Re: Can't find the `7.0-RELEASE-p7' distibution

2008-12-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
Roy Stuivenberg wrote: Hello, I have FreeBSD 7-RELEASE, and upgraded to point 7. When I try to install packages/ports with sysinstall (FTP) it won't work and give me this message. Warning: Can't find the `7.0-RELEASE-p7' distribution on this FTP server. You may need to visit a different server

Re: Perl 5.10?

2008-12-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
Bruce Cran wrote: On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:47:21 -0700 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: Jerry wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:06:46 -0800 (PST) Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com wrote: Its now just over a year since Perl 5.10.0 was relased, but its still not in FreeBSD.

Re: Dell 2850 use 32 or 64 bit?

2008-12-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
be used as a webserver, e-mail server. and a db server (both PostgresQL and My SQL Beyond the breaking of the 4 Gig RAM barrier, is there any compelling reason to use a 32 bit i386 or a 64 bit AMD OS? the same as using 32-bit software (not 16-bit) on 32-bit CPU.

Re: Perl 5.10?

2008-12-26 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:45:12 + Kris Kennaway k...@freebsd.org wrote: [snip] It is still true that the change from 5.6 to 5.8 was very disruptive because it broke lots of things in the ports tree. Is this the official reason that Perl-5.10 has not been released into the ports tree? Are

Re: Perl 5.10?

2008-12-26 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry ges...@yahoo.com writes: Are ports being tied to specific versions of Perl? I did some Googling and found that of the users that have installed Perl from source on FBSD, most were not experiencing any major problem. If every time Perl is updated it will require massive changes or

Re: Dell 2850 use 32 or 64 bit?

2008-12-26 Thread Tim Kellers
Tim Judd wrote: Tim Kellers wrote: I just bought a Dell 2850 (2 2.8GHZ dual core processors). The server will be used as a webserver, e-mail server. and a db server (both PostgresQL and My SQL Beyond the breaking of the 4 Gig RAM barrier, is there any compelling reason to use a 32 bit i386

Off-topic: Java Reflection/Generics/Collections question

2008-12-26 Thread Frank Staals
Not realy a FreeBSD-specific question but I was not sure where I could find what I was looking for elseware (Googling did not manage to dig up much info): The problem: I want to set the type of objects some Collection object holds on runtime. In other wors I have an object C with: C extends

Re: Dell 2850 use 32 or 64 bit?

2008-12-26 Thread Michel Talon
Tim Kellers wrote: Thanks for the reply. I already know it is 64 bit capable. I 'm interested in finding out if their are measurable performance advantages to running it using 64 v 32 bit FreeBSD. For the type of use of the OP (databases, etc.) i don't know, but for scientific computations

Re: Perl 5.10?

2008-12-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jerry wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:45:12 + Kris Kennaway k...@freebsd.org wrote: [snip] It is still true that the change from 5.6 to 5.8 was very disruptive because it broke lots of things in the ports tree. Is this the official reason that Perl-5.10 has not been released into the

Re: [solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-26 Thread clemens fischer
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:53:00 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:05:32 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: Hans Petter Selasky: Try the attached patch to sys/kern/vfs_mount.c Thanks for reporting. I have been aware about this issue for some time now, but the patch has not been

Re: Dell 2850 use 32 or 64 bit?

2008-12-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
server i don't see a reason to run in 32 bits mode. Contrary to some frequent assertions the increase in size of binaries is extremely limited as can easily be checked. This is very largely program code size is a very little part of system memory today.

Re: Dell 2850 use 32 or 64 bit?

2008-12-26 Thread Tim Kellers
Michel Talon wrote: Tim Kellers wrote: Thanks for the reply. I already know it is 64 bit capable. I 'm interested in finding out if their are measurable performance advantages to running it using 64 v 32 bit FreeBSD. For the type of use of the OP (databases, etc.) i don't know, but

3ware array access lock up on 7.1-RC

2008-12-26 Thread Artem Kuchin
I am not even sure that it is related to freebsd, but maybe someone could point out the problem. We wanted to upgrade our hosting server from FreeBSD 6.2, 3ware 8506-4LP SATA RAID, raid 5 to FreeBSD 7.1 (RC for now), 9550SXU-4LP, raid 10 We have tested the new installation on ASUS P5K WS

Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box

2008-12-26 Thread af300wsm
Hi, For several reasons, one of which was to use the nvidia driver for my board, I switched from amd64 to i386. So, I installed the driver and although things are working I'm getting this on console 0: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the amd CPU and OS kernel NVRM:

Re: Off-topic: Java Reflection/Generics/Collections question

2008-12-26 Thread Vladimir Tsvetkov
What you try to do is not a valid operation in type-safe language as Java. You can't convert Coll to CollItemType, but you can cast Coll? to CollWhatever. Don't know if this is OK with the problem you're trying to solve Merry Christmas! On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Frank Staals

Thanks for solution re: Can't remove directory

2008-12-26 Thread Ron Wingfield
Mr. Chuck: I found your post, [1]http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-January/0 70766.html, re. system immutable flags via Google. Just want to say thanks. :-) Sincerely, Ron W. [2]ron.wingfi...@archaxis.net 501-920-7860 cell (best way)

Re: Off-topic: Java Reflection/Generics/Collections question

2008-12-26 Thread Frank Staals
Vladimir Tsvetkov wrote: What you try to do is not a valid operation in type-safe language as Java. You can't convert Coll to CollItemType, but you can cast Coll? to CollWhatever. Don't know if this is OK with the problem you're trying to solve Merry Christmas! On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at

nat and ipfw, port forwarding

2008-12-26 Thread Richard Yang
hi, i have a ssh machine behind a freebsd firewall with nat and ipfw. how do i make port forwarding so internet can access the ssh machine? thanx -- Best Regards Richard Yang richardy...@richardyang.net kusanagiy...@gmail.com ___

EOIP Tunnels

2008-12-26 Thread Marcel Grandemange
Does FreeBSD support EOIP tunnels? If so where can I find more info? Thank You! Marcel Grandemange ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-26 Thread Gary Kline
folks, is there a way i can be sure that my little C program has copied a dos/win file named, say, foo.htm\;7 to simply foo.htm? my program uses fopen/fgets/fputs to copy the markup files. of the several i have copied, no problem. unless i hack cmp or

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:13:39 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: is there a way i can be sure that my little C program has copied a dos/win file named, say, foo.htm\;7 to simply foo.htm? my program uses fopen/fgets/fputs to copy the markup files. of the several i have copied, no

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-26 Thread Corey Chandler
Gary Kline wrote: folks, is there a way i can be sure that my little C program has copied a dos/win file named, say, foo.htm\;7 to simply foo.htm? my program uses fopen/fgets/fputs to copy the markup files. of the several i have copied, no problem. unless i

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: is there a way i can be sure that my little C program has copied a dos/win file named, say, foo.htm\;7 to simply foo.htm? my program uses fopen/fgets/fputs to copy the markup files. of the several i have copied, no problem.

running shell command through ssh tunnel

2008-12-26 Thread Noah
Hi there, I am trying to run a shell command to the host at the far end of an ssh tunnel. Here is how I structured access. Is there any way to do this more compactly on one line? ssh -L 12345:192.168.1.20:22 n...@domain.com ssh -p 12345 localhost 'chown -R noah:noah /shares/internal/Music/'

OSX mount UFS

2008-12-26 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I apologize for this diversion of topic. I format a external HD by BSD and move files to it. When trying to read it on OSX, it wouldn't recognize. Googling it didn't help much. I wonder if people here and lend a hand. Thanks!! TFC ___

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 03:29:05AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:13:39 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: is there a way i can be sure that my little C program has copied a dos/win file named, say, foo.htm\;7 to simply foo.htm? my program uses

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 03:29:05AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:13:39 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: is there a way i can be sure that my little C program has copied a dos/win file named, say, foo.htm\;7 to simply

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 05:30:46PM -0800, Corey Chandler wrote: Gary Kline wrote: folks, is there a way i can be sure that my little C program has copied a dos/win file named, say, foo.htm\;7 to simply foo.htm? my program uses fopen/fgets/fputs to copy the markup

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-26 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 08:32:45PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: is there a way i can be sure that my little C program has copied a dos/win file named, say, foo.htm\;7 to simply foo.htm? my program uses fopen/fgets/fputs to copy the markup

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:56:34 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 03:29:05AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:13:39 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: is there a way i can be sure that my little C program has copied a dos/win file

strange fsck results

2008-12-26 Thread reese
I am running FreeBSD 6.3 as a VMware virtual server and am getting some strange results when I run fsck. When I run it in multi-user mode I get quite a few UNREF FILE errors but when I switch to single user mode fsck does not find any errors. Is this something I need to worry about and if it

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 08:32:45PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: is there a way i can be sure that my little C program has copied a dos/win file named, say, foo.htm\;7 to simply foo.htm? my program uses

Re: strange fsck results

2008-12-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
re...@adeptscience.com writes: I am running FreeBSD 6.3 as a VMware virtual server and am getting some strange results when I run fsck. When I run it in multi-user mode I get quite a few UNREF FILE errors but when I switch to single user mode fsck does not find any errors. Is this

{Classmates#889-142}read it immediately

2008-12-26 Thread Bernson
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Re: {Classmates#889-142}read it immediately

2008-12-26 Thread Paul Procacci
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Re: strange fsck results

2008-12-26 Thread Tim Judd
re...@adeptscience.com wrote: I am running FreeBSD 6.3 as a VMware virtual server and am getting some strange results when I run fsck. When I run it in multi-user mode I get quite a few UNREF FILE errors but when I switch to single user mode fsck does not find any errors. Is this something I