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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:33:36 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Alexander Bubnov <ab_fatal@mail.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: three questions
Message-ID:  <20041130093336.GA39719@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <41AC3ADD.7020904@mail.ru>
References:  <41AC3ADD.7020904@mail.ru>

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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:18:21PM +0300, Alexander Bubnov wrote:
> Hi!
> Could you answer my questions, please?
> 
> 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?

It is OK (as long as the last digit is a 0.)  It is just an
informational message from the OS telling you that it makes sure all
data is written to the disks.

> 
> 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?

Those mails are sent every day at some point early in the morning. I
guess you normally do not have your computer turned on at that time of
the day?  They are just informational telling you what the periodic
script has found and done. See 'man 8 periodic' and 
'man 5 periodic.conf' for more information

> 
> 3) I change resolution for consoles as vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 
> green. Can I change rate? How to do it?

I don't think you can.  The normal console does not know much about
your graphics hardware, but just uses the modes that the BIOS reports
as available, and essentially lets the BIOS handle the details.

> 
> 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:
> 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):
> UUCP status:
> Network interface status:
> Name    Mtu Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts 
> Oerrs  Coll
> rl0*   1500 <Link#1>    00:c0:26:a4:b6:b0        0     0        0     
> 0     0
> lp0*   1500 <Link#2>                             0     0        0     
> 0     0
> lo0   16384 <Link#3>                             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 <Link#4>                             0     0        0     
> 0     0
> sl0*    552 <Link#5>                             0     0        0     
> 0     0
> faith  1500 <Link#6>                             0     0        0     
> 0     0
> tun0   1500 <Link#7>                         12259     0    13232     
> 0     0
> tun0   1500 ts3-a0.NNovgo ts3-a29.NNovgor    12259     -    13231     
> -     -
> tun1*  1500 <Link#8>                             0     0      111     
> 0     0
> 
> cal system status:
> 3:10AM  up  1:10, 2 users, load averages: 0.64, 0.70, 0.62
> Mail in local queue:
> /var/spool/mqueue is empty
>                Total requests: 0
> Mail in submit queue:
> /var/spool/clientmqueue is empty
>                Total requests: 0
> Security check:
>    (output mailed separately)
> Checking for rejected mail hosts:
> Checking for denied zone transfers (AXFR and IXFR):
> Tidying Exim hints databases:
> Usage: exim_tidydb [-t <time>]  <spool-directory> <database-name>
>       <database-name> = retry | misc | wait-<transport-name> | callout
> Checking for rejected mail:
> 
> 
> ********
> *second*
> ********
> ubject:  security run output
> Status: O
> Content-Length: 534
> Lines: 22
> Checking setuid files and devices:
> Checking for uids of 0:
> root 0
> toor 0
> Checking for passwordless accounts:
> trial::1000:1000::0:0:Unknow:/home/trial:/bin/tcsh
> kernel log messages:
> > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (2399.94-MHz 686-class CPU)
> login failures:
> Nov 27 02:00:33  login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyv1
> Nov 27 02:00:33  login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyv1, alec
> Nov 27 16:59:47  login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyv0
> Nov 27 16:59:47  login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyv0, root
> refused connections:
> 
> ****************************
> 

-- 
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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