebosik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I`ve got one simple question: if i`ve built packages on my freebsd 5.3-RELEASE system, do I need to rebuilt them again for 5.4-RELEASE (after downloading

Re: Kodak USB flash reader causes freezes, panics

2005-04-11 Thread Brooks Davis
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 05:24:15PM -0400, Tim Howe wrote: I'm not sure if this should go here or to -bugs, but the other USB-related reports put me in good company, I'm hoping... I'm having a problem with a Kodak USB flash reader. camcontrol inquiry gives me: pass0: Kodak CF/SD/MMC/SM

Re: nfsiod tasks started in error

2005-04-07 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:11:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During sysinstall answered no to the server and client nfs questions and after installed completed and system rebooted I see task nfsiod1,2,3,4 running in output of ps ax command. This was not the case in any of the 4.x

Re: nfsiod tasks started in error

2005-04-07 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:36:26PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:29:48PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:11:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During sysinstall answered no to the server and client nfs questions and after installed

Re: /sbin/nologin

2005-04-07 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 03:40:20PM -0500, Frank Knobbe wrote: Greetings, I just noticed that the /etc/passwd files contains the shell /usr/sbin/nologin by default on many users. Shouldn't that be /sbin/nologin instead? I'd say no: [1:43pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (~): ll /sbin/nologin

Re: nfsiod tasks started in error

2005-04-07 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:55:34PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:11:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During sysinstall answered no to the server and client nfs questions and after installed completed and system rebooted I see task nfsiod1,2,3,4 running in

Re: Recent NDIS Panics Appear To Be Solved

2005-04-02 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 04:22:34PM -0800, Evan Dower wrote: I recently experienced panics with dhclient ndis0 (ndis swi), and I saw that others had noticed similar problems. There is a PR or two about it at the moment. CVSUPping today solved the problem for me. So for those who had the

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