Re: eps to jpg conversion - which program?

2008-11-09 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 23:36:32 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, what guarantee do you have that all the filenames that match that wildcard lack spaces in them? Your [ and convert commands will botch badly in that case. See below. This is completely correct. If files are

Re: host -6 failure

2008-11-09 Thread mdh
--- On Sat, 11/8/08, David Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: host -6 failure To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 8:10 PM On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:55 PM, mdh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Ian
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 13:10:46 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:40:51AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a FreeBSD server that has about 10,500 subdirectories within a single directory. This number will keep rising and I assume UFS2 has a limit to the number of

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread H.fazaeli
The number of files and sub-directories is limited by the number of available inodes which is fixed at the time you create the file system (by -i argument to newfs(8)). Anyway, stick with Jeremy's advise if you do not like trouble. Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 06:40:46PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:40:51AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a FreeBSD server that has about 10,500 subdirectories within a single directory. This number will keep rising and I assume UFS2 has a limit to the

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 10:35:21AM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 06:40:46PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:40:51AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a FreeBSD server that has about 10,500 subdirectories within a single

Re: Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?

2008-11-09 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 12:44 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD? I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible. You could try the gimp for manipulating bitmap images. For creating vector images, try either inkscape

Re: FreeBSD network ISP provider

2008-11-09 Thread Fbsd1
Pieter Donche wrote: I installed FreeBSD 7.0 already on a system at my office (from CDs) and set up internet connection while installing using the office LAN (and its DHCP service). I installed FreeBSD also on my laptop at home (with no network connection). (with X windows; startx gives me twm

[port : www/sams] What's wrong with my patch?

2008-11-09 Thread Yuriy Grishin
Hello, More than 2 weeks ago I tried to take maintainership of www/sams because it hasn't been updated for a long time. Current state : feedback. (but I've sent the file) Could somebody please explain me what wrong with the patch is? Why didn't the state changed? See the pr here :

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 10:47:11AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:35:21 +0100, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that this does not limit the number of files you can have in a single directory, since normal files do not contain hardlinks to the parent directory,

why do I have 2 aliases.db files?

2008-11-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
I just noticed that I have one in /etc/mail and one in /etc, and postfix is reading the one in /etc which the newaliases command hasn't touched in ages 'cause it's been updating the one in /etc/mail. /etc/mail looks like a sendmail thing. Should I just symlink /etc/aliases.db to

Re: why do I have 2 aliases.db files?

2008-11-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 07:19:05AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: I just noticed that I have one in /etc/mail and one in /etc, and postfix is reading the one in /etc which the newaliases command hasn't touched in ages 'cause it's been updating the one in /etc/mail. It sounds like your

Re: debugging cronjobs not running

2008-11-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 06:57:10AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: So, I'm running cron in debug mode, and I do see things like this about my crontab. I'm not sure why you sent this to me directly, but I do appreciate you CC'ing the mailing lists. :-) load_entry()...returning successfully

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:35:21 +0100, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that this does not limit the number of files you can have in a single directory, since normal files do not contain hardlinks to the parent directory, but there are of course limits to the total number of files and

Gconf error in Pidgin Abiword application on xfce Desktop

2008-11-09 Thread Fbsd1
I installed the package of the Generic instant messenger application (Pidgin)on xfce desktop. It seems to work fine, but in the log it gives this message text. GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or

Re: Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?

2008-11-09 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 12:16 +0100, Jos Chrispijn wrote: Uit een eerder bericht (9-11-2008 4:43): That has been known to work, but not without some serious hacking. One major problem is the software needs administrative access, so you need to copy the registry from a working windows to the

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Chris Pratt
On Nov 9, 2008, at 12:18 AM, Ian wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 13:10:46 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:40:51AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a FreeBSD server that has about 10,500 subdirectories within a single directory. This number will keep rising and I

FreeBSD network ISP provider

2008-11-09 Thread Pieter Donche
I installed FreeBSD 7.0 already on a system at my office (from CDs) and set up internet connection while installing using the office LAN (and its DHCP service). I installed FreeBSD also on my laptop at home (with no network connection). (with X windows; startx gives me twm ..) I want to

debugging cronjobs not running

2008-11-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
So, I'm running cron in debug mode, and I do see things like this about my crontab. load_entry()...returning successfully load_env, read */5 * * * * cacti /usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/share/cacti/poller.php 1/dev/null 21 load_env, parse error, state = 7 but that parse_error line is the same for

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 10:47:11AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:35:21 +0100, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that this does not limit the number of files you can have in a single directory, since normal files do not contain hardlinks to the parent directory,

Re: why do I have 2 aliases.db files?

2008-11-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 04:30:24AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The only piece of /etc/mail which is even remotely related to postfix is /etc/mail/mailer.conf, which tells mailwrapper(1) what actual binaries ^^ That should have been

Re: Question on creating a video server

2008-11-09 Thread Da Rock
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 22:09 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get and what software works with it? mplayer play video files fine. no idea about HDTV tunes Mplayer works great, so does

Re: Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?

2008-11-09 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Uit een eerder bericht (9-11-2008 4:43): That has been known to work, but not without some serious hacking. One major problem is the software needs administrative access, so you need to copy the registry from a working windows to the wine system. Could it be possible to use Adobe's Mac

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I don't want to change the topic of discussion, but I *highly* recommend you ***stop*** whatever it is you're doing that is creating such a directory structure. Software which has to iterate through that directory using opendir() and readdir() will get slower and slower

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi, I have a FreeBSD server that has about 10,500 subdirectories within a single directory. This number will keep rising and I assume UFS2 has a limit to the number of sub-directories in a single directory - can anyone tell me what it is? make sure your kernel is compiled with options

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
With the implementation of UFS_DIRHASH the practical limit on the size of directories is now a great deal larger. In particular the slow down caused by linear search through the contents has been but - try making (by shell script for example) empty files. it creates it fast and rapidly slows

Re: debugging cronjobs not running

2008-11-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure why you sent this to me directly, but I do appreciate you CC'ing the mailing lists. :-) Old thread, my bad. No, this has never happened to me, or on any of the systems I've administrated. Found it. The

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Robert Huff
Wojciech Puchar writes: the limit is 32765, just because link count is 2 bytes wide and each subdir adds two to base directory. you have to change to 2 level hierarchy. Question (for anyone who has an informed opinion): If there any technical reason that couldn't be

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 11:02:07AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Wojciech Puchar writes: the limit is 32765, just because link count is 2 bytes wide and each subdir adds two to base directory. you have to change to 2 level hierarchy. Question (for anyone who has an informed

Re: [port : www/sams] What's wrong with my patch?

2008-11-09 Thread matt donovan
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Yuriy Grishin [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello, More than 2 weeks ago I tried to take maintainership of www/sams because it hasn't been updated for a long time. Current state : feedback. (but I've sent the file) Could somebody please explain me what wrong with

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Dan
Jeremy Chadwick([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.08 18:40:46 -0800: I don't want to change the topic of discussion, but I *highly* recommend you ***stop*** whatever it is you're doing that is creating such a directory structure. Software which has to iterate through that directory using opendir()

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 11:02:07AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Wojciech Puchar writes: the limit is 32765, just because link count is 2 bytes wide and each subdir adds two to base directory. you have to change to 2 level hierarchy. Question (for anyone who has an informed

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 12:48:51PM -0500, Dan wrote: Erik Trulsson([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.09 17:53:14 +0100: Personally I cannot think of any situation where one would actually want (let alone need) as many as 3 or more subdirectories in a single directory. I've seen some Java

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If you really think HAMMER accomplishes the same goals as ZFS, you are sadly mistaken. it will be OK to achieve the goals it is advertised to achieve. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Sluggish scheduling during a long disk copy

2008-11-09 Thread matt donovan
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Odhiambo Washington([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.09 23:25:19 +0300: On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello. I am copying one 150G disk to a 3ware mirror, and the machine becomes downright unusable.

Re: Sluggish scheduling during a long disk copy

2008-11-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
matt donovan wrote: On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Odhiambo Washington([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.09 23:25:19 +0300: On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello. I am copying one 150G disk to a 3ware mirror, and the machine becomes

Sluggish scheduling during a long disk copy

2008-11-09 Thread Dan
Hello. I am copying one 150G disk to a 3ware mirror, and the machine becomes downright unusable. It takes seconds to switch between 'konsole' windows and it takes seconds between I type a command (ssh session to a remote box, which I know is fast and unloaded) and see it executed. This is

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Dan
Erik Trulsson([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.09 17:53:14 +0100: Personally I cannot think of any situation where one would actually want (let alone need) as many as 3 or more subdirectories in a single directory. I've seen some Java apps that use the FS as the DB. Nothing wrong with that. I

Re: Sluggish scheduling during a long disk copy

2008-11-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:12:34 -0800 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan wrote: Kris Kennaway([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.09 12:57:16 -0800: could be an issue with ntfs-3g driver Sounds like it to me. ntfs-3g uses FUSE, which is a userland filesystem framework. By design it will

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 12:33:06PM -0600, Modulok wrote: Personally I cannot think of any situation where one would actually want (let alone need) as many as 3 or more subdirectories in a single directory. No one will ever need more than 640K of memory! Not quite the same thing. One

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:58:11PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Erik Trulsson writes: Question (for anyone who has an informed opinion): If there any technical reason that couldn't be expanded to 32 bits? Or is it possible but not done for historical or policy reasons, and if

Re: Hashes in scp usernames (OpenSSH bug 472)

2008-11-09 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I've come upon OpenSSH bug 472, whereby scp refuses usernames containing a '#' character, dieing with 'invalid user name'. Both rsync and ssh accept such usernames, and after looking at /usr/src/crypto/openssh/scp.c, it would appear that scp also allows such

Re: Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?

2008-11-09 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:43:25 +1000 Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're up to it its ok, but you do have to wonder whether you really want cross contamination :), or even whether you want to support a company that stubbornly refuses to consider OSS as a system it will build it software for.

Re: Sluggish scheduling during a long disk copy

2008-11-09 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello. I am copying one 150G disk to a 3ware mirror, and the machine becomes downright unusable. It takes seconds to switch between 'konsole' windows and it takes seconds between I type a command (ssh session to a remote box, which

Re: host -6 failure

2008-11-09 Thread David Horn
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 3:13 AM, mdh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Sat, 11/8/08, David Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: host -6 failure To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 8:10 PM On Sat, Nov

Re: No pam_module.so found

2008-11-09 Thread Unga
--- On Mon, 11/10/08, Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: No pam_module.so found To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, November 10, 2008, 2:30 AM Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All my pam

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the limit is 32765, just because link count is 2 bytes wide and each subdir adds two to base directory. you have to change to 2 level hierarchy. Question (for anyone who has an informed opinion): If there any technical reason that couldn't be expanded to 32 bits? Or is it

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Ian
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 22:46:18 Matthew Seaman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I don't want to change the topic of discussion, but I *highly* recommend you ***stop*** whatever it is you're doing that is creating such a directory structure. Software which has to iterate through that directory

Re: Sluggish scheduling during a long disk copy

2008-11-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
Dan wrote: Kris Kennaway([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.09 12:57:16 -0800: could be an issue with ntfs-3g driver Sounds like it to me. ntfs-3g uses FUSE, which is a userland filesystem framework. By design it will have poor I/O performance since every I/O transfer will require multiple trips

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 11:09:17AM -0500, Dan wrote: Jeremy Chadwick([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.08 18:40:46 -0800: I don't want to change the topic of discussion, but I *highly* recommend you ***stop*** whatever it is you're doing that is creating such a directory structure. Software which

Re: scripting text replacement

2008-11-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Sunday 09 November 2008 00:02:11 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 19:43:52 +0100, bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a file containing a list of items like that: line1item1 line1item2 line1item3 line2item1 line2item2 line2item3 …400 times I need to insert this into

Re: Sluggish scheduling during a long disk copy

2008-11-09 Thread Dan
Kris Kennaway([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.09 12:57:16 -0800: could be an issue with ntfs-3g driver Sounds like it to me. ntfs-3g uses FUSE, which is a userland filesystem framework. By design it will have poor I/O performance since every I/O transfer will require multiple trips into and

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Modulok
Personally I cannot think of any situation where one would actually want (let alone need) as many as 3 or more subdirectories in a single directory. No one will ever need more than 640K of memory! Be careful. -Modulok- ___

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
number of years. Hammer, the new FS for FreeBSDs is available for DragonflyBSD. i would like to see final (now still beta) version of hammer in action. it's ADVERTISED features are great. but ZFS features was (and are) ADVERTISED great too while we see the result. Hammer would be great if it

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread dan-freebsd-questions
Erik Trulsson([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.09 20:54:14 +0100: Besides, for most database applications I can think of, what you would need are lots of *files*, which do not have any special limitations other than the the total space and number of i-nodes on the filesystem. Even if you were using

Re: Sluggish scheduling during a long disk copy

2008-11-09 Thread Dan
Odhiambo Washington([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.09 23:25:19 +0300: On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello. I am copying one 150G disk to a 3ware mirror, and the machine becomes downright unusable. It takes seconds to switch between 'konsole' windows and it takes

Re: No pam_module.so found

2008-11-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All my pam modules reside in /usr/lib/ and the version number of pam modules match the version number of the libpam (/usr/lib/libpam.so.2). Eg. pam_self.so.2 and pam_rootok.so.2 are available in /usr/lib/. In 7.0, this should be 4, not 2. DES -- Dag-Erling

Re: Sluggish scheduling during a long disk copy

2008-11-09 Thread Dan
Odhiambo Washington([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.09 23:25:19 +0300: On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello. I am copying one 150G disk to a 3ware mirror, and the machine becomes downright unusable. It takes seconds to switch between 'konsole' windows and it takes

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread matt donovan
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:58:11PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Erik Trulsson writes: Question (for anyone who has an informed opinion): If there any technical reason that couldn't be expanded to 32 bits?

Hashes in scp usernames (OpenSSH bug 472)

2008-11-09 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I've come upon OpenSSH bug 472, whereby scp refuses usernames containing a '#' character, dieing with 'invalid user name'. Both rsync and ssh accept such usernames, and after looking at /usr/src/crypto/openssh/scp.c, it would appear that scp also allows such usernames for the source,

Re: why do I have 2 aliases.db files?

2008-11-09 Thread Sahil Tandon
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed that I have one in /etc/mail and one in /etc, and postfix is reading the one in /etc which the newaliases command hasn't touched in ages 'cause it's been updating the one in /etc/mail. That is not the default behavior. From

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Robert Huff
Erik Trulsson writes: Question (for anyone who has an informed opinion): If there any technical reason that couldn't be expanded to 32 bits? Or is it possible but not done for historical or policy reasons, and if so what are they? It probably could be expanded to 32 bits

Re: Sluggish scheduling during a long disk copy

2008-11-09 Thread Dan
Bruce Cran([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.09 14:40:04 -0800: It may be that FUSE is aggressively caching data and pushing your applications out of memory. This commonly happens on Linux and may be happening here too. Fuse is good. Tried without fuse, using the native ntfs mount. Still the same

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-11-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: andrew clarke mail_ozzmosis.com said (on 2008/10/29): You need to understand that the FreeBSD project by its nature is primarily source-code driven. Making packages available (of any port) is of very low priority in comparison to the rest of the system (testing,