Sep 232005
 

This is the webserver you’re reading from:

$ uptime
5:31AM up 366 days, 12:48, 1 user, load averages: 0.45, 0.41, 0.50

This server does about 10 websites, and about 45GB a month, and does mail for about 15 domains.

Sep 102005
 

I’m heading off to Utah at the end of the month. The primary goal is to do some mountain biking in Moab. I’ve been there before but it’s time to go back again.

As part of my trip preparation, I contacted the Greater Utah BSD User Group (aka GUBUG. Wouldn’t you know it! They’re having an installfest on the very day I’m arriving in Salt Lake City. What a coincidence!

I’ll be giving a short talk on Bacula while I’m there and helping out with installs. See you there.

Sep 052005
 

That computer I mentioned recently, I added a SCSI card to it and enabled the second NIC. It’s now looking pretty sweet with 5.4 running on it. With the new additions, the dmesg now also contains:

isp0: port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xff6fe000-0xff6fefff irq 17 at device 8.0 on pci2

I plan to make this box into a Bacula testing platform for FreeBSD 6.*, add a backup DNS server for my LAN, and make it my wireless gateway box. It’ll also have an external DLT added to it, just in case the Bacula project needs it.

Here is the service manual for that computer: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/opgx260/en/sm/.

Sep 032005
 

I got a really sweet deal on a computer:

  • Dell Optiplex GX-260
  • CPU 2.4 GHz
  • HDD 20 GB
  • RAM 512 MB
  • CD ROM Re-Writable
  • NIC 3COM
  • internal speakers
  • build-in sound card
  • Windows XP
  • MS-Office XP

Yes, that INCLUDES the original CDs for that software, still shrink wrapped! That alone is worth the CAD$150 price.

I’ve removed the HDD, put it aside, and replaced it with an 80GB drive. I’ve installed 5.4 on it and I’m going to replace a few other existing machines. It also has a built in NIC (in addition to the 3Com). I may turn this into the gateway for my WLAN.

Here’s the dmesg output:


Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC 2005
root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
ACPI APIC Table:
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (2391.15-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf27 Stepping = 7
Features=0xbfebfbff
real memory = 536285184 (511 MB)
avail memory = 515125248 (491 MB)
ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 1
ioapic0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard
npx0:
on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
acpi0: on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
cpu0: on acpi0
acpi_button0: on acpi0
pcib0: port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0:
on pcib0
agp0: mem 0xe8000000-0xefffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1:
on pcib1
pci1: at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
pcib2: at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2:
on pcib2
xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xdc80-0xdcff mem 0xff6ffc00-0xff6ffc7f irq 16 at device 7.0 on pci2
miibus0: on xl0
ukphy0: on miibus0
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:04:75:ec:92:6b
em0: port 0xdc40-0xdc7f mem 0xff6c0000-0xff6dffff irq 18 at device 12.0 on pci2
em0: Ethernet address: 00:08:74:db:1a:7c
em0: Speed:N/A Duplex:N/A
isab0: at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: on isab0
atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
pci0: at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
pci0: at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
fdc0: port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
ppc0: port 0x778-0x77f,0x378-0x37f irq 7 on acpi0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
ppbus0: on ppc0
plip0: on ppbus0
lpt0: on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: on ppbus0
orm0: at iomem 0xcc800-0xcffff,0xcc000-0xcc7ff,0xc0000-0xcbfff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2391148744 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
ad0: 76319MB [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
acd0: CDRW at ata1-master PIO4
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a

I have to go… cvsup has finished. Time to build world.