Re: Cron Question

2008-09-06 Thread ElihuJ
Can anyone help me with this? Thank you again. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cron-Question-tp19272656p19343758.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread perryh
So you're saying that the white on my [monster] CRT is not the same as on a future LCD Display? rats:) Not only that, but your monster CRT probably doesn't match a smaller CRT; and an old-ish CRT whose phosphors have aged (and whose focus may have gotten a bit fuzzy) probably doesn't match a

Re: how do I disable the generation of XOFFs when using tip over a serial port to another device

2008-09-06 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 12:20 -0700, Jeff Haran wrote: Dear Sirs, I have connected one of the RS232 ports of my PC with FreeBSD (v6.3) on it to a device that does not understand XON/XOFF flow control. I run the tip program to connect to that device. How do I configure tip and/or the serial

Jittering sound on streaming

2008-09-06 Thread Jos Chrispijn
I am running a music station now and then and for some reason there exist a jittering sound after some hours. I think this is caused by BSD, but can't put my finger on yet. There was a thread on this some months ago but that thread didn't solve my problem. I use Icecast and/or Shoutcast for

Compiling Issue

2008-09-06 Thread j c
Hello thank you for reading. I've had an ongoing problem of freezing. It happens randomly, i feel, but sometimes it seems like it happens more under heavy load (but not always). I've ran numerous tests: memtest, hard drive tests, cpu load tests, basically most of the tests on Ultimate Boot CD,

Re: Jittering sound on streaming

2008-09-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
try setting rtprio on your streaming app and check if it still persist On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Jos Chrispijn wrote: I am running a music station now and then and for some reason there exist a jittering sound after some hours. I think this is caused by BSD, but can't put my finger on yet. There

switching discs during install

2008-09-06 Thread James Strother
I just completed an install of FreeBSD 7.0 and couldn't help but wonder why it was necessary for me to switch discs back and forth so much while installing ported applications. I've used FreeBSD on and off for a number of years and this issue has always irked me a just a little bit. It means

Re: switching discs during install

2008-09-06 Thread Manolis Kiagias
James Strother wrote: I just completed an install of FreeBSD 7.0 and couldn't help but wonder why it was necessary for me to switch discs back and forth so much while installing ported applications. I've used FreeBSD on and off for a number of years and this issue has always irked me a just a

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:36:45 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you're saying that the white on my [monster] CRT is not the same as on a future LCD Display? rats:) Exactly. And compare the black, too, best way to differentiate with CRT and LCD side by side with a

Re: Jittering sound on streaming

2008-09-06 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Wojciech Puchar wrote: try setting rtprio on your streaming app and check if it still persist Great, that really worked! thanks for sharing, Jos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Open-vm-tools broken?

2008-09-06 Thread Mark
Hmm, getting this error: Vmware: {root} % make === open-vm-tools-102166_2 is marked as broken: leaves files behind on deinstall. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/open-vm-tools. Vmware: {root} % Cute. I still like to run the open-vm-tools, though. Anyone know which other

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread John Almberg
On Sep 3, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Gary Kline wrote: This is for any webmaster types: which color gray (in hex, #xx) is best for a site that has probably very long articles? I've googled around and found various grays such as #696969 or #708090, but I haven't found anything that really

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi there, To prevent boredom, two shades of deep gray or blue-gray would be besy. I may be wrong, but no one ever read a long block of text because of the color of the font. A better way to prevent boredom is to write interesting text! And do not make the mistake of putting your long

bsdlabel does not create geli slices ie; /dev/ad4s1.elia

2008-09-06 Thread Cem Kayali
Hello! After initializing geli and attach geli enabled partition, i would like to create freebsd slices. Once i try 'bsdlabel -w /dev/ad4s1.eli' and then 'bsdlabel -e /dev/ad4s1.eli', this does not create ie; /dev/ad4s1.elia and i can not run newfs in success: 'Could not find special

Re: Open-vm-tools broken?

2008-09-06 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
-- From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 8:27 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Open-vm-tools broken? Hmm, getting this error: Vmware: {root} % make === open-vm-tools-102166_2 is marked as broken: leaves

Re: broken autoconf upgrade

2008-09-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While running portupgrade -ai, I noticed this else \ rc=$?; \ cd . \ $restore $backupdir/* `echo ./autoconf-2.62.info | sed 's|[^/]*$||'` ; \ fi; \ rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc

Re: Problems building port, missing library(?)

2008-09-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Aggelidis Nikos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi to all the list, i tried to install gtk-murrine-engine from ports... So i first updated them: * removed the old ports directory to start fresh and then did csup -L 2 -h cvsup.fr.FreeBSD.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile *i then

How to Catch Signals in kernel threads

2008-09-06 Thread kr Lekha
Hi, I wanted to kill my kernel threads created in a kernel module gracefully . I tired psignal(kthread, SIGKILL); this signal reschedules the thread. But how can this thread know that SIGKILL was called and i can exit from the thread? I tired to register a signal handler for SIGABRT / any other

Re: Jittering sound on streaming

2008-09-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Wojciech Puchar wrote: try setting rtprio on your streaming app and check if it still persist Great, that really worked! unix is not realtime OS. rtprio make process realtime, which mostly works. true realtime task will be if it will lock it's memory to prevent swapping. in reality

Re: bsdlabel does not create geli slices ie; /dev/ad4s1.elia

2008-09-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello! After initializing geli and attach geli enabled partition, i would like to create freebsd slices. Once i try 'bsdlabel -w /dev/ad4s1.eli' and then 'bsdlabel -e /dev/ad4s1.eli', this does not create ie; /dev/ad4s1.elia and i can not run newfs in success: 'Could not find special

core manpages

2008-09-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hello, I'm testing an upgrade of 5.5 - 6.3, so I installed 5.5 from an iso, and installed the minimal system. This minimal system is apparently without manpages for the basic commands, or perhaps the default MANPATH is incorrect. Where can I find the base manpages to cover find, chmod, ls, cd,

Re: broken autoconf upgrade

2008-09-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope. And that port doesn't do anything different with the texinfo files, either. Try just cleaning things up and making another attempt. Or remove all of the auto* ports and try to upgrade everything remaining; I've

upgrade path from 5.5

2008-09-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
So if some ports aren't supported on 5.5, I'd better get my aging gateway upgraded. This begs the question of the correct path. I'm tempted to do a fresh install of 7.0 and then restore, but mergemaster does a better job of making sure the config files are both updated, and that nothing is lost.

alternatives to mergemaster

2008-09-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
The downside of mergemaster is that it is only a 2-way merge, where a 3-way would know better than you prompt you for changes that you didn't make. This makes mergemaster far more tedious than it has to be. Has anyone considered a good 3-way merge tool? I'm using Git for development, and it's

Re: Problems building port, missing library(?)

2008-09-06 Thread matt donovan
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aggelidis Nikos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi to all the list, i tried to install gtk-murrine-engine from ports... So i first updated them: * removed the old ports directory to start fresh and then did csup

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread Kent
On Friday 05 September 2008 08:36:45 pm Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:38:59PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:06:01 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still open to the bg color. The display white is not true, paper-white. Anyway, pretty

Re: core manpages

2008-09-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 12:38:57 -0400, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm testing an upgrade of 5.5 - 6.3, so I installed 5.5 from an iso, and installed the minimal system. This minimal system is apparently without manpages for the basic commands, or perhaps the default

Re: alternatives to mergemaster

2008-09-06 Thread Christian Laursen
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The downside of mergemaster is that it is only a 2-way merge, where a 3-way would know better than you prompt you for changes that you didn't make. This makes mergemaster far more tedious than it has to be. Has anyone considered a good 3-way merge

changes to -CURRENT tty

2008-09-06 Thread Robert Huff
(Yes, I'm on current@ ... in digest mode. Besides others may be interested.) The 20080820 entry in /usr/src/UPDATING concerns a substantial change to the tty subsystem. Assuming I'm not trying anything fancy, and that I edit out the not-yet-updated devices, may I reasonably

Re: bsdlabel does not create geli slices ie; /dev/ad4s1.elia

2008-09-06 Thread Cem Kayali
Well, could this be because i partitioned ad4 hard disk by gparted? Disk has other OSs on other partitions... Very strange, i couldn't find any helpfull information about this on the net --- nor similar problem. Maybe i should try a latest snaphot instead of FreeBSD 7 release. Regards, Cem

Re: bsdlabel does not create geli slices ie; /dev/ad4s1.elia

2008-09-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
did you check that after bsdlabel -e partitions are actually updated? On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Cem Kayali wrote: Well, could this be because i partitioned ad4 hard disk by gparted? Disk has other OSs on other partitions... Very strange, i couldn't find any helpfull information about this on the

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
How do you have your digital camera set to color correct for white? Your eyes the simplest method to check if your monitor reproduces colors exactly is to display some photo from digital camera and make photo of the screen, then cut out the image part from photo and display near the first.

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-08-17 - 2008-09-06

2008-09-06 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 03:17:25PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hi there, To prevent boredom, two shades of deep gray or blue-gray would be besy. I may be wrong, but no one ever read a long block of text because of the color of the font. A better way to prevent boredom is to write

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:38:45AM -0700, Kent wrote: But the ability of people to read it is an important consideration. I hate those web pages with dark backgrounds that I have to use the mouse to select the text so that I can read it. I am a speed reader and basically see words as

Grid computing under FreeBSD using jails ... ?

2008-09-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it possible to run software on two different jails that would load balance processes between two or more VPSs? - -- Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread Gary Kline
{ After spending hours looking for a used ThinkPad} On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 01:53:46PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:36:45 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you're saying that the white on my [monster] CRT is not the same as on a future LCD Display?

Re: changes to -CURRENT tty

2008-09-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:05:15 -0400, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Yes, I'm on current@ ... in digest mode. Besides others may be interested.) The 20080820 entry in /usr/src/UPDATING concerns a substantial change to the tty subsystem. Assuming I'm not trying anything fancy, and that

Panic in IPv4 multicast code

2008-09-06 Thread Alec Kloss
I've been playing around with some multicast stuff with rtpdump and I have what appears to be a 100%-repeatable panic on 7.1-PRERELEASE (csupped on 20080905): (kgdb) bt #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:196 #1 0xc078f8c7 in boot (howto=260) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:418 #2 0xc078fb89 in

Re: Journaling filesystem support in FreeBSD

2008-09-06 Thread Jisakiel
- Mensaje original De: Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Enviado: domingo, 7 de septiembre, 2008 2:23:50 Asunto: Journaling filesystem support in FreeBSD I know about soft updates and background fsck, but while they make the system available quickly

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 01:33:55AM +0200, cpghost wrote: On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:38:45AM -0700, Kent wrote: (...) IIRC, dyslexics have a much harder time reading when the background is dark. Kent That's really interesting! ... But everyone's different: Personally, I really

Re: Grid computing under FreeBSD using jails ... ?

2008-09-06 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
Is it possible to run software on two different jails that would load balance processes between two or more VPSs? FreeBSD Xen dom0 support looks like it will be a ways out yet I am also interested in using FreeBSD as the host in some grid/cloud solution I am open to any Ideas anyone has. Sam

Re: bsdlabel does not create geli slices ie; /dev/ad4s1.elia - fix

2008-09-06 Thread Cem Kayali
Hi, OK, i think i found the problem: I have attached a usb-memory disk and tried to same steps, i got same error: 'bsdlabel -w /dev/da0s1.eli', 'bsdlabel -e /dev/da0s1.eli', and 'newfs /dev/da0s1.elia': 'Could not find special device'. Then, i deleted all partitions, and created single

mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-06 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, Well, my clients at church are still having issues and after working with George, a respondant to my original questions, I think that most, if not all, of my problems are related to DNS and how we've got it improperly configured. First, a crude drawing of how our mail server exists in the

Re: alternatives to mergemaster

2008-09-06 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Sep 6, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Christian Laursen wrote: I always run mergemaster in auto upgrade mode. From the man page: -U Attempt to auto upgrade files that have not been user modi- fied. This can also be achieved by putting AUTO_UPGRADE=yes in /etc/mergemaster.rc.

Re: changes to -CURRENT tty

2008-09-06 Thread Robert Huff
Giorgos Keramidas writes: Since you are running -CURRENT, it is worth keeping in mind that there is no guarantee that the 'head' branch is stable enough for anything. So _you_ are the one who has to pick up the pieces and reassemble a working system if you update at the 'wrong time'.

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, Well, my clients at church are still having issues and after working with George, a respondant to my original questions, I think that most, if not all, of my problems are related to DNS and how we've got it improperly configured. First, a crude drawing of how our

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 04:09:12PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: I had no trouble dropping a 120GB Fujitsu into my T23 recently (was 30GB), so I expect 160GB would be fine, especially in a much later model. And 2GB is likely plenty for anything but Microsloth Vasta. Something to consider is

Burncd 700MB rw/cd

2008-09-06 Thread FBSD1
Been using burncd since Freebsd 4.0 with 650MB rw/cd's just fine. My local computer store had a sale on 700MB rw/cd's and I picked up a few. Burncd gives msg (Failure - read_big illegal request) on these 700MB rw/cd's. The Freebsd 7.0 man burncd has no info on large sized rw/cd's? Does burncd

Re: alternatives to mergemaster

2008-09-06 Thread Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez
El Sáb 06 Sep 2008, Christian Laursen escribió: Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The downside of mergemaster is that it is only a 2-way merge, where a 3-way would know better than you prompt you for changes that you didn't make. This makes mergemaster far more tedious than it

MD5 errors

2008-09-06 Thread abc
i was downloading 7.0-RELEASE, and found the following MD5 errors: doc/ ERROR: MD5 (doc.cc) = a83976995e055dbe67030397902c5ab9 MD5SUM MD5 (doc.cc) = 662363b086db1164eb922024428df2df ERROR: MD5 (install.sh) = 0ddd67ac6a0ca00e0131f63bcde9b145 MD5SUM MD5 (install.sh) =

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-06 Thread Sahil Tandon
Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't take a rocket scientist, or a computer scientist, to figure out we've got DNS issues. What exactly is the problem though? What problems are you having on the mail server that lead you to the above conclusion? -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On September 6, 2008 7:28:28 PM -0600 Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Well, my clients at church are still having issues and after working with George, a respondant to my original questions, I think that most, if not all, of my problems are related to DNS and how we've got it

Re: mail server DNS configuration questions

2008-09-06 Thread George Davidovich
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 07:28:28PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: Well, my clients at church are still having issues and after working with George, a respondant to my original questions, I think that most, if not all, of my problems are related to DNS and how we've got it improperly