RELENG_6 periodic security default problem

2005-08-22 Thread Volker
Hi folks, since running on RELENG_6 starting last week on my home server, I'm not getting any useful periodic security output anymore. After inspecting the problem I found that the default of daily_status_security_diff_flags in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf is -b -u but the ${filter} expression in

Re: RELENG_6 periodic security default problem

2005-08-22 Thread Colin Percival
Volker wrote: After inspecting the problem I found that the default of daily_status_security_diff_flags in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf is -b -u but the ${filter} expression in /etc/periodic/security.functions is being set to grep '^' diff produces a +/- diff format but the output is being

Re: broken fxp driver in 4.x ...

2005-08-22 Thread Colin Farley
I am also having them problem with the lnc driver. It seems that sometimes, when an alias is added gratuitous arp packets are not sent out and until arp cache is expired or the arp table on the router is cleared the host is unreachable. It seems completely random and there seems to be no way to

Re: broken fxp driver in 4.x ...

2005-08-22 Thread dpk
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Now, on one of our newer servers runnign a fairly recent cvsup of 4.x, the fxp driver is doing the exact same thing ... all the other fxp based servers do a nice quick 'ifconfig alias' for an IP, and arp broadcasts are sent out, but on this one, I

Re: broken fxp driver in 4.x ...

2005-08-22 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, dpk wrote: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Now, on one of our newer servers runnign a fairly recent cvsup of 4.x, the fxp driver is doing the exact same thing ... all the other fxp based servers do a nice quick 'ifconfig alias' for an IP, and arp broadcasts

Re: broken fxp driver in 4.x ...

2005-08-22 Thread dpk
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Can you try having your network guys enable 'portfast' on your server port, and then see if adding an IP alias still causes the hang? I'd love to, but I know nothing about the Cisco switches other then the very bare minimal ... if you can give

Re: broken fxp driver in 4.x ...

2005-08-22 Thread Colin Farley
I have made this change on the switch my virtual machines are connected to. We use HP PorCurve switches, unfortunately the switch needs to be rebooted for the change to take effect, I will have to do this late tonight. I will let you know the outcome. Colin

Re: broken fxp driver in 4.x ...

2005-08-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:56 PM 22/08/2005, Colin Farley wrote: I have made this change on the switch my virtual machines are connected to. We use HP PorCurve switches, unfortunately the switch needs to be rebooted for the change to take effect, I will have to do this late tonight. I will let you know the outcome.

Out of Office AutoReply: Delivery reports about your e-mail

2005-08-22 Thread Megger, Dieter
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ata breakage from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6

2005-08-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
I updated one of our boxes from RELENG_5 to 6. Couple of things I noticed was that the smartmontools and atacontrol seems to be broken now. I updated smartmon to the latest in the ports, but same problem. atapci0: Intel ICH6 SATA150 controller port

Re: ata breakage from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6

2005-08-22 Thread Søren Schmidt
On 22/08/2005, at 22:24, Mike Tancsa wrote: I updated one of our boxes from RELENG_5 to 6. Couple of things I noticed was that the smartmontools and atacontrol seems to be broken now. I updated smartmon to the latest in the ports, but same problem. The ioctl ABI to ATA has changed,

Re: ata breakage from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6

2005-08-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:33 PM 22/08/2005, Søren Schmidt wrote: On 22/08/2005, at 22:24, Mike Tancsa wrote: I updated one of our boxes from RELENG_5 to 6. Couple of things I noticed was that the smartmontools and atacontrol seems to be broken now. I updated smartmon to the latest in the ports, but same

Re: ata breakage from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6

2005-08-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:38:15 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 04:33 PM 22/08/2005, Søren Schmidt wrote: On 22/08/2005, at 22:24, Mike Tancsa wrote: I updated one of our boxes from RELENG_5 to 6. Couple of things I noticed was that the

Re: ata breakage from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6

2005-08-22 Thread damir bikmuhametov
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:24:12PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: I updated one of our boxes from RELENG_5 to 6. Couple of things I noticed was that the smartmontools and atacontrol seems to be broken now. [...] [verify1] /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools# atacontrol cap 0 0 usage:

Re: ata breakage from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6 (nope, just a bit of pilot error)

2005-08-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:45 PM 22/08/2005, Kevin Oberman wrote: The arguments for atacontrol have changed. The update to the man pages was committed to current in the past day or two. I'm not sure it it has made it to RELENG_6. You can't just specify the channel number any more. The channel is now the device

Re: ata breakage from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6

2005-08-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:54 PM 22/08/2005, damir bikmuhametov wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:24:12PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: I updated one of our boxes from RELENG_5 to 6. Couple of things I noticed was that the smartmontools and atacontrol seems to be broken now. [...] [verify1]

Re: ata breakage from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6

2005-08-22 Thread Simon L. Nielsen
On 2005.08.22 16:24:12 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: [verify1] /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools# smartctl -a ad0 smartctl version 5.33 [i386-portbld-freebsd6.0] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ I think you have to specify full path for the

Re: ata breakage from RELENG_5 to RELENG_6

2005-08-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:05 PM 22/08/2005, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: On 2005.08.22 16:24:12 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: [verify1] /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools# smartctl -a ad0 smartctl version 5.33 [i386-portbld-freebsd6.0] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Re: MNT_NOEXEC flag set on / when PXE booting diskless on 5.4-R?

2005-08-22 Thread Johny Mattsson
On 08/20/05 19:28, Johny Mattsson wrote: I've run into a problem in that it appears that the root mount gets marked with MNT_NOEXEC for some reason, which causes ld-elf.so.1 to barf with a message of: Cannot execute objects on / Okay, this one's for the archive, in case anyone else runs

Install from USB flash drive? Sort of...

2005-08-22 Thread Brandon Fosdick
So I had this brilliant idea that I was going to install FreeBSD on my new amd64 system using a 512MB flash drive since I didn't feel like digging out a CD-ROM. I ended up installing from CD anyway, but I thought I'd share my experience in case anyone else knows how to do this. My first

polling in 4.11 vs 5.4

2005-08-22 Thread Mao Shou Yan
Hi, everybody, I hope this is the right place that I post to! When I enabled polling in 5.4 and 4.11, I found that CPU load in 5.4 is much higher than 4.11. For example, suppose HZ is 5000, in 5.4 the idle CPU is about 87%, but in 4.11, the idle CPU is about 99.9%. Is