Re: Purpose of lukemftpd?

2005-09-06 Thread Marcin Jessa
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 00:44:54 +0200 Simon Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06.09.2005, at 00:37, Matthew Dillon wrote: :In fact, it seems people prefer NetBSD's ftpd, which appears to be :based on lukemftpd. So why not kill off our ftpd and settle on :moving lukemftpd into our

Re: UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-06 Thread David Cuthbert
Chris Csanady wrote: I've watched ReiserFS crash and burn in horribly bad ways that the resulting fsck upon reboot took a long weekend to complete. Was this on an ATA disc by chance? I imagine that this sort of file system would be extremely fragile with write caching. That aside, I don't

Re: FYI: df on virtual server 2005 (again) newfs error

2005-09-06 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Tomaž Borštnar wrote: cut ACPI stuff perhaps? I was trying to run preview under VMWare ESX and it failed when dealing with SCSI devices. FreeBSD 5.x also failed in the same way. Yesterday I was told that turning off ACPI is the way to go with ESX for FreeBSD 5.x and thus probably also for

make release question

2005-09-06 Thread Yiorgos Adamopoulos
Accodring to release(7) if you setenv MAKE_ISOS: If defined, bootable ISO CD-ROM images will be created, from the contents of the CD-ROM stage directory. But, after a make install_fetchpkgs release I get: # ls /usr/release/ /usr/release: dfly.iso root/ And dfly.iso does not have the

Re: New project machines on order.

2005-09-06 Thread Erik P. Skaalerud
Matthew Dillon wrote: I decided to try out the 'ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe' MB. I don't particularly need most of the junk on the motherboard, but we'll see how well it works. Those mainboards perform very well and are generally stable. The only problem with them is the chipset fan. It

Re: Purpose of lukemftpd?

2005-09-06 Thread Yiorgos Adamopoulos
On 2005-09-06, Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found the ftpd in FreeBSD to be powerful enough for most things. If you need encrypted transmissions, chances are you should be using SFTP in first place (as anon FTP over SSL doesn't make much sense in my book OTOTH, having the

Re: make release question

2005-09-06 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:26:31AM +0300, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote: But, after a make install_fetchpkgs release I get: Try make installer_release. release(7) should be removed I guess. Any takers? Joerg

Re: /usr/pkg/{bin,sbin} - where in $PATH ?

2005-09-06 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:12:02AM +0300, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote: Hello! Where do you place in your $PATH /usr/pkg/{bin,sbin} ? First? Last?r Do the pkg_* utils from pkgsrc interract safely with the ones from FreeBSD's ports (which I assume are the ones in /usr/sbin/) ? I'll start

Re: New project machines on order.

2005-09-06 Thread walt
Erik P. Skaalerud wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: I decided to try out the 'ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe' MB... Those mainboards perform very well and are generally stable... I recall that the linux people had lots of problems with the early NForce chipsets -- because of the closed-source design,

Re: /usr/pkg/{bin,sbin} - where in $PATH ?

2005-09-06 Thread walt
Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote: Hello! Where do you place in your $PATH /usr/pkg/{bin,sbin} ? First? Last?r Do the pkg_* utils from pkgsrc interract safely with the ones from FreeBSD's ports (which I assume are the ones in /usr/sbin/) ? I tried for awhile to keep both ports and pkgsrc. I did it

Re: New project machines on order.

2005-09-06 Thread Thomas E. Spanjaard
Erik P. Skaalerud wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: I decided to try out the 'ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe' MB. Those mainboards perform very well and are generally stable. The only problem with them is the chipset fan. It runs at ~8000rpm and the bearings stop working after a month or so (in all the

Re: New project machines on order.

2005-09-06 Thread Jason Smethers
Matthew Dillon wrote: With all the NForce chipsets, in fact, because NVidia doesn't seem to be very open-source friendly people. I'm sure there are things that won't work, but since it's a server and I'm going to be throwing in a 3ware card the only thing I would really like to

Re: New project machines on order.

2005-09-06 Thread Thomas E. Spanjaard
Jason Smethers wrote: I have not messed with the onboard RAID controllers yet since I have yet to order new hard drives for it. It's nothing special, hardware-assisted software RAID. Kinda like what some Promise controllers do, except a tad bit better. Still, I wouldn't use it. The only