i686 CPU Compatibility

2008-12-16 Thread Abd Hamid Shamsi
HI ADMIN, I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version should i use. TQ Regards Mohd Shamsi Hafiz bin Abdul Hamid Pegawai Pemasaran Galeri Cenderamata Koperasi UPM BHD Beg Berkunci 260 Pejabat Pos UPM Universiti Putra Malaysia

Re: i686 CPU Compatibility

2008-12-16 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello Abd, Yes it is. If you are a newcomer to FreeBSD i suggest you go for the latest RELEASE which is 7.0. All the platforms supported by FreeBSD as well as places where FBSD can be downloaded can be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/where.html. And of course don't forget to check: The

Re: i686 CPU Compatibility

2008-12-16 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 17:00 +0800, Abd Hamid Shamsi wrote: HI ADMIN, I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version should i use. TQ Should do - i386 is just for arch type. I believe 7.0 is the latest current release.

Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
But say that I yanked the photos and used just plain text: 8-bit chars perhaps, and created my own CDROM version. --I *wouldn't* waste my time duplicating this collection, but say that I did. Could this be done in plain HTML and not require an ISO disc? you may

Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Hi, When i look at / in a standard installation like : FreeBSD XXX 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 There is only 1 file, named entropy : -rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy I

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:08:10PM +0100, Bernard Dugas wrote: Hi, When i look at / in a standard installation like : FreeBSD XXX 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 There is only 1 file, named

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 12/16/08, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: it's simple: More simple when you tell it ;-) Thanks a lot, i will try it tonight ! it doesn't have chance - must work :) I wish it's helpful, doing this doesn't just save space but saves time - you have to upgrade

Re: Copying system/ports configuration?

2008-12-16 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.comwrote: I have a FreeBSD 7.0 system that im using in production. I want to create a FreeBSD virtual machine, to use as a testbed for this production box. The last time i did this it took a lot of time to get the VM set

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Wojciech Puchar wrote: -rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc. Any reference to it ? What is it used for ? I have look in RANDOM area, but no reference... at startup it seeds random generator, every 11 minutes and at

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread RW
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:07:48 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: at startup it seeds random generator, every 11 minutes and at shutdown it's saved from random generator. Only at shutdown, the entropy stored every eleven minutes is in /var/db/entropy/

ambigious 'top' results

2008-12-16 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, Questions. My system is overloaded, I run top to figure out which precess take time. In both cases CPU/WCPU I do not see which process take all the time. Which process take all processor time?? last pid: 24535; load averages: 3.86, 3.07, 3.07up 1+13:34:28 17:25:19 193

Re: ambigious 'top' results

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
are you using 7-branch? in my 7.1 system there is same problem. top shows often nonsense in CPU usage of a process, but totals are OK. you even gave an example - bzip2 can't use 0% CPU running - more close to 100% :) as long as everything goes fine 100% CPU load is OK. if it's mostly

Re: Python with many threads

2008-12-16 Thread Ott Köstner
Michel Talon wrote: Nothing limits the number of concurrent threads. Personnally i have checked i can run Grub Next Generation Python Client with 600 threads without any problem. niobe% uname -a FreeBSD niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Tue Jul 22 10:31:01 CEST 2008

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
boot. Thanks a lot ! 1- How may i suggest/learn to add this info in the random generator man page, so that a search in doc gives the right result ? use sent-pr 2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
shutdown it's saved from random generator. Only at shutdown, the entropy stored every eleven minutes is in /var/db/entropy/ thanks for correction. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Wojciech Puchar wrote: mount_unionfs but i don't know how stable it is. Thanks to fill my dreams :-) The dream is close, but still a dream :-( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_unionfssektion=8apropos=0manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE BUGS THIS FILE SYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FULLY

PHP5 as apache module using packages

2008-12-16 Thread Gary Hartl
Hi all; Ok so i've reinstalled fBSD-7 and i'm running apache 2.2 installed using pkg_add I need to also run php as a module for apache (the web software i'm using requires php as module no cgi). Now I pkg_add'ed php5 from sparc64/all tree on ftp.freebsd.org, I think I missed passing a

Re: GPL version 4

2008-12-16 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:38:35AM -0500, Richard M Stallman wrote: I don't think it is that bad - the intent is for the software to be freely available for *people* to use. It is actually about our freedom. You have it right. Copyleft licenses defend freedom for all users by

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread RW
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:23:05 +0100 Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org wrote: 2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i think it should be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ? It has to be on the root

Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar

2008-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:59:39 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: you may create small .iso image that consist of some stupid images, readme or autorun configured to format c: ;), then strip first 512 bytes of it with dd if=winiso.iso bs=512 skip=1 of=tmp;mv

RE: PHP5 as apache module using packages

2008-12-16 Thread Barry Byrne
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Hartl Sent: 16 December 2008 14:36 To: FreeBSD Questions Ok so i've reinstalled fBSD-7 and i'm running apache 2.2 installed using pkg_add I need to

RE: PHP5 as apache module using packages

2008-12-16 Thread Gary Hartl
Ok so i've reinstalled fBSD-7 and i'm running apache 2.2 installed using pkg_add I need to also run php as a module for apache (the web software i'm using requires php as module no cgi). Now I pkg_add'ed php5 from sparc64/all tree on ftp.freebsd.org, I think I missed passing a

Re: Python with many threads

2008-12-16 Thread Michel Talon
Otto wrote: Exception in thread 30: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/local/lib/python2.5/threading.py, line 486, in __bootstrap_in= ner self.run() The number of errors increases rapidly with even bigger number of threads. Is there any way I can increase the maximum

Re: i686 CPU Compatibility

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
7.0 is perfectly stable and is recommended for production use. It's not bleeding edge code. That's 8.0-CURRENT which is NOT for production use. Unless you have a particular reason for using 6.x I would go with 7.0 It's fully tested. nothing is ever fully tested ;) but yes, 7.0 can be classified

Re: Limewire 4.18 problem

2008-12-16 Thread Norbert Papke
On December 16, 2008, Andreas Rudisch wrote: A Vuze developer told me, that transfers via UDP and TCP are using different sets of native java APIs. TCP is non-blocking IO, so there could be a problem in the FreeBSD Java code. This is a stab in the dark (I am not a Vuze) user but I have had

Re: Copying system/ports configuration?

2008-12-16 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: I have a FreeBSD 7.0 system that im using in production. I want to create a FreeBSD virtual machine, to use as a testbed for this production box. The last time i did this it took a lot of time to get the VM set

Re: i686 CPU Compatibility

2008-12-16 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 00:50:30 Anthony M. Rasat wrote: Abd Hamid Shamsi wrote: I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version should i use. FreeBSD came with two x86 flavour (can I said that? LOL sorry just had an ice cream

Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thank you. Your system will be shut down now. Ah... autorun.inf and exit_windows_ex() are such modern tools autorun.inf is a few windows thing that is simple and even works. just remember to strip this first 512 bytes from iso file, as 512 bytes will be takes by tar header before iso file.

Re: Copying system/ports configuration?

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Are there any shortcuts for this, e.g. a way i can automatically install the same ports on the new machine? I didnt see anything in the handbook or FAQ about this, but id think that people need to do this all the time. Any other advice for mirroring the system? simply copy everything

Re: Centralized DB of system users

2008-12-16 Thread Dan
LDAP is the way to go. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: i686 CPU Compatibility

2008-12-16 Thread Anthony M. Rasat
Abd Hamid Shamsi wrote: I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version should i use. FreeBSD came with two x86 flavour (can I said that? LOL sorry just had an ice cream earlier) which is x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit). The x86

Copying system/ports configuration?

2008-12-16 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
I have a FreeBSD 7.0 system that im using in production. I want to create a FreeBSD virtual machine, to use as a testbed for this production box. The last time i did this it took a lot of time to get the VM set up--installing all the right ports, getting the database configuration right, etc.

Re: Copying system/ports configuration?

2008-12-16 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
--- On Tue, 12/16/08, Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: From: Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying system/ports configuration? To: bg271...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 8:41 AM -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash:

Re: CMS suggestion on FreeBSD (except Mambo)

2008-12-16 Thread munkhbayar batkhuu
Thank you for all replies. I learned new CMS's. I decided to switch Mambo to other FreeBSD 7.0 server for temporarily. And planning to upgrade older FreeBSD 5.4 to 7.0. Short time frame not allows me to switch contents to new CMS. Anyway, it's sad that current ports tree still have old Mambo

Re: Limewire 4.18 problem

2008-12-16 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:09:14 -0800 Norbert Papke fbsd...@scrapper.ca wrote: This is a stab in the dark (I am not a Vuze) user but I have had similar problems with other Java apps (e.g., Netbeans, Tomcat). The VM's TCP stack, for some reason, wants to use IPv6. To force it to use IPv4,

Dolphin Sigserv whilst trying to cut//paste

2008-12-16 Thread Warren Liddell
Freebsd 7.1-PreRelease KDE 3.5.10 AMD64 .. below is sigserv msg. Application: Dolphin (dolphin), signal SIGSEGV [New Thread 0x805f02180 (LWP 100285)] [Switching to Thread 0x805f02180 (LWP 100285)] [KCrash handler] #6 0x000801cc3560 in QByteArray::operator= () from

Re: Copying system/ports configuration?

2008-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:26:05 -0800 (PST), Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com wrote: I dont quickly see a free tool to do this. Maybe its easier to do this from scratch The handbook mentions a common method to transfer installed systems partition-wise using dump and restore. Maybe

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
on NFS server. Lot of root directories can be shared and mounted in fstab, after booting process : /usr, /home... In current solution, the minimum root directories i had to keep for managing to boot are : bin libexec sbin boot etc lib i already did such things but with NetBSD 1.5 for my

Re: i686 CPU Compatibility

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
HI ADMIN, I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version should i use. TQ every version is Regards Mohd Shamsi Hafiz bin Abdul Hamid Pegawai Pemasaran Galeri Cenderamata Koperasi UPM BHD Beg Berkunci 260 Pejabat Pos UPM

Re: ambigious 'top' results

2008-12-16 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 12/16/08, KES kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: Здравствуйте, Questions. My system is overloaded, I run top to figure out which precess take time. In both cases CPU/WCPU I do not see which process take all the time. Which process take all processor time?? last pid: 24535; load averages: 3.86,

Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Hi, I'm working on a project to have many diskless clients PXEbooting on 1 nfs server. This works now, but i would like to have a more efficient use of disk space on NFS server. Lot of root directories can be shared and mounted in fstab, after booting process : /usr, /home... In current

Limewire 4.18 problem

2008-12-16 Thread Alvaro Rosales
Hello Guys, I have a freebsd 7 Release #0 box, it works as a marble, unfortunately I have a problem with limewire 4.18. I can connect with any other p2p network client, (firewall is ok and set up to allow connections on limewire port and upnp is enable) but limewire wont connect. I have made a

Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
To get such content from a DVD, you would just % tar xf /dev/dvd But I think this is only possible with UNIX (BSD, Linux, Solaris). Windows cannot handle this, of course. you may create small .iso image that consist of some stupid images, readme or autorun configured to format c: ;),

Extracting changed files list from snapshot

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Hi, I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. Any idea where to find a document about snapshots internal structure ? Or if you know any port that already do this :-? Thanks a lot, Best regards, -- Bernard DUGAS Mobile +33 615 333

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
it's simple: More simple when you tell it ;-) Thanks a lot, i will try it tonight ! it doesn't have chance - must work :) I wish it's helpful, doing this doesn't just save space but saves time - you have to upgrade software once. So preserving consistency, which is the most important

Re: Limewire 4.18 problem

2008-12-16 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:44:14 + (GMT) alvaro rosales ara...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I have a freebsd 7 Release #0 box, it works as a marble, unfortunately I have a problem with limewire 4.18. I can connect with any other p2p network client, (firewall is ok and set up to allow connections on

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread RW
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:08:10 +0100 Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org wrote: Hi, When i look at / in a standard installation like : FreeBSD XXX 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 There is

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
-rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc. Any reference to it ? What is it used for ? I have look in RANDOM area, but no reference... at startup it seeds random generator, every 11 minutes and at shutdown it's saved from

loader.conf fbsd 7-release

2008-12-16 Thread Gary Hartl
Hi all; I need to add something to loader.conf which according to me should be in /boot Has something changed so that it wouldn't be there anymore. Or do i just create it and it will parse it out at boot. I need to add accf_http_load=YES to correct a problem with apache22 giving me the

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i already did such things but with NetBSD 1.5 for my Xterminal distro. it's simple: More simple when you tell it ;-) Thanks a lot, i will try it tonight ! I wish it's helpful, doing this doesn't just save space but saves time - you have to upgrade software once. So

Re[2]: FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 rl0 watchdog timeout with custom kernel

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Any mistake? The rl driver supports some really terrible hardware, so I'm far from convinced that your custom kernel is causing the problems. Perhaps you could check by switching back to a GENERIC kernel for a while. It works well with GENERIC when I'm simply serfing the net or fetching

Python with many threads

2008-12-16 Thread Ott Köstner
Hello list, Trying to run Grub Next Generation Python Client (http://grub.org/?q=en/node/204) on my FreeDSD 7.1 box with as many threads as possible. Python version is 2.5.2. The question is, what limits the number of concurrent threads I can run? I have free memory and cpu, but starting from

Limewire 4.18 problem

2008-12-16 Thread alvaro rosales
Hello Guys, I have a freebsd 7 Release #0 box, it works as a marble, unfortunately I have a problem with limewire 4.18. I can connect with any other p2p network client, (firewall is ok and set up to allow connections on limewire port and upnp is enable) but limewire wont connect. I have made a

Re: Centralized DB of system users

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
LDAP is the way to go. the right tool for the task is the way to go. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-16 Thread ThinkDifferently
I have a new system put together (see below). In booting it up for the first time, it hangs. I'm booting from a FreeBSD 7.0 distribution on a USB drive. Here are the messages, in part... . . . sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 vga0: at port

Re: Canonical way for DHCP-IP-/etc/hosts

2008-12-16 Thread Roger Olofsson
Greg Larkin skrev: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Olofsson wrote: Jeff Laine skrev: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:00:12PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear mailing list, I am sorry if this question has been asked over and over again - however the htdig search interface

Re: loader.conf fbsd 7-release

2008-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:19:54 -0500, Gary Hartl gha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all; I need to add something to loader.conf which according to me should be in /boot Has something changed so that it wouldn't be there anymore. Or do i just create it and it will parse it out at boot. No, you're

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:09:44 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently jer...@futurecis.com wrote: I have a new system put together (see below). In booting it up for the first time, it hangs. I'm booting from a FreeBSD 7.0 distribution on a USB drive. Here are the messages, in part... [...]

LPRng x pdf files

2008-12-16 Thread luizbcampos
Does anyone know how to print a pdf file using LPRng? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot

2008-12-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org writes: I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. Any idea where to find a document about snapshots internal structure ? Or if you know any port that already do this :-? An easier way would be

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Wojciech Puchar wrote: 2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i think it should be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ? man rc.conf seek entropy_file and entropy_dir Thanks, detail is available in

Re: LPRng x pdf files

2008-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:23:14 -0200, luizbcampos luizbcam...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to print a pdf file using LPRng? In principle, % lpr filename.pdf Or you can use gv's or xpdf's print option which should place the PDF file's content into the printer job queue. If

Re: LPRng x pdf files

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Or you can use gv's or xpdf's print option which should place the PDF file's content into the printer job queue. If your printer is PostScript capable, you could eventually use pdf2ps and then feed the PS directly into the printer. if not - ghostscript processes both ps and pdf example

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 12/16/08, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: When you want to change something, you add a rw TransparentLayer : mount -tl yournfsserver:/StationYchanges/etc /etc So that changed or added files are only stored in this rw partition, thus very small

Copying system/ports configuration?

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:26:05 -0800 (PST), Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271828 at yahoo.com wrote: I dont quickly see a free tool to do this. Maybe its easier to do this from scratch I just found last week ports-mngnt/portmaster that can help you to do that, and i have suggested portmaster

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Thank you RW, i am new on the list, i didn't answer you because i didn't received your answer while i received others, don't know why yet. I would be very interested to find a large but right view in the man documentation of what is happening exactly to this poor lost file :-) The

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
MOUNT_NULLFS(8) doc is very detailled, but i can't find how to use it for my problem : being able to go from common shared configuration to specific you can't - nullfs doesn't do this. use symlinks /etc containing tons of links to /sharedetc and few files instead of symlink - for those

Invitation from Mike McConnell to join mySBX

2008-12-16 Thread registration
Message from Mike McConnell . . . Hello there - I wanted to share mySBX with you - something that has changed the way my company finds everything from work, people, teaming opportunities, great information, etc... -- Just thought you may have interest in exploring mySBX and hope

Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org writes: I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. Any idea where to find a document about snapshots internal structure ? Or if you know any port that already do this :-?

Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org writes: I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. Any idea where to find a document about snapshots internal structure ? Or if you know any port that already do this :-?

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 15:02 +0100, Bernard Dugas wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: i already did such things but with NetBSD 1.5 for my Xterminal distro. it's simple: More simple when you tell it ;-) Thanks a lot, i will try it tonight ! I wish it's helpful, doing this doesn't just save

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 12/16/08, Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org wrote: Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 12/16/08, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: When you want to change something, you add a rw TransparentLayer : mount -tl yournfsserver:/StationYchanges/etc /etc So that changed or added

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread RW
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:39:56 +0100 Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: 2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i think it should be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ?

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Paul B. Mahol wrote: Well, I tested unionfs on CURRENT and it did not crashed on me. Feel free to test it on 7 STABLE and report results to developers. Thanks for the feed-back, i will no more be afraid to test :-) I will tell you later, Best regards, -- Bernard DUGAS Mobile +33 615 333 770

Re: loader.conf fbsd 7-release

2008-12-16 Thread Adam K Kirchhoff
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 13:19 -0500, Gary Hartl wrote: Hi all; I need to add something to loader.conf which according to me should be in /boot Has something changed so that it wouldn't be there anymore. Or do i just create it and it will parse it out at boot. I need to add

looking for a secondary.

2008-12-16 Thread Gary Kline
i was recently informed that the firm that bought secondary.com is going to begin charging $100/mo. i nearly choked on that, but whatever... i'm looking for an *.org who does DNS secondaries free oe nearly so. i know there is at least one place, but it's been

Re: looking for a secondary.

2008-12-16 Thread Peter Giessel
On Tuesday, December 16, 2008, at 02:42PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i was recently informed that the firm that bought secondary.com is going to begin charging $100/mo. i nearly choked on that, but whatever... i'm looking for an *.org who does DNS secondaries

lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Tom Worster
is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to install php5? i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration command for all the optional bits i need, e.g. --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --enable-dom --with-pear --with-gd etc. etc. on and on. i'm unclear how these

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Tom Worster wrote: is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to install php5? i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration command for all the optional bits i need, e.g. --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --enable-dom --with-pear --with-gd etc. etc. on and

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Brett Davidson
Tom Worster wrote: is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to install php5? i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration command for all the optional bits i need, e.g. --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --enable-dom --with-pear --with-gd etc. etc. on and

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Brett Davidson wrote: Tom Worster wrote: is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to install php5? i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration command for all the optional bits i need, e.g. --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --enable-dom --with-pear

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Amitabh Kant
install the options from lang/php5-extensions . Gives you tons of options for php5. Amitabh On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote: is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to install php5? i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Brett Davidson
Steve Bertrand wrote: Brett Davidson wrote: Tom Worster wrote: is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to install php5? i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration command for all the optional bits i need, e.g. --with-dom --with-dom-xslt

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Brett Davidson wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Brett Davidson wrote: Run make config on the php port to see if any configuration options you need are mentioned there. I normally utlise the php-extensions port - run make config in there for options. One of the reasons I've had to edit

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-16 Thread ThinkDifferently
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:09:44 -0800 (PST), ThinkDifferently wrote: hptrr: no controller detected. It looks like there's a proble with the hptrr driver? Have you tried loading the HighPoint RocketRAID device drive by putting hptrr_load=YES into

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-16 Thread ThinkDifferently
...some more interesting errors from bootup...My biz partner seemed interested in these (don't know why)... hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Feb 24 2008 10:34:18) acpi0: 052008 RSDT1050 on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of free0, 1000

Re: looking for a secondary.

2008-12-16 Thread Matt Emmerton
On Tuesday, December 16, 2008, at 02:42PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i was recently informed that the firm that bought secondary.com is going to begin charging $100/mo. i nearly choked on that, but whatever... i'm looking for an *.org who does DNS secondaries free oe nearly so. i

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
ThinkDifferently wrote: ...some more interesting errors from bootup...My biz partner seemed interested in these (don't know why)... hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Feb 24 2008 10:34:18) acpi0: 052008 RSDT1050 on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0:

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-16 Thread ThinkDifferently
Steve Bertrand-2 wrote: AFAIK, your RocketRAID should be picked up by the 'twe' driver. If you run a FreeBSD install disk (as opposed to boot-only), are you provided with an install location (via sysinstall) as far as hard disks are concerned? Is this RAID array something that you can

Re: looking for a secondary.

2008-12-16 Thread Al Plant
Matt Emmerton wrote: On Tuesday, December 16, 2008, at 02:42PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i was recently informed that the firm that bought secondary.com is going to begin charging $100/mo. i nearly choked on that, but whatever... i'm looking for an *.org who does DNS secondaries

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-16 Thread ThinkDifferently
ThinkDifferently wrote: Steve Bertrand-2 wrote: AFAIK, your RocketRAID should be picked up by the 'twe' driver. If you run a FreeBSD install disk (as opposed to boot-only), are you provided with an install location (via sysinstall) as far as hard disks are concerned? Is this RAID

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On December 16, 2008 7:33:31 PM -0600 Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: One of the reasons I've had to edit Makefile manually was because a client needed JPEG support. At the time, `make config' didn't provide that option. You should *never* need to edit a

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-16 Thread michael
ThinkDifferently wrote: ThinkDifferently wrote: Steve Bertrand-2 wrote: AFAIK, your RocketRAID should be picked up by the 'twe' driver. If you run a FreeBSD install disk (as opposed to boot-only), are you provided with an install location (via sysinstall) as far as hard disks are

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 16, 2008 7:33:31 PM -0600 Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: One of the reasons I've had to edit Makefile manually was because a client needed JPEG support. At the time, `make config' didn't provide that option. You should *never* need to edit a Makefile in a port. (Well,

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
ThinkDifferently wrote: This system is so spankin' new, there's nothing loaded on it. This RAID array is just something I setup in the BIOS. It's not even been initialized yet...because I can't even load the OS to install anything. Well, still no joy. :-( I have tried booting from

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/16/08 8:10 PM, Amitabh Kant amitabhk...@gmail.com wrote: install the options from lang/php5-extensions . Gives you tons of options for php5. thanks for the pointer. i think i found everything i needed in there. i'm not sure how i feel about having 55 more ports installed than i would

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/16/08 8:33 PM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: One of the reasons I've had to edit Makefile manually was because a client needed JPEG support. At the time, `make config' didn't provide that option. You make a couple of valuable points however. It would be easier if the OP's

Re: looking for a secondary.

2008-12-16 Thread Mikel King
On Dec 16, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Gary Kline wrote: i was recently informed that the firm that bought secondary.com is going to begin charging $100/mo. i nearly choked on that, but whatever... i'm looking for an *.org who does DNS secondaries free oe nearly so. i know there is

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-16 Thread ThinkDifferently
Steve Bertrand-2 wrote: Out of pure sheer curiosity, does the machine boot ok with the boot-only if you pull the RAID card out of its slot? There is no RAID card. Everything is on the motherboard. -- View this message in context:

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-16 Thread ThinkDifferently
Another item of curiosity... I just now tried booting from a CentOS 5.2 DVD. It also hangs with a little window titled Loading SCSI driver that says Loading ahci driver... The funny thing is, I've tried turning off all RAID functionality in the BIOS. On my mobo, this entails setting it to IDE

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