Mounting SMB filesystems at boot time

2006-05-18 Thread Pete French
Have just changed a machine from 4.11 to 6.1 by re-installing. It all works fine, but I cannot work out how to make the SMB filesystems in fstab mount at boot time. I used to do this by copying /usr/src/contrib/smbfs/examples/smbfs.sh.sample to one of the rc directories, but this script does not

Re: Mounting SMB filesystems at boot time

2006-05-18 Thread Pete French
Since you say mount -a works, it sounds likely you have something in your fstab preventing auto mounting (noauto??), or perhaps some error is being generated at boot time (check /var/log/messages?). Maybe if you post your fstab someone will spot something. Actually, after much oainful

Re: resolv.conf and dhclient

2006-06-05 Thread Pete French
What is the best approach to keep dhclient from overwriting /etc/resolv.conf every time it gets a new lease on an IP address? in /etc/dhclient.conf add a couple of lines: supersede domain-name mydomain; supersede domain-name-servers 192.168.3.1; replacing as appropoiate...

Dual Opteron system will not run SMP

2006-06-05 Thread Pete French
Not that 6.1 is out the dor I monder if anyone wuld like to give me a hand with an SMP problem I have. I am running a system with two Opterorn 242 processors in a K8D Master-F motherboard, each with 512M of RAM attached. The processors both work and the system will run SMP under wndows 2000 quite

Re: Dual Opteron system will not run SMP

2006-06-05 Thread Pete French
You say you can boot 'safe', can you boot with just ACPI disabled? Not using an SMP kernel, no. I did another experiment though, I installed amd64 onto an IDe drive, and that will boot SMP with APCI disabled, but still only recognises a single processor. One suggestion, boot in SAFE or

Re: Dual Opteron system will not run SMP

2006-06-06 Thread Pete French
We (Intel networking group) have seen issues with SMP and amd64 as well, although I dont know that its fully characterized (what works and what doesnt) yet. When I tried mine under amd64 it seemed to behave slightly better oddly enough - it would at least boot up the SMP kernel without ACPI,

Re: Dual Opteron system will not run SMP

2006-06-07 Thread Pete French
If just non-ACPI isnt sufficient, the other thing SAFE does is turn off disk DMA. I have an as-yet unreleased system that has this same type of issue, and the problem is that two PCI device ID's are not recognized, so maybe that will be your problem. So, I got around to booting the system

Re: Question about current rc scripts

2006-06-20 Thread Pete French
What is the correct way for 6-STABLE to achieve what I want to do? (i.e. write the rc.conf from a rc script) I thought rc.conf was simply a script that set some variables. If this is the case then you don't need to overwrite it - you simply need to make your script set the appropriate variables

Re: Question about current rc scripts

2006-06-20 Thread Pete French
Setting the variables can't work. As far as I can see, rc.conf is sourced from rc.subr. And every single script in /etc/rc.d/ sources rc.subr, so they reload the rc.conf file for each call. Actually I was suggesting you overwrite rc.conf *itself* with the variable setting code - so every

Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

2006-06-25 Thread Pete French
'k, I'm starting to get the impression that FreeBSD 6.x is evil ... at least as far as Dual-PIII servers are concerned ... on a machine that, I can't comment on your other problems - but I have a dual PIII server and say a 30% performance increase when moving to 6.x over 5.x ... and it's been

Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

2006-06-26 Thread Pete French
So, unlike my supplier claims, ECC is not supposed to help against hardware failures. But it is the way to detect them, right? Yes!!! Absolutely. -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

2006-06-26 Thread Pete French
I am not looking for workarounds, like ECC. I want the box to break immediately once any single component goes wrong... Uh, that *is* what ECC does (or can do). Without ECC your broken hardware continues to run un-noticed. With ECC you can either make it break immediatley, or log an error or

Re: ath driver transmits frames only after a low watermark is filled

2006-07-20 Thread Pete French
How is data transmission related to power management? They are pretty intimately related over a wireless link. If the power management at one end decided it can use less transmit power and gets it wrong then your data stops getting through. ___

Support for Adaptec 2005S ZCR RAID ?

2006-08-18 Thread Pete French
As I seem to recallt sme discussion of Adaptec RAID in the not so disatnt past, could anyone let me know if these cards work well under FreeBSD 6 or not ? I've just inherited a server which needs RAIDing and it has a slot for one of these on the board. I only have expereience of Compaq SMART RAID

Re: FreeBSD on Compaq

2006-08-19 Thread Pete French
I obtained a Compaq(COMPAQ PROLIANT 5500) machine by chance. By the way, is possible install FreeBSD this machine? I used to run FreeBSD 4 on this machine very successfully. The only thing you need to know is that if you want SMP to work then you need to go into the Compawq BIOS and tell it

Re: 6.2? (fwd)

2006-09-13 Thread Pete French
I disagree, I would like to have an notice about it. Even though it might not say much. Just a The code of the stable branch has been freezed due to the upcomming release of X.Y It is kind of useful, because it's the code freeze point at which I start re-scheduling my work day so I can do BSD

Re: Dovecot 1.0 rc7 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE/i386 with kqueue eats much CPU

2006-09-22 Thread Pete French
I have a problem with dovecot eating sometimes up to 90% CPU. Are you using kqueue support ? I also had this problem and the solution for me was to recompile it without kqueue support. Now it runs fine. -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Dovecot 1.0 rc7 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE/i386 with kqueue eats much CPU

2006-09-22 Thread Pete French
Yes, I'm using kqueue support. Try taking it out and the problem should go away. -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re[2]: Dovecot 1.0 rc7 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE/i386 with kqueue eats much CPU

2006-09-22 Thread Pete French
this is indeed a nice workaround (at least if it helps :-)), but somebody(tm) should have a look why the kqueue support is broken there in the first place. I think it's a problem in Dovecot, not FreeBSD - there are a number of messages regarding this on the Dovecot lists, including a nunmber

Building a kernel with config ?

2006-09-26 Thread Pete French
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:34:42 -0700, Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Building a kernel with config is not officially supported. It's at your risk and may not work in all cases. Build a kernel with: cd /usr/src make buildkernel I was not aware that you wern't supposed to use

Re: 802.11 RSSI value displayed from ifconfig(8)

2006-09-27 Thread Pete French
Hello, I would like to convert RSSI to dBm (in fact I would love if ifconfig cound display SNR in dBM), so I would like to know if this formula is any right: Take a look here: http://www.wildpackets.com/elements/whitepapers/Converting_Signal_Strength.pdf Especially at the top of page 5. RSSI

Re: 802.11 RSSI value displayed from ifconfig(8)

2006-09-27 Thread Pete French
Is this paper's information accurate regarding atheros? I have no idea - I think you would be best off calibrating it yourself with a dBm metre if you can. The antenna will have an effect as well, as will cabling between it and the receiver chip - all the usual things to do with working with

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

2006-09-28 Thread Pete French
On many of our servers, we have bge cards and I can see a lot of watchdog timeouts. We always disable USB in the bios and they didn't share irq. I see the same thing - we have a number of HP blades which use bge interfaces and I get many watchdog timeouts on them. These are also not sharing

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-29 Thread Pete French
Attached is a simple user program that will immediately cause pretty much all of the network drivers (at least the ones I own) to stop working and get watchdog timeouts. I am runnign this on a single processor machine with an SMP kernel and it does not have any effect. I dont tink I have

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-29 Thread Pete French
Do you have any history of seeing the watchdog timeout problem on your machine? On this machine no - but it's the only one running em0. On other machines running bge0 then, yes, I see it a lot. But those are all SMP machines, aside from one. On that one I am currently building the latest

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-29 Thread Pete French
Do you have any history of seeing the watchdog timeout problem on your machine? O.K., I just finished compiing up a uniprocessor kenel for the machine on which I had been seeing bge0 timeouts, and the lopppoll.c code has no effect there. The kerenl I am running is the latest STABLE from a

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-10-01 Thread Pete French
Are you enabling an option, like IPv6, that puts Giant over the network stack? Am not enabling anything, but if INET6 is part of GENERIC (which I think it is isn't it?) then I would have that in my kernels as they basically look like this: include GENERIC options SMP

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-06 Thread Pete French
The FTDI devices keep the device descriptors etc. in an EEPROM, so my approach to the 'which port is which' problem was to change the textual part of the descriptor - usbdevs -d then immediately tells you what is going on. The EEPROM is writable over the USB connection - I have a program to

Re: freebsd panic on HP Proliant DL360

2006-10-12 Thread Pete French
This is a known problem. It is fixed in HEAD, but unfortunately it isn't mergeable to RELENG_6. The problem isn't related to either pf, ipf or NIC drivers. This is a little alarming - because what you seem to be saying is that if you have DL360's then you need to either run current, or accept

Re: Another whirl with FreeBSD

2006-10-12 Thread Pete French
Doesn't the increased number of registers available when running amd64 really, really help when compared with the traditionally register-starved i386? Yes, it seems to - evereything soemone else said about context switch verhead and compiles is true of course, but the FreeBSD compiler seems

Interrupted system calls on 5.4

2005-07-06 Thread Pete French
Since moving from 4.11 to 5.4 I have started seeing the occasional write to a socket return with EINTR. This puzzles me, as looking at the man page for siginterrupt it says that restarting the system call is the default behaviour (and has been since BSD 4.2) if no data has been transferred. If

Re: SMP support maturity? AMD64x2 or FX-57?

2005-07-23 Thread Pete French
if I should go with dual procs or just a single. The AMD64x2 is slightly cheaper than the FX-57 so I'm leaning that way, but it would be a rather pointless savings if SMP isn't well supported. Well, I've not triied it under amd64, but i386 SMP has been rock stable for me since I upgraded to

Re: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small: 536870912 total allocated

2005-10-25 Thread Pete French
I found the sources of the leak: if exim accessess ANY configuration/text files over NFS, there will be leak. And, how often exim will be called, then quicker your system dies. Surely this has to be a problenm wth NFS in the kernel, not with exim though? Did you log a FreeBSD PR on this ?

Re: math/grace port: libXcursor.so.1.0 not found ??

2005-10-26 Thread Pete French
I am the only FreeBSD user on the Grace mailinglist. Apparently the dlopen() call in grace works fine on Linux and others. But not with FreeBSD. This is not a problem with the dlopen call *or* freebsd - the problem is that it is asking for a library 'libXcursor.so.1.0' which does not exist on

upgrading 5.4 - 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

2005-11-09 Thread Pete French
usually when I upgrade across major versions of BSD I wipe the whole machine and re--install from scratch. But I understand that the move to 6.0 from 5.4 is nowhere near such a big leap. So I was wondering hether I could just do this from source without any ill effects, as if I was upgrading

Re: upgrading 5.4 - 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

2005-11-10 Thread Pete French
Thanks for all the comments - it sounds like it's a pretty safe thing to do. I have one more question though - when I upgrade a machine this wa I will remove all the ports first, so it is just back to the basic system. But Perl is now a port - should I remove this, or should I leave it alone, i.e.

Re: upgrading 5.4 - 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

2005-11-10 Thread Pete French
You don't have to remove the ports prior to upgrading. Just recompile them later. Why would I want to do that though ? It gives me no advantages, and some serious disadvantages (especially if I am doing this on a 'live' system). Much easier to delete everything prior to the upgrade, and then I

Re: upgrading 5.4 - 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

2005-11-10 Thread Pete French
No, nothing outside the base system is required to build the base system. But don't nuke the ports before running cvsup :) Heh, I have done that in the past, I have to admit :-) Also must note that one should not remove ones login shell before changing back to /bin/sh if one wants to be

Re: upgrading 5.4 - 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

2005-11-10 Thread Pete French
How is this different from a fresh install? It doesnt require physical access to the machine and a CD drive (or any of the other hoops I sometime jump through to boot the install process). Much easier. -pcf. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ciss(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x ...

2005-11-23 Thread Pete French
I'm specifically looking at the Proliant DL360, which has this card ... can you provide any comments, or insight, concerning what the man page states? Should I shy away from this controller? :( I use SMART controllers driven by the ciss driver, as well as earlier ones driven using ida,

6.0 kernel will not boot past atkbd0

2005-11-23 Thread Pete French
Having successfully upgraded one system in-place from 5.4 to 6.0 I had a go at the second system today. This is an old Compaq proliant 1600R with two 500mhz pentium3's in it. Currently running 5.4 quite happily. so I buildworld, buildkernel, insall kernel and rebooot to check that the kernel

Re: 6.0 kernel will not boot past atkbd0

2005-11-24 Thread Pete French
I have the same behavior on Compaq AP400 (2xPIII 700MHz). The problem disappeared when I disconnect the mouse. Ah! Now that is worth knowing - I didnt even think of trying that. So does anyone know why the mouse being connected causes it to not boot ? I can rebuild the kernel without the mouse

Re: 6.0 kernel will not boot past atkbd0

2005-11-25 Thread Pete French
We have an array of new ASUS machine connected through a KVM. These machines panic when the kernel is probing for the mouse if ACPI is not loaded. If a mouse is not plugged in, no panic. If ACPI is loaded and the mouse is plugged in, it boots fine. I didnt try ACPI. I merely took the

Re: 6.0 kernel will not boot past atkbd0

2005-11-28 Thread Pete French
Is there any chance that the very mouse is not working correctly? What if you change the device and try again? very unlikely I would think - the mouse works correclt if thr machine run FreeBSD 5 or FreeBSD 5, and also under Windows2000 (it is connected via a KVM). Also someone else reported

Any vital post 6.0 fixes gone into stable ?

2005-12-12 Thread Pete French
I'm about to start installing a whole new set of machines for production use with 6.0 on them. Normally I would just use -RELEASE, but as this is a dot-nought release I was wondering if there is anything vital which has been commited to stable, and if I should therefore sun the machines under

RE: Any vital post 6.0 fixes gone into stable ?

2005-12-12 Thread Pete French
The ARP problem is not in -RELEASE, it was introduced in -STABLE and fixed a day later. Ah, O.K. thanks -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: kernel cpu entries

2005-12-15 Thread Pete French
UTSL: The i586 optimised routines were only ever enabled if the CPU was identified as a 586. And these routines have been disabled since mid-2001. See my mail in the Odd performance problems... thread for more details. Got some curiuous results when I tested this today by the way. I have a

Re: kernel cpu entries

2005-12-15 Thread Pete French
I can't see anything in the kernel source code to explain it. Since you don't mention actual times, is the difference statistically significant? (see src/tools/tools/ministat) Ministat says: Difference at 95.0% confidence The second set are always smaller than the first set no matter how

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-01 Thread Pete French
This doesn't tally with my experiences. I've had an amd64 laptop Me neither - but then I think this is a large case of 'your mileage may vary', as it entirely depends on what you are doing. I did find, like the original poster, that a number of language ports didn't work properly when I first

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge device - 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-11-03 Thread Pete French
Is it causing stuck connections or other messy problems? Also, is it any worse than 6.1? I am also seeing the same thing - hard to tell if it is better or worse under 6.2 than 6.1 as I dont have 6.2 out on any production webservers so the only machine running it is a lot more lightly loaded

Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?

2006-11-08 Thread Pete French
I recently overhauled my RAID array - I now have 4 drives arranged as RAID 0+1, all being 15K 147gig Fujitsu's, and split across two buses, which are actively terminated to give U160 speeds (and I have verified this). The card is a 5304 (128M cache) in a PCI-X slot. This replaces a set of 6 7200

Re: Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?

2006-11-09 Thread Pete French
- Is the controller cache enabled? Yes - split 50% read, 50% write. - Do you have the battery for it and is write cache enabled? (You won't make full use of the cache without the battery) yes - battery is attached and fully charged - How does your performance compare when using dd on the

Re: Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?

2006-11-09 Thread Pete French
You might be able to speed up the read by playing with the vfs.read_max sysctl (try 16 or 32). Wow! That makes a huge difference, thanks. Should this not be in 'man tuning' ? -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?

2006-11-09 Thread Pete French
Raw dd gives 50 meg/second On /dev/da1, with a reasonable block size (1m)? Block size is 2meg. I was using da1s1 and da1s2 which were giving me 50 and 47 meg/second resepctively - if I switch to da1 on it's own I get 59 meg/second. reading from the filesystem with the vfs.read_max set to 64 I

Re: Dissapointing performance of ciss RAID 0+1 ?

2006-11-09 Thread Pete French
It would be interesting for you to track iostat (i.e. run iostat 1) with and without modified vfs.read_max and see if there's a difference. On the file: KB/t is about 127.5 with both sizes. Rate is 39 on with the read_max set to 8, but 115 with read_max set to 64. On the raw device: KB/t is

Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

2006-11-13 Thread Pete French
There's something unusual going on and I don't know what else to try. Finally, after fiddling with various options, I've sort-of got it to work by creating two slices (s1, s2), setting root partition on s1a and the rest (/usr, /var, etc.) on s2. Now, the F1 prompt boot stage behaves like

Automatic configuration of 6to4 ?

2006-12-06 Thread Pete French
In the configuration for 6to4 in /etc/rc.conf I have to fill in a value for 'stf_interface_ipv4addr'. Which is all well and good, except that I get my IPv4 address via DHCP. Is there a way whereby I can tell 6to4 to take the IPv4 address from a particular interface ? -pete.

Re: pf killing NFS

2006-12-13 Thread Pete French
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 slow. Oddly enough I hit precisely this

Re: pf killing NFS

2006-12-13 Thread Pete French
As Luke already pointed out, no-df on the scrub rule should help. As=20 for the bad cksum! - this is a symptom of checksumming done in=20 hardware. ifconfig bge1 -rxcsum -txcsum should get rid of them. I am a bit concerned by this - we use a lot of bge interfaces, and I have hardware

Re: pf killing NFS

2006-12-13 Thread Pete French
You are misunderstanding. The problem is simply that the bpf device sees=20 bad checksums as it sees the packet before the hardware has calculated=20 it. On the receiver the checksum will be correct. Ah, gotcha. That makes perfect sense now. -pete.

Re: pf killing NFS

2006-12-13 Thread Pete French
I pulled the scrub in all line and replaced it with a scrub in on bge0. I don't really care about scrubbing on the internal network. All works as expected now. I dont really care about scrubbing my intrenal nbetwork either - but I do care about NAT working on the outside, which requires

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-22 Thread Pete French
Because everybody knows that odd numbered releases aren't stable. I've been 20 years in electronics comouting and thats the first time I have ever heard anyone say that! Steer clear of '.0' releases is well known, but suspecting something just because of the odd or evenness of it's numbering

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Pete French
If you had any idea how many RFC's IE violates and and how many bugs there are in it you would never have made a statement like that. I don't think here ever said that IE was *better*, just that it was necessary for certain sites (which is undeniably true) and that if all you have available is

IPv6 problems with 6.2-RELEASE ?

2007-01-20 Thread Pete French
I have a network with a 6.2-RELEASE machine as a gateway to the outside world, and on the inside three machines hung off it, running OSX, XPx64 and 6.2-RELEASE as well. The gateway machine NATs the internal network under Ipv4 and runs IPv6 via 6to4. It has routing advertised on the internal

Re: IPv6 problems with 6.2-RELEASE ?

2007-01-21 Thread Pete French
2) rtsol(8) is used to initiate stateless autoconfiguration. You might=20 want to try rtsol -d interface. Aha... this does not work... 3) Check the net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv sysctl. ipv6_enable should take=20 care of this. ...because this is 0 All of which appears to be because a

Netgraph at startup - rc.conf ?

2007-01-25 Thread Pete French
I have a machine with two interfaces in it - bge0 and beg1. I now find I need to usse ng_fec to make these into one interface due to the way out networking contractors are installign a new site. Seems like no problem from the command line, but what I can't find anywhere in the documentation is

Re: Netgraph at startup - rc.conf ?

2007-01-25 Thread Pete French
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=conf/104884 Now that's an excellent patch - but not yet applied to STABLE I guess, and I don't want to have to re-patch every time I do an install unfortunately. Though if it gets commited in the near future I would definitely do it this way.

Re: Loosing spam fight

2007-01-27 Thread Pete French
Except that the original mail was talking about greylisting. This won't reject any mail sent from a MTA that correctly implements SMTP. According to the SMTP specs, I am perfectly at liberty to tell you that I can't accept your mail right now, please try again later. =20 But isn't the point

impossible rc.d ordering problem with stf and pf ?

2007-01-27 Thread Pete French
Am trying to solve a little problem with 'pf'. I have a ruleset which has some firewall rules for the IPv6 interface stf0. This works fine, except when I rreboot the machine, as the pf script is run before the network_ipv6 script - so stf0 does not exist. but I cannot work out how to arrange for

Re: impossible rc.d ordering problem with stf and pf ?

2007-01-29 Thread Pete French
1) You use the interface name as address w/o dynamic lookup. i.e. ... from stf0 ... Yes, thats it - I hadn't come across this 'dynamic lookup' thing before though, so I didn't realise what it was. I still cant find it in the PF manual, aside from a reference that you need to do it for NAT.

Re: impossible rc.d ordering problem with stf and pf ?

2007-01-29 Thread Pete French
The (ifnX) syntax is only for places where you use the interface as an address. The on ifnX part stays unchanged in any case and it does not matter if the interface exists already or not. h, so whats going on with mine then ? *goes and has a closer look* gah! there was a 'loginterface'

Re: impossible rc.d ordering problem with stf and pf ?

2007-01-31 Thread Pete French
Just for my edification, what is the point of keep state on an any-to-any rule? It's a 'pass out' rule - without the 'keep state' the returning packets wont get back in. -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Apache stopped working after upgrade to 6.2-stable

2007-02-07 Thread Pete French
Configtest says it's fine. apachectl start says it starts. But it actually doesn't. Nothing in /var/log/messages, nothing in /var/log/httpd-error.log - and nothing in /usr/local/etc/apache/logs/error_log. I had the same problem at the weekend. I upgrade by uninstalling all packages,

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-13 Thread Pete French
For a set of IPs in the same subnet on the same interface, wouldn't the primary IP be the one with the proper netmask, and all IPs with netmasks of /32 be secondary? In that situation, wouldn't deleting the primary IP cause connection issues for the rest of the IPs? Indeed. I too am not

Re: SFF supported computers

2007-02-19 Thread Pete French
I'd like an AMD 64 (or dual core) box (lower cost) with SATA/EIDE disk support. I plan on running FreeBSD mostly and occasionally Red I run a Shuttle SK21G which I am very happy with - takes the old S754 processors which are cheap these days, but a 3700+ is pelnty fast enough for development

Re: Stable on Blade server

2007-02-23 Thread Pete French
Maybe HP is your way to go if you want to use FReeBSD on blades :) I run FreeBSD on a lot of HP blades and can confirm that it works very nicely and is rock solid stable. have been doing this since 5.X and am now running 6.2 -pcf. ___

Re: Stable on Blade server

2007-02-23 Thread Pete French
Assume you refer to the older hp-blades and *not* the newer c-class ones. The c-class-blades do *not* currently support the build-in NIC due to a SerDes-issue. Ah, thats worth knowing! yes, our blades are a couple of years old so would be b-class ones.

Re: Stable on Blade server

2007-02-23 Thread Pete French
which type of hp blade work with 6.2? Ours are BL20p G3 and BL20p G2 blades according to the iLo. -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Stable on Blade server

2007-02-23 Thread Pete French
How did you install FreeBSD on them? Using RDP? RDP ? I installed using iLo - just connect the ISO image of the CD as virtual media and you can then boot and install as if it was a normal PC with a drive in the front of it. -pete. ___

Re: Clamav-90_2 Lockup with freebsd 6.2

2007-03-06 Thread Pete French
last days with exim connecting to the local socket I have exim now connecting to localhot:3310 by tcp. The difference is, that before clamd scanned all files in the directory given by exim. Effectively exim was unpacking the whole MIME structure and placed all parts in the dir

Re: Clamav-90_2 Lockup with freebsd 6.2

2007-03-07 Thread Pete French
What configuration in exim is needed to make it use tcp instead of sockets? av_scanner = clamd:127.0.0.1 3310 instead of av_scanner = clamd:/var/run/clamav/clamd and then in clamd.conf, comment out 'LocalSocket' and uncomment the 'TCPSocket' and 'TCPAddr' settings so it looks

Re: Problem in tomcat 5.5 and 6.0

2007-03-16 Thread Pete French
I have a server with FreeBSD 6.1 and i try to install tomcat. But the tomcat daemon can't run. And the error is What version of Java did you install ? -ete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread Pete French
I appear to have a machine which will not run RELENG_6_2, though it runs the released code quite happily. Is there a CVS tag I can use to revert the sources back to the way they were on RELEASE? I want to be able to verify that this is and track down what changed! I don't think it should ever be

Re: Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread Pete French
I think you will want RELENG_6_2_0_RELEASE. thanks (and to the others who responded) What happens with RELENG_6_2, IIRC there was only very limited changes to kernel which should only affect IPv6... Indeed! Part of the reason I want to do the revert is to make absolutely sure that it runs

Re: [PATCH] bge(4) patch for -STABLE

2007-03-19 Thread Pete French
I have made bge(4) patch for -STABLE (sorry, not suitable for RELENG_6_2): What dates stable is this relative to ? I am trying to apply your patch to a cvsup of stable pulled on the day/time you sent your email, but parts of it are failing for me unfortunately. I would like to test this as I

Re: [PATCH] bge(4) patch for -STABLE

2007-03-19 Thread Pete French
Mine applied cleanly to sources from last Friday. O.K., that works (now I have the correct date in my supfile). Will give it a shot... -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To

Re: Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-19 Thread Pete French
regression that was introduced late in the 6.2 release cycle. I'm personally pretty skeptical that this could cause a problem, although I'm admittedly a little biased, plus there weren't a lot of details in your email as to what the problem is. Well, you are right - it wont run a stock

iscsi and geom mirror - stupid idea or not ?

2007-04-19 Thread Pete French
what would happen if I made a machine which contained a mirrored geom pair consiting of one local driive and one drive accessed via iscsi on a remote machine ? would this work ? what I am considering is two such machines, geographicly distinct. one is a 'master' and boots off the mirrored drive,

Re: Releases

2001-04-11 Thread Pete French
Maybe it would reduce confusion somewhat if people would just stop saying ``4.1-stable'' etc. Those simply do not exist. Best idea so far, and consequently change the bit in the handbook that implies that -STABLE is a bug fix to the last release, independent of the changes to making the next

Bug in nfsd, or did I just read the manpage wrong ?

2005-02-09 Thread Pete French
I have a machine with three interfaces on it, two onto internal networks, one ointo the outside world. I only want NFS to be accessible on the two internal interfaces so I have this line in my /etc/rc.conf: nfs_server_flags=-u -t -n 4 -h 192.168.3.1 -h 192.168.4.1 That works - but it ony enables

Re: Bug in nfsd, or did I just read the manpage wrong ?

2005-02-11 Thread Pete French
Try the patch in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/25826 That worked for me. I've also attached the patch to this email. Thats. I didnt realise it was a known problem - and an *old* known problem at that it seems! In the end I simply decided to direct all the requests to the other

Re: I can not surf on Flash powered sites.

2005-03-02 Thread Pete French
Ruben's message to provide a data point. Am I the only one for whom Firefox and www/flashplugin-firefox doesn't work? No, it doesnt work for me either - but I dont care enough about websites with mflash to bother looking into it. -pcf. ___

Just a sanity check before I sumbit a buig report

2005-03-08 Thread Pete French
The man page for getrusage says that the frequency of the statistics clock is given by sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK). The source code to /usr/bin/time uses a function 'getstathz' to get the frequency of the statistics clock which is does using sysctl and KERN_CLOCKRATE On my system the first returns

Re: Just a sanity check before I sumbit a buig report

2005-03-10 Thread Pete French
'sysctl kern.clockrate' will return this information if you don't want to write a program to do it for you :) I was just using the code from time(1). Inteesring though - heres the output: kern.clockrate: { hz = 100, tick = 1, tickadj = 5, profhz = 100, stathz = 100 } So that thinks

Re: Just a sanity check before I sumbit a buig report

2005-03-11 Thread Pete French
Why does sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) always returns 128? Check out sysconf() in src/lib/libc/gen/sysconf.c (lines 83-84 of rev. 1.10): [follow through of code showing it is defined as a constant snipped] To determine how stathz can vary, we'll have to dig deeper. Check out initclocks() in

Re: Just a sanity check before I sumbit a buig report

2005-03-13 Thread Pete French
getrusage(2) says that ru_ixrss is based on statistics clock ticks with a frequency of sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK). This cannot be right. H... it was trying to interpret the results from getrusage which lead me to finding the bug. I notice that /usr/bin/time does a sysctl to get the clock rate in

Re: Dell 2850 sporadically reboots (amd64)

2005-04-13 Thread Pete French
I am a little bit confused. amd64 with a dual xeon? Preseumably one of the newer 64 bit Xeons. I would home amd64 supports them doesnt it ? -pcf. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To

Re: scsi card recommendation

2005-04-13 Thread Pete French
dear all, I would like to buy SCSI card which must: - support Ultra 320 - support RAID 0,1,5, and 1/0 any recommendation for FreeBSD-5.x ? The Compaq SMART series have always worked well for me. Have a 3200 here on FreeBSD 5, and have tried almost all of them on FreeBSD 4 (from the old

FTP insall booting from disc not floppies

2005-04-18 Thread Pete French
I want to do a clean (i.e. wipe the disc) install of FreeBSD 5.4 onto a set of remote machines. I have access to the consoles of these machines, but no access to the media (CD or Floppy). When you isnall from floppies they bopot a bare minimum system on a memory disc which then does an FTP

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-20 Thread Pete French
Apparenlty, nobody who is claiming this has _tried_ it. Try it yourself Apparently yo misunderstood what people were claiming. Nobody said you can modify a running binary, merely that you can replace it. try deleting it and writing a new one. it does work, I do this all the time! -pcf.

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