Re: Problems with perl script on 6.1/5.8.8

2007-02-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 22:24, Don O'Neil wrote: I've got a perl script that just refuses to run on my new 6.1 box with Perl 5.8.8... Whenever I run it from the command line I get this: Can't modify single ref constructor in lock at ./caldisp.pl line 84, near *LOCKF) Execution of

Re: Packet rate limiter

2007-02-07 Thread Justin Robertson
Newp. You're stuck to good old bps with ipfw or bps/cpse (connections per second established) with pf. The other method would be to use cisco netflow export data from a router being polled - then limiting traffic with one of the methods mentioned above... or just place pps limits on your

ftp-archive.freebsd.org

2007-02-07 Thread Marcel Smeets
Hi, I have a Freebsd 5.3 Virtual machine running on a SUSE 9.3 Xen 2.05 machine and I wanted to recompile the kernel with the xen-sources and kernel sources form the archive. But to my great astonishment the ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org url asked for a username and password, which it

Re: HP C-class Blade / Broadcom ethernet / SerDes controllers not supported

2007-02-07 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:10:34PM +0100, Christoph Schug wrote: Maybe you can give it a try and check whether a current FreeBSD 7 works right and report back the result to the list. Just tried the current FreeBSD 7 snapshot (7.0-CURRENT-200702-amd64-disc1.iso) but unfortunately the box

Re: One hurdle left to switch

2007-02-07 Thread Paul Butler
Phew! I just completed my US Federal return with HR Block's online Tax Cut using FreeBSD 6.2 and Firefox and it worked reasonably well. They are not 100% standards compliant but close enough. This is the 3rd consecutive year I've used them. No flash required. Paul Butler Date: Tue, 6 Feb

Packet rate limiter

2007-02-07 Thread Jan Sebosik
Hi is there any way how to limit packet per second [PPS] rate to specified IP (group of IP) ? Linux can achieve this via IPtables. I`ve searched a lot of web, but nothing interesting found (for PF, IPFilter, and IPFW). Best regards --- Jan Sebosik, Slovakia

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-07 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 03:06, Marty Landman wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Well, do as it says - choose a shell and run fsck manually. Heh, for starters I assumed (always a bad thing) that fsck wasn't available because I did a 'which fsck' and got 'which not found' as a response. But

RE: Portupgrade out of swap - corrupt pkg info...

2007-02-07 Thread Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 February 2007 17:54 To: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD Subject: Re: Portupgrade out of swap - corrupt pkg info... On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote: I updated the ports on my laptop

Re: One hurdle left to switch (drifting OT)

2007-02-07 Thread Robert Huff
Paul Butler writes: Phew! I just completed my US Federal return with HR Block's online Tax Cut using FreeBSD 6.2 and Firefox and it worked reasonably well. They are not 100% standards compliant but close enough. This is the 3rd consecutive year I've used them. No flash required.

eterm/port

2007-02-07 Thread Olivier Regnier
Hello :) Yesterday and today, i tried to install eterm with the ports tree with this command: portinstall eterm but everytime, i get an error that says Stop in /usr/ports/x11/eterm.! x11/eterm (linker error) Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed You can see

Sync'ng directories between two servers ...

2007-02-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi .. I've got a directory on ServerA that I would like to keep sync'd on ServerB ... to date, I've been using rsync for this, but what I hate with that is that it has to scan the whole directory on both servers to compare, putting a good load

Re: rc.conf ...need help

2007-02-07 Thread Don Munyak
On 2/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/02/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:58:06PM -0500, Don Munyak wrote: How can I edit rc.conf while in single user mode. I've tried vi ee, but system doesn't recognize either. Thanks to

Out of Office AutoReply: Concept [Blocked Attachment Stripped]

2007-02-07 Thread Tim (Imtiaz) Chaudhry
I will be on vacation from 2/2 thru 2/9/07. I will not have e-mail access during this period. Urgent matters please contact Muh-ren Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] or my supervisor Robert Lutze [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Sync'ng directories between two servers ...

2007-02-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Marc G. Fournier wrote: I've got a directory on ServerA that I would like to keep sync'd on ServerB ... to date, I've been using rsync for this, but what I hate with that is that it has to scan the whole directory on both servers to compare, putting a good load on each of them ... Is

Trapping signal from shell script... doesn't seem to work?

2007-02-07 Thread Aitor San Juan
Hi list! I have written a Bourne shell script. This shell script invokes a program written in the C language. Below is basically the shell script source code. As you can see, the C program is not invoked in the background, but in the foreground, so the shell script doesn't finish until the C

Re: Sync'ng directories between two servers ...

2007-02-07 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Marc G. Fournier wrote: I've got a directory on ServerA that I would like to keep sync'd on ServerB ... to date, I've been using rsync for this, but what I hate with that is that it has to scan the whole directory on both servers to

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:06:05PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Well, do as it says - choose a shell and run fsck manually. Heh, for starters I assumed (always a bad thing) that fsck wasn't available because I did a 'which fsck' and got 'which not found' as a

Re: newaliases not working?

2007-02-07 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Doug Sampson wrote: I'm having trouble getting the periodic reports sent out on a daily basis from a FreeBSD 6.2 server. I've changed the /etc/aliases file so that root points to an administrative mail address. You can do that directly in /etc/periodic.conf:

Cache server

2007-02-07 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all, We're deploying a couple of dedicated Freebsd 6.2 servers using Squid. I remember being at the BSDCan 2006 and Poul-Henning was talking about Varnish. Was wandering if anyone deployed it since no one talks about it on the list, and if it is worth installing it as a production cache

Filesystem full messages

2007-02-07 Thread Paul Khavkine
Hi guys. We have a server that keeps reporting /usr filesystem full: Feb 7 11:20:41 srv15 kernel: pid 47903 (popper), uid 32999 inumber 1011621 on /usr: filesystem full But it /usr is not full at all: df -h /dev/da0s1g 23G8.7G 13G41%/usr df -ih /dev/da0s1g 23G

RE: Sync'ng directories between two servers ...

2007-02-07 Thread Gouverneur, Thomas
Maybe you would have a look to Unison... http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Regards, -- Thomas Gouverneur UNIX Assistant TI Automotive -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier Sent: mercredi 7 février 2007 15:11 To:

Re: ftp-archive.freebsd.org

2007-02-07 Thread James Anderson
On 2/7/07, Marcel Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Freebsd 5.3 Virtual machine running on a SUSE 9.3 Xen 2.05 machine and I wanted to recompile the kernel with the xen-sources and kernel sources form the archive. But to my great astonishment the ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org url

Re: Trapping signal from shell script... doesn't seem to work?

2007-02-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 07), Aitor San Juan said: I have written a Bourne shell script. This shell script invokes a program written in the C language. Below is basically the shell script source code. As you can see, the C program is not invoked in the background, but in the foreground, so

Re: Problem with Serverworks HT1000 serial ATA support - Tyan S3992 Motherboard

2007-02-07 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:18 PM 2/6/2007, Nicole Harrington wrote: I use RELENG_6 in i386 mode on this MB (two integrated em nics) and it works quite well Have you tried it with the tune for Diskd mentioned. No, But I have a box scheduled to be put together tomorrow and will give it a try. How

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-07 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2007/02/06 17:06, Marty Landman seems to have typed: Jerry McAllister wrote: Just run /sbin/fsck /dev/ad1s1c. Actually that would be a somewhat unusual address - what they call a 'dangerously dedicated' disk. Can you explain or point me to more info on why that was a poor choice on my

RE: Trapping signal from shell script... doesn't seem to work?

2007-02-07 Thread Aitor San Juan
Dan, thanks a lot. I'll have a look at it. Regards. -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nombre de Dan Nelson Enviado el: miércoles, 07 de febrero de 2007 17:47 Para: Aitor San Juan CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Asunto: Re: Trapping signal from shell

compiling error - /usr : filesystem full

2007-02-07 Thread Don Munyak
Hello, I was recompiling the kernel on my laptop when the process ended with errors. /usr : filesystem full I suspect that the HD is has too many files ?? can I simply remove/delete to ports from /usr/ports and try to recompile? btw...I have used pkg_add in the past. Will deleting the ports

Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf

2007-02-07 Thread Noah
Any clues on what is happening here. Is there a way to fix the complaint below? # portmanager -u -y ** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf: undefined method `x11base' for nil:NilClass ** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf: undefined method

Re: Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf

2007-02-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday February 07, 2007 at 12:12:21 (PM) Noah wrote: Any clues on what is happening here. Is there a way to fix the complaint below? # portmanager -u -y ** Error occured reading /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf: undefined method `x11base' for nil:NilClass ** Error occured

Can't access service from other machines

2007-02-07 Thread Steel City Phantom
i just finished installing jboss on a bsd 6.1 machine. i can ssh into the machine and nmap says the port is listening correctly (8080). using lynx from the console i get to jboss just fine using both localhost and the static ip number. but no other machine can access it. other machines can

apache+tomcat and helix server

2007-02-07 Thread Palle Girgensohn
Hi! I am experiencing something very strange, that I don't even know how to debug. We run apache+mod_ssl-1.3.34+2.8.25_2, jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30 and mod_jk-1.2.15,1 on FreeBSD 6.1-amd64, and it is really rock stable. Now, into this picture comes a helix server (aka Real server, real

portmanager behaviour

2007-02-07 Thread pete wright
hi all, i was wondering if anyone else ran into a problem recently when portmanager was moved to /usr/ports/ports-mgt/portmanger. i have a nightly cron which runs a portmanager -s to give me a status report in the morning on outdated ports. i believe when the move occurred that portmanager

Re: toggle between english and french (how?)

2007-02-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-02-06 17:29, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 6.2 box on which I intend to set up a web server (lighttpd) and a file server (samba). The kicker is that I will need to allow for French characters (?, ?, ?, etc). I had such an issue before but only managed to solve it at the X

Re: toggle between english and french (how?)

2007-02-07 Thread Peter
Le Mercredi 7 Février 2007 12:48, Giorgos Keramidas a écrit : On 2007-02-06 17:29, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 6.2 box on which I intend to set up a web server (lighttpd) and a file server (samba). The kicker is that I will need to allow for French characters (?, ?, ?, etc). I

Re: portmanager behaviour

2007-02-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday February 07, 2007 at 12:44:30 (PM) pete wright wrote: hi all, i was wondering if anyone else ran into a problem recently when portmanager was moved to /usr/ports/ports-mgt/portmanger. i have a nightly cron which runs a portmanager -s to give me a status report in the morning on

mysql service restart

2007-02-07 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello all, I have a question. I am using mysql (Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.1.11-beta, for portbld-freebsd6.1 (i386) using 5.0) on a FBSD 6.2-RELEASE box. Today it got a bit of work to do and as a result the load was between 8-10 at peak times. I connect to mysql through socket. Mysql is mostly needed

Filesystem full messages

2007-02-07 Thread Robert Huff
Paul Khavkine writes: We have a server that keeps reporting /usr filesystem full: Feb 7 11:20:41 srv15 kernel: pid 47903 (popper), uid 32999 inumber 1011621 on /usr: filesystem full But it /usr is not full at all: df -h /dev/da0s1g 23G8.7G 13G41%/usr

RE: newaliases not working?

2007-02-07 Thread Doug Sampson
Mail log below. The first four lines are a result of running 'periodic daily'. The last four lines is when I address a mail directly to admin(at)dawnsign.com (the @ sign has been changed to protect it). Feb 6 17:00:03 ftp sendmail[11196]: l17103fh011196: from=root, size=38,

RE: newaliases not working?

2007-02-07 Thread Doug Sampson
I'm having trouble getting the periodic reports sent out on a daily basis from a FreeBSD 6.2 server. I've changed the /etc/aliases file so that root points to an administrative mail address. You can do that directly in /etc/periodic.conf: daily_output=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Nice to

Re: newaliases not working?

2007-02-07 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2007/02/07 9:33, Doug Sampson seems to have typed: Nice to know this. However, I still would like to fix the issue with the /etc/aliases not being used to translate any mail sent to root to an alternate email address. If anyone knows a cure to this, I'd be grateful. Thanks. I believe that

RE: newaliases not working?

2007-02-07 Thread Doug Sampson
On 2007/02/07 9:33, Doug Sampson seems to have typed: Nice to know this. However, I still would like to fix the issue with the /etc/aliases not being used to translate any mail sent to root to an alternate email address. If anyone knows a cure to this, I'd be grateful. Thanks. I

How to get étoilé running?

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Tourde
Hello, ètoilé seems to be a very nice desktop environment usi= ng GNUstep (see http://www.etoile-project.org). The kind of Desktop Envir= onment that should appeal to MacOS X user. Étoilé is very well imp= lented in the ports tree (just build the gnustep-app and everything

Re: Problem with Serverworks HT1000 serial ATA support - Tyan S3992 Motherboard

2007-02-07 Thread Nicole Harrington
--- Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:18 PM 2/6/2007, Nicole Harrington wrote: I use RELENG_6 in i386 mode on this MB (two integrated em nics) and it works quite well Have you tried it with the tune for Diskd mentioned. No, But I have a box scheduled to be

Intel Core Duo. SMP kernel but still only 50% load while using make on ports...

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Tourde
Hello, I have at my disposal an Inspiron 9400 with an Intel Core = Duo. FreeBSD 6.2 is installed and rebuilt to fit the processor. The kerne l is in SMP mode. I noticed something strange: When I compile using ma= ke, make install in the ports tree, I only have 50% load. CPU1 is

How to get GNUstep working?

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Tourde
Hello, I built GNUstep from the port tree. Now how do I get it ru= nning? I noticed a GNUstep.sh file in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, that's obvi= ously some kind of daemon but how do I start it? I would like to do that'The FreeBSD way'. What I did so far is that I put 'GNUstep.sh start'

How to get etoile running?

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Tourde
Hello, ètoilé seems to be a very nice desktop environment usi= ng GNUstep (see http://www.etoile-project.org). The kind of Desktop Environment that should appeal to MacOS X user. Étoilé is very wel= l implented in the ports tree (just build the gnustep-app and everything comes

Re: newaliases not working?

2007-02-07 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2007/02/07 10:12, Doug Sampson seems to have typed: On 2007/02/07 9:33, Doug Sampson seems to have typed: Nice to know this. However, I still would like to fix the issue with the /etc/aliases not being used to translate any mail sent to root to an alternate email address. If anyone knows

RE: newaliases not working?

2007-02-07 Thread Doug Sampson
I believe that sendmail wants /etc/mail/aliases.db not /etc/aliases. You can remake your aliases.db by: cd /etc/mail make maps Does not seem to do the trick. Sorry, try: make aliases restart (more Makefile for other options) No dice. Feb 7 11:29:48 ftp sm-mta[11136]:

Re: Filesystem full messages

2007-02-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
Robert Huff wrote: Paul Khavkine writes: We have a server that keeps reporting /usr filesystem full: Feb 7 11:20:41 srv15 kernel: pid 47903 (popper), uid 32999 inumber 1011621 on /usr: filesystem full But it /usr is not full at all: df -h /dev/da0s1g 23G8.7G

Re: toggle between english and french (how?)

2007-02-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-02-07 13:02, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Mercredi 7 F?vrier 2007 12:48, Giorgos Keramidas a ?crit : Have a look at the keymaps for French in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps': $ ( cd /usr/share/syscons/keymaps; ls -l *fr* ) -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 9148 Feb 2 15:29

Re: Sync'ng directories between two servers ...

2007-02-07 Thread Antony Mawer
On 8/02/2007 1:11 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I've got a directory on ServerA that I would like to keep sync'd on ServerB ... to date, I've been using rsync for this, but what I hate with that is that it has to scan the whole directory on both servers to compare, putting a good load on each

Re: Intel Core Duo. SMP kernel but still only 50% load while using make on ports...

2007-02-07 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Daniel Tourde [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I have at my disposal an Inspiron 9400 with an Intel CoreFreeBSD 6.2 is installed and rebuilt to fit the processor. The kerne l is in SMP mode. I noticed something strange: When I compile using ma in the ports tree, I

Re: Intel Core Duo. SMP kernel but still only 50% load while using make on ports...

2007-02-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 04:44:42PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Daniel Tourde [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I have at my disposal an Inspiron 9400 with an Intel CoreFreeBSD 6.2 is installed and rebuilt to fit the processor. The kerne l is in SMP mode. I noticed

Re: Intel Core Duo. SMP kernel but still only 50% load while using make on ports...

2007-02-07 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 04:44:42PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Daniel Tourde [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I have at my disposal an Inspiron 9400 with an Intel CoreFreeBSD 6.2 is installed and rebuilt to fit the

Re: READ_DMA48 error interpretation

2007-02-07 Thread Richard Lynch
[I've tried to snip away a lot of stuff, without losing any context...] On Tue, February 6, 2007 2:50 am, Ian Smith wrote: 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

Account Warning

2007-02-07 Thread Commonwealth Bank
Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Online Service we have issued this warning message. As a result of too many incorrect attempts to access and Login failures, Please note that Your Commonwealth NetBank Online Account has been

Re: Trapping signal from shell script... doesn't seem to work?

2007-02-07 Thread Derek Ragona
I believe what you are seeing is the login shell you are running holding back the signal as it first traps the signals. You should try running the script non-interactively from cron or nohup. -Derek At 09:18 AM 2/7/2007, Aitor San Juan wrote: Hi list! I have written a Bourne shell

Assembly language on FreeBSD

2007-02-07 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I am brushing up on my assembler language and I wonder if anyone could recommend any particular reading well suited for FreeBSD? Best and kind regards, Rico Secada. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: portmanager behaviour

2007-02-07 Thread youshi10
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, pete wright wrote: hi all, i was wondering if anyone else ran into a problem recently when portmanager was moved to /usr/ports/ports-mgt/portmanger. i have a nightly cron which runs a portmanager -s to give me a status report in the morning on outdated ports. i believe

Re: Assembly language on FreeBSD

2007-02-07 Thread Tore Lund
Rico Secada wrote: Hi I am brushing up on my assembler language and I wonder if anyone could recommend any particular reading well suited for FreeBSD? http://www.int80h.org/bsdasm/ -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Dual Core Or Dual CPU - What's the real difference in performance?

2007-02-07 Thread Nicole Harrington
Hello all, I have been building/using servers that were dual CPU AMD Opteron systems for some time. (usually 246 Opteron cpu's) Now of course the world is shifting to Dual Core. Using FreeBSD, what is really the difference, besides power and ability to shove in more memory, between having

Re: Assembly language on FreeBSD

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 19:45, Rico Secada wrote: Hi I am brushing up on my assembler language and I wonder if anyone could recommend any particular reading well suited for FreeBSD? Try looking as(1) manual page, the gas info page (info gas) and looking on the internet for guides

/tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-07 Thread Noah
Hi there, /tmp is filling from portmanager is placing .db information and build details during its run. what options to I have to alleviate the troubles this creates? Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Server vendors

2007-02-07 Thread Devin Heckman
Hi, The organization I work for is looking to purchase hardware that will serve as a backup server running FreeBSD. We have purchased from IBM for many years, but we are looking at branching out and purchasing from a vendor which explicitly supports FreeBSD. I have been looking at

installation causes panic

2007-02-07 Thread James Strother
Hi, I've been trying to get FreeBSD 6.2 up and going on an AMD64 machine of mine, but have encountered a few problems. Most of the issues are minor annoyances, but I can't get around the last one for the life of me. Please let me know which bugs are known (I searched and couldn't find any of

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday February 07, 2007 at 06:43:15 (PM) Noah wrote: /tmp is filling from portmanager is placing .db information and build details during its run. what options to I have to alleviate the troubles this creates? Erase them. Besides how much trouble can they be causing? Honestly,

Re: iTunes - once again.

2007-02-07 Thread Tom Marchand
On Feb 5, 2007, at 3:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Call me silly, but it seems to me you ought to be lobbying Apple for Linux support. Get a decent Apple-made Linux player, and FreeBSD support via the linux emulator would *probably* work, no? I agree, getting Apple to support iTunes on

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-07 Thread Noah
Hi, I dont think this is an adequate solution. /tmp is filling up during the portmanager run. in other words - while I am running /tmp fills up. so it needs to be erased periodically while portmanager is running or else no other packages can be downloaded are there other solutions? what

Re: Dual Core Or Dual CPU - What's the real difference in performance?

2007-02-07 Thread Andrew Hammond
On 2/7/07, Nicole Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have been building/using servers that were dual CPU AMD Opteron systems for some time. (usually 246 Opteron cpu's) Now of course the world is shifting to Dual Core. Using FreeBSD, what is really the difference, besides

Low-cost dedicated FreeBSD server or non-jail VPS?

2007-02-07 Thread Kelly Jones
I'm looking to rent a low-cost FreeBSD dedicated server or VPS with root access. For a VPS, I realize this is really psuedo-root access. I once rented a VPS on a FreeBSD box that was split into virtual boxes using jail, but wasn't happy with it. So, if it's not a dedicated box, I'm looking for

Re: Low-cost dedicated FreeBSD server or non-jail VPS?

2007-02-07 Thread Derek Ragona
FreeBSD runs on most i386 based hardware as long as you have 64 MB ram or more. So you can recycle an old desktop PC to run FreeBSD and then have at it. Or buy a cheap new desktop or refurbished. -Derek At 07:01 PM 2/7/2007, Kelly Jones wrote: I'm looking to rent a low-cost

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:43:15PM -0800, Noah wrote: Hi there, /tmp is filling from portmanager is placing .db information and build details during its run. what options to I have to alleviate the troubles this creates? Well, you could move /tmp to a bigger space. I think it is

Re: READ_DMA48 error interpretation

2007-02-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Richard Lynch wrote: [I've tried to snip away a lot of stuff, without losing any context...] [ ...trimming away context good, people can go back and read the thread... ] I can touch the exposed front and back top (above IDE cable) and lay my finger along it. It's hot but not like, ouch hot

Re: Low-cost dedicated FreeBSD server or non-jail VPS?

2007-02-07 Thread Jay Chandler
Derek Ragona wrote: FreeBSD runs on most i386 based hardware as long as you have 64 MB ram or more. So you can recycle an old desktop PC to run FreeBSD and then have at it. Or buy a cheap new desktop or refurbished. -Derek The problem with this approach is that it doesn't get you

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-07 Thread Marty Landman
On 2/7/07, Pieter de Goeje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ad1s1c is a partition that contains the entire disk or slice in this case. Dangerously dedicated is when you have no slices: ad1a, ad1b, ad1c etc. You should _only_ fsck the individual partitions (ad0s1a), never the complete disk (ad0) or

Re: memory above 4Gb ignored

2007-02-07 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On 6 Feb 2007, at 12:23, Bill Moran wrote: I don't know whether its related - I just got a brand new Dell XPS 710 H2C with a QX6700 - The system uses the Nvidia 590 chipset - It has 4GB memory and Two GTX 8800 7xx MB graphics cards even with PAE enabled it only finds 2,5GB - However I am

Re: Server vendors

2007-02-07 Thread Henrik Lidström
Devin Heckman skrev: Hi, The organization I work for is looking to purchase hardware that will serve as a backup server running FreeBSD. We have purchased from IBM for many years, but we are looking at branching out and purchasing from a vendor which explicitly supports FreeBSD. I have been

Re: Low-cost dedicated FreeBSD server or non-jail VPS?

2007-02-07 Thread Kelly Jones
Thanks, Derek. I'm not looking to run this machine from home or to co-locate an existing box (though I suppose I could do that). As Jay mentions, I'm looking for something like: http://tektonic.net/unmanaged.html http://www.leeware.com/vps100.html http://rosehosting.com/virtserv.html (all bad

Re: Dual Core Or Dual CPU - What's the real difference in performance?

2007-02-07 Thread Garrett Cooper
Andrew Hammond wrote: On 2/7/07, Nicole Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have been building/using servers that were dual CPU AMD Opteron systems for some time. (usually 246 Opteron cpu's) Now of course the world is shifting to Dual Core. Using FreeBSD, what is really the

Re: iTunes - once again.

2007-02-07 Thread Garrett Cooper
Tom Marchand wrote: On Feb 5, 2007, at 3:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Call me silly, but it seems to me you ought to be lobbying Apple for Linux support. Get a decent Apple-made Linux player, and FreeBSD support via the linux emulator would *probably* work, no? I agree, getting Apple to

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-07 Thread Garrett Cooper
Noah wrote: Hi, I dont think this is an adequate solution. /tmp is filling up during the portmanager run. in other words - while I am running /tmp fills up. so it needs to be erased periodically while portmanager is running or else no other packages can be downloaded are there other

Re: Low-cost dedicated FreeBSD server or non-jail VPS?

2007-02-07 Thread John Pettitt
Kelly Jones wrote: I'm looking to rent a low-cost FreeBSD dedicated server or VPS with root access. For a VPS, I realize this is really psuedo-root access. I once rented a VPS on a FreeBSD box that was split into virtual boxes using jail, but wasn't happy with it. So, if it's not a dedicated

Re: compiling error - /usr : filesystem full

2007-02-07 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Don Munyak wrote: Hello, I was recompiling the kernel on my laptop when the process ended with errors. /usr : filesystem full I suspect that the HD is has too many files ?? can I simply remove/delete to ports from /usr/ports and try to recompile? btw...I have

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-07 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry McAllister writes: /tmp is filling from portmanager is placing .db information and build details during its run. what options to I have to alleviate the troubles this creates? Well, you could move /tmp to a bigger space. I think the best practice would be to a)

RE: Low-cost dedicated FreeBSD server or non-jail VPS?

2007-02-07 Thread Don O'Neil
Try CalPOP... www.calpop.com. They have dedicated P4 3 GHz servers for $125/month no contract with 10MBPS unmetered connectivity with your choice of OS. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Jones Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 6:53 PM

Re: Low-cost dedicated FreeBSD server or non-jail VPS?

2007-02-07 Thread Peter Clark
Is this up your alley? http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_vps.html Thanks, Derek. I'm not looking to run this machine from home or to co-locate an existing box (though I suppose I could do that). As Jay mentions, I'm looking for something like: http://tektonic.net/unmanaged.html

Re: Low-cost dedicated FreeBSD server or non-jail VPS?

2007-02-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:10, Peter Clark wrote: Is this up your alley? http://www.johncompanies.com/jc_vps.html I use this service and highly recommend it, but it definitely falls under the jail category. They've modified the stock FreeBSD jails pretty heavily and most of the time

Re: Dual Core Or Dual CPU - What's the real difference in performance?

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Vince
Nicole Harrington wrote: Hello all, I have been building/using servers that were dual CPU AMD Opteron systems for some time. (usually 246 Opteron cpu's) Now of course the world is shifting to Dual Core. Using FreeBSD, what is really the difference, besides power and ability to shove in

Re: compiling error - /usr : filesystem full

2007-02-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 07/02/07, Don Munyak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was recompiling the kernel on my laptop when the process ended with errors. /usr : filesystem full I suspect that the HD is has too many files ?? can I simply remove/delete to ports from /usr/ports and try to recompile? btw...I have

Re: /tmp getting full form portmanager

2007-02-07 Thread Noah
From rc.conf(5): clear_tmp_enable (bool) Set to ``YES'' to have /tmp cleaned at startup. Why not setup a parallel (background) task with a wrapper script to delete some files when upgrading ports? Either that or find a (more) free partition and symlink /var/tmp to

Re: toggle between english and french (how?)

2007-02-07 Thread Peter
Le Mercredi 7 Février 2007 16:03, Giorgos Keramidas a écrit : On 2007-02-07 13:02, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Mercredi 7 F?vrier 2007 12:48, Giorgos Keramidas a ?crit : Have a look at the keymaps for French in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps': $ ( cd /usr/share/syscons/keymaps;

portupgrading koffice troubles

2007-02-07 Thread Beni
Hi, When trying to portupgrade koffice, I'm getting the following error message : Making all in pqxx gmake[5]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/editors/koffice-kde3/work/koffice-1.6.1/kexi/kexidb/drivers/pqxx' /usr/X11R6/bin/moc ./pqxxdriver.h -o pqxxdriver.moc if /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/libtool

Re: Dual Core Or Dual CPU - What's the real difference in performance?

2007-02-07 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Nicole Harrington wrote: Using FreeBSD, what is really the difference, besides power and ability to shove in more memory, between having the two seperate CPUS's? Dual core or Quad Core CPUs performance are far better compared to

Quick project, need help, happy to pay...

2007-02-07 Thread gregb
All, Sorry if this is the wrong list, but this is the most basic of questions: Can someone help me get a software package up and running? The package: http://www.openemm.org/wiki/OpenEMM_Wiki_Home (these are the installation instructions for Linux systems - I know others have gotten the package