Re: Re[2]: notebook cpu throttling [solved]

2007-05-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Ghirai wrote: I'm kinda interested in these fujitsu-siemens laptops myself, so I'm still keen to see your 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels' please? Ok, i think i got it working. dev.cpu.0.freq_levels showed about 14 possibilities. Would you care to cut'n'paste

Re: notebook cpu throttling

2007-05-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 22 May 2007 00:56:08 +0300 Ghirai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Roland, Monday, May 21, 2007, 11:08:13 PM, you wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:52:22PM +0300, Ghirai wrote: Hello list, I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, SMP, on a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro v3205 (Core

Re: notebook cpu throttling

2007-05-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 22 May 2007 19:35:10 +0300 Ghirai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] I did that, but now xorg constantly uses 20-30% CPU. CPUs were running cooler indeed, but everything ran jerky, because of the xorg cpu usage. [..] Point being, if powerd has selected your lowest cpu

Re: Remote login via modem

2007-05-20 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 19 May 2007 12:45:35 -0700 Lou Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:49:46AM +0200, Nikola Lecic wrote: Sorry Nicola, no cc, your email address wasn't quoted .. On Sat, 19 May 2007 11:49:47 +1000 Ivan Carey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would

Re: Remote login via modem [coda]

2007-05-20 Thread Ian Smith
I'd address this also to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but my prior message evoked: On Sun, 20 May 2007 16:02:27 +1000 (EST), Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote: The original message was received at Sun, 20 May 2007 16:02:09 +1000 (EST) from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The following addresses had

Re: Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD?

2007-05-17 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 15 May 2007 00:16:34 -0500 WizLayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 May 2007 08:27:48 pm you wrote: On May 13, 2007, at 7:13 PM, WizLayer wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007 07:17:14 pm Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: Would it recharge the battery fully after discharge? I dont

Re: what's the easiest way to de-html-ize files?

2007-05-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 12 May 2007 14:34:52 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:09:07PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 12, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Gary Kline wrote: This is for those of us who appreciate ASCII or straight ISO_8859-15 rather than marked up files. I

Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:05:42 -0600 Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I did something stupid the other day (sleep deprivation combined with a clever hack were the main reasons), and I'm just curious if I did the right thing afterwards. The mistake: /usr/local/# rm -f * note

Re: mounting an external Hard Drive

2007-05-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 7 May 2007 19:55:33 +0200, cadu aranha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello people, i have a USB external HD with FAT32 fs. Today i connected it to my FBSD and got the following mesg entry: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: SAMSUNG SP2514N Fixed Direct Access

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2007-05-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:42:49 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] reckoned: why ehci isn't detected on IBM T23 laptop The T23 doesn't have / do USB 2.0 possibly pci2: simple comms at device 2.0 (no driver attached) is the undetected ehci No it's not, but I don't know

Re: normal mount points

2007-04-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:17:30 -0700 Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that they are mount points, not directories. I shut the server down last night until I learn more. Mount points are directories, but whether these particular directories have been used as mountpoints or are

Re: Apache and PHP Packages

2007-04-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:56:04 +0200 Peter Ankerst?l [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Willson wrote: I have installed the latest Apache and PHP Packages. I can get Apache working, but nothing is standing out as to why I can't get the PHP package to work. Best I can figure is that this

External touchpad for a laptop?

2007-04-01 Thread Ian Smith
Can anybody spare me a clue? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:58:32 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: External touchpad? Hi, running a Thinkpad T23 on 6.1-RELEASE. Happy but for the 'stickmouse', finding it tediously

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-31 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:54:13 +0200 Ivan Zenzerovi? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I think I understand, but tell me, is there any way I can read those partitions from freebsd? If this helps, on that disk are no windows, there are 3 ntfs partitions. Ivan On 3/30/07, Derek Ragona

Re: Moving paritions around

2007-03-30 Thread Ian Smith
On 30 Mar 2007 02:50:31 - John Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set up my laptop to dual boot between [EMAIL PROTECTED] and FreeBSD. When I first set it up I made the partitions the same size, but since then I found I do a lot more with FreeBSD so I'd rather give it more space.

[OT] Re: TCP conection problems IBM VM - FreeBSD

2007-03-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 07:40:50 -0400 Richard reckons: [..] Then I started thinking (always a fruitless endeavor), why would a *BSD based firewall/IP stack drop the corresponding SYN-ACK when it was activated? And that thought just fucking bugged me to no end. I could accept some crazy

Re: 'nodump' on directories: new contents still dumped

2007-03-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:35:25 + Alex Zbyslaw writes: Bram Schoenmakers wrote: Op vrijdag 16 maart 2007, schreef Alex Zbyslaw: Can you try explicitly putting a -h 0 into your incremental command line and see if that makes a difference? I've done that and now

Re: Corrupted OS

2007-03-17 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:09:12 -0700 Garrett Cooper wrote: Drew Jenkins wrote: /etc/fstab says ufs. Is there a better way to check if its ufs2? Drew2 Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 16, 2007, at 7:34 PM, Drew Jenkins wrote: How large is large? Why filesystem

Re: Effectively detaching 'less' from a pipe

2007-02-27 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 167, Issue 5 At Message: 19 On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:27:41 -0700, Kelly Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I often run commands piped to 'less', to make sure the command is working OK by looking at the first few lines of output. Once I'm convinced, though, I'd

Re: input/output error on hd

2007-02-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 10:38:01AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: On 2/24/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I think you are past any label problems now and on to the bad sectors and/or finding superbocks.Although

Re: input/output error on hd

2007-02-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Marty Landman wrote: On 2/23/07, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So just show 'fdisk ad1' to see the disk's partition (slice) table (which may be damaged, but it's the only one you're interested in). %sudo fdisk ad1 *** Working on device /dev/ad1

Re: input/output error on hd

2007-02-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote: Jerry, just on a couple of points: Me to Marty: Does the above result mean that my boot sector is ok? I think maybe you might be getting some of your terminology shuffled around.Your boot sector is not at question here. It doesn't

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Julian Elischer wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Julian Elischer wrote: admin wrote: Wrong: the implied check-state done by the limit lets the connection through (i.e. performs the action) iff there's state recorded

Re: input/output error on hd

2007-02-22 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 166, Issue 12 At Message: 15 On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:12:48 -0500 Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Derek, I tried deleting and recreating the one slice on that drive in sysinstall, also rewriting the boot label. Didn't seem to help as shown:

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-20 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Julian Elischer wrote: admin wrote: Wrong: the implied check-state done by the limit lets the connection through (i.e. performs the action) iff there's state recorded for it (src-addr+src-port+dst-addr+dst-port). If however it's a SYN packet incoming and

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, admin wrote: Andre Santos wrote: On 2/18/07, admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use ipfw's limit clause to limit the number of connections a single IP can have at the same time in a transparent web-proxy environment: 00350 skipto 401 tcp

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, admin wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, admin wrote: Andre Santos wrote: On 2/18/07, admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use ipfw's limit clause to limit the number of connections a single IP can have at the same time

Re: named already running?

2007-02-16 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 165, Issue 19 At Message: 33 On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:28:13 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-02-16 22:56, Andrea Venturoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm getting this on several different 6.x servers: # sh

Re: Portsnap and port versions

2007-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:22:07 + Robert Inder wrote: I asked for help because I was getting an out-of-date version of portupgrade --- 2.1.3 instead of 2.2.2 --- even though I had usedn portsnap. Matthew Seaman writes: Subject: Re: Portsnap and port versions : :

Re: READ_DMA48 error interpretation

2007-02-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Richard Lynch wrote: [I've tried to snip away a lot of stuff, without losing any context...] I'll prune a bit too, but will backtrack to earlier context, so thanks. On Tue, February 6, 2007 2:50 am, Ian Smith wrote: On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 01:13:31 -0600 (CST) Richard Lynch

Re: READ_DMA48 error interpretation

2007-02-06 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 164, Issue 1 At Message: 19 On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 01:13:31 -0600 (CST) Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, January 16, 2007 3:21 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 16, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Richard Lynch wrote: I know the messages below mean the hard drive

Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

2007-02-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 22:06:42 -0500, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 February 2007 17:35, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick said: On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 10:36 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 02), Robert Fitzpatrick

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting

2007-01-26 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 162, Issue 17 As Message: 14 On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:15:10 -0600 Joe Vender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe, I'm going to hack your message pretty mercilessly .. I need Help with a FBSD spontaneous rebooting and freezing issue. Here's a quick description of my

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting

2007-01-26 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 162, Issue 18 As Message: 6 On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:36:14 -0600 Joe Vender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Argh, digests .. sorry, this came in just after my previous post: On Friday 26 January 2007 18:18, Chuck Swiger wrote: The GUI commands within KDE are going

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting

2007-01-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Ian Smith wrote: Sounds like an issue, but I don't think you need to recompile a kernel to get APM, if you add 'hint.apm.0.disabled=0' to /boot/loader.conf it should load with GENERIC. It does on 5.x anyway, though I did compile an APM kernel later, after getting

Re: Problem with ipfw flush

2007-01-25 Thread Ian Smith
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 162, Issue 11 Message: 31 On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:20:47 -0500 (EST), Dan Mahoney wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all. In trying to tweak my firewall setup I'm using a file called

Re: Problem with ipfw flush

2007-01-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Ian Smith wrote: Excellent. I'll read up on this for a bit. I've been reading man ipfw for years, but every time find something new :) I suppose my biggest confusion was as to why I could do: kldload ipfw

laptop screen always shutdown if no keyboard interaction for several minutes

2007-01-23 Thread Ian Smith
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 162, Issue 5 Message: 3 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:47:02 +0800 From: Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello. I tried various ways to stop the laptop screen from being shutting down, as I use this screen to watch debug message of an application I am

Re: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All

2007-01-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 at 04:17:21 -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 02:00:08AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 05:57:56PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: Hi Kris, I know things must be pretty busy with 6.2, but is there any chance that the 5.5

Re: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All

2007-01-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: OK, I've uploaded the packages now and they'll begin propagating out to the mirrors. Thanks again. Now I'm right out of excuses, eh? Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: java plugin for firefox

2007-01-10 Thread Ian Smith
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 160, Issue 12 Message: 28 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:10:00 + From: eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10 Jan 2007, at 22:35, Garrett Cooper wrote: eoghan wrote: Hi Does anyone have a guide or advice for getting java plugin working for

Re: UDP ok but TCP delayed

2007-01-10 Thread Ian Smith
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 160, Issue 13 Message: 29 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:24:03 -0500 From: Bob McIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got helpful replies before but still have a mystery 10 second delay on a TCP connection. Slashdot takes with all it's links takes about 30 seconds to

/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All

2007-01-10 Thread Ian Smith
Hi Kris, I know things must be pretty busy with 6.2, but is there any chance that the 5.5-STABLE packages can be updated soon? I just checked again, and at least apache and phpyadmin are still stale, going on two months now. Cheers, Ian ___

Re: network tuning and performance troubleshooting

2007-01-05 Thread Ian Smith
Message: 18 Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:05:27 -0500 From: Bob McIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Hardie wrote: On Jan 3, 2007, at 22:57, Bob McIsaac wrote: Problem: Browser status 'looking up address' for 10 seconds for any web page clicked. Slashdot takes almost a minute to

Re: external touchpad for Thinkpad T23? (fwd)

2007-01-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Jurjen Middendorp wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:49:48AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: [..] I've just bought a Thinkpad T23, and I'm loving it .. but I'm not sure I'll ever be able to love its TrackPoint, being spoilt by the touchpad on my old Compaq Armada 1500c

Re: Batch file question - average size of file in directory

2007-01-03 Thread Ian Smith
Message: 17 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 19:50:01 -0800 From: James Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message: 28 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 10:20:08 -0800 From: Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't even have a clue how to start this one, so am looking for a little help. I've got a

Re: Batch file question - average size of file in directory

2007-01-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Kurt Buff wrote: On 1/3/07, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: James Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [..] I've got a directory with a large number of gzipped files in it (over 110k) along with a few thousand

external touchpad for Thinkpad T23? (fwd)

2007-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
I originally posted this to -mobile three months ago, but got no nibbles. The T23 is is running 6.1-RELEASE presently. Anyone? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 05:18:23 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: external touchpad

Re: undeliverable mail

2006-12-20 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Beastie MRA wrote: On Dec 20, 2006 10:31 AM, Bill Vermillion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 09:26 . I'm in a small dim room with doors labeled Dungeon and Forbidden. There is noise, the door marked Dungeon flies open and Beastie MRA SHOUTS:

PHP 5 with Apache 1.3 [reprise]

2006-12-20 Thread Ian Smith
Sorry to follow up on my own message, but it's all still true, and I should report having found not a solution but at least a workaround .. On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Ian Smith wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Thomas Wahyudi wrote: Ian Smith wrote: Hi all, bit of a long saga

Re: PHP 5 with Apache 1.3

2006-12-18 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Thomas Wahyudi wrote: Ian Smith wrote: Hi all, bit of a long saga, and a (by now) humble question .. I reinstalled php5-5.2.0 from its package, after having to deinstall php 4 and reinstall 5 after the only major glitch on a portupgrade -aPP on a 5.5

PHP 5 with Apache 1.3

2006-12-17 Thread Ian Smith
Hi all, bit of a long saga, and a (by now) humble question .. I reinstalled php5-5.2.0 from its package, after having to deinstall php 4 and reinstall 5 after the only major glitch on a portupgrade -aPP on a 5.5-STABLE system upgrading old ports, mostly from 5.4-R days. [FWIW, portupgrading

/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All/

2006-12-13 Thread Ian Smith
Hi all, FreeBSD paqi.smithi.id.au 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #0: Sun Nov 19 20:22:12 EST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PAQI5S_2 i386 On 4th December, after a recent portsnap fetch/update, I ran portupgrade -anPP to prefetch all available packages for a well overdue upgrade of

Re: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All/

2006-12-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:44:13AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: [..] I was glad I'd specified -PP .. every fetch from $subject directory failed. Checking manually, then and again tonight, I see that indeed only the versions of files that were

Re: BSDStats Report for December 1st, 2006

2006-12-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, 09:50:20 -0400 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - --On Wednesday, December 06, 2006 00:31:49 +1100 Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] report_devices sends the output

Re: BSDStats Report for December 1st, 2006

2006-12-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] report_devices sends the output of pciconf -l | grep -v none (active devices) Marc, I've wondered for a while why you're excluding 'none' devices, eg on my Compaq Armada 1500c (recent 5.5-STABLE) 'pciconf -lv' includes [EMAIL

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2006-12-01 Thread Ian Smith
Bit late, catching up on half a dozen questions-digests, but fwiw: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 157, Issue 26 Message: 33 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:55:52 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey all, the ipfw man page says rules can be deleted individually

IPFW: delete range of rules?

2006-12-01 Thread Ian Smith
Sorry folks, forgot to paste the subject for my preceding message. Ah, the joys of replying to a -digest .. Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: IPFW NFS

2006-11-24 Thread Ian Smith
. Have you tried running tcpdump on either box to watch the traffic? If you show us what you _are_ trying, we won't have to guess .. Cheers, Ian [Please cc me also, digests often arrive after quite some delay] Help please Vittorio Alle 05:25, giovedì 23 novembre 2006, Ian Smith ha

Re: IPFW NFS

2006-11-22 Thread Ian Smith
vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two FreeBSD 6.1 boxes one of which (IP 10.0.0.1) is an NFS server and the other one (IP 10.0.0.2) is, among other things, an NFS client sharing directories with the NFS server. It all works correctly and I can mount_nfs all the directories from

Re: Blank screen after using X

2006-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Christian Walther wrote: I edited /etc/sysctl.conf and /boot/loader.conf, adding the parameter/values you've given me, and rebooted the machine afterwards, but it didn't change anything. They might regarding suspend/resume video, but no, not for this one .. As long

deleting automatically the oldest file from a harddisk

2006-11-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 Koen de Wijs wrote: I have a ftp -server. I use a harddisk of 9 Gb for the ftp-directory. This isn't very big so I want to throw away the oldest file if the disc is full. I'd tend to define 'full' as perhaps 8GB in that situation, and likely protect at least some

Re: Blank screen after using X

2006-11-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 Christian Walther wrote: I forgot to mention that the machine is an IBM Thinkpad T23 with S3 Savage chip, max. resolution is at 1024x768. Ok, now your first problem becomes one that I've had :) I'm using FreeBSD 6.x for a couple of month now, and I'm quite happy with

Re: lpt0 printer slows system response significantly

2006-11-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:49:36AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: * Change the printer port to polled mode. [lptcontrol -p] With this kind of hardware, it may even speed up your printing as well. Thanks a lot, I think it does print

systat -vm not seeing /dev/acd0

2006-10-31 Thread Ian Smith
Hardly a showstopper, but .. Burned a backup CD on a 4.10-RELEASE system downtown; no problem. Being important, I checked by mounting it (/dev/acd0) and running 'cat /cdrom/* /dev/null' which was useful verification given all were big compressed files in the CD's root directory. That was taking

Re: Non English Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 2 Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:47:37 +0200 From: Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I have noted however, that some subscribers to this list write english encoded in one of the above character sets, I don't

External touchpad?

2006-10-13 Thread Ian Smith
Hi, running a Thinkpad T23 on 6.1-RELEASE. Happy but for the 'stickmouse', finding it tediously unproductive after using a nice touchpad for years. Does anyone know of a usable compact external touchpad? The Cirque Easy Cat (http://www.cirque.com/cpages/?page=24) looks about a useful size,

Re: Strange X problem

2006-10-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 26 Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:36:32 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --On October 6, 2006 5:23:45 PM -0700 backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For FreeBSD, edit /etc/ttys and find the line like this: ttyv8

Re: triouble with my Deskjet 500

2006-10-01 Thread Ian Smith
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 152, Issue 13 On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 30 Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:12:10 -0700 From: Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: triouble with my Deskjet 500 Hi Gary, The trouble is that it only prints in ASCII Aand fails to

Re: Top not showing cpu usage even remotely accurately

2006-09-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 14), Ian Smith said: [..] However that doesn't explain this typical top view when the system is quiescent or nearly so, as it mostly is, with only 5-minutely crons and 11-minutely entropy runs and the odd sendmail

Re: Top not showing cpu usage even remotely accurately

2006-09-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-09-14 00:48, Tamouh H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think TOP and load averages are no longer accurate on FBSD 5.x and 6.x with SMP kernel. As far as I've seen. Load averages hit sometimes 8.0 without a noticable degradation in

Re: Top not showing cpu usage even remotely accurately

2006-08-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: Ian Smith wrote: But since running 5.x (5.5-STABLE since 1st Aug) top can show 0.0% idle but the cpu usages shown don't add up to much of a fraction of 100%. [ ... ] Any ideas why top hasn't much of a clue about what's consuming cpu? Sure

Top not showing cpu usage even remotely accurately

2006-08-09 Thread Ian Smith
In the past (FreeBSD 2.2, 3.3, 4.5 through 4.10) if I noticed unexpected high cpu use, say on xload or ascpu, I'd just run top to determine what the pig was, and kill it if something (usually netscape :) was wedged. But since running 5.x (5.5-STABLE since 1st Aug) top can show 0.0% idle but the

Re: .bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas

2006-08-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 5 Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:38:12 +0200 From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: .bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas To: DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using extended partitions.. ?

2006-07-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've wanted to try this for a long time, but I believed its not possible, but never asked anyone so Is it possible to have multiple freebsd slices (partitions) on a single disk ? For example, I already got a fbsd slice

Re: Using extended partitions.. ?

2006-07-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 15 Thanks all. I have XP and linux share the xtended partition, and now I want to say bye bye linux (I need XP for worldwind s/w) . That's different then. If you want to keep XP (and keep it within that extended partition)

Re: about freebsd partition problem

2006-06-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 138, Issue 5 wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (t s) my harddisk(40G FAT32) : c:\ (primary 10G windows XP root) That's one slice (DOS: partition) d:\ (logical 5G with data) e:\ (logical 5G with data) f:\ (logical 10G with data)

Re: Directory and file comparison tool for X?

2006-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:56:17 +1000 (EST) Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to compare directories (recursively) showing what files are different,etc. meld ( textproc/meld ) can do

Re: phpMyAdmin problem - no Edit/Delete on Browse

2006-06-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 28 May 2006 at 18:26:46 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Sun, 28 May 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: Ian Smith wrote: running 5.4-RELEASE and installed phpMyAdmin 2.6.1.3 with pkg_add -r [..] You would be well advised to upgrade to the latest phpMyAdmin

Re: phpMyAdmin problem - no Edit/Delete on Browse

2006-05-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 28 May 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: Ian Smith wrote: running 5.4-RELEASE and installed phpMyAdmin 2.6.1.3 with pkg_add -r [..] mysql-client-4.1.10a Multithreaded SQL database (client) mysql-server-4.1.10a Multithreaded SQL database (server) php4-4.3.10_2 PHP

phpMyAdmin problem - no Edit/Delete on Browse

2006-05-27 Thread Ian Smith
(originally posted to -database some days ago .. no nibbles) running 5.4-RELEASE and installed phpMyAdmin 2.6.1.3 with pkg_add -r (after finding installing from ports wanted to also fetch php4 sources and heaps of other stuff I already had installed from packages on the 2-CD set). I'd managed to

Getting xmms to use glib-2

2006-05-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 2 May 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've rebuilt everything that used glib-1.2* to use glib-2.10.* without a problem, with the exception of xmms (multimedia/xmms). xmms keeps installing glib-1.2. Then, glib-config is run, shows the 1.2 version, which doesn't match the latest

Australian C'wealth Games Daylight Saving Time extension

2006-03-25 Thread Ian Smith
Not a question, but one answer for anyone else caught by the change to the end of Daylight Saving Time in Australia a few hours ago, who hadn't updated their /usr/share/zoneinfo/ data since, um, Feb 21st or so. Yes, I was surprised to notice the clock move back an hour tonight, on my 4.5-R laptop

Compaq Armada 1500c with ext USB drive

2006-01-19 Thread Ian Smith
[originally posted to -mobile 4 days ago, but I've had no response ..] $subject running 4.5-RELEASE since 2002, no problems but perenially full 4GB drive and way-too-ancient wi for newer cards: past time to upgrade. 5.4 CDs and new 40GB drive arriving in a few days. In the meanwhile have

Re: Difficulty asking questions

2006-01-16 Thread Ian Smith
PROTECTED] To: Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Difficulty asking questions Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 08:48:29 +1000 [..] X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180

Re: Difficulty asking questions

2006-01-15 Thread Ian Smith
gday, sending this to both of your addresses, and -questions. You should get three. If you reply, esp from your apana address, I could check a) that you can post to me at least :) and b) see what the headers suggest about reverse IP resolution. Micah said: I had the same problem, I could

Re: Running mrtg on FreeBSD

2005-11-27 Thread Ian Smith
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 114, Issue 23 Message: 6 Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 05:25:26 -0500 From: matt . [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11/26/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:24 PM 11/26/2005, matt . wrote I don't think it's a bug in the port. I've installed it many

comms/mlan3 port woes [SOLVED (enough)]

2005-11-20 Thread Ian Smith
Following myself up (gulp): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/comms/mlan3/files/patch-aa?rev=1.2content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup I can *almost* see what needs doing to patch-aa to hopefully fix the broken make for the thermo programs, cloned from other subdir Makefiles, but I

comms/mlan3 port woes

2005-11-19 Thread Ian Smith
Hello, I've been lent a couple of DS1921 ThermoCron iButtons and serial reader for a while, so installed mlan3 (mlan3-1.00) as a package. tstfind finds and lists the ibuttons ok, but the thermocron programs (thermodl and thermoms) are not included, though I'd noticed them in the sources. So I

strange msg lines..

2005-11-17 Thread Ian Smith
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 113, Issue 12 Message: 28 Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:56:06 +0100 From: dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get a lot of these rules in my log file lately. Don't know why they are not logged in the error.log file. And if they are harmful or not.

Re: Cellular Modem, PPP, and FreeBSD

2005-10-26 Thread Ian Smith
Hi Jordon, This was posted to -net, but I suspect -questions is more appropriate. On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Jordon Hofer wrote: Greetings. I am running a stripped down version of FreeBSD 4.11 on an embedded x86 board. I have an embedded cellular modem module (from MultiTech) that is attached

RE: Serial Port data dumping program

2005-09-09 Thread Ian Smith
Hi Paul, catching up on a week's digests .. and seeig no further messages on this topic so far, I don't know whether you've sorted this out yet. Anyway.. Message: 20 Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 17:32:41 +0800 From: Paul Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Serial Port data dumping program

Re: Help on bash script?

2005-08-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-12 13:38, Benson Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I prefer: for COREFILE in `find / -type f -name core -print` do ... done Wouldn't that accomplish the same thing? More or less. Less, when the filenames are

Help on bash script?

2005-08-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri 12 Aug 2005 09:33:54 +0800 Xu Qiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: find / -type f -name core -print | while read COREFILE ; do NCOREFILES=$[ $NCOREFILES + 1 ] # a bit strange - xq echo $NCOREFILES # xq

Re: installing a HP Photosmart 7350 usb printer

2005-08-04 Thread Ian Smith
[Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 106, Issue 8] System : 5.4-REL-#6 I've installed cups (via ports) and downloaded the .ppd file from linuxprinting.org so I could use it in the kde-printer wizard. No problem so far. I can see and modify the settings also via localhost:631. When

Re: Can someone clarify ipfw's in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts?

2005-07-31 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Thanks guys. I think I've got most of it now. [..] When it tests an incoming packet it doesn't try to predict which interface it will be transmitted on (not sure why, if NAT isn't on), so in rules don't match against an xmit interface.

Can someone clarify ipfw's in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts?

2005-07-28 Thread Ian Smith
(Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 105, Issue 7) Gary writes: I see in another msg that I'm not the only one scratching my head over the ipfw manpage's explanation of in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts. I've spent many hours reading that manpage and working on my rc.firewall (and it seems to

When does swap decreases

2005-06-21 Thread Ian Smith
[was] Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 100, Issue 5 Message: 32 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:07:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When does swap decreases To: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Questions List [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 20 Jun

Re: BitDefender: Libfn initialization failed

2005-06-14 Thread Ian Smith
Sorry, a little typo on my part there. compat4x did solve my problem, BitDefender is up and running and working just great. Thanks again, smiity --- Adi Pircalabu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:43:04 +0100 (BST) Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Adi, that sorted

BitDefender: Libfn initialization failed

2005-06-13 Thread Ian Smith
I'm having a bit of trouble getting BitDefender working, I've tried installing it through the ports and by using the fetch command. Each time BitDefender installs without any hassle and will update fine when I run bdc --update but whenever I try bdc --info or bdc --vlist it does the following:

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