Re: July snapshots

2009-07-15 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:31:44 -0500 Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know if any snapshots (iso files at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/) will created in July? I don't know, but you can always find daily snapshots at

Re: turning off the wireless network radio

2009-07-15 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/14/09, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:20:25PM +0200, Maciej Milewski wrote: Dnia wtorek 14 lipiec 2009 o 07:38:49 Chad Perrin napisal/(a): I'm having a real bitch of a time trying to figure out how to shut down the wireless adapter's radio. The driver

offer laptop accessory 17

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Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-15 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Hi all, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: I'm looking for a way to automaticaly lock my X session when I leave my desk. Probably just using 'xlockmore -mode blank' or such. But how to detect? Thanks all for the replies. To answer some questions: - I prefer automatic. I already have a key on my kb

What does one call name server registration?

2009-07-15 Thread Michael David Crawford
Hi, I'm having a problem making myself clear to my domain name registrar's tech support. I have set up djbdns on a couple of my own servers, and want them registered AS name servers with whoever handles such registration. Most registrars allow one to just enter their hostnames and IPs and

Re: What does one call name server registration?

2009-07-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi Mike, What I have are two pairs in the following format: 1.2.3.4 a.ns.example.com 5.6.7.8 b.ns.example.com I think that what you are looking for is what is called NS reccord for the domain ns.example.com Good luck, Olivier ___

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:32:01PM +0200, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a way to automaticaly lock my X session when I leave my desk. Probably just using 'xlockmore -mode blank' or such. But how to detect? Why does it have to be automatic? Something like

Re: What does one call name server registration?

2009-07-15 Thread Valentin Bud
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.comwrote: Hi, I'm having a problem making myself clear to my domain name registrar's tech support. I have set up djbdns on a couple of my own servers, and want them registered AS name servers with whoever handles such

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-15 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:45:02 +0100, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: I used to be a NeXTie, and the Screensaver.app there had a really nifty little feature. I'm surprised it's not been copied into other screensaver applications since, as it's pretty simple. They just

Re: July snapshots

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Bruce Cranbr...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:31:44 -0500 Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know if any snapshots (iso files at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/) will created in July? I don't know, but you

Re: What does one call name server registration?

2009-07-15 Thread Michael David Crawford
Valentin and Olivier, Thank you very much for your kind help. I think what I needed were *both* NS and GLUE records. The NS record establishes a host as a nameserver, and the GLUE record allows the name server's own domain name to be within the domain it is the name server for - that is,

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 15 July 2009 12:45:02 Matthew Seaman wrote: I used to be a NeXTie, and the Screensaver.app there had a really nifty little feature. I'm surprised it's not been copied into other screensaver applications since, as it's pretty simple. They just had a facility where moving the

Re: What does one call name server registration?

2009-07-15 Thread Jon Radel
Michael David Crawford wrote: Valentin and Olivier, Thank you very much for your kind help. I think what I needed were *both* NS and GLUE records. The NS record establishes a host as a nameserver, and the GLUE record allows the name server's own domain name to be within the domain it is

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-15 Thread Randi Harper
On 7/14/09, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: What are the instructions for using this 8.0 memstick.img? What raw size memstick is needed? Is the 8.0 memstick.img the same content as the cd1 disk? Sigh. Reply-to-all fail. Resending. It's all in the email about the 8.0 BETA(s). Use dd, a

Chelsio T320 10GE-Adapter - things to consider for FreeBSD 7.2?

2009-07-15 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'd like to install a Chelsio T320 10GE Adapter in one of our systems running 7.2 (AMD64). As far as I've read FreeBSD comes with the drivers for this beast (cxgb(4))already. Can the corresponding interface be configured with ifconfig just like any other interface? Anything special to

Re: Bash and arrays

2009-07-15 Thread Jay Hall
On Jul 15, 2009, at 12:53 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 15), Bryan Venteicher said: I thought I understood how arrays work in bash, but I have been proven wrong. I am reading lines from a file and placing them in an array. However, when I am finished, the array has a

PPPoE server (high traffic in WDM network)

2009-07-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I am using since over 10 years Debian GNU/Linux and 3 years longer NetBSD. Also I have a running PicoBSD box. Now I have a problem more grave... I am ongoing to install a CWDM (1GE) and DWDM (10GE) network for the Alvarion BreezeACCESS VL (38 base stations) and more then 200

Re: Chelsio T320 10GE-Adapter - things to consider for FreeBSD 7.2?

2009-07-15 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at wrote: Hi, I'd like to install a Chelsio T320 10GE Adapter in one of our systems running 7.2 (AMD64). As far as I've read FreeBSD comes with the drivers for this beast (cxgb(4))already. Can the corresponding interface be

Re: What does one call name server registration?

2009-07-15 Thread Al Plant
Michael David Crawford wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem making myself clear to my domain name registrar's tech support. I have set up djbdns on a couple of my own servers, and want them registered AS name servers with whoever handles such registration. Most registrars allow one to just

5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread David Kelly
Not directly FreeBSD related, but how much of a chance is there that two machines could communicate directly over 5,000 feet of cat5 with no special hardware? IIRC the classic ethernet problem limiting the distance between the farthest points on a network had to do with timing and collisions. If

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread Al Plant
David Kelly wrote: Not directly FreeBSD related, but how much of a chance is there that two machines could communicate directly over 5,000 feet of cat5 with no special hardware? IIRC the classic ethernet problem limiting the distance between the farthest points on a network had to do with

Fund Raising Programs

2009-07-15 Thread Pilgrim Tours
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Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello David, Am 2009-07-15 14:47:18, schrieb David Kelly: Not directly FreeBSD related, but how much of a chance is there that two machines could communicate directly over 5,000 feet of cat5 with no special hardware? I do not know hoe much a feet is in meters but AFAIK arround 0,3 which mean,

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:27:35PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello David, Am 2009-07-15 14:47:18, schrieb David Kelly: Not directly FreeBSD related, but how much of a chance is there that two machines could communicate directly over 5,000 feet of cat5 with no special hardware? I

Re: OFFTOPIC: HP DL1xx vs IBM x3250 vs DELL R200

2009-07-15 Thread Karl Vogel
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:53:04 +0300, Peter peterp...@aboutsupport.com said: P I wanted to get some feedback about HP DL1xx vs IBM x3250 vs DELL R200 P since if they are more silent than supermicro I can go with them. Something else to consider - I have two IBM x3400 boxes running 7.1, but

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread mikel . king
20090715202734.gh29...@tamay-dogan.net 20090715210752.ge16...@grumpy.dyndns.org From: Mikel mikel.k...@olivent.com Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:38:21 -0400 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit David, You can run upto 1.5 miles on a lx fiber based

Re: Attempting ZFS Only Install of 7.2

2009-07-15 Thread Jason Garrett
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 18:09, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.netwrote: Jason Garrett wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 13:30, Drew Tomlinson d...@mykitchentable.netmailto: d...@mykitchentable.net wrote: Jason Garrett wrote: snip I see you tried the zpool import

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:45:02AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: I used to be a NeXTie, and the Screensaver.app there had a really nifty little feature. I'm surprised it's not been copied into other screensaver applications since, as it's pretty simple. They just had a facility where

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello *, Am 2009-07-15 17:38:33, schrieb mikel.k...@olivent.com: David, You can run upto 1.5 miles on a lx fiber based solution but will likely require a skilled installer to setup that much cable for you. Depending on your locale I am may be able to put connect you to a supplier.

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Powell
David Kelly wrote: Not directly FreeBSD related, but how much of a chance is there that two machines could communicate directly over 5,000 feet of cat5 with no special hardware? IIRC the classic ethernet problem limiting the distance between the farthest points on a network had to do with

feet to metres [was: 5000' ethernet?]

2009-07-15 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2009-07-15 22:27:35 UTC+0200, Michelle Konzack (bsd4miche...@tamay-dogan.net) wrote: Not directly FreeBSD related, but how much of a chance is there that two machines could communicate directly over 5,000 feet of cat5 with no special hardware? I do not know hoe much a feet is in

Virtualbox Bridged networking

2009-07-15 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Hi, I'm using VirtualBox 2.2.51_OSE r20451 and found in the wiki that Bridged networking is not ported yet :-(. Any news about this?. Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Attempting ZFS Only Install of 7.2

2009-07-15 Thread Jason Garrett
Top Post, I know... but has anyone on @current tried a full on ZFS on ROOT with GPTZFSBOOT? Both Drew and I have both tried the guide at http://lulf.geeknest.org/blog/freebsd/Setting_up_a_zfs-only_system/ (dead link now :( ) I get as far as the message I detailed before using parts from another

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-15 Thread Fbsd1
Randi Harper wrote: On 7/14/09, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: What are the instructions for using this 8.0 memstick.img? What raw size memstick is needed? Is the 8.0 memstick.img the same content as the cd1 disk? Sigh. Reply-to-all fail. Resending. It's all in the email about the 8.0

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, A general reply to many suggestions. So the time it takes for the smallest Ethernet frame to get from the two farthest nodes will determine a window in which the two most distant nodes upon attempting a transmit can tell that a collision occurred and retransmit. In a case of

network appliance question

2009-07-15 Thread Jeff Hamann
I would like to take a ton of apps I've compiled from source, plus gobs of my own source, build a distro of that super solid freebsd I love, and hermetically seal it up in a box that can be plugged into a network hub, so that users don't have to use anything but a web browser, sftp, or

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-15 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Randi Harper wrote: On 7/14/09, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: What are the instructions for using this 8.0 memstick.img? What raw size memstick is needed? Is the 8.0 memstick.img the same content as the cd1 disk?

Re: Server screwed up (/lib/libc.so.7: Undefined symbol _nsdispatch)

2009-07-15 Thread Victor Starenky
I've finally managed to get all sources to the machine via mounted SMB drive that still works. (tar errors out). But alas, make all install immediately throws the very same error that started this topic: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: Undefined symbol _nsdispatch Very few commands actually

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread David Kelly
On Jul 15, 2009, at 9:25 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: The max distance for UTP is 328 ft. Divide the 5,000 by 328 and it will tell you how many bridges, hubs, or switches you will need to regenerate the signal. You may find devices purporting to 'range extenders', but even these will have

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread David Kelly
On Jul 15, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Michael Powell wrote: David Kelly wrote: Not directly FreeBSD related, but how much of a chance is there that two machines could communicate directly over 5,000 feet of cat5 with no special hardware? IIRC the classic ethernet problem limiting the distance

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
David, You would need 5 boxes, the connections between each run of cable could cause too many loss, even if the timing was not an issue. Wire connections are not all that lossy. You would be surprised by the impedance missmatch tests made by cabling companies... Meanwhile cat5 is useful

Re: network appliance question

2009-07-15 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Jeff Hamann jeff.ham...@forestinformatics.com wrote: I would like to take a ton of apps I've compiled from source, plus gobs of my own source, build a distro of that super solid freebsd I love, and hermetically seal it up in a box that can be plugged into a