On 1/26/07, Grzegorz Pluta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
People from the media doesnt know that FreeBSD Unix exists.
Rubbish. I have known about the existence of FreeBSD (and other BSD
variants) for a great many years now.
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On 1/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thank you everyone for the responses. It has been quite educating :).
One other question though.. is ksh like the swiss army knife of all
shells? Seems kind of odd that it supports both bourne shell constructs and
(t)csh constructs.
Ye
On 1/26/07, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
>I write shells script extensively , I have noticed
>
>~ -> gets a subsitution for $HOME
>~userid - >gets you the $HOME for that user
>
>meaning if you have have logged in as root and if
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
>I write shells script extensively , I have noticed
>
>~ -> gets a subsitution for $HOME
>~userid - >gets you the $HOME for that user
>
>meaning if you have have logged in as root and if you want to run some
>script on oracle home even though
On 1/26/07, Dak Ghatikachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I write shells script extensively , I have noticed
~ -> gets a subsitution for $HOME
~userid - >gets you the $HOME for that user
meaning if you have have logged in as root and if you want to run some
script on oracle home even
I write shells script extensively , I have noticed
~ -> gets a subsitution for $HOME
~userid - >gets you the $HOME for that user
meaning if you have have logged in as root and if you want to run some
script on oracle home even though you logged in as root you can simplly
~oracle/runm
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Robert Huff wrote:
> RW writes:
>
>> > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
>> > in the mouse section by default, which is all I've ever needed to make
>> > the scrollwheel work
>>
>> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>>
>> I think you only need
Hello alll
Even FreeBSD, or even any BSD (ok, OSX is BSD...) is mention in
the BBC survey, I notice that:
1) They claim that 90% of the persons use windows, but in the
publish list, is just the contrary... only 2 ones use windows,
and like it, and one of them just for games
2) The
Well,
I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could
watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD.
Bit sometimes I or someone else installs ports an they install
dependencies and then he/she or I decide to kill/delete a specific port,
but very
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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Have a friend that swears by them, but ... he's in the Linux camp, so tends to
have a quasi-inside track ...
What are ppls opinions on them as far as FreeBSD is concerned?
Also, interested in what sort of specs ppl are ru
Robert Huff wrote:
I use portupgrade.
I've never used pkg_deinstall, but given that portupgrade gets
... confused ... occasionally I look suspiciously at anything that
promises clean upward recursion.
Many people prefer sysutils/portmanager over portupgrade. As usual, YMMV.
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Have a friend that swears by them, but ... he's in the Linux camp, so tends to
have a quasi-inside track ...
What are ppls opinions on them as far as FreeBSD is concerned?
Also, interested in what sort of specs ppl are running ... I'm interested in
RW writes:
> > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> > in the mouse section by default, which is all I've ever needed to make
> > the scrollwheel work
>
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>
> I think you only need the other two values on a mouse with a second
> scroll wheel.
Doe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > > Is there a way cleaning up automatically a messy ports collection? Like
> > > portupgrade does, only the opposite way, not rebuilding/reinstalling a
> > > rebuilt/upgraded port, looking for stale ports never used anymore by
> > > another port?
> >
> > sysutil
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RW wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:36:38 -0800
> "Kevin Downey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Xorg -configure now puts:
>> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
>> in the mouse section by default, which is all I've ever needed to make
>> the scrollwhe
A quick call to 3ware and they told me to increase vfs.read_max from
8 to 256. That helped. I'm now seeing 4x performance on a four-drive
array vs a single drive. Additionally, Ivan was right about the
database being too small. iostat showed no disk activity after the
initial run, as everyt
On 25/01/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In response to "O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Well,
> I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could
> watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD.
>
> Bit sometimes I or someone else i
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:54:47 +
Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:05:13PM -0800, BSD Certification Team wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > The man page for sysinstall is pretty out of date. I
> > am trying to PXE boot to an unattended install.
> >
> > I figured o
In response to "O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Well,
> I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could
> watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD.
>
> Bit sometimes I or someone else installs ports an they install
> dependencies and the
Well,
I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could
watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD.
Bit sometimes I or someone else installs ports an they install
dependencies and then he/she or I decide to kill/delete a specific port,
but very o
i b wrote:
> hi
>
> i'm a freebsd user and i can see a lot of people who has a @freebsd.org
> mail
> addr. (most are developers)
>
> how can I obtain an address like those ?
Become a developer :)
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On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:36:38 -0800
"Kevin Downey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Xorg -configure now puts:
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> in the mouse section by default, which is all I've ever needed to make
> the scrollwheel work
I have
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
I think you only
i b schrieb:
hi
i'm a freebsd user and i can see a lot of people who has a
@freebsd.org mail
addr. (most are developers)
how can I obtain an address like those ?
Cheers,
Hi,
such adresses are only given to committers, who have direct access to
the source repository.But if you work hard,
In response to "i b" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> hi
>
> i'm a freebsd user and i can see a lot of people who has a @freebsd.org mail
> addr. (most are developers)
>
> how can I obtain an address like those ?
Become a developer. @freebsd.org email addresses are offered to committers.
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hi
i'm a freebsd user and i can see a lot of people who has a @freebsd.org mail
addr. (most are developers)
how can I obtain an address like those ?
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V.I.Victor wrote:
> I'm simply going to change 2 "nameserver" ip-addresses.
>
> Most of what I've found re. 'resolv.conf' implies it can just be changed
> on-the-fly. However, other sources (mostly upgrading info) have a reboot
> involved.
>
> So -- re-boot or not? (Note: this is a static-ip b
Milo Hyson wrote:
> I also ran some performance tests with a stock build of PostgreSQL 8.0
> to get a different angle on things. Two tests were run on each of the
> UDMA system drive, the RAID 5 unit, and the RAID 10 unit. The first
> tested sequential-scans through a 58,000+ record table. The sec
On Jan 25, 2007, at 13:50, Jeff Mohler wrote:
How about one large raid, and two partitions to serve each purpose?
Being so limited in HW, youre either going to take a _huge_
performance hit with only 2 disks per raid (unless Raid0), or an
availability hit with everything on one RAID set.
How about one large raid, and two partitions to serve each purpose?
Being so limited in HW, youre either going to take a _huge_
performance hit with only 2 disks per raid (unless Raid0), or an
availability hit with everything on one RAID set.
But..considering the costs of adding RAID to a se
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Bill Campbell wrote:
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello again,
I'm revising some documentation that has examples of running Unix
commands and I want to make sure that my steps are correct, such that I
can substitute the tilde character ('~') for $
On Jan 25, 2007, at 12:15, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Still, you also ought to consider that a 3-disk RAID-5
configuration is very much not ideal from either an efficiency or
performance standpoint-- you want more like 5 or 6 drives being
used, in which case your performance numbers ought to incre
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:15:47PM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2007, at 11:53 AM, V.I.Victor wrote:
> >
> >So -- re-boot or not? (Note: this is a static-ip box running v5.4.)
>
> There is no reason to reboot after changing /etc/resolv.conf. Almost
> everything will be using the stan
You shouldnt need to reboot after adding a nameserver.
I'm not sure if you need to if you change domain names in there.
Grant.
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On Jan 25, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Milo Hyson wrote:
The write times of both RAID configurations are slower than the
single drive (which is expected due to having to write to multiple
drives). However, I wasn't expecting such a drastic reduction
(about 50%). The read times, although faster, are o
On Jan 25, 2007, at 11:53 AM, V.I.Victor wrote:
I'm simply going to change 2 "nameserver" ip-addresses.
Most of what I've found re. 'resolv.conf' implies it can just be
changed on-the-fly. However, other sources (mostly upgrading info)
have a reboot involved.
So -- re-boot or not? (Note:
Hi there:
I see the new flash9 for linux has been included in ports, so I
installed it - but how do I enable the plugin in Firefox? Does it work
or does it crash?
Thanks, Erik
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I'm simply going to change 2 "nameserver" ip-addresses.
Most of what I've found re. 'resolv.conf' implies it can just be changed
on-the-fly. However, other sources (mostly upgrading info) have a reboot
involved.
So -- re-boot or not? (Note: this is a static-ip box running v5.4.)
Thanks!
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello again,
>I'm revising some documentation that has examples of running Unix
>commands and I want to make sure that my steps are correct, such that I
>can substitute the tilde character ('~') for $HOME. The only issue I
>can see
Thank you everyone for the responses. It has been quite educating :).
One other question though.. is ksh like the swiss army knife of all shells?
Seems kind of odd that it supports both bourne shell constructs and (t)csh
constructs.
Thanks again!
-Garrett
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Milo
if you hunt around you should see papers/articles where it shows foe RAID 5
you need at least 5 drives before you any dramatic performance gains..(sun
old Sun articles from around 1998 where they do the math as well).
not sure about RAID 10, but again I *think* you need at least 3 drives in
Hello again,
I'm revising some documentation that has examples of running Unix commands
and I want to make sure that my steps are correct, such that I can substitute
the tilde character ('~') for $HOME. The only issue I can see with this is an
improper configuration with sudo (ran into some
I don't really have a whole lot of experience with RAID, so I was
wondering if the performance figures I'm seeing are normal or if I
just need to tweak things a bit. Based on what I've been reading, I
would expect more significant improvements over a single drive.
Here's my setup:
* FreeB
On Thursday 25 January 2007 16:35, Oliver Iberien wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Last ports database update yesterday, and trying to update mplayer...
>
> ===> mplayer-0.99.10_3 depends on
> file: /usr/local/lib/win32/win32-codecs-3.1.0.r1,1 - not found
> ===>Verifying install for /usr/local/lib/win32/win3
On stardate Thu, 25 Jan 2007, the wise Oliver Iberien entered:
> Hi,
>
> Last ports database update yesterday, and trying to update mplayer...
>
> ===> mplayer-0.99.10_3 depends on
> file: /usr/local/lib/win32/win32-codecs-3.1.0.r1,1 - not found
> ===>Verifying install for /usr/local/lib/
On 1/25/07, Marco Muskus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2007/1/25, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Bill Moran wrote:
> > In response to Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >> The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes.
> >>
> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm
> >>
> >> T
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Ian Smith wrote:
>
> Excellent. I'll read up on this for a bit.
I've been reading man ipfw for years, but every time find something new :)
> I suppose my biggest confusion was as to why I could do:
>
> kldload
In response to "Marco Muskus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 2007/1/25, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Bill Moran wrote:
> > > In response to Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >
> > >> The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes.
> > >>
> > >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm
>
"Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm writing a script to install a series of ports, and would like to use
> the following:
>
>
> cd /usr/ports/foo/bar
> make WITH_OPTION1=yes WITH_OPTION2=yes WITHOUT_ANOTHER=yes -DBATCH install
>
> That works as expected, but I would also like those set
Hi everyone!
I need to buy a server for a medium-sized network. The server will run
FreeBSD but I'm not quite sure wich. It will need to support 500 Mbps upload
and 500 Mbps dowload, perhaps more, and NAT at 50-60 Mbps, firewall,
bandwidth shaping and logging with netflows.
I want to buy a dual-c
Hi,
Last ports database update yesterday, and trying to update mplayer...
===> mplayer-0.99.10_3 depends on
file: /usr/local/lib/win32/win32-codecs-3.1.0.r1,1 - not found
===>Verifying install for /usr/local/lib/win32/win32-codecs-3.1.0.r1,1
in /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs
===> win
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Ian Smith wrote:
Excellent. I'll read up on this for a bit.
I suppose my biggest confusion was as to why I could do:
kldload ipfw && ipfw add 65000 allow ip from any to any
but not
ipfw flush && ipfw add 65000 allow ip from any to any
Clearly, the devil is in the output
2007/1/25, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes.
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm
>>
>> They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only wa
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:05:13PM -0800, BSD Certification Team wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The man page for sysinstall is pretty out of date. I
> am trying to PXE boot to an unattended install.
>
> I figured out that I needed to add dists=base kernels
> GENERIC even though kernels and GENERIC are
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 162, Issue 11
> Message: 31
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:20:47 -0500 (EST), Dan Mahoney wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
>
> > Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> >> Hey all.
> >>
> >> In trying to tweak my firewall setup I'm using a file call
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:11:53PM +, Robin Becker wrote:
> Robin Becker wrote:
> >The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes.
> >
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm
>
> unfortunately they already closed the applications so I guess FreeBSD will
> have to remain partially r
In response to Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Bill Moran wrote:
> > In response to Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >> The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes.
> >>
> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm
> >>
> >> They want one individual to represent each OS. App
Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm
They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want Vista,
OS X and Linux, but I don't see why we can't pres
Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote:
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Dear All,
I need some help regarding using IPFW to block specific MAC addresses.
How do I block incoming traffic by a MAC address instead of an IP
address.
Can this be done using IPFW? Since I am quite new to FreeBSD, can
In response to Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm
>
> They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want
> Vista,
> OS X and Linux, but I don't see why we can't press for
Robin Becker wrote:
The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm
They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want
Vista, OS X and Linux, but I don't see why we can't press for FreeBSD.
unfortunately they already close
People from the media doesnt know that FreeBSD Unix exists.
All they talk about is windows and linux not really knowing the
difference... Its all stimulated by the apereance of windows vista. People
feel like discussing about it. Everyone knows that windows is ble and linux
is cool, that Bill getes
The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm
They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want Vista,
OS X and Linux, but I don't see why we can't press for FreeBSD.
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Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD challenged by Internet
> > > > > > What I don't get is I see guys walking in
> > > > > > dropping $1000 on associated Mac hardware crap
> > > ...
>
Hello all,
The man page for sysinstall is pretty out of date. I
am trying to PXE boot to an unattended install.
I figured out that I needed to add dists=base kernels
GENERIC even though kernels and GENERIC are not in the
list in the man page.
Is there anyone in charge of updating this
informati
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> >
> > Just for completeness, ">&" (file) and ">|" (pipe) are also
> ^^
Sorry, that was just a typo. I meant ">&" and "|&", of course.
Best regards
Oliver
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I have VPN-server based on FreeBSD 6.2 + FreeRadius (1.1.4_1) + mpd (3.18_5)
+ PostgreSQL(8.2.1).
It works fine until any user try to enter invalid pair "login/password".
After that nobody can connect to VPN-server.
Moreover, all of opened at that moment connections are lost.
I think that problem
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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "George Vanev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FreeBSD Questions"
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)
Hi George!
Common problem. The issue isn't that the
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Dear All,
I need some help regarding using IPFW to block specific MAC addresses.
How do I block incoming traffic by a MAC address instead of an IP
address.
Can this be done using IPFW? Since I am quite new to FreeBSD, can
somebody shed some light on
Hold on there. HP makes SCSI and SATA versions of many of their
servers, the model numbers are almost identical between them. I think
the only difference in the servers is the SCSI ones have an additional
card.
Now, before you go any further on Windows drivers you got to understand
something.
I forgot to mention, ONLY install to ar0. do NOT install to any of
the other disks that show up.
Ted
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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "George Vanev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FreeBSD Questions"
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: HP E
George Vanev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AHA-3985 is SCSI controller. The one I have is SATA.
Yes, I'm sure that it's Adaptec, but what is the model?!
If FreeBSD didn't recognised it during the installation
does that mean that it is incompatible with FreeBSD?
Yes, I understand that AHA-3985 is
Hi George!
Common problem. The issue isn't that the FreeBSD driver cannot talk
to the SATA controller. It can do that just fine.
The problem is that HP is using a modified metadata format on the
disk drives.
What you need to do is go into the Proliant BIOS and DISABLE
the SATA raid. This of
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Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: HP Embedded SATA RAID controller (FreeBSD 6.2)
George Vanev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have HP ProLiantML 110 G3 s
Hello ,
which question?
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> > Does anyone happen to know where I would find a how-to for
> > downloading and displaying images from a Vivitar ViviCam 3825?
>
> That camera seems to support umass(4), so just plug it in and use it
> like a USB hard drive...
It seems not to be quite that simple :( When I plug it in and turn
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