Re: metadata is incorrect - freebsd-update
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 05:26:13 + Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: When I try to update to 8.0-BETA3 Try Beta4 instead. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-September/051801.html Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 pgppeHXonGCW9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Custom ISOs
I'm not sure if this is normal or not, but I'm getting 5.0KB/sec for two separate downloads each download speed for both the XFCE and Gnome DVD ISOs. I am aware that the site is sitting on wikidot.com, and not on dev-urandom.com anymore, I was wondering if there's a better place I can grab them from. I have someone interested in BSD, and was trying to download all options and let him pick. With this download, it'll take ME a day or more to download it, then the time to meet up with this guy. Any light shed on the slow downloads? Thanks again, Manolis for ALL your hard work, it is very much appreciated. --Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Custom ISOs
Tim Judd wrote: I'm not sure if this is normal or not, but I'm getting 5.0KB/sec for two separate downloads each download speed for both the XFCE and Gnome DVD ISOs. Weird... I am aware that the site is sitting on wikidot.com, and not on dev-urandom.com anymore, I was wondering if there's a better place I can grab them from. I have someone interested in BSD, and was trying to download all options and let him pick. Not really. Only the web pages are on wikidot, the files are still hosted in dev-urandom.com With this download, it'll take ME a day or more to download it, then the time to meet up with this guy. Any light shed on the slow downloads? Don't know, but if it is not resolved I'll ping Glen Barber who owns this space. I can't test the speed right now myself but will do later and report back. I do have some alternate space as well, so if the worse comes to the worst, I could upload one of the ISOs there. It is currently mostly full but I believe I can trash some things. Thanks again, Manolis for ALL your hard work, it is very much appreciated. Thanks Tim, I thoroughly enjoyed creating this stuff. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Using mdconfig for swap space
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote: Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk for swap space as opposed to having a designated swap partition? For example, I could do something like this: Unless I am missing something basic here, it seems like a bad idea to me - to carve out and use up some memory to use as extra storage for processes that need more memory that you have taken away to give to swap. That is self defeating. In addition, one use of swap is to write dumps to if there is a crash. If you put it in memory, it is gone when you reboot. He's talking about using a swap file, rather than a dedicated partition on the disk, not in RAM! Although it is slightly slower, as Chuck has already pointed out, it might, in certain circumstances, be a somewhat more convenient solution than repartitioning/reinstalling the whole system. And as RW has said, the facility already exists and can be enabled with a couple of knobs in /etc/rc.conf. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpMvbL6kGGlc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Error building net-snmp port
I've been building a new 7.2-RELEASE server, putting it into service on Friday. I did a portsnap updated all the ports to the latest version, but was unable to upgrade /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp - see below for output: === Building for net-snmp-5.4.2.1_5 making all in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp/work/net-snmp-5.4.2.1/snmplib making all in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp/work/net-snmp-5.4.2.1/agent making all in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp/work/net-snmp-5.4.2.1/agent/helpers making all in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp/work/net-snmp-5.4.2.1/agent/mibgroup /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile cc -I../../include -I. -I../../agent -I../../agent/mibgroup -I../../snmplib -O -pipe -Ufreebsd7 -Dfreebsd7=freebsd7 -DAPPLLIB_EXP=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/BSDPAN -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/mach/CORE -c -o mibII/tcpTable.lo mibII/tcpTable.c cc -I../../include -I. -I../../agent -I../../agent/mibgroup -I../../snmplib -O -pipe -Ufreebsd7 -Dfreebsd7=freebsd7 -DAPPLLIB_EXP=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/BSDPAN -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/mach/CORE -c mibII/tcpTable.c -fPIC -DPIC -o mibII/.libs/tcpTable.o mibII/tcpTable.c: In function 'tcpTable_load': mibII/tcpTable.c:748: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type mibII/tcpTable.c:750: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type mibII/tcpTable.c:750: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct xinpgen' mibII/tcpTable.c:754: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type mibII/tcpTable.c:758: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type mibII/tcpTable.c:763: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp/work/net-snmp-5.4.2.1/agent/mibgroup. *** Error code 1 I tried everything I could think of to fix it - removed CPUTYPE from /etc/make.conf, ran make config de-selected IPV6 support, did a make dist clean and let it fetch the source file again, did a make deinstall but it still stopped at the same point. It was installed as a dependency of nut. Any idea how to fix this? Cheers, Ian -- gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
RE: Using mdconfig for swap space
Thanks for the responses. The reason I'm looking at doing this is that we have increased memory on our platform from 4GB to 8GB and therefore have to increase swap space from 8GB to 16GB. We have enough space in our /var partition that we could add a swap file there and not have to touch the existing partition layout. I like the simplicity of the swap file approach, but we have an application that is very sensitive to I/O performance and I'm a little wary what this could mean. QA I know would have a field day in trying to pound the system with all sorts of stress tests. I think a dedicated swap partition is probably a safer option. Peter -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Bye Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:57 AM To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: Using mdconfig for swap space On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote: Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk for swap space as opposed to having a designated swap partition? For example, I could do something like this: Unless I am missing something basic here, it seems like a bad idea to me - to carve out and use up some memory to use as extra storage for processes that need more memory that you have taken away to give to swap. That is self defeating. In addition, one use of swap is to write dumps to if there is a crash. If you put it in memory, it is gone when you reboot. He's talking about using a swap file, rather than a dedicated partition on the disk, not in RAM! Although it is slightly slower, as Chuck has already pointed out, it might, in certain circumstances, be a somewhat more convenient solution than repartitioning/reinstalling the whole system. And as RW has said, the facility already exists and can be enabled with a couple of knobs in /etc/rc.conf. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Using mdconfig for swap space
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 15:07:37 Peter Steele wrote: Thanks for the responses. The reason I'm looking at doing this is that we have increased memory on our platform from 4GB to 8GB and therefore have to increase swap space from 8GB to 16GB. No you don't. It's advised, but not mandatory. We have enough space in our /var partition that we could add a swap file there and not have to touch the existing partition layout. I like the simplicity of the swap file approach, but we have an application that is very sensitive to I/O performance and I'm a little wary what this could mean. QA I know would have a field day in trying to pound the system with all sorts of stress tests. I think a dedicated swap partition is probably a safer option. Any I/O bound application suffers from any kind of swap. You would do better to first establish how this application suffers once you start swapping. If your machine needs more then or even close to 8GB of swap, I doubt the applications are responsive to begin with. With 8GB of memory, it's probably better to have 2GB of swap, so that offending applications are killed off sooner and the machine is able to recover sooner. But - I'm assuming this is a server, for a multimedia machine - editing large images or videos - more swap is beneficial as inactive images/videos can be swapped out. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Using mdconfig for swap space
Nowadays having swap twice as RAM is not necessary. If your system wasn't swapping much in the past you can safely stay with 4G in my opinion... extending it to 16G would be waste of space :) I won't bore you with the details but in fact our application *does* require this much swap space, but not for the typical reasons. It's a side effect of how our application works and we thought we could make use of an image file for the extra swap rather than repartitioning, but I've read too many warnings against going this route so I've decided to stick with increasing the size of the swap partition. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Using mdconfig for swap space
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote: Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk for swap space as opposed to having a designated swap partition? For example, I could do something like this: Unless I am missing something basic here, it seems like a bad idea to me - to carve out and use up some memory to use as extra storage for processes that need more memory that you have taken away to give to swap. That is self defeating. In addition, one use of swap is to write dumps to if there is a crash. If you put it in memory, it is gone when you reboot. He's talking about using a swap file, rather than a dedicated partition on the disk, not in RAM! Although it is slightly slower, as Chuck has already pointed out, it might, in certain circumstances, be a somewhat more convenient solution than repartitioning/reinstalling the whole system. And as RW has said, the facility already exists and can be enabled with a couple of knobs in /etc/rc.conf. I understand using a file and making it in to swapspace. I have used that a couple of times when I needed to add some swap space temporarily. But isn't the command he is trying to use (mdconfig) for creating a memory filesystem - eg use a chunk of memory and make a file from it (then use it for swap or whatever)?That is in RAM. jerry Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Using mdconfig for swap space
Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com writes: Nowadays having swap twice as RAM is not necessary. If your system wasn't swapping much in the past you can safely stay with 4G in my opinion... extending it to 16G would be waste of space :) I won't bore you with the details but in fact our application *does* require this much swap space, but not for the typical reasons. It's a side effect of how our application works and we thought we could make use of an image file for the extra swap rather than repartitioning, but I've read too many warnings against going this route so I've decided to stick with increasing the size of the swap partition. It's easy to *try* the swap files. Then measure the performance. If the behaviour is really as specific to your custom application as you indicate, then general advice may not apply either. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Using mdconfig for swap space
Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: Thanks for the responses. The reason I'm looking at doing this is that we have increased memory on our platform from 4GB to 8GB and therefore have to increase swap space from 8GB to 16GB. We have enough space in our /var partition that we could add a swap file there and not have to touch the existing partition layout. I like the simplicity of the swap file approach, but we have an application that is very sensitive to I/O performance and I'm a little wary what this could mean. QA I know would have a field day in trying to pound the system with all sorts of stress tests. I think a dedicated swap partition is probably a safer option. Nowadays having swap twice as RAM is not necessary. If your system wasn't swapping much in the past you can safely stay with 4G in my opinion... extending it to 16G would be waste of space :) -- regards, Maciej Suszko. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Using mdconfig for swap space
Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu writes: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote: Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk for swap space as opposed to having a designated swap partition? For example, I could do something like this: Unless I am missing something basic here, it seems like a bad idea to me - to carve out and use up some memory to use as extra storage for processes that need more memory that you have taken away to give to swap. That is self defeating. In addition, one use of swap is to write dumps to if there is a crash. If you put it in memory, it is gone when you reboot. He's talking about using a swap file, rather than a dedicated partition on the disk, not in RAM! Although it is slightly slower, as Chuck has already pointed out, it might, in certain circumstances, be a somewhat more convenient solution than repartitioning/reinstalling the whole system. And as RW has said, the facility already exists and can be enabled with a couple of knobs in /etc/rc.conf. I understand using a file and making it in to swapspace. I have used that a couple of times when I needed to add some swap space temporarily. But isn't the command he is trying to use (mdconfig) for creating a memory filesystem - eg use a chunk of memory and make a file from it (then use it for swap or whatever)?That is in RAM. Not necessarily. What he wants is the '-t vnode' option for mdconfig(8). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Using mdconfig for swap space
It's easy to *try* the swap files. Then measure the performance. If the behaviour is really as specific to your custom application as you indicate, then general advice may not apply either. In fact, after discussing this with the team, we are going to do exactly that. We'll allocate an extra 8GB of swap space through an image file and let QA run their stress tests to see how things behave. That's the only way to know for sure if this will work for us. Thanks for the feedback. Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Using mdconfig for swap space
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:59:23AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote: Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk for swap space as opposed to having a designated swap partition? For example, I could do something like this: Unless I am missing something basic here, it seems like a bad idea to me - to carve out and use up some memory to use as extra storage for processes that need more memory that you have taken away to give to swap. That is self defeating. In addition, one use of swap is to write dumps to if there is a crash. If you put it in memory, it is gone when you reboot. He's talking about using a swap file, rather than a dedicated partition on the disk, not in RAM! Although it is slightly slower, as Chuck has already pointed out, it might, in certain circumstances, be a somewhat more convenient solution than repartitioning/reinstalling the whole system. And as RW has said, the facility already exists and can be enabled with a couple of knobs in /etc/rc.conf. I understand using a file and making it in to swapspace. I have used that a couple of times when I needed to add some swap space temporarily. But isn't the command he is trying to use (mdconfig) for creating a memory filesystem - eg use a chunk of memory and make a file from it (then use it for swap or whatever)?That is in RAM. No, with the -t vnode and -f filename options, he'd actually be creating a file-backed memory disk. The terminology can be a little confusing, but in this instance the file wouldn't be loaded into RAM, but would instead be treated as any other disk-like device. It's exactly the same approach as used by /etc/rc.d/addswap, which gets its configuration from $swapfile set in /etc/rc.conf. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpucoDWr6Wwu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Using mdconfig for swap space
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:23:14AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu writes: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote: Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk for swap space as opposed to having a designated swap partition? For example, I could do something like this: Unless I am missing something basic here, it seems like a bad idea to me - to carve out and use up some memory to use as extra storage for processes that need more memory that you have taken away to give to swap. That is self defeating. In addition, one use of swap is to write dumps to if there is a crash. If you put it in memory, it is gone when you reboot. He's talking about using a swap file, rather than a dedicated partition on the disk, not in RAM! Although it is slightly slower, as Chuck has already pointed out, it might, in certain circumstances, be a somewhat more convenient solution than repartitioning/reinstalling the whole system. And as RW has said, the facility already exists and can be enabled with a couple of knobs in /etc/rc.conf. I understand using a file and making it in to swapspace. I have used that a couple of times when I needed to add some swap space temporarily. But isn't the command he is trying to use (mdconfig) for creating a memory filesystem - eg use a chunk of memory and make a file from it (then use it for swap or whatever)?That is in RAM. Not necessarily. What he wants is the '-t vnode' option for mdconfig(8). Hmmm. Haven't dealt with that before. Still seems like either a regular file or a dedicated partition would be best. jerry -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
7.2-RELEASE kbdmux
Hi, I've just checked out 7.2-RELEASE from CVS. My build world was successful, but I am failing on compiling the stock standard GENERIC kernel that comes out of CVS. === kbdmux (all) cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -std=c99 -nostdinc -DHAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEADERS -include /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC/opt_global.h -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq -finline-limit=8000 --param inline-unit-growth=100 --param large-function-growth=1000 -fno-common -g -I/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC -mno-align-long-strings -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -mno-sse3 -ffreestanding -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-extensions -c /usr/src/sys/modules/kbdmux/../../dev/kbdmux/kbdmux.c /usr/src/sys/modules/kbdmux/../../dev/kbdmux/kbdmux.c:127:8: error: macro names must be identifiers /usr/src/sys/modules/kbdmux/../../dev/kbdmux/kbdmux.c: In function 'kbdmux_kbd_event': /usr/src/sys/modules/kbdmux/../../dev/kbdmux/kbdmux.c:261: warning: implicit declaration of function 'KBDMUX_CHECK_CHAR' /usr/src/sys/modules/kbdmux/../../dev/kbdmux/kbdmux.c:261: warning: nested extern declaration of 'KBDMUX_CHECK_CHAR' *** Error code 1 This is a stock standard cvsup'ed machine, nothing changed, altered, added, or removed. Any help appreciated. -- Chris. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Using mdconfig for swap space
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 04:46:56PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:59:23AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote: Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk for swap space as opposed to having a designated swap partition? For example, I could do something like this: Unless I am missing something basic here, it seems like a bad idea to me - to carve out and use up some memory to use as extra storage for processes that need more memory that you have taken away to give to swap. That is self defeating. In addition, one use of swap is to write dumps to if there is a crash. If you put it in memory, it is gone when you reboot. He's talking about using a swap file, rather than a dedicated partition on the disk, not in RAM! Although it is slightly slower, as Chuck has already pointed out, it might, in certain circumstances, be a somewhat more convenient solution than repartitioning/reinstalling the whole system. And as RW has said, the facility already exists and can be enabled with a couple of knobs in /etc/rc.conf. I understand using a file and making it in to swapspace. I have used that a couple of times when I needed to add some swap space temporarily. But isn't the command he is trying to use (mdconfig) for creating a memory filesystem - eg use a chunk of memory and make a file from it (then use it for swap or whatever)?That is in RAM. No, with the -t vnode and -f filename options, he'd actually be creating a file-backed memory disk. The terminology can be a little confusing, but in this instance the file wouldn't be loaded into RAM, but would instead be treated as any other disk-like device. It's exactly the same approach as used by /etc/rc.d/addswap, which gets its configuration from $swapfile set in /etc/rc.conf. I see that now, but it seems like the long way around to get to what you get with a swapon. Oh well. jerry Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy
I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: http://site1/dir/; http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; http://site4/dir/; I'm want to match http:* and stop matching at the first ;. My basic regex is: /http:.\+;/ But it's matching *all* the semi-colons. Thus I've Googled and tried various incatations to try and make my regex non-greedy but I can't seem to come up with the correct combination. How can I write a regex that stops matching at the first semi-colon? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: http://site1/dir/; http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; http://site4/dir/; I'm want to match http:* and stop matching at the first ;. My basic regex is: /http:.\+;/ But it's matching *all* the semi-colons. Thus I've Googled and tried various incatations to try and make my regex non-greedy but I can't seem to come up with the correct combination. How can I write a regex that stops matching at the first semi-colon? Tested in vi, not vim: /http:[^;]*/ Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgphr4aSkzZCA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 18:15:25 Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: http://site1/dir/; http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; http://site4/dir/; I'm want to match http:* and stop matching at the first ;. My basic regex is: /http:.\+;/ But it's matching *all* the semi-colons. Thus I've Googled and tried various incatations to try and make my regex non-greedy but I can't seem to come up with the correct combination. How can I write a regex that stops matching at the first semi-colon? AFAIK, there's no greediness modifier in vim regex. However, you can use character classes to solve your problem: %s/http:[^;]\+/foo/g -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy
Daniel Bye wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: http://site1/dir/; http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; http://site4/dir/; I'm want to match http:* and stop matching at the first ;. My basic regex is: /http:.\+;/ But it's matching *all* the semi-colons. Thus I've Googled and tried various incatations to try and make my regex non-greedy but I can't seem to come up with the correct combination. How can I write a regex that stops matching at the first semi-colon? Tested in vi, not vim: /http:[^;]*/ Dan Thanks for your reply. I tried it in vim (or more specifically, gvim 7.2) and your example matches all semi-colons. However in vi, it does stop at the first semi-colon as you say. Can anyone please explain the difference? Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy
Drew Tomlinson wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: http://site1/dir/; http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; http://site4/dir/; I'm want to match http:* and stop matching at the first ;. My basic regex is: /http:.\+;/ But it's matching *all* the semi-colons. Thus I've Googled and tried various incatations to try and make my regex non-greedy but I can't seem to come up with the correct combination. How can I write a regex that stops matching at the first semi-colon? Tested in vi, not vim: /http:[^;]*/ Dan Thanks for your reply. I tried it in vim (or more specifically, gvim 7.2) and your example matches all semi-colons. However in vi, it does stop at the first semi-colon as you say. Can anyone please explain the difference? Thanks, Drew Never mind. My mistake. The above does work in gvim. I had a . (dot) after http:. Thanks Mel Dan! Cheers, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
System crashed need some help troubleshooting
Hi All, I have a server in the house that has been running away fine, I noticed today that it had rebooted 17hours or so ago, looking a little further it also looks like it had rebooted around 23hours previously. panic: kmem_malloc(131072): kmem_map too small: 505761792 total allocated cpuid = 0 Uptime: 23h56m0s Physical memory: 4017 MB Dumping 1149 MB: 1134 1118 1102 1086 1070 1054 1038 1022 1006 990 974 958 942 926 910 894 878 862 846 830 814 798 782 766 750 734 718 702 686 670 654 638 622 I found the above in the /var/log/dmesg.yesterday I could use some advice on how to troubleshoot on what is going on with this machine. Regards Graeme ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this:
http://site1/dir/;
http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone;
http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName;
http://site4/dir/;
I'm want to match http:* and stop matching at the first ;. My basic
regex is:
/http:.\+;/
Use {-} in place of +.
/http:.\{-};/
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VirtualBox not opening... from 7.2 STABLE, (GUI KDE 3.5)
Hi Folks!! I did compile VirtualBox, and followed the instructions under http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-host.html But I am getting following error when launched from the terminal: # VirtualBox No protocol specified Failed to open the X11 display! When used the Icon created on SystemVirtualBox (Using KDE 3.5) Using uname -a: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #1: Sat Aug 29 15:04:29 UTC 2009 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Seems to open for few secs... and suddenly disappears... Any ideas? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: setquota + geli
Stefan Miklosovic wrote: hi, I would like to set some quotas with setquota on crypted disk with geli, but if I want to do so - /etc/fstab /dev/ad0s2f.eli /home ufs rw,noatime,userquota,groupquota 2 2 /etc/rc.conf enable_quotas=YES I can edit quotas by edquota, but with setquota command it is impossible ~# setquota -u -f /dev/ad0s2f.eli -bh1 stewe setquota : /dev/ad0s2f.eli is not a valid filesystem. Doing the following should work just fine: ~# setquota -u -f /home -bh1 stewe does setquota support encrypted disks? what should I do? thank you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Setquota supports any UFS based file system it doesn't matter that the disk is encrypted or not. Just run the above command and it should work. -- Jacques Manukyan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this: http://site1/dir/; http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone; http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName; http://site4/dir/; I'm want to match http:* and stop matching at the first ;. My basic regex is: /http:.\+;/ But it's matching *all* the semi-colons. Thus I've Googled and tried various incatations to try and make my regex non-greedy but I can't seem to come up with the correct combination. LOL. Do yourself a favour and stop Googling. Vim has a built-in help system. To access help for regular expressions: :help regexp :he regexp :he r[TAB] ... and search for non-greedy (or just scroll down). How can I write a regex that stops matching at the first semi-colon? You've already received a few answers, but I'll add one that may be even better -- rely on external programs instead. Vim can be a bit clunky at times. The simplest and most typical usage would be :[range] !command If using Perl $ perldoc -h $ perldoc -q regex -- George ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Custom ISOs
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Tim Judd wrote: I'm not sure if this is normal or not, but I'm getting 5.0KB/sec for two separate downloads each download speed for both the XFCE and Gnome DVD ISOs. Weird... I am aware that the site is sitting on wikidot.com, and not on dev-urandom.com anymore, I was wondering if there's a better place I can grab them from. I have someone interested in BSD, and was trying to download all options and let him pick. Not really. Only the web pages are on wikidot, the files are still hosted in dev-urandom.com With this download, it'll take ME a day or more to download it, then the time to meet up with this guy. Any light shed on the slow downloads? Don't know, but if it is not resolved I'll ping Glen Barber who owns this space. I can't test the speed right now myself but will do later and report back. I do have some alternate space as well, so if the worse comes to the worst, I could upload one of the ISOs there. It is currently mostly full but I believe I can trash some things. Thanks again, Manolis for ALL your hard work, it is very much appreciated. Thanks Tim, I thoroughly enjoyed creating this stuff. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ## Aloha, Download was fine from here in Hawaii when I have used it in the past. I have a 1.5 DSL circuit down. Hawaii is not the fastest place on the planet usually. I would check Tim's provider side. I know of several mainland friends who have slow cable TV lines. Hope you find the issue and can get it resolved. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Correct way to configure an IP range for firewall
Hello all, A quick question - I have a /29 block of IPs that needs to be handled by a firewall I'm setting up. Two addresses are lost to broadcast and network, one is the ISP gateway, so we end up with 5 usable IPs that can be assigned to the external interface. The question is how to do this correctly? I want only one of the addresses assigned to the firewall itself, another will be used as the public nat address for all hosts on the lan. Remaining three addresses will be used as bidirectional nat for servers. Am I correct in assuming that I just need to add four ifconfig_vr0_alias[0-3] lines to rc.conf? What happens if in the future we get a much bigger IP block, is there a more efficient way of accomplishing the same thing? I don't actually want the firewall to consider itself the final destination for any of the additional IPs, it just needs to pass them to pf for nat and filtering. - Max ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Custom ISOs
Al Plant wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: Tim Judd wrote: I'm not sure if this is normal or not, but I'm getting 5.0KB/sec for two separate downloads each download speed for both the XFCE and Gnome DVD ISOs. Weird... I am aware that the site is sitting on wikidot.com, and not on dev-urandom.com anymore, I was wondering if there's a better place I can grab them from. I have someone interested in BSD, and was trying to download all options and let him pick. Not really. Only the web pages are on wikidot, the files are still hosted in dev-urandom.com With this download, it'll take ME a day or more to download it, then the time to meet up with this guy. Any light shed on the slow downloads? Don't know, but if it is not resolved I'll ping Glen Barber who owns this space. I can't test the speed right now myself but will do later and report back. I do have some alternate space as well, so if the worse comes to the worst, I could upload one of the ISOs there. It is currently mostly full but I believe I can trash some things. Thanks again, Manolis for ALL your hard work, it is very much appreciated. Thanks Tim, I thoroughly enjoyed creating this stuff. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ## Aloha, Download was fine from here in Hawaii when I have used it in the past. I have a 1.5 DSL circuit down. Hawaii is not the fastest place on the planet usually. I would check Tim's provider side. I know of several mainland friends who have slow cable TV lines. Hope you find the issue and can get it resolved. And I can confirm that it maxes out my connection here. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Correct way to configure an IP range for firewall
Maxim Khitrov wrote: Am I correct in assuming that I just need to add four ifconfig_vr0_alias[0-3] lines to rc.conf? What happens if in the future we get a much bigger IP block, is there a more efficient way of accomplishing the same thing? I don't actually want the firewall to consider itself the final destination for any of the additional IPs, it just needs to pass them to pf for nat and filtering. Assuming your assigned network is 192.0.2.24/29: ipv4_addrs_vr0=192.0.2.25-30 See rc.conf(5) for details. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Correct way to configure an IP range for firewall
Maxim Khitrov wrote: Hello all, A quick question - I have a /29 block of IPs that needs to be handled by a firewall I'm setting up. Two addresses are lost to broadcast and network, one is the ISP gateway, so we end up with 5 usable IPs that can be assigned to the external interface. The question is how to do this correctly? I want only one of the addresses assigned to the firewall itself, another will be used as the public nat address for all hosts on the lan. Remaining three addresses will be used as bidirectional nat for servers. Am I correct in assuming that I just need to add four ifconfig_vr0_alias[0-3] lines to rc.conf? What happens if in the future we get a much bigger IP block, is there a more efficient way of accomplishing the same thing? I don't actually want the firewall to consider itself the final destination for any of the additional IPs, it just needs to pass them to pf for nat and filtering. - Max ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha Max, What you have sounds like an ATM ( Asynchronous Transfer Mode ) circuit. I have one here that is for three servers a desktop and one spare IP. I got the setup from Michael Paoli at cal.berkely.edu in California. With setup I had to put firewalls (PF) on the three servers facing the internet and the desktop as well. There are 2 references I used for this firewall setup. Absolute FerrBSD - M. Lucas Pg. 273 and bsdly.bet Peter Hansteen. Both are on this list. If you would like to see the three sheets on how I set this up I can fax them to you or email. The setup for more IP's should be scalable but the IP's and default route would change I would think. You could keep using /29 ATM blocks and increase in increments with different IP's most likely with out changing the first ones. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Custom ISOs
On 9/9/09, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: Al Plant wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: Tim Judd wrote: I'm not sure if this is normal or not, but I'm getting 5.0KB/sec for two separate downloads each download speed for both the XFCE and Gnome DVD ISOs. Weird... I am aware that the site is sitting on wikidot.com, and not on dev-urandom.com anymore, I was wondering if there's a better place I can grab them from. I have someone interested in BSD, and was trying to download all options and let him pick. Not really. Only the web pages are on wikidot, the files are still hosted in dev-urandom.com With this download, it'll take ME a day or more to download it, then the time to meet up with this guy. Any light shed on the slow downloads? Don't know, but if it is not resolved I'll ping Glen Barber who owns this space. I can't test the speed right now myself but will do later and report back. I do have some alternate space as well, so if the worse comes to the worst, I could upload one of the ISOs there. It is currently mostly full but I believe I can trash some things. Thanks again, Manolis for ALL your hard work, it is very much appreciated. Thanks Tim, I thoroughly enjoyed creating this stuff. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ## Aloha, Download was fine from here in Hawaii when I have used it in the past. I have a 1.5 DSL circuit down. Hawaii is not the fastest place on the planet usually. I would check Tim's provider side. I know of several mainland friends who have slow cable TV lines. Hope you find the issue and can get it resolved. And I can confirm that it maxes out my connection here. Apparently was just a temp thing -- it looks like it had finished in ~40 minutes, but I started the download, wrote the mail, and then went to bed. Apparently it normalized. Sorry for the disruption. --TJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: netbooks for freebsd?
I like my s10e too - but remember I don't have native wireless, I'm using ndis. There are also some acpi glitches which the currently available patch only partially resolves. re: acpi patch: Fascinating - now it reboots instead of hanginggonna try current one of these days... As far as ditching ndis, I got one of these, and I'm quite happy with it: OxfordTEC.com Detailed Invoice: https://www.oxfordtec.com/us/account_history_info.php?order_id=XYZPDQ 1 x SparkLAN WPEA-165G miniPCI Wireless card - Atheros AR5006EG AR2423A mini PCI-E, mPCIe adapter (WPEA165G-S0) = $24.95 Best, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?
I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10 screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act as the mouse. Pref'ly, no touch-pad. The ASUS and just about every other notebook-size device has this kind of scratch-n-sniff pad; unfortunately, it looks as tho my palm would go there. (I *did* see a separate mouse [and other add-ons] for the EEE; that might be a work around.) Any clues? gary ps: just thought i'd ask here first... . -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Sound in FreeBSD
I want play *.mp3 in to FreeBSD My system data uname -a: 6.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 26 11:43:51 UTC 2008 r...@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 my sound driver: snd_hda $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: Intel 82801I High Definition Audio Controller at memory 0xf302 irq 22 kld snd_hda [20071129_0050] (1p/1r/1v channels duplex default) pcm1: ATI (Unknown) High Definition Audio Controller at memory 0xf101 irq 17 kld snd_hda [20071129_0050] (mixer only) my steps for auto load : 1 ee /boot/loader.conf #Sound Driver snd_hda_load=YES (man snd_hda) 2 reboot 3 login 4 kldstat result kldstat: Id Refs AddressSize Name 17 0xc040 7c89e8 kernel 21 0xc0bc9000 5c894acpi.ko 31 0xc8dcc000 2000 fire_saver.ko 41 0xc948a000 12000snd_hda.ko 51 0xc949c000 1d000sound.ko sound driver was loader I run X server: startx and... the sound is not present Next i press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (down X) Manually I do an unloading and loading $ kldunload snd_hda $ kldload snd_hda After these actions all works Why the such occurs Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sound in FreeBSD
Hi. 2009/9/9 Алексей Михайлович merfi...@bk.ru: I want play *.mp3 in to FreeBSD My system data uname -a: 6.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 26 11:43:51 UTC 2008 r...@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 my sound driver: snd_hda $ cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: pcm0: Intel 82801I High Definition Audio Controller at memory 0xf302 irq 22 kld snd_hda [20071129_0050] (1p/1r/1v channels duplex default) pcm1: ATI (Unknown) High Definition Audio Controller at memory 0xf101 irq 17 kld snd_hda [20071129_0050] (mixer only) my steps for auto load : 1 ee /boot/loader.conf #Sound Driver snd_hda_load=YES (man snd_hda) 2 reboot 3 login 4 kldstat result kldstat: Id Refs Address Size Name 1 7 0xc040 7c89e8 kernel 2 1 0xc0bc9000 5c894 acpi.ko 3 1 0xc8dcc000 2000 fire_saver.ko 4 1 0xc948a000 12000 snd_hda.ko 5 1 0xc949c000 1d000 sound.ko sound driver was loader I run X server: startx and... the sound is not present Next i press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (down X) Manually I do an unloading and loading $ kldunload snd_hda $ kldload snd_hda After these actions all works Why the such occurs Thanks What is the output of mixer(8) before and after X is started? Also, what window manager / desktop environment are you using? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:08:36PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10 screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act as the mouse. Pref'ly, no touch-pad. The ASUS and just about every other notebook-size device has this kind of scratch-n-sniff pad; unfortunately, it looks as tho my palm would go there. (I *did* see a separate mouse [and other add-ons] for the EEE; that might be a work around.) I sympathize with your desire for a trackpoint (instead of a touchpad), and this is one reason I keep getting ThinkPads for my laptops. Unfortunately, I don't know of any netbooks that come with trackpoints. I hope you get an answer on this list so I'll get one as well (with the obvious preference for FreeBSD, or at least *some* BSD Unix, compatibility). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Philip Machanick: caution: if you write code like this, immediately after you are fired the person assigned to maintaining your code after you leave will resign pgpc3wdufcET5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?
Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:08:36PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10 screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act as the mouse. Pref'ly, no touch-pad. The ASUS and just about every other notebook-size device has this kind of scratch-n-sniff pad; unfortunately, it looks as tho my palm would go there. (I *did* see a separate mouse [and other add-ons] for the EEE; that might be a work around.) I sympathize with your desire for a trackpoint (instead of a touchpad), and this is one reason I keep getting ThinkPads for my laptops. Unfortunately, I don't know of any netbooks that come with trackpoints. I hope you get an answer on this list so I'll get one as well (with the obvious preference for FreeBSD, or at least *some* BSD Unix, compatibility). Aloha Gary, The HP Mini 1000 has a pad and it is not good. If I accidentally brush it with a finger it acts as a click same as the mouse buttons do. I think this is a terrible feature. ( No way to kill it either I checked. )I thought it was because I have large hands, but Julie has trouble too so she brought out a USB wireless logitech mouse from her stash of stuff and it works fine. Good Luck... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
DVD-R not recording .iso
Aloha, on FreeBSD 8 Current I have installed growisofs. I want to burn a DVD R of /path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . #growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=/path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . Got this from FreeBSD handbook. Get no such file or directory error. Whats wrong with the syntax? Is this the correct way to copy an .iso onto a DVD-R for installs? Or can I just use burncd like somebody on the BSD forum said they did? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: DVD-R not recording .iso
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: Aloha, on FreeBSD 8 Current I have installed growisofs. I want to burn a DVD R of /path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . #growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=/path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . Got this from FreeBSD handbook. Get no such file or directory error. Whats wrong with the syntax? Is this the correct way to copy an .iso onto a DVD-R for installs? Or can I just use burncd like somebody on the BSD forum said they did? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 do you have this in /boot/loader.conf? atapicam_load=YES -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: DVD-R not recording .iso
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, on FreeBSD 8 Current I have installed growisofs. I want to burn a DVD R of /path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . #growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=/path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . Got this from FreeBSD handbook. Get no such file or directory error. Whats wrong with the syntax? Caveats about anything I say: 1) I'm using 7.2, and b) I'm using +R media. Nothing is wrong with the syntax, although your command above says the ISO file is in a directory called /path. Does the directory exist? Is the ISO in that directory? Permissions OK on everything? Does /dev/cd0 point to your burner? And as Adam said, make sure you have atapicam loaded. I'm also assuming that dot at the end of your line is a period at the end of your sentence, and not part of the command you issued. Is this the correct way to copy an .iso onto a DVD-R for installs? It burns the ISO to the disk as a premastered disk, which is what you want in this situation. If you wanted to just copy the ISO as a file, you'd replace the = sign with a space. Or can I just use burncd like somebody on the BSD forum said they did? I have no idea what somebody on the BSD forum said :^) HTH. Hang loose. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
7.2-RELEASE/amd64 - weird stuff in dmesg
Hi everyone, I was wondering whether anyone could shed some light on the following messages I am seeing in dmesg: 33aarrpp:: uunnkknnoowwnn hhaarrddwwaarree aaress format (0x) ress format (0x) arp: unakrnpo:w nu nhkanrodwwna rhea raddwdarrees sa dfdorremsast f(o0rxm0a0t0 0()0 x ) arp:3 uanrkpn:o wunn khnaorwdnw ahraer dawdadrree sasd dfroersmsa tf o(r0mxat0 0(00x000)0 0 ) arp: unknown hardware address format (0xarp:0 7u0n0k)n o wn hardware address format (0x0700) aarrpp:: uunnkknnoowwnn hhaarrddwwaarree aarree ffoorrmmaatt ((00xx0077)) -- Any ideas whats with the jumbled/double letters? Is there something wrong with the machine or is it a bug in the OS? I have seen similar symptoms on SMP enabled boxes when shutting down if 2 processes call kprintf() or printf() at the same time, it results in garbled output. Should i turn a blind eye to this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:50:01PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:08:36PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10 screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act as the mouse. Pref'ly, no touch-pad. The ASUS and just about every other notebook-size device has this kind of scratch-n-sniff pad; unfortunately, it looks as tho my palm would go there. (I *did* see a separate mouse [and other add-ons] for the EEE; that might be a work around.) I sympathize with your desire for a trackpoint (instead of a touchpad), and this is one reason I keep getting ThinkPads for my laptops. Unfortunately, I don't know of any netbooks that come with trackpoints. I hope you get an answer on this list so I'll get one as well (with the obvious preference for FreeBSD, or at least *some* BSD Unix, compatibility). Aloha Gary, The HP Mini 1000 has a pad and it is not good. If I accidentally brush it with a finger it acts as a click same as the mouse buttons do. I think this is a terrible feature. ( No way to kill it either I checked. )I thought it was because I have large hands, but Julie has trouble too so she brought out a USB wireless logitech mouse from her stash of stuff and it works fine. Aloha Al [and Chad also], I fat-finger any of these mico-telephone keys[!]; it's worse yet if my finger spasms or even twitches. Really, with one hand, my hand has to go smack in the middle of these small computers. Which is where the touch pads are according to the pix. Are you saying that you can use your HP with the wireless mouse and still miss the pad most of the time? I checked out the ASUS extras, including the mouse and optical drive. Anybody on-list know if the EE touchpad can be completely disabled via the hardware setup/config? gary Good Luck... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?
Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:50:01PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:08:36PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10 screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act as the mouse. Pref'ly, no touch-pad. The ASUS and just about every other notebook-size device has this kind of scratch-n-sniff pad; unfortunately, it looks as tho my palm would go there. (I *did* see a separate mouse [and other add-ons] for the EEE; that might be a work around.) I sympathize with your desire for a trackpoint (instead of a touchpad), and this is one reason I keep getting ThinkPads for my laptops. Unfortunately, I don't know of any netbooks that come with trackpoints. I hope you get an answer on this list so I'll get one as well (with the obvious preference for FreeBSD, or at least *some* BSD Unix, compatibility). Aloha Gary, The HP Mini 1000 has a pad and it is not good. If I accidentally brush it with a finger it acts as a click same as the mouse buttons do. I think this is a terrible feature. ( No way to kill it either I checked. )I thought it was because I have large hands, but Julie has trouble too so she brought out a USB wireless logitech mouse from her stash of stuff and it works fine. Aloha Al [and Chad also], I fat-finger any of these mico-telephone keys[!]; it's worse yet if my finger spasms or even twitches. Really, with one hand, my hand has to go smack in the middle of these small computers. Which is where the touch pads are according to the pix. Are you saying that you can use your HP with the wireless mouse and still miss the pad most of the time? I checked out the ASUS extras, including the mouse and optical drive. Anybody on-list know if the EE touchpad can be completely disabled via the hardware setup/config? gary Good Luck... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Aloha, I dont use the keypad at all. Keys and Mouse only. The HP Mini touchpad is centered below the keyboard, but the keyboard had regular sized keys which is good. I think if you have a wireless mouse on any of them you could cover the touchpad with something like card stock or plastic so the pressure or proximity of a hand would not set it off. It is really bad that you cant turn off the feature that causes the false clicks etc. Have fun... ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
