Re: server specification.

2009-10-13 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 05:42:28AM +, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello gurus, Im going to a new server, and i donot want to have a problem.. May please anyone advice me of any feed back of FreeBSD 7.2 with the following specification: any problems? 1x Intel Core 2

Re: gmirror, gjournal and glabel - which order?

2009-10-13 Thread krad
2009/10/13 Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:08:46AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: Hi all, I'm having a hard time trying to work out which order I should set up gmirror, glabel and gjournal on a new system. I want to

Kernel Build issue after doing a cvsup yesterday under 6.4 on x86 - Help (knote_fork)

2009-10-13 Thread Howard Leadmon
After running cvsup and doing a buildworld, I tried to make a new kernel, and got the following error.. On my 6.4-STABLE x86 machine, I received the following: cc -c -O -pipe -march=pentium4 -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith

Relocating ~/.xsession-errors

2009-10-13 Thread Martijn van Buul
Hi, I've recently installed FreeBSD 8.0RC1 on my Acer Aspire One netbook, and so far things are working out OK. I'm using the SSD model, and since these netbooks have a notoriously slow SSD write speed, I'm trying to get rid of as much writes as possible. Furthermore, reducing writes might make

Re: Relocating ~/.xsession-errors

2009-10-13 Thread Martijn van Buul
* Martijn van Buul: Does anyone know an alternate way to move this logfile, or if everything else fails how to silence it? I forgot to mention that I'm using gdm, but I'm not opposed to changing that. -- Martijn van Buul - p...@dohd.org ___

error while printing from Java to CUPS

2009-10-13 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Some Java applications, like openproj for example, are unable to print to the CUPS printing system; this seems to be a know problem in Java and if you do a search in Don Google you will information and workarounds, like this, for example:

Re: gmirror, gjournal and glabel - which order?

2009-10-13 Thread Vincent Hoffman
krad wrote: 2009/10/13 Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:08:46AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: Hi all, I'm having a hard time trying to work out which order I should set up gmirror, glabel and gjournal on a new

Broadcom bce interface problems

2009-10-13 Thread Brian McCann
I'm having problems with the bce interface on a FreeBSD 7.2 install, using an IBM BladeCenter HS21 machine. The machine uses the NetXtreme II card. The really strange thing here is, the switch shows a link, but the card shows no carrier in the setup. It started working for a few seconds at one

Re: Broadcom bce interface problems

2009-10-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Brian McCann wrote: I'm having problems with the bce interface on a FreeBSD 7.2 install, using an IBM BladeCenter HS21 machine. The machine uses the NetXtreme II card. The really strange thing here is, the switch shows a link, but the card shows no carrier in the setup. It started working

how does gmirror start up?

2009-10-13 Thread Nick Barnes
I am running a 6.3 system and have had various problems with disk reliability on a key filesystem, probably down to SCSI hardware or drivers. I'm intending to replace that SCSI disk with a pair of SATA disks ad6/7, using gmirror as gm0 (while keeping ad4 as our boot disk). I have set up the

Re: how does gmirror start up?

2009-10-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
Nick Barnes wrote: I am running a 6.3 system and have had various problems with disk reliability on a key filesystem, probably down to SCSI hardware or drivers. I'm intending to replace that SCSI disk with a pair of SATA disks ad6/7, using gmirror as gm0 (while keeping ad4 as our boot disk). I

Re: how does gmirror start up?

2009-10-13 Thread krad
2009/10/13 Nick Barnes n...@ravenbrook.com I am running a 6.3 system and have had various problems with disk reliability on a key filesystem, probably down to SCSI hardware or drivers. I'm intending to replace that SCSI disk with a pair of SATA disks ad6/7, using gmirror as gm0 (while

Re: how does gmirror start up?

2009-10-13 Thread krad
2009/10/13 Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk Nick Barnes wrote: I am running a 6.3 system and have had various problems with disk reliability on a key filesystem, probably down to SCSI hardware or drivers. I'm intending to replace that SCSI disk with a pair of SATA disks

freebsd jail: web and database server config questions

2009-10-13 Thread Dino Vliet
Dear Freebsd people,   To consolditae on resources I have configured a machine to run both a web and database server (powering my database driven website).   Due to security concerns I'm contemplating on introducing a jailed environment on this machine and want to know if this would be

Re: freebsd jail: web and database server config questions

2009-10-13 Thread APseudoUtopia
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Dino Vliet dino_vl...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear Freebsd people, To consolditae on resources I have configured a machine to run both a web and database server (powering my database driven website). Due to security concerns I'm contemplating on introducing a

Automatic dual kernel cd boot amd64/i386

2009-10-13 Thread Volkov Alexei
Hello. Is it possible to get bootable cd with auto selectable amd64/i386 boot? For instance , i have a bootable cd with two kernels: * first is located in /boot/kernel.amd64 * second in /boot/kernel.i386 loader.conf has line /kernel=kernel.amd64/ When it boots on amd64 incompatible hardware

Re: freebsd jail: web and database server config questions

2009-10-13 Thread krad
2009/10/13 Dino Vliet dino_vl...@yahoo.com Dear Freebsd people, To consolditae on resources I have configured a machine to run both a web and database server (powering my database driven website). Due to security concerns I'm contemplating on introducing a jailed environment on this

Re: freebsd jail: web and database server config questions

2009-10-13 Thread krad
2009/10/13 APseudoUtopia apseudouto...@gmail.com On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Dino Vliet dino_vl...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear Freebsd people, To consolditae on resources I have configured a machine to run both a web and database server (powering my database driven website). Due to

NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-13 Thread Jacques Henry
Hello, I am using a System based on FreeBSD 6.3. On this System an automatically generated ntpd.conf file is generated in order to synchronize the System clock with a NTP Server. I want to use a Windows 2003 or 2008 Server to act as the NTP Server. On the Windows System the NTP Server (Windows

NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-13 Thread Jacques Henry
Hello, I am using a System based on FreeBSD 6.3. On this System an automatically generated ntpd.conf file is generated in order to synchronize the System clock with a NTP Server. I want to use a Windows 2003 or 2008 Server to act as the NTP Server. On the Windows System the NTP Server (Windows

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-13 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:13:16 +0200 Jacques Henry (caramba...@googlemail.com) replied: Hello, I am using a System based on FreeBSD 6.3. On this System an automatically generated ntpd.conf file is generated in order to synchronize the System clock with a NTP Server. I want to use a Windows 2003 or

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-13 Thread Jon Radel
Jacques Henry wrote: Hello, I am using a System based on FreeBSD 6.3. On this System an automatically generated ntpd.conf file is generated in order to synchronize the System clock with a NTP Server. I want to use a Windows 2003 or 2008 Server to act as the NTP Server. On the Windows System the

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-13 Thread krad
2009/10/13 Jacques Henry caramba...@googlemail.com Hello, I am using a System based on FreeBSD 6.3. On this System an automatically generated ntpd.conf file is generated in order to synchronize the System clock with a NTP Server. I want to use a Windows 2003 or 2008 Server to act as the NTP

RE: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-13 Thread Jacques Henry
ntpd wont resync if the time difference is to big, as it assumes something is wrong as you would have set the system clock roughly correct. To fix stop ntpd, then do an ntpdate against the server. This should set the time. Now run ntpd again also set the following variables to a server of

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-13 Thread Jon Radel
Jacques Henry wrote: I commented the commands involved and nothing changed... (with only 10 minutes of time difference) The 19 minutes between when I sent my suggestions and you responded is hardly enough time to see if ntpd was slewing the time. Slewing 587 seconds takes days. I even

[OT] Service that provides security questions

2009-10-13 Thread Bill Moran
I know that various companies use a pretty crazy security question system if your forget your account password and you can't use email to reset it. It seems to be the same system used by the credit agencies when you ask for a credit report the first time. It's the system where they ask you 6 or

[ports/science/paraview]: /usr/local/lib/paraview-2.4/tk8.4/tk.tcl: no event type or button # or keysym

2009-10-13 Thread Heiner Strauß
Before posting a PR I'll ask whether this error I receive after a fresh installation of paraview from ports today on FreeBSD 8.0-RC1/amd64 is an serious issue or something related on misconfiguration. Besides, tcl/tk 8.4 is up to date and present on the system. Hope someone can help,

Re: Relocating ~/.xsession-errors

2009-10-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:02:19 + (UTC), Martijn van Buul p...@dohd.org wrote: I'd like to relocate this file to a tmpfs ramdisk, if possible. Have you tried using a symlink? I'm not sure if this will work across partitions... Does anyone know an alternate way to move this logfile, or if

How can I get 100 connections in FIN_WAIT_2 state from the same IP?

2009-10-13 Thread Martin Turgeon
Hi everyone, I would like to know if anyone knows the reason why I get a lot of connections (more than 100) from the same IP in FIN_WAIT_2 state. Refering to this diagram (http://www.jxos.org/Projects/TCP/tcpstate.html), the connection enter in FIN_WAIT_1 when the server closes the connection

Re: freebsd jail: web and database server config questions

2009-10-13 Thread Jasvinder S. Bahra
I'm no expert but i'll give this a go. Is it advisable/wise/okay/clever to run a webserver on my host system and a database server on my jailed system? The webserver will need to connect to the database system on startup and update the database based on client access. A key concept in

Re: How can I get 100 connections in FIN_WAIT_2 state from the same IP?

2009-10-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Martin Turgeon wrote: I would like to know if anyone knows the reason why I get a lot of connections (more than 100) from the same IP in FIN_WAIT_2 state. That IP is probably running a web proxy or possibly some kind of spider. It could also be malicious,

Re: restore(8)ing new / -- boots on metal but not in a VM

2009-10-13 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/12/09, Alex Jurkiewicz a...@bluebottle.net.au wrote: 2009/10/13 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com: Is the virtual machine using SCSI emulation to boot, or is it using IDE? SCSI drives are da(4), IDE drives are ata(4) [aka ad(4)] The dump was taken from an ad0 device on physical hardware, and

Re: server specification.

2009-10-13 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/12/09, Marwan Sultan dead_l...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello gurus, Im going to a new server, and i donot want to have a problem.. May please anyone advice me of any feed back of FreeBSD 7.2 with the following specification: any problems? 1x Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield

Re: music file in /tmp/XXX/

2009-10-13 Thread Tobias Rehbein
Am Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:31:48AM -0700 schrieb Gary Kline: is there a freebsd app that will take my music file, 18 of them in /tmp/XXX, all named ogg files, and burn them to a CD? You might take a look at audio/mp3burn. Despite it's name it burns ogg files just fine: mp3burn *.ogg

whacky `fc-list` output

2009-10-13 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, when i do `fc-list` the output looks rather odd. `fc-cache -f` doesn't help. the output looks the same using different shells. cheers. ps: i'm running FreeBSD otaku 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0 r197914: Sat Oct 10 02:58:19 CEST 2009 r...@otaku:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARUNDEL

Re: server specification.

2009-10-13 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:45:02 -0600 Tim Judd (taj...@gmail.com) replied: Certain OEMs (ahem, Dell) I don't pick due to it's known legacy support or Technical Support unsupporting an OS that they don't get paid for. Even if it's a hardware problem, they ask try to duplicate the problem in windows,

Re: Relocating ~/.xsession-errors

2009-10-13 Thread Martijn van Buul
* Polytropon: On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:02:19 + (UTC), Martijn van Buul p...@dohd.org wrote: I'd like to relocate this file to a tmpfs ramdisk, if possible. Have you tried using a symlink? I'm not sure if this will work across partitions... Symlinks work across partitions, but the problem

cdma modem Ubiquam UM-300 and FreeBSD 8

2009-10-13 Thread glimm
Hello. Has the someone to run the pcmcia modem Ubiquam UM-300 under FreeBSD? Modem is defined in the system, but ppp is responsible Warning: Chat script failed when dialing. kldload umodem.ko kldload uplcom.ko kldload uart.ko dmesg pccard0: unknown card (manufacturer=0x015d, product=0x4c45,

Re: Relocating ~/.xsession-errors

2009-10-13 Thread Martijn van Buul
* Martijn van Buul: Hi, I've recently installed FreeBSD 8.0RC1 on my Acer Aspire One netbook, and so far things are working out OK. I'm using the SSD model, and since these netbooks have a notoriously slow SSD write speed, I'm trying to get rid of as much writes as possible. Furthermore,

Re: How can I get 100 connections in FIN_WAIT_2 state from the same IP?

2009-10-13 Thread Michael Powell
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Martin Turgeon wrote: I would like to know if anyone knows the reason why I get a lot of connections (more than 100) from the same IP in FIN_WAIT_2 state. That IP is probably running a web proxy or possibly some kind of spider. It could

Re: sysinstall colours

2009-10-13 Thread Alexander Best
Kevin Kinsey schrieb am 2009-10-11: Alexander Best wrote: Seriously?!?!?! All the problems with sysinstall, and your idea is to change the color? Are you trying to start a bikeshed? If so, I prefer pink. -- randi I'm painting the little girl's room next week and might have some

laptops and notebooks

2009-10-13 Thread af300wsm
hi, Does anyone here use FreeBSD or PC-BSD with HP TouchSmart laptops/notebooks? Thanks, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: How can I get 100 connections in FIN_WAIT_2 state from the same IP?

2009-10-13 Thread Jeff Laine
On Tue,13-10-2009 [17:50:00], Michael Powell wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Martin Turgeon wrote: I would like to know if anyone knows the reason why I get a lot of connections (more than 100) from the same IP in FIN_WAIT_2 state. That IP is probably running

too noisy virtualbox messages on dmesg

2009-10-13 Thread Kouichiro Iwao
Hi. I'm using VirtualBox 3.0.51 on 8-RC1 and it is properly working but too many messages are dumped on dmesg like below. The message blows off which I really need. Please give me instructions how to stop it or how to make it to be dumped somewhere else. [m...@trueno ~]$ dmesg | tail

Re: Broadcom bce interface problems

2009-10-13 Thread Brian McCann
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Brian McCann wrote: I'm having problems with the bce interface on a FreeBSD 7.2 install, using an IBM BladeCenter HS21 machine.  The machine uses the NetXtreme II card.  The really strange thing here is, the switch shows a

Re: too noisy virtualbox messages on dmesg

2009-10-13 Thread Adam Vande More
2009/10/13 Kouichiro Iwao m...@club.kyutech.ac.jp Hi. I'm using VirtualBox 3.0.51 on 8-RC1 and it is properly working but too many messages are dumped on dmesg like below. The message blows off which I really need. Please give me instructions how to stop it or how to make it to be dumped

man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Please try this: 1. at the prompt type man man to get the man manual page. 2. press CTRL-G to to to the bottom of the document 3. press k to scroll up one line You'll notice you cannot perform step 3 because man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G. Question: How can I make man not quit back

View font selection

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, Question: What command should I issue to see what each of my installed x11 fonts looks like? Thank you, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-13 Thread Robert Huff
Chris Stankevitz writes: Please try this: 1. at the prompt type man man to get the man manual page. 2. press CTRL-G to to to the bottom of the document 3. press k to scroll up one line You'll notice you cannot perform step 3 because man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G.

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-13 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/10/13 Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@yahoo.com: Please try this: 1. at the prompt type man man to get the man manual page. 2. press CTRL-G to to to the bottom of the document 3. press k to scroll up one line You'll notice you cannot perform step 3 because man quits back to the prompt

Re: too noisy virtualbox messages on dmesg

2009-10-13 Thread Kouichiro Iwao
Adam Vande More wrote: Did you compile the port with debug enabled? I don't see those messages unless it is. That was just because of debugging option, thanks. -- Iwao, Koichiro m...@club.kyutech.ac.jp ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: man quits back to the prompt after CTRL-G

2009-10-13 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009, Robert Huff wrote: Chris Stankevitz writes: Please try this: 1. at the prompt type man man to get the man manual page. 2. press CTRL-G to to to the bottom of the document 3. press k to scroll up one line You'll notice you cannot perform step 3 because man