Mouse fails with ACPI enabled 8-B4

2009-09-11 Thread Eitan Adler
If I boot with ACPI enabled and then either start X or moused the mouse will appear to work for a few moments and then cease to proccess any input (as tested by moused verbose output, xev, and failure of the mouse to move). This happens on 8.0 BETA 4 If I boot without ACPI the mouse works. Any

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread Gareth Brown
Here's a few you can disable: mod_status, mod_info (both give extra unnecessary info about server) and mod_include (allows include statements in html files). These aren't recommended anyway unless you really need them as they create some level of security concern. mod_userdir

FreeBSD 7.x with Lenovo Thinkpad SL500 or T400

2009-09-11 Thread Abhi
Hola, Has anybody tried FreeBSD 7.x on Lenovo Thinkpads SL500 or T400? Thanks, Abhijit -- (if hungry? (eat) (sleep)) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: 7.2-RELEASE/amd64 - weird stuff in dmesg

2009-09-11 Thread Albert Shih
Le 11/09/2009 à 15:03:36+1000, Alex R a écrit Any ideas??? Anyone?? No. But I got this kind of message since 7.0. Do you have «no classic» network ? Regards. JAS -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76

FreeBSD commands... refcard

2009-09-11 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, In some Linux mailing list of Cuba I'm subscribed to, I just stumbled over this Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card: http://xinocat.com/refcard/ which is available in many languages. This would be very helpfull for my wife which 'must' ( :-)) run FreeBSD on her laptop. Is there something like

Re: Upgrading 6.0 to 6.x... without /var

2009-09-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:14:55PM -0700, jaymax typed: I have a 6.0 installation without a /var slice. Instead I have a soft link of /usr/var to a /var@ file. Now I am attempting an upgrade to 6.4 and getting an error condition. I am using Disk 1 of the 6.4 distro Upgrade [Upgrade an

Re: Sites using FreeBSD

2009-09-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:56:34PM +0200, Arvin Zuberbuehler typed: Hi there, Is there a chance to get listed under Sites using FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/nutshell.html#INTRODUCTION-NUTSHELL-USERS? Or are there any possibilities for advertisements on

Re: FreeBSD 7.x with Lenovo Thinkpad SL500 or T400

2009-09-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:25:25PM +0530, Abhi wrote: Hola, Has anybody tried FreeBSD 7.x on Lenovo Thinkpads SL500 or T400? Alas, though I tried, I could not convince my girlfriend that installing FreeBSD on her T500 would be worth the sacrifice of *not* getting to run WoW, since (unlike

Re: FreeBSD commands... refcard

2009-09-11 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, In some Linux mailing list of Cuba I'm subscribed to, I just stumbled over this Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card: http://xinocat.com/refcard/ which is available in many languages. This would be very helpfull for my wife which 'must' ( :-)) run FreeBSD on her

Re: FreeBSD commands... refcard

2009-09-11 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, September 11, 2009 a las 12:21:41PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, In some Linux mailing list of Cuba I'm subscribed to, I just stumbled over this Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card: http://xinocat.com/refcard/ which is available in many

Re: FreeBSD commands... refcard

2009-09-11 Thread James Seward
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: In some Linux mailing list of Cuba I'm subscribed to, I just stumbled over this Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card: http://xinocat.com/refcard/ which is available in many languages. This would be very helpfull for my wife

Re: linux-pango won't install

2009-09-11 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:49:13PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: For some reason, the x11-toolkits/linux-pango port won't install on my FreeBSD 7.2 system. When I try, I get the following: [Gathering depends for x11-toolkits/linux-pango

Re: linux-pango won't install

2009-09-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:49:13PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: For some reason, the x11-toolkits/linux-pango port won't install on my FreeBSD 7.2 system. When I try, I get the following: [Gathering depends for x11-toolkits/linux-pango

Re: 7.2-RELEASE/amd64 - weird stuff in dmesg

2009-09-11 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:03:44 +1000 Alex R a...@mailinglist.ahhyes.net wrote: Hi everyone, I was wondering whether anyone could shed some light on the following messages I am seeing in dmesg: 33aarrpp:: uunnkknnoowwnn hhaarrddwwaarree aaress format (0x)

Re: linux-pango won't install

2009-09-11 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:49:25AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:49:13PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: For some reason, the x11-toolkits/linux-pango port won't install on my FreeBSD 7.2 system. When I try, I get the following: [Gathering

Re: linux-pango won't install

2009-09-11 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:49:25 +0100 Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:49:13PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: For some reason, the x11-toolkits/linux-pango port won't install on my FreeBSD 7.2 system. When I try, I get the

amavisd-new status=deferred (lost connection with 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once) in maillog issue

2009-09-11 Thread Andrei Brezan
Hello list, I have a strange behaviour from my postfix config using amavisd-new with clamav. I have 4 messages in queue all deffered with the same problem: lost connection with 127.0.0.1. This is what i get from amavisd with log_level=5 in debug.log: *snip* Sep 11 14:15:47 mail amavis[46602]:

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread Ivan Voras
John Almberg wrote: My Apache 2.2 instances are running about 18 Meg each. I've been thinking about doing something to trim these down, and I think tomorrow is the day to take action. They are getting out of hand. I've done a bit of research on this. I think the way to get started is to

grabbing files from SVN ViewVC browser

2009-09-11 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, just wanted to ask if there's a way to actually download files via the SVN ViewVC browser? right now i'm using SVN DAV tree for downloads and SVN ViewVC browser to track changes, do diffs, etc. cheers. alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Nice/priority and disk access

2009-09-11 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, as the man page tells, `nice' alters the scheduling priority. Is there a way to reduce a processes priority for hard disk access? Thanks in advance. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de ___

Re: [SOLVED] amavisd-new status=deferred (lost connection with 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once) in maillog issue

2009-09-11 Thread Andrei Brezan
Andrei Brezan wrote: Hello list, I have a strange behaviour from my postfix config using amavisd-new with clamav. I have 4 messages in queue all deffered with the same problem: lost connection with 127.0.0.1. This is what i get from amavisd with log_level=5 in debug.log: *snip* Sep 11

Re: Nice/priority and disk access

2009-09-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi, as the man page tells, `nice' alters the scheduling priority. Is there a way to reduce a processes priority for hard disk access? No. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread John Almberg
Ivan Voras wrote: There is another thing you can try. Judging from the process size you've given it looks like you are not using PHP or a similar Apache module. Also, you didn't specify anything so I assume you are using the default configuration, which operates in prefork mode - MPM_PREFORK,

ipnat proxy port ftp ftp/tcp

2009-09-11 Thread alexus
I'm straggling to get my FTP to work I'm running jail on my FreeBSD with proftpd and I use ipnat to forward any requests to my box to that jail for that service this is what i put inside of my ipnat.conf rdr bce0 64.237.55.65/27 - lama proxy port ftp ftp/tcp 64.237.55.65/27 this is my public

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread Ivan Voras
John Almberg wrote: I am using PHP, in fact. I've listed all the loaded modules below, and marked the ones I added with an '*'. I need the proxy modules because I use Apache as a front end for Mongrel. This WITH_MPM=worker sounds interesting. I'll have to read up on it. I guess there is

jboss5 on freebsd

2009-09-11 Thread Steel City Phantom
im trying to get the jboss 5 port to run on bsd 6.3. ive had 4 going for a long time now but i can't seem to get 5 to run right. my app is huge and i need to increase the permgen space on the jvm for it to run. ive got this in my rc.conf jboss5_enable=YES jboss5_config=default

SVN + Apache

2009-09-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, The only relevance that this has to FBSD is that both Apache and subversion were installed via packages. I've been meaning to get around to enabling SVN so that I can access my repo via HTTPs. However, most of the docs I've found via Sir Google claim that it's likely that I'll have to

Re: SVN + Apache

2009-09-11 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
2009/9/11 Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca Hi all, The only relevance that this has to FBSD is that both Apache and subversion were installed via packages. I've been meaning to get around to enabling SVN so that I can access my repo via HTTPs. However, most of the docs I've found via Sir

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread John Almberg
PHP is incredibly buggy and will in all probability break Apache if you try running it in threaded mode. That doesn't sound so good. As a sanity check... I've been studying these processes all morning. When I use 'top', the column RES shows the amount of RAM used for the process, correct?

NFS issues on 8.0-BETA4

2009-09-11 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I have a 7.2-RELEASE(i386) server hosting NFSv3. I've installed 8.0-BETA4(amd64) in a VMware 6.5 workstation virtual machine. I cannot sucessfully mount exports from the NFSv3 server on the 8.0-BETA4 client. All works well with 7.2 clients. The strange thing is, the directory in which

Re: FreeBSD commands... refcard

2009-09-11 Thread Al Plant
Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, In some Linux mailing list of Cuba I'm subscribed to, I just stumbled over this Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card: http://xinocat.com/refcard/ which is available in many languages. This would be very helpfull for my wife which 'must' ( :-)) run FreeBSD on her laptop.

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread Linda Messerschmidt
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:48 PM, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: As a sanity check... I've been studying these processes all morning. When I use 'top', the column RES shows the amount of RAM used for the process, correct? This is the value I'd like to get down. How many Apache

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Linda Messerschmidt linda.messerschm...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:48 PM, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: As a sanity check... I've been studying these processes all morning. When I use 'top', the column RES shows the amount of RAM

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread Michael Powell
Ivan Voras wrote: John Almberg wrote: I am using PHP, in fact. I've listed all the loaded modules below, and marked the ones I added with an '*'. I need the proxy modules because I use Apache as a front end for Mongrel. This WITH_MPM=worker sounds interesting. I'll have to read up on it.

sudo script not executing

2009-09-11 Thread bsd
Hello, I have an sh script that is called by the www process which has a shell that defaults to /sbin/nologin I have configured the sudoers file with these settings: www ALL=(www) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/postfixadmin-domain- postdeletion.sh And It does not seem to be able to execute…

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread John Almberg
Linda Messerschmidt wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:48 PM, John Almbergjalmb...@identry.com wrote: As a sanity check... I've been studying these processes all morning. When I use 'top', the column RES shows the amount of RAM used for the process, correct? This is the value I'd like to get

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Sep 11, 2009, at 12:42 PM, John Almberg wrote: My basic problem is at peak usage times (usually in the afternoon), the server starts using swap space, and then response times really bog down. Limit the MaxChildren to the number of Apache httpd's which your machine can actually

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:42 PM, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: Linda Messerschmidt wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:48 PM, John Almbergjalmb...@identry.com wrote: As a sanity check... I've been studying these processes all morning. When I use 'top', the column RES shows the

Re: sudo script not executing

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Cowart
bsd wrote: I have an sh script that is called by the www process which has a shell that defaults to /sbin/nologin I have configured the sudoers file with these settings: www ALL=(www) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/postfixadmin-domain- postdeletion.sh And It does not seem to be able to

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread John Almberg
You've misunderstood what you've done. You have not saved a couple of MB, you've saved one. Of the 18 MB, nearly all of it is shared memory which is only loaded once. Ah... Okay. That actually makes sense. Thanks for the clarification. 1GB web server is more than enough for basic www

Re: Upgrading 6.0 to 6.x... without /var

2009-09-11 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:14:55 -0700 (PDT), jaymax jayma...@gmail.com wrote: = Error Messages [i] Error mounting /mnt/dev ad0as1e on /mnt/usr : Input/output error [ii] Error mounting /mnt/dev ad0as1f on /mnt/usr : Input/output error ^^^ This looks weird. Is

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread Diego Montalvo
Have given Nginx web server a try? It is small and may work better with limited RAM. http://www.nginx.net/ http://urloid.com/nginx1 Diego 2009/9/11 John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com: You've misunderstood what you've done.  You have not saved a couple of MB, you've saved one.  Of the 18 MB,

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:20 PM, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: You've misunderstood what you've done. You have not saved a couple of MB, you've saved one. Of the 18 MB, nearly all of it is shared memory which is only loaded once. Ah... Okay. That actually makes sense. Thanks

Re: Upgrading 6.0 to 6.x... without /var

2009-09-11 Thread jaymax
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:14:55 -0700 (PDT), jaymax jayma...@gmail.com wrote: = Error Messages [i] Error mounting /mnt/dev ad0as1e on /mnt/usr : Input/output error [ii] Error mounting /mnt/dev ad0as1f on /mnt/usr : Input/output error

Re: Upgrading 6.0 to 6.x... without /var

2009-09-11 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:00:20 -0700 (PDT), jaymax jayma...@gmail.com wrote: You are correct my typos, they are ad0s1e and ad0s1f for /tmp and /usr respectively; /var is replaced by soft link ln -s /usr/var /var So the problem is /usr cannot be mounted. First of all, just try it manually, as

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread Linda Messerschmidt
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:20 PM, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: I would have thought, but some times it really gets slow and I'm trying to figure out why. When bogged down, the load averages are low. The main thing that looks out of whack is swap space, which seems to never go below

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread John Almberg
In this case you don't want to look at processes with big RES, you want to find processes with a big difference between RES and SIZE and/or the ones with flat-out largest SIZE. Try sorting top by SIZE and see what bubbles up. (Ignore rpc.statd if it's running.) Huh... okay. That's

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread Robert Huff
John Almberg writes: I'm starting to wonder about the Swap info from top... it never changes. It has said the same thing all day, since I've been watching it. Does that make sense? The current machine has 8G, so ... porbably not a good test case. :-) It's predecessor

DVD-R recording .iso SOLVED

2009-09-11 Thread Al Plant
Aloha, On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Al Plant wrote: Chris Hill wrote: On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, on FreeBSD 8 Current I have installed growisofs. I want to burn a DVD R of /path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . #growisofs -dvd-compat -Z

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 11), John Almberg said: In this case you don't want to look at processes with big RES, you want to find processes with a big difference between RES and SIZE and/or the ones with flat-out largest SIZE. Try sorting top by SIZE and see what bubbles up. (Ignore

Support for Apple iBook keyboards

2009-09-11 Thread KKuzmenko
I need a replacement keyboard for my iBook (Processor 500MHz, PowerPC G3, 384 MB SDRAM, build 8S165, machine model PowerBook4,1, CPU PowerPC 750 (32.14), Bus Speed 67 MHz, USB Bus 3200, File System HFS+ AND - DIMM0/BUILT-IN: size 128 MB. Please advise mr of the following: 1) Do you carry

Re: linux-pango won't install

2009-09-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:40:26AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: I remember having the devil's own job upgrading this a while ago. Try running the install manually - portinstall tends to obscure the real error message, making it harder to track down the specific problem. Doing it manually should

Re: linux-pango won't install

2009-09-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 07:08:49AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:49:25 +0100 Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Perhaps this will prove enlightening: significant-gravitas-shortfall:~:% portaudit -a Affected package: linux-f8-pango-1.18.4_1 Type of