USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I've just bought a new USB key. The label claims 8 GByte which is the first lying; it shows up as only ~7.5 GByte in /var/log/messages, but there seems to be another bigger problem: Mar 5 08:48:32 rebelion root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x1307 product 0x0165 bus uhub4 Mar 5 08:48:33

backup files from editor

2009-03-05 Thread prad
editors can produce backup files - eg emacs adds a ~ to the backup file. the backup file keeps getting changed as you make changes to the original so you i'm wondering what the point of them is. i turn off backups (so my directory doesn't fill up with ~ files), but then i also don't space things

Quirk with latex-suite]

2009-03-05 Thread David Karapetyan
Hello; I am having a funny little problem with latex-suite. When I press F5, and am prompted with a list of environments to insert, no matter which I choose, it is inserted with a superfluous that appears right before the cursor. So, for example, \begin{equation} cursor_is_here \end{equation}

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: umass0: USBest Technology USB Mass Storage Device, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 on uhub4 Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0: Ut165 USB2FlashStorage 0.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2

Re: Quirk with latex-suite]

2009-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello; I am having a funny little problem with latex-suite. When I press F5, and am prompted with a list of environments to insert, no matter which I choose, it is inserted with a superfluous that appears right before the cursor. So, for example, \begin{equation} cursor_is_here \end{equation}

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Charles Oppermann
08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0: Ut165 USB2FlashStorage 0.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0: 40.000MB/s transfers Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0: 7712MB (15794176 512

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, March 05, 2009 a las 01:09:27AM -0800, Charles Oppermann escribió: 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0: Ut165 USB2FlashStorage 0.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device Mar 5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel:

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
formatted properly? I did a 'ls -l /dev/da*' after key insert and there was only /dev/da0; maybe I should do # newfs_msdos /dev/da0 yes. anyway - windoze at least XP no more needs partitions on such devices. ??? Thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
formatted properly? I did a 'ls -l /dev/da*' after key insert and there was only /dev/da0; maybe I should do # newfs_msdos /dev/da0 ??? to be sure do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=64k count=1 before to clean anything from beginning, if any mess is there.

php5 changes in release 8.0

2009-03-05 Thread Fbsd1
Having problems installing php5 in 7.1 so tried 8.0 and see that in release 8.0 php5 in defaulting to apache 22 when apache interface is selected from the make config menu. The config menu should give option to select apache 13 or apache 22 not force apache 22 on the user community. Is the

password protection for RewriteRule

2009-03-05 Thread dhaneshk k
List; I am using apache2.2 I need to do a password protected access toa website eg www.mydomain.com I have this Vhost configuration in my httpd-Vhost.conf VirtualHost *:80 ServerName mydomain.com RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/(.*)

FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE/amd64: pkg_delete core dumps

2009-03-05 Thread O. Hartmann
Since several weeks now /usr/sbin/pkg_delete core dumps whenever I try to delete an obsolete package or portupgrade tries to do so. The box is a Quad Core most recent FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE box as built world of today's sources. Regards, Oliver ___

Re: backup files from editor

2009-03-05 Thread Grünewald Michaël
Hi prad, Le 5 mars 09 à 09:15, prad a écrit : editors can produce backup files - eg emacs adds a ~ to the backup file. the backup file keeps getting changed as you make changes to the original so you i'm wondering what the point of them is. Please refer to the Emacs manual (info m Emacs) to

Re: php5 changes in release 8.0

2009-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com: Having problems installing php5 in 7.1 so tried 8.0 and see that in release 8.0 php5 in defaulting to apache 22 when apache interface is selected from the make config menu. The config menu should give option to select apache 13 or apache 22 not

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi Frank, Am Donnerstag, 05. Mär 2009, 04:15:05 + schrieb Frank Shute: On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:08:03PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: from man sh: Invocation [...] the shell inspects argument 0, and if it begins with a dash (`-'), the shell is also consid-

Battery powered, SBC that can run BSD

2009-03-05 Thread John Almberg
Hope this isn't too off topic... And I'm not sure of my terminology... I'm looking for a small, single board computer that can run for a week or two on batteries (so very low power drain), topped up by solar cells when the sun is out, and that can run some sort of unix... preferably one of

Re: ClamAV execusion died without error messages

2009-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Ming Tang mtan...@comcast.net: I did not find any other error messages in log files. The following lines appeared in the section for kernel log messages in daily email message for Security Run Output. pid 840 (freshclam), uid 1#: exited on signal 11 This is a segmentation

RE: ClamAV execusion died without error messages

2009-03-05 Thread Ming Tang
I did not find any other error messages in log files. The following lines appeared in the section for kernel log messages in daily email message for Security Run Output. pid 840 (freshclam), uid 1#: exited on signal 11 pid 875 (clamd), uid 1#: exited on signal 10 I am not sure what they mean

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, March 05, 2009 a las 10:48:52AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar escribió: formatted properly? I did a 'ls -l /dev/da*' after key insert and there was only /dev/da0; maybe I should do # newfs_msdos /dev/da0 ??? to be sure do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=64k count=1

Re: Battery powered, SBC that can run BSD

2009-03-05 Thread George Davidovich
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:53:45AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: I'm looking for a small, single board computer that can run for a week or two on batteries (so very low power drain), topped up by solar cells when the sun is out, and that can run some sort of unix... preferably one of the BSDs. No

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 3/5/09, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El dia Thursday, March 05, 2009 a las 10:48:52AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar escribio: formatted properly? I did a 'ls -l /dev/da*' after key insert and there was only /dev/da0; maybe I should do # newfs_msdos /dev/da0 ??? to be sure do

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, March 05, 2009 a las 03:26:12PM +0100, Paul B. Mahol escribió: On 3/5/09, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El dia Thursday, March 05, 2009 a las 10:48:52AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar escribio: formatted properly? I did a 'ls -l /dev/da*' after key insert and there

SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-05 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, I'm looking to substantially expand the storage on my FreeBSD 6.3 home media server. With regards hardware, the simplest way to attach large numbers of drives seem to be to use SATA port multipliers, but I've been unable to find any consensus on their level of support in FreeBSD. I'm

Re: Battery powered, SBC that can run BSD

2009-03-05 Thread John Almberg
On Mar 5, 2009, at 9:12 AM, George Davidovich wrote: soekris.com Nice. Thanks. -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Battery powered, SBC that can run BSD

2009-03-05 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 14:53 05/03/2009, you wrote: Hope this isn't too off topic... And I'm not sure of my terminology... I'm looking for a small, single board computer that can run for a week or two on batteries (so very low power drain), topped up by solar cells when the sun is out, and that can run some sort

USB thumbdrive keeps automatically remounting

2009-03-05 Thread Mark A. Maupin
I am running freebsd 7.1, with Gnome. I have gnome_enable=yes and dbus_enable=yes in my rc.conf and my usb key gets auto-mounted when i plug it in. My problem is, when i unmount the drive (either by right clicking the icon on the desktop, or by umount command) the drive immediately remounts,

USB thumbdrive keeps automatically remounting

2009-03-05 Thread Mark A. Maupin
I am running freebsd 7.1, with Gnome. I have gnome_enable=yes and dbus_enable=yes in my rc.conf and my usb key gets auto-mounted when i plug it in. My problem is, when i unmount the drive (either by right clicking the icon on the desktop, or by umount command) the drive immediately remounts,

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Norbert Papke
On March 5, 2009, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, March 05, 2009 a las 10:48:52AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar to end this threat, I did: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=64k count=1 # newfs_msdos /dev/da0 # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt # time cat file file file /mnt/big cat: stdout:

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 02:23:52PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi Frank, Hi Bertram, Am Donnerstag, 05. Mär 2009, 04:15:05 + schrieb Frank Shute: On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:08:03PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: from man sh: Invocation [...] the shell inspects

Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

2009-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Matthias Apitz wrote: to end this threat, I did: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=64k count=1 # newfs_msdos /dev/da0 # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt # time cat file file file /mnt/big cat: stdout: File too large 0.276u 19.421s 14:36.63 2.2%11+1180k 33887+65536io 0pf+0w # df -kh /mnt

What's the best way to destroy a geom mirror?

2009-03-05 Thread Peter Steele
I've created a USB boot disk that is used to clone itself onto the systems hard drives, setting up mirrored file systems in the process. The main difficulty I'm having is reimaging a system with an existing OS whose drives are already configured in a mirror. I want of course to destroy the

Double Post

2009-03-05 Thread Mark A. Maupin
Sorry for the double posting there guys My session timed out and i didnt think the 1st message sent. I don't remember re-sending it, but i was in the middle of my morning coffee at the time, so not sure what happened there. ___

Monitoring geom

2009-03-05 Thread Mister Olli
Hi hi... What is the best way to monitor geom software raids (gmirror gvinum raid5)??? The solution I'm searching for should be a kind of script which checks the status, and drops me an email if something is wrong. I found a nagios plugin, but currently I'm unable to invest enough time to get

Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-05 Thread Elliot Finley
Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm looking to substantially expand the storage on my FreeBSD 6.3 home media server. With regards hardware, the simplest way to attach large numbers of drives seem to be to use SATA port multipliers, but I've been unable to find any consensus on their level of

Free Pascal

2009-03-05 Thread Ian Fitzgerald
Can anyone point me to a method of installing Free Pascal Compiler? I am running FBSD 7.1, with KDE4. The last attempt deleted a file used by X-windows (and perhaps others), but I had no specific instructions as a guide. ___

Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Why not just upgrade to 7-Stable and then use these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009 they cost less than port multipliers. They don't do RAID, but then if you're on 7-Stable, you can use ZFS zraid. or use geom based RAIDs and UFS thanks for URL, anyway new

Re: Free Pascal

2009-03-05 Thread prad
On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:41:49 +1100 Ian Fitzgerald i...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Can anyone point me to a method of installing Free Pascal Compiler? /usr/ports/lang/fpc or pkg_add -r fpc we use gpc (gnu pascal compiler): /usr/ports/lang/gpc or pkg_add -r gpc -- In friendship,

Re: Quirk with latex-suite]

2009-03-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 5, 2009, at 2:28 AM, David Karapetyan wrote: Hello; I am having a funny little problem with latex-suite. Is that the name of the port? I don't see anything by that name in my ports tree. Googling around, I see that latex-suite is a plug-in for vim. When I press F5, and am

7.1-release and KDE4

2009-03-05 Thread joel perry
Attempting to pkg_add kde4 fails because the lame3.97_1.tgz is not located in the latest ftp location. I and many others would appreciate it if you would add lame to latest folder so that this package will install. It was previously available in the 7.0 release. -- Joel Perry SBSC Registered

Re: Monitoring geom

2009-03-05 Thread Modulok
I'm not sure what the 'best' way to monitor a geom is but this should, in theory, work. I wrote it while eating lunch, so obviously it hasn't been tested much and probably contains bugs. If someone, perhaps here on the list, could offer suggested changes (or a better way), that'd be great!

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Polytropon
Good evening Betram et al. I've read the discussion thread as far as it went and would like to share my own solution to a similar problem, mapped onto the sh topic. Maybe it works. A little background: First of all, because my standard dialog shell is the system's C shell, the files important

RE: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-05 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Elliot Finley [mailto:efinleyw...@efinley.com] Sent: 05 March 2009 17:57 To: Christopher Key Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3) Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm looking to substantially expand the storage on my

Re: php5 changes in release 8.0

2009-03-05 Thread Michael Powell
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com: Having problems installing php5 in 7.1 so tried 8.0 and see that in release 8.0 php5 in defaulting to apache 22 when apache interface is selected from the make config menu. The config menu should give option to select apache 13

Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-05 Thread Daan Vreeken
Hi Christopher, On Thursday 05 March 2009 15:25:35 Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm looking to substantially expand the storage on my FreeBSD 6.3 home media server. With regards hardware, the simplest way to attach large numbers of drives seem to be to use SATA port multipliers, but I've

Re: 7.1-release and KDE4

2009-03-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:08 PM, joel perry finnd...@gmail.com wrote: Attempting to pkg_add kde4 fails because the lame3.97_1.tgz is not located in the latest ftp location. I and many others would appreciate it if you would add lame to latest folder so that this package will install. It was

Paid Online Surveys - Start Now

2009-03-05 Thread Amie
[1]Make $40 to $160 Per Hour Just By Sharing Your Opinion With Marketing Giants Like Burger King, Pepsi, Sony, Coca-Cola Instantly Make More Money Starting Now... References 1.

Paid Online Surveys - Start Now

2009-03-05 Thread Amie
[1]Make $40 to $160 Per Hour Just By Sharing Your Opinion With Marketing Giants Like Burger King, Pepsi, Sony, Coca-Cola Instantly Make More Money Starting Now... References 1.

[OT] Server hosting with FreeBSD

2009-03-05 Thread scuba
Hi all, We´re looking for good hosting services that offer instalations of FreeBSD in dedicated servers. Any one could point some? Most of the companies offer Linux and Windows, but only few with FreeBSD. The one thar we use today, only install a fixed image. Just a simple custom

Re: [OT] Server hosting with FreeBSD

2009-03-05 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:59 PM, sc...@centroin.com.br wrote: Hi all,        We´re looking for good hosting services that offer instalations of FreeBSD in dedicated servers.        Any one could point some?        Most of the companies offer Linux and Windows, but only few with FreeBSD.    

Re: 7.1-release and KDE4

2009-03-05 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:43:42 -0600, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote: I thought lame was one of the packages that couldn't be distributed in binary form due to license restrictions. In the past, it really was. But I think it was possible to add it via pkg_add. It's some time ago,

Re: [OT] Server hosting with FreeBSD

2009-03-05 Thread Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
also calpop @ calpop.com ___ 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: [OT] Server hosting with FreeBSD

2009-03-05 Thread Nerius Landys
We´re looking for good hosting services that offer instalations of FreeBSD in dedicated servers. Any one could point some? Most of the companies offer Linux and Windows, but only few with FreeBSD. The one thar we use today, only install a fixed image. Just a

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread J65nko
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Bertram Scharpf li...@bertram-scharpf.de wrote: Hi, from man sh: Invocation [...] When first starting, the shell inspects argument 0, and if it begins with a dash (`-'), the shell is also consid- ered a login shell. This is normally done

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Peter Steele
I first wondered why none of my commands in /etc/profile and ~/.profile got executed. Finally, I modified /usr/src/bin/sh/main.c to trace what files are read, recompiled the sh command and: the only file that is executed is ~/.shrc. I just cannot believe that FreeBSD has such a severe bug.

Re: Monitoring geom

2009-03-05 Thread Carl Chave
From Michael Lucas' Absolute FreeBSD book page 550: FreeBSD can include a status check of your mirrored disks in its daily periodic(8) run. Just add the line daily_status_gmirror_enable=YES to /etc/periodic.conf. Not sure about other raid types beyond mirrors. On 3/5/09, Mister Olli

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:11:18 -0800 (PST), Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: I have a similar problem, but with bash. I have both my personal account and root set to use bash instead of sh and when I login the .bashrc file is not read. My system does not have an X environment, it's

Re: /bin/sh does not read profile

2009-03-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 06:11:18PM -0800, Peter Steele wrote: I first wondered why none of my commands in /etc/profile and ~/.profile got executed. Finally, I modified /usr/src/bin/sh/main.c to trace what files are read, recompiled the sh command and: the only file that is executed is

Re: [OT] Server hosting with FreeBSD

2009-03-05 Thread Jack L.
I provide that hosting and sharktech does as well. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: We´re looking for good hosting services that offer instalations of FreeBSD in dedicated servers. Any one could point some? Most of the companies offer

Re: SpamAssassin/Perl eating enormous amounts of memory?

2009-03-05 Thread Karl Vogel
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:21:53 -0800, Andrew Moran snee...@mac.com said: A Thank you for your suggestion. I'll try compiling Perl and it's A dependencies without using PERL_MALLOC. I've had similar memory problems using Hyperestraier to index collections exceeding 1,000,000 documents.

Any BSDians hands on with apache-2.2 webserver,

2009-03-05 Thread dhaneshk k
.htpasswd Failure .. htpasswd recreation also not working I added a Location / for restricting access to my web site URL. I used Basic Authentication module.. I created #htpasswd -c .htpasswd test password : test and restarted apache

Re: [OT] Server hosting with FreeBSD

2009-03-05 Thread Paul Procacci
DataPipe also provides (optional: managed) hosting as well. They are a bit pricey, but you get what you pay for. Jack L. wrote: I provide that hosting and sharktech does as well. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: We´re looking for good hosting

Re: [OT] Server hosting with FreeBSD

2009-03-05 Thread Paul Procacci
Jack L. wrote: I provide that hosting and sharktech does as well. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: We´re looking for good hosting services that offer instalations of FreeBSD in dedicated servers. Any one could point some? Most of the

Re: the yes comand

2009-03-05 Thread Tim Judd
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: if you have program that do too much questions like (are you sure), and you are sure then you do yes|program yes Continue | Vista -uac Bit o' humor in an otherwise too-serious world. Laugh. It'll

Re: Monitoring geom

2009-03-05 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Mister Olli wrote: Hi hi... What is the best way to monitor geom software raids (gmirror gvinum raid5)??? The solution I'm searching for should be a kind of script which checks the status, and drops me an email if something is wrong. I found a nagios plugin, but currently I'm unable to

Re: What's the best way to destroy a geom mirror?

2009-03-05 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:35:31AM -0800, Peter Steele wrote: I've created a USB boot disk that is used to clone itself onto the systems hard drives, setting up mirrored file systems in the process. The main difficulty I'm having is reimaging a system with an existing OS whose drives are