Re: How do I prevent a port from installing?

2007-11-22 Thread Bahman Movaqar
On 2007-11-22 David Benfell wrote: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:09:02 +0330, Bahman Movaqar wrote: > > On 2007-11-22 Robert Huff wrote: > > > > > > > > David Benfell writes: > > > > > > > Also, in deinstalling jdk, I found that apache-ant relied upon > > > > it, but I couldn't see what depended o

Re: How do I prevent a port from installing?

2007-11-22 Thread Tino Engel
David Benfell schrieb: Hello all, I don't know what the story is, but Java is locking up my system badly. Even if I knew how to get details, I wouldn't be able to because the system is completely unresponsive. As a workaround, I have gone into /usr/ports/distfiles and renamed the jdk* files to

Re: +bfe0: watchdog timeout -- resetting

2007-11-22 Thread Michael Hawkins
I have been receiving the same error message from my NAS box as of late. Until last week, I was been running Freebsd6.2, and I occassionally received the message "re0: watchdog timeout". It would happen about once a week. Last week, I installed freenas (which is based on freebsd6.2), and now I r

Re: How do I prevent a port from installing?

2007-11-22 Thread David Benfell
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:09:02 +0330, Bahman Movaqar wrote: > On 2007-11-22 Robert Huff wrote: > > > > > David Benfell writes: > > > > > Also, in deinstalling jdk, I found that apache-ant relied upon > > > it, but I couldn't see what depended on apache-ant. > > > > "man pkg_info", paying at

Re: How do I prevent a port from installing?

2007-11-22 Thread Bahman Movaqar
On 2007-11-22 Robert Huff wrote: > > David Benfell writes: > > > Also, in deinstalling jdk, I found that apache-ant relied upon > > it, but I couldn't see what depended on apache-ant. > > "man pkg_info", paying attention to the 'r' and 'R' options. > > > Is there a workaround for apac

Re: is this IT or not/

2007-11-22 Thread Bahman Movaqar
On 2007-11-21 Gary Kline wrote: > > guys, one last thing before i call it a days; i just tried > kmidi and tried to configure the audio. > got the sound of a breaking glass and the warning that > something was already using "dev/sequencer". i tried a > ps -alx, but couldn

Re: is this IT or not/

2007-11-22 Thread Bahman Movaqar
On 2007-11-21 Gary Kline wrote: > > guys, one last thing before i call it a days; i just tried > kmidi and tried to configure the audio. > got the sound of a breaking glass and the warning that > something was already using "dev/sequencer". i tried a > ps -alx, but couldn

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-22 Thread RW
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:22:50 +1300 "Brent Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry if this is a bit off topic for this list, but it seem to be a > comment that comes up very regularly; "please don't top post..." > > I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular > thread enoug

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-22 Thread David Kelly
(Moved to freebsd-chat where it belongs.) On Nov 22, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Brent Jones wrote: I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular thread enough times that I like to cut to the chase and read the new input without having to scroll down, sometimes navigating an endless

Re: Personalised patches in ports

2007-11-22 Thread RW
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:19:55 + Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks: > > What is the approved method of applying personalised patches to ports > sources? > > A current example, which was no problem under Linux, is giving me a > bit of a hassle under FreeBSD> > > I use pdftotext exte

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-22 Thread David Benfell
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:22:50 +1300, Brent Jones wrote: > Sorry if this is a bit off topic for this list, but it seem to be a > comment that comes up very regularly; "please don't top post..." > > I for one prefer top posting This has been hashed out on so many technically-oriented lists, that it

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-22 Thread Paul Schmehl
Understood from that perspective, perhaps you can see why people might dislike top posting. Rather, your entire response is at the top, separating itself from the context to which it refers. Furthermore, it can be very confusing to understand precisely what you're referring to, because your

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-22 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 22 November 2007 21:22:50 Brent Jones wrote: > Sorry if this is a bit off topic for this list, but it seem to be a > comment that comes up very regularly; "please don't top post..." > > I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular thread > enough times that I like t

Re: efficient terminal/console screencasting

2007-11-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 02:09:11 Nov 23, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > I'm still hoping to get by with some hacks, but you might be > right. It's a pity and almost a surprise there's no widely > available text-based video codec. Maybe I just need to try my > luck on mplayer-related mailing lists. Best of luck! > P.S.

Re: How do I prevent a port from installing?

2007-11-22 Thread David Benfell
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:16:21 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > David Benfell writes: > > > Also, in deinstalling jdk, I found that apache-ant relied upon > > it, but I couldn't see what depended on apache-ant. > > "man pkg_info", paying attention to the 'r' and 'R' options. > > > Is there

RE: Squid with a Net nanny type setup....

2007-11-22 Thread Murray Taylor
look at dansguardian its in the ports and is excellent for kid-management mjt > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony > Sent: Friday, 23 November 2007 4:34 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Squid with a Net nanny type

Re: Questions on behaviour of fetch(3) regarding HTTPS + proxy

2007-11-22 Thread Bill Moran
Antony Mawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 22/11/2007 2:27 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > > It seems that if I set HTTP_PROXY, fetch(1) works just dandy, _UNLESS_ > > I'm trying to fetch an https document, in which case it seems to > > ignore HTTP_PROXY. > > From memory: > > export HTTPS_PROXY

Re: Questions on behaviour of fetch(3) regarding HTTPS + proxy

2007-11-22 Thread Bill Moran
RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:27:48 -0500 > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The systems > > in question have no way to connect without using the proxy, and I'd > > like to convince fetch(3) to use the proxy for https as well. > > curl & wget work, if it's

Re: firewall is blocking our access

2007-11-22 Thread Bill Moran
Rodrigo Moura Bittencourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Gentlemen, > > We INPE / CPTEC an institution of meteorology government of Brazil, we > are having trouble accessing the servers of FreeBSD, we believe that > your firewall is blocking our access. While this is possible, I find it un

How do I prevent a port from installing?

2007-11-22 Thread Robert Huff
David Benfell writes: > Also, in deinstalling jdk, I found that apache-ant relied upon > it, but I couldn't see what depended on apache-ant. "man pkg_info", paying attention to the 'r' and 'R' options. > Is there a workaround for apache-ant? If it's a mandatory dependency -

Re: is this IT or not/

2007-11-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:22:37AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:25:35 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 06:23:29PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:12:50AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: [[ ... ]] > It actually says "cou

Re: efficient terminal/console screencasting

2007-11-22 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:09:10AM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > I'm still hoping to get by with some hacks, but you might be > right. It's a pity and almost a surprise there's no widely > available text-based video codec. Maybe I just need to try my > luck on mplayer-related mailing lists. I

Re: efficient terminal/console screencasting

2007-11-22 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:00:48AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 21:26:41 Nov 21, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > A while ago I needed to screencast a terminal to a class of > > students in real-time. It turned out to be quite straightforward > > with screen(1) in multiuser mode. > > screen

top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-22 Thread Brent Jones
Sorry if this is a bit off topic for this list, but it seem to be a comment that comes up very regularly; "please don't top post..." I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular thread enough times that I like to cut to the chase and read the new input without having to scroll

creation of tap interface

2007-11-22 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hi, I'm setting up Qemu, have installed Ubuntu and Gentoo guests on FreeBSD host but I would like to get the network interfaces to work also. I get the following error however when trying to create the tap interfaces FreeBSD# ifconfig tap create ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE: Invalid argument What i

Re: Optimal Apache22 configuration

2007-11-22 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Marcio Cicero wrote: Hi Tom, Thanks for your input. As far as I can remember there were experimental support for kqueue polling events on apache2 which I remember as nice performance improvement. But unfortunately I can't find any info regarding kqueue for apache22. Is this possible for apac

Personalised patches in ports

2007-11-22 Thread Bob
Hi folks: What is the approved method of applying personalised patches to ports sources? A current example, which was no problem under Linux, is giving me a bit of a hassle under FreeBSD> I use pdftotext extensively to translate pdf files to ascii text. Sometimes, a publicly posted PDF file has

Re: RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-11-22 Thread Bill Moran
"Jan Catrysse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear subscribers, > > I am currently running a production server: > FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE > Onboard Intel ICH8R Raid 1 with 2x SATA300 500GB HDD > Using ATA for Raid1 > > On Windows systems it is an absolute must to do a Raid Synchronisation > every once

Re: lightly loaded php+mysql - high syscall/csw rates

2007-11-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:43:25PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > We have a php+mysql web server. It serves 15-20 http requests per > second, resulting in 100-200 sql qps. But according to vmstat(1), > it all peaks at over 500k syscall/s and 100k cswitch/s. The peaks > are quite frequent, even

Re: FreeBSD, 160GB HD, and a Bios limitation

2007-11-22 Thread alive
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 02:27 -0700, Christoper Tucker wrote: > Hi there > > I have a 600mhz PIII computer with an older BIOS that will not recognize > my 160GB new HD that I installed for use with FreeBSD. > > I can install FBSD if I limit the drive to 32GB, but before I settle with > that, is th

Squid with a Net nanny type setup....

2007-11-22 Thread Tony
Is there a big list if inappropriate websites somewhere that I can build into squid to keep my kids out of Adult websites? If not squid is there a better Proxy to use on my FreeBSD firewall for that purpose? Thanks, Tony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: can you help about this script

2007-11-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-22 10:10, ann kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Giorgos > > Thank you > > But my output is from your suggstion > printf "Created: %s\n", system("date +%Y%m%d"); > > 20071122 > Created: 0 > 20071122 > Updated: 0 > > h

mysql ports

2007-11-22 Thread jekillen
Hello; I have installed mysql51-client, mysql51-server, and mysql51-scripts. I looked for pkg_message in mysql51-scripts but there is none. Where do I get info on what this port has and what it does? Thank you for info Jeff K ___ freebsd-questions@fre

How do I prevent a port from installing?

2007-11-22 Thread David Benfell
Hello all, I don't know what the story is, but Java is locking up my system badly. Even if I knew how to get details, I wouldn't be able to because the system is completely unresponsive. As a workaround, I have gone into /usr/ports/distfiles and renamed the jdk* files to names with DO-NOT-INSTAL

Re: can you help about this script

2007-11-22 Thread ann kok
Hi Giorgos Thank you But my output is from your suggstion printf "Created: %s\n", system("date +%Y%m%d"); 20071122 Created: 0 20071122 Updated: 0 how can I have output as Created: 20071122 Updated: 20071122 In additon, ls it possible to have loop output also? I need

Re: (no subject)

2007-11-22 Thread अनुज
Tushar kumar if you want to learn how to install FreeBSD6 + Linux+ M$ Windowz, Apple Mac OS, solaris9 , I can teach you for free. Assembling a laptop ? Sorry. Anugunj 'anuj' http://polarhome.com:793/~anujhere/ On Nov 23, 2007 12:51 AM, nawcom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hm.. from what I und

Re: can you help about this script

2007-11-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-21 12:26, ann kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > how command "date, hostname" run in awk program? > > awk -F program.awk file.txt You don't use backticks... These are a feature of the shell, and running a script through progname.awk is no longer a shell session. Try system("dat

Re: lightly loaded php+mysql - high syscall/csw rates

2007-11-22 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:52:06PM +, Vince wrote: > Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > We have a php+mysql web server. It serves 15-20 http requests per > > second, resulting in 100-200 sql qps. But according to vmstat(1), > > it all peaks at over 500k syscall/s and 100k cswitch/s. The peaks > > are

SMBus is there, now what? (fan speed problem)

2007-11-22 Thread Olivier Drouin
Hello Guys I tried this thread without much success on the freebsd-acpi mail list: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2007-November/004229.html Anyway, I don’t think the problem is related to Acpi now. I read this: HYPERLINK "http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware-i3

IPV6 NTP

2007-11-22 Thread takhoos
I am running FreeBSD 6.2 in a totally IPV6-only aware environment. I want to set up an NTP server by pointing to an IPV6 stratum 1 address. Can I just add an IPV6 address in the NTP.conf file just as I would do for an IPV4 server? -- Joe __

Re: lightly loaded php+mysql - high syscall/csw rates

2007-11-22 Thread Vince
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > We have a php+mysql web server. It serves 15-20 http requests per > second, resulting in 100-200 sql qps. But according to vmstat(1), > it all peaks at over 500k syscall/s and 100k cswitch/s. The peaks > are quite frequent, even at this load. During the peaks top(1) > sho

Re: Via C7 Processor (CPU) - cpufreq and make.conf support

2007-11-22 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 24, 2007, at 2:20 AM, Erik Cederstrand wrote: I know this is not an answer, but why not just upgrade to 7.0 if you need the C7 support? I'm on 7B3, but when I look at /usr/src/share/examples/etc/make.conf, I just see this # Currently the following CPU types are recognized: # Intel

RE: Optimal Apache22 configuration

2007-11-22 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 14:58 +0100, Marcio Cicero wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Thanks for your input. > > As far as I can remember there were experimental support for kqueue > polling events on apache2 which I remember as nice performance > improvement. But unfortunately I can't find any info regarding kq

Re: is this IT or not/

2007-11-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:25:35 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 06:23:29PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:12:50AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > guys, one last thing before i call it a days; i just tried > > > kmidi and tried to configure the

RE: Optimal Apache22 configuration

2007-11-22 Thread Marcio Cicero
Hi Tom, Thanks for your input. As far as I can remember there were experimental support for kqueue polling events on apache2 which I remember as nice performance improvement. But unfortunately I can't find any info regarding kqueue for apache22. Is this possible for apache22? TIA Regards, Ma

Re: efficient terminal/console screencasting

2007-11-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 11:44:49 Nov 22, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > There are basically two ways the subtitles are encoded: bitmap > and text. Both will require a full screen dump on every update. > Neither allow for colors (there are html hacks though). AFAIK, > there's no way to store activity in form of updates in s

DOH! ata_alloc_composite failed!

2007-11-22 Thread Jan Catrysse
Dear subscribers, I am currently running a production server: FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE Onboard Intel ICH8R Raid 1 with 2x SATA300 500GB HDD Using ATA for Raid1 In my today's /var/log/messages I found: Nov 22 03:01:33 www kernel: DOH! ata_alloc_composite failed! Nov 22 03:01:33 www last message repeated

+bfe0: watchdog timeout -- resetting

2007-11-22 Thread Jan Catrysse
Dear subscribers, I am currently running a production gateway: FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE Onboard Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet (bfe0) 3 x PCI intel Gigabit Lan (em0, em1, em2) This machine is my firewall/gateway running PF. In my /var/log/messages I found: Nov 20 10:22:42 techdesk kernel: bfe0: watchd

RAID1 synchronisation - howto OR not necessary?

2007-11-22 Thread Jan Catrysse
Dear subscribers, I am currently running a production server: FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE Onboard Intel ICH8R Raid 1 with 2x SATA300 500GB HDD Using ATA for Raid1 On Windows systems it is an absolute must to do a Raid Synchronisation every once and a while to maintain data consistency. I am some what dis

Re: Optimal Apache22 configuration

2007-11-22 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 19:49 +0100, Marcio Cicero wrote: > Hello all, > > Tomorrow i'll start configuring an apache22 server at work and I've been > searching what's the best configuration for apache22 on apache. > > Is it possible to use kqueue() support for apache22? Also, the best threading >

firewall is blocking our access

2007-11-22 Thread Rodrigo Moura Bittencourt
Dear Gentlemen, We INPE / CPTEC an institution of meteorology government of Brazil, we are having trouble accessing the servers of FreeBSD, we believe that your firewall is blocking our access. Due to use its operating system in our computational park, blocking our access is causing problems

Re: (no subject)

2007-11-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:43:05AM -0600, Chris wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:04:47 +0530 > "tusar kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hi > >i want to know how can i assembly laptop. i want a video copy > > Awe! Where's Frank Shute' Witty and sensible words of directions for > this u

Re: efficient terminal/console screencasting

2007-11-22 Thread Kevin Downey
On 11/21/07, Andrew Pantyukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A while ago I needed to screencast a terminal to a class of > students in real-time. It turned out to be quite straightforward > with screen(1) in multiuser mode. > > Now I want to record screencasts and allow people to watch them > later.

You have received a postcard !

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lightly loaded php+mysql - high syscall/csw rates

2007-11-22 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
We have a php+mysql web server. It serves 15-20 http requests per second, resulting in 100-200 sql qps. But according to vmstat(1), it all peaks at over 500k syscall/s and 100k cswitch/s. The peaks are quite frequent, even at this load. During the peaks top(1) shows 30-40k VCSW for mysql and around

Re: FreeBSD Production Release ISO images

2007-11-22 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
patrick wrote: Hi there, I'm wondering if the FreeBSD 6.2 Production Release ISO images get updated periodically when there are important patches, or is it better to download the latest snapshot to save the trouble of updating everything after installing? The iso's are never remade after the ini

Proftpd doesn't update last log properly

2007-11-22 Thread Anders Gulden Olstad
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8 SPARC64 Ports: proftpd-1.3.1_2 I have a small annoying problem with my proftpd installation. It doesn't update the last log properly. All logins are left as "still logged in" with Jan 1 as date. All other logins are correct, except ftp. user ftp 192.168.1.1

FreeBSD, 160GB HD, and a Bios limitation - Thanks!

2007-11-22 Thread Christoper Tucker
Thanks for all your help ... I've got a better understanding of how this works and I am now proceeding with an "official" non-test installation :) - Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: who do I report this to?

2007-11-22 Thread Robert Backhaus
On Nov 20, 2007 5:11 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Who do I report the following issue to (it falls into at least 3 camps)? > > If I am downloading a torrent in deluge 0.5.6.2_1 *AND* am logged into > gmail (*WITH* a chat open

Re: efficient terminal/console screencasting

2007-11-22 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 03:29:55PM -0800, Kevin Downey wrote: > On 11/21/07, Andrew Pantyukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A while ago I needed to screencast a terminal to a class of > > students in real-time. It turned out to be quite straightforward > > with screen(1) in multiuser mode. > > >

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-22 Thread David Newman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/07 11:30 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > idacontrol show | grep "Status" > > IF status is fully up it will say: > > Status: Logical drive ok And that's what it does say. So far so good... ...but then each time I run idacontrol I get this in

Re: efficient terminal/console screencasting

2007-11-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 21:26:41 Nov 21, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > A while ago I needed to screencast a terminal to a class of > students in real-time. It turned out to be quite straightforward > with screen(1) in multiuser mode. screen(1) is really cool. :) > Now I want to record screencasts and allow people to wat

Re: (no subject)

2007-11-22 Thread Chris
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:04:47 +0530 "tusar kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi >i want to know how can i assembly laptop. i want a video copy Awe! Where's Frank Shute' Witty and sensible words of directions for this user?! See the thread subject "Website" for ref. -- Best regards, Chr

Re: Questions on behaviour of fetch(3) regarding HTTPS + proxy

2007-11-22 Thread Antony Mawer
On 22/11/2007 2:27 AM, Bill Moran wrote: It seems that if I set HTTP_PROXY, fetch(1) works just dandy, _UNLESS_ I'm trying to fetch an https document, in which case it seems to ignore HTTP_PROXY. From memory: export HTTPS_PROXY="http://myproxy:8080"; --Antony _

Re: who do I report this to?

2007-11-22 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > The first thing to do is to make sure it is not your ISP inflicting you with > some slowdown. Connect a second node to the re interface (put a switch > between you and the modem, and connect something else to it) and see > if your connection speed

Re: Questions on behaviour of fetch(3) regarding HTTPS + proxy

2007-11-22 Thread RW
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:27:48 -0500 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The systems > in question have no way to connect without using the proxy, and I'd > like to convince fetch(3) to use the proxy for https as well. curl & wget work, if it's any help ___

Review on Software Firewalls

2007-11-22 Thread Donovan R. Palmer
Here is a great blog on seven Linux/BSD firewalls. http://linuxcult.blogspot.com/2007/11/seven-different-linuxbsd-firewalls.html The winner is PFSense which is (ta-da!), based on FreeBSD. I have been using PFSense for nearly a year now and totally agree with this blog's conclusions. __