From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 2:40: 9 2002 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 626AB37B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 02:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gate21.fw.porsche.de (gate23.fw.porsche.de [193.174.9.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0F3643E6E for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 02:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perisa@porsche.de) Received: (qmail 25729 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2002 09:48:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wuxin011.ibd.porsche.de) (141.36.65.1) by 193.197.149.150 with SMTP; 24 Oct 2002 09:48:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 9635 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2002 09:40:04 -0000 Received: from beastie.ibd.porsche.de (HELO porsche.de) (141.36.3.29) by smtp4cli.ibd.porsche.de with SMTP; 24 Oct 2002 09:40:03 -0000 Message-ID: <3DB7C1BD.6010405@porsche.de> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:47:41 +0200 From: Marc Perisa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020709 X-Accept-Language: en, de-de, es-es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: Re: What is vnlru really? References: <20021023192440.Q263-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Peter, Peter Leftwich wrote: > Good evening, > > I ran `ps auxww | more` and noticed some processes in parentheses. One > that did not have a manpage (I suspect some other process kicked it off?) > was vnlru and all I could find out about it are the following: > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=vnlru+freebsd&btnG=Google+Search > http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2002/freebsd-stable/20020120.freebsd-stable.html > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=489990+0+archive/2002/freebsd-stable/20020120.freebsd-stable > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=491439+0+archive/2002/freebsd-stable/20020120.freebsd-stable > > This explanation seemed the most authoritative ... ... should be this: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=vnlru+matt+freebsd&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=fa.l50hqsv.1sh0n2k%40ifi.uio.no&rnum=4 http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=603119+0+archive/2002/freebsd-hackers/20020310.freebsd-hackers > http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/10.31.shtml That's a good short description. But the above tells more. > > But one post said something about ipfw (which I do not yet run). I've been > trying to get the program "gaim" to direct connect and want to make sure my > IP is not "masked" in a firewall or proxy sort of way. What else is there > to check, using `ps auxww`? Thanks as always and ever after, > > PS - Is `arp -a` the most reliable way to get one's current IP address? If you want to know your own IP address(es) you should use ifconfig. Thanks, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message