[PATCH] Re: Forward error correction routines?

2011-12-14 Thread Howard Goldstein
On 12/13/2011 22:45, Dennis Glatting wrote: I am looking for /any/ forward error correction code under FreeBSD, whether Hamming Codes, Golay Codes, Reed-Solomon, BCH codes, etc. or convolution encoders/decoders. All I've found is: * libfec, which only runs under i386 (I am 64 bit), and Here

Re: too many open files

2011-11-28 Thread Howard Goldstein
On 11/27/2011 22:07, Murray Taylor wrote: I have have the same issue on a 8.0-RELEASE box and found with fstat the tgam_server was holding 12511 open files ... A what purpose does this serve (google seems to indicate that it is to speed up file access) File alteration monitoring B

Re: too many open files

2011-11-28 Thread Howard Goldstein
On 11/28/2011 19:07, Murray Taylor wrote: My /etc/gamin/gaminrc contains this fsset ufs none fsset msdosfs none (zfs and nfs too, if appropriate) and I still have 16564 files associated with gam_server in fstat out of 17424 open files reported by sysctl kern.openfiles It appears that

Re: how to read .ods (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) without KOffice?

2010-02-17 Thread Howard Goldstein
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I was sent some ods (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) files. I'm not really keen to install KOffice. Is there another program in the ports which could be used to view ods files or to convert them into pdf or PostScript? There's editors/openoffice.org-3 signature.asc

Re: firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1

2009-08-20 Thread Howard Goldstein
ajtiM wrote: firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com Thu Aug 13 02:16:24 UTC 2009 Previous message: firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1 Next message: firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1 Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] --On August 12, 2009 8:18:55 PM -0500 ajtiM

Re: Autolearn=fail SpamAssassin

2009-01-31 Thread Howard Goldstein
Tom Stuart wrote: Hello, I just installed SpamAssassin on FreeBSD 7.1 and am encountering an error with autolearn. It always says failed when attempting to learn. See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutolearningNotWorking ___

Re: scoll lock - can't unlock in text login after xorg session

2007-11-25 Thread Howard Goldstein
Tino Engel wrote: Howard Goldstein schrieb: Just noticed this, after scroll locking for page up/page down in a text login: I cannot unlock anymore. Does anyone else see this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

scoll lock - can't unlock in text login after xorg session

2007-11-24 Thread Howard Goldstein
Just noticed this, after scroll locking for page up/page down in a text login: I cannot unlock anymore. Does anyone else see this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Making mergemaster skip certain files

2007-11-18 Thread Howard Goldstein
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-17 20:06, Howard Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-16 22:34, J. Porter Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mergemaster for more details, but here's a short description of what I use on my laptop for some time now: 1

Re: Making mergemaster skip certain files

2007-11-17 Thread Howard Goldstein
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-16 22:34, J. Porter Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mergemaster for more details, but here's a short description of what I use on my laptop for some time now: Please consider submitting this as a PR in hopes it gets included in the actual package. 1. A

Re: sed question...

2007-09-25 Thread Howard Goldstein
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-09-24 20:52, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:07:20PM -0400, Howard Goldstein wrote: # delete the last 10 lines of a file sed -e :a -e '$d;N;2,10ba' -e 'P;D' # method 1 sed -n -e :a -e '1,10!{P;N;D;};N;ba

Re: sed question...

2007-09-24 Thread Howard Goldstein
Gary Kline wrote: My earlier post about deleting the first N lines was answered by this one-liner site {below}. I wasn't including any redirection; doing so finally resolved the problem. Now I need to delete every line from the 19th or so to the last line.

Asus P5x fan control?

2007-09-19 Thread Howard Goldstein
Has anyone encountered a utility or sysctl knob to access the fan speed controller (657DHG) on the Asus P5x motherboard series? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread Howard Goldstein
P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote: I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. It is strongly

Re: Gstripe during install

2007-09-07 Thread Howard Goldstein
n j wrote: On a side note, it would be nice if creating RAID arrays was included in the FreeBSD install similar to Debian install (according to my colleague, haven't seen it myself). I agree, but this would take a non-trivial effort to make happen. I hope you'll consider working on it or

How to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org?

2007-08-31 Thread Howard Goldstein
As the subject says, is there a straightforward way to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org? Clicking individual files in the web interface is really tedious. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org?

2007-08-31 Thread Howard Goldstein
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Howard Goldstein wrote: As the subject says, is there a straightforward way to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org? Clicking individual files in the web interface is really tedious. ___ freebsd

Re: How to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org?

2007-08-31 Thread Howard Goldstein
Kris Kennaway wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: Howard Goldstein wrote: As the subject says, is there a straightforward way to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org? Clicking individual files in the web interface is really tedious

Re: How to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org?

2007-08-31 Thread Howard Goldstein
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-08-31 13:50, Howard Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dang. Like an idiot savant, perforce appears to be (channeling Yoda I am?) Time for a script to workaround perforce's needlessly overcomplex stupidity. Thanks for letting me know I'm beating my head

Re: gimp-2.2.15,2 crashes after gtk-2.10.13 upgrade

2007-06-14 Thread Howard Goldstein
cpghost wrote: Can anyone else confirm this bug, perhaps with other Gtk2 apps? Confirmed. Here's what I got cally:/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2$ gimp The program 'gimp' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadWindow (invalid

Re: nvidia-driver segmentation fault

2007-05-24 Thread Howard Goldstein
Ernest Sales wrote: (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found) Are you loading the glx module in xorg.conf? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Backup advice

2007-05-23 Thread Howard Goldstein
Jason Lixfeld wrote: - Other folks dumping to a hard drive at night? Care to share any of your experiences/rationale? Not with dump/restore. After using amanda and a tape drive for eons I'm now happy with a bacula solution to backup 2 freebsds and a windows machine. It does incrementals

Re: Static Routes Questions

2007-05-18 Thread Howard Goldstein
georgedonnelly wrote: Internet: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire default0.0.0.1UGS 0 154237em0 0.0.0/24 link#1 UC 00em0 0.0.0.100:d0:03:15:7c:0a UHLW20

Re: procmail filter for them all?

2007-05-10 Thread Howard Goldstein
Jack Barnett wrote: I have sendmail using procmail as the local deliver and each user has this in their .procmailrc file: LOGFILE=/u1/logs/$USER.procmail.log :0 $HOME/Maildir/ Is there a way to do that globally for all users so that they don't each need their own .procmailrc file?

Re: startup scripts not working

2007-05-10 Thread Howard Goldstein
Ghirai wrote: Hello list, Suddenly, the startup scripts for various applications won't work. I have these in /usr/local/etc/rc.d: apache22, ircservices, postgresql, pure-ftpd, unrealircd When i run any of them without parameters, they give out the parameters. But when i use any of the params,

Re: CyberPower UPS and PowerPanel Linux daemon on FreeBSD

2007-05-07 Thread Howard Goldstein
L Goodwin wrote: The CyberPower CP800AVR 800VA/450W UPS has USB and RS-232 ports and supports auto-shutdown for Linux (and Mac OS X). Although I don't have the answer to your question I did want to put in a good word for that precise model. I've had mine for some time and remain quite

Re: after deleting maillog, sendmail won't log

2007-05-05 Thread Howard Goldstein
David Banning wrote: I deleted my maillog files and for some reason sendmail will not log again. I have tried touch maillog to start a new file name and i have tried all different permissions on the the empty maillog file. In each case I have restarted sendmail. Any idea what I need to get

Re: A good quiet power supply?

2007-04-30 Thread Howard Goldstein
Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: Just got a new PC at home, it's noisy and was wondering if anyone can share some experience here. I just read about a fanless power-supply and then realized I needed some input. If you have a circuit city nearby you might want to see if they have the mad dog supply

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op (workaround)

2007-04-28 Thread Howard Goldstein
Garrett Cooper wrote: Howard Goldstein wrote: Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Michel Le Cocq wrote: I think it's a global thunderbird 2 bug, because i have exactly the same trouble ona mac os 10.4 with a binary update. I do not think it is exactly the same -- see below. Howard Goldstein

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op

2007-04-27 Thread Howard Goldstein
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Howard Goldstein wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Howard Goldstein wrote: Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: I guess I would have to update all gnome packages from 2.16 to 2.18 to see if it helps

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op (workaround)

2007-04-27 Thread Howard Goldstein
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Michel Le Cocq wrote: I think it's a global thunderbird 2 bug, because i have exactly the same trouble ona mac os 10.4 with a binary update. I do not think it is exactly the same -- see below. Howard Goldstein a écrit : Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Drew Sanford

Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op

2007-04-26 Thread Howard Goldstein
Drew Sanford wrote: No, but I am seeing it core dump rather strangely. Each time it starts up, I can open a file dialog box to save an attachment or attach a file one time just fine. The second time I try to attach or save a file on any start up, it crashes. I have this exact same problem

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op

2007-04-26 Thread Howard Goldstein
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Drew Sanford wrote: No, but I am seeing it core dump rather strangely. Each time it starts up, I can open a file dialog box to save an attachment or attach a file one time just fine. The second time I try to attach or save a file on any start up, it crashes.

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op

2007-04-26 Thread Howard Goldstein
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: I guess I would have to update all gnome packages from 2.16 to 2.18 to see if it helps... but since Howard Goldstein rebuild all his ports, he can probably confirm that this happens with the current ports. Unfortunately it does still happen for me. For those ports

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op

2007-04-26 Thread Howard Goldstein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Howard Goldstein wrote: Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: I guess I would have to update all gnome packages from 2.16 to 2.18 to see if it helps... but since Howard Goldstein rebuild all his ports, he can probably confirm that this happens

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op

2007-04-26 Thread Howard Goldstein
Garrett Cooper wrote: Did you build thunderbird with custom cflags, and have to tried getting a backtrace for all of the calls made from thunderbird using the coredump and gdb? When this started happening I rebuilt it with WITH_DEBUG=true WITHOUT_LOGGING=true WITHOUT_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=true I

Re: Thunderbird 2.0 dumps core on second file open op

2007-04-26 Thread Howard Goldstein
Garrett Cooper wrote: Did you build thunderbird with custom cflags, and have to tried getting a backtrace for all of the calls made from thunderbird using the coredump and gdb? I'm sorry, reading Robert Huff's reply I should have also disclosed my make.conf CFLAGS, they are custom at -O2 and