Re: Best way to back up mysql database
Hello, Yes you're right but what I meant was something like this ;)) http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/08/21/using-lvm-for-mysql-backup-and-replication-setup/ It's simple, safe and faster than mysqldump. On 3 GB database it takes only 3-5 seconds. Best regards, Sebastian Tymkow ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gmirror + gjournal setup question
Gabriel Lavoie wrote: Hello, I would like to know what is the best way to setup gmirror + gjournal, on a slice level on two hard drives. Do I set up a mirrored journal partition + mirrored journalized slice (gmirror on top of gjournal) on which I create my labels with bsdlabels (will create /dev/mirror/name.journal, /dev/mirror/name.journala, /dev/mirror/name.journalb). Or I setup a journalized slice on both hard drive and then I mirror /dev/ad0s1.journal and /dev/ad1s1.journal (gjournal on top of gmirror)? I have hard time to figure out what would be the best, if I want to avoid mirror rebuild on power failure and I want fast fsck. I'd also like to make this setup on my 1st slice (which contains the root filesystem). man gjournal: ... When gjournal is configured on top of gmirror(8) or graid3(8) providers, it also keeps them in a consistent state, thus automatic synchronization on power failure or system crash may be disabled on those providers. ... I think journaling a mirrored partition can be much better. -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
documentation for sysctl MIB
Hello maillist, I have to small question - Where i can get documentation for description some base sysctl variables? - And, what the diffrence between sysctl hw.machine hw.machine_arch ? For example, i extract i386 installation, but my hardware is EM64T and supporting AMD64 distribution correctly. Both variable get i386 value. One of them must be amd64? Thanks for your time ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: documentation for sysctl MIB
Ole wrote: Hello maillist, I have to small question - Where i can get documentation for description some base sysctl variables? - And, what the diffrence between sysctl hw.machine hw.machine_arch ? try sysctl -d $oid for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (10:23:56 ~) 0 $ sysctl -d hw.machine hw.machine_arch hw.machine: Machine class hw.machine_arch: System architecture [EMAIL PROTECTED] (10:24:12 ~) 0 $ sysctl hw.machine hw.machine_arch hw.machine: amd64 hw.machine_arch: amd64 For example, i extract i386 installation, but my hardware is EM64T and supporting AMD64 distribution correctly. Both variable get i386 value. One of them must be amd64? Thanks for your time ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation from floppies - has anyone tried lately?
In the vein of getting a way to install FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 onto my SATA IDE drive (otherwise still running 5.2.1. from IDE drives) I found in the seek of other methods to bootstrap myself, that the boot floppy hangs after asking for kern1 floppy. Could that be just bad media or could it have another cause. In other words: Has anyone tried to boot from a 7.1-BETA2 floppy set recently? Other suggestion of how to bootstrap me from 5.2.1 to 7.1 are welcome: Doing a cvs-sup ? (Is there still this method of updating FreeBSD? - I've been a while off from the front) Making my SATA drive (/dev/ar0) bootable and putting the contents of the distribution into it? -- Christoph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kismet on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE
On 11/6/08, Ludovit Koren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using iwi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG mem 0xfafef000-0xfafe irq 9 at device 3.0 on pci2 # kldload /boot/kernel/if_iwi.ko # kldload /boot/kernel/iwi_bss.ko # kldload /boot/kernel/iwi_ibss.ko # kldload /boot/kernel/iwi_monitor.ko # /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant start iwi0 which is working fine when I am using it connecting to WiFi net. When I am using wpa_cli scan and scan_results I can see different nets. I have the following configuration line in the kismet.conf file: source=radiotap_bsd_ab,iwi0,pcapfile It should be: source=radiotap_bsd_ab,iwi0,iwi0 More information is required. Can you put iwi0 into monitor mode and use tcpdump instead? ifconfig iwi0 monitor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Geom multipath
Hi, I am trying to get multipath running in freebsd version 7. Are there any configuration files that i can tweak with geom multipath?. The paths are active/passive to the storage array and i dont seem to have control of what path the IO takes, so i was wondering if there are any tweaks thati could do to control the flow of IO to a specific path. Also, the IO doesnt resume when i try to do some cable pulls and plug them back. thanks! Gak ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kismet on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE
Ludovit wrote: iwi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG mem 0xfafef000-0xfafe irq 9 at device 3.0 on pci2 Monitor is broken on iwi on FreeBSD 7. I did report it during the 7.0-BETA, but there was at least one more report in the meantime. With exactly the same setup, I can use kismet with ural (ok), zyd (many broken packages), ral (ok), and ath (good, but see below). I do not receive a single package with iwi. I did replace my iwi miniPCI device by an ath one, which is more reliable anyhow. (iwi, as all Intel cards, occasionally dies and cannot reload firmware because of too little dma memory. That was reported a few times, too.) ath can monitor, even for longer periods of time, but if I do channel hopping in kismet, it often eventually stops receiving packages after a few minutes. Restarting kismet always fixes that. (I have had that with different ath cards.) iwi monitoring did work on 6.2, but often the card would not do regular networking after that until reboot and the problem with the firmware mentioned above was already present, although it was much better than on 6.1. For monitoring, you should either get a different card or try 6.X, 6-STABLE, or maybe 8-CURRENT. (I have no experience with the latter.) Cheers, Jan Henrik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up gmirror
As I asked in another thread, what is the problem with the load algorith? Thanks 2008/11/6 Volodymyr Kostyrko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carl wrote: What are the considerations in choosing between load, prefer, round-robin, and split balance algorithms? load is currently not good at high loads, pr's pending... -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gabriel Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gmirror + gjournal setup question
Thanks for your reply. I finally understood that with the power failure tests I made. Gabriel 2008/11/6 Volodymyr Kostyrko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gabriel Lavoie wrote: Hello, I would like to know what is the best way to setup gmirror + gjournal, on a slice level on two hard drives. Do I set up a mirrored journal partition + mirrored journalized slice (gmirror on top of gjournal) on which I create my labels with bsdlabels (will create /dev/mirror/name.journal, /dev/mirror/name.journala, /dev/mirror/name.journalb). Or I setup a journalized slice on both hard drive and then I mirror /dev/ad0s1.journal and /dev/ad1s1.journal (gjournal on top of gmirror)? I have hard time to figure out what would be the best, if I want to avoid mirror rebuild on power failure and I want fast fsck. I'd also like to make this setup on my 1st slice (which contains the root filesystem). man gjournal: ... When gjournal is configured on top of gmirror(8) or graid3(8) providers, it also keeps them in a consistent state, thus automatic synchronization on power failure or system crash may be disabled on those providers. ... I think journaling a mirrored partition can be much better. -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gabriel Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up gmirror
Gabriel Lavoie wroted: As I asked in another thread, what is the problem with the load algorith? I've already pointed you in the other tread to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=113885 :) -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up gmirror
Carl wrote: What are the considerations in choosing between load, prefer, round-robin, and split balance algorithms? load is currently not good at high loads, pr's pending... -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kismet on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE
Hi, I am using iwi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG mem 0xfafef000-0xfafe irq 9 at device 3.0 on pci2 # kldload /boot/kernel/if_iwi.ko # kldload /boot/kernel/iwi_bss.ko # kldload /boot/kernel/iwi_ibss.ko # kldload /boot/kernel/iwi_monitor.ko # /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant start iwi0 which is working fine when I am using it connecting to WiFi net. When I am using wpa_cli scan and scan_results I can see different nets. I have the following configuration line in the kismet.conf file: source=radiotap_bsd_ab,iwi0,pcapfile I am using kismet_server and kismet_client commands but I cannot see any received data (networks, packets, ...) I tried source=radiotap_bsd_ab,iwi0,ipw2200 as well with no success. Anyone was able to succeed with kismet? Is the Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG working with kismet at all? Any hints greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. Regards, lk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
raid tool ZFS RAID-Z2 (RAID6)
raidz is available for Freebsd through the file system format ZFS and is similar to RAID-5. Is that in FreeBSD 7.0 Production release? But there is also RAID-Z2 which uses two forms of parity to achieve results similar to RAID6: the ability to sustain up to two drive failures without losing data.. Does Freebsd 7.0 production release also support raid-z2? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assmbler Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov'
Hi, I am building FreeBSD kernel with gcc 4.1.1. I can see the foloowing assembler error: My assemler version is GNU assembler 2.17 ../../../../../src/bsd/sys/i386/i386/locore.s: Assembler messages: ../../../../../src/bsd/sys/i386/i386/locore.s:362: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov' ../../../../../src/bsd/sys/i386/i386/locore.s:379: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov' ../../../../../src/bsd/sys/i386/i386/locore.s:397: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov' *** Error code 1 (continuing) The code in lcore.s is : movlUC_GS(%eax),%gs /* restore %gs */ movlUC4_GS(%eax),%gs/* restore %gs */ movlSC_GS(%eax),%gs /* restore %gs */ What is the patch for this problem? what should I use mov/movw? The same errors for bsd/sys/i386/i386/swtch.s movl%gs,PCB_GS(%edx) movlPCB_GS(%edx),%gs movl%gs,PCB_GS(%ecx) bsd/sys/i386/include/cpufunc.h __asm __volatile(movl %%gs,%0 : =rm (sel)); __asm __volatile(mov %0,%%fs : : rm (sel)); __asm __volatile(movl %0,%%gs : : rm (sel)); Thanks Chandra -- debugging a buggy debugger with a cross buggy debugger leads to a buggy life ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hit some FS/slice size limit?
I partitioned my Seagate 500 GB Sata drive under the FreeBSD 7.1 sysinstall (booted from the install CD while having the drive attached to USB on my notebook). When creating the filesystems I chose 472 G for the / partition (wanted to put everything into one partition - yeah, I know, one should granulate this finer, but I didn' t want to bother right now). I got told that it could not create the slice (too big? it said). Hmm, is there some limit on a FreeBSD slice size? -- Christoph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hit some FS/slice size limit?
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 03:34:55PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: I partitioned my Seagate 500 GB Sata drive under the FreeBSD 7.1 sysinstall (booted from the install CD while having the drive attached to USB on my notebook). When creating the filesystems I chose 472 G for the / partition (wanted to put everything into one partition - yeah, I know, one should granulate this finer, but I didn' t want to bother right now). I got told that it could not create the slice (too big? it said). Hmm, is there some limit on a FreeBSD slice size? There is a limit on FreeBSD slice size, but it is larger than that. No, I suspect you just got caught out by different definitions of 'GB' Segate (like all other harddisk manufacturers) uses the SI-prefixes correctly and has 'G' mean one billion (1000,000,000). So your disk is 500,000,000,000 bytes large (actually slightly more than that.) This is about equal to 465*1024*1024*1024 or 465 of what FreeBSD (and many other OSs) calls a 'GB'. I.e. the 472 GB slice you tried to create is larger than the disk is. ( See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix for much information about the different meanings of 'GB' and resulting confusion. ) -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless Nic rtl8187se
Wilson Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi people, i recently bought a MSI Wind U100x and couldnt configure my wireless nic because it was not identified, how can i identify my wireless nic? Was it probed on boot at all? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup: local
fire jotawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have my small box, 10.3.1.25 ip, that cvsup-ed files from repository into it. it use cvs-supfile in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ to collect files. now that i want my other machine to cvsup 6.2-release source files from the one mentioned above. my trial was cvsupd -b /var/db -c sup for box, 10.3.1.25 ip, and for other machine cvsup -g -L 2 -h 10.3.1.25 sup-file what i got was 'Server message: Unknown collection src-all ' message. and later on Running Skipping collection src-all/cvs Skipping collection doc-all/cvs Shutting down connection to server Finished successfully very strange indeed. any helps and hints in setting cvsup server would highly be appreciated. To run cvsupd, you need the whole cvs tree for the collections you're handling, not just the checked-out files. Assuming these machines are attached by a protected network, a better approach (easier, anyway) would probably be to cvsup the changes to just one machine, then NFS-mount that machine's ports tree from the other machine. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CVSup update nagios-3.0.4_1
Gian Paolo Buono [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: from web ports I have see ( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=nagios-3stype=allsektion=all) that is relased the version nagios-3.0.4_1 of nagios but I have on my system the version nagios-3.0.3. Now if i try to update nagios from cvsup I run the follow comands: cd /usr/ports/ ; make update ; make fetchindex When the upgrade is finished, i run: portversion -l '' -v | grep nagios but nagios-3.0.4_1 is not present. This is my /etc/make.conf file: #make.conf# CPUTYPE=i686 CFLAGS= -O -pipe INSTALL=install -C SUP_UPDATE= yes SUP=/usr/local/bin/cvsup SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2 SUPHOST=cvsup18.FreeBSD.org SUPFILE=/usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile DOCSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile WRKDIRPREFIX= /var/tmp WITHOUT_GNOME= true WANT_OPENSSL_MANPAGES= true MAKE_IDEA= YES WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS= yes PERL_ARCH= mach NOPERL= yo NO_PERL=yo NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo #make.conf# cvsup18.FreeBSD.org has not yet updated ? Have you an idea ? cvsup18 has the latest. You're obviously having trouble with the index file, because that (or a database derived therefrom) is what portversion is looking at to determine what's out of date. Check the ports-mgmt/nagios/Makefile to be sure it is in fact showing the new version. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Geom multipath
On Thursday 06 November 2008 07:13:36 am Ganesh kamath wrote: I am trying to get multipath running in freebsd version 7. Are there any configuration files that i can tweak with geom multipath?. The paths are active/passive to the storage array and i dont seem to have control of what path the IO takes, so i was wondering if there are any tweaks thati could do to control the flow of IO to a specific path. Read the manpage. Thoroughly. gmultipath(8). :) There is only one active path to any device, and it is the first in the list of devices. You specify the device list when you create the provider and it is updated if errors occur and when gmultipath labeled devices reappear. I would guess/hope that the order would be preserved across a reboot but I'm not sure. That type of question might be suitable for the freebsd-geom@ mailing list. Also, the IO doesnt resume when i try to do some cable pulls and plug them back. If you're not using an mpt or isp disk controller then you have to initiate a rescan manually for the device to reappear. See camcontrol and/or atacontrol. When the device _does_ reappear it will be inserted at the end of the list, so I/O will continue across the alternate path which is still first in the list. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: CVSup update nagios-3.0.4_1
from web ports I have see ( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=nagios-3stype=allsektion=all) that is relased the version nagios-3.0.4_1 of nagios but I have on my system the version nagios-3.0.3. Now if i try to update nagios from cvsup I run the follow comands: cd /usr/ports/ ; make update ; make fetchindex When the upgrade is finished, i run: portversion -l '' -v | grep nagios but nagios-3.0.4_1 is not present. This is my /etc/make.conf file: #make.conf# CPUTYPE=i686 CFLAGS= -O -pipe INSTALL=install -C SUP_UPDATE= yes SUP=/usr/local/bin/cvsup SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2 SUPHOST=cvsup18.FreeBSD.org SUPFILE=/usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile DOCSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile WRKDIRPREFIX= /var/tmp WITHOUT_GNOME= true WANT_OPENSSL_MANPAGES= true MAKE_IDEA= YES WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS= yes PERL_ARCH= mach NOPERL= yo NO_PERL=yo NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo #make.conf# cvsup18.FreeBSD.org has not yet updated ? Have you an idea ? cvsup18 has the latest. You're obviously having trouble with the index file, because that (or a database derived therefrom) is what portversion is looking at to determine what's out of date. Check the ports-mgmt/nagios/Makefile to be sure it is in fact showing the new version. I had the same thing, the makefile has the latest, butpkg_version did not detect the new nagios. What I did was going to /usr/port/net-mgmt/nagios And did a: make FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes install clean It installed nagios 3.0.4 Regards, Johan Hendriks No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.0/1771 - Release Date: 6-11-2008 7:58 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kismet on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE
On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:12:23 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED](Paul B. Mahol) said: On 11/6/08, Ludovit Koren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using iwi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG mem 0xfafef000-0xfafe irq 9 at device 3.0 on pci2 # kldload /boot/kernel/if_iwi.ko # kldload /boot/kernel/iwi_bss.ko # kldload /boot/kernel/iwi_ibss.ko # kldload /boot/kernel/iwi_monitor.ko # /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant start iwi0 which is working fine when I am using it connecting to WiFi net. When I am using wpa_cli scan and scan_results I can see different nets. I have the following configuration line in the kismet.conf file: source=radiotap_bsd_ab,iwi0,pcapfile It should be: source=radiotap_bsd_ab,iwi0,iwi0 I tried it even with this, no success More information is required. Can you put iwi0 into monitor mode and use tcpdump instead? ifconfig iwi0 monitor I cannot capture any packet. lk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CVSup update nagios-3.0.4_1
On Thursday 06 November 2008 16:20:13 Johan Hendriks wrote: cd /usr/ports/ ; make update ; make fetchindex When the upgrade is finished, i run: portversion -l '' -v | grep nagios but nagios-3.0.4_1 is not present. [cut make.conf] cvsup18 has the latest. You're obviously having trouble with the index file, because that (or a database derived therefrom) is what portversion is looking at to determine what's out of date. Check the ports-mgmt/nagios/Makefile to be sure it is in fact showing the new version. I had the same thing, the makefile has the latest, butpkg_version did not detect the new nagios. What I did was going to /usr/port/net-mgmt/nagios And did a: make FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes install clean It installed nagios 3.0.4 Lowell is correct. You need to run `portsdb -uU' after any modification of the ports tree for the portupgrade tools to see new versions. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kismet on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE
On 11/6/08, Ludovit Koren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:12:23 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED](Paul B. Mahol) said: On 11/6/08, Ludovit Koren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using iwi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG mem 0xfafef000-0xfafe irq 9 at device 3.0 on pci2 # kldload /boot/kernel/if_iwi.ko # kldload /boot/kernel/iwi_bss.ko # kldload /boot/kernel/iwi_ibss.ko # kldload /boot/kernel/iwi_monitor.ko # /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant start iwi0 which is working fine when I am using it connecting to WiFi net. When I am using wpa_cli scan and scan_results I can see different nets. I have the following configuration line in the kismet.conf file: source=radiotap_bsd_ab,iwi0,pcapfile It should be: source=radiotap_bsd_ab,iwi0,iwi0 I tried it even with this, no success More information is required. Can you put iwi0 into monitor mode and use tcpdump instead? ifconfig iwi0 monitor I cannot capture any packet. Then it is iwi driver problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk
Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, To FreeBSD it will look like e.g. a single large drive. If you want to extend your disk space by plugging in an extra disk, the hardware RAID controller will probably detect it and add it in his management, but will it be seen by FreeBSD? How can you make the added disk-space available for FreeBSD. Can this be done without shutting down the system? How?? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what is your programming language on freebsd?
Hi there, Earlier I was asking for some help getting XSP/ mod_mono on FreeBSD. I may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea. To pose my questions to the developers in the FreeBSD community: 1. What programming language(s) do you deploy on FreeBSD? 2. Is FreeBSD more optimised in performance for any particular language? 3. Is FreeBSD even a popular choice as a development platform, or is it better suited as a special-purpose OS (eg. mail server, DNS server)? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 12:10:41AM +0800, Foo JH wrote: Hi there, Earlier I was asking for some help getting XSP/ mod_mono on FreeBSD. I may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea. To pose my questions to the developers in the FreeBSD community: 1. What programming language(s) do you deploy on FreeBSD? 2. Is FreeBSD more optimised in performance for any particular language? 3. Is FreeBSD even a popular choice as a development platform, or is it better suited as a special-purpose OS (eg. mail server, DNS server)? FreeBSD suppports just about any programming language that has been created. If you go to /usr/ports/lang/ you will see a large list of them that you can install. As for the most common, well, C and C++, Shells such as SH, CSH/TCSH and Perl are very common, plus in conjunction with web servers such as Apache, PHP, Python, Ruby and a number of others are common. If you are doing number crunching, you can use FORTRAN and if you are in to historical business environments, there is even Cobol. As for being optimized for a language, it is more likely the other way around. Are there any languages that have good optimization for running on FreeBSD. Maybe. Someone else may know more about that, than I do. jerry Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ideal SCSI adapter for me?
I have a FreeBSD 7/amd64 system with a newly incompatible SCSI adapter (see kern/128452 for details). I want to switch to a card that's still supported but don't want to spend an arm and a leg since its whole purpose in live will be to connect my UW-SCSI tape drive. Any recommendations for cheap, minimal cards that are known to work well with recent FreeBSD releases? -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ideal SCSI adapter for me?
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:36:26 -0600, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a FreeBSD 7/amd64 system with a newly incompatible SCSI adapter (see kern/128452 for details). I want to switch to a card that's still supported but don't want to spend an arm and a leg since its whole purpose in live will be to connect my UW-SCSI tape drive. Any recommendations for cheap, minimal cards that are known to work well with recent FreeBSD releases? I had used an Adaptec 2940 U/W PCI SCSI controller to connect a tape drive, no problems; the ahc driver (from vers. 4 up to 7) worked well. It would even run a scanner, a JAZ drive, a CD-ROM drive and a PD drive (if anyone still knows what this is), as well as different hard disks. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 12:10:41AM +0800, Foo JH wrote: Hi there, Earlier I was asking for some help getting XSP/ mod_mono on FreeBSD. I may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea. As a re-implementation of microsofts .NET, I personally wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. Although some parts are an ECMA standard, as a developer you can never be sure that microsoft won't hit you with a patent lawsuit if they perceive you as treading on their turf. Experience has taught the microsoft cannot be trusted. To pose my questions to the developers in the FreeBSD community: 1. What programming language(s) do you deploy on FreeBSD? See all the ports in /usr/ports/lang. For systems programming or if speed is of the essence, I use C. For scripting the standard Bourne Shell (sh) is still OK. For massaging large quantities of text, Perl still works very well, and there is a huge number of modules (libraries) available. Lua is becoming a new personal favorite of mine for scripts. It is fast, small and easy. 2. Is FreeBSD more optimised in performance for any particular language? No. Performance of scripting languages is usually not a big problem anymore because of the increased speed of new computers. And it depends more on the interpreter of the language in question than on the host OS. Of course compiled languages can run faster than interpreted ones. 3. Is FreeBSD even a popular choice as a development platform, or is it better suited as a special-purpose OS (eg. mail server, DNS server)? There is no big difference between FreeBSD and Linux here. Pretty much everything that runs on Linux runs on FreeBSD as well. Both are a pretty popular development platforms, e.g. for web apps. Think PHP, Ruby on Rails etc. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgprbAQt8RSg9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning
I've installed en-openoffice.org-GB-3.0.0 from ports on my 6.4-RC1 system. The install, using the command portinstall -m LOCALIZED_LANG=en-GB -DWITH_KDE editors/openoffice.org-3, appeared to complete OK and I can run /usr/local/bin/openoffice.org-3.0.0-swriter but attempts to check spelling in a document with known spelling errors always fail to find any errors. The Available language modules section in Tools - Options - Language Settings - Writing Aids is empty, unlike my copy of Openoffice 2.3 which has 3 entries in this section. Should the language modules have been installed or have I missed anything when installing the port? -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Foo JH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Foo JH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: what is your programming language on freebsd? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 11:10 AM Hi there, Earlier I was asking for some help getting XSP/ mod_mono on FreeBSD. I may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea. I am not sure what leads you to believe that. Mono in general isn't as popular as, say, GNU's compiler collection. That said, it runs just fine on FreeBSD. There are motivated folks working to get more ports added, such as for monodevelop. There's a google group for this, though, it's called bsd-sharp. You may want to try there if you have problems related to Mono on FreeBSD and there aren't any helpful answers forthcoming on the seemingly-appropriate freebsd.org list. To pose my questions to the developers in the FreeBSD community: 1. What programming language(s) do you deploy on FreeBSD? I've worked with C, Perl, C# (mono), and Ruby. There are very few programming languages that you can't use to write code that is intended to run on FreeBSD. Most of these are anachronistic languages that no longer serve a useful purpose on any reasonably modern system, having been defunct for 20 or more years. 2. Is FreeBSD more optimised in performance for any particular language? No more than any other OS. Some languages may be better optimized than others, but you can't really optimize an OS to a language. 3. Is FreeBSD even a popular choice as a development platform, or is it better suited as a special-purpose OS (eg. mail server, DNS server)? FreeBSD is a fine development platform. In fact, it offers some things that developers like that other systems don't have. kqueue is very nice, and there are also little things such as the reallocf() function that are helpful as well. - mdh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ideal SCSI adapter for me?
I have a FreeBSD 7/amd64 system with a newly incompatible SCSI adapter (see kern/128452 for details). I want to switch to a card that's still supported but don't want to spend an arm and a leg since its whole purpose in live will be to connect my UW-SCSI tape drive. Any recommendations for cheap, minimal cards that are known to work well with recent FreeBSD releases? any used adaptec or symbios logic will work for sure. in Poland UW-SCSI adapters are for 20$ used :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk
Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, what is RAID5 of RAID6??? To FreeBSD it will look like e.g. a single large drive. If you want to extend your disk space by plugging in an extra disk, the hardware RAID controller will probably detect it and add it in his management, but will it be seen by FreeBSD? FreeBSD will see larger drive. you then have to fix partition table (use bsdlabel -e) fix c partition to be actually sized of whole drive, and then a) add new partition(s) for new space b) extend the size of last partition and use growfs How can you make the added disk-space available for FreeBSD. Can this be done without shutting down the system? How?? i don't think FreeBSD can be told to reget device info from controller when partitions of that device are mounted. but i may be wrong ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?
may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea. To pose my questions to the developers in the FreeBSD community: 1. What programming language(s) do you deploy on FreeBSD? whatever i need. i personally use mostly C. 2. Is FreeBSD more optimised in performance for any particular language? i don't think so. 3. Is FreeBSD even a popular choice as a development platform, or is it better suited as a special-purpose OS (eg. mail server, DNS server)? i don't know how popular it is for what tasks. but it works excellent for all you specified. it's unix anyway. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?
on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea. As a re-implementation of microsofts .NET, I personally wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. Although some parts are an ECMA standard, as a developer you can never be sure that microsoft won't hit you with a patent lawsuit if they perceive you as treading on their turf. Experience has taught the microsoft cannot be trusted. as all portable things microsoft created will actually work completely only in windows. anyway - i don't see any sense in using it if you are not forced to use windows. if you are - it would be better to use windows for that. 2. Is FreeBSD more optimised in performance for any particular language? No. Performance of scripting languages is usually not a big problem anymore because of the increased speed of new computers. And it depends scripting language are not made to be fast running, but to mix many other programs to get result fast and easy. more on the interpreter of the language in question than on the host OS. Of course compiled languages can run faster than interpreted ones. as on every OS. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hit some FS/slice size limit?
I partitioned my Seagate 500 GB Sata drive under the FreeBSD 7.1 sysinstall (booted from the install CD while having the drive attached to USB on my notebook). When creating the filesystems I chose 472 G for the / partition (wanted to put everything into one partition - yeah, I know, one should no - it's actually the best choice - one partition+swap, or no swap on modern machines with many GB RAM. granulate this finer, but I didn' t want to bother right now). I got told that it could not create the slice (too big? it said). Hmm, is there some limit on a FreeBSD slice size? no idea. i don't use slices because my FreeBSD drives doesn't need to interoperate with DOS/Windoze. i never use sysinstall too :), simply use disklabel without making slices, make partitions and go on. my largest drive (gstripe) was 3TB, works fine with bsdlabel and UFS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up gmirror
What are the considerations in choosing between load, prefer, round-robin, and split balance algorithms? load is currently not good at high loads, pr's pending... so change it to round-robin? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk
On Thursday 06 November 2008 22:01:39 Wojciech Puchar wrote: Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, what is RAID5 of RAID6??? 'of' is 'or' in dutch, common typo for dutch or flemish people. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hit some FS/slice size limit?
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:09:25PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I partitioned my Seagate 500 GB Sata drive under the FreeBSD 7.1 sysinstall (booted from the install CD while having the drive attached to USB on my notebook). When creating the filesystems I chose 472 G for the / partition (wanted to put everything into one partition - yeah, I know, one should no - it's actually the best choice - one partition+swap, or no swap on modern machines with many GB RAM. Remember, best depends on cirsumstance and need. It is definitely not best for all. But, it works well for some. It is usually good to separate OS from services and data, but not always. It is also often helpful to divide things in to manageable sized chunks, but that is not always meaningful. jerry granulate this finer, but I didn' t want to bother right now). I got told that it could not create the slice (too big? it said). Hmm, is there some limit on a FreeBSD slice size? no idea. i don't use slices because my FreeBSD drives doesn't need to interoperate with DOS/Windoze. i never use sysinstall too :), simply use disklabel without making slices, make partitions and go on. my largest drive (gstripe) was 3TB, works fine with bsdlabel and UFS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
flexible install.cfg url from kernel parameters
Hi all, in an effort to create a jumpstart/kickstart-like environment for easy OS deployment i, ofcourse, ran into install.cfg for FreeBSD. It works great, but since it requires a modified image (with an inserted install.cfg file) it's not a great option. It even needs a BSD box or CentOS with plus kernel to access the ufs filesystem inside the image... Is there any effort beeing done to allow for a more convenient way to load the install.cfg? Say, like linux does with kickstart/preseed files? Just fill in some weblocation as kernel parameter and you're done :) I would suspect this beeing coded in sysinstall somewhere, or perhaps init? Any suggestions/help is appreciated. Regards Harm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:06:15PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: 2. Is FreeBSD more optimised in performance for any particular language? No. Performance of scripting languages is usually not a big problem anymore because of the increased speed of new computers. And it depends scripting language are not made to be fast running, but to mix many other programs to get result fast and easy. Most scripting languages can be used in hybrid environments, and will be pretty fast if they call compiled functions for CPU-intensive tasks. As an example: in Python, you can call compiled functions in dynamic libraries directly with the ctypes module; no need to recompile anything directly. Alternatively or in addition to this, just write your own extension module in C/Python either manually, or with code generators like SWIG to optimize CPU bottlenecks or call into / link against other compiled code. Hybrid systems are usually very fast to set up, yet don't significantly sacrifice speed. Ever used numpy, scipy etc. with optimized C and FORTRAN libraries (ATLAS, FFTW3 etc.) in Python for big numeric computations? Works like a charm and is pretty fast too. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: console locked again:: load over 2.00
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:53:20PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:45:10AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Hey guys, Any ideas *why* my load is so high when my desktop wasn't touched for 9, 10 hours? I was running mostly KDE3 konsoles, and had a few other processes going, the apps iconisized. The server is still running; I've killed everything I can think of to reduce the load. It may be that the screen won't come back if the load is 1.00. I'm upgrading my kernel to see if *that* has any effect. O/wise, I'm out of ideas. Try leaving 'top -SI' running in a console window. That should tell you what the culprit is. Looks like gnome-xscreensaver went nutso after several hours. This morning I found my FreeBSD screen about a third full of green and yellow fuzz or blur. This time, I KVM'd over to ubuntu and did a shutdown and reboot at once; then killed the screen saver after getting back into KDE3. I was just listening to KMplayer and watching sites with required kde-gnash. When I Closed[*] the sites and killed the newscast, my load was still 1.50 so I did a killall of the kde-gnash. Needs to be some way of controlling the number of kde-gnashes that are spawned. After the killall, xload shows my load back down to practically nothing. --Still having trouble with *firefox* + flash, but that's another rat's nest. gary [*] iconizied Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kopete + MSN
Im using FreeBSD7.1-PreRelease KDE 4.1.3, with Kopete 0.60.3 Wondering when the MSN protocol is going to work again along with yahoo? Im presently having to run 2 seperate ports to connect to both of these when Kopete generally is meant to do both. Any ideas//suggestions welcome. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(no subject)
Greetings, O Learned Ones from: Sam Haynes, Pathfinders 2008 I haven't the foggiest as to how you came to be in my favorites list, other than that I probably tagged you in an ongoing search for both or either something to replace Win XP and or build my own personal server. I have been usining XP for several years now. Recently, I tried to install XP from my OEM cd and was notified by Gates and Company that XP would no longer be supported. Bummer! So what else is new? Time to part company with Bill? Vista was tha final straw. I need something that will replace XP in all the essentials but without a useless bag full of coverups for poor performance.. Debian was the first encouraging encounter. It was recommended as a cheap entry into the personal server concept, using a two to three year old PC chassis. Sounded good but I could never figure out just how to download it. So, FreeBSD appears in my fave list and server appears in the same paragraph as operating system. Here is my plan. I am 76, a retired Master Electrician, PC builder since '87, have a wife of 40 plus years, debilitating medical problems and a strong belief that I can milk a living out of internet affiliate marketing despite the current economic crisis. My current model is to generate a basic website, use my existing isp to promote two consistent converting products, bootstrap the proceeds from that into building my own dedicated server to market 'how-to' products over a hundred or more websites. All using ready to serve apps and a WYSIWYG HTML generator. I appreciate your time reading this over long monologue... I'd appreciate it even more if you could take some time to throw some suggestions back at me.. Thanks, Sam I Am, PATHFINDERS 2008 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (no subject)
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:45:07PM -0500, SAM HAYNES wrote: Greetings, O Learned Ones from: Sam Haynes, Pathfinders 2008 I haven't the foggiest as to how you came to be in my favorites list, other than that I probably tagged you in an ongoing search for both or either something to replace Win XP and or build my own personal server. I have been usining XP for several years now. Recently, I tried to install XP from my OEM cd and was notified by Gates and Company that XP would no longer be supported. Bummer! So what else is new? Time to part company with Bill? Vista was tha final straw. I need something that will replace XP in all the essentials but without a useless bag full of coverups for poor performance.. Debian was the first encouraging encounter. It was recommended as a cheap entry into the personal server concept, using a two to three year old PC chassis. Sounded good but I could never figure out just how to download it. So, FreeBSD appears in my fave list and server appears in the same paragraph as operating system. Here is my plan. I am 76, a retired Master Electrician, PC builder since '87, have a wife of 40 plus years, debilitating medical problems and a strong belief that I can milk a living out of internet affiliate marketing despite the current economic crisis. My current model is to generate a basic website, use my existing isp to promote two consistent converting products, bootstrap the proceeds from that into building my own dedicated server to market 'how-to' products over a hundred or more websites. All using ready to serve apps and a WYSIWYG HTML generator. I appreciate your time reading this over long monologue... I'd appreciate it even more if you could take some time to throw some suggestions back at me.. Well, you have to judge if your product has legs for the market place. But, FreeBSD would be a very good platform to host your server if you choose to go ahead with doing this. FreeBSD is quite different from MS-Win stuff.I would advise finding some space on a machine and installing and using it for a bit to get past the initial learning curve - which can be quite steep for a person whose main background is in MS-Win. But, once you get the hang of it you will begin to see the advantages. FreeBSD expects you to actually manage it. It is not a handholding or keep-its-distance-from-the-user type of system like MS-Win or even MAC-OSen.You can get right down to the bits if you want or need. But, there are very good tools and documentation (once you get used to the stule) that will make it all work just fine. jerry Thanks, Sam I Am, PATHFINDERS 2008 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Firewire problem
I bought a PCI/Firewire card and cable, and used it to connect my Sony PV-GS80 camcorder, which uses MiniDV tapes and has a Firewire socket. I get the following messages in /var/log/messages, which suggest the Firewire card may be a bad one. # Turn camera on Nov 6 20:40:00 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: txd err= 0 No stat Nov 6 20:40:00 pcbsd kernel: firewire0: 2 nodes, maxhop = 1, cable IRM = 1 Nov 6 20:40:01 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: unrecoverable error Nov 6 20:40:01 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: BUS reset Nov 6 20:40:01 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: node_id=0x8800ffc0, gen=3, non CYCLEMASTER mode Nov 6 20:40:01 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: txd err= 0 No stat Nov 6 20:40:01 pcbsd kernel: firewire0: 2 nodes, maxhop = 1, cable IRM = 1 Nov 6 20:40:01 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: unrecoverable error # Try running kino Nov 6 20:40:56 pcbsd kernel: pid 8206 (kino), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 # Turn camera off Nov 6 20:46:21 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: too many cycle lost, no cycle master presents? Nov 6 20:46:21 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: BUS reset Nov 6 20:46:21 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=4, CYCLEMASTER mode Nov 6 20:46:21 pcbsd kernel: firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop = 0, cable IRM = 0 (me) Nov 6 20:46:21 pcbsd kernel: firewire0: bus manager 0 (me) Nov 6 20:46:21 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: unrecoverable error Nov 6 20:46:21 pcbsd kernel: fw_xfer_free FWXF_START Kino segfaults when I press the 'Capture' button. This is with PC-BSD 7.0 on a test machine. I have a similar lack of success on a Linux machine, with the same card. Should I buy a new card, or is there anything else worth trying first? -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
recommendation word processer for xfce
Looking for word processer that runs on xfce and can output document in ms/word format. Thanks for your help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
OpenOffice.org 3. There's a port. - mdh --- On Thu, 11/6/08, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: recommendation word processer for xfce To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 8:40 PM Looking for word processer that runs on xfce and can output document in ms/word format. Thanks for your help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: recommendation word processer for xfce
I looked at OpenOffice but there is no package of it since freebsd release 6 stable. It takes a very very long time to compile this port. -Original Message- From: mdh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 10:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: recommendation word processer for xfce OpenOffice.org 3. There's a port. - mdh --- On Thu, 11/6/08, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: recommendation word processer for xfce To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 8:40 PM Looking for word processer that runs on xfce and can output document in ms/word format. Thanks for your help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:01 PM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at OpenOffice but there is no package of it since freebsd release 6 stable. It takes a very very long time to compile this port. There is a package available. I installed it yesterday. Look at the ftp site. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Replace XP with FreeBSD (was Re: (no subject))
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, SAM HAYNES wrote: Greetings, O Learned Ones from: Sam Haynes, Pathfinders 2008 I haven't the foggiest as to how you came to be in my favorites list, other than that I probably tagged you in an ongoing search for both or either something to replace Win XP and or build my own personal server. I have been usining XP for several years now. Recently, I tried to install XP from my OEM cd and was notified by Gates and Company that XP would no longer be supported. Bummer! So what else is new? Time to part company with Bill? Vista was tha final straw. I need something that will replace XP in all the essentials but without a useless bag full of coverups for poor performance.. It depends on what you consider essential. I have been using FreeBSD as my daily desktop for maybe 10 years now. The only complaint I have is that Adobe steadfastly refuses to let us run a useable Flash player. Even that is Adobe's fault, not FreeBSD's. Debian was the first encouraging encounter. It was recommended as a cheap entry into the personal server concept, using a two to three year old PC chassis. Sounded good but I could never figure out just how to download it. If you should decide to give FreeBSD a shot, all you need is the disc1 image from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.1/ -Well, also of course, a suitable machine on which to install. FreeBSD is a *lot* less resource-hungry than Windows in my experience. 7.1 is in beta right this minute, but it seems that release is imminent. There should be an announcement on the website when the time comes. Anyway, the idea is to download the ISO file, burn it to a CD, and boot the CD. If you're in the learing/experimenting phase, I would strongly suggest not doing the experiment on your only computer. You'll probably appreciate having a working web browser, email, etc. during the process. If you're used to Windows, this will be quite different. I like that FreeBSD does what you tell it to, not what it thought you might have wanted. Of course, that's a double-edged sword. So, FreeBSD appears in my fave list and server appears in the same paragraph as operating system. Here is my plan. I am 76, a retired Master Electrician, PC builder since '87, have a wife of 40 plus years, debilitating medical problems and a strong belief that I can milk a living out of internet affiliate marketing despite the current economic crisis. Good. You have been building PCs -and- doing wiring a lot longer than I have been doing either. Nobody needs to tell you what an IRQ is, or why a loose neutral might be a problem. My current model is to generate a basic website, use my existing isp to promote two consistent converting products, bootstrap the proceeds from that into building my own dedicated server to market 'how-to' products over a hundred or more websites. I have no business sense, and can't comment on the model. But I can say that you'd be hard-pressed to find a better server platform than FreeBSD. HTH, and good luck with the plan. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at OpenOffice but there is no package of it since freebsd release 6 stable. It takes a very very long time to compile this port. Please don't top-post. OpenOffice packages are available via the FreeBSD FTP sites. -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: recommendation word processer for xfce To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 8:40 PM Looking for word processer that runs on xfce and can output document in ms/word format. On Thursday 06 November 2008, FBSD1 wrote: I looked at OpenOffice but there is no package of it since freebsd release 6 stable. It takes a very very long time to compile this port. Take a look at abiword. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: recommendation word processer for xfce
Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7 .1-release/Latest/openoffice.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) Where did you get the package from or what name did you use for the package? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Glen Barber Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 11:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re: recommendation word processer for xfce On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:01 PM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at OpenOffice but there is no package of it since freebsd release 6 stable. It takes a very very long time to compile this port. There is a package available. I installed it yesterday. Look at the ftp site. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:32 PM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7 .1-release/Latest/openoffice.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) Where did you get the package from or what name did you use for the package? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.4-release/All/openoffice.org-2.4.1_2.tbz -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: recommendation word processer for xfce
Top posting is how Microsoft outlook works. Nothing I can do about it. sorry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sahil Tandon Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 11:18 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommendation word processer for xfce FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at OpenOffice but there is no package of it since freebsd release 6 stable. It takes a very very long time to compile this port. Please don't top-post. OpenOffice packages are available via the FreeBSD FTP sites. -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:34 PM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top posting is how Microsoft outlook works. Nothing I can do about it. sorry You could disable include original message. Or use better software. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: recommendation word processer for xfce
On Thursday 06 November 2008, FBSD1 wrote: I looked at OpenOffice but there is no package of it since freebsd release 6 stable. It takes a very very long time to compile this port. Take a look at abiword. *** I installed abiword but it has bug on start up wanting to access some server. Gives popup window about error contacting some server. After clicking on OK button it works ok. But can't have error every time on startup ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:34 PM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top posting is how Microsoft outlook works. Nothing I can do about it. sorry You could disable include original message. Or use better software. Or just scroll down the to bottom of the message before typing anything. -- Matt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spell check - how to?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [cc to -questions as it might be a general question] I'm looking to do a full spell check/fix on the handbook. I found make spellcheck-txt which apparently removed certain items that would not go well through a spell checker - however I don't know how to actually run the spellcheck itself. I have aspell installed. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkTx0wACgkQtl8kq+nCzNHfcACeLHva5seuXKoCX8GT4JBTJfwx lTgAn2RjPnpyU1KkoR51O+hQ1MJLIYGD =ISoq -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk
On Thursday 06 November 2008 22:01:39 Wojciech Puchar wrote: Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, what is RAID5 of RAID6??? 'of' is 'or' in dutch, common typo for dutch or flemish people. For Americans also, due to f and r being adjacent on a US-English keyboard. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spell check - how to?
On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:42:52 -0500, Eitan Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[cc to -questions as it might be a general question]
Hi Eitan :-)
I'm looking to do a full spell check/fix on the handbook. I found
make spellcheck-txt which apparently removed certain items that
would not go well through a spell checker - however I don't know how
to actually run the spellcheck itself.
I have aspell installed.
You will probably have to tweak the ISPELLOPTS to use aspell. The
current spellcheck targets use a default ISPELLOPTS with a value of:
%%%
doc/el/share/mk/doc.project.mk:ISPELL?= ispell
doc/el/share/mk/doc.project.mk:ISPELLOPTS?= -l -p /usr/share/dict/freebsd
${ISPELLFLAGS}
%%%
The -l option is not supported by aspell, so the following spellcheck
run fails:
: % pwd
: /ws/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing
: % env ISPELL=aspell make FORMATS=txt spellcheck
: Spellcheck article.txt
: Error: You must specify a parameter for -l.
: *** Error code 1
:
But you can set ISPELL and ISPELLOPTS in the runtime environment to pass
aspell-compatible options:
: % env ISPELL=aspell ISPELLOPTS='list' make FORMATS=txt spellcheck
: Spellcheck article.txt
: jcamou
: IEEE
: ...
Unfortunately, the wordlist at `/usr/share/dict/freebsd' is not usable
with aspell right now, so if you try to use it you will get errors like:
: env ISPELL=aspell \
: ISPELLOPTS='-p /usr/share/dict/freebsd ${ISPELLFLAGS}' \
: ISPELLFLAGS='list' make FORMATS=txt spellcheck
: Spellcheck article.txt
: Error: The file /usr/share/dict/freebsd is not in the proper format.
: *** Error code 1
The main drawback of being unable to use the `freebsd' wordlist is that
you will get many false positives for words that are perfectly valid for
FreeBSD documentation but are not standard English words.
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Re: recommendation word processer for xfce
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:34 AM, FBSD1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top posting is how Microsoft outlook works. Nothing I can do about it. sorry Ditch Outlook and use Evolution or Thunderbird or KMail or hell anything ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
