any way to stop boot2 from waiting for keypress at system startup

2013-07-02 Thread takCoder
Hi Everyone, i wanna stop boot2 from getting a input string to change default boot point.. is there any way around, other than changing boot2.c source code to disable this feature?? As you may know, on system-startup, if you press any key, you will see the following prompt, waiting for you to

Re: any way to stop boot2 from waiting for keypress at system startup

2013-07-02 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 11:05:22 +0430, takCoder wrote: Hi Everyone, i wanna stop boot2 from getting a input string to change default boot point.. is there any way around, other than changing boot2.c source code to disable this feature?? As you may know, on system-startup, if you press any

Re: any way to stop boot2 from waiting for keypress at system startup

2013-07-02 Thread takCoder
Thank you for your quick reply. :) Unfortunately, no.. the option you are talking about is for limitting or disabling beastie menu waiting time, and i am using the option you mention as well.. I wait to disable a feature one step before that.. before even loading kernel.. i just don't know what

Re: sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres

2013-07-02 Thread Ivan Voras
On 01/07/2013 22:28, Jim Pazarena wrote: I have a rather extensive series of databases created and in use all with the very old sleepycat db3. I believe in the addage don't fix what ain't broken, but in the case of db3, it IS broken and my db files get corrupted on occasion. I could move to

Re: any way to stop boot2 from waiting for keypress at system startup

2013-07-02 Thread takCoder
i found the answer! if i add a -n parameter to /boot.config file, the mentioned feature will be disabled.. On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:16 AM, takCoder tak.offic...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for your quick reply. :) Unfortunately, no.. the option you are talking about is for limitting or

Re: sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres

2013-07-02 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 05:45:47 -0500, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Well, this is essentially a bikeshed thread... so why not chip in I disagree; all of these databases have distinctly different uses. MySQL/PostgreSQL: pick your poison. Relational databases. Will you have multiple

Re: sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres

2013-07-02 Thread Ivan Voras
On 02/07/2013 13:55, Mark Felder wrote: If twitter was built upon a WORM database instead of MySQL they could host the entirety of twitter on a handful of servers instead of the gross MySQL+Cassandra mess they're fighting with today. I'd say their problem is not exactly solvable by only

Re: sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres

2013-07-02 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 07:12:37 -0500, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 02/07/2013 13:55, Mark Felder wrote: If twitter was built upon a WORM database instead of MySQL they could host the entirety of twitter on a handful of servers instead of the gross MySQL+Cassandra mess they're

When is /boot/menu.rc supposed to updated?

2013-07-02 Thread Trond Endrestøl
Is it the task of: 1. mergemaster, or 2. make installkernel, or 3. make installworld, or 4. the user by manually copying from /usr/src/sys/boot/forth/menu.rc? I upgraded a 9.0-STABLE VM yesterday, it was last touched late in August last year. The VM previously used CVSup for updating /usr/src,

Curl -7.24.0_4 heap corruption

2013-07-02 Thread Reggie Euser
We're running FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p3 and portaudit says: Affected package: curl-7.24.0_2 Type of problem: cURL library -- heap corruption in curl_easy_unescape. Reference: http://portaudit.FreeBSD.org/01cf67b3-dc3b-11e2-a6cd-c48508086173.html 1 problem(s) in your installed packages found.

Re: Curl -7.24.0_4 heap corruption

2013-07-02 Thread Ryan Frederick
Update your ports vulnerability database before attempting to compile curl. `portaudit -Fda` should do the trick. Ryan On 07/02/2013 08:49 AM, Reggie Euser wrote: We're running FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p3 and portaudit says: Affected package: curl-7.24.0_2 Type of problem: cURL library -- heap

Terrible ix performance

2013-07-02 Thread Outback Dingo
Ive got a high end storage server here, iperf shows decent network io iperf -i 10 -t 20 -c 10.0.96.1 -w 2.5M -l 2.5M Client connecting to 10.0.96.1, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 2.50 MByte (WARNING: requested 2.50 MByte)

Re: Should I be able to use mergemaster with freebsd-update?

2013-07-02 Thread Eugene
Hi all, In case anybody was following this discussion, I have successfully upgraded the system from 8.2 to 8.4 using freebsd-update. The process did have some glitches (in retrospect, minor ones) but mostly they were not related to freebsd-update (like some issues with gmirror and firewall

devel/qt4-corelib dosen´t build

2013-07-02 Thread Bernt Hansson
Hello list. I´m having problems with devel/qt4-corelib ../../include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/tools/qbytearray.h:535: note: bool operator==(const QByteArray, const QByteArray) ../../include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/tools/qbytearray.h:537: note: bool operator==(const

Re: devel/qt4-corelib dosen´t build

2013-07-02 Thread Bernt Hansson
On 2013-07-02 19:33, Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list. EDIT: How odd, it builds just fine on i386 FreeBSD testbox.fqdn 8.3-STABLE FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE #0: Fri Feb 22 20:03:01 CET 2013 root@fqdn:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 I´m having problems with devel/qt4-corelib

Re: upgrade qjail

2013-07-02 Thread Гуляев Гоша
Guys! I have a similar problem. But from your answer I don't understand, is it needed to create all jails from scratch?!! Or it possible recreate existed jails with qjail-3.0? Tell me please how to do that procedure without reinstalling all jails from scratch. 09.06.2013, 07:55,

OT: rsync on Mac OSX

2013-07-02 Thread Chris Maness
I have been using rsync with Mac OSX with no issues until today. I generally use it instead of the copy command because if the copy fails on large files, I can pick up where I left off. I have backed up entire Final Cut Pro projects this way with no issues. However, I recently synced a drive to

Re: OT: rsync on Mac OSX

2013-07-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 13:35:00 -0700, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I have been using rsync with Mac OSX with no issues until today. I generally use it instead of the copy command because if the copy fails on large files, I can pick up where I left off. I have backed up entire Final

Re: OT: rsync on Mac OSX

2013-07-02 Thread Chris Maness
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.grwrote: On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 13:35:00 -0700, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I have been using rsync with Mac OSX with no issues until today. I generally use it instead of the copy command because if the copy

Re: OT: rsync on Mac OSX

2013-07-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 14:48:03 -0700, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.grwrote: On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 13:35:00 -0700, Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: I have been using rsync with Mac OSX with no issues until

Re: OT: rsync on Mac OSX

2013-07-02 Thread Chris Maness
Since you are going to wait anyway, why don't you try peeking at some of the file checksums while this is running? MacOS X comes with a shasum utility which implements SHA-256 checksums, so you should be able to look at a few random samples of these files, e.g. by running on the source disk:

Re: Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!

2013-07-02 Thread Mike C.
On 06/23/13 23:57, CeDeROM wrote: Hey :-) For my Dell laptop the backlight is controlled by hardware, unlike sound keys where you can assign them to use xf86audiovolumeup/down (or similar) to interact with mixer. I would search for automatic backlight hothey that would block manual control,

Re: any way to stop boot2 from waiting for keypress at system startup

2013-07-02 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 15:18:04 +0430, takCoder wrote: i found the answer! if i add a -n parameter to /boot.config file, the mentioned feature will be disabled.. Sorry for my confusion. The option you've successfully found is documented in man 8 boot (which also provides a short description of the

X client without X server

2013-07-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Is there a way to install an X client without automatically install an X server? On all my systems, I throw xterm and emacs, as the primary tools I use for management, but the display is always remote, I never, ever, run X on the machine, but still it install X server, fonts and a lot of

Re: Terrible ix performance

2013-07-02 Thread Outback Dingo
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.comwrote: Ive got a high end storage server here, iperf shows decent network io iperf -i 10 -t 20 -c 10.0.96.1 -w 2.5M -l 2.5M Client connecting to 10.0.96.1, TCP

Re: any way to stop boot2 from waiting for keypress at system startup

2013-07-02 Thread takCoder
Yes you are right :) If i knew the feature's name, it would be easier to find this option out.. Actually i found mentioned flag while tracing boot2.c code... Anyway, Thank you for your complete reply :) On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 2 Jul 2013