Fwd: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

2011-07-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Umm, please don't inflict autoresponders upon people who answer your questions... Begin forwarded message: From: tomd...@speakeasy.org Date: July 19, 2011 11:27:28 AM PDT To: Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com Subject: Re: Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0 I'm out of office

Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

2011-07-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: ar0 is the RAID-0 volume. However, I would advise against using Intel's Matrix pseudo-RAID for a boot volume, Why? I searched and did not find a reason to not use it. Just a few recommend against it without reasons. There's a set of

Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

2011-07-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 19, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I still do not understand which disk to install to, ad4, ad6, or, ar0? My original reply mentioned: ar0 is the RAID-0 volume. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Recurring ICMP Bad Checksum Warning

2011-07-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 14, 2011, at 5:18 AM, monarci wrote: I am currently running a company's FreeBSD web server and I am constantly receiving the ICMP Bad Checksum warning. You most likely have a NIC with hardware checksum capabilities; tcpdump sees outgoing packets before the hardware generates the

Re: disk spinning continuously + cpu possibly overheating = sudden death

2011-07-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 9, 2011, at 3:53 AM, Manish Jain wrote: I am running FreeBSD-8.2-amd64 on a Western Digital 320 GD disk and a quad-core AMD Phenom processor. After booting, the disk keeps continuously (meaning continuous I/O) and after a couple of hours (on the console with the X server not

Re: disk spinning continuously + cpu possibly overheating = sudden death

2011-07-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 9, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Manish Jain wrote: What do I make of it when the system runs flawlessly both on Win XP and FreeBSD-8.0-amd64 ? That's interesting but inconclusive. Can you run prime95 testing overnight under WinXP without issues? Or memtest86? BTW, 8.2 does NOT - for reasons

Re: error in installation of uwsgi

2011-07-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 8, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Zhong Yubin wrote: Hi, I'm going to setup machine for developing web application in python. But some errors appear when I install uwsgi using ports. The following is the first I met: Evidently, this uwsgi software wants a threaded Python. You likely need to

Re: Problem with web video

2011-06-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Carmel wrote: I have been fighting a losing battle trying to get video to display with Firefox. I just updated to the latest version 5;however, it still does not work. This is on a FreeBSD-8.2 system. As an example, the following URL does not display the video or

Re: (no subject)

2011-06-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 21, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Lokadamus wrote: Mon Jun 20 11:41:58 2011 849M /tmp Mon Jun 20 11:42:01 2011 Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/amrd0s1a 989M 987M -76M 108% / When a partition is over 100% its use backup place for defect sektors. A partition is/ was created

Re: (email) server connection problem : Help

2011-06-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 20, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Mark Moellering wrote: I cannot log into the server via either ssl for email or ssh on the two domains that are .org and .info The connection is refused. Here is an example copied from a console; shell$ ssh -l LoginName mail.anadarkohs60.com The authenticity

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 17, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: Where i live no need to register, you get copyright if the stuff fulfills certain criteria, originality is one. Registration aids enforcement. Of course, there's always the poor man's copyright registration approach, where the moment you have

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 17, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: Sigh. If you'd ever actually filed a copyright registration or transfer form, you would discover that one needs to get them notarized. (Documenting that a certain document was available and signed at a specific date is what a notary public is

Re: startup postgresql 9.0.3

2011-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 16, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Jeff Hamann wrote: I've installed and tested postgresql just fine on FreeBSD 8.2. I gather this means running the database manually via postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data works normally? As instructed in the script, I've moved the file to

Re: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 16, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Robert wrote: I have tested with all of the sticks installed and with one at a time. When all of the sticks are installed, BIOS show a total of 2752 MB of RAM. If any of the sticks are installed alone in any of the four slots, BIOS then shows 960 MB instead of the

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 16, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Peter Vereshagin wrote: And does FreeBSD Foundation own its FreeBSD UNIX then? If it does, did it pay for it? Does it certify its FreeBSD as a UNIX and how much does it pay? The FreeBSD Foundation is a non-profit organization which supports and represents the

Re: versions of software

2011-06-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 15, 2011, at 8:20 AM, spidey wrote: Can someone tell me which versions of sendmail and DNS Bind are in the current Ubuntu 10?? Sure, but you're asking on the wrong mailing list: FreeBSD isn't Ubuntu. [ Reply-to: set appropriately. ] Regards, -- -Chuck

Re: how do i fsck my server?

2011-06-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 15, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Gary Kline wrote: can anybody clue me in on why fsck on my server [yes, of course as root] seem to refuse to WRITE? Bad sectors on the hard drive are a somewhat common cause of this. we had a power out locally and i caught my UPS at the last second. i powered

Re: DHCP Question

2011-06-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 14, 2011, at 11:19 AM, jh...@socket.net wrote: I am working with a vendor and they are wanting me to send them ip addresses via option 74 in DHCP (irc-server). After I defined this in my dhcpd.conf file, the option is still not being sent. However, I am not receiving a request for

Re: Thunderbird 3.1.10 Connection Refused

2011-06-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 14, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Unga wrote: I need to access an IMAP server at mail.server.com:45000. And the server uses a self-signed certificate. The registered port for IMAPS is 993/tcp. Unless you have very good reasons for running IMAP server on a non-standard port, you should run it on

Re: Virtualbox on 8.2 64-bit (cont)

2011-06-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 14, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Rob wrote: When 8.3 comes out, what do I need to do to update the src tree? This may be documented in the UPDATING docs, but having never messed with the source tree I haven't had cause to look. If so just tell me to go read the respective doc. :) Read the

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:40 AM, Bill Tillman wrote: I have installed and configured Xorg many times on several different machines. When it installs it comes with twm (Trivial Window Manager) [ ... ] twm doesn't stand for Trivial Window Manager-- it stands for Tom's Window Manager because it

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 12, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Polytropon wrote: twm doesn't stand for Trivial Window Manager-- it stands for Tom's Window Manager because it was written by Tom LaStrange on Sun-3_35 or 3_50 hardware back around X11R1. Without any further investigation and research, my brain seems to

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

2011-06-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 8, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Alexander Best wrote: *however* when i save a file via the gtk save dialog (lets say from within chromium), the filename only gets displayed correctly in the gtk open dialog. saving a file ÄÖÜäöüß.html from chromium's gtk dialog returns the following under the

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Dave wrote: For whatever reason, I can't get my head round how Exactly to create and use a jail, for a small webserver (Hiawatha) on FreeBSD V8.x Did you start with the Handbook? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails.html

Re: I486_CPU or I586_CPU in kernel config

2011-06-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 30, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2011, Adam Vande More wrote: Perhaps this is the one you meant? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-January/190568.html That's the one! Thanks! Actually the two threads touch on the same subject, and it

Re: icons

2011-05-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 27, 2011, at 10:42 AM, pwnedomina wrote: where are located icons of apps such as browsers,etc? pkg_info -L _portname_ will display the pathnames for a package or port such as Firefox, and you can then grep that for .jpg/.gif/.png files as you see fit. Regards, -- -Chuck

Re: ARP tables in FreeBSD (vs Linux)

2011-05-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 27, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Rogelio wrote: It was one of those things where in an effort to quickly fix things, I split up the collision domain and used a router to handle the ARP. Right now, a 7201 router has about 15K ARPs, and the system is much slower. I'm not surprised. Even good

Re: ports problem in an old system ver 4.9

2011-05-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 26, 2011, at 3:01 PM, David Banning wrote: I have an old FreeBSD 4.9 installation that I cannot upgrade. You've also got a FreeBSD installation which the ports tree does not support. I wanted to install something from the ports, but I am getting this error on almost every port; #

Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 26, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Chris Hill wrote: I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need? How many DHCP leases and NAT clients? ISC's DHCPd typically runs a few tens of MB unless you have

Re: Filename containing French characters ?

2011-05-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 24, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: finally one of our developer has written a php function that transcode all accentuated characters to the corresponding non accentuated thanks to her !!! but the problem is NOT solved just workarrounded Sure. FreeBSD's default filesystem

Re: FreeBSD compatible mini-itx board

2011-05-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 19, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Erik Nørgaard wrote: It indicates that they put faster RAM into the box, but ran it at a speed of 533MHz, which is slower than the memory is capable of running. In some cases, doing this lets you run the RAM at lower voltage or with tighter timing settings of

Re: FreeBSD compatible mini-itx board

2011-05-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- [ Perry gave a good answer to the last question; I'll try to hit some of the earlier ones. :-) ] On May 19, 2011, at 12:23 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Erik N?rgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: Mobile Intel 945GSE Express Chipset Intel 82945GSE Express Chipset Graphics/Memory

Re: How to update build tools

2011-05-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 18, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Коньков Евгений wrote: I am compile freebsd from source, but get error 2 some time ago somebody advice me to update build tools or etc. But I do not remember ( please remind me which command to use to update build tools? cd /usr/src ; make buildworld (See

Re: Re[2]: How to update build tools

2011-05-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 18, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Коньков Евгений wrote: no, I upgrade from freebsd current 201101 to 201105 and there was command without buildworld The compiler toolchain is rebuilt with buildworld/installworld. Perhaps it would be more useful to see what kind of error you are experiencing

Re: Re[4]: How to update build tools

2011-05-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 18, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Коньков Евгений wrote: CS The compiler toolchain is rebuilt with buildworld/installworld. CS Perhaps it would be more useful to see what kind of error you are CS experiencing which makes you think that updating the build tools would help? error 2 when compile

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE

2011-05-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 13, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Mike Seda wrote: If I install FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT, I will be able to upgrade to FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE (once available) via the freebsd-update utility, right? There isn't a supported RELENG_9 branch, yet. Once it exists, it is likely that you could use

Re: ZFS Deduplication (was Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE)

2011-05-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 13, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Mike Seda wrote: Currently, I'm really only interested in using FreeBSD so that I can leverage ZFS Deduplication (available in ZFS v21 and higher) on one server. What is the best (most stable) way to get this functionality at the moment? By definition, HEAD

Re: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 10, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: I have a FreeBSD-8.2-STABLE server running OpenVPN. What I'm trying to do is to be able to access my LAN with my M$ Windows laptop using a M$ compatible client. I read the manpage and it basically sets forth examples in which there will

Re: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 10, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: OpenVPN's site provides fine documentation: http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation.html http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/miscellaneous/78-static-key-mini-howto.html [ ... ] I'm working through the

Re: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 10, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: One more thing. I am going to need the Windows Client but I don't seem to find that at the OpenVPN site, only the full install which I assume installs the server as well as the client. Or am I missing the link to get just the client install.

Re: PROBLEM? Monthly maintance in crontab for Febrary

2011-04-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 19, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Коньков Евгений wrote: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily 15 4 * * 6 rootperiodic weekly 30 5 1 * * rootperiodic monthly Is

Re: FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 18, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Sascha Vieweg wrote: man syscons | less -p'Back Scrolling' ... Says: press the `slock' key (with some PC keyboard description). However, I have got a MB Pro where no such key is available. Thus, I may repeat my question: How can I get console scolling working

Re: Unable to find an appropriate lock to guard the shared cache. This *should* be essentially impossible

2011-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Steven Friedrich wrote: I tried searching the archives, but didn't get hits. Goggle hits revealed little info. Unable to find an appropriate lock to guard the shared cache. This *should* be essentially impossible Does this thread help:

Re: Extending pw(8) username limit

2011-04-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 14, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: I have a special situation where I'd like to do either first.last_somedomain.com or first.l...@somedomain.com but the former is rejected due to length and the latter due to the @ by pw(8). How do I extend this from 16 chars to 32 or 64? I

Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router

2011-04-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Apr 8, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Bryan H. wrote: Ah, I was unaware that it had been discontinued, perhaps that's the reason for the (relatively) low cost. ;-) Yes, although a new E2100L is much than $20 more than the refurb'ed 160NL. As for dd-wrt, I personally find the extra features

Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router

2011-04-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 8, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Yes, although a new E2100L is much than $20 more than the refurb'ed 160NL. Hmm, substitute: isn't much than $20 more... -C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: 'The X Window System and Virtual Consoles' translation

2011-04-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 7, 2011, at 10:26 AM, MR wrote: I'm willing to translate publication located at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#X-AND-WHEEL to the Belorussian language (my mother tongue). What I'm asking for is your written permission, so you don't mind after I'll post

Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router

2011-04-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 7, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Bryan H. wrote: If you're just looking for a new router, I would highly recommend the Linksys WRT160NL. I got mine refurbished from Cisco's store[1], and flashed it with dd-wrt[2] (which was incredibly easy, just search for the router in dd-wrt's router database,

Re: graphical representation of `du`

2011-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 6, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Peter Vereshagin wrote: Again, why don't you guys just use perl to provide a graphical du? I believe perl is just present on every freebsd machine where graphical du is needed. Although it is a common addition, Perl isn't part of the FreeBSD base system. Regards,

Re: swap_pager: out of swap space, swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed

2011-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Paul Chany wrote: swap_pager: out of swap space swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed .. c++: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1plus) .. .. *** Error code 1 What can I do to solve this problem Your system ran out of VM. Add more RAM, or add more

Re: how to increase stacksize?

2011-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'd like to increase stacksize. How do I do this? Set kern.maxssiz in /boot/loader.conf to a larger value-- also consider tweaking kern.dflssiz, unless you want to use limit/ulimit before invoking the process. I don't believe you can

Re: swap_pager: out of swap space, swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed

2011-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Paul Chany wrote: I follow the link: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html I did create a swapfile, and run again command: '# make install clean'. Since thet it being running on my old Toshiba laptop that had 64 MB RAM

Re: how to increase stacksize?

2011-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 4, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Set kern.maxssiz in /boot/loader.conf to a larger value-- also consider tweaking kern.dflssiz, What does this limit? Is it documented anywhere? It appears to be documented in the manpages:

Re: Automating mounting of ISO images

2011-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Mar 23, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote: Disc images are located in /mount/disc_images/ (all are ISOs) They need to mount into /mount/office_files/images/FILENAME [without the .iso extension] How can I do this? I've always been given these types of scripts in the past at an

Re: Automating mounting of ISO images

2011-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 23, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: I am also trying to make the directories right before the attempt to mount the image (a 'duh' moment just now). So I'd like to have just the filename, not the full path, made as a folder... Ah, yes-- add mkdir -p

Re: Automating mounting of ISO images

2011-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 23, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Polytropon wrote: Prefix it with a test: [ -d /mount/office_files/images/${DEST} ] mkdir... mount... so there will be no error if the script is started for the second time (and the directories still exist), means: create them only if not yet

Re: Updating OpenSSH

2011-03-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 16, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Carmel wrote: OK, then does that mean that the latest version will be used in the still not released 9 version of FreeBSD? Currently, no-- TRUNK has: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/crypto/openssh/version.h Revision 1.41: download - view:

Re: can make -j be used for ports?

2011-03-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- [ ...followups sent to freebsd-ports@ list... ] On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:20 PM, John wrote: I am no expert on make, so, here goes: Can -j options be used for make when building ports? Yes. Ports which support parallel builds will have MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=yes set in the port Makefile. It

Re: HP Pavilion zd8000 Xorg anomaly

2011-03-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 9, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Steven Friedrich wrote: Anyway, I have somehow LOST my xorg.conf that WORKED. Regrettable. Either take backups of everything you actually care about before you experience data loss-- in which case you don't have a problem, since you can easily recover your data--

Re: Apple FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- #include std/disclaimer.h It wouldn't be considered appropriate for Apple employees or contractors (well, outside of the folks working in investor relations, perhaps) to try to persuade someone to invest in a particular company because of which open source projects Apple might be

Re: hidden symbol `__dso_handle' in /usr/lib/crtbegin.o is referenced by DSO

2011-03-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 7, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Австин Ким wrote: I've lately upgraded from FreeBSD 8.2-RC3 to 8.2-RELEASE via freebsd-update and am now getting the following error when trying to build www/webkit-gtk2 in Ports (this was pulled in by the GIMP meta-port; the tail output of make(1) is appended):

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote: But he does raise a valid problem (if more than zero users, etc). We (I include fellow FreeBSD users, but also OSX and Linux users) do lack a decent cross-platform device manager stack, with uniform device name enumeration.

Re: Upgrading 7.1 to 7.3, use 7.2 as a safe step?

2011-02-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 25, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Nerius Landys wrote: For me, time can be spared, but errors should be avoided at all costs. I have upgraded FreeBSD before, for example 7.0 - 7.1. I use the buildworld/buildkernel procedure. I now have a 7.1 system. Should I upgrade to 7.2 and then to 7.3, or is

Re: Cups upgrade failure

2011-02-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 21, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Rem P Roberti wrote: Can someone give me a heads up on why this portupgrade failed. Here is the error message I received: tor -o rastertoescpx rastertoescpx.o -L. -lcupsdriver \ -lcupsimage -lcups -pthread -lm -lcrypt

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hola, Jorge-- On Feb 17, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Jorge Biquez wrote: I am evaluating to buy a new laptop for using it only with Freebsd. I know in the website mention some options. Thing is that here the most powerful ones (I3, I5 I7) are sold ONLY with Windows installed and that increase the

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 17, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: Phenom II 955 w/ stock cooler With the side of the computer case off. [ ...vs... ] Phenom II 955 w/ a ZALMAN CNPS 10x PERFORMA cooler With the side of the computer case ON. Um, so you obviously aren't comparing similar circumstances. Most

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 17, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: Most computer cases are designed with front-to-back airflow (ie, intake fans in the front, exhaust fans and the PSU in the back) and cool more effectively with the case on Well, in my case, with the BEFORE situation, if I had the side case

Re: clamd dying

2011-02-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Paul Macdonald wrote: Anyone seeing clamd dying sporadically, in my case usually once a day or so..? I first noticed this a few versions ago, which was due to the JIT byte code extension , and as a result i check the daemon every 5 mins and restart as

Re: script help

2011-02-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 14, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Jack L. Stone wrote: # find all of the same filenames (copyright.htm) and then replace the year 2010 with 2011 in each file. Once I have a working script, I should be able to add it as a cron job to run on the first day of each new year. find . -name

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 14, 2011, at 3:17 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: I would be curious to hear stories from people who actually *have* run into SSD failures related to write limitations. I've heard a lot of speculation but no actual anecdotes. I'm sure they're out there; but I also know people are more

Re: system clock running 2h early although ntpd enabled

2011-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 11, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: My ntp.conf consists of server ntp1.ptb.de prefer server ntp2.ptb.de restrict default ignore restrict 127.0.0.1 Surely, I must be missing something. Does anybody have an idea? What does ntpq -p -c rv indicate? It wouldn't

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
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 core is only 86.6/89.4% idle? It means (c).

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
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 an impact: last pid: 48135; load averages:

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 11, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Alexander Best wrote: also i noticed that when a processes CPU activity goes up to let's say 10% and then down again to 0% this doesn't mean that the idle process will jump to 200% instantly, but it takes ~ 10 seconds for it to reclaim the CPU activity that was

Re: Bad hard driver

2011-02-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 9, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Daniel Zhelev wrote: The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/ad7, 3 Offline uncorrectable sectors It means that the drive has detected errors in three sectors, and is attempting to recover them without data loss to spare sectors,

Re: https is faster on amd64?

2011-02-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 6, 2011, at 2:14 AM, kellyremo wrote: http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2011/01/31/dispelling-the-new-ssl-myth.aspx according to the SSL Performance table it says that the transactions per second is 2-3 times better using 64bit kernels opposite to 32bit kernels? is

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Fred wrote: Ethernet MAC addresses are assigned by the manufacturer of the equipment. Each unit gets a unique address which generally can't be changed and shouldn't be changed. The manufacturer buys a block of addresses from the IEEE. Yes, although folks can

Re: Jon Radel (sorry no other way to do this)

2011-01-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 24, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Graeme Dargie wrote: Now I know I am going to get hung out to dry on this one, but I am having a problem with Jon Radel and his encrypted mails to this list. I cannot open them, I cannot get his address from the mail to talk to him directly, or get the address so

Re: how can i use 1)des.h 2)socket in kernel mode

2011-01-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 23, 2011, at 4:44 AM, alireza imani wrote: i have some question about freebsd. how can i use des.h methods in kernel mode? and how can i use socket in kernel mode? can you give me some source code about this or help me? man 9 crypto and man 9 socket describe kernel interfaces to

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox? (resolved, I think)

2011-01-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: And menus work in Firefox 3.6. I'll have to actually work with it for a day tomorrow to see how it holds up, but I've tried a variety of things and it seems to be playing nicely. Very good. It looks like the solution was to rebuild the

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: Doing a bt would have been helpful right about there, but I think I've got enough info to suggest rebuilding your kernel with the following option: options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES thanks again, Chuck. I can easily get the bt if

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: Enter run, or c for continue. If and when Firefox crashes, you will be able to gain more useful information That does provide a bunch more information. Thank you. [ ... ] Program received signal SIGSYS, Bad system call.

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 18, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: Core was generated by `firefox-bin'. Program terminated with signal 12, Bad system call. #0 0x29d7f16b in ?? () Now, again, this is in Firefox 3.5. That message isn't very informative to me, but maybe it is helpful to someone else? Run

Re: rusage and pthreads

2011-01-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 18, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Mark Terribile wrote: I'm trying to figure out the interactions between rusage and pthreads. There largely isn't any-- struct rusage is per-process, not per thread. Peeking around in the kernel (7.2) I see updates occurring in various places. kern_clock.c, for

Re: rusage and pthreads

2011-01-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 18, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Mark Terribile wrote: and continues further down ru = td-td_ru; ru-ru_ixrss += pgtok(vm-vm_tsize); ru-ru_idrss += pgtok(vm-vm_dsize); ru-ru_isrss += pgtok(vm-vm_ssize); This looks to me like it's accumulating the data in per-thread

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 18, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: $ gdb --exec=firefox3 This GDB was configured as i386-marcel-freebsd./usr/local/bin/firefox3: not in executable format: File format not recognized What does file /usr/local/bin/firefox3 say? If it's a Linux binary, then you might not be

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 18, 2011, at 8:29 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: I did this: $ gdb /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin 10388 This results in Firefox being locked and non-responsive to the user interface. Enter run, or c for continue. If and when Firefox crashes, you will be able to gain more useful

Re: harddrive encryption

2011-01-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 17, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Alokat wrote: is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a freebsd installation. Or do I have to do this after the installation manually? I don't believe the current installer knows about HD encryption. Do it after the install by

Re: strange behaviour

2011-01-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 14, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Коньков Евгений wrote: # ping 10.7.7.7 PING 10.7.7.7 (10.7.7.7): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Invalid argument ping: sendto: Invalid argument ping: sendto: Invalid argument what is problem and how to fix?? Where are you routing 10.7.7.7 to? If you don't have a

Re: Re[2]: strange behaviour

2011-01-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 14, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Коньков Евгений wrote: CS Where are you routing 10.7.7.7 to? CS If you don't have a specific internal route (or NAT) doing CS something with it, your upstream Internet routers ought to be CS returning ICMP host unreachable errors for RFC-1918 addresses... no

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:28 PM, David Demelier wrote: I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date. We can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD kernel is possible. I think searching a file absolutely not touched ever in the system can

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Chip Camden wrote: On my system, /etc/termcap has the date well after my installation (Jun 28 2010) and /etc/rmt dates to well before (Nov 21 2009). I first installed FreeBSD on this system on Apr 1 2010. Certainly the target of the link would change; my

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Devin Teske wrote: This is nearly always accurate on any FreeBSD system (when wanting to query the date the machine was built): ls -l /etc/defaults/rc.conf I gather that you don't ever run mergemaster, which would update this file? My machine installed in

Re: File Listing

2011-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 10, 2011, at 12:43 PM, pe...@vfemail.net wrote: Is there one single-line command I can execute that will list every file in every directory on my FreeBSD box? I've been fussing with the ls and du commands, but the output is never quite complete. du -a / find / -type f # remove

Re: Ascertaining NIC Driver Version

2011-01-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:33 AM, vrwmil...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a command line utility, a la ethtool or the like, that can be used to query the NIC driver version? uname -a is probably the most general answer, as most FreeBSD NIC drivers don't have individualized version #s, aside from the

Re: Ascertaining NIC Driver Version

2011-01-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 7, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Robert Huff wrote: uname -a is probably the most general answer, as most FreeBSD NIC drivers don't have individualized version #s, aside from the OS version itself. That is not my understanding. To the OP: FreeBSD NIC drivers can and do have version

Re: E-Mail scaling question

2010-12-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 21, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Mark Moellering wrote: My company needs a [new] e-mail solution for a product rollout. Rather than have a few e-mail domains with lots of addresses, the solution we need is for a very few (mostly one, very rarely more than 3) accounts on upwards of tens of

Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2010-12-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 14, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Peter Boosten wrote: gzip is in the base system, and there are, AFAICT, no header files for gzip. I regret to disagree :-), but: % head -2 /usr/include/zlib.h /* zlib.h -- interface of the 'zlib' general purpose compression library version 1.2.3, July 18th, 2005

Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2010-12-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 14, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Peter Boosten wrote: I regret to disagree :-), but: % head -2 /usr/include/zlib.h /* zlib.h -- interface of the 'zlib' general purpose compression library version 1.2.3, July 18th, 2005 Chuck, Thanks for your answer. I looked for a gzip.h, but obviously

Re: PostgreSQL + 8.1 RELEASE + DTrace = pain?

2010-12-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 14, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Dave Pooser wrote: Is there a better place I could/should be asking questions about PostgreSQL and DTrace on FreeBSD? Or is this combination still black magic at this point? freebsd-ports@ is a reasonable alternative (since PostgreSQL is a port), but

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