Re: order of source_dirs in cp(1)

2012-04-07 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Apr 5 12, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I was doing $ cp -Rv 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 2 /mnt/osm and was surprised seeing that source_dir 17 was done before 16; the man page does not specify the order, but I was thinking it just goes through the list in the given order...

Re: question regarding geom labels

2012-04-06 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Mar 30 12, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Alexander Best wrote: i have a question regarding a label for a swap partition. when should i do the labeling? after or before creating the partition scheme? when i label before creating the partition scheme, likes

question regarding geom labels

2012-03-30 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i have a question regarding a label for a swap partition. when should i do the labeling? after or before creating the partition scheme? when i label before creating the partition scheme, likes this: glabel label -v swap /dev/da0 gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0 i get the following

issue with limiting java's memory usage

2012-01-29 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, maybe i'm missing something obvious, but i don't quite understand the following top(1) output: last pid: 13875; load averages: 0.73, 0.75, 0.68 65 processes: 2 running, 62 sleeping, 1 waiting CPU 0: 19.5% user, 0.0% nice, 13.3% system, 0.0% interrupt, 67.2% idle CPU 1: 20.3%

Re: issue with limiting java's memory usage

2012-01-29 Thread Alexander Best
On Sun Jan 29 12, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:34:11 +, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org a écrit : hi there, Hello, maybe i'm missing something obvious, but i don't quite understand the following top(1) output: last pid: 13875; load averages: 0.73

Re: Quick build of stripped-down kernel

2011-11-25 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Nov 25 11, Thomas Mueller wrote: from b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com: If you are going to build most of the modules, but only want to exclude a few, then add the directories of the modules to be excluded (relative to /usr/src/sys/modules) to WITHOUT_MODULES, for example in

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Nov 5 11, Robert Simmons wrote: Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address? After setting ntpdate_enable=YES in rc.conf, I get the following error on boot: Setting date via ntp. Error :

question regarding style(9) and field initialisers in structs

2011-10-30 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i found hundreds of the following cases in the FreeBSD src: [...] struct periph_driver { periph_init_func_t init; char*driver_name; TAILQ_HEAD(,cam_periph) units; u_int generation; u_int

small du(1) question

2011-10-19 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, the du(1) man page states the following: -B blocksize Calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks. This is differ- ent from the -k, -m options or setting BLOCKSIZE and gives an estimate of how much space the examined file hierarchy

Re: small du(1) question

2011-10-19 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Oct 19 11, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Alexander Best wrote: the du(1) man page states the following: -B blocksize Calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks. This is differ- ent from the -k, -m options or setting

Re: small du(1) question

2011-10-19 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Oct 19 11, Alexander Best wrote: On Wed Oct 19 11, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Alexander Best wrote: the du(1) man page states the following: -B blocksize Calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks. This is differ

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-18 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Oct 13 11, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org writes: ano ther thought might be to implement an audio cd filesystem, so one could do 'mount -o audiocdfs /dev/cd0 /media/cd' and then all tracks appear as RAW pcm audio files. maybe fuse comes

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Oct 12 11, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Michael D. Norwick mnorw...@centurytel.net writes: Thank You for the replies. Got the part about not mounting an audio CD. I wasn't trying to. Inserting the disc in the drive brought up the error message. Mounting a data CD or DVD acts normally

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Oct 13 11, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:25:24 +, Alexander Best wrote: ano ther thought might be to implement an audio cd filesystem, so one could do 'mount -o audiocdfs /dev/cd0 /media/cd' and then all tracks appear as RAW pcm audio files. maybe fuse comes

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Oct 14 11, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:03:29 +, Alexander Best wrote: On Thu Oct 13 11, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:25:24 +, Alexander Best wrote: ano ther thought might be to implement an audio cd filesystem, so one could do 'mount -o

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Oct 14 11, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:38:45 +, Alexander Best wrote: On Fri Oct 14 11, Polytropon wrote: % ls /dev/acd0* /dev/acd0 /dev/acd0t04 /dev/acd0t08 /dev/acd0t12 /dev/acd0t16 /dev/acd0t01 /dev/acd0t05 /dev/acd0t09 /dev/acd0t13 /dev/acd0t17

Re: problems with IRQ

2011-10-06 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Oct 6 11, KES wrote: system work fine, but systat -v show wrong results in compare with vmstat -i seems counter overflow or so.. i'd rather suspect that systat(1) is querying different variables/structures than vmstat(8). their output is different on my system too and after only a few

Re: Volume control in mplayer resetting 50% when starting / stopping video clips

2011-09-30 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Sep 29 11, Antonio Olivares wrote: try 'sysctl hw.snd.vpc_autoreset=0'. Question, On one of my home machines, I have mixer pcm vol set to 100% : [olivares@tricorehome /usr/home/olivares]$ mixer Mixer vol is currently set to 100:100 Mixer pcm is currently set to

Re: Volume control in mplayer resetting 50% when starting / stopping video clips

2011-09-29 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Sep 29 11, Polytropon wrote: Since I've installed OS v8.2 (STABLE of late August), mplayer has developed an annoying habit: It accidentally resets its volume settings. I have the following configuration: The vol (master) channel of the mixer is controlled by the volume keys on the

Re: Odd error when doing pkg_version

2011-09-20 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Sep 20 11, Ron (Lists) wrote: Starting a couple of days ago, when I run pkg_version I get the following error: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libgdbm.so.3 not found, required by httpd Everything seems to run OK except for this message appearing in the middle of the run.

Re: Odd error when doing pkg_version

2011-09-20 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Sep 20 11, Ron (Lists) wrote: Starting a couple of days ago, when I run pkg_version I get the following error: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libgdbm.so.3 not found, required by httpd Everything seems to run OK except for this message appearing in the middle of the run.

Re: files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz not found -- snapshot corrupt.

2011-08-14 Thread Alexander Best
On Sun Aug 14 11, Niclas Zeising wrote: On 2011-08-13 12:08, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 09:51:41AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: On 08/13/11 09:26, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:43:52AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: On 08/12/11 22:54, Roland Smith wrote: On

Re: files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz not found -- snapshot corrupt.

2011-08-14 Thread Alexander Best
On Sun Aug 14 11, Olivier Smedts wrote: 2011/8/14 Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org: On Sun Aug 14 11, Niclas Zeising wrote: On 2011-08-13 12:08, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 09:51:41AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: On 08/13/11 09:26, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Aug 13

Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD?

2011-07-22 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Jul 22 11, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Unga unga...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all How to sync a file on FreeBSD (esp. on 8.1) to disk? I used fsync(2), but does not immediately flush to disk. I want my writing to a file (a log file) immediately available to

Re: ncal(1) prints control sequences on stdout if stdout is not a tty

2011-07-08 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Jul 7 11, Tobias Rehbein wrote: Hi list, being the maintainer of www/nanoblogger, which uses cal(1) to generate the blog calendar, I noticed that ncal(1), and therefore cal(1), prints control sequences to stdout in order to highlight the current date. This scrambles the calendar

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Jul 6 11, arrowdodger wrote: 2011/7/6 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de When performing an update on the ports tree via portsnap fetch update or when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from

Re: gpu support for modern systems

2011-06-25 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Jun 23 11, Christopher Bergström wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, modern systems with their suffisticated gpus provide quite a potential for moving some of the workload from cpu to gpu. for certain stuff gpus are much

Re: gpu support for modern systems

2011-06-25 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Jun 25 11, C. Bergström wrote: On 06/25/11 05:45 PM, Alexander Best wrote: On Thu Jun 23 11, Christopher Bergström wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Alexander Bestarun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, modern systems with their suffisticated gpus provide quite a potential

gpu support for modern systems

2011-06-22 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, modern systems with their suffisticated gpus provide quite a potential for moving some of the workload from cpu to gpu. for certain stuff gpus are much faster than cpus, like number crunching or encoding/decoding multimedia contents. anybody who is using mplayer(1) in combination with

shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device)

2011-06-09 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i'm running HEAD on amd64. when executing certain linux apps, as well as native freebsd gimp i get the following warnings: (gimp:56100): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device) shmget() failed: No space left on device Disabling shared memory tile transport

Re: problem with german umlauts and gtk apps (maybe unicode issue)

2011-06-09 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Jun 9 11, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:57:05 +, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: otaku% ls|grep html|hd c3 84 c3 96 c3 9c c3 a4 c3 b6 c3 bc c3 9f 2e 68 |Ã.Ã.Ã.ÀöÌÃ..h| 0010 74 6d 6c 0a |tml

problem with german umlauts and gtk apps (maybe unicode issue)

2011-06-08 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, for me the output of `locale -a` looks like this: LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-15 LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-15 LC_COLLATE=en_GB.ISO8859-15 LC_TIME=de_DE.ISO8859-15 LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.ISO8859-15 LC_MONETARY=de_DE.ISO8859-15 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.ISO8859-15 LC_ALL= when i do `touch ÄÖÜäöüß` this works

Re: UDF and DVD's

2011-05-19 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu May 19 11, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:36:02AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: Greetings... :) The first filesystem DVD... other than a movie DVD (DVD-VIDEO?), and the FreeBSD make release DVD's (iso9660)... that I've ever tried to mount, well... don't. It is:

Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-28 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Apr 22 11, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: Bruce Cran [mailto:br...@cran.org.uk] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 9:35 AM To: Alexander Best Cc: Devin Teske; freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; 'Teske, Devin' Subject: Re: [UPDATE] host

Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-22 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Apr 21 11, Devin Teske wrote: Hi List Members! I'm proud to announce the first update to my host-setup utility (a dialog(1)-based host configurator for FreeBSD). The following changes have been made: - fixed bug where /etc/resolv.conf would be created with 0600

Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-22 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Apr 22 11, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: Alexander Best [mailto:arun...@freebsd.org] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 7:55 AM To: Devin Teske Cc: freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Teske, Devin Subject: Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1

Re: dialog(1) changed in RELENG_9 (was RE: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD)

2011-04-22 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Apr 22 11, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: Alexander Best [mailto:arun...@freebsd.org] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 8:42 AM To: Devin Teske Cc: freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; 'Teske, Devin' Subject: Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1

Re: fstat bug?

2011-03-22 Thread Alexander Best
On Mon Mar 21 11, Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi All, I have a Python program that goes up to 100% CPU. Just like this (top): you might want to re-post this message to freebsd-hackers@. in my experience freebsd-questions@ is suited for user-related questions and not that much for developers who

Re: post-installation of CDDL files

2011-03-13 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Mar 12 11, Rob Farmer wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, my current world does not include any CDDL files, because i had WITHOUT_CDDL in my src.conf. now i'd like to build world with CDDL files (in order to use dtrace

post-installation of CDDL files

2011-03-12 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, my current world does not include any CDDL files, because i had WITHOUT_CDDL in my src.conf. now i'd like to build world with CDDL files (in order to use dtrace). what are the necessary steps for doing so? i've removed the WITHOUT_CDDL part from my src.conf, but targets buildworld and

Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-05 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Mar 4 11, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 March 2011 17:10, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I know this is a awful subject, but I recently tried a Gentoo on my laptop and I was surprised to see Linux booting about 2-3 times faster than FreeBSD. I don't

Re: booting a kernel directly from stage 1/2

2011-02-19 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Feb 19 11, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 19/02/2011 02:47, Alexander Best wrote: but that won't work. i get some numbers and then it says: btx halted or something like that. Can't you boot into fixit mode from installation media? That should allow you to repair the boot blocks and make

booting a kernel directly from stage 1/2

2011-02-18 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, is it still possible to boot a kernel directly from stage 1 and 2 and thus bypass loader(8)? this is my disk layout: = 34 488394988 ada0 GPT (233G) [CORRUPT] 34128 1 freebsd-boot (64K) 162 16777216 2 freebsd-swap (8.0G) 16777378

Re: google browser?

2011-02-16 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Feb 16 11, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hey, Am 16.02.2011 10:54, schrieb Sergiy Suprun: Hi. I use free package from http://chromium.hybridsource.org/ on my home pc. All works fine. Linux emulation used only for adobe flash but is other story For this package u must pay, so i

Re: What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-15 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Feb 15 11, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:53:44AM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: On Linux I use clonezilla, which understands the EXT3 filesystem, and it can skip unused space (I'm using about 3GB out of 1TB). On FreeBSD, I have to fill the 1TB drive with zero-filled

Re: delay in boot: ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0

2011-02-14 Thread Alexander Best
On Mon Feb 14 11, Xn Nooby wrote: I get about a 30 second delay during boot for each hard-drive connected to my PC. I'm running FreeBSD 8.1 AMD64 on an ASUS Sabertooth X58 motherboard. atapci0: [ITHREAD] ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata2: [ITHREAD] ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 Is

deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i'm trying to decipher the following top(1) output: otaku% top -PSHb -d2 last pid: 14206; load averages: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00 up 1+02:08:5801:13:21 256 processes: 3 running, 238 sleeping, 15 waiting Mem: 1356M Active, 141M Inact, 342M Wired, 79M Cache, 212M Buf, 44M Free Swap:

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Feb 11 11, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Alexander Best wrote: a) my system is 100% idle, since no processes except the idle process takes up up CPU time or b) that a or some processes take up 2% CPU time which aren't being shown or c) that each of my cpu

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Feb 11 11, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Alexander Best wrote: It means (c). Kernel activity, short-lived transient processes, and imperfections in sampling data are the other ~13 / 10 % thanks. it seems in some cases these imperfections have quite

Re: top: where to find process state descriptions (i.e. STATE usem)?

2011-02-07 Thread Alexander Best
On Mon Feb 7 11, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello. Try to find docs about the process states shown in top, but I can't find any hint for explanations what the abbrev. do mean. I have a problem with a scientific program using OpenMP showing STATE 'usem' in top. Problem: the small program is much

Re: shutdown computer after the halt command

2011-02-07 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Feb 8 11, Alokat wrote: Hi, if I use the *halt* command I just see the system is halted press any key to reboot How can I fix this? * Halt* should cut off my laptop. try 'shutdown -p now' Regards, alokat -- a13x ___

Re: Can't burn with ahci(4) and cdrecord

2011-02-03 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Feb 3 11, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I tried to burn a little iso with ahci(4) instead of old ata drivers and it fails to burn with : i have similar issues. for me using -tao solved the error. cheers. alex markand@Melon ~ $ sudo cdrecord

Re: Status of UDF driver on FreeBSD?

2011-02-03 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Feb 3 11, Rolf Nielsen wrote: Hello, I've never given this any thought, until I recently bought a Blu-ray drive, and realised that I can neither mount commercial Blu-ray discs or watch the films with mplayer. As I understand the problem, it is because FreeBSD has no support for

Re: /usr/local/man/man1 wiped out

2011-01-23 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Jan 5 11, Alexander Best wrote: hi there, i'm not sure what happend here. i updated a few ports the other day using 'portupgrade -a'. nothing special really. today however i notice some manual pages like gcc46 are missing. so i checked the contents of /usr/local/man/man1

chromium producing constant hdd access

2011-01-16 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i noticed chromium is producing a lot of hdd activity. i think it writes every 1kb of new data directly to disk or so. is there a way to increase chromiums download buffer somehow. firefox or opera seem to have a much larger download buffer and write bigger chunks to disk. thus they

Re: make buildkernel pre-build too long

2011-01-05 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Sep 21 10, David DEMELIER wrote: 2010/9/21 Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org: On Fri Sep 17 10, David DEMELIER wrote: 2010/9/17 Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org: On Thu Sep 16 10, David DEMELIER wrote: Hi there, I can't understand why this part of make buildkernel is so

/usr/local/man/man1 wiped out

2011-01-04 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i'm not sure what happend here. i updated a few ports the other day using 'portupgrade -a'. nothing special really. today however i notice some manual pages like gcc46 are missing. so i checked the contents of /usr/local/man/man1 and this is what i found: total 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root

Re: broken link in libgeom(3) manpage

2011-01-01 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Jan 1 11, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: The SEE ALSO section of libgeom(3) in 8.1-RELEASE is a link: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200308/blueprints.html That link brings up the daemonnews.org homepage, not the intended article. A search for geom on that page retrieves 53 articles,

Re: PCI IDE Controller Base Address Register setting

2010-12-27 Thread Alexander Best
On Mon Dec 27 10, Darmawan Salihun wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on AMD Geode LX800 (CS5536 southbridge). However, it cannot detect the IDE controller (in the CS5536) correctly. It says something similar to this: IDE controller not present i don't think freebsd-questions

Re: What is the value of kernel cpu option for Core 2 Duo E8400

2010-12-17 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Dec 17 10, super super wrote: Hi, Freebsd-questions. What is the value of kernel cpu option for Core 2 Duo E8400 need to specify the architecture to amd64. cpu HAMMER ... and adding CPUTYPE ?= nocona to your /etc/make.conf will make sure world gets optimised for your cpu.

Re: Ports: How do dependent ports upgrade when dependency shared lib version is bumped?

2010-12-12 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Dec 11 10, Yuri wrote: I recently updates the system. libatkmm-1.6.so.1 got bumped to libatkmm-1.6.so.2, now inkscape fails: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libatkmm-1.6.so.1 not found, required by inkscape What is the right behavior in such situation? Should all depending

Re: ssh-agent and ssh-add on FreeBSD

2010-11-29 Thread Alexander Best
On Mon Nov 29 10, Brandon Gooch wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:40 AM, bluethundr bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: Hey list  On my CentOS machines I usually keep track of my rsa key with ssh-agent, ssh-add and keychain  I would like to know a) how to install keychain under FreeBSD

libm alternative in ports

2010-11-23 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, does anybody if there's an alternative for libm in the ports dir? i need it, because the newest snapshots of mplayer require log2() and log2f(), which the base libm doesn't support. cheers. alex -- a13x ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: libm alternative in ports

2010-11-23 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Nov 23 10, Chris Brennan wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, does anybody if there's an alternative for libm in the ports dir? i need it, because the newest snapshots of mplayer require log2() and log2f(), which

Re: libm alternative in ports

2010-11-23 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Nov 23 10, Tobias wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: On Tue Nov 23 10, Chris Brennan wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, does anybody if there's an alternative

a question regarding proper printf(3) formating and alignment

2010-11-17 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i've looked at a lot of utilities in the bsd src tree and most of them seem to be doing something like this: Device 1M-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/label/swapfs 10239010239 0% /dev/label/swap 81910 8191 0% Total

Re: a question regarding proper printf(3) formating and alignment

2010-11-17 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Nov 17 10, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 17), Alexander Best said: hi there, i've looked at a lot of utilities in the bsd src tree and most of them seem to be doing something like this: Device 1M-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/label/swapfs

Re: top different output

2010-11-15 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Nov 13 10, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 13): Hi, Freebsd-questions. *pls. redirect to right developers thread in 7.2FreeBSD top show as: 32 root -68- 0K16K WAIT72:24 10.25% irq16: rl0 in 9.0FreeBSD top show as: 12 root 28 -28

Re: Mutt Port broken ?

2010-11-14 Thread Alexander Best
On Sun Nov 14 10, t...@diogunix.com wrote: Hello everybody, just tried to build /usr/ports/mail/mutt but surprisingly got stuck with an Error 1 though the ports collectionis updated and well maintained: m_err -lcrypto -lasn1 -lroken -lcrypt -lssl -lcrypto -lintl -liconv -liconv

Re: BUG: sysctl net.isr.swi_count negative value

2010-11-13 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Nov 13 10, ??? ??? wrote: Hi, Freebsd-questions. net.isr.swi_count: -1692211928 as I think count can not be negative. in this case it is. Is this a bug or negative value means some special? what is the output of 'uname -a'? looks like a 32 bit integer is being used for

Re: kldunload(8) returns 0, although it fail

2010-11-05 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Nov 5 10, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: On 11/03/2010 05:34 PM, Alexander Best wrote: hi there, is this a known issue with kldunload(8)? ***beginn*** otaku% kldunload sound otaku% echo $? 0 otaku% kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 35

Re: kldunload(8) returns 0, although it fail

2010-11-04 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Nov 3 10, Alexander Best wrote: hi there, is this a known issue with kldunload(8)? this is also very interesting: ***beginn*** otaku% kldstat -v|grep netgraph 73 0x80bfa000 15e68netgraph.ko (/boot/kernel/netgraph.ko) 6 netgraph otaku% sudo kldunload

kldunload(8) returns 0, although it fail

2010-11-03 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, is this a known issue with kldunload(8)? ***beginn*** otaku% kldunload sound otaku% echo $? 0 otaku% kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 35 0x8010 a2da40 kernel 21 0x80b2e000 295e8snd_hda.ko 31 0x80b58000 85110sound.ko

Re: acroread9 crashing

2010-10-23 Thread Alexander Best
the freebsd linux emulator is missing support for the inotify_init syscall. you won't be able to use acroread9, until it gets implemented. right now i guess it returns ENOSYS to any linux app making use of it. you might be able to work around this problem by replacing ENOSYS with 0. however since

Re: potential df issues in 8-stable

2010-10-19 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Oct 19 10, krad wrote: On 19 October 2010 10:10, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 October 2010 10:00, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: Just updated my system last night to 8-stable. Now im seeing a minor issue with df in that it doesnt output anything. I'm a pure zfs based

Re: make buildkernel pre-build too long

2010-09-26 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Sep 21 10, David DEMELIER wrote: 2010/9/21 Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org: On Fri Sep 17 10, David DEMELIER wrote: 2010/9/17 Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org: On Thu Sep 16 10, David DEMELIER wrote: Hi there, I can't understand why this part of make buildkernel is so

Re: make buildkernel pre-build too long

2010-09-20 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Sep 17 10, David DEMELIER wrote: 2010/9/17 Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org: On Thu Sep 16 10, David DEMELIER wrote: Hi there, I can't understand why this part of make buildkernel is so long on my amd64 machine (8.1-R) make -V CFILES -V SYSTEM_CFILES -V GEN_CFILES

Re: make buildkernel pre-build too long

2010-09-16 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Sep 16 10, David DEMELIER wrote: Hi there, I can't understand why this part of make buildkernel is so long on my amd64 machine (8.1-R) make -V CFILES -V SYSTEM_CFILES -V GEN_CFILES | MKDEP_CPP=cc -E CC=cc xargs mkdep -a -f .newdep -O2 -frename-registers -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing

Re: apropos returning same item twice

2010-09-14 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Sep 14 10, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Monday 13 September 2010 8:37:26 pm Alexander Best wrote: On Sat Sep 11 10, Steven Friedrich wrote: Why does apropos list mysql(1) twice? It doesn't return duplicates with apropos kde... maybe you have a gzip'ed and plain version

Re: apropos returning same item twice

2010-09-13 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Sep 11 10, Steven Friedrich wrote: Why does apropos list mysql(1) twice? It doesn't return duplicates with apropos kde... maybe you have a gzip'ed and plain version in /usr ? see PR #4419. cheers. alex ad...@laptop2(/dev/pts/1)/usr/home/admin 106% apropos mysql

unchar and ulong typedefs

2010-09-06 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, just stumbled over PR 44365 and was wondering why FreeBSD never added unchar and ulong to types.h to increase sys v compatibility? cheers. alex -- a13x ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading

2010-08-31 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Aug 31 10, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. Suppose I have an executable which I need to invoke repeatedly (e.g. to run tests in a makefile). This executables spend most of its time loading (rather than processing), due to the need of several huge shared libraries. I'd welcome an

Re: change default keymap for /boot/loader?

2010-08-21 Thread Alexander Best
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Re: How to restore a text file from UFS??

2010-08-19 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Aug 19 10, EforeZZ wrote: I edited my 50Kb /etc/rc.conf, loaded a driver and got a kernel panic!! After reboot my /etc/rc.conf is 0 bytes (after automatic background fsck). Which tool should I try now to restore any version of my rc.conf?.. I think data should still be somewhere on

change default keymap for /boot/loader?

2010-08-17 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, just wanted to ask if there's a way to change the default US keymap for /boot/loader to something else? i have options UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP makeoptions UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=german.iso in my kernel conf, however this doesn't seem to apply to /boot/loader. cheers. alex -- a13x

Re: chflags(1) unaware utilties

2010-08-11 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Aug 10 10, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 August 2010 14:00, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, chflags(1) mentions that a few utilities including pax(1) aren't chflags aware yet. is there a list of all those utilties available somewhere? also: i don't quite

chflags(1) unaware utilties

2010-08-09 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, chflags(1) mentions that a few utilities including pax(1) aren't chflags aware yet. is there a list of all those utilties available somewhere? also: i don't quite understand why this is in the BUGS section of chflags(1) and not in the pax(1) manual itself [1]. this doesn't seem very

buffer starvation when recording DVDs

2010-07-14 Thread Alexander Best
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Re: buffer starvation when recording DVDs

2010-07-14 Thread Alexander Best
2010/7/14 Alexander Best alexbes...@uni-muenster.de: hi there, my dvdr drive supports recording DVDs (both DVD-Rs and DVD+Rs) at a maximum speed of 16x. however at speeds of more than ~12x the burner's buffer get's filled only ~20%. probably that's why the burner's speed get's reduced

Re: buffer starvation when recording DVDs

2010-07-14 Thread Alexander Best
2010/7/14 Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Alexander Best alexbes...@uni-muenster.de wrote: 2010/7/14 Alexander Best alexbes...@uni-muenster.de: hi there, my dvdr drive supports recording DVDs (both DVD-Rs and DVD+Rs) at a maximum speed of 16x. however

Re: buffer starvation when recording DVDs

2010-07-14 Thread Alexander Best
2010/7/14 Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com: On 7/14/10, Alexander Best alexbes...@uni-muenster.de wrote: 2010/7/14 Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Alexander Best alexbes...@uni-muenster.de wrote: 2010/7/14 Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12

Re: buffer starvation when recording DVDs

2010-07-14 Thread Alexander Best
2010/7/14 Alexander Best alexbes...@uni-muenster.de: 2010/7/14 Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com: On 7/14/10, Alexander Best alexbes...@uni-muenster.de wrote: 2010/7/14 Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Alexander Best alexbes...@uni-muenster.de wrote: 2010/7/14 Paul

Re: sharing code between the various *BSDs

2010-06-26 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 4:12 AM, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 June 2010 18:13, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 Jun 2010 23:12, Alexander Best alexbes...@uni-muenster.de wrote: hi there, i can't remember where i read this the other day, but i found

Re: sharing code between the various *BSDs

2010-06-24 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: Politics... too bad politics get in the way of progress. :( Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote. There's a bug report on it! On 21 Jun 2010 23:12, Alexander Best alexbes...@uni-muenster.de wrote: hi

sharing code between the various *BSDs

2010-06-21 Thread Alexander Best
been fixed in some other *bsd. if somebody fixes the problem that's just wasted time because it's been done beforehand. would this be even possible or not at all? -- Alexander Best ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Best
implementation of the linux futex emulation. when will this get fixed? almost everyone who uses flash under freebsd has something like this in his ~/.profile: alias killflash='pkill -9 npviewer.bin ; rm -f ~/npviewer.bin.core'; cheers. alex -- Alexander Best

Re: office apps

2010-06-06 Thread Alexander Best
personally i use editors/ted for word processing. it's simple and efficient. if you decide to try it out be sure to comment out the openmotif stuff in the makefile so it gets linked to gtk2. cheers. alex -- Alexander Best ___ freebsd-questions

Re: startx couldn't create cookie with custom kernel

2010-05-13 Thread Alexander Best
you need to re-enable device random. X needs it. -- Alexander Best ___ 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: nvidia module startup

2010-04-28 Thread Alexander Best
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chrome os scrubbed my secondary GPT table :(

2010-04-22 Thread Alexander Best
gpt(8) had). -- Alexander Best ___ 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

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