From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 09:41:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B3516A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:41:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4CA943D62 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:41:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kjelderg@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a36so509220rnf for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:41:08 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=BmGToROBYj7bqv+FAIbOBNdwjAKawAwojOXz0tGj4AqPJOe1AXQrk63yj+uMRUc57oiRXm9JEBHpcphg5MNgJln1uw9z+io+ilbnSMReEg0a+v/gxzhpugztRnk6D4D2Q5e8G9PpuMQao3WrRR97DhdVmUiMgawIAmFxP0R5mR4= Received: by 10.39.3.56 with SMTP id f56mr388035rni; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:41:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.15.38 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:41:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:41:07 +0000 From: Eric Kjeldergaard To: Alexander Bubnov In-Reply-To: <41AC3ADD.7020904@mail.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <41AC3ADD.7020904@mail.ru> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: three questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Eric Kjeldergaard List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:41:09 -0000 > Hi! > Could you answer my questions, please? I'll try. > > 1) When I halt or reboot FreeBSD 5.3 I always receive following: > Syncing disks vnodes remaining... 4 3 3 1 1 0 done > > Is it OK? What does it mean? This is relatively normal. What it means is that it is syncing your hard disk before shutting down. As long as it ends up with a 0, it's fine. > > 2) When I download something from the Internet for a long time (around 9 > hours) I always receive 3 strange letters (unfortunately, I deleted > third letter, sorry) from my OS (FreeBSD any versions), see below. What > for? What happen? Why do I receive them? > These strange letters seem like usual system messages that are generated by systems kinda late at night (early in the morning). They are completely normal and they are just to give the administrator (root by default) a quick summary of what's happened on the computer recently. Learning to read these letters can make administering a system substantially easier. > 3) I change resolution for consoles as vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 > green. Can I change rate? How to do it? > The rate of what? I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this part. > letters: > ******* > *first* > ******* > removing stale files from /var/preserve: > Cleaning out old system announcements: > Removing stale files from /var/rwho: > Backup passwd and group files: > Verifying group file syntax: > Backing up mail aliases: This is your system taking care of some occasional clean-up/back-up tasks. It's just telling you that it did stuff for you. This way you (in a state of relief) know that you don't have to do these things yourself. > Disk status: > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s4a 257998 51810 185550 22% / > /dev/ad0s4f 1032142 70 949502 0% /tmp > /dev/ad0s4g 6399156 3999490 1887734 68% /usr > /dev/ad0s4e 1032142 20328 929244 2% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > /dev/ad0s2 10231440 9594792 636648 94% /mnt/dos > Last dump(s) done (Dump '>' file systems): These messages have to do with the status of your disks as of this system check. > UUCP status: > Network interface status: > Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts > Oerrs Coll > rl0* 1500 00:c0:26:a4:b6:b0 0 0 0 > 0 0 > lp0* 1500 0 0 0 > 0 0 > lo0 16384 0 0 0 > 0 0 > lo0 16384 sinn ::1 0 - 0 > - - > lo0 16384 fe80:3::1 fe80:3::1 0 - 0 > - - > lo0 16384 your-net sinn 0 - 0 > - - > ppp0* 1500 0 0 0 > 0 0 > sl0* 552 0 0 0 > 0 0 > faith 1500 0 0 0 > 0 0 > tun0 1500 12259 0 13232 > 0 0 > tun0 1500 ts3-a0.NNovgo ts3-a29.NNovgor 12259 - 13231 > - - > tun1* 1500 0 0 111 > 0 0 > Like the disk status above, this is information about your network interfaces. > cal system status: > 3:10AM up 1:10, 2 users, load averages: 0.64, 0.70, 0.62 This is the output of the command `uptime`. > Mail in local queue: > /var/spool/mqueue is empty > Total requests: 0 > Mail in submit queue: > /var/spool/clientmqueue is empty > Total requests: 0 This is information about pending mail messages. > Security check: > (output mailed separately) The Security check is a separate "letter" to you. In fact, the second one that you included here is the Security check. > Checking for rejected mail hosts: > Checking for denied zone transfers (AXFR and IXFR): > Tidying Exim hints databases: > Usage: exim_tidydb [-t