Re: chsh corrupts /etc/pwd.db

2019-08-21 Thread Tom Samplonius
> On Aug 21, 2019, at 2:55 PM, Alan Somers wrote: > > Today I tried to use chsh to change my shell from bash to fish. The > command completed successfully, but new logins continued to use bash! > Investigating, I discovered that /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db seem to > contain 3-4 entries per

Re: /dev/led soekris 6501.

2016-03-02 Thread Tom Samplonius
>> >> How come there is no support for “ready" and “error" leds on the soekris >> 6501 even though it seems fairly easy to control them? >> > > a) perhaps no developer have that board? > b) nobody has written the necessary code to do so? > c) There is no generally accepted meaning for what

Re: ping from web application

2015-08-18 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Aug 18, 2015, at 7:15 AM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-stable-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Marko Cupać marko.cu...@mimar.rs writes: I use web applicaton (net-mgmt/phpipam) which should have the ability to check hosts' availability via ping. I can even specify path to ping executable.

Re: ver 4.2 won't allow save because it can't see 2.2T disk drive

2009-01-06 Thread Tom Samplonius
- SDH Admin ad...@stardothosting.com wrote: I need to patch this until I can update the system, any pointers to where (if there is one) to get the patch for this, and installation instructions. What is the 2.2T disk formatted as? Can you give more details on your hardware (storage

Re: lagg(4) and failover

2008-12-09 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:03 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2008-Dec-05 07:34:21 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well ... name a price for the development; HA L1/L2 is a feature the community would gladly sponsor the

Re: PAUSE support for Ethernet interfaces ?

2008-03-03 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Kurt Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm researching the topic of PAUSE counters (receiving side) for FreeBSD systems. That's a sort of flow control with ethernet, see e.g.: http://www.techfest.com/networking/lan/ethernet3.htm#3.2.1 Cisco switches seem to receive and count

Re: Dual Core Xeon / i386 install w/ more than 4gb of RAM

2008-02-19 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any alternative solutions that would provide a more reliable environment other than PAE? Besideds PAE some people have mentioned running an amd64 system. One thing to consider is that PAE in 6-stable (6.3 and beyond)

Re: Crashing repeatedly: 6.2-RELEASE-p5 and MySQL 5.0.41

2008-02-05 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Primeroz lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, we are experiencing repeated crash on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 (rev 1 or 2). FBSD release is 6.2-RELEASE-p5 , AMD64. 2xXeon QuadCore and 8G of Ram. MySQL Version is 5.0.41 with following configuration settings: set-variable=

Re: zfs problems

2008-01-30 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Alexandre Biancalana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/29/08, ZsUM ZsUM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Dump header from device /dev/ad4s1b Architecture: amd64 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 253394944B (241 MB) Blocksize: 512 Dumptime: Sun Jan 20 23:51:58 2008 Hostname: Magic:

Re: zfs problems

2008-01-30 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Hugo Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not clear about which version of ZFS code is in FreeBSD, and whether the free space map bug is present there or not. Does anyone know which ZFS is in FreeBSD? Anyways, if you really need the data, it might be possible to boot the newest

Re: -net or kernel: where does this belong?

2007-12-26 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Posted on -questions but got no response, trying -current and -stable as well. Sorry for the cross-post but I'm getting kind of desperate... ... Since quite a while I have had problems with {CURRENT|RELENG_7} SMP machines that lock up when

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 Available

2007-11-04 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Ladislav Bodnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 04 November 2007, Ken Smith wrote: The 7.0-BETA2 builds have completed and are on many of the FreeBSD mirror sites. If you want to update an existing machine using cvsup use RELENG_7 as the branch tag. Instructions on using

Re: Closed Port, Need to Reopen

2007-10-22 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Squirrel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason, my port 1645 is closed on FreeBSD 6.2. I have all the firewall disabled, but it's not allowing me access the port 1645. How do you manually open this port? I can't seem to find at google. You also need to have something listening

Re: 2vmcores with identical backtraces - any idea ?

2007-09-06 Thread Tom Samplonius
I believe that d6832000 is a physical memory address, so then this likely indicates you have bad RAM. Are you using ECC memory? Probably not, s you should probably boot a memtest86 image, and run it overnight. Maybe longer, as the failures happen days apart. - Daniel Dvořák

Re: A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)

2007-08-25 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... But i don't understand how and why it happened. ONly 6 hours ago (a night before) all those files were backed up fine w/o any read error. And now, right after replacing the driver and starting rebuild it said that there are bad sectors all

Re: A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)

2007-08-25 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Martin Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is what patrol read is intended to detect before it is a problem. In a RAID5 array the checksums are only used when reconstructing data, if you have a bad block in a checksum sector it will not be detected until a drive have failed and

Re: A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)

2007-08-25 Thread Tom Samplonius
- David Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is supposed to be for detecting data corruption, so if the card isn't using the checksum, its kinda of useless. You are confused. Checking for data corruption is done, by checking if the *DATA* is corrupt. This does not require looking

Re: large RAID volume partition strategy

2007-08-17 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Clayton Milos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you goal is speed and obviously as little possibility of a fail (RAID6+spare) then RAID6 is the wrong way to go... RAID6's read speeds are great but the write speeds are not. If you want awesome performance and reliability the real way to go

Re: HOW TO: Enabling root on a new server?

2007-07-16 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Michael Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I don't necessarily need Plesk; although we will be selling hosting. It simply came with the default configuration for the server. My plan is to manage most everything from the Unix shell. I just figured I might find a morsel

Re: mysql frequently crash on 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Albert Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: key_buffer = 32M key_buffer has the most influence over the performance of MyISAM database. You should increase it as much as possible. On a dedicated 2GB server, 1GB is good. But it only helps, if you actually have indexes. There is no point

Re: FreeBSD DNS Resolver Issues?

2007-05-05 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a broken load balancer which is returning the parent's SOA record for queries for mail.wtplaw.com. Named correctly rejects this as a garbage response. It also appears to only responds to A/ queries. As for

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-23 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about implementing something like DragonFly BSD virtual kernels? Matthew Dillon talks about it in is bsdtalk interview: http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk098.mp3 It seems very similar to User Mode Linux, rather than a

Re: interface re0

2007-03-20 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Eilko Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I still see this message: re0: RealTek 8169SB/8110SB Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet port 0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xf700-0xf7ff irq 11 at device 15.0 on pci0 re0: MII without any phy! device_attach: re0 attach returned 6 Does anybody have an

Re: Progress installing on IBM LS21 Blade machine

2007-03-17 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, things that don't work: * 64-bit kernels. With or without ACPI, on 6-stable or on 7-current, kernels in AMD64 mode don't finish booting, or in the best case boot but can't run SMP (they don't find additional CPUs, but mptable information

Re: Problems installing JDK 1.5

2007-03-06 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Juergen Nickelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... But indeed I was ignorant of the diablo port. What is the relation between these two ports anyway? I do not really get the difference, in spite of http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml. ... There are some license

Re: Stable on Blade server

2007-03-03 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Marko Lerota [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We're 100% FreeBSD-only and i was looking to buy IBM blade servers: can anyone reccomend any of them? models? particular hw/firmware/misc If you use FreeBSD don't look upon IBM blades at all. I've installed

Re: Some days, it doesn't pay to upgrade ...

2007-02-27 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feb 27 04:32:49 mars uptimec: The server requested that we do a new login Feb 27 04:33:00 mars kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7) and login.conf(5). Feb 27 04:33:10 mars kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 60,

Re: php apache2 config

2007-01-23 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Matthew Herzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I load a file named php4.info I can see all my php build information. If I change that same file's name to phpinfo.php, I get a premature end of script headers error. The file contains this text only: ?php phpinfo(); ? and is

Re: gmirror disks vs partitions

2007-01-19 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:15:56 +0900 Adrian Chadd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/01/07, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...after reading the slashdotter's piece of wisdom...] Yes, but that's the kind of functionality I have

Re: Failover-HA-Setup

2007-01-17 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Mark Saad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 03:20:32PM +0100, Richard Verwayen wrote: Oh, should I have mentioned that it is a shared SCSI-Storage in between? You can use gmirror(8) with ggated(8). I think his

Re: panic: bus_dmamap_load_mbuf_sg still there

2006-12-27 Thread Tom Samplonius
I have a Soekris board, so I'm interested. What's the PR number for the bug? How frequently does it occur? It is good to log all of the details to the PR. - Andrea Campi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, this panic has been reported a few times in the past, both by me and other

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-23 Thread Tom Samplonius
But kernel panic issues are being fixed right up to the last minute in the 6.2 release train (these and em and socket change issues are probably what has delayed the final 6.2). There is a lot of work getting done, but clearly a lot of work to do. I wonder if this is an area where

Re: UFS Bug: FreeBSD 6.1/6.2/7.0: MOKB-08-11-2006, CVE-2006-5824, MOKB-03-11-2006, CVE-2006-5679

2006-11-23 Thread Tom Samplonius
- O. Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is for these UFS bugs in FreeBSD since 6.1 a fix uderway? See: http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/ MOKB-08-11-2006,CVE-2006-5824, MOKB-03-11-2006,CVE-2006-5679 Probably not. In both cases a crafted filesystem is mounted to trigger crash.

Re: UFS Bug: FreeBSD 6.1/6.2/7.0: MOKB-08-11-2006, CVE-2006-5824, MOKB-03-11-2006, CVE-2006-5679

2006-11-23 Thread Tom Samplonius
- O. Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These two bugs are shown for FreeBSD only and I guess, Solaris and other BSDs still use UFS. Are they more robust against this exploit or type of exploit? On the other hand, if these shown bugs aren't as serious as claimed be the mentioned

Re: Configuration of NVRAM drives mismatch for error on dell server

2006-11-22 Thread Tom Samplonius
- Ajit Mittal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actully one of the server has raid with 4 drives. We by mistake removed them from the server without labelling them Now when we boot then get the error Configuration of NVRam drives mismatch for HA-0(normal mismatch) What i think is that hard

Re: pls.which.way.to.go?

2006-11-09 Thread Tom Samplonius
I would upgrade to 5.5 first. Then it's up to you, but waiting for 6.3 is probably not a bad idea, before going further up the hill to 6.x. Please don't top-post. And I disagree. He should go straight to 6.2. If he's going to go to the trouble of upgrading, he should go straight

Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20 - IT WORKS!

2006-03-28 Thread Tom Samplonius
kbdmux stuff will mean that the keyboard does not need to be disabled. 3. ispfw. I tried both with and without the firmware. I didn't make any difference. It would still hang. What kind of storage are you installing onto? I'm working with an IBM DS400 (aka T600). Tom Samplonius Uniserve

Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20 - IT WORKS!

2006-03-28 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Guy Helmer wrote: Tom Samplonius wrote: Axel, Hi, I was reading your post in regards to installing FreeBSD on the BladeCenter that you made to freebsd-stable. I've also been trying installing FreeBSD on the BladeCenter. During my installs, it hangs during the SCSI

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII first official patches - please test!

2005-02-16 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:41:10 +0100, Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Freddie Cash wrote: New version that fixes known problems so far etc now available: Just curious if this includes support for new chipsets or not. Not a big deal if it doesn't, just curious. I've got a

SATA/UDMA100 support on ATI RS300 chipset?

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Samplonius
I have an ASUS Pundit-R chassis with an integrated ATI RS300 based motherboard. The IDE controller is detected but only as a generic controller: atapci0: GENERIC ATA controller port 0xff00-0xff0f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 20.1 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1:

Re: SATA/UDMA100 support on ATI RS300 chipset?

2005-01-05 Thread Tom Samplonius
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:33:48 -0700, secmgr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would be ASUS who would have embedded the 3COM chip. probably special order, which is why it didn't report back something recognized. The ATI chipset is pretty new vs the more tried and known nVIDIA/SiS/VIA/AMD