Re: carp(4) on FreeBSD 8.2

2011-12-14 Thread Victor Sudakov
Matt Mullins wrote: > I've used carp very successfully in the past, both in the standard > mode and ARP load-balancing mode, to build fail-over sets of > firewalls. It worked well enough that one of our firewalls was down > for a week before we noticed (and none of our clients did). I just > did

Re: AHCI driver and static device names

2011-12-14 Thread Rob
On 12/14/11 8:05 PM, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: The other option seems to be to use tunefs or a partitioning tool to label each partition, which is even more ugly imo. Ugly how? Labels appear a lot more semantically elegant than the opaque 'ada4s1a' moniker. Ugly in that the driver has created a

Re: freebsd is really bsd?

2011-12-14 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > To everyone else: if you're interested in the history of BSD, with a > lighthearted, humorous and entertaining presentation, check out the > above.  Fun stuff!  A lot of similarly entertaining and interesting > links will turn up in the

Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.3.34 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD)

2011-12-14 Thread David Naylor
Hi, Packages [1] for wine-fbsd64-1.3.34 have been uploaded to mediafire [2]. There are many reports that wine does not work with a clang compiled world (help in fixing this problem is appreciated as it affects quite a few users). The patch [3] for nVidia users is now included in the package

Re: opening vim with a flag: ready to write?

2011-12-14 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:11:20PM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote: > Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:11:20 -0600 (CST) > From: Robert Bonomi > Subject: Re: opening vim with a flag: ready to write? > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, kl...@thought.org > Cc: > > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org

[PATCH] Re: Forward error correction routines?

2011-12-14 Thread Howard Goldstein
On 12/13/2011 22:45, Dennis Glatting wrote: I am looking for /any/ forward error correction code under FreeBSD, whether Hamming Codes, Golay Codes, Reed-Solomon, BCH codes, etc. or convolution encoders/decoders. All I've found is: * libfec, which only runs under i386 (I am 64 bit), and Here a

Re: AHCI driver and static device names

2011-12-14 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 12/14/2011 03:18 PM, Rob wrote: > On 12/3/11 11:04 AM, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: >> To answer your question, though: You cannot combine GPT with glabel (or >> any other geom class that writes data to the first or last 34 sectors of >> a disk, like gmirror) due to layout conflicts. MBR and BSD sche

Re: AHCI driver and static device names

2011-12-14 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 12/14/2011 03:20 PM, Rob wrote: > Can glabels, gpt, and zfs all work together? I have a system where I > have disks with 4 gpt partitions. Partitions 2 and 3 are part of gmirror > arrays, and partition 4 is part of a zfs pool. glabel says it writes to > the end of the partition, which I believ

Re: opening vim with a flag: ready to write?

2011-12-14 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Dec 14 18:46:46 2011 > Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:42:31 -0800 > From: Gary Kline > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Cc: > Subject: opening vim with a flag: ready to write? > > > hi y'all:) > > i am making steady progress in learning gtk. i'll spare the l

opening vim with a flag: ready to write?

2011-12-14 Thread Gary Kline
hi y'all:) i am making steady progress in learning gtk. i'll spare the list my usual rambling and get rt to the point. is the a way of starting off vim or gvim and be able to type into the editor _without_ first typing: a,i,o,O,I,A, or any other character? or is this just one more thi

acpi problem on dell latitude d830

2011-12-14 Thread Ouyang Xueyu
Hello! I`ve just installed freebsd 8.2 i386 stable on a Dell Latitude D830. I`m using gnome 2 with HAL and DBUS successfully. My notebook is not able to go into sleeping mode, it doesn`t work when I use "acpiconf -s 3" or "acpiconf -s 4". Mode S3 gets it into sleep mode, but it freezes after

Re: AHCI driver and static device names

2011-12-14 Thread Rob
Can glabels, gpt, and zfs all work together? I have a system where I have disks with 4 gpt partitions. Partitions 2 and 3 are part of gmirror arrays, and partition 4 is part of a zfs pool. glabel says it writes to the end of the partition, which I believe zfs also writes to doesn't it? Rob

Re: AHCI driver and static device names

2011-12-14 Thread Rob
On 12/3/11 11:04 AM, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: To answer your question, though: You cannot combine GPT with glabel (or any other geom class that writes data to the first or last 34 sectors of a disk, like gmirror) due to layout conflicts. MBR and BSD schemes can be used, since they occupy only the

Re: freebsd is really bsd?

2011-12-14 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:55:14 -0500 Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > > The best explanation I have ever seen to give people fresh to the BSD > project is the following youtube clip from years ago. It traces all > the way back to its origins and gives nice examples of some of the > "small" companies that us

Re: carp(4) on FreeBSD 8.2

2011-12-14 Thread Matt Mullins
I've used carp very successfully in the past, both in the standard mode and ARP load-balancing mode, to build fail-over sets of firewalls. It worked well enough that one of our firewalls was down for a week before we noticed (and none of our clients did). I just did a mock-up of your scenario on

Re: I am FreeBSD user.

2011-12-14 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 05/12/2011 13:35, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 05/12/2011 12:39, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I thought the odd bit was ssuuddoo --VV | --hh | --ll | --LL | --vv | --kk | --KK | --ss | [ --HH ] [--PP ] [--SS ] [ --bb ] | [ --pp prompt ] [ --cc class|- ] [ --aa auth_type ] [ --uu username|#uid

Files End Up Read-Only With Samba

2011-12-14 Thread Bill Tillman
I am running FreeBSD-8.2-STABLE-amd64, last update was a few weeks ago. I run Samba-3.6 on this server and it has served me well for my Windows clients to store and share files. All was working fine until recently I've began to notice that whenever I save a file to this server, they always end u

some troble with compilation of newkernel

2011-12-14 Thread Oleg simonoff
Hi users! I`ve got freeBSD8.2 system. Before the assemblage of a kernel the file has been checked up by config. The syntax of a file was correct. But the compilation was not completed .. Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/newkernel. *** Error code 1 Stop in

Re: carp(4) on FreeBSD 8.2

2011-12-14 Thread Victor Sudakov
Johan Hendriks wrote: > > > > Are there any success stories or known issues with carp(4) on FreeBSD > > 8.2? I have configured a carp interface: [dd] > > But for some reason I can ping 10.14.135.88, but cannot ping > > 10.14.134.99. There seem to be ARP responses however: [dd] > > What am I doin

Re: Forward error correction routines?

2011-12-14 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 12/14/2011 5:45 AM, Dennis Glatting wrote: I am looking for /any/ forward error correction code under FreeBSD, whether Hamming Codes, Golay Codes, Reed-Solomon, BCH codes, etc. or convolution encoders/decoders. All I've found is: * libfec, which only runs under i386 (I am 64 bit), and * reed

Re: carp(4) on FreeBSD 8.2

2011-12-14 Thread Johan Hendriks
Victor Sudakov schreef: Colleagues, Are there any success stories or known issues with carp(4) on FreeBSD 8.2? I have configured a carp interface: router1# ifconfig le0 le0: flags=8943 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8 ether 08:00:27:aa:6a:bd inet 10.14.135.88 netmask 0xf