Re: how to deceive programs as if I were a local user?

2009-04-25 Thread Kouichiro Iwao
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:17:11AM -0700, Chris Cowart wrote: This error means the program tried to look up some name information for your UID number and failed. You need to configure the data source in /etc/nsswitch.conf: group: files cache ldap passwd: files cache ldap I've already set

Re: X-Org problem

2009-04-25 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 4/24/09, Ott Koestner o...@zzz.ee wrote: Neal Hogan wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Ott Koestner o...@zzz.ee wrote: Dear list, After upgrading Xorg from ports to the latest version xorg-server-1.6.0,1 xorg-7.4_1 I am experiencing very unpleasant phenomenon, Xorg randomly

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:18:43 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: yes, the voices [from audio/festival] are pretty good; i use them to read boring stuff to me when i'm about brain-dead! but these voices just don't cut it given the kind of quasi-poetic stuff i

Re: how to deceive programs as if I were a local user?

2009-04-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 05:34:16PM +0900, Kouichiro Iwao typed: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:17:11AM -0700, Chris Cowart wrote: This error means the program tried to look up some name information for your UID number and failed. You need to configure the data source in /etc/nsswitch.conf:

mergemaster -U overwriting modified files

2009-04-25 Thread Peter Schuller
I recently began testing mergemaster -U since the perpetual review diff of file I never touched grows annoying real quick. Unfortunately I recently discovered that it does not seem to do what you might expect. For example it nuked my mailer.conf on one machine, and my /etc/namedb/named.conf (!!!)

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-25 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:20:00AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: Wojciech Puchar writes: as you can do everything easily in text mode, it just points out that GUI installer is nonsense. The real problem happens when the GUI is considered to be all anybody needs. I think there's no need

Re: mergemaster -U overwriting modified files

2009-04-25 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:10:42 +0200 Peter Schuller peter.schul...@infidyne.com wrote: I recently began testing mergemaster -U since the perpetual review diff of file I never touched grows annoying real quick. Unfortunately I recently discovered that it does not seem to do what you might

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:20:45 -0500, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote: I've never done video editing on FreeBSD; but on a Mac, you can create a movie using slides and a sound file (wav, mp3, etc). You would need an application that could import images and sound, and let you sync

RE: freebsd vs. pc-bsd

2009-04-25 Thread Charles Oppermann
If your willing to buy books concerning FreeBSD I'd suggest Absolute FreeBSD 2nd edition (if you have use Unix like systems) or FreeBSD Unleashed 6 (though it was published at the of FreeBSD 6 it is still very applicable and provides introduction to Unix like systems). Second the

Re: how to deceive programs as if I were a local user?

2009-04-25 Thread Kouichiro Iwao
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:22:22AM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote: Configuring nsswitch.conf in linux emulation environment, the program worked properly. I did't know I had to set /compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf for linux binary compatibility. That's interesting. Was there a

Re: freebsd vs. pc-bsd

2009-04-25 Thread Andrew Gould
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Charles Oppermann chuc...@gmail.comwrote: If your willing to buy books concerning FreeBSD I'd suggest Absolute FreeBSD 2nd edition (if you have use Unix like systems) or FreeBSD Unleashed 6 (though it was published at the of FreeBSD 6 it is still very

Re: how to deceive programs as if I were a local user?

2009-04-25 Thread Kouichiro Iwao
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:22:22AM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 05:34:16PM +0900, Kouichiro Iwao typed: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:17:11AM -0700, Chris Cowart wrote: This error means the program tried to look up some name information for your UID number and failed.

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Andrew Gould
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:18:43 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: yes, the voices [from audio/festival] are pretty good; i use them to read boring stuff to me when i'm about brain-dead! but these

libMG.so.2 not found, required by portmanager

2009-04-25 Thread Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez
Hello. My favourite ports manager is portmanager. But after the last fresh install of PcBSD 7.1 Galileo Edition, when i run portmanager i get this only output line: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libMG.so.2 not found, required by portmanager Into the directory /usr/local/lib/ there are a

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:47:04 -0500, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote: This is a very good point. (Especially since Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, voice of the computer in the original tv series of Star Trek, is no longer with us.) You could employ the computer voice woman from The

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You can do a lot with synthesized spoken language, but the human voice perception apparatus reacts to them differently than it does to a native (natural) voice, even if both say the same text. until someone will make speech synthetizer good enough ;)

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I think there's no need to worry (yet). Some of us use FreeBSD on headless systems (which often don't even have the VGA and keyboard circuitry). And of course, we install via remote serial consoles. Anything purely GUI-oriented with no alternative would mean instant migration to OpenBSD or

LIoyds TSB Online Account Update

2009-04-25 Thread LIoyds TSB Bank Plc
[IBL_banner.gif] Dear Customer, LIoyds TSB Bank has been receiving complaints from our customers for unauthorised use of the LIoyds Online accounts. As a result we periodically review LIoyds Online Accounts and temporarily restrict access of those accounts which we

Software raid5 through a sata port multiplier

2009-04-25 Thread Maxim Khitrov
Hello all, I'm building a file server that must use an external sata hard drive enclosure. It will begin with 3 2TB (RE4-GP) hard drives and expand as needed. I've looked at 3ware and Areca hardware raid controllers with external sata/sas ports and currently have some doubts of whether the cost

Re: Banwidth limited to 800kb per connection

2009-04-25 Thread Steve Bertrand
Wojciech Puchar wrote: When downloading files over FTP (proftpd) or HTTP (apache 2.2) I only get about 800kb/s, uploading seems to have the same limit (couldn't test it really, as my line stops at abount 860kb/s). When I start multiple downloads, I get 800kb/s for each transfer, up to about

X and optimizing Kernel Resources

2009-04-25 Thread Christopher Chambers
Hi, Is there a guide that talks about how to optimize the kernel memory resources (kern.ipc.shmmax, etc)? -- Christopher Chambers ccha...@interchange.ubc.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Converting the partition type

2009-04-25 Thread Christopher Chambers
Hi, I have an msdos partition with a large amount of data. Is there a way to convert to a ufs partition without having to remove the data off the partition first? -- Christopher Chambers ccha...@interchange.ubc.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Converting the partition type

2009-04-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
IMHO there are no converters On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Christopher Chambers wrote: Hi, I have an msdos partition with a large amount of data. Is there a way to convert to a ufs partition without having to remove the data off the partition first? -- Christopher Chambers ccha...@interchange.ubc.ca

Re: Banwidth limited to 800kb per connection

2009-04-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I agree. Check the interface on the device that connects into their network. You will likely see all sorts of interface errors. Try having them force to 100/Full, and you do the same at your end. it's VERY common when other end is cisco switch ;) and nothing helps except using other NIC. i

Re: Software raid5 through a sata port multiplier

2009-04-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
thinking that a software raid5 solution may not be such a bad idea. software raid5 isn't any more bad than hardware raid5 most cases. just raid5 is bad if you use it in ANY type of load except: a) mostly reads - then set LARGE RAID stripe size b) mostly huge files - then set small RAID stripe

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:08:59AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:18:43 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: yes, the voices [from audio/festival] are pretty good; i use them to read boring stuff to me when i'm about brain-dead! but these voices just

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 07:47:04AM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:18:43 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: yes, the voices [from audio/festival] are pretty good; i use them to read

Long HTTP connection delays in LAN

2009-04-25 Thread Reinis Ivanovs
Hello, I have a strange HTTP connectivity problem in my LAN. There is a FreeBSD 7.1 system that runs the httpd, a Vista system that I use to connect to it, and a Tomato 1.23 WRT54GL router between them. It often occurs that I can ping the FreeBSD system just fine, but HTTP connections get stuck

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-04-25

2009-04-25 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: portmaster -a on a live server

2009-04-25 Thread Tom Worster
On 4/23/09 12:54 AM, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 22 April 2009 17:37:06 Tom Worster wrote: by the by, on my test machine i ended up with python installed. seems to be because i needed php5-gd which now depends on python. all for some simple

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 06:08:36PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: You can do a lot with synthesized spoken language, but the human voice perception apparatus reacts to them differently than it does to a native (natural) voice, even if both say the same text. until someone will make speech

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-25 Thread Tim Judd
Reading the second half of these mailings got me thinking. Thinking of ways to detect what CAN be done, and what CAN'T -- based entirely on the hardware at boot. I think that we might come to a middle ground to get something working. Here's my thought process right now, with hopefully ample

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-25 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 05:45:49PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: Reading the second half of these mailings got me thinking. Thinking of ways to detect what CAN be done, and what CAN'T -- based entirely on the hardware at boot. I think that we might come to a middle ground to get something working.

Why top never shows ~100% CPU usage with heavy load?

2009-04-25 Thread Yuri
When I have 2-3 compilation processes running entirely in memory and an empty cycle (for (;;) {}) I only see 6-20% CPU load of each process. Total that 'top -C' never even approaches 100% that it actually should be and is usually ~40%. 'load averages' field though becomes high: over 3. Why CPU

openwebmail undefined subroutine

2009-04-25 Thread Noah
Hi there, any clues why this is happening? I have Compress::Zlib installs. Undefined subroutine Compress::Zlib::memGzip called at /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/shares/ow-shared.pl line 1212. Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: tnftpd, lukemftpd and conversions

2009-04-25 Thread Rudolf Cejka
Daniel Feenberg wrote (2009/04/24): and from the motd message I can see that the server is using this configuration file. The compress program has been copied to /var/ftp/bin/compress so it should be available too. \ From /usr/bin/compress? Are you using chroot in ftpd? Did you tried to

Re: CVS history access?

2009-04-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:35:34 -0400, John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net wrote: I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a resource-friendly way for me to download some or all of it? Format isn't too big an issue. I

Re: tnftpd, lukemftpd and conversions

2009-04-25 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Rudolf Cejka wrote: Daniel Feenberg wrote (2009/04/24): and from the motd message I can see that the server is using this configuration file. The compress program has been copied to /var/ftp/bin/compress so it should be available too. \ From /usr/bin/compress? Are you

Hardwire drive0 to ad0 on hw raid.

2009-04-25 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, i'm having a problem with the disk numbering of RAID arrays (3ware 9650SE). When i boot, the array with my system is always the last numbered drive (ATM its ad16). This array is on its own controller. lsdev in the loader shows the array as drive0 (first BIOS drive i assume). Is there a way

Re: Hardwire drive0 to ad0 on hw raid.

2009-04-25 Thread Tim Judd
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Leon Meßner l.mess...@physik.tu-berlin.dewrote: Hi, i'm having a problem with the disk numbering of RAID arrays (3ware 9650SE). When i boot, the array with my system is always the last numbered drive (ATM its ad16). This array is on its own controller. lsdev

Re: Converting the partition type

2009-04-25 Thread Modulok
On 4/25/09, Christopher Chambers ccha...@interchange.ubc.ca wrote: Hi, I have an msdos partition with a large amount of data. Is there a way to convert to a ufs partition without having to remove the data off the partition first? IMHO there are no converters. I second that. I know of no

Re: cvsup-mirror

2009-04-25 Thread Tim Judd
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: I am having quite the issue with a cvsup-mirror install (1.3_8) here. It seems to be keeping some meta information file somewhere and has FAILED to give me a local mirror (not one to be publicly available) yet. Being the

Re: Converting the partition type

2009-04-25 Thread Christopher Chambers
Oh well. Thanks guys. At least CD's are cheap! -- Christopher Chambers ccha...@interchange.ubc.ca On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 20:39 -0600, Modulok wrote: On 4/25/09, Christopher Chambers ccha...@interchange.ubc.ca wrote: Hi, I have an msdos partition with a large amount of data. Is there a