Re: FTPd recommendation?

2006-05-14 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Iantcho Vassilev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My vote goes to PureFtpd.. It`s ideal server.. But is not *nearly* as secure as vsftpd. On 5/4/06, N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-04 05:48:40 -0800]: What are people using for their ftpd these days? I

(no subject)

2006-05-15 Thread Chris H.
reinstall What?! I'm *upgrading* (or at least trying) this port. :\ Anyway, thank you for all your time and consideration. --Chris H. -- - FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p12 (SMP - 900x2) Tue Mar 7 19:37:23 PST 2006

Upgrading question (issue?) - was:(no subject)

2006-05-15 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I have a question as to accomplishing an upgrade of *only* what ports I already have installed. That is to say; I somewhat frequently suck down the latest source for system and ports for the release I run on my servers (RELENG_5_4 - soon to be 5_5

Re: Upgrading question (issue?) - was:(no subject)

2006-05-16 Thread Chris H.
Hello, and thank you for your reply. Quoting Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I have a question as to accomplishing an upgrade of *only* what ports I already have installed. That is to say; I somewhat frequently suck down the latest

Re: Best practices for remote upgrade?

2006-05-17 Thread Chris H.
upgrade from UFS to UFS2 without rebuilding FS. How can one convert their UFS to UFS2 (with, or without SSH)? Is it possible? Or must one delete their current slices and create new (UFS2) slices? Thanks you for all your time and consideration. --Chris H. The problem is that it's not possible

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-23 Thread Chris H.
; there *must* be a better (less painful) way to handle upgrading the _installed_ ports. I only wish I could figure one out. Please note; this is a solicitation. ;) I am only adding (augmenting) to what Paul has stated here. (I build/manage some 50 FreeBSD boxes. So you can imagine the grief.) --Chris

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-23 Thread Chris H.
in this state. --Chris H. -- IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD user Intellectual Property is nowhere near as valuable as Intellect BOFH excuse #146: Communications satellite used by the military for star wars -- Shameless self-promotion follows... ... or does

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-23 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Frank Steinborn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: This brings up a point I have been wanting to bring up for over a mos.; I adopted an orphaned port (contacted the owner, whom then relenquished ownership to me.). But found it _more_ than difficult to discover how to inform the fBSD

Re: imap w/cleartext on 5.4-RELEASE

2006-05-31 Thread Chris H.
Hello, I realize this message is somewhat old. But as I'm also running FreeBSD-5.4 + Horde/Imp. I thought I'd comment. I have been using Horde+Imp with IMAP-UW for several years. I just recently installed Dovecot. I did so while IMAP-UW was still installed. I simply commented out the lines for

Re: NFS Locking Issue

2006-07-02 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Michel Talon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I guess I'm still just a bit stunned that a bug this obvious not only found it's way into the STABLE branch, but is still there. Maybe it's not as obvious as I think, or not many folks are using it? All I know for sure here is that if I had upgraded to

Re: NFS Locking Issue

2006-07-05 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Michel Talon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So it would appear that you cured the NFS problems inherent with FBSD-6 by replacing FBSD with Fedora Linux. Nice to know that NFSd works in Linux. But won't help those on the FBSD list fix their FBSD-6 boxen. :/ First NFS is designed to make machines

error: syntax error before _X_SENTINEL

2006-08-09 Thread Chris H.
Hello, I just recenlly found that I am almost always unable to build X (Xorg) related applications on a 5.5 box that has pretty recent source. The applications all die during the make process with the following error: error: syntax error before _X_SENTINEL Any to fix this? Googling indicates that

Re: error: syntax error before _X_SENTINEL

2006-08-09 Thread Chris H.
Hello Mark, and thank you for your prompt reply. Quoting Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: Hello, I just recenlly found that I am almost always unable to build X (Xorg) related applications on a 5.5 box that has pretty recent source. The applications all die during the make

Re: error: syntax error before _X_SENTINEL

2006-08-10 Thread Chris H.
Hello, and thank you for your reply. Quoting Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:24:36 -0700 Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Mark, and thank you for your prompt reply. Quoting Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: Hello, I just recenlly found

Re: error: syntax error before _X_SENTINEL

2006-08-10 Thread Chris H.
Hello, and thank you for your reply. Quoting Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:25:47 -0700 Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then I built the entire Xorg-6.9 server and libraries from source. Everything worked/ performed as expected. I have not made anything

Re: bind round robin

2006-09-19 Thread Chris H.
wishes, Chris H. FYI, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- panic

Re: bind round robin

2006-09-19 Thread Chris H.
Greetings, ... Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Greetings all, ... Quoting Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Oliver Brandmueller wrote: DNS round robin is not about redundancy, the only thing you could have that way is a kind of load balancing (not the most sophisticated way, though

Re: can't compile mico app

2006-10-16 Thread Chris H.
Greetings, ... Quoting KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED]: it's not finding CORBA.h .h:121: error: `CORBA' has not been declared account.h:121: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `Long' with no type account.h:121: error: `Long' declared as a `virtual' field account.h:121: error: expected `;'

Why does FBSD always assume it's on an 8080 CPU?

2007-01-26 Thread Chris H.
...or when will FreeBSD support Pentium features? I want to apologize in advance if this should be on the kern@ But it seemed apropriate for this list too and I'm already on it. I've noticed building kernels, that since v. = 5 that during the phase 2/3 all the lines echoed to the screen contain:

Why does FBSD always assume it's on an 8080 CPU?

2007-01-26 Thread Chris H.
...or when will FreeBSD support Pentium features? I want to apologize in advance if this should be on the kern@ But it seemed apropriate for this list too and I'm already on it. I've noticed building kernels, that since v. = 5 that during the phase 2/3 all the lines echoed to the screen contain:

Re: Why does FBSD always assume it's on an 8080 CPU?

2007-01-26 Thread Chris H.
Context switching. We already preserve the core CPU state and the FPU state between context switches. Adding MMX into the mix means preserving an MMX state (since it can clobber the FPU state) and so forth. jmc Quoting Dimitry Andric [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: I've noticed building

Re: Why does FBSD always assume it's on an 8080 CPU?

2007-01-26 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Dimitry Andric [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: I've noticed building kernels, that since v. = 5 that during the phase 2/3 all the lines echoed to the screen contain: -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 ... See /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf. Sigh, the obvious is so /easily

Re: Why does FBSD always assume it's on an 8080 CPU?

2007-01-26 Thread Chris H.
Hello and thank you for your response... Quoting Mike Jakubik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP (1102.51-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x680 Stepping = 0 Features=0x383fbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX

Re: Why does FBSD always assume it's on an 8080 CPU?

2007-01-31 Thread Chris H.
Thank you Kris, and all who took the time to respond. Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:45:15PM -0800, Chris H. wrote: Hello and thank you for your response... Quoting Mike Jakubik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP (1102.51-MHz 686

NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Chris H.
# uname -a FreeBSD host.domain.tld 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 26 16:27:14 PST 2007 Greetings, Does anyone know when NFS and friends will be working again? I haven't been able to /safely/ use it from 4.8 on. I remember some talk on the list sometime ago and then it seemed to

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Ruben van Staveren [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: # uname -a FreeBSD host.domain.tld 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 26 16:27:14 PST 2007 Greetings, Does anyone know when NFS and friends will be working again? I haven't been able to /safely/ use it from 4.8 on. I

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Thomas David Rivers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have found that if I kill rpc.lockd on the NFS server, most of the NFS issues I have (including a similar lock-up on 6.1-RELEASE) go away. Ah hah! I wondered about this. Funny you mention it. The interesting thing was that my most problem boxen

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Thomas David Rivers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Chris, Well - the NFS server is 4.5-RELEASE - a rather old box. Everything worked fine when the shop was all 4.x boxes, but as soon as we put in a 5.x or 6.x box - the NFS clients on those (5.x/6.x) boxes locked up hard if rpc.lockd was

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas David Rivers wrote: I have found that if I kill rpc.lockd on the NFS server, most of the NFS issues I have (including a similar lock-up on 6.1-RELEASE) go away. FWIW, I also had problems with running

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-04 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:43:46AM -0700, Chris H. wrote: # uname -a FreeBSD host.domain.tld 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 26 16:27:14 PST 2007 Greetings, Does anyone know when NFS and friends will be working again? It works

Re: NFS == lock reboot

2007-04-05 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: [...] However, I don't think that your actual problem (lock-up and panics) is related to rpc.lockd or rpc.statd. It rather sounds like something else is wrong with your machine. NFS

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-06 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Alexey Karagodov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2006/4/6, Dennis Melentyev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexey, 2006/4/6, Alexey Karagodov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi. i think, this unstablity happaning just because developers trying to make two systems at one time, one is 6.0 and another 7.0 current and

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-06 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Alexey Karagodov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2006/4/6, Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Alexey Karagodov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2006/4/6, Dennis Melentyev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexey, 2006/4/6, Alexey Karagodov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi. i think, this unstablity happaning just because

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-06 Thread Chris H.
9xxx adapter with management tools? Or you can play Doom2 with sound (not from PC beeper)? And how good it (Doom2) will look on your 19'' LCD monitor? Will it support my DVD so I can watch/ RIP my DVD movies too? WOOT! --Chris H. ___ freebsd-stable

Re: Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386).

2006-04-08 Thread Chris H.
that the large onboard disk caches that come on most modern hard drives will *also* likely help skew the results. --Chris H. A second disk is OK as long as it's the same type of disk running at the same transfer rate. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable

Re: splash

2006-04-08 Thread Chris H.
to the pure output the kernel provides. Thanks again. --Chris H. to your loader.conf and see if that helps with higher-resolution splash images. Craig ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

downgrade question

2006-04-08 Thread Chris H.
Greetings all, I inadvertently put the wrong tag in my cvsup script and ended up with 5.5-PRERELEASE instead of 5.4. If I just change the tag to default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4 will it prune and/ or overwrite my src tree accordingly? Thank you for all your time and consideration. --Chris H

Re: downgrade question

2006-04-09 Thread Chris H.
Hello, Excellent. This was my understanding. But I've been up for awhile (too long) and just wanted to make sure I hadn't overlooked anything before potentially getting even farther from my goal. Thanks for the response. --Chris H. Quoting Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote

Re: Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386).

2006-04-09 Thread Chris H.
Serial Number WS7060096840 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit) Interesting to note (to me anyway) is my SCSI reports fastest on the outside whereas my (earlier reported) ATA reports faster in the center (middle). --Chris H. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How can I install a driver?

2006-04-10 Thread Chris H.
to /boot/kernel I have tried to cp if_yk.ko /boot/kernel/ bad idea. but that didn't bring anything new in ifconfing! Can someone shed some light here please? --Chris H. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: How can I install a driver?

2006-04-10 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 06:07, Chris H. wrote: but I have no clue how I can bypass the second step, which is installing the if_myk.ko to /boot/kernel I have tried to cp if_yk.ko /boot/kernel/ bad idea. Maybe you should elaborate as to why

ctype locale: Invalid argument

2007-06-22 Thread Chris H.
Hello, I've been struggling with an error in a perl program I've been working on. Actually, I'm attempting to convert and enhance the freebsd man page cgi program - convert it to PHP and add some additional features. BUT, before I make the conversion I wanted to eliminate an error that the

Re: clarification before buying a internet static IP address

2007-07-16 Thread Chris H.
Quoting vuthecuong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tnx for quick response. I would like to confirm as below: You said that: You don't want to buy a domain (or at least not in the first place). The thing you need is a static IP address, first, and that's not being 'sold' by a domain reseller / registrar.

All routes to freebsd are dead

2007-10-04 Thread Chris H.
Greetings, Lately I've been finding it difficult, to impossible to reach freebsd.org. (hope this message makes it) At any rate, no matter my location; all routes to freebsd.org appear to be dead. From my home base, the route to freebsd.org appears to be provided by Yahoo # traceroute

Re: All routes to freebsd are dead

2007-10-04 Thread Chris H.
Hello Kip, Thanks for the (fast) reply, and info. Hope the status changes soon. :) --Chris Quoting Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The machine is down. Don't know why yet. -Kip On 10/3/07, Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Lately I've been finding it difficult, to impossible

Re: All routes to freebsd are dead

2007-10-04 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: Greetings, Lately I've been finding it difficult, to impossible to reach freebsd.org. (hope this message makes it) At any rate, no matter my location; all routes to freebsd.org appear to be dead. From my home base, the route

Re: All routes to freebsd are dead

2007-10-04 Thread Chris H.
Whoo Hoo! Thanks for the link :) Thanks for taking the time to help. Greatly appreciated! --Chris Quoting Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 10/4/07, Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, and thank you for the reply. I also can't help but notice that hop count

Re: All routes to freebsd are dead

2007-10-04 Thread Chris H.
Hello Kris, and thank you for your informative reply. Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: Hello Kip, Thanks for the (fast) reply, and info. Hope the status changes soon. :) It has been having hardware problems the past few months, as has been discussed here

Re: Reproducable, possibly NFS related, fatal double fault in 6.2-R-p7

2007-10-16 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Esa Karkkainen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:46:37AM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: I remember that nve(4) is NOT stable under heavy network loads. Yup, that seems to correct. Usually this machine, ie. home my orkstation, does not have a load, network wise or in

Re: Reproducable, possibly NFS related, fatal double fault in 6.2-R-p7

2007-10-19 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Clifton Royston wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:01:46PM -0700, Chris H. wrote: excerpt from this list titled: NFS == lock reboot, that I posted follows: --8---SNIP---8-SNIP-8--- # uname -a FreeBSD host.domain.tld 6.2-RELEASE

Re: dumpdev question (probably stupid)

2007-10-26 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Andrey V. Elsukov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: Given that the server that I need to create a dumpdev on has has a slice dedicated to /var with *more* than adequate space to accommodate the the resources needed for a dumpdev, as well as everything else in /var. Is it enough

dumpdev question (probably stupid)

2007-10-26 Thread Chris H.
Greetings, Given that the server that I need to create a dumpdev on has has a slice dedicated to /var with *more* than adequate space to accommodate the the resources needed for a dumpdev, as well as everything else in /var. Is it enough to simply: # mkdir /var/crash # chmod 700 /var/crash and

Re: dumpdev question (probably stupid)

2007-10-26 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Andrey V. Elsukov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: OK then. If I understand you correctly, I simply need to create: /var/crash (the default) Yes. Also you need a swap size ram size. swap slice is already 3 times greater than memory. So I'm confident there's enough space. add

Re: dumpdev question (probably stupid)

2007-10-26 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Andrey V. Elsukov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: Given that the server that I need to create a dumpdev on has has a slice dedicated to /var with *more* than adequate space to accommodate the the resources needed for a dumpdev, as well

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-30 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Jason, - Original Message From: Jason Slack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:25:18 AM Subject: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions Hi All, I am new to FreeBSD, or want to be. I

Re: Reproducable, possibly NFS related, fatal double fault in 6.2-R-p7

2007-10-30 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Clifton Royston wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:01:46PM -0700, Chris H. wrote: excerpt from this list titled: NFS == lock reboot, that I posted follows: --8---SNIP---8-SNIP-8

Re: date/time trouble - PST came too early

2007-11-02 Thread Chris H.
Quoting LI Xin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: Quoting LI Xin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: Any advice would be *greatly* appreciated. Install /usr/ports/misc/zoneinfo or upgrade your system to a recent release (preferred), e.g. RELENG_6_2 aka FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. Re-run tzsetup

date/time trouble - PST came too early

2007-11-01 Thread Chris H.
Greetings, I have a server that is still running an old version: # uname -a FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p12 #0: Tue Mar 7 19:37:23 PST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MAIL05 i386 Yes, I /know/ it's old. But was waiting for 6.3 to stable out as that is it's intended target. Anyhow, as the

Re: Reproducable, possibly NFS related, fatal double fault in 6.2-R-p7

2007-11-02 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: -8SNIP8 I think that document explains everything that is necessary, but if you are unsure about something please feel free to ask. Good luck :) Kris Whooo Hooo! I crashed my server! Whooo Hooo! it made a big

Re: date/time trouble - PST came too early [fixed]

2007-11-02 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting LI Xin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: Quoting LI Xin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: Any advice would be *greatly* appreciated. Install /usr/ports/misc/zoneinfo or upgrade your system to a recent release (preferred), e.g. RELENG_6_2 aka

Re: date/time trouble - PST came too early

2007-11-02 Thread Chris H.
Quoting LI Xin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: Any advice would be *greatly* appreciated. Install /usr/ports/misc/zoneinfo or upgrade your system to a recent release (preferred), e.g. RELENG_6_2 aka FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. Re-run tzsetup and choose your time zone accordingly. You will need

Re: date/time trouble - PST came too early

2007-11-05 Thread Chris H.
Hello, and thank you for your reply... Quoting Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Nov 2, 2007, at 3:30 AM, Chris H. wrote: FWIW The system already knows what timezone it lives in. It simply chose to change to PST according to the /normal/ standards. What happened here in the USA

Re: date/time trouble - PST came too early

2007-11-08 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Nov 5, 2007, at 8:58 PM, Chris H. wrote: Ahh... I'm guessing that you missed the following post in this thread titled date/time trouble - PST came too early [fixed] posted 11-02. LI Xin offered the following solution, which solved my dilemma

Re: Ok, so now what? Binary upgrade to 6.2-RELEASE fails

2007-11-11 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Clint Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Nov 11, Dimitry Andric wrote: Any chance you could post some of these error messages? And if possible, backtraces, etc? The messages amounted to page fault while in kernel mode or similar. The problem is the system attempts to reboot itself within

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 or FreeBSD 7.0

2007-11-14 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Dylan Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Marko Lerota wrote: I see that 6.3 and 7.0 is comming. Now I'm using 6.2-RELEASE for my servers. To what should I upgrade? Which of them will be stable or production release? Both of them will be production stable at release, i'd say that unless

Re: Server motherboard recommendation wanted

2007-12-16 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Pete French [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We have great success using the Tyan Thunder K8SD-Pro (S2882-D) motherboard. It is a dual socket 940 motherboard that supports AMD Opteron 200-series CPU (including dual-core), 16 GB ECC DDR400 RAM, with 2 64-bit/133 MHz PCI-X slots, 2 64-bit/100 MHz

7.2:named:max open files (3578) is smaller than max sockets (4096)

2009-03-26 Thread Chris H
Greetings, On a fresh 7 install with a cvsup late morning 09-03-26 I performed a make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel reboot to single user mergemaster -p make installworld mergemaster on an Intel based CPU. Upon reboot I now recieve the following message when named starts:

Xorg unbuildable - where to get: x11-xcb?

2009-03-28 Thread Chris H
Greetings, A fresh install of 7 followed by a cvsup to 7.2-PRE on the 26th results in an inability to build Xorg on the system. A cvsup only an hour ago provides no solution. An attempt at the following: cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg-minimal make produces the following error: ... checking pkg-config

ATA DMA issues - are there problems lurking in 7.1?

2009-04-29 Thread Chris H
Greetings, I have several Tyan S2518UGN (Thunder LE-T) server boards that I've been running for a few yrs. I've always used the SCSI on them, so never really used the ATA ports. I once experimented dual-booting NT2003 FBSD on one of the ATA ports about a year ago. But ran into the problem I'm

Re: ATA DMA issues - are there problems lurking in 7.1?

2009-04-29 Thread Chris H
Hello Gavin, and thank you for your reply... Quoting Gavin Atkinson ga...@freebsd.org: On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 02:48 -0700, Chris H wrote: Greetings, I have several Tyan S2518UGN (Thunder LE-T) server boards that I've been running for a few yrs. I've always used the SCSI on them, so never

Re: ATA DMA issues - are there problems lurking in 7.1?

2009-04-30 Thread Chris H
Quoting Chris H chr...@1command.com: Hello Gavin, and thank you for your reply... Quoting Gavin Atkinson ga...@freebsd.org: On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 02:48 -0700, Chris H wrote: Greetings, I have several Tyan S2518UGN (Thunder LE-T) server boards that I've been running for a few yrs. I've

Where is the: create,install to RAID(0-5) option?

2009-04-30 Thread Chris H
Greetings, FreeBSD appears to have issues installing to an ATA drive/device (UDMA) - see the: ATA DMA issues - are there problems lurking in 7.1? thread for more detail. I've been using FreeBSD for a few years on several Tyan Serverworks Thunder LE-T boards (S2518UGN) on the embeded SCSI

GEOM_STRIPE: Cannot add disk da2c to st0 (error=17).

2009-05-05 Thread Chris H
of this, and it's on a fresh reboot. I'm afraid I don't know how to proceed. Is it a problem with gstripe(8)? I /really/ need to stripe these drives so as to upgrade the system. Thank you for all your time and consideration in this matter. Sincerely, Chris H

Re: GEOM_STRIPE: Cannot add disk da2c to st0 (error=17).

2009-05-05 Thread Chris H
Hello, and thank you for your reply... Quoting Holger Kipp h...@alogis.com: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:48:00AM -0700, Chris H wrote: Greetings, I'm attempting to upgrade one of our servers to 6.4 (from 6.2) Before doing so I need to stripe 3 identical drives on the same SCSI port into one

Re: GEOM_STRIPE: Cannot add disk da2c to st0 (error=17). [SOLVED]

2009-05-06 Thread Chris H
Hello Miroslav, and thank you for your reply... Quoting Miroslav Lachman 000.f...@quip.cz: Chris H wrote: Hello, and thank you for your reply... Quoting Holger Kipp h...@alogis.com: [...] Can you check if you have any fdisk metadata on either of your disks? Especially as da0, da1, da2

failed to set mtrr: invalid argument

2009-05-18 Thread Chris H
for additional information. So I'll provide the output of dmesg(8), and Xorg.0.log via links. Thank you for all your time and consideration in this matter. Sincerely, Chris H Xorg log: http://codewarehouse.NET/output/Xorg.0.log relevent dmesg(8) output: http://codewarehouse.NET/output/dmesg.output

Re: failed to set mtrr: invalid argument

2009-05-18 Thread Chris H
Quoting Chris H chr...@1command.com: Greetings, I'm unable to get xorg-7.4 to accomodate my Gforce4 MX 440. On 7.1-7.2 releases. I'm currently working (struggling) with it on a 7.1 install/GENERIC with cvsup over the weekend (Sunday), I've seen only a few discussions regarding this, but no joy

Re: failed to set mtrr: invalid argument

2009-05-19 Thread Chris H
Quoting Chris H chr...@1command.com: Quoting Chris H chr...@1command.com: Greetings, I'm unable to get xorg-7.4 to accomodate my Gforce4 MX 440. On 7.1-7.2 releases. I'm currently working (struggling) with it on a 7.1 install/GENERIC with cvsup over the weekend (Sunday), I've seen only a few

Re: failed to set mtrr: invalid argument

2009-05-19 Thread Chris H
Quoting Dimitry Andric dimi...@andric.com: On 2009-05-19 08:40, Chris H wrote: I see. Well I'm specifically using the nv driver. Here's another attempt to provide the relevant info: I could not find the error message from $subject in these logs. Where is it? :) If I had found it, I would

Re: failed to set mtrr: invalid argument

2009-05-19 Thread Chris H
Xorg -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia But again, no joy. I'll try it again, and report back with my findings. Thanks again for your response. --Chris H Le 19 mai 09 à 19:15, Chris H chr...@1command.com a écrit : Quoting Robert Noland rnol...@freebsd.org: On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 23:40 -0700

Re: failed to set mtrr: invalid argument

2009-05-19 Thread Chris H
Hello Robert, and thank you for taking the time to respond. Quoting Robert Noland rnol...@freebsd.org: On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 09:57 -0700, Chris H wrote: Quoting Dimitry Andric dimi...@andric.com: On 2009-05-19 08:40, Chris H wrote: I see. Well I'm specifically using the nv driver. Here's

Re: failed to set mtrr: invalid argument

2009-05-19 Thread Chris H
Quoting Robert Noland rnol...@freebsd.org: On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 11:47 -0700, Chris H wrote: Quoting Chris H chr...@1command.com: Quoting Laurent Grangeau thorz...@gmail.com: I think I can handle this answer. This is the default behavior of Xorg 7.4. If you want to see the old screen

Re: nv driver on Dell Latitude 830

2009-05-20 Thread Chris H
Greetings... Quoting Jonathan Chen jonathan.c...@solnetsolutions.co.nz: Hi all, I'm running 7.2-STABLE/amd64 on a Dell 830, and have been attempting to get XOrg working with the nv driver. However, it fails with: X.Org X Server 1.6.1 Release Date: 2009-4-14 X Protocol Version 11, Revision

Re: nv driver on Dell Latitude 830

2009-05-20 Thread Chris H
Quoting Chris H chr...@1command.com: Greetings... Quoting Jonathan Chen jonathan.c...@solnetsolutions.co.nz: Hi all, I'm running 7.2-STABLE/amd64 on a Dell 830, and have been attempting to get XOrg working with the nv driver. However, it fails with: X.Org X Server 1.6.1 Release Date

Re: failed to set mtrr: invalid argument

2009-05-20 Thread Chris H
Quoting Robert Noland rnol...@freebsd.org: On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:10 -0700, Chris H wrote: So, zapping is off by default now in 1.6.x. If you want it, add Option DontZap off. The cross hatch is also gone, that is what the -retro option is supposed to do. The session leader

Re: failed to set mtrr: invalid argument

2009-05-20 Thread Chris H
Quoting Robert Noland rnol...@freebsd.org: On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 16:16 +0200, Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 5/20/09, Robert Noland rnol...@freebsd.org wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:10 -0700, Chris H wrote: So, zapping is off by default now in 1.6.x. If you want it, add Option DontZap off

7B4 scheduling question

2007-12-29 Thread Chris H.
Greetings, I realize that the answer to this question is subject to many possible variables. But I would greatly apreciate a ventured guess from anyone willing to do so. Question being: Is ULE considered the best sceduler in 7-CURRENT? If not, what might be considered the best? FWIW this is for

Re: 7B4 scheduling question

2007-12-30 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: Greetings, I realize that the answer to this question is subject to many possible variables. But I would greatly apreciate a ventured guess from anyone willing to do so. Question being: Is ULE considered the best sceduler in 7-CURRENT

7B4: kernel messages garbled

2008-01-01 Thread Chris H.
Hello, and happy New Year to all! I'm hoping to update all our servers to 7 in the near future. As such, I'm experimenting with it on one of our less prominent production servers. My procedure for it's installation and usage: download 7-CURRENT disk1 iso (B4) from nearest freebsd mirror install

Re: 7B4: kernel messages garbled

2008-01-01 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:09:02PM -0800, Chris H. wrote: After initial install. Sending a halt, in order to reboot the system results in garbled messages to the console. Specifically, the Syncing disks... message is unintelligible. As does is line

Re: 7B4: kernel messages garbled

2008-01-01 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:09:02PM -0800, Chris H. wrote: After initial install. Sending a halt, in order to reboot the system results in garbled messages to the console. Specifically, the Syncing disks... message

gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Chris H.
Hello, I seem to remember a similar question being asked in the past. But never really saw a definitive answer to it. So let's try it again. :) I'm looking to upgrade all our servers to 7 in the not-to-distant future. As I look to overcome the quirks in 7 as they apply to our hardware (I'm

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Chris H.
Hello, and thank you for your reply... Quoting Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Chris H. wrote: Where is the option to create, and install to a gMIRRORED drive-set? If not, why? If not, it possible to install to one drive, mirror all available

Re: 7B4: kernel messages garbled

2008-01-02 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris H. wrote: Hello, and happy New Year to all! I'm hoping to update all our servers to 7 in the near future. As such, I'm experimenting with it on one of our less prominent production servers. My procedure for it's installation and usage: download

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I seem to remember a similar question being asked in the past. But never ---8---snip---8--- I had originally intended to create a raid mirror on the whole lot of HD's during the install process. But I wasn't presented, nor could I find that option

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Chris H.
possible from a gstripe volume. For the record, FSTAB (on da3): /dev/da3s1b none (swap) /dev/da3s1a / /dev/da3s1d /var Thanks for your response. Chris Quoting John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I seem to remember

gstripe on 7B4 - was: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-02 Thread Chris H.
Quoting John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not sure I remember everything from earlier in this thread so I ---8---snip---8--- to be sure. Are you sure? ---8---snip---8--- volume. Yes, I'm sure. In order

Re: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-04 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Clifton Royston [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:47:43AM -0800, Chris H. wrote: Quoting John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not sure I remember everything from earlier in this thread so I don't know if it's relevant, BUT you can't boot from a gstripe volume (or from

Re: gstripe on 7B4 - was: gmirror on 7B4

2008-01-04 Thread Chris H.
Quoting John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Chris H. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you want specific advice for a specific scenario you can probably get it, but you'll have to supply some additional details. For instance I'm still not sure if this is a new install or an upgrade Both: I

Re: (Xorg), uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped)

2008-01-18 Thread Chris H.
Quoting chris# [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Greetings all, As the title of this message indicates; I'm struggling with the ability of getting the Xorg server running on a recent build of FreeBSD 7. Of likely interest: ### kernel info (2 proc pentium3): 7.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #0:

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