toasters July 1998

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Re: INN 1.7.2+insync/Overview/5.0.1 F520-110
by David Power 19 Jul '98

19 Jul '98

We had a similar problem and my admin(aos) had to re-write the file locking code.We never did get it working entirely to my satisfaction, though it did fix the overview problems. We are now running Typhoon (Sparc20/630) and all of our INN problems (or most anyways) have gone away. --- On Sun, 19 Jul 1998 20:40:14 +0200 sthaug(a)nethelp.no wrote: >> We recently (~6-8 weeks ago) put up a F520-110 Filer running >> 5.0.1 software. When I try to run INN (InterNetNews) 1.7.2 and >> put it's overview files on the filer, I get Overchan hanging very regularly >> on a fcntl(F_SETLK,...)/fcntl(F_SETLKW,...) loop. >> >> My question for the assembled guru's is: Is anyone else seeing this? What >> other information should/could I supply to help? > >Yes, we have seen this, with an F330 running 3.1.5. I "fixed" it by simply >removing the code that locks the overview files - would rather risk having >two processes access the file at the same time than having these loops. As >far as I can see, all we risk is one of the readers getting inconsistent >overview data for a group - we can live with that. > >We recently upgraded to 4.3.3D2 - haven't tried using the locking code >again after this upgrade. > >Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug(a)nethelp.no > -----------------End of Original Message----------------- David Power |Price,Quality,Service V-P Operations | Insync.Internet.Services.Inc.|Pick any two out of three.

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Re: INN 1.7.2+insync/Overview/5.0.1 F520-110
by sthaug＠nethelp.no 19 Jul '98

19 Jul '98

> We recently (~6-8 weeks ago) put up a F520-110 Filer running > 5.0.1 software. When I try to run INN (InterNetNews) 1.7.2 and > put it's overview files on the filer, I get Overchan hanging very regularly > on a fcntl(F_SETLK,...)/fcntl(F_SETLKW,...) loop. > > My question for the assembled guru's is: Is anyone else seeing this? What > other information should/could I supply to help? Yes, we have seen this, with an F330 running 3.1.5. I "fixed" it by simply removing the code that locks the overview files - would rather risk having two processes access the file at the same time than having these loops. As far as I can see, all we risk is one of the readers getting inconsistent overview data for a group - we can live with that. We recently upgraded to 4.3.3D2 - haven't tried using the locking code again after this upgrade. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug(a)nethelp.no

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anyone want UNIX/toaster admins. in the UK?
by Tom Yates 19 Jul '98

19 Jul '98

my wife and i are leaving our current UNIX admin. positions with mathworks in order to move (back) to the UK. if anyone in the UK has any interest in UNIX admins. with heavy Solaris and toaster experience, please drop me a line at madhatta(a)mathworks.com until july 24th, or call us on 01206 542530 after september 15th. Tom Yates - Unix Chap - The Mathworks, Inc. - +1 (508) 647 7561 MAG#65061 DoD#0135 AMA#461546 1024/CFDFDE39 0C E7 46 60 BB 96 87 05 04 BD FB F8 BB 20 C1 8C

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Re: No CPU stats with filer-mrtg
by Scott MacDonald 17 Jul '98

17 Jul '98

Dave heiland wrote: > > Scott, > > Your mail finally prompted me to download filer-mrtg. Much easier than I > thought. However, like you I don't get CPU stats, nor do I get NFS stats. Did > you do anything special to get NFS stats? I'd check the mail archive of > toasters but I've lost its URL. > > Dave Dave, For some reason, the #!<path_to_perl> at the top of the script bin/retrieve-cpu.pl was not changed during installation. It still had #!/usr/local/bin/perl5, which is not where I have it installed. The other scripts were fine, though. It's a very good tool, I recommend it. Scott. _______________________________________________________________ Scott MacDonald Mobile Systems International Plc Tel: 0171 971 8798 System Administrator Fax: 0171 971 8712 E-Mail: scott(a)msi-uk.com _______________________________________________________________

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Re: bug fix for na_snapmon
by Mark D Simmons 16 Jul '98

16 Jul '98

I think this is the sort of proglet that could usefully live on the filer itself employing the java VM that's lurking under the hood somewhere which everyone's not talking about at the moment. > Hi everyone. > > I just fixed a minor bug in na_snapmon (it would try to delete dump > snapshots all of the time instead of just the ones that were more than > two days old). The copy that I put up on my NetApp web page doesn't > have that problem: > > http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/netapp/ > > That could actually cause some problems for older releases (before > 4.3x) affected by bug #650 that would crash the filer if you tried > deleting a snapshot that's in use. > > Now, na_snapmon makes the assumption that dumps older than two days > are safe to delete, or at least you're running 4.3 or later. > > Dan

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No CPU stats with filer-mrtg
by Scott MacDonald 16 Jul '98

16 Jul '98

After reading the reports in this list, I've managed to get filer-mrtg installed and working fine except for the CPU stats, which are all permanently zero. The network, NFS and disk stats are great, but I'd like the CPU as well. Has anyone else had the same problem, or could advise me where to look to fix this. I know nothing about SNMP, so trying to find out what's wrong is a bit difficult. TIA, Scott. _______________________________________________________________ Scott MacDonald Mobile Systems International Plc Tel: 0171 971 8798 System Administrator Fax: 0171 971 8712 E-Mail: scott(a)msi-uk.com _______________________________________________________________

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filer-mrtg
by David B. Ritch 13 Jul '98

13 Jul '98

I've been playing with filer-mrtg, the mrtg-based monitoring package available from NOW. It's a really nice package. It contains some Solaris binaries. The source for some of this is available in the MRTG package. Unfortunately, the source for snmpget is not. Does anyone know where I could get the source for snmpget? Thanks, David Ritch

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subscribe
by Farouk Al-Shorafa 09 Jul '98

09 Jul '98

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posting history - who's wordy and who's quiet?
by Tom Yates 08 Jul '98

08 Jul '98

i was looking for a reason to have fun with perl modules for chopping up email addresses, so here's the prolixity summary for the lifetime of the list. i've cut-off at ten posts. 99 Brian Tao 86 sirbruce(a)ix.netcom.com 55 Alexei Rodriguez 49 Daniel Quinlan 47 Tom Yates 45 Dave Hitz 37 Guy Harris 30 Jaye Mathisen 30 David Drum 25 Kenneth Whittaker 23 sthaug(a)nethelp.no 22 Chris Caputo 21 Marc Nicholas 19 alexei(a)cimedia.com 19 Karl Swartz 18 Jonah Yokubaitis 16 Weeks, Thomas 16 Matthew Zeier 16 Bruce Sterling Woodcock 16 Amy Chused 15 Jim Davis 15 Christoph Doerbeck 14 Mark D Simmons 14 Dave Cole 13 rasmus(a)bellglobal.com 13 Simmons Mr M D 12 Rasmus Lerdorf 12 Ragnar Lonn 12 Brian Pawlowski 11 Steve Gremban 11 Keith Brown 11 Jason D Kelleher 10 Philip Thomas 10 Ketil Kirkerud 10 Dave Pascoe Tom Yates - Unix Chap - The Mathworks, Inc. - +1 (508) 647 7561 MAG#65061 DoD#0135 AMA#461546 1024/CFDFDE39 0C E7 46 60 BB 96 87 05 04 BD FB F8 BB 20 C1 8C

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'quota resize' - any way around it ?
by James FitzGibbon 08 Jul '98

08 Jul '98

Is there *any* way (and I'm open to any suggestions) to get around the inability of 'quota resize' to handle additions/deletions from the /etc/quotas file ? The problem I'm stuck with is trying to provide realtime addition of users (with quotas) on a 100GB filer without having to turn quotas off and on, which is currently a 26 minute process. During these 26 minues, no quotas are enforced. Acceptable once a night, but not as often as they want me to run it. A few of ideas (in order of ascending lunacy): - just accept the fact that NetApp doesn't consider this wish to very important and turn the quotas on/off as often as is feasible. - set a default quota for the export, and just create a new quotas file once per night. - preload the /etc/quotas file with entries for all possible UIDs, then just change the quota as they request it. This way the /etc/quotas will always be the same length and contain the same number of users. - get NetApp to allow an SNMP SET request to implement this functionality - try to figure out the format of /etc/db/quota.db and manipulate it directly. - kidnap Dave Hitz (presuming he's still there) and have him add the feature at gunpoint. - Quit. TIA. -- j. James FitzGibbon james(a)ican.net System Engineer, ACC Global Net Voice/Fax (416)207-7171/7610

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