Re: speed in extracting rar files - unrar vs. 7z

2009-03-20 Thread RW
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:53:16 +0200 Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: The shareware WinRAR on windows seems to be better implemented (?), as it uses both cores to the fullest, and as such the time needed to extract stuff is a lot shorter. IIRC the unix version is portable C, but winrar has a lot

Re: Portsnap vs CSup

2009-03-19 Thread RW
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:06:31 -0500 Paul Procacci pproca...@datapipe.com wrote: Freedom of choice. That choice is up to you. Whichever you you feel most comfortable with...that's the one you should use. Personally, I use both. Just don't swap back and forth on the same ports tree. If you

Re: imap on freebsd7

2009-03-18 Thread RW
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:27:32 +0100 (CET) Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: I want to access a mailbox on a FreeBSD7 server via IMAP from Outlook 2003. I had a setup for accessing a mailbox on a Solaris server via IMAP from the same Outlook 2003. In the FreeSBD7 system,

Re: portsnap ignores REFUSE directives

2009-03-16 Thread RW
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:18:06 -0500 Charles Howse cho...@charter.net wrote: Hi, I just installed 6.4-RELEASE on the way to -STABLE. I chose NOT to install the ports during installation. I configured /etc/portsnap.conf, uncommenting the REFUSE directives, because I only speak English. I

Re: cvsup TreeList failed connection timed out

2009-03-15 Thread RW
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:32:49 -0500 Troy t...@twisted.net wrote: I'm having a problem with cvsup and it just started happening. I have other servers on the same LAN that are having no problem connecting to the very same servers. I found other people that had this problem by searching but

Re: torrent client traffic shaping question

2009-03-12 Thread RW
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:24:37 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:42:23 + RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com A traffic shaper could efficiently regulate downloads by proxying TCP. And even though PF does some limited TCP proxying, unfortunately

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread RW
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:38:13 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: set up tor and use it as socks proxy with your browser and python script. You don't need privoxy for that. but isn't the point of of using privoxy to strip identifying information from http

Re: torrent client traffic shaping question

2009-03-11 Thread RW
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:13:16 +0200 Brent Clark brentgclarkl...@gmail.com wrote: Hiya I got this question to ask, and I was hoping the TCP/IP gurus would be able to help me understand this. K you know how with traffic shapping you can control only the traffic leaving you, how it is that

Re: reinstall package with portinstall

2009-03-11 Thread RW
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:14:58 -0700 Noah adm...@enabled.com wrote: Hi there, how can I reinstall a package that could be the same version as the currently Install version with portinstall or portupgrade? portupgrade -f ___

Re: Problem with installing curl/xine

2009-03-11 Thread RW
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:34:57 +0530 manish jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I was trying to install xine on my FreeBSD 7.1 system. At one point, it came up with an options dialog (curses-based) where I enabled GNU TLS. Since then, xine stops compilation with the following error

Re: IPFW torrent

2009-03-10 Thread RW
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:40:11 +0100 Roy Stuivenberg roys1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I can't seem to get my torrent client working, when ipfw is up. This rules i use in my script for the torrent client (ktorrent) Typically you need separate rules for incoming and outgoing connections,

Re: freebsd 7.1, building kernel

2009-03-09 Thread RW
) (lab1). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 13 Jun 20 2005 .cvsignore -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel534 Nov 24 21:59 DEFAULTS -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 12412 Nov 24 21:59 GENERIC -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1745 Nov 24 21:59

Re: Root shell

2009-03-01 Thread RW
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:16:50 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: pdksh is statically linked and I don't know if bash is. It's a build option. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: rc.conf and starting scripts

2009-03-01 Thread RW
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 19:14:17 -0800 (PST) gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all: I have some starting scripts under some other directories other than /etc/rc.d. How could I utilize the rc.conf file to start them when the system boots up? The default location for rc.conf is /etc/rc.d only

Re: desktop app/config

2009-02-24 Thread RW
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:08:48 -0500 Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: Ok so I left the machine running over the weekend to install KDE, And when I got in this morning it said that my disk was out of space- I loaded nothing but the basic freebsd os and nothing other than kde

Re: portupgrade question

2009-02-24 Thread RW
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:13:19 -0800 (PST) gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all: I was doing portupgrade -fa -y remotely via ssh (desktop xp), it worked fine and was still running almost two days (7.1). But suddenly i lost power on my xp station, lost ssh connection to the freebsd7.1 box.

Re: globally limit fetch download?

2009-02-19 Thread RW
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:12:48 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I have several FreeBSD machines located at different sites on very slow DSL lines. Is there a way that I can limit the bandwidth that fetch uses when it fetches ports? you may do this and

Re: Upgrading gcc on FreeBSD 4.11

2009-02-14 Thread RW
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:29:12 -0600 Shaun free...@shaunc.com wrote: Is it safe to install one of the newer gcc ports on FreeBSD 4.11? I've had this machine for three years; I don't recall ever upgrading the compiler, although pkg_info seems to think that I did, or at least attempted

Re: all mail arriving empty - spamassassin?

2009-02-09 Thread RW
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:43:21 -0500 David Banning da...@skytracker.ca wrote: After some upgrades, all mail arriving via sendmail-provmail is empty - when I actually deinstall spamassassin - the mail starts arriving again. I haven't seen posts on this topic - I wonder if anyone has a guess as

Re: all mail arriving empty - spamassassin?

2009-02-09 Thread RW
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 21:27:01 + RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:43:21 -0500 David Banning da...@skytracker.ca wrote: After some upgrades, all mail arriving via sendmail-provmail is empty - when I actually deinstall spamassassin - the mail starts arriving

Re: differences of disk usage between du and quota binaries

2009-02-06 Thread RW
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 20:13:17 +0100 Nicolas Letellier nico...@nicoelro.net wrote: Hello. I use FreeBSD 6.3. I set quota to my fs. But, when I print disk usage with du -sh, I have: .. Why this difference? (633M against 648264) Try dividing 648264 by 1024.

Re: usage of swap file

2009-02-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:33:40 +0200 Yavuz mas...@ihlas.net.tr wrote: I use freebsd7.0 I have 2 Gbyte RAM and 4 Gbyte Swap. my system sometimes need more memory and although there was 3.90 Gbyte swap, I saw that run out of memory when I see with top command. Why doesn't the machine use swap

Re: Patching / Updating / Upgrading

2009-02-03 Thread RW
On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:30:14 +0200 DA Forsyth d.fors...@ru.ac.za wrote: use RELEASE for a production server, STABLE on a desktop or test machine. IMHO I'd say follow what it says in the handbook and use a release unless you have a good reason to use stable, such as support for a particular

Re: dump(8) using snapshot + recommended cache

2009-02-01 Thread RW
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 08:59:02 -0400 (AST) Andrew Hamilton-Wright andre...@ieee.org wrote: Hi All; I regularly use dump(8) with snapshots to back up my server. While this seems to have been working perfectly well so far, upon (re)reading the man page for dump(8), I have noticed a somewhat

Re: Steps to upgrade from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE

2009-01-28 Thread RW
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:07:46 -0700 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: Nothing really beats the CVS way. And when I tried a 7.0 to a 7.1, it wanted like 30,000 updates and was taking forever. It seems to me that most people that come to this list with base-system update problems are using

Re: Unable to Fetch ktorrent-3.1.6.tar.bz2

2009-01-28 Thread RW
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:53:39 +1000 Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com wrote: I updated my ports this afternoon and ktorrent has an upgrade, but alas the pkg for it isnt in the distfiles list on the website yet, was this in error or has something gona astray ? This question doesn't make much

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread RW
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:56:15 +1000 Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: I'm also ashamed that they released it in a hurry to compete in this condition to a very sceptical Window$ crowd. People have to use KDE4 in significant numbers for it to mature. The real problem was not that

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-27 Thread RW
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:52:31 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: had either followed the Debian approach of keeping KDE3 as the default, or the FreeBSD approach of leaving it up to the user there wouldn't have been such a problem. One of the worst aspect of OSS

Re: make -jN build with portmaster

2009-01-25 Thread RW
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:46:54 +0100 cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: That's a good hint indeed. I'll try it. Maybe I'll modify it a bit to include ONLY the build target, because -jN fails on nearly every other target, AFAICS. Don't forget that there are two different makes; BSD make does the

Re: Solaris Compat?

2009-01-25 Thread RW
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:46:17 +1000 Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: Why I ask is Adobe have released a version of flash for Solaris, and I'm wondering if this might work better than the linux_compat types. I tried running it straight out, but I'm getting errors of a missing

Re: default CFLAGS

2009-01-24 Thread RW
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:35:38 + (GMT) Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: Hi all: What is the default CFLAGS if *no* CFLAGS has been specified in /etc/make.conf ? As an example, let us consider a FreeBSD 7.1 system running on a Intel Celeron M. It depends on what you've set as

Re: default CFLAGS

2009-01-24 Thread RW
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:51:32 + Saifi Khan saifik...@gmail.com wrote: on running the command 'make -V CFLAGS', the output is -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe i haven't setup the CPUTYPE anywhere (not as an env variable nor in /etc/make.conf) So are these default settings for a generc

Re: default CFLAGS

2009-01-24 Thread RW
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:27:02 +0100 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: The section options enabled will list them all. I usually only add -march=native to my CFLAGS to enable a few more CPU specific optimizations. If you set CPUTYPE, -march is set to match, so setting

Re: default CFLAGS

2009-01-24 Thread RW
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:13:00 +0100 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: gcc 4.2 and later will figure out the correct -march and -mtune for you automatically if you use CPUTYPE=native. The point I was making before, is that CPUTYPE isn't just passed transparently to gcc,

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-23 Thread RW
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:15:47 -0500 Eduardo Cerejo ejcer...@optonline.net wrote: I just finished installing kde4, and it can barely run on my old p4 machine! Where has kde gone? I think kde3 is going to be around for some time to come. Hopefully kde4 will have improved by the time it's

Re: shell scripting, how to auto-timeout?

2009-01-22 Thread RW
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:41:14 -0800 Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/local/bin/java PipeGenerator $* sleep 1 kill the java command if not already killed Also with the above code I would be waiting for 1 second even if the java process finished sooner. But that is a penalty I'm

Re: Keeping FreeBSD updated (the binary way)

2009-01-22 Thread RW
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:58:13 +0100 Svein Halvor Halvorsen svei...@lvor.halvorsen.cc wrote: Is it possible to pkg_add -r packages from -STABLE on the latest -RELEASE? That is, will the following work, or slowly render my system to an incoherent state: 1) Regularly run freebsd-update 2)

Re: source of uname information

2009-01-21 Thread RW
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:06:50 -0500 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: Can someone explain this: h...@jerusalem sysctl kern.version kern.version: FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Jan 20 10:40:57 EST 2009 h...@jerusalem.litteratus.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JERUSALEM h...@jerusalem

Re: Is there any tools can build a mirror of portsnap?

2009-01-21 Thread RW
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:17:17 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: if portsnap could use proxies - it would be simple. but it cant It's certainly supposed to, the man page says it does, fetch and phttpget are both supposed to support proxies, and there's support in

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread RW
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:35:33 -0500 Tim Kellers kell...@njit.edu wrote: I've never noticed this (the slow decline of Free) before on any machine I've had. Maybe that just means it has happened and I haven't noticed it, but I don't know. FreeBSD has worked like that for a long time, it

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread RW
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:23:06 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: When I boot this machine it usually shows (in top) about 11 G Free in the Mem: line The machine, in this snippet, has been up for 5 days 22 hours and change and it now shows 1436M free in the

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread RW
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:14:10 -0500 David Scheidt dsche...@panix.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:25:19AM +, RW wrote: Although, looking at the output of top, most of the memory is in the inactive state. As I understand it cache pages go from active to cached, and the inactive

Re: freebsd encrypted hard disk?

2009-01-14 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:23:09 -0500 Johann Hasselbach jhas...@gmail.com wrote: I read the encrypting disk partitions section of the Handbook. What is the preferred method nowdays, geli or gbde? Geli. Geli is more secure when used with real-world passphrases, supports hardware acceleration,

Re: freebsd encrypted hard disk?

2009-01-14 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:59:54 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Geli is convenient and seems to work well. On modern machines the performance penalty is slight. It supports well-regarded encryption algorithms like AES and Blowfish. It depends on what you mean by modern, and slight,

Re: freebsd encrypted hard disk?

2009-01-14 Thread RW
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:20:54 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:55:38PM +, RW wrote: Not just in reduced transfer rates, but also in terms of CPU cycles used - a sustained geli to geli file copy makes things really slow for me. That's probably

Re: Disk Label Editor problem

2009-01-13 Thread RW
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:02:59 -0200 luizbcampos luizbcam...@gmail.com wrote: I installed FreeBSD-7.0amd64 on my 40GB disk and I chose automatic partition at disk label editor. I need to download a 665GB OS but at a given moment the system complains about lack of space on the disk (469GB). It

Re: gname

2009-01-11 Thread RW
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:49:37 -0500 Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: Wow, After a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.4, (with Xorg) I tried installing Gnome, and I get a stop during build, Filesystem Full! Is Gname really that big? or did I miss doing something? Doing a du -h -d1 on /usr

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-10 Thread RW
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:09:57 + Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Why not as a matter of curiosity? It has its limitations (eg max file size) but it's very cross platform. ntfs is much more robust than fat32, if you crash windows or pull the plug, you are more likely to lose data

Re: Sun sucks

2009-01-09 Thread RW
On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:16:25 -0500 Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: RW wrote: Just create a new account for some made-up name, don't specify any company, download your file, and then (if you really care) go through the hoops afterwards. Improper subject, wrong attitude. If one

Re: how to use the MFS ?

2009-01-09 Thread RW
On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:30:30 -0500 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: PstreeM China pstr...@gmail.com writes: i think the option WRKDIRPREFIX is a good idea , and i whill test the methon unionfs. Definitely benchmark against just using a native local

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-09 Thread RW
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file system type.That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to FAT32. Not a good idea. According to the man page, some limited writing can be

Re: Sun sucks

2009-01-08 Thread RW
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:10:10 -0500 Ansar Mohammed ans...@gmail.com wrote: After registering Sun complains that they don't like my ID and I need to provide more information. I create another account. Same problem. After 3 months I finally get an email saying they want clarification on the

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-03 Thread RW
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 19:46:59 +0100 cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 01:38:25AM +, RW wrote: On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:30:12 + Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: Admittedly this doesn't give a file by file checksum That's not really a problem, it's

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-02 Thread RW
On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:30:12 + Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: Admittedly this doesn't give a file by file checksum That's not really a problem, it's no easier to create a collision in a .gz file than a patch file. The more substantial weakness is that the key is verified against

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread RW
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install them ? also csup didn't help here is my csup file *default tag=RELENG_7 *default host=ftp2.tw.freebsd.org *default prefix=/usr *default

Re: Could not find package - using ports

2008-12-22 Thread RW
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:29:18 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:20:24 -0500, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Portupgrade won't install packages -- it'll upgrade your ports using the ports tree. If you want the latest software, you need to compile

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread RW
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:35:35 -0500 Martes G Wigglesworth mar...@mgwigglesworth.com wrote: However, the intuitive list member response strikes again. Thanks alot for you input. I, as you, can't really figure out why they felt, years ago, that they needed to re-invent the wheel. Bear in

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread RW
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:54:24 -0500 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: However, commercial routers generally do not use their OS kernel this way -- it is far more common that the kernel does send and receive packets within its native IP stack. If I'm understanding

Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question

2008-12-19 Thread RW
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:04:26 -0500 FreeBSD free...@optiksecurite.com wrote: This server is very lightly used, so most of the time if the swap is getting used it shows that something is going wrong. This warning already proved usefull once, so I don't think I'm going to change it. I don't

Re: portsnap and portupgrade

2008-12-18 Thread RW
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:08:44 +0100 (CET) Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: ( decompress to /usr/ports ) # portsnap extract ( it is not clear to me if this is correct if one already has a /usr/ports created during sysinstall .. ) You need the extract so that the tree is exactly

Re: portsnap and portupgrade

2008-12-18 Thread RW
[ Since this is on-topic, I'm taking it back on-list. ] On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:11:26 +0100 (CET) Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: 'Installing the tree from disk' do you mean with that: the install during sysinstall of /usr/ports from what is on the FREEBDSD-7.0-RELEASE CD's ?

Re: Simple swap question

2008-12-18 Thread RW
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:13:12 -0500 FreeBSD free...@optiksecurite.com wrote: I can't see any process within parentheses in top... I also looked at the -f option of ps but the process that caused the swapping are not listed. FreeBSD only swaps in extreme cases - most of the time it's paging

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread RW
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:07:48 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: at startup it seeds random generator, every 11 minutes and at shutdown it's saved from random generator. Only at shutdown, the entropy stored every eleven minutes is in /var/db/entropy/

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread RW
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:23:05 +0100 Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org wrote: 2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i think it should be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ? It has to be on the root

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread RW
There is only 1 file, named entropy : -rw--- 1 root wheel 4096 Dec 11 17:36 entropy I can't find any reference to that file in FreeBSD doc. It contains random numbers that are written-out at shutdown and used to seed /dev/random on the next boot. Do i have to keep it read/write ? Can i

Re: Any doc reference on /entropy file ?

2008-12-16 Thread RW
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:39:56 +0100 Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: 2- As / will be mounted read-only, how can i tell the ramdom generator to put this /entropy file somewhere in /var, where i think it should be ? Or is there any tricky hidden problem ?

Re: named and ntpd start order in rc.d

2008-12-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:47:50 -0800 Nerius Landys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that the fix for this is to add a dependency to /etc/rc.d/ntpd script, adding named to REQUIRE section in comments. In your opinion, is this a robust fix? For example the line in my /etc/rc.d/ntpd script

Re: named and ntpd start order in rc.d

2008-12-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 13:22:29 -0800 Nerius Landys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This shouldn't be needed as ntpd already requires ntpdate and in turn ntpdate requires named. The issue is probably timing - that named isn't ready. Actually, the REQUIRE thing in the /etc/rc.d scripts means if

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 19:36:45 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The userland win32 API might be rather unpleasant but I was surprised to learn to driver interface in the kernel is actually quite nice, and whatever ideas/solutions microsoft do it's f..ked up or stolen.

Re: named and ntpd start order in rc.d

2008-12-05 Thread RW
On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:11:38 +0100 cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: I have a similar issue with PPP not having connected by the time ntpdate runs , so I just have a script that runs between named and ntpdate, and blocks waiting for access. Those timing / start-order issues

Re: what is umtxn

2008-12-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:16:12 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 19:35:34 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've got once my asterisk process in umtxn state (as top shows) using 100% CPU. it was still answering calls. what's umtxn

Re: Swapping to MMC (Was: To swap or not to swap)

2008-12-02 Thread RW
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:47:26 + Anthony M. Rasat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pros: 1) System requires swap. Period. 2) Swap may need size in range between 2.17 times to 2.22 time or whatever size it need. This is not prohibited by Eee's SSD size (4GB btw, 701 series). Add what swap you need,

Re: Uninstalling kde3 meta-port

2008-12-02 Thread RW
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:35:40 +0100 Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 December 2008 08:38:02 Leslie Jensen wrote: How would you guys uninstall a meta-port? I'm considering a move to kde4 but I want a clean install, so I want to remove the kde3 meta-port first. cd

Re: Which FreeBSD is best for my PC?

2008-12-01 Thread RW
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:54:38 -0800 Harry Veltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which version and GUI will work best on the internet with my AT Pentium II 350MHz x86-based PC? Some web sites require Flash Player 8 or higher, If flash is important to you then I'd suggest you run windows firefox

Re: Date/time installed ports have been updated on a system?

2008-12-01 Thread RW
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:12:49 +0100 Ewald Jenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any way to determine when upgrades to installed ports have been done on a system? I did a portupgrade -arR recently and want to know which ports have been upgraded in that process (and no I didn't run

Re: FreeBSD 4.8: can't load kernel after doing cp -R / to another disk

2008-11-29 Thread RW
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:37:09 +0400 admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, everyone. This is the problem: our SCSI disk with FreeBSD 4.8 on it has been failing recently, so I copied its root partition to a fresh IDE disk with cp -pR and You should use dump and restore to copy the root

Re: pf or ipf rules to allow p2p Limewire through

2008-11-28 Thread RW
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:24:27 +0800 Fbsd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about explaining just why this is going to allow p2p limewire work? I think you are missing the fact that limewire does not use dedicated port numbers. Every session uses different port numbers You can presumably set

Re: question regarding portsnap

2008-11-26 Thread RW
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:57:20 +0300 __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0 The OS was downloaded from freebsd.org two months ago. When I am trying to upgrade ports by using portsnap, portsnap doesn't work. # portsnap fetch Looking up

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread RW
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:40:27 +0800 Fbsd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have inclusive firewall rule set which means only packets matching the rules are passed through. The inbound hight port numbers are blocked by design. How do other firewall users code rules to allow limewire to work? I

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread RW
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:54:43 -0600 Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry for asking but what are this limewire programs are? My unofficial take on it is that limewire is a peer-to-peer sharing

Re: Installing gimp from ports, need a GTK+, what port is it

2008-11-23 Thread RW
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:23:58 -0700 Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, I'm installing gimp from ports. I've recently done a csup on my ports tree and was happily working through the issues that were coming up while installing. Normally, the issues were only due to a particular

Re: Delay startup of services in rc.conf || elswhere

2008-11-18 Thread RW
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:05:33 +0100 bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a server configured to start 10 services at startup (in /etc/ rc.conf) Unfortunately, the startup of MySQL seems to be returning ok before It actually has started completely the program___ the next program

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread RW
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:10:48 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cygwin is an atrocity, Why's that? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: recommendation word processer for xfce

2008-11-08 Thread RW
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 15:25:12 +0200 Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 November 2008 13:55, Jerry wrote: The best response to the issue of Outlook and top-posting I've seen recently was on the London Perlmongers mailing list ... The last I checked, cursor keys worked in

Re: How to upgrade to KDE4

2008-11-05 Thread RW
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:52:06 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the only thing that updated was the meta-port (I did a portupgrade -r too). Aside from the fact that there are separate kde meta-ports, portupgrade -r kde... updates the metaport and everything that depends on the metaport, not

Re: MySQL not restarted after portupgrade

2008-11-03 Thread RW
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 22:21:53 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:52:53AM -0500, Andrew Berry wrote: For some reason, after running portupgrade databases/mysql51-server, MySQL is brought down, but not restarted. It's not a huge issue, as I just have to

Re: Marvell 88E8052 PCI-E LAN on FreeBSD 7.0 (PYUN Yong-Hyeon)

2008-10-31 Thread RW
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:18:20 - Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure you suffers from the same problem but there was a Tx checksum offload related bug in msk(4) driver and it was fixed in HEAD. How about applying the diff in CVS rev 1.33 of if_msk?

Re: port versions query

2008-10-31 Thread RW
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:50:25 -0700 Jim Pazarena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried the 5.1 mysql port, and found that it was a 5.1.26-rc ... RC so I rolled back to 5.0.67 Is there a way to tell in general what version is 'current' for FreeBSD 7? There's only one port tree, so it doesn't

Re: kqemu runs 2x faster on i386 than amd64!?

2008-10-30 Thread RW
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:08:51 -0700 Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guess I should've mentioned the target is 32-bit win2k... If the target isn't the same as the host, I think it's going to have to use (at least partial) emulation instead of

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread RW
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:10:33 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: andrew clarke mail_ozzmosis.com said (on 2008/10/29): You need to understand that the FreeBSD project by its nature is primarily source-code driven. Making packages available (of any port) is of very low priority in comparison to

Re: freebsd-update can't find update.FreeBSD.org

2008-10-29 Thread RW
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:25:06 -0600 Steven Susbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: andrew clarke wrote: On Wed 2008-10-29 13:37:11 UTC-0600, Steven Susbauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: freebsd-update fetch fails if the default ServerName update.FreeBSD.org is not changed to ServerName

Re: Low bandwidth suggestions

2008-10-27 Thread RW
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:56:09 -0500 Mauricio L__pez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is: what would you recommend to someone who wants to have the software available offline and perhaps update it monthly? Can I download and burn in DVDs the entire ports and package collection? I think

Re: duplicate a drive

2008-10-26 Thread RW
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:07:34 +0100 Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:23 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK The best way is to reinstall the OS

Re: WINE 21.1.5 QUESTION...

2008-10-26 Thread RW
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:55:26 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe somebody here can clue me in on how to get a 1998, windose3.1/w95 French-learning game to work on my newly built wine. I asked on the Ubuntu forums and altho somebody did try to help; Zip. I do not

Re: duplicate a drive

2008-10-24 Thread RW
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:23 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK The best way is to reinstall the OS on the new disk, then move the user data over. This is highly recommended if you have been tracking

Re: Using packages compiled for 7.0-RELEASE in 8-CURRENT

2008-10-22 Thread RW
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:09:05 +0530 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ashish Shukla ___) wrote: Hi all, I'm having a confusion about installing packages compiled in 7.0-RELEASE in 8.0-CURRENT. I've 2 boxen, a 7.0-RELEASE-p5 and a 8-CURRENT. The 7.0-RELEASE-p5 is fully updated as of

Re: GCC help

2008-10-22 Thread RW
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:07:09 -0400 Victor Farah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering how I would update gcc to version 4.2? I'm not sure I can just do a portupgrade gcc ?? If you install a later version of gcc it won't automatically get used because the port will use the base-system

Re: back to kde3

2008-10-18 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:46:53 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 17 October 2008 16:26:54 RW wrote: Whichever version you use, kdm defaults to the last desktop or window manager. Thanks. I was hoping that when KDE4 was more stable, polished, we would say goodbye

Re: updating a port with problems (libxml2)

2008-10-17 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:01:09 -0700 (PDT) Colin Brace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ cd /usr/ports/textproc/libxml2 $ sudo make deinstall $ sudo make reinstall clean ... It would appear that the port has not yet been updated. Is this some temporary glitch? Otherwise, the approach I use is not

Re: back to kde3

2008-10-17 Thread RW
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:39:23 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I spent the past several days trying to insure that everythinge kde4 was properly set to run upon reboot. But upon rebooting just now, I find myself back in kde3. i Yanked the startup from /etc/ttys, so *must* have hit

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