Re: ACPI error message

2010-12-14 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 341, Issue 3, Message: 2 On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:26:35 +0100 Davide Petilli 7h3.k3r...@gmail.com wrote: During the boot I can see these error mesages related to acpi. I've built my kernel but the error messages come up on the default kernel too. Does

Re: boot, rc script and logs

2010-12-14 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 341, Issue 3, Message: 17 On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:02:54 +0100 Samuel Mart?n Moro faus...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm adding some scripts to FreeBSD boot. One of this script runs a binary that checks our postgres database, its output being redirected to a

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2010-12-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Bruce Cran wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 00:48:21 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: If nothing else, might adding a quick (try Options/Rescan Devices) to the No USB devices message text help some folks out of this quandary? Since it looks like

Re: xpbargains.net spam [was: Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)']

2010-12-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:30:19 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:41:48 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Does GMail provide access to the full headers? Click the down arrow

xpbargains.net spam [was: Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)']

2010-12-10 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 340, Issue 11, Message: 27 On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:54:37 -0500 On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: No, he didn't. These mails are FORGED as being from freebsd-questions participants, and on first glance may appear to be list

Re: regex question....

2010-12-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 339, Issue 11, Message: 30 On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 18:23:08 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 05:56:59PM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Joshua Gimer jgi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Gary Kline

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-05 Thread Ian Smith
On 4 Dec 2010 17:25:34 - John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: My printer is a sturdy old Lexmark Optra T610. CUPS has a driver, which does duplex, N-up, and so forth. Each toner cartridge is good for over 10K pages, so I buy one about every two years, and I can usually find one for

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 339, Issue 6, Message: 22 On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:59:30 -0500 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:36:43 -0600 Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz articulated: As the page says, it's READ ONLY in Linux... kinda pathetic. Thanks,

Re: gateway_enable=NO

2010-11-29 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 339, Issue 1, Message: 20 On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:40:21 +0100 Lokadamus lokada...@gmx.de wrote: Am 25.11.2010 05:38, schrieb Lamac Lamaco: The system installed now and in adresses /etc or /etc/rc.d there is no script. Does system work in default as

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, David DEMELIER wrote: Thanks for all your answers, I guess my battery is getting on its end of life.. After running 30 minutes on battery, the percent is still 100% while the remaining time is slowly decreasing.. Aaaah buying a new battery costs around $134 !

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-23 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 338, Issue 3, Message: 12 On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:34:16 +0100 David DEMELIER demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: I just realized that my HP laptop lost the half battery capacity. Take a look : mark...@melon ~ $ acpiconf -i 0 Design capacity: 4400 mAh

Re: IPFW at startup.

2010-11-15 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 337, Issue 1, Message: 15 On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:50:47 -0500 Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: I seem to have one server that does not flush the /etc/rc.firewall rules when the script taken from firewall_type starts up. That is to say when I boot

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-15 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 337, Issue 1, Message: 19 On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:29:10 -0700 Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:39:32PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: About 2000, 2001 was when I shucked my muuz game/mind-machine effort. It was over 10K line of C-ish code

Re: IPFW at startup.

2010-11-15 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 337, Issue 2, Message: 26 On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:52:41 -0800 Dave Robison da...@vicor.com wrote: I haven't seen someone use firewall_type as a path to the config file. It's not so uncommon. Anyone who's based their ruleset on the handbook section on IPFW

Re: JMicron JMB363 PCIe controler doesn't work

2010-11-13 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 336, Issue 16, Message: 2 On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:58:03 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I have motherboard with total 8 SATA ports but seems it's broken as i'm having regular server hangs after heavy disk I/O, usually with

Re: JMicron JMB363 PCIe controler doesn't work

2010-11-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Rob Farmer wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 17:39, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Hey Woj, long time; yeah you picked a hell of time to re-surface. More likely nobody who knows would be bothered wasting their time wading through the present volume

Re: GPT Question

2010-11-11 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 336, Issue 9, Message: 23 On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:45:19 -0600 Derek Funk dfu...@cox.net wrote: On 11/10/2010 9:34 PM, Mark Caudill wrote: [..] just ran `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad12 bs=512` and let it run. That must have done the trick because I was then

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 335, Issue 11, Message: 4 On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 01:00:34 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Julian Fagir g...@physik.tu-berlin.de wrote: Does anyone has

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-08 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 335, Issue 11, Message: 4 On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 01:00:34 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Julian Fagir g...@physik.tu-berlin.de wrote: Does anyone has a generate-pi.c source code? ... 1 #include stdlib.h 2 #include string.h 3 #include stdio.h

Re: How to disable syncookies syncache

2010-11-07 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 335, Issue 14, Message: 2 On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 12:09:26 +0100 Alexander Frolkin a...@eldamar.org.uk wrote: Hi, I spent all day yesterday trying to get my FreeBSD box (8.1-RELEASE, amd64) to talk to a Qlogic 4010 iSCSI card. The problem is that when the

Re: ATTN GARY KLINE

2010-11-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 335, Issue 8, Message: 29 On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:32:11 -0400 Jon Radel j...@radel.com wrote: On 11/5/10 12:22 AM, kline wrote: [..] It is time to get this stuff arrow-straight, so hoping that someone on-list can clue me in. [..]

Re: Glue records (was Re: ATTN GARY KLINE)

2010-11-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 335, Issue 9, Message: 7 On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:27:38 +0200 Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: On Friday 05 November 2010 09:28:27 Ian Smith wrote: But you don't always have any control of what parent nameservers do; eg we do DNS for a .com but both

Re: sysinstall(8) bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-02 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 335, Issue 3, Message: 2 On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 07:04:08 +0100 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Monday, November 01, 2010 a las 10:03:58PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com escribió: Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: sysinstall probes

Re: New eventtimers manpages

2010-10-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Alexander Motin wrote: Ian Smith wrote: I'm very interested in these, from the quarterly report: New manual pages were written to document this functionality: eventtimers(7), attimer(4), atrtc(4), hpet(4). But these don't show up yet at eg

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 02:26:36PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:15:46 -0700 From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org [..] The thing about the memsticks is that on my tower cases, you have to get down and crawl around and

Re: Jail question

2010-10-18 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 333, Issue 2, Message: 1 On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:38:17 -0400 bdsf...@att.net wrote: On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:32:44 -0400, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:35:39 -0400 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com articulated: Check out

Re: Too many binary packages are missing

2010-10-17 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, b. f. wrote: On 10/15/10, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: ... http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable works, it's what portupgrade looks at on an 8.1-STABLE system, but it's a bit sad finding the last directory updated at 1st

Re: UDP packet spoofed LAN source address?

2010-10-17 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 332, Issue 11, Message: 15 On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:56:52 -0700 Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: This is really more of a networking question. I'm wondering, in a typical scenario, for example my server is in a data center with a typical colocation

Re: Too many binary packages are missing

2010-10-15 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 332, Issue 7, Message: 17 On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:42:13 + b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: On 10/14/10, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: On 10/13/2010 17:24, b. f. wrote: ... My system is 8.1-stable and portupgrade looks at

Re[2]: How to obtain which interrupts cause system to hang?

2010-10-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, ??? ??? wrote: #systat -v 1 usersLoad 0.74 0.71 0.55 Oct 9 19:53 IS [..] Proc: Interrupts r p d s w Csw Trp Sys Int Sof Flt 24 cow2008

Re[3]: How to obtain which interrupts cause system to hang?

2010-10-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:27:05 +0300, kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: Hi, Ian. Hi Eugen, 23.1%Sys 50.8%Intr 1.3%User 0.0%Nice 24.8%Idle%ozfod 1999 cpu0: time ||||||||||| daefr +

Re: How to obtain which interrupts cause system to hang?

2010-10-09 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 331, Issue 13, Message: 8 On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 20:05:48 +0300 ??? ??? kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Hi KES, long time .. #systat -v 1 usersLoad 0.74

Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-08 Thread Ian Smith
I'm finding this absurd thread about the old Intel boilerplate left in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica/hardware/hwsleep.c not only wilfully ignorant and spectacularly misinformed, but too close to being offensive - or at least undeservedly disrespectful - by

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 331, Issue 1, Message: 5 On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 08:19:36 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:00:00 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Robert wrote: Greetings

Re: ACPI battery issues

2010-10-03 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 330, Issue 10, Message: 5 On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 10:42:23 -0400 Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: I see ACPI Exception: AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] (20100331/evregion-588) ACPI Error (psparse-0633): Method

Re: IPFW firewall and TCP ports

2010-09-30 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 330, Issue 5, Message: 1 On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:16:47 -0400 Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: While perusing my Apache httpd-error.log, I noticed a large number of attempts to access my phpmyadmin directory, as well as a few less know others. Most of these

Re: IPFW firewall and TCP ports

2010-09-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Ian Smith wrote: countries are long gone. For some scientific (and policy) rationale of the increasingly fragmented nature of new allocations down to /22 (ie 64 IP addresses) have a look at http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/ Oops; a /22 allocation is of course 4

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-28 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 330, Issue 2, Message: 22 On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:02:29 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Monday 27 September 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I've recently started on a new system, and am planning to

Re: why is the PHP stuff line off by default in ports/lang/php5?

2010-09-21 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 329, Issue 2, Message: 14 On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:22:57 -0700 Rob Farmer rfar...@predatorlabs.net wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 08:00, d...@safeport.com wrote: I think that response was not all that unreasonable. I'm not sure if you are referring to me

Re: why is the PHP stuff line off by default in ports/lang/php5?

2010-09-20 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Alex Dupre wrote: Rob Farmer ha scritto: Adding a slave port would probably be a good solution and shouldn't be too difficult. This issue has been discussed too many times. The answer is simply no, but you can search the archives for the actual reason. You have

Re: why is the PHP stuff line off by default in ports/lang/php5?

2010-09-19 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 3, Issue 9, Message: 21 On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:03:46 -0700 patrick gibblert...@gmail.com wrote: I don't for sure, but I'd say it's off by default because not everyone runs PHP with Apache, and mod_php5/libphp5.so is strictly for Apache. No, not everyone

Re: Compiling software with different compiler than cc or clang results in unusable output

2010-09-12 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 327, Issue 11, Message: 4 On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 09/11/10 11:43, Andrew Brampton wrote: On 11 September 2010 10:28, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: you see me a kind of

Re: ACPI questions about press power button

2010-09-06 Thread Ian Smith
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 326, Issue 11, Message: 19 On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 19:04:51 +0800 dave jones s.dave.jo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 8 on my desktop. I want to write a file or do something when I or someone presses power button. In devd.conf, I added the following

Re: wvstreaams + wvdial on FreeBSD 8.1 AMD 64

2010-08-31 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 326, Issue 2, Message: 2 On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:27:47 -0500 Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Antonio Olivares

Re: sendmail rdns question

2010-08-28 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 325, Issue 5, Message: 4 On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:06:33 +0100 Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for posting on a bsd list but i figure there's more than a few sendmail experts here. I would like to run reverse dns checks on one of my

Re: Forged messages being posted to freebsd-questions

2010-08-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, jhell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/20/2010 23:08, jhell wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, Your email was unable reach the intended person that you were sending it to. For more information on our business please click on

Re: Hibernation

2010-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 324, Issue 6, Message: 29 On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:07:13 -0500 Depo Catcher depocatc...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/18/2010 5:26 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:55:12 -0500 Depo Catcherdepocatc...@gmail.com wrote: I can't find any good

Forged messages being posted to freebsd-questions

2010-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 324, Issue 7, Message: 7 On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:46:21 -0400 jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote: Subject: Re: enabling the fn-f7 switch monitor functionality To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Yes, that

Re: Forged messages being posted to freebsd-questions

2010-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Rod Person wrote: At 08:31 AM 08/19/2010, Ian Smith wrote: Can someone please take care of this. Its getting to be quite annoying. Indeed. That's because noone had forwarded copies with complete headers to postmas...@freebsd.org, who I bet hasn't the spare

Re: UPS question

2010-08-14 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 323, Issue 9, Message: 3 On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:18:01 -0500 Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote: On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote: He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me

Re: ssh under attack - sessions in accepted state hogging CPU

2010-08-10 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 323, Issue 3, Message: 35 On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 23:36:57 -0400 Matt Emmerton m...@gsicomp.on.ca wrote: I know there's not much I can do about the brute force attacks, but will upgrading openssh avoid these stuck connections? 1. switch over to using

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-08 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 322, Issue 16, Message: 14 On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:44:36 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:33:30 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: This is it I guess. I chose bash shell and the default schell is the csh.

Re: Installing 8.1-RELEASE from the memstick

2010-08-02 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 322, Issue 1, Message: 16 On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:29:37 -0400 bdsf...@att.net wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:03:07 -0400, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: When installing from the 8.1-RELEASE memstick, what is the correct selection for Installation Media?

Re: IPFW with MAC address configuration

2010-07-31 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 321, Issue 12, Message: 31 On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:18:40 -0400 Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I am trying to set up a rule using IPFW that utilizes a MAC address rather than an IP one. ipfw -q allow log tcp from MAC 00-14-A4-43-8E-BA to me 137 in via

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 321, Issue 11, Message: 20 On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:20:24 -0500 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: --On Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:03:07 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Actually, the OP said logo and made no mention of mascott.

Re: dummynet in 8.1

2010-07-25 Thread Ian Smith
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 320, Issue 18, Message: 7 On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:56:04 +0200 Matias matiassu...@gmail.com wrote: I've read in the release notes that ipfw and dummynet have been improved. I've wonder if with 8.1 will it be possible to bridge a VLAN Trunk and filter VLAN

Re: GUI for ACL

2010-07-17 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 319, Issue 9, Message: 24 On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:26:18 -0400 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:17:25 +0530 Ashish SHUKLA ash...@freebsd.org articulated: I've not used KDE since they released KDE 4, but IIRC, KDE 3.5.x used to

Re: GUI for AC

2010-07-17 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 319, Issue 10, Message: 18 On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:48:38 -0400 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:04:56 +1000 (EST) Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au articulated: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 319, Issue 9, Message: 24 On Fri

Re: BIND Refusing to Resolve for External Hosts

2010-07-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 317, Issue 13, Message: 14 On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 14:20:01 -0700 Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: Ok, it is working for the local net now, but it is no longer working as an authoritative server for my zones. Here is the current config: //

Re: Convert all packages to ports

2010-07-02 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 317, Issue 9, Message: 26 On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:52:54 -0400 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/1/10 5:58 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: --- On Thu, 7/1/10, Glen Barberglen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Once ports or packages are installed, there

Re: USB-boot flash memory stick - Fixit mode do not start

2010-06-25 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 316, Issue 8, Message: 18 On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:12:28 +0400 Alexender ag...@yandex.ru wrote: I try both 8.0-RELEASE and 8.1-RC official memstick images. I try write them to memory stick by that commands: # dd if=memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 # dd

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I've read about people trying to throttle outgoing ACKs to slow down their download but that still wouldn't rearrange any incoming data packets so I don't see how that would help. I haven't tried it myself though but neither have

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell! (fwd)

2010-06-21 Thread Ian Smith
Hi .. as suggested, posting this discussion to ipfw@ too .. thanks, Ian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:00:14 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo ri...@iet.unipi.it To: Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au Subject: Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell! (fwd) On Mon

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-20 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 315, Issue 11, Message: 9 On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:11:48 +0200 Morgan Wesstr?m freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: On 2010-06-16 02:51, Modulok wrote: Yo, I have a FreeBSD box acting as a router between me and the Internet. Whenever someone on the

Re: detached a mounted ufs filesystem

2010-06-15 Thread Ian Smith
quoted, for reference to the data, not my opinions :] On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 314, Issue 13, Message: 22 On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:38:15 -0400 Xihong Yin x...@gmx.com wrote: 'fdisk /dev/da0' output is *** Working on device

Re: detached a mounted ufs filesystem

2010-06-13 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 314, Issue 13, Message: 22 On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:38:15 -0400 Xihong Yin x...@gmx.com wrote: 'fdisk /dev/da0' output is *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=14593 heads=255

Re: Java plugin with Firefox 3.6

2010-06-07 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 314, Issue 1, Message: 33 On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 06:08:24 -0400 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 07:50:04 +0200 Harry Matthiesen Jensen free...@elgert.dk articulated: On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 12:20:08AM +, Márcio C.G. wrote:

Re: Automatic shutdown with devd.

2010-06-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, David DEMELIER wrote: 2010/6/1 Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 313, Issue 4, Message: 26 On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:55:08 +0200 David DEMELIER demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: [..]   Is there a way to make this conditional to do only

Re: Automatic shutdown with devd.

2010-06-01 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 313, Issue 4, Message: 26 On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:55:08 +0200 David DEMELIER demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: I recently asked to make an automatic shutdown when I excess a specific percent. I ran devd with -Dd flags to run in background and when the battery

[SPURIOUS] Delivery Status Notification(Failure) (fwd)

2010-04-20 Thread Ian Smith
Has anyone (everyone?) else been receiving these DSNs a week or so after having posted to freebsd-questions@ ? Since around early April? I've had four such in the last three days, and the only recipient the messages that I posted have in common is the -questions list itself. If it's 'just me'

Re: [SPURIOUS] Delivery Status Notification(Failure) (fwd)

2010-04-20 Thread Ian Smith
Hi all, Thanks to our indefatiguable postmaster, who has suspended the bouncing account with suitable rousing about where bounces should be sent; to the envelope-sender, ie the list owner, rather than to individual posters. cheers, Ian ___

Re: ACPI? problem with release 8.0 | Perhaps solved?

2010-04-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:13:48 +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: My RELEASE-8.0 has now been up for about 2hr, not long enough to be sure the difficulty is circumvented, but long enough to look promising. Previously RELEASE-8.0 has not stayed up more than about 4min. Sounds promising .. I

Re: ACPI? problem with release 8.0

2010-04-12 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 306, Issue 1, Message: 18 On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:31:33 +0930 Malcolm Kay malcolm@internode.on.net wrote: I desperately need to make some progress on this issue. Then I suggest taking it to freebsd-acpi@ without passing go .. maybe with a bit more data to

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html rant This is absolutely the worst section of an otherwise great handbook ... Nothing short of a rewrite from scratch could fix

Re: reliable rs-232

2010-04-10 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 305, Issue 13, Message: 2 On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:41:33 +0200 Grzegorz Daniluk li...@o2.pl wrote: Hi everybody, I have a question regarding rs-232 under FreeBSD. I need to write an application for FreeBSD to operate an industrial controller via rs-232. The

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-09 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 305, Issue 9, Message: 1 On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:10:34 -0400 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Adam Vande More writes: If compiled into the kernel, there's a set of optional settings (VERBOSE, LOG_LINIT, DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT, etc) that can be

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Robert Huff wrote: Ian Smith writes: So ... double-checking I'm doing this right: 1) in /boot/loader.conf: ipfw_load=YES ipdivert_load=YES I thought from your earlier mail that you wanted to use in-kernel NAT

Re: how to compare permissions between two dirs

2010-03-23 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 303, Issue 2, Message: 11 On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:33:28 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com In switching to a new make file for a personal project I have run into the problem of under the old makefile everything works (web site) and under the

Re: Calculating kernel/user/idle time

2010-03-06 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 300, Issue 11, Message: 8 On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:58:20 -0600 Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Mar 05), Peter Steele said: What's the proper way to calculate kernel/user/idle time? I know the raw values come from sysctl

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 06/03/2010 06:33:53, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 300, Issue 10, Message: 6 On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:07:29 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 300, Issue 10, Message: 6 On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:07:29 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: The spamtrap is a shiny object for spam, and anything that goes there gets blocked for an

Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-19 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 298, Issue 8, Message: 3 On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:26:58 -0600 Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: On 02/18/10 14:54, Craig Whipp wrote: snip What are the permissions for your $HOME and $HOME/public_html? The user that apache is running

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 296, Issue 6, Message: 20 On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:26:06 -0700 Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:59:15PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: On a running

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, John wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 05:34:10PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 294, Issue 12, Message 19 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:35:21 -0600 John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: [..] OK! Well! Good news! After a sort. I

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 294, Issue 12, Message 1 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:59:00 +0100 Christoph Kukulies k...@kukulies.org wrote: Here is some more info: The file I copied to the USB stick was

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 294, Issue 12, Message 19 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:35:21 -0600 John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: [..] OK! Well! Good news! After a sort. I switched to BootMgr, and it came right up with 8.0! Slight downside - extra prompt during boot, and of

Re: ISO image size -regarding

2010-01-09 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 292, Issue 14, Message: 12 On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 16:41:24 -0800 Knight Tiger cau...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to create a custom ISO image of FreeBSD 6.4. The only difference between the release ISO and this custom image is a modified driver

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-08 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 292, Issue 8, Message: 13 On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:52:59 + Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:03:45 +1000 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 292, Issue 3, Message: 10 On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:42:28 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 13:02 + schrieb Matthew Seaman: Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: I am running my

Re: re-write is this booting info correct?

2010-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:29:56 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 291, Issue 3, Message: 1 On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:04:57 +0800 Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: [..] All of these, at least from DOS

Re: fpc on FreeBSD?

2010-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:35:05 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith wrote: Is fpc's IDE usable, like good ol' TP6 and 7, never mind Delphi? Usable. Thanks for confirmation, Boris, 'usable' and 'working OK' are good enough. I installed it on my Thinkpad's

fpc on FreeBSD?

2009-12-29 Thread Ian Smith
Hi to .. any old Turbo Pascal hackers out there, who've used fpc on FreeBSD. I have some astronomy and sound related code from last century that I want to resume working on. Mostly lots of float number-crunching and file processing, no gui stuff till the underlying processing all goes. I've

Re: re-write is this booting info correct?

2009-12-28 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 291, Issue 3, Message: 1 On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:04:57 +0800 Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed First up, you'd be better off using a non-Windows charset here, as they use weird characters just for

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:07:34 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 01:19:49AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:23:22 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: [..] Wow; the stuff I've never heard about:-) --I just tried spkrtest

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:23:22 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:10:45AM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:37:13 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: at first I'm lookings for a cots (commericial,

Re: freebsd for children

2009-12-25 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 290, Issue 11, Message: 1 On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:53:49 +0700 Anh Ky Huynh ky...@viettug.org wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:33:14 + Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach

Re: is this getting out?

2009-12-17 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 289, Issue 4, Message 14 On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:32:07 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: ariatotle is offline; i'm exclusively on my new server. will somebody please do a digg thought.org and see if they see what i see? hope i get this.

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8 On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: Nicky Chorley wrote: Hi, I downloaded the DVD ISO for FreeBSD 8.0 (i386) and verified the MD5 checksum before burning. With regards to choosing

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Randi Harper wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 286, Issue 12, Message 7 On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:51:50 -0800 Randi Harper ra...@freebsd.org wrote:   On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Derek

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Derek (freebsd lists) wrote: Ian Smith wrote: Options / Rescan Devices fixed it for me. Maybe it will for Derek and/or maybe provide another clue? Indeed this works for me. I've added a follow-up to the PR. Thanks for the tip! Good to hear. Randi

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