Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Harry Veltman
Which version and GUI will work best on the internet with my AT Pentium II 350MHz x86-based PC? Some web sites require Flash Player 8 or higher, and some require 128-bit encryption I think, but doesn't 40-bit encryption process data 3 times faster? How many bit encryption is the various

Re: 5 TB server

2008-12-01 Thread Valentin Bud
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is one of the main reasons i want to go with ZFS. Another would be the filesystem level compression of the data. I have noticed that 3dmax files (one of the programs the company works with) are very compressable

Re: 5 TB server

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Mb to ~ 7Mb). will it be majority of data??? About 40% of it. 50% adobe *.psd and the other 10% all sort of data. so make sense. but make sure you do regular backups. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Pasting via ssh causes data loss

2008-12-01 Thread Eugene Pimenov
On 1 дек, 05:03, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was curious about your situation and set up a couple of tests. Noting you mentioned iTerm, I thought I might be able to recreate it on a Mac (OS-X 10.4 with 1.4.3 (100) version Terminal, I had removed iTerm due to unreliability sometime

documentation problem for times(3) man page

2008-12-01 Thread Viktor Štujber
Hi. Half a year ago I started the following thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/172448.html. The subject was a documentation issue where a man page mismatched the actual system behavior. The issue is still present in 7.0-RELEASE and probably no action was taken

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:54:38 -0800, Harry Veltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which version and GUI will work best on the internet with my AT Pentium II 350MHz x86-based PC? Allthough the FreeBSD base system gets better and faster in each version, the additional software and the GUI toolkits that

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Mel
On Monday 01 December 2008 11:36:58 Polytropon wrote: I can't answer your question regarding Flash and encryption; sadly, I never saw any need for this. Even if you get the software to work (which is a project in itself), performance will be very very bad. My parents have a similar machine

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
We have a few oldies, just installed KDE 3.5 on a: CPU: VIA Nehemiah (997.17-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x698 Stepping = 8 Oldie @ 1 GHz? You must be joking. I'd bite my hand off for such hardware. :-) well most of machines i use are 1Ghz and 512MB RAM. no need for

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
We have a few oldies, just installed KDE 3.5 on a: CPU: VIA Nehemiah (997.17-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x698 Stepping = 8 That's pretty much as low as I'd go for normal desktop usage. The machine you're describing, still makes for a good router or LAN resolver with low

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Monday 01 December 2008 02:11:13 Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:53:11 +0100, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a few oldies, just installed KDE 3.5 on a: CPU: VIA Nehemiah (997.17-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x698 Stepping = 8 Oldie @ 1 GHz? You must

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:53:11 +0100, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a few oldies, just installed KDE 3.5 on a: CPU: VIA Nehemiah (997.17-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x698 Stepping = 8 Oldie @ 1 GHz? You must be joking. I'd bite my hand off for such hardware. :-)

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Mel
On Monday 01 December 2008 12:19:50 Wojciech Puchar wrote: We have a few oldies, just installed KDE 3.5 on a: CPU: VIA Nehemiah (997.17-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x698 Stepping = 8 That's pretty much as low as I'd go for normal desktop usage. The machine you're

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
since OP already stated to want flash 8 with highbit encryption, you will need firefox and bunch of gstreamer-*/gnome stuff or linux emulation and a lot of good fortune when going with pluginwrapper. but not KDE and Gnome desktop running. firefox is quite fast compared to it

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Mel
On Monday 01 December 2008 12:11:13 Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:53:11 +0100, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a few oldies, just installed KDE 3.5 on a: CPU: VIA Nehemiah (997.17-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x698 Stepping = 8 Oldie @ 1 GHz? You must

Re: Pasting via ssh causes data loss

2008-12-01 Thread Eugene Pimenov
On 1 дек, 08:31, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 November 2008 17:53:21 Eugene Pimenov wrote: 30.11.2008, в 19:36, Mel написал(а): On Sunday 30 November 2008 06:46:59 Eugene Pimenov wrote: Not sure, but can you copy files via cat? As in: cat /tmp/foo | ssh machine cat -

Re: documentation problem for times(3) man page

2008-12-01 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2008-12-01 09:51:46 UTC+0100, Viktor ??tujber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi. Half a year ago I started the following thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/172448.html. The subject was a documentation issue where a man page mismatched the actual system

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Mister Olli
hi... Which version and GUI will work best on the internet with my AT Pentium II 350MHz x86-based PC? Some web sites require Flash Player 8 or higher, and some require 128-bit encryption I think, but doesn't 40-bit encryption process data 3 times faster? How many bit encryption is the

Re: Is there anything weird I should know about using ipfw on alias addresses?

2008-12-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:52:12 +1300 Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ifconfig shows the alias addresses correctly bound. Creating an ipfw rule and testing it from the command line works (connects out from master address, not alias) From website on alias address, the firewall

Re: Pasting via ssh causes data loss

2008-12-01 Thread Mel
On Monday 01 December 2008 10:33:17 Eugene Pimenov wrote: On 1 дек, 08:31, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 November 2008 17:53:21 Eugene Pimenov wrote: 30.11.2008, в 19:36, Mel написал(а): On Sunday 30 November 2008 06:46:59 Eugene Pimenov wrote: Not sure, but can you

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
too... my absolute favorite and it boosted my productivity (after 2 weeks of configuringcustomizing) to a level no other GUI in this world no other you tried. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Vishnu is out of the office.

2008-12-01 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:31:04 +0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be out of the office starting 12/01/2008 and will not return until 12/12/2008. Please contact helpdesk directly for urgent matters at 043854184. Cool, I think I will contact them and inform them that your OoO responder is

Re: Noisy mouse

2008-12-01 Thread Bryant Eadon
Wojciech Puchar wrote: or make a keystroke. Is this a bug, or a strange feature? How do i bad hardware design - mouse data signals gets through to audio signal. most of your computer's signal line are in megahertz range so you don't hear anything, PS/2 mouse has 40kbps data rate. I've

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-12-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: Hi all, set log phase chat connect carrier link ipcp ccp ID0 TUN command I still can't dial using this configuration... Yes sorry, that was from a really old system, from backups. # ppp -background isp Loading /lib/libalias_cuseeme.so

Re: Regular Expression Help

2008-12-01 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Matthew Seaman wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: % perl -p -e 's/cn=([^ ,]+) ([^,]+),/cn=$2 $1,/' foo.txt I still don't really understand *why* the above works but I'm trying to pick it apart now. The RE breaks down like this: /cn=([^ ,]+) ([^,]+),/ cn=

openldap24-sasl-client conflicts

2008-12-01 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
It seems this always gets me when setting up a new machine and I've haven't been able to stop it from happening. I install openldap-server WITH_SASL and after that point, if I try to install any package with LDAP support, it tries to install openldap-client when openldap-sasl-client is already

Re: Pasting via ssh causes data loss

2008-12-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Chris wrote: a cat testfile then pasted through an ssh terminal.app connection over satellite (very bad connection) into a FreeBSD 7.0 box I built in the last month. At Btw. lousy connections don't come into this as SSH does HMAC checking on the data - i.e. even if you somehow managed to

Re: openldap24-sasl-client conflicts

2008-12-01 Thread Mel
On Monday 01 December 2008 15:01:09 Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: It seems this always gets me when setting up a new machine and I've haven't been able to stop it from happening. I install openldap-server WITH_SASL and after that point, if I try to install any package with LDAP support, it tries

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread RW
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:54:38 -0800 Harry Veltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which version and GUI will work best on the internet with my AT Pentium II 350MHz x86-based PC? Some web sites require Flash Player 8 or higher, If flash is important to you then I'd suggest you run windows firefox

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If flash is important to you then I'd suggest you run windows firefox under wine. Native Adobe Flash support is apparently working again in isn't better to run windows ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: openldap24-sasl-client conflicts

2008-12-01 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:01:09 -0500 Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems this always gets me when setting up a new machine and I've haven't been able to stop it from happening. I install openldap-server WITH_SASL and after that point, if I try to install any package with LDAP

Re: documentation problem for times(3) man page

2008-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:51:46 +0100, Viktor Štujber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Half a year ago I started the following thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/172448.html. The subject was a documentation issue where a man page mismatched the actual system

Re: documentation problem for times(3) man page

2008-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:17:13 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:51:46 +0100, Viktor Štujber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Half a year ago I started the following thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/172448.html. The

Re: openldap24-sasl-client conflicts

2008-12-01 Thread Mel
On Monday 01 December 2008 15:48:13 Jerry wrote: failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) ! net/openldap24-client (install error) * net/nss_ldap * security/pam_ldap ^ portupgrade I am assuming that you are attempting to install the port(s) manually. Have you

Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
I have ZFS on my 7.1-PRERELEASE system, and while it does some spiffy things, in general I'm a bit underwhelmed. PROS: Adding new filesystems on a whim is really nice. It has a lot of really cool other features that I will probably never need. CONS: I have nearly 3GB of wired RAM, but

Date/time installed ports have been updated on a system?

2008-12-01 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, Is there any way to determine when upgrades to installed ports have been done on a system? I did a portupgrade -arR recently and want to know which ports have been upgraded in that process (and no I didn't run that portupgrade under script...) Couldn't find an option to pkg_info, pkgdb

RAID5 on FreeBSD 6 or 7

2008-12-01 Thread Peter B
Is it vinum or gvinum (geom8) that is the utility to create a RAID5 volume..? Things like that gvinum lacks the 'stop' command etc.. makes me think that it's not production ready or that the source code has not matured enough. /P ___

Re: openldap24-sasl-client conflicts

2008-12-01 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 16:34 +0100, Mel wrote: On Monday 01 December 2008 15:48:13 Jerry wrote: failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) ! net/openldap24-client (install error) * net/nss_ldap * security/pam_ldap ^ portupgrade I am assuming that you are

Re: Date/time installed ports have been updated on a system?

2008-12-01 Thread RW
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:12:49 +0100 Ewald Jenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any way to determine when upgrades to installed ports have been done on a system? I did a portupgrade -arR recently and want to know which ports have been upgraded in that process (and no I didn't run

Re: Date/time installed ports have been updated on a system?

2008-12-01 Thread Robert Huff
RW writes: Is there any way to determine when upgrades to installed ports have been done on a system? I did a portupgrade -arR recently and want to know which ports have been upgraded in that process (and no I didn't run that portupgrade under script...) pkg_glob(1) can show

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have ZFS on my 7.1-PRERELEASE system, and while it does some spiffy things, in general I'm a bit underwhelmed. UFS is excellent. your problem is that you like to have lots of filesystems. why don't just make one or one per disk? i have one per disk/mirror configuration everywhere except

Samba, WinVista and Roaming Profiles

2008-12-01 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hello, I hope my question isn't too off-topic for this list, but usually some people come up with good ideas ... We have got a FreeBSD Samba Server (set up as PDC) and about 100 WinXP desktops and laptops. The WinXP machines can log into the network, connect to home directories and shares

Re: openldap24-sasl-client conflicts

2008-12-01 Thread Mel
On Monday 01 December 2008 18:14:20 Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 16:34 +0100, Mel wrote: On Monday 01 December 2008 15:48:13 Jerry wrote: failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) ! net/openldap24-client (install error) * net/nss_ldap *

Re: RAID5 on FreeBSD 6 or 7

2008-12-01 Thread Nejc Skoberne
Hey Peter, Is it vinum or gvinum (geom8) that is the utility to create a RAID5 volume..? Things like that gvinum lacks the 'stop' command etc.. makes me think that it's not production ready or that the source code has not matured enough. actually gvinum is production-ready, it only doesn't

Re: RAID5 on FreeBSD 6 or 7

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
However, as I said, gvinum is slow. I also run graid5 and some say it is pretty same for me. it works and works fast. but still - small writes WILL be slow as it's RAID5 because of this i don't have much uses for it, as in most cases today drive's capacities are much larger than amount of data

Re: FreeBSD 4.8: can't load kernel after doing cp -R / to another disk

2008-12-01 Thread admin
Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Sunday 30 November 2008 06:57:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, everyone. This is the problem: our SCSI disk with FreeBSD 4.8 on it has been failing recently, so I copied its root partition to a fresh IDE disk with cp -pR and You should use dump and restore to copy

Re: openldap24-sasl-client conflicts

2008-12-01 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 19:06 +0100, Mel wrote: Thanks for the ideas from everyone. I was doing a portinstall of nss_ldap and pam_ldap. I went ahead and used the -k option and all in and working now. I also received the error when installing samba, I'm sure would for every LDAP dependent

RE: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-12-01 Thread Bob McConnell
On Behalf Of Chad Perrin On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 04:53:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your assertion that linux is both low end unix and low end windows replacement is factually wrong: As a high end unix I think it's earned it's stripes, currently dominating the top 500 supercomputer

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Oldie @ 1 GHz? You must be joking. I'd bite my hand off for such hardware. :-) No need. Get a job at a computer service store, like my fiancee. You will get orphans donated in the 2-3Ghz range just as long as my data is transfered to the new computer. ;) looks like such services on your area

RE: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This shows more than a marginal increase in market share. It suggests that Sun and others have good reason to be nervous about their future prospects, and need to find new ways to make money. there is no sense of buying Sun hardware. they make excellent hardware but with more than excellent

Page Fault.

2008-12-01 Thread Keith
Have a machine, Dell dual CPU/quad core Xeon. Runs FBSD 6.2. Custom kernel, with IPFW compiled in and using SMP. FreeBSD hostname 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #1: Wed Jan 23 12:17:29 PST 2008 It runs, Dovecot, Postfix, Mysql, Apache. Standard email stuff. Put into production in March, ran

Re: Noisy mouse

2008-12-01 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:40:57 -0500, Bryant Eadon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've actually had this happen before. Somewhere along the line either : 1. your audio and mouse/keyboard cables are coming into close proximity to one another. or 2. Your mouse/kb cable is very close to a

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 01 December 2008 11:49:46 Wojciech Puchar wrote: UFS is excellent. your problem is that you like to have lots of filesystems. why don't just make one or one per disk? For all the usual reasons: faster fsck, ability to set attributes on each filesystem (noexec, noatime, ro), a

Re: Pasting via ssh causes data loss

2008-12-01 Thread Eugene Pimenov
On 1 дек, 15:52, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 December 2008 10:33:17 Eugene Pimenov wrote: inetd: $ grep telnet /etc/inetd.conf #telnet stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/libexec/telnetd    telnetd #telnet stream  tcp6    nowait  root    /usr/libexec/telnetd    telnetd

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Valentin Bud
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have ZFS on my 7.1-PRERELEASE system, and while it does some spiffy things, in general I'm a bit underwhelmed. PROS: Adding new filesystems on a whim is really nice. yes it is. It has a lot of really cool other

Re: Page Fault.

2008-12-01 Thread Mel
On Monday 01 December 2008 19:32:59 Keith wrote: Have a machine, Dell dual CPU/quad core Xeon. Runs FBSD 6.2. Custom kernel, with IPFW compiled in and using SMP. FreeBSD hostname 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #1: Wed Jan 23 12:17:29 PST 2008 It runs, Dovecot, Postfix, Mysql, Apache.

Re: RAID5 on FreeBSD 6 or 7

2008-12-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: fast, though. See it's page on Wikipedia for more info. I'd use it more if it was part of official FreeBSD release, but for now it is only available as a patch (AFAIK). which is strange. someone don't like RAID5 to be included in system? I'd like to see graid5 in

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 01 December 2008 13:24:48 Valentin Bud wrote: On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has a lot of really cool other features that I will probably never need. then you don't need ZFS. usually you choose a technology because you need it. if you

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-12-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 19:39:39 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is no sense of buying Sun hardware. they make excellent hardware but with more than excellent price You are right about that. The quality is very high; prices are too. and their unix is damn slow compared

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Kirk Strauser wrote: At this point, I'm almost ready to go back to good ol' UFS2, but I'd hate to give up that easy addition of new filesystems. I *could* have a single 700GB root FS but that just doesn't seem right. Are there any good, tested GEOM- based ways of getting that

Re: Page Fault.

2008-12-01 Thread Keith
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Mel wrote: |-On Monday 01 December 2008 19:32:59 Keith wrote: |- |- == |- kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled |- |- Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode |- cpuid = 2; apic id = 02 |- fault virtual address = 0x104 |- fault code = supervisor

how to choose default ip on ethernet interface

2008-12-01 Thread oim
Hello! OS: FreeBSD 6.3 R ifconfig bge0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=1bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING inet 192.168.0.70 netmask 0xfe00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 inet 10.10.10.37 netmask 0xfffc broadcast 10.10.10.39

Re: how to choose default ip on ethernet interface

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 defaultrouter=192.168.0.1 All ip work, but by default outgoing system use 192.168.0.70 outgoing IP is chosen so it's on the same network as default router, if many are - first from list. ___

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
UFS is excellent. your problem is that you like to have lots of filesystems. why don't just make one or one per disk? For all the usual reasons: faster fsck, ability to set attributes on each filesystem (noexec, noatime, ro), a runaway process writing to /tmp won't cause problems in /var,

Why process memory starts so high up in virtual space with FreeBSD malloc?

2008-12-01 Thread Yuri
I am compiling the following program: #include stdlib.h main() { printf(0x%x\n, malloc(1)); } in 32-bit 7.1-PRERELEASE and get 0x28201100 which is ~673MB of 4GB address space or 16%. When I run the same program with the google malloc (from devel/google-perftools) I get much lower value

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:26:04 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it simply wastes RAM and CPU power. same thing takes 10-20 times more CPU that with UFS ZFS does things that UFS is not capable of. These (bloathware) things cost memory indeed. But that memory is certainly not

please confirm - possible bug in isc-dhcpd?

2008-12-01 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, 7.1-PRERELEASE isc-dhcp30-server-3.0.7_3 When configuring failover and using FQDN instead of ip address, isc-dhcpd says failover peer can't find address. It does however start and will not, of course, work properly. The behaviour is that the very first client might get

Re: Is there anything weird I should know about using ipfw on alias addresses?

2008-12-01 Thread Brett Davidson
Ian Smith wrote: On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:52:12 +1300 Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ifconfig shows the alias addresses correctly bound. Creating an ipfw rule and testing it from the command line works (connects out from master address, not alias) From website on alias

Re: Why process memory starts so high up in virtual space with FreeBSD malloc?

2008-12-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:28:48 -0800, Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am compiling the following program: #include stdlib.h main() { printf(0x%x\n, malloc(1)); } You should probably use printf(%p, ptr) to print pointers :) in 32-bit 7.1-PRERELEASE and get 0x28201100 which is ~673MB of 4GB

Re: Why process memory starts so high up in virtual space with FreeBSD malloc?

2008-12-01 Thread Yuri
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: The FreeBSD malloc(3) implementation can use either mmap() or sbrk() to obtain memory from the system. It does not 'waste a high percentage of memory' but it simply maps only high addresses (with an unmapped 'hole' in lower addresses). But the hole it leaves with

Re: Date/time installed ports have been updated on a system?

2008-12-01 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Robert Huff wrote: RW writes: Is there any way to determine when upgrades to installed ports have been done on a system? I did a portupgrade -arR recently and want to know which ports have been upgraded in that process (and no I didn't run that portupgrade under script...)

any way to turn a pdf file into something OCR-able?

2008-12-01 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, pdftotext fail on the large [32MB] file I've got. Is there any other way I can translate this huge textfile to ascii or html or text? thanks, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix

Re: Why process memory starts so high up in virtual space with FreeBSD malloc?

2008-12-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 01), Yuri said: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: The FreeBSD malloc(3) implementation can use either mmap() or sbrk() to obtain memory from the system. It does not 'waste a high percentage of memory' but it simply maps only high addresses (with an unmapped 'hole' in

Re: Why process memory starts so high up in virtual space with FreeBSD malloc?

2008-12-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 01), Dan Nelson said: Here's what I get with a simple test program on a month-old 7.1-PRE Gah. silly mailing-list attachment stripper. #include stdlib.h #include stdio.h int main(void) { size_t malloced = 0; size_t chunksize = 1024*1024; void *first = NULL;

Reversing a ZFS mistake

2008-12-01 Thread Reinis Ivanovs
Hello, It seems I've made a mistake using ZFS, and now my /usr/local/ is empty. I wanted to create a snapshot of a directory inside of it, so I ran zfs create tank/usr/local and zfs create tank/usr/local/www as I had seen in the guides I'd been using. That worked, but the filesystems created were

Re: any way to turn a pdf file into something OCR-able?

2008-12-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 03:14:43PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: pdftotext fail on the large [32MB] file I've got. Is there any other way I can translate this huge textfile to ascii or html or text? Please define fail in this context? I've used pdftotxt on documents exceeding

Re: any way to turn a pdf file into something OCR-able?

2008-12-01 Thread Robert Huff
Roland Smith writes: pdftotext fail on the large [32MB] file I've got. Is there any other way I can translate this huge textfile to ascii or html or text? Please define fail in this context? I've used pdftotxt on documents exceeding 40MB. However there are of course

Re: Reversing a ZFS mistake

2008-12-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 02), Reinis Ivanovs said: It seems I've made a mistake using ZFS, and now my /usr/local/ is empty. I wanted to create a snapshot of a directory inside of it, so I ran zfs create tank/usr/local and zfs create tank/usr/local/www as I had seen in the guides I'd been

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 14:22 +, RW wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:54:38 -0800 Harry Veltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which version and GUI will work best on the internet with my AT Pentium II 350MHz x86-based PC? Some web sites require Flash Player 8 or higher, If flash is

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 15:42 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: If flash is important to you then I'd suggest you run windows firefox under wine. Native Adobe Flash support is apparently working again in isn't better to run windows ? That'd be debatable, wouldn't it?

AGP video card for dual-head operation

2008-12-01 Thread mikes
I used a Matrox G450 dual-head card with earlier versions of FreeBSD/Xfree but have finally had to upgrade the hardware. Getting the G450 to display both monitors using zinerama took a bit of time, but once set it worked well. I purchased an ATI Radeon 9600 All-in-wonder primarily for doing some

Re: any way to turn a pdf file into something OCR-able?

2008-12-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
1) Some PDFs are just wrappers around JPEG images. In this case there is no text for pdftotext to convert = epic fail. In this case convert from the ImageMagick port will get you a series of .jpg/.gif/.whatever. Read the manual carefully before attempting; also note this can be a

Re: Samba, WinVista and Roaming Profiles

2008-12-01 Thread Tim Judd
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Peter Ulrich Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello, I hope my question isn't too off-topic for this list, but usually some people come up with good ideas ... We have got a FreeBSD Samba Server (set up as PDC) and about 100 WinXP desktops and laptops. The

Re: Page Fault.

2008-12-01 Thread Mel
On Monday 01 December 2008 21:34:14 Keith wrote: On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Mel wrote: |-On Monday 01 December 2008 19:32:59 Keith wrote: |- |- == |- kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled |- |- Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode |- cpuid = 2; apic id = 02 |- fault virtual

Re: Reversing a ZFS mistake

2008-12-01 Thread Valentin Bud
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Reinis Ivanovs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, It seems I've made a mistake using ZFS, and now my /usr/local/ is empty. I wanted to create a snapshot of a directory inside of it, so I ran zfs create tank/usr/local and zfs create tank/usr/local/www as Maybe

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Valentin Bud
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 December 2008 11:49:46 Wojciech Puchar wrote: UFS is excellent. your problem is that you like to have lots of filesystems. why don't just make one or one per disk? For all the usual reasons: faster fsck,

mount problem after enabling serial console

2008-12-01 Thread Ji
Hi all, I ran into a weird problem when enabling serial console on the FreeBSD 7.0. Your help is really appreciated. I installed FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 (from the CD) on a Dell R200, and then enabled the serial console by adding the following to /boot/loader.conf hint.sio.0.flags=0x30

[freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms...

2008-12-01 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, I was reading chapter 4 of the handbook, as well as chapters 24 and 26... If I got it clear, I pretty much might get the base system updated by using freebsd-update script. Ports collection can get updated with portsnap, but that doesn't update neither the intalled ports, nor the installed

Re: [freebsd-questions] Looking @ upgrades mechanisms...

2008-12-01 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 12/2/08, Javier Vasquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was reading chapter 4 of the handbook, as well as chapters 24 and 26... If I got it clear, I pretty much might get the base system updated by using freebsd-update script. Ports collection can get updated with portsnap, but that

Re: mount problem after enabling serial console

2008-12-01 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 02 December 2008 07:41:17 Ji wrote: Hi all, I ran into a weird problem when enabling serial console on the FreeBSD 7.0. Your help is really appreciated. I installed FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 (from the CD) on a Dell R200, and then enabled the serial console by adding the following to

Uninstalling kde3 meta-port

2008-12-01 Thread Leslie Jensen
Hi How would you guys uninstall a meta-port? I'm considering a move to kde4 but I want a clean install, so I want to remove the kde3 meta-port first. Thanks /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mount problem after enabling serial console

2008-12-01 Thread Ji
Thank you for your reply, Mel. There must be something wrong. What confused me is why the booting problem does not appear every time I reboot the computer and the serial console does work fine if it can boot. And I will really appreciate if you can specify my problem. Thanks a lot. Jim On Mon,

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Nathan Lay
Ivan Voras wrote: Kirk Strauser wrote: At this point, I'm almost ready to go back to good ol' UFS2, but I'd hate to give up that easy addition of new filesystems. I *could* have a single 700GB root FS but that just doesn't seem right. Are there any good, tested GEOM- based ways of

mx1.freebsd.org

2008-12-01 Thread Ebbe Hjorth
Hi, My postfix mail servers shows to messages in the queue saying (host mx1.FreeBSD.org[69.147.83.52] said: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [86.58.167.132] (in reply to RCPT TO command)) But when i do a lookup or a reverse lookup, i find my hostname, also from work