6.1 quota issues

2006-07-07 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello all, I'm in the process of rolling out a new shell server and for numerous reasons have decided 6.x is the best fit (jail improvements, SMP improvements, 3Ware driver, pf). The shell server is within a jail, and the uids there are unique so that quotas remain sane. There are about

Re: 6.1 quota issues

2006-07-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:56:47PM -0400 I heard the voice of Charles Sprickman, and lo! it spake thus: Trying again, it reported the same inconsistencies then sat there for more than an hour taking up all the available CPU on the box until I

Re: 6.1 quota issues

2006-07-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:41:07AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:56:47PM -0400 I heard the voice of Charles Sprickman, and lo! it spake thus: Trying again, it reported

Re: 6.1 quota issues

2006-07-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:39:01AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:41:07AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006

Re: 6.1 quota issues

2006-07-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
Jul 2006, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hello all, I'm in the process of rolling out a new shell server and for numerous reasons have decided 6.x is the best fit (jail improvements, SMP improvements, 3Ware driver, pf). The shell server is within a jail, and the uids there are unique so that quotas

4.8 alternate system clock has died error

2005-11-17 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello all, I've been digging through Google for more information on this. I have a 4.8 box that's been up for about 430 days. In the last week or so, top and ps have started reporting all CPU usage numbers as zero, and running systat -vmstat results in the message The alternate system clock

Re: 4.8 alternate system clock has died error

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Uwe Doering wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: Hello all, I've been digging through Google for more information on this. I have a 4.8 box that's been up for about 430 days. In the last week or so, top and ps have started reporting all CPU usage numbers as zero

vr speed issues

2006-11-28 Thread Charles Sprickman
/6.1p2-dmesg.txt http://www.bway.net/~spork/6.2-dmesg.txt Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 212.655.9344 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: vr speed issues

2006-11-29 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Philipp Ost wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: [snipped] Performace with scp was around 200KB/s, ftp wavered between 300-500KB/s. This did not appear to be a duplex mismatch - unmanaged switch showed them all at 100/Full, put some other hosts on the same ports/cabling

Re: vr speed issues

2006-11-30 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: I also did a little more digging and noticed that once I start pinging from one of these hosts using large packet sizes, I get about 50-60% packet loss (ie: ping -s 1500 other.vr0.host). If I ping

Re: vr speed issues

2006-12-01 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Jamie Clark wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi all, I spent some time trying to track down slow tcp performance on a small office switched 100 LAN. We just put in a number of whitebox PCs running FreeBSD 6.1-p2/PC-BSD 1.2 that all have onboard Via Rhine 10/100 ethernet

Re: vr speed issues

2006-12-04 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Jorn Argelo wrote: Jamie Clark wrote: Steven Hartland wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: Backing up the 4.10 box was within an acceptable margin of wire speed (~8MB/s on 100M ethernet) given that a router was in the middle. That's roughly how the box has always performed

pf killing NFS

2006-12-12 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, I'm running a 6.2-RC1 box (cvsup'd today) that has two broadcom nics. One is an internal network (nfs) and the other is external. PF has this rule for all traffic on the private net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/jails]# pfctl -sr|grep bge1 pass in quick on bge1 inet from 192.168.1.0/24

Re: Adaptec 2100, asr driver

2006-12-13 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Jim Pingle wrote: Willem Jan Withagen wrote: So the 1000$ question: is there any chance of getting at least the state of the RAID and its disk out into the open? It shure would give me a much better feeling, knowing that at least serious trouble would be detected by me.

Re: pf killing NFS

2006-12-13 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Pete French wrote: I'm running a 6.2-RC1 box (cvsup'd today) that has two broadcom nics. One is an internal network (nfs) and the other is external. ... Doing something like ls /usr/ports will just hang until interrupted. Using tcp for nfs makes it workable, but very

Re: OpenBSD's spamd.

2006-12-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Christopher Hilton wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Dimitry Andric wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: What does stuttering mean? Is it similar to sendmail's greet_pause feature? See here: http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/nycbug06/spamd/mgp00014.html OK, so the answer to my

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Colin Percival wrote: John Smith wrote: Support for FreeBSD 4.11 is going to end sometime in late January. Originally, FreeBSD 6.2 was supposed to be released back in October. This would have given

Canonical 4.x to 6.x upgrade docs?

2006-12-29 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, I'm about to hit a number of machines with 6.2-RC2 since we're nearing the release. Many of course are remote, so shuffling CDs around and the like is not practical. I've not been able to find anything in the handbook or FAQ about the process, and Google is returning very few

6.2-RC2 panic - NFS client

2007-01-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, Just killed what had been a fairly stable 6.2-RC2 box with NFS. I have four boxes that run spamd (spamassassin spamd, not pf spamd). Since they are all now in sync and running 6.2-RC2, I set one up as an NFS server to make updates across all four boxes easier. I got a little bit

Re: 6.2-RC2 panic - NFS client

2007-01-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
() at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:200 #17 0x0033 in ?? () Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) (kgdb) On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi all, Just killed what had been a fairly stable 6.2-RC2 box with NFS. I have four boxes that run spamd (spamassassin spamd

Re: Fatal Trap 12 in 6.2-PRERELEASE

2007-01-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, J. W. Ballantine wrote: I rebuilt and installed the kernel and world, and now when I try to boot the system it fails with a Fatal Trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode, with current process of 594 (ntpd). I dont' have the thread subject handy, but I remember something

Re: 2.4TB disk - MBR and GPT coexist?

2007-01-11 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Jan Mikkelsen wrote: Hi, Jo Rhett wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:56:43 -0800 Jo Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply. The problem is that I have a single 6-drive (550gb/ea) RAID-5 array. If I split two disks off to make a RAID-1 boot device, I'll lose 1TB

Re: 2.4TB disk - MBR and GPT coexist?

2007-01-11 Thread Charles Sprickman
)), although the details vary. On Jan 11, 2007, at 8:02 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: I can confirm 3Ware controllers also work that way. Please enlighten me. I see no such options in the BIOS menu. I've done it in 3DM2, but look at pages 23+24 (printed page numbers) here and the stuff regarding

Re: 2.4TB disk - MBR and GPT coexist?

2007-01-11 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Jo Rhett wrote: On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Jo Rhett wrote: Not any one that I've ever seen in commodity disks. Yes, on big fiber channel disk cabinets. No to 6-8 drive raid controllers. I'd be very surprised if you

100.chksetuid and nfs

2007-01-15 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello all, I've never noticed this on any 4.x boxes, but on 6.2 I'm seeing the following in the daily security run: Checking setuid files and devices: find: /usr/src: Operation timed out find: /usr/ports: Operation timed out find: /usr/obj: Operation timed out Those three directories are

Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

2007-02-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Geoffrey Giesemann wrote: On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 04:34:57PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: -They added a moving part (2-wire fan, no tach) to a mission-critical part. That seems real stupid. After the bearings die in 2-3 years, what happens to your card? Does it melt

Re: gjournal patch

2007-02-12 Thread Charles Sprickman
Václav Haisman wrote: Hi, yesterday, I tried to build kernel and world with the gjournal patch. It does not apply cleanly. This brings me to question, are there some outstanding issues that prevent it from being commited to RELENG_6? I tried to search ml archives but I did not find any.

Re: Boot prompt for Intel AMT

2007-03-05 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:15:04AM +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote: The othe question, is there such technology for Supermicro mainboards? Yes, Supermicro makes IPMI add-on cards (they require IPMI capability on the mainboard, however). Be warned about

Re: OpenBSD's spamd.

2007-03-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Dec 19, 2006, at 6:56 PM, Christopher Hilton wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Christopher Hilton wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Dimitry Andric wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: What does stuttering mean? Is it similar to sendmail's greet_pause feature? See here

Re: OpenBSD spamd port update coming?

2007-04-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Jonathan Stewart wrote: Does anyone know of any work towards updating the spamd port to the latest version? The makefile shows version 3.7 and OpenBSD is up to 4.1 now. I'm looking at setting it up so helping test would not be a problem for me. There's an unofficial

4.11 panic, help decode gdb output

2005-05-26 Thread Charles Sprickman
this stuff, this does not seem like hardware. What's next? Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 212.655.9344 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

4.11 panic #2, need help decoding

2005-06-05 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello, Second panic on this box in less than two weeks. Can someone help me figure out whether this looks to be a hardware issue or not? Am I on the correct list for this type of problem? Previous info is at: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.stable/28428 (no followups) Here's what

Re: 4.11 panic #2, need help decoding

2005-06-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Doug White wrote: On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Charles Sprickman wrote: Here's what gdb has for me this time: Can you go to frame 38 and print the value of source? Comparing it to NULL shouldn't cause a fault, but I suspect its another one of the cases in that if statement

Re: LAST_ACK timeout

2003-02-26 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Jonathan Lemon wrote: In LAST_ACK state, the machine should keep retransmitting the FIN until it gets an ACK from the peer, or the connection times out, which should take roughly 8 minutes. If the connections stay around forever, then something is broken. The one thing

Re: LAST_ACK timeout

2003-02-26 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Doug Barton wrote: I agree on the need for LB's to do things right, but they aren't just for helping MS software. :) I understand, but I would bet there's been at least a quadrupling of machines backing hotmail/msn since they moved to windows... :) I'm curious about

Re: HEADSUP: XFree86 4.3.0 update - problems that surely have solutions...?

2003-03-17 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Doug Barton wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Alban Hertroys wrote: One thing that doesn't seem to work is installing the XFree-4 metaport of 4.3.0 over the old XFree 4.2.1 installation. The metaport succesfully finds all it's dependencies, and just registers - without

Re: Sudden and unexplained reboots

2003-06-05 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Don Lewis wrote: I'd also check to make sure that all the fans are operational and something isn't overheating. I ran into two boxes with the same bad CPU fans. Took a while to track it down. Symptoms were seemingly random reboots, but the reboots could be made to happen

Re: state of ide raid

2003-06-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: The 3ware cards work quite well for this. ~ $120 USD for the 2 port version. During rebuilds the server is still available and you can control for the most part how fast or slow the rebuild process works. Its not very granular, but it does afford some

Re: 3ware 7506, FreeBSD 4.x, Maxtor Disks SMART Problems.

2004-07-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Ken Smith wrote: On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:35:27PM -0700, Doug White wrote: There was a nasty bug just about as 4.10 went out the door with the twe driver. I thought the fix went into the release, though. If you get a chance you might try moving up to the -stable

Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x)

2004-10-26 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi, I'm looking for some feedback on the following two SATA RAID controllers: http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata8000.asp (4 port) http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=nolanguage=English+USprodkey=AAR-2410SAcat=%2fTechnology%2fRAID%2fSerial+ATA+RAID I'd love to

Best jail howto/FAQ

2004-10-26 Thread Charles Sprickman
use of jail. Thanks, Charles -- Charles Sprickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Best jail howto/FAQ

2004-10-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
is unclear.. Greets, Samuel Trommel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Sprickman Sent: woensdag 27 oktober 2004 3:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Best jail howto/FAQ I know this is something of a frequent question, but jail

RE: Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x)

2004-10-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Sprickman Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Serial ATA RAID Controllers (5.x) Hi, I'm looking for some feedback on the following two SATA RAID controllers: http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata8000.asp (4 port

recent rc changes

2006-01-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
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 to the rc changes in -stable. This host has two jails, both started via the rc.conf

5.x to 6.x source update, bootblocks?

2007-05-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, Here's a quicky... I've been running around upgrading some boxes to 6.2 from 4.11 using the directions in UPDATING. I noticed that in the 4.x to 5.x step it's basically mandatory to install the new bootloader: cd /sys/boot make STRIP= install I see no such notes in the 5.x to 6.x

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Philipp Ost wrote: The only other concern I have is the I-don't-know-which-field-is-in-focus-bug. But I have to admit that I rarely use sysinstall, so I don't bother that much... Jeremy hit the nail on the head with that one. I do use it fairly often and have gotten

Re: FREEBSD_4_EOL tag, last known index file?

2007-07-15 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Jonathan Dama wrote: From Erwin Lansing [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 12:59:50AM +0200: On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 03:05:30PM -0700, Jon Dama wrote: Is there a port index file that corresponds to the FREEBSD_4_EOL tag? I am unable to rebuild the index from the

long pause in startup

2007-07-17 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, Any ideas on this one? This machine (one of those ancient VALinux 2U boxes, Intel L440GX+ board, dual PIII) hangs for a very long time between the second processor launching and geom_mirror kicking in. It does always boot, but the hang is more than a minute - just enough to make one

6.2, USB wedged

2007-08-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
info on USB for users would be appreciated. Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 212.655.9344 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: BIND 9.3.1 - How to get rid of AAAA querys?

2007-09-13 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Andreas Pettersson wrote: Mark Andrews wrote: Why don't you go the other way and get yourself IPv6 connectivity. You do realise that you will require it to reach many sites in about 3 years time as they will be IPv6

Re: Freebsd.org is down

2007-09-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Gary Palmer wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:26:33PM -0700, Jon wrote: Check the freebsd-questions list for more info For those, like me, who are not subscribed to freebsd-questions, the list archives can be accessed at:

Re: Various route locking fixes merged to stable/7 (was: Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-()

2009-02-25 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Robert Watson wrote: Just a minor heads up: I've merged both Kip Macy's lock order fixes to the kernel routing code, and the route locking and reference counting fixes from kern/130652 to stable/7. These fixes should correct a number of reported network-related hangs.

setting quotas from inside a jail

2009-03-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
to have to hit the host just to alter quotas in one jail that needs them. Just looking for any warnings/caveats about the above and what might be different 6+ years later... Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net sp...@bway.net

Re: LSI Logic raid status

2009-03-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet www.bway.net sp...@bway.net - 212.655.9344

Re: LSI Logic raid status

2009-03-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote: Peter Ankerst?l wrote: On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:20 PM, Scott Long wrote: Peter Ankerst?l wrote: On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:00 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: dev.mpt.0.nonoptimal_volumes: 0 Don't test whether the nonoptimal_volumes parameter works

Re: setting quotas from inside a jail

2009-03-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Michael R. Wayne wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:05:05AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: The subject describes my goal. I'm aware of the usual caveats - if there's more than one jail, no UID overlap, this will really only work in one jail if all jails are on the same

Re: After upgrade: panic with ad0 device

2002-08-03 Thread Charles Sprickman
} ad_attach() is trying to dereference atadev-param, which is NULL. - I'm still set up with remote gdb ready to go if you need any other info. I also used to get the falling back to PIO delays/resets, regardless of whether I turn off dma in loader.conf. Thanks, Charles -- Charles Sprickman

Re: BASH using up major CPU while idle. Could it be caused byportupgrade?

2002-08-11 Thread Charles Sprickman
Just out of curiousity, what does the following return? sysctl kern.maxusers Charles -- Charles Sprickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, lewwid wrote: Frequently I have had to kill -INT 1 to reboot because nothing on the box would respond. I used portupgrade bash and ever since

Re: tbz/tgz packages balls-up

2002-08-29 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Kevin G. Eliuk wrote: Add PKG_SUFX=.tgz to your /etc/make.conf I look forward to when the full convergence to bzip'd packages. In the meantime, perhaps someone could add PKG_SUFX=.tgz to /etc/defaults/make.conf so that someone following the upgrade procedure (including

interpreting netstat -m output

2002-09-04 Thread Charles Sprickman
send/recv space. Can anyone clarify the netstat output for me? Thanks, Charles -- Charles Sprickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

Re: Rocketport (rp) PCI card on stable ?

2002-09-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Mike Tancsa wrote: Perhaps something about the cable ? What are you using to make a null modem (xover) cable? Maybe cu is sensitive to CTS/RTS working and kermit is not? Charles ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Problems with large memory configs?

2002-10-28 Thread Charles Sprickman
up... Thanks, Charles -- Charles Sprickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

Re: iPod recognized

2002-11-15 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, randall ehren wrote: sbp0:0:0 XPT_SCSI_IO: cmd: 12 01 80 00 ff 00 00 00 00 00, flags: 0x40, 6b cmd/255b data/18b sense da0 at sbp0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Apple Co iPod 2700 Removable Simplified Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 50.000MB/s transfers da0: 4775MB

/usr/lib/compat and updates

2008-01-15 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, I've been doing a number of 4.11 - 5.5 - 6.2 upgrades. All of them I've done have gone very well. One that was handled by someone else following my step-by-step directions ended up missing some items from /usr/lib/compat and all the timestamps on the files in that directory are

Re: Why does firefox keep locking up on me?

2008-01-15 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hey all, On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Christian Walther wrote: Hello Bob, On 15/01/2008, Bob Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been having a problem on one particular machine with Firefox locking up on me, requiring a hard kill to get rid of it. The problem is thus: Firefox starts normally, but

Re: /usr/lib/compat and updates

2008-01-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
Just following-up to myself, please correct me if I got anything wrong... On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi all, I've been doing a number of 4.11 - 5.5 - 6.2 upgrades. All of them I've done have gone very well. One that was handled by someone else following my step-by-step

Re: list spam

2008-03-10 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Mike Lempriere wrote: I've had it with the list spam -- is the any possibility of moderating this list, or changing it to must-be-subscriber-to-post? I have a humble suggestion that perhaps the FreeBSD Foundation could handle... Seeing as Cisco recently bought a company

Re: possible zfs bug? lost all pools

2008-05-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 18 May 2008, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Sun, 18 May 2008 09:56:17 -0300 JoaoBR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after trying to mount my zfs pools in single user mode I got the following message for each: May 18 09:09:36 gw kernel: ZFS: WARNING: pool 'cache1' could not be loaded as it was

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:20:42AM +0800, Eugene Grosbein wrote: I fully understand and second efforts on educating people how to configure BIND to be stong to attacks and keep them from using query-source address with port option but how about

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 16, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:34:38PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: The 'query-source' options don't have to be specified: the system will just choose some appropriate address according to the state of

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 and BIND exploit

2008-07-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Kevin Oberman wrote: From: Max Laier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:38:46 +0200 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 21 July 2008 21:14:22 Doug Barton wrote: Brett Glass wrote: | Everyone: | | Will FreeBSD 7.1 be released in time to use it as an upgrade to |

Recommendations for servers running SATA drives

2008-09-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
I'm forking the thread on fsck/soft-updates in hopes of getting some practical advice based on the discussion here of background fsck, softupdates and write-caching on SATA drives. On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Let's be realistic. We're talking about ATA and SATA hard disks,

Re: Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386

2008-10-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:51:02AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: Well, I believe HZ was increased from 100 to 1000 long ago (RELENG_6?) as a default. I'm really not sure of the implications of decreasing it, besides having less granularity for some

7.x and multiple IPs in jails

2008-10-28 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello all, I've been searching around and have come up with no current discussions on this issue. I'll keep it brief: In 7.0 or 7.1 is there any provision to have multiple IP addresses in a jail? I'm stumped on this, as I just started a new hosting project that needs a few jails. At

Re: 7.x and multiple IPs in jails

2008-10-29 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Robert Watson wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Chris St Denis wrote: Serious question here (not trolling). These patches have been around for years, why have they never been committed to trunk/stable? ... The current patches Bjoern is preparing address most of these

7.1, mpt and slow writes

2009-01-29 Thread Charles Sprickman
, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net sp...@bway.net - 212.655.9344 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: 7.1, mpt and slow writes

2009-01-29 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Richard Tector wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: Hello, I think this needs a few more eyes: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2009-January/003782.html In short, writes are slow, likely do to the write-cache being enabled on the controller. The sysctl used

Re: 7.1, mpt and slow writes

2009-01-30 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Gary Palmer wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:43:11PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: [ snip ] Any idea what happened to the sysctl? Is there some other method to verify the loader tunable took (other than testing the throughput)? Boot with -v. If the loader tunable

Re: 7.1, mpt and slow writes

2009-02-02 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Gary Palmer wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:48:46AM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Gary Palmer wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:43:11PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: [ snip ] Any idea what happened to the sysctl? Is there some other method

7.1 Panic on degraded disk w/mpt

2009-02-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
a bug, or bring it over to freebsd-scsi if more appropriate. Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net sp...@bway.net - 212.655.9344 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

panic in 7.2 (ffs_alloc.c?)

2009-11-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
Howdy, I'm not expert at getting info out of a dump, but I'll do my best to provide some information. This is a Dell PE2970 w/PERC6/i RAID running FreeBSD 7.2/amd64. Brand new box, has been doing very light work for about two weeks. Last night I started a very long mstone run on a jailed

Re: panic in 7.2 (ffs_alloc.c?)

2009-11-23 Thread Charles Sprickman
that wants it. Thanks, Charles On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Charles Sprickman wrote: Howdy, I'm not expert at getting info out of a dump, but I'll do my best to provide some information. This is a Dell PE2970 w/PERC6/i RAID running FreeBSD 7.2/amd64. Brand new box, has been doing very light work

7.2 serial console/getty problem

2009-11-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
a proper prompt. Once I'm logged-in, there seem to be no issues. vi, top and other things that rely on the terminal being sane work fine. Any ideas? Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net sp...@bway.net - 212.655.9344

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-12 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Jan 12, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:14:44 +0200 Marin Atanasov wrote: I'm thinking about the following situation - 1 system acting like a host with a serial port hub, each port of the hub is connected to a different machine on sio0,

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-12 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Jan 12, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:14:44 +0200 Marin Atanasov wrote: I'm thinking about the following situation - 1 system acting like a host with a serial port hub, each port of the hub

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-12 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 02:50:29PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Jan 12, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:14:44 +0200 Marin Atanasov wrote: I'm

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Gerrit Kühn wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:24:49 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote about Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues: JC JC If you want a consumer-edition drive that's better tuned for JC JC server work,

32-bit jails on a 64-bit system?

2010-01-20 Thread Charles Sprickman
, except for perhaps ps, top and other utilities that might have issues. Any pointers appreciated... Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net sp...@bway.net - 212.655.9344 ___ freebsd-stable

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Hi, I'm looking at creating a large home use storage machine. Budget is a concern, but size and reliability are also a priority. Noise is also a concern, since this will be at home, in the basement. That, and cost, pretty much rules out a

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Also, it seems like people who use zfs (or gmirror + gstripe) generally end up buying pricey hardware raid cards for compatibility reasons. There seem to be no decent add-on SATA cards

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 06:53:26AM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 05:21:32PM +1100, Andrew Snow wrote: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H Supermicro just released a

ZFS on root, serial console install

2010-02-11 Thread Charles Sprickman
Any hints on that one? I finally got around to getting dhcp/tftp/nfs setup on an internal network to perform normal installs (and with some pxelinux hackery, the ability to boot a DOS disk or memtest86 disk images). Sysinstall in general is kind of an unweildy beast over serial, but one

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After creating three different system configurations (Athena, Supermicro, and HP), my configuration of choice is this Supermicro setup: 1. Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping)

Re: ZFS on root, serial console install

2010-02-15 Thread Charles Sprickman
the machine's locked up as it's confused about a ro root... Thanks, Charles http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ2 On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Charles Sprickman sp...@bway.net wrote: Any hints on that one? I finally got around to getting dhcp/tftp/nfs setup on an internal network

netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
Howdy, I'm having some problems getting 8.0 to install over the network. I've got my dhcp, tftp and nfs server working well, and I've tested all three services from this host before attempting to boot over the network. pxeboot seems to work, and I see it get loaded via tftp. The kernel

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:28:03PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: Howdy, I'm having some problems getting 8.0 to install over the network. I've got my dhcp, tftp and nfs server working well, and I've tested all three services from this host before

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Charles Sprickman sp...@bway.net wrote: Howdy, I'm having some problems getting 8.0 to install over the network.  I've got my dhcp, tftp and nfs server working well, and I've tested all three services from this host

7.2-p4: panic: ufsdirhash_lookup: bad offset in hash array

2010-02-26 Thread Charles Sprickman
for 93 days. Nothing has changed in the past few days as far as software or overall load. The crash did happen during or shortly after the daily periodic run. Any interest in this one? Is it something to file a PR on? dmesg is below... Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin

Re: Does zfs have it's own nfs server?

2010-03-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: On 17-3-2010 9:27, Matthias Gamsjager wrote: sharenfs does work in freebsd but iscsi does not. I'm not sure about smb. about nfs: you should take a look at /etc/zfs/exports On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Harald Schmalzbauer

Re: Does zfs have it's own nfs server?

2010-03-22 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: On 20-3-2010 0:50, Charles Sprickman wrote: Just wondering, is this using the base nfsd/mountd, or is there some in-kernel nfs code strictly for zfs? I haven't found much info on the share* options in the manpage or wiki. There's also

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