On Wednesday 10 December 2008 11:57:34 Gian Paolo Buono wrote:
Hi,
I would like monitoring an interface and allarm if it exceeds the threshold
of 900 Mbit.
Do you know any struments ?
net/bmon can monitor and put into a database or dump to text file. From there
anything is possible. It
On Thursday 11 December 2008 08:10:09 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
Given, there's several solutions to this:
1) The Kluge as above.
2) A pam module to check /etc/group (this is standard login behavior, and
historically supported, and available on other platforms, adding a module,
even
The FreeBSD-7.1 is coming soon and we should let 7.0 go ... [?]
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joe S writes:
When running freebsd-update on FreeBSD 7.0, I noticed this message:
WARNING: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.
On Thursday 11 December 2008 10:04:30 Mel wrote:
On Wednesday 10 December 2008 11:57:34 Gian Paolo Buono wrote:
Hi,
I would like monitoring an interface and allarm if it exceeds the
threshold of 900 Mbit.
Do you know any struments ?
net/bmon can monitor and put into a database or
Da Rock wrote:
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:29 -0500, Jerry wrote:
snip
IMHO, before FreeBSD can make a significant market share improvement,
it has to improve its hardware support. NVidia, for one, has expressed
a desire to support FreeBSD; however, it needs the FreeBSD organization
to
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:14 -0800, prad wrote:
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:35:17 +0100
Uwe Laverenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Who is most freebsd users?
i would think most are interested in running servers or routers or
possible scientific applications or engaged in os study and appreciate
Hell, Robert wrote:
I just found a bug report for that issue:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121423cat=
Try asking on current@ - I think there were some patches available some
time ago.
-Original Message-
From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mittwoch,
The possibility here is the bells and whistles strangely enough DO work
in tune and without sore lips... FreeBSD could be THAT good.
in bells and whistles windows is best. for those who require it paying a
bit for windows is not a problem.
Those who need to do actual work, we have FreeBSD
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:11:26 +0100
Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 11 December 2008 08:10:09 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
Given, there's several solutions to this:
1) The Kluge as above.
2) A pam module to check /etc/group (this is standard login
behavior, and historically
On 11 dec 2008, at 12:28, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
The possibility here is the bells and whistles strangely enough DO
work
in tune and without sore lips... FreeBSD could be THAT good.
in bells and whistles windows is best. for those who require it
paying a bit for windows is not a
that's the most narrow minded post i've seen here since i'm on this group
or your narrow mail reading .
As if the only work that can be considered real work is the work you do...
The reason why I CAN'T do any serious work on FreeBSD is because it lacks
the NVidia drivers (i'm in the
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:28:00 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
in bells and whistles windows is best. for those who require it paying
a bit for windows is not a problem.
Those who need to do actual work, we have FreeBSD for example
Define: 'Actual Work'? What you are
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:19:14 -0500, Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Define: 'Actual Work'? What you are referring to is that it meets your
criteria. Everyone's work platform might not be so narrow.
ometimes, actual work may be entertainment, gaming, or
programming obscure hardware platforms. :-)
BTW on the http://forums.freebsd.org number of multimedia-related questions is
more than server-side ;)
And this is fact - FreeBSD become to Desktop due to work of many peoples who
porting multimedia application to FreeBSD. Therefore
this functional be want. But without good supports of
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:46:49PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:29 -0500, Jerry wrote:
snip
IMHO, before FreeBSD can make a significant market share improvement,
it has to improve its hardware support. NVidia, for one, has expressed
a desire to support FreeBSD;
i have regular crashes (kernel panic+reboots) every about a month.
any idea why?
last time i built kernel with debug symbols, here what i get with kgdb
any help is very welcome :)
Script started on Thu Dec 11 15:48:08 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# kgdb /boot/kernel/kernel /var/crash/vmcore.0
- on almost all my machines I have problems with CD/DVD drives, mostly
things like READ_BIG timeout, etc. I tried almost everything (disabling
ACPI, DMA, upgrading the drive BIOS, etc), disabling DMA resolved some
problems, but it's still impossible to burn a DVD for example.
i don't have. i
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 15:56 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
- on almost all my machines I have problems with CD/DVD drives, mostly
things like READ_BIG timeout, etc. I tried almost everything (disabling
ACPI, DMA, upgrading the drive BIOS, etc), disabling DMA resolved some
problems, but it's
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
(kgdb) bt\
#0 doadump () at pcpu.h:195
#1 0x0004 in ?? ()
#2 0x8029cde9 in boot (howto=260) at
../../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:418
#3 0x8029d202 in panic (fmt=0x104 Address 0x104 out of bounds)
at ../../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:574
Also you can use portupgrade -PP
-PP
--use-packages-onlyNever use the port even if a package is not avail-
able either locally or remotely, although you
still have to keep your ports tree up-to-date so
Wojciech Puchar writes:
At work, FreeBSD and Solaris are present. For some fields of
use, I would not FreeBSD instead of Solaris. However, I found
isn't the reason to using solaris just the need to run
solaris-only binary software?
I believe there are cases where the vendor
for multiple OSes, but offers official support for only some of
them. If having vendor support is a deal-breaker - either for
operational or contractual reasons - and the only alternative to
Solaris is Windowsmumble
well - solaris is not that bad. it's unix, you can work on it normally,
except when i forgot to unmount - yep, the problem lies here, it's so
natural to just unplug an USB device
it's so natural to unmount device before removing. at least in unix...
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Gary Hartl said:
I'm considering just wiping the system clean and starting from scratch to
say either 6.4-release or 7.0 release.
For what it's worth, I've (so far) had 50% luck with 7.1. My home server runs
nothing special, mostly development stuff and the occasional X session. I
Okay, new problem with regard to netgroups, NIS, and Pam:
Given the following situation:
* I want to be able to have su work normally in the event of an NIS
disconnect, since I will likely need to su to fix said disconnect.
* The wheel group needs to stay local
* I want su to still use
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:10:18 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
except when i forgot to unmount - yep, the problem lies here,
it's so natural to just unplug an USB device
it's so natural to unmount device before removing. at least in unix...
On a modern UNIX (like
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:09:39 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
well - solaris is not that bad. it's unix, you can work on it
normally, it's just slow etc...
Considering the things the system is doing for me it certainly is not
slow. It's a rock-solid UNIX but like sendmail
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 17:10 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
except when i forgot to unmount - yep, the problem lies here, it's so
natural to just unplug an USB device
it's so natural to unmount device before removing. at least in unix...
true too .. :)
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:23:04 +0100, Julien Cigar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you may pkg_add from ftp repository
of course .. too bad that there is no pkg_upgrade
You can use:
portupgrade -PP pkgname
This will only use pre-compiled packages to upgrade.
Quoting Julien Cigar jci...@ulb.ac.be:
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 15:56 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
- on almost all my machines I have problems with CD/DVD drives, mostly
things like READ_BIG timeout, etc. I tried almost everything (disabling
ACPI, DMA, upgrading the drive BIOS, etc),
On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:51:22 +1000
Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote:
The possibility here is the bells and whistles strangely enough DO
work in tune and without sore lips... FreeBSD could be THAT good.
i'm not so sure that is really THAT good. bells and whistles if not
carefully
On Thu 11 Dec 2008 at 10:37:42 PST prad wrote:
while i agree with you as far as having suitable driver accessibility,
i don't see why one system needs to try to be all things to all people.
I agree. But if FreeBSD isn't trying to be all things to all people,
the implication is that it IS
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:44:23PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
that's the most narrow minded post i've seen here since i'm on this group
or your narrow mail reading .
As if the only work that can be considered real work is the work you do...
The reason why I CAN'T do any serious work
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:28:00PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
The possibility here is the bells and whistles strangely enough DO work
in tune and without sore lips... FreeBSD could be THAT good.
in bells and whistles windows is best. for those who require it paying a
bit for windows is
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:40:06PM +0100, Julien Cigar wrote:
Just to share my point of view :
I use FreeBSD only since 6.2, before that I was a long-time Debian user.
For the little experience I have with it I must admit that it looks
pretty solid and a perfect choice for a server (for
Hi guys,
I'm trying to set up a really simple, single account write only ftp
service. So I put
ftpd_enable=YES
ftpd_flags=-o -d
in my rc.conf and started the ftp server. Now I have a special password
enabled user account called camera (none of the other accounts have
passwords, all logins
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:09:51 -0800
Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote:
The impression I get from the website is that FreeBSD is indeed trying
to be all things to all people. Did I miss something?
charlie, i think the point of that page is indicated here:
Here are some examples of the
While OpenBSD has a great reputation as a server operating system, it
for whom? ;) it's just overadvertised nothing more, having no adventage
over FreeBSD in any point.
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Please stop trolling.
having different opinion than yours isn't trolling.
and i WILL NOT stop writing my opinions just because your is different.
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 06:38:30PM +0300, Ole wrote:
Also you can use portupgrade -PP
-PP
--use-packages-onlyNever use the port even if a package is not avail-
able either locally or remotely, although you
still have to
instead. This function sets in configure by program author and when you
working with ports you can play this options
I'd love to drop GNOME and KDE support for OO.o, but on my laptop I
really don't have the resources to spare for compiling OO.o, so I live
with whatever's in the package. Such
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:32:20PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Please stop trolling.
having different opinion than yours isn't trolling.
and i WILL NOT stop writing my opinions just because your is different.
It's not just that you have a different opinion than me -- it's that
every time
On Thu 11 Dec 2008 at 11:32:57 PST prad wrote:
charlie, i think the point of that page is indicated here:
Here are some examples of the environments in which FreeBSD is used
these are examples of freebsd's versatility, which is not the same as
saying freebsd is ubiquitously versatile.
On Thursday 11 December 2008 13:55:04 Chad Perrin wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:32:20PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Please stop trolling.
having different opinion than yours isn't trolling.
and i WILL NOT stop writing my opinions just because your is different.
It's not just that
Tyson Boellstorff wrote:
On Thursday 11 December 2008 13:55:04 Chad Perrin wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:32:20PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Please stop trolling.
having different opinion than yours isn't trolling.
and i WILL NOT stop writing my opinions just because
Thursday, 11 December 2008 at 12:28:00 +0100, Wojciech Puchar said:
The possibility here is the bells and whistles strangely enough DO work
in tune and without sore lips... FreeBSD could be THAT good.
in bells and whistles windows is best. for those who require it paying a
bit for windows
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:12:19 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
Please stop trolling.
chad, i don't think this is fair to wojciech. he is expressing his
feelings and considerable knowledge about an os that he doesn't want to
go the way of certain others. i find he writes concisely and
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:20:23 -0800
Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote:
Goals are one thing. How much progress you've made toward meeting
your goals is another. This thread has been about some things
FreeBSD still needs to do in order to meet what do seem to be, after
all, some of
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:30:32 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
for whom? ;) it's just overadvertised nothing more,
ya well i'm not trying to do their advertising :D :D
i merely copied it from their page.
we did use openbsd for 1 yr for our servers and it was ok
Let me jump in again here.
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:46:22 -0800, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote:
so performance, networking (and presumably serving), storage,
administration
and
documentation
would seem to be major matters of concern.
That's a valid point. I definitely don't want to see
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:03:13 -0800, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote:
well i thought the 3.9 fish was kinda cute, but beastie is still much
better!
Yes, it is. =^_^= --- http://www.spilth.org/pictures/girls/ceren/
--
Polytropon
From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra
things changing. Because I have to administer and to program
on FreeBSD, I enjoy (!) the excellent documentation. Everything
is there, from system binaries, configuration files, maintenance
procedures, system calls and kernel interfaces. Just look into
i fully agree with you
the Linux world -
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:06:35 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
in linux:
man command
this manual is no longer maintained. try info, google or wiki. maybe you
will find your documentation, maybe not.
Or try this with third party software on FreeBSD, for
Hi there,
sometimes I find there one or two processes with the command name of
'dialog' tacking the cpu on my freebsd machines. any clues what creates
this situation and how I can circumvent the problem? It appears to
happen around the time I run portmanager to update all the system ports.
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:35:43 -0800, Noah adm...@enabled.com wrote:
Hi there,
sometimes I find there one or two processes with the command name of
'dialog' tacking the cpu on my freebsd machines. any clues what creates
this situation and how I can circumvent the problem? It appears to
Julien Cigar said the following on 2008-12-11 14:40:
- Altough ports are fantastic, building things like OpenOffice or ... is
just inhuman, especially when you cannot use -j for building ports (but
it's being resolved I think).
Of course you can use -j to build ports.
Just cd to/your/port
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:03:24 +0100
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
In Germany, we have the term eierlegende Wollmilchsau (egg-
laying wool-milk-sow)
that is indeed a great term!
MICROS~1's customers want bugs, they get bugs because they paid
for them. :-)
:D
may be the mac people can
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:46:36PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
instead. This function sets in configure by program author and when you
working with ports you can play this options
I'd love to drop GNOME and KDE support for OO.o, but on my laptop I
really don't have the resources to spare
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:44:06 -0800, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote:
may be the mac people can use your line here in one of their
commercials :D
But only if Mac OS X supports 8.3 filenames. :-)
You give them computing power not imaginable 10 years ago, and
they treat their system like
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 04:23:03PM -0500, michael wrote:
I agree. nothing wrong with his posts. the mailing list was never
described as a warm, social gather. you want answers, and you get them
here. i for one would rather him be abrupt and short. no need for the
pomp and circumstance.
I
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:24:19PM -0800, prad wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:12:19 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
Please stop trolling.
chad, i don't think this is fair to wojciech. he is expressing his
feelings and considerable knowledge about an os that he doesn't want to
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:46:22PM -0800, prad wrote:
looking further we see:
... As a result, FreeBSD may be found across the Internet, in the
operating
system of core router products, running root name servers, hosting
major web sites, and as the foundation for widely used desktop
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:11:25 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
His manner of expressing his feelings seems to be to try to crush
others' beneath his heel. Try examining the definition of the word
fair before you use it in the future.
ok, chad, here's what you find on
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:28:13 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
Can we stop trying to dissuade people
from improving FreeBSD, and from advocating for improvements?
i don't think that's really what is happening, chad.
i think there is just some disagreement as to what is considered
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 04:47:23PM -0800, prad wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:11:25 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
His manner of expressing his feelings seems to be to try to crush
others' beneath his heel. Try examining the definition of the word
fair before you use it in
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 05:00:11PM -0800, prad wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:28:13 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
Can we stop trying to dissuade people
from improving FreeBSD, and from advocating for improvements?
i don't think that's really what is happening, chad.
i
7.0-RELEASE-p6 / i386
Using portmaster to update the php5-pcre port returns this error:
Cannot find config.m4.
Make sure that you run '/usr/local/bin/phpize' in the top level source
directory of the module
I'm not a php guru. Where is the top-level source directory for this
module? Or is there
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:46:54 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
My point exactly -- you rush to his defense, making statements that
seem intended to skewer me for things he has done. I don't consider
that the epitome of fairness.
i'm not trying to skewer you. i only stated that i
*HI, i have PowerEdge(TM) 840, Quad Core Xeon Pro X3220 Processor, so what
is the suitable version of FreeBSD i could use. I actually want to use it
for server purposes. TQ
--
*
*Regards*
Mohd Shamsi Hafiz
Hi-Technology Resources
Pekan Sungai Nibong
45400 Sekinchan
Selangor, Malaysia
hitech resources wrote:
*HI, i have PowerEdge(TM) 840, Quad Core Xeon Pro X3220 Processor, so what
is the suitable version of FreeBSD i could use. I actually want to use it
for server purposes. TQ
7
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On Thursday 11 December 2008 19:58:14 Chad Perrin wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 05:00:11PM -0800, prad wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:28:13 -0700
i don't think that's really what is happening, chad.
i think there is just some disagreement as to what is considered an
improvement.
So .
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:58:14 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
So . . . are you saying that increased support for 3D accelerated
graphics is not an improvement, and should therefore not be
considered a worthy goal?
no. access to hardware probably is a worthy goal, however, you
Hello list,
I don't know if the Subject says what i really want to achieve but i do
hope that i will make myself understood.
I work for a school and i want to install in 2 labs on very low performance
computers (1 Ghz CPU, 126 Mb RAM) some linux distro (zen walk). I *need*
to install linux
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